The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Making A Resurgence, Texans DBs Not Practicing, Bregman To Phillies?

Episode Date: November 14, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" recap the Houston Rockets defeating the Los Angeles Clippers 111-103 Wednesday at the Toyota Center. Matt and Ross also:review the latest MLB free agent rumor that has Alex Bregman signing with the Philadelphia Philliesreact to Texans defensive backs Kamari Lassiter and Derek Stingley Jr. not participating in Wednesday's practicediscuss the latest plans regarding the future of the Astrodomehave Dr. Roto cure their fantasy football ailmentstalk about the things they don't understand in "I Just Don't Get It" and more.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 10.1 in H-town. Good morning. And welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Tari crossed midcourt to Landell, poked away by Batum, going to back, or release, and he'll grab it.

It was deflected. Tari straight away against Batum at the right elbow, down the lane. Going up, and he'll throw it with a right hand, Emma. Bambly, baseline, and a lot. Bob out to Shengoon to his left. Shot clock at 11 seconds. Alpy left side to Fred, pump fakes, gets by Zubots. He's foul from behind. He's got an N1 on a whistle against Chris Dunn. Ball deflected, that's a steel and stolen right back by Easton. Baseline, right?

How about a man for a three ball? And he knocks it down. A man Thompson with his second three-pointer, 98-79, Houston. This clock can't run fast enough. Van Bleed against a triple team, floats up an eighth-foot. Missed it the follow-up dump is not there but shengoon gets his own offensive rebound off the miss and Alperin Shengoon with now his ninth double double of the season his 75th for his career and that layup makes it 10799 with two on nine remaining Putback is no good by Miller ball is still losing the middle of the paint picked up by Van Bleak throws up to make court here comes Tar Heisen with an emphatic 10 seven seconds remaining straight on three no good on the three-point try by Jordan Miller And ladies and gentlemen, inside TOTA Center, it's another fucking twins. And again, I know Rome won't built in the day, sports RV, but I'll take eight and four on every 12 games you play.

Feels good. I don't know why I thought of this song, but I just said, you know what? I haven't heard this song in a while. Let's play and see how it rolls. Well, you are most of America. Tony Tone had them hits, though, Maddie. It's not a bad song. I don't know if I'll download it, but it wasn't bad.

I didn't know you were such a new jack swing connoisseur. Oh, that's what they call me, new jack. Yeah, well, they, something like that. Jack something. Excuse me? How much are we going to miss you on Fridays when Dan Matthews and Gordier filling in? What do you mean? Because you provide about half the material for the Friday opens.

Yeah. I've been really trying to dial it back, but it just doesn't. It doesn't work. I don't know what happens. It's your fault, really, most of the time. I feel it to be accurate, yes. I'm blaming you. Hi, good morning, everyone.

1004 on Sports Talk 790. It's nice to have you with us on this Thursday edition of the show. I am in a fantastic mood. You are? Well, I mean, why wouldn't anybody not be in a fantastic mood? Wouldn't it take you to 95 minutes to get to work. Yeah, that sounds great. You can listen to a podcast.

You can listen to some music. You can, I mean, just deep breaths, maybe even quiet time thinking to yourself. That sounds quite therapeutic, man. I hope you enjoyed it. I'm going to tell you that I used Siri to text a lot of people while I was driving. Okay. And Siri, by the way, I don't know if y'all know this or not, does a really good job of capturing swear words.

Yes, she does that a lot better than regular words, I think. Yeah, she's had some issues with regular stuff I've sent, but when I want to drop an F-bomb or blank this blank, she's right on top of it. And I'm pretty, you know, remember we said Sabrina back in the day? Yes. I don't think, does Sabrina can, can she? I don't think she can do it.

No. We wouldn't find out on this radio show if she can. But no, shout out to you, Siri, or being able to capture everyone of the F this is, I hate this life, I want to get rid of my life, I want to, I told my wife in the drive that's morning, we're going to move.

Oh, really? And then I told her I'm quitting the work, quitting the show. Oh, you're such a whiner. Oh, 100%. That's the thing about me you should appreciate is I don't hide the fact that if you want to call me a whiner,

yes. Always look at the bright side of life, Matt. Let's go. The glass is half full. Now, I chose, be more like D'Amico Ryan's. You know what? I'm going to go to, I'm going to have Damiko and I drive to work.

Let me tell you, my drive is so bad that Damiko will get cranky into the weather. Keep building. Keep stacking. Yeah, all right. Kenyon greeds do it great. Nobody talks about Kenyon Greeds good reps. Did he really say that? Yes. Oh, my God.

You know what we're going to have to do? We're going to have to start doing. You remember when James Gordon would have those karaoke, carpool karaoke? Carpool karaoke. Yes. I think I'm going to start doing that by yourself. You do that by yourself already. probably with Christopher

when Christopher Cross comes on. No, no, no, I'm going to take sports figures in this town and we're going to go for a drive. And talk sports. And talk sports. I like that. Now you don't like driving though. No, I'm going to have somebody do it for us. You know, part of the charm is that he was driving. No, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to get the two main

transportation services in the world Uber and Lyft. Oh, okay. And we're going to call it Uber Sports with MT or Lyftsports with MTV. And we're going to go pick people up and we're going to get the car and we're just going to drive around we may stop through a drive-thru get some food and just talk about things and i'm going to and and i want to pick up to miko and i'm going to pick him up take him back to my house he can meet my wife and my kids and my dogs

and then we're going to drive to work here and we're going to see how how how how positive a spin he puts on an 80 minute drive what if you get in an uber that's blasting regga tone music then you give him one star no tip oh okay then the bit doesn't work No, it doesn't. You got to set up your camera. No, just use my own phone and just take a picture of us the whole time. I always get one of those, you know, those standings. Yeah, selfie sticks.

I borrow yours. Yeah, okay. I use it all the time. I haven't seen you use it forever. I just use it in locker rooms. And you're never in locker rooms, so. Yeah, that's true. I don't need to.

I got connections elsewhere. Oh, there's a bunch of phony meeting this town. I go in the locker room all the time. You know what? You don't know Jack. You've got a failed miserable radio career in broadcasting and career, you're not relevant. Stop telling me you go in the locker rooms. Nobody cares.

You're not informative. You're not entertaining and you're going to be serving me my coffee before you know it. Wow. All right. You like spicy MT at 10-08? I think you're spicy every day at least days. Well, we're at noon. I'd be in a much better spot. Matt, come on. I'm happy to be here. Good.

Yeah, you should be. No, I'm serious. This is the raw emotion of me and you should enjoy it. At least I'm not faking y'all with stuff. This is who I am. the raw. That sounds appealing. Yeah, because emptying the raw be like I found a co-host name Raw. We would never call you that. Hey, on the show today, I just don't get it at 1130. I don't get you. You haven't got me for a long time. At 1 o'clock, we've got Dr. Roto for his weekly Thursday visit. We have the rotten five. This will be your last rotten five for three weeks. Yes.

That's at 1.30. and then we have another we have two pairs not one but two pairs of Justin Timberlake tickets give away today that's right we had no winners yesterday we're doing more we got to do password again yes and since you didn't like my password yesterday that's not true it was great Matt

you rolled your eyes you just rolled your eyes no I got something in my eyes early for me if you were on Space City people wouldn't know how disingenuous you were I don't think we're worthy of putting on the TV but that's okay that's fine we can just dress up like the way we did

wearing a hoodie and you're wearing a t-shirt your track shirt yeah i'm gonna go for a run after the show i like that i think i'd be faster running back to king one than driving but that's a different issue for a different time uh and then we've got the rotten five at 130 150 will be the uh believe it or not where we will give away not one but two pairs of a dust and timber like tickets and you will come up with the password today okay by the way i meant to ask you connor uh how many people tried to play yesterday they didn't know the password i'm very curious what that number is uh about five really and so when you said what's the password

they were like did they try to guess a password or they just didn't know it hung up no they would just say like oh I just started listening I don't know and then I hung up on them

oh there you go is it satisfying it sounds like the way you said it it sounds like it was satisfying a little bit I told him like you gotta listen to the show

to hear the password to play again tomorrow and then I hung up on and we gave you four chances so I look I don't expect anybody to listen from 10 to 2 I mean if you do

bless you we thank you so much we think if somebody could listen to us 10 to 2 every day. We'd be a better place. I don't even listen 10 to 2. I know.

I see you by 1115, you check out for like 30 minutes. Yes. So what, for those of they don't know, yesterday we gave away a password to get into, believe it or not, because we're trying to weed out prize wars because of the very good prize of Justin Timberlake tickets. In about 10 minutes, we'll give out the password for today. Yeah. And we'll do that.

And once an hour, so you get four chances to catch it. So it's like we're not, we're trying to hide it from a certain group. All right. I listened to the Rockets Wrap last night. You actually had a few callers. I was, I'm, we're building. I don't feel like it's a mountain climb. We're going up a nice hill.

And we're burning calories. Yeah, we're hiking. We're not running up the mountain. Yeah, yeah, it's not a sprint up there. We got our walking stick on. Yeah. And we're not nearly as fatigued as we were because we've dropped a few pounds. Okay. We're getting more exercise. We're taking breaks. We're taking frequent breaks.

We're holding on the rail still or no not. Yeah, we're taking a, a lot of breaks and we're like, oh, I was just trying to check out the view. It's so beautiful. Okay. So, yeah, so Rockets went again. It was a really strange night. Clippers didn't miss a three-point shot. It felt like forever. And then the Rockets came back and put the suffocating defense on again. It's Tarry Easton and Amin Thompson have been absolutely, do you have a battle for six man of the year with two guys on your own team? Yeah, it's true. It's pretty incredible. One of them may be starting at some point. Yeah, Jabari's really struggling from the floor.

Yes, he is. I mean, it's, you can't, you can't hide it. It's just, it's just not going well for him. And so those two guys are getting serious crunch time minutes. Then Tyron Liu, who's the coach of the Clippers, in the fourth quarter is like, 10 minutes left to go, we're good, we're going to take this L. And he puts on a bunch of people I've never heard of before. Case in point. What is your favorite Kobe Brown moment?

Well, that was when he won five championships with the Lakers? No, that's Kobe Bryant. Oh. You got a rundown of Jordan. Miller's career. No, I don't. Is he Andre Miller's son? I don't know who it was, but these guys came in and scored 12 points in like eight minutes of play. Well, you know who Kevin Porter Jr. is. I do. He had 3,000 in the first quarter. Clippers legend. Yeah. Wearing 77. Played only six minutes last night and was basically booed or complete indifference.

There wasn't a video to celebrate the life of the best of Kevin Porter's a rocket. There was a highlight tribute for Kevin Porter Jr.? No. That's weird. Nope. So, yeah, Rock is held on and beat the Clippers, and now Houston is 8 and 4. They'll take on the Clippers again tomorrow night. It'll be a in-season tournament playoff game, so quote-unquote, it just means more. Who said that before in sports?

That's SEC stuff. Is that what that is? It just means more. You know what? They're right. I guess. Losing to Vanderbilt on the road. It just means more.

Well, I mean, the Big Ten and the SEC dominate the college football playoff, and they're saying, our leagues mean more. And the rest of America's like, yeah, we're right. We don't want to admit it. I think there's an inherent SEC bias in a lot of the rankings because a bunch of these teams play like three FCS opponents and then they beat up on each other and then everybody just ranks them high. Yeah.

Well, it's because, again, it's based on reputation, track record. And at the end of the day, if Georgia played Boise State, who's winning? That'd be Boise State and Ashton Jentee. He's running for 300. You are such an Ashton Jentee. fan. You're not? He's fine.

Well, he's fine. I mean, again, he's incredible. He's electric. I can run for 176 against Colorado State. No, you could not. He ran for almost 200 against Oregon, the number one team in the country. Yeah, but they were, they only, they played their second and 13ers in that game. That is not true. It was a, it was a, it was a close game. They almost got upset. Okay. Ashton Genty is going to be just a guy in the NFL. Oh, you put your name on? Put my name on.

Yes. Put my name on it. I love this. Yeah, do it. Oh, I love this. Because I'm going to prove you right like I prove you right on most things. Okay. We'll be going.

You want to go through the list of wrong things? Ask you gente and just a guy. Okay. All right. I love this. I have some wonderful news about our, most of our conversation about yesterday. I want to get into very briefly when we come back. Okay.

Okay. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-790. If you want to join us on the radio program, again, we got to just don't get at 1130. For those of you don't know what that is, that's basically, that's going, we don't get something. And we need each other to help us figure out what you just don't get. 713-212-5-790.

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This is the Matt Thomas Show. All right, so the time is 10-20, and I did a lot of, like, we get off the air at 2 o'clock, we're now 10 to 2 here on 7.9. and so I went to our prep room where I took a nap. Oh, by the way, we'll have a password. We'll do the password first. Come on, Maddie. Sorry.

Focus up. All right. So JT tickets to give away today at $150. Two different pairs are giving away, I'm believe it or not. Yes. And today's password is to play the song that was playing at the end of the Super Bowl halftime show with he and Janet Jackson when there was the wardrobe malfunction. incidents.

Which is what? Rock your body, Matt. Okay. Come on. I was working in the Super Bowl, so. Rock your body. Because he says that the, I'll have you naked by the end of this song, and then he, and then a nipple popped out.

Hmm. Okay, so rock your body is the password. Rock your body is the password. Speaking of that, Taylor was at a concert last night. Taylor, who, Matt? Math is. Okay. She wore garter belts to a car.

concert. So what? Most women don't wear garters to concerts. People dress up to concerts. They don't wear garter though. Not most of them, but ones who are attention seeking whores do. I felt personal. Okay, wait. That came out right.

No, no, no, no, no. Hold on. I know what you said. Let me clarify. Everybody, everybody knows what you said. Okay. Attention whore. She's attention hoaring. I don't need to employ. She's sleeping around.

Hi, y'all. What did she say? Waiting Ross out. I forgot. Attention hoaring. There's no coming back from me. No, we got that. I misspoke.

We get that clip. Can we leave? I'm trying to speak to the legal team. I misspoke. I was saying attention hoaring is what I mean. And it came out attention seeking whore. I mean, perhaps she keeps her chastity. I do not know.

Perhaps she's saving herself for marriage. That's, you know, I'm not. Any, not privy to any of that information. Attention hoaring. If you're attention hoaring, yes, you do dress like that. And she obviously is very good at seeking and gaining attention, especially of this person sitting in a chair to my left. Connor, that was done at 1020, just to mark that down.

Oh, I got it. Okay, good. That's my boy. Well, I clarified. You did, but it's too late. That part will get cut out. Yeah, we don't ever law clarifying stuff on the stuff. hasn't hit me yet. I'm not awake yet.

All right. So the best thing, so I was napping and I woke up and I was looking at Twitter. The best thing was when you saw Taylor on Twitter. Well, it wasn't the worst thing. I can tell you that. All right, Mr. Bookmark. Generally speaking, everybody yesterday after seeing some of the video

of the Astrodome Press conference was like no disrespect Mrs. Tudor, Phoebe Tudor, but you're out of your damn mind. Yeah. This is going. going to go nowhere. It was just a press conference to have a press conference. There isn't a

single human being outside of anybody in the Astrodome Conservatory that believes this is going to pass. No one feels like there needs to be an economic impact for that area. No one thinks it's viable and it's going to not get any more steam that what it is, no matter what media people in town try to push to say the city Houston needs us. We don't need it. And I'm very happy that yesterday, generally speaking, anybody that had any was important in our community said this is a joke and the number one thing that was out of everything was said

was the rodeo was like, we're not endorsing this, we're not behind this and if the rodeo doesn't want it and the Texans don't want it, anything happening. Are they the operators of NRG Park? Is it the Texans that have authority or that? Yeah, but you are the two main tenants

you know. Yeah, the Chronicle coming out with their follow-up story was after we they published after we got off the air, rodeo, Houston, and Harris County Sports Corp, which maintains and manages and operates NRG Park, object to the new plan. Yeah. So, yeah, we're good. We're good. We're good. So just, you know, I know we spent a lot of time on it yesterday. We'll not be spending more about it today, but I just, I just was, I had a huge sense of relief that no one took yesterday's press conference seriously. We respect the efforts of the Astrodome Conservancy and have seen their proposed concept.

Over the last few years, we have seen several concepts that, while thought-provoking, have it resulted in viable funding and maintenance solutions. Perfect. That is the chairman, Bishop Dixon, the chairman of Harris County Sports and Convention Corp. Yeah. So the conventioneers don't even want a part of it. It's not going to make sense. All right. So if you want to discuss the rockets from last night, I, you know, look, I want, as the voice of the rockets, I would love for daily rockets chatter.

Because honestly, look, gang, the Texans don't play until Monday night. I don't want to spend the next, well, we're going to do it on Monday, obviously, because the game will be that night. But I don't want to, I mean, what are we going to do the next two days? We're going to rehash the same crap we're talking about. Offensive line sucks. CJ hasn't been nearly as effective. You've got second half meltdowns.

Team doesn't score a point. I mean, I don't know how much more we can do with that. Yeah, we can. Come on, Matt. How much is Nico Collins going to impact the team? Is Dalton Schultz going to step things up? Is C.J. Stroud going to assert himself in these next several weeks? The only reason why we'd bring up fresh material is that we were invited to the team meeting.

That would have been cool. Like we needed like a mole inside the Texans to kind of tell us what happened at the team meeting. Okay. Like we used to have players come on the show all the time. That doesn't happen anymore because the Texans don't allow it. But that's a different issue for a different time. But we used to talk to guys and then say, all right, here's kind of what's going on. Not like talking under their breath, but just like, hey, low-key, here's what we're going through right now.

Like if somebody happened to be in the locker room serving barbecue during the meeting or something. Yeah, Dale Brinson. We haven't heard from Dale in forever. That's true. How does he feel about this new after-go-plan plan? No, no, no, he wants no part of that either. That'll hurt his business. That's true.

He's on mainstream, but he never knows his cross-section. That's true. He's by the CBD shop. He's by the CBD shop. Okay, so like I was going to make to my point, I don't, the rockets aren't going to generate tremendous conversation, but I would like some. Okay. Because it's fun.

They're playing well. And I do believe at some point, EMA is going to have to kind of make a decision about what he wants to do if he wants to keep those two guys off the bench. Move one in the starting five. Because right now, Jabari, and I like Jabari a lot. He calls me boss every time. Because I don't think he knows my name. But that's fine. Didn't call you chief?

No, it's always boss, man. Big dog? We did talk about the Auburn flight to Houston. Oh, okay. That's funny. He's like, man, nobody will ever, nobody's saying anything about it. I'm like, yeah, they're trying to keep it on the lid on that thing. Brawling on the prop jet.

I mean, of all places to brawl. That seems like the worst idea ever. Like, if you're brawling on a prop plane, where's the second worst place you could brawl? On the top of a mountain? On a bridge? Yeah. I would think a bridge wouldn't be particularly great on that one either. So, yeah.

But I like Jabari. Let me look at the statute here. Jabari lies. Five points, one of six. Played 20 minutes. One of four from three, I believe. He was the only one of the five starters that didn't play at least 30 minutes. And he was only one of the top seven not to score in double figures.

Okay. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, I guess. They're winning five out of six. Yeah. Seven of nine, I think something like that six. He does other things? Yeah. There's intangibles for sure.

Mm-hmm. You don't necessarily, you don't need him to be, you know, people are like, man, they need to run more plays for Jabari Smith Jr. Like, do they? Why? No, they don't need to. They don't need to involve him more on the offense. He hasn't shown the ability to create his own baskets.

Unless he has a mismatch with somebody really short on him in the post, and then he's just going to back down with a couple of dribbles and hit a turnaround and shoot a turnaround fadeaway. And he's going to hit him at like, I don't know, 45%. Yeah. He was a better three-point. shooter last year than he was as a rookie year, but he has taken a downturn, frankly, in both ends of the, not both shooting, sub two and beyond the two point three point line. So, I would think as long as things are going well, that that would be very hesitant for the

rockets to make a change on that. Because I do like instant offense off the bench. And I love instant aggressiveness. And I love the fact that nothing, you just get, like James Hardin was harassed last night, just getting to mid court. and that's fun to watch yeah I think it's extremely entertaining

and I think the league is on notice a lot of the NBA people and writers and media that I follow are talking about a lot about him in Thompson and Tari Eason and the nickname how do we feel about it? Terror Twins

Did Craig come up with that? No I think he said he he said he couldn't take credit he saw it somewhere but I think he was the first to bring it up here in town proliferate it I can't

I'm sorry proliferate. No matter what positive things you were saying, you called her a horror earlier, so you're done for the show. It was an accident. 713-213-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Rockets, Texans, and Buster-only has a new place where Alex Breggman's going to play baseball next year.

That's all coming up on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. This is Craig Ackerman. The Rockets are certainly popping the polypropylene. I know Matt Thomas, all two-ups. Hey, by the way, this is my new catchphrase. Nothing but nylon. So Ross is going to be leaving us for a couple of weeks going overseas,

and he was telling me about he's going to pick his meals on his flight. I think it would be awesome if you put it to a vote. No. Or how about just let me choose it? Okay, I would do the former before the latter. Because you have the palate of a crazed eight-year-old. It doesn't make any sense. Okay. Well, here's what you.

At some point during the show today, I want you to find out what the options are. Okay. You don't tell me what you would choose. I would tell you what I will choose. And I bet you're going to be a lot closer than you think. Oh, quite. Well, yeah, on those limited options. But the bottom line is you think the McRib is spectacular.

It is spectacular. Exactly. I have not had the chicken mac, by the way. Have you had it yet? I have not, no. I mean, I love Big Mac sauce. Okay. So, I mean, I could put Big Mac sauce on anything at this point.

It would be fine. On anything? Yeah. Yeah, we'll put it on shoe leather, also known as the McRib. That's not nice. Not nice at all. 713-212-5-7-9. Let me tell you, McDonald's, you've been serving that treat to America for decades.

And it cannot stay on the menu because it's no good. You get enough pork gunk stuck in whatever machines you have that you got to get it out. You pry it out and then flatten it out into nasty gristle sheets and then you sell it back to the American public at least once a year. And people still buy it. And you lie to them and you tell them that it's going to be the last time. because you are just grifters and liars. Ain't that America. And you should be a, well, yes, it is.

That's very true. 713-213-2-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. A couple of folks on the line. Let's talk to us the great people of Houston, Texas, and we say hello to Roger on 7-90. Roger, good after, or good morning. Good morning, Matt.

I know this is weird, right? So, yeah, Ross, you shut your hoarse mouth when you're talking about me, in Rick-Ribb sandwich. Thank you. It sucks. No, it doesn't. You suck. No, just kidding.

You suck, too, Brian. Anyway, so I'm really digging this pair of twins, man. I, you know, I'm starting to think that we're going to have to, you know, it's got a long season, small sample size. I'm just loving their energy, though. God, off the bench. I don't, I think they come in waves and the teams, they just can't stop with them coming. You know, I know they study and they film, but they just can't experience it.

When these guys come at them, especially in it's like a whirling derbush with a man, Thompson, just a ball of energy. Before, you know, when he was a rookie, it was just like raw energy, and he didn't really know like a deer, you know, running for the first time. But now, you know, just a year removed from, you know, from a season ago, and these guys are just, man, they're getting it. you're getting it and you could just tell that like Yudoka sticks the dogs you know he's like all right let's let's let's go let's run and you know and yeah Javari is struggling a bit

but I do like the way Javari Javari sorry handles himself on the court he doesn't go too high or too low so that's a good thing I think so you know with Shangoon it's contagious now he's actually playing defense and I'm wondering

because of these guys are just you know motivating them and that you know they level up because Amori and Tari bring that level up in them. So that's all I got to say. It's nice to see. It's a long time coming. Thank you, Roger. Appreciate it.

There's a large amount of dormant rocket basketball fans in this community. I am convinced of it. Not that it's ever going to overtake the Astros or overtake the other Texans. I get that. But I think there's been a lot of people that have largely checked out because of, let's face it, four years of non-playoffs. We'll do that for anyone. Go ask the Astros.

And honestly, in this community, in this sports market in which we live in, it's going to take you getting to a championship level to get those people back. Yeah, it's going to, yeah, that's what it took for the Astros. They didn't, I mean, the first time they drew in this era, three million fans was what, last year? Yep. And they won a World Series in 17.

So it takes years and years and years to rebuild back a fan base. Yeah. It just does. Yeah. Especially here in Houston. Yeah, it's not like, hey, we'll see you as soon as you get good. again. We're going to have to see you be prolonged, have prolonged success.

And I think getting to 500 was one part of it last year. I think the next natural progression would be to try to at least get to the play-in. Yes. I'm trying to look. Let me give you the next 10 games. Rockets are 8.4. Real quick on this. You got the Clippers again

on Friday. Win. At Chicago Sunday. When? At Milwaukee Monday. When? Indiana, two Portland's. Let's say they go They lose two of those Why not? And then

At Minnesota At Philadelphia Home Oklahoma City And then a three-game West Road Trip At Sacramento At Golden State And at the L.A. Clippers

How about this? Why don't we By the time The December 8th Number, whatever number that number of games We really have a serious assessment About where this team is

Okay We'll know a lot more Because the competition will improve a little bit, although again, Portland sucks. Chicago's not very good. Philadelphia's been a major disappointment this year. Milwaukee's been a major disappointment, but those are also home games for them. Joel Embed is back playing at least a little bit for the 76ers.

Let's talk to Anthony and Deer Park at 1040 on the Matt Thomas show. Ross, Anthony, good morning. Thanks for holding. Hey, good morning, guys. So I did have two points, and I have a question for you all. So two things that have excited me from last season to this, season through 12 games. Like, E. Mae Udoch is a damn good basketball coach. And I think the second thing that's really exciting for me is that, to me, it looks like

Jaylen Green is taking that next step. Like, it feels like this is Jalen Green's Rockets, and that's really exciting to me. My question is, do you, Matt, do you think, and Ross, do you think that Jabari Smith, Jr. could benefit by going to the bench for a little bit. Like, Amin Thompson, with the exception of Jalen Green, is playing the most minutes on the team. So, like, do you think that the Rockets and Jabari Smith Jr. could benefit from maybe starting Amin Thompson for a while?

We've talked by this a lot so far, Anthony, and thanks for the phone call. There's Parming that says if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Parming also says you need to get Jabari out of the time. this funk and you can do that by not having to rely on him so much early in the game. But there's also part of me that says if the Rockets are really going to take that next level jump and stay on this winning clip of winning eight out of every 12 games they play, you can't have somebody in your starting lineup that's just going to be a minus offensive player. I don't.

If it was going to be anybody, I would say it would probably be more Tari-Eason, but I think they also like, as you said, Matt, his bench energy. and they like Jabari Smith Jr. in that starting lineup for what he can bring defensively and guarding Biggs and his size and his length. I mean, he's 6'10. He's bigger than him in Thompson. He's bigger than Tari Isan.

They don't need him to knock down shots. I think people are getting a little too fixated on that. Oh my God, he only had five points. Yeah, they won the game. They're going to run the offense through Fred Van Vleet, through Jalen Green, and through Alper and Shingoon. They're not, they don't need Jabari Smith, Jr., to be dropping 20 every day.

night. They want him to go out there, guard one through five, they play him as a five in small lineups, and they like what he does there. And eventually his three-point shots will fall. I'm a big believer in that. Because it just, you look at what his career sample has been.

It's much better than what it is. So he's struggling right now for 10, 12 games. It happens in the NBA to so many players every single year. The three-points will start, three-pointers will start falling, and then he's still going to do everything else he brings the floor and I don't think we're going to be talking about it as much.

I would like it not to be a key part of, I mean, if you get something from him and moves along and does some more things offensively and gets out of this slump, it'll be an additional bonus. I just don't want this to be the reason while the rockets are taking steps back. I don't think if the rockets all of a sudden drop five of seven, it's because of Jabari Smith is shooting at 35%. It won't be. It won't be because it'll be on Jalen Green or Alpert Schingroon or Fred Van Ville. I mean, it's not going to be like, man, Jabari Smith Jr., you know, he got up those 10 shots and the fourth quarter only made two of them.

Right. It's just not, that's not the Rockets offense. That's not how it's built. And I don't think necessarily it has to be Jalen Green's team. I mean, the Rockets last night won the game despite the fact that Jalen, he did have five threes, but he was seven to 21 overall. He is. He was five of 14. Yeah, he's volume.

It's not about overly accurate. Now, does he come film with some big shots down the stretch and have some high. flying dunks and whatnot and key three-pointers. He's done that. I mean, he hasn't played poorly this year, but it's not a, this rocket team, and I mentioned this to EMA yesterday before the game, this rocket team, folks, is winning by shooting about 43% from the floor. That, to me, is not sustainable unless you continue to have guys that are fighting for

offensive rebounds, that take the ball away, that get points off turnovers, and that's been the recipe for what this team has been. And its defensive work has been significantly better this year. Their top five and deep in points allowed so far this year. They are getting lots of second chance points opportunities. In fact, they had 24 second chance points. When you start losing a rebounding battle, they're number one in offensive rebounding, number one rebounding in the league.

If those numbers continue, you can live with 43%. Yes. But you are looking for at some point somebody from the perimeter to start heating up. And yet, the offensive rebounding thing, that's by design. We had IMAOCA on this show, say, his goal is for this team to be number one in the league in offensive rebounding. 713-212-5-790 if you want to join our radio program. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9-0.

Texans back on the practice field today. Are we sure that Mr. Lassar is going to play this week? No, he's in concussion protocol, correct? Yeah, it almost feels like every time you get somebody in protocol, you lose him the following week. Yes, I want to say Was it Tyrone Tracy of the Giants? Somebody passed it within a week. Yeah, but it's very rare for that to happen.

Most of the time you miss at least a week. So does that mean if you're watching the Texans Cowboys game, Derek Stingley is going to haunt CD Lamb for four quarters, right? Hopefully. No. Does that mean then you go after, if you are looking for fantasy perspective, maybe you look at the other Dallas receivers? Is that what you're going with?

No, Derek Stingley's not a lockdown corner. Derek Stingley is not somebody. First of all, they don't do shadow coverage. Normally, he's just going to stay on the left side and Camari Lasser is going to stay on the right side. So he's not a Patrick Sertane. He's not a Joey Porter Jr. He's not a, I don't even know.

There's a couple others. What Soss Gardner was, who's having a step back year, Matt, but Soss Garner's still good. He's one of the best. Right. But he, no, he's not somebody who are like, man, CD Lamb's going to be erased off the field tonight. That's not because of Derek Stangley.

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All right. You know, I was talking about obsessed about yesterday about all the people just shunning the Astrodome deal. Yes. I'm also obsessed about every time somebody puts a story out about Alex Bramwin rumors. Okay, it's been happening a lot. Yeah.

And so Bleacher Report put one out to deck. Got this sent to me by a listener of ours. Oh, did they actually write it or was it aggregated? I'm sure it was aggregated. So I'm only going off of what this BR report says. Okay. This BR report says, Buster Only says that the team now that should be the leader in the clubhouse for acquiring Alex Spregman through FRAD, see is the Philadelphia Phillies. Philadelphia Phillies.

Yeah. Really? Yeah. Hmm. They have money. I always feel like Philadelphia's got money. They spend a lot of it. Yeah.

I guess would they be putting them at second base? Bomb probably would be moving over, would you know? Baum. Yeah. Oh, yeah, somebody's got to move over. Yeah. I'm going to be honest. I don't know what the third base defense prowess of Alec Bohm is.

I can look at it. up. The Phillies have a projected payroll of $266.5 million heading into free agency per spot track. That's most of the majors. Only says, and I'm going to say if I can, I'm going to click on Buster's name and see if he actually has a story about this. Yeah, here's what, here's what Buster tweeted out two days ago late. The most interesting prediction heard from a rival evaluator. The Phillies land, Alex Bregman, his swing translate in that park, strong defense, lots of postseason scar tissue. Now, wait a minute.

Scar tissue. He's being metaphorical there. I understand, but... That's kind of a weird one. Scar tissue is normally a negative connotation. As in, like, he's had a lot of playoff failures. Postseason scar tissue. That is odd.

Or, like, boxers can build up, like, scar tissue on their orbital bones and stuff, and then it hurts them in their career later. Like, that's not good. That's gross. So I'm just saying, I'm trying to... trying to think of a buildup a scar tissue as a good thing? How about this?

Let's interpret it as as great as the two world series victories have come. There have been also lots of losses. There have been. It doesn't matter. You can lose 50 times in the playoffs. You get two rings. You got two rings. Donald underscore Duck 217, a Phillies fan. replies to Buster Aldi's tweet.

It says, this is dumb. We don't need another expensive contract on a 31-year-old. This team has too many guys in the back end of their 30s. Buster replies, they actually have a lot of money coming off the books in the next couple of years. Super 2 Sports says falls in line bomb traded for an outfield bat slash high leverage reliever replaced by Bregman. Okay, so yeah. Some Philly fans are on board. Okay, so there's another suitor. He going.

Yeah. When I look for these stories, I'm hoping to say free agent possibilities drying up. looks like Houston's best landing spot. I have not seen that story so far. No. It'll be Juan Soto and then probably shortly thereafter, we'll find out what's going on with. But it is crazy.

All you had to do is just pay him what is worth. Breggman's got a magical number in his head. Or at least Scott Boris does. Scott, he's going to say, Scott Boris does. Now, what Scott is saying and what the real market value of Alex Breggman are probably two entirely different things.

But there's a number that could have settled this a long time ago. And maybe the Astros are saying, hey, we want you back, but it'd be better for us to let the market dictate what you're worth as compared to what you think you're worth. Question would be, after basically two years of this conversation, if the Astros find out from Bregman's folks, Boris, that he got a six-year deal worth 174, does Breggman call and say, can you match it and I'll stay? I think so.

And I think they will say, thanks, but no thanks. The Astros, if the deal's over five years, because that has been the hard line, maybe they would go six for Bregman, but I think he's going to get offered over that because there seems to be so many suitors. So the thing that we'll never know is, what's more valuable to Bregman, the money per year or the length of the contract? Probably everybody is dealt differently. I would say probably the total dollars.

Because let's say somebody was to pay you $33 million a year for five years. No, I don't think he would do that. I think he would take like, you know, 25 or 7 or whatever it was, whatever the math. So you think it's, you think it's length over money? No, I think it's total value of the contract. Oh, okay. Because when he's, when he hits free agency, if he gets a five-year deal and hits free agency at 36, probably nobody's going to want to give him whatever Aav he would get on the back end of whatever deal he signs.

Yeah, but I think everybody's different. I mean, Carl's Korea went for everything. and didn't get it and wound up taking short deals. Yeah, well, they were agreed to long-term deals, and then he had medical issues. Right. Medical red flags. Yeah.

Yeah, Yon Eazy says they're done with Baum. He's on the chopping block. Oh, okay. Well, there you go. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom.

Boom. Bomm. Whatever. I mean, he was fine for them, but kind of fizzled out towards the stretch. But obviously, you know, Buster's connected. The question is, do, do, do, do it? If you're Buster, do you take what one Gibroni said from another team? Or do you take it from a series of agents or what you're hearing?

What he's saying right now is in a whole bunch of, I would say is mostly a whole lot of nothing. It's generating, well, it's generating talk on this show. And it worked. Good job, Buster. Like I said before, I'm fascinated about it. Every time I see something about where he could be, I think about it, does that make sense? Oh, Bowman is in arbitration. And he's not a free agent until after 26.

But I think if you're going after Bragman, you're making him a trade chip. You think you can get some guys in return. Boehman's been an all-star. 10-58. Second hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross begins at a matter of moments. Rockets with a huge win last night. Texans back on the practice field. We have a really good NFL game that I, boy,

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on the national stage for the late game. CBS, like, we don't even know regional games on that. Everybody wants to watch that one. I'm like, yeah, we do. Yes, we do. And, uh, Trey Akeman, Joe Buck, and Lisa Salters, as she did the sidelines? I don't even know.

I don't know. I don't like I've watched a full Monday night game in years. Really? Yeah. Okay. A lot of it is because I've been working. Mm-hmm. But I can't remember the last time I sat down for a Monday night game and said,

I got to be in front of it. And it's funny because, not to be the one, I was a kid guy, but I'm going to go with that. But go ahead. When growing up, the Monday night game was the game to watch. First of all, they never gave you a sucky matchup under any circumstance. Secondly, you had to catch Howard CoSell's halftime hotlights because he was so awesome. There was never a sucky matchup. Did they have, do they flex back in the day?

They didn't flex, but it felt like to me you never got. There had to be mad. No, I'm sure there was. Nistalgia guy. There was bad matches. But I'm going to assume there was a, a lot of Detroit Green Bay in 1987, Monday Night Football games.

A lot of Philadelphia, a lot of Giants, a lot of San Francisco, AFC, a lot of Charger games with Dan Fouts, a lot of Miami Damarino games. I'll take your word for it. Yeah, they didn't flex. But the reason

why the Monday night game just doesn't carry the same cash anymore is because so many more games are nationally televised. Yes, and ESPN gets screwed on a lot of matchups. Isn't that funny? they spend all this money. And look, when Washington Philadelphia, no, what's the Monday night game this week?

Houston Texans, Dallas Cowboys. This Monday was Dolphins Rams. I watched all of it. When they got that game, they go, this is going to be awesome. I think preseason, Dolphins Rams sounded pretty good. That doesn't sound like a tier one like Bill's Chiefs. Right. Pretty good.

But if you think about it, the best games of the week typically are on a Sunday night football. I wonder NBC must be paying obscenely amounts of money. money to get that. Yeah, they seem to get the best ones. But I think ESPN, wasn't there a story that a couple years ago? They were mad, weren't they? They were mad that they were getting bad matchups. And then they kind of ramped it up and they've been giving them double bill games on some of the Mondays. And then I think Amazon was getting pissed too. They're like, I don't want to keep seeing Jacksonville, Cincinnati playing on Thursday night football. So they've been getting, everybody gets a mix now. And they try to keep everybody happy. It's this dance that NFL has to do. But the only people that get a flex is just, is Sunday night, right?

Oh yeah, nobody else can flex So recent games as of late Chiefs Buccaneers Monday Night That was on paper looking good Because the box was a good It was good It went to overtime Did the Steelers Giants come across the game

That was going to be a must watch? It wasn't a must watch Before that you had two choices Baltimore, Tampa Bay That's good And then you had that game that was an ESPN Plus Only between Arizona and the Chargers Well of course that's an ESPN Plus game

That was a decent game too. Bill's Jets, because people like to see Aaron Rogers, apparently. Yes, they do. Week before that, it was Kansas City, New Orleans. That felt fine. It's not bad. Not bad. Was Derek Carr hurt before that?

I think he might have been. And then they've got many of these weeks where you have like double two games on the same week, which is really weird. But, you know, they stagger them and hoping that one of them catches a lot. Like, nobody thought Bill's Jaguars was going to be much of a watch, and it wasn't because the bills won 47 to 10. But it's just the television landscape has changed in all the different sports. Or Monday night football, would you even say 20 years ago was the game of the week? Or do you think since NBC got the Sunday night game, that's always been the main priorities been that one?

When ESPN, like 20 years ago, ESPN had Sunday night football, right? Yes. And it didn't feel like they were as big as the NBC matchups. Right. I don't know. That's just a guy feeling. Yeah. My feel is that NBC said, look, we're going to write you this blank check.

You're going to give us the best games. And you're by way, we're going to tell you to flex some games. and they've done that. Yes, they have. 713-212-5-790. If you want to jump in our conversation, 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. I just don't get it coming up at the bottom of the hour.

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KJ. Cyprus, Texas, 1109,09 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. KJ., good morning. Good morning, fellas. Good morning, fellas. Hi. the morning, to the show as usual. A couple of quick takes on

Breggman and the Rockies. When it goes to Breggman, I stated this for the longest. Breggman just has not been the same player since the Chiefs Candle was exposed. I mean, prior to the Chiefs scandal,

an MVP candidate, specifically about in 300, belted 40 long bonds and so forth and so on. Since then, he's been consisted of two. six there so hitter. 25, it would take Dingers. Now, the glove is still there,

but we all know chicks did the long ball. He was great in 18 and 19. They weren't cheating in 18 and 19. What happened was they de-juiced the ball? He hasn't been great since they de-juiced the ball. That's the line of demarcation to me. Well, I'm not even, I'm not even insinuating that

the cheating issue in and of itself was the total reason for Breggman's offensive role since I'm just saying the fact that they were exposed. I'm assuming there was probably some adjustments had to be made in regards to his game because you didn't have that advantage anymore. But with that said,

you know, in baseball guys don't get paid for defense. If that's the case, we would have still had Carrera or Maldonado would have got a two-year extension. The fact of the matter is you get paid for the officers' numbers you put on paper and the defense is a bonus. I would love to keep Bregman,

but, I mean, if the market's going to out-priced him, then, man, let the dude won't. I mean, I'm not saying that likely because, again, at the end of the day, I like what he brings to the table, but I'm not going to overpay you for a 260 baton average and 25 longbow. With that said, I'm looking at the Rockets the past two or three games, and I've noticed a trend when it comes to email Doka. You have the game yourself, Matt, and I think you too have done, Ross. So you guys see this up-close and personal.

I consistently seen him putting in Tari Easton and Thompson toward the end of the games as opposed to Jabari Smith. That's right. I'm wondering if that's indicative. To me, DeBri doesn't bring a defensive with the rest of the guys. He's an average rebounder, his childhood suspect. He's infatuated with a three-point line for somebody at 611. And I wonder if this is a foreshadow of them potentially trading him or at some point benching him in place that either Tari or Thompson.

Just what you got to guys got to say about that letter show. Thank you, K.J. Let me go back to Bregman first. Because it's two interesting conversation pieces. We'll address the Rock as we can come back. Ross, if you and I went to a sports bar and we pulled 100 Astro fans, I'm talking about, you know, Astros Karen. I'm talking about logical been watching games, a regular follower of the team.

Okay. They really love Breggman. Yes. But they sense a little frustration with Breggman because he has been such a slow starter for basically the last five years. and that he does heat up. He started slow when he first came up. Yeah.

But when you go as, when you started his career that way, and then he wound up finishing with OPS of 920, you forgot about that. When the OPS struggles to reach 800, like it has the last couple of years, people tend to go, you know what, we love you, Bregs. Your third base glove is amazing,

but it's tough watching you the first three months of the year. So I really believe that KJ is a fan of a majority of people that says, we don't want you to leave, but life will go on. And I believe that some of the charm of Bregman is because he is such a key cog of the championship run. Jose Al-Tuvius has been his teammate. They have been brothers. They have been through all the wars. That's why I think, Alex, that's why Jose Lovia was so passionate about,

trying to keep Breggman because I think he's trying to keep as much of the past and the goodness of the best era in Houston Astros history still around. But from a performance standpoint, does Alex Breggman deserve a significant race based off of offensive production? The answer is no. Off of defensive production? Of course. He's still one of the best.

He's got to go glove. He's the best at his position defensively in sports. But does that give you cause to give somebody a long time? term contract worth more than maybe the on-paper value says. I love Breggman. I don't want him to leave. I'd pay him. But I'm not the one in charge of that. It's Dana Brown and Jim Crane that are doing that. To answer your question, yes. I mean, he is valuable. And I think a lot of the fan bases is in, it does want him here long term. And I think it's a lot of because of not only what it's

on the field, what we've talked about off the field as far as game planning with pitchers and all that type of stuff. And I don't think it's an accident that Jose 2-8 came out as strong as he did about keeping Alex Bregman. And it's not even necessarily about the narrow what is he worth to the Astros. It's what is he worth relative to other

third baseman? That's when Matt Chapman's contract comes into play. And also when what other teams are willing to pay him comes into play. And Scott Boris and to a lesser extent Alex Bregman are going to come to the negotiating table. And they're going to say Matt Chapman is making, what was that deal? It was like

five years, 100,000. or whatever it was. He's making this amount of money. And, well, at the end of the day, Alex Breggman is younger and better than Matt Chapman right now in this stage of their careers. So he's worth more money. It's that simple. So if that's the case, then why don't the Asteros do it? Because they don't want to pay him when he's 36, 37.

So they're going to let their best, they're going to let somebody go away in order to avoid paying off bad kinds. contracts in the final two years of a particular player's career. That happens all the time. It's sunk cost to them. And I totally get it. We've looked and scanned across the baseball as far as the big deals. Like Francisco Lindor's deal, he's bounced back, but he's had a couple of bad years in that deal. I don't know, Anthony Rendon has been, that deal has been a disaster for the Los Angeles Angels.

I mean, Mike Trout's deal has been a disaster, but that's because of injury. Maybe I just get more of Brangman ain't worth it calls than maybe you do. I don't think it's universally discussed by Astro fans that they've got to figure out any way, any how to keep them. I think people are nervous about the fact that another player would be gone, and then how many times can you let a player go and ultimately it does hamper your future success? Does it go against what Jim Crane believes is, I'm always searching to win a championship? I mean, it does go against that. He's still in the prime of his career, at least defensively he is.

Right. Saying both of those things, saying the window will always be open if I'm owner and also saying we're not going to pay guys over five-year deals, then those two things don't jive. They just don't. Yeah. And I think that's where the argument is. Which side is Jim Crane talking to? And which side does he agree with? 713-212-570.

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Because there's no salary cap. If there's a salary cap implications, then it would be different. But, I mean, did we say that about Garrett Cole? Sure. We said about Carlos Gray. Sure. We said about Charlie Morton's shirt. We said that about...

Who else we left? George Springer. George Springer. Then the Astros would have a $700 million dollar payroll. Yeah, speaking of deals that haven't worked out. That George Springer deal, I mean, he's been hurt the entire time up there in Toronto. they haven't done much of anything. 713-212-5-790.

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if you know the password. And today, the password is rock your body. Of course, one of Justin Timberlake's hit. You call in. Connor's going to say, what's the password? You say, rock your body, and we're going to let you play for two pair of tickets to Justin. And don't feel weird that you're telling another man to rock your body.

Don't say, well, you know what? Actually, if you say, Connor, I want to rock your body, we're going to put you up first. Okay, I lied. Don't say that. No, it'll make, it'll be very uncomfortable. I'll let's your female between 20 and. I don't know what his limit is. 37.

Oh, my God. Connor's definitely going for Cougars. You're 40 plus. You got a great shot. Good conscientious kid. Fine Catholic school. Went to four-year institution of Missouri. Excellent academic institution.

There we go. The real tigers of the SEC. Yeah, that's true. Or is it Auburn? Or is it, who's the third tiger? LSU. Yeah. Do you feel like when you're,

school. I think I've asked as Connor this on air too before. If you're the Tigers and you're playing the Tigers and then like two weeks later you play the Tigers, are you like, you know what? Our mascot name is kind of lame. I don't think anybody thinks like that at all. Okay. Well, that's true. I guess a Cougar fan would say that. Well, I mean, the reason why nobody wants the longhorns is because it's a dumbass name. Why is it?

It's a freaking cow. It's a stately. It's about Texas. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm very excited to be of a cow as my mascot. What represents Texas more? A longhorn cattle or a frigging Cougar, along with, I don't know, BYU and 76 other schools. How would we call yourselves the University of Texas ribbyes? That's what your longhorns are going to eventually be.

Ribbys are delicious. That sounds great. You know what? You know what your chuck steak is what you are. Medium rairs. Medium rairs. I'm going to start calling you all the Texas sirloins. Okay. Let's see. College teams named Cougars. Oh, there's, I can name at least five. Houston, BYU, Washington State, Chicago State.

Yeah. Cal State San Marcos? No, we're not a Cal State's handmark. Is that really? Just put it on there. Okay, it's not in D1, but that's not fine. It's fine. The Cougars are playing the Wildcats in back-to-back games.

And then coming up next to the Tigers and then the Eagles. By the way, shout out to my Cougar basketball team. Our U of H update is brought to you by the Joint Chiropractic, the Fisher Chiropractor University of Houston Athletics. Cougars beat Louisiana yesterday. The raging Cajuns. The Raging Cajuns. By the way, it's Louisiana Lafayette. You rare Cajun fan out there that says, please just calls us by her.

state name you're not the state school trust me there's nobody in batte ruse claiming your school under any circumstance that's rude I think it was the final score was 9541 or 9551 I don't you lose track beat downs Longhorns also had a great win on Tuesday Would y'all play? That would be the

Cougars of This is hilarious the Chicago State Cougars Can I guess to score? Yes I've done a game at Chicago State many years ago Is University of Texas ranked? Not, they were 19th and then they lost Ohio State, so I don't think they're ranked anymore.

I mean, this in all sincerity. I think you won by 39 points. 105 to 58. Ooh, that was close. That wasn't great. Watch out for, watch out for Tray Johnson, folks. Big one coming up next. 9145 Cougars.

My God. I mean, when we play Tier 2s, we play Tier 2s. Big game coming up for the Longhorns against Mississippi Valley State. That'll be this Saturday. Okay. And then after that, next Thursday, Syracuse. ACC, SEC, SEC challenge?

I think it's one of some other sponsored challenge. You know, it's crazy is that, and this is, again, just trying to separate sports here, when you have a Duke Kentucky played in college basketball a couple days ago. I mean, you talk about the two. two of the most heritage-led college basketball franchises. There are two among the group of about five or six, right? Yes.

Did America even care? I didn't watch. But I didn't know it was. If it was, I might have flipped it on. If I did know. How's Cooper Flagg doing? He's supposed to be the number one pick. He had two terrible plays in the last minute.

My wife was mad at me. He's like, this is the number one pick in the draft? Ugh. I mean, he's good. Did you know, this shows you, I don't know if you know this about, so Mark Pope is the new coach at Kentucky, and they love him there. They're starting five for that game against Duke,

because we actually watched it at the house internet. All five of the starters were transfer portal guys. Wow. That's, I don't think I've ever heard of that, especially at a school as highly prolific as Kentucky. Well, they're playing well. He had to bring in like eight new players. It seems like it's every basketball team.

I have to relearn like six, seven new players every single year in basketball now. It's like my daughter is going through this recruiting process now and she's like, this portal thing. I said, yeah, you don't want to be a part of it, but there's a chance you're going to be. Every sport goes through this. And it's a combination of things. The portal either is you're unhappy for one minute and you have to leave as soon as possible. There's a change in coach and you don't feel excited. about the new coach.

Or you're at a smaller school and a bigger school find you and says, hey, come play for us. And then there's also of, you know what? I want some NIO money and this school can't give it to me, but another school can, so I'm leaving for there. It's basically one-year contracts. That's what it is. That's what exactly what it is.

Yeah. It's like the Longhorns have this big man, Arthur Columa. He was at Creighton for two years. spent a year at Kansas State and now he's at Texas. I mean, is he getting any education? I hope so. Should we even be worried about it? Apparently he has a degree from Kansas State.

Well, that's good. I mean, at least he's still going to school. Yeah. But I'm seeing, you know, these college football games that I'm going to. U.M.H. had to do this. U.H had to go run to the portal because we had nobody left. The Longhorns have Cougar legend Tremont Mark. He started the Coogers and he went to Arkansas.

And then he's in Texas. Yeah. Says he's a graduate student. Well, man, it's good for him. He's getting his master's. You know what? I don't really begrudge him if you finish your degree. That's good for him.

At least you're not wasting state money. Well, he got a degree from Arkansas, though. Yeah, that's like getting a, that's like, hmm. I'm trying to think of a parallel. I don't want to insult somebody. I think a CBS receipt is held in higher esteem than Arkansas degree. Wow. I mean, Arkansas, Arkansas's open enrollment, right? Yes.

Shoes optional at class, I believe. Is that right? Yes. I believe you get extra credit if you bring all your teeth to class. even in a jar and by the way you cannot live you cannot live in Mary

with her cousin you can live with her yeah it says here he majored in banjo playing is that right modern and moonshine production we don't stereotype here on the show

not at all all right ladies and gentlemen we're going to ask you folks to tell us something in your life whether it be sports related or your life in general that you just don't get I don't get driving

80 miles 80 minute drives down from Kingwood to Houston to do my radio show. Oh, you get it. But I get it because I look at my paycheck. I'm like, oh, I get it. I get it. 713-212-5-7-90. If there's something in your life you just don't get, let us know what it is. 7-13-212-5-790.

Hey, it's Craig Ackerman. Listen to the home of the rockets on your smart speaker. Just ask. Hey, Google, play Sports Talk 790 on IHart Radio. Do you have something in your life that's just a We don't get. No need to worry. No need to fret. We will discuss the topics to see if we comprehend the things that may confuse our friends. It's time to say I just don't get it.

This is where we get to act as your not therapist, but mentor, guide, advisor. We just don't get it. Something we don't get. You got something you don't get? We're here for you at 713-212-5-790. 713-212-1-2-5-7-9. Ross, mine is quite simple. Connor, you can probably jump in on this one because you take this route very similar to me every day.

Why is Waze and Apple Maps on two different playing fields here? What do you mean? They give me completely different routes about having it to work and avoid traffic. They have different algorithms. I don't like either one of them because they both delay my trips. One is owned by Google and one is owned by Apple. but aren't they in the service of providing me the customer great service there's more than one way to skin a cat mattie well

I'm not skinning no cat on these ee one of these trips and a lot of them I think they base their traffic and stuff on on users so if you for example if they use your data if you're in traffic on 59 and 610 yeah then it alerts other drivers so if if one app has more users on one thing than the other then then maybe their traffic data is going to be different. I just don't get how they give me two different worlds. And I knew you'd try to explain it to me. So thank you for helping me. I'm still mad. I'm still mad at them. I don't know which one to trust. And frankly, I don't trust either one of them. Switch it up. I'm going to. I tried, I went Apple Map today and it got screwed. I run both actually. And what do you feel about it?

You open both apps at the same time on your phone? Yeah. As I get into the car in the morning, I hit the address on both the apps and I see what's given me. Interesting. Hmm. Apple Maps used to be the absolute worst. Now they turned it around. It's actually pretty good. I would say Apple has made some ground up against Waze. Ways makes me get off on strange streets in very bad parts of town. And I still feel like I'm not doing it.

I'm just going in 40 different directions. Yeah, there's a meme and it's something to the effect of Apple Maps. I'll get you there in 15 minutes. Google Maps. I'll get you there in 12 minutes. Waze. I'll get you there in eight minutes. Go through this guy's driveway.

go through this guy's living room. Yeah. Another thing. Going back to yesterday, I just don't get why the conservancy all of a sudden said, let's have a press conference and embarrass ourselves

because that's what you did yesterday. It was routinely shot down by anybody, most importantly, the rodeo and the Texans that said, you know what? Lead the eyesore alone. It's our eyesore. We're not going to get rid of it.

We're not going to expand on it. We're not going to improve on it. But why the need yesterday to have the press conference? Is there pressure? there was pressure 20 years ago to have the astrodome replaced or fixed or remodeled or torn down.

I just don't get why in 2024 they had a get-together yesterday. I guess there is some pressure, some internal pressure, because they founded the thing in 21, right? Yeah.

It's like three years. Yo, what's the plan? And I guess they have, they're so invested, whoever this Phoebe two-door is. You know what is? You think Phoebe's husband's, like blank or get off the pot.

I don't know about that. You know what? I'm calling my shot on the. Oh, okay. I think Mr. Tudor is like, Phoebe, look, I've given you this play money because I'm rich and I need you to stay away from me while I go gamble in Lake Charles for a few days and hang out with some friends. Here's a couple hundred thousand dollars. Knock yourself out.

What do you want to use it towards? I think I'll start a conservancy. I wonder if Mr. Tudor said Mrs. Tudor, Phoebs. I don't know, she's not Phoebs. He's Phoebe to me. P-Dog. You got about three years to figure this out. If not, we're getting our money out of this.

I mean, it's a ridiculous plan. You've got the rodeo and the operators of the NRG Park not on board with it. It's a waste of everyone money. You know what? If you donated to that, you deserve to lose your money. Because they needed to tear down the dome for years and years and years. It's a condemned building. It hasn't had an event in there for 22 years.

If there were piles of money to be made with it, it would have already been done. Yep. I just don't get it. I don't get it either. I got one food one. Well, I do get it, actually. People are sentimental and people have like hoarder brain and can't let go of the past, some people. I got one more for you. 713-212-5-790.

Here is what I just don't get. Okay. I went to Rick Rowley yesterday for breakfast. Okay. And got a bacon cheese biscuit, no egg. No egg? Yeah. That's the best part.

It's breakfast. The bacon's the best part. It's breakfast. Stay with me on this. I don't get you. Wouldn't that essentially be the exact same thing as a sausage biscuit with cheese? Yeah. They charged me for the bacon, egg, and cheese without the egg.

And I asked him, I said, well, aren't I essentially just replacing one pork product for another? Shouldn't I be charged the sausage biscuit with cheese price? And she said, sir, that's just the way it came out, is that when you take the egg off, your for the egg whether you want it or not. She's like, sir, I'm making $12 an hour. Will you, and I have to tell you, it's my pleasure. Will you shut your bum ass up and move up in the line? I say, charge me for the bacon egg and cheese without the egg,

and they should be charged me for the sausage biscuit. I just don't get it. I get it. Bacon can be more expensive than sausage. That's exactly what I was about to say. Isn't bacon pricier than sausage in general? Wait a minute. One little slab of bacon is going to cost significantly more than one little slab of

sausage. It's not significantly. It's about cost, Matthew. It's by $0.12. So you're trying to grift one of the... Not grifting. I'm asking for value. You're asking for handouts. No, I paid for it. Of course I paid for it. I lost my black card many moons ago. That's a different issue for different time. I too. Those were good times,

Matthew. God, I love the black card. You get a black card? Oh, yeah. We used to get Rick Relay black cards, which would get entitled you to one free entree per day. One free meal per day. How did that? Yeah, that's when their marketing department was good. I don't know if you know this on it, Connor, but Ross and I are kind of a big deal. Oh, okay.

It's called, well, yeah, now, you know, corporate cutbacks. No, no, no, no, no. That wasn't the reason why. Oh, really? What was it? Oh, people abusing it? Somebody went on their Instagram account and showed off the black card. The number one thing about the black card is you don't talk about the black card.

It's like Fight Club. Who did that? And they ruined it for all of us? I didn't know that. I believe it was a disc jockey for 97-9 in the box. Are you serious? So Rick Raleigh had to face a lot of backlash from other media people that didn't get the black card because the other girl was bragging about her black card. Oh my God, you idiots!

Yeah. So now we went to getting a bunch of just gift cards and now they don't give us anything at all. Yeah, I thought it was clerk for cut back for something. I want my, I want my bacon cheese biscuit and sausage cheese biscuit price. This is what's wrong with America. You can't just have something nice. You can't just have a black card. you got to try to stun on everybody

and show how important you are and you got to run to your Instagram and post your Chick-fil-A black card and you ruin it for everyone else. Exactly. Then I'm more than rule about black card is you don't talk about the black card. That's annoying.

Now I'm upset. I didn't know about that. Yeah. I thought they were just going cheapo on us. No, no, no. I used to take days off until I can go to the meetings. You had to. You had to go to the meetings to get the card.

You had to go to the meeting to pick it up and then you had to make your oath that you would only get one entree per day. Which, by the way, a member of the IHeartMedia team doesn't do that. I won't mention his name. Michael Marfield. Okay. America's guest. You two peas at a pod.

No, no, no. No, Michael Marfield gets multiple chick-fil-A meals per day, and he's a chat and cutter. I've seen him first dad. And you get a free Yumbow yak for the Texans score and touchdowns or whatever, he goes to like four of them. He's got like six large drinks and six free rumbo racks. Slushies. Yeah. What don't you get, Rossi? I'm going to say this and you're going to say I get it, but I'm still going to say it.

Go ahead. What's going on with this Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight? Mike Tyson is 58 years old. He was recently hospitalized with ulcers. He looks like he can hardly move. They're selling out Jerry World for a YouTuber and a boxer who hasn't fought professionally in 20 years. What is wrong with America? I don't get how this fight is still

happening. And I also don't get how Jake Paul is only like a minus 220. Now look, I think it up. Don't bet. Let me tell you some. Don't bet on it. No, hey, money is money. No, no, no, no. Don't do it. It's, this thing looks like it is going to, it's like a wrestling. It's already been predetermined. I will bet on two rats in a race. I don't care.

Don't do it. I'm telling you to do it. I don't want you to doing it. I don't want you throwing your money away. Don't do it. I bet on roulette wheels. I bet on WMBA basketball. You can watch it, but don't bet on it.

Belgian League 2 soccer, I don't care. I'll bet on it. It's fine. But I don't really have a bookie right now. But if you want to be on a bookie, at Sports RV, minus 220 seems like free money, right? He's 58 years old and recently hospitalized. Hopefully I'm wrong on this.

Because if I'm wrong, that means Mike Tyson has won. So you said the stadium's going to be full. Yes. And there's going to be paper free money? It's on Netflix. Netflix? Who paid to have this event? Yes.

I totally get it. How? Why? Are you watching? Because look at reality television. There are 49 editions of Real Housewives. The Kardashians are still a thing. I totally get it.

All right. If you have something you just don't get, this is so... Connor, I know living in his life and his best life is in his 20s, cutting rugs, hanging out with chicks. Yeah. Enjoying Missouri football. He's got something he doesn't get.

We'll get to him. I don't know how much he's enjoying. Missouri football. They won last week to meet Oklahoma. They've been a lot of heart attack games too and then a lot of bad losses.

713-212-5-790. If there's something you don't get like somebody bashing on Missouri football or somebody bashing on a lovely woman who's just trying to live her best life through Twitter and photos. She's an attention whore. It's fine.

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Thomas show. the governor is a producer of this radio program. He's the youngest of the three of us and he tells us what he just doesn't get. So the fans throwing water balls and objects in the field has been a problem this season. But Texas Tech throwing the tortillas on the field, I just don't get that. I don't know if it's some sort of tradition. It's tradition. It is. But the fact that Dionne Sanders was complaining and then the Texas Tech coach had to get on the mic and tell people to stop. Like why do Texas Tech people think that's like cool thing to do?

You know, I can't speak to this honestly because I didn't go there. My wife went there for a short time. My son graduated from my oldest did. And why don't we call him? You know, you could actually call Cam. He's one of your St. Thomas' brother. And he could give you the answer to that. I don't even know.

Des are one of our listeners who's a Texas Tech grad. I mean, she's a fan of 30 different schools. So maybe she doesn't have an answer to this. But I don't know. I think it's just tradition. Better than batteries. Well, they throw those too. Hmm.

I believe people that I know that were in the Longhorn Band say the absolute worst place to go to is Lubbock. They throw stuff, they're rude. Why throw? Yeah, Google says, while there isn't a confirmed reason, one theory claims that it started after an ESPN announcer said that Lubbock, Texas, quote, had nothing but Texas Tech football and a tortilla factory. That makes perfect sense. Now, here's the issue. If Texas Tech really wanted to get it stopped, I mean, I know a lot of women put tortillas in their purses.

Yeah, but it's thousands of people, though. They smuggle them in. Think about it. If guys don't wear fanny packs, which you shouldn't be wearing. Why not, man? It's called a cross-body bag now. That's what it's called. That's a hard no for me.

Let's get you a fanning. What are they putting them inside their pants? They're wearing Lulu lemon joggers. Why can't we get you a fanny pack now? You think I should stick tortillas in my lulus? Yes. Call you Lulu? Thomas.

They're very comfortable. That's good. Expensive, but very comfortable. I want you comfortable. You know, Connor, the answer is, I get it because it's just tradition. I just think it's kind of a tradition.

No, I don't get it. No, but you don't get it because you don't know why it started or why it happens. It's stupid. I'm with Connor. Get it together, Red Raiders. Whoa. We're going to, hey guys. All right, I'm going to put a bunch of tortillas down my pants.

And then we're going to throw them at the game. Okay. If that's, if that's... Five, bro. If that's what you're... thinking, then how do you get not A and I'm not having female cheerleaders? I'm going to put some, yeah, that's stupid too

while we're here. Why wouldn't they have female cheer? They got a bunch of guys in milkman outfits screaming a bunch of stupid this and that. And them's that's own problem. And hissing at people. Test ain't know. You always do that. It cracks me up. That's time I heard Appalachia

wasn't a state. Ha! Real knee slapper, bro. By the way, you always go the milkman card. There is not a single human being in this audience that had a milkman come to their house. Some people are fathered by a milkman around here. Oh, I don't doubt that. You've ever had a milkman

come to your house, Connor, in your life? What's a milkman? That's exactly my point. I've never seen a milkman either, but I haven't either. You know what I'm saying. But there are, there is a, there is a company out there. Okay, well, you want to go, it's insane asylum orderly. That's what they dress like. Oh, that's actually, that's pretty close. It's pretty close. Carlos, in downtown at 1155.

Carlos, what don't you get, my friend? You know, I don't get why we have so many streaming services. Thursday night football, Monday night football, Sunday night football, Smackdown, Raw. And now HBO does NBA too, apparently. I don't know what everybody else is doing, but I'm having a hard time finding my sports. What do you guys think? You know what? I'm telling you, Carlos, I totally don't get it either.

But the answer, Carlos, my friend, is very simple. these streaming services are cutting halaciously big checks Yes Next year if you're an NBA fan You're going to have to go to Peacock And Amazon Prime to watch a lot of your basketball games Two different streaming services

Great Right now you have to go to zero Wait is this right Somebody just tweeted me Shout out to Tide Turns The weirdest part about A&M and cheerleaders Is they actually have girl cheerleaders They just don't let them cheer at football games

I see him dancing at They have dance teamers at basketball games They don't have any of them I've never, no There's got to be something If that's true So what do they hang out? Like, sorry ladies

We're going to focus on football here You gotta go We're gonna have a bunch of these guys In full white outfits Dance around and twirl and Here's the thing Lead yells What I would want to do

If I was an Aggie Is I would have let the yell leaders still do their thing, but I would have to write their material because their material is so horrifically bad. So why, how are you going to help? Because I'm, I've got great, great comedic style. Okay. I just do. Okay. We see it the improv? I mean, I could do some stand-up if I needed to. Point being is this, we make fun of you because not only do you look stupid, but you wear stupid outfits and you say stupid things. Other than that, you're great, your great school. I've told us to my middle son, Peyton. So Peyton, you are, you,

are getting the greatest education you possibly can get. I'm so proud of you that you love everything. But I said the only thing I just don't get and I will never get, I don't care how long my son is an alum and gets to do all of things he wants to do as an Aggie. The yell eater bit is ridiculous. It's just stupid. It's their tradition, Matt.

There ain't no one else like it. So Texas Tech has tortillas? Yes. And A&M's got stupid yell leaders. And Longhorns throw water bottles onto the field. And BYU people get smacked with them. You know what? that was, you know what, no, you just reminded me. Can we stop with the, the water bottle stuff?

Didn't a cheerleader nearly get knocked cold out by a full water bottle? Yeah. Somebody just called me and said, the reason Texas Tech fans were throwing stuff is because Shredor Sanders was taunting the fans. Well, how about you just win the game then? Yeah, well, how about you not throw things onto the field? There's no excuse for it. Now, wait a minute, I got that Red Raiders back.

You do? Yeah, most guys, yeah. It's good school. I love going to Lubbock. Oh, okay. How many times have you been there since your son graduated? Once? Once.

That's good. I've never been to Lubbock. Every time you've played Texas Tech and football, I won't be there. Oh, okay. Well, that's for work. Okay, how much have you gone for not for work? Oh, you're only for socializing for vacation? Yeah, come on.

I'd go back. It's just too long of a drive. I've got to fly. I'm good. Not on the bucket list. Lovett, Texas. Sorry. The news at noon is next.

1158 on Sports Talk 790. Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 1203 on Sports Talk 7.9. We are one hour away from getting the best fantasy football advice you possibly can get the one and only Dr. Roto joins us at 1 o'clock. We have the Rotten 5 at 130. We have, believe it or not today at 150, as we're giving away not one pair, but two pair tickets to see Justin Timberlake in concert. But first things first, it's time for the news at Dune.

And my goal is for Ross not to go to that TV anchor voice that he does every day. I hear the music. It's Pavlovian. I can't help it. But if you're going to do that, sound authoritative, not sound like fake. Like, I'll give you an example. Watch this. This is me doing the hurricane coverage. News Radio 740, KTRH. This is your home for hurricane barrel coverage. I'm Matt Thomas. It's 125 of the morning. And here's our this morning's top headlines. See, that's news authoritative.

Yeah, whatever. This is you. Hey, everybody. This is the news at noon on sports talk. Well, you're more like the lead anchor and I'm more like the funny sports guy. You're the whack job. Did you catch those battle red uniforms, Matt? Christmas came early at N-RG, didn't it? Don't be TV guy.

Don't do it. It's not, it's not, I can't let you be TV. They're looking like Christmas tree ornaments on Sunday night, weren't they, Matt? All right, time now for the news at noon. Here's some less nestman wannabe. Go ahead. All right, Matt. Let's keep it going here on the.

this wonderful four-hour program. I was still getting tweets, if you're not aware. No, the show isn't just starting now. We are on from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. here on the Matt Thomas show. What's happening at lunch timers, by the way? What is happening lunch timers? Well, I'm going to tell you right now.

Rodeo Houston and NRG Park operators respond to the ambitious $1 billion plan to save the Asherdome. This from Amber Elliott of the Houston Chronicle. Basically, the rodeo and this, the NRG Park operators with Harris County, the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation. Both of them are not

on board with this new plan. That's it? No sound by it like, do you tell Phoebe to get off the stage? We're not spending one dime on the Ash Dome. Well, here was the statement made by Bishop James

Dixon, a chairman of the Harris County. What's the name again? Bishop James Dixon. Okay, I thought I thought something else. of Harris County Sports and Convention Corp. We respect the efforts of the Astrodome Conservancy and have seen their proposed concept. Over the last few years, we have seen several concepts that, while thought-provoking, haven't resulted in viable funding and maintenance solutions. We are currently working with Harris County and a team of industry leading experts to plan for the future of NRG Part.

The solution for the Astrodome must be decided within that context. i.e. get away from us, leave us alone. Your idea sucks. And we're moving on. We cannot consider, yes, you can translate that. And that's basically translates from this. We cannot consider any future vision for NRG Park without first understanding certain baseline financial information related to the Astrodome. Basically, he's saying, shut your bum ass up. This is not going to make money. This is a terrible plan. And you've been wasting all of our time. Yeah. Basically what we've heard for the last 20 years. Yes, Matthew. Elsewhere in the news, the latest is not necessarily news, but Buster Olney of ESPN has put out a tweet talking about Alex Bregman and a possible landing spot for the Astros Gold Glove third basement.

Buster Olney saying that as he's been polling around with industry insiders that one person has said a rival executive or evaluator that he would not be. surprised if the Philadelphia Phillies were a landing spot for Alex Bregman. Matthew is your reaction. Can I tell you when he leaves? Because I believe it's still at 99.1%

that he leaves. It would be easier for me if he plays for a National League team. Kind of odd as that I'm in mind. Definitely don't want him going. Well, Tigers is fine, I guess. Indivision would really be painful. Yankees or Red Sox or what is worst case scenario? I'm going to go Mariners.

Oh, Yankees for me because they're going to lose Juan Soto. Not that Wrensen's the Mets, Bregman is the backup plan. I could see that. Yeah. Again, not that that's an equal change, but The Dominoes are going to have

to fall that way. And oh, by the way, if he is a Yankee, you're going to see Alex Breggman on 15 to 20 national broadcast a year. Where if you're Phillies, you may be on two or three times, but we don't get a lot of Phillies games down here and you only see the Astros and Phillies play once a year. So, yeah, I could live with

that. From the rival evaluator, quote, the Phillies land Alex Bregman, his swing translates in that park, strong defense, lost lots of postseason scar tissue. Whatever that means. Odd phrasing. Yes. I interpret that as he's lost a lot. He's been there. It just means he's been through the wars, I guess. He needs to go somewhere else to try to get one more change in it. And frankly, Philadelphia, a perennial playoff team last half dozen years, right, Rossi? Yes. So he's going somewhere.

He's going from a maybe a ship that is making it... They're passing in the night? I was going to say, I don't want to say sinking if that's not what I'm saying. He's surfing from one one crashing wave and finding a rising wave? I don't like that one either. Okay, well, whatever.

Fine. Screw you. Fine. We'll still play one of your highlights. Oh, that's nice. Putback is no good by Miller. Ball is still losing the middle of the paint. In the middle of the paint.

Picked up by Van Bleet. Goes up to mid court. Quick Cups Tari. He said. He said. He's a bit. Okay, stop. Try that. Try that again.

That's embarrassing. That's terrible. Hold on. A voice on God should not be treated like that. I didn't hear Jim Nance on the call. Oh, that's not nice. Hold on. I'm trying to open it up in our audition program we have.

Let's try this. Put back is no good by Miller. Ball is still losing the middle of the paint. Picked up by Van Bleak. Goes out to mid court. Here comes Tar He said with an emphatic. Windmill. seven seconds remaining straight on three

no good on the three point try by Jordan Miller and ladies and gentlemen inside Tota Center it's another 111 to 103 over the Los Angeles Clippers Matt you've been ripping out Rockets win five of the last six times I've had a lot of post game guests usually we only have post game guests when we win Oh is that true? Yeah I didn't even know that So Jalen the first question I asked him was what do you think it was?

Did you hear it? Jalen Green, I think I tuned out now. Who has a better windmill jam, him or Tari Ison? I'm sure he said himself. And he said himself normally, but he gives Tari credit for last night. That's cool. Yeah. It was a two-handed windmill.

It was like Dominique Wilkin style. It was good. He had a chance to actually sit back and think about it for a second because there was no one coming back for the Clippers to try to defend it. Amen Thompson and Tari Isan known now as the Terror Twins. How about this for a Terror Tin twin stat line? Both of them with 18 points. of them with 10 rebounds, the other with 11, one with a steel and the other with two,

one with a block, the other with two. Flipped. They are the Terror Twins. Amen Thompson and Tari-Eason, the league on notice, a lot of national media types, noticing how well they play defensively and, I mean, 18 points apiece, nothing to sneeze at either, Matthew. The Rockets looking good, and they open Group A Western Conference play in the NBA Cup on Friday. I don't mean to make this about me, but I'm going to.

Can we go to the... Put that on a loop. I want to go to Vegas. I really want to do the show from Vegas. We're going to put that on your gravestone. I don't mean to make this about me, but I'm going to. That is the Matt Thomas ethos, words to live by. I feel so shallow now.

And then one quick note as well, Matthew. Have you heard about the Alex Jones Info Wars ordeal? I have not. Well, he is the conspiracy theorist who was sued by the Sandy Hook parents who lost their children in that tragedy and he tried to claim it was a hoax. Well, he lost a defamation suit. And apparently there was an auction, a bankruptcy auction, InfoWars website up for sale. It was bought by The Onion.

So one fake news outlet bought by another. What is the value on that? Do you have any idea? I have no idea. It wasn't made public. And well, now they're trying to make me sign up for. No, don't pay for it. No.

I'm trying to make me disable my ad blocker. Jerks. Because here's the thing, you don't, when you have somebody, these pop-up fake news organizations, you don't know what's the truth and what's not? I've heard of info lawyers for the last 20 years. During the election, I was looking at four you quite a bit. I didn't know what to believe. Yeah, that's why I'm trying to get off Twitter.

Find me on Blue Sky at Sports RV. Okay, so how many of this? Or threads at SportsRV. If I dump Twitter and go to Blue Sky, what is the advantage of Blue Sky over the other ones? I think it's supposed to be, it's a, the problem is it's a small community and it's supposed to be less toxic, but once it grows, it's going to get toxic. This is how we work. This is America.

I think it is going to be more people with like fake news and all that type of stuff. It's probably just going to end up going over there. So it kind of doesn't matter. Because, I mean, what I'm getting is nothing but bots all the time. I've lost about 125 followers. I think it's six people who are turning their Twitter accounts off. Well, yeah, and the bots did their job.

Yeah, just putting out basic political rhetoric. Yeah, I mean, like the election's over. Maybe they'll be back for the next election. I don't know. By the way, you're getting ripped on by Rolando. That bag you were talking about the guys wear? Uh-huh.

It's called a sling and comes in quite handy. Don't be in Neanderthal. He's talking about you. You're the one saying that people can't wear them. I didn't say people couldn't wear them. You know what? Shut your bum ass out. Grown ass men should not be wearing slings.

Sorry. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. It's convenient. It's a goof. Hmm. Yeah, I said it. Fight me.

we as adult men, when we see other guys wearing slings, we make fun of you. We just do. I don't. That's because you're perfect, and you don't make fun of anybody. You just called Taylor a whore a couple of hours ago. I said attention hoars. No, you called her a whore. Connor, do we have evidence of what you call the lovely, beautiful,

Taylor Matth? It's time for a break here on the program? I think we've got time for this, don't we not? I don't have it yet, but if you want to hear it, it'll be at 10 a.m. and at noon tomorrow. Oh, baby, yes. In the weekly open. Look, Matt, you want to make fun of people for wearing scarves?

You want to make fun of people for wearing body bags and all that types? I mean, cross body bags. That's up to you. Oh, cross body bags. That's nice. I'm really glad you're going to cross body bag. I have one question for you. Yes.

Why do you care? Who cares? Because this guy's coming after me. I'm coming back at him. But you started it. If you want to wear a cross body bag or a panty pack, I don't care. Wear a fanny pack. You'll be made fun of it's good.

You want to make fun of me for me. a variety of things. You put on five scarves and put on your fanny pack and you're happy? That's good. Doesn't bother me none. Because you look like a dork, doesn't mean anything to anybody. Yeah. Just do you, do you. Not everybody can be... You do you. Not everybody's so cool. Yeah, the Hugo boss model over here, Matt Thomas. Hey, I'm wearing Lulu lemons. I'm good. Yeah. You and La Lima? I'm styling and profiling.

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Do we have something coming up? Justin Timberlake Part 2, Electric Bugaloo. Might be a lot of made-up ones today. Yeah, that feels a little. I talk about his role in trolls and trolls part two. How about famous twins? We were talking about the terror twins earlier. Oh, okay.

Minnesota. Thompson? Thompson twins. Minnesota twins. Lopez? Who with Lopez? Boxers? Brook and Robin.

Oh, basketball. Okay. Who else are famous twins? Taylor. The Wonder Twins? Taylor's famous twins? Did you already say the Olson Twins? Olson Twins.

Yeah. About, yeah. We can do things about twins. Oster. Oster and a man? So the other night, Coach Udoka was asked about who he would compare. Now we get a good, get away the password to set. Oh, please do.

We had to, he was asked who he would compare Tari Eason to, and he brought up Kauai Leonard. Last night he was asked who he would compare a men Thompson to, and he said Oster Thompson. Is a joke? Yeah, everybody laughed. Oh, did they? Okay. Yeah, that he made doke. He's quite a youngster. That is high praise is getting a pair compared to Kauai Leonard, but...

Osser is being able to, is finally able to resume basketball activities. He's had blood clot issues for many months. Oh, no, that's good. Yeah, not good at all. And there's a Patriots D-Tackle, I believe, that's coming back from blood clot issues as well. All right. So the password for to play, believe it are not coming up at $150 today is what? Yes, two pair of Justin Timberley.

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one of two pair of Justin Timberlake. So back to the Rockets. Excuse me. Bless you. Purely selfish. I hope they keep winning eight out of every 12 games. We will actually, for the first time, as me being the full-time radio

by play voice, be able to have deep conversations. It's not like X's and O's, but at least good, regular conversations about the Rockets team. pre and post game Rockets launch pad playoffs? Playoffs? That sounds good

because Clanton's been wanting to travel with me forever. I'm like, I don't think Teresa's going to let you. Oh, no. Now, Wax will be able to go because Robin. Although it's not like Clanton does anything around the house, does he? I don't know. You change the light bulbs, doing the lawn. I mean, he's working on his pool.

Installing the water new hotter heater. Yeah. He's not lounging in the pool and working on her two different things. That's exactly right. But it'll be fun. I hope so. I cannot wait for basketball to be relevant again in this community. It's been, you know, look, a little uptick last year,

but 41 and 41 doesn't move the needle when it comes to sports fandom in this town. I'm ready. 52 and 30 might. Oh, 50 wins. I thought you were a little. I had 48, and I feel good. I still feel good about 48. When you said 48, I was like, that's a little much.

But so far, I'm pacing above on average. Some good tests are coming up. But the question is, who in the West is going to take that drop? They didn't look like they were in Oklahoma City Thunder's League. We have to be honest. They had a furious comeback against the Warriors, but they got down as much as 31 in that game. So we do have to temper our enthusiasm somewhat. But the Mavericks win was good.

The Thunder are 10 and 2. Golden State's 9 and 2. So Golden State's not going away. Phoenix is not going away. Denver is 7 and 3 and probably feeling like it should be better than that. The Rockets are right now the 5-seat 8 and 4. The Lakers are the 6-seed. The 4 teams below them are Memphis, Sacramento, the Clippers, and San Antonio.

San Antonio is 6 and 6. By the way. Uh-oh. Do you see what Wemby did last night? Oh, you mean that bum, stiff, just a guy? What did you call him that? According to some. Which, who said that?

Rhyms with Shmattam-Schmanton. Shamanon. Shamanon said he was just a bum? Oh, no. I think his official wording was stiff. and just a guy. 50 burger. Now, Graham is against the Wizards.

Hey, nobody on the Rock has dropped 50 against the Wizards. No. And not every night the Wizards are giving up 50 to us a particular player. And, I mean, he is that Spurs offense against a bad team, and he had been shooting very poorly from three, but has made six or more in three straight games. You know what? This is actually making me sad.

What's that? You know how you make me root against the Cougars, because you talk about how great they are? Yeah. Clinton's making me root for Wimby, because he's talking about how bad he is. No, no, no. I'm never going to go that far.

This is your fault, Adam Clinton. Dang it. I mean, he's incredible. Let me tell you that in sports talk radio, we are paid for our opinions. That's true. Every opinion we give, we'd like to be right, but we're not.

Now, the really bad talk show host will always say, for instance, I'm going to prove you right no matter what the case may be. You can't do that. I'm not saying Adam does that. I'm saying you can't. For instance, I don't think Dion Sanders is a good human being at all. I don't think he's a very good coach.

But guess what? The results of this year are proving me wrong. And I can take an L on certain things. He's got Colorado on a very fast path towards a Big 12 championship game. Which means if you win that championship game, and there's no dominant team in the Big 12 except for BYU. And BYU doesn't feel like it's overly dominant. They barely beat Utah, a team that had lost, what, four or five in a row before that.

I got to give Deanna's flowers. I don't want to because I don't like him. Season's not over. And Wemby, we in this community wanted Wembe in the worst way. The owner of the Houston Rockets, Tillman J. Fertita, was praying for Wemby. Pray for Victor. Everybody in their mother wanted him. Generational talent, especially in today's NBA.

draft world we're really after the first pick you're just praying for something. He's going to be a thorn on the side. Not only did he get drafted and not by the Rockets, but he got drafted to a team in the same division three hours away. Now, does he stay there long term? Who knows? That's just two different things. But I just, but I refuse to look at the guy with as much success as he had and say, I don't like him because he's going, he's not playing for the Rockets. I can't do that. There's one thing to not like him, but also to, to evaluate him as as going to be just a guy in a stiff. I mean, I don't mean to bunch you on this.

We've had, we've had Clinton on. Go ahead. But guys of his frame tend to break down. So it's not like it's, it's completely out of the, out of the realm of possibility that Wemby could be just a guy. So I'm going to defend Adam on that point.

Okay, well, you can defend him. And we've had him on this show. And I don't even really mean to bring this up, but we can do it. But no, when he's on the floor, his long-term health and his on-court player, two different things. Chad Holmgren is great when he's on the floor,

but now he's got a broken pelvis and he missed a season with at least Frank injury, we're worried about his long-term health. He's IP. If it's only his, we're talking about on the court. His skill level. Yeah. And that's on the floor is calling him a stiff. He's not a stiff on the floor.

He doesn't shoot too many threes? Absolutely. But Lassad he was good at it. He needs to develop some sort of back-to-the-basket game. I don't know if he'll ever do that. But if you could do that and develop a baby hook of some sort mid-range. I mean, he blocked shots. He's a freak of nature.

He rebounds. He dishes the ball. He does hit outside shots. He's going to be really good. Now, there are sometimes I've had sports takes that I've hit on. I've been very proud of that. I never thought Ben Simmons was going to be great coming out of college. I just thought he was just a guy. Yeah, this is two different things.

Saying a coach that went four and eight and then was blowing up at the media and losing a bunch of people in the transfer portal is not going to be a successful coach is different than calling a generational talent who is dropping 50 a stiff. It's two different things. All I know is that I can't bat a thousand. And every time somebody wants to go on Twitter and tell me that I said something that was wrong, I'll take the L on it, but you don't be rude about it. Yeah.

Well, I mean, again, I wish everybody was 100% in everything they did. But it's not about that. It's about degrees of being wrong. But I still will follow my sort on this. I think the way Dion, and again, give him credit, and I don't mean to make sports on you here, but the way Dion conducts his business, I don't think it's, has a long shelf life.

There's just something that... I don't think so either. I can't pinpoint it. But I don't know if it's just because he's so brash about things, whether he's relied on his kids, whether he is, I don't know. But it just looks like to me,

I would rather go down the Nick Saban route of running a football program than Dion. because I still watch Colorado games and I still see fourth quarter coaching mistakes like you wouldn't believe. Horrible use of timeouts, running past plays

with a minute 15 trying to drain clock just because you're trying to add to the scorecard. It's just, and again, he just rubs me the wrong way. So I'm not rooting for him. Okay. But I'm not rooting. I'm not, Wembe doesn't rub me the wrong way.

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I went Apple this morning. I'm going to try Google Maps tomorrow. Okay. Google owns Ways, right? And then I'm thinking about just running a helicopter. All right. You and Kevin Sumlin both. I was on a helicopter one time in Las Vegas,

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Control, not a dipstick. Excuse me? Control. Like, man, put your damn hand on their controls. Flying on this 35-year-old helicopter, you're charging me 100 bucks for jokes. I don't want them. Just drive me around.

I kissed them. ground like sullana. I said, I've never going on this again. The yoke, that's right. My buddy, Todd says, well, let's go the Grand Canyon in four-hour ride. I'm like, oh, hell no. Yeah, I don't want to be in a helicopter. I'm good. You're good. Two things I'm never going on a helicopter again, and I'm sure as hell not going a hot air

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What else is going on? We've got a Thursday night football game that's good. Texans are back at play. Oh, by the way, one quick baseball note. The Rays have a new baseball home for 2025, and they're moving to Tampa. They do? Yes. They are?

They're living some high school stadium? They're living St. Petersburg. Okay. And they're going to be really in Tampa. And they're going to play George Starbrenner Field. The spring training home with the Yankees. Really? Yeah.

Okay. What's the capacity? 11,000. I went and checked. Oh, that's good for them. They don't need more than that. So let's put it this way. The raise have always been financially challenged. The super successful baseball teams, the ones that really have a lot of money, draw off 2.8 to over 3 million people. If they sell out every one of their raise home games, so I can get the calculator out here. Okay. Let's say they boost the capacity to 11,100. I think it's what it's, give or take.

11,100 times 81 home games. The most people that can see a raise home game would be 899,000 people. The lowest attended team this year was? Oakland Days. 922,000. They average 16 a game anyways. It's not that big of a dip for them. But if you're Major League Baseball, don't you, isn't there some sort of financial

not responsibility, but kind of like, we got to even the playing field just to smit. The solution was to move them out of Tampa in the first place. That is weird. You got the A's playing in Sacramento. I think their stadium is 14,000. And then you have the race playing in Tampa at the spring training home of the Yankee. I mean, you're just always going to be the stepchild, right?

It's going to be hot there too, right? Is it open air? And rainouts galore. Every day in Tampa, it rains at 3. clock. Every day. Is that right? And I mean,

vicious, not like little sprinkles. I'm talking about like, you know, Tampa's a lightning capital of the world. I didn't know that. Well,

that's why their NHL team is named that? Boom. Wow. You learned something new every day, Matt. I believe there's more lightning strikes

per capita in Tampa than there isn't any other metropolitan city in America. Don't hold me to that, but I think I'm pretty I'm not calling you a liar. I just never heard that.

I wouldn't say I was a liar. Wow. Okay. But I mean, vicious, vicious lightning. Hmm. Remember that time when we were doing the show at the Shell of Houston Open? And they could hear the crackling of the lightning around us.

We were trying to get Charlie out of that little tent they made us. Well, you were producing. You weren't there with me, right? Where was this? It's the Shell Houston Open. When Charlie was doing his show. No, I was producing and he nearly died. I have that audio somewhere.

God, it was so funny. I mean, it wasn't funny at the time. I came to a golf tournament to get pneumonia and die. He's still living. I still see him all the time. Yeah, I saw him in a Rockets game. Did you? I was like, Chaz, what are you doing here?

What do you say? I didn't ask him. Oh. I said, hello, Charles. That's what I always call him Charles. And he said hello to you? Yeah. Okay.

And he always gives me like a horns down or something. Oh, that's not very nice. I think it's funny. Well, if I give you a horns down, you don't ever think it's funny. Yeah, well, that's because I don't respect you like I respect Charlie. Oh, that feels pretty accurate. it's fine. The lightning capital of North America, Tampa Bay.

So that takes care of Canada, too. Is Mexico and North America? Yes. I got it right. I didn't guess. You know what? We're going to give you a gold starter in the break, Matt. That was great.

You did great. I'd get that question. I'm so proud of you. These three countries are in North America. Yes, you and most third graders. We're proud of you, Matt. Oh, God. That's embarrassing for me.

Florida averages 10 deaths and 30 injuries from lightning strikes per year with several usually occurring in and around Tampa Isn't it weird how Tampa of all places? Because again, it rain, I think it's just because it just rains there so much every single day during the summertime. Well, now we're crossing Tampa Bay off the list. I'm never, I'm good. Well, that's why we have to have Adam and Adam do the on-deck show those days

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move from South Cleveland to Texas to Houston. You know what, Steve? Yeah. You are preaching to the choir, my man. You are absolutely preaching. I'm trying to look if there's anything going on Texan-wise. When does practice start? They're already over there today.

I've not seen anything in terms of who's practice and who's not. The injury report doesn't come out until late or well-passed our show. But I'm worried. I should be worried. We should be celebrating Nico Collins. Hopefully it will be a full participant today, right? get him back on the field? Monday night's spotlight.

Why wouldn't you turn that down, right? Got it out? Yeah, for the fantasy, for my fantasy team. Because it is a must-win game. Oh, stop. Oh, it is. No, it's not. I'll further explain to we come back.

It is. It's absolutely a must-win. And I'll explain why it's a must-win coming back. And I think because I metaphorically speak of this, not literally speak of it, you'll say, that makes a lot of sense. 7-13-212-5-7-90. The Shell Federal Credit Union has amazing rates when it comes to interest on loans. A lot of folks are not very competitive. Shell is.

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Jonathan Malick M. Alexander Houston Chronicle at Texan's practice today says he does see Nico Collins. He does see Laramie Tussle. He does sell Daniel Hunter. He does not see Will Anderson Jr.

Or Derek Stindley. Now it's just now, now, no, no, don't worry. Today is a Wednesday. I know it's literally a Thursday. Okay. That's the Cowboys. They'll be fine. Okay, so now I've got, I've laid it out. Go ahead. Literally, it's not a must win.

Oh, there we go. But we've discussed this for 10 years. Nobody ever thinks of things as literal in sports. Okay. Just like teams that go, you don't want to go to an 02 in a series of any sort. Nobody wants to do that. Nobody wants to go 02 in a home and your best seven home, especially with the home team. Okay.

So, literal conversation out. Figitive, yes. Okay. Cowboys suck. Yeah. Backup quarterback one for them is terrible. Backup quarterback two is even worse. Okay.

You have a coach who has lost the locker room. Micah Parsons would be the first to tell you that, whether he backtracked or not. This is a cowboy team that has significant, beatdowns at home. Baltimore, New Orleans, Detroit, Philadelphia. Am I right about that? I think all four have home losses? Yes. Okay. Your team is on paper and by performance better at every category. Nico Collins, well, no, C.D. Lamb's better than Nico Collins. you're better at quarterback, you're better at running back, you are better in the secondary as long as Stingley plays,

you're better. You have played good football this year. You've not embarrassed yourself. There have been some bad losses. The Jets probably game is the worst of the group. You need to get your mojo bag. You've had multiple team meetings. It's time to end the team meetings.

It's time to go out there and kick some ass against a team that doesn't play well at home. You need your road mojo back. You want to fight to avoid the force seed in the AFC. I don't think it's going to happen, but in your mind, you're something, I've got to start something here. The Cowboys suck. They're not good. Forget about the fans.

Forget about the sports radio. This is about you fixing your ailments. You should have beat Detroit. You never really were in the game of the Jets. I know the score into the game. I mean, the score was a one-score game, but it was really a two-score game because the Jets guy dropped the ball at the one yard line. That would have been a touchdown, right?

So that doesn't really count. You never were really in that game, honestly. Yeah, they tried to gift you that game and you did not take it. Not literally, but figuratively, this is a must win game. Because if you lose the game, that's how many losses in a row? Three, four out of five. Yes. Your last win was a one score game against a sucky Colts team.

Mm-hmm. You're going to have, you're going to have another reason. reason why people ask, is there time for another team meeting? You're going to have start, people are going to start doubting whether or not CJ Stratt is the, as you would, as everyone has said, a franchise quarterback. You've said, yeah, he has a franchise quarterback. Not playing like a franchise quarterback right now, but he is a franchise quarterback. If the Cowboys beat the Texans, it's because CJ is not good.

He hadn't played well. I can't imagine CJ throwing 27 passes and completing 23 of them for 319 and four scores and losing the game. The Texans defense is not that bad. No, the Texan's defense is very good. Texan's defense is greater than the Texans offense has been for a better part of a month. And if they go up and lose this game, it will have zero impact on their playoff chances. It will have zero impact on the AFC South standing.

So not a must-win game. That's literal. I'm figurative. More people are on my side than yours. That's fine. Coaches and players are on my side over yours. Every game is a must-win game. And that's all.

I just make a line of DMRK. because I have a rule and then otherwise it's just up in the air. So it's a judgment call otherwise. We're going to, let me tell you something. If the Texans beat, losing the Cowboys, we're flipping the F out on Tuesday.

We just are. Yeah. And then time will march on and they've got the Titans into town. They beat them. They got the Jaguars. They beat them. And then they're going to go on. No one will feel good about it. And no one will care. No one will even think about that in a couple of weeks. It's the NFL. You need a bounce back. You need to do it on the road.

Yeah, it'd be nice. It's an important game. We're just arguing semantics, Matt. Come on, man. Can't we leave that two to six? So you want to be semantic free? I mean, I guess we could. It's a perfect landing spot for a bounce back game

after these back-to-back horrible games on Monday, not Monday night, but on national television. And I don't even care about the national television, but this is just about winning the game. Put the game on it, I don't care. You got to beat the Cowboys. It's the Cowboys. You need to kick the dog down.

Everybody works with those annoying Cowboys fans. And you've been sending Cowboys. Cowboy fans memes all year. You don't want to get them back your way. That's the last thing you need. We don't have time to ask this right now because we're running, we get to Rodo coming up here. But I want to know, we'll do this tomorrow.

Remember this. We don't know if anything goes Friday tomorrow. Yeah, it is. We need to find out if we have some listeners in our audience that are split with Cowboys and Texans fans in there. Because let me tell you something. You've loved this girl for a lot. long time. Her name is Cassie. Okay. And you went to high school with her, you reconnected on Facebook, and you're like, she's so wonderful. I love her. And it's time to meet her parents. And you go to

her parents' house and dads weren't a Cowboys jersey. That's got to cause some strife. Not only his future father-in-law, a Cowboys fan, he's wearing a Cowboys jersey at 4 o'clock on a Thursday afternoon. That's a little weird. Just saying. When do you get out of prison? So you're assuming that anybody that's a Cowboys fan wearing a jersey at 4 o'clock on a Thursday went to prison?

If there's no game that day, yes. You're rude and insensitive. And it doesn't sound like they have a day job. You're not rolling up to the office at a Cowboys jersey on. on a Thursday. So tomorrow, spread the word. If you know anybody in your life that has a house divided. Yes.

Because maybe you were a cowboy fan. Growing up. I was briefly when the Oilers left. And the Cowboys were on every week. So you said to yourself, go Cowboys a few times in your life? I mean, I would watch them en route for them, yeah. I don't know if I said go Cowboys. Maybe I probably at some point.

You probably did. I think my dad was very upset with me. It was that awkward period where the Oilers had left. I couldn't go I couldn't root for the Tennessee owners There was no chance of that happening And it wasn't bandwagon hopping It was like Quincy Avery

Or what was his name? Quincy And then Quincy Carter Quincy Carter and Aidan Hutchinson Chad Hutchinson Not Aiden Hutchinson Chad Hutchinson It wasn't it was no bandwagon hopping At that moment

Well I remember doing sports radio Back in the day here We had to figure out what we're going to do And there were a lot people We used to have a Dallas Cowboy Radio analyst join us once a week Yeah, you had to Because we wanted to talk football

We were going to just forget about the sport And then I moved to Austin And it wore off Dr. Rotto's up next Final hour The Matt Thomas Show with Ross After this Lunch timers

This is the Matt Thomas show Turned out to be a big photo Give me the news I really don't know What I should do This is 30 minutes A Major Market Radio begins right now. Sports Talk 7-09 with the one. The only Dr. Roto. Dr. Roto, we are in a good spot because

I can't believe this. And probably the biggest surprise the entire world is that Al Michaels gets to call a second straight competitive game. Good, Doctor, how are you, sir? I know. It's usually the Thursday night game stink. But this one should be a really good one. You know, Jaden Daniels, since the injury hasn't run as much, so I'm interested to see whether he will because that's such a big part of his game. Yep. But, you know, look, Alyn Hertz, the Tush push, all those touchdown, Saquan Barclay, have an MVP type of season. I mean, this should be one of the better games of the year.

All right, so who is sitting and who is playing tonight? All right, for the Eagles, you're playing Hertz, you're playing Barclay. You're playing A.J. Brown. You're playing Dallas Goddard. I think I'm playing Devont de Smith. I don't feel great about it. On the other side, I think we're going to keep it simple. We're going to play Jane Daniels. We're going to play Terry McLaurin. Brian Robinson is expecting to play. I don't think he's going to have a big game, but all he needs is three yards.

He could get seven carries for 18 yards and two touchdowns, and then you're going to miss not playing him. So I think he's got to be started. All right. New O.C. in Chicago, will it make a difference in the Packers-Bares game? I don't think so. I think this team is really damaged. It's a bad offensive line.

It's a bad head coach. And I think it's a quarterback who, you know, people inflated their opinions of him. He's not very good. Right now, if you ask me, would I rather have Drake May or Caleb Williams? I'm taking Drake May. I might even take Bo Nix over this guy. So when I look at it, I think the bears are in trouble. Packers, you know, Jordan Love is a week healthier.

This offense is still rolling. I think the Packers win by seven. All right. Detroit, tell me about the fantasy numbers of Jared Gough as you're watching the game live last Sunday night. Yeah. I mean, it's like you get the tail of two halves, right? I was just literally writing an article for Dr.otto.com.

I always play Jared Gough at home. It's just one of those things. He gets home. There's more confidence. I mean, he played great, and I'd come back against the Texans. But, I mean, Vegas has a lion scored over about 31 points.

That means they're talking four touchdowns. Four touchdowns, even if I give David Montgomery one, and even if I give Jamir gives one, still golf is going to throw for two. So his floor, his fantasy floor, is at least 20 points in this game. So you want to start Goff,

you want to start St. Brown. You want to start Jameson Williams. And there's a good chance Sam LaPorteur may miss this game, which makes St. Brown and James even more valuable to go with those running backs. Let's go to New Orleans. They'll host Cleveland this week. Did we notice much of a change in philosophy with the interim coach last week in New Orleans? I don't think Dennis Allen was loved by his team.

And I can tell you that from, if you remember that controversy with Arthur Smith, where they were running up the score and Jamal Williams was getting that late touchdown when they were up by like 30 or something like that, you don't do that to a coach you respect. I think Darren Rizzi brought a sense of confidence back. And it was, you know, look, they made some good plays last week. And, you know, the Falcons got caught in Valdez Scantling, had a great game. Do I think Lightning is going to strike twice? No, I love James Winston.

This is a borderline revenge narrative where he's coming back to a team. The team basically gave three bags of money to Carr and nothing to Winston who had to go to Cleveland to be a backup. You think he's happy about that? I don't either. I think he has a good game. I think Cedric Tillman has a good game. And you watch Nick Chubb scores a touchdown this week. Oh, is this a guarantee?

There's no guarantee. I know, I know. But I feel pretty good about it. I feel pretty good about it. Help me out. I do believe that Lamar Jackson has not enjoyed playing the Pittsburgh Steelers, even when the Steelers are down a little bit. Tell me what you're thinking this week when they go to Pittsburgh

at a battle of seven and two teams. It's a great game. I mean, really, this is one of the, this is the game that you're circling as the must watch game, isn't it? So you're sitting there and you're saying yourself, the Ravens Pass Stevens has been terrible. Russell Wilson is firmly in play. The only thing that could ruin this game is if the offensive coordinator for the Steelers

decides, hey, maybe we should run the ball. Dude, you shouldn't. You should throw the ball on Baltimore. Russell Wilson pick-ins, Mike Williams, now there from the Jets, is a great play. And I think Pat Friarmooth is really a great play. The Ravens have struggled against opposing tight ends all season long. On the other side, look, I like Zay Flowers, I do, but I think Deontay Johnson, this is a revenge narrative spot for him.

There was a quote last week, last week, maybe it was earlier this week or last week where Mike Tomlin, they said to him about what do you think about Deontay Johnson? He goes, I haven't seen him in any of the fill. You don't think that pisses off Deontay Johnson. He's going to have a good game. Yeah, and Derek Henry's going to have a good game. Fireworks, you start everybody on this game. All right. Minnesota scores 12 points last week at Jacksonville.

They have not played well for basically about four weeks now. Are you getting nervous about skill position players for the Vikings or a trip to Tennessee going to fix all that? I don't know if it fixed. I think Tennessee's defense is like Jacksonville's. They play better than you expect, but they're not great because the offense stinks, right? Will Levis is going to make a lot of mistakes, and that's going to help Minnesota out. But Sam Donald is showing who he is, right? This is Cinderella at 1230 at night and it's not good.

he stares down receivers he refuses to throw if there's any traffic he likes taking the you know the quick underneath stuff so t j hawkinson is a great play jordan addison kind of lost aaron jones great play justin jefferson not as good a play as we want him to be i mean does he go for six six patches for 80 maybe but is this going to be six for 180 and two touchdowns no on the other side will let us look a little bit better last week but can we rely on him against Minnesota's defense. I don't think so. I think this is a low-scoring game.

This game may be under 40. So just play Hawkinson for sure. You play Jefferson. You play Aaron Jones, and let's keep it to that. All right. Indianapolis is going back to Anthony Richardson. I can't imagine a lot of folks are using the receivers for the Colts

anyway, but how do you size up the Colts and Jets this week? Look, I think Anthony Richardson is surprisingly in play. He always is. Is he going to make a lot of mistakes? stakes, he will. But look, the guy can run for two touchdowns. He can run for 100 yards. He can still have a big arm. The jets are in shambles. The jets look terrible last week. I mean,

that was really one of the most pathetic displays I've seen all season. So I worry about Colts receivers, because when you think about it, I don't think Richardson is going to complete more than 10 or 12 passes. So those guys, unless it's Josh Downs, I don't think you can play Mitchell. I don't think you can play Pierce. I don't think you can play Pittman. So you play Richardson, you play Jonathan Taylor, you play Downs. For the Jets, you play Breece Hall because he's tremendous. I think you played Devante Adams and you play Garrett Wilson.

But you hope that Aaron Rogers gets better because what I saw last week of Aaron Rogers, man, he was borderline rival, you know, looking like Mac Jones and that's not a good thing. All right. Kansas City Buffalo. If the Chiefs are going to finally have a blemish in the regular season,

it could be Sunday in Buffalo. We don't care about that for the sake of this segment. Will we see lack of production or are we going to see a high scoring game and that maybe the last team on the field offensively wins the contest? I think it's one of those. I think at halftime this game is like 177. And you're like, really? And then all of a sudden the second half it starts, that makes some adjustments and you see more points. So this game probably ends like 27, 24. Now, I'm always starting Josh Allen at home, especially against the Chiefs during the regular season. I'm starting Allen. I'm starting James Cook for sure. I'm starting Khalil Shakir.

Absolutely, you start the tight end there. I don't know if it's Kincaid or Dawson Knox. The chiefs have been terrible against opposing tight ends. One of those guys has a great chance for a big game, depending on who's healthy. On the other side, I really like Kareem Hunt this week. Buffalo is susceptible to running backs coming out of the backfield. I think he's in play. I don't love Travis Kelsey this week.

Mahomes is okay, not special to me. And I do like DeAndre Hopkins. I think Hopkins and Hunt are the chiefs you want to start. All right. Lastly, Texans and Cowboys. It feels like Nico's, he's practicing today, and he was held out last week. It feels like it's a pretty safe bet he's going to play. But do you get a little scared holding off on guys that are questionable going into the game?

Because knowing that Monday night, that's the last game of the week. And if he's not all of a sudden doesn't play your left out with trying to find some scrap heap on between the two teams. So I guess the long-winded question is you play Nico just praying that he plays, correct? Right. But what you do is you get another receipts. in this game. So maybe Jalen Tolbert is on your waiver wire. Maybe John Metchie is on the

waiver wire. You protect yourself. Because look what happened last week was a disaster. I would have told people played Nico Collins. He didn't seem probable that he was playing and all of a sudden, we're going to hold him out one more week. You know, that sucks. You're getting the zero there. We don't want that. So you've got to cover yourself.

I like Nico this week. I love Dalton Schultz this week. Dallas bad against opposing tight ends. And this is a Joe mixing week who I've ever seen one. On the other side, I would tell you to start Seedy Lamb. Of course you have to, but I don't feel great about it. Cooper Rush 13 completions for

45 yards. I mean, that's barely over three yards of reception. That's pathetic. Zique looks like he's cuttable. Tell me the other cowboy you want to start. So I think it's mixing. I think it's Collins. I think it's Lamb. And if you're really desperate, it's Schultz, too.

You can tell my Dalton Schultz? Yeah. You think desperate, huh? See, we're thinking they're going to finally get him in evolving the offense? How many weeks can we say that? I know, but he did throw, now, CJ did throw, what, nine targets to the two tight ends this past week.

So I'm just curious that that made any difference to you. Right, because Nico wasn't there. When Nico's there, it changes everything. We want to see this team with Nico. And, you know, look, we wanted to see them with Stefan Diggs, too. But with Nico there, you don't have to rely as much on Dell. I think Dalton Schultz gets four for 40.

That's okay, but I think there are better spots out there. But look, if Schultz goes four for 40, Texans are most likely winning. It means he's involved. All right. Now, let's go to your phone call. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-790. You've got a question for Dr. Roto.

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Rock your body the Justin Timberlake hit. Okay. We just believe it or not topic today. I don't know. Okay. I got to work on it soon. That's why me and Roder are going to spend quality time together while you work on things. Could have been figured out a long time ago.

You know what they call Dr. Rodo? You know what they call Ross? Overprepared. Well, somebody's got to be. I know. 713-212-5-7-9. A very good friend of mine just sent me a text. please, please help me with Roto.

He's going to Vegas tonight. My favorite place? Heavy TD dependent non-PPR league. James or Quentin Johnston? James. Okay. I like him. I mean, Quinn Johnson's been pretty good this year.

He has. He has. He's been good. And look, Cincinnati is susceptible to a big play, but Jameson Williams is the boomer bus play every week. He's at home. You know they want him involved. They can go to him at least three or four times. So if it's a touchdown league, I think he has the better shot of the touchdown.

All right. Medcalf, Johnson, or Cup? One of those three does not play. You play two. Metcalf, Johnson, Cup. Yeah, I mean, look, you play Metcalfe, especially in a game that I think is going to be pretty high scoring. I'm not worried about the injury. Cooper Cup worries me a little bit.

They seem to go to Pook and Naku a whole lot more than I want them to, but I can't ever be benching Cooper Cup, so I'll go Cup and Metcalf. But I'm worried. I mean, look, in that game against Miami, they feed you. your puka way too much for my liking. 713-212-5-790. Gio on 7-90 for the good doctor on the sports talk, 7-90. Hi, Gio.

Hey, guys. Okay, so Dr. Road, I got three quick ones. Should I start Jaden Daniels or Russell Wilson? And also in my Super Flex League, should I start Anthony Richardson or the quarterback from the Cleveland Browns? I forgot his name. I don't know why. And also out of these three tight ends, who do you think?

going to have a better day. Knox, Ertz, or Brock Wright? Okay, so first of all, I'm starting Russell Wilson. Secondly, I think James Winston is more of a floor. Richardson's the higher ceiling. Give me Winston's

floor. I think I'm pretty good with that. Look, what I would probably do is wait on Knox. Okay? I don't need Ertz tonight. So what I would do is wait on Knox between Knox and Wright. I expect one of those guys going to play because Leport and Kincaid very iffy right now so I wouldn't rush on the earth's move tonight.

All right, thanks for that. Let's go to Geo on 790. Hi, Geo. Oh, I think I was just talk to you, Geo. Sorry about that. Oh, is that? No, let's go to Gio. Gio, is it you? Yes, sir. Go ahead. Good afternoon, guys. Hey, Doc. So, Evan Ingram, Kyle Pitts for this weekend and also DJ Moore or Moon. I'll hang up and listen. Thanks.

Got it. Yeah, you got it. So, firstly, I don't really like Atlanta in Denver. So I'm going to go with Engram, even if Mack Jones is playing. I think Jacksonville is going to keep this game a little bit closer than most people do. DJ Moore and Moody, that's a tougher one for me. What I'm envisioning is that Cortland Sutton, sorry, Patrick Sturton is going to cover Drake London, which is going to leave Mooney slightly open.

I like him. I don't trust the Chicago offense right now. I think that's a mess. So give me Engramen, give me Mooney. Let's go to Brian in Pearland for Dr. Roto on 790. Hi, Brian. Good afternoon. Gentlemen,

Doc, PPR League for both of these. One tight-in position, either Colquemette or Pete Fryermuth, and then at the running back, I need to select one between J.K. Dobbins, Josh Jacobs, or Brian Robinson,

Jr. All right. So first of all, I'm going to go Patty Fry. Love him this week. Ravens are terrible. opposing tight ends. He's a great play. So here's your problem. Robinson,

because of the knee injury, becoming touchdown dependent. J.K. Dobbins, Gus Edwards, is back. We saw him on last week. I don't want to be seeing Gus Edwards there because in short-yard situations, I think it's going to be Gus the bus. So I think your best play is Josh Jacobs. I know it's a tough matchup against

the Bears, but I mean, he's going to get the most opportunity. So let's go Fryer Moves and Jacobs. All right, 713-212-5-7-90. Brian and Alvin for Dr. Rodo. Hi, Brian. Hey, guys. Dr. Roto, I'm in trouble at running back, man. I need to have to know either Bigsby, Jay Ford, or Jay Warren.

Yeah, I mean, look, so some of the optimizers and simulations that I use, like Ford a little bit this week, I don't see it. But sometimes, you know, the play that I don't see that pops up like that is the one I end up going with. Bigsby's not 100%. I'm worried. I think ETN's a better play. Jalen Warren, I'm not. may be all right, but I think I'm going to lean forward.

Like I said, sometimes I just trust the Sims. They run these games like 10,000,000 times, and Ford has been popping up a little bit, meaning that they think he's going to score somewhere around six or 10 points. I don't know whether the other two guys will. Let's go to Scott and River Oaks on 790 for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Scott. Matt, Dr. Roto, how are you?

How are y'all? All right, so I have a very good fantasy team. My team is 9 and 1. The biggest trouble that I'm running into going forward is I happen to have, have Jaden Daniels and Joe Burrow. I heard you say you would start Russell Wilson over Jaden Daniels this week, which surprised me that you said that. So I'm guessing you would start Burrow this week over Daniels?

Well, here's the thing about Daniels. If he's not running, then he becomes a good quarterback, just not a great quarterback, right? We want Jaden Daniels to have 220 yards passing. We want one or two passing touchdowns. I want 60 yards rushing, and maybe I get lucky with a rushing touchdown. The Eagles defense has been much better the last couple weeks. I know they've played crummy teams, but they've looked better. Baltimore hasn't stopped anybody, anybody, all season long.

So the only thing that stops Russell Wilson is the play calling or game flow, because he's going to have to be throwing it. So sometimes you just have to look at what teams are doing well. Would I start borrow over Jay and Daniels? That's a closer one. Cincinnati's played really well. They've lost like three games this year under seven points that they should have won. they should be a playoffs team.

They've played that well. So, yeah, I just don't trust the Chargers defense. The Chargers defense has been very good this year and very stingy. So I would think Wilson 100% over Daniels. Danielsboro was 50-50 for me. Joe and Tomball for Rodo. Go ahead, Joe. Yes, sir.

Out of these receivers, Terry Hill, John, Dr. Kilman. Did you hear that M.C.? Joe, try it one more time, please. Can you hear me now? Go ahead. Cedric Tillman, Tyreech, Hale, Jaden Reed. All right, so I'm playing Tillman.

He's been fantastic, and he's playing against a team where they can throw all day. I think I'm going to play Tyreek. This feels like one of those Miami games where they put up 40. I don't like West Coast teams who travel and play the early game. Raiders have been a train wreck all. season. Tyreek, maybe this is their last stand, Miami. So let's go Tyreek and Tillman. All right, let's go into Brendan and Magnolia

for Dr. Roto on 790. Hi, Brendan, go ahead. Hey, I need one of these for a flex position, and this is assuming that Devante Adams is going to play. So between Adams, Stevenson, and Hopkins, who would you

play? Yeah, I'm going to play Hopkins. He's starting to look great. I mean, he's jelling with Patrick Mahomes. This is going to be a higher score. in game. Aaron Rogers looks terrible right now. He looks terrible. I know he's trying to feed Adams, but why not feed Garrett Wilson, who is obviously

dare I say that's the better player at this point. Wilson can make these acrobatic plays, and Adams just can't anymore, and Rogers isn't helping him. So I think Hopkins is a safe play, 6 for 60, maybe a touchdown, maybe he gets 7 for 70. They like to just take

their time down the field. They want to keep Josh Allen off the field. I think Hopkins is a good safe play. All right. Jimmy and Tom Ball for Dr. Roto at 127. Go ahead, Jimmy. Hey, guys, Dr. Roto. Two quick questions. Cleveland or Philadelphia is defense, and then I have toggled all year in a flex between Ramandre Strevenson and Austin Echler.

I feel like I've missed every single week, which you recommend this week? Yeah, I don't think you can play Echler this week because Brian Robinson is back. So that's a game changer. Stevenson, when Cleveland is winning, I mean, sorry, when the Patriots are winning, Stevenson is good. So I think Stevenson is a decent start this week. Look, I don't want, I would play the Browns. I think that the Saints had a big week last week.

It was an emotional week last week. Do I think it's going to happen two weeks in a row? I don't. I think that Nick Chub will play well, Winston will play well, and Tillman will play well. Ladies and gentlemen, we asked Dr. Roto once for you to give us a knockdown, dragout, 100% absolute winner for our fantasy football teams. We present to you, Dr. Roto's lock of the week. MT, I'm sticking with that Steelers, Baltimore game.

and I'm sticking with George Pickens. He has been sensational this year. The Steelers, I mean, look, I wrote this down. It's like, Dave, the Ravens have allowed the most yards, the most touchdowns, the second most receptions. I mean, this should be a game that Pickens Feasts. I think he goes, I don't know, six for 110 in the touchdown. Let's lock him in. That is Dr. Roto's.

Lock of the week. All right, we are coming close to playoff time in the not too distant future. People need you over the weekend. Where do they find you? You find me at X, a DRR-R-O-T-O. You find me at my website, Dr.rotto.com. We do a Sunday morning Discord show from like 1030 to 12 Eastern trying to answer every single one of your questions. And of course, on Sirius X-M Fantasy Sports Radio, Saturday morning from 8 to 10 Eastern.

All right, my man. Thank you very much for the great information. As always, we'll talk again next week. Take care and see. Bye-bye. That is Dr. Roto with us every Thursday in the 1 o'clock hour right here on Sports Talk 7.90. Up next, it takes absolutely zero ability to take. tell you the five best football teams are on the NFL. It takes something special, insight,

guidance, analysis, deep preparation, or it's like to call it Ross 15 minutes for the segment starts. Is Ross's rotten five next? 129 on Sports Talk 790. We've got believe it or not coming up in about 20 minutes from now as well. So a busy last half hour of the show. But I want to tell you about love volleyball, L-O-V-B. I love volleyball. My daughter loves volleyball. My family loves volleyball. and I promise if you want to check out some of the best players in the world representing Houston, you'll want to love volleyball. L-O-V-B is the brand new league, league one volleyball, and it's coming to Houston in the Fort Bend area beginning in January.

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He says, my wife is a Cowboys fan. Everyone in my family, but me is a Cowboys fan. She grew up as a dancer. She's a Cowboys fan because they have the most famous cheerleaders. Ah, interesting. That's a weird way to become a fan of a team. but you know what teaches on everybody has their own different strategies there that's true Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders really quick okay here we go they have a you know they have a

reality show they no I didn't know that that's apparently coming back for second year okay what's it call is it well is it when they they they audition and stuff I think it's a I've never seen it I think they were on the today show a few days ago promoting their new show okay do cowboy fans go We're so lucky we have the most famous cheerleaders in the world. We love going on the games because they add such a huge dimension to our game day experience. No. Jerry Jones does. Okay.

Now, you're not a stereotyper, so go ahead and explain what the average fan thinks about the old Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. What do you mean? We like them. And? And I believe your favorite was Debbie, correct? Debbie the Chiller. Yeah, Debbie the Dallas Cowboy Chiller. They have built. the brand. I don't think anybody would

say, hey, come see them in person in a special concert series. They probably have the highest appearance fees in the NFL. That's true. But I wonder if people go... Were they the ones that went on strike? No, not the Cowboy Chiliter's. No. Are you sure? No. But I can't imagine any Chiliter's will go on strike.

Yeah, because they weren't getting paid. What they being underpaid, though? Not necessarily not being paid. Maybe it was underpaid. But if I say, if we were doing a Dallas We'll have to ask the Dallas, we're going to have a Dallas radio guy on Monday. Oh, in 2018, a cheerleader did sue them for not paying her for all hours worked. Yeah. Including some filming for the reality show making the team.

But if I said, hey, come out to, the Cowboys paid $2.4 million to settle allegations of voyeurism involving four cheerleaders. And the PR director. And an influential team executive. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. What if we owned, if we had, if we owned. Barney's Barbecue and said we're going to have five Texal Cowboy Chiliter's come hang out. Do you think people would go to that? Yes.

Yes, I do. Oh, I know what you think. Okay, forget what I haven't asked that. It's just, they've carried this mystique. And I bet it's a, I mean, obviously they're a huge deal. I'm going, I'm Googling appearance fee. Oh, God. I don't receive emails I'm going to get after this.

Does they even say? Oh, it says, the girls only earned $50 to $75. I think it's more about being on the calendar and being, you know, having that on your business card, so to speak. This is yearly salary, $75K. To dance and smiles, it's not bad. They make $75,000?

I think it's time to try out. What do you think the Texas cheerleaders get? I don't know. The cowboy chilers make $7. Now, granted, they probably put in more hours than anybody else, because they do stuff all over the. the country. Don't they? Don't they go like parades and stuff like that? This is 500 per game, 50 to 75 for public appearances apiece. It's a lot of hours. That is.

All right. So there you go. Dallas Cowboys, I want a full report of the Dallas Cowboy cheerleader. If any of you all watch it, let me know. But man, to be a cowboy fan just because of cheerleaders, that's a new one for me. But that's also a female tooth. You never know. All right, ladies Jim and Ross, it takes absolutely zero ability to give you the five best teams, right? So we find someone who looks at a lot of things life with the glass half empty. I present to you Ross and the Rotten Five. They've gone bad.

Hey, they draw flies. Ooh, it's Ross's Rotten Five. This don't smell quite right. All right, Matthew, it's getting increasingly difficult to whittle it down to just five teams. Holy smokes! There's a lot of bad football being played, and well, we did whittling.

it down. Let's go ahead and start with our friends from up Interstate 45. Yes, you are back in the Rotten 5 Dallas Cowboys. One of the reasons of Cowboys, some of the reasons on their list, not their fault. They've had a lot of injuries all season long, both sides of the ball. Dack Prescott's hamstring is off of his bone, but a lot of it is their fault. Well, at least Jerry Jones's fault. He continues to be infatuated with Ezekiel Elliott. Bad moves have been made in the draft. Jerry continues to stick with Mike McCarthy, who has never should have been hired in the first. First place, Cowboys' latest embarrassment at the hands of their divisional rival, the Philadelphia Eagles, yet again, run rough shot in their own building,

and yet again, a storyline being the sun blinding your own players, Jerry. What are you doing? Cooper Rush is horrible. The Cowboys like Dak Prescott are done for the season, and they are the fifth worst team in the NFL. All right. Look, congratulations to the Jacksonville Jaguars for hanging in there and sticking with the Minnesota Vikings this week. nearly pulling off an upset. Reverse congratulations to Trouin Walker for causing a penalty

after they stopped the Vikings on third down, gifting the game away. It's not like Mack Jones was going to lead a game-winning touchdown drive anyways, but giving yourself zero chance, because you just can't avoid getting into a fight during the most important drive of the game. Inexcusable. The Jaguars, terrible with Trevor Lawrence as they're starting QB,

and well, they're even worse with Mack Jones. They are a bad football team, and they are the fourth worst team. in the NFL. Oh, we've been strong. We're just playing by the rules. I want to apologize for our radio equipment once again, letting us down. All right, I haven't heard yet if the United States has been publicly censured for sending them the New York football giants and the Carolina Panthers to play a football game.

But we should be glad that they didn't full on declare war after sending them Daniel Jones and Bryce Young. Got to be embarrassing to lose any game, but losing to the Panthers. Come on, Brian Dayball and Daniel Jones. So far this week, Dayball, not committing to Daniel Jones being his starting QB. No reason he should. Drew Locke, going to be better? Probably not. But things, just run things through rookie phenoms, Tyrone Tracy, and Malik neighbors,

and everything should at least be competitive. Giants, they are terrible. They have lost five games in a row. They are the third worst team in the NFL. Oh, no, it's bad. It's real bad. All right. The Las Vegas Raiders inactive on their bottom.

by week. That doesn't mean we forgot about him here on the Rotten 5. The Raiders have been terrible all season, switching back and forth between Gardner Minchu and Aidan O'Connell, switching back between Alexander Madison and Amir White and Amir Abdullah. What is going on? What a sinking ship over there in Raiderville. I can't believe that the offensive coordinator, they fired Luke Getzzi, couldn't turn Gardner, Minchew, Jacoby Myers, and Alexander Madison into perennial pro bowlers, huh? Talk about getting the short end of the stick and to make matters. worse. The Raiders next three games, surging dolphins, surging Broncos,

and the undefeated Chiefs, good look, Raiders. You are terrible, and you are the second worst team in the NFL. I don't even bother hitting these drops. The computer is so broken. All right, you know what it tells us is on the Rotten 5? This computer is number one. Well, okay, fine.

Let's go to the Tennessee Titans. The team is bad, no matter who's starting. Mason, Rudolph, Will Levis, does not matter. Things not going well for the Thomas Sports Enterprise's product. The Titans losing four of their last five games with the lone win coming in a field goal game against the New England Patriots. At least things get easier for them this week. They take on the Minnesota Vikings.

Yikes. How about another loss for the Titans? Probably going to say at the bottom of this list because they are the absolute worst team in the NFL. I've seen teams suck before, but they would have suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked. And there's your running five. And is there a defender number one quarterback in the draft coming out? I believe Cam Ward or Shadour Sanders. I think people are on Cam Ward.

Did you see what Deion said that he's going to keep a close eye on who drafts him? Yeah, well, that's what Arch Manning did. Archie Manning did it. And he got ripped. Man, you got to get away from Pops, don't you? This says Shador Sanders rank number one. This is I have random website I just brought up. Travis Hunter

People think the best prospect But you know Usually the best quarterback goes Are we gonna see a two-way player in the NFL We haven't seen one since what? I don't think so Who's the last two-way player we've had And we had guys that have play special teams

Paul Horning I don't know Auto Graham Oh you're going like 70 years Deke Jones I don't know Now we've seen guys that have been special teams Awesome like Devin Hester I was going to say Devin Hester kind of did

Yeah Devin Hester was a little bit, but it didn't do it a whole lot of it. Chuck Bednarik is what this says. Philadelphia Eagles, right? The last true two-way player in the NFL. Eagles until 1962. You know his nickname was? Bedrock?

Close. What is it? Concrete Charlie. Okay, very good. I'm kind of proud of myself on that. Yeah, Google is saying Chuck Bednarik. All right. I look forward to seeing it.

I think it's going to be fun. I think it's going to happen. We love Shoah Otani. Why can't we see two-way in football? Because swinging a bat is a little bit different than playing wide receiver and cornerback. There's no way. But I don't think they play every play both sides. I don't think it's going to like your three football.

Well, if he's going to still get around 60 snaps and do 35 only on important drives. You know, it's not special. I don't think it makes any. No, I'm not saying it's not special. That'd be cool. I would like to see it. It's just I would be surprised if it happened. I think you're probably right.

All right, let's play believe it or not next. We have the people online that know the password. So that's good. That's good. Believe it or not, for JT tickets next. 145 on Sports Talk 790. Load up on those napkins, straws, ketchup, hot sauce, mustard. Oh, and don't forget duck sauce.

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Rockets and Clippers. Round two, in-season tournament. Okay. The two games set. We'll have a deep, intensive breakdown of Washington versus Philadelphia tonight. NFL football. Wonderful. And we will give you endless Texans preview.

Can't wait. And it goes Friday. Love it. And an Alex Brighman update. Because I always like to get Alex. Do we have? Oh, we don't need to get one. Do we need an update?

Do we need an update? Mm-hmm. Bragman Update on the mat. Where's our third baseman going to go? Hmm. It's easy enough, I guess. Yeah. We need a little more originality.

No, that's fine. We've been doing, there's literally one of the. says, when is this bit going to go? And that's from like 2013. Yeah. The bit's never going away, much to the chagrin of some. Clearly.

All right. What else we got? I'm trying to think what else is happening in the world of sports tonight. There's only one NBA game tonight. It's not that they would be a... You know, the NBA is like, we're not putting anything on against Thursday night football.

It's Amazon Prime. We don't care. We're still going to get their ass kicked. Ooh, the Mavericks and the jazz? I'll put it on. NBA TV? If you have it, have it all? Okay.

And what do you like? Eagles or commanders? I'm going to go with the... Who's at home? Philadelphia. I'm going to go with the home team. There you go with Philly. That's a call it insight you'll get nowhere else.

You're welcome. I think Philadelphia is sneaky. I think people are sleeping on Philadelphia. Okay. You ready for a hot take? Yes. Philadelphia, Detroit for the NFC Championship. That seems reasonable.

Is that reasonable? I think so. Forget why I said hot. It's just reasonable. I would say, I mean, lines. certainly the favorite. Who would even be the second favorite? Probably the Eagles right now. They're seven and two. Okay, so it's actually frankly,

Vikings, yeah. No, they're struggling. They're just struggling. They're not taking the... They're seven to the... They're seven to. They're Sam Darnels not taking them to the NFC title. They weren't struggling against the Texans. 12-7 against Jacksonville. Five minutes left to go on the show.

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with that promo code sports MT for a deposit match. Category today, I have no idea what the category is. I mean, look, let's see what you sent me. Nothing at this point. What? Yeah. Sorry. Do you have it, Connor? I got it. It's about Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. Okay. I get refreshed, Matt. What's going on here? There it is. Just showed up. I'll read your statement about Mike Tyson or Jake Paul. And if the statement is

completely utterly accurate, you'll say this. Belief. If the same is erroneous full of book and made up, you'll say this. Two people today win a nice prize. Connor, what are they playing for? Yes. Our first Two winners will get a pair of tickets to see Justin Timberlake on his forgot tomorrow world tour December 4th at the Toyota Center. And then we also got a four pack of tickets with Pipp Houses to Monster Jam on Sunday February 2nd, Energy Stadium, and a 790 t-shirt. Alex on 790. You ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it.

Mike Tyson was discovered by trainer Custamato as a teenager when he was brawling with a local street gang and winning the fight. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, Ross made that up. Have a nice day, though. Joe on 790. Joe, you ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, man.

Mike Tyson was once the owner of the world's largest fleet of Lamborghinis, but was forced to sell every one of them in a bankruptcy auction back in 1998. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, Ross made that one up to. Ross, are we not trying to get away his tickets away? I'm not. Connor's like, I don't care.

Connor wants to go. Take his girls with him. Scott on 790, you ready to play, believe it or not? Nah. Mike Tyson was inducted into the 2012 class of the WWE Hall of Fame. Believe it or not? Believe it. That was a no-brainer. Statement number two for the way, and Mike Tyson has stated that he only agreed to appear in the film The Hangover to fund his cocaine habit

and that he was high on the drugs in his scenes. Believe it or not. Believe it. That's right. You're going to see JT, baby. Sorry, Connor. James on 790. Ready to play, Believe it or not.

James? James is not ready to play. Let's go to Christian on 790. You ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Before switching to YouTube, Jake Paul first gained a following on Justin. Dot TV as a prank streamer. Believe it or not.

Believe it. No, Ross made that up. He was on Skits on Vine. I don't watch that. You didn't watch Vine? Nope. You've seen Vine. I'm sure I know.

I'm sure. I don't know. I think you're right. Michael, that's right, Vine. Michael on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. In total, Jake Paul's YouTube view count is over 11.2 billion views. Believe it or not? Not.

That's 7.6, you're right. Statement number two for the win. Between YouTube is an ex-boxing career and investments such as Prime Energy drink. Jake Paul's net worth is estimated to be about $250 million. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, he's only worth $80 million. Sorry.

Last chance, Anthony on 790 for the JT tickets. You're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Jake Paul's boxing nicknames include the Problem Child in Elgado del Dorado. Believe it or not? Believe it. You're going to JT. We got him away to get two winners today.

Up next, not the biggest JT fan, but officially a Swifty. Proud of it. And then there's Adam Clayton, too. Up. He likes Wemby too. What are you going to do about that? You're going to beat him up during the show? So a full breakdown of Wimby's 50-point game.

Oh, that's not happening with the next show. He called him a bum. Chandler-Rome. It's a Chandra Rome store show with Adam. Up next on Sports Talk 790.