The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Get Ready For Cleveland, Texans Get Ready For Bills !

Episode Date: November 18, 2025

Rockets Get Ready For Cleveland, Texans Get Ready For Bills!

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-1 at H-Town. Good morning, and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt, Matt Thomas show with Ross. Alongside our producer Jonathan Allen, I'm Matt. Ross is to my right. He's wiping down the microphones and other things around there because Dan sounds like hell and burning his germs all over that microphone number one over there. Ross, how the hell are you? I'm great. You can never be too. cautious. I got a lot of vacation time coming up. I just came off a vacation, so I don't want to miss too much time with you. You don't want to be sick. So you missed, yeah, you've missed quite a bit of time the last few weeks. Some of that, if you're choosing and some of it, not so much

of your choosing, but that's on your hand or there. Rossi, how the hell are you? Yeah, you see, you're putting stuff on a tea for me and I'm just going to step away from the tea. It's fine. We do this to each other. I'm paying for your golf and you're not going to swing. It's part of our loving relationship. I'm doing great, Matthew, on a Tuesday it's good to be back getting into the swing of things yesterday i actually got a little bit of sleep last night so i'm feeling good yeah as i've said before and i don't want to get into a deep conversation about it uh if i could eliminate my dreams i'd be in a much better place yeah i think yeah i think you you got some psychological issues you need addressed that could be going on

whether or not i'm dreaming or not but i just would like nothing but just i want dead space in my head that's good well yeah you need to clear your mind like people think i have dead space in my head when I'm awake. Yeah, between the ears. That's right. Maybe you just start meditating, man. It's been a great help for me. I would recommend it.

On the radio program, again, I don't think we're going to do a deep dive on the Dallas destroying of the Raiders last night. I did watch. Ashton Genty had about four yards, I think. And he'll never get to $1,200. In his whole career ever. Oh, no, you said $1,000.

No, no, no. I think I said $1,000. You ain't got nothing. All right, but yeah. They're bad. Pete Carroll, could you see him leaving after this year? Yeah. I'm 73.

I've made a lot of money. I've played for national championships. I've taken teams of the Super Bowl. Go retire. I just think it's too much work. I'm not saying that he... Go to Tux and Kankos and hang out for a couple of weeks. I'm not saying his mindset can't do it.

It's just when you are starting it from scratch and your general manager traded for Gino Smith thinking that was going to be the answer, you know, I know I know Derek Carr wasn't great for them in the last couple of years, but my goodness. Yeah, well, it was only, I think Aden O'Connell was about their only option at that point, so they tried to do something, but, and I honestly, I'm going to be honest, I like the Gino-Smith

move. I thought he was decent. He's been terrible. Yeah, but the thing that got me whole curious was that Seattle went and got Sam Donald, who had two horrendous ending games to his season last year, and this year, Seattle played really well early in the year,

including a game against the Texans, And then he's had two straight bag games. So people in Seattle are kind of wigging out about what they're expecting from San Darno. The reality is this, just finding great quarterbacks. It's so difficult. Yes. And if you got it, just be very thankful that you do. That's why tying into our conversation about C.J. Stroud yesterday and with the caller saying,

I don't think he's the guy. Like, he might not be, but he might be, which is why the Texans are going to sign him to big money and try to keep him. It's so hard to find competent quarterback. It's funny you brought that up because some friends of mine were listening to the show yesterday. And they're like, hey, you guys had a good conversation. I was just said, we do that every day, 10 to 2. Duh. 10 to 2.

But the reality is this, we were having a quasi-debat about this, and I frankly can see both sides of our debate. But I was with two of people at a dinner last night. John McClain? No, John McLean was not one of them. And they were like, Ross made all the sense in the world NFL I like that you have

I like they didn't say Ross was an idiot Well that's what that's not normally saying Yeah it's kind of implied There is precedence to say you pay the quarterbacks But they're like If CJ is going to have a history of missing time For concussions

And it's not just a sore shoulder Or a twist an ankle Ross as you know Concussions are so severe And that can permanently impact how CJ then dictates the rest of his career when you get two concussions

in your career you mean to tell me you step back on the field and you don't think about that ever happening to you again? Now if you play scared you're going to be screwed. I'm not saying that you don't do that. I don't think he's going to do that. But it's got to be in the back of his mind. I don't think it's going to affect his play unless it gets to a severe

level to where we were talking about to a tongue of Aloha, like retiring in the last couple years. I'm going to double down on what I said I think it's going to be a much more difficult conversation than you may be thinking it's going to be. I don't think so unless it develops further. And depending, honestly, right now, we're in the thick of things can change now.

What if he misses another game? If you miss three games, what if he misses another game after that? And by the way, this is not because Davis Mills is this, you know, give him his shot. I'm not trying to defend that. I'm just saying that.

Yeah, you are on Team Davis Mills. No, well, my son is. Well, is he back on? No. The Mills money is trained? He's all on Bryce Young. Yeah, he loves Bryce John. What's wrong with this guy?

It's today's youth. He's got attachment disorder to mid. He's got mid attachment disorder. The amount of money he's spent on mid in his life has been amazing to me. Yeah. It's very concerning. But the point is, though, Ross, you're right. He could have the next three weeks, it could be amazing.

And there could be a hit through no fault of his home. He doesn't walk into concussions. I don't think he does. No. He was he running and sliding on the hit he did get. Yes. He did slide. And it was.

It was a legal. hit too. So it wasn't like it was something dirty done by somebody else. But maybe the next time it's not a legal hit. Maybe it is something dirty. The one I think, what was it? It might have been Quinion Williams who concussed him the first time when MetLife Stadium. And that was a legal hit. Yeah. So I mean, it's just football.

Here's what you got going against you. You've got there are very few elites and I think if you were to pull the Texans aside they'd say, you know, he's a league quarterback. He's been really good. He hasn't been elite in a We were saying he's elite after year one.

After year two, we're like, yeah, yeah, top 10 to 12. Still good, still good. So number two, you got number two, you're fighting the calendar. And number three, he's got the most aggressive agent in sports today, at least on the football side. He does? David Arr. Oh, Moologeta? Moolugeta, yeah.

That's his guy? Yeah, that's his guy. I didn't know that. Mm-hmm. Oh, he's going to get paid by somebody. And Moologata don't cut the hometown discount for anybody. I'm trying to think of situations where, They're, I mean, Lamar Jackson hit the market, but nobody traded for him, and then the Ravens paid for him.

And that was a literal MVP, but almost everybody gets paid. Because here's a negative, let's say that you are hesitant about giving him the extension right away. Even if you franchise tag him, you franchise tag a quarterback, that's the average of the top, what is it, top three or top five in the NFL? They're not doing that. That's crazy money, too. Yeah, that's why that's not going to happen. I mean, Trevor Lawrence got paid, right? He sure did.

And he was just, I mean, he had like one good season and then was mid. Uh-oh. That sounds familiar. So Trevor Lawrence got paid. Even Daniel Jones got paid. I mean, he's getting paid. And it's kind of your hands are tied. Is that how the NFL should work, though?

Should owners, you know, because everybody's always trying to reinvent the wheel when it comes a salary cap. We're going to see this in baseball a year from now when the owners lock out the players because they want to reinvent how they distribute their cash. this is not a problem exclusive to the Houston Texans. This is what Jacksonville went through a couple of years ago. This is what

Miami did it with Tua. Kirk Cousins did it with several teams. Are these owners and general managers because the value of the quarterback is so astronomically more than the second best player in your team, are you

pigeonholing yourself into being like, wow, it's really cool to have this quarterback And if he shows any signs of deterioration or not being as good as he was on day one, are you stuck? Now, the Chiefs got out there way early and took care of Pat Mahomes. Maybe you do that. But then you're also having to hope and pray that just like in baseball, you're arbitration buying out years of guys that are going to be continued success. Jalen Hertz's meant was, I think, still making big, I think as big money started when the Eagles won it all. Pat Mahomes played them in the Super Bowl

He was making big money Josh Allen is making big money I'm trying to think of the top AFC teams Justin Herbert's making big money Joe Burroughs making big money You can win You can do it Yeah but Cincinnati's hurt

Because Joe Burrow can't stay healthy And everybody I named is better than CJ Stroud Yes But again Cincinnati probably didn't do it the right way They did not equally distribute their money They spent all their money on offense And everybody got the best defensive players in the league who's still looking for a new deal

and looking to get out of there eventually. All right, so we've got to get that today. Texan's injury report, Jalen Petrie, limited participant yesterday. C.J. Schraud did not work out. I'm going to assume we'll get another injury report. We are going to get one for sure today. Yeah, this is an important one today.

This is the one that's going to make difference today. We're going to come back, and we're going to talk about a former Heisman winner that just lost his damn mind on Twitter yesterday. Okay. By the way, did you see that Twitter was gone for quite a bit of time this morning? Did you notice that?

You were deep sleep. What am I trying to think about you? Come on now. Yeah, that's right. It was in REM sleep. Let's go. So the original post was deleted, but because people can tend to capture things, I was able to find it and send it to Jonathan.

We're going to play some Desmond Howard audio coming back from the break. Okay. This has got to be unprecedented. And, yeah, because I don't think we've ever played Desmond Howard ever on this show, have we? Mm-hmm. And I think, and I don't want to, I don't like to hire a number. fire people. But I think

if there is nothing to this and he's wrong, I would seriously question why ESPN would still employ him. That's how serious I think this is. Oh, okay. You're intrigued, aren't you? My interest is peaked.

That's what we're here for. We're trying to peak your interest here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-7-9. We've got gut feelings coming up at 11 o'clock today, or 1130 today, excuse me. We have the news at noon. Ross will handle one o'clock hour. We got the NFL rewind at 120, but no, believe it or not, so you're happy. You're good to go, right? Yeah, it won't be and we're going to check in in Buffalo tomorrow. So looking forward to that. I'll be in Cleveland. Rockets to take on the Cavaliers tomorrow night.

It is Matt and Ross with you at 1018. Good morning. To make sure if it's working, Ross. Good morning to you? Um, okay, so, I always feel like I got to preface media conversation with the, you're supposed to do this because you're supposed to be hot takes and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, you're supposed to create content and get clicks and embrace debate. Embrace debate. Well, I mean, I don't know if Desmond did this to do that, but his original post is down, but some of maybe not if he deleted it uh i think he did because i i don't follow him on

i i find him to be the captain obvious on that pregame show they do okay um game day game day let's see if i can see it uh oh no it's it's there 19 hours ago 436 000 views not as good as my 2.2 million all right geez 99 likes excuse me 99 comments 118 retweets and 700 994 likes. This says, this is 19 hours ago, Desmond Howard. Okay. Happy Monday a.m.

A little something, something you can only get here. Hashtag just my thoughts. By the way, there's people out there that do our stupid hashtagers. That's a different issue. The hashtag game is big on Instagram. It's a stupid. They put like 700 hashtags in every post. If you put your name as a hashtag, that's stupid.

Or good morning. hello or what's up or how's it going? Here is Desmond Howard 19 hours ago. Thinking. Don't be surprised if that Texas job opens up at the end of the season.

You guys were shocked when LSU opened up. Imagine how you're going to feel if that job in Austin pops open. I'm not calling or saying anyone's going to get fired. Maybe a mutual party

of ways. You dig? Anyway, you guys have a great Monday. You dig? You dig? People still say that? I thought that was like an A thing. Oh, it's back. All right? No, no, you dig is going back to the 1970s. It's back with the unks.

The O. Gs. Or never left. Yeah. Yeah, you dig? Go ahead. You know, like, Booker Tew say, can you dig it? Sucker. Yes, he did. I love that. Okay. I think I'm going to say, I don't know if you said the hashtag, I dig that

Sucker. Yeah, you should get it tatted on your neck. Yeah, so it's visible so people can see it. I'm sorry, Ross. Okay. He better be right. And he wasn't announcing something. But that is as cavalier and as that's abuse of social media in your spot on the national stage by you flippantly throwing that out there.

I'm sorry? But that doesn't seem that hot takey or crazy to me. Really? Jonathan, I was going to go. We did really the exact same time. I mean, these coaches are, yeah, James Franklin gone. West Virginia, by the way. What if they lose to the Aggies and lose a bowl game?

And they have five losses. Is that crazy? Is that the craziest thing I could lay out to you? Absolutely not. Well, I'll put it this way. any other year I would say no this year would be not a huge surprise

but Desmond Howard could have kept that in his back pocket and said yeah you know that's interesting I heard that but I'm not ready to put that on the social media streets he put it out there I mean I have no issue with it honestly I don't and it's not crazy me at all

we talk about these boot these programs are basically run by sponsors and high money donating boosters. And if the boot, now I don't, I don't want Steve Sarkisian fire. Let me make this clear. I think he's a really good coach. I think there's only a handful of coaches in the country I would take over him. And it's a very, very short list.

Maybe not even a handful. Maybe half a handful. So I want Steve Sarkisian to stay there. I think you can win with him as long as you continue to get him good players. But I'm not in control of the program. I didn't think that Tom Herman was doing some crazy bad job, although that ended up being the right firing. So these boosters, they want results,

and they want them now, because they're shelling out millions for all these players. So I understand. And now, if they beat the Aggies, everything's going to be okay. We can't do this. We're just guessing. Would you have said that a year ago

if all these coaches had not had all these massive changes? Said what exactly? This was a year ago. Let's say UT was in this situation. They are right now where they are? It's compared to with LSU and Penn State and Florida. Like if you wouldn't have had these rash of coaching firings, would you have the same exact opinion of this take a year ago?

I say no, at Texas. It's not, it's, yes. The standard, quite frankly, the standard is too high with these Texas boosters. We're the greatest program of all time. We should win a championship. you have won one since 1970. Like, that was 55 years ago.

So I understand. Now, Texas is great and it's a heritage program and all this stuff. But I don't know. And maybe I'm just, I just think the expectation level is insane everywhere and it's going to get, and it's getting worse with all this N. I'm L money being shelled out.

And I think, I would not shock me. If they lose, okay, I don't think they're going to lose Arkansas, but they're 10.5. dogs, 10.5 point dogs lose every week in college football. So if they lose one or two more games, he's absolutely on the hot seat. I think he should be safe

and will be, but it's not the craziest thing in the world to say these rabid frothing at the mouth, Texas boosters want results now and they get rid of him. Two things. One, first of all, Chris El Conti went on Twitter

and said, this is news to me, thanks for the insight. And he had an index finger pointing at you and then they had a face palm emoji all right situations change i'm telling you that's that we're good now i believe in my mind that someone in that money circle said desmond i got something for you maybe and you know what in today's world of journalism you can take a a high-end booster who thinks he's got clot maybe he does have clot we don't know and maybe he says he's going to drop 50 million on it. He says, I'll pay the buyout, get rid of Sark. $50 million can go a lot towards a lot of good in this world.

Or it goes to Brian Kelly. And James Franklin. I mean, this is ridiculous. And there's another thing kind of tying into what we were talking about. Okay, I'm before you, go ahead. Sark does not deserve to be fired. No. He, two straight national semifinal appearances. and this year it's three probably going to be four losses, okay?

Crap happens. Now, I did say I got feeling this would be considered a major disappointment that's supposed to be out. But I didn't say firing. I didn't, that was very clear on that. Well, don't, if somebody's a major disappointment, don't you fire them?

Not necessarily. You're a major disappointment. Here's a race. Well, seven nights. We got some disappointments. We keep them, but that's a different issue at different time. Oh, man.

All right. My point is that you, this is absurd. frankly LSU's absurd frankly Penn State's absurd they're all absurd maybe I'm collectively again I think part of it

it's these college pundits that are these on these podcasts yeah it's the law for everybody to be fired and nobody's good Sark hasn't won anything I do believe though you'll debate me to this

I think it's the recency bias as you would say is the reason why you're thinking this is not crazy I think if this is a year ago this is a preposterous what is Desmond Howard thinking We're not seeing the rash of guys being let go at this level

with that much success as much we've seen so far this year. This, again, Desmond Howard doesn't have to vet this. Desmond Howard get a phone call and say, what did you just say? Mutual parting? Guess what I'm going to do? I'm going to go on Twitter so the Matt Thomas Show with Ross can discuss it. So I can get, I'm looking at the number of, so I can get 4 and 39,000 views. Tom Herman was 7 and 3 and got fired. 7 and 3?

In a COVID year. How many years, though? How many years? I mean, how many, you would, again, if I said, I've got a coach who in the first year of his, was it, well, how many years that was, when the first national semifile? Was that? Sark's first year, or what was that? The first year, he had a losing record. I think he was 5 and 7 or something like that.

So losing record first season. Season number two, national semifinal. Season number three, national semifinal. Season number four, let's go and say, you know what, let's do this. Let's give them a win against A&M. Because A&M showed they were vulnerable. I'm telling you, if they lose to A&M and they got to hear it from the Aggies, and they spend all this money, and God forbid, you lose a bowl game,

I'm telling you, it's not crazy. Let's go eight and five. You want to go eight and five? Yeah, so I'm saying, eight and five ain't crazy. Mac Brown went eight and five and got fired. Mack Brown, who won you a championship. He was eight and five his last season. Then you know what I would do then?

If this is what we're going to do with college athletics, we're going to pay these coaches a lot of money. Okay? And then we're all going to tell them, do not buy homes, just rent and apartments. Because if you talk about a, you get little rope. If you're firing a coach who went to two, back-to-back national semifinals and eight and five in a year,

that means you got no time. You cannot, you cannot not be awesome. That was back to my point earlier about. It's insane. Yeah. I'm telling you it's insane and it's getting worse. And we'll see what happens in the Lane Kiff's situation as well. Sports Hodge says, Sark's not the problem.

It was everybody who was so quick to run Ewers out of town? Who ran yours out of town? You were declared for the draft. But who ran him out of town? Nobody. Well, apparently sports hutch says it's everybody who was, quick. Did Gordy run him out of town? Did Lock the SEC do?

Probably. Yeah, I think so. Okay, well, I just... I think I'm more bothered by Desmond just putting his hat on and going out and mowing his yard and saying, oh, I got a little bit juicy, a little dirt for you. I hear dirt all the time, Rossi. And then he said mutual parting of ways.

Sark could go to the... Maybe they're not happy with Sark, and then he goes to the NFL. I don't even know why a team would do that, but who knows? Who knows? 1030 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. National champion semifinalist,

semi-finalist, 8 and 5. Grounds for termination. One team in the semifinals, coach is fired. One from last year. By product of. NIL. Pay these guys, I want immediate results. Yes, you do.

That's it. So good luck. You know what, stay in high school coaching. I don't have to worry about this. Nobody's crying for Steve Sarkesian. What's he making? 11 million this year or something? You know, it's going to happen.

If he gets fired, then Gordy's going to send a tweet out so he's got to fight for his job on people's court. And then I'll get three million views on that, too. Oh, my God. Has he been talking about his views on this tweet all week last week, too? One time. It was one reference. It might be three days. One time reference.

All right. I was just combing the four U tab. No, not about that. That kind of stuff. Did you say, hey, what's up, girl? Did you drop her a like? I put, damn. No, I did not.

You wanted to? You wanted to. If I did cross my mind. Ross Dillinger. Okay. Excuse me. Bless you. Do you respect Ross Dillinger?

Do we like him? Sure, why not? I don't know. Gordia. He's gotten some stuff wrong, though. Okay. Well, Ross Dillinger said there was a meeting yesterday and that The Big Ten is trying to push for a 24-team college football playoffs.

24 teams? Yeah. What are we doing here, folks? Is that because the Big Ten just sucks? What do they want? They want 10 guaranteed spots? I don't know. Maybe they're trying to figure out how a four-and-eight Wisconsin team can get in there.

Just ridiculous. And they want to give... Oh, God, this is 10. 12 is good. 16 is too many. 24 is absurd. All right, here's the Big Ten to socialize. What are they going to do eight buys?

24 team concept grants four AQs, automatic qualifiers, each of the four power leagues. As he says, he's not agreeing to not getting more. That's 16 right there. Two to the highest ranked two non-power league champions and six at-large selections. So you're going a 4-44-2-6. That's stupid. These automatics are ridiculous. How about just not having a tournament as long as the season is?

I mean, that's what FCS has done for years, right? How many teams get in the FCS? You're asking the wrong person. But it's got to be about 24, my guess is, right? Give or take. Somewhere around there. You get 32 in? So again, here it is.

This is a meeting in Charlotte. Big Ten presented 24 team tournament. Each of the four power leagues get four spots for a total of 16. It's 24 in the, ever since 20. 16 and now it's 24. Okay. Then you have two automatic qualifiers in non-power

fours and six at large. There's your 26. 24, excuse me. I don't like this automatic qualifier stuff. Meanwhile, the SEC's like, we'll go to 16, but that's about as far as we want to go.

Mm-hmm. Can't bet. Then nobody gets buys. I brought this up last week. I love the 12 team. I love the 12 team with the first four getting buys I guess in 24 the first eight would get by 16 would play you got eight left over and then it's a 16 team tournament

I feel like we need an algorithm to finish this all out so that makes sense I like at least some buys that's why I don't like 16 because think about like you go undefeated and you win the SEC or Big Ten championship I think you should be rewarded for the regular season should matter to an extent

I agree I agree Yeah Look I wouldn't move it off at 12 But I think I'm going to lose that battle You gain an advantage of other teams Playing more games I also brought this up while you were going last week

I would I think And this is never going to happen Rossi I think if you're in that If you have the four buys You should still have a home game too Why not let Ohio say it by 100,000 Well yeah because you're just because you're bold tie-ins But I mean

Yeah Don't you think you deserve a home game To be able to cherish having your fans dominate a crowd. I know. Don't put the money signs down. No, no, no. No, I'm saying, yeah, you'd be nice to get your money too as well.

If you're Ohio State or Texas A&M, Indiana, Indiana, Georgia. That's the top four right now. I mean, is going to be probably a top four team if they don't screw the pooch here in the next couple weeks. They should have a game at Kyle Field. Big game coming up in a couple weeks. Well, you can be sitting, by the way. 40-yard line upper deck? That's not terrible there.

That's good. Can I guess say this? You know what you got to donate to get really good seats in that stadium? Well, you're going to be donating for sorry. mutual leading fund. Jeez. It's so stupid. How did this get out of whack this way?

I still want my Texas versus A&M on Thanksgiving night. I know it's not going to happen now with the NFL. The other day after it's perfect. 10 a.m. the following Friday morning? What do you think? 10 a.m. Used to be 10 a.m. Okay, well, that's it used to be.

I know. I ain't getting up. I got a tailgate. I got to get sloshed, pass out, wake up, and go to the game, Matt. That 630 is perfect for you then, isn't it? Yeah. That's funny. Pass out in the grass.

Wake up with blades of grass on their face and walk into the game. Okay. That's the thing about you is you always want to go back to you when you were 22. You're almost double that. I haven't thrown up in probably no, a decade. Okay, good. That's good. Probably.

I'm not holding you to it. But, yeah, I wish there was some point we could go back to tradition, like tradition weekend. You know how we're throwing back our old school uniforms and all the sports? How about an old school weekend in sports where Mississippi, Mississippi State was the game to watch on Thanksgiving night or the Aggies versus Texas or for that matter when Tex, when the Aggies loved me, A&M LSU. Is there any Thanksgiving game? Yeah, it's NFL. They're not going to fight with NFL. Yeah, that's what I mean. I mean, I'm in college football. Is Egg Bowl playing on Thursday night? I mean, look at her quick. No, they're on Friday. So you tell me the Eggball? They're staying away from the NFL, huh?

Everybody in their mother is staying away from the NFL. We can't hear you, Gordy. Yeah, Gordy's talking out of his ass. What's going on, what's going on, Gordon? Well, he's our IT guy right now. There's one college game Thursday night, and it's some crappy one. Okay. Thanksgiving night, which would be November the 27th.

Navy Memphis. Oh, my God. That's just, you know what that is? That's just about betting. You can get a little same game parlay on that bad book. I knew you were going to go there. I knew you were. I like the midshipman plus the points.

It's in the NFL game Bengals Ravens or something. Yeah, it's terrible. They should flex out of that bad boy. No. Joe Burrow could be back by then, maybe. But the Friday triple head, the SEC triple header on Friday is Egg Bowl at 11, which creates a lot more drum with this Lane Kiff and stuff. Yeah, is he going to be coaching that game?

2.30 is Georgia, Georgia Tech, both top 20 teams. And remember that game went seven overtimes last year, or eight, whatever it was. And then the nightcap, of course, A&M versus horns. At DKR. Are the Rockets playing that night? No, because we have that game right here on 790. Where am I going to be? Am I going to be in town?

No, you know what, I'm going to be at home. The best college environment in college football, according to Will Anderson. And you know what? He's the gospel. Yes, he is. 713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Scott and River Oak says he stressed out about Lane Kiffin.

You know who's not stressed out about Lane Kiffin? Lane Kiffin. Don't get paid. So did you see the report that he's, the old miss, told him you going to make up your mind here in the next couple weeks? How are you feeling about your, what was it? Was it to tell the truth that he's staying there? I think he's staying. I still think he's staying. Okay.

I think Ole Miss has been on the clock. You think Lane Kiffin's a kind of guy that gets an ultimatum from a school and it's like, okay, guys, you control me. No, the ultimatum is going to be, I'll stay, just pay me. Give me that Mike Elko money. Isn't that a spiteful bone in Lane Kiffin's body? Oh, there's spiteful bones in all those guys' bodies. So Gordy and Ross were talking about this.

We were going back to the stuff about Sark. Maybe, uh, maybe Diana Rucini was right. And she got, remember he got all heavy handed on that and had to explain to the kids, bled, blah, maybe there was a little NFL. What happened to the more heavy-handed somebody denies something, likely the more true it is. Correct. Just in general. Yeah, in life. Yes.

Again, Rucini, I don't know her. Doesn't come across to me as somebody that's going to go run. She's not going to make something out. So I want to have Diane and Rucini called Desmond Howard and said, hey, why don't you go put a video out there with your fishing hat on? I don't think she said that. I don't think that was the instructions.

By the way, one note that ESPN folks set out yesterday about their programming. Stephen A. Smith will not be a part of the NBA coverage this year. That is a blessing because I love the NBA. Really? Yes. He's not? That's the one sport he knows. Remember he got caught playing Solitaire during the finals

last year? Yes, he did. And then he was sponsoring a Solitaire. That was all backlash from that. That winds up being a not a Ponzi scheme, but a scheme to unethical, taking a money from people.

Yeah, what were they doing? I don't know, but it was, and then all the network people were told to go support Stephen A. Smith, and they just did it kind of blindly. Like, hey, why don't you go talk about Acme Solitaire? They're a great company.

They were taking money from people. So, there you have it. Rockets, by the way, Cavaliers have moved to ESPN, so there'll be two versions of broadcast tomorrow night, which you do want to, of course, listen to me and then watch Craig, Ryan and Vanessa, and the 6 o'clock start tomorrow night from Cleveland. Sounds great.

And E-May Doca's on Thursday. Sorry, Ross. Why are you sorry? Because you would usually use E-May for your launch pad. I do. I don't have... Oh, you're not doing it this week on Wednesday because I think it's during the 18th. Oh, then you know you're free and clear.

I don't use coach for 80% of them, man. I'm going to make... It's called being a professional. I know you mail it in when you do the Astros Pre. You put it in like six. interviews? Mm-mm. Mm-mm.

Yeah? Nope. You got like the interview and the water boy and the equipment manager? Hey, I thought my conversation with orbit was groundbreaking.

You didn't even speak. Well, it was brief. It was a brief conversation. All right. 713-212-5-7-9. We've got gut feelings coming up. You know what? We're going to have to gut feeling

whether or not Sark's that, you know, we ought to do this. So just for us to do it. The Starks stay at Texas and does Lane Kiffin stay at Old Miss I'm already in the record I got a gut feeling says he stays

Who's that? Sark? Sark. Yeah, I mean No, Sark, no, that Lain Kiffin stays at Ole Miss. I got it. Okay. I could be wrong.

Yeah, you're wrong all the time. No, I'm not, not usually. Hey, the Texans insider had no Joe Mixing this year. Okay. You had them lose into the Jaguars. I should have lost that game for sure. No, they shouldn't have.

They wouldn't want it. They were down 19 in the fourth quarter. Davis Mills. Are you in the money mills train? Woo! He's the greatest of all time. Then you wouldn't want to give C.J. Strav's a big money. He's number five all time in passing yards, Texans history.

How sad did that make you? I feel like I'm calling you Ross Ragon. Hey, hold up now. Don't be hating on Dave Ragon. I was more of a Tony Banks guy, though. Yeah, Tony Banks is good. Dave Ragon, third round pick from Michigan. No, Louisville.

that's old that's old that's old that's oh yes yeah no scott on 7a scott are you wiggins about old miss what's going on with you scott all right matt ross what's going on fellas so before i dive directly into my stress levels with lane kiffett let me give some proper context for the audience here so you guys know i call into the show a fair amount to talk about uh the astros rockets and texans i've called in to talk about all three teams so i'm born and raised here in houston i'm 31 years old i've only lived outside of the city of Houston for one year. And I was my freshman year of college when I went to Ole Miss. Partied my way right out, ended up graduating from the University of Houston. Obviously, I'm a huge sports fan, Astros, Rockets, Texans. I'm a huge U of H fan, U of H football and basketball. In this past year, just alone for context, I went to Astro's spring training. I've already been to like two Texans games this year. I go to about 10 Rockets games a year. I was at the Magic game on Sunday. Did you go to the Cougars game? Are you going the Cougars game against TCU this week?

I'm not yet, but I went to the Texas Tech game, and I went to the Colorado game. All right, good for you, thank you. So, all of that being said, the only thing I can think about is what Lane Kiffin is going to do, and I don't want this stress in my life. I don't need it. I went to Ole Miss for one year. I wish we could get rid of fandom, even though they're having a great year, and they're a lot of fun to watch, and I'm excited for the playoffs,

but I'm a Houstonian and I'm just frustrated that I am this consumed by what this guy is going to do because like you said, he's not stressed about it. The other thing, though, if you guys have a chance during like the next break or something, you should go look at his Instagram and X accounts. He is posting, he posts seven to eight things a day on Instagram and on X. And what he posted this morning, every morning he posts this like, you know, self-help book that he reads, like a certain expert from excerpt from it and today he posted like this excerpt that that teaches you like gives you advice on how to make a big decision in your life he literally

posts that and it talks about ask yourself what your 90 year old self would tell you to do weigh the pros and cons and then he like you know puts the rebel colors and says have a great day i mean if he leaves this would be the biggest troll job and to walk away from the best team he's ever coached this is the best team he's ever coached USC Tennessee the raiders i mean You know, it's just fascinating that we're here, that we're at this point, but I wish I didn't care so much. I want to focus on the rockets, detections, I mean, I'm rooting for them, but I can't even begin to focus on them until this Lane Tiffin thing gets out of my fricking head. Let me, let's give, let's give some good advice here. Thank you, Scott, for the phone call.

You know what, that man poured us how hard out to us, and that means a lot to me. Well, he only has one year vested at Ole Miss, and he's wigging out this much over. it that's passion yeah that makes sense I guess okay let's talk about Ole Miss beautiful school

sure why not great campus huge fraternity sorority social scene big time southern party school yeah Lex

I would say it's close to open enrollment I mean I never heard of my somebody to say man, I'm really sweating whether I get no minutes or not. It's a pretty high acceptance rate. Let's look at what it is. There are more. 98%. 96.

Is this real? What is it? 97.8%. That's real. That sounds about right. That sounds like SFA. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah.

I mean, he's... I'm sorry. I didn't be to say that publicly. Bang, bang, you know what that is? Collateral damage. Oh, he's talking about UMH campus. shush he's getting his shots in he is getting his shots literally uh no how i don't get that 97.8% yeah basically of every 100 i'm not trying to be funny yeah no i'm gonna be really serious

100 people apply 97 absolutely get in two no chance and ones well we'll think about you that's what 97.8% is isn't mississippi like the 50th rated education education state so 98% of the people in the dumbest state get in yes go look at mississippi state's acceptance rate like what is the most difficult school to get in the entire for okay let's wait didn't mississippi was mississippi the one that made a big big improvement i don't know but i obviously with its college acceptance rate there's not a tremendous improvement there okay let's put it this way in the state of mississippi you have u s m southern mississippi you have u.ss southern mississippi where Brett Farr went to school

You have Mississippi State that had the Cal Bells for three and a half hours on a Saturday Okay I mean what is the Harvard of Mississippi Is there such a thing Ole Miss Oof

Wow He's staying there U.S. News and World Report ranks Mississippi 48th in education But you think he's staying there Even when they're giving him an ultimatum? Yep. It's not an ultimatum.

I don't think it's an ultimate. It's a hey, we need to figure out what we're doing. You're 48th in education and you're accepting 98% of those, the 48th percent? Yeah. 48th state? Yep. My mind is blown. All right.

Mississippi State, by the way, is more difficult to get into than Ole Miss. Oh, maybe it is the Harvard of Mississippi. 76.3%. Oh, 76! Oh, snap. All right. Now I'm going to go to Southern Mississippi. This ought to be a real good one.

We actually work with a guy when Southern Miss. We love him. We do? Yeah. Acceptance rate for the University of Southern Mississippi is approximately 99%. That is literally open and roll bit. Okay. What if you Google that and you get denied by Mississippi Southern Miss?

Okay, so give me one more Mississippi school. Jackson State. Let's take a look at Jackson State. Jackson, Mississippi. That's 91%. Okay. So we're getting there. They only have 33 colleges and universities in the whole state.

Troy's in Alabama. I'm trying to think of a Division I program. Alcorn? Alcorn State is, it's like an it a bit of Mississippi, right? Is that what they call that? Alcorn's at acceptance rate. It's 24.7%. Okay.

That's nice. these are all look the big three are Ole Miss Mississippi State and Southern Miss and then everything else is basically community or smaller ones like you're talking about yeah okay there you go all right

do we even help out our guy Scott are we just like talking about acceptance rates take some deep breaths be present and notice five things in the room that you're sitting in and remember also when you go back to campus the chance of you're running into a hot woman is going to be probably like their acceptance rate

about 97%. Beautiful women down there. Ooh, Lordy. Hotty, toddy. Are you okay? I'm great. All right. I haven't gone back in a long time,

but I remember going, damn, this is good. I mean, the campus, obviously. 11 o'clock on Sports Talk, 790. This is the Matt Thomas show at Ross. 713-212-5-790. We have, coming up, gut fillings in one-half hour here on 7-9.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. A friend of the show, Scott, just sent me an email about Southern Miss, about Mississippi in general. He says Ole Miss and Mississippi State have to accept every kid that graduates from Mississippi High School. It's a state law. The only other acceptance rate is so high. So the ones who don't graduate? They recruited my daughter who had high test scores.

They told her it would be free and wanted her test scores to help their average. That feels fair. Well, I've done graduated in Mississippi. Now I'll get to go to Mississippi State. I am not anti the state of Mississippi. First of all, Biloxi, you got some beaches there. You got the casinos. It's a quick trip.

You got Bay St. Louis. Oxford, I've been one time. I thought it was fantastic. I've ever been to Jackson, so I can't speak to that. I'm good. I don't think the home. I'm good. Don't you want to knock out of state?

For what? Because don't you have your list? Of states? Well, I have states, and they've got other state. They've got out of the list that are associated with states. I don't think I've ever been to Iowa. Iowa. I've been to Iowa. Okay. How many states have you been to, though, for not for work? Well, that's weird. I mean, I don't, I don't, I don't just like, say, let's go on, let's go to Kansas for a few days.

Exactly. No, for, no, I would, I think I've been to probably, how many, we have 50 states? Now, Biloxi to gamble, that makes sense. We should do that. They have on the way to New Orleans. They have junkets, too. I'd rather just stay in New Orleans. It's actually an hour beyond it. But Mobile's actually cool, too. That's Alabama, though. So, so I'm going to go an hour beyond. to get worse food and a worse casino? Yes. Yeah, I'm good. Okay.

But they have like the Bo Revisor or something like that? The Boe Revoge. I don't know. If you'd like to be a casino, sponsor's show, we're here for you. We would love to. I'd like to go. I like to gamble. I do too.

I'll be gamble tonight, as a matter of fact. You will? At Jack's casino and Cleveland. Don't roll the dice, Maddie. I'm watching you. That is the Shadies Casino I go to, by the way. It's dark. It's got curtains.

all around. It's like what you would expect the Cleveland Casino to be. It's a mill of downtown, though. That's a benefit, though. It's literally... Can you walk over there? It's literally attached to my hotel. Oh, wow. Oh, yeah. That's why Cleveland's one of my favorite stopping guys. I see that. Good luck. Get the stay out of that weather. Snow and rain today. They have full blackjack and craps and all that? They got everything. I think it's a

Caesar's property. How many states have that in Texas doesn't? You mean like full on? Yeah. I bet you 30 states probably have a full casino? we're getting a Airbnb in Providence for when Carter goes to school because my wife's going to go up there for lengthy periods of time

and we're going to share it with a couple other people in Massachusetts you know Boston's got that awesome encore there's casinos in Massachusetts people didn't even realize that I knew that I know it's just terrible

again I'm running on a platform of very little politics give me gambling in Texas and I think I can get at least 50% of the vote I think it looks like 18 states don't have sports betting. So we're in the minority. You were talking about full betting. I know, I'm going to do a podcast.

Plinko, Powerbombs, and throwing the dice. All three things I know a lot about. Okay. It seems a little niche. It is a little niche. All right. Texans on the practice field. This is, we're going to Matt Bell said this very much.

They're not going to be in the practice field tomorrow. They're going to walking through some things. What's Texans Wex say? Who's there? Who's there? He's got to be there. I don't know. I'm asking.

I mean, probably. Let's take a look. He's probably have 15 tweets in the last 10 minutes. Let's take a look at Wex's last tweet. Now, he's our Texans reporter. I am the insider. No, he's the insider. No, no, no, no.

You're the faker. No. You don't go to practices or any press conferences. Wex even admitted to me when I texted him the other day. He says you're the insider. He's trying to be nice. No, he's not. He's very polite.

He knows. He's very nice to most people. Wex is not sent out a tweet in 14 hours. Is he okay? Is he okay? Is that wrong with him? Max, we did do a wellness check. I don't think this is good at all.

Adam Wexer has not tweeted in 14 hours. This is an emergency situation. I'm a little worried. Yeah. Wex, I don't care what it is. Just just. tweet something about the practice squad if you're okay yeah we need something about a snap count let's go snap count now or how about some practice player getting elevated to the main roster

come on west we can't live like this we gotta know what's going on all right let's go to the phone I don't think we helped out our guy Scott and Rorke did we do we probably not I told him and take some deep breaths you know what roll one it's fine roll one what you know joint yeah then you're just treating the symptom not the disease Matt it's a little getaway it's a couple hours no big big whoop let's talk to C calling us in Brazoria hello C

yeah I got a question a big longhorns fan Ross hookum as always Huckum I can say Huckham too I'm not anti-Longhorns Yes you are Huckum you're a closet Aggie

I'm not no no just my money went there You're closeted Aggie Matt and stop Matt go ahead and say Huckum because you sang the fight song Yes he did you're right Huck him All right so

question. I don't think Sark is going to leave. I don't think he's going to get fired. But if the boosters decide to do that, I want to ask each of y'all a question. Who is the upgrade from Sark? Because you can't downgrade, because

then you're going to sell yourself back with this roster. So who would be an upgrade? And I'll hang up and listen. Well, I don't know this answer. But you have to go get somebody that has current head coaching experience if you were to do that, correct?

You're not mutually parting away for Sarkisian for an offensive coordinator at Vanderbilt. Probably not. The upgrades, let's see, Kirby Smart would be an upgrade. Are you pissed off that Kirby Smart onside kicked your team? I'm not pissed off, why?

I'm pissed off. I'm not pissed off. He's a better coach and he plays to win and Sark doesn't. Because if that had happened to a team that I liked, like, I hate, like if you give up touchdowns, that's one thing. But if you give up goofy pick sixes, those are bad, or you fumble, or you're drunk. I just think on-site kicks mean that you weren't coached up,

and that's a sign that's that you weren't ready for that. The thing that only really pisses me off when it comes to college football is when Texas, my team loses to teams, I think they're better than that. Better than. They're not better than Georgia. They were not favored, and no one thought that they were going to, there were people that thought they may go do it because Georgia's been far from 100%. But Georgia was the better football team on paper going in, and they proved it that way.

I mean, it's frustrated. They've been owned by Georgia the last two years. Three losses to Georgia in the span of 12 months does not feel good. So that's frustrating. But I wasn't mad at the onside kick. I was just shaking my head. And I was sitting there looking at Sark. Like, see Sark?

You see this other coach playing to win? Why don't you do that, Sark? Let's go. Why don't you go for some fourth downs? Why don't you throw the ball down the field? I don't think Eli Drinkwitz moves a needle in Austin, Texas. Probably not. I mean...

Oh, you know what it would be? Who? Talk for a second. I'm going to think about this. Are you going to say Nick Saban? Nope. When Sark was hired, it was like, okay, the O.C. from Alabama. He washed out at Washington.

Not in Washington. I got the name. U.S.C. Willie Fritz? Marcus Freeman. Marcus Freeman is a good name. Marcus Freeman is a great name. Again, I'm not endorsing this.

I think Sark should keep the job. I'm not saying this because I'm not pro-orient. I'm just saying that it's patently You're absurd that you're taking a coach and thinking there should be a mutual party. Unless Sark just wants to go to the NFL. He ain't going to find a better college job. There's no better college job in sports for him today

than at the University of Texas. Yeah. How's Iowa State doing this year? Remember when Matt Campbell was like the hot name? Yeah. They're mid. Dabble, I'm good. No thanks. Oh, I'll tell you what, you know,

the name that gets brought up a lot is, Arizona State's coach. Oh, yeah, that guy. He's good. But he's an Arizona guy. He's a West Coast guy, I want to say, all of his life. I'm going to be arrogant Texas fan for five seconds. Please.

It's Texas. Yeah, it's fine. It's Texas. Come on. What's that dude's name? He's good. It is Kelly Dillingham. No, I could be a guy that grew up all the way.

I was Carolina through and through. If Texas comes behind me, I don't know, Mac Brown. Yeah. You know, Mac Brown, it was in North Carolina and loved all the things there. I love the tar heels and everything. And me and Sally are really building a nice community here. In Appalachian State was a great place to go, and I'm going to go to Austin and make lots of money and serve pudding to everybody.

All right. Stop. That was a Longhorn Network show. You know what? I'd like to apologize to Mac Brown and all of his family and everybody. Oh, he doesn't care. Oh, okay. Impersonations is a sincere form of flattery.

Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Well, y'all rolling your eyes and saying, okay. I don't know. No, it's time for a break. The more you know. Thank you. 1114 on Sports Talk 790.

713-212-5-790. Ross has on our screen UTSA versus Southwest Christian University. Oh, I'm sorry. Do you want live sports or do you want a rehashing a first take? Is this game live? Yeah. No way. They're playing the game at 11 o'clock in the morning.

Good for them and get you on TV, I guess. Is this ESPN Plus or just a mainstream ESPN game? It's on plus. Come on. Oh, look at this camera quality. Hey, I do plus games. Exactly. Hey. Stop insulting me.

I'm not insulting you. All right. You're doing great. I am trying to. I'm insulting my partners here. 119 on Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713, 2,1,2-2-5-7. If you want to chime in, we had some good...

We've had a lot of college. You know why? Because I can't stare at the injury report. I can't go into a deep dive on that. I got news for you. If C.J. If Davis Mills has to have 10 times better of a game that he did against Tennessee, even though he threw for nearly 300 yards,

or the Texans are going to win. Bills are beatable, baby. Bills put up 44. The dolphins beat them. The only thing we can hope for, Rossi, is that the bills are a Jekyll and Hyde team away from Buffalo. New York. In Orchard Park, they're outstanding. Everywhere else, they're mid.

Matter of fact, I'm going to go to their road record right now and we'll see what they're doing. They lost to the Patriots at home. Let's take a look at the old Buffalo Bill schedule here. Bills this year are seven and three. Okay, props for them on that. They're, let's see, going back to the start of the season, they beat the Ravens at home, beat the Jets in the road. Oh, boy. They lost to the Patriots, as you mentioned, at home.

They lost at Atlanta. Atlanta's no good. They did crush the Panthers in Charlotte, but the Panthers are a different football team now. And they lost the game at Miami, their last road game on the 9th, 30 to 13. Who's the best team in the NFL? Oh, I'm glad you asked.

It feels like there's a fair amount of parity. There is not a, I was going to tell you, Detroit was until they lost by giving up or scoring just less than 10 points this weekend. The two teams of the best record in the NFL are 9 and 2. It's the Broncos and the Patriots. Of these three teams.

I mean, the Texans should have won that game against Broncos, Denver, Indianapolis, Denver, New England. Who's the best of three? See, Jonathan, Jonathan, listen to me very carefully. This is why I tell you if Kansas City gets in the playoffs, They're winning the AFC.

Because you hear the wiggle out of my partner's voice right there? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The question wasn't even pertaining to the cheese, though. You put the Chis in there, he's going to be like, definitely out the cheese. I just said, who's the best team in the AFC? The three best records belong to Indianapolis, New England, and, Indianapolis, New England, and, oh, Denver. Who's the best? He couldn't come up with an answer.

I'll go with the Colts. You don't think Jones is going to go back to his old ways, just like a little Sam Darnal action? You think Jonathan Taylor can will them to the AFC championship? Period.

I'm saying the Colts right now. You're asking me who's right now. So yeah, perfect. Cheese versus Colts this Sunday. Oh. This would be a perfect opportunity to see if the cheese are moving out of it. Oh, no.

Okay. And then you can see if Daniel Jones still got it. All right. How about this? Is this a must win for Kansas City? Oh, geez. No. It really is because if they don't win this, they're out.

They're five and five. Nah, they could go. They could win out, I guess. Again, I think the last playoff spot in the EFC goes to a 10-win team. Nine and eight ain't going to cut it. No, Chiefs after this, they have Cowboys, Texans, Chargers, Titans. Broncos, Raiders. No, they're fine.

This is not a must-win game. You know who's also got a fairly easy schedule the rest of the way? Now, granted, I have very little faith in them, generally speaking, the Jaguars. The Jaguars, we didn't talk about it. I mean, there's just no, this is a lot of parody, and this is why the NFL's great. The Jaguars have two road games coming up at Arizona, at Tennessee. Dub, dub. So that would put, but that's also the Jaguars we're talking about here.

That would put them at 8 and 4. Okay, stay with me on this. Okay. You write this down. You write this down. Think about this. We're doing gut feelings here. Hold on me write this down here.

Yeah, write it down. I lost my pen. How did you lose your pound? I'll get you a pen. You want a nice one or do you want something just to write with? After that. I got some pilot G2s. After that.

You're like a good G2? Home for the Colts, loss. Right? Sure, why not? That puts them at 8 and 5. Home for the Jets. Win, 9 and 5. At Denver.

Denver. Loss. 9 and 6. No, 9 and 5, excuse me. Wait, hold on. even if Jacksonville beat Kansas earlier this season, you still think Kansas City is a better team than Jacksonville. Just tell me who you're the best team in the AFC is right now.

Just tell me, do you have a doubt or do you want to say I don't have a close? Final answer. Over the Colts. I was going to say Patriots. Patriots are good too. Patriots feel like to me are the more complete team. Because Drake May doesn't show like he signs any letdown. People are waiting for the Daniel Jones egg to burst.

You know, the bubble to burst, I should say. Don't you think? Aren't people going, when is Daniel Jones going to be the real Daniel Jones? Point being is I have the Jaguars finishing in 10 and 7. Because I think they're going to lose at Denver. They're going to lose at Indianapolis. That's going to put them at 9 and 6. And they have their last game of the year at home for the Titans who will be playing, I mean, nobody.

Well, Baltimore has an easy schedule too. I didn't even think about this. The Texans are an uphill. I think the Texans have a way. harder schedule than anybody else left. They're probably not making the playoffs. Okay. So we're going to do this. This week's got feelings going to be lengthy. You ready for this? We're going to talk about whether or Elaine Kiffin goes.

Okay. Who's going to win the Buffalo Houston game? Okay. And do we want to do a contract on where do you think, Framber Valdez is going to end up? No. Cole Thompson had a spot for him last week when he filled in for you. Guy does afternoon shows. Oh.

You know him. Kind of weird take. Where's ridiculously horrific shirts. Yeah, he's this Hawaiian shirt Friday. What do you say he was going, Matt? I forgot. He said it from where he was going to go. We'll tell you and come back.

Pittsburgh Pirates. No, no. Nobody choose to go to Pittsburgh. You may get drafted there. You may get traded there, but you are not choosing to go there. Okay. All right. So we got a bunch of things.

We got a lot of gut feelings. So what do you all have for gut feelings? All right, I got a one question for you. Will Southwest Christian University come back down 18 to UTSA with 950 left to go in the first half. No shot. Do these kids realize what kind of national exposure they're getting right now? I guess.

I've seen him at Lifetime Fitness playing. The kid from, oh, that's not nice. You're telling me that Southwest Christian University just grabbed a guy working out and said, hey, let's go play Division I basketball. Give the Scali. By the way, they can't be Division I. There's no chance. Oh, UTSC, you got to be ashamed of yourself playing a division two.

They need wins. Yeah, it's true. There's not a lot of people in the building either. There's like 15 people there. It is 11 o'clock. Why, when you have, we could do a show from, you know, we could do it. Live from UTSA versus Southwest Christian University? It may be a nice, quiet place to do it.

Where do you think Southwest Christian University is? Somewhere in Texas. I'm going to go, I'm going to go, LaGrange, Texas. No, you cannot rent. randomly just select the city. Why not? We're guessing. Because that's stupid.

Why not? Is it Christian College or a university? Look it up. Don't say what a university. I did. Okay. Give me multiple choice and I'm going to get it right. Well, it's not in Texas.

Oh, damn it. Okay. Give me three choices. It's in Oklahoma and you're never going to guess it. Edmund. Edmund, Oklahoma. Bethany. Oh, duh.

I knew that. It's right next to, it's right next to a barbecue joint. And a truck stop. Scooters, Coffee, Swadley's barbecue and Southwestern Christian. And the Alumni Association. the Southwestern Christian University. I wonder what UTSA paint for this. You think they had to bust there.

They're not going to fly to San Antonio from there, right? No way. All right. It's actually inside a mini mall. He is not. What was the school down the street that SFA played that one year? U of H? No, no, no.

I set you up for that. The one that was in an office building down on 59. 99 of 0. Yeah. That was so embarrassing. Were they play the endless, they didn't stop the clock in the second half. They were a spirit Halloween store and then they were a college the next week. Oh, I can't find it.

Oh, my God. That was so terrible. SFA had to go to a non-stop clock. It says Warner? It was Warner? No, it opened up the 2024 season. Whoever their opening was in 2024. I think they had like 11 players.

It was Warner. It was, it's just called Warner. Just plain old Warner. Warner. Hey Warner. What are you going to call her? Made up school? Made up school or Division 1 opponent, a Division 3 opponent of SFA, believe it or not today. Warner College.

There it is. 713-212. Warner College. You can get your haircut there. You can get your teeth fixed. You can play a Division 1-A-Tee and football. Fun game to watch. Fun game to watch.

7-1-3-212. 5-7-90 if you want to chime in. It's time for gut feelings. We want your sports predictions. Get them in right now at 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. At 11-28, back with those gut feelings next on 790. 1133. Time now for gut feelings. This is the segment where you get to call in at 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 and make your predictions. If you get them right, we get to call back and say, hey, I got this gut feeling right. If you get it wrong, unless they're patently absurd, we don't make fun of you. Now, at this point, At the point, Brad... I reserved a right to always make fun. Brad is not on the line. Thank God. So... How's he been doing?

He's fine. Didn't he gut feeling I'd be off the show? Somebody tweeted me? Well, he got feeling that he was questioning why I got... I got to keep my job, and Sean Salisbury did not. Yeah, and then we're going to ban him, and then you didn't. And then he apologized. You got a soft spot for brand.

I do. I don't know why. He did go to Vegas with us. Back when I cared about my Twitter followers, now I got nothing but spam and high school recruits coming after me. At SportsMT. You know what? I haven't been able to plug my internet. Instagram. I haven't, you know, I haven't either. I'm 10 away from 1,300 at SportsRV. I would appreciate it. Let me tell you all

something. I've looked at Ross's, he's done, but I think he was gone for like eight or nine days. You sent one video up? That's ridiculous. I put up two stories. Okay. Not good. I put a 60 FPS story up of the falls that I, did I, uh, height two? If you, if you love the rockets, the Astros and the Texans, follow SportsMT. You know, you want false promises. You said that the, the Cougars were going to beat Westford. Virginia if I followed you and then they got their ass whooped. That was because the officianting was very sketchy. Oh, okay. Listen everybody, you know I've not sent you stuff in a long time. At

SportsMT. At SportsMT. So I was gone and you didn't pimp your Instagram at all. Then I come back and you're back on. That's what I'm saying. I'm seven away from 3,050. Seven, just seven people. I don't need 40 of you today. I'd just take seven of you.

You know what? Follow SportsMT. Nice right number. We've got to grow the show somehow. We've got to do that. All right. Rossi, my first gut feeling. Oh, from last week? Let me write these down. Oh, yeah.

We got a recap. We got a recap. I wrote these down, too. Let me say what I did with him. Oh, it was on 11-11. It's on remembrance day. Jonathan, I bragged about having these gut feelings and I now lost them. Oh, here it is.

Here it is. Jeez. M.T. Rockets win all three at home. Ding. That's a check. Texans beat the Titans by at least 10. That's a loss

Yeah Texas plus six and a half Loss Yikes JV comes back To be determined Astros do not Comes back to Astros?

To the Astros, yeah Astros do not get Dillon C's That's also to be determined Okay Jonathan, rockets go two and one Wrong That's good, it's fine You had Denver beating Kansas City

So good for you on that That was a spite pick Because he was being salty towards my He was right He was right Looks like a dub That's right All right

So I can now get rid of this card Okay 713 Nobody else was on? No just two of us Okay No it was Cole I got a lot of tabs

Oh Cole's ones He's got Framber Valdez Going to the Baltimore Orioles Hold on I gotta make a coal tab now A lot of tabs I can get rid of this

David Baker one Noah can get rid of that one David ours A lot of tabs Way too many tabs Please stay Jonathan we need you to stay I met you girl

I'll give her some more tickets Yes Oh yeah and she said you gave a very good Dad hug You hugged her? You hugged her Yeah Because I felt like we were fam

Yeah you are She liked that You better watch out Jonathan You might not take it my girl man I mean he's not taking her but what I didn't finish make sure those hands are moving

you don't think I'm handsy do you we had Craig with us he wasn't going to do anything yeah Craig was there too he met Craig okay what did Cole say sorry I'm writing this time Framberg did the Baltimore Orioles

hmm and he also believes that Lane's staying in Ole Miss oh did you put that too I'm going to say it now okay go ahead Lane Kiffin says it don't miss. Okay.

Texans lose by at least seven on Thursday. Line is five and a half right now. Yep. I would take bills giving the Texans the five and a half and take the Buffalo Bills to win the game. Okay. Remember, you know what my prediction record is? Lousy.

I'm feeling pretty good. You should be very excited that I'm taking Buffalo minus the five and a half. Now, has this line moved? Is this assuming that C.J. Stroud is not playing? Didn't it open up at three and a half, I thought? Yeah, so I think so, right? Yeah. Yeah, when he wasn't out there yesterday,

there wasn't the golden sign to say he wasn't going to play. Davis Mills versus the bills. The bills have a good pass defense as well. Their run defense is terrible, but you can't run. They have the 29th or 30th ranked run defense, and you have the 29th or 30th ranked run offense. The stoppable force, the movable object. Thursday night on Prime Video.

And locally on some channel. I think it's Fox. Somebody said Fox earlier. I think that is correct. Yeah. But I will be watching them. I love prime video. The picture is great.

And then they have that next-gen stats alternate broadcast. Now, let me ask you this. If I would rather watch it on the over-the-air because they don't have to worry about the internet goofing me around a little bit. No, no, I got good, strong internet. Which, by the way, you're going to hear from my internet company tomorrow. By the way, the last time. We think nobody got time for that. Uh-oh.

Oh, I can't. That's a third-old tomorrow. I'm going to name them by name. Xfinity. By the way, the last time Josh Allen took on the Houston Texans, it was October of

2024. He was 9 of 30 for 131 yards. Nine of 30. That's terrible. Coming to the doghouse, baby. Gonna get sworn.

Before that. That's why I'm picking the Texans to cover the five and a half against the Buffalo Bills. His mark, let me give you his career numbers. Short week home dog.

51% career for Josh Allen against the Texans for 727 yards His best performance was in 2021, 20 of 30 for 248 And I'm going to presume that game was in Houston or in Buffalo Texans have gone to Buffalo

The last few years, I know, for some time So I think we have I think this is one breaking new sounder Go ahead, I haven't seen it. Jonathan M. Alexander I'm expecting This might be two Can I guess?

Yeah Jalen Petra's playing C.J. Stroud expected to practice in a limited capacity today. Oh, no, no, another one. Oh, hold on. I didn't read it all.

What? The likelihood to see plays extremely low. I'm sorry, that's my fault. You know what? I didn't read the whole tweet. That's on me. You know what?

Give me a shut you a bum ass out of. I deserve that. I didn't read the whole tweet. tweet. I got excited. I got excited. You know, I'm Battle Red Ross. Never mind. I'm so sorry. You know, I like to apologize. You know, I'm going to write that down for Friday, sorry. Well, I'll put it this way.

I'll say this. If he's doing this today, shit your bum-ass up, man. My guess is that the game was on Sunday, he'd probably have been able to play. Maybe we're just fighting the clock here a little bit. All right. So, here's our situation. We got Gary in Spring. Gary likes to

I love Gary. Gary's not very bright. Gary is the goat. No, he's not. Yes, he is. And you got James and Klein. I mean, they're both kind of, on a scale of one to ten, they're about a three and a half

out of ten on calls, would you say, generally speaking? No. Oh, you say low or higher? James is fine. I mean, we fight about the longhorns, but I appreciate him. He attempts, his attempt at humor

to often doesn't work. You know what? He calls in, though, and I appreciate him for that. Same thing for Gary. Gary, we love James, we tolerate Gary. No, I love Gary and I tolerate James. No, Gary, by the way, apparently called the earlier show

and said that I'm not, I'm a negative Nancy. Yeah, Matt. You know what do they call me? They call me a realistic rob. They call you a Texans hater, Matt. No, they call me Texas realist, Matt. You know, they call me the insider. I've given you, everything I've told you about the Texans has come to pass.

One, never going to the Super Bowl while McNair's run things, and I've amended that to the Casarios. Number two, I told you that CJ Gardner Johnson was going to be a disaster, and he was. I told you that Stefan Diggs was not worthy of the second round picking and it. And I told you that Joe McIx is going to play. he was fine He wasn't worth it

You know what he recovered He didn't stay here Yeah No because he was in for nothing Zero Zilch Well he tore his ACL I told you Tank Dell wasn't going to play this year

Who? Tank Dell Oh okay The guy who wrecked every Ligament at his knee Is unavailable A good one Matt Thanks for your

Preciant analysis on that one I'm just tired of being right Oh my God I pull up the list If you want On texting stuff I don't miss Give me some wrong

Text and stuff I did have the text and stuff I did have the Texas winning by 10 Because I'm positive I'm a positive guy When it comes to Texas You had them losing to the Jaguars Wrong

Yeah bad officiating Okay And I had them losing to Buffalo Thursday We'll see Watch me be wrong We'll see All right

On the phones next 1143 It is a Matt Thomas show With Positive Matt Realistic Rob You're a negative Real negative Nancy

No you know what you are You're battle red And that just You have no no objectivity whatsoever. I don't think we got one from Alan a prediction. Jonathan Allen. Jonathan? We'll start with Jonathan and we'll go to Gary and James. At Thomas Show. That's me. And Ross. Ross, real quick, for I go to the phones. Time to play. Name who said this.

You ready? When it regard, when it's concerning Joe Mixon. It's a very great situation. Joe's worked at it. There were times where he made some progress and there's some other times when progress was kind of stalled. You know, obviously, see we're getting pretty late in the game here. I don't want to establish any sort of expectations. I don't think we have any more clarity at this time. He's out until he's not. Nick Casario.

That's correct. Yes. Where do I win? From handshake and nata boy? I'll take it. Okay, you're welcome. That was Nick Casero speaking about Joe Mixon's health status. I was going to make a gut feeling. About Joe Mixon?

About Lane Kiffin leaving. Please, go ahead. But now he's denying everything and saying everything's peachy keen hunky dory with Pat McAfee so now I don't know what to think and as our caller pointed out

he's posting all these like Zen make a big decision be happy and if he's happy at Ole Miss and he's not chasing money he can change the mind tomorrow by the way I'm staying with it I'm saying gut feeling

that Lane Kiffin stays at Ole Miss put your name on something I don't have no I don't have a gut What if I don't have, what if my gut feeling is I don't know? Then just him and hall for 30 minutes. It's okay to say I don't know in life. Him and Hall. Him and Hall.

It's okay to not know everything. Here it is. And admit. This segment is called, not gut feeling, it's called the Him and Hall. And admit that I don't know everything. I'm the him or the hall. You decide. I don't.

So I will not be making a gut feeling on where Link Hiffon is going. You should. I don't know anything either. I still made one. Yeah, well, you have a good feeling and I don't. All right. To thine own self be true, Matt. Dude, this game with UTSA is on ESPN National.

No, it's not. Okay. I don't think. All right. Let's go to Gary in spring. Gary, you're on with positivity, Matt. How the hell are you? Hey, Matt.

You didn't say the rest of the stuff I said on there. I said that you started negative, but the rest of your show, you changed and you completed the show with a smile on your face. Well, see, you know what, then I blame the previous show because they said, Gary calls you a negative. Nancy. I'm like, wait a minute. Gary and I are a decent place. You know what, damn Matthew, shut your bum ass up. Shut up you. Hope you're going to start throwing out last for two more weeks. I hope it doesn't. I'm going to wipe everything down in here. You just said something that my father told me as I was growing up. He said the three smartest words a man can say is I don't know. Hey, can I get to my gut feeling? Go for it. Okay. I'm going to give you the final

score. And then I'm going to tell you why real quick. Final score, Texans 23. Buffalo 19. The reason is as to follow. The last seven games, the Texans are five and two, so they're doing whatever it takes to win. They have the best defense in all the football. And they're at home, of course.

And there's going to be 70,000 scream and screaming fanatics, and that's going to keep them in the game. A lot of Bill's fans. You don't watch Texans games. They're not 70,000 screaming ever. I've watched every Texan game since they started. Also, the uniform is the red, but what I like best about that uniform is that they have the best,

bar none, not even close, helmet in all of the NFL. That red helmet with that shine on it is so pretty. And last but not least, with my hopeful gut feeling here, I hope the whole time they do the wave the whole time just for you, Matt. Yep. that just shows you the four quarters of the wave that's a lot of work yeah retired do you ever see the wave in the NFL I never see it I've seen it

didn't do NRG remember with JJ Y got all upset yeah because he was right because JJ's got and he knows what you're talking about stupid wave it's dumb Wave Busters H-O use a Twitter account you should follow and if you go see the wave of the game on Thursday let me know we'll out the frauds that are there hold on I'm looking at Jeff Passon's a free agency preview

Oh geez Just stop You're gonna win You know what Can we knock this out No No No no no

You did all your Pranning and pat yourself On the back When you won the Breggman bet These chickens are coming home to roost Bobby Bouchet My gut feeling is I hope you're wrong

My gut feeling is You get in a wallet out Or maybe the phone If you want to tap Apple pay. They take third-party out-state checks in these places. I don't care what they take as long as you're paying. James

and Klein, what is in your gut this week? Okay, this is a two-partner. The number 17 Texas Longhorns will easily easily get past Arkansas because the receivers will start catching the ball. They'll go from 17 to 13 and the game of all games will be undefeated Texas A&M against Texas.

If Texas can win that game, guess he's in the playoffs, the Texas Longhorns. That's my good thing. Okay, you get, see, the Longhorns getting in. Okay, that would. They're going to get jumped by a non-power 4 team, right? The Longhorns would. Because they're ahead of every power 4 team right now.

Yeah, it can potentially get jumped by, who's the ACC champ? I can't remember. It was Virginia last time I checked. One of those other champs can jump them as well. So just because they make the top 12 does not mean they're in. Probably going to have to make the top 10. and that's going to be tough I think he

didn't he have a second gut feeling and he hung up yeah I didn't do anything yeah you well that's that worse thing what about you Jonathan oh yeah what you got I forgot you about your guts

oh yeah okay we come back there'll be set Rockets will be on a seven game win streak and then my core gut feeling

I feel it in my bones Chiefs fall to five and six to the Indianapolis Colts To lose two weeks in a row I love this vendetta He is on the warpath Jonathan you were on the war pad

You are learning well One time My whole time I was actually upset with Matt I was like there's no way I love this so much I'm not even really defending Kansas City I'm just telling you what I see I'm saying I see blemishes on the three teams

in front of them I just do Should I be alarmed? That Texas, Arkansas line went from 10.5 to 8.5. Well, it's a lot of this Desmond Howard stuff. Yes. If you did not hear what... Des Howard moved the line, two points? If you do not hear what Des Howard said,

we're going to play coming back during the news at noon. 1157 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 12-1 on Sports Talk 790. It is our number three of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. This program takes your little 2 o'clock today. I'm going to skip out a little early and get to 1 o'clock. Head to the airport for the Rockets trip to Cleveland, Ohio.

What are you shaking your head for you just came off vacation? I'm shaving days. I'm not, you know. Yeah, paid vacation that I earned. Yeah, I'm not taking all my pay vacation. I'm living days left. Okay. Of course, we don't have any fill-ins, but that's an audition for different times.

But hey, Ross, it's good to have you with us here on the show today. Good to have all of you with us here on the program. And we are with you till 2 o'clock today at 713-212-5-7-9. We've got the NFL Rewin coming up at 120. But right now we present to you the news at noon. Oh, is this me? Yeah, usually. Oh, well, thank you, Matt.

Do you think we should hire a female news anchor to come and sit with us and give us the headlines? I don't think we can afford her. Yeah, how much would we, how much pay? out of your pocket um i don't know you want your girl to come do it oh i don't know create some tension what tension what tension yeah she likes what kind of tension are you talking about and she's getting more air time and jonathan is it could be a big big problem not not me all right go ahead all right matt well it's uh slow new day news day no it's not we got wex at texan's practice what is wexing yeah it's okay so the latest jonathan

Alexander, C.J. Stroud is practicing in a limited capacity. There is video of him out on the field, but Jonathan M. Alexander saying that he is unlikely that C.J. Stroud is ready to go by Thursday, saying, quote, theoretically, if you passed every test, he could be cleared by Thursday, but this would be more than likely in preparation for the November 30th game versus the Colts. Texans main priority is his health. even if he is like, well, you know, it's not fair. I was going to say, if he's 100% ready to go, he'd play, but he's not. I mean, if you are hymn and haul about it all, there's no him and no haunt, you wait

to the Colts game. I mean, you've won back-to-back games with Davis Mills. Crazier things have happened. And again, Josh Allen does not have a distinguished career against the Texans. They're not a great game. They're not a great team on the road. They've got a long trip to come down here. Short week, home dogs are not a bad play in the general sense, but we'll see.

But we don't worry about Vegas in this situation. We're worried about the Texas making the playoffs. I know you're not worried about Vegas. You can't cover it by Vegas and make the playoffs. It's a very, very easy litmus test to tell you how or games could go. Texans lose this one by a touchdown this week. We'll see. Yes, we will.

Thursday, 720. What was the line last week? Six and a half? Okay. They did not cut. They won by three, right? Yeah, on the final play of the game. Well deserved.

Hard-fought win for the Houston Texans. How many times did you fall asleep during the game? Zero. Twice for me. Zero. Maybe you need to stay off the heroin. Well, you nodding off? Heroin makes you fall asleep?

I think so. I never had a heroin before, so I can't speak to this. Oh, okay. Or what have you had? I'm curious. Nothing. Yeah. Move on.

Well, police say $200,000 in property was stolen from Chador Sanders' home during the game. Now, this has been happening. It happened to Joe Burrow. Who else does it happen? It's happening all over the place. Travis Kelsey. $200,000 in property stolen from the home of Cleveland Brown's rookie quarterback Shador Sanders during a break-in on Sunday, according to police. Three suspects entered his home at 6.46 p.m. Eastern Time,

according to the news release, surveillance cameras in the home captured video footage of the suspects entering and exiting different portions of the home. They were wearing masks and gloves and seen exiting his home around 6.58 p.m. So in and out there, about 12. minutes. Do you know what today's robbers are? Not scared anymore. They don't care about cameras. They don't care about dogs. They don't care about surveillance. They're going in. I was watching the Today Show today. The Hilton mom, Kathy Hilton, had a bunch of handbags stolen. Yeah, Paris's mom had a bunch of handbags on while she was at the Bravo event in Las Vegas.

Well, why didn't, I thought cameras were going to solve these issues or alarms. What happened? I don't know. Maybe his inside job, disabling these cameras or alarms or something. I don't know, but it's happening to a lot of very famous people, sports athletes and just general people. Celebrities. Did you hear the story, Matt, about New York Giants' first round pick, Abdul Carter? I did not. Sleeping through a meeting and was benched in the opening series of the New York Giants' loss to the Green Bay Packers. Carter said that new head coach Mike Kafka changed the normal practice.

Wait, Brian Dable got fired while I was gone? Yes, he did, yes. I didn't realize that. My mistake was an honest mistake. I owned the fact that it was an honest mistake. I was getting treatment and I told Coach Kaffika that too. But to say that I was sleeping at that time just wasn't true. And it also wasn't a trend.

This is the only time it happened. Reports had come out that he had slept through a meeting and he'd been sleeping through meetings for weeks. But Abdul Carter says that is not true and it was an honest mistake. He was just receiving treatment. believe him or not. That is a knot. That is a 100% not. Okay.

Mike Kafka, former Northwestern quarterback, former fourth round pick in 2010. Yeah, Mike Kafka, they won some games with Mike Kafka, I think, back of the day. Did the Texans lose to a Mike Kafka-legged quarterback game at some point? Maybe. And the name is just more familiar than it would be just for him being an interim coach of the Giants. I know. What else we got? I got something for you. LeBron James not going to play in the 2028 Olympics.

Steph Curry says it's very unlikely that he will be playing. James said, quote, you already know my answer. I will be watching it. And he will be 43 years old during the 28 Olympics. Steph Curry will have just turned 40 years old. And today's NBA player at 35 plus doing just fine, especially one that wears number seven for the Houston Rockets. Are you speaking of Kevin Durant? I am speaking to Kevin Durant.

Okay. You're nervous at all about the depth chart being hit a little bit now that you've got Tar Heisen out four to six weeks? Yes. It's about an eight-man rotation now if you count holiday and Tate that makes 10, but those guys don't play a whole lot. No, they don't. I am a little worried about it. For sure. Your first set of back-to-backs are coming up in early December.

It'll be after Thanksgiving, but it's in the same city against Utah Jazz. So I think he may isn't going to have to figure about that depth chart eventually. eventually here. I think he's shown he doesn't mind going to a short rotation. No, I mean, again, NBA in 2025 doesn't like doing that. Emudoka says, I'm trying to win games. And one more sad note, if you guys want to check on the social media streets, you're more than welcome to do that.

Patrick Beverly, former friend of the show, in some serious, serious hot water after allegedly choking his sister in a family dispute. and again, I don't want to go into great details on it because it's all just off of what we're hearing off the police report but he has been arrested with third-degree felony charges. I didn't see that. In nutshell, his sister snuck out to see a boy. Mom told Patrick to come home.

Pat took the sister and beat the hell out of her, which is unfortunate. this happened a few days ago yeah okay because he posts on instagram pat beverly has no criminal record he cares deeply about his little sister a young lady a minor given that when he unexpectedly found her alone in the home with an 18 year old man in the middle of the night he was understandably concerned as any brother would be about his sister however we don't believe what followed happened the way it's been described and we look forward to the opportunity to address that in court. Tex from Adam Waxler.

C. Jazz practicing, Petrie and Fairbaring too. You probably already saw that, but anyway, as Texan reporter, I thought I should tell you. Yes. Thank you, Texans Wex. Yeah, he knows. He's the reporter. I'm the insider. No, he's the insider. No, I get the stories.

He just gives us the dirt. What story? I gave, nothing. What story did you ever break? Joe Mixon. Where'd you break it? On this show. Oh, and where's your tweet or your story or anything? I don't need to, I don't need to self-congratiast. So you're the only insider that doesn't write stories. How people listen to the show, they know. I don't think so.

That is the news at noon in 1210. All right. Oh, we got to play Desmond Howard, for those that didn't catch it in the noon hour. Sure, why not? Right now? Why not? Desmond Howard went on his, on his, definitely his Twitter account, and it gave us a little nugget about what's going on in Austin, Texas. Here it is.

I'm thinking. Don't be surprised if that Texas job opens up. at the end of the season. You guys were shocked when LSU opened up. Imagine how you're going to feel if that job in Austin pops open.

I'm not calling or saying anyone's going to get fired. Maybe a mutual parting of ways. You dig? Anyway, you guys have a great Monday. This is callous. You're parting away, so you could go to the NFL. It's callous.

What do you mean? this is the way of the world so you know what I'm due why don't you and I just do some rando videos and just put a bunch of crazy ass stuff out there and not attribute it and go you know what hey don't be surprised don't be surprised it's in the wind

the whispers the in the ether I just think Desmond knows better unless he really does believe there is a lot of smoke to this is he just making this up I don't know.

No, I don't follow Desmond Howard. This comes across to me as somebody called him and said, hey, I got something for you. What do you got for me? Oh, really? Desmond Howard? I'm giving my news to Desmond Howard. Yeah, but he's like he knows somebody who knows somebody. That's right.

He's a well-recognized media personality in the college sports world. That's not surprising that somebody would try to, hey, Desmond, you got this, and I got something for you. There are people all the time that want to tell you things that. That happens to us. All. I get DMs all the time. All the time. I again he set himself up for the soft landing

I'm not saying he's getting fired and I'm saying it could be a mutual option you dig as in Steve Sarkisian is a new head coach of the New York Giants There's no better college job correct Especially with out there right now

Unless somebody cash whipped him Let's the Florida said here's a blank check But there's no way Florida's letting Steve Sarkajian go Whatever he takes come here and coach no and there's no way he's trying to wiggle some more money out of Chris El Conte is he there's no chance

who's his agent is he a Jimmy Sexton guy well it's either Sexton or Trace Armstrong those are two main dudes that do it there's a way come on now for what what do you mean for money

these coaches are holding these universities over a barrel part of me want you know what this is honestly though Ross part of me wants this to be right because he was so mad when Diana Rusini said something about this. Oh, exactly. He came out so strong. He came out. I had to go

and say this to my players. I would never do that. Period. I think he pointed his finger like Raphael Palmero. Yeah, I'm just kidding. You start putting that index finger. It's an 100% lie. It just is. All right, it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you want to chime in, 713, 212-5-7-90.

7-1-3-212-5-7-9. Why is Gordy running in place? He's getting his active minute from his watch. God. We've seen way too much of Gordy today. It's like he wants to be a third wheel on the show. How about Matt Ross and company? He can be the company part. Okay.

He can be like our SEC insider. Because I got Texans and Rockets covered. You've got a warm personality. Thank you. Thank you. Inside and analysis. Somebody's got to keep you in line. Seven one three.

Crazy ass ridiculous stuff you're saying. I don't know. I'm here to win Habachi bets. Yeah, let's go check on that. Did you see, did you get something new today? Jeff Passing. You want the update for Jeff Passing? Yes, we'll do it and come back.

This is terrible. Can we, can I just give up and just say, let's just go for like a, um, a randa rewrecks. Are you, what? Yeah. Are you seizing? Randa mixed best. Let's downgrade the food and pay you now and get over with. I think I've eaten that place zero times in my life.

Maybe one. I've done two or three times in the last year. It's fine. You're the fast food king. I'll give you that. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not going to really say no. By the way, I have not tried the Arby's.

steak nuggets yet they look like they're all well done which is that sign you cook a steak so why would you why would I want any nuggets of of nuggets of well done steak well I'm sure they get the low grade grade F cows well it's probably it's sir I don't think it's probably it's prime

New York strip in those nuggets Deer Knuckles Deer Knuckles Oh I've got to make rib yet Matt Oh hell yeah I've had it back oh yeah You're a liar you haven't got it By the way We talked to McRib on the show last

last week, Jonathan? Did we have lots of people on our side? It was very wholesome. Oh, wait. You're a, you're a McRib guy, Jonathan? I don't hate it. I don't hate it.

There you go. See it. So, enough pork gunk gets caught up in the machines of the plant that they're like, all right, let's go ahead and called a seasoned pork patty. They get pork gunk and it gets accumulates and they're like, all right, we need to go ahead and pry this out of here and

form it into pork patties. Listen to me, ladies gentlemen. I need you to shame Ross right now. Disgusting. All my McRibb lovers that sent me tweets last week. Sick. At sports RV. Get them.

I'll do another Twitter poll. You lose every time. I don't care about your people. My people love the migraib. Anybody with a brain in their head knows that nasty pork's pork pressed sheet is disgusting. It is delicious. The sauce is bad. By the way, the new key, my wife, extra barbecue sauce.

It makes it even tasty. Oh. Why don't you get extra motor oil on it? Because that's what's in there. Sorry McDonald's Corporation. Don't sue me. That was a joke. Ha ha ha.

L-O-L. Hashtag suspension coming. Oh, Jesus. Yeah. Ross is a McRibb question up today. Good, not good. Nice and simple. 48% say good,

52% say not good. That's fine. You must have just voted. I did. Yeah, duh. You're swinging the votes. By the way, my middle son doesn't get the onions and pickles on it, but that's part of the charm of the sandwich.

Yeah, you got to dress up that. You put some lipstick on that pig somehow. Delicious pig. I'd distract you from that nasty gristle sheet. All right, so let's get to it. This is Jeff Passon. Once again, further hurting my pocketbook on this. I'm talking about free agents, by the way, of players

and what kind of contract and deals they could be getting. Tucker is unquestionably the top player among free agents this winter. OPS Plus of 140 and the power speed defense combination that will secure him at least 300 million and perhaps $400 million. I'm going to follow my sword on this. That's a bad deal. The team that signs him to a deal of more than 10 years is going to regret it.

100%. We are not ever. And Ross, you and are going to be stuck together for at least 10 more years. Oh, that's going to throw up. Listen to me very carefully. I'm looking for jobs right now. At least 10 more years. The team that takes, that signs Kyle Tucker for 10 years is going to regret it.

And frankly, it's not an indictment. against Kyle Tucker Ross. It's an indictment against the contract. Teams are paying out crazy, crazy contracts and money. Look, Juan Soto, do you think they're going to regret it in New York long term? Absolutely. They will in a matter of time. Well, you have to overpay for the prime to take some on the back end. And in 10 years, you figure revenues have gone up in $30 million, $35 or $40 million. It doesn't hurt as much. That's the line of thinking. Jim Crane, on the other hand, he just pays for the back end when they're losing on it.

Yeah, you're 35 and terrible. Yeah, let's sign you now. We've had a few of those. We're, because, of course, I'm the assistant general manager. We're good. Christian Walker, yeah, let's pay for the decline. You pay for the decline, but you also get the prime. That's the point of the big deals.

And ultimately, whoever Kyle goes to, they can afford it. And if it goes to the Dodgers, it's deferred it until 2009. I don't know. Is Tucker going to take a bunch of deferred money? Can you get deferred money when you're in the home? What home? The nursing home? Like, you know, his final resting place.

I don't think he's going to be in a nursing home. Yeah. It's probably going to be a retired in his castle with a personal caretaker. Yeah, that's fine. Okay, so what did we pass and say again? 300 to 400 million. How many years? No, he didn't put years on it.

But he called him. the top free agent available. If you wants to make $40 million a year, I'm okay with that. Times seven. 7.2.80 sounds about right. Let's go. Keep going. Keep some other people on the list. Let's go.

Oh, you want top free agents? Yeah, give us some people that we would be, we would absolutely know who they are and would maybe even be quasi appealing to the asteros. Kyle Schwerber. Ooh. All right. Is apparently the Red Sox are going to be interested. possibly the Blue Jays as well, New York Mets.

By the way, Red Sox are going to make some moves because if they're letting Bregman walk, Rossi, they're going to have to go, they've got money. They have to show that they are willing to spend money in free agency. I can't imagine Red Sox not grabbing at least one, if not two, heavy top end for agents this off season. Do you want to hear the first three teams he lists as interested in Kyle Tucker? Met Janky's Dodgers? That is exactly correct. Man, I'm screwed. Then the Giants or perhaps even the Orioles.

I was going to ask all of you out there listening if it bothers you, the Astros never been brought up in this. But we've been okay. They never will. It's imagine being Reds fan, Guardians fan. a fan of the pirates fan of the Marlins you're never even

like Passing doesn't doesn't even have to type the word Marlins and erase it. It's not even in his vernacular ever. Yeah. There are 15 teams Ross maybe, excuse me. There are 20 to 22 teams that never get in these

articles written. Yeah. The Astros aren't riding in Bentley's and Rolls Royces. They have nice SUVs. They have nice Mercedes. Reds-e. You're in a 1993 Toyota Selika. Yeah. Pirates, you're in one of those,

what's a really super small car? Smart car? Smart car? Yeah. Keosol. Do kids even know what a hugo is? You know what a hugo is? There's no chance. There's no chance he does.

You know, no. You know? No. I don't. I like that. When my wife and I were young, we didn't have any kids, we were just buying our first place.

We said, hey, let's go cheap on cars. Let's go get And I said Let's go get a Ford Focus And my dumb ass said Why don't we get two of them? Why? Okay

No way I can't put children In a Ford Focus I said What children She goes honey Guess what That's how you found out

That's how I found out Oh that's crazy Hmm Your life was changed Forever That was 26 years ago Woof

All right Um, okay, so what else we got? Oh, Framber Valdez. We got on, what do we have on Framber? Oh, let me look. Uh, Mets, Cubs, Red Sox, Orioles, Blue Jays. Again, it's about the same seven or eight teams. Yeah, but once you get past those guys, then everybody's market goes way down.

That's their market, and it's like you're at an auction house, and then there's five billionaires, and then there's 25 guys who are trying to be sensible and look for good deals. Well, that's what happens when you do those family. I see football drafts the same way, yeah, same exact thing. That's a good point, although everybody has the same amount of money. So let me ask you this. I have been predicting, not necessarily you, but I don't think you disagree with me, that we're going to have a massive lockout in baseball next year. Seems like it.

How do you lock out when you have two different sets of owners? That's what I'm wondering. Not only is there going to be division between the players and the owners, it's going to be division within owners and owners. At least the NFL owners, the NBA owners, they're all on the same page in theory. Don't you look at what the Dodgers are doing and say I just cannot compete with them And the Dodgers are like, I don't care

It's like we're playing a different sport It's almost like they're in a different league Yeah It's like they're in league one and you're in league two Like having soccer Like you're in the second league And you're just not going to be able to compete No matter what you do

I just can't imagine the owner of the Marlins And the owner of the Dodgers sitting down and going Hey we can work on this together Because they have two different agendas And if the Dodgers owner's telling the Marlins owner we can work together, he's lying. Right. My guess is just going to ultimately be an additional threshold of taxing for the super

bigger players or they're not allowed to defer payments. That's going to be higher taxes. Higher taxes and maybe no deferred payments. They got to do. Or at least the deferred payments count against the threshold. Yeah. Now a certain percentage of them does. I don't know what that is, but they need to raise that percentage to like 85 or 90.

The bottom 15 teams, meaning the half, they want a salary cap. DeMorlands want to be able to compete with the Dodgers. It's the only way the Packers can compete with the Rams and the Cowboys and the Jets and the Giants and the Chicago Bear. I mean, you have to allow the mid-level market teams a puncher's chance. And if you don't have a salary cap, you'll never get that opportunity. And another thing, by the way, maybe more randomly sharing of dollars on TV deals, local TV. deals because the L.A. Dodgers get a hellacious amounts of money off their TV deal, and I know they do share some of it. They don't share all of it. They're still getting more money

from their local TV deal than the Tampa Bay raise would ever get in a million years. Maybe you pull everything together, but again, if you're the Dodgers, I'm going to believe in this pooling bologna? Wouldn't do it. No, why would they? So who's going to fight more? Is it going to be the owners fighting with each other or the owners somehow collectively coming together and saying we've got to go against these players. Dodgers, match, Yankees, you know, Phillies, Blue Jail, whatever. They're outnumbered.

That's the thing, too. That is true. That is true. 1231 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Matt Ross with you on this Tuesday. Tomorrow I will be in Cleveland with the Rockets,

getting ready for the Rockets and Cavalek. on the show tomorrow we will check in with a reporter from wGR radio and buffalo i'm always fascinated by buffalo that is i mean do you think they own a greater segment of their of their fan base and more than any other city like maybe pittsburgh and green bay would be one two would be like one two three with buffalo depending on the you know what time of the year what percent of fans in the city are fan i mean people in the city are fans are fans like could you grew up in upstate New York and not be a Bills fan? No.

I mean, I grew up in North Texas and wasn't a Cowboys fan. That's probably rare, but because your family's from California. No, but I have my family. They're all from North Texas, though. They're just spread out. So, like, all my entire mom's side of the family is Cowboys fans. Just think about that. Of 32 NFL cities, which city owns the greater population of their fans?

Like, if you were to go find 20 Randow Pittsburgh people, Are you just to, and walked into a mall? That's probably pretty high, but I think Bill's is probably up there. I'm not talking about a sheer number. I'm just talking about greater population. St. Louis Cardinals? No. I can tell you the least.

Chargers in L.A. Chargers is for the San Diego. Rams probably pretty close to. Apparently there's a decent amount of Rams fans. There are decent amounts, but still, I mean, when the Niners go there, there's like 70% of the crowd was Niners fans. You know, I was in L.A., of course. last week, and I was

told by some locals that there are more Raiders fans still in L.A. than there are Chargers fans. I feel that to be accurate. And Niners as well. Yeah. More Raiders and Niners fans in L.A. than Chargers. Charger fan. Okay. L.A. sports fan. Rams? Rams? Niner's than Raiders? I think Rams, Raiders,

Niners, Chargers. Yeah. You're fourth in your town. Woof. We just moved, what? Five years ago? I mean, Oh, we. I forgot. Wee. What do you? What do you, the backup linebacker? Left tackle for the charges here.

They need one. Now, you got, if you're, if you've been a charger friend all your life, you can say we. That's okay. That's fine. All my life. Hmm. Bears fans in Chicago is pretty big. That's a big, too.

What about Green Bay? We're not even talking about Green Bay. No, we didn't. We didn't. Oh, okay. To me, the top three are green. Now, Dallas is a larger fan-based period because I have a national fans. but I'm talking about in the city in which they're in

I would say it's got to be Green Bay 1, Pittsburgh 2, Buffalo 3 and I mean it's a smidge between those 3 I would put the Texans bottom 10 bottom 5 I'll say it What's up

You know he's that wrong You go even down to the Gallo Oh Saints Got to be up there Saints got to be but they're not bumping those top three Saints got to be up there The city shuts down when the Saints are That's true.

Like, okay. Well, maybe not one. And you know what it is? Tyler Shuck is. It's probably easier to figure out who doesn't fall. Okay. Here are cities that don't go ape crazy for their team. Rams.

Chargers. Raiders. Raiders, because there's a lot of people outside of Vegas. Texans. Panthers. I'm telling you, bottom five. I'm telling you. Seattle loves their Seahawks, too.

They do. Your bottom five, you might be bottom three. I'm sorry, Houston. That's just it is. Jets and Giants and Giants. are hated by their city but they're still huge fans they have huge fan bases they're split by the city but but it means but they're not you can't get phil they're not a lot of philly fans bumping around new york oh philly too philly they love their eagles go birds yeah you're

bottom five you're probably oh you're gonna say it texans your bottom three it just is what it is so who are the three okay so are you on the level the chargers texas are higher than chargers are worse charges that's i'd say chargers raiders and then maybe that texans if i'm putting bottom three then broncos fans go crazy for Broncos? Minnesota fans. I used to love Minnesota. They go crazy for the Vikings. How about commies?

Can't tell you. Yeah, me either. Great history. I don't know. Lions fans travel. Yeah, you're bottom three. Oh, God, we're bottom three in terms of, again, the question, what we're discussing is, fans in the city. Jaguars or Texas? In their own city.

Texas. Are worse? Or better fans? Better fans. Okay. The Dolphins even have a good fan base? Nope, nope, but I'd say it's bigger than Houston. Bigger in Houston, though. But not by much. At bottom eight's probably pretty bad.

By the way, you're getting crushed in the McRib pole now. At Sports RV, 65% McRib not good. You know, the question should have been, is the McRib great? The answer would have been much easier. Oh, then you'd have lost 90 to 10. It is a delicious pork patty. Delicious, tasty, tangy, delicious, tasty, tang. You say that out loud.

Pork patty. Grilled to perfection with a tangy sauce. You ever had a tangy sauce? It's got rib humps on it because it has no bones. You can't have a rib without bones. It's a mishit of pork. I told Craig Ackerman. I was going to bring one in the plane.

He's like, I don't want one. Good. See, now his palate. He's a bad reference. I'm not accepting that, actually. You should accept it. Craig, if you're listening. He's got the palate of an eight-year-old.

I wonder if I brought 50 McRibbs. How many of the Rockets would eat them? Who, name the Rockets. Do not poison our rockets playing three to four games a week, running up and down the floor with a short rotation right now. Do not poison their bodies, which are their temples, with the McRibb. Here we go really quick.

If I brought McRibbs for the Rockets, It's plain. Stay with me and this. No. Let's go starting five. Durant, no. Jabari? No.

No. Alperin? Maybe. Yeah, Alper's a big rib guy. Yep. Amen Thompson? Yes. Youngen's like to make fast food. They just do.

And who am I forgetting? Oh, Josh Akogi, I'll go up on. I'll say no. All right, reserves. Jay Sean Taint? Yes. He's from Australia. He's probably had some, like,

Kangaroo pouch. Grilled kangaroo pouch. He said some grilled kangaroo pouch. Yeah, Jayshan wouldn't eat it. He's not from Australia. You know what I mean? He played in Australia. Stephen Adams?

Yes. No, no, no. He'd be like, what the blankety, blankety, blankety, blanky is that? No, if it's not a tomahawk steak with some potatoes. He's out. A lot of potatoes. Who else will also get? Jeff Green, no, he's too old.

He's like, I got to work on my body, whatever. JD Davidson Yeah, he's not making a lot money He'll have one He'll take a free meal Yeah Anybody else I'm remembering I forgetting about

I don't problem Reed Shepett He's not touching that Reed probably But Reed's knocking back Kentucky chicken He's from Kentucky proper right They gotta eat

McRibs in Kentucky You never know what those Kentuckians are up to This one EMA doca No chance No way no how Anybody in staff

No chance No way know how The dietitian No chance No way know how television announcer no radio announcer yes there's your run down well ryan hollandt no Vanessa richardson no she and she openly mocks me and on in our group chat she should as she should you know we can go instead big city winks I'm you can't argue that I'm not

going to you know you shouldn't argue that at all 1250 on Sports Talk 7-90. Do you see Jemar Chase got suspended one game for spitting? He denied it over and over again. He said, I didn't do it. And then he appealed his suspension. Don't they have him on 4K? He spit at Jalen Ramsey, too.

I mean, you must have huge freaking stones. Why are we spitting at people so much these days? I don't know. I've been happening. I've been happening. Whoa, I got a story time on this. He's kidding. I was kidding

Not that I know of No I mean what you think about this Where do you put that on the insult list That's really high up right It's assault Yeah it isn't it legally assault It is

You're putting your bodily fluids on somebody Yeah But he is like adamant that there's nobody has proof of this Well he said I didn't spit on nobody Which means he spit on somebody Think about that Matt that felt like very minutia for anything to him to say

I'm okay with him being suspended because that means more for T. Higgins this week. I mean, sometimes people are talking and they spit. Oh, he spit on him. Oh, yeah, you could see it. That's what I'm saying. He was sitting there adamantly arguing that he didn't do it to Ramsey when every video shows that was a direct spat. Spit or spat?

I don't know. Spat. Spitted. I don't think that's a wordy. spit on that thing. Is that what that girl was said? No, nope, nope. And topic change in 3-2-1. So how about those Rocket? No, I don't know. What's her name? She went

off, she got all famous. She got her 15 minutes. What was her name? The Hock-Tua girl? Hock-Tua, that's what it was. Hock-Tua. Haley is thinking of her name, right? Sure, why not? Sports touch. Do you think when sports team proposed he got

down on one knee, pulled out a box of the ring, and then said, wait, don't answer that yet, then pulled out a McDonald's bag, granted McRib, from inside and put it in her hand and then said, will you marry me? You know Kim. How does she feel about the McRib? It loves the McRib. We are a, the entire family is 100% McRib.

Well, you know what? Whatever kind of weird, freaky stuff you all are into? Although the only person I think that doesn't like the McRibb is Carly. The boys love it. She's got some sense. And Kim and I love it, so yeah. I'm proud of her. Matter of fact, you know what I would do? I mentioned this before. I would give up Turkey for Thanksgiving to have McRibbs. A potter of McRibbs.

See, listen. Listen, Listen, folks, listen to this psychopathy. That is spinning out of his mouth. I better not be shooting while I'm gone. You should be. You just said you would rather have it make rib than Thanksgiving dinner. Yeah. Do you understand that that's insane?

It's delicious. And it's not around for 12 months. I might as well enjoy it while I got it. Okay. Well, you have turkey and stuffing in July? I mean, I would. I mean, I like turkey and stuffing, too. Turfying dressing, whatever you want to call it?

I'm fine. I don't think, I don't know how many people are going to back you up on that. I'm not going to do another poll. Don't do that. You should. No. Because I'm curious on this one. That's going to get you about 955 right there.

McRib over Thanksgiving dinner. No, I'm not anti-th Thanksgiving dinner. I love Thanksgiving dinner. I know. I'm trying to let you walk it back. I'm going to walk it back. I would not choose it intentionally over it. But if somebody said, hey, we're going to all the beaten track this year, we're going to not have

We're not going to have turkeys. We're going to have ribs. I'd be like, we're having pressed pork gristle sheets. Mm-mm. In nasty sauce. Mm-mm. It's all good.

Delicious. Let's go back to CJ's trying on the practice field. With grade F onions and pickles. And a toasted bun. Don't forget that in a savory sauce. Yeah. And a tangy sauce. And a stale bun.

You're sick. What is wrong with you? Of all the food takes you've given, which over the year, there have been numerous, terrible ones. McRib over Thanksgiving. I didn't say over. I said I would have it on Thanksgiving. Oh, you said you would, no, no, no.

We can check the day. You know what? Let's edit. Okay, House A has regular Thanksgiving dinner and stuffing. House B has McRib. Everything else is equal. You're invited to both. I go to both.

Nope. You've got to pick one. Nobody just says you can only go to one person's meal. You can only go to one Thanksgiving? Yeah. That's Julian on Thanksgiving. No, no, no, no. You got in-laws, you got to go to two multiple banks.

And I got a divorce parent, so I go to three or four. So I'm just saying. Okay. You only have, because they're one hour each, one's out, one hour west and one's an hour east. You're only picking one. I will take the turkey over that on Thanksgiving. Thank God. I really try to help you out there.

Now, however, however, it's a Friday after I'm going to McRib. It's a McRib Friday. you know like Black Friday you know the sales deals it's a McRib Friday everybody should get away from the turkey after having a nice thing of turkey and then Friday you have McRibbs you're good oh man don't you oh man me it's fine wow I'm not gonna shame anybody I'm just not that's you're a liar you shame people for getting their steaks well done that is accurate see so you're a hypocrite but I don't I don't criticize the meal itself I'm criticizing as the way it's cooked. You criticize everything. Before I get to the top of the hour and I'm going to get out of here because I feel like I'm going to be blasted

for the next hour than driving to the airport. You know what? Can I listen to another show? You know what? If you want to call in and tell Mac he's crazy, you got three more minutes. 7-13-2-12.

No, you might as well. I'll take them all for a segment. Nah, we don't want to make it about you. Go to Samuel. Go to Samuel. No, I'm not okay. Go ahead, Samuel. Turkey's great.

McRibbs are great too. You can enjoy both in the same day. Hi, Samuel. Howdy, howdy, man. I don't know what in the world do you think. He wanted to choosing a McRib over Thanksgiving dinner. No, I didn't say that. He did, but he walked.

He walked back. He walked back. My offer did. Yeah, I know, Samuel. I don't know what happened. Samuel's speechless. He can't even get his phone on it right. It's why the McRib gods are coming after you.

Oh, but don't get me wrong. I love me a good old McRib, but I don't, I love me a good old McRib, but I don't, I don't, I don't think I would accept if somebody offered me that. All right, let me, I got one for you here in a seven-day week. Would you have more Rick Ribs or more turkey? Hmm. Yeah, see? Probably, probably turkey.

Thanks. Yeah, thank you. Even the McRib lover. No, no, no, no. I would go, there was not even close. If you had to have one, five days and one, two, I have five McRibs over two. I would do three turkey, and then I would just get tired of it a little bit, so I'd have to bust it up with a, and then the nasty port gristle sheet.

would make me appreciate the turkey again. So on day four I would do a McRib and then I'd do three more days of turkey and appreciate it. Thank you very much, Samuel. Nah, that McRibb is, no, no, no, no. McRib is good. They love it and love it.

They love Texas Tech football and they love McRib. Thank you very much, Samuel. Oh, yeah, and Texas Tech, they absolutely do love their McRid. They love that and they're like, all about Texas Tech. All about Texas Tech.

They don't. They're getting McDouble bundles because they can't afford anything else. They should get the McRib tortilla wrap because now they got, they're the sexual turrets. They have a McRibb tortilla wrap?

They should. I didn't love it. Because you got those extra tortillas. You can't throw them in the field anymore. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Our hour number four of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Hour number four of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. without Matt Thomas.

He has ducked out early. He will be traveling with the Houston Rockets as they get their second day off before traveling right now to take on the Cleveland Cavaliers tomorrow. That'll be a 6 o'clock start. National TV ESPN. Rockets are getting some national shine folks. They're one of the best teams in basketball

alongside the Oklahoma City Thunder and Denver Nuggets. Their next four games are on national television. you have this game against the Cleveland Cavaliers on ESPN and then I think they're next going to be on Prime Video on Friday. If I have that correct, yes they will be. And then is it Peacock? Yeah, they're going to be everywhere. ESPN Prime Video, Peacock, and then ESPN again next Wednesday against the Golden State Warriors.

That's always a fun matchup. So Matt is traveling with the Houston Rockets. He'll be out this hour. We got the NFL rewind coming up in the next segment. You guys want to get in, you can. 713-21-5-790 is the phone number. 7-13-212-5-7-90. I would appreciate a follow on my Instagram at SportsRV.

And also at SportsRV, we have the poll up right now. And it's very simple. And I don't want to steer you in any direction. You should go ahead and vote how you want the McRib good or not good. We have spent for whatever reason. It seems like this happens every time the McRib comes back. We spend a lot of time. talking about whether or not the Merrick Rib is any good, and it's horrible.

Anybody with any taste knows that. All right, anyways. So a lot of stuff going on in Houston Sports. As I said, you've got the Rockets back in action tomorrow. The big stories of the day have been what's going on with the Houston Texans in practice. If you have not heard, C.J. Stroud was at practice today. But Jonathan M. Alexander does not think he is going to play. Jaime Fairbairn back at practice, as was Jalen Petrie.

so we'll see what happens Thursday it feels like one of those situations where if it were a Sunday game CJ Stroud would be cleared and he would be okay I also saw I'm trying to make sure I don't get this incorrect yeah this was from Aaron Wilson he put out a little bit more of a detailed report about what's going on with CJ Stroud he said that as he returns to to practice after he's a he remains an NFL concussion protocol, but symptoms of headaches and sensitivity to light have subsided. Positive step for Colts game, Davis Mills preps for bills. That's what it sounds like, is that if it were a situation of C.J. Strau, we're going to play on Sunday.

Unfortunately, you got the short week against the Buffalo Bills. Texans holding right now, as of last check, I think five and a half point dogs in that game. And it's really, I don't want to call it a must-win game or even an important game. Does it feel like kind of like it's a little bit of gravy because you were able to win the game against the Jaguars and Titans two one score games, two close games. That Jaguars game, that was basically over. I can't believe that they came back and won that one,

and then they got the pick six at the end to make it look a little bit better than it actually was. And then it was an ugly game against the Titans. I imagine it's going to be pretty ugly against the Buffalo Bills who you're kind of figuring, you know exactly who they are, where they're seven and three right now. but looking beatable against the dolphins.

I mean, they've got, how do they get crushed by the dolphins two weeks ago? Can someone explain that to me? I don't know. Sandwich in between that or wins or I guess that that would be the meat to the sandwich of an impressive win against the chiefs, but at home. An impressive win against the buccaneers who were very good, but at home. So traveling on the road on a short week, taking on the Houston Texans, but no CJ Stroud. and we'll see as far as an injury report and what's going on in the offensive line

because the Buffalo Bill's defense has been vulnerable on the ground but the problem is the Texans on the ground have been horrible they just haven't been very good they've had some injuries Woody Marks it's good he's decent he can catch a lot of passes

but he doesn't impress you too much in the run game and Nick Chubb is just a guy at this point which somebody told you that would be me at the beginning of the season Nick Chub was just a guy I know people are getting all excited in the name and all that stuff, but too many knee-wrecking injuries for him to be very effective for the Houston Texans. So we'll see how that plays out as the week goes along.

Could there be a surprise? Could we hear from C.J. Stroud or could we get something tomorrow that he's going to play, possibly? But it seems like the Texans are doing the right thing. And this actually makes me happy that they're not trying to rush him back. They're playing the long game. CJ Stroud, they won him not only for this year or the rest of this year, but for a very long time and you got a little bit of a grace period.

You can lose this game. This is the opposite of a must-win game. It'd be nice to have it and they could win. They're still going to play. They're going to try hard. They're going to do everything they can on a short week at Thursday night in front of a half-empty, raucous NRG stadium

with a lot of Buffalo Bills fans in there because then it's going to get tough though. You go on the road of the Colts, on the road of the chiefs, and then somewhat of a softer landing spot, home for the Cardinals and the Raiders. So let's just say they lose, I mean, with C.J. Stroud back, can you split at the Colts and at the Chiefs who look pretty vulnerable? Jonathan Allen thinks the Chiefs are very vulnerable.

You think it's a very winnable game there. I think it's a very, I think it's not going to be a blowout like people are thinking like Chiefs are going to steamroll the Texans. No, we still have one of the best defenses. Sunday night in Arrowhead, Colts have lost two games. Is it too much to say the Texans can split one of those two games? or how about this, win one of the next three, bills, Colts, and Chiefs, then at that point you're sitting at 6 and 7.

If you can beat the Cardinals and Raiders, then you're sitting at 8 and 7. 9 and 8's not going to be enough to make the AFC wild car. I mean, unless they go and beat Chargers as well. Then you have to win out on the road against the Chargers. And then you have to win last, maybe last week against the Colts, the Colts are out of the number one seed.

They've already clenched the AFC South. You could see a scenario where it's Anthony Richardson starting for the Colts and Jonathan Taylor doesn't play at all, right? Yeah, but you guys think about it too. Jacksonville still has a very easy schedule coming up. That's true. Yeah, I mean, you kind of have to, as D'Amico, Ryan's would say, control, we can control, all right?

We got to make plays. We've got to be better. Like, you control what you can control. So when the games that are in, front of you and then see what happens. If they could win one of the next three, sweep the Cardinals and Raiders at home, which seems very doable, you'd have to beat the charges at home, and then you're hoping it's a Colts team that's not going to be full strength. Because right now, who's the ones, it would be the Patriots, right? The Patriots and the Colts are both,

no, yeah. Broncos. Oh, yeah, the Broncos are 90s. And you lost to them, but anyways. The Broncos too lost. The Broncos lost to the Colts, so they lose that tiebreaker. So one of those teams, let's say, emerges as the one seed, Colts are out of it and they're not playing everybody. Yeah, you can finish 10 and 7. Even then, though, there could be multiple teams 10 and 7. Did a 10 and 7 team not make the playoffs last year? Ooh, I think y'all looked this up.

I don't know. We did. No, every 10 and team made it. Excuse me, 10 and 7 team made it. There were the 9 and 8 Bengals that did not. At least in the, in the AFC. In the NFC, 10 and 7 Seahawks did not make it. So 10 wins do not guarantee you, especially in this difficult AFC.

But sounds like C.J. Stroud is not going to play. Davis Mills, capable backup, I guess we call it. Are we calling him a mid-back-up? You're not bad. I want to ask the question, what happens if he comes to this game and he does the same thing he did the last two weeks? I mean... Yeah, just enough.

No, you mean like, is he going to start over C.J. Stroud or something? No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, I was going to kick you off the show if that happened. You're just going to feel so much better about the depth of the Texas team as well. I guess you feel better. The concussions a little more severe, you know what I mean? Look, it's a winnable game. Short week, Thursday, home dogs, historically do pretty well.

Because you think of the names and the name brand is the Bills, for sure. They didn't look so great two weeks ago against a terrible Dolphins team. They're very vulnerable on the run. Woody Marks can get something going on the ground Thursday night. So we'll see how are we feeling about the Texans and the remaining schedule?

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Instagram at SportsRV. I would appreciate that. Quick break here. When we come back, we'll have the NFL Rewind and anything you guys want to get to at 713-212-5-790. All right, it's that time of the week for the NFL Rewin here on the Matt Thomas show with Raw. without Matt Thomas. He has ducked out early to head over to fly out with your Houston Rockets. They'll be taking on the Cleveland Cavaliers tomorrow. Phone lines are open if you'd like to get in. It's 713-212-5-790. All right, what is going on in the NFL? A number of different things are going on.

But let's go ahead and recap some of the games that are relevant to us here in Houston, starting with the Jacksonville Jaguars and that big win. for them crushing. Sorry, Jonathan. Guys, that was a hard watch. But, you know, I don't understand how they come and do what they did to us and then go whoop a seven and three team like that. The NFL's weird in week to week.

Here's some Travis Etienne. Travis Etienne for you. Second and ten from the 13 of the Chargers. Pistol formation this time. And they run it with E.T.N. To the left side. To the 10. Inside the five-yard line.

Stretching for the pylon. Travis E.T. a touchdown. A touchdown run of 13 yards. Jacksonville's extended the lead. This one's been all Jaguars all day long at Everbank Stadium. Yeah, you tell me what happened in that one. Thirty first downs to eight. Now, usually I look at a final score and you're like, okay, that might be a little misleading. Let's check the yards. Let's check first downs. Hold on. This can't be right. 135 total yards for the chargers

dude it was I'm telling you I don't I think Jacksonville heard all the bad news covers they were getting after the Houston loss and just they came out angry crazy they came out angry and whipped some ass 31stowns to 8 345 yards to 135 that is insane

the turnover you would think okay 35 to 6 they must have just won the turnover battle 5 to 0 it was one apiece one apiece Bachel Tutin Come on dude Bachel Tootin is actually pretty good I mean what you said

I mean NFL this year Anybody's gonna win This is very wide open right now Who is the most dominant team in the NFL Is it the Rams The Rams did be the Seahawks huh The Rams are 8 and 2

Yeah they just beat the Seahawks That was a close one Yeah, so maybe we shouldn't be all upset about that Rams, those early Rams lost and the early Buccaneers lost, because those teams are pretty good. Well, there you go. Jaguar is now six and four. We were talking about this earlier.

Probably not going to win the AFC South, but look at this, Cardinals, Titans, easy. Home for the Colts, who knows. Home for the Jets win at the Broncos at the Colts, and then home for the Titans to end the season. You didn't tell me they don't have three, four more wins in there? Absolutely. So Texans need to watch out.

All right. Elsewhere in the NFL, the team that is going to be here in Houston on Thursday pulled away from the Buccaneers late. Three receivers to the left, cook to the right of Allen and the shotgun here on second and four. Alan back to pass. Now going to tuck it and run as he's looking for the end zone.

And the surge pushes him in for his sixth touchdown of the season or the game. He is a beast with a capital B. He is a scoring machine. He's unbelievable. He has tied his career high in a football game with his sixth touchdown. Six touchdowns for Jonathan Allen.

317 yards, a couple of picks, one of them really bad. But also had three rushing touchdowns. Bills, seven and three, five and one at home, two and two on the road. Oh, I like that. Two and two on the road. I mean, do we have a... Are you telling me there's a chance? Texans, let me check the latest line.

I wonder what the total is, too. Probably pretty low. 43 and a half is very low for a Buffalo Bills game. Line's still holding it five and a half. It opened up at three and a half, but then the bad news of C.J. Stroud not practicing and now limited in practicing came in. That moved at a couple of points.

I know. Anything can happen on 30th. Yeah. You're going to need like a couple of pick six. is off of. Josh Helen can turn the ball over. And Will Anderson is a dog. But he can also score six touchdowns. All right, let's keep it

rolling on the NFL Rewind. How about a favorite of yours? I'm sure you're going to like this highlight. Snap placement kick on the way. And it is good. They don't block this one like last

year in Kansas City. And on the final play of the game, the Denver Broncos have beaten the Kansas City Chiefs by a final score of 22 to 19. What's wrong with the Kansas City Chiefs? The AFCs just dominated. I was telling Matt last week. It's just they got team at the team that can find the way to win.

And honestly, if you look at their record, like they're five and five. Now, they were beating, Ravens, they were whipping the Ravens and then Lamar Jackson got hurt in that game. but that was effectively over, even when Lamar Jackson got hurt. Right. They beat up on the Lions. Their losses, none of them are bare. They're all one-score losses. Which is funny how that kind of turns year to year.

Five one-score losses to the Chargers, Eagles, Jaguars, Bills, and Broncos. Four of those, oh, excuse me, three of those on the road. I just got a hard-ass schedule. Now they got Colts. Cowboys, Texans, Chargers, okay, Titans. Man, are the Chiefs missing the playoffs? See, see, I'm trying to put you on game. I mean, they have a hard schedule.

No, NFL analyst, Jonathan Allen. She's has a hard schedule, right? Yes. But I think it's more of a testament to how good the Broncos, the Patriots, you know, even the Jacksonville putting up a fight and taking a win from them. Like, I just think NFL is a lot more evenly stacked than it has been. been the last three years. Yeah, it's been crazy. And as

Sport Hutch is pointing out, it'd be nice to beat the Chiefs because for a head-to-head tiebreaker. Honestly? I don't think it's going to, it's probably not going to factor in with the bills, depending on what their remaining schedule is, but right now the Patriots are number one, but so

it'd be nice to get a win over the bills. Although, um, uh, bills still have the, well, at the Steelers is not in a gimmy, but home for the Bengals, Browns, they have the Browns On the road

They end the season at home versus the Jets Yeah, they're in the playoffs already They have seven wins So you're probably not going to have to worry about a tiebreaker with the bills It'd be nice I wouldn't say they exceeded Talking about the Texans They did not exceed expectations this weekend

But at least they won And then that Jaguar's comeback was nice So it's almost like you don't even know What you're going to give it to Texans Except for good defense and bad offense and then hopefully they win somehow. That's basically where you are with them. All right.

Elsewhere in the NFL rewind, a couple of news items. Are we going old school with these benchings? Abdul Carter was benched by the New York Giants for the first series of the week. And then last night in Monday night football, both George Pickens and C.D. Lamb were benched by head coach Brian Shoddheimer.

The rest of players like the NBA now? What's going on? No. I mean, it's also like, we're playing the Raiders. We can probably still handle without like one series of you guys. It's no big deal.

I mean, that's kind of smart to me. I think I'm a coach. I'm like, hey. George Pickens still ended up with 144 yards in a touchdown. CD Lamb had 66 yards in a touchdown. And that Cowboys offense,

obviously a force to be reckoned with. And their defense actually played well. With Quinn and Williams and others making plays. Quentin Williams, I think, had a sack. Yeah, he ate a sack and a half. But I don't think Cowboys are made. I think the NFC is just too stacked for them to make too much of noise.

But I mean, they're four, five, and one. There's a lot of season left. Right now it's the Rams, I think, Rams, Seahawks, Eagles, in whatever order you want to put them as far as the best teams in the NFC. I don't know that the Cowboys are going to be able to factor in that. But what's going on with these benchings everywhere in the NFL? Is this the, are we going to hear? Who's the Texan most likely to get benched?

On what game? This game? On Thursday? Any game. Any game. Nobody's really a hothead. I mean, Aziz Alsharee here, but Damiko Rines loves him. He goes out there and he, you know, hits quarterbacks in the neck.

But he's okay after that. Schultz? Dalton Schultz? You think he's causing problems? I don't know. I want to say cause problems. I'm just thinking about, like, who would you bench and you think he'd be all right? You can't even think of anybody who's really like a, like a, well, it would have been C.J. Garder Johnson, but they kicked him off the team.

Yeah. It seemed like a good choice too. That was more than a benching. They literally released in the team. Yeah, where is he now? He's on a practice squad or something like that. Yeah, I think the bears pick him up. I'm not too sure, though.

Already, we mentioned this earlier. There's been a rash of these break-ins on the NFL rewind here. I do want to bring it back up. Shador Sanders had his home broken into $200,000 worth of property stolen. during the game this has happened now recently to Joe Burrow Patrick Mahomes

Travis Kelsey I mean it's kind of smart they know where you're going to be on Sunday at noon Are you advocating right now? Hi Ross didn't mean that Hi my name is Ross

I do not advocate the stealing of any property you're going to get regulated and you're going to get prosecuted but I mean if you have if you're looking to rob somebody and you have a 100% guarantee they're not going to be in their house

it would be a sports player while they're at the game to make sure the wife and kids are gone or something you know oh yeah maybe she got to do that I don't know I get it give credit when credit is due I need a documentary on all these heists that all these these football players are

suffering this is crazy it's really sad honestly yeah well it's what he tees that's all I can say. All right, we're going to take a quick break here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you guys want to get in, you can. We have, we've been talking about the Texans.

How you feeling about Davis Mills versus the Buffalo Bills? Ooh, that rhymes. 713, 212-5-790. We were talking earlier about college football stuff. Is Lane Kiffin going to stay at Ole Miss? He went on the Pat McAfee show. If you heard the reports yesterday, there's basically an ultimatum like he might not even coach the Egg Bowl. He went and dismissed all that, said everything's good at all. Ole Miss. I'm focused on winning. Believe him or not. And also the Desmond Howard stuff we were talking about earlier as well. He says Steve Sarkeesian could be gone at the end of the year for the Texas Longhorns. I say that's not the craziest thing I've ever heard. I like Sark. He's a good coach. But you never know what these high dollar boosters are going to do who are shelling out all this cash for players. Anything you guys want to get to, you can. Phone lines are open. 713, 212. 5. 790 is the phone number 713-212-5-790. All right, never in my life have I been more sure than I'm on the right side of something.

Jonathan, can you guess there is a certain 790 employee. Just came in here to tell me the McRib is awesome. Oh, I know who it is. Who? Mr. Cole Thompson? Cole Thompson loves the McRib And see, now I'm really solidified in knowing that I am right And I'm on the right set of history

I can't believe You, so you're a fan of the McRibb? I'm outnumbered here, I think I said I liked it I got the fan that would be right now Okay You know what I'm saying But I can eat it

You know if I'm feeling like it It sucks It's nasty, it's disgusting It's you don't even want to think about You don't even know what it's made of What's in the McRib Nobody knows it's Portnese You can say the same thing for chicken nuggets.

It's probably. Exactly. Those are that, yeah. You don't know what's in there? No, you don't. Have you ever seen there's a documentary. It used to be on Netflix. I remember it was called like Food Ink or something like that.

Have you seen Google the pink McNuggett slurry? It's nasty. You got to get all that stuff out of your body, folks. That's why I go full white, all white meat chicken. Get the tenders. Just upgrade. It's going to be all right. Those tenders are, oh, come on now.

Tenders are better. not that they're much honestly if we're eating fast food we're basically putting carcinogens in our body but why would you make it worse with a nasty pork gristle sheet you're sick you people disgust me

not to say that I'm surprised all right 713-212 570 is the phone number if you want to get in 713212 5790 one of the things I haven't been able to talk about much since we came back because they played on Sunday and we were probably more full

in Texans mode yesterday but Matt Thomas is out traveling with the Houston Rockets who are one of the best teams in basketball. They've got two four game losing, excuse me, winning streaks so far early in this season. They lost to the Spurs on a Friday night basically a week and a half ago. Since then they have won four straight and they're looking like the best offense in basketball right now. And I'm really excited because I definitely had some reservations before this season started. about no Fred Van Vleet. What was going to happen with the ball handling?

And the turnover still have been a concern for the team. They've been turning the ball over. And Tari Easton has gone down for a few weeks as well with his injury. So I'm a little bit concerned there. But this team, when you have Kevin Durant and Alper and Shingoon, it's basically, it's developing into like a big three situation at this point. With Amin Thompson and Kevin Durant and Alpi Shingu. And when you have both those guys on the floor,

especially Shingoon. His field goal percentage hasn't been great. Last game, he scored, everybody's like, man, 30 points. Alpy Shingoon, he's going off. This is amazing. Well, he took 31 shots. I still, if I have one complaint about Alper and Shingoon, it would be a lot of those easy bunnies and hook shots and putbacks and stuff.

And some of the wild shots that he throws up when he's just trying to draw a foul and they don't work. I would like him to go a little bit stronger to the hoop. And I would like him to make some of those easy bunnies and hooks. which we know he can make. He's very good with both hands, very good passer, extremely great feel for the game, and he commands double teams.

So when you have Kevin Durant and Alpi Shingoon on the floor, and they're both commanding double teams, things are looking pretty good. And then you have, I mean, when we talked to Coach Udoco on Thursday, that's going to be one of the things I'm going to ask, like,

how does a men Thompson always get free on these basket cuts? what is that is that instinct is that just people sleeping on him like what is the feel what is the like the secret sauce now part of it of course is the guys that are looking for him whether it be shingoon or durand or whoever who are keeping their eyes out and very good passers very good guys who can who see the floor very well underrated passer kevin daran has been basically his entire NBA career and then alpi shingoon who's a great passer one of the great passing big man i'll say his second grade is passing big man in the league. Well, of course, we're going to put Nikola Yokic up there. So I'm just really impressed with the Rockets and where they are right now. And I think they're going to continue to get better, especially as long as they stay healthy. I'm somewhat worried about the shortened rotation for them because now you have Tari Isson out and you're going to have to stretch a little bit thin. But Coach Doka kind of hasn't, he hadn't been afraid to do that. He's not saying, normally he doesn't

say, oh, this guy's out of our rotation, I'm going to add this guy. It's generally been like, okay, these other guys are going to carry a little bit more of the burden. And that's the way that it's been. That's the way that he's gone about his business. So I'm okay with that. We'll see what happens with the Rockets, but they're nine and three right now. If you look at net rating, if you're not aware, it's something I talk about a lot, especially in pre and post game shows. Basically, points per possession, offense minus defense. Generally, the best teams in basketball have the highest net rating. For example, last year is a thunder. Right now, it's the thunder. Then it's the Nuggets. Then it's the Houston Rockets. So I think we're talking

about that's going to be your top three in the West. Got feeling I gave it a couple of weeks ago. I think I had the Rockets as top three in the West. I'm feeling confident in that. Oklahoma City is going to be one. I think the Rockets are going to be two and three fighting it out with the Denver Nuggets. But we're very early on in the season. There's a lot of basketball left to be played and we'll see where they go and they can get even better. And then hopefully at some point they will get even healthier. Reed Shepard, I haven't even mentioned. Oh, but the same.

With 16 points in the last game. I've been really impressed with them. I'm going to be honest. And I said this on air. Just between you and me. You guys and me. I was a little skeptical of a breakout of Reed Shepard. But I did not write him off because I've been around long enough.

I'm what you call old, Jonathan. I've seen bad players. Oh, we know. Thank you. Turned. Like, I've seen, I don't even, I like, Clint Capella was never a bad player. look at his progression throughout the years. Players

can get better. Their bodies fill in. They get used to it. They get more confident. And that's why I never write off somebody from one bad season. And Reed Shepard, it was a bad season. He looked like a deer in headlights. He looked like he was lacking in confidence and all that stuff. Now he's

confident. He's believing in himself. He's doing terrible three-point celebrations where he doesn't know what to do with his hands. Like he's Ricky Bobby and Talladega Nights. But he looks confident out there. Well, I even piggyback on that. Even just the first game of this and he looked like he was doing in. He looked confident, but the shots weren't going in. And I said, at least he's, at least he's trying.

Right. So I was excited about Reed Shepard from that. That was a little bit like, okay, we're going to see something like he's confident. They're telling him to take these shots. He's confident in the shots. Hopefully eventually they'll fall. And they're falling for him right now. Reed Shepard has been an absolute, like, he's earning time where it felt like they were giving him time

based on where he was and where he was drafted. Now he is earning that time. In the last six games or so, he's been really important for the Rockets. And he's going to continue. And now with the shorter rotation, I'm all aboard the Reed Shepherd train.

49% from the field overall. Now, 48% from three, those numbers are going to come down. Or if they don't, he's just going to be the best three-point shooter in the league. But I'm extremely, encouraged by where the Rockets are right now. The defense has been

good and getting better and the offense is going to continue to be one of the best in the league because you've got this guy named Kevin Durant and then you have a guy who is already an all-star at Alperin Shungoon who's a triple double threat every night. So I'm feeling good about this Houston Rockets basketball squad. And I know

sometimes you're fighting a losing battle, especially in Houston, where I don't mean this is a negative. We're a front running town. Like you only invest in good teams? That makes sense. I'm okay with that, but not a passionate, ingrained sports town in general, no matter who. Astros, absolutely. This is an Astros town right now. But it wasn't 10 years ago when they're losing 111 games. That's okay. But it's a good team. They're fun to watch. I will hand out my personal guarantee. If everybody stays healthy, they're going to be a top

three team in the West. I think you should be paying attention because they're fun to watch night in and night out. And of course, you can listen to them right here on Sports Talk 790, your home for your Houston Rockets. All right, another break here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. You want to get in on the phones, you can. 713-2-5-790 is the phone number. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

You can send tweets to at SportsRV if you want to interact that way. You can also follow me on Instagram at SportsRV as well. Quick break here. You got the A team coming up at 2 o'clock, but the final segment of the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas is next. 147 of the PM here on Sports Talk 790

it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas I went through Oh Oh breaking news Is it one? That's probably one right

Hey, hey Throwing another one just for fun. One each for Jalen Petrie and C.J. Stroud. Breaking news. D'Amico Ryans has ruled out C.J. Stroud and J.L. Petrie under the NFL concussion protocol. They are out for the Bills game. He is encouraged about their outlook for the Colts game next week.

Davis Mills for the third straight week is your Houston, Texan starting quarterback. I mean, we have to give credit where it's due. He is 2 and 0 as the Houston Texan starting QB. This news, by the way, was given to me by Adam Wexler. He texted me. Ryan's announces Petrie and Stratter out. And my response to him was thanks, true insider. So thanks to our true, thanks to our true Texans insider, Adam Wexler, at practices, at press conferences, breaking it down like nobody's business and giving me the news.

So there you go. No C.J. Stroud. No Jalen Petrie. Felt like that was the, I mean, that was the chalk play. Maybe it felt like there's possibly an outside shot that they could get in and play the game or play on Thursday. But you got the short week. Have them next week. Take it easy. I understand you want to win these games, but especially when it comes to concussions, you don't want to rush anybody back. You've got to play the long game. Petrie assigned to a long-term deal. Mark my words. C.J. Stroud eventually will be sorry. assigned to a long-term deal

for the Houston Texans and you want to be cautious. You want to err on the side of caution. So a short week against the bills, winnable game, a little bit less winnable with Davis Mills. And we'll see what happens on Prime Video on Thursday night. I'm not feeling great about it.

I mean, I do have a weird gut feeling. I mean, I did say it earlier today because it is Tuesday gut feelings here on the Matt Thomas show. I have a weird gut feeling that's going to be closer than people think. Just because that always seems to happen, especially on weird stuff happens on Thursday. And this NFL season has been week to week.

It's been crazy. Like the poor sorry chargers getting absolutely. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah, they are pretty sorry right now. I just said that to make you upset and it worked. Okay, I'm sorry. Look, you lose 35 to 6 to the Jaguars. I can't defend that on.

I mean, come on, man. That's terrible. Yeah. So it's week-to-week league It really is A couple weeks ago Joe Flacko was lighting the world on fire And now he's had back-to-back bad games

For the Bengals who are now 3 and 7 Ravens, by the way Who told you, Jonathan? The Ravens had a very soft schedule coming up And they weren't out of it yet When they're 1 in 5. Now they've won 4 straight And they're 5 and 5.

You know, I should have given you a problem So I was waiting to you got back Yes, you should. And I didn't, when all that went down I was like man coach is going to be gone you know Harba's Joe everybody thought John Harbaugh's going to get fired and all his other stuff

but then they I you know what it is Lamar got all those distractions out of the locker room got through the TVs and all that stuff was that what they said is that what they did no yeah it came out he he did that when he was on Andrew he was on the he was on the IL he told them

get all the distractions away so they're home for the Jets win home for the Bengals win home for the Steelers probably win I mean, they could be eight and five. Then they are at the bingles, home for the Patriots, at Packers, at Steelers. They could be a toss up.

Maybe they split those four games with throwing the two Steelers games in there. AFC's tough, man. AFC is insane how difficult it is. And right now, you know, I haven't looked at the latest playoff odds, but I think the Texans got down to like two or three percent. Oh, I think they're at like 26 now? 26. Okay. So you're telling me there's a chance. I have it right here. Yeah, the we are, or Texas are

Oh yeah, I like you dropping a wee. Hold on. You can't drop a we on the Chargers and a Wii on the tag. That's all I corrected. That's what I corrected. Yeah, they're 26% right now. 26%. Okay. So there's a non-zero chance. 26%. They're going to win this week against the bills would be huge. I don't think it's going to happen. But crazier stuff has happened on a Thursday night at the NFL. So we'll see.

C.J. Stroud out. Jalen Petrie ruled out. So we got the opinion from Cole Thompson. He is pro McRib. You are pro-M-Rib. As pro-Centrists pro you can get. You're a centrist pro. Yeah, I mean, I'm right in the middle.

So you're a pro-Mikrib lean. Yeah. Oh, okay. I'm not going to say get it off the menu. I'm like, oh, okay, I support it. I mean, you don't have to take it off the menu. If you want to enjoy your press gristle sheet, you go ahead and. You do your thing.

That sounds so gross when you say that. That's what it is. Anyways, okay, so I actually looked through my Twitter history, and this is the fifth time I've done a poll. You can vote on the McRib again at SportsRV. I've gone to this well a lot of times. I always like to put up Twitter polls just I'm curious the pulse of the people, especially now it's not necessarily to prove a point when Matt and I disagree.

A lot of times I'm just generally curious. Because you know, you can argue with your friend and they're really passionate about something. You're like, am I crazy? Like, no, I'm not crazy. Or maybe I'm crazy. I don't know. Let me put a poll up on Twitter. That's what I do.

So I've done it now five. I think five times it generally ends up about 60-40 anti-McRib. Although the one I did in 2022 was two-thirds. Two-thirds anti-McRib. This one's holding at about 60-40 anti-McRib. so and then we also did we did a taste test video

in 2022 when it came back you tried one yeah no I've had me I've had a McRib oh okay okay look if you put a free McRib in front of me I mean I guess I'm gonna eat it

see I'm not gonna see what does that see you put it if you hated it that much you wouldn't even put it in your mouth you put free anything in front of me for the most part no I give it a shot

there's nothing that is all that is like completely off I do not eat list that I can think of. Certainly not fast food item. Even like chitlins and stuff like that? I don't know that I've had chitlins. I've had tripe, which is like threepa, like, uh... Yeah, I've had that before, too.

It's similar. I've had, yeah, I've had intestines. When I went to Korea, I had chicken feet. Korea and Taiwan, no, I think I had more exotic foods. I had liver. Liver was actually pretty good. I had kidney. That's what it was.

Kidney, that's what? Kidney, of what? I think it was a... I think it was a... Kidney. Okay. I mean, have you had Lingua? No. You're a cow tongue? No, my girl's dad loves that though, by the way. Yeah. I just don't know if I can get it. Oh, he's Mexican from the valley, huh? Yeah, no. No, he's actually, yeah, he's like, yeah. He's authentic as he can be. On the other, the other side of the border. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, yeah. Um, yeah, I, I, I'm, I tolerate Lingu, it's not my favorite. I don't like three pa. What about, you guys heard the, what I don't know what was called, um, that's supposed to an M. Um, um, I was, um, um, um, It's peanut butter and chocolate chicken. Peanut butter. Oh, mole.

Mole. Yeah, Mola's great. Well, there's good Mola and there's bad Moli. You have to find somebody who makes it good. See, people are hearing this like, you would eat that, but not a big ribs. See, you know. I eat, yeah. Yeah, it's on chicken.

It's a sauce. It's not a nasty pork patty with bumps on it. Where do those bumps come from? Why are they putting rib bumps on my pork patty? Come on, man. That's nasty. You're nasty. All right.

You know what it's going to do? Don't eat emigrid because it's going to bring your energy down, all right? And if you notice it continue to decline in your motivation, your energy, your focus, and this is actually a serious conversation because, you know, we've all been there. Sometimes you don't feel like getting out of bed at night. You're in a rut. You don't know what's going on. You're not sleeping good at night.

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Thanks to Jonathan Allen for producing doing a great job, as he always does. I'll talk to you tomorrow at 10, but right now don't go anywhere. It's two Adams. They call themselves the A team, and they're next up here on Sports Talk 790. Thank you.