The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Take Down Kings! Texans Getting National Love… Giannis Trade Rumors?

Episode Date: December 4, 2025

Rockets Take Down Kings! Texans Getting National Love… Giannis Trade Rumors?

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-01 and 8th down. Good morning and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. 10.02. We were going to play some highlights, but we are searching for. for them right now. I promise you the Rockets were bad of the bone.

Hi, Ross. Hey, Matthew. How are you doing? Great. Rockets did win yesterday. Dominant second half after kind of a, I wouldn't say lackluster first half, way too many turnovers in the first half.

And a lot of Maxime Raynode highlights, which I didn't have in my bingo card. for the general public, that's Houston, Texas, and really the rest of the NBA, like, who the hell is Maxine Renaud? We got to find that out. We got Russell West. That brother was bawled last night. We got Russell Westbrook dunking on the rockets and blank talking after it.

But you know what? He's playing for a five-win basketball team. Got to be careful on the old blank talking, says Chris Paul. Well, we'll see. Future Houston Rocket, Chris Paul? Yeah. No, no, no, no. anybody got time for that

I'm just kidding I think I wouldn't say I'd kick the tires but I wouldn't no no I'm saying I didn't like hey y'all want to make a phone call and you're saying you would kick the tires no no no no first of I wouldn't kick the tires okay but I didn't do a whole lot of kicking the tires on whether the Rockets oh okay

as your role is Rockets insider yeah I mean I am the I'm the Rockets insider I'm the Texans insider you're not the Texans insider oh yeah I gave you again, when's our running back coming back? I think I told you that six months ago. Wow, Al-Shaire will be getting a penalty for hitting Pat Mahomes late this Sunday. Okay.

Let's see. Oh, yeah, I feel very confident on that. I do, I do. All right. What we're going with this? Oh, I don't know. I hope, God, that doesn't happen now. I'll never hear the end of it. I didn't have you, I mean, again, nobody else in a market place telling you that Joe Mixo wasn't going to play this year.

I don't listen to anybody else in the marketplace, so I can't confirm or deny it. So is one person in here? I mean, you can tell me nobody in the marketplace is saying anything. I'm just going to have to believe you. That's true. That's true. You don't even listen to the 18? I don't.

Okay. I'm going to do a real talk Thursday? No, we're not doing real talk Thursday. I'm sorry. I listen to music. I listen to podcasts. I don't, for a couple of reasons. I like to get away from it because I watch a ton of sports and then I talk it for four hours.

and I'm getting invested in it. I like to get away when I'm not in this seat. I unfortunately do... And not having to watch games. I would do way too much hate listening. Okay. There's a lot of things I hate on there. I don't do that.

And that's a problem I have. And I'm trying to get better at it. And I will say, in fairness of my partner here, he's always trying to make me a better person. I am. It never works. It's, um... Sometimes it feels like we're spitting into the wind,

but I'm going to fight the battle, Matt. You keep doing it, my friend. You keep doing it. Good morning, everybody. It's 1005. What a lousy one. stretch we had. It rained the whole way home last night and it rained about 75% of the time

getting here to the office today. As long as you're home and safe though, it's good. I like the rain. I'm only happy when it rains. There are amazing rain songs. Okay. Have we done it? Have we done fantasy? I don't know if we've done a rain. No, because we did, because we argued over who could take Thunderstruck, I think. If it was eligible. And what

we say about it? I don't remember. All these Fantasy 5s kind of We did do a rain song. I mean, we could do it again. That's probably decade ago. We've done some, we've done some repeats. We actually bring you other guys in. Hottest woman in sports.

We've done that twice. We're due for a refresh on that. Is Sophia Figuara still the hottest woman on earth? She's the hottest woman in sports, yeah. She plays for or, I don't know, I'm mad. She does some sunsons on Fox. Yeah, I get it. I get it.

All right. So, yeah, the Rockets won yesterday. Yes. And we will play some highlights over the course. At some point. Yeah. And beat up on the Sacramento Kings. We have,

honest than the gumpo maybe trying to work his way out of milwaukee and you and i have kind of had this conversation and i might be i mean i very well could be wrong i could be my minority i don't think if the rockets were to make a move on this which i think would be unlikely but if they did i don't think the name of men thompson would be part in of the mix okay i think in my mind not that raphael and i have bread over this. Maybe in this long-ass trip I'm taking in a couple weeks. Maybe he'll do that. Why don't you guys hang out?

I think we should. Why head to the Italian embassy? He's like, let's go get a coffee on the next last road trip. I'm like, I get to a four-hour show rid of dating. Oh, that was a good thought at least. I said, yeah, that was a nice offer. I appreciate the offer. I will say this.

I think a men's untouchable. I really do. Okay. I'd say he's, Luca Dundress has taught us that no one is untouchable. That is accurate. But that's just a flawed. basketball pro i mean that's true they're paying the price for that nuclear duches is greater than

uh i'm in thompson correct you're gonna fight me on that no i can't fight you on that okay could but but let me put it this way let's do this and this probably has happened for a lot of different players and teams of a variety of sports teams i think ross you can be not the best player but you can be untouchable to a sports team of course you could be c j stroud is untouchable for the Texans right now, but I don't know. I mean, you're 10 better quarterbacks right now. Jane Daniels probably maybe has more value or whoever, but he's not going to come up in trades.

Yeah. But, the honest, into Cuba, in the NBA, everybody's on the table. And by the way, did he leave the game yesterday? A little cap string? It was a calf injury that Doc Rivers said after the game, which I forgot he was even their coach. What are they thinking? Doc Rivers saying after the game that it is,

they have confirmed that it's not an Achilles injury. But one has led to another. We have seen multiple times. When in doubt, the calf eventually works as way to the Achilles. That's generally guys who are pushing themselves in the playoffs as well. Like, I mean, well, Wemby had a calf strain. Zion's got every strain possible. We're seeing more and more soft tissue issues in the NBA.

They've been cropping up lately. But Janus last year averaged 30 points, 12 rebounds, 6 and a half assists, all three numbers, which significantly clear Amin Thompson and he finished 8th in the defensive player of the year and Amin was NBA first team all defense as was Janice. That's the type of player we're talking about. Now, of course, when you factor in age, you factor in contract,

then that's when things kind of get a little bit different. But, well, okay, so that makes my point is that if it is player for player, you course make the deal. But it's not player for player. There are other parameters to it. It's going to cost you more.

It's for value, a man, Thompson, I think in the, in the Rockets' mind, is more valuable to the Rockets at his level, his age, his salary, then Janus would be to the Rockets. Now, again, if Janus called Raphael Stoner called the Fortitas and said, hey, I want to come play for Houston, they'd figure something out. My guess would be several first-round picks. I would think probably would be two or three other players. We've not mentioned their names. I just, in my, used to be large gut. are the bucks going to take what? What are you offering that? Well, you could give him Jabari, you'd give him Alperin, you'd give him Tarry.

Oh, you would give Alperin before you would give him in. I'm not saying, I'm not saying I would do any of this, but I'm saying if you can't have two untouchables. You can't, you can't work in a world of sports and say, I've got the only good players I, the ones my, my franchise young guys are my untouchables. Well, this ties into the Kevin Durant conversation we had in the offseason. Because in theory, you are correct. The question as far as, you know, the value in being happy, I'm sure the Rockets love them in Thompson. They're very happy with them in Thompson.

And Alperin Shingoon and Jabari Smith Jr. The question is, where do the rockets see themselves and do they see themselves getting to where they want to be with what they have? That answer was no when it came to Kevin Durant. Is that answer no when it comes to the gold standard right now in the NBA is the Oklahoma City Thunder and they are in your conference. So you can say,

if you wave a magic wand and get the thunder out of the NBA, the Rockets are Tier 1 contenders. But right now they're Tier 2 because of the Death Star that is the Oklahoma City Thunder. So if you're saying to yourself, the only way, can we get close to that

with what we have, or do we need to push all our chips in and get closer some other way with more superstar talent that comes available? But you are so forward heavy as it. is to begin with. If you're going to go make a move of sports RV, you're going to go on for

back court. No, well, you're going to clear guys up though. You're going to, like you said, you're going to trade Jabari, maybe Alperin, maybe Amin Thompson. I mean, Amin Thompson, I know we don't want to use that name, but a guy who who plays great defense, can't shoot, and is a good playmaker

and a good in paint. Yonis is the better version of what Amin Thompson is right now. He's the more evolved, better version of of a man. What does Amin Thompson do better than Yanis of Tensegumpo? Probably ball handling.

I don't think so. I mean, they're probably their assistive turnover ratios are similar. Here's my, just my, and maybe I'm too close to it, maybe because I love him in a lot. I love him in too. There's more tread on the tires.

Yes. There's a significant salary distribution change on that. Yes. You're going to have to match a lot of money. money and I don't know if it's in that the rule would be there's one basketball yeah so I mean we'll it's it's certainly interesting for discussion I don't think it's gonna happen no honestly the team I think would to be worried about I think is the Knicks one in number two I think

maybe San Antonio Spurs stay in the east oh don't say that just throwing it out there those would be the two team if you were to make if I was to make an educated guess about Keep him out of the West, please. It's enough. It's been two plus decades of this. I don't know. The West is ridiculous. It's absurd how good it's been.

And now... In your entire career broadcasting, have you ever had the East and Dominant over the West? No. It's been since I was like in middle school. I was a kid. Boston, Philadelphia. I'm trying to think who else. I would say in 90s.

When it was the Bulls and it was the Heat and the Knicks. Yeah. and I don't know the pacer's like maybe the but since the turn of the century it's the west that's 25 years yes it's too much I feel like I'm sure I saw your side failed keep them in the east what are we doing here what's the big deal with that

what's wrong with us I don't know it's your fault keep them in the east how about we just win the west and we'll take our chance against anybody in the east okay well hey Devere went seven with Oklahoma City remember I told you that yesterday yeah well You got Nukyokic on the squad?

You got Nick. Nicolioch went full-on insane mode for seven games and they lost. With Aaron Gordon, with Jamal Murray. Did they still have Michael Porter Jr. last year? Yes, I traded him in the off-season. History will not repeat itself.

Let's get a banner up here. That's me being positive. I got pushed to seven and they lost. All right. Rockets got pushed to seven and lost to the The Warriors. I ain't worried about them. Warriors, a shell of what they used to be.

Well, we were saying this time last year. Oh, no, no, no. Look, we went to Golden State in one. You know how rare that is? I've been going there for 10 years. I've seen like three victories in San Francisco in my life. All right. You say you're not scared of the boogeyman, Steph Curry, Mr. Night Night.

I'm afraid of people. I ain't afraid of a boogeyman. Okay. Please don't say that. Just rockets can just ripet punch current. Nobody send this to us in this audio. go westward. No, they're fine.

Hey, on the show today, we have I just don't get it at 1130, which that's self-explanatory. There are things in life you just don't get. And we'll get to that on the show. At 12 noon today, we'll have email. Don't could join us for his weekly visit.

At 1250, the return of the rotten five. It's been a few weeks, Rossi. Have you been able to spend? Oh, man, we've been in a lab. Yeah, updating the spreadsheets, running our algorithm, millions of iterations. Yeah.

Remember, it takes absolutely no talent to give you the five best teams in the NFL. We asked sports RV to give us the five worst teams will have it for you today. And then we got, believe it or not, today at 150. So we got a busy show here, and we want you to be a part of it. We love you 10 o'clockers. I got to be honest with you. I think I have a better

relationship with the 10 o'clockers than I do with 11 and 12. Really? Yeah. Why is that? Because I just feel like you're there for us, and that means a lot to us. We do appreciate you. We love 10 to 2 all the way through, but we really appreciate the 10 o'clockers. I met a great listener yesterday who won my Rockets tickets. Really?

for knowing that I there should be no photos of me in a bikini which is really smart on his part did you sign an autograph didn't ask for you didn't ask for one didn't ask for a picture didn't ask for an autograph he just said Matt thank you very much you know what he was just soaking in the moment that's beautiful he's like God it is so great to meet you

man you are remarkably handsome I said thank you very much for there's zero chance he said that 1015 of the Matt Thomas show with Ross 713 212 5790 that's 713 212 5790 Matt and Ross with you here. We were just talking about I need to buy Rossia University of Rhode Island shirt. Yesterday was early signing day.

Congratulations to you, Matt. Thank you. It's weird because the humble ISD school district does one big signing day in February. And that's where I'll be off that day because we're going to have all of her coaches come in and teammates and all that kind of thing. Wonderful. But yesterday was kind of a, you can officially sign and do your thing. So it was kind of very informal thing. And I was, you know, I wanted to be there, but I needed to be with you.

So. Yeah, you'll be the big one. Yeah, I'll be the big one. It's fine. I'm taking, yeah. It's going to be raw solo that day. Yeah, what's the date? It's in February.

You're good. I'm going to write that down. You're good. I got a calendar now. I'm ready. I'm prepared. Have you got one for 2026, by the way? Yeah, look.

Well, it only goes until April. I'm going to tell you right now, tomorrow, you've been sick for much. Shut up. The show is 10 to 2. Yes. I've got to beat the arena at 5. Okay.

As soon as it shows over tomorrow, we're going to Ruffis Racks. Okay. Or to Maples. And we're going to get you a day timer for 2026. Okay. I just want nothing bigger than 8 by 10. No, you need one size bigger than that. No, this is fine.

You get too much chicken scratch. You're a scratch. Chicken scratch. You're a stature. I am a doodler. Look, I make doodles. I don't know why. Jonathan, are you more of a doodler or a scratcher?

I'm a doodler all day. Be a doodler, don't be a didler. That should be a T-shirt. No, it shouldn't. By the way, real quick. Yes. Oh, you know what? I'll say that far.

I just don't get it later on. I guess, uh-oh. I got some issues with Facebook. Well, don't go on there. This is my advice for Facebook. Navigating Facebook. Don't. Don't go on there.

It's misinformation. It's AI-ridden. Instagram, I'm getting about fed up with all this Instagram AI as well. Yeah. So I'm reading these stories. Again, I'm saying this. I'll just say this.

And I have to go to legit websites to see if these Facebook stores that are being put up there are accurate. And nine times out of ten, the Facebook stories are made up. Yes. I know. It's ridiculous.

Mark Zuckerberg needs to do something about this. So we'll talk more about this. and I just don't get it coming up a little bit later on. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-1-2-5-7-90. We will have an updated entry report from the Texans later today, but are we a little bit nervous how lengthy the one was for Wednesday, or are we like, eh, it's fine?

I'm saying it's mid to late season, and you hint to that yesterday. I wake me up when it's Thursday and really wake me up when it's Friday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would have to agree about it. I just want to make sure because there were some significant players on there with some things that would just... Like, for instance, when it's Will Anderson rest?

Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Get him some rest. But if he's got, like, multiple amments, is he going to walk out there at 60%? He's been mulling quarterbacks for 14, 13 weeks, so I'm okay with that. Get him some rest. All right.

So, like I said, the report today will be a little more closer to it, pay good tension. And, of course, our Texans reporter, Adam Wexler will be out there. Our Texans insider, Adam Wexler, we appreciate him. He doesn't break stories. I do. Period.

He broke who wasn't in practice yesterday. But he didn't break it He wasn't by himself out there He didn't see your break Well, show me your tweet I didn't see you breaking any stories I told you about Joe Mixing six months ago You said you don't think he's making it

No no no I said he ain't playing It's a gut feeling It ain't doing it I was right He didn't put your name on hashtag Texas Insider Robert on 790 at 1024 Robert good morning to you Becoming my favorite bit

Good morning Matt Good morning Rob thanks for taking my call You got it thank you I absolutely love you guys You've helped me through a lot of sleepy mornings Driving my truck So I appreciate it. Hey, I honestly think the Rockets should just not even entertain the Yannis trade

because for the simple fact that the standard that the NBA is going for, right, is to be able to compete with Oklahoma City Thunder, right? At which the Rockets with their team that they have were able to do that and push them to a double overtime. And I really think that it would be a seven-game series between those. those two. And so why would you even entertain breaking up your core to get a guy that, you know, yes, the numbers don't lie for him, but you also are wanting to, you know, because Oklahoma City is not going anywhere for a while because they're young. And then I was reading something

about draft picks that they might have control of like two top 10 draft picks. The clippers, yeah. Yeah. It's going to get worse. they're yeah they're not going anywhere so why would you break up your young core that you're trying to compete with them that you already did compete with them and push them to a double overtime i just think you know it's it's insanity to even for them like i mean i obviously you guys in in the media are entertaining but i just don't i don't think the rockets should even uh entertain it i mean it would be a joke and and if you look at the warriors they they didn't break up their court to, you know, they added pieces that they saw fit, you know, that didn't break the bank. And they brought in Kevin Durant, though. Yeah, but I mean, yeah, I'm saying, like, they didn't break up, they didn't break up

their court to bring him in. Right, because he was a free agent and they were, and Kevin Durant took a discount. Okay, but anyway, the part of, one problem with what you're talking about is Kevin Durant is 37 years old. So if you, if you want to, it, then it depends. make some valid argument to Robert is the Rockets and Raphael Stone have to weigh what they did this offseason. They said, do we want to trust our young player, that being Jalen Green, or do we want to go for this established player, that being Kevin Durant? And it also cost them Dylan Brooks.

So they're going to have to do that again. Do they want to trust this young court plus Kevin Durant and think that they can grow and develop, or do they want to push all their chips in to give themselves a better chance for a championship now, but a worse chance for a chance for championships down the road. I just, I, I personally don't see that, that Yonis would put them to, I don't, I don't think that he would make them, uh, what they are already now. I think they have the best chance right now to give Oklahoma City fits because they already did.

They've proven that they did. I think they need to leave it alone and run this for the rest of the season and see what happened. Thank you. I appreciate you. Yeah. Thanks, Robert. That's good stuff. Good to be. It's a good point. I mean, it's a fair point. If you think they have enough, I don't think they have enough to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder. I don't know if they have enough. If they're giving up a men,

Thompson plus whatever, to get Janus if they have enough. So these are just the things you have to think about. Does it get you closer? How much, and this is kind of, you know, back to Darryl Moreo, which, of who Rafael Stone is a disciple you everything is up to chance and all you can do is give yourself

the best chance and weighing that with the here and the now and the future if you're giving up first round picks can I give you a biased reason why I think Rockets Oklahoma City could be a sexy

not coin flip it's not a corn flip but not a how don't I'm a phrase this not a slam dunk for Oklahoma City again a purely biased viewpoint of this

and I'll do it next okay 1029 on Sports Talk 790 713212 5790 I 1034 it is Matt and Ross Jonathan's our producer nice to have all of you with us today thank you very much for being a part of this show it means a lot to us. We are here for a full four hours.

I'm just happy I can see Jonathan. I'm like, hey. Yeah. I mean, so far we've had one phone call that worked. Hey. We've seen John in the whole half hour. Let's go. It's a beautiful Thursday, maybe. Small miracle. Miracles here at the O'I heard. I heard. You know how to enjoy the little things in life, man? I think so. I think so. All right. So my point is this. Mm-hmm. If, what do they say about the playoffs when the playoffs happened, the style of play? It's knockdown, dragout, physicality. And who plays that really, really well?

The Detroit Pistons. Okay, in the Western Conference. Oh, the Houston Rockets. They do. Yes, they do. The Rockets are one of the slowest-paced teams in the NBA. Uh-huh. Not intentionally, it's just kind of how they're built.

Now, when Amen and Thompson wants to go up and down the court after grabbing a rebound and go length of the floor and jam one in front of your face, that's different. But generally, they work shot clock. They move the ball around. They screen to hell out of people, double screens, triple screens. you've got two amazing pick and roll guys and Steven Adams and outbring Shangoon you got, you know, Kevin Doreen's

going to dribble the ball. You got them, I mean, it's, you're, when you go to a Rockets game or watch him on television or hopefully listen on radio, you are not listening to a track meet. Mm-hmm. So that plays well to what basketball is in April.

And I really wish that the style of play would be the same in the regular season, but I've been wishing for that for 20 years and that's never going to happen. The game slows down. It gets muckier. You rely on free throw shooting. You rely on possessions.

You rely on defense. You rely on things that you thought were getting calls. You don't get. All the things I'm describing to you is why I think the Rockets, now they wouldn't be the favorites. And as much I love the Rockets, they wouldn't be the favorites in the series. And I think Oklahoma City is going to be the start to finish

potential NBA champion and certainly start to finish favorite. But if there's anybody that's going to give them a run for their money, maybe take it six, maybe take it seven. and maybe pull off an upset, it'd be a team like the Houston Rockets who played like this and it's perfect for them that time of year, that time of year. Yeah, it's just going to boil down to how much more of a chance do you think it gives you? Is that chance negligible? And then what is it going to cost you to get to that chance?

I'm going to guarantee you, they're running models and doing all this. I know you talk about nerds, not having sex and all this stuff. All the Rockets have nerds. They have droves. Nerves, nerds and droves. A sea of nerds. Poon tang guys. And these sea of Poonhounds, yes, are running models

and saying we have this percent chance to win the championship. Now we have this percent chance to win the championship if we get Janus and give up a men or first round picks or whatever. So then Rafael Stone is going to spit out a number and he's going to say, first of all, do I believe these numbers? Every number needs context and every number should be understood. scrutiny. And then he's going to say, is this worth it? And where do our odds go from this year to next year, to the year after? Because the counter argument from our caller last segment was,

hey, let this young core grow. That is true. Because you have Amen and Jabari and Alpi, who are all 23 years and younger. The problem is this Kevin Durant guy is 37. Stephen Adams, Matt, I think, you know, you've talked to him a couple times. Like he, He's kind of a little bit of a secret sauce to the rocket success as well. And he's no spring chicken. And you need all those types. It's not only your top one, two, three, it's your four, five, six, seven if you want to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder. So it's a lot of moving parts.

It's a lot to consider. Rafael Stone is really smart. He's made a lot of good moves and great moves, things that I didn't think we're going to work out that have. So he knows more than I do. And he's going to weigh this. By the way, and we're not going to let this show Dominic because, again, it's just trade conjecture. But it is interesting.

I went to ESPN's trade machine? No, no, no, no. Okay, I was going to say, you know, the trade machine is getting serious. Well, I mean, I do like the trade machine. What is it the, what are they called the opening page? What is it called? Home page? Home page.

Let's play out Janice's trade market. Oh, okay. Five offers, including how the rockets could land him. Now, see, they do that. They have your IP address or your account or whatever, and they put rockets stuff in the front. That happens to me all the time. No, that's how they get me, because they put Longhorn stuff in there. I don't have to talk about Longhorn

basketball. Okay, so let me just tell you that there are five trades, five different teams, and I want to go in the particulars of them, because I don't think you care whether Atlanta is going to get back. I don't, we don't care. The Atlanta Hawks would be one team. They're thinking about, the New York Knicks would be another team. Another team, I mentioned San Antonio, and

Golden State would be a team, and the fifth team in that group that the CSPN story is writing about would be the Houston Rockets. So they're projecting, if This is just what would be the case. The Rockets would get Janus and his brother, Thanassus. Oh, thank God. They're really a duo. You get one with the boat.

You get both. You don't get just one. You know what? LeBronie around. Rockets would have to give up in return, according to the ESPN, Alpi, Fred, and a 2027 first round pick. That seems light. That seems like get her done.

I mean, it's So I'm going to say yes to that fast enough? I'm going to have you trust me when I tell you I really believe a men's untouchable. Okay. And like I said, unless literally, I'm talking about,

we're talking about a two-time MVP here. Yes. Like, he is on a very short list. It would be like him, Yokic, and he's on, and Yonis is on the fringe, so I'm not, I'm not calling you crazy. I understand.

I'm just saying it would be like, you know, Yokic, Donchich, SGA, Itch, anything with it at the very end. Not Nurkich. No, you can't have a Nurkich. Or a Dario Sarich. No, not Sarich, either.

We're good on that. All right. Not a Yakasavikas. Any of those guys. Yeah. So it's going to be fun. I do believe that the NBA trade deadline is... Now, for our audience,

baseball trade deadline is way more intriguing. But basketball is not too far behind when it comes to number two. in terms of man like when the NFL trade deadline came and passed we're kind of like okay it's fine nothing nothing happened we weren't expecting anything from Nick Osera and we didn't get anything from Nick Ocerio

I was just kind of curious I just pulled this up the Ringer did a top 100 NBA players right now this was updated November 26th so that's a lesson we can go or about a week ago yeah Yokich 1 SGA 2 Yannis 3 then Donchich Wembe is the top 5

So if I'm look if I'm in Milwaukee and looking at these trade proposals I don't, I think I can find a better deal than the Rockets would, in theory, would be offering. They have Shangoon 14th. He wakes up with a triple double almost every night. He'd be giving up a lot. You see that big little scratchy out on his arm last night too?

That's always, man. These big men get all these scratches all in their arms and shoulders. And I remember a Yao? Yows used to look like somebody was hitting him with a rake every game. Enough. Go cut y'all's nails. You guys are multi-millionaires. Man, I care those bad boys.

I'm in Thompson number 34 on this list. That's great. He's cracked the top 50. Yeah. He's good. Really, really good. Probably could have had even more points than he had last night. There were a lot of buckets left on the front end of the rim in the game last night.

Do you want to guess where Duran is? I'll give you a hint. He's top 20. Really? For 37 years old. Mm-hmm. About to approach 31,000 NBA points, by the way. Mm-hmm.

Got to be 18th. 11th. So they're the rockets with three top 34 players. So let me just close out this conversation by saying this. If the Rockets were able to get Janus, we'd be losing our mind. Okay, we would be. I don't care what the price would be at this point. We would be losing our mind.

But I can comfortably live. Like, it's the same thing I felt like with, like, when the Kevin Durant conversation was going on, you heard me. I wasn't, this has to happen. They must do this. There's two sides of this. That's okay. We're not in first take. We're not.

We're two guys talking sports. Yeah. Because I would have been happy with, I mean, look, there is a part of the Rockets team of 2025 and 26, which is right now, that misses Dillon Brooks. There is a moxie that is missing from this team, but you have to, again, trades have to hurt. I've never seen a trade that involves impactful players that one side goes, man, we surely fleece them. 21 and 1, the ThunderR.

That's what you have to think about, too. Can I pray for injuries? you can do whatever you want the question is does that make me a bad person and the answer is yes yeah but I can live with being a bad person yeah I know so that's what I'm saying if you're good with that

I'm very comfortable praying for injuries now I'm not looking for like cancer or amputations but she how about a torn peck muscle I mean that can't hurt and you recover from that it probably does hurt

how about a torn ACL for somebody over there honestly that's what you're going to need I'm just going to be real I can't have you then I don't want Like Rick Ashley once told me Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down

If the thunder are healthy The Rockets have no chance I'm gonna say it I'm not saying I'm just saying You shut you above ass up Sorry What I just told you

They're happy And one and one Yeah but they're playing Atlanta Every other night No they're not Yeah they are In my mind they are Now the rockets

Almost beat them Opening night Yes If not yes Yes We have three more shots at them For the win Doree with a rebound

Calls the time. They don't have any time. Sack's ever didn't see it, thank God. Sack? One of the fine officials in the NBA? When is their next matchup? They got, are they do? They got four in this year?

We're just three. Let me look. I know that we're going there for a one-off. It's also a national televised game. Oklahoma City will be here Thursday, January the 15th. It's a market on your calendars. on Prime Video.

Ooh, early start, me like you. And I think that's it. They're only coming once. And then they go there Saturday, February 7th. That is on ABC. All three matchups on national TV. These networks aren't stupid. You got to go there twice.

Come on, man. That's not fair. That's how it usually works with the out of division opponents. I know. Except in this year's case, where we go to Denver three times, and they only come to us twice, and then we go to L.A. once, and then Clippers come here three times.

Don't get me started. Yeah. All right. Let's get to NBA Cup. Let's get to the Texans next. Adam Silver. 1045 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. Normally we go anybody out there, but we do believe you're out there. And for that, we thank you. 713

212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Have you been reading about the fall out of the final days of Old Miss? We'll talk about that a little bit. We get some Texans to get to, and I just don't get it at 1130. All right, I just don't get it coming up at 1130 today.

We have the news at noon. Actually, it's not the news of news community. You may I don't get noon. Yeah, how about that? If he can read us the news. I listened to your postgame show yesterday. Oh, you did? Yeah, I was the one.

Thank you. And he's like, what did you tell the guys at halftime? And I'm paraphrasing. He was like, I don't want you guys playing like a junior varsity team. That was pretty funny. Okay. So the Texans are back on the practice. My guess is they're in the bubble today.

the weather is cold, rainy, which I guess wouldn't be a terrible thing because what is the Kansas City forecast? I would assume December in Kansas City is not going to be delightful. Probably a little chilly. I can pull it up NFL weather. I'll see, Kansas City.

I already have it. 24 degrees, most of cloudy, 11-mile-an-hour winds. Ooh, that's good. That's football weather right now. It's getting me in the club seats weather. Oh, my God. You are so soft. Yes. You know what? I'm sad to say, I thought about you a brief moment and I was at the Longhorn game on Friday

because it was misting, it was cold, it was a little cool, it wasn't cold, it was a little windy, it felt good, like I'm a little missed, like, out in the elements, get some football. I was like, you know what, Matt Thomas would be hanging, because there was, I saw people going into their suites and not sitting in their seats and it made me sad. And I was like, you know what, Matt Thomas would be one of these people. Yeah, terrible. But at least I'm consistent.

Get out in the elements. It's all right. Not going to hurt you. They used to only live in the elements. I used to be in elements ago. I used to be element guy, and then I became a sweet guy. Yeah, but don't go. I mean, I think you got changed when you moved to Minnesota or something.

We're not in Minnesota. It's all right. My very fast story, in January and February, it would be like minus 13. One day we had a warm up. It was 31 degrees, which is a 40 degree temperature change. Yes. And your body, I don't know if it's in your mind or acclimates, but I remember a day. It was 31 degrees.

It felt so good that I actually went outside in my, the front yard of my house in St. Paul and had my shirt off. I was like, man, this is amazing. 31 degrees. And then the police were called. The children, I believe, or disturbed. Well, there was a quick conversation. Okay.

Where's I going? Oh, okay, so ESPN, and I'm sure the athletic and some of it, I know ESPN, because I read some of it, I had a tough time sleeping last night, so I was just perusing on the ESPN. There's a long investigative report. about the final days of Lane Kiffin and Old Miss. And, you know, when Lane had his press conference, he's talking about, you know, there was some talk of not me coming back for the championship game,

and there was a little bit of talk, and we couldn't really decide until the very last second was going to happen. Well, the Ole Miss AD comes out and says, wait a minute, bra. You're telling false stories here. None of that is true. They had the conversation weeks ago, because, again, if Lane Kiffin was searching for this job, probably the moment that

Brian Kelly got fired at LSU he put his agent on the on the snit on the prowl yes so I don't know if Lane was forthcoming to the administration Ole Miss or somebody through the great mind told the Ole Miss AD Ole Miss AD is like

bra if you take this LSU job and we're in the college football playoff you're not coaching this is not a this is not a conversation this is not up for conjecture you're not happening the only thing they couldn't decide on was if old miss was going to play for the SEC championship game whether kiffin would be able to coach that and obviously that that's not an issue because it's Alabama and Georgia playing

this week i will say this and this is in real life this is not just about college coaching we tend to recreate stories to fit our own narrative like if somebody says well why did you leave that restaurant as a manager oh it's because i wasn't happy with the food service or i wasn't happy with the the hours i was putting in a disagreement maybe be the boss, you know, because he was skimming off the top. I mean, when somebody leaves and leaves somebody in the dust, there's always going to be two sides

to every story, and then most things in life. Ole Miss 80's like, I'm getting out there. You think you're going to tell your side of the story, I'm going to tell you the real truth. And I believe Lane Kiffin is a liar. I believe Langkiffin stretches the truth. I believe Lane Kiffin is an excellent football coach, but a lous

a human being. So, based off of past history and the way he conducts himself and the way he treats people and the way he can, You know, I totally believe the Ole Miss AD by Ole Miss saying, hey, yeah, we're hearing your name out there. You're not, you're doing a very difficult job of trying to hide this. If you think you're coaching the college football playoff, you're high in the night. Well, did you see also the players? There were players who came after Lane Kiffin.

There was an offensive lineman Bryson Sanders. Okay, so he responded, quote tweeted, Lane Kipp. Remember Lane Kiff had put out that little press conference with the, after a lot of prayer, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right, which is all lies. And then he put in there, despite the team asking me to keep coaching, despite the team asking to keep coaching that he wasn't able to, blah, blah, blah. Anyways, quote tweeted by Bryson Sanders, a sophomore offensive lineman on Ole Miss. Despite the team asking me to keep coaching,

I think everyone that was in that room would disagree. Crazy. Then that was quote tweeted by another offensive lineman. let's see Paris Wilkins, who is a senior offensive lineman, let him know every single person as in every single person

would disagree with what Lane Kiffin said. Lane Kiffin's putting out this statement, yeah, the team, you know, they beg me to coach him, and I really want to coach him, and I want to be there, but, you know, they wouldn't let me. And the players are like, what are you talking about? That is a complete lie. This guy's lying. This is why I had my gut feeling on Tuesday.

Sorry, LSU fans and Chris Gorge. it's just a gut feeling like this guy's a scumbag. That's a gut feeling. I'm sorry. No, I don't think it's a gut feeling. I think it's true, but it doesn't mean you can't be a good football coach. No, you're correct. But I think bad things are going to happen.

That's what I said. Unfairable circumstances, it ends within four years. He's not going to be long for it. I don't think. I think he's going to wear him. And we have not had any, at least when I, you and I'm working this week, we have not anybody calling that's an LSU guy. And look, we have Gordon.

We love him. But, you know, he could have basically, I don't know. Who's the worst person on... I don't want to bring up a name. Jeffrey Dahmer. Jeffrey Dahmer coach LSU and Gordy be like, you know, he does have some positive attributes to him.

Does Gordy represent LSU fan base? I don't know. Are there some people that are LSU fans that are feeling dirty about this? Yeah, Lane Kiffin's quote was Keith Carter, despite the team asking him to allow me to keep coaching them. So he could better maintain their high level of performance. And the players are like, what?

Nobody did that. Yeah. Does every LSU fan think this is a groovy decision? I think there's some people are like, and we'll see if it works out. And real quick, speaking of that, and we've got to get to some high school recruiting stuff in just a second. Penn State, get away.

Uh-oh. I sent that article. I know you sent it. Go, Nitt. Lions. Go away Nitty Lions. How good is that job? We talked about that yesterday. That job is not great.

It's not a great job. Now, granted, if he's going to you're going to cash strap somebody to a... It's a better job than Houston. I don't think so. Well, you're wrong. I don't care what you think. I know what I know. That's not what I think. Number one quarterback in the country. Let's go ask. Let's ask

thousands... You know what? Let's ask every college sports writer on the planet who exists. They're cranky. They don't change your underwear. It does it right for kooks takeover. and chasasdin.org.org? They're not a name for profit? That's terrible. No, I hope that was just throwing a name out, just to throw a name out,

which happens all the time in sports. Absolutely. Well, the article did say that the interest is only on the Penn State side right now. Yeah, because Willie's like, I'm not going to the state college PA. It's cold. Cold, miserable. You're going to be no better, I mean, no better than the third best team in the Big Ten. If you're a coach and you're looking at the level.

Excuse me, I'm sorry. You got USC? You should be fifth. You just were in a semifinal. You were just in a semifinal, and then you lose three games and you're out. Who wants to have that kind of anxiety and stress about their job? No.

Well, he's a lifer. And the number one quarterback in the country? As many years as he has left. He's a lifer with Houston as well. 11 o'clock, sports talk, 790, 7-1, 3, 2. You know, he's just trying to just to twist that knife. That's fine. I do the same thing. I don't think Sark's going to

Penn State but if he wanted to go Oh please let him enjoy that Talk about a go down a couple rungs on the ladder But isn't it funny though 100,000 seat Big Time Public University Great history Great history

Great fan base Huge fan base It's the most It's the most successful School East of Ann Arbor Most ugly and overrated uniforms Well they're just non-descript

Yeah it's like they look like there in a Russell Athletic commercial. Yeah. It's not good. And frankly, could own the Senate of Pennsylvania, but the problem is Pennsylvania, whatever that's worth. That's not what it used to be. Dan Marino ain't

walking through that door, although he went to Pittsburgh. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Uh-huh. Woo-hoo! 5 in the a.m. here on Sports Talk 790. Hour number two at the Matt Thomas show with Ross underway. Phone lines open at 713, 212, 570. Should Willie Fritz take the Penn State job? Should we change a topic?

212-1-3-2-790 is your phone number. God. Has the SFA coach still there? He should be getting a new job eventually soon here. I'm telling you, he's not leaving. He signed a lifetime deal. He's like, I love that golden crown Nacadoja. I can't leave. that. His wife got an H-T-O, H-2-O. Got some water?

It's for T. It's a T-Spot, and she bought it. Oh, a T-Spot. H-T-O. She owns that whole T-like thing on North Street. There's no way she's leaving it. Oh, on North Street. That's a big hopping spot there in a neck of nowhere. That's really the only street.

It's the only paved street. That electricity on that street? You know what? That was rude. I'm sorry. The electricity on that street? You know, sometimes the power lines come down. But it's wrong.

No shows complete without us taking shot at our schools. Should we say what happened during the break? Yeah, please do. Go ahead and knock it out. We're talking about Lane Kiffin and the athletic director saying that's not what you said, Lane. And then the player's saying that's not what happened, Lane. And there was a certain someone who burst in here. It rhymes with Miss Morty.

Literally waiting the second for us to hit break. Correct. And saying, oh, this is there. crying over spilled milk this is a smear campaign because they're all butt hurt that he left all right so what he told us is the very last thing it's like a chris gordy gut feeling he says at least 12 players wow from old miss will transfer to ls u 12 i think he said 12 he may not have said exact number but i thought he said it i thought he said 12 i mean look he'll be right they don't hate them that much if they're coming to ls u we'll see how many he brings that seems like i don't i don't look

First of all, you're telling 12 guys of LSU to go away, I guess. That's what I'm saying. Like he, well, didn't, wouldn't it like the entire team hit the portal when Coach Prime came to Colorado? He said, I'm bringing luggage with me. And it's Louis. Y'all need to hit the portal. By the way, why is he still coaching? I don't know.

He's got all these health problems, too. Yeah. In his recruiting class, I think yesterday was ranked 87th. Out of how many? Oh, what, 130? Yeah. I think SFA had a higher recruiting class. You know, hearing that probably.

I'm just teasing. Where were the Cougars? They had that big quarterback recruit. I think we were 30 somewhere in that range. Oh, that's good. For the Cougs? It's not good for top-tier programs, so it's good for the Couges. So here's the first thing I thought of.

And by the way, we need to do a recruiting update. And it's brought to you by the joint chiropractic. Recruiting update. Oh, a 40th on the 24-7. I mean, hey, you got a two, four-stars and a five-star. That's good. from tech this update is brought to you by the joint chiropractic official chiropractor university

Houston 17 high school signings 15 from Texas to Louisiana 9 offense 8 defense 1 quarterback Kishon henderson went to something called the legacy of the school of sports sciences sounds good to me I wish I could have gone there. It's a real institution of

learning. By the way he is going to be enrolling at U of H in January so he's coming there early oh really you know the very first thing I thought of was okay so kind of Wigman I'm going to presume that he made some decent money to transfer from A&M to Houston. What's his eligibility looking like? Got one more year left.

Okay. So, Wegman's done, helped them win nine games. You're not letting number one high school recruiting quarterback in the country sit the pine, are you? Unless, I mean, Arch did it. But is, again, I don't know roster construction is significantly different. I mean, is Quinn yours? That's a question for Coach Fritz. Quinn yours to arch the same as the parallel it would be from Connor Wigman to Kishon Henderson?

I think it's a little different. And here's another thing. Do you want, okay, let's assume, and I'm going to throw numbers out. Okay. Let's assume that Connor Wigman got $500,000 to come play at U.H. Okay. I'm going to presume that Kishon would probably get three times that amount. You know the number one, right?

wouldn't you have a certain number of value I don't know I'm trying to pull up On 3 does estimations for this stuff So I'm trying to You subscribe to that I don't know I don't

Oh how do you sneak away From getting paying them What do you mean I don't sneak away anything Because every time I try to go find someone On 3 They want to charge me I'm saying they do evaluations

Oh okay I'm gonna go see Okay I don't know what They have a list of some deals He has Hellman's Mayo Well this can't be right

Aggies United No that can't be right I don't know, it doesn't say. What big is this, if you pay it, it says undisclosed. That's $2 million for one position. And one guy can only play it one time. Now, we'll have William before the bowl game. And I don't know how my assumption would be he would not have a firm answer on this.

We're focused on this year, Matt. Which is, you know what? If I was in his spot, I'd do the exact same thing. We're focused on beating Louisiana Tech in this bowl game. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, we are playing a much higher competitor. Oh, okay. But point being is that some schools can withstand paying $2 million for one position.

If only one plays, I don't know if the university Houston can do that. So we'll have to see. Ooh, Pop-Tarts Bowl. That's versus Miami or Georgia Tech? There are three bowls that I'm seeing. Pop-Tarts, Texas, Alamo. I'm voting for Alamo. You're always making Alamo Bowl jokes

I'm going to sit in your seat You're going to make the Alamo Bowl jokes Let's go There is a seat at the 30-yard line What's good for the goose Shush It's good for the jackass In the third deck

Of the Alamo Dome All the seats are blue there Except there's one orange one I don't get in the third deck That's Ross the seat No those seats are cheap No seats are cheap You can get nice seats

That's you could I think I'm going to go If it happens If they play You should Yeah Because it's on the 30th And I can go to

We're playing the Knicks Or Brooklyn on Yeah, San Antonio's nice. You know, if you don't have the budget to go somewhere nicer. I mean, I'm old for one in that same. I must have go 500. Hmm. Yeah, last time I was there, it didn't turn out well.

So I got to go back and get that game back. Yeah, you've been there more recently than I have. Maybe it's the house that Tom is built. I went to the Bill's Saints game there way back in the day. You did? Yeah. How was the crowd? It was good.

A lot of Saints fans. Remember they wanted it? They were like, we're proving we need to have a team. That didn't work out. Jerry Jones said, shut your bum ass. up. Yes. He's like, you know, San Antonio is my territory. Yes. And Kanan's like,

I'll take whatever you got left. San Antonio, you ain't going to get a team. You could build a, you could have built a fan base in San Antonio if you would win. They just don't win. Texas just don't win. No, you, no, and they're not building anymore. They're building an arena for the spurs to bring anyone downtown.

Oh, the ads, the vote passed? The boat did pass. Like, 5248, I think is what it was. They're going to strain all the algae from the riverwalk and sell that off or something. It is pretty dirty It is dirty I was a cat I loved it too

Was it a grown ass adult Not so much You know what that was rude I'm not sorry But that was rude Well at least you thought you were sorry I'm a little sorry A little bit

Remember Ross of the two of us Is way meaner He portrays himself as a sweet kid No see I just say Uncomfortable truth And it gets taken as meanness I just say mean things

And typically mean them You're more vicious I just Oh hey no I'm just speaking I'm just speaking truths okay if if flavorless cheese sticks hit my mouth I'm just speaking the truth I'm not being mean I'm just telling the truth a lot of things hit your mouth you're not happy with the truth shall I'm very happy with the truth shall shall set you free Matthew me too I'm truthful too people don't like it when I'm truthful I just think I think

what I'm going to do is I think for 2026 I'm going to temper my Brutal honesty and soft play. Okay. 713-212-5-790. I just don't get it coming up in 10 minutes. Mine's about Facebook. I might want to say Lane Kiffin, but I don't want to get lectured again.

I'm getting lectured a lot lately. By Gordy or by other LSU people? Probably anybody. We have people we work with here We call them the LSU Mafia Because there's like 80% of our audience Our office is LSU people Helps to know people folks

Always network I don't They're not run around bragging about this I think they are I mean he was the crown jewel of the coaching He was he was the number one pick Coaching Carousel Number one pick, period

And like I said I can separate good coaches from good people And I don't think Lane Kiven's a good person But he's a good football coach If you had the one guy that every school, whether they were everyone in a minute or not, would have loved to have had, it's Lane Kiffin. Good for them.

They got the guy. And they bankrupt their state. Which, again, I'm not worried about their finances. What is going on with that, by the way? Didn't the governor say, like, he came out and said, we're not signing some big contract? Yeah. That's why when he said that, I was like, I'm going to go non-P-4. You had the gut feeling, non-P-4.

I was going off of his vibe. John Summerall come on down. Meanwhile, he goes to Florida, and they're all pissed off in Florida for going after that. Is LSU the only fan base that's really happy about their hire? Arkansas isn't happy. Staging protest. Penn State doesn't have a coach. I think people in Missouri are not happy that Eli Drinkwood's got a new God deal.

They've got Pat Fitzgerald, the old Northwestern coach. But it's Michigan State. I mean, yeah, they used to have some cachet. They used to be eight wins. A little bit. They used to occasionally... They were the tech of the big ten? Yeah.

That's actually not bad. I'm an analogy from you. I'm impressed. Thank you. You're welcome. Yeah. Hmm. These...

These mega conferences are really putting a lot of things in perspective. That you've got to spend money. You have to go get recognizable names, you would think. And also, I don't know. Do you think these mega-conference, because of the conference affiliation, you should really dumb down the schedule a little bit? Because there's a chance, Rossi, we could have two non-P-4 conference champions not in the NCAA tournament or the CFB.

That's ridiculous. But the ACC sucks. Be better, ACC. That's what my point would be. You should do non-automatic bids. Top 12 are in. No matter what conference you're in, it is what it is, top 12. That's the way it should be.

The conferences are never going to agree to that because they're going to want their auto bids to be a part of it. Well, that's why this very well could be the second to last year of 12 teams. I think we're going to get something so whacking screwed up here. God, can we not do 20? We're going to get 16. I think 20 is eventually. I would bet you.

I bet you a dollar. Are you going to tell me then we're going to have the conference? They're going to have the CFP be as long as the season? Basically. Well, you know why? More money. Isn't the FCS 20? yeah do they play 11 or 12 games

FCS regular season I do not have the answer to that question I think SFA was 10 and 2 all right well that's 12 at least 12 Of course I also played a technical school Off of 59 and Will Clayton Huh yeah That's another year over there

They played for the old Oaken Spatoon Yeah what doesn't SFA's got a rival What they play Sam Houston What is the uh they play for the battle Piney Wood It's no longer it was the last one What

Yeah they stopped it Oh, because Sam Houston graduated. Sam Houston Big Brodom. It's okay. It's rough. You got Big Brod by Sam Houston and Texas State. Who's the rival now? For whom?

SFA. They don't have one. Nice. Yeah, technically it's still Sam Houston, but we don't have like an official rival anymore. Sorry. We used to give those tickets away. Literally give them away, like in sheets. It was tied until the last year.

They should have called the Battle of Roll of Enrollment. We had like a roll of toilet paper. We're just handing them out. Battle of Tiny Woods. They used to put that game at NRG. Yeah. Yeah, the last one was energy, yeah. It was a good rivalry.

It went on from 18. And Sam Houston, you're lovely people, but you playing your games at Shell Energy Stadium was a complete disaster. You got naturally embarrassed. What happened? They're refurbishing Bauer Stadium in Huntsville. So they had to make a decision about where to play for a season.

And the athletic director, I think, said, we can't play. Tom Balls High School Stadium would be available. I don't think Huntsville's high school stadium was available but the nicest stadium in that neck of the wood you could have had Woodland Stadium you could have had

where Tomball plays and had drawn you know seats 12 or 13,000 it's plenty for Sam Houston and been a lot closer they were they played their home games downtown Houston what did it draw

that seems like a bad idea you can't get the student section well I think they would announce 3 to 4,000 every time but there were games where there were less than 500 people in the building including workers yeah

It's just, I felt bad for Sam Houston fans because every week, you know, that Brick Center highlight, that Brick Center Twitter account would basically show the video of Shell Energy Stadium for an S of Sam Houston game and Noma would be there. What's Brick Center? That's a, it's a Twitter account that makes fun of sports things. Oh, okay. I haven't seen them. I mute most of those because sometimes I post fake news. Yeah. But as long as you know what it, I don't follow, but it shows up in the 4U tab.

all right um we got emma ad doca coming up in 35 minutes excited about that i'm extremely excited yeah and we have uh we have ross's nfl rotten five at uh 1250 today oh yeah and believe in you got you had some work ahead of you uh if i'm gonna keep it a buck you can probably guess who the worst team in the NFL is doesn't rhyme with the baints oh bets hmm you can guess just get just think of it Oh, it's Amy Kronk-strunk. Okay. Well, you don't know.

We'll find out. What was that score against the Jaguars this last week? Oof. Gosh, I mean, they're not even showing up. By the way, are we rooting for the Jaguars or the Colts this Sunday? Or do we not care? I guess you don't care. Because if you control your destiny against the Colts so you root for the Colts and then beat them yourself, it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter how you root for. How about this? Was it like this for a quasi-spicy-take take? It wouldn't surprise. me if three teams in the NFC South make the playoffs this year? They could. We thought it was a joke of a of a division. That we did. It's why we should

always sometimes listen to our old shows back in August. But you're right, though. The Jaguars are a paper tiger. I have our predictions. I can find them. Save them for the end of the year. Okay. 713-212. 5-790. Now, the next half hour of this show is something we do every Thursday, and it's called I just don't get

it. And we, it's actually, I think we consider this a public service to our audience. We have three different generations of people in this studio here. They can give you perspectives on things that happen in your life, whether it be sports related, whether it be your life related. And what you will do is you'll call in and you will tell us what's going on in your life or something that happened at work and you'll say,

hey, Matt Ross and Jonathan, I just don't get it. And we will try to help you navigate these murky waters that you in which you live in. Yes. And we'll give you our own examples. Mine is about Facebook this week. Jonathan always has one usually involving traffic or the burritos on the amount of exit and it gets in his breakfast tacos. I mean, something similar to that.

Okay. And Ross, you don't usually typically get people in your commute from your five minute from the apartment to your house to the office here, right? I don't normally what? You don't use, that's what you don't get is why people will continue to be terrible drivers. They're, that actually, you, you'd be actually surprised on a, I have literally like a five minute commute. And I, I do, I can road rage in those five minutes. It's great, well, because we have a right on red. We have a, we have a merge situation.

we have another light with an underpass like every every day somebody's driving stupid it's crazy i have a 58 minute commute and i road rage every day don't road rage mattie i swear at people i call people names i hate listen to sports radio clean and serene mattie i'm a little worried about you you should be got a nice text by the way from our friend of the show yesterday john mclean he got his twitter account back and i sent him to a proper contact and he thanked me for it I thought it was very nice. Did you make a Google Authenticator account? I don't think I can do that right now.

Why not? It doesn't give me the option. Will you do it for me? We don't do it for him. We don't need no crypto. It's kind of funny when he gets hacked, though. It's not funny. It's very irritating.

I mean, fool me once. Shame on me. Fool me three times. You? Fool me 55 times. I'm getting hacked. Shame on you, man. life. It's just don't get. No need to worry. No need to fret. We will discuss the topics to see if

we comprehend the things that may confuse our friends. It's time to say, I just don't get it. I'm an adult, and I know that everybody has their favorite social media platforms, whether it's TikTok, whether it's Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, whatever. Dej's own Twitter. But, you know, when you're bored or you're like, if you're waiting, you get your car oil change or you can't sleep in the middle of the night, you're going to prove your Facebook. You're watching mindless television. You want to see what's going on. I run into stories all the time, and it's not because I follow. all these sites that has happened to be on my page about these variety of news stories that aren't

real like i'll see a woman uh gets on top of the counter to bed bath and beyond and yells at the people for stop using old coupons and gets arrested for it that never happened so what i want out doing is i'm looking at these incredible stories of these crazy acts that are of of of negligence and crime and i'm like how does this happen why are people wigging out Like, woman, waitress, and Waffle House throws 73 waffles up in the air and discuss because of a bad tip. And then I go to Google to see these stories happen and where they happen and they're fake. Facebook, what are you doing? Why are you creating these fake stories?

I'm not following those people. I'm not interested. All is doing is pisses me off. I don't know. I don't know how monetizing Facebook works, if they get money for engagement or what. but if you see something say something Matt I report those people I'm saying it right now

I just don't get why I'm seeing fake stories on my Facebook account I don't know either but I'm saying like report the accounts okay I should do that I always report the accounts I will do that I need me more proactive about that

and I think yeah I think it's easy to just kind of be like oh that's weird that's made up and then just move along but I always report those I want pictures of your kids I want pictures of you and your husband

or girlfriends or best friends or your bros going on great trips like Frost. Your IG the other day had lots of pictures of you in Austin at the game. That was that stuff I live for. I don't want politics. I don't want religion. I just want nice, easy, breezy lack of viciousness on a social platform known as Facebook. I'm not asking for much. I'll even tolerate a recipe or what you cook for dinner.

Not throw with those kind of things, but I don't want fake news stories. I didn't ask for them, I didn't punch on them, I don't inquire about them, I just don't get it. You want my chili recipe? No, I'd rather just eat it. I was going to post that. Okay. Why would you, no, let me ask you this. Isn't that a secret family recipe? No.

You want the people to know your, you're not giving away a whole recipe. Don't do it. No, keep that to yourself. You've got very few things. It's a recipe I finally tuned myself. So they're dead. I borrowed some from, you know. did a little borrowing

I remixed it you gravy train off somebody else that's not true you bit stole which I'm used to that's that never mind like for instance

I don't want to know the recipe to KFC's original recipe chicken Are there 13 original spices and herbs you can find that on the internet

I got one for you I love going to loopy tortilla for my fajitas they have a marinade on their steak that's amazing I have got soy sauce in it I've got no interest in learning it

I want to go there and eat it so don't put it out there that's good If you know the recipe for it, keep it to yourself. Maybe I'll, maybe I'll make a chili truck. What'd you call it? I don't know yet.

Rossi V's. Hmm. Okay. You know it with a cool restaurant or call like the, you take your first name and you add a letter to it and you just put the last initial of your last name. How about just chili con carne? It's easy. That's what it's called. That's a terrible name for a food truck.

Why not? Why is it terrible? Chili and carne, that's all you would say? That's what it's called. That's what the dish is called. But they could be 100 trucks. What makes your chili can? carne better than somebody else's. It's very simple, Matt.

You just keep it simple. Just try it. Rossi v. What makes Burger King? Oh, we're the King of Burgers? We're going to Chili King? Well, how's that working for them? McDonald's like Home of my beer. I think Burger King's making profits. Home my filial fish. Yeah, they've got the new SpongeBob meal too. Oh, are McRibbs still available? I have not seen. I've not had one in a week or so. I hope not. I think they cleared enough gunk out of the machines to press all the sheets and they're good for a few months.

Terrible. All right. Jonathan, what don't you get? I don't get people eating the McRib. Shut up. I ran, I actually ran into a listener at a restaurant yesterday. Where'd you go eat? You say it? I'm not going to know.

No free plugs, man. No free plugs. Thank you very much. I wasn't eating with him. I ran, I was eating for myself. And I ran into him. Yeah. And, oh, you've met this person before.

I actually came to Talyard Brewing before. Oh, nice. And he said, I got to be honest. I got to side with Matt. I love the McRib. I don't get you, people. What's the gentleman's name? you know, Frank?

Frank? You're simply the best. All of you, let me tell you something. If I was to give away my money, your palate is jacked. In my funeral, if I had some extra side money, I'd give it to those of you that like the McRib over those that don't.

We have further confirmation today. Your palate's jacked. I don't like cherry. What's wrong with cherry? I just don't. I like apple pie, apple Danish, apple cobblers. I'm not a cherry fan.

Can I say what happened? Sure, go ahead. You said it was pistachio. You're like, oh, this is pistachio. I don't like it. First of all, it's red, man. It tastes like pistachio. Second of all, I was like, this is not pistachio.

Okay. See, you just got, your wires are crossed and your taste buds. Do you ever watch Hell's Kitchen? They get their palettes wrong all the time. I'm sure they do. So, you know what? Us geniuses. Power suggestion.

Sometimes we get it wrong. Us geniuses. Okay. Chef Monsieur Monsieur, Mathieu. Mathieu. All right. So you don't get McRib lovers.

Jollyland, what don't you get? I just don't get people that go to the movie theater and fall asleep. Ooh. Like, you know, I'm going to just say

this is a shot to my girl because we want to go see the new Wicked movie. Wicked for good? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard it was terrible. See, let me, I can get to that.

But it was 20 minutes in and she's passed out just sitting there. I look over to my name. left and there's three other people knocked the sleep and I'm just sitting here like Yes and I'm like and I guess Because we were at the

The AMC over there at Deerbrook Oh And let me tell you can I give you a little advice I wouldn't be falling asleep over there That's fine He came out just fine I went on a first date there Many many moons ago

How's that second day ago? Very well Really? I mean the reclined seats in the movie This is like 20 years ago Okay But yeah I don't And I've always had this thing

I just don't understand you're paying money like wouldn't you want to take some caffeine or something i don't know i just i think that's well i was gonna say i get it until you said it was your girlfriend because i know people who are like parents and they they're like they're running around all day and the movies like their time and they end up falling asleep i'm not saying they should but like especially if they're going like a movie with their kids they're like yeah this put this kid's movie on i'm about take a nap but yeah if you're at a movie that she wants to see what time was the showing start. No, see, it was like...

Oh, you went to like a 10.30 show? No, no. It was like a 920. And you had no, and you had no interest in the movie, correct? No, no, no, no. I wanted to see... Did you see the first one? Yeah, I see the first one. The first one was fine. Yeah, and then the second one, I'll give it a 6.5 out of 10. What about the first one?

I'll give a 7.5. Okay. Arianna Grande, quick ruling, gentlemen, on her. What ruling? Oh, now? What kind of ruling are you looking for? Now I can't do it. Now it's like a six. Because she's had all the work done? She's too thin. Yeah, something's going on with them.

She needs to eat. They're going on. Something's going on as sad. They're not eating over there. Hmm. I mean, she's beautiful. She's beautiful, but she needs to gain 20 pounds. I don't know.

I haven't, I haven't seen her right now. I haven't seen her on a scale. I want to hear your reaction. She has 373 million followers on Instagram. My God. I mean, she is famous. I'm just trying to get over 1,300 at Sports RV. You know the best part of her is she does great impressions of singers.

Looks gone. see see i told you ross i wasn't making it up her her neck is like a straw gain 20 ariana yeah mm-hmm something's not going some something's something's going mix it a cronut ariana come on let's take her ronken ronuts and get her some coffee and donuts you know what let's get some steak and potatoes you know what let's get some let's go i will take ari grande out you know what now you guys have me concerned about her oh my god oh you my killer Yeah, we don't want her upstead, a stomach upstead. We don't want to rupture her insides.

I just said she's a beautiful woman that needs to gain some weight. I'm a little concerned now. Let's go to the phones next. We have a pair of James, join us. James North Houston, James and Klein. Well, we're crushing it like north of I-10. If you're south of I-10 and you're something you don't get, let us know. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

7-1-2-2-7-9-7-9. E-Madoka in 20 minutes. here on 790. Jonathan, real quick, the University of Houston added a new goalkeeper to their women's soccer program. And you're saying,

well, Matt, why are you bringing this up to me? She transferred from SFA. And it says, reason, they only use 17 letters in their alphabet at SFA. Hold up. I mean,

the SFA is known to have a historic women's soccer team. It wasn't challenged. She transferred from where to where? SFA to Houston. Oh, okay. See, we're just like, we just help you out, football, soccer. What did you have a lot of football?

I have a lot of teams that transfer from an estimated track to U of H track. Zero. I don't know of any. We just, we'll just help you out all the time. Carlos, like, we don't need that SFA trash. Let's go. Move on. Ouch.

I'm just kidding. I'm supposed to be lovely. I'm sure that rolling arous a delicious place to go for homecoming dinners. 713, 212-5-790. Let's go to James, North Carolina. Houston. James, what don't you get, my friend? I just don't get how someone can live in Texas, not like Brisket, but rave, abuttonic rib.

I'm not going to say no names, no names, okay? But it rhymes with rat, hummus. I'm calling you out. Later, man. See you later. I don't get it either. Let's get, let's paint the picture here. Okay.

I like brisket. I don't love it. I like it. I eat it. In matter of fact, we did a show a couple of years ago where a friend of the show brought us some brisket from a very high-end barbecue place. You, me and our former producer, Connor, Governor, are due to go get some barbecue here shortly. And when you take Jonathan? Jonathan, will you go barbecue with us?

Yeah, I don't mind. Okay. So we'll make four of us for lunch at a barbecue joint to be determined. And I'll have brisket there and I will take a bite and I will go to this. It's delicious. But it's not my preferred... But you tried not to order it. It's not my preferred meat in a barbecue place.

My perfect barbecue plate, ribs, jalapeno sausage, beans, coleslaw, potato salad, pickles and onions, maybe a jalapeno and bread, period.

Can't have a brisket off the plate in Texas. I just can't. Hmm. And I swear to God, if you've never had tried it before, I have. I'm not talking to you. You.

You try some tri-tip, for those of you that it's, again, it's a Western thing more than it is in Texas. You'd be like, damn, his tri-tip's good. It's actually juicier and leaner. Juicier and leaner. That makes no sense. Yeah. It doesn't need artificial fat. It's just got the juices coming right out of the meat.

It's got the juices come right out of the meat. Is that what you like? I like tri-tip. And brisket, when not overly cooked, is delicious. So you like when the juices are coming out of the tip? Ross, you, me, and Connor Day McGovern, although probably not going to be until the first of the year because our schedules are crazy.

That's fine. I got a lot of time coming off, folks. So excited for you. Hope you have a great vacation. I'm going to be relaxed. I'll be refreshed come January 5th. I hope you get a long flu during the time. You're so rude.

I'm being honest. You're so rude. And again, the best. part about the McRib infatuation for me is there there are so many closet McRib fans out there that y'all finally come out there and show yourselves and I'm proud of you. You know what? Somebody's got to take the bullet for those people that are

McRib haters and I'm taking it. That's fine because I'm a man of the people. That's okay. You're on the 40 side. I've done a lot of Twitter polls. It all comes out 60, 40. You're with the 40. And I'm telling you, the key now is extra barbecue sauce so you can take the barbecue sauce and use

it as a dip for your fries. Oh. And also so you can taste that nasty pork sheet less with bumps on it extra onions it's a pork sheet with bumps on it why do they add the bumps for uh for beauty

there's no ribs there there's not a rib bone they put bumps on it so you know so like they press it with a bump it's so weird people are tired of you talking about it I'm not going to bring up

I didn't bring it up that guy it's America sandwich yeah whatever Alex on 790 Alex what don't you get you know what I don't get I don't get Taylor Sheridan. I don't get Landman.

I watched the first episode and everything was cool right up until his daughter starts walking around with her poom-pum hanging out. And she's supposed to be 17 years old in high school. And they're talking about where her boyfriend's going to lay plant seed, if you will, everywhere except what's wrong with you? Why would you write that in? That was a choice, bro. Like you made a choice there to,

include that in something that didn't need it. That was, that's so creepy, dude. I'm out. Thank you. My wife and my mother are obsessed with Landman. Okay. They have, they binge-watched the two as many episodes as they possibly could.

I have not looked at it yet because I don't, I mean, I've been so busy with games and whatnot, so I don't. I ain't got time for that. I don't have time. Have you looked, have you seen Landman yet? Any interest in it? No. It's got an 8.2 an IMDB. It's pretty good. Demi Moore is one of my all-timers. I mean, all time.

All time. Prime, maybe more. Let me tell you, whatever she is now, it ain't far from Prime. She got to be with 60, but she's still just human sex is what she is. With that being said, I don't have time to watch a show. She's all right. What do you mean all right? What are you talking about?

What are you high? Go back and watch strip teeth. Strip teeth. No, your girlfriend can't be there. Let me tell you something. You're getting kicked out. You'd have movement. during ghost trust me oh ghost ghost and i don't like short hair i did during that movie yeah i

saint almost that was a saint almost fire she was into and all those all those uh 80s movies uh i like that one what was that summer movie something summer one one crazy summer or something wasn't she one of those robert redford uh movies about paying a million dollars to have sex with her or something like that yeah one crazy summer oh with john cuzac Bobcat Goldthwaite, Demi Moore? That's a classic right there. Demi Moore. Oh, strip teas, too.

My God. Oh, I change your life when you're 13 years old. I've been changed for 40 years. What was the movie that she was in with Indecent Proposal, right? Yeah, I didn't catch that one. Yeah, that was where Robert Redford said, was it to Woody Harrelson? I'll give you a million dollars and let me sleep with your wife? Landman, 77% fresh by critics, 52% fresh popcorn meter, which is,

fans. Man, Kim can, I mean, like, I don't see Kim for hours. She's watching it. 52%. All right. Lastly, before we get to EMA, James, what don't you get? Yeah, first of all, I don't just come out bad. I mean, Willie Fritz has been a blessing since he's been on the cruise.

But how does a guy that went to a school that nobody knows is the number one quarterback recruiting the nation? I mean, the school, legacy. medicine or whatever, where's that school at? I don't care where it is. I know where he's going to be going now, though, next year. Starting in January. Yeah, I know that.

The reality is this. The reason why, James, is that there were a lot of people that wanted Henderson to be a non-quarterback, and Willie Fritz identifying him early and said, if you come play at the University of Houston, you will be a quarterback for us. And I think that was where, as the name is Kishon and Henderson,

is that what it is? And that really appealed to him because a lot of schools were trying to make him a receiver or a cornerback. Sometimes guys just have it in their mind they want to be quarterbacks, and that is a very appealing to schools when you're just trying to decide who where you want to go.

Like Mack Brown wanted to turn Johnny Mansell into a safety. Wanted Robert Griffin a third to play defense too, I think. Good job, Mac. Didn't answer phone calls from James Winston. Good job, Mac. Sorry. I'm bringing up past traumas. Is this like post-bitterness?

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring up past traumas. I got to let it go. You need one coach In Texas to coach a big game Let's say you're playing for a conference championship What you want? They're okay Oh, okay, sure, DKR, why not?

You want DKR? I guess, I don't know what his coaching style really was I mean, they used to run the ball a lot They run the triple option and whatnot Wishbone, wing T, whatever it was Okay, there it is I'll go with Fred Acres I'm going to Dave McWilliams for the win

I'm going Charlie Strong He's going to get the guys fired up Now does he have good coordinator? I'm going John McEvick. If he's got good coordinators, I don't mind Charlie Strong. Have we basically announced every Texas quarterback coach the last 50 years? Matt Brown would just get recruit dudes and be all foxy, and then he'd have good coordinators and then good players and win.

It wasn't some genius coach. Joining us online too, Coach Brown, Coach, how the hell are you? I hear what you said about me there. Ross, it was not very fair because I was winning you national championships and you didn't respect me in my program. He's right. He knows I'm right. All right. Let's talk to IMAIDOCA next at 1158 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

1201 on Sports Talk 790. Let's spend 10 minutes with the head basketball coach of your Rockas who disposed of the Sacramento Kings last night. Emaya Doca with us here on 790. Coach, it's Matt and Ross. I got to ask you, did you really call the team a junior varsity squad at halftime last night? I said stop playing like one, looking like one. Take care of the ball to play with some sports and something like that. You're just the best, I'm going to tell you that right now. And I'm not trying to blow smoke.

I'm just saying you go in there and they obviously listen to you. That is, what did you get the bluntness of your life? And I certainly appreciate it because I'm a very blunt person myself. I just always like the honesty myself. don't want to coach or anybody kind of blowing smoke and so in your direct with them and don't sugarcoat it

they can tell if you're BSing or lying anyway so might as well hit them direct and I think guys respect that approach. You certainly did that. Not only did they cut the turnovers down, you put it together an amazing third quarter and the three point shot was not a huge part of the team in the second half. Were you surprised by that or

is that kind of what Sacramento dictated because they gave you so many opportunities in the paint? No, we just take what the gang gives us. I think, you know, we'll shoot them if they're available, but a lot of times they were bringing their big up in the pick and roll to take away some of our walking threes. When we hit Alperin and guys in the pocket, they stayed locked up on some of our shooters,

which allowed us to get downhill and get to the paint. Obviously, if we're going to get all those paint points, 78, and you don't need to take a ton of threes we won't. The Alpy to amend Thompson combination was working, vice versa it was working as well have you noticed even a better chemistry with those guys since they first stepped together on the same floor because it feels like they

have a real good sense of knowing where each other's at yeah definitely I think the time spent together over the last few years has really paid off you know amend was the guy that handled a bunch but now we have them in the dunker spot we have them in the corner slashing and you know playing in the pick and roll

at times so Alpies is always looking for them a lot of teams back to paint not just with the big but bring the low man across and our men is great at slashing behind defining his rhythm and obviously he's a lot of threat there so Alford being the great path that he is constantly looking for him. Reed Shepard

didn't get the start yesterday but he did play 28 minutes. What factors into your decisions about the rotation starting guys and I mean he's still getting his minutes even though he wasn't starting in the starting lineup? Yeah a lot to do the personnel with the other team. We like

balance as well for our team so I have some really good scores that We wanted, you know, Josh and Mendegaard, Levine, and DeRosen. And for the most part, we did a great job on them in general, you know, 12 points and only two for Levine. And so went with a more defensive-minded rotation, but also balance as well. You know, we have a lot of our really good scores in the starting lineup and read punch off the bench. It's been good for us most of the season. Rocket Tech coach, Ema, Doca, with us here on Sports Talk 790.

I have a more philosophical question for you because I noticed last night, Russell Westbrook, I should say, made the first couple of threes. Percentages are up this year for him, but you guys were still backing off of him. What goes into that decision-making as far as gaining enough sample size to maybe change your stripes when it comes to any player as far as getting a hot hand or coming into the game if percentages are up relative to their career? Yes, I mean, it's game plan-wise and what teams like to do. They're a team that likes to get to the paint, and he's really good at that, obviously, so you want to keep him away from the basket as much as possible.

And, you know, it's funny at times you encourage guys to shoot and hope they make their first one or two, and they'll keep shooting a lot of times, and the percentage is usually catch up. And so, like I said, we did a really good job on Murray, you know, two for 11 for five points. DeRosen, only 12, and Levine, too, will live with some of the others making and taking some tough shots, and he hit his first two, but it went home for five. after that as well as the kid right now made two threes but had 25 points but if he's scoring 25

and the others are held to single digits we'll take that trade off every day you know you've had a lot of nice stretches we're a couple off days in between we've had a busy stretch of games now we've got a busy stretch coming up before the next week and then a long road trip have you had to alter in terms of practices workouts guys you know wanting to get their shots up but still get some downtime away because the schedule is about to pick up a little bit in here in the next few weeks yeah we definitely have we got that good three-day break after the golden state game and so we took a good amount of time off known we had a back-to-back against Utah coming out of it you know time changes coming back home for Thanksgiving and going back out west and now you know five and seven days basically and so a lot of less practice time now the back-to-backer can eventually catch up to you and so we're conserving as much energy and saving rates as much as possible so some of the teams we've just seen in phoenix so we You can limit some practice time and more film work and walk through and get ready for that in the house back-to-back. The back-to-back with Utah, you beat them up pretty good on Sunday, then they'll drop the game on Monday.

Is that a lesson for the next time you got back-to-back to the same team, or is it just a one-off in your mind? No, you have to understand when you beat a team by 30, you know, on their home floor, and you have to play them again. They're going to come out with a different mindset, and you try to guard against that and prepare for that. and, you know, our intensity wasn't the same definitely in the second game, especially in the first half. We got down 20 and then, as always, fought our way back and got the three points late in the game.

So if we bring that same intensity early in the game, it's a different story. But understanding the team's going to take that hit and be more aggressive, you have to meet that for us, as for us. You were talking with Ross about the lineups and who starts and who's not, and I thought Kevin was pretty good yesterday

about talking about Josh Akogi, and he's not going to have a lot of shots. He's probably not more the fourth or fifth option and you're starting five but his plus minus always seems to be good he's always very active and I know you've been asked about it a few times but has he been a low key kind of

wow he even brought more than maybe we even thought he would when he finished a sign with the team yeah I'll say you look at more so the defenders the people he's guarding you look at their numbers and like I mentioned those guys that were held the five and two and 12 points

you know they have a 21 point score and three 18 points scores and So to hold those guys down, he's done his job as far as that. He'll play off the other guys and be a recipient if Alpi and KV get double-teamed or get on transition or so be it. But overall, I think just the impact he's had has been great, especially with the injuries. I would say that's the reason you didn't expect it as much with Dorian being out and Jayshan starting the season slow, him getting that opportunity.

He really looked good as soon as he got here, training camp, and everything else. And so taking advantage of the opportunity, and it's great to have another defender out there to take some of the load off. Stephen Adams continues to be a plus for you 11 points and 8 rebounds off the bench You also had five of those on the offensive side Can you just break down for us What is it about him that makes him so good on that end

How much of his instructions from you guys the coaches And just some kind of innate ability He has to be so effective offensive rebounding Yeah, nothing to do with us He's been doing this his whole career We you know double and triple down on and encourage him to do it more as well as other guys. But when we got him from Memphis, we

watched a ton of tape and saw the impact he had on that end of the floor in that area specifically. But you know, it starts with strength. You know, you got to be strong enough to hold guys off, wedge him under the basket, but he has a great timing and sense of where the ball is going to come and anticipation. And so combination of all, a very high IQ player that knows his role and knows how he impacts the game. And, you know, obviously he's brought that toughness and those second chance

points to us since he got here. Last question, Amy, do you think Dylan saves some material for you tomorrow night coming in town for the first time since the trade and have you saved some of your material for him as well? He hugged it up with everybody. He's going to talk and do what he does. He saw the Laker game, obviously, the other day

but had a really good game against us as well and so I think he's always going to be excited to play. He carries that edge and chip on his shoulder regardless and there's no ill will between us, but he always wants to show up the next team. I'm And so doing a great job, especially with a Booker out, you know, 30 plus points against the Lakers the other night, 29 against us. And he's really finding his way offensively and brought that edge and toughness to Phoenix at that needed.

All right. They'll be in town tomorrow night, Rockets and Sons and a quick trip to Dallas after that. Coach, thank you for the time. We'll see you tomorrow night. And congrats on the win last night against the Kings. We appreciate it as always. Thank you guys. I will see.

E. Medoca with us here for weekly visit on Sports Talk 790. Great stuff as always. you guys are playing like a junior varsity team it's pretty good god the material's so good and it's so low key i mean it's a matter of fact yeah you listen to e-may and look we 90% of our conversations are with the microphone on 10% are off but that's he's pretty much there is there's no on or off microphone for him i mean some screaming or yelling but not just you know not just like out and out yelling and making a

it's sincere right it is sincere yeah it is sincere yeah and when he wants to attack you and say things bad about you can be very cutting

very biting kind of reminds me oh really yeah okay things I say about behind your back oh some of the material is amazing I'm sure it's great

all right hey we're going to go from one team that's getting a lot of positive conversation to another one there is an ESPN analyst that was loving on your beloved Houston Texans. And I have a question for you.

Oh, no, wait. I guess it depends on who it was. Are they wearing a funny hat? No, you're going to be okay with it. Okay. We're going to play the audio for you. And I'm going to then ask you this question. Do you like all this extra loving

the Texans are getting? Because sometimes you may want to be low-key and just kind of off the radar. Okay. I think the Texans are being put on the national stage on the radar. We'll talk about that next. 12-11 on Sports Talk 790. If you would like to join us, we'd love to have you at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

We have the Rotten 5 coming up in 45 minutes, and believe it or not today, at 150. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. On Sports Talk 790. All right, how do we feel sports RV, because you are Battle Red Ross, about the national folks loving on the beloved AFC South team. It's net yet to make the playoffs because at the season end today, they wouldn't be in, but they are one of the hottest

teams in the National Football League. They are. Well, tell me exactly who was speaking well about them and what was said. I will say this. This is one of the lausiest NFL players ever to play. One of the lousiest NFL players ever to play. But maybe my favorite NFL analyst.

Dan Orlovsky? Dan O'Lovsky. Hey! He was on the show. Hey, Texans legend, Dan O'Olloski. He was on Get Up, which I don't watch that show because it's basically that windbag, Mike Greenberg, talking about so much loves to jets for four hours. I don't need that. But when he lets Orlovsky speak, I tend to listen. And here is what Dan is seeing lately in two things that I never think,

we would never think an NFL analyst would ever have to say about what's going on right with the Houston, Texas. The Chiefs at this point. But let's zero in a little bit on the Texans because they are on this four-game win streak. What's changed for their offense specifically? It's the most improved offensive line in football, and it's the most improved offensive coordinator in football. Shout out to Nick Cayley, his growth this season. We've talked for years, about two years,

about how bad this offensive line has been in Houston and the impact on the quarterback. It looked like 2003, C.J. Stroud. The firmness in the middle of the pocket allows for what I would say one of his strengths is, is that react and reset, react and reset, react and reset, ball over the middle of field. Shocking, once again, goes to the bottom,

wants to throw the out route, not there. How firm is the pocket for him? firm enough where he can hang, hang, now climb on a huge third down. Nobody near him dumped the ball off for conversion. This was my favorite play. My favorite play of the game. This is vintage C.J. Stroud. Ball fake, I want to throw the in route right now at the bottom of the screen.

It's not there. Middle linebacker is there. Reset to the top, but I got to have the pocket to do it. And then throw the ball to the out route right on the sideline. Beautiful. That is 2023. This offensive line was terrible last year. Look at the number difference, okay?

At this point last year, 104 pressures and 264 pressures, 25 sacks. Right now, 106 pressures, so a little bit more than 50 less, 14 sacks. That's 11 less. That is huge by that center guard, that guard center guard trio totally has changed. It's the most improved offensive line in football, and it's the most improved and developed offensive coordinator in the game right now. All right. I believe 52% of what he said. Only 52%.

Yeah. Why? The facts bear it out. We've talked about this with the pro football focus grades. The offensive line is playing much better. Yes, it is. And so that's really indisputable. The pressures, the sacks allowed. Yes.

The pressure rate. The pancake blocks. All that can be found. I don't think Dan Orlovsky's watched 17, or how many Texans games? Nick Kelly is not significantly better season to season. First of all, this is first year as an offensive coordinator. He might be better than he was six weeks ago. Yeah.

But he came across glowingly to Nick Cayley. It's not a glowing season for Nick Cayley. I'm sorry, it's not. It's a better run as of late. And a lot of that is because the defense is covering up the warts of the offense. But this is not a high-actane offense. it's not an overly enthusiastic creative play-calling offense. Now, granted, three of the games have been with Davis-Mills,

so you're going to probably limit things here. The team still struggles in the red zone. It's better, but it still struggles. It still relies too much on Kami Fairbairn. It's better, but I think Dan was a little anxious in his praise for the Texans' offensive. Yeah, that's why I disagree. It's not like they're ripping off 30 points a game or anything like that. but I do think Nick Cayley has been better.

We're seeing more play action. We're seeing like, for example, you're seeing all the end around on Nico College is fantastic. And a red zone, and I was just about to bring that up. A end around, we're seeing some more creativity to where, okay, we're not getting great push up the middle here. So let's get a little creative. Let's do something else rather than a run just right or an end zone fade and a run up the middle, smashed Woody Marks into a pile for a negative one yard. So I think we are seeing a little bit more creativity.

We are seeing more play action. Dalton Schultz getting more involved in the game and it's all, it all is on the pillar of the offensive line. It starts with all that. Nick Cayley's play calls, I'm going to tell you, he wasn't calling plays in week one that had no chance. They have chances as long as everybody's on the same page and things hold up. What you need to do is have things that can still work when things aren't going your way, especially with the offensive line and when it comes to blocking. So I do think he's improved. Is he top five coordinator in the league or anything like that? No, but he went from what the heck is this guy doing out here to things that are looking a lot better.

And one way for the offensive coordinator to look better is to have a better offensive line, which he's had as well. Not to say that his job was ever in jeopardy. Although there is precedents out there that coaches can get fired after one season. Yeah, he could. I'll ask you this. All right. If I said no if, ands or buts, Nick Cayley is coming back as the offensive coordinator in 2026. Are you feeling good about that?

I think there's still a lot of season to be left, but I would say right now he's a heavy favorite to be back. I'll go three to one. We'll put this way. I didn't think he was going to get fired. What is it, Polly Market, that betting side I do now? But all I'm going to tell you right now is, if you went back and looked at the average Texan tweet,

whatever that is. Yes. Nick Kelly did not want to look at his Twitter feed in September and October of this year. It was what are the Texans doing? Again, there were endless jokes, Rossi, about the Nick Casario pipeline of that small college they went to and how he only picks guys that have had patriotized or where he went to school. That was six weeks ago. This wasn't a year ago.

So that's why I said I largely agree with Dan Oloski, but I can't go all the way through. I think we still have to see how this thing turns out in the crucial games. And I think, frankly, if Nick Kaley can call an outstanding game on Sunday and spice things up against the Chiefs, because, again, I think you're going to have to do a shootout. I don't know if it's going to mean the highest scoring, but you're going to have to go mono-a-mono, obviously, with points. I like what I see diversity-wise. I want to see more of it. I want to see it against a good team on the road in, you know, chilly conditions.

Yeah, Nick Kaley is not some footballing genius, but I think things have been improving and getting a lot better. and it's not an accident. You're not hearing his name brought up as much because, I mean, it's low-hanging fruit. Let's go after the hitting coaches. Let's go after the offensive coordinator. Let's go after the defensive coordinator, all that stuff. Special teams coach, Farram-Barram missed an extra point.

You've got to fire him. No, and that's what it is. Did you see Young Hui Qoo, by the way? Yes. Ram his foot into the dirt? Those who didn't see it. It was the game between the Patriots and the Giants, and he is the Giants kicker,

and he went to go kick a field goal. and he came up short. He was like, the example would be using your wedge and hitting the grass so hard that you don't even swing and get part of the ball. Which I've done.

Frequently. That's why I've given up on golf. I have never, have you ever seen that in a football game? I have never seen that. In an NFL game, I've never seen that in high school. It was like he literally,

it would be like again, going to, on your driver. at the number one T, swinging as hard as you can. He forgot how long his leg was. And whiffing and coming up well short with a massive divot behind the ball. It's like if he put a stilt on his leg and he forgot how long his legs were.

Your legs, you change the length of the club links. You don't change the length of your leg. This is still the same young way coup that beat the Texans last year. Yeah, and he got released by the Falcons because he was bad and then got picked up by the Giants. Yeah.

Who are awful. Oh, speaking of that, we're 20 minutes away from the Rotten 5. Oh, yeah, they are! what's believe it or not today at 150 oh man it's gonna be a good one i asked hold on first of all i asked you for a topic an hour ago you could have worked on it during the game last night i asked you for a topic an hour ago all right let's find out what's going on the world of twitter to see if there's anything worthy of a what is what is

the trending thing going on right now uh trending let's see here um walter payton now Oh, National Cookie Day? Hmm. Merry Christmas? No. Paramount? Earl Campbell's trending. Why?

Hope he's okay. Hmm. Happy birthday, Dan is trending on Twitter. Dan Matthews? Happy birthday, Dan. Sunbelt Billy is trending. Who the hell is Sunbelt? Billty.

Really? Emma Stone is trending. That's good. Orrin is trending. What's going on? All these Oilers trends? Eh, they're just tailored for you. all right so rotten five 20 minutes from now what's the matter what you're like trying to hold it in something

i'm not going to hold anything sounds great looking good can't wait you have breaking news or something no okay you're all right i'm doing great i'm going to inspect that's seven seven one three two one two five seven any if you're doing great give us a shout out we've had calls north of i ten today have we taking a call south of i ten i don't know i want to hear from you south houston league city pearland pearland where are you call us from the rig hobby airport where are you at okay seven one three two one two five seven honey stupid NFL question. If the Texans

win this game. All right. Then they have Arizona. Then they have Las Vegas. Then they have a trip to L.A. against the Chargers. And we know the Chargers are, I mean, they're not any

more of a solid team to when the EFC than the Texans are. And they, and then the Texans win the final game against the Colts. What kind of streak is that, sports RV? Are that a nine-gamer? Here comes a stupid question, and I apologize in advance. Do you know what my question is? No. I can't, maybe.

Does it scare you that a team is that hot going into the postseason? Oh, no. Of course not. Again, are you trying to go 93 oilers on us, or does it 94? 94. Because that's the last time I remember a team that I loved playing so well like that. And then, so they open up the year 1 and 3, and I think they finished 12 and 4. Home playoff game.

They get to, they used to the first and second, one and two seats back then. You go to buy, now it's only the one seat. We host in Kansas City, Montana, who played the week before. 75-year-old Marcus Allen. And one of those twins from, one of the tight-end twins from Texas way back in the day. I forget who they were. Yeah, it was in 93 Oilers, but the game was in 94. The playoff game was in 94.

That's why I brought that up. And again, if you think I'm completely false for saying that, I apologize. They started out 1 and 4. And finished 12 and 4? Well, 12 and 5, of course, but yes. Yeah, 11 in a row. Yeah, 11 in a row. So you're saying

They got two by weeks? Yeah. No, no, no, no. It was a divisional round. No, no, look. This is by week, week five? Oh, yeah, they used to have two by week nine. I started talking about during the season.

Yeah, they used to have two weeks off. I didn't know that. Yeah, for a short time. It wasn't very long. That's a good idea. 16 and 2, yeah. Extended it's 18 weeks back then, too. But there were only four television partners.

There was ESPN. Yeah, they could shut your bum ass up, get on the field. There's 11. Player safety, player safety, player safety. Oh, what? Oh, we need to make more money? Never mind. Get rid of your by week. I meant to tell you about that. You were talking yesterday about that sports broadcasting act. Yes. You are right. There is something about that. It's like a 50-year-old thing. It's basically protecting high school football.

Yes. And I couldn't recall the details. I'm going to give you the details, because I looked at on an awful announcing. The reason why I bring this up is that Roger Goodell wants to make some more scheduled changes for next year in the foreseeable few. future. And one of them is adding potentially a second Black Friday game. Okay. And there are some roadblocks. Roadblocks, that

broadcasting act. And we'll tell you about it a little bit, but I just will say, so if I tell you the Texans enter the playoffs with a nine-game winning streak, that doesn't even a wee bit scary you at all. No. Okay. No. That's fine. It shouldn't. Okay. I mean, as long as they're all healthy and good to go, I don't care about

that. Grant, if they also won seven or nine, they could be, they could have one bad Sunday and lose. Gambler's fallacy. eight reds in a row you're like oh it can't be another red it doesn't matter it's made there's no math to support that there can't be another red next

that I feel about three black checks in a row and I see the dealer and you see your dealer get three black shacks in a row guess what you leave the table fourth one can come I've seen it so same thing good with the bad it'd be nice they would have all the momentum Matt

they would be the hottest team they'd be the pick. Remember I said, never, ever ever with Casario running the team, they'd have a good Super Bowl. That'd be the all-time Croatan moment. I would love it so much. I'll get your Battle Red

Stroud jersey. You know what? I'll get you a Battle Red custom-made Nick Casario Casario. No, he doesn't have a jersey. I'm going to get you one. Give me a vest. What does number be? I'll wear a Cassario Battle Red. Let me put that Battle Red sweater vest. Can you buy one of those?

That'd be like an ugly Here's what's going to happen. If the Texans make the Super Bowl, I will stop making fun of their number of fake media that get credentials for their events. Oh, here we go. 63 bucks. I get you a battle red little sweater vest.

All right, there it is. Keep your core book market. I will buy that. I'll pay for this, do I? No, I'll pay for it. I'll pay for it. I will buy that vest. And wear it out in public.

It's got a nice little pocket zip. And by the way, you know I become deep steel mad at that point. 2. Oh, no, you're Liberty White Matt. Why do you say that? Why not? I got some soul in me. Could you know? You embody liberty, Matt, and freedom. What do you talk about? Can you just call me Liberty Matt then?

Don't call me Liberty White Matt. You're not steely. You should call me Rhythm and Soul, M.T. Rhythm and soul? Yes, sir. Give me one song that rhythms, you know. Superstitious, Stevie Wonder? That's such a give me. Give me something that's not mainstream. Come to me by Luther

No, James Ingram Matt didn't even know who Funkadelic was Come to me by James Ingram? Okay, that's what we do? Matt didn't know who Frankie Beverly and Mays were. That's not true. It is true, actually. I was blown away.

Can I give you some Shaka Khan? Shaka Khan? All right, let's move on. Roger on 790 and 1240. Hello, Roger. Hey, guys, before we can move forward, babe, what am I eating right now? What did I just get?

MacRead. Hell, yeah, you did. It's disgusting. Tell your lady, you're disgusting. Tell your lady. I'm disgusting. I just got to McRubb. I just got her the thing with a green grid sign.

So no. Can't do it. Green cat can't be now. Hey, Roger, tell your lady, you're going to make sweet love to her. Then I think, think of, thinking about them make rib, too. That goes without saying, my friend. All right. Very good.

Anyways, it's so. Okay. See later. Stephen Adams. is his presence becoming more and more valuable every game that goes by because I see a difference in the Rockets with him on the floor that those don't see when he's not playing

either back to back or whatever it may be but man this guy is very I don't think I don't even think even think he had Duncan was going to know how valuable this guy was going to be to this team because I see a very big difference when he's in the game I'm just saying that toughness kind of like

doesn't go away but it becomes a lesson to the fact to where you know people can just go on the painting and get multiple layers now that might be because of focus or whatever but certainly certainly it's a difference

a noticeable one and as far as the Texans are concerned yeah man I don't see I really hope this is the time that they go into to Arrowhead Stadium and just you know

knock them out you know get rid of them and yeah and then hopefully you know they don't regress and you know

have fallen to any trap games guys stay dry got my my rib life is good life is great thank you Roger

you people disgust me would you like an analogy that I don't think you're going to like I got miss out I'm gonna give you go ahead Mr. analogy

what do you got I'm one for one of my analogies so far to that yeah I'm proud of you are the Texans to the Chiefs like the Aggies to the Longhorns Like they're their

People don't want to admit it But they're their daddy Like for instance The Texans are having this great run Just like the Aggies had this Great run But you couldn't They're seven and five

Okay so I'm saying it doesn't fit Go ahead Go ahead Mr. Nalogy, flesh it out Because everybody's ready to proclaim them the future AFC champions, even though they're not eligible for the playoffs just yet. But if you can't beat Big Brother, you shouldn't be in the conversation.

I would say it's not going to fit because the Aggies can still want a national championship. The Aggies could always win a national championship even if they lose a Texas every single year. That's true. Go ask how the Texans can win a Super Bowl even if they lose the Chiefs, depending on the national out in the playoffs. Yeah. Did you imagine

a Texas-Texam playoff game? Woo! That would be nuts. We won't be imagine that yet. In that, not the year because Texas is getting slided after losing in the difficult environment of the swamp and you had

it was a peskyer trip to Lexington than it was I know oh hold on now don't get lectured Starkville is a little more difficult than you thought it was by Longhorn Scott for saying they had a difficulty of Mississippi State or pointing out of truth just do it Ohio State does just beat

everybody up baby. Beto, you can beat Ohio State. That was a winnable game. You can beat Florida. That game, honestly, the committee came out and said, Hunter, your check and others, and it's absolutely 100% true. 29 to 21 doesn't even reflect that they got beat down. How bad they got beat down. Yeah, 3510, the loss to was closer. Was it closer in 29.21 was more of a beat down. Yeah. Yeah, that's right.

I think he said they didn't have 50 yards rushing in that game. So you're telling me that the CFP committee did some homework then. It's what you're trying to tell me. No, no, listen to Longhorn fan. They're getting sly of this. We're going to cancel all the games. I'm seeing Longhorn fans, and I do get it. So it's not just, I don't get it, but cancel the games.

Cancel next year's game with Ohio State. Cancel the upcoming games of Michigan. We're going to take our ball and go home. We're going to. Shut up. You make fun of it. We're used to that with the Texas arrogance. Oh, shut up.

Every college fan base is whiny. Don't get me started on your coogs fans. Dot net. No. They're great people. They're nice people. We love them. They need to be fired. We've been disrespected for too long. We're a Stebbington program that never won anything. Shout out, Kook fans. Love you guys.

A bunch of whiners. And losers. 1245 on Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you feel sorry for Texas and our poundingness, 713, 212. They're pounding. 5-7907. They've gone bad. Hey, they draw flies. Ooh, it's Ross's Rotten Five.

This don't smell quite right. Oh, such a good song. By the way, I failed to mention what happened yesterday in the Rotten Five of college basketball. What do you mean? Yesterday in Austin. Oh, hold on. at the rotten 5. I think they are. They're like a top 50

team, according to Ken Palm. So it was the ACC SEC SEC Challenge. Yes. That wasn't much of a challenge. There was no challenge in Austin. Virginia goes to Austin and beats the Longhorns on their home floor at the beautiful Moody Center. Yes.

88 to 69. There's a real barn burner. Longhorns are six and three. Okay. Your point? no point. Now, let's go check on the SFA Jacks. Oh, wow. I like this.

Oh, my God. They're 6 and 2. Come on now. Give me some respect. Let's run through who they've been in so far. They open up the year with a win against Millsaps. Then they won Arkansas State. They won at Rice

by 12. Beat Abilene Christian by 10, lost by 2 to Fresno State, lost at Pepperdine by three and lost at UT Arlington by five in the month of December. They took care of U.T. Rio Grande, 7360, and have a matchup with U.L. Monroe this Sunday in Nacca nowhere. Other games coming up before the end of the month? A game at home against A&M Corpus Christi.

A game against Dallas, just playing Dallas, at East Texas A&M and at Northwestern States. Ouch Now, without any further ado. It takes zero talent to give you the five best teams in the NFL. Who are the five worst? We present to you Ross's Rotten Five. Thank you, Matthew. Appreciate you. Let's go ahead and get things started with the New York Football Giants.

They are on a whopping seven-game losing streak, the latest coming at home, against the New England Patriots where Jackson Dart, who's already had injury issues this year, was getting completely blown up off the sideline. Then after the game, doubled down and said, hey, check my high school tape, bro.

This is how I play. Well, this ain't high school, Jackson Dart. You've got to get up, you're up to the big leagues now, and if you want to keep on lowering your shoulder and lowering your helmet on people, you got some brain scrambling. A-coming. New York Giants are,

2 and 11. They're horrible and their franchise quarterback thinks it's a good idea to go square up with linebackers. They're the fifth worst team in the NFL. You lose. Good day, sir. All right, this team won a couple of days ago, but they, excuse me,

a couple of weeks ago, but it was only against the Raiders who were going to be on this list later. They still lost four of their last five. Their latest was an absolute embarrassment against the San Francisco 49ers. Shador Sanders is not the answer. They are not a good team, even though their defense is pretty solid. The Cleveland

Browns right now, three and nine on the year. Not sure that Shador Sanders is going to be the savior, Dylan Gabriel, even getting some action in the past week as well. The Browns, you are terrible. You are the fourth worst team in the NFL. You are a factory of sadness. I know, I know. All right. Well, now let's go down to side of Louisiana, baby, because a new Paul and Saints are terrible. They are 2 in 10 on the year. They have lost six of their last seven games.

Not even sure how they won that game against Panthers a couple of weeks ago. Lost this last week against the Miami Dolphins. Doesn't matter who their quarterback is. Is it Spencer Radler? Terrible. Tyler Shuck, not good. Have you heard of Devin Neal? Did you pick them up off the waiver wire? That's the RB1 right

now for the New Orleans Saints. They're bad on both sides of the ball. They're off they are the third worst team in the NFL I love having the New Orleans Saints and the Rotten 5 so we can continue to play that what the heck happened to Pete Carroll and the Las Vegas Raiders they have lost six games

in a row they have only won two games on the season how in the heck did they beat the New England Patriots in week one Gino Smith has been terrible Ashton Genti is not going to sniff a thousand rush yards for the Las Vegas Raiders.

Insider told you that, by the way. 15 carries for 31 yards. It's funny how you were backing off that opinion and now it's looking good and you're back on the train. That's funny. Anyways, 2.1 yards but carry for Gentie. I mean, Gino Smith, terrible. Las Vegas Raiders, awful.

Second worst team in the NFL. And my goodness gracious, what can be said about the Fantasy Titans that hasn't been said about Afghanistan. They are terrible. One in 11.

And honestly, you know that one game they did win against the Cardinals? That was like the luckiest win in NFL history. Since then, they have lost seven. Count them seven games in a row. Defense actually showed up a little bit against the Texans. They were a little bit better in a close game against the Seahawks. But how about laying an absolute egg against the Jaguars who are not very good, losing 25 to 3 in that game.

Cam Ward, I mean, time will tell on him, but this doesn't sound good. Hey, 24-38 this weekend, that's pretty good. For 141 yards. That is 3.7 yards per passing attempt. That is a bad rushing attempt number. 3.7 yards per pass attempt, Cam Ward. What do you got to say about that? I mean, if we're keeping a bulk right now, we ask.

Absolute worst team in the NFL, your Tennessee Titans. Love it. They're horrible. This is maybe the best rotten five drop ever. I mean, if we're keeping a bulk right now, we ask. So good. You know, he was the most unharolded 1-1 in probably 10 or 15 years, and it's playing right up to par.

I'm trying to think. Some lineman, maybe, was as non-sexy as he was. Yeah, wasn't it, Dravon Walker that the Jaguars took last year, the year before I made? Yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm not trying to dispute you. People were like, I think we played the Chris. Chris Gordy had the gut feeling in April since you were out, and we had it for gut feelings. He had Cam Ward as a bust relative to the number one. So we're going to do a very important housekeeping issue here.

You've got some time coming off. you'll be next Thursday you're going to be here for the rotten five you will not be available on the 18th of the rotten five uh that'll be my birthday trip you will not be available the following friday thursday because that's christmas uh you want me to do the rotten five on rocket's launch pad no okay you're gonna have to do the rotten five on december 24th christmas eve yeah shut your bum ass up why i don't want to do that why i want to work extra on christmas eve it's only one second you're working anyway that's too much and then January 1st we're out of town

I'm putting rotten 5 on the 24th I mean we're off we're off on January 1st what about January 1st what about January 8th no we'll have to do it like the regular season bleed into January now yeah what is the last one January what is it you know what yeah let's be like everybody up at the regular offices we're off till January

see you next year yeah it's like we can go in there and yell at them but they're not in the end of the office in 2026 yeah we're gonna we will have at least two more a rotten five for the end of the year. One to end the season. BS.

And one for like next Thursday. Ah, fine. Thanks. All right. Let's get the final hour of the Matt Thomas show started. We got with Ross. Let's do, uh, what is today's edition, I believe or not? Um, you want, hell if I do dinner live?

I can do it an hour. Oh, yeah. You know what I'll do it. Okay. I'm a team player. Don't hurt yourself. 1259 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Woo! All right, we had IMEA doca one hour ago, and you're like, we missed it. Well, 1.30? What do you think? Yes or no? It's great stuff. I think it was, you know, well, let's play a few minutes of it at 130. A few minutes.

A few minutes, not the whole thing. Yeah. We'll do 130. You'll catch you on the podcast page. A little snippet. SportsTalk 790.com. There you go. 790 in the AM dial, 94.5 HD2.

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I just found out that my number one station on my Iheart radio app is ours. That's mine too. I listen to the A-Team when I'm on the road after the show

and it usually puts me to sleep. So it's perfect. Were you looking at your Spotify wrapped? I don't have Spotify. Oh. But people are really upset because they're aging

them very poorly. Why poorly? Because everybody that's been putting their photos of what their Spotify thinks they are, they're thinking they're 69 to 75 years old. No, there's people who are young. No, I'm saying, but people, if Spotify doesn't understand, is if you listen to old music, it interprets you as being old. That's not true.

They're not interpreting it as. They're just saying you're listening age. If you're listening something from 50 years ago, for example, mine says my age was 69. They said I like stuff from the early 70s. So somebody who was born in the 50s would be, well, okay, hold on. What's 69 minus 75? That would be born in 66, right?

Yes. So if I'm listening to early 70s music, which it says I am, then I was born in 66, that's my listening age. Because what would you be listening to if you were around that age of a young person listening to that music? So how would you describe my Spotify age? Oh, but 97. 105. I'm just kidding. You might be younger than mine.

Because mine's at early 70s and it has me at 69. You can find it on my Instagram at SportsRV. Yeah. I know some people who got the 80s. Somebody sent me a DM of theirs. They're 83. Somebody was 69. My mom was like 23.

Really? Yeah. That's interesting. Well, also the little kids take over her stuff and listen to K-pop demon hunters. Well, I'll be brutally honest with you, 90% of the music I listened to was created between, say, 1970 and 1984. See, I thought I was going to. be older but I do listen to like you know of course America's songbird Kendrick Lamar and other I listen to the new clips album some other some other modern rap so I think honestly

that like brought my average down or something I thought it was going to be older than 69 yeah so um yeah I would say my average age of the music I listen to is I mean I go to concerts on the youngest person there is what it is yeah see that's fine went to dubies it is the youngest person went to Barry Manilow was the youngest person went to Paul McCarney youngest person Yeah I know went to Eagles They handed out oxygen masks at the Barry Maniloh right Let's get to the news at one

Yeah that's why I said The news at one today What do you got? Why you death staring me Matt Go away A lot of news to report here At noon Matthew A couple of news items Yonis Atetocumpo

Aetocompo Is out Two to four weeks With a right calf strain. Sources tell ESPN's Shams Sharania falling to the floor while trying to get back on defense. It was a non-contact

injury, which people of course were worried about a possible Achilles injury. They were immediately dismissed by head coach Doc Rivers following the game after a preliminary MRI was conducted. Atta Kumpo, missing four games last month

with a groin strain, now going to miss a couple of weeks with a calf strain. Does that put any cause for concern? for his tradeability we shall see because he and his agent apparently asking for a trade out of Milwaukee. Are we sure that? Or are they exploring it? Who reported that? As compared to

exploring and asking for our two different things. Make sure we're clear on that. He and his agent Alex Saratis having conversation with the team and discussing whether his bet fit is in Milwaukee or elsewhere. Also reported by Shams Sharania. Elsewhere in the news.

old miss a d disputing lane kiffin's version of his exit to ls u athletic director keith carter disputing several claims made by lane kiffin appearing on a super talk mississippi mat which i know you never miss an episode said a lot of things publicly i'm not sure are totally accurate carter said kiffin and his representatives were told several weeks earlier that old miss in the cfp was not possible if kiffin took another other job. The only potential change was if Ole Miss qualified for the SEC title game. Carter had not decided whether Kiffin would have coached that game either. I don't believe you, Chris Gordy. I believe that Lane Kiffin is reinventing

the story to make him look like a nicer person how my beloved he was in Oxford. They told him to shut his bum ass up, get out of there. And also claims being disputed by several Ole Miss players saying that he did, even though Lane Kiffin in his

what would you call it? Farewell Post. Welcome to LSU post on X talking about how several players were pleading for, pleading to A.D. Keith Carter to let Lane Kiffin coach players said, didn't happen.

A couple of offensive linemen for the Ole Miss Rebels saying not a single player said that they wished Lane Kiffin could stay in coach. But Gordy came in here running. Yes. Said that that that Just damage control by those people.

Smear campaign. Smear. If you ain't with us, you're against us. But hurt, if you will. A bunch of Ole Miss players will transfer to LSU once. Just mark his words. Yes. We're going to mark him. All right. Some NFL news, veteran cornerback Daris Slay was claimed by the Buffalo Bills on

Wednesday said, me, that's so sure I'm going to be reporting to Buffalo. According to his agent, Drew Rosenhouse, quote, Slay is honored that a first class organization like the Bills claimed him, but he's going to take some time away from football right now

and decide in the next few days if he wants to keep playing. Released by the Pittsburgh Steelers on Tuesday, 34 years old, Darius Slay claimed by the Buffalo Bills. Not sure if he's going to show up and continue to play.

Why wouldn't you play with the Bills? You got just as good a chance as anybody else in the AFC to win the Super Bowl ring. Maybe he doesn't want to ride the pan. Yeah. So who knows if he's trying to finesse his way to a free agency situation, but Darius Slay, not sure he wants to report to the Buffalo Bills.

Elsewhere in the NFL Eagles defensive tackle, one of the best in the biz. Jalen Carter out for Monday night's game against the Los Angeles Chargers after undergoing a procedure this last Monday on both of his shoulders, according to ESPN's Adam Schaefter. Going to undergoes treatment, considered week to week to return. hopefully he will, he's hoping to be as close to 100% as possible for a

playoff run, according to Adam Schaefter and ESPN. What are we feeling about the pecking order in the NFC right now? We were saying the Rams are the favorites. They just lost this last week to the Panthers. Best record in the NFC would be your Chicago Bears and the Los Angeles Rams and Seahawks. I like the Rams. I like the Rams. and three records.

I like the Rams still win the NFC. Even though they lost to the Carolina Panthers, who are actually surprising and good. Are the Bears the most anonymous nine and three football team in history? New England's probably saying, you know, I'm right there with you.

By the way, we got a Texans update for you on who's out there and who's not. Let's do that. Texans update. Go ahead. Who's at practice, Maddie? Not our Texans reporter.

Wex obviously had something to do. Our Texans insider, Wex, what did he have said? No, Texas insider is with you in the building right here. No, no. Is the insider in the room with us? Yes, he is. You're right, and he's the handsome man to your left.

Well, Anderson, practicing. De Nico Autry practicing, Trent Brown practicing, Woody Marks, practicing. Al-Ziz Al-Shayr, who will be penalized this week for a late hit against Pat Mahomes, is practicing. Apparently, those that are unavailable would include Tim Settle, Kamari Lasseter, and somebody named Jamal Hill. Kamar Lasseter, not out there. That's a little bit more of a warning sign, right?

Yeah, it's concerning. We'll see, we'll get the injury report, and then we'll get some more news on Friday. Last news item in the news at one, your Houston Rockets with a big victory, a huge, rousing victory. Let's play some highlights. Can we play two or three? Come on, let's play some highlights. All right, Matt wants to hear his own voice. Let's go.

Shengoon and company with a two-point lead. He's got the basketball off a pass from a men, Thompson, then Durant's going to get a pass from Alpi to the free thole line, bounce pass to Alpey left elbow going against Reno he'll turn right spin left turn right again and drop it in for two Alperin Shingo now with 14

just just beautiful I can listen to myself all day I know you could and keep your hands above the waist too while you do it all right Rockets get a scratch down there

Rockets get the 120 kind of hard to scratch you know what I'd like to apologize for that remark that was rude that's who you want and uncalled for I'm going to say you know what I'm writing that down

people think that Ross is so sweet that's exactly the kind of material I get from him all stays it's even worse off air isn't it yes all right Rockins get the 121 to 95 win over the Kings you had Alpi Shingoon

with a great game he had 28 points and 10 rebounds how about Kevin Durant eight assists no turnovers that was nice to see yep I'm in Thompson five turnovers And only four three-point attempts of the whole team in the second half yesterday.

That was very odd. When they were running a lay-up line, I believe, on that King's defense. I don't know why you would shoot any threes. Lay-up line. Sorry Sacramento fan listening to us. It was like 64%. I think they shot from the field to the second half, something like that. So they rallied, they got down,

but they were able to come back with a huge 26-point win of the Sacramento Kings. Most importantly, keeping pace in that Western Conference where they are in the number three spot right now. in a virtual tie with the spurs and nuggets and a half game behind the Lakers in the two-spot. We already know who's in number one. We don't even have to discuss. No, we'll play a little snippet of e-may coming up at the bottom of the hour.

Biscuit wants to talk about the older Texans' comp talk. Hmm. Hmm. Maybe I'm on to something or I'm on something. You never know. Plus, Ross, we need a ruling on a college football team trying to improve their resume by creating a game that's not even existing right now. We'll talk about that in a minute.

114 sports talk 790 713 212 5790 713 212 5 790 Now I will go with y'all eat tomorrow But if I need a nap, I'm going to get a nap in No, you're going to want to nap after Okay, real quick. Two quick things I've got to mention Chris Paul He's a blank talker and he doesn't respect authoritarian

Okay There was an event where Chris Paul pulled the team, his teammates when he was with the clipper still, asking teammates to raise their hands that they felt

that Tyron Loo's 2016 championship gave Lue authority to speak out and the requisites of winning. No way. This is real? No hands went up. Nah, don't tell me this is real.

So Tyron Luce said, listen, bitch, I got something for you. He asked players to raise their hand if they gave a damn about Paul's farewell tour. Oh, no! This is not really.

No, you're not real. You're reading fake news. You're reading fake news. This has got to be. Oh, you're right. I knew it. I knew it. Man, you got duped.

You duped me for a second. I was like, there's no way. Can I still read it, though? Go ahead. Hi, this is fake news that Matt is reading. It is not real. Oh, screw it. Forget it.

I got dup. I got to block this ball sack. I got a ball set? Yes, damn it. How can you fall for that? Imagine that was real, though? There's no way. Such a good story, though.

All right, now I know there's, I got a legit one for you, real quick. So Vanderbilt's trying to improve their resume. Yes? They tried to schedule a 13th game this year. What? I don't believe this either. This is coming from. A bullsack Tony?

Yeah, this is probably this. Are you serious? You're really hitting falling for another big one? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This WSMV Channel 4, Channel 4, Nashville. No, I don't know. Yeah, here it is. Here it is right here.

see that channel 4 WSMV channel 4 Vanderbilt push for 13th game in the last minute fight for college football playoff first of all nobody plays 13 games only tell me you can play 13 games

I thought is if you have to go to Hawaii to play a game did Vanderbilt play a game in Hawaii this year not that I know here's the athletic director we explore the 13th game option for one reason this team has earned the chance to keep fighting coach lee okay this might be real has said he's played anytime anywhere in our guys

would have stepped on the field with a phone calls notice. The logistics and legislative constraints didn't make it possible, but nothing changed the truth. A 10-and-2 Vanderbilt team forged in the nation's toughest conference, finishing its best November and football deserves a chance to be for the championship. Vanderbilt, shut your bum ass up. That is hilarious. See, look, you want to talk about Texas whining?

I mean, that is next level. Vanderbilt. That is so Texas of you to try to add an extra game. Oh, shut up. No, it is not. It's Vanderbilt of them. Texas didn't do that. now Sarkisian is lobbying like he's running for president

god terrible just take your nine wins or whatever you got and go he's on like good morning America he's on wake up first take next take last take nobody's listen to my take biscuit on 790 biscuit what do you got what's happening my brothers

what's happening tell us go ahead hey first man hey Ross I would tell you the 66 was a great year man that was a You know, I heard you say something about your music, you would have been in the 66. That was a great year, man. Wait, I did the math wrong.

That would be 56, right? Oh, okay. Well, I can't count. No, I can't count. No, I said 66. Yeah, that's, I'm doing. That was a great year. Now, let me, let me say this to you, Matt.

I think that the, if the Texas were to get into the playoffs, and it's a big if they were to get in there I think it would be totally different if they ran the table than the team in 94 first of all the team in 94 was totally in turmoil in the locker room and what had you got coaches throwing fists on the sidelines

they were winning but you know it was chaos going on this team is way more connected you know you don't know how Hannah's handling everything she could be really grumpy behind the scenes you don't know that maybe she's got to sock Nick Casario in the throat. Right. And then also, Ross, we don't hear no fire the often to coordinate to talk too much anymore. What happened to that group didn't want to Chip Kelly in here? I don't know. I don't know. Chip Kelly is, he's on a beach.

Right, right. And it was the Cash brothers, Matt. That's what it was. Yeah, I knew it was a Texas twins. I knew that. Yeah. Yeah. But those games, I was at both of those games in the dome, man. I think I had a cousin at the time to play for the Chiefs. and I think the fact that the oilers beat them 30 to nothing early in the year I think they kind of underestimated the chiefs even though you know they had Montana and what have you but right it just blew them out so they kind of came in didn't I wouldn't say take them lightly but they they weren't on their peas and cues and queues and you know got beat at the end but I just think man the way the team is

playing right now with the defense and CJ and all with the line improvements I think Texas, man, if they get in the playoffs. And with the lack of of a really front running the EFC this year, I think they can run the table, man. It is, you know what it is? It's thank you for the phone call biscuit. It is completely wide open.

There's just one problem. You still got to get in. And I think 10 gets you in. Nine does not. Ten should get you in. It's just going to be how crazy the tiebreakers are going to be. You're on the table you're definitely in.

If you get to 10, I think you're in. I always felt like you were definitively but it depends on who you lose to, frankly. One 10 and 17 did not make it last year. Oof, okay. I was in the NFC, but, I mean, the point stands.

10 and 7 teams can't get left out. It literally happened last year. I think there's a better chance of a bunch of 10 and 7 teams all in the same division, being the AFC South. Yeah, it was the Seahawks. Now, if there's a three-way tie

between the Colts, Jaguars, and Texans, I think, by my guess, the Texans would win the AFC South. I think. Because they would have two Colts wins, you would presume. Yes. Two Tennessee wins four.

They've beaten Jacksonville once. It's five. That's five and one against the FACTS. I mean, the Jags would have swept the Colts. Yeah. All right, let's go to Scott on 790. Scott at 127. Scott, good afternoon.

What's going on? Good afternoon. I wanted to give some praise to Matt. Oh, I'll take it. I'll take it. I get so much heat on the show. Right? I listened to your play call in a few games this year.

and I'm going to put you on a pedestal with a late, great Houston commenter, and that's Milo Hamilton. Well, thank you. You are in that range. Thank you. You are in that range, brother. Keep doing what you're doing, and please don't move and call for another team. Thank you, Scott, thank you very much.

I am dying on the vine. The Rockets will be my last team, and this radio station will be the last radio station. And hopefully that both are 10 to 15 years still ahead. You're doing a great job, Matt. I hope so. Guys, Ross is smiling right now. Why? Why can I smile?

I'm happy. That guy complimented Matt and I said he does a great job. I'm happy. I got you, man. I got too, Matt. What did I do? Yeah, what did you do? While all that was happening, I was looking at the,

and since they've gone to 17 games, the Seahawks last year are the only 10 and 17 to not make the playoffs. Really? Yeah. And then one year they were under 500 and made the playoffs and beat the Saints in Seattle. So, I mean, but the, it's. It's looking like that in this AFC right now, then it could be another 10 and 7 team left out.

Because you've got the Chargers could be 10 and 7. You've got the Jax could be 10 and 7. The Colts could be 10 and 7. The Texans could be 10 and 7. I don't think Pittsburgh could be 10 and 7. I don't imagine Baltimore being 10 and 7. So when you end up with the reason you can end up with so many 10 and 7 teams because the bottom is so bad.

Titans, Raiders, Browns, Jets are so horrible. All these other teams are piling up wins in the conference. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go to Greg on 7981.28. Hi, Greg. Hello. I just wanted to just let you know, you know, I won't be buying SportsCity Network because I really don't need to see the A team on, you know, my TV. But they're so handsome. Why would you not want to see the 18? There's such handsome rooting gentlemen. It's quality programming right there.

Well, you know, you know, whatever. And also, I just listen to seven. 90 for baseball and basketball. Thank you. Play-by-play is awesome. Oh, Greg, you are my best friend forever. You know what? I need more of this. We should thank you, Greg, for the phone.

We should dedicate a half hour every week of just praise of me. I think we should. No, I would say six hours. Because it feels like the other 21 and a half or 2019 and a half are ripped the crap out of you. That's not true. Who ripped you? You, you ripped me. Daily.

What did I rip? Everything. Nothing. Food takes. Sports takes. Okay. Political takes. That's different.

That's different. I'm not ripping your play-by-play acumen. All right. Thank you very much. Real quick before I get to EMA Adoka. Dave on 790 at 130. Hi, Dave. Hello, Matt.

You're doing a great job with UConnor. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I need more of this. Let's get only people that like me calling you. If you hate me, just block me on Twitter like many others have. What's up, Ross? Hi.

How's it going, Dave? Going good. Going good. someone said, I listen to you guys every day and someone said 10 wins would get the Houston Texans and. That was me. I don't, that was you Matt.

Okay. Maybe if there is a three-way tie in the AFC South between the Texans, Titans, and I'm not, I'm not Titans, scratch that. Texans, Jaguards, and Colts a three-way tie in that division.

Then the Texans can punch their ticket to the playoffs. But I still think they got to beat Kansas City in order to accomplish that. What do you guys think about that? Because I think what you're saying

and it makes some sense, you need every tiebreaker you possibly can if it's a muddle mess at 10 and 7. And frankly, to be honest, beating Arizona is not nearly as important as beating Kansas City as well, I think is what he's trying to say. And I agree with him on that. Well, yeah, if you can pick one to win, you'd pick Kansas City, but why don't

win them both. Look at line one. You see what line one's there? Praise for Matt. Thunder bears. Wait a minute. Wow. See, look at this, Matt.

You know, we need to record this and play it on a loop for you. I have never received praise for my Thunder Bears play by play. I'm about to get it right now. Rick, good afternoon. Hey, Matt, I just want to say, you know, that call you made, you know, Clint Dozel dropping back. Yes. Four touchdowns that arena football game. I'm not your best work ever.

Thank you. Thank you so much. So all those people that don't know, the Thunder Bears was the deal. Thunder Bears for life. Thank you very much. Can I tell you a very quick Thunder Bear story? Texas Terror guy. So Greg Cook and I are in Des Moines, Iowa, and we are calling a game, and we are literally on top of the field.

There's a fan. There's two guys behind us. I think I've told us before. And they're just yelling and berating the Thunder Bears, making fun of the team name, making fun of it. And this is a close game. I think Kurt Warner was at Iowa Barnstrom at the time. It's how far back it is. And Greg, as a fiery personality, as you would know, Rossus.

During a timeout, he takes his headset off and he puts it down on the table right next to me. And he turns around and tells those guys, if I hear one more word out of either one of you, I'm going to turn around, I'm going to beat both your asses to a pulp. He was so matter of fact about it, it was amazing. And we didn't hear a word from them the rest of the day. That's great. God bless Greg Cook. still with us

yes probably still listening okay so they were you with them when they were the Texas terror the first couple years yes I couldn't remember

if they went from the tear to the thunder bears the thunder bears they went tear to thunder bears I mean those are both bad names they did a they did a focus group and they said that people were afraid of the name

which I'm like what terror yeah I'm scared I don't want to go to a terror game so they went to the other direction they went with a scary bear a thunder bear the hell is a thunder bear

nobody knows I don't even know what I called their game One time, Kim Hilton, former University of Houston coach, did color with me on television. We did it from the Hartford Civic Center where the whalers used to play with the NHL team. Which is connected to a mall, which is kind of cool.

But we were in the The gondola, is that what they call it? The rafters? We were calling it from the top down. It was very bizarre. That sounds. You know, you can climb to the top of the arena because there's, you know, the scoreboards and stuff like that.

Yeah, that's where they throw down the chick-free chicken. Yeah, we were calling the game looking down. And Kim, a little afraid of heights, didn't enjoy the experience. We were a little nervous for about two hours. Yeah, you're fine. Then we got the check. A little bit from EMAIDOCAX-133, Sports Talk 790.

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A man for all three ball is nothing but nylon. Hear every Rockets game. on sports talk 790 and streaming on the iHeart radio at home of rockets basketball thank you oman you are not trainable i don't care what everybody says in my mind in the minds of good smart rocket fan don't even comment ima doka we caught up with him earlier today we'll play a couple minutes i don't much because we got to believe it or not here but we asked him about did he really tell the boys they were acting like a junior varsity team at a half time of the game last night against the kings night

I said stop playing like one, looking like one. Take care of the ball, play with them forth, and yeah, something like that. You're just the best, you man, I'm going to tell you that right now, and I'm not trying to blow smoke, I'm just saying you go in there

and they obviously listen to you. That is, what did you get the bluntness of your life? And I certainly appreciate it because I'm a very blunt person myself. I just always like the honesty myself. You know, don't want to coach. or anybody, you know, kind of blowing smoke. And so in your direct with them and don't sugarcoat it,

they can tell if you're BSing or lying anyway. So might as well hit them direct, and I think guys respect that approach. You certainly did that. Not only did they cut the turnovers down, you put it together an amazing third quarter. And the three-point shot was not a huge part of the team in the second half. Were you surprised by that,

or is that kind of what Sacramento dictated because they gave you so many opportunities in the paint? No, we just take what the game gives us. us. I think, you know, we'll shoot them if they're available, but a lot of times they were bringing their big up in the pick and roll to take away some of our walking threes. When we hit Alperin and guys in the pocket, they stayed locked up on some of our shooters, which allowed us to get downhill and get to the paint. Obviously, if we're going to get all those paint points 78, you don't need to take a ton

of threes, we won't. The Alpy to a man, Thompson combination was working, vice versa it was working as well. have you noticed even a better chemistry with those guys since they first stepped together on the same floor because it feels like they have a real good sense of knowing where each other's at? Yeah, definitely. I think the time spent together over the last few years

has really paid off. You know, Amanda was the guy that handled a bunch, but now we have them in the dunker spot, we have them in the corner slashing and, you know, playing in the pick and roll at times. So Alpi is always looking for them. A lot of teams packed the paint, not just with the big, but bring the loaf band across.

and our men is great at slashing behind defining his rhythm and obviously he's a lot of threat there so out from in the great past that it is constantly looking for him. Reed Shepard didn't get the start yesterday, but he did play 28 minutes. So what factors into your decisions about the rotation starting guys? And, I mean, he's still getting his minutes even though he wasn't starting in the starting lineup.

Yeah, a lot due to personnel with the other team. We like balance as well for our team. So, you know, I have some really good scores that we wanted, Josh and I'm in the guard, Levine, and DeRosen. And for the most part, he did a great job on them in general. You know, 12 points and only two for Levine. And so with a more defensive-minded rotation, but also balance as well. You know, we have a lot of our really good scores in the starting lineup.

And Reed's punch off the bench. It's been good for us most of the season. Rocket Tech coach, Emaidoka, with us here on Sports Talk 790. I have a more philosophical question for you because I noticed last night, Russell Westbrook, I should say, made the first couple of threes. Percentages are up this year for him, but you guys were still backing off of him. What goes into that decision-making as far as gaining enough sample size to maybe change your stripes when it comes to any player as far as getting a hot hand or coming into the game if percentages are up relative to their career?

Yes, I mean, it's game plan-wise and what teams like to do. They're a team that likes to get the paint and he's really good at that obviously so you want to keep him away from the basket as much as possible and you know it's funny at times you encourage guys to shoot and hope they make their first one or two and they'll keep shooting a lot of times

and the percentages usually catch up and so like I said we did a really good job on Murray you know two for 11 for five points DeRosen only 12 and Levine too will live with some of the others making and taking some tough shots and he hit his first two but went home for five

after that as well as the kid right now made two threes but had 25 points but if he's scoring 25 and the others are held to single digits we'll take that trade off every day You know you've had a lot of nice stretches were a couple off days in between we've had a busy stretch of games now

we've got a busy stretch coming up before the next week and then a long road trip have you had to alter in terms of practices workouts guys you know wanting to get their shots up but still get some downtime away because the schedule is about to pick up a little bit here in the next few weeks Yeah, we definitely have We got that good three-day break

After the Golden State game And so we took a good amount of time off No, we had a back-to-back against Utah Coming out of it You know, time changes Coming back home for Thanksgiving And going back out west All right, well,

EMA was no longer ready to speak to us Hashtagetting system All right Full conversation available SportsTalk 790.com Yeah, go to that sports I'll see a couple of stories if it'll be of interest to you. Okay.

We should probably podcast that half hour grows great calls about people who love me. We should actually, I want to actually have that recorded and just play on a loop for you. That's great Christmas programming. I think so, too. Best of, we'll just run those five minutes for four hours. Straight through. I think we should. Let's play, believe it or not.

You ready? It's dead or alive. Ross, you've not seen these, so I'm going to ask you first for your editorial assistance. Okay, yeah, it's like some tertiary character from some sitcom I never watched, but we'll see. These are all famous people. Okay. I mean, in my mind, there. Yeah, I was going to say.

713-212-5-790. Alive or dead, believe it or not, next 144 on Sports Talk 790. We're going to check in with Kansas City tomorrow. Sorin Petro is going to be with us for a few minutes on the program. Yeah. Used be on that show a lot. Yeah, they stopped calling me.

That's fine. They keep calling me, and I'm like, I'm always busy. I say, call Ross. I'm like, nah, it's fine. It's okay. They lost my number. Well, I told them no a couple times in a row because I was busy. I was off vacation or whatever, so maybe that got me off the,

they got me on the S list, maybe. That's fine. Yep. So we'll check in with Kansas City tomorrow, and we will have Dr. Roto with us. We'll have our non-flora stories to get to. I'm looking for, we got like two weeks worth of clips. Oh, my God, yeah, we've got some clips. Now, remember, don't you, don't, how's it looking over there, Jonathan?

It looks good. I just got to go, I want to, I like to pick out the very best ones. Now, remember, we got to save some, because you can run 10 minutes of clips. Ross is going to be gone for seven days in the next few weeks. Okay, I'm glad you tell me this. All right. That's seven weekdays I'll be gone for more of the days than that

When you can't weekends This handball game is pretty interesting Yeah Netherlands I'm kicking a wee blind picked You took Tunisia I took the home team They're down 125

Netherlands Well it's in Europe It might be the home team Might be the first one That's how they do soccer The girls are healthy Which doesn't that make sense Like the home team

They're in zone by the way Yeah they're running a two three zone No it's like a 5-1 zone Right Boxing one I can do some play I play this handball. Go ahead. Mildred over to Denise.

Denise, oh, dropped the court. And he's going to go pick it up. Yeah, I think you only get one dribble or something. It's very confusing. And when they turn over, they drop the ball. Now, there's no officials on the court everywhere. Anywhere, is there? Yeah, there is one.

Okay. 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 a B, believe it or not? And here's how it works. Now, when Ross does a rotten five, I like to help them out a little bit do the believe it or not so my tried and true formula is is this person alive or dead i will ask

ross first then i will ask you let me close my laptop turn my phone off all right i will ask ross first then you he's going to give you some editorial assistance if i give you a person and this person's alive you'll say this believe it if this person is dead you'll say this two believe or not in a row win your prize and we are playing for today a variety of nice gifts one would be a seven-90 t-shirt one is a pair of tickets to see the transuberian Orchestra, December the 19th at TOTA Center. Tickets are on sale at TOTA Center.com. Or you can win a four pack of tickets

to Astros Light Up the Park, presented by Houston Methodist. That's at Dyken Park now through January the 4th, astros.com for information on such event. But you can win them right now, but you first must believe it or not, or in today's case, alive or dead. Let's start with line

number two. John on 790. John, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Let's do it. Ross, Chevy Checker is a live or dead. Oh, crud. We've actually even done this one recently. I don't recall, John. I think he's alive. What do you say, John? Alive or dead?

I'm gonna go with alive. He's alive. He's 85 years old. Name number two, Rossi. Ann Margaret. The sexy Ann Margaret. And Margaret. Mm-hmm. I don't know, John. I think she's dead, but I don't know. What do you say, John? Ooh, I'm gonna go

with, believe it, alive. She's 84 years old. Congratulations. I don't even remember what was she in or known for Elvis movies Okay She was also in grumpy old men and grumpier old men Okay Grumpiest old men

I don't think they had that They were all dead by there Grumpy in the grave Except for Ann, she's so alive Let's go to Ray on 790 Ray You ready to play Believe it or not Believe it Ray first to Ross

Ross Sandy Kofax He's alive Ray what do you say alive or dead He was at the World Series Believe it alive. Believe it. 89 years young. Rossi, he named number two. Little Richard.

Little Richard's dead. Way dead. Ross, or Ray, alive or dead. Nah. Yeah, he's dead. He died in 2020. Oh, well, not way dead. I thought he died in like the 80s. I got news for you. If this goes, this is what I think, it's going to go, we may have to bury this topic. Why? Because it's too hard.

No, it's not true. It's actually too easy. I missed like eight out of seven out of eight of them last time. Chris, on 790, what was your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio? show the rotten five yeah oh all right ross yoko ono yoko ono i believe is alive chris i'm not 100 i'm like 87% sure ross i mean say chris what do you say alive belie baby 83 years old yes ross name number two for the win barbara strisand barbara strisand is way alive right oh well i think yeah right chris chris

She's alive. He's 84 years old. You get it wrong. There's one wrong one in the whole mix there. Dave, you're by the way, you're batting 1,000. Dave, on 790, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Ross, Chicago Bear, linebacker, and Hall of Famer Dick Butkus. Dick Butkus?

Mm-hmm. I'm not sure, Dave, but I think he's alive. What do you say, Dave? Not. Died in 2023. It was recent, huh? Yeah. I thought he was either alive or died recently. I couldn't remember.

Name number two. Former Houston Rocket Grade on the 86th Championship, Western Championship team, Black Magic, Lewis Lloyd. Louis Lloyd? Louis Lloyd? I got no clue on this one, Dave. I think he's alive, though. What do you say, Dave? Believe it.

Died in 2019. Thank you for flying. I had no clue on that one. Lou Lloyd. Any other role players you want to bring up? Jim Peterson. Gene? Jim.

I don't know that, brother. He's dead. He's alive. He does Timberwolves of games. Oh, I thought you said Elaine. Aaron on 790. Aaron, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it.

Florence Henderson. She was the mom on the Brady Bunch, Ross. What do you think? Didn't she die recently, Aaron? Believe it. Not. Wait a minute. yeah believe it would be alive i'm sorry that's a believer that she's dead she died 2016 okay well it's been

a while 10 years i thought it was like two years all right last one belongs to uh let's go to paul on 790 paul you're ready to play believe it or not yes sir ross cbs college football broadcaster verne lunquist he's live what do you say paul not he's alive he's 85 he's got a game this year He was also in the new Billy Madison movie Yeah Or no, not being Matt Happy Gilmore

Yeah Should him Come on man You got good You only got one wrong I got two wrong That's your bet 800 Rossi

I like that It's all right You know Sometimes we're good Sometimes we're not I got lucky on like three of them The category is gonna stay alive then Nice

Okay It is Shout out to Joan by the way Texas Terra game In the Summit Went to one game Just to see Matt Thank you Joan very much

That was a bad It was a great sport that no one in Houston cared about. I mean, no one. I think I went to a game. We didn't know each other back then, though. No, I didn't. I was in my young teens, and you were old. You probably still had hair.

You're much older than me. And fat. I'm not that much older than you. I'm like older, brother. Much older than you guys. You're like a dirty uncle. Huh? Dirty uncle?

Not true. I'm the fatherly figure you always needed. You're that weird estranged uncle-in-law. Up next, Planton, Wexler, the A team. Talk to you tomorrow at 10. For the strippers at noon on 7.90.