The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets vs Sixers Tonight! More C.J. Talk, Softy Joins the Show

Episode Date: January 22, 2026

Rockets vs Sixers Tonight! More C.J. Talk, Softy Joins the Show

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Today, Hacked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They're back in our palatial Houston Studios. We've got a fun show for you today. A topic sports RV we will get to on the radio show today that was brought to my attention by a Rockets assistant coach. How about that?

Really? Yes. Okay. it's the ice pick and roll defense right i believe it is okay great matt can you play 11 minutes as a backup center type of well you can use all six of your fouls but you'd probably be out in about three minutes yeah but i can collect an NBA paycheck for one day it wouldn't be the worst thing right

minimum's not bad but you're not you're not getting vet minimum as a rookie mat yeah i am here in philadelphia um i'm a little what do you call it when you're afraid of heights not claustrophobic it's what is it uh yeah just afraid of heights there's a word for it but it's long i can't remember what it is So I'm on the 56th floor of my hotel. I have this beautiful view of central Philadelphia. And my... Acrophobia, Google says.

Nice, nice, nice. Good pull for your part. So I'm a few feet away from the window, but my connection to the internet is the easiest is very close to the wall. So if I get the hebie-jeebies at any point during the show, you have to help me out a little bit. Have you ever gone to like the Hancock Center or like a really tall, like an Empire State Building or up to any of those? Yeah, I have.

Those aren't closed. The only place that really flips me out is there's, it used to be the Sears Tower in Chicago, it's something else now. Yeah, it's the Hancock Center. That's what I was talking about. Oh, okay. Did you go there with like the glass floor?

Yes. Yeah. That was not great for me. I did that in Seoul Tower in Korea too, and then Taipei 101, and it's, yeah, it's nerve-wracking. Well, the pictures look good when your friends do it, but then when you do it, you're like, is my life going to end? Yeah, you look like you're about to bleep yourself.

Yeah, I get it. Yeah, exactly. I'm glad you know me as well as, No, I mean, I have those same pictures. Yeah, that's crazy. All right, I'm here in Philadelphia. Rockets and 76ers played tonight. We'll have it for you here on 790, beginning with 5.30 with a launch, or 5 o'clock with the launch pad.

530 network pregame and then a 6 o'clock tip time. Rockets have won three consecutive games. A tough back-to-back. Feld off, he did lose two nights ago to the Phoenix Suns, but they're a better team. They're actually got, VJ Edge can probably as a rookie-of-year favorite. Would that be fair to say, sports? Sure, why not? He's got my vote.

All right. Well, you don't have the vote. We'll get you one. I don't need it. And then we get on a plane and go to Detroit to play the Pistons who are legitimately an Eastern Conference title contender. So a tough back-to-back for the local basketball team. We'll get a little bit of that. We'll talk to EMA Adoka tomorrow on the show, hopefully celebrating a Rocket's fourth consecutive win.

Other things getting to, somebody asked me in the plane yesterday, is the city of Houston over the playoff loss. and I think generally speaking the answer would be no on that. That's right. I mean, you just don't become a Texan fan for 15 days a year. You think about it 365. Am I correct on that? I'd say we're over it. We're into freeze mode.

We're into hard freeze modes. What's going on with this hard freeze? I know. I'm reading every weather blog I can find. Yeah, my daughter and my wife are driving to Austin today for a volleyball tournament this weekend. And it's like going to be 70 today up there. and then like 23, two nights later or something like that. Yeah, welcome to Texas.

One day you're using the air conditioning and the next day are using the heat. And imagine that. We called the volleyball tournament and they said, hey, you think about postponing because you've got a lot of people coming in from all over the state and some other regions to Arizona and Mexico. No, no, it's fine. You guys are going to be here. We already spent the cash you sent. Yeah, we need that entry fee. And meanwhile, so we called the hotel and the hotel's like, yeah, if the tournament happens at all, you're,

not getting a dime. The only reason why you would get any money back would be if the tournament was to be canceled. When are they coming back? It's supposed to be Sunday. Oh. So, I told Mrs. Thomas and my daughter,

Carly, did pack an extra set of clothes because you might be staying in Austin an extra day. I mean, like, I don't want them going on the roads. It's, the cold one thing. It's just the roads.

No. And then driving from Austin, like, I'm worried about my five-minute commute. Drive all the way from Austin. Ladies gentlemen, if you have a violin you'd like to give Ross for his five minute commute a 7-1-3

there's a bridge I have to go over Matt and the bridge could be icy okay so I'm only worried about I hate for you to get an ice I mean it would be terrible why did you say that like that you real bad what is wrong with you

nothing I just was worried about you you're a disturbed human being why would you say such a thing because I know you that's why all right that's fair yeah I only have one bridge to get it's a short commute but I do have icy, possibly icy bridges I have to go over, Matt.

Well, it'd be like a bridge over troubled water. Oh, Jesus. It's a great reference, but I'm not in Madison County. That's true. All right, kind of a light sports day, would you say, last night in the world of sports? I'm kind of still a little bit of a heading over the Casario press conference. There wasn't really anything on.

You know how bad it was? The ESPN early marquee game, Cleveland at Charlotte. I didn't think the NBA should ever allow the Charlotte Hornets be on a national televised game, ever. Oh, I thought you're talking about college. No, I don't even know what was college going on. Made the kooks, I think. Oh, by the way, Texas played Kentucky last night, right?

Yeah, they lost. But they covered the seven and a half. Well, that's what you have for a win for you, right? It's not about wins and losses. It's about covering of spreads. Yeah, I guess. How much the game did you watch? Very little.

Like six seconds. Is that because the game was out of hand? I was doing something else. I had other stuff going on, but normally I try. I don't know why. I've catch most of the games. It's so bad. No, the reality is this.

And we've talked about this five million times. There is not a more meaningless regular season in sports than college basketball. Well, when your team is hoping to make the tournament, it's meaningful. Yeah, but I mean... We need them quad one wins, Maddie. Well, you would have... I mean, think about it. Texas is in this thoroughbred...

League of SEC Athletics. And you would think, you know, look, if Texas is playing in South Carolina, I kind of understand why you're giving it a pass. If you're playing Mississippi State, who care? But that's Kentucky. That's, that is, I mean, one of the most proud, prestigious, successful programs in college basketball history, and you get to

play them on the regular, and you're like, yeah, that's okay, I'm good. I was busy. Doing what? That's not your business. That's right. None of my business. I shouldn't ask what your personal life is all about. Lord knows we wouldn't do that on this show. I did, you know, because it was a long flight yesterday. It wouldn't run too bad, actually.

I did start reading this story. We're not going to get into it on the show, but it was, you know, print journalism is a thing of the past, right, for the most part. When's the last time you read an entire sports section? Oh, year. I mean, I only get the digital version of the Chronicle, so I don't even know front to back on it. My father-in-law still gets it, so when I go to his house, he still hasn't. Yeah. But so ESPN did this, I mean, elaborate.

Now, I was reading it off my phone, so I don't know how long it would have been if you had printed it out. But this elaborate story about the Los Angeles Lakers and the bus family about how the bus kids don't get along and the genie is this mean witch. And she hates her brothers and cut them out. And she sold the team and they're getting money. And that all the genie's friends, meaning Kurt Rambis and his wife got big money and the kids didn't. I mean, it was just this long, exhaustive article. You read it? Well, again, no, I couldn't read all of it.

Oh, I was going to say it. But again, I'm a byproduct of the last 30 years of people in reading comprehension. We're not going to read all that. I mean, I try to skim the best parts. But I can't read a 19-page thing on my phone about the Los Angeles players. I'm not that interested. Okay. And maybe there's enough people that would be.

You can ask AI to sum it up for you. Oh, that's not a bad idea. I think it's, oh, I've just done it. All of our brains are rotting. This whole world is going to hell. Yeah, Jeannie Bus is a bitch. There's the old Chad GPT run through there on that. Okay.

So if you're really bored Ross after the show today, you can give yourself a long run on that. Let's see what else we got going on. We have, there was a very peculiar press conference yesterday in Buffalo. Terry Pagula is the owner of the Bills. And when it was asked about why Shaw McDermott was fired, Kind of a weird response. Kind of response that got Buffalo Bills fans grumpy,

but it would be something that maybe said someday in Houston, Texas. Hmm. I'll save that for you for a little bit. Okay. And speaking of articles, I did read one on the athletic yesterday that all of us should be highly, highly concerned about. Apparently, Evandrelic, who used to cover the Astros for The Chronicle and got sideways with Jim.

Crane and then thus went after him on the Stein Stealing scandal. And Doug up Mike Fires. Yeah, the Mike Fires, though. He says in his article, which was produced, I think, a day or two ago, that Major League Baseball owners are, quote, raging over the Kyle Tucker signing by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hmm. Now, what do a bunch of dodgy old men when they rage? Is that just pumping their fists on the table going, I'm mad as hell and I can't take it anymore?

Yes, source says in his article, these guys are going for a cap no matter what it takes. Yes. Couldn't the players be agreeable to that if there's a high salary floor? Well, there's going to be a floor and a ceiling apparently is what they're saying. But point being is this. The collective bargaining agreement between the baseball players and the owners ends in December. And I mean, you can't find an article out there in the world of sports.

We have a lot of baseball fans who listen to. I would think you'd be bestedly interest in this. that says that the owners are not going to shut the door and say, unless we come back with a salary cap, we ain't playing baseball again. So I really believe this, Ross. This will be the last year in professional sports that we will have a non-sattery cap league out there. I absolutely 100% believe there will be a baseball salary cap in 2000,

whatever, and they start playing again. Hopefully it's 2007. Yeah, I don't have a strong opinion on it. I just know that the, Players union, the reason they're the only league without a cap is because they have been the strongest union. Yeah. And most willing to sit out. Yes.

And dig in their heels and take care of their guys, have some kind of war chest of funds or whatever. So, yeah, it's going to get ugly. We've been kind of talking about how it's going to get ugly, but it feels like even with what the Dodgers are doing, it's getting uglier and

uglier and uglier. And here's the question that ultimately I cannot answer and I need to get some information. so I can pass it along to you or have a guest on to back this up. When the NFL owners collectively want to lay the hammer down, they're essentially on the same page. Now, granted, the ownership group of the Carolina Panthers does not bring in the type of revenue that Dallas Cowboys do.

But there's so many things that they do share, that they feel like they're a pretty unified group. The NBA feels like to me, not that we spent a lot of time talking about NBA labor issues. It feels like the NBA is a unified group. How in the world, Ross, are the Miami Marlins in the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Mets and the Cleveland Guardian is going to be in the same room and go, man, we are all together.

We have the same agenda. We are as one. I can't believe that's going to happen. So the question I have is, how in the world are the players supposed to cooperate and deal with a collective bargaining agreement with an ownership group that clearly, is on two different sides of the spectrum here. Yeah, I don't know. They have to get the owners together to agree to all that,

to push all that. And like I said, I feel like if the salary floor is high enough, the players should be agreeable to a cap. Now, the question will be, will the secondary teams still want to do that? Again, this is well, beyond our thoughts,

and we're going to obviously focus on the sport itself and playing most of the time. but I got news for you. We're going to have to get into some of this labor crap eventually because we have to seriously consider I think Major League Baseball owners and they would never publicly say this. I bet they are stashing money aside

to sit out 2027. I'm sure everybody's stashing money. I think everybody knows it's like the winterstorms coming this weekend. They know the winter storm's coming in 27. Yep, that's exactly right. All right, if you'd like to join us today, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-5-790. Matt, with you here.

in Philadelphia for Rockets and Sixers. Ross back in our Houston studios at 1130 today. We have, I just don't get it. Ross, we're going to check in with our buddy Softy and KJR in Seattle at 1 o'clock today. Oh, wonderful. Yes. I like that. Yes.

Seahawk talk. Well, it's, I mean, yeah. But it's like, is Seattle going to be cursed a second time in the same sports season? I don't care about the Seahawks, but I'm glad the Mariners lost. Yeah. It's funny. which we'll have soft again and it's like I have a lot of you know what and vinegar for

anti-mariner conversations I'm not anti-Seahawk how can who could be I mean who could Steve Largent sucks yeah man I I hate what was it Sean Alexander

he was a douche back when he played you know nobody says that that's great all right 713 212 5790 713 212 5790 so Matt Thomas showed Ross I just don't get at 1130 softy at 1 o'clock, believe it or not, at 150.

And when we come back, a story, a topic idea from an assistant coach of the Rockets, another new with basketball. It is 1115, or make it 1015 in the central time zone. This is Sports Talk 790.

Matt and Ross with you here on Sports Talk 790. Good morning, everybody. You 10 o'clockers, we love you. I mean, we love our 11 o'clockers, 12 o'clockers and one o'clockers, but we always have a special relationship with you 10 o'clockers. You know what? A couple times recently

I've run into people and they said, hey, I'm a 10 o'clocker. So they're out there, Maddie. You know what got to do? We've got to do like something special. We're going to do a believe it or not

in the next 10 days pre 11 o'clock. Okay. I'll write it after the show. There's zero chance you're doing that. Well, if you remind me, I can do it. There's a chance. Okay.

You know, I could get them done in about 15 minutes. You know what? Sometimes your best work is done with Phil. Limited time on the clock. Yeah. Well, I'm looking at my Microsoft page. It says the storm may be moving further north, maybe.

Yeah. We catch a little break? I think I don't really do those. I go with the, you've had Matt Lanzah on Matt. He and Eric Berger from Space City Weather. Their slogan is literally no hype. Hype-free forecast for Houston. So they're the only ones I trust completely.

All right. Jonathan and Ross, I have a question for you, and I want to offer to the audience as well. And I probably should have given it to you ahead of time, but sometimes spot in 80 and making you think a lot on the radio is fun. So I went down this morning to go get some breakfast here in Philadelphia, and I was on the elevator with Ben Sullivan, who is E-May's top assistant for the Rockets.

I said, good morning. We were talking about being in the east, and I'm not a big fan of coming to the East Coast generally, because the weather is usually cold like it is, and it's going to be super cold in Detroit tomorrow. and he goes, do you ever know, do you know of a city

that gravitates towards a fictional character more than Philadelphia gravitates towards Rocky? And I thought to myself, A, great question, B, you're talking to me, which is really nice, and C, no, I can't. And I'm sure there is an answer.

Maybe that gravitates more to, but he's a legend in the town and he doesn't exist. Yes, we're talking about, obviously about Rocky and when people come to Philadelphia, they go to the steps and try to do the Rocky bit. I have never done that in all my years of coming here. They got a Rocky statue before they got a Joe Fraser statue, correct?

That would be, I believe Rocky was up before Dr. Jay was put up. But you're saying something, right? I don't even know this is Dr. Jay one. I'm assuming there is. I mean, I don't know. But it was a very interesting question, and I didn't have an answer from now. The only thing that came to mind to me, but it's so dated that I don't think it's applicable.

If you go to Minneapolis, there is an outdoor walking area, shops, restaurants, a kind of thing. It's called Nicollet Mall, but it's really an outdoors walking area that has a statue of Mary Tyler Moore when she threw her hat on the Mary Tyler Moore show. And that show has not been on since 1977. So the 99% of the people that live in Minneapolis have no recollection of what Mary Teller Moore did. But every time her show ended or the opening show, she threw her hat up in the air when she was living in downtown Minneapolis. Is there a fawn statue in Milwaukee? There is a fond statue in Milwaukee. I was trying to think of that.

But again, that's a show that ended in 19. I tell you about Rocky, we're looking at 30 plus years on Rocky, are we not? Okay, I got one. What about Paul Bunyan? in Minnesota. Isn't there a big statue of him there? You know what? The problem is I don't even know where that is.

Paul Bunyan and his axe. I'm looking, I'm looking. But here's the thing I was thinking about. Because I remember it from Fargo. Didn't they go drive by the statue in Fargo? I didn't see it Fargo. What? It's one of the great all-time American films.

Now there's violence. Oh, there is. Spoiler alert. Somebody might get put into a wood chipper. No, no, no. I'm definitely not watching it now. Oh, it's such a great movie, perfectly scripted, acted, directed. Oh, it's one of the great all-time American films or any kind of film.

Anyways, Matt, okay. So I'll get over there. When you go to Philadelphia, when you tell somebody you're going to Philadelphia, it takes no less than about two minutes before Rocky gets brought up in conversation. Bemidji, Minnesota, Paul Bunyan and his blue ox statue. Okay, that's in way north, Minnesota where like nine people live. Hmm I don't know

Washington and Seattle folks and Sasquatch I don't think there's an answer It's Philly and Rocky is pretty strong Philly and we they Oh Orlando and Mickey Mouse Yeah I mean

Hey you said you're throwing this out of us I'm throwing it out It was live We're brainstorming Prepare for it Yes I know Hmm like you

When you go to Milwaukee you don't think of Laverne and Shirley, because you just don't, or happy days, because those shows are way, but, but Rocky, I mean,

the first Rocky came out in 1975. There hasn't been a rock, now there's been the prequels, and there's the Apollo Creed run that they went through, but there hasn't been a rock, a new Rocky in a long time, and then the really, the good Rocky is one that really count,

two, three, four, or between 1977 and 1985, right? Yeah, the Creed movie's been pretty good. I didn't see the third one. The one and two were solid. One was good, two was okay.

Remember when I asked for, for a creed song one time on the show? That is a legendary moment in the Matt Thomas show with Ross history. I could probably count on my hand the amount of times I had tears in my eyes. I can count on my hand the number of times I wanted a producer fired immediately after something happened. No, it was cold. Well, mistakes do happen. That was cold.

That was an all-timer. It was absolute gold. I had tears in my eyes. I was in Arlington on the floor at the home suites with tears in my eyes. Oh, man. That was great. I had tears of my eyes for a different reason. Stop.

It's going to make me laugh. We have audio of it, do we not? I'm sure we're somewhere. Or do you might have it. Oh, God. Oh, that was so great. Yeah, Matt asked for a song from Creed because they were going to be at the Texas Rangers game. And we were talking like Creed on the air.

Yeah, we're going, Her, M or her. A Jose, Al-Tuver. And so we... You know how? I am so high up in my room, I can tell the logo of the plane flying in front of me here. Oh, wow. There's a smited plane riding flying right in front of me here.

I'm a little worried about you. Yeah, I'm fine. I'll be fine. I'll be fine. Continue on. But yeah, so we asked for a creed song. Yeah, we're talking like Scott Stapp. Her, Jose, Al-Tuv. Yeah. And he plays a creed song.

We asked for a creed song. from the movie soundtrack. Enough from you. So good. Enough from me. But again, I will say, I've never seen Gordy move faster. I've never seen Gordy move faster than when he found out that they were interviewing.

They're like, make an announcement in the press box. Creed will be speaking to the media down in the interview room. He bolted out of there to go interview. Let me explain what Gordy would have. done. Gordy would have looked at you and said, man, who would want to go talk to? Who would want to go to talk to Creed? Oh, by the way, my stomach doesn't feel great. I'm going to go to the

bathroom and then no. He's like, runs. He's like, dude, it's Creed. All right, got to see you later, Gordy. I'm trying to cover this Jose Altuve three run homer to win the game. Yeah, we got a 7-6 game in the bottom of the night, but Creed's in the background. Go talk to him instead.

Oh, here's one from Roy. Seattle has Fraser Crane. Eh, still Rocky's bigger. I'm going to be honest with you. I've not been to Seattle a long time. I don't think I go to Seattle and walk around and go, hey, where's Frasier Crane? Baby, I hear the blues are calling.

That show was mid, by the way. Oh. I loved to cheers. I thought, I thought Frasier was mid. My dad's going to fight you. I like that. I like the show. That's one of the ones you just watch what your dad's watching, right?

I watched it, and I liked it. Yeah, sometimes you're going to watch shows because your parents like it and you bond. Like my grandparents loved Benny Hill back in the day, and I don't watch Benny Hill. Yeah, I'd watch Seinfeld. I'd watch Prices Right with my Aunt Rosie. You don't watch it with me. You're not my Aunt Rosie.

That's true. May she rest. She was a saint. You're not. All right. So, yeah, I think we've answered the conversation very quickly. Ended it with that, again, people still go nuts for Rocky in this town. Still do.

Crazy. All right. Matt Ross with you here on sports talk. You've been with us the whole time. You've been engaged. I'm very happy for you on that. I'm doing my best. Why? Would you have a long night or something?

No, I had. It didn't. It's just, you know, I got focus issues when you're in the room. I know you do. You're on the road. It's like, it's monkey banging symbols in my head. Would you like me to, would you want to FaceTime during the whole show together? Oh, that sounds weird.

That is weird. I would not want to FaceTime. I don't want to face them anybody for that length of time. No, well, I could think of somebody, but not you. 713, 23, 212, 5, 790. 719. 212-5-7-9. I got a simple question for y'all.

How long will it take for you, Texans, to get over the hangover, what you saw on Sunday? And did Casario say anything yesterday when we carried the press conference exactly this moment 24 hours ago that made you think, okay, I like the direction we're headed. I don't think Texas, our buddy Cameron

that called the show twice yesterday, Ross. I don't think he got that connection from his general manager. 713-212-5-7-9. Ross, back to tell you right about Cinergenic. 1036 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you guys want to get in, and ladies, too, don't be afraid to come say hi. We don't have any super pipe hot piping sports takes that we can just infuriate you with. We're just trying to be rational, normal dudes talking on a radio show for four hours a day.

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7-190.7-190. Rockets are going to take on the 76ers tonight. Houston has won three consecutive games. Stephen Adams obviously not on the trip. I was doing some grade three ankle research. Oh, why would you do that? yeah because then you're going to do that you're going to heavy sigh if you hear anything pass a grade two and basically anything like what is a grade three in life that's good uh your

child make it into grade three that's fair because if he's been in grade two for a while it's you're looking to the elevation would be nice yes go ahead no i'm just kind of him and hall and let's talk about how he said him and hawing it will be easier to explain than what I think it's going to ultimately happen. He's also seven foot plus, what is he listed at? 7-1. No, no, 7? 6-11. 6-11? Okay.

Yeah. And angry. Just about every hour of the day. No, he's pleasant off the floor. She calls me maid a few times. That's nice. Did you see that? No, it's Matt. You should say that. That'd be funny. That'd be funny. Again, let me

a nice dad joke you can pull out. How many rockets know my name? I bet you they could multiple choice it. Kevin Durant could pick it out of a multiple choice, but I don't know if you know it. Oh, for a multiple choice game, it worked. I don't tell you a little trick of the trade. Yes. Every time we get a player on the post game and show, hey, Tarry, it's Matt and, you know, whomever I'm working with,

or it's Matt up here. Or, you know, I try my best. Oh, you could, no, it's Adam every time. It's Matt and Adam. That's true. It's in default, that's for sure. Yeah, I would not, I would anticipate Stephen being gone a very long time. which then begs the question.

Do you go get another, if Clint Capella, I don't think he can supply the minutes, or for that matter, clearly the offensive rebounding about it. I mean, Steve Adams, averages like nine rebounds a game, but probably five of them on the offensive side of things.

He's one of a kind, and you're going to miss dearly his offensive rebounding and what that provides for your offense. And you're not going to be able to get anybody. it's Stephen Adams and it's basically everyone else when it comes to offensive rebounding, right? Because as we asked you doka early in the season

and it makes perfect sense, he's just stronger than everybody. He's bully, man. And a lot of it is right place, right time. Yes. Instinct. He's stronger than everybody's got great instinct, for sure. And he does have good set of hands, relatively speaking. The ball doesn't tip off his hand a lot, you know, and it's like a pinball machine going on there.

Once he grabs, he grabs it. Yeah. And he does a question. great job and this is not a basketball skill anybody never talks about but he tips it like to the other player he does a great job of tip outs accurate

like accurate tapouts and it's like volleyball skill do you play volleyball or something beach volleyball I mean but you know when you're playing with he's got like a dozen siblings I would guess something's going on there's some you know evolving that kind of thing so yeah I'm not encouraged by that and I hope

for the very best but grade three means you're probably your ankle is about 40 to 50% bigger than it was 24 hours ago. It means a ligament has torn. So it's not good. And they can't even, you can't really walk on it until the

swelling goes down and how long that's going to take. Who knows? All right. So yeah, the Rockets and 76ers tonight will have it for you here on 790 and again tomorrow the rockets will take on the Pistons. Shall we say perhaps an NBA Finals preview? I'll say yes. Why not? NBA Finals preview. Now, this

is with the Nuggets, Thunder, and Spurs. suffering several injuries, you're saying? I'm saying, when there's a will, there's a way. Rockets are down 16, came back and won. It biggest comeback of the season internet, so. They are a half game from the seven spot and two and a half from the two spot. Welcome to the Western Conference.

That's going to be the case every single night. That's why my standings watching is going to, if you thought I was nuts during baseball season, it's going to worse for me as a basketball fan. I mean, it's a baseline. I think you're nuts anyway, so. Okay. 1713-212-1-7190-7-1-3-212-5-7-90. What else is going on in the world?

I was thinking about this. I was writing to topic shows. Okay. About the city thing, and we have nope. Sam Houston, people do not come to Houston to go, I'm looking for my Sam Houston statue. Sam Houston does not come to the cross of mine. When you think about Houston, you think of culture and food and traffic and humidity and heat.

Sam Houston does not roll off the tongue for the average person that comes here. I believe Houston was the leading, they had more restaurants named to the Yelp top 100 than any other city. Sources close to the show say. I firmly believe you on that. Rossi, I'm mixed on Yelp. I'm mixed on reviews in general. I've got to be brutally honest with you because I can go to 50 reviews.

25 of them think it's a five-star dining place. The other place would say I would have dog food over this place. Well, I would say a couple of things. The more ethnic to food, the more. more unreliable the reviews are. Like, I'll be honest with you. I went to a restaurant. I don't remember what city it was in.

It might have been Houston. He says, hey, the guy says, oh, I know what it was. It was actually in Porter. Uh-huh. And it was a Rennies. And he said, the guy said, I'll give you a discount on your meal

if you write us a good review. And I said, okay, how may happen to do that? And he goes, no, can you do it right here at the table? Yeah, he's got to verify you. Huh? Yeah, he wants to verify it. Oh, yeah. So I had to write about how great the service was.

Yeah. Look, moon on my hammy, I mean, it's eggs. It's Canadian bacon. It's an English muffin. I mean, I guess you can't reinvent that. But I said the service was amazing. The food was great and fresh. I mean, I was like, he's like, yeah, that's pretty good.

But add this part in it too. I'm like, okay. And so I put on the help and he gave me 20% off because I can be bought. No, yeah. Also, I would say read the reviews and see what the bad ones are. Generally, if it's like bad service, as long as the food's good, I'm not that worried about it. If somebody just had an angry, angry server or something like that. Right, right.

And also, I remember I went to occasion place in Lafayette. And one of the one-star reviews was, everything's too spicy on this menu. And I sent this back, and then I tried this, and it was too spicy too. You're an occasion restaurant in Lafayette, Louisiana. Of course the food is spicy. Shut you bum ass up. Like read the one-star reviews and kind of see. And also I'll give you another tip.

Look at the recent reviews. Sometimes it can go all the five stars are old and then places have gone downhill or something can be reversed. It opened and it wasn't great and it was shaky and then the recent reviews are five stars. So look more at the recent reviews I say. Well, I'm getting burned mostly on hotel reviews. Oh. How? Because they run mixed as well.

You're only in five diamond places. I'm talking about when you and I travel to West Palm Beach. Remember the couple years ago? I looked at Studio 6 in West Palm and it said, clean, comfortable, close to the airport, good to all the restaurants. And we had bullet wounds in our room. The syringe drop off had just been. I mean, there was blood in our bathtub. It was rough.

It was rough. It was running off the faucet. I think it was rust. But the meth dealer in front of our room kind of made me alarmed a little bit. It was fine. We made it out there. You were never in danger for any point. Did you feel comfortable?

I was fine. Did you worry about the bed bugs? Matthew. There were no bed bugs. We're not, then you know what? We can say that. We go next month. Let's go back there.

Okay, let's do it. No, we're not doing that. See? No chance. Matthew. What? Rupin Greenspoint, baby. It's all right.

You made it out there fine. You were never in danger. Oh, so you're saying you're going to your Greenspoint roots to worry about your travel future. Yeah, quit your whining. We never got confronted by anybody. Nobody did anything. There was no gunshots. It's all fine.

Fine. There it is, ladies gentlemen. We're not going to refer to Ross as Greenspoint Ross. Just telling you. You made it out there. There was no issues. The floor was a little greasy. And somebody had stolen the batteries out of our remote. Correct. And there was a dial tone phone in there with the buttons. Yeah, with FBI wiretaps. But it was fine. I thought the free porn was nice. I told you not to watch that. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to give that out. So, Rossi, I follow all the PR Twitter accounts with the TV networks. And I'm always fascinated about what people watch and what they don't watch and how the ratings are. And mostly these PR Twitter accounts only put good stuff in there.

They will never put, well, our numbers were down last year, 10%, down 12% over various events. They always want to paint a rosy picture. So I got the ESPN release. Now, I don't know if this is just ESPN or ESPN slash, ABC. The divisional round matchup between the Texans and the Patriots had 38 million viewers. That is the most watched event

ever on ESPN. Oh, you know what they're saying? Yeah, they're saying across ESPN, ABC, and ESPN Deportes, the game averaged 37.965 million viewers. So yeah, they're including both ABC and ESPN. Yeah, and I believe Nielsen started changing I think numbers are up across the board

because they did some tweaking with how they count streams or something like that. Correct, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. Or the inclusion of streaming. So, yeah, when you add it all up, it's, that's great for them. Most watch ESPN event ever. So 38 million people saw CJ Stroud throw

four first half interceptions. He's been a national punchline. I can't tell you how many different people I've had send me C.J. Stroud memes. How many different ones there are of like C.J. Stroud's turnover house. Like he. There was a C.J. Stroud in a Miami hurricane uniform. Carson Beck. Yes.

C.J. Stroud is, what's that little guy from the Howard Stern show? Beetle juice. Oh, my God. Now, you know that C.J. Stratz memes, please. Now, you know C.J will make it when he makes it as a Bob Barker AI thing that it's getting sent around. Oh, no. I got one of those. did you really yes somebody sent it to me on i think my instagram at sports rv i wouldn't follow i mean i would follow it's a great view thank you do you see a beautiful photo i took of the landing in

philadelphia i didn't catch it looks great you saw i saw you said you saw it so you you know you're a liar i'll go drop a like on it though sure why not thank you very much i appreciate that yeah somebody sent me one it was t j stroud with bob barker and he got uh it was called accuracy fixer or something. And it was something that would fix his, because he says Bob Barker's, AI, Bob Barker says something like, you've been throwing around the ball like a toddler,

throwing a rattle or something like that. Yeah. Not great. He's a punchline. I'm going to give you a declarative statement, and I don't think you can argue with me about this. Okay. C. Day Stroud has little to zero trade value.

I would say little, yes. Zero, no. and I also will say oh no you didn't post it oh is it on your story? Yeah my story yeah oh well I'm not gonna like you saw that already

I'm not gonna like another man's story sure you can like a little lost story I guess I can okay so back to the point okay so no would be maybe but he's not going anywhere and I will say his

I said this I think yesterday the day before this is the lowest his stock has ever been in his professional career yeah now there was a

slight regression from season one to two, a slighter regression from season two to three, although this year was not terrible. The last two games were terrible. This year by many I mean like yards per temp, KBR, I think QB rating, this was a bounce back year

for him actually. Playoffs not outstanding. But the two playoff games were a disaster. It's like, I don't know, he got to the 11th step of AA and then he went on a bender and drank two cases of beer. Hmm, that's quite a parallel there.

That feels right. I mean, I think you're right. Because as Nick Casarro brought up yesterday in the press availability, the Texans don't beat the Chiefs in Kansas City, if not for C.J. Straw making a bunch of key plays. But what Nick failed to realize is, while it was important to win the game, and you were certainly able to knock out the Chiefs of being a relevant

AFC playoff contender, you're only going, you're going to be, for this city, right now, Ross. You are only going to be judged on what you do in the postseason. Yes. The thought of making the playoffs is cool to a very few group of people. Maybe leaning a doggle and nobody else. Everybody else is saying we are sick and tired of making just the division around.

What are they? 0 and 7 or 0.8 now? I've lost track. Somewhere around there. It's in that range. O and 7, I think. So that's the bar. it's not hanging in divisional banner it's not winning a wildcar game

now winning a game on the road was cool in Pittsburgh but frankly Ross we can take a little step back and go Pittsburgh probably shouldn't have been there to begin with if not for one field goal that should have gone in Baltimore would have won the game I still think the Texas would have beaten Baltimore but it would have been much bigger of a challenge

yeah the question I guess would be is if CJ had that day against Baltimore would the Texas been able to still overcome that hell no answer that no I can't say hell no. But yeah, the bar is to win in the playoffs. It's also the bar for Josh Allen. It's a bar from Lamar Jackson.

Everybody. It's far more successful. Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean, CJ ain't feeling something that Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen, and for that matter, Joe Burling is feeling right now. Although Joe's gone to the Super Bowl at least. Only one team gets to win. Only one quarterback gets to win at all.

And as Nick Casario said in his press conference, it's hard. It's hard to win. But it's hard to win, Ross. But guess what? somebody gets somebody gets to win every year. Yeah, one out of 32. This is not like we're not going to,

we're not doing the lotto where it takes like months to get a winner. Literally every year, somebody gets to win. And I think Texas fans are saying, what is it our turn? It's your turn when you're good enough. It's your turn when your quarterback plays good enough.

You had the defense to do it. You didn't have the offensive line, the running game, the wide receivers, or the quarterback play. Other than that, it was fantastic. Yeah. Great question.

Question of the media availability yesterday should have been. Do you think you owe Will Anderson an apology? They should. They should apologize to Matt Burke and Domingo Ryans. Matt Burke probably cost himself a head coaching job off of this. He didn't have to do wrong with it. Did you get any interviews? I want to say he got a few casual ones, but you remember, he was still competing as a coach,

so he couldn't really step aside too much. All right. An NFL owner gave a really, I don't know how bizarre an answer, I guess I'll put it this way. How bizarre of an answer was it why an NFL owner fired his coach? We'll discuss that to start the second hour with the Matt Thomas show. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. It is 1104 on Sports Talk 7-904 on.

Matt and Ross with you here until 2 o'clock today. We will have, I just don't get it, it's coming up at the bottom of the hour. What are you laughing about? Stop sending me. C.J. Stroud has been signed by DoorDash. Stop sending me these memes on Instagram. Okay, I have not seen that one. You're going to explain DoorDash to me.

As if he's been signed as a DoorDash driver. Oh, no. Is there any part of you that thinks they're going to take, now they've got to do it this off season, I think the guarantee of the fifth year. Am I right about that? What's the role in that fifth year option? Oh, my God.

Here's a video of CJ Stroud as a server. That's from a charity event. He's not a server. He doesn't worry. He's not wearing Bling from Reefat. Rigi Rai Rays. A flare, pieces of flare. Yeah, a flare.

Is Ridi Rai Rai Rai still around? I think so? The one number, I think, closed. Okay. I haven't been to one. Honestly, it's been a decade plus. Back in the day, Rossi, they used to have, and maybe they still do it, they're still around.

They used to have the best potato skins you could find. Oh, yeah. Potato skins were jamming. Look that up, see if you, Ridi Riori Rides. Let's see. Matt, yeah, why don't you go to one, the nicest one in Philadelphia? How's a casino, by the way? I didn't go last night.

Okay, good. What'd be it in being good? I'm trying to keep you saving your money. Oh, yeah, there are multiple Regi I-Ranis here in Philadelphia, by the way. You should go. I'm good. When's about you, by the way? I need to get this over with.

Soon enough. Soon enough. I have, I spent a lot of money on dinner last night, so I have to kind of keep it. I went to Wawa for breakfast today. And Wawa's great. I love Wawa. I love Wawa. We're team wah-wa and we go to Florida.

Yes, sir. We budget's a little low. We eat Wawa every day. We do. Matt Thomas Show and Ross brought to you by our Wawa. It's only a place we can afford to eat. Even then it's a little tight. Ross, put those chips away.

Yeah, I'll get the 20-ounce Gatorade instead of the 32. Okay, so Terriot Pagula is the owner of the bills. I have no idea what the guy's name was. Yes. So apparently, and here, There's the thing that we should discuss, and we always tease about Cal and Hannah. Well, we really tease Cal more than anything else. These guys, I always felt like if you're going to be an owner of a sports franchise,

you should take some sort of basic fundamental class of do's and don'ts and press conferences. Yes. So there was a big conversation about why he decided to fire Shaw McDermott after nine years in Buffalo. And there was some talk about, is Josh Allen unhappy? Josh Allen was crying in the locker room, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Is the locker room lost? And so point blank, and maybe we can get the audio at some point during the show today. Terry Begoultz says the reason why we fired Shaw McDermin, and he said,

fired is such an abrasive term, right? Usually you hear owners and general managers and for that matter people in your own office places, say we decided to go in a different direction. We wanted to, you know, we wanted to get a fresh set of eyes on something. it's very rare to anyone to say the word fired unless you just did like when charon more was let go out of Michigan Rossi he was fired yes I mean he wasn't relieved of his duties he was fired so Terry Bigelow says the reason why I fired Shaw McDermott was quote we hit the proverbial playoff wall is that a we've been entitled because here's the reason why I think this how much would that game have changed on one or two plays

and for that matter if that Brandon Cook's play was considered a catch as compared to an interception well I thought it was an interception but uh well also it was um four turnovers yes from Josh Allen would John Harbaugh have been fired

if the kicker for the Ravens would have made the kick no I don't think so certainly if CJ Stroud was going to fumble the ball five times like he did against Steelers. So I think

owners of sports teams are in a real conundrum because they don't typically have filters. For instance, Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots a couple of days ago went on some show or some podcast.

I don't want it what it was, but he basically spilled the beans that the NFL is moving towards an 18 game schedule. And across the country, well, at least the players of some of them are crucifying him. It was a question asked and a question to answer. And this owner, Terry Pagula of the Buffalo Bills,

question asked. He heard an initial response. It said, nah, that's not really why. His opportunity to come forward and come clean is being treated rather harshly in the Buffalo area right now by Bill's fans. Yes. And he also threw Sean McDermott under the bus,

that they wanted Keon Coleman and he didn't, which we talked about on the news at noon. And then there's video of Brandon Bean talking about how much he loves Keon Coleman on draft night. So the reason why I brought this up, not so much the inflammatory comment, it was, are we ever

going to be at a point where we're going to hit the proverbial playoff wall? I think we've hit the wall multiple times. When you're 0 and 7 in divisional playoffs, that is bang your head against the wall, is it not? Well, Sean McDermott is nine years. I think we're a way off of that. I think, I mean, Dimeico Rines is still a good head coach. They're doing great.

I mean, they're not doing great, okay, but... They're doing good. They're doing good. Three playoff appearances, three division rounds is good. It's not great. It's good, but it's also the manner in which they lost makes it not feel good. If it would have been 31 to 28, Drake May drove down the field and they hit a last second field goal, you could be like, dang, we almost got them. It doesn't feel like that.

it feels like you would almost wish they'd never made the playoffs in the first place. 2816 could not really, the final score could not indicate how further the two teams played on Sunday. And how bad CJ Stroud was. So, yeah, for example, you know, you have Josh Allen and there's 13 seconds left and you have the lead. And then Pat Mahomes drives the other way and you're like, man, we're just, we're just a little snake bit. We were almost there. We almost had them. It doesn't feel like that right now in Houston.

And, but yeah, right now D'Amico Rines is very, very safe. His seat is extremely cold. He's the best coach in franchise history right now. And Sean McDermott was there for nine years. Knowing how difficult it is to win playoff games, your description of it, Nick Asherner talking about it. How long do you go? I mean, you and I do not get into a deep dive on Buffalo Bills talk ever,

except for when the Texans play them. and so far the Texans have had lots of success against them. How do you think we would have felt if we're doing Buffalo Bill's radio right now? How would we have felt today or yesterday or the day before? I think Sean McDermott's a fall guy. I think you could win a Super Bowl with Sean McDermott. I kind of do too. But I also think you can win a Super Bowl with if Brian Daibble comes in or whoever it's going to be.

It's about the players. It really is. And really the number one thing. Obviously coaching plays a huge effect. you have to constantly draw in a plays and constantly come up with defensive schemes and have a good staff. But for me 50% of my job, if I'm

looking for a coach is, do you know how to manage timeouts in a two-minute drill? We're running into a lot of problems. It's a lot of things. It's game management. It's how you go with when we had Bob Sochi on me. We asked like, what's the difference with Mike Vable? It's just a certain something as far as being a leader,

being positive with the players, being a player's coach, running practices the correct way, covering all basis in terms of scouting, self-scouting, all those little attention to detail things. That's what everybody says is the best thing about Bill Belichick. It was the attention to detail better than others, including, as you just mentioned, game management. And I think D'Amico checks the boxes of, let's say they were 10 boxes. He checks them of eight. Yeah, the first number to pop in my head was seven, yeah, seven, eight. Yeah. I would think he's not

checking the box on his two-minute. drills. No. I don't think he's checking the boxes a lot on his challenges. No. And I think fourth downs. If there was a category of perhaps too conservative, he doesn't, you know, how conservative and how liberally is with his calling on fourth down

or on third down in a long place, he probably doesn't check a box on that, but everything on the... I mean, let me tell you some. Teams that go, oh and three, Rossi, don't make the playoffs, generally speaking. And they went on a ridiculously long run. I don't think he's... I don't think D'Amico has ever lost the locker room in three years.

Not saying something. No, I don't expect him to at any point. No. No, I think there's enough of a players coach with an edge that DiMico's always going to have the locker room. 713-212-5-790. If you'd like to join our show today, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

I'm here in Philadelphia. The Rockets are going to take on the 76ers. If you want to get into some basketball talk, rockets will be cool. Astro Spring Training just a handful of weeks away. Ross and are going to be at Astro Fan Fest coming up this Saturday. Over under our number of autographs we sign. Point five. I'll let day over on that.

Okay. It takes one person to ask for our autograph. You're so funny. Now, I've not been to an Astro Fan Fest in about five years. We've got to bundle up, do we not? There's no heating in that stadium, is there? There is no heating. In some years, it's chilly, and some years it's downright cold.

This year, of course, it's going to be close to freezing. So, may I bring a blanket? Would I be judge of a part of a ball, blanket. Why would I, I don't care, Matt, if you want to stay warm. No, bring a blanket. I'm going to bring you a scarf. It's all good. Guess what my mom sent me a text yesterday? What? Did you bring a scarf with you to fill it off in your see? I did not comment. Why not? You didn't respond to your mother who's checking on you and making sure you're warm? I said I love you. What is wrong with you? I told her

brought mitts, a mittens, and a cap. Yeah, what's wrong with it? My kid, you have mittens cap and a scarf. You know what? I'm going to buy a scarf. I'm going to do it. You can get nice ones. And I'll wear it on the air and you'll say, I'll say sports RV convinced me to do this. There's a few things over the 16 years of work together that you've convinced me on. And maybe a scarf is worried. You're coming around.

Okay. Because here's the thing. We're landing in Detroit tonight. And my guess would be about 1 a.m. Detroit time. Okay. This Colhan one's only 30 bucks. Ooh, this Burberry cashmere scarf, 645 bucks. You know we ought to do our next bet should be on a scarf.

Not a, not a lot of. the birnberry one. But, yeah, we put like a dollar amount limit on it. All right, so let me tell you this. So we're going to get to Detroit. I'm looking at the hourly forecast about 1 a.m. and it's going to say, oh, it'll be 16 degrees. That's good scarf weather, Rossi.

16 is good scarf weather. Wait, 16 degrees? Oh, in Detroit? In Detroit. Okay. How is that you talking about Saturday? I was like, that's going to be. No, no.

Let me tell you, if it's 16 degrees, you and I are doing the show from the studio. Let's see. Low on Saturday. It's going to be rainy, though, on Saturday. low of 32 as what I'm seeing right now. Sunday, Monday is where it's going to get colder into the lows of 22 and 22. Ooh, loading.

My wife is the wife of the year. She already has our pipes wrapped up before she left for Austin today. She is wife of the year. Quite frankly. Get her a burberry scarf. Oh, trust me. I've bought a lot of things for her. It's an even relationship between the two of us. You know what? I instigated

there. I want to apologize. You certainly did. James and Biscuit. We'll get to you a second. 1116 on 7-Dady. Matt and Ross with you on 790. We have I Just Don't Get it coming up at the bottom of the hour. We'll get the news at noon coming up. Rockets against the 76ers tonight here on 790. We'll begin the coverage at 5 o'clock, 5.30 with the network pregame show.

And at 6 o'clock, we'll have the tip tomorrow in Detroit against the Pistons. NFL ratings are astronomical. Every divisional game had ginormous numbers. Did we should send those numbers to Rich Eisen? Because apparently he told us that we were going to miss Kansas City in the playoff sports RV. Oh, is that what he said? When he's crying on the NFL network. And by the way, he's on his radio show apparently.

Oh, okay, on his radio show. Mm-hmm. And by the way, make sure you stay tuned for the Rockets Wrap program tonight on Sports Talk 790. And by the way, please send more C.J. Stroud stories to at Sports RV on Instagram. He loves them. Just dig those bad boys into those DMs. Go. He's so sad.

C.J. Stroud has been signed to DoorDash. come on, man. That's tough. He's going to have to have a game of his life. Why doesn't he have to... Why couldn't he have a bad game? Why does he have to have disaster games? Why does he have to...

I mean, where people are questioning and point shaving. Remember when... Let me just tell you the narrative that was so ridiculous by all of the water carriers by the fake media in Houston. CJ is not going to have possibly a worse game or a comparable game that he had against Pittsburgh. He's going to bounce back. He was worse.

I thought it couldn't get worse. I got feeling under two and a half turnovers. I was like, he's not going to get worse than that. He threw four first half interceptions. Four! Yeah. How?

Oh, man. Four interceptions in the first half. The good news is zero in the second half. Good news he threw for 80 yards. Yeah, 80 something in the second half. He was like, what would you say? He was like 10 or 21 or something? Yeah. Not good.

You know what's funny? The receiving court kind of got, hey, y'all got to step it up next year. Well, yeah, there was no Nico Collins and no Dalton Schultz by the end of the game. Jaden Higgins was okay, but all was not to be found. No, and I mean, Kirk is, I mean, are we going with a jag or slightly above jag? Jack.

You know I'm right. No, he had 144 yards in the wildcard round. I'm going slightly above Jag, sticking with it. Okay, one game? Well above Jags. Xavier Hudson. Fifteen other games? No.

He's better than Xavier Hutchinson, who I consider, well, he's better. For what he is, Xavier Hutchinson is JAG. And I would put Kirk slightly above that. So I'll stick with it. He's like a 5.5 out of 5 out of 10, I mean, instead of a 5. Just repeat what you just said. Let me be positive. Can you let me be positive about something?

You know what? I'm being positive. Folks, send you're not. Send your gifts to her of Rossi. No, I'm getting these memes of CJ Stroud in a Hurricanes uniform. He's a national punchline, like these guys that don't look like C.J. Stroud with C.J. Stroud j. Jersey's on. A.I. Aim assist from Bob Barker on the Price is Right for C.J. Stroud.

This, this sucks. Who's more popular? Dead AI, Bob Barker, or previous longtime host of Price is right, Bob Barker? Probably at this point, dead AI Bob Barker. All right. More memes to SportsRV on Instagram. Bill on 790 and 1125. Bill, good morning to you.

Hey, guys. Yesterday you were talking about CJ possibly crying or looking like he's crying on the sidelines and how, you know, the great quarterback's just toughing it up. I wanted to say when you are that embarrassed, I'm not just talking about playing bad, but that embarrassed, because I can relate, you don't want anybody to see your face, and you do want to cry. And I'm just going to tell you a quick story because I used to be in TV and radio.

And so one time I was probably about 30 of the reporter, and we were doing a story in the news was on. And the two anchors, they introduced the story, and I'm standing kind of off to the left in front of a screen. And they said, da-da-da-da-da-da. And Bill has the story. Bill, what can you tell us? and normally I would have my contacts on or my glasses. I didn't that day, and I didn't bring my script. And it just so happens that they had this wide shot.

So the camera was like way in the back of the room almost. I couldn't read anything. And I'm like, I can't read this. And I hadn't even prepped them like what I was going to say if I didn't. And I couldn't read it. And I just froze. I admit I froze. I didn't know what to say.

So I said, you're going to have to come back to this story. It was like, it was stupid. And they said, what? You're going to have to come back to this story. story. Anyway, at the end, I was so embarrassed because this was on TV. We had a meeting afterwards. I put my head down and I cried. Like, I didn't want anybody to see me. They said, Bill, it's okay. It's okay. I was like, I felt so embarrassed. If I would have had to give a press conference or something, I couldn't do it. I wouldn't have been able to ask any questions. I couldn't look at anybody.

And so I can say it. I can relate, even though I think I'm, you know, somewhat tough, but that was so embarrassing. So I just want to tell you that story. Thank you, Bill. Thank you, Bill. what clarification purposes. We weren't, Matt and I did not care that C.J. There was a caller. I didn't want to interrupt him.

We did not. We did not. I am generally speaking. Now, I don't listen to every one of my shows over the last 30 plus years. I don't think I've ever been a, why are you crying up there, guy? Josh Allen was wept weeping.

I didn't have a problem with it. Look, these are highly emotional charge games. Anybody that crushes crying, you've got no soul. You just don't. Yeah, I mean, because then if he doesn't cry, oh, he needs to show emotion.

Or if he gets angry and he's slamming his helmet, oh, he's not keeping his cool. He's lost it. Like, you just can't win. Now, if you're crying for every single thing that you've done wrong, then you've got to tighten up a little bit. But if he cries for a professional playoff game, were you disappointed?

Yeah, I, you know. And you cost the team the game. You cost the team the game. You should be emotional. It wasn't like he was even crying. he was like he had his head down, which is probably the right thing to do. Josh was openly weeping. I mean, he was like me watching, you know, Still Magnolias.

I mean, wow, yeah. Okay. I mean, Shelby died and I was so sad. Hey, he's supposed to stop. Spoilers. I haven't seen it. Come on, man. Let me tell you something.

Shelby died. She had a baby, and they told her not to have it. Hey. I know I'm telling you right now. Come on, man. A lot of pressure. there. A lot of pressure, Shelby.

Shouldn't have the baby. They told you not to have the baby. I'm never watching Steel Magnolias now. Yeah, you should. It's a great movie. Great cast. All right. James and Biscuit will get to you.

I just don't get it. I know. You're like, why do they mean? I don't get what people tell movies. What is the threshold? Ten years on movies and TV shows? I don't know. I'm just kidding.

No, about we, I need to clarify. The real threshold? It depends on how famous a movie is. It's a case-by-case basis. You should ask. Have you seen the movie? Do you want to see the movie? If you haven't seen Ted McNoyers by now, you're probably not going to see it.

I don't think it's not on my list. Not my bucket list. Like, for instance, you always want me to watch Goodfellas. You've openly discussed how much violence there is. As much as people love the movie, it's not going to be on my watch list. It's just not. All right. You got me to Godfather, and I give you credit for that.

Well, it took a global pandemic. You were like, I literally had nothing to do. So next time I'm stuck in my home. for weeks on end. I will watch good fans. I don't care. You do whatever you want. All right. Let's get to. I just don't get it's next. You're depriving yourself of greatness. Watching Lifetime movies instead. That's you. That's on you.

That's not. I'm not watching Lifetime. Matt. Damn Hallmark. No, not. I wish it was life. Are you kidding me, Ross? I would die for a lifetime movie. We have the Hallmark Channel all the time. Do you know how sappy and ridiculous those movies are? I don't. Good. You're smart. You're very, you're in a good spot in your life. 713. I do. first of all they're horribly acted second of all they have the same storyline over and over and over again and third they just suck the girls will hop but that's a different issue for a different time

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that frankly comes with normal therapy and a copay. We don't charge your thing. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-21-25-79. Now our friend, Jonathan, was a little underweather the couple days of the couple days. ago, a little better yesterday. How are you feeling today, by the way, Mr. Producer? I'm all right. I'm hanging in there. All right. Is there anything on your life you just don't get because we're here for you? I think the only thing I just don't understand is like pharmacies. I don't understand why I can have insurance on one spot and get my, get my prescription there.

If I go to a certain spot, that is the same thing, oh, we just don't take a certain type. I will say I totally get that because there are some pharmacies that work with our insurance company and give us good rates on 30 days, 60 day, 90 days supplies, and there are others that do not. So unfortunately, as a young man that hopefully have not going to get a lot of prescriptions in your life, but you're going to be getting many more as you get older. I totally get it. It's a very simple answer, Jonathan, money. They make deals, they make sweetheart deals with each other and they try to get better,

prices and better deals with other people. And generally, it's not the money to try to save you money. It's trying to get them more money. Well, I'll say this. I can go to R-R-R-R-S and get a 30-day supply. It will cost me the same if I go to Ball Beans and get a 90-day supply. This is coming. I'm learning so much.

Open your eyes. Yeah, that's what, you know, this half hour should be, you should take notes. Because you're going to learn a lot of things about your life coming up, my man. Oh, man. That's funny. All right. I'm going to go to the AI.

I just don't get it. Because Bob Barker is all over the place right now. Bob Barker's been dead. Ten years, maybe? Maybe not as long. Mm-hmm. When a large generation of people that are doing these AI memes, they don't know who Bob Barker is. When did Bob Barker all of a sudden become the essence of AI now?

I don't know. Every single thing that is going on from heavy women to political people to sports people, it's taking people like 90 seconds to create these AIs with Bob Barker involved. I say while I'm entertained by it, I also don't get it. Well, I don't know if they're ending up in everybody's algorithm, Matt. Jonathan, do you see a lot of Bob Barker AI stuff? I don't see any AI stuff. Okay.

You're in a good spot then. I normally don't, but now that my algorithm is tainted now because everybody's sending me all these C.J. Stroud memes. This is terrible. So I don't know that he's connecting with the youth, Matthew. I think it's your algorithm is tainted. That's why you're seeing all, it's only Bob Barker, AI, and only fans models. Okay, well, you know what, Jonathan?

I believe in sharing. As soon as I get an AI from Bob Barker, I'm going to send it to you to get you back with the rest of us. I've already seen the Stroud's Turnovers Restaurant, guys. Stop sending that to me. It's funny. Some of the Bob Barker AIs is like, I swear I got it's Bob Barker.

And the other than other than that are just terrible, terribly cheaply made AIs. He died August 26, 2023, by the way. Oh, it's only time in that. It's only been that long, huh? I know. I mean, he's been out of the limelight for 10 plus years. Yeah, I think, I think Drew Carey has hosted the show for like 16 or 17 years.

Below average, my eye ad. Not that you're bitter. Oh, I'm extremely bitter. Do you know what year Bob Barker retired? Well, it's 2020. I'm going to say 2008. 2007, very close. Drew Carey's been hosting a show for 18 years.

Did he take over immediately? Immediately. Okay. I never got a shot at it. I'm sorry, Matt. I'm sorry he boxed you out. You got boxed out by Drew Carey. The worst thing ever was when I DM'd a guy that was a producer for a game show,

and I said, hey, what are my chances? And he goes, you've got no chance. You know what? I'm sorry. If Nate Burleson is hosting the Hollywood Squares, I got no chance. I shouldn't have laughed. I'm sorry. That's not funny.

You laughed. I was just funny to you. No, no, no, it's not funny. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Matt. All right. Now, is this our buddy Cameron that called yesterday that was mad?

Hey, what about me? Oh, I'm sorry, Ross. What don't you get, Ross? Very rude. It's happening again here, Matt. I'm seeing... Technical problems at our radio station? Well, that's daily.

I'm seeing photos of empty Costco toilet paper aisles, empty HEB toilet paper. What is it with you, Estonians? What kind of messes are you making on yourselves? that we're three to four days out from a winter storm, and you need to make a run and buy 96 rolls of Charmin.

I don't get it. I understand you want to stock up, but it's going to be frozen. You're going to be in your house for like two days. What is it that are you doing with these toilet paper rolls? That you need to make a run and clear out every single grocery store in Houston. I don't get it. I got news for you.

You're speaking directly to Kim Thomas. Well, she's like, sometimes she needs to listen. Listen to me. We were having not an argument, but a spirited conversation about how much food we needed for the house on Saturday, because she's going to be in her. She live in town today for Austin,

and I'm coming home late tomorrow night, and then I got the Astero Fest with you, and then I'm home Saturday night and all Sunday. She's like, you better stock up. The grocery store is going to be crazy. I'm like, I'm not afraid of the grocery store like she is. If I've got to go in there and throw elbows to get some food, I'm going to do that.

But there are people like my beautiful wife who just can't get to the grocery store fast enough and buy everything humanly possible in case of one or two days of 20 degree temperatures. So Ross, and sadly I tell you, I get it. You get it. You just said you were arguing with her. I know, but I get it because I live with one of those people.

I'm right there with it. If you get it, then explain it to me. People are weird. They're psycho. They think the sky's going to fall. I got news for your friends. It's going to be 23 degrees, perhaps with some light precipitation. That's cold ice.

Get your asses off the road. Stay at home. Spend time with your family. Watch TV, read a book, watch football. You know what? What I'm going to do? I'm going to the freezer for stuff that I haven't opened up in six months. And I'm not talking about cheeks.

I'm just talking about general food in there. Oh, yeah. Don't eat your dead hamster, Matt. I hope it doesn't come down to that. I can't believe he's still there. I don't know if he's still there. You people are sick. I don't think he is, but I,

I wouldn't say with complete certainty. This is like Jeffrey Dahmer having jars of humans in his fridge. It's getting that weird. Is cheeks resting comfortably? No, he's dead. You have a dead rotting hamster in your, in your freezer. Definitely not rotting. Oh, he's not rotting.

I don't know that. What is he doing then? I would assume he's in the freezer, you know, like... He's not regenerating. Ted Williams' head's not rotting. He's in a freezer. That's fair. That's cryogenics.

I don't think... Maybe we're trying to recreate cheeks. I don't think... What is it? Liquid nitrogen is being used with cheeks in your freezer. Now again, I don't know if cheeks is still in there. I could check, but I don't think I want to look. Cheeks the hamster.

R-I-B. They're desecrating your body. You know, there are some cultures they send you straight to hell for this, Matt. Are we... Are we in one of those? cultures, I don't know. ATX Obo Girl says, open up a can of veggies,

FFS. Yeah. I totally agree. Have some jolly green giant calling a day. There's cereal in my in my cupboard for a reason. I'm going to open it up and use it.

All right, so I got to pick up some milk on the way home from Astrofest. I'll do that. I'm telling you, the panic in the, well, not the Thomas household. One member of my Thomas household.

Like, chill. We'll be fine. We're not sending in for, we're not sending ourselves up for a five-day blizzard. Rossi, if we lived here in Philadelphia, I'd feel differently. We're in Houston, Texas. Now, that freeze we had in years ago, that was a different issue.

This is like a one-day, right? I mean, I don't know what the long-term forecast says, but. Yeah, it's going to be like a day. Just stay inside. Well, you know, just stay inside for one day. Don't get 128 rolls of AngelSoft. Just get on your phone for 20s. 20 hours, make sure it's powered up plenty.

Yeah, it's like you're going to be at home. Yeah, use your power bank. All right. On the phones next, find out what you don't get. We're here to help you. 1144 on Sports Talk 790. 1150 here on Sports Talk 790. That was clean.

You all right? Yeah. Okay, good. Do we have dead air for a second? No. Okay, I thought I didn't hear anything. Our computer system were crashing. No, it's perfect.

I don't know. It might have been your connection. Who was blipping a little earlier than the first segment, but it's been fine. Are you good now? I think so. All right, good. Let's go the phones.

All right, Cameron. Look, Cameron, we gave you special clearance yesterday. This better be really good. You're going to take a couple days off. What's going on, Cameron? That's completely... I think it's stupid. I think it's stupid.

Oh, no. And I turn your power off and cryptic... Yep, Cameron, we're going to put you on hold. It sounds like it could be on our end. Oh, not on our end. The little bit... blipping and the little stuff out of the sorts. I'm a little worried.

All right. Jonathan, we have a bunch of callers there. I don't think any of those are I just don't get it. Is that correct? They're all different stuff. Cameron was. Yeah. So we've got to try him again. All right, we'll try Cameron. One more time. The camera. We're going to pick the L. Cameron. Second time the charm. Go ahead, Cameron.

Oh, man. I thought my take was that bad. You guys. Don't get crypto, man. I think it's stupid. I think someone, yeah. Crypto. Okay. We're going to let you go on that one, Cameron. I think he's saying crypto sucks. Oh, okay. I don't partake in crypto.

I don't see the value in it, but again, I could be wrong, so I'm going to say, I'm going to say I just don't get it. But I understand why some do. I just don't get it. I'll go with you. I don't exactly. I've watched like a 30-minute YouTube on it, and I'm still confused. Yeah. The only thing I know is that I know people that got into it when it was a Bitcoin, when it was $200.

There's other people who got into it when it was much lower than that. And now the current value for one Bitcoin is $89,000. Okay. And when you told me it crashed and it was going to be done, I think it was at 60. Yeah? I mean, I can't use crypto at the blackjack table. That's all I can tell you. They like the real stuff.

Hmm. All right, Cameron, thank you for the try. Let's go to, we got Johnny on line three. He just don't get it. Johnny, what don't you get, my man? Yeah, I just don't get it. your quarterback just played literally the worst half in NFL history, and you keep them in the game.

I just don't get it. You still your best option because Davis Mills is not good. He just threw five, four interceptions and a half. How many do you throw in the second half? The guy was shook. Yeah. How many do you throw in the second half? How many did you throw that you came before?

No, I'm asking. I mean, come on, he just. One. You keep them in. come on. Okay. If winner, losing, you're out of the playoffs

for the best defense at Inville history, practically. Come on. It's just going down as worse, almost as bad as the Oilers Buffalo game.

No, nothing as close as that. Nothing is ever. No, it's not. That's not close. It was 35 to 3, wasn't it?

No chance. Didn't Buffalo? Buffalo won that game with a backup quarterback. Who started the game? Wow. Interesting. Okay. It happens.

You know, like, 33 years ago. You started the game. It wasn't a replacement. Can you name of a back? Hold on, hold on, Johnny. If you're so sure of this, give me a backup quarterback who replaced a starter in the middle of a playoff game and won the game because the starter was bad. The same backup quarterback that won three games for you in the same season. No, no, no, no, no, no.

I mean, he was not pulled. He was your starter, what, a couple years ago? Yeah, why is he not? the starter anymore. Well, because we dropped to the quarterback. It was supposed to be the franchise. I mean, I don't get it. I still don't get it. Okay, John. I mean, I totally

get it. Thank you for the phone call. We're explaining it to you. And you should not listen to you. I got news for you. We're going to explain to you. Davis Mills is not a good quarterback. I'm sorry, he's not. And you guys know this. Don't get into this Davis Mills fandom. He's a backup quarterback for

several seasons for a reason. he helped you out the middle of the year that's what good backups do davis mills was not going to come off of the out of the bullpen and throw for 214 yards and three touchdowns because that's what you're needed to win the game wasn't going to happen and by the way he sucked against tennessee his last start and he's uh how was he in that last game that didn't mean he was okay and not great yeah i think he was good in the jaguars game i'm trying to pull of the game locks but it doesn't matter davis mills is not very good and That was, we appreciate Johnny. He's been calling for a long time.

You know how long he's been calling? How long has he been calling? Johnny was a Mark Sanchez truther back in the day. He was a Sanchez-er? Yes. And by the way, comparing what happened Sunday to the 35-3 orders game is frankly an insult. Let's see. Davis Mills did not have a yards per attempt over seven all season long.

In the Jacksonville game, he had $200. 92 yards with two touchdowns and a pick. Also that rushing touchdown if you recall it was like a third down. It was a big rushing touchdown actually. Yeah, they're not close. Now if the Texans were up 27 to 3

they'd be different, but they weren't. All right, that's, I just don't get it. We got John, Chris, James and Biscuit. All four of you hang tight. We will get to you as soon as we're getting down with the news at noon. So please, look, settle back, relax. Get your little drink of water, whatever case may be. Get your

thoughts together, and we're going to take all of you, plus any of anybody else. But please, I do not get trying to compare Sunday's loss to the Oilers' loss. I just, and I just don't get Davis Mills love. What do they call it? When you're a stand of somebody like that? Truther. Yeah, Davis Mills stands. Well, ask your son.

Oh, he's off of that, by the way. That's good. You know, he's all about the Carolina Panthers. Where's the Jersey? Where's the Davis Mills jersey? Oh, he's already got his Carolina Panthers jersey coming in. That's good. He said to me that today, Bryce Young better than C.J. Stroud, fight me.

And I'm like, I can't really fight you. He's not. Come on. He's wrong. Are you sure? Yes. Are you 100% sure? I'm not 100% sure, but I'm like 87% sure.

I got you. At least you've been to that. All right. The news at noon, then a lot of great folks. And we've got coming up at 1 o'clock, softie from KJR in Seattle to join this radio show. Right. This is the Matt. Thomas show with Ross.

The Matt Thomas show with Ross. Hour number three underway. I'm here in Philadelphia. Rockets against the 76ers tonight. 5 o'clock with the launch pad 530 network pregame 6 o'clock. Tip time. We have nothing else except Texas, Kentucky recap. All part of the news is a noon.

Yes, Matthew, there is a shortage of a top high-ins. sports news, but there are a number of things we can get into. If you do while the way, what? I hate to interrupt you. Go ahead. What we should have done, we should have watched Davis Mills go in there because people are defending CJ's Mills. I mean Davis Mills.

He should have gone in there. So he could have thrown two more picks and ended this Davis Mills conversation. So shame on you, D'Amico, for not letting those truthers get there is that their time out there. We just love the element of. the unknown or something like i don't know what what do you call it when like backup syndrome america loves the match quarterback backup syndrome that's exactly what it is uh yes matt kentucky beating the texas log hordes 85 to 80 longhorns falling to 11 and 8 11 and 8 on the

season you know what i was doing this as a joke i don't want to do this anymore i'm not i'm not talking longhorn basketball Yeah, Zach Robinson is the offensive coordinator and the Buccaneers, Matt. Your thoughts? None. I will save him for 201 on the podcast. Oh, okay. There have been four quarterbacks and one running back named as finalists for the APNL.

Excuse me. The NFL MVP by the AP. There we go. Would you like to know the candidates, Matt? Please. Of course, it is Christian McCaffrey. Then it is Drake May. Then it is Josh Allen, Matt Stafford, and Trevor Lawrence.

It's going to be Matt. Trevor Lawrence or C.J. Stroud. One stop. Well, one's in the finals of the MVP and one's not, Matt. Do you don't make me say this out loud? Trevor Lawrence on his ridiculous contractor, C.J. on his current deal right now. Yes.

Trevor Lawrence had a great season and he got a great play caller and offensive mine and Liam Cohen. Who is a bigger upside? And the Texans have the Texans have Nick Keley. At least one of those young receivers

They got Travis A-TN Ryan Thomas Jr. had a bad year. But they traded for what's his name, Jacoby Myers. Britain Strange. Yeah, their receivers weren't great either. 29 touchdowns. Right now it's Trevor Lawrence. It is.

And he sucks. Y'all know that. He doesn't Davis Mills sucks, but he still sucks. 13 and 4. So he's the finalist for the MVP. So who do you got as MVP, Matthew? Drake May and Stafford

probably going to come down to those two. Stafford won May 2. I'm with you. I think the narrative that the New England schedule was really soft is going to hurt May a little bit. Coach of the year nominees.

Cohen? Ben Johnson with the Bears. Ben Johnson stopped. Oh, Mike McDonald with the Seahawks. Oh, with the new quarterback. Oh, okay, forget what I said. Kyle Shanahan, 12 wins with the Niners with everybody hurt. No, no, no.

Everybody was hurt if they got to 12 wins. You know what? I'm going to say, Kyle Shanahan. What's up? I'm going to say the guy Mike McDonald. With Brock Purdy and then Nick Bosa and Fred Warner hurt. Let me tell you, Michael McDonald did a hell of a job this year in Seattle. Mike McDonald's great.

And then Vrable. Oh, Vrable too. Can you split the boat? No, Matt. All right. Anything else? Yes, a Houston Texan has been nominated to finish second to Miles Garrett in the defensive player of the year voting. All pro-edge rusher, Will Anderson, 12 sacks with the Texans.

Of course, a big part of the number one ranked defense in the NFL. Nick Bonito, 14 sacks with Broncos. Of course, Miles Garrett was a unanimous all-pro, and the single single scene is in sack record, even though it was 17 games. And it was Cleveland. Was the AP defensive player of the year in 2023, probably going to win it again.

And then you also have Aidan Hutchinson and Micah Parsons, even though he only played 13 and a half games. It's Miles Garrett. Everybody else is a distance second. All right. Love you, Will. One more quick one. Yeah.

Offensive player of the year. Puka Nakua. Bejohn Robinson. Jackson Smith Injigba. Drake May and Christian McCaffrey. Who's got your vote there? Drake May. Really?

Yeah. I think they hit a phenomenal season. Help the Toros finish second in their fantasy football. Bejohn Robinson had 2298 yards from scrimmage. I think it's not out of mind. I think Atlanta's on a national brand. It's not going to care. Okay, well, him or Puka.

I don't care about outside. I'm telling you who's the best on the field. I don't care about who's getting the most national run. If I did take Drake, May, I would take Puka Nicole. I would take Puka Nicole. I think it's got to be Puka or Bajon. All right. I'd say.

Make a bet. No, I'm not telling you who I would vote for. Drake May's not going to win. Yeah, I'll bet you, I'll take the field over Drake May. No, I'm good. Yeah, all right. You better back off. I didn't start collecting on these wins before I start putting on some more vets.

Okay. get that coffee and that lemon loaf ready. I thought it was an almond croissant. Oh, yeah, I'm going with it. Yeah, I think I'm almond croissant, but it gets, that powdered sugar gets everywhere, but it's so delicious. It is delicious. All right, that's the news, it, dude.

Sure, why not? All right. Oh, Rockets in Philadelphia playing tonight. Yeah, 6 o'clock on Prime Video. Picture is... No, no, no, that's tomorrow. Oh, tomorrow's on Prime Video tomorrow. Both games on 790.

That's a little important thing you're thinking about. Yes, yes. Make sure you call in to the Rockets Rap Call-in show. after the game tonight. Please. Who's hosting? Me? No, you know what, folks?

Let me tell you. Ross isn't mind doing monologues. He'd rather just talk to himself. No, we got like four or five calls in the last game when they came back and beat the Spurs. I love that. Let's go to the phones and talk to people. John in the Bellway area on 790. Hi, John.

Hey, John. This has been, it's going to be a short call, but it's been something that's been weighing on me. About a year ago, I called in. and I said some not so nice things about Reed Shepherd's hand. And I would like to formally apologize. All those comments and hope him to and rescind as the Rockets continue to hopefully win. That asked, yep. All right, John, we got the answers of it.

Our phone and sucks. Our phones are messed up. We're not a priority, but that's fine. Reed has more ups and downs. Defensively, it's still a down. Ball handle. Okay. But when he gets on a run,

he had, what, 12 points in a fourth quarter of the night, eight in a row? Yes. 21 for the game. His one-man, eight-oh run, won them that game. He can shoot, gang. He's shooting 41% from three. That's elite.

That is elite level three-point shoot. Taking six a game, by the way. That's not like he's just, you know, know, taking one or two a game and getting lucky. Right. Right. Yeah. He's got a role in this team. Do you go get additional depth? Do you get a ball handler?

I wouldn't be opposed to that. But from a shooting perspective, he can shoot. And he's finding his ways. It's not elite to this level, but I would say better than a year to date, Ross. He's finding better spots to shoot. He's going and getting in the lane, getting back out, trying to go to the corners, trying to go to the sides, trying to find the mid-range, trying to attack the basket a little bit, too.

A little bit. There is offensive improvement. I would say significant offensive improvement. He made a massive leap. He went from four points a game to 13. And even his per... Now, his minutes are up too, but per 36, he went from 12.6 points to 18.6 points.

That is a huge leap. Yeah. He's improved. And I think I still have him as a top three most improved candidate at the end of years. A gut feeling. I don't know if I'm going to hit on that or not. But I got a shot. You had a what?

I had him as the top three most improved player in the league this year. Or was it six man? Did I say six man? I'll lose him to six man. I'll try to figure that out. I thought it was one of those. I had one in one of those categories. I want to check the archives.

This is a gut feeling. You didn't put your name on that, did you? I don't think I don't know. Chris on 790 at 1212. Chris, how are you? Hey, go Cougues. Thank you for taking my call, Mr. Matt. And, yeah, I don't get these people who keep thinking you got to pull him and all this

kind of stuff. There were so many factors in that game. Yeah, he had a bad game, but it's crazy. But anyway, I have a legitimate question for you because you were talking about Sam and the rebounds earlier today and then mentioned tip-outs. So, you know, the Cougars do a lot of tip-outs and stuff. So when it's a tip-out to somebody, a player, is that a rebound and who gets credit for it? He gets a rebound. If he touches it first and it keeps the possession alive, he gets the credit for the rebound. So whoever did the tip-out, gets the rebound. Yes.

Okay. I didn't know how that worked and stuff, and it spurred my memory this morning, so thank you very much. I appreciate it. And the reason why you can figure that out is because Stephen Adams probably tips out what, Ross, 70% of the balls that touches his hand?

He does a great job. He's very valuable. He's going to be missed for months. Now, I can say this. It's probably also at times a little subjective. Because when is it a team rebound? Sometimes there's team. rebounds, right?

Yeah, it could be like a hot potato and no possession gathered, I think, would be one of those situations. I don't know. But he still, I mean, every time I go to a score sheet when Stephen was playing, you know, the OR offensive rebound numbers were high. So, yeah, I think that's where it's at. I think, you know, Chris, if you put him, put me on some homework, I will try to give you the definitive detail on that, but I'm, I would say I'm close to 100% sure that

a tipped ball that keeps possession alive that goes directly to another player would be considered an offensive rebound. Awesome. I appreciate the information. Thanks very much. All right. By the way, Cougars, speaking of Cougars, are going to be on game day on ESPN this Saturday from Lubbock. Oh, wow.

And Calvin Sampson just announced a little while ago that they're planning on perhaps staying in Lubbock on Saturday because the weather will not be conducive for them coming home on Sunday, which means they will have to go right to Fort Worth from Lubbock for early week, tilt against TCU. Lubbock to Fort Worth. What a trip. That's an hour plane ride. Nothing.

Nothing to worry about. What to stop over in Midland? That's the wrong direction, Ross. If you want to say Abilene had to hit. When I used to drive, take camera to Lubbock all the time, we would go to, we'd stop in Abilene. I'm like, man, we are just around the corner. I'm like, no, we're still two and a half hours from now.

Like, oh, Christ. Yeah, going across Texas, it changes your your perception of time. It makes you cranky. It doesn't make me, it makes me be like, it actually does the reverse. It makes me think like before, now that I've driven to Big Ben, which is like 10, 11 hours a couple times, two and a half hours to Austin used to feel like a slog to me. That's like a blink of an eye to me now. So I'll say this, when you drive to the panhandle of Florida, which I've done a couple of times in my life,

you go through Louisiana for a while, you go through Alabama for a while. Yes. You go through Mississippi, four, it's the other way around, Mississippi, then Alabama, then to Florida. that feels great. That feels like I'm alive. Like you're getting somewhere. When I'm going, I get to Waco relatively quick. And then between Waco and Abil and I feel like I'm never going anywhere.

I'm just stuck in the same two-lane highway. Yeah, I get that. It's nice to go to different states because then the sign colors change and, you know, casino clothes. Yeah, the vibe can change. Yeah, I got you. All right. So I got three back-to-back tweets.

Robbie says, Johnny is a moron. That was a guy that was wanting CJ's, one of Davis Mills out there. Then I got G.J. My van G.J. Says, Davis Mills is not as bad as you're making him out to be, especially when the alternative is C.J. Stroud. Then I obviously commented back to that, and he says,

and guess what? Mills had come in and throw two interceptions in the second half. That would still be an improvement over Stroud's first half performance. Yeah, it would be over his first half, but not his second half. Yeah, second half. He did not. He did not. He was indisputable.

C.J. was better in the second half that he wasn't the first. He just was. He was great. He was shook. He was looking at his eyes. He's not going to turn it around. Okay, yeah, he wasn't great in the second half, but at least he didn't turn the ball over. Yeah. At least he threw the people in the same color jerseys for the most part.

The game sucked. Everybody sucked, and C.J. sucked. He just super sucked. And if he sucks again next year, guess what, friends? We're going to be spent a lot of time talking about who the future quarterback is of the Houston, Texas. Because it won't be number seven. They came out after the half and he completed his first three passes. Maybe more.

That's a go back of the drive. And I get it. I am far from a CJ Truther. My partner. I'm not a CJ's truth. Goes to bed with a CJ strapped t-shirt on every day. I've never told you, well, maybe when he was, his rookie year, of course, I

told you he was going to be elite. All right. James Scott, David Biscuit up next here on 790. 1223, Matt and Ross with you here on 790. Ross, do we do a weekly segment or a daily segment called What's and Matt for U-Tab on X? I'm sorry, I was talking to Chris Cordy. What now?

Should we do a segment called What's in Matt's for U-Tab today? No. No, God, no. All right. I'm going to read one thing. That's how we used to call your blog, or I think it still is called, What's on Matt's Mind? What you want to go through that Hornets Nest?

Patriots receiver, Stefan Diggs, ex-girlfriend, Eileen Lepera, says that a DNA test revealed that Diggs is officially the father of her child. Okay. Diggs, all this is from ML football. Is that a reputable site or? From what? ML football.

I have never heard of that. They have 421,000 followers. All right, next. Staying with it. Diggs also recently had a child with his current girlfriend rapper Cardi B. Stefan has reportedly had four children this year.

Wow. Congratulations. Proud Papa. I mean, he can afford the kids, which is a good sign. It's disgraceful. Oh, I have muted ML football. Oh, they must have irritated for something.

If I've muted them, they put out some misinformation here and there. All right. Lastly, a very late, I just don't get it. Do you know the Cape Cod brand of potato chips? Yes. I got a Wawa sandwich today, and today they were offering free bags of chips this Cape Cod, and they gave me the sea salt. Okay.

The most flavorless chip I've ever had in my entire life. Yeah, I'm not just a sea salt guy. Sea salt and crack pepper, let's go. Just sea salt's not my favorite. I feel like you should have given me a dip along the way. Now, if I want to dip it in my ranch or like a sour cream dip, I'm all for that. I'm going to a French onion. French onion, same thing.

All delicious. But giving me sea salt Cape Cod? Yeah, you should have got a fleaid once. I'm throwing them away. That's all I had fried. I just don't get it. Let's go to our friend, Biscuit at 790, at 1225. What do you have today?

Hey, man, for I get to my CJ take, man, Matt and Ross, this is one of the reason why we have issues with NBA or whatever. Because you just say it, like, if Stephen and Adam tips it out and somebody else hustles and runs it down, but he gets to rebound,

and then you got this gathers step, and then, I don't know if you remember, Matt, back in the day, if I threw the ball, pass the ball to you, and you put it on the floor, it wasn't a 6th. You had to shoot it immediately. And so,

I just say that, some of these numbers now, you say, well, they got 15 assists, but yeah, they calculate in the different two, you know. So I'm just that tip of it.

That just me, the old man on the porch. My question to you guys, C.J. Stroud. And Ross, you're the numbers, guys. Let me give you, by the way, real quick the definition.

It is, and it's what I thought it was. The player who successfully controls and passes the ball to their teammate gets the rebound, provided that teammate gains clear possession. So if Adams tips it to Durant, Adams gets the rebound. So, yeah, I was right. It has to be a definitive. It's not a ball hopping around from player to player player. It has to be a tip out that goes directly to a teammate.

So I was right. Go ahead. Right. Right. And I'm not disagreeing. What I'm saying is I don't think it's always been that way. Yep. The question I got for you guys, and Ross, you're the numbers guy.

What if CJ's first year was the anomaly? What if CJ is more like these last two years, right? And so what numbers are good enough for you to get an extension? If you're the GM, I'm putting you guys in the GM role. Say CJ next year. This year had, what, 19 and 8, but he missed a few games. So say he plays 16 games next year, Ross, and he throws. 24 touchdowns and 11 interceptions for

3,600 yards. Is that enough for the extension? Yeah, I mean, yeah, depending on other things too. Yeah, I mean, how's the yards per attempt? How's the quarterback rating? Some other stuff, too. You need a little bit of context there. But I would say he gets an extension if he does.

You said 24 and 11? What's their record, too? Biscuit, I'm going to tell you this real simple, without getting into the numbers. You'll know with your eyes, the Texans will know with their eyes. the results, you'll know where the season ended, how it began, what the circumstance were. You can't attach a set of numbers to whether or not a quarterback gets it.

We'll know a year from now whether or not the Texans are going to seriously do it. It'll be about results. It'll be about the final score. It'll be about how the team play when he was on the field. Was he a program quarterback? Was he a system guy or was he a game changer? So I don't think that we can put a numbers parameter on how a guy is going to do in terms of whether not you give him a new deal or not.

Fair enough. I mean, I just think if we look at C.J. If you're going through the playoffs, I think his record is going to be pretty good compared to some of the other guys. You know, so, yeah, he had too bad playoff games. But if next year he doesn't throw intercept him, but they still lose, I mean, that's why I'm getting that, man.

You know, how do you, it's going to be interesting to see how they do it. That's what I'm saying. I don't disagree. Thanks for the phone call. We get a whole year to discuss this. We really do. He needs to, and I think it's only fair for the Texans, fans and for the organization. He needs a clean slate for next year because this will be the most important year of his career.

There are going to be a lot of decisions about his future as a starting quarterback for the Texans and what kind of money is going to be making that you need to give him the clean space. You need to give him the chance to say, all right, look, I've made some mistakes. I need to learn from this because we've heard this now for a second consecutive year. Either you make the mistakes and you fix them or you are who you are and that's when you have crescendoed it as a rookie quarterback and that was the pinnacle of who you were. We'll find out next year. He threw eight interceptions all year. He threw four and one half.

It's souring. It was to an extent of bounce back season. Interception percentage better. TD percentage better. Yards per tent better. Quarterback rating better. QB are better all than last year. It's not like he lit the world on fire,

but it was somewhat of a bounce back season from a bad sophomore slump. And then the playoffs happened. And he went from bad to, I'm a Texan homer. He can't possibly throw and be worse than he was. But he was. That's not the worst take that someone would say.

There's no way he can have a second bad week. But in reality, he could have, and he did. In fact, it was worse. Okay, well I will say It can't be worse than that You know what you're going to do now for now Rossi? We can't say that ever again with anybody I can say it

I can be wrong too By the way, Gordy just sent us a picture of him Holding a bag of Cape Cobb chips Yeah, that's cool, good for him You didn't saw the lighthouse I love lighthouses, it's weird So I mean, you would go see a lighthouse You'd bring a bag of chips with you

If it's going to see the Cape Cod one Maybe they sold them in the gift shop right there I don't say any dip with it though I don't know why When I went to Oregon like on the Oregon coast. I wanted to see as many lighthouses that I could. I don't know why. This is cool looking.

Oh, they're kind of spooky in some respect. Yeah. It's foggy and dark and cold and rainy. Yeah, I could see that. Like, I have a friend of mine who does who does my stats for me when I'm in Dallas. She went to see the Northern Lights. Her and her husband did. They stayed in an igloo.

Oh, that's cool. Yeah. I thought about you. I thought about telling you about that because that would be something right up your alley. Yeah, well, people have been staying in igloos for thousands of years, Matt. Yeah, but also for the last 75 years, they've also been staying in five-star resorts. Yeah. And I'm one of those.

Okay. That's fine. Yeah. I don't think I could say an iglo. You're a fancy mat. We get it. Yeah. That's true.

Some people like the outdoors. Some people don't. Some people are accustomed to a room service. Some people don't. Yeah, that's fine. You can do both. But you're all one. I've had room service.

It's so pricey. It's so expensive. I told the guy yesterday, I said, do I get a kiss with us at least? And I didn't want to kiss for him, but he knew what I was talking about. What? You know what I mean? No, I don't. You heard that for you.

Bill Raftery? That's a good basketball, Paul. I like that one. All right, on the phones, we continue, James, Scott, David, and Chris, hang tight. We'll get to all of you. So, by the way, two things we cannot utter for 2026. If the Texans go 0 and 3, they're not making the playoffs. We made that mistake.

And number two, it can't get any worse for C.J. Stroud. Because in reality, it can. 713, 212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Our friend Softie is going to join us coming up at 1 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. All right, back on the phones in a minute at 1237. I'm going to check in in Seattle coming up in about 25 minutes from now. See what's going on with the Seahawks.

Seattle? Okay, the Seahawks have been to the Super Bowl. Mariners have never been to the World Series. They lost an NBA team, and the Cracken are a... Not a Stanley Cup team, but they've gone to the playoffs the last couple of years, right? I don't know. I don't fall to the NHL, so... That's a tough town, too, Rossi.

It just is. Then Washington lost a national championship game, and then Caleb DeVortland to Coach Alabama right after that. Yeah. Not a great run. Decent. Seahawks got one. Yeah, that's true. All right.

Ryan Fitzpatrick, frothy beard, right? Okay. Texans legend? No, Texans, but not a legend. Does the Amazon Prime stuff? I don't watch their pregame show at all.

I've never watched five minutes of it. I'm watching the game and I turn off as soon as they're. I watch the half time. It's good. Is it Whitworth and Sherman? It's decent enough. All right. So Ryan Fitzpatrick chimed in

on C.J. Stroud and it's a different perspective that has not been overly talked about it quite a bit, but it has been by some and Fitz adds to that with these comments. If you're C.J. Stroud's agent, you're going in there and saying, look,

all the other big time quarterbacks, they got paid after their third year, and we want $60 million a year. I just think that the people in that building that are around him every day, C.J. Stroud, they're the ones that are going to have to make a decision on this guy. Is this guy we want leading our building? Who knows what C.J. Stroud does. I mean, if they don't

give him the contract, is he going to sit and wait and say, guys, I'm not showing up until you pay me, because that's probably the advice that his agent is going to give him. And so you look at their year overall, Davis Mills steps in, does a great job placeholder for CJ when he was out with a concussion for those weeks. Did it feel like it was a huge drop off when Davis Mills was in? No. I just think that this is one to keep an eye on because I think it could get ugly this offseason. But if you have hesitations about CJ being the face of your franchise. This is me, not knowing anything. I think there's a chance. Maybe you trade him this offseason. I think that's backup, bro. Loving on other backup, bro.

What are you saying makes some logical sense, but I just don't think it's a practical application to what's going to happen here with C.J. Stroud. With those two playoff games where he was a complete disaster, with C.J.'s faith walk in their room and say, give me $55 million. How do you say? Yeah, it's pay me. Look at all I did. I threw 19 touchdowns and eight picks. I haven't beat Kansas City in Kansas City.

And then I turned the ball over seven times in two playoff games. I just, I would be utterly shocked. That is, to me, that was Ryan being C.J. Stru. Overreactionary. Well, I think he's also, it's like, was this recorded before the playoffs? If he had said that before the playoffs, it would have a little more credence. But after those two performances, I don't. think there's a person on the planet that thinks it's a good, maybe David Moologeta,

but there's can't be many other people on the planet who would think it would be even a good idea to cross your mind to hold out. As I said before, and I'm going to continue to say it over and over again, don't underestimate David Molligeta. He's going to cause problems. Well, he normally gets his guys paid. Say that again? He gets his guys paid.

He gets his guys paid. He needs to. just take a backseat on this one for a while. It's too raw. Cassario, to his credit, never shows emotion, at least publicly. It would be a bad, bad, and again, these deals cannot be negotiated with the court of public opinion, but the optics would look horrible for two things. One, giving them a big mega deal, and number two, Mulligeta going on and saying,

my guy needs to get paid. I think everybody needs to take a step back, refocus, clean slate for 26, great defense, better offensive line, hopefully, better RB1, better wide receiver 2, and just

hope for the best. Getting into contract talks, even though it's a pivotal year to do that, I think it would be a mistake on both parts. Because I don't think the court of public opinion going to ever side with CJ, and if the Texans give him that big money, then Texans fans are going to say, what the hell are you doing?

And Ross, I don't know the inner work is the NFL. Can you really table this for a year? My guess is no, you can't. My guess is going to have to be an uncomfortable or a comfortable conversation between the two sides at some point during the off season. I don't know how much they talk. I don't know how much they would talk. How much is Dave?

There's no way they're not going to visit about this. There's no way we will. Now, will we ever find out about it? Probably not. but there will be a conversation between the two sides at some point during the offseason because that's what happens with quarterbacks after year three. This is the time where you start talking about these types of things. But if you're, if you're C.J., you're not taking, if you're considered in your own mind still

a franchise quarterback, you're not, you're going to take it with franchise quarterback to which is north of 50 million. You're not taking a discount because David Mulligetto will be damned if he's taking a discount. He didn't take discount with any of his clients. And secondly, if you're the Texans, you are really, putting yourself in a you better win this season now or you're screwed because you're going to start paying heavy money for a quarterback

who is not perhaps earned money based on a full season play. Let's go back on the phones and talk to Chris in Kingwood at 1243 on 7-90. Hi Chris. Hey, how's it going, guys? I know it's a subject that's been ramped up since

the playoff game debacle. However, do the Houston Texans want to be known as a an OC school of learning. I mean, you know, do they want to be also known as, okay, we have a legendary defense. But that offensive line, that offense line has been basically piecemeal pretty much all year long. And, you know, even with Laramie Tunsell,

year before last, they did better this year, but still they're wanting to improve the offensive line. I mean, this is a, I mean, I just, I just don't think that Stroud has what he needs to depend on with the offensive line. And that's why I think, and that's basically where I'm coming from. Yeah, I got you. Thank you. And that's why I think Ross, a clean slate for 26 should be what CJ should get from the fan base. They need to improve everything around him. I mean, we have been focusing on CJ

because he is the quarterback and all that stuff. And we have talked some about Woody Marks and some about the offensive line and some about the past catchers. But every level of everything, Nick Cayley did get better, but he needs to continue to improve and get better. This is a big off season for Nick Cayley, too.

It's a big off season for everyone. Big off season for the general manager. I would agree with that. Yeah. Let's nail some picks, which he's done pretty good, except on the offensive line. Although Arionte Urstery is to be determined. He's okay. There are rookie tackles who have been much better.

Will Campbell with the Patriots has been better. Kelvin Bank, now those guys were taken higher as well. Kelvin Banks with the Saints was better. I'd have to look around. I'd have to really do some more diving. And Will and Will Casario trade down again like he did because he likes to move picks around. Likes a tux of a tracall puzzle.

Right now that the draft class is early, it's looking like a lot of question marks. Higgins, Ursary, Noll, Jalen Smith, Woody Marks. Those are your top four round picks. Woody Marks, good. Don't think it'll ever be great. A fourth rounder.

He can get better. He can get stronger. He's a third down back. Third down back. 1246. Back on it with you guys. We'll check in in Seattle coming up in 15. Ross, what is today's edition?

believe it or not, coming up in 1415. Oh, we're doing that? Yes, we are. Rocky. Just Rocky, huh? Rocky Marciano. You know what you should do? We could do Rocky Mountains. See how people remember the movie very well. Movies. We could. If I don't come with anything better.

Anybody got assigned to a big deal or Kyle Tucker was introduced as the Dodgers, but we already did Kyle Tucker. Yeah. I don't know. Let you think about it. 1247. Matt Thomas Show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. on the sports conversation we thank all of you because we do like to take your phone calls here on the matthomas show with ross at 713212-5-790 David and humble David what do you got today? What's up mt how's going?

Excellent thank you for dialing in. Yes sir, yes sir. What's up, Rossi? Hello, David. Yeah, I didn't know that you grew up in the greens point. I used to live in Greenpoint. Okay, first, yeah, I used to live off Gears Road. first 14 years of my life or so.

Oh, cool, cool, cool. Hey, listen, real quick, I want to go to my Texan take with Steve A. Straub. But first, I'm hearing that Stephen Adams could be out for the remainder of the year for it was a split injury. Basically, I mean, like, oh, well, here's my take on the Rockets. They need Yonis. They need the Greek freak.

I don't know if they're going to get They're not in the coupos We can stop We can love you, David But it's not going to happen Well, well Let me finish Let me finish

What can we do To be able to get A four or five Basically And then I'll go Go look at my Texas state You can go get a four or five It's a role player guy

And a franchise that is You know Three or four deep Or not very good Or a 12th or 13th guy off the bench I mean There's going to be guys like that available Well, for sure.

I don't know of anybody that would be on the trade market that would necessarily satisfy you, but you can stop talking about. Yannis is not coming to the Houston Rockets. It's not happening. Yeah, I'm disappointed. But that's not here and there. Here's my Texan text. Okay.

I'm going to apply my flag, MT. I don't trust the Texans anymore until C.J. Sald improves. because I've seen CJ Stroud make mistakes before the team was on the winning streak. I don't know why the Texans are not making a change a quarterback at this point.

But they're going with status quo. And with status quo is the art of insanity. You're doing the same thing over and over and over again and not getting results. So I hope that this doesn't happen. If the Texans are 0 and 2 and C.J. Stroud does not protect the football. C.J. Stroud throws two or three or four interceptions within a two-year period and the team is 0.2. Davis Mills will be your new starting quarterback.

and C.J. Stryl will be benched. Okay. That's just, I mean, David, you're over two. I mean, I'm sorry. I mean, could Davis Mills eventually take over for C.J. Stratt on a benching, yeah, but this is not going to be the entire season. I mean, no. Look, CJ folks.

Money Mills, baby? No, no money, there's no baby in there. Zero, no baby in there. No baby. No, that's, that's neither one of those takes. I mean, could Davis, take over for a game of CJ sucks? Yeah, he could.

Of course. But not being benched for the rest of the season. Unless Davis has an incredible run, but no. Unless CJ Stroud's completely mentally ruined and turns the ball over four times every game. Correct. He goes full Matt Schaub. Yes.

Matt Schaub could, you know what? He got the, he got the itch. He threw his first pick six. Maybe C.J. Stroud's going to go full match shop, throwing pick six over and over again. but I don't think so No it's just Again

Davis Mills is not a starting quarterback in the NFL If Davis Mills is playing a lot of next year You're not happy about the team You're just not Let's go to Jay in spring in 1256 Hi Jay

Hey how you doing fellas Just to echo your sentiment I don't get this David Mills That's fascination With our fans with him Like you said Like can he come in for a game Yeah

But if Davis this here's start 17 games for you. I was to death you find another team in the roof, but you're going to be pissed by the head by the main point of the season. But I really call for the Sid J. Srive, this Asian thing. Did you all talk about David?

Yeah. Yeah, the reason why he, I mean, we knew this was coming from the moment he signed with him. I say, you don't pick an agent like that unless you think of the head to your second track. Correct. So we knew. Yeah.

It's just like with Scott Boris, Jay, when you sign, when you want Scott Boris to be your agent in baseball, you're going for the big dollars. If you want a hardball negotiator, you get David Mulligetta because he's a very hard negotiator, for sure. Exactly. So people say, I mean, people saying that, you know,

will it cause problems when he demand this money? Like you say, as realistic fans, as a realistic human being, of course not. You shouldn't walk in and demand over $50 million at that performance yet. But we all know, I remember in the collusion, to say football players, athletes don't live in reality. They think they're better than what they are. Even if they're great, they think they're greater.

Even if they're bad, they think they're good. So he's going to walk in. He might not walk in, but it's Asian. It's going to walk in to ban these dollar amounts and say, look at the history of my player, even though the last year and a half has been average, but average people get paid in sports. So that's the way I look at.

That's my comment, man. It's like we're going to, it's going to be turmoil, whether it's in the news, whether it's probably, it's going to be turmoil in that front office this out season. C.J. Strow is going to be quiet, but its agents are going to double up and we're going to hear some days and we're not going to be happy about it as fans. And we're going to have, we're going to say, the everybody does do asks for this birthday after what he just did, but they don't live a reality. And that's my comment. Hope y'all have a good. Thank you very much with a phone call. Yeah, ages don't deal in reality.

And ages don't worry about TV. Ages, well, actually, that's not true, Ross. Ages will call, David Mulligan will call Ryan Clark, and Ryan Clark will say some nice things on behalf of C.J. Stroud. Yeah, but also, C.J. Straud's ultimate decision whether or not he sits out. And I just, I don't see a scenario where David could float the idea and say, hey, what did you think about holding out to try to get more money?

I think C.J. Stroud would say no. All right. Let's get to our friend Softie. those of you online, James will start with we'll get with you in a little bit, but we want to find out what's going on in Seattle because they're still playing football. Damn it. 713-212-5-790.

Coming up on 1 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Manning Ross with you for the final hour, the Matt Thomas show with Ross on 790. I'm coming to you from Philadelphia. We're tonight the Rockets are going to take on the 76ers. We'll have the launch pad at 5. Network free game at 530. I'll have the call here at 6 o'clock.

Rockets in Detroit, take on the Pistons. Sunday, it's championship weekend. We checked in Denver yesterday to find out what's going on with the Broncos. Let's say hi to our good friend. A man, we talked to what, two or three times during the course of the baseball season because Mariner Astrosmack is always good. There will be very little smack here because Softie, I think low-key, we're kind of rooting for the Seattle Seahawks to win the NFC. How do you feel about that? Hey, can we first of all, before we get going with the Seahawks chatter, can we just disagree on one thing is Mariner and Astro fans that Blue Jay fans suck. We were rooting for the Blue Jays against the Dodgers. I'm sorry.

Yeah, well, nobody's perfect, man. I got to be honest with you, I had no idea how bad Blue Jay fans were until we played them in the postseason. I mean, I thought Oregon fans, San Francisco 49er fans, hell even Astro fans, I would put on, you know, a couple of notches below like human evolution. Lujay fans are way, way, way, way behind. Canadians are so pleasant, though. Wait a minute, let me. Refresh our memories.

There's something happened between Toronto and Seattle fan. What happened down in your place? Oh, I mean, are you kidding me? I'm, dude, I mean, first of all, if you're looking to push my buttons, it's not going to work. I'm not even talking about blowing a 2-0 lead in the ALCS. That's not even what I'm getting at. I'm getting at these freaking scumbags that came into our stadium

and acted like total clowns while they were there and then acted like bigger clowns on social media. I mean, I hear from more Blue J fans randomly on social media than any fan base on the planet. And these people are naughty. They are nasty, mean people. So, I don't know, maybe one day you'll see what I saw. But I was hoping we could agree on that, but maybe a different day.

No, the reality is this, though. Softly, don't forget, Ross put out a... tweets that the Texas are winning the AFC championship and every Pittsburgh Steeler thing came after him. So it happens. Yeah. There's a lot of hatred. The Seattle fans come after me too, but that's okay. It comes with the territory.

Yeah, but Seattle fans don't really mean it, though. We're not really bad people. We just like to talk a big game. Yeah. You just want to hang out and put a shoe on your head. I get it. That's all we want to do, man. And then have a trident that we drive it to the ground. Anytime a guy hits a home run, even when it's down 9 to 1 in the 8th inning,

we'll take that thing and we will drive it right into the freaking perk man we don't care what the score is all right listen we've we've known each other for a long time i've never asked you this question the the seahawks have gone to the super bowl the supersonics won a championship of the 70s the mariners finally got into the playoffs you played for a national championship in football so put it in scale what's it what team in seattle metro needs a championship more to get the fans of going ballistic for Seattle sports. Mariners, man. It's all Mariners. Seahawks fans

are fired up, no question about it. Seahawks are probably number one in general terms in this area, but when you've been waiting 50 years and you've never been to a World Series and you were up two games to none with three of the next five in your park and you

blow it, that was an all-time heartbreaker Mattie last year. So I would say that if you ask the majority of Seattle sports fans, What's the one thing that you want more than any other? Most of them would say the return of the Sonics, clearly. But if we're talking about an existing team, I think the Mariners in the World Series and winning it would be number one.

It's still number one for me. Everything happening right now with the Seahawks, I would have traded all of that for a winning game seven in Toronto, all of it. Yeah. Yeah, that's what you bring you on. Softie. I mean, Matt, Matt, we're not like you. We've got three Super Bowls already in our time.

town. We have a title already in our town in 2013 when they whipped the Denver Broncos. So imagine if the roles were reversed. I mean, would you trade one of those Astros World Series for a Houston Texan Super Bowl? You're asking a wrong person. Well, ask your producer then. Jonathan? Co-host Ross? It's only two for the Astros? I don't know if I'd trade. If the Astros... You're not getting a World Series appearance. I got you.

Oh, yeah. Oh, that's easy. For a Super Bowl for the Texas. Yeah, that's not even close. Yeah, Matt's an Oilers fan. Sophie, I am a Texan observer. I'm not, I am an Oilers fan, but that team died, so it is what it is. Listen, you always want, you always want what you don't have, right?

You always want what you don't have. I'd like to have sex with my wife. That'd be great. How's your cholesterol level? Pretty good. That's good. Okay, so Sam Darnel, there was a storyline last week about he hasn't practiced all week, and he may not play.

Were you buying any of that? And tell me how he looked last week in your mind. Yeah, I wasn't buying. I was never buying the fact that he was not going to play in the game on Saturday. And I'm not buying the fact that he's not going to play in the game this Sunday. He's absolutely going to play, and he was always going to play last weekend. The question is how effective. will he be?

And last week, Matt, he only had to throw 17 passes. I mean, that was such an ass kicking by the Seahawks against the Niners that they probably could have won that game with Drew Locke, honestly, at quarterback. I mean, nobody is scoring on this defense right now, especially not the San Francisco 49ers with the roster they've got and how banged up they were. I mean, Kyle Shanahan scored nine points in the last eight quarters against Mike McDonald's defense. So it was over when Rashid Shaheed took the opening kickoff back for a touchdown last Saturday, man.

So they really did not need him. How many bullets does he have left in the chamber, right? You know, how many throws does he have on that oblique? He made a great throw to Cooper Cup on 2nd and 20, laser beating across the field for a first down. But if he's got to do that eight or nine times in this game on Sunday, I do wonder what that oblique feels like and what it looks like and how he's kind of slow. down by that thing in the fourth quarter of Sunday's game. He's going to throw the

ball probably 30 plus times, if not 35 plus times in this game Sunday against the Rams. So this is a totally different animal man than it was a week ago for him versus San Francisco. Are you worried about the playoffs Sam Darnold that showed up for Minnesota

showing up in Seattle or did the concerns go away with that dominant performance? No. No. No, it's one game. I mean, like, what are we talking about, man? This Matt, I love you, but this narrative about Sam Darnold is so freaking stupid. We're going to go ahead and create this unbelievable nationwide narrative about Sam Darnold that he can't play in the postseason based on one game?

Okay, I'm just saying. One game? Hey, I watch first take. I watch first take for all my sports takes. I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that soft news. Sorry I do it. Well, but that's ridiculous.

First of all, turn those bozos off. Nobody in this business should be watching first take. or PTI or get down or get up or whatever the hell that show is called on ESPN. Why do you watch that crap? Because I'm in a five-star hotel and it's cold in Philadelphia. I know. It's my mistake. I'm sorry.

Rent a movie for God's sakes, man. I mean, nobody should be watching that nonsense. I mean, the narrative about Sam, look, Matt, there's a chance, certainly, that Sam Darnold doesn't play well on Sunday, right? I mean, he's got six picks against the Rams. In two games this year, he's got a pass-a-rating of barely above six. and the two games he's played against the Rams this year. To me, that is a much bigger question that we should be talking about

versus playoff Sam Darnold. This idea that Sam Darnold never won a big game in Minnesota is ridiculous. I mean, he beat the Packers twice, for God's sakes, including in like week 15 at Lambeau Field, okay? So I'm not going to, you know, create a narrative or paint a picture about a guy based on one flipping game when his offensive line in Minneapolis last year was blown to bits. The guy is now 29 and 7 in his last 36 games as a starting quarterback, right? So I think he's proven he can win. You know, has he proven that he can win a championship

if a team has to ride his back to a title? Not yet, but he's never had the opportunity until now. I mean, this is the biggest game he's ever played in for crying out loud. The guy's been with five teams and he's never played in the NFC championship. So I don't know. It's just, it's, it kind of pisses me off, but that narrative is out there. I think it's lazy, stupid, ridiculous, fueled by the idiots over at ESPN, to be totally honest with you, and some of the morons at Fox. But, yeah, I mean, the only thing slowing this football team down right now is the Seahawks, dude.

Their defense is so badass right now, Matt, it's ridiculous. Rossi, I'm fired up for me. I think Softie's giving us a confidence to Seattle win now, right? I guess so. Why not? They're at home. I mean, it's a great matchup. I think this is the Super Bowl. I think this is the two best teams left. I mean, that's not any kind of breaking news. Last question. Better 12th man. Texas A&M or Seattle Seahawks?

That is a great question because Texas A&M fans will claim that we stole the 12th man from them, which they originally had created down in College Station. But guess who was also calling their fan base the 12th man since the 1970s? the Seahawks in the kingdom. See, a lot of people forget that the Seahawks actually existed, Matt, before Pete Carroll showed up in 2010, and the Seahawks went to the Super Bowl in 2013. I remember going to games in the kingdom when I was five, six years old in the late 70s,

and the number 12 was already retired, already retired, okay, before Largent, before Cortez-Tennity, before Walter Jones, before anybody the number 12 was retired. So apparently the Internet let the world. word spread across the country to places like College Station, Texas, but the Seahawks were using the 12th Man, and they decided to sue us, and now we pay

them every year millions of dollars to have the rights to use the 12th man moniker. So let's not forget that we've been sitting on that thing for 50 years, my friend. You hear that college station? We got a lot of Aggie fans listen to us. No bitterness coming from the Pacific Northwest under any circumstance.

How about you tell Texas A&M to stop spending $80 million dollars every year to not make the college football. Oh, good Lord. Oh, they made it. They just only scored three points. Yeah, it was just a field goal game.

That's a shame. I need a cigarette after this conversation. You have brought more fire and brimstone than any baseball conversation we've ever had. I like this side of stuff. I'm on edge, man. I'm pacing back and forth in my house right now. I mean, it's only 11 o'clock in the morning, for God's sakes. I'm not even on the air for four more hours.

I got nothing to do. The wife's at work. The dogs have been walked. Poop's been picked up. Yeah. I called my mom. I went to the grocery store. House is all clean.

There's nothing to do. Is real estate expensive in Seattle? How many square feet you got in your house? My house is about 2,500 square feet. Okay. I kind of know what you made. I don't know how much I paid for my house? What are you asking me?

Yeah, sure. Why not? Give us as much details you want to. Property tax rate. If you listed it, probably one, one, two. Oh, damn. Hey, does your radio equipment work at your station?

I'm just curious. No, I stay at home and do my show. I don't want to go into the office ever. You don't go to the studio, you don't go to the studio ever? No, never. Screw those people. Oh, Ross.

I don't want to hear that. No, I don't want to hear that. There's no need for up to be in the office. There's no need for, there's no need for $790 to even have a building, man. Hey. Just do the,

everybody works remotely. Everybody. Oh, okay. Do your show from home, jump on your internet connection, write it off as a business expense. I do. Matt,

you've been telling me for years, Ross, Matt has been telling me for years how much he can't stand the people in the office. I know. I try to get him to make the commute, though,

because I have focus issues when he's not here, and when he's here, it's bad. And when he's not here, I can't focus at all. because I'm a 12-year-old child. I'm a thousand miles away from Ross

and I'm 3,000 miles away from you. But the show's been great. Well, is Ross the same producer that you've been complaining about for years? Yes, that's me. He's our co-host now. I've bumped him up. Everyone used to be the Softie show.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know if you heard. I don't shine shoes anymore. I've been co-hosting since 2019. Hey, Rob, Rob, come get your freaking shine box. Don't worry. Hey, don't worry, Softie. Ross is going to say something inflammatory about

Mariner fan in the springtime. I will. You know what? Dude, I am on such a high right now. Honestly. Like there is nothing that you can say to bring me down from this buzz. Nothing.

There's nothing to Lumenfield on Sunday. No, I'm all good. I'm going to walk into Lumenfield Sunday at 3.30. I'm going to watch the Seahawks in the NFC championship when two years ago they fired Pete Carroll. Here we are two years in.

Mike McDonald's got these guys kick-a-ass with the number one scoring defense. in the NFL. Gino Smith fell apart in Vegas. Pete Carroll fell apart in Vegas. John Schneider just won the executive of the year for the first time. It is life. Man, tickets are like a jillion dollars to get in the door for the game on Sunday night against the Rams. And on top of that, on top of that, if we win on Sunday, we get to go play in the Super Bowl and the Niners Stadium. I love this, man. All right, Softie.

I didn't have a dog in the fight. I'm rooting for the Seahawks. I just want to look at your tweets. I want to see, you're going to go to, I'm sure going to go to the game in San Francisco, right? I mean, KGR's travel expense budgets enormous, so you'll leave for that. Oh, gigantic. Yeah, yeah, they'll pay for a new pair of shoes so I can walk down there is what they'll do. Are you kidding me?

We love you, Iheart radio. We do. We swear we do. We love you. We've been with you for a long time. We're not going anywhere. Hey, by the way, speaking of I heart, because we're both I-heart people. Yes.

What is this guaranteed human nonsense? Oh, gosh. We think it's a great idea. We put on our emails. It is very smart. There is so much AI. You are a, you are an ass-kisson company man more than I thought. Holy cow.

Eye-heart radio is the best. I love the Pittman family. Please do not lay me off. I love our facilities. Next gen never crashes ever for us. We have no technical issues ever. Her internet never goes down. Do you guys have a gigantic promotional,

budget like we do. Oh, my God. Massive. Yeah, we're talking to you from the 790 cruise ship, actually. Yeah, this is, this is so inside baseball, the audience, like, stop your picture. You guys talk sports for life. We can't even afford T-shirts or stickers anymore, man. Like, you come to a KJR remote, you know what you get?

You get nothing. You guys get stickers? Nothing. You get nothing. You don't even get an engineer. Dick and I will run the show by ourselves. We got stuff from when we were 790, the sports. sports animal we still hand out. That was the logo

15 years ago, but that's not, we're going to keep it track of it out. All right, Softie. Go Hawks. You get nothing on the air, you get nothing in person, so you get nothing overall. It works out. Go Hawks. That's all we're going to say. Go Hawks for the next three days. Hey, Matt, are you going to San Francisco for the game? You're going to be on radio? Zero chance. Zero. Yeah, good for you. Good for you.

That is a soul-sucking experience, man. Big time. I get crappy guests anyway. I get Carl Mecklenburg on for, like, 30 minutes. Carl Metzenberg, the former Denver Bronco? There you go. What about that? Look at you calling the big names on your show.

So, Ross, is Matt the kind of guy that will put anybody on the air just to put him on the air? Yeah, we don't know. I bemoan people that. No. Ed Too Tall Jones on for 12 minutes. I get Ray Lucas. Was it Ray Lucas? Ray Lucas, the one that brings us all down talking about is concussions.

Yeah, that's great. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, just anything to. fill a segment man i know you i know you're going to have sex for your wife when you get twinkets home and b go hos i see you man see you man all right that's a legend he is a softy kjr in seattle

on the sports leader in seattle legendary host are you okay boss he was uh he was unbelievable today he could tell he's fired up he is fired up he i mean he's normally a fiery ball of energy but today was even more correct it's going to be unbelievable and i'm right i'm rung for him i don't have a I don't have any, we have one Rams fan that we work with.

That's it. He's such a swell guy. I mean this as complimentary as possible. He's just a great old school energy radio. He is, he is, there's very few of us left, and Softy and I are cut from the same cloth. Hmm. And he has the same issues in Seattle. We haven't used it, ironically enough.

What? Relations with his wife? Well, he said it, not me. 713, 2,1, 2,1, 2, 5, 790. 128 on sports talk 7. We went late. Damn, we went late on that. That was good stuff.

Seriously, we've had softy on what? Seven or eight times over the years, Rossi. He's never been that fired up for the Mariners. I guess he was just like, he really thinks Sam Darnold's going to do the thing on Sunday, right? It's been nothing but losing for the Mariners. Yeah. He just lined out.

I mean, number one scoring defense, and the offense has been very good. Who's defense better? Texans or Seahawks? I would say Texans by a smidge, right? By scoring, it was the Seahawks by yards. It was the Texans. I don't know.

I know D-V-O-A, your friends that used to be at football outsiders, and then that website folded. Aaron Schatz who does those. He has Seahawks one, Texans, too. I haven't looked at other things like EPA or what adjusted EPA. I don't know. So I knew we get a call on this, and it sounds like Ryan wants to talk about the 12th man versus the

12th man. Ryan, good afternoon. Is this a man? Hey, so tell your buddy, Google and AI are his friends. If he will use those, he will find out if the 12th man started,

Texas A&M, in 1920, long before his claim of 1970. I have no dog in the game, but now we'll be pulling for the Patriots to go against the school. I don't think he was arguing that the Seahawks did it first.

I think he was arguing that they did it for like 30-something years and never a word from Texas A&M. Yeah, and then A&M sued him. And then they had to pay him off. Yeah, that's correct. Well, now he's paying the price. Thank you. Well, they get 12 men and they still can't win a championship.

Damn. I do want to go to a game there. Every time that I was watching the game, and I didn't watch the whole thing because it got to blow out, they were just talking about they couldn't hear themselves think I think it's the loudest stadium in the NFL oh I thought you're talking about Kyle Field no no no Kyle Field I know is one of the lot of college

I'm talking about pro side Lewinfield doesn't even have a roof either I'm not a big NFL I'm not a big NFL scene in Arrowhead I think yeah arrow I went to Arrowhead for Houston Kansas that that was pretty similar in terms of

loud crowd in Kansas City you don't believe that do you sure why not Superdome is supposed to be loud I've been to a game at the Superdome I just Google the loudest

Lewinfield I want to go to a game I've been to Lambo I want to go to the Buccaneer Stadium looks cool I've been there for a college game never for a pro game and you just want to get on the pirate ship I do and say a hooy there me hearties okay

like when is national talk like a pirate day I would do that I think it's in October or something I think we do a whole hour of sports radio. That's really bad idea. I think people would drop us so fast. You've had some bad ideas? That may be the worst. I get it.

That's right. Strike that from the, from the, September 19th. Oh, so it's in the heart of football season then. We could do it. How about one segment? Yarr. You don't only talk about that because there was a movie.

What was it, Treasure Island or something back in the day? It was completely made up. Pirates didn't talk like that at all. they talk they talk like bean tip people from boston ironically enough that's not true you don't know more caribbean and whatnot oh is that right in french in fron okay james and kj get to you next 132 believe it or not today is what we decided what's going to be i don't know no we had a topic and you said i'll find something better oh here we go from treasure island disney's treasure island in 1950. That's when

the pirate talk started. And followed up by a large run on Spongeball SquarePants. Yarr! And then Pirates are the Caribbean. Yeah, and then the Pittsburgh Pirates. Hey, Willie Stardial here. No, I don't think that's that's not. Oh, Barry Bones. Oh, geez. East Carolina.

I'll take two fish planks, please, with some coastlaw, and extra crispies. No, we're not in Long John Silver's, Matt. Walk the plank. I go from the chicken planks right now I'll tell you that for sure I think that was made up too The Walk the Plank stuff

Oh Stop ruining our bit Come on I'm sorry I recently watched a YouTube Like from some pirate expert What was his name Well who's a pirate expert

His name was Blackbeard His name was Blackbeard Oh okay That makes total sense All right That's enough from all of us Take a break This segment could have gone

any worse than it was. But we're going to get, believe it or not, coming up in about 20 minutes here. I don't want to tease too much ahead for tomorrow's Joe Rossi, but we're going to have E. May I doka on the program? And we're going to have a celebrity edition of I'm sorry. Oh, really? It's not somebody that's going to come on live with the show, but somebody of a very famous football analyst apologized today. And we're going to save it for tomorrow. Okay.

I'm intrigued. Wow. You should be. 10 to 2. We intrigue you every day here on Sports Talk 790. Let's go to the phones. James and Klein. Hi, James was on your mind today.

Yeah, hey, how are you doing? Am I a new Brad by any chance? And I don't know it. You're getting pretty close. That's right. That's fair. Yeah, it must be getting pretty close. It's been over two hours and some of the time.

You know, you'll answer the phone. Thank you for you. Well, the reason why, James, because you call. We love you. We love it like a stepbrother, obviously. but you call a lot and we like to let the other folks get in, but we wanted to make sure you have plenty of time for yourself. Okay, I understand.

Well, yeah, I call because Coach Summerlin, when he coached the University of Houston football team, did you have him on in a weekly segment? I did not, but our morning show did at the time. Okay, well, the reason I called is you know he's the new coach of the Houston gamblers. Correct. Okay, so I was wondering, you know, this is kind of a wish list. Is there any way that, I mean, do you have a good relations with him or anything like that?

relationship? I didn't say a good relationship. I said we knew each other a little bit. Our sons would play in the same little league travel ball for a year, but I would not have a relationship. And frankly, I

didn't want to have a relationship with him after he basically was taking the A&M job the night before he played in the Conference USA or American Championship when we lost Southern Miss and didn't go to a beach bowl. That's some kind of bad terms. There's no way you would consider having a segment with him with the Gammis every week.

No, I would have him on, but not a segment. The reality is James, nobody cares about the gamblers. So, I mean, I got to play the hits. And so, yeah, I mean, I would have them on, but not on a regular basis. Well, I'm a big, I mean, I was a big roughneck fan, but they're gone. So now that's going to have a good gamblers. But I just like football. If I can have football any time of year, I'm going to watch it.

It's funny, Jay. Thank you for the phone call. Appreciate it. There was always this thought, Ross, when we were younger, that we need football 12 months a year. America doesn't want football 12 months here. It largely rejects anything. I mean, the USFL had a little run back 40 years ago, but the NFL is 700 million times more popular than it was 40 years ago.

We don't like the XFL. We don't like the UFL. We don't like the World League of American football. We didn't like NFL Europe. It has been tried and true formula. We love it August to January, and that's about it. I don't know if it's even necessarily the time of year, though, than it is the quality of play.

I mean, I tried to sit down and watch UFL games and XFL games and all those L games and whatever. It's just the quality of play is so sloppy. It feels like you're watching, well, I mean, you can watch a major league game. Yeah. And you go to A ball, yeah, you're going 40,000 at the stadium for a minute, well, Diken Park, and then how many people are going to the average hooks game? I don't know.

I mean, it's like watching the NBA and a Gile. You know why they're not the NBA. It's not Apple's apples. The marketing isn't the same and all that stuff. But going to the game, it's just watching, especially watching on TV. Going to a minor league game is fun. Going to a G league game, I'm sure, is fun. I'll go to a Dynamo game.

But I ain't watching that stuff. Yeah. It's just the level, and television ratings are awful. They've put, I mean, they're on networks. I mean, they're not like on, you know, YouTube or anything. They're on legit TV networks. Nobody cares. And if it changes, then if you all care, they'll care.

But they're in a city in the country that cares about the... Even, like, one year, then one city have a... Like, St. Louis drew a bunch of people for a couple of years, and then they draw like $4,000 again. It's just... It's the quality of football's not very good. Let's squeeze in before we get to, believe it or not, talk to KJ on 7-90. KJ, what do you have today?

Real quick, fellas. I know you're up against it, so I'm going to try to get in quick. We know about the play call, and everybody's had, I'm looking at the C.J. Strave situation a little bit. Do you guys think that part of the reason that D'Amico and Nick played that close to the best, let's just minimize the offensive input perspective with the team this year because since they're around CJ on a regular basis, they knew what we eventually saw as a whole that C.J. just didn't have it.

Do you think that was a possibility? I think it's I think honestly KJ to answer your question on Ross you get the last word on this I just think Domingo is conservative by nature I don't think we're ever going to see a dynamic offense in his town I think this is a guy that likes to keep it

close to the vest rely on a stiff defense good running game control passing game and if we have a good athlete of quarterback use them to the best of our ability but I don't think it's ever going to we're not going to be in a situation where we're sitting there competing watching the Rams

and Texans play first to 50 Yeah, I agree. It's just that's kind of his nature. I mean, maybe we're going to see that they're just going to air it out and throw it 50 to 60 times a game, but I would be shocked. I think, you know, and that's a moment that D'Amico took over. This is, this is, he's not surprising us.

He talked about being a run-oriented offense the day he took the job. So, yeah, this is who he's going to be. The Texans, under the leadership of Domeca, would rather win a game 17 to 10. then win a 35-31 game. So to ask that team to score 17 one week and then score 31, five or six times, that may have it once or twice,

but this is not going to be built. The money and the time and the love will be spent on the defensive side, and the draft fix. And they've paid off so far. And the free engine acquisitions have paid off. Some of the offense have done okay, but this, again, as long as Domingo's running things, he'd rather win a game 17-10 than say,

I've got a football team that can go 80 yards in a minute 14 with no time with no timeouts. I win a game. It's not going to happen. Let's play, believe it or not, Ross can tell you about Centrogenics and we'll play, believe it or not. Wrap things up for a Thursday here on Sports Talk 7-9. Real quick, Rossi, I know you've been telling me about this Xfinity cable. We have Exfinity cable in this five-star on in right now.

I have like 9 million channels in my room. That's nice. It's really incredible. I mean, to be able to like have, I have like 14 different game show channels, 50 different news channels, 400 sports channels, all the dash ones, dash twos. I can tell you're very excited about this. Wow, this is, yes, good stuff.

I'm writing the last question. Oh, okay. Forget, all right, don't look at my group text then. Let's skip the show. Oh, we're not doing it? No, we're doing, believe it or not, but the other part, don't worry about that. Five minutes left to go on the show.

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