The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Season Opener vs OKC Tonight! Texans Were Just Bad & GEORGE SPRINGER

Episode Date: October 21, 2025

Rockets Season Opener vs OKC Tonight! Texans Were Just Bad & GEORGE SPRINGER

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-0-1 in H-town. Good morning. It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross today from Oklahoma City. This is Sports Talk 790. Oh, I'm a wee bit weary-eyed. Emotional. It's the start of the 2025-26 NBA season.

Round Ball Rock is back John Tesh 72, 73 years old doing the Today Show live and I got to be honest with you Jonathan I almost teared up hearing that song live in front of a

they had a real orchestra and he played it live oh what a great song You know this whole time I thought it was I didn't know an individual artist had made this theme song until you sent to me

I was like oh snap Yeah, John Tesh is a composer. He's a sportscaster. He used to host entertainment tonight. He did a long, I don't know if he still does his radio show or not, but he does like a nighttime radio show playing music. It's national. He married a really hot woman named Connie Selika way back in the day.

Okay. But, and he created this song when he was working for NBC, and they said, hey, can you create a song for us? And he did. And so come to find out, ladies and gentlemen, that when the NBA went back to NBC, which of course tonight's Rockets Thunder game is going to be on, he went back into the quote-unquote laboratory, the studio,

and tried to update the version of Roundball Rock to kind of make it for 2025, 2025, 26. And NBC heard it, and John Tesh heard it, and they said, no, we're going back to the OG. So that's the song that was played in the 90s and the 2000s before NBC lost the games. It is back. And tonight here in Oklahoma City, we are going to have the start of the 2025 Houston Rocket Season with Kevin Durant.

So much to get to today. The first question I have for you, and obviously we're going to spend a lot of time talking about the rocket season and a couple of guests will join us along the way to back that up. But how many have you stayed up all the way to? I think it was about 12, 25 in the morning, I think is what the game ended. Um, if you're a Texans fan, your squad's in major trouble. Major, major trouble. Your defense is really good. Will Anderson is elite.

Derek Stingley Jr. with an I&T yesterday. I don't care if you got the 15-yard penalty for taking the mask off, but the helmet off, but that's neither here nor there. And there were some couple of penalties here and there. but your defense is playing to win football games. Your offense sucks. Your general manager right now sucks. And your head coach right now sucks too.

And he would be the first one to say it. I don't know Domingo Rions. I have tremendous respect for Domeko Rions. I think he was the right choice. I think he's going to be a very good NFL head coach. coach. But this team is not playing like a team that's going to go to the playoffs this year. And Nick Haley, I don't know.

I don't think I'll ever get to know because that cat can't call plays. The run game, non-existent last night, some of the play calling was atrocious. The back-to-back, second half, third quarter, third and one, fourth and one over. left guard that got you nothing two different times. That was pathetic. The Texans offensive line. And again, CJ did not play a perfect game. CJ takes those sacks again and he takes them for massive yards and he had the

interception. But damn, the guy got sacked eight times, excuse me, three times. He had seven quarterback hits. The Seattle defense is really good. And oh, by the way, the Seattle offense, Jackson Smith and Jigba's pretty good. Sam Darnold's a pretty good quarterback as well and doing it in Seattle. But they gave you a boatload of opportunities to get back in that football game. And a lot of that was because the Texans defense forcing turnovers.

And obviously, Sam Darnold doesn't know how to hold a football in the end zone. Take the safety and get out of there. Instead, he's just trying to play with it with the ball in his midsection, and that just was a disaster. So the Texans had their chances. Then they score the late touchdown to get it within eight, and all Kami Fairbearance got to do in order to help you stick around at least give you a chance because you don't, you have the two-minute warning and you have one timeout,

is kicked the ball out of bounds so you don't lose any clock time. Instead, he kicks it to the end zone where Seattle returns it back, takes off what's, I think it was eight seconds, six seconds, whatever it was, you lost a two-minute warning for the free timeout. Brain dead. This team is not being coached properly, or either that or the execution is not going from the headset to the coach's mouths of the players. The offensive line is a tragedy. And Dan Matthews just played this a minute ago what Titus Howard had to say.

I'm going to play it for y'all in a little bit. If I hear this and I let you all hear this, you all going to abandon Chip. Because what he said about what he thought his team. team look like yesterday. Very small comment, but definitely worth of a play. They don't have any idea what they are. They must just think they get to play Tennessee and Baltimore on the regular. I know, by the way, another first place NFC West team will be taking on the Texans this Sunday, this time in Houston.

Let me tell you all, and I've said this before, I know it's tough to be a Houston Texans fan. I get it. I have, you know, I don't have any emotional attachment to them. I would kind of like to. I've gone 20 plus years without having a football team. And I'm not trying to bandwag because, I mean, we talk about them all the time. But it's got to be hard to be a Texans fan. Does it not?

I mean, first of all, staying up that late last night to see that, to see the offensive line not be addressed, to see the running game non-existent, I mean, God Almighty. And you're three and a half games out of first place. Three and a half. It will take a minor miracle for the Texans to win the AMC South. That might be just in the...

We need to end that out of our conversation. They're going to be staring at some tiebreakers down the road that may not be very good. And again, if the Denver's... the world are keep winning, the charges of the world keep winning, if Jacksonville keeps winning, you're going to be, the Texans are going to be in a very difficult position. And it's the same problem of a year ago. It is not addressing the Joe Mixon situation when they probably should have gone after a better

running back than Nick Chubb or drafted one for that matter. I don't know Woody Marks was okay, but I mean, it wasn't like you were expecting a 1400 yard. It wasn't Ashton Gentie walking through. Gang, what are y'all thinking? I mean, come on. Is this just going to be the same? Are we going to use the same old Texans line year after year after year? And what is Hannah going to wake up to this?

Cow don't care. He just, he's jet-legged from the long flight home. He's napping right now. He ain't worried about this. He went to the fish market and Seattle had a great meal. He's fine. But damn. Offensive line, yet again.

not giving your good quarterback. Not elite, good. C.J. is good, not elite. If I was a Texan fan, I would be really pissed. Chances of them going to Seattle won in the game. Not great, but they had their spots. The defense is giving them a chance. Will Anderson wants to win in the worst way.

But this mixture of Lincoln Tomlinson and Juice Scruggs, this horrendous play calling at times, And the fact now that Nico Collins was in concussion protocol, that's not great. What did you have? I mean, you had some young guys out there. They had four rookies on the field at one time. Trying to win a football game in Seattle. And then you have George Springer.

God bless you, George Springer. Houston still loved you, George Springer. Poor Seattle fan. I say to all of you that are listening to me in Seattle, which probably is nobody. I say sorry for your loss. 713, 212, 5, 790. Those are the digits. Ross is back with me tomorrow, looking forward to getting him back.

Guest list today will feature Ryan Holland's at 11 o'clock. We'll have gut feelings at 1130 today where Jonathan and I will make some predictions, and we'll get you guys involved in that as well. We want you to be involved. The news at noon, we'll have Vanessa Rich and our friend from Space City, both he and Ryan. They're unfortunately not working tonight because it's an NBC. game. It's the first game of the season. So Vanessa is going to join us at 120, and we have, believe it or not, today at 150. But it's a lot of time for you and me to get through a variety of things.

One, Rocket's Thunder opener tonight and the return of the NBC folks, which is obviously a huge component of this, because it'll be on TV tonight. It'll be the first game of the season. Kevin Durant makes his rocket debut. You should be fired up about that. We have the Texans. It wasn't embarrassing. It was just amazingly disappointing yet again. You have to go beat some teams that you're not supposed to beat if you're going to let Jacksonville, that sucky Jaguar team beat you.

You got to go win somewhere you're not supposed to win, and yesterday was a place you should have gone and won. Because Sam Darnold kept throwing... I mean, they turned the ball over and over and over and over again. You got nothing out of it. May have won late touchdown, but you know what I'm saying. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790.

are available for you. If you want to chime in, want to hear from you, George Springer, Mariner's sadness, and for you Texas Tech fans, the tortillas are gone. 713-212-5-790. It's a Matt Thomas Show, Ross, here in Oklahoma City, on Sports Talk 790.

Matt Thomas Show and Ross continues. Sports Talk 790. Our time is 1019. If you want to chime in on the conversation, come on and be with me. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-1-2-2-4-1-2-4-4. 5.7.9. Again, Ryan Holland's going to join us in about 40 minutes for his take on things. We'll get my friend of Vanessa Richardson in as well later on this afternoon on the show.

Gut fillings at 1130. And Titus Howard, one of the elder statesmen of the Texans' offensive line now that Laramie Tunsel is gone. You know what? I appreciate honesty. He was pretty honest. And this is from DJ B. Enemy of ESPN.com. His video from the locker. him last night. Here's Titus Howard on what he saw last night. We was complacent today. We didn't come out with enough energy to start the game. So I'm on and on to that all that. I have my guys ready next week. So we just got to be better, man. We let the defense down. We let the team down to the offense.

And we got to step it up, man. The rest of the season, we want to do anything. If we can't score, we can't win. Yeah, pretty much. Complacent, Jonathan. How can you be complacent? You were two and three going to the game with your wins against horrific Tennessee and now pretty bad Baltimore. This is why I ran track.

I couldn't. I would be fuming right now. Let me tell you something. If anybody is complacent in life, first of all, you get to look at yourself in the mirror. That's first and foremost. But it also goes to who's in charge of, leading the troops, correct? Yeah.

That's an indictment on D'emico. It just is. Is he too much of a players coach at this point? That's a great question. That's a great question. I don't have the answer for you on that one. You know, again, I'm not in that locker room.

And I'm not talking about when they have media available. I'm talking about when that room is closed. He's got his guys back. He just does. And I think that's part of the reason why he is so respected by so many people around the league. But how in the world could anybody be? Now, it was tightest words, not anybody else's.

But my guess is that D'Mika will be asked about that today when he meets with the media via Zoom at about 2.30 this afternoon. How in the world can you be complacent? You beat a Tennessee team who's going to probably have the number one pick in the draft or number two depending on the Jets. And you beat a Baltimore team with no Lamar Jackson. and all their defensive starters out. Does going off on an off week make you complacent?

Going to Seattle of all places, a team that, as you saw in the graphic last line, if you watched the game, that has the best record of Monday night football? How can you, now that nobody cares about what they did it 20 years ago, but point being is a tough place to go. How can you be complacent? Complacent are teams that, you know, are five and two, and have an off week and take an opponent lightly. A basketball team who is 50 and 22 that loses to a 13-win team.

That's complacent. That's, you know what, I don't care. We'll do the best we can. The Indianapolis Colts are six and freaking one. How is there any thought of complacency anywhere near that organization at this point? You know what? Nick Kassarro was complacent with the offensive lines. why didn't improve it?

Well, or improved it to the level needed to be. Not drafting a high-end first-round guy on that or, you know, complacent about figuring out what the running back room is going to look like. I mean, CJ was the leading ball carrier. 25 yards. You can't have that. This is not 1-A-1-A football. This is the National Football League.

You can't have 25. You can't. Woody Marks did okay towards the end. Obviously, he was used as a pass catcher. But Nick Chubb was nowhere to be found. Gumo Wally was out there. I mean, God bless it. And the play calling.

I mean, such a head scratcher. Such a head scratcher. 713-212-5-790. Brent, Beaumont, Texas on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Brent, good morning. Good morning, Matt. I love the show. I'm excited to be all in tonight.

One thing real quick, I'd like to laugh at the arrogance of the Mariners for continuing to pitch George Springer when he's up 3-0 with a bum knee, and they could have put him on first. Hilarious. But I would love to hear what you think about the guard situation for this year. You think it's going to be a timeshare? What do you want to happen and what do you think is going to happen? Y'all have a good show.

Thank you very much. Here's what I want. I want Reed Shepard to be worthy of number three pick in the first. in the draft of a year ago. I'm not asking him to play 35 minutes a game and inherit the role that Fred Van Vleet had, but if Reed can give you 12 points a game, can create an outside threat,

he does a good job on passing lanes. I'd be happy with that. And frankly, if the rockets are going to mix the lineups tonight over the course of the year and use the double bigs, what they're going to do you use tonight. They're going to the Jimbo lineup. They're going to go with Jabari. Amen, Adams, Shangoon, and Durant.

That's the Jumbo lineup or the Skyway lineup, whatever you want to call it. It depends on, you know, how they want to go against the other team or what the other team presents back at them. But yeah, I want Reid to be a rotational player that can score double figures that can handle assist, not turn the ball over, play competent defense, and hit the outside shot. Not looking for him to be all-MBA. Not looking for him to be the leading score.

But picking pops, run the offense, let Amman Thompson get to that dunker spot where he's almost automatic every single time. That's what I'm looking for from the guard spot. And I'm not trying to put it all on Reed, but, you know, I know who Amman is. I know who Aaron Holiday is at this point. I don't think J.D. Davis is going to have a huge role, but, you know, who knows? But you also have guys that can bring up the court, too. All the guys in the lineup, with exception of Adams tonight, can bring the ball up the floor. 1032, Sports Talk 7 out.

I'm at Tomas show with Ross here from Oklahoma City. I did send Asari for your lost two A-holes on Twitter. I was so proud of you for this. I figured you'd be happy with me. I didn't do it to everybody because some people were like somewhat respectful. Some people were like, I mean, they were somewhat rude, but not super rude. But when I was called a tampon and I was an Fing C and a B and a P, I was like, I was like, yeah, you kind of need it back.

And then this other woman who's got, you know, she's got an egg on emoji, he's got 11 followers. I was just, I just had to include her too. She's like, we lose a class. No, you don't. Guess what, Mariners fan, you got no class. You got your ass handed to you. Thanks, George Springer. Thank you, George Springer.

That's all I want to say today is thank you, George Springer. And how about George Kirby only going four innings last night? Yeesh. Wu comes in there, gives up the two runs. no Mariners World Series again they were up to nothing and going home where they kick ass at home we know this firsthand they lost four of the next five games dramatic seventh inning home run good for Toronto it's gonna be weird Because next week, I'm going to be in Toronto. Now, the series will be in Los Angeles at the time.

But I will be in Toronto at the same exact time. The Blue Jays are playing the Dodgers in the middle of three games of the World Series. I may be partying with Blue Jays for a night. Blue Jay fan. I'm going to tell you all this before. I've told you this before many times. I love Toronto. I'm not a big fan of the East Coast City.

but Toronto if you've ever get a chance to go is a beautiful city nice people good exchange rate cling you feel relatively safe not that any metro city is ever 100% safe and I've never been to a Roger Center for a ballgame but that place looked like it was about to blow the top off the building last night go blue jays I mean really go blue jays against the Dodgers Dodgers are heavy favorites to no surprise. 713-212-1-2-5-7-90. Brian, you were at the game last night. Give us the details.

What's up, M-Z? I just got back early this morning, so I am still a little jet lag. I'm wearing that red eye very well. But it was deflating because you had a buy week, and that was a turd sandwich that your offense gave us coming off of a byweek, you gave us that? I mean, that was the rough part. The fans towards the Texans fans couldn't be nice. And Matt, there were probably a couple thousand Texans fans there. They were everywhere.

I mean, there were people in their battle red jerseys or their white Texans jerseys or whatever Texas gear they had. They showed up. So I give Texas fans credit. I feel bad for all of us who traveled to watch that garbage on the field. at least offensively. The demons obviously played their butt off, but they had the games on there, Matt,

and then my buddies and I, we'd gone to a bar to watch game six, and it was already kind of subdued after that first inning by the Blue Jays, so they never really could get into game six. But they had every concession stand had that TV, had the Mariners game on before the Seahawks contest last night.

When Cowellie hit that solo shot to put him up 3-1, that place exploded. And when George Springer absolutely unloaded on that baseball, you could hear a pin drop in there. And when Rodriguez struck out for the final one, a lot of people had it on their phones. The people sitting around us, and it was just a bunch of groans. And it was like, just sitting there clapping, like, couldn't have happened to a better group of fans? then you scumbags and cheer when a guy gets gets hurt and that is why you are still the only team in Major League Baseball

who has never even sniffed the World Series, even made it to play in it to say you've been there. Yep. And you don't deserve it. How are Seahawk fans, Brian? They were overall. They were really, they were very, very generous.

I mean, most of them were good. There was one old bag that we've gone to a bar right outside of Lumen Field, and they were getting ready to get up to leave. And I was like, oh, do you mind if me and my buddies have the table? She's like, no, not with what you're wearing. I was like, so we come here and we're spending money in your city? She's like, I don't care. We'll give it to other Seahawk fans.

I was like, okay, that's fine. Go ahead and act like that. But all in all, they were really nice. So a lot of them were found they cool that, you know, so many Texans fans traveled. all the way up there, especially from Monday night. They were really nice to us, but, you know, I think after Springer hit that, a lot of the Texans fans I talked to, we all looked,

and most of them were probably Astros fans, and I said, I'd never have been George, wouldn't, and everybody was like, damn right. It couldn't have been a better Blue Day to do it to the Mariners, and once an Astro, always an Astro. Matt, that was an absolutely beautiful shoddy hit, and it was a funeral going on in there. when that third strike was made. I was hoping the trifecta would happen yesterday.

Unfortunately, the Seahawks didn't win, the Cracken loss, the Mariners lost. I was like, come on, give me the Seattle Tripector of L's in a day. But unfortunately, the Texans couldn't do their part. But it was a fun trip, Matt. And the Seahawks fans were nice. You can tell Softie, hey, at least his fans were nice to Texans fans all throughout the game. But you can tell them when it comes to the Mariners. So sorry.

So sorry. Thanks Brian for the phone call. I'm glad you got back and go get home and get some rest. Let me tell you all something. Red eyes suck. I mean, I know you have to take them sometimes because you've got to get back to a city or whatever the case would be. And it's always nice to have that default of a flight. But, I mean, I've taken, I don't know, 25 red eyes in my life and probably 24 of them.

I've come back and felt like dog crap the next day. You try to get something accomplished by getting back to your city quick enough. Like in my case, the last time I was on a red eye, I was going from San Francisco to Houston to go to San Antonio to see the final four championship game with the Cougars. And, man, I don't think I got sick after. I'm not saying you get on a red eye, you're going to. going to get sick, but it was just, they beat you up.

And it's not like you're flying the plane. It's not like they're asking you to walk up and down the island and serve coax to people, but it's just you can't get any sleep. You're having, you know, the red eyes are typically with time zone changes. So really when you're trying to catch a midnight flight out of Seattle or out of Los Angeles or Vegas, it's 2 a.m. And you're into Houston at 6 or 7 o'clock in the morning. It's not preferred, but sometimes you've got to get back for that reason.

and sometimes, a lot of times, actually, those flights are cheaper, so they do have some benefit. 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-790. Let's go to Stunna on the Matt Thomas show with Ross Stunner. Good morning to you. What's going on, Matt? What you got today? Man, welcome back. Man, I was just trying to see what fan-based feel of the words right now, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,

Lions are the Mariners because both of them are on verge of getting to the title game, but neither one of them made. And I was glad to myself, man, what it feel like to be one of them fan base? Oh, I mean, the Lions have not gone to Sorbole either. I mean, you're right. I would say probably a Lion fan is because that's been a franchise, been around a lot longer than the Mariners. I mean, the Mariners have been around, what, since the Mid-Simon.

70s. Now that's still a long time. Trust me. Yeah. I mean, I think it's probably equal depending on how big, I mean, look, Lions fans, they have only been good the last three or four years, but if you think about the Lions of the last 30 or 40 years,

they're usually around five or six wins. I mean, they don't even taste the playoffs except for this last little run they've gone through. Yeah. But I just felt worse for them than I did for the Mariners. Oh, I'm not feeling bad for the Mariners. No, no, not how they think they own Major League Baseball

and son of thanks with a phone call. No, I ain't feeling bad for him. I thought I'll give myself a little bit of props, and I thought I was pretty diplomatic with Softie yesterday. I didn't wish him good. I wasn't false. I wasn't like, hey, good luck we're rooting for you. I didn't say that.

But I also didn't say, hope you lose, hope your crappy fans get you know uh experience pain again i didn't do that so i think i handled it pretty well yesterday that i don't want to say those things maybe did i want to call and i don't want to call out some of those nasty people on twitter yeah but you know what we're just we got nasty fans ever my guess is we got some nasty houston fans too yeah you know i've come to realize that everybody on the social media streets are they're every fan base is going to have that collection Let me tell you, all Astros, Twitter can get nasty too.

It can. I think Rockets' Twitter just is always chasing recognition. Texans' Twitter just takes photos of themselves wearing Texans' gear in strange places. Yeah. Everybody's got a little bit of a goofy group of people that you don't want to associate with. That just comes to the territory of being a fan of a sports team in a major city. But I ain't feeling at all for a Mariner fan. I do not feel bad for them at all.

I don't want to call anybody. I don't want to call softening in Texas. I don't want to. No, no. That ain't happening. See you next year. Good luck in the America League West. But I will say this.

The Mariners did something that the Astros just couldn't pull off. They went and got two major pieces to their puzzle to help them get over the top, win the division, and get to the American League Championship Series. But even that doesn't guarantee on automatic trip to the fall classic. they were up to nothing. Going home. See, gang, it happens to every sports team. Every sports fan base has to hear about it.

If you think we've been long suffering on a variety of things, imagine if you are a Mariner fan today, and you've been a fan of them since 1976 or whatever the franchise was created. You're sitting there at almost 50 years of not, even knowing what late October baseball is all about. So sorry. 1044 is the time.

It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Come on in, join the conversation. 713-212-5-7-90 if you want to chime in. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90. Rockets opener with Ryan Holland's conversation in 15 minutes here on 790. Matt Thomas Show with Ross here from, Oklahoma City tonight. Thunder and Rockets.

We'll talk to our buddy Ryan Hollins about that coming up in about 10 minutes from now. I'm going to work on, believe it or not today. We'll do all things about George Springer. We're going to honor the man who hit the home run in the seventh inning to help the Blue Jays overcome the 3-1 deficit and win the American League pennant. Man, I've never taken so much delight in a other team winning, but man I just did. All right.

More on the Texans. I want to hear from you guys and ladies too. Did y'all stay up? Jonathan, you stay up the whole time? No, I fell asleep halfway through. I'm like a lot. That's fine. You know what I did do?

I went and had a big dinner downtown last night and then I had two cups of coffee at dinner and I was like, I can stay up now. Two cups? Ooh. I'm a night coffee drinker, which is not really good. Makes my sleep habits, though, the night terrible. but I had to stay up.

What in the world was that last night? Nick, oh man. You know what it is? It's frankly franchise arrogance is what it is. Nick Cayley, well, Nick Casario, I got a gut feeling in 1130 I'm going to go with it. It may not be, it may not hit on it, but man, if you're a hand on that plane right home, aren't you steaming?

I mean, you handed it. the keys over to these two guys and say, you run our football team. You've got play calling, you got the staff underneath Domingo, the offensive line coach, I don't know what Cole Popovich, why he got to get the job after he was the assistant

offensive line coach for an offensive line that sucked last year. Why did the Texans draft greater reinforcements? I mean, look, I was never a Laramie Tunsell fan, but Laramie Tunsell at least gave you professional effort most times when he wasn't committing false starts.

the play calling CJ Stroud still takes way too many sacks of huge distances when they're won for like 15 or 16 yards in the game early on I mean God bless it and I got news for you all here's the here's the conundrum

that you're about to face in the next year to two years you're going to start figuring out a way to make sure that CJ gets the compensation he thinks he deserves I mean that's super ridiculous big fat contract money the quarterbacks get and if you don't win when your quarterbacks are on rookie contracts something else are going to have to suffer

and oh by the way nico collins on a short week he's got in concussion protocol christian kirk didn't play again yesterday you were relying on rookies and dulton shultz by way dulton shultz a hell of a game last night he kept getting you know hit over and over again i mean he had something with his left eye or something but every time he get on the field, he'd get into a pass route, and he'd catch the ball. Good job by Dalton Schultz. He's having a nice bounce back year. He has become perhaps more of a guaranteed target than even Nico has this year.

It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy. And the running game, non-existent. I mean, can't Casarra get on the phone to get somebody? Because you cannot continue to be as feeble as the Texan. are on the run game. I don't know if it's because of the running backs aren't good enough or it's the offensive line or it's

a combination of both, but you're getting, you can't completing a third and one on multiple occasions, third and shorts, constantly finding yourself behind the chains on early running play, setting up seconds and 12s, third and 11s.

You're asking for CJ to get smushed and he's getting pretty close. Scott is with us at 1054 on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Scott, good morning. Good morning. How you doing? Good. Going forward, I think they really need to consider, the Texans really need to consider, given a future draft picks,

and getting this offensive line, getting trades or whatever for these offensive lines. We don't need to draft other players and position players like we are. We have some really good position players. We don't need anybody on defense. The rest of the season needs to have. effort put in to line up what trades we're going to make and get an offensive line that can give CJ time to look downfield and time for the receivers to get open and let the plays develop. Our offensive line is atrocious and that's the only way I can see fixing it. Because if you don't have the money to go out and get these people, we need to start trading

off our future draft picks. What do you think on that? And I'll let out of get off the air. Well, I wouldn't, look, it's not going to take, you can't get this done at the trade deadline. And look, I don't know who would be available. Obviously, reinforcement wouldn't be terrible, but this offensive line, the heavy lifting of this preparation for the future of this line has to be done in the offseason. It has to be the focus of the first round pick. It has to be the focus of free agent money being spent. I mean, you're chasing after C.J. Garner Johnson and you're chasing after Stefan Diggs and you're trying to get these veteran guys that are the culture guys, the guys that get you over the top when you have a significant part of your team that hasn't been addressed properly. I mean, Ed Ingram, I guess, has been okay.

so says pro football focus. But Arionte Ursary is going through rookie growing pains. Juice Scruggs and Lincoln Tomlinson are mid at best. Probably below. I mean, this was the 29th ranked offensive line coming into the game the other night. It was 31st when the season began. So they're not making seismic improvements. It's establishing no ground game.

I mean, Dan Orlovsky, numerous times. Throughout the broadcast, by the way, I loved their broadcast last night. I thought him and Louis Redick were really good. Chris Fowler's okay as a play-by-play guy, but I thought Dan Arlowski was a star. Really a step ahead of stuff, explaining things, talking about more passing, getting rid of the run, third in shorts, getting around the goal line. I think he was excellent. I enjoyed listening to him last night. But when you can't trust your offensive line, it limits what you can do.

field. It limits the opportunities for CJ to go through his progressions. It limits any sort of real diversity in your play calling. But to trust your left side of the offensive line on two consecutive plays in the third quarter

to eating a yard and you can't get it because that Seattle push was good. And again, Seattle's defense is really, really good. But you know what? You're typically running into pretty good defenses. You play a first-place schedule and you play against teams that are, you know, have been the playoffs before or, you know, have shown signs of it.

You're going to, I mean, you know, it's, you're not playing, again, you can't, there was a false sense of security somewhere at you, whether it was on, called on Fanon or not, that thought that everything was fixed after beating Tennessee and Baltimore. And it could have been further from the truth. Brandon, before the top of the hour on 790. Brandon, good morning. Good morning. How you doing?

Good. Yeah, there's just a couple moments in that game where it just, just looked like Collie was just out of his depth. It cuts to him twice, I think, after the two fourth down runs, and then he's just sitting next to CJ Stroud, not knowing what he's doing, not even communicating with him. And then another time, after a three-in-out or something, he's talking with the third-string quarterback.

He just looks out of his depth, and then CJ Stride, you can't blame him. I mean, he's under pressure every dropback. But he had a couple open throws. he missed the Higgins. He just kept overthrowing everything. So, I mean, they're just a mess right now. That's what I would say.

Thanks, Brandon, for the phone call. They're a mess. And Bobby Sloick is laughing his ass off. If I was Bobby Sloick, I'd be saying scoreboard, bitch. Now, he's in trouble, too, because that Miami team's a hot mess. But it's not even really his responsibility. That's McDaniel's offense, more than anything else. Let's talk to Ryan Holland and start the second hour.

We'll get a little NBA chatter going here on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. NBA basketball. The Rockets make their debut with Kevin Durant this evening here in Oklahoma City. The Matt Thomas Show with Ross continues here on 790. A man I miss, who you will be seeing a lot on Space City Home Network, but tonight's game is an NBC as a man who's comfortably resting in his Houston area home. Ryan Holland, you missed a great.

Habachi grow last night here in OkC. There's no way you did Habashi. There's no way, Matt Thomas. There's no way, you're right. I was just teasing you. Hey, you are missed up here. The energy of an opening night, you have been through 10 of or 11 of them

in your career as a player. Tell me what that's like for guys, even the salty veterans like yourself. It's always different. You know, first day of training camp, first day or preseason but the first regular season game is always special. You've got the energy in the building.

You're excited to be playing against somebody in a game that counts and you know you get to see what your stars are made of. So the guys are going to leave it out there on the floor. And here's the thing that's scary about playing Oklahoma City and the teams that I've been on that have made late runs

and they're a championship, they're the champions is you still have a little bit of those juices left over. So Oklahoma City is going to be a fine run. machine tonight and it's going to be a great test for Houston to go out and see what our group is made up see what the big lineup looks like see defensively how you go at it and Matt I think the biggest question tonight is how the rotation is going to look you know with Fred in the lineup you knew which you were going to get you knew you know 15 pick and roll up top with Albee

some Durant ISO some probably 135 action with Durant popping and Shingoon rolling or on the weak side. But I think the big challenge is tonight and EMA is going to have, and it's going to be broke through the season is, you know, who rolls out there, who plays well together, and how do you get efficient offensively because it may come down to execution

and it's a real question of who do you go through down the stretch? Clearly, Kevin Durant, but how do you think make things easy for him and play off him and get the most out of what our group brings to the table? Ryan, tonight we're going to see the jumbo lineup with all the bigs. If you're email

Adoka, when do you want to use that and when do you want to go with these slightly small line up, maybe inserting Shepard in the starting line up and moving Adams out? When should Rocket fans see that and not see it, do you think? Well, the goal of the create help for opposing teams. And the one thing that you know is Oklahoma City goes essentially, we'll call Chad Holmgren a guard. They'll go five out when Hardinstein's off the floor. Play dribble drive offense and they really swarm you. They truly swarm you defensively, which is hard.

and do that when you're young. So I think what Eme is saying is go small, we're going to press you, and we're going to press you to stay big. And I'll be honest, I don't think that's Oklahoma City's best offense because Hardinstein's great down low, but you put them in situations where you get the ball out of She's hands, and you got Hartinstein shooting floaters, which he's really good at, but it's pick your poison. And now their spacing goes away a little bit.

And if they're going to throw Caruso at the five, something they were great at, you know, when he played against Yolkich and pressured him and did a lot of it. of those things. You know, you've got to punish him inside. So I'm pretty sure that's the message is going to be sent home. And the pressure gets put on the opposing team, Matt, to answer your question of, do we match up big with them? Do we go small? And I've been in another side. You get extremely uncomfortable. I remember playing a Golden State Warriors. They roll out the small lineup, and all of a sudden we'd be playing lineups that we've never played the entire season, didn't know how to work with. So I love what EMA does, and I think he's going to mix in back

and forth. Shoot the last preseason game. I thought Reed Shepard looked the best with a five out offense and all smalls on the floor. He was excellent, so you're getting a sample size of what our guys can look like, and I think it differs from game to game. Visiting with our friend Ryan Hollins of Space City Home Network, and you will be catching him Friday when the rockets take on the pistons

inside TOTA Center. So we all talked about before Fred's injury, right, about Reed Shepard's increased role. Now, obviously Fred is done for the year. How much did Reed's life change when he found out that the ACL

was going to cause Fred the season? I think for Reid, obviously a lot more pressure. We're not going to hide it. And there's a reason he was drafted third, and I think he's going to get his number tall because of it. And I think the best thing that we saw, and that last pre-season game, he could argue to have been the most impactful of the season

is because Reed just got confidence. The guy knows how to play, Matt. When we've talked, none of us, Ross, you two, none of us have questioned if he can play, but it's more a question of, hey, him being confident, him taking those shots, him defending. And honestly, man, he brought a lot of toughness to the table in that Atlanta game.

You know, Trey Young is not mentioning. That's one of the best guards we have to offer in the league, and he outplayed him. Granted, it's preseason, but he brought it to the table. So hopefully that confidence can shine through, and he's going to be thrown in the fire, man. He's going to be tested. That's what he came to the NBA for.

All right, so a couple of things, big picture. It feels like the national folks have obviously dropped the rockets down a few slots because of Fred's injury. If everything goes right this year, and let's say the rockets are even better than their 52-win team of a year ago, in your mind, what has gone right? And I'm going to say if things haven't gone right for the rockets, my guess is largely because of the injury bug than anything else, correct? I think what's going to right is the opportunity to step in and play big. Like I've never seen anything like it, Matt.

The size and the depth that Houston has, the way they can beat you in different waves, it's truly intimidating, and you're going to have a player on opposing team in a mismatcher uncomfortable. There's mismatches all across the floor. I think everything goes right. We'd be saying championship. Like Kevin Durant's too great. too late in his career and too good to say that he'd be on a group this talented that wouldn't have an opportunity.

So everything clicks. That's where you go. And I think the challenge now more so than it was, and we just talked about it, just putting it together. But I do think that this is a group that this looks special. Matt, you know, when you see special teams, we saw that 95 Rockets team, like they look special. They have weapons. You're going like, this group has enough. And you know as a player, when you got enough and when you don't, and this group has it. A couple more minutes here with Ryan Hollins, a space city home network.

I have been asked who is the not necessarily breakout, but maybe most improved. I'm going with Jabari Smith on that particular category. Is that a good selection or is somebody else that you think could even make even bigger strides from year to year? Come on, Matt, he stopped playing with me. That's unanimous. He's just as tall as I am, if not taller, which is freakish. He's put on at least five pounds of muscle, five to ten pounds of muscle, Matt, that we can see. forget all of that, like his confidence. And he's in the most ideal situation you could be in.

You know, he can look over at his childhood idol, Kevin Durant, and say, I want to do everything you do, you know, and Durant is going to be able to speak a confidence into Javari that nobody else can. And you've seen it already. He knows the shots he's supposed to take. He's holding himself to a different bar and standard, and he can watch KD and say, okay, this is what it should look like. You know, you're watching those guys in pregame warmups and workouts mirror each other. and work out. So I think I'm ecstatic for Jabari. We've seen it already.

I think there's even more to come because he's already a confident guy. He already believes, but it's different when you have someone to show it. Kevin Garnett did it for me so I can speak to that firsthand and even more exciting for what Jabari is going to be able to learn. And clearly he was, I mean, he was heading shoulders the best rocket in the preseason for whatever that means. I think it meant a lot. All right. I'll let you go on this. Give me one or two teams.

The West is so ridiculous. loaded. Who are you going to pay attention to more than anybody else this year if I said, hey, keep your eyes on teams that might be a threat of the Rockets. Who would you go with the one or two teams that would be in the way of a potential West championship? I think Denver got a perfect fit in Cam Johnson. That's crazy because he moves off the basketball. He's healthy. That's a role that in a spacer and cutter off the ball that's made perfect for him. and he can defend and he brings a lot of sides to the table. I think that's a huge fit.

I'll be honest, man. I'm intrigued with Wendy. He's kind of doing some things where, you know, you like to rule out San Antonio, but we've seen this with Oklahoma City. We've seen this with Cleveland. When those young players get good out of nowhere, when they have one of those mega summers and they get better,

your force has an organization to make a move to put pieces around them. They got Darren Fox. we'll see how that plays out when he's fully healthy. But Wimby's doing some things that, you know, I think we all have to keep our eye on. And I can't wait to see Wemby with his hot size or against the biggest team in basketball in the Houston Rockets. So that's something I got my eye on.

Ryan, thank you for the time, as always, my friend. We'll see you Friday. Hope you're chipper in a good mood because hopefully we're going to be celebrating a one-and-no star for this season. Anytime, brother. How about you coming soon? And don't play with my emotions. again. I will never have bought you, Oklahoma City. You know better than that, friend. Talk to you

soon. Thank you very much. Ryan Hollins with this Space City Home Network. We have gut feelings coming up at the bottom of the hour. If you've got any gut feelings about sports predictions, anything going on in sports, whether it be the World Series, the Texans against the Niners this Sunday or the Rockets this season or tonight's game against Oklahoma City. We'll take those gut feelings next. If you want to jump in, just talk some regular sports. We're here with you right now at 713, 212 570. 713. 212 570.

It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross 1113 on Sports Talk 790. 713, 212 570. We've got gut feelings coming up at the bottom of the hour. This is where you're calling with your predictions. If your predictions are accurate, we let you brag on them in future weeks. If they're wrong, we usually just forget about them unless they're so patently absurd. We do like to make fun of them. So it's up to you.

713212-570. the Matt Thomas show with Ross here from Oklahoma City. Ross back with me tomorrow. I'll be back in studio as well. E. Magdokie will make his weekly appearance debut tomorrow at 11 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. Let's go to KJ in Cyprus. KJ used to stay up for that whole game last night.

Absolutely, man. I was at work, so I'd have much of a choice. I listened to that blood, blood, man. But I'm going to address something real quick, Matt. You can bow with me, man. Going into the opposite, there were obvious issues that the Texas Union needed to the drug.

They knew the opposite line would forward. That's put the mouth. And they knew that would take their injury and with them, either they'd already, they already knew they weren't going to bring back step on Dix. So you knew you'd be 15 last night.

An opposite. He's an offensive line help if you needed another wife to keep me behind Nico. Your best option in the August season for offensive line was Cam Robertson, a guy who got bent at his previous team, a guy who paid 12 plus million to, and you brought in Christian church, I can get out, I can get out there and give you more against for a season than Christian church, and I'm 50. I'm saying, I'm like to say this. The approach that they have in regards

to upgrading what you already established two years ago with CJ's rookie season has been poor. You don't bring in people who help at position. It's like the emphasis is so much on one side of the football that you, it's like you completely, and I don't understand how very professionals don't see this. You don't, you do absolutely nothing for your offense. You bring in no offensive alignment, your best bet, excuse me, and wide receiver is the hope that the rookies can prosper.

Now, that may ultimately prove out to be the case, but you get nothing to take advantage this window. Now we're at a crossroads. Because we genuinely have, we're in a quagmire in the sense that we have CJ who's due to get paid in the off season and you still don't know what you have. You don't know if he's closer to his rookie season or if he's closer to what we're seeing right now. And if he's right in the middle, that

is even of itself as bad because you still are going to have to reset the market for a quarter bank that you don't have that you don't fully have an understanding of. I'm just, I'm upset with the team. I'm upset with the organization. And to me, from the top down. Amico,

with the passive, aggressive, lack of days ago, approach to coaching. Al-Shees should have been poured out that game last night. There's no way he should have been enough for the remainder of that game. And if you've got to set a standard,

if you've got to set the tone, and let them know that there will be accountability. I've seen, I saw last night, and I've seen in other games this season, where you routinely have three offensive linemen blocking one player, and guys are just running free. and this is what you come into the game with after a two plus week time or two plus weeks off this was your game plan you put back to marios who just jumped on the team or active wise this game and you make him your punt return over a guy who's shown you he has that ability the coaching moves the decision making in this scene is ridiculous and i genuinely wonder as a fan what we what we can expect moving forward i don't know k jay i mean you laid it out

There are some if-then statements. If Stefan Diggs stays healthy for a full season, does he stay in Houston this year? If Tank Dell is healthy, you're not worrying about going and drafting Jaden Higgins or Jalen O'L. You're just not. I mean, we can make some easy assumptions on that. Maybe the focus would have been on the offensive line,

a greater than beyond just drafting Arionte Erisory. But you knew that going in. You knew when you reduced the contract for Stefan Diggs to a single year, you knew he was playing for a contract. He didn't owe it to the city of Houston to be the good soldier and stick around here for a long period of time. He was going to go get his big contract wherever it was in Houston or somewhere else. and you give up a draft pick for that. I told you all, and I don't mean, look, I don't want to be I told you guy.

Isn't it funny how people say, I don't be I told you so, guy, but I told you so? So I'm going to do it, and I apologize. I sincerely apologize. I told you that was a bad deal. If you wanted to bring Stefan Diggs here and pay him out for the remainder of his contract, which I think was three years, then that to me makes sense. So you can at least lay the groundwork for him being here for a while. But when you cut the deal immediately and you still give the bills the second,

second round pick. That was asking to lose the trade. And Tankdale hurt himself the year before. You knew there was going to be some issues with him being durable because of his frame. So I understand going after wide receivers in the draft. But Christian Kirk was lightning in a bottle. And problem is Christian Kirk had a history of being hurt. Braxton Burials just a guy in Kansas City and he's just a guy here.

Xavier Hutchinson's been okay. but maybe they were just so wigged out about the fact that what receiving a room was so depth challenge that they had to go address it so early on but they forgot about the most important thing and that was protecting the quarterback and what KJ said made it a lot of sense

think about this if you have a franchise quarterback you are proud to give him as much money as possible because that's what franchise quarterbacks do they gather the huge contracts after their rookie deal. These obscene amounts of money, 50, 55, $60 million a year. It's whack how these quarterbacks are getting it,

but that's what quarterbacks typically get if they're elite. If they're pretty good, you almost have to pay them the exact same as you would, the elites. So if you were to get the crystal ball out right now and tell me where the Houston Texans are three years from now, when C.J. Stroud is out underneath and out of his rookie contract, you don't know. They knew, Kansas City knew what they had with Pat Mahomes. They did.

This guy is an elite player. We're going to lock him up, give him half a billion dollars, and he's going to be our guy. They absolutely knew it. I don't think we know it here. And that's pretty scary because if you were to give, you know, CJ, all these first-round picks or high draft picks on offensive line,

it's going to take time to gel. I mean, Ariontier, history may be a very fine offensive line in the NFL, but right now, he's in the midst of a bunch of average guys. Juice Grugs has not panned out, split in time. Titus Howard's been okay,

but it's been like we haven't had consistent Titus Howard throughout his NFL career, largely because of injury. This is, I don't want to, calling a mess because the defense is elite even despite the fact that the points I gave up yesterday I still think it's an elite defense so obviously one side of the ball is handled

but this other side is putrid from its administration from its lack of detail from the general manager and frankly the decision to bring in Nick Cayley who's never run an offense by himself it was Shaw McVeigh running the things in Los Angeles. Don't kid yourself. You are right where you are.

And in some cases you're worse because you are running up against the clock for CJ's contract. And you don't have extra draft picks to go make that big deal. I don't know what your cap situation is, but it's about to be severely impaired

once you start to pay CJ in a couple of years down the road. I get it. There's been malpractice on one side of the football on the administrative side of this. and if I'm on the defensive side, if I'm Stingley, if I'm Toa Toa, no, I'll say, shally your head, but continue to get these penalties, which is ridiculous. But if I'm Daniel Hunter, if I'm Will Anderson,

if I'm Stingley, if I'm Petra, I'm starting to get pissed. We can only do so much they've got to be thinking. And Purdy may be back this week for the Niners. Schedule's not getting easier. Oh, by the way, you've got two Colts games coming up too. I said if this team does not go three and one in this four-game stretch with the one road game yesterday and the three-street-home games, and they don't go three-in-one, they're not making the playoffs. Now, again, things could obviously change depending on what's in front of you,

but how many two-and-four teams make the playoffs? How many? With the two wins being against basically the second worst NFL team in the league in Tennessee and maybe the fifth or six worst now at Baltimore because of no Lamar Jackson. By the way, not practicing still yet. yet. This is, this, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's either turning a blind eye or talent evaluation or just failure to meet a crucial need is where this, why this team is continuing to have issues on the offensive side of the football.

Time now for some gut feelings. 713-212-5-790. If you want to join the conversation, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. 713-212-5-790. It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you want to get in with your sports predictions, let me hear from you right now. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Listen up, girls and boys. The segment's so appealing.

Because Russ and Matt Thomas. Yo, they got a gut feeling. This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are transparent here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross back with us tomorrow. The only caller I have on the line right now is Brad, and the rule is very simple. If you call 713-212-5-7-90 with your gut feelings, you will go on the air before Brad does. If you do not call before in the next handful of minutes, Brad will go first on gut feelings.

That's your decision. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. If you call in with any sort of gut feelings, you get to get in before Brad. John, then I need you to write these down because I'm 15 things at once. I got you. You're only doing 12 things at once.

I'm by default. I'm giving you a shot, all right? Let's talk about what we said last week on gut feelings. I had the Rockets beating the Pelicans, ding. I had Texas beating Kentucky by 14. Bingles Yeah, it's Archmanning's fault.

Bengals upsetting the Steelers, that's a win for me. I got Aaron Glenn out at the end of this season to be determined. I got Mike Elko Stang at Texas A&M to be determined. And I have a non-sexy hire

at Penn State to be determined. All right. Ross, Blue Jays aren't coming back. loss. Dodgers, Mariners World Series, obviously a loss. Texans lose by the Seahawks 24 to 17. That's pretty close.

I think I had 2721. It turned out being 2719. Yeah, pretty close. He has Aaron Glenn back next year for the Jets. All right. John Harbaugh, you say, out in Baltimore, if they lose two more games. Yeah. Do you want to stick with that?

I'm going to stick with that. 16 years and this is what's happening right now. Okay. You have Lamar Jackson, two-time MVP, and you can't turn it over? I don't know. All right. I'm going to let you stick with to that. So if you've got any gut feelings, let us know it's 713-212-5-79.

Remember, again, if you get in, you're getting in before Brad does. 7-13-212-5-7-90. I'm going to type these up because Jonathan is answering phone calls right now. we're kind of a small ship here today. I'm going to give you two predictions off of one statement. Two predictions off of one statement. Off of one statement, okay. If the Texans don't make the playoffs,

you writing this down, Jonathan? Yeah. Nick Casario stays, Nick Cayley goes. If the Texans don't make the playoffs. If the Texans don't make the playoffs. and if the Texans don't make the playoffs and they have to go look for a new offensive alignment

offensive coordinator I think they can go get Mike McDaniel who will be fired in Miami. For O.C.? Yep. Okay, so you got replay it one more time. Here we go.

Casario stays. Kaylee out. McDaniel Lynn. Okay, that's a hot take. Okay, okay. And the reason why I'm doing doing this is because I think the next Texans offensive coordinator

has to be somebody with significant playing experience and being successful at it. That's my gut on that. All right, this is me being totally homer. Rockets beat the Thunder tonight. Sir?

That's being, it's a complete 100% Homer. I'll stay with those two. Jonathan, what you got? I'll step it a little bit further. with their rockets. I think next time we come back to this segment, they'll be 0. There'll be 3-0.

3-0? That'll be 3-0. All right. That's next Tuesday. Next Tuesday, we're going to be sitting here with a grin on my face. So they have tonight they've got the thunder. Brooklyn, I mean on Detroit on Friday and Brooklyn on Monday.

Hmm. I see it. I see it. I like how you think. I feel it. I feel it. All right. Let's go. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 Brent is with us. Brent, what's in your gut this week? Well, I have a long-term gut.

I have a gut filling with the Astros are going to package some youngsters, and we're going to be looking for some back-in starters for the rotation, and the gut is also telling me we're going to resign Kyle Tucker for a right-field duty. No chance. well that's what my gut saying might all right how big is your gut that's what i want to know what your waist size this week and you don't want to tell me i love you brent like a like a second cousin but he can't come back you don't think so no chance no chance no way no how never going to happen i mean you're right fielders cam smith that's true honestly

713212-1-2-5-7-90. Ray, what is in your gut this week? I got a good fact. First of all, it's too many people, including the two morning guys. It is too many, I have a gut that it is too many people infatuated with former astro players. Let it go. Bregman is not coming back. And King Tuck, I need him, but he's not coming back.

The infatuation needs to stop. And my other gut is Matt Thomas will call game one in the Western Conference finals live from the Toyota Center. That's what I'm talking about. Thank you, Ray. I love that idea. Thank you, Ray. That gets me fired up.

You know what we are blind homers on the Rockets, right? I mean, I guarantee you, Jonathan, Denver Radio's like, man, the Nuggets are going to win this thing. Minneapolis Radio, oh, the wolves are going to do this. Dalles is like, Cooper Flags our hero. He's going to be there. Kare's going to come back and play. Anthony Davis is going to be all right.

Oklahoma City is like, home my beer, we just won 65 games last year, won the championship. We're the champs. We're the same roster. Just saying. Renfro, 1140. What's in your gut, Renfro?

I tell you this way. The Texas, they don't slip back almost another year with these officer coordinators. And I definitely agree with you 100%. and I thought that was the problem. They might have kept Bobby Stewart for what they got going now because if you cannot get an offensive coach that can call offensive players

and that know and get in tune with the quarterback, well, then, you know, you're going to have problems and everything else. Look what the Detroit office of coach left Detroit and went to Chicago. Look what he's doing. He's turning that quarterback around. So you've got to have a quarterback coach that knows offensive scheme, not as scared to attack an offensive, a defensive team, and move the pocket when you don't have an officer line. So my good feeling, until we get that offensive situation straight now, we definitely want to be dealing with trying to catch up. All right. Get all that right on that down. Thank you, Renfro. Appreciate that.

713-212-5-7.9. Remember, you get in before Brad does. 7-1-3-2-1-1.7. two, five, seven, nine. Let's go to a biscuit. Biscuit, what's in your gut this week? Cougar back. I think I must have jumped a gun yesterday with my gun on the rocket, so I'm a way to a rostomback to you know, he always

criticized me, but my gut is going to the World Series, Matt. The Dodgers and four, maybe five, but this is where I'm going with it, Matt. I think everybody pretty much think Dodgers take care of business. But I think it's going to be a historic in the run

difference I think it's going to be a bunch of blowouts, man What? Yes, sir. So you think the Dodgers are going to win the series, but would you say by more than 10 runs? Oh,

double that probably. Wait a minute. If it doubles that, they got this picture over there. I don't know, they got Shane Bieber going. They had him ready for the series. Yeah, no left-handed pitching They had to expand a lot just to get to the World Series

And the Dodgers are rolling and they stack I think there's going to be at least five runs each day All right Well, I hope you're wrong I don't want four blowouts Or five blowouts, I want a close series And I want okay to win I'm saying it right now

Thank you Biscuit for the phone call I want the Dodgers to lose Let's go Blue Jays. Let's go. 713-212-5-790. Those of you on hold will get to you in a matter of moments. As a matter of fact, only one person stands in the way of Brad. So the more you call with your gut feelings, the better chance you have to hear Brad,

not until the very last part of the gut feeling segment. 7-13-212-5-7-90. All right, final call aid for gut feelings at 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. again, you get the priority over Briadu who's standing by. 713. 212. 5, 790. James, what is it in?

You got at 1150. James. Yeah, they're going to figure out the running game. D'Neiko Ryan is going to figure out some way to get that running game going, and they're going to beat San Francisco, and they're going to have 100-d-d restaurant on next Sunday. Are you sniffing glue again? No, I'm not.

I'm telling you, they're going to fix that running game. They're going to figure out some of that to bring an extra tidy, in or a fullback or an extra line them, they're going to fix that running game. Because if they don't, it's going to be a long season. It already is a long season. You know, they haven't had a 100-yard running game yet this year, right?

Well, this is my gut prediction. You watch and see on Sunday, they're going to have a 100-yard brush on Sunday. They're going to get together. They're going to fix that running game. All right. You know what, James? You're right.

It's called gut feeling. So you don't have to apologize if you're wrong, but you're allowed to brag if you're right. I don't think you're going to be right, but you know what, to each his own, right? all right thanks i'll see you later the texans running game is hot garbage

remember i said on to tell the truth yesterday jonathan i wanted them to go get a running back they're going to have to i mean i like woody marks but woody marks can't carry the ball 25 times or 22 times it's not going to happen he doesn't he doesn't have again i don't know he he'll ever be that guy

he's a serviceable guy i mean it's a nice job for rookie campaign Not a bad little receiver out of the backfield, but I mean, did y'all watch any of that Tampa Bay Detroit game yesterday? You had Montgomery 2nd and then you had Jamir Gibbs first. That, I mean, I'd, if I get one of those guys, run game matters.

And if they were given bad information about Joe Mixing, or they were hiding stuff about Joe Mixing, or Joe Mixon's recuperation process was slowed for some reason without us knowing about it. Malpractice. Because they knew about Joe Mixen for months and how they have not addressed a situation

going with Nick Chubb, nice guy, but well past his prime. I'm still surprised how accurate you were in the summer saying he's not coming back. You know why? I'm the Texans insider. That's exactly the reason why. Mr. Texas is the Texans insider.

I don't know much, Jonathan, but I know these things. I can smell these things from a mile away. 713-212-5-790. Brad, what is in your gut this week, Brad? Well, I think that they have to find a way to keep Bruce, Bryce Matthews, and Zach Cole on the team. So therefore, they're going to have to get rid of a middle infielder like Ramon Eureas. That's the number one guy that's got to go. And they got to pick up at least one to two starting pitchers and at least two relief pitchers.

When I watched that Detroit game, that last game, Detroit and, what was it, Seattle? I mean, I couldn't, I was in amazement at the relief pitchers. I've never seen our pitchers do as good as those guys. Those guys were unbelievable. So they're going to have to address those to the starting pitcher and the relief pitcher. As far as football, the quarterback, C.J. Stroud, he's not going to get an extension. To me, he ain't proven nothing. Now, Casario, I don't know if he's on the chopping block now,

but if he don't have a good draft because they got like five to six pieces, and if he hits, they're going to help C.J. Stroud. But if he doesn't, I think Nick Casario is gone after next year. I'm trying to think if there's anything else I've got. That's it, Matt. All right. Thanks. Thanks very much for that.

I think you wrote all that down, but it was kind of confusing, but that's fine. I don't think – I'm out – make sure I'm very clear when I tell you this. I don't think his serious loses his job this year, even if they don't make the playoffs. But I think he'll be on thinner ice. I mean, the seat will be significantly warmer than it is right now. Hannah ain't putting up with this. Cal, I don't think particularly cares, but Hannah ain't putting up with this. Hannah wants a refurbished energy stadium or a new stadium,

and she can't have this happening when the Texans don't make the playoffs and still not making the Super Bowl yet, or still not making the AMC championship game yet. Just saying, Hannah, she'll come after you. She'll just, she's coming at, she's coming at, she's not letting old sweater vest or vest guy have free reign if you can't get this offensive line fixed and making these veteran acquisitions that don't pan out. Christian Kirk has not panned out.

T.J. Garner Johnson did not pan out. Stefan Diggs did not pan out. Cam Robinson did not pan out. Hannah ain't paying for this. She got that black car balance to pay for. Chris, Jersey Village, 1156 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Chris, what's in your gut? It's in your gut this week.

Yeah, hey, Matt, I am so proud of George Springer and all the good work that he did to advance to the World Series. They said last night he's in the top five all time for postseason home runs. I mean, that's a great stat. So my gut's telling me, Matt, George Springer is going to hit so many dingers in the series, he's going to be the MVP and Toronto's going to win, baby. Let's go. Let's go Blue Jays.

Oh, Canada, baby. Thank you, Chris. I want to say, O Canada, but you go Blue Jays, yeah. You're going to hear O Canada at least twice. Are you ready to hear that? I'll just change it real quick, you know. No, you know, it's not horrible something. Let me not do that. It's a good. Have you had a chance to reflect in what I said about God bless America?

There wasn't no time to reflect. I'm not reflecting. It's not better than the star i'm not doing this i'm not doing this i'm not doing this i'm just teasing you i'm just teasing you i do like look i do like the star speckle banner but i love god bless america i'll tell you what america the beautiful's pretty good too don't kid yourself about that but let me tell you the rockets play in toronto a week from wednesday should i get my serious the thing if i shoot video of myself sing no Canada I will be Don't do that

Oh I will Face the wrath I've not facing Quite some time Yeah don't even Don't even think about that That's just You know what I'm going to turn my phone on

Just sing it as your heart desires And hope no one records it And no one hope Nobody records it Just me and Craig Me and Craig All right that was gut feelings for today 713

212 5-790 7122-790 710 Let's get some round ball rock To get ready for the 30 hour the Matt Thomas show at Ross here from Oklahoma City. This is Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Before you joined us, Jonathan, Ross and I had a fantasy five of sports theme songs on television. Yeah. Ross won and he deserved to because I ran out of ideas. I went with the Wimbledon theme, which sucked. But he took this as number one and it, he's right. It's the number one. It's so nostalgic. I feel like a little kid and turn on the TV again.

Well, you're going to be able to hear it tonight because the rockets are taking on the Thunder. 630. The game will be here on 7.90. I suggest you watch the open on TV, watch the game on TV, turn the sound down and listen to me right here on 790. That's just my advice. You know, you do what you need to do. But if you are unable to get to a television tonight, I'll have the game for you right here from Oklahoma City beginning at 630. 12.4 on Sports Talk 790.

This is the Matt Thomas show. Ross. We take this program until 2 o'clock today. Believe it or not today, all things about George Springer. And now, for the first time ever, we bring you the news at noon through the sounds

of last night's games. Final pitch. Left field arises. The payoff. And for the first time is six offensive linemen in his first and goal. Charbonnet is the back.

The middle. was clogged, stutter step, but now he tries to drive his way into the end zone with some help. Tugsdown, they signal a f-now. Now they have to recover from the penalty. You go down two scores. The way the offense is playing in this environment could be trouble, and right for the end zone, and scoring and dunking his Jackson Smith and Jigma. Got to find the way to get off the field.

It's been hard for this pass rush to get at Darnold. This time he's got plenty of time, runs out of it, loses the balls or scramble, and it's recovered to the end zone. Touchdown Texans on the takeaway. It's Will Anderson. Running behind a heavy formation and just walking into the end zone. And Seattle. Here we go again. Third and goal. Stroud has plenty of time hesitates. We're trying to find somebody, back pedals. Deliver's a low throw. It is caught. Touchdown. They bought time

We'll leave all of the pain Mariner's fans feel about Blowing that 3-1 lead And he game 7 There it is Your Texans Massively disappointed you And I'm curious

And I have not asked this yet today on the show It's 1207 here And that was the news at noon 713-212-5-790 Did everybody stay up late for the that one. Now, Jonathan, you said you fell asleep. Did you fall asleep because you were mad they were losing or you just fell

asleep because you were just sleeping? It was like a mix of both. Like, you know, I'm just dozing off and the next thing you know, I'll wake up and it's the fourth quarter, I'll get to tend this off. So what I did is I went and had dinner last night in town here in Oklahoma City and then double cups of coffee. That kept me awake. And I watched every painful minute of it.

Now, some of it was not so painful. But I want to know from y'all, what are you doing here? Houston Texans fans right now. This was not a must win last night, but it would have been a really good one to get. And now you are staring

at three and a half games out of first place in the AFC South. Three and a half. And you still have to face the Indianapolis Colts twice. Tell me, tell me, tell me what you're thinking.

Let me give you my randau thoughts on the game in no particular order. Because I was jotting some notes down during the game last night. And so, again, it was 11.30, 12 o'clock. So it's not the best thing in the world. 2719, the final score. The left guard combination of Lincoln Tomlinson and Juice Scruggs sucked. The play calling sucked. C.J. Stroud takes huge sacks for big time losses, too many of them. No rush game to speak up between Marks and Chub. CJ Stroud had 25 rush yards.

Listen to this list I'm giving you. Man, if I was a Texans fan, I would be pissed. You guys got to call and tell me how mad you are. Or have you already checked out? Because if I told you in the NFL, a team was three and a half games out of first place after six weeks, maybe I'd be checked out too. This stuff, I mean, it's terrible. Let me continue.

The run calls in the second half on the third and one and fourth and one, running left both sides, stuffed twice. The fact that Seattle had so many mistakes yesterday and the Texans took advantage of some of them but not all of them. How the Texans were down only eight points at halftime, as I put on Twitter yesterday, was a minor miracle. It was 11 until Seattle did a terrible job to get a minute to eight. Seahawk defense last night made the Texans offense miserable. Three sacks, eight TFL, seven quarterback hits. Tim Settle, jumping on a pile to end the game. Now, that was a little bit of a, I didn't love the call on that one.

I don't think Tim Settle did it intentionally as a sign of aggravation, but you've got to be careful that if you do anything like that late in games, when you jump on a pile, they're looking for the 15-yard penalty. That sucked. Kimey Fairbairn, who I believe should be in the Texans Ring of Honor, Because he's bailed out the Texans baking so many times over the last two or three years especially. All you had to do to give your team a little bit of a glimmer. What was it, 204 left to go in the game?

You had one timeout. You had the two-minute warning. You kicked the ball out of bounds. Or you kick it like you've never kicked it before to go so it's a guaranteed touchback. The same thing would have been to kick it out of bounds, so they couldn't return it. Seattle returned it, burned six seconds off the clock, you then lost the two-minute warning and the extra chance it's called the game, then you get the 15-yard penalty, the game is over.

That was brain dead. When in the world is D'Amico Ryan's going to out-coach somebody too? Can I get that from somebody? What am I going to hear about, man, that play call or that situation, Coach A, which is D'Amico, out-coached coach B. Because Sam Donald tried to give it to you. That Cooper Cup little wide receiver pass, that was horrific. That smelled like interception for the time the Cooper Cup put the ball in his hands.

Couldn't stop Jackson Smithick-Jigba, but you know what? Nobody can do that. Then Donald is losing the ball left and right in the end zone. Will Anderson gave it, I mean, puts tremendous pressure. Donald did a terrible job of holding on to order trying to. The Seahawks gave you chances. I'm going to ask you again. I feel like I'm stomping on a table here.

When are the Texans going to outcoach somebody? When is Nick Haley going to draw plays that go, man, that was spectacular. That was fun. The best thing the Texans did all night last night was throw to Dalton Schultz over and over and over again. That was working. But that can't get you down the field. that's going to eventually be stopped. Nico Collins

in Concussion Protocol, that's not great. Christian Kirk didn't suit up yesterday. That's not great. Braxton Barrio's playing a lot. That's not great. Squads two and four. Silly penalties. Bad sacks. Bad offensive

line. Can't execute a special team's play in the crucial moment of the game. 2719. And as much as I could say, the game didn't indicate how bad the Texans played, they had their chance. Now, if Fairbairn kicks the ball out of bounds, like he was supposed to, first down run, timeout.

The first play that Seattle runs two-minute timeout, two-minute warning, the second play you call the timeout. You weren't going to have a lot of time. You'd have maybe, I don't know, 30, 45, 50 seconds, maybe. Had something better than what you did. It said you had to burn six and you lost the opportunity to use the two-minute timeout, two-minute warning to help you control the clock. They're getting out-coached.

Their roster is being outperformed by evaluation and depth and decision-making. CJ was good, not great, through the interception, but was harassed all night long. Defense for giving up 27 points, and not some low number, did everything they could. Did everything they could. I'd be pissed. So Texas fans, if you're pissed, let me know. I don't bite. I'll let you listen.

I'll just listen to sit you all let you all do your thing. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We have the Rockets opener tonight here in Oklahoma City, and we have the Blue Jays representing the American League. So sorry, Seattle Mariner fan. or as we would say, sorry, not sorry. 713, 212, 579 if you want to jump in.

713, 212, 5, 790. Back on the phones when we come back. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross here from Oklahoma City on Sports Talk 790. All right, Texan, you've got to be aggravated. It's just, it's a team that is underperforming, the cults play better, and you've got a serious problem with that offensive line that's giving you 25 rushing yards and your quarterback as your leading rusher.

And if you don't win these next three home games, like if they go two and one, that's still going to put them significant. I mean, I'm looking at the, you know, me, I'm standing's guy, and I apologize for many reasons for that. I can't, I can't, I keep apologizing you all, but it's just the truth of who I am. You go two and one,

that will put you at 4 and 5. I don't know. You got your 4 division winners. Your three walled cards right now, if the season were to end today, would be Buffalo who's 4 and 2, the charges at 4 and 3, Jacksonville 4 and 3,

and then Kansas City would not even be in the playoffs. They'd be on the outside looking at 4 and 3. So you're going to have to climb at least two teams. Actually, that's not even true because Cincinnati has played one more game. They're 3 and 4. My gutfilling was from last hour. I think Casario gets another year to fix this.

You've got to go get an experienced play caller. You just can't let that futility of a Nikali offense continue. Let's go the phones, talk to some people. Let's say hello to Scott and River Oaks at 1221 on the Matt Thomas show. Ross Scott, good afternoon to you. Oh, Matt, I am very tired and I'm very grumpy today. I'm in a very bad mood. I did not get enough sleep, and that was just the most aggravating.

football game. I got in my car when you were kind of talking about, you know, Miko outcoaches, the other coach. I agree with you. I don't even think necessarily, though, it's in-game decisions that you have to look at and say he's getting out coach. To me, my takeaway watching the game last night, is they didn't look prepared going into the game. I can probably list off seven to ten examples. It would start in the first quarter, the shy year penalty. That's a team that's not focused. Nico Collins dropping that ball. I mean, I know what drops happen.

That's a critical play. If you're taking winning the game seriously, that can't happen. And then you see penalties with this team that I've never seen before. I've never, when they called the PI that would have gone in our favor with Nico Collins, but Arionte Erastry was downfield on a passing play. Like, I've never seen that before. Or in the fourth quarter, when we have the penalty, on the offensive lineman blocking when Stroud got blasted too.

I've never seen a personal foul penalty against an offensive lineman in a drop-back pass situation like that. I mean, they're not prepared or focused going into the game. And coming off of a byweek, too, it's just really, really aggravating. And another thing, I've called in before and said we need to be a conservative football team, and I looked wrong after the Ravens game. But they don't, they think that they need to prove. that they're good at throwing the ball down field.

And I really think we learned a lot last night. Granted, we didn't know if it was fools, gold, both of solid, the Ravens and the Titans, but they have to accept, in my opinion, that that's not what they do. So, you know, Stroud trying to make something happen on the first drive, and, I mean, that's horrible no matter if you're a good offense or bad offense, but we have to be okay playing field position and punting the football.

I know we can't run the ball to save our lives anyway, so it really doesn't matter. We are just shooting ourselves in the foot, and it's honestly astonishing how many chances our defense gave us. I don't know. The whole thing was frustrating. The last thing I'll say is thank goodness the Rockets play at 630 tonight. If they would have put us in Redden State or in Los Angeles and we had to stay up until 9 o'clock tonight, I would have lost by freaking mine. But thanks for the time, Matt.

You got it. It's got good to hear from me. My buddy Pollard's vision on Twitter, he gave me a list. the entire coaching staff was as bad as the players. GM piecemeal is a shot line. The O-line coach was the assistant of the coach from last year who got fired. The OC doesn't have a clue. Two weeks from a pair and they play like that.

Shame on coaches and players. Defense vanilla. Yeah. Fits pretty right. It's right. Guys, I mean, that's why I couldn't be battle red mat. I couldn't be deep steel mat.

I can't do it. I've gotten enough to spare in my life. This organization continues to repeat itself. Doesn't show up in big games, getting out coached more times than not, and I'm not talking about just about D'Amico. And I do want to make sure I'm very careful. I say this.

I do believe D'Mico is going to be a good NFL coach. But yesterday, and so many times the undisciplined, the penalties, the lack of execution, you have to, if you're D'Amico, Ryan's, or Frank Ross or whoever the hell, you have to make sure, Kimey Fairbairn, if you don't kick this ball out of bounds,

you're not coming home with us. You can take the Greyhound back from Seattle. You know how long that would take? Like three days. Just the little things, the attention to detail, the use of timeouts and clock management, not just a Miko's problem,

that's everybody's problem. They just don't do good. Teams just don't have coaches to do it. That's a big problem. And then moving a Bobby Sloick play caller to a guy who's never done it on his own, It's another thing. What were you thinking, Nikki, see?

What were you thinking? I'm getting mad. I don't even have a dog in a fight. Mark on 7-9 of your 1226. Hi, Mark. Hey, what's going on? Hi. Yes, sir.

Go ahead. You're on. Go ahead. I just wanted to point out a couple things. I mean, yeah, I was like you. I took a four-hour nap. Got to watch the time. hope they win the World Series.

I hate the dog. The Longhorns and the Texans, they're connected, terrible offenses, great defenses, and some line. Take on that. I think you're not a big longhorn guy, but I mean, I know who they are. I mean, I'm not anti them.

I just, you know what they've done is, they've kind of, I mean, you beat up on, you know what, the parallel is actually a pretty good, Mark. You beat up on subpar competition, and, you know, you barely be Kentucky over the weekend, but you, you've fallen in the big games.

I kind of get it. Although Oklahoma was a good win, frankly, I'm a little more bullish on Texas than I'm on the Texans. Would you agree or disagree with that? No, you are. I mean, you're always a fair take on everything, so I listen to your show. Well, you're the best. Thank you. You know, again, I don't know if it's the complete same parallel. Thank you for the call. But Texas is underwhelmed, but the Oklahoma game was a huge win for them. And you snuck by Kentucky. I mean, you're still in the race.

But yeah, I don't think anybody that's a Texas fan today is going, man, this has been a satisfying season. I'm beating up on San Jose State and Sam Houston or whoever else. That doesn't inspire anybody. I get that. And you're not, if you're Texans fan, you're not inspired by beating Tennessee and Baltimore. That wasn't, when that Baltimore game took place, and y'all know as well as I do, that wasn't the real Baltimore Ravens.

that was like the G League Ravens. Beating Cooper Rush is no great accomplishment. Half the defensive starters were not available in the game. You just, if I would have to think those of you that are bumping around, listen to show right now that are Texans. You just have to get kind of fatigued by the consistency of the losses. You're not inventing new ways to lose. You're just kind of doing the same thing.

being out-coached, critical errors, drop passes, and the number one fundamental thing, two issues you've had since the start of this season remain two issues. You have no running game to speak of. Now, granted, Joe Mixon being gone hurts, but that could have been addressed somehow, some way, a lot sooner than the middle of this season. Either that or again, Joe Mixon's lying,

the Texans are lying, or somebody's getting bad information. But to go into this season, thinking that Damian Pierce, Agumbo Waleh, Nick Chub, God love him for trying, and a rookie was going to be able to satisfy and be a competent running back group. It just wasn't.

1229 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We are with you for the next 90 minutes. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Today's edition of Believe it or not is all things about George Springer at that big home run last night. to help the Blue Jays win the American League pennant.

Can you believe the Mariners were up to nothing in that series? Hmm. So sorry. Do you hear the warmth of my heart? Those two arrogant Seattle fans that called me names? Do you understand how sad I am for you today? I feel bad for my buddy Softie. I do a little bit because we've been there and done that.

We've got a lot of agony as Houston fans, but don't forget, that's a city that hasn't gone to a World Series. yet and they've been around for almost 50 years. Our friend, Vanessa Richardson's going to stop by for a few minutes at 120. She is back in Houston because again, tonight's game is on NBC. So look, I know there's going to be a lot of anticipation with the game being on NBC, and I understand that. It makes perfect sense.

We ask you to watch the game on Channel 2 and then listen to me or at the same time. Sync up your television. I promise I'll do a good job. Rockets and Thunder tonight from O.C. We'll have the Rockets launch pad at 530. We'll have the tip shortly past 630. That's a little bit earlier tonight here on Sports Talk 790. Mark is with us at 1235 of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Mark, thank you for holding and good afternoon. Hey, how y'all doing, man? It's about time for Nick Casario, man, to get us offensive coordinator with experience. I say like a link of rally or somebody like that because DiMiko, been getting our coach. from day one ever since the Rams game. When, like, Zay, he's going to get those West Coast kings and it's just a total mismatch. And as for CJ, with that, with defense alignment,

just coming right up to the middle on them and stuff. He's not an athlete like Deshaal Washington. She's like he losing his confidence. I think it might have time for David Mills to get a shot. Also, in the last comment, man. is that the defense is doing a good job. I love what we're doing this stuff, man. But we need some help.

But tonight with the Rockets, KD, we got our new Texas land, man. It's time for the league to take some dirt naps. I'll take it out there. Bye. Thanks, Mark. I think, I didn't mean to tune out, Mark, but when he said the Texans need to go get an offensive coordinator, like he wasn't suggesting getting

Lincoln Raleigh was he was suggesting like a Lincoln Raleigh type correct so I think so yeah oh that would crack me up hey Lincoln I know you're running USC and you're making over $10 million a year but you want to come be the offensive coordinator of the Houston Texans I mean Lincoln if he doesn't survive at USC long

term maybe looking for a spot but I don't know if that's going to be it that was funny and then I know stuff you said about Kevin Durant was funny I don't know I remember what exactly the choice of awards were, but it was good stuff. By the way, congratulations. We mentioned to Kevin Drenganese extension. Tari-Eason did

not agree to an extension with the Rockets, which makes him a restricted free agent at the end of the season. You can think of this in a variety of ways. One, you know, Tari's got a value, rockets have a value, and if you can't merge

those values together or get close to it, you then have to bet on yourself. Tari will be what they call a restricted free agent at the of the season. And he can then see what other teams think of him. And the Rockets will have the opportunity to match anything that another team gets, gives him. So kind of betting on himself. There was going to be money there for Tari.

But the decision was made by Tari's camp and by Tari, obviously, that he was going to try to get as much money as he can. It may still be with the Rockets, but it will not be under the current term. So at the end of this season, Tarre Easton will be a restricted free agent and we'll have a chance to listen to other team's offers. Let's go to line number one and say how to Roger at 1239 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Roger, thank you for holding a good afternoon. Good afternoon, Tom, Matt. So, you know, I've kind of known to the fact that the technically going to lose that game.

It's just a way of the yard decent. We didn't really expect to win. just so many ways in which we lose it's just so bearable it's just so many things so many variables you got drought who I get it somebody somebody steps on your foot

but you just go down like a stack of bricks like just total Matt Schaubb man I thought he was a little bit more athletic than that and he was there's something Matt I think there's something going on with straw that we don't know about I have no idea what it is and the first year this cat

was like and he's He couldn't fade him, man. This guy was, you know, he was a frackable. He was the guy. And for whatever reason, and he had the office of the line might have a lot to do with it, injuries might have another part to do with it. But I don't understand how this guy lost his way because he's just not the same guy. You know what I spent most of my morning just as a source of comfort,

listen to Seattle Radio. Oh, tell me. Oh, my God. What were they doing? It was a source of comfort that. It was just a bunch of, you know, this team's going to be here for the long haul. You know, we got most of our guys coming back. You know, it just sucks.

It had to be the guy that hit the three-run homer was George Springer of all people. It's amazing. It was awesome. It's just awesome. You know, that helps out a lot. you know, before they started going back to their football portion of the program, I left. But, yeah, it was a lot of slow singing and flower brings, so speak, their mariners. But, yeah, they're really just, the part that George Springer did that is just killing them,

and it's even making it even worse for them. It couldn't happen to a better group of people that, you know, First of all, they're bulls springing when they hit them, and then they're just A-holes to begin with. So, yeah, that's what you get. That's what you get. Maybe not be such, you know, fool of yourself next time. You might go somewhere.

Who knows? Farmer. I don't know. It's a real thing. Man, if you can't get it, thanks, Roger, for the phone call. You can't get it after being up to nothing on Toronto's home turf? Ooh, baby. Because it's hard to win on the road.

I thought it was until... Toronto did it two times. Then it's hard. And all you need is... And then Seattle wins game five. You need one more on two shots, and you can't do it. I mean, I'm trying... I'm trying desperately to be empathetic to the Seattle cause.

Because at least we've tasted World Series. At least we've enjoyed two World Series wins. I mean, we kind of know what they're going through because the Texans have never gone to the Super Bowl. The owners never went to the Super Bowl. We know. So I ask you, Houston, Texas, from the bottom of my heart, be understanding of Seattle.

Be understanding of Mariner, long-suffering Mariner fan. Nah. Bunch of A-holls. 1242 on the Matt Thomas Show at Raw, 713-212-5-7-9. If they weren't, if they weren't half of a bunch, I would feel bad for them. But man, Twitter world got nasty, didn't it? We focused really on about three things today on the show.

I want to throw a fourth one in there, especially for my Texas Tech fans out there. That includes my son, who's probably on the way to the airport right now. He's got a business trip. He's got a brand-new job, and he's going on his first business trip today. I'm kind of excited about it. It's the travel. It's going to the exciting city of Odessa, Texas.

You know, I'm Mr. Texas, Jonathan, but I've never been to Midland or Odessa. Yeah, it just smells like oil and all. all you see is paying an instruction over there. You've been there before? Yeah, my older brother went to Solross. Oh, yeah, okay. And it's just, it's all, you smell all through your car. Like, everybody's been there.

They know what I'm talking about. Now, I heard that Midlands like the nicer of the two cities. Is that fair to say? Yeah, it's definitely nice. You got, they have like one little skyscraper over there. Okay. So, Cam, if you're listening, Shaw, to you, save travels, my friend. And I hope that you enjoy the new job.

All right. What's going on at Texas Tech really quick before we go to the phones? Texas Tech athletic director yesterday, Kirby Holcutt, announcing that Texas Tech will no longer, quote, encourage or permit Tortillas to be thrown at opening kickoffs of home games. You're saying, what happened? Well, the Big 12 is not pleased with it. The Big 12 is going to start giving a warning and then start fining schools 100. thousand dollars this school i should say and giving a 15-yard penalty if it happens again so kirby holcott is getting out in front of it and saying you know what uh we're not going to worry about the warning

we're just going to just not ask you to do it so i don't know if they're going to be checking people as they come into a jones stadium or not i don't know if they're going to um have to worry about there's not a i know there's metal detectors but is there a trotilla detectors It's not going to be done overnight. And I know that Texas Tech fans are upset, but eventually it's going to dissipate to the point where it will no longer be a thing. In my people that I deal with friends' family, there's basically a mixed reaction on this.

Half of them are, why did it take them so long to do this? It was stupid. It was fun for a couple of years, but now it's just a waste of time. and then the other faction of people that I deal with say, well, now that Texas Tech is good, they're always trying to figure out ways to rock the boat a little bit and taking something that was something we enjoyed and it was fun doing,

you can't do anymore because now Texas Tech's a much better football program. Texas Tech is home this week for Oklahoma State. They are a 38-5-point favorite. My guess is they'll be up 35-0 in the second quarter. the stadium and go throw tortillas outside. I don't know. Look, if I was a Texas Tech alum, I guess I'd be like, why did y'all finally come after us after all these years of us us doing it? Is it because we're good now? But there's also a part of me that kind of

thinks and says, all right, the bits kind of run its course. So if you're a Texas Tech fan, I want to give me your two cents, what side you see this? There's also some of you that could say, this is the complete travesty. I can't believe our athletic director, kowtowed to what the commissioner said. And the commissioner's like, think about this, if you kept doing it,

Texas Tech fan, the fine would only get higher. He's going to make sure, Brent Yormark is the commissioner of the Big 12, it's going to make sure that you eventually pay a supreme price. And Kirby Hoke, athletic director of Texas Tech,

don't want to pay that. He wants all that Cody Campbell money to stay in Lubbock. You don't want it to go to the league office. So if you're a Texas Tech fan, I'll have a reaction like, hey, you know what, it was about time or B, this is an outrage because they're finally coming after us because we're good.

I certainly would entertain that conversation with you at 713-212-5-7-90. Horan is with us at 1254 on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Horan, thank you for waiting and good afternoon. Hello? Hello. You talking to me? Yeah, what's your name? Hernan.

Hernan. I'm sorry. That was Horan. I'm sorry. Horan, how are you, sir? I'm fine. I mean, I just want to say thank you for taking my call. Sure. I was very frustrated yesterday, and you, because the Internet went out,

I was watching the game. I was watching the game. And the point is that I found you radio the first time last night. and going to the point, where do they get a play caller like the one they have? Remember the game against the Rams the same play until they lost the ball. The defense is waiting for something like that to happen. So turn over at the end of the game in L.A.? because he did the same play over and over, same thing just a day for the third and one and four than one.

I know. Haran, I've been talking about it all show day. I talked about how bad that play call was. Absolutely. Maybe I can get higher over there. You? Why are you qualified? What makes you qualified, Haran?

I mean that because I love football. I mean, I may don't know. Probably I don't know a lot of other things about football, but I love football. Okay. It is when the Oilers were here. And I live in Houston for a long time already. Okay.

I'm from El Salvador. Yeah. Well, great. I'm glad you found our radio show. My name is Matt. I do a show. every day with my partner Ross, who's off today. I'll be back tomorrow.

We're on 10 o'clock until 2. So if you listen every day, your blood pressure will go down and your 401k will go up. So you're going to be in a good position. Okay. I don't even have 401k. Well, okay. But you know what? But I do have blood pressure.

Okay. Well, your blood pressure will go down and cute girls are going on and talk to you. How about that? Does that make sense? Thank you. Yes, sir. We'll see you later. All right, Haran.

I got a new listener today. That's good. I'm happy with that. By way, Haran, get you a 401k, my man. I got to get you a 401k, man. Got to get you a 401k. And if you work for somebody that doesn't offer 401K, shame on them. I do check my 401K too much.

You know how much, you know, Jonathan, I'm a standings watcher. I'm also a 401k watcher. That can't be good for your blood pressure, man. It's not. See, we've got to work on these things. Everybody on the show, you've got to tell Matt and tweet on him that he needs to meditate at night and breathe. Yeah, but I had double coffee last night and watched the game until 12,

I can't meditate to that. Yeah, you're right. And kind of fairbant, kick the damn ball out of bounds. Give your team a chance. Seriously. Mm-mm-mm. Look, I can't do this.

I'm just one man here. Y'all got to be frustrated, too, right? If you just want to call the show and say, man, I'm mad as hell and I can't take it anymore, where's that Larry and Stafford? Where's he hollering? Come on Larry and Stafford. My team's going to go up to Seattle and show him who's Sam Donald and Jack and Smith and James are going to care.

Larry, where the hell are you? Where the hell is Better Red Bob and Deep Steel Dan and Texans Darlene? Y'all are nowhere to. Where are them traveling Texans? Y'all can't be happy, can you? It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross, Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-7-9-0. Got lots of folks that want to get in.

I asked this question about an hour and a half ago. I'm going to ask it again. When are the Texans going to out-coach somebody? One of the Texans going to not commit the silly penalties that cost them in games that eventually are one-score games? When are the Texans going to address something that has been a problem? now for now two plus seasons. When are the Texans going to go somewhere and win somewhere they're not supposed to win?

Now that clearly has happened. But I'm talking about this. I mean, you have to do something now to get back in the race in this division, if you even think you can get to the division. You've got to go win somewhere you're not supposed to win. Beating Baltimore and beating Tennessee aren't the types of games that are going to make you beat your chest about a playoff run. Two with Indianapolis still.

You've still got Sanchezcoe to play. You still have Denver to play. Now, fortunately, those games are home. It was frustrating. And look, I know many of you listen to this show are fans. And so I'm with you in that regard. I don't want the local team to be sucky. It's not fun.

It's aggravating. And I don't want to treat every time a team. a Texas loss is aggravating in the end of the world. Because sometimes you just lose on final plays or something happens or an interception is made. Or maybe this other team makes the play. But the Nick Cayley strategy, especially in the third quarter, was deplorable

when those two run plays. The overall lack of diversity, the fact that CJ continues to take sacks, not the five or six-yard sacks, but the 12 or 13, 14, 14, 15, 18-yard loss sacks, how the late game management with Kami Fairbairn, who has been wonderful for this team, how in the world do you let that ball,

you don't kick that ball out of bounds? That was a no freaking, and Dan Rolovsky, God love him, was screaming at the television. You've got to kick this out of bounds. You've got to make sure they don't. Giving yourself a chance. It wouldn't have been a great chance,

but you at least would have given yourself a chance. And then silly penalties. I'll see, I'm sorry. year. You know, the fourth quarter jumping on the pile late in the game as well. That didn't help either. That was the fait of come play. And you're two and four.

And you're three and a half out. I mean, Tim Settle, really kind of a chinty call, but you can't leave yourself even closer, especially when you are not getting the benefit of some calls. And look, Sam Darnold. I thought the Seahawks played a very poor fourth quarter. Interceptions, their strategy in terms of running up the clock, I didn't think it was great. Sam Donald did a terrible job holding out of the football trying to avoid the pass rush.

Now, granted, that's because the pass rush is good. Look, if I'm Will Anderson, I know he didn't sleep while all this. He's probably sleeping right now as we speak. I know he didn't sleep while on the plane. He's frustrated. He's doing what he can. I mean, even the Stingley I&T, where he takes the helmet off of Jackson Smith and Jigman, that's a 15-yard penalty.

I mean, nothing just came easy last night for the team. And everybody's allowed to in the NFL to have one of those duds per year. But, man, it feels like the types of losses, the offensive line, the lack of imagination, the C.J. Stroud, look, C.J. is going to throw interceptions. He's not going to be perfect. but I still chalk this up to CJ is a really good quarterback who needs a line because he's getting beaten up

and he's probably throwing the ball away or trying to keep plays alive or trying to thread the needle on some things because he knows he can't trust his line and at this point of this season, this late in the season even with Joe mixing out

he can't trust his running game. To the phones we go at 713 212-5-790 Jonathan with us on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Jonathan, thank you for waiting and good afternoon. What's up, my man? How's it going? Good.

I see you're without your noble speed. He's back tomorrow. I've been missing him. I know. I've been missing him. I'm ready for him to come back. Like last night, it was funny because it was like, all right, I'm more of a baseball guy, but you've got Texans, Seattle, like.

they're playing Monday night. I was glued. I mean, I think all of us in Houston, we were all like Blue Jays fans. Like I feel like they, like they have a second fan base and it's us here in Houston. I love that entire team.

You saw Vladi Guerrero Jr. I hope he gives that trophies to his dad because it was cool telling my son, who's 11, who didn't get to see the original Vladdy literally golf ball, you know, fastballs and take him out. You know, I was showing him highlights. I was like, you got to watch what his dad did for like all the old timers that were like, Guerrero Jr. is amazing, but you should have saw what his dad did.

And I know he said he's going to win the ring. He wants to give it to his dad. he should give that World Series or that the ALCS trophy to his dad. It was super cool to see. And I felt like, man, Houston, we had our fingerprints all over that win. Obviously, with Springer, you know, it begs the question. It's like, you know, did Toronto overpay for Springer? But then you see they hit him in his knee.

they tried to drill him in his head. I know they were unintentional, but it's like that he is your Mr. October. And to see what he did, it was the most amazing game seven. I've watched probably since the Astros game seven. But it was just funny. I mean, it's like the Houston Texans were such an afterthought.

And I would like to bring up the point. It's like, you know, I'm not. a huge Texans fan. And honestly, if I were to buy a jersey, and I know you're not a jersey guy, if I were to buy a jersey in years past, it would be Shane Lekler, right? This year

and last year, it would be freaking Kimey Fairbairn. Like, he's their leading scorer. And that's so sad because we have a good quarterback, but it's like, if I'm going to go out and buy a jersey, I'm buying a Kiney Fairbairn, Jersey.

And that's just... You know what? He's got to do and then chimie's got to kick that ball. Thanks, Jonathan, for the phone call. Jonathan, I would buy the Kami of Fairbair in Jersey, too. If he'd kick the ball out of bounds, give it at least his team a chance. Just give them a chance.

Broderick on 790. Hello, Broderick. What's up, Maddie? How's it going, Brodsky? So, look, I got one question before I go in my little diet, try. Do you know what the starting lineup is for the game tonight already? Oh, for the Rockets, yeah, they're going to go with the Jumbole-On. They're going to go with Stephen Adams, Shangoon, Durant, a man, Thompson, and Jabari Smith.

Nice, nice, nice. Okay, so a little about the Texas, man, I agree with almost everything that's been being said. It's too vanilla, it's too bland. Like, at the end of the day, we, you're right about D'Amico. Like, D'Amico, you got to show that you're a great thinker of an excellent. and the O's. Are you a great motivator? Absolutely. Are the players willing to run through a brick

wildfire for you? Absolutely. But the standard needs to be the standard. That's why I have never been a Texan fan ever. I'm a die-hard rock and I'm a die-hard Astro. If that would have been the NBA

and I would start playing with the deal with Ash out here and did anybody would have set him down. He don't care. You're not playing. after so many times of condoning the behavior, it makes it seem like you're fine with the behavior. And then they give the shot of you on the sideline, and you're standing there looking lost and confused,

like you really want to go all the way off, but you've had several opportunities to do that, man. There's no consistency like y'all keep saying, we're not the Patriots South, man. We have no offensive innovation at all. If you haven't been, if the quarterback has the most rushing yards for the game, what makes you think you're going to get third and one? How about you try to at least do a screen game or better yet?

How about you just at least try one quarterback's league? You, like, nothing that's being done is indicative of a winning team or a winning franchise as it comes to football. So maybe the coach actually being five and two is a good thing because by the deal. We fought. It's always been the Texas of the division, but we know they're going to go to the playoffs and they're going to lose the first game. So, yeah, it's always better when our city's better, but I'm a rocket, I'm an astro. Until we can get accountability in that building on Kirby, they're going to be who they are. They are who they thought we thought they were.

That's what it boils down to, and I'll let you all go. Thanks for the phone call, Braddock. Quick time out. We're going to talk to our friend Vanessa Richardson. Little rocket chatter up next. Doug and South Padre, you're a friend of the show. Hang tight. We'll get to you after that.

713. 212-5-790. 7-1-3. 212-790. Vanessa Richardson next here on 790. 121 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross here from Oklahoma City. The only sad thing about tonight is the fact that our TV family will not be here to broadcast a game. game is on NBC, which means Craig, Ryan, and Vanessa will make their debuts Friday when the

Rockets take on the Detroit Pistons. Vanessa is going to join us for a couple minutes here on the show back in H-town. By the way, Vanessa is now a national star after a busy ESPN summer. How are you, young lady? I hate not being there in Oklahoma City, but I will say I've got my iPad out. I am by the pool, and I am about to send out some fire rockets content from Space City Home Network. So, you know, life is good, but I definitely wish that I was there with you guys. No question. Yeah, we'll look forward to seeing you on Friday. Hey, you have had a chance to be at about 99% of the practices and media availability and kind of behind the scenes.

Give us a thought or two for the audience about your interactions with KD. Mine has been limited, and that's okay, and I'm okay with that. But everything I've been with him has been, it's about basketball, it's about professionalism. It's not about being a cheerleader or a rah-rah guy. It's just, I know what I can do for this team to help out. and I think so far he's done everything as advertised. Yeah, I had spoken to him before and interviewed him before over the years, but this is obviously the most like up close I've ever been with him.

And, you know, A plus person, very nice, very understanding of what the media does and has been supportive. You know, he was great with you and Ross on Media Day. He was great with Essent Space City Home Network on Media Day as well. So nothing but good things to say. You know, I think when you really take inventory of his career, he has never been known to be the guy that is super loud and boisterous and giving the raw-rah speeches.

Like that is just not his thing. But he leads by example. And that is, in my opinion, even more important than having a loud rah-rah guy that makes speeches because the coaching staff can do that. So, you know, I think Kevin has been. an excellent addition so far. And I know that particularly the young guys have soaked up every single thing that he has said and have really been learning from him.

So I asked us to Ryan earlier on the show today. My pick for like not, and I'm going to rephrase it again, not like most improved, but man, not on the radar last year that maybe could be an on-radar guy this year was for me, Jabari Smith. Are you with that or is there even somebody beyond that? Oh my gosh, I'm so with it. And I've been in on him since the Rockets drafted him. I think, and I never try to tell people how to be fans, right?

But like people just are not patient, right? So he comes into a situation. He and, you know, Tari are drafted during, you know, the last of some lean years for the Rockets, which was the plan, right? Like, it went the way it was supposed to go. But he has an unbelievable attitude. and in addition to just all the talent and physical gifts. I mean,

you used to think about the fact that last year, he was a starter and then got injured and was replaced in the starting lineup with the men and had a completely good attitude. That EMA, whatever you need for me, I will do whatever for the team. And Matt, you and I both know that would be a problem

with like 90% of the guys in the NBA, but not Jabari. And so not only does he have that, intangible attitude, but he's gotten a lot stronger. You can physically see when he is out there. He's gotten a lot stronger. And, you know, I, he's definitely, I think, going to be learning and be, you know, hands-on learning from Kevin because when Jabari was being drafted or being scouted out of Auburn, that was one of the number one things was like he's got the same build as Kevin Durant. So it's a great opportunity for him. And I absolutely think that this is going to be.

a career year for him. Probably the best year of his career so far is what I think. A few more minutes here with Vanessa Richardson's Space City Home Network and ESPN. You worked the NBA finals, so you spent a lot of time in this city. I don't know if you went to Toby Keyes at all. We did not go there last night, so you'd be pleased with that. You know it's gone downhill. Downhill.

RIP. You were able to. RIP. We know. RIP. You were able to get into the huddles a little bit on occasion with Mark Dagnall. Tell the audience about Oklahoma City a little bit because, you know, look, Jaylon Williams is not going to play tonight.

That's number eight. He's heard. But that's a lot of returning guys from a year ago and just kind of the culture around that team that you saw for the limited time during the finals and the Western Finals last year. Yeah, I would love to say that there's like something artificial or overrated about it, but their chemistry is very real. You know, they all really like each other. They all get along.

They've got, you know, honestly, it's kind of similar to the Rockets in years past when everybody was really young and they all just had this like exciting like boyish charm of guys that were living their dream in the league and we're in their early mid 20s and and all of that but you know they've got a great defensive thing going they've got their own version of double big that you saw them running last year and so it's a great team I mean they're a great team and there is a reason that the league is opening on NBC with these two teams and it's a not just because that's where Kevin played. These are two very exciting teams.

And, you know, the Thunder are the real deal. What I don't like Matt, because you know me, I'm not a fan of this. I don't like when we start talking about dynasties after one championship. Like, you got to get another championship appearance. So I don't know if I'm like all in on talking about them being a dynasty. But their chemistry is real. Yeah, seven different championships in seven years. So there is no room for Dynastro.

honesty at this point. I agree. I agree. Okay. I'm trying to think. So I, Mr. Ryan, I'll ask you, who besides Oklahoma City gives you the hebi-jeebies about who could be the Rockets teams that will perhaps give the biggest threat to the

new supremacy in the West? Yeah, in the Western Conference specifically, I think if the Clippers stay healthy, you know, and there's a lot of, like, they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of depth. Jeff Van Gundy has, you know, Tyloo has given Jeff Van Gundy the keys to that defense, and Jeff Van

Gundy is crushing it and is meticulous. And so I think if the Clippers stay, if the, the big is if, right? The big if, if they stay healthy, yeah, like, I think the Nuggets are awesome, but I'm just a big believer in if the Clippers stay healthy, you know, now what would that look like in the playoffs with James Hardin's history in the playoffs? I don't know. But the clippers are the other than the Thunder, the team that if they stay healthy, I think, could be dangerous for everybody. Are you watching this starting five doc on Netflix, by the way?

I forgot to ask Ryan about this. I have not. I watched a little bit of it. We were at dinner last night, and everyone's talking about this. And I think I got to watch it because you're a big documentary fan like I am. And we're seeing sides of KD. We're seeing sides of James Harden we never thought we'd ever see, right? I mean, it's unprecedented access, right?

Like the season last year was really good. But, you know, you have to think about it. Like you've got James Hardin talking about his son, which is, you know, definitely new. And you've got Tyrese Halliburton, you know, footage of him in the most, probably the most devastating moment of his life when he tears his Achilles in the finals. You've got Kevin Durant opening up about source. I mean, it is, it is unambating. unbelievable access. And so for that reason alone, I encourage people to watch it.

Because, again, last year was, I liked last season, too, particularly I love the side of Dylan Brooks that they showed. But this year, this year has been really good. I have not seen all of it, but what I've seen has been really great. All right, young lady, have a restful day. We're going to put you to work on Friday against the Detroit Pistons. So it would be good to get you guys back. It's going to be so weird.

I'll be honest with you. And I know the national exposure is cool, but, I mean, there's going to be a lot of new things about these TV deals are going to be good. But I'm kind of sad, y'all are not going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be all before and after games than it is during the game. So look forward to seeing you on Friday. Well, what I will say is we're going to, yeah, we're going to try to make up for some of that. You know, we're going to have some behind-the-scenes coverage rolling out soon and, you know, try to make the most of it. But, yes, definitely a lot more national games this year with that guy named Kevin Durant being on the roster. Yeah, I think everybody's got, like, more national games.

There's like 200-something national TV games this year. It's crazy, this new television deal. But get your streaming services ready. Vanessa, thanks for the time, as always. We'll talk with you soon, friend. Thanks, Maddie. Talk to you soon. All right, we'll see.

That's Vanessa Richardson, our friend from Space City Home Network. 1.30 is our time. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross, by the way, back with me tomorrow. Looking forward to hanging out with him and hanging out with all of you every day between 10 o'clock until 2 here on Sports Talk 790. to chime in on the conversation we just had 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-790 still texins a lot of angry folks out there if you're angry about that if you want to celebrate all things george springer we're

going to do that today and believe it or not and that is coming up in about to 20 minutes from now right nothing can stop me i'm all away up got a couple of folks on the line let's get to you in and you in before we get to believe it or not a team coming up at 2 o'clock rockets launch pad 530. I'll have the call at 630 here from Oklahoma City on Sports Talk 790. Doug, thanks for waiting here on 790 and good afternoon to you, friend. Hey, Matt, good show as always. Hey, you know, when football season started this year, I was hoping our beloved Cougars could at least get the six wins

and hoping they could maybe get to a bowl game finally. But I was expecting the Texans to not only win their division, but hoping they would get to at least a championship game or possibly the Super Bowl. And, you know, those scripts have flipped 100%. The Texans don't play like the Cougars. The Cougars play error-free smart football. And when you think about it, you know, the Cougars went out and hired Willie Fritz. He's a proven winner.

Every place he's gone has been a winner. The Texans coaching staff, D. D. Mico is basically a rookie. As O.C. and his D.C. are basically rookies. I'm not advocating that the Texans fire D.mico, nor am I advocating that you go out and hire Willie Fritz. But, you know, success and failure. maybe business or team, it kind of starts at the top. And I'm just wondering, I mean, you look at what the coogs are doing from nothing to this

and how the Texans have stumbled it. I don't know, it's just food for thought. It's kind of what's going on. I mean, it's just confusing as hell. And I wonder how much that goes back to the head coach. I'll hang up and listen. Thank you, Doug. I appreciate it.

Go ahead. Yeah, I was just going to say, thank you for listening. I don't know if I'm going to, well, yeah, when you're too and four, or the coach is going to get some blame, and that's not out of the question. It's not irresponsible for us to do that. I don't think it's his own doing, all of it. He does bear responsibility.

We played a quote earlier in the show today that the Texans linemen, I'm drawn a blank here, I'm trying to think of who it was. Jonathan helped me out here. Who was the lineman that we put the comment from? Titus Howard. Titus Howard said that they were complacent. And I keep thinking about that just like and listening to it.

It really boils my blood because I can't imagine someone. We were getting paid millions of dollars to compete, bust my butt, potentially injure myself for the rest of my life, and you're saying you're complacent? Really? Why don't you play it again? Can you pull it up real quick? Yeah.

One second. gave him one second yeah when titus howard said complacency kicked in how are you complacent you have two wins against bottom seven teams I mean the second worst team maybe the six or seven of worst team yeah here it's right here here's here's here's tides after last night in Seattle we was complacent today we didn't come out with enough energy to start the game so I'm on and on to that all that you know I have my guy for ready next week so we just got to be better we we let the defense down with the team down to the

offense We got to step it up, man. First season, we want to do anything. If we can't score, we can't win. You've already played six games, plus preseason. What are we talking about? And you're far behind the Colts. You need everyone to get.

You need as many as you can. Complacency, that's an indictment towards the team and the leadership. Roster construction, that's Nick Casario. This roster has massive flaws construction. wise. It's got no running game to speak of. It's got very inexperienced wide receiving core, and it's got a bottom three offensive line. They were 29th going in. My guess is they'll drop to 30 or 31 after when the PFF grades come out tomorrow. And as I said, I want Domeco to win the coaching battle. And I don't know how often he's doing that. Defensively, he's got the talent.

Will Anderson, Daniel Hunter, Stingley. I mean, these guys are some dogs on that side. They're not perfect, but they do, but again, 27 points, not really indicative of what they could have done. It's almost like Joe Mason got hurt, and the entire offense just lost their motivation for the season. That doesn't make any sense. That shouldn't be the case.

What they didn't do is they didn't do is they didn't. addressed the Joe Mickie. I want to know what they could have done to fix the Joe Mixing situation. Where the timeline is askew, because at this point, I don't know what it is. And I want to know what were they thinking about the offensive line, even though they were not the biggest Laramie-Tunsell fans and the guy, I mean, the guy might have been the, he was a terrible culture guy. I could see that from a mile away. But if you're going to make that move, you're going to have to have a plan B in place, and they didn't have a plan B. Let's go to James and Alvin at 141 on 790. Hi James.

Thank you, gentlemen, for accepting my call. Awesome show. I want to let you guys know y'all got some of the most knowledgeable listeners in radio land, in sports talk land. My question, if you was to choose between the two, between the four outfielders that's going to play in the World Series that was former, former Asher, or came up through the Astros system, the Hernandez brothers, which they are not biologically Ken, but the last name Hernandez, okay. Would you take Miles Straw and George Springer?

Now, you know, George Springer came under the Tau, Tile Smith regime. The rest of them boys come under Jeff Lulow. No, no, no, no, Jeff Lennon, not Tow, not Tow Smith, not Tow Smith. Jeff Lennon. No, George Springer came under Tile Smith. No. Yes, he did. He was a team president, but he was not the general manager.

The general manager at the time when he was drafted, could it have been Ed Wade? I'll have to look that up. Oh, Ed Wade, Ed Wade, Ed Wade, Ed Wade, Ed Wade, I apologize. That's fine. Thank you for fact-checking me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just thinking out loud. Okay, you're good, you're good. But between the two and compared to salary,

Which other two? Now, the Astros outfielder is a contortal catastrophe. And you got, you got, you got, you got four outfielders on two different teams playing in the World Series. That was former Astros. And my question is, if you had the opportunity, just say, which other two? Just say, which other four would you select? I mean, it's a mood conversation. Thank you, James, of the phone call.

I, um, Miles Straw is a fourth outfielder. I mean, that's just the truth. I mean, Miles Straw is a great defensive player, but the bat's never really been there. I mean, he's bet he bet in the, no, he didn't even start. He was a, he was a, he didn't even regular starter for them. Low per fetal got added because of an injury. it's George Springer. I mean, and the second guy doesn't make any sense.

So, yeah, I am, it's kind of a, not in time of a conversation point, honestly. There's nobody not named George Springer that I would replace from the Blue Jays outfield that would be an astro, at least at this point, among guys that had been an astro in the past. Al, Southside, really quick before we play, believe it or not. Al, what do you got today? Yeah, Matt, great. show great call listen man let me say this real quick and i didn't understand noel did not start off the game being the return guy i said right then and now when that other dude was in that they had practice and playing in games and they didn't start

nor i wonder was they're trying to put him in a doghouse because what he'd done to the balkman or ravens and then you didn't see him in a game a lot and he didn't get no targets this team doesn't play. There's no way that guy shouldn't have been starting on the return. We put ourselves in a hole right from the jump. And I knew then I've seen the home writing on the wire. And I'm going to say this and hang up. The Miko Ryan is this ship is super angry.

Give him a D.C. job, yeah, he can do some good things. But the way he got in the office to coordinate it through Nick K. Or whoever, whatever. If Miko Ryan, C.J. Sprout doesn't have with these. quarter of their Matt Jones Daniel the guy over there in

Indianapolis they came from bad situations look at him now Chezzei Straub doesn't have that he has a defensive coordinator for a head coach and he has a non-play caller what can he learn and who can elevate him

at that position and learn him the nuances of the game now one of them that stuff is a bus and they need to change the coaching staff all away from Domeco on down he cannot

elevate that position. No one on that team can. Name me a guy on the coach of staff and elevate their position. And I hang up and listen. Dick, thank you. And I got to get to a break. But the coaching staffs a week, it just is. You replace... Now, if you were against Slovak, I get it.

But go get somebody with experience. Stop picking people at branches off the tree. Go get the tree. My guess is, if this continues a way that it is, they're going to have that Hannah's going to force them to go get an experienced offensive coordinator, meaning probably a former head coach who gets fired.

And if Mike McDaniel gets fired in Miami, I would take Mike McDaniel to run this offense. I just would. Thanks for the phone call. Let's play, believe it or not. It's all things, George Springer. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest-growing sports radio game.

Shall we simply call it be, believe it or not, and here's how it works. Your call 713-212. 5797-197-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. Today's edition of Belieber Not is all things about George Springer. I'll read your statement about George, statement completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. If the statement's erroneous full of bunk and made up, you'll say this.

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More information and tickets are available now at FBepicenter.com. Let's play. Line number one. Mike on 790. Mike, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Mike, after last night, George Springer now has 14 home runs in his postseason career. Believe it or not?

Believe it? No, he's got 23. Laura on 790. Laura, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? Well, I listen with my fiance, and so I don't know much, but I just like hearing you guys talk because he felt like you have so much fun. Thank you, Laura. As a kid, George spent two seasons as a ball boy for the Boston Celtics. Believe it or not.

Believe it. No, I made that up. I'm sorry. Tell your fiance, that's it. 713, 212, 5-790. Pete on 790. Pete, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it.

Pete, when George was called up by the Astros, he went from AA Corpus Christi straight to Houston. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, he would spend parts of two seasons of AAA. They're doing pretty good right now. They're doing pretty good. What's that?

They're doing pretty good. I know. I'm three for three. a pride of myself. Leon, 979. Leon, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Leon, George Springer, is left-handed,

playing baseball and golf are the only things he does right-handed. Believe it or not? Believe it. Believe it. That's correct. Statement number two for the win. George Springer is the most active Canadian athlete on Twitter with more than

14,000 tweets. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, he's only a tweet One single time And his tweet was hashtag tweet Okay That was in 2017 Jason on 7 on a Jason

What was your favorite part of today? He's 10 to 2 radio show Uh Diskets phone call and your man is losing talk All right Very nicely done my friend I'm proud of you for that Let us continue here

I lost my questions Oh here we go Let me see you I found him George is a family name He is George the 3rd His son is George the 4th Believe it or not

Hmm Not Believe it is Sorry Nice Vince on 790 Vince You're ready to play Believe it or not

Believe it When George made appearances On my radio show when he was an astro He admitted to me that his wife Sharise Charlize kept an eye on George's diet and cooked many of his meals. Believe it or not.

Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. George's wife, Charlize, is a rising television star in Canada. She hosts a seasonal show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation called, quote, spring cooking with the springers. Believe it or not? Not.

That's right. Congratulations. I thought he was going to get it. I thought he was going to get it. All right. That's it for today. I will talk to y'all in four and a half hours for the Rockets and the Oklahoma City Thunder. The next two gentlemen are going to entertain the hell out of you between now and 5.30.

It's Clinton. It's Wexler. It's the A team. Talk to you all tonight at 6.30 for the Rockets and Thunder. Right here on 7-nighters.