The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets vs Suns Tonight! Have the Texans Reignited Their Playoff Hopes?

Episode Date: November 24, 2025

Rockets vs Suns Tonight! Have the Texans Reignited Their Playoff Hopes?

This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 10 o'clock at H-Town. Good morning, and welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross, coming to you today from Phoenix, Arizona. We're tonight the Kevin Durantless Houston Rockets will take on the Phoenix Suns, among many of the conversation pieces we will get to today. I know, I know. No, I'm sorry.

What happened? He doesn't want to face the music in Phoenix? He's running scared. He's afraid of Dylan Brooks. Well, who is it? I am. I'm definitely afraid of the guy. Mm-hmm.

I love him, though. I don't love him anymore. I mean, I like him. I mean, I don't love him. He's one of those guys among the all-time group of he's on your side. You love him. If he's not on your side, you hate him. Yes.

No, gee, that would be a Danny Am. a who else would be in that group a pat beverly would be in that group although i think the whole world right now hey it's raymond green oh dennis rodman yeah that's true you got a good list there ross hello how the hell i'm doing great matthew how are you we got a we got three days together this week and then we're done for a couple days we got a lot of things to get into in a very short period of time okay where are you phoenix arizona no i mean like are you in your room yeah okay it sounds like you're being a little more quiet than normal no I mean, I could yell if I want you.

No, I don't yell. I guess it is, it's two hours earlier there? One hour. Okay. It's funky here. Sometimes it's two hours and sometimes it's work. Don't explain to me. They said daylight savings time, shut your bum ass up.

Yeah. Yeah. I do like Phoenix. I know there's, if you like green grass, that's an option here. It's not prevalent. I mean, you can find it. You just got to be on the golf course. That's right.

And they have 3-2 blackjack, which I'm very pleased about. Okay. Everywhere I went yesterday, it was 3-2, so I know you'd be pleased about that i am well i mean i'm not playing i'm just trying to help you met that's all not help me i mean i'm going to play regardless i they they screw me they screw me but i still want to play i can't play crap because i'm crappy at that and you jinx the table i everyone when i'm in on so you know that's not true you quit i didn't play with you for like two years and you decided to quit craps like twice in that span so it sounds like it wasn't me sounds like you're you it's you

you're the you're the jinx okay because when i don't play with you actually you can ask mo morge you can ask my brother when i don't play with you on craps i actually roll some hot dice so it's your fault at the end of the day because you're the one that retired i'm not retired from crafts so it's you it's you mattie all right so next time we go to play somewhere no we're going to play craps no i'm staying away from you no sir because then you're going to blame me again when you're the one that quit independent of playing with me i know i know it's low-hanging fruit i get it it's easier to blame others it just is sometimes you got to look inward matthew Yeah, not in this case.

Not in this case. All right, we have a lot to get to today. I will tell you this, and I think, I don't know if you brought this up on your socials, but when the team that you're following isn't playing and you have nothing to just do but just sit in front of a television, now I got to, we left for Phoenix here yesterday in the middle of the day, so I didn't get this, I watched Sunday, not Sunday ticket, Red Zone on the plane. It's awesome. You just sit there and you just, you don't have to talk to anybody.

You don't have to have deep conversations. You just sit and watch them move the remote for you from one game to the next, from one big play of the next. Red Zone is, I don't know, what's better technology? The Internet or Red Zone? Well, probably the Internet, but Red Zone is one of the greatest human inventions of all time. I'll go with the wheel. Yes.

Electricity. Yeah, the gas engine, the motor engine. the McRib And no the The McRib is one of the worst One of the worst inventions of all time Along with the Pet Rock is the McRib Do you know that I get

Probably and I'm not I'm not embellishing on this I do embellish I probably get three Messages a day from our audience about the McRib Good or bad Because I get I get several as well

Anytime there's a meme about how The McRib is made out of shoe leather People send that to me That's not nice How many have I had since the McRib has been back? I don't know how long it's been back. About three weeks. Okay.

I don't know. Ten? Here's what Gil sent me. The McRib is the deadbeat dad of the fast food world. It comes around once a year and we're all supposed to get excited. Mm-hmm. And then you remember how terrible it was and you want it to go away. The key is getting extra barbecue sauce.

You can dip the barbecue sauce in your fries. That's... Oh, let's move on. I don't know why you keep bringing up this nasty sandwich. It won't be there much longer. It will not be there much longer. So we need to enjoy the experience. Exactly.

Because they've cleared all the gunk out of the machines, and now they're done pressing McRibbs. Okay. All right, so here's what got going on the show today. We have, coming up at 1130, we have, to tell the truth, coming up, looking forward to that. We have D'Amico Ryan's press conference at 1245.

Joseph Dwarte is going to join us from Las Vegas. The players, excuse me, not the players, it's the players era tournament. Although you could be the players. Yeah, that'd be true. Okay, sure. I don't know if you caught with Calvin Zipsis. Like, I have to play this tournament. This is the only way I can pay my players.

We had this mega, mega tournament in Las Vegas. I think now it's 16 teams, I think, is involved in it. Call me a little skeptical of that. Recruiting classes have been pretty strong in the NIL era. Well, I'm just saying, I don't know how they're, I don't know. I'm going to ask Joseph when he joins us later today. I don't know how they're doing it. I mean, they have a big TV deal with Turner.

Every one of the games is on national TV. So I guess Turner's cutting these checks. Yeah? For Thanksgiving Week basketball tournament in Las Vegas? I mean, they're not drawing. I mean, they're playing MGM, which I guess you could put 15, 16,000 people in there, but I don't think that's going to happen. I'm probably not going to be full.

No. We had a wonderful day of football yesterday. Well, we get a cowboy fan to call the show today and talk about how that squad came back and was down 21, nothing. the Eagles and won the game yesterday? That was a nice win. There were a lot of Cowboys fans. But they had been largely dormant on sports radio

for a long time. Remember when the tech, when the Oilers left, they came into play a lot. They were calling. They wanted everybody to join their fan base. They wanted everybody to say, hey, this Quincy Carter dude is awesome, and Dave Campo is awesome. And there was a brief moment in time. I rooted for the Cowboys as well.

Now, do you feel like a dirty horror when you after doing that? No, why? I was a teenager And there was the only football team on every week And I liked football Yeah You were impressionable I get it

I get it All right So we'll get to the Cowboys a little bit We will get to the college football world Where Is Archback sports Harvey Tell me you weren't impressed Arch

Um Well two weeks ago against Georgia He wasn't late in the world On fire Okay But what did he do Catch one teams that it was also was he also as a backup free safety yeah actually he dropped kicked a field

goal as well yes yeah yeah he was something special uh the aggies took care of business beating the samford not stanford the sanford bulldogs big win yeah my son my own my middle son stayed the whole time because he did well yeah because what else is he going to do he bored I mean he went there And again for those of you I mean when you're a student You stay till the fight To the school song is played

No win or lose That's what I was like when I stayed Believe it or not man I stayed till you stay until the eyes of Texas I don't know what they call it in A&M I get it But you know He just went there stress free

And there's very few times In my middle son's life Peyton Who I love desperately and all the time Doesn't have to worry about going to a sporting event worrying about much things. He insists on going to all the Aggie non-conference basketball games against Alabama A&M and Central Arkansas

is in the world, but he gets the league played. He's a different human being. That counts for football as well, so I was glad he's had a good time on that. Is it coming to Austin Friday? Can you get him a ticket? I cannot. Okay, well, then the answer's no, because I... I have my ticket secured. Oh, good. Where are you sitting?

Like I said, 40-yard line, second level. That's not bad. That's great, actually. Yeah, it's pretty good. How's the parking around? I told my brother, he's got to get his donation up to get us some better seats. Oh, you know what? I know your brother.

They don't even, they literally lay it out. They don't care at all at Texas. They're like, you get your donation up, we'll get you a better seat. That's just literally how they lay it out. It's pretty fine. I think it's probably how every big school does it, yeah. We appreciate the fact that you were the class of 2003. We appreciate that you wear our gear.

We appreciate this, but we'll let somebody from, I don't know, North Dakota who's got a bigger check to write, give you better seats than you. Absolutely. Well, it's happening everywhere. That's not a huge surprise on that. That's fine. All right. The AFC playoff race was a mixed bag yesterday.

Would you say would be fair to say on that? I would say bad results. Well, an interesting result between you two, Indianapolis and Kansas City, although that was the wrong way. The Texans, as Battle Red Ross, I wanted the Colts to win that game. Yes, you did. Yes, you did. You know, it's funny, Tony Romo has been, and maybe it's because he's making $15 million a year,

I guess is what it is he's making a godly amounts of money. But he gets ripped on a lot. I don't find him horrific. I don't know if I go, he's the best out there. I certainly wouldn't have, if I'm CBS paying him $15 million, but he gets crushed just about every single week. and he was selling this as this was a defining moment he was he was the must win before you could actually say must win on a TV broadcast he was like this is the season here this is pat

mahomes this is their playoff game if they don't win this game it's over blah blah blah blah wow myself bro there's like six games left i mean i know it's not great and we're not familiar with kansas city not being in a playoff position this late in the season but by no means was this they game determining season determining type football game but he certainly treated it that way and certainly Pat Mahomes for that matter he was fantastic in the fourth quarter

he just was and if you're the Colts why did you go away from running the ball to Jonathan Taylor in the second half sometimes you got to let Daniel Jones cook Matt well he was cooking he was cooking a well done steak as we was cooking

so credit to the potatoes he certainly did he certainly did so credit to the chiefs for winning. They now have to go to Dallas to take out the Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day. Everybody in their mother this morning on the ESPNs of the world, we're saying this could be probably the most watched

Thanksgiving Day game ever. And you know what? I don't think they're lying. Why? It's Kansas City and Dallas. I mean, holy smokes. Two huge television draws. And it's Thanksgiving. And it's a big, important game for both teams.

So we'll get to a little bit about that. We will also get into what we're hearing about Lane Kiffin and where he's being offered and what he's being offered. We'll get to that. I mentioned a rocket tonight are going to take on the Phoenix Sons without the services of Kevin Duran, who has stepped away for some family matters, and he will not be

with us here tonight in Phoenix, and also Wednesday in Golden State. Let's see what else. We mentioned Arch. Oh, Jake Myers is still an Astro, Ross. I think you have to be kind of encouraged by that, I think. I love it. I guess. I guess. It's only a matter of time. I don't know.

I kind of like him. I mean, he doesn't, he's not a 10 on the interview scale, but he's our guy. He's your guy. He is, yes. You had T-shirts put it up. I mean,

that's not true. You have Jake Myers' fan club. Secured on the old World Wide Web. And we've got magnets. Okay. We're going to read some TAMU police tweets at 1030 Ross, and thankfully nothing involving a DPS officer, I think like a complete A-Hole this week.

That's good, I guess. We're happy about it. And what else we got? And he's not at the game. Yeah, that's fair anything else going on in the world of sports in our life that I've forgotten about I don't think so okay there we are we got all encompassing yeah let's shut down the show you think we should get three hours and 47 minutes left to entertain Houston that's true

all right five seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven one three two two five seven it is the matt thomas show with rossum here in phoenix and this is sports talk seven nine ten nineteen and Matt and Ross with you here. If you guys are off this week and ladies and you never call the show because you just are too busy, we're here for you, aren't we, sports RV? 713-212-5-790?

We're always here for you, folks. But yes. It's a bit of a ghost town around here. How's the sales pit today? Everyone is working from home. Okay. And I'm grinding. and doing their best i appreciate them yes and we if you would like to uh get your business

on the track of towards economic success call 713 2128000 i think yes and might not be picked up right now but yeah uh robert reese is our salesperson oh i love that love reese shout out by the way to jemir gibbs of the trent lines you are just the best terrible i deserve that look okay Matt's saying that because Jamir Gibbs dropped 50 on me against him. And you know who I passed up to take Saquan Barclay. Jamir Gibbs. So he fell in your lap because of me. So it's my fault.

I mean, I had a bad draft. Everybody's been hurt in that league and I had a bad draft. So other than that, it's been a great season. Well, I mean, you are down. Let's see. Quick math. I'm not completely dead, but mostly not. You need Brock Purdy to score at least 25 points.

And you need my, RICO, Dottle, not to. to score any today for the Panthers. Yeah, Rico Doudal's got to get outscored by 25 by Brock Purdy. So it can happen. Brock Purdy can have like 40 because we have six point touchdowns. Yep. It's just very unlikely.

Yeah, the ESPN folks, you know, the predictors is just one measure, Ross, says, I've got a 94% chance of winning. Right. That feels about right. It doesn't make me feel any more confident, I'll tell you that, though. Hey, you should be fine. I mean, and this is the death blow. I'm literally going to be knocked out of the playoffs.

for good by the guy that I passed up on. I mean, how poetic is that? Honestly, I have to, I have to say that's kind of beautiful, beautifully ironic. Again, what I, it's really at the end of the day, your fault, because I was done with fantasy football, and you brought me back in, you suckered me back in. No, it's fine. Well, it's, at least my team sucks in this league and I'm losing. I'm in another league where I am third in points and I'm about to be five and seven.

I go up against high points every single week. it's so annoying by the way rhodo's going to join us on wednesday so if you need some fantasy advice that'll be coming up on wednesday we're going to do everything we can in three days here because ross and i are going to be off thursday and friday and uh please and again i don't why i do this but i'm going to do it anyway please follow ross at instagram at sports r r hey thank you man because i want to see a lot of photos and videos you have to do a lot of work on friday i want i want to be able to feel like i'm at darrow k roy I was already, yeah, I'm trying to post more on Instagram.

You can see the chili I made on my story at Instagram at SportsRV. It was a three, but it was a three set series. I'll be rating, I'll be, I'll be raiding you here around a talk about. Oh, wow. Oh, it looks like he's ready to hate it. No, no, it looks good. I really want to try it. Hold on.

Hold on. Now, remember, just like Ross says, and I think he's consistent about this. Absolutely. If it sucks, Jonathan, you have to tell us it sucks. Tell me, that's fine. This is just to be perfect. be a perfect little. I would like, you know, too salty, too spicy, to this, to that. Absolutely. Go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. I'm ready, baby. I have had your chili before. It's fantastic.

Yeah. So I'm just going to say, and now, again, my issue is the spices, it's me. It's not. I only use two jalapinos in a big pot, so it's pretty light today. Sometimes I use a couple habaneros or three or three or four jalapinos, but I kept it easy. I took it easy. so I sat at the bar last night at the, I can say, because it's not a sponsor, but in Phoenix, the talking stick casino yesterday, they've got great food here so I went and had dinner first before I gambled. You get some comp, you get some comps

or what? No, no, no. Actually, they don't even rate me while I'm here. It's a kind of waste of time. I come here once or twice a year, Max, I'm not big of a deal. Point being is this, the food, you know, there's Tex-Mex, there's Mexican, and there's, like, Southwest Fair. Well, they have definitely Southwest

Flair here. And it's, again, lot of spice in it as well i had a steak soup for an appetizer which was fantastic and i had a chicken tortoise which was amazing but for those of you that have ever eaten a meal with me before had sweats with any sort of spice and it was like there was like sweat beads and then the guy next me was like are you okay i said i'm doing just great but as a ball man who doesn't take spice very well it does uh it makes me it's tough to hide yeah you got to put on like an alex caruso headband when you're going to eat something spicy It's like, man, did you just get out of the workout room?

Did you go out of the bite? No, I just had a hamburger with the jalapeno. That would be so great. You need to put, you need to bring a headband with you. That's hysterical. Oh, snap. And my poor daughter, we're at dinner, we had to some Mexican dinner night.

And she's like, Dad, and I don't know why my family thinks this is this. Every time I eat anything with any spice, my head sweats. Don't clip that. Why not? I don't know. I just... Oh, are we doing it next week? Are we doing it Wednesday?

No, we're going to do next week. We've got too much stuff going on. So we'll... You can save all this stuff for the week of Friday. It's only a Friday thing. Yeah. By the way, the hotel where I'm at today is charging $8 for all you can drink coffee

and I'm on my second 24-ounce or so if I get a little wired and charge of that... $8? Yeah. Hold on. You're downing 48 ounces? Yeah, this is my second cup. Is there any ice or milk in this thing? There's a little bit of cream, but that's it. Oh, my God.

You are going to be wired. You'll be crashing about 1 o'clock. As a matter of fact, I'm going to text you a picture of it, right? I'll show you. Oh, my gosh. It's huge. All right, folks, get ready for a super energetic 11 to about 1230, and then the crash is going to hit.

1.15, I'm crashing hard. Matt. The guy's like, you can come down as much you want between now and 3 o'clock. I'm like, what? Just a load of hurt somebody. No, just a load up and put it on your fridge. it's your eight bucks worth yeah by the way i do

i do something sinister i take the coffee that i drink sometimes when i pay this ridiculously high amount and i heat it up in the tea warmer is that what's wrong with that you think it's smart okay good i was well you have what's it hold on what's a tea warmer see i'm not used to this five diamonds

you're not speaking my language man it basically it's like a kettle it's like a kettle it warms hot water up then you put the tea bag in oh it's supposed to be hot water in there yeah Is it easy to clean or is it has like a little spout on it? By the way, this cup is enormous. This is huge. There's no way you're making it.

Would he texted it to us? Yeah, look at the picture. I posted at SportsMT. Oh my God. This is a half gallon. Yeah, it's big. But it was all you could drink. I'm like, sure, why not?

I went down before the show started just before. I got some of this morning when I woke up and I'm down to my second cup. All right. Yeah, this would be. interesting and we'll keep an eye on this. So it's a tea kettle and you put coffee in it and it's supposed to be water, yeah, I would say that's kind of a, that's a foul, that's a foul.

If we're going fair or foul, that's foul. But now, in fairness, I do put a $10 tip thing next to it, so clean the room. I think that makes it worse. Yeah, I make it a mess, but here's a couple bucks. Clean it up, woman. Or man.

Why do you, why, what if it's a guy that's that's clean around? That's what I said, or man. Okay. All right, let's read some T, A, M.U tweets. They had nothing go wrong apparently this weekend, except there were people that were drinking at the game. Do you need to get, first of all, do you need to get hammered for the Samford game? I guess

you do. Oh, just stick around for that? Yes, you do. By the way, it was probably what, 71 degrees at kickoff, a nice day outside? What was the final score? Did they finally put a line on the board? They did. You know, we're seeing more FCS games online. I think it was... Well, they usually wait. They normally

wait until, like, kickoff. Not kickoff, but a day of. Yeah, I want to say it was 50s. 56 and a half, I think it was the line. Don't hold me to that. But they did not cover. That's why it's hard to bet on games. Like, I bet on one game.

It was this year I thought I took somebody plus minus 52 and a half and I think I covered. Do you see the line for Friday, by the way? Aggies and horns? I have not. What is it? Go ahead and guess. Okay, I'm going to take a guess

and then we're going to come back and see how close I am. I'm going to say don't give the answer well when we come back okay sure Texas by two come back all right bless we got Aggie tweets to read

coming up back in a moment 1027 on Sports Talk 790 This is one of my favorite this is one of my favorite things to read during the college football season. It'll be firmly entrenched as a bit on this radio show. It is 1032 on the Matt Thomas show Ross, Matt here in Phoenix, for Rockets and Sons tonight. All right, so Rossi, I had Texas a two-point favorite.

How'd I do? Aggies minus two and a half. Ooh, wow. How many times in the history of that series have the Aggies been favored going to Austin? Probably very few. Yeah. And I'm just going to say, based on where the line was, the last couple of weeks, I think there will be movement towards the Texas side.

Okay. But we'll see. I'm terrible on guessing the line, so I just, I'm just a random. I think you're pretty good. All right, here we go. I would have guessed Texas minus two and a half, so we were basically the same. Yeah. All right, at TAMU Police, two days ago, says, howdy, ag's?

K-9 Jesse is excited to see you for the final home game of the season as we hashtag B-T-H-H-S. T-H-O Sanford, that's beat the hell out of Sanford. Remember to be safe today, and we will see you soon. There's a picture of K-9 Jesse on the A&M police site, so that's good, right? Sure. Next. Is Jesse a German Shepherd? No.

I don't even know. Go look at Jesse. I don't even know. I'm not a great dog breed analysis analyzer. I don't know what that is. Looks like a chocolate lab mixed with a golden retriever. Sweet dog. He's got a football in his mouth.

He's happy. Okay. let's continue mip times five oh my gosh 100 a those are probably just code lingo there saw officer and tried to hide drinks

citations issued so maybe there's five there were five kids that were doing the mips wow that's a lot of mips right what does the mip run you these days on the old ticket i have no idea but how are these these guys are these kids are smuggling in beers

just put liquor in a flash that's what i mean come on this is tried and true hashtag b t hsamford all right let's continue mip west side of utility plant saw officer and tried to hide his drink while walking away citation issued hashtag b t hsampford you know what this is amateur hour these kids deserve these mip's these are teachable moments all right next mip west side of utility plant. Man, this utility plant side of Kyle Field's quite active today. Saw officer and put beer on ground and walked off. Citation issued. Hashtag B.T.H.O.

Sanford. Hmm. Now we're changing things up a little bit here. Unauthorized solicitation Pickard pass, whatever that is, subject was selling shirts. Criminal trespass warning issued. Hashtag B.T.H.O. Sanford.

Hmm. Selling knockoff shirts? Outside the state. Can't knock off the hustle. I mean, yeah. Come on, man. Come on. This is outside of every concert you go to these days, by the way. Well, I mean, I guess you could do as you get maroon shirts and you can put,

because you can't copyright Texas A&M. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I'm sure Aggie, the word Aggies. I don't know. I'm sure AGOV. I'm sure 12-man is for sure copyrighted. It's all trademark.

Yeah. Yeah. Next. Public intoxication, PA-100A. Contacted intoxicated subject who had trouble identifying himself. what is that what is your name that means he wanted to give a fake name and then he was probably him and and hawn about it

or she friend friend had to help him feed his eye find his ID release a sober friend hashtag BTH Sanford that what a good friend that is BTH Samford nice that's all that's an embarrassing

hashtag by the way we're going back over to the utility plant Ross we are MIP Westside of utility plant saw officer and through the beer citation issue what is going on on the west side by the utility plant

that's what's a hot spot for drinking there's got to be an aggie listen to us right now tell us what's going on over at that utility plant you all about a bunch of debauchery over there or what and let's be smart folks read these tweets and know where you shouldn't be yeah I mean we're providing a public service

and get away from the utility plant clearly it's a hot spot yeah go somewhere else go to the you know where they should go you should go to the to the cemetery where Schlosson got his new job for the University of Texas. And get some hair on your chest and just get some liquor out of a flask and put it in a drink of Coke. Next, vaping, Section 238, ejected.

Hashtag B.H.O. Sanford. These kids today, and they're vapes. No, does it have to have nicotine in it or marijuana? I guess you just can't bring it in it in. their period, huh? No. Next. Failed to ID, PA 100A, subject contacted for underage

vaping, provided false DOB to officer, arrested. Hashtag B-T-H-O-Samford. Boy, it went from bad to worse for that kid. Dang. Next, public intoxication, section 235, responded to

a subject who was sick, determined to be intoxicated, released a sober friend ejected hashtag BTHO Sanford Well listen At least if they release you to your sober friend They won't really hurt you there Next

Public intoxication Fourth Level concourse I've been on that fourth level Ross That's quite a walk Friends were helping her walk Fourth level Could you imagine being a fourth level And you are blank-faced

Here it is Friends were helping her walk Thought she was In Section 132, she was in the wrong shoes, three levels down, release a sober friend, and then ejected. Hashtag B.T.H.O. Sanford. Next, Section 311. Subjected brought his own alcohol in the stadium.

Ejected. Oh, minor league. Hashtag B.H.O. Sanford. And our very last one, public intoxication, Section 128, intoxicated the subject found staring at a wall. Released a sober girlfriend. Ejected. Hashtag B.H.O. Sanford. So, the game must have been so boring,

the guy just stared at a wall instead of looking at the game itself. Man, that guy was going through it. Released a girlfriend. Maybe he was trying to get away from her. Yeah. Maybe he's like, no, I'd rather stare at the wall than be with this hag. I don't think the kids are using that word. I just wanted to pass that. along to you. There you go. So that is your update. We only do it, what,

six times a year, right? Six or seven times a year based on home games? I guess so, yeah. B-T-H-O Sanford. All right, by the way, we have a utility update on what's going on over there. Let's go to Brian and Paraly. Brian, what's going on on that utility plan over there? It's just

that's a big tailgating area out there on West Campus, and there's just a lot of people that are out there and you just try to blend in with the crowd, I guess, and we've walk through, they're going to go into the stadium sometimes. There's just a lot of people over there, so you

think you can kind of blend in, but Anna and police are always watching. They're notorious. So, yeah, just a big congregation spot on the west campus right near Reed Arena for tailgating. All right. Well, it sounds like I need some professional

tailgators over there. The utility plants a prime spot for TAMU police. There's a lot of kids that like to tailgate over there. So, yeah i don't you know hey yep thank you

uh yeah all right where is so what will you be tailgating in austin on saturday where where's the spot for you for you older folks excuse me you're 40 you're not young i'm young at heart matt that's true you're middle age

yeah it's fine could be worse could be um i don't know where i'm gonna be tailgating usually somewhere's around campus and I'm not sure if we have a spot yet I don't know exactly what's going on

you can also just walk around and some places will have you know 20 bucks all you can eat all you can drink or whatever depending so it's a 630 kick on Friday what time will you arrive in the vicinity I don't know why

I just curious I'm just kidding I think we're going to leave Friday morning because we have two thanksgivings to do and we're just like we don't want to be super full and sleepy from Turkey and trip to fan. So we're probably going to leave, I don't know, sometime in the morning and probably have like three, four hours to tailgate, something like that. Okay.

And then go to the game. A couple of Aggies have dropped in. Kyle says, shout out to all the A-Hull Aggies driving 100 miles an hour Saturday morning on Highway 6 at 740 in the morning to get there early for the powerhouse Sanford. I was just driving through on my way to Fort Worth. Ouch. Sorry about that, Kyle. And then another day, another penny, says Pickard passes a portion of the street named after a legendary trainer Billy Pickard.

He was in A&M for 50 years. He says, friendly, unnecessary trivia information. Oh, wow. We love that. 50 years, the athletic trainer? Yeah. That's a lot. Wow.

He was like putting leeches on the guys on the field and stuff. I don't know. Do you think he was like, what was the name of the grid, not the gridiron game? What was that group called back in the 50s? with Bear Bryant, and Jack Purdy was one of them. Oh, man. My Aggie brother was giving them like tree bark and honey to cure the guys? No, it was that group of guys that were the Aggie football players

that were basically tortured while they were playing football. Oh, Junction Boys? Junction Boys, that's it. It was not the grid of Iron Gang. Close enough. I wasn't listening to you. Sorry. What are you doing back there?

You're all right? You know, I get distracted when you're on the road. I know. I'm the one knocking back coffee like nobody's business. I'm watching Rhode Island and Towson basketball. Oh, Rhode Island basketball? Yeah. It's Terry's Chocolate ESPN Events Invitational. Okay. Any prospects from my daughter? What do you mean?

Well, she's going up there to find a rich man. There's no question about that. Like gentlemen callers? No, like dating potential. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. No, I'm not scouting out dudes for your teenage daughter. is Jonathan okay back there he just talking his own microphone

oh what if Carlson was listening oh she would be okay with it she's fine we've already had this this conversation well yeah I mean she's tall so she should basketball team's not a bad spot to go

for a volleyball player yeah oh by the way she wants she wants to figure out a way to get to into Travis Kelsey Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift's wedding

because they're going to married to newport at her house and the can ron island campus is about 15 minutes away i'm like no you're not going to get arrested ruin your chance at your scholarship by trying to infiltrate the most will be the most hyped wedding and maybe the history of pop culture weddings fair enough is that close i forgot that they they were getting married it does not affect my life at all well it affects the 94 billion swifties that are out there and by the way shouldn't you I hope it doesn't affect Travis Kelsey. I need him for this last little push

in this fantasy football league I meant. I had to go double-tight-ins this past week. Yeah, I'm losing a double-tight-in guy. I mean, this is embarrassing. Yeah, yeah. Well, the rest of your team put it late a stink bomb. You just got 50 points from one player. That's fair.

Drake May was just purely average yesterday. Terrible. All right. 1044 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. 713, 212, 579. If you want to chime in, 713, 212. 5-7-19. If you're a cowboy fan and you've been afraid to call Houston

Sports Radio because we've just make fun of you for the last, I don't know, 25 years of your existence, your squad was down 21-0 yesterday and won. So congratulations and if you wanted humble brag on that, we'll let you do it. By the way, do you see the Rams' Puccaneers game a little bit

last night, Ross? The Rams kicked the crap out of the class. Yes, I did. Are the Rams' Super Bowl favorites right now? I would have to think they are. Would they not? Tell me that there's a better on FC team than the Rams at this point. There's not. There's not.

By the way, word coming out this morning, you don't get Gordy on this. The New Orleans Saints are trying out Justin Tucker as a potential kicker. Oh, really? Mm-hmm. Well, he's a free man,

and they need a kicker. He was bad, though, when he left the Ravens. Yeah. And, you know, I'm going to assume there's a few massage places in the New Orleans metro area. Hmm. A few hundred. thousands

I bet the massage game is strong in New Orleans Why do you say that? It's a pure guess on my part. Well, I'm just saying that what Justin's looking for, probably not going to be a whole lot of let's say oversight over those type of things. New Orleans police got a thing to worry about, like people

vomiting on the streets. 1046, the Matt Thomas Joe at Raw, 713, 212, 5, 790. we on the air ross i think so i just want to make sure to double check it hope you guys are having a nice leisurely week or maybe getting the whole week off if you are come on and we don't bite seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven nine zero. We've got coming up at 1130 to tell the truth. This week, boys, I have three lies and one truth.

It makes it up on you a little bit. Three lies and one truth. I mean, that was the OG, right? That's the OG. We flip it out of a little bit because, you know, I do want to tell you this. I know. It's hard to make stuff up. I got news coming up at noon.

And then we've got, D'Amico's going to speak closer to one o'clock. Our Texans reporter, Wexler, says that's going to happen around one. That's our Texans insider, Adam Wexler. We appreciate him. Texans reporter, I am the Insider, Texans reporter Adam Wester at 1 o'clock, giving us details on that, and then at 1.30 we have

Joseph Duarte, who's going to be in Las Vegas. By the way, this players-era tournament that basically pays players to be at this thing, Big 12 is going to buy 15% of it. Hmm. And then stack their own teams in there.

How did you know, sports are we? Guaranteed eight spots out of 32 will be in this event. Gosh, wow. good call on your part good call on your price so we'll talk more about that a little bit later on the show all right so the afc conference standings

that's double american football conference standings uh shows right now if the playoffs were to begin today in the a fc the texans would not be a part of it in fact there is a three-way tie at six and five and all three of those six and five teams would not make it in buffalo would be the seven seed jacksonville because of a tiebreaker would have the six seed over the bills. So the seven C would be the bills.

The six C would be Jacksonville. The charges at five. Baltimore now is the leader in the AFC North. I think you and I both said they were going to win the division once Lamar Jackson got healthy. Indianapolis is the three seed. Denver is the two seed in New England. The Patriots who struggled to beat the Bengals yesterday are the number one seed at 10 and two. Now, I don't know how you feel the exact same way that I do,

but man, watching all those games yesterday, on the Red Zone, there is no favorite in the AFC. Everybody's got warts. Literally every team's got something to say, you know what, they could be bouncing the first round of the playoffs. Yeah, I wonder how much are we saying that because it's not the

established Lamar Jackson or Pat Mahomes or the bills with Josh Allen, or are we just discounting Drake May and Bo Nix? Because the Patriots and Broncos, I mean, they've earned it. They're the best two teams in the AFC by record, and they've both been pretty good this season.

Drake May is having an MVP season, so give them credit for that. I think New England is, haven't seen them much, don't know who they're playing, and they're playing, there's a relatively soft schedule because they were a team that was not a playoff team of year ago. We saw Denver play. Their defense is stout, but I think no one's sold on Bo Nix. Indianapolis might be the best, you know, offense and defense, but I still think we're waiting for Daniel Jones to become the Daniel Jones we expect them to be. Baltimore is tricky

they've got defensive problems still in their a lot of injuries yesterday and won five games in a row but they've won five straight I think the schedule is still soft for them the Chargers just can't ever do anything in December or January to speak of and I was here in Phoenix

I got to the hotel in time to watch the fourth quarter and overtime against the Arizona Cardinals Trevor Lawrence Ross he had a great fourth quarter touchdown pass but he still sucks I mean their defense is carrying them

and ATN's been fantastic for them yeah I don't know how they should have I'm not super scared of the Jaguars no and the seventh seed is the Buffalo Bills imagine what Bill's nation is going through today they are seven and four

and are barely in the playoffs to me while you had Pittsburgh who's loved the AFC North for 90% of the season couldn't take advantage of of Lamar Jackson missing a few weeks. The Texans are the, frankly, maybe the hottest team in this group we've just talked about.

I've won three in a row. But they're on the outside looking in. And then Kansas City, as Tony Romo told us in like 15 different ways yesterday, it was a must-win game for the Chiefs, and Pat Mahomes was, I mean, I'll still Tony Romo's line. He played like it was a playoff game.

He was fantastic in the fourth quarter yesterday. I'm not sure. Yeah, according to, now some of these teams that are all vying for spots are going to be playing each other, but it just feels like 10 and 7 might not even be good enough. Well, the problem is you're going to get, you're going to have a 10 and you may have multiple 10 and 7 teams, Rossi, and that's where the tiebreakers are going to kill it.

Yeah, last year the Seahawks, yeah, didn't make the playoffs at 10 and 7 and the NFC. So have we learned now with the 17 game schedule, you have to go 11 and 6? You don't have to. 10 and 7 was good enough last year for, well, the Texans were in a crappy division. but every team that win at least 10 and 7 last year and the AFC made the playoffs. It's just going to depend year to year. I still think with the teams the Texans have to play the rest of the year,

10 and 7 gets them in. They have to go 4 and 2 the rest of the way. And honestly, as I said before, this sounds really weird. But if they're going to lose anything along the way, the loss to Arizona would probably be the easiest thing, although Arizona is not going to be there. No, that's a must win, man. Is it?

No, you have to take the easy ones. It's trying to say drop it against the Cardinals. You're saying just because they're in the NFC? I'm just saying because you can't beat the Colts and the Chiefs and then lose the Cardinals. Well, the problem is, is if you lose to those teams, you know, you're going to be in a spot where you're going to ultimately lose a tiebreaker. That if you were going to go, if you're going to finish 10 and 7, if you're going to go, one of those losses against the Cardinals and you've beaten, say, the Chiefs, or you've beaten the Colts twice, you're better off. because you're going to have a tiebreaker over those two just win baby and certainly beat the cardinals you need you need wins more than you need tiebreakers and the raiders are terrible uh sharder

sanders won his first game as a starting quarterback yesterday the raiders are terrible they fire by the way chip kelly is out of the oc in uh las vegas would you like to see him wearing texans gear next year no you think he's past his prime uh i think so i mean i mean look he hasn't had a lot of work the work with gino smith has been bad and then their offensive line is horrible but no I'm good I would take Mike McDaniel in a heartbeat

I think he's a great offensive mine I don't think he's a good head coach is he well he's still employed right yeah he's still for now for now by the way did you see who kept his job over the weekend uh who Mike Norville at Florida State oh he did once he got some kind of crazy buyout

no he's got pictures of somebody I'm okay with it more on the AFC playoff race because he was a coach when they were supposed to win the they were gonna their quarterback got hurt right well he was yeah

and then they had they want whether they were gone defeated or had one loss and didn't get the playoff yeah and then they got just trounce by Georgia and the something bowl yeah the something bull that's good non-corporate sponsor then they went away one game last year or two something crazy like that yeah went two and ten i'm pulling up two

and ten they lost the orange bowl and they went two and ten and then now they're five and six it's weird florida state they crush bama in week one though right yes it was that's why i've been like oh there must be back it was like when y'all beat uh nonderdane that week who's y'all university texas remember that and charlie strong was back but y'all weren't back but now you're back Because your quarterback can do everything. No, Texas is not back. You can punt, you can kick, you can pass. You know what he is? He's the punt kicking.

What was that contest? What we do? We do his kids? Punt, pass, and kick, Matt. Yeah, that's what he was. That's all right. He's an athlete. He's an athlete. He's an athlete. He's an athlete. He's going to lead you to a victory over A&M maybe. I believe so.

Okay. And then are they going to be one of the first four out? I got the Texas Longhorns on a money line. And we'll see. You know that the power. Texas. It's powerful. I'm just saying it shows up

in the polls. I'm not saying it's right. I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying it happens. You got Kirk Herb Street's a pining for you, so you're going to him and him his dog. Doing good. Well, there are some Texas fans that say if they had two, if they had played, let's say they played Samford week one.

And they were nine and two instead of Ohio State. Yes. And then they have they would have three wins over top ten teams being Oklahoma, Vandy, and then A&M, they would be in, right? So the argument being that you're not

don't play anybody. I am not a longhorn fan who supports that because don't lose it, Florida. It's very easy. All right. But I understand where people are coming from. But it's not like Texas's if they're left out is like it's some

great travesty. Like don't lose it Florida, please. We're going to know next Monday, right, basically? No, no, no, two weeks. We get two weeks. We get a conference championship. Yeah, conference championship week. I'll shuffle around, we'll see. Let's get the second hour started of the Matt Thomas show with Ross next in 11-01 on 7-9.

This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Yes, Ross and I are guaranteed humans. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Has there ever been a part of our show that's been AI? Have we ever ate I at a show before? I don't think so. We could try. No, I don't think so.

We are definitely guaranteed humans. Great to have you all of you with us. Do you use AI in your daily life? Do you like chat GPT stuff all the time? You know what's funny on Facebook, a post will show up. Let me see if I can do it. Oh, I know what kind of Facebook posts you're looking at with AI. So let me see here.

Stop. Where is she this week, Maui? You know, the horns are the Maui Invitational. Yes. They got a big matchup with Shamanad coming up. uh yeah let's see here okay so i i there's just something called classic television shows i'm not in this group but it showed up on my on my timeline i can hit room they're talking about this show called room 222 i don't even know what that is and it says room 222's most memorable moments you

can hit that and then meta ai will come into play hmm i think largely it's uh there's a lot there's way too many mistakes i know that ryan hollins of course a great friend of the show and television analyst for the Rockets, like tries to use AI for his stats. That's a bad idea. Yeah, it's not good. So that's why I just, I write it down myself.

All right, it is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. I'm here in Phoenix, Arizona, where tonight the Houston Rockets are going to take on the hated Phoenix Suns. Suns last night beat the Spurs. Thank you very much. 11 to 102.

Rockets lost Friday to Denver, which means the chance of me going to Vegas are very, very slim. How are you feeling about that? That's probably good. I mean, I don't know. Aren't you getting a little too much casino run? No.

You're doing all right. I mean, I could do some more, actually. Okay. Especially 3-2 is very pleasant yesterday. I would appreciate that. But yeah, so the Rockets are going to take on the sun's tonight, and then they're going to play Golden State on Wednesday. No Kevin Orant for tonight and or Wednesday.

He's got some family issues he's attending to. I don't know what they are. But bottom line is that he will be unavailable for the next couple of games. And then he should be ready for the big tilt with the hated Utah Jazz next Sunday and Monday in Salt Lake City. Rockets are going to have a lean roster. I'm trying to figure this out. I've not gotten an updated roster. But you've got no Kevin Durant.

You've got J. Sean Tate is not with the team right now. I don't think. No, Tarry Easton. He's out. Dorian Finney Smith. We haven't heard Dorian Finney Smith's name in a while. what's going on with that dude i don't know it's a good question we're going to have email on the show tomorrow we'll see if you can give us an update but my roster right now one two three four five

six seven eight i got nine active players you have to have 12 for the game or you have to have twelve put on the score chart you know what i mean so we're going to be a lean bunch tonight you're reed shepherd fan you're going to get a chance to see a lot of reed shepherd and a lot of josh a car right man you get six fouls go on use them mattie let's go get you on a 10 day and I used to tease on Dan Tony about that and he E-May and I don't tease

he's all about the business you don't tease E-May I don't think so okay I mean I try he does laugh more this year than I've ever got him in the previous TV laughs I'm sure

oh I'm sure it was awkward media laugh right I'm trying I ask a question yeah like I ain't got time for you what do you want I'm trying to win basketball games it'll be the reunion for Dylan Brooks No, Jalen Green, who's out with the right hamstring strain.

He's been out for a while. We'll be out for a few more weeks. But Dylan Brooks last night had 25 points for the sons in their win against San Diego. Dylan Brooks is balling. And you know he's going to want a ball tonight. Yeah. Yeah. On Peacock.

On Peacock. ESPN, Prime Video, Peacock, and then back on ESPN Wednesday, right? Yes. Do you understand, and this is not just NBA fans. I'm getting this with just my friends. Like, I had you other day where somebody's asking me about where the, a certain football game was. And I'm like, I think it's on TNT.

Like the Big 12 has got partners with TNT, Fox, ESPN, you have ACC and the WB. You've got, now, the SEC is, that's easy to figure out. It's either ABC or ESPN. But there are so many different networks that are now involved in sports broadcast. It really is. You have to really check your phone about every day or so to make sure to figure out the game you want to watch is on a certain network because you don't know where it is. Well, we were growing up, and I don't mean to go to the grow-up car, but there was CBS. Back in Monday.

Yeah, and that was it. And that's where you found it when ESPN was starting. Yeah, but you didn't get every game. I mean, you get 5,000 more games than you used to. Oh, yeah. I don't have it this way than, you know, back in the day, they used to regionalize the games. Yeah. Cougars would never be on TV.

Hey, hey. Oh, I don't know. I was talking about. Oh, okay, that's good. Makes me feel better. By the way, my Cougars lost on Saturday. They did what? what happened

what's tc u said you're going to come in they're going to beat that tc u s and then stomp on them frogs and yeah going to the yeah everybody wants tickets it can be full stadium and uh you know willie fritz is the greatest of all time but what happened all time i love me some fritz well so does tc u it's fine we got better coming up this week what's your what's your uh man

is that is that one week ranked and then lose to west Virginia, then one week ranked and loses a TCU? Yeah, the thing is that's tough. We have three losses this year. All of them are at home. In front of a combined 60,000 fans. Hey, there were actually

was a decent crowd on Saturday. That's what I heard. But I will give shout out to the administration of the University of Houston. The game presentation was the best. It's been in a long period of time. Actually, you know what it takes? Putting some money behind it. And I'm glad they did that. They were fireworks and music. Oh, really? And

a big presentation. Yeah. Would you have like 395? How many were there? Absolutely, 39,500 there. Oh, 30,000-852 listed? There you go. That's good.

We'll take it. That's not good. We'll take it. Rome one built in the day. You know what? You know what really helps in close games at home? A loud, raucous cloud. We did all right.

Our defense was good. Kicker got in this position. We had one bad interception. Connor Wigman threw one. happened to Connor. He threw an interception. You said he's going to win the Heisman? He could be very easily.

He's probably going to be invited at least. Do what? Usher? Be there. In attendance, come on. Let the man enjoy his time. He's working in. He's on an apprenticeship in the truck.

We're going to beat Baylor on Saturday, finish the year at 9 and 3. I mean, I would be surprised if the Matt Thomas show Ross originates from San Antonio at the Rossville Alamo Bowl coming up in a few weeks. Just saying. Well, there's no SEC. tie in there anymore. Who do they play? ACC? Is it ACC now?

It used to be Pack 12. Now is it? I don't even remember. I lose track of these things. But we'll talk to Joseph Torte about a little football and some basketball. He is at the Players Era Tournament in Las Vegas where it is, I mean,

and not that we're a college basketball town unfortunately, but man, there are some super heavyweight to this thing. Matter of fact, I can tell you, let me see if I can know the schedule. They're playing Syracuse tonight, And by the way, if you love America, I don't care. They should be beaten anyway. There are alums.

If you think Texas alums are bad people, Syracuse are 25 times worse. I would love to break bread with a Texas alum over a Syracuse alum. That's easy. Houston minus 14 and a half. Yeah, Syracuse is 4-0. And then after we play Syracuse, we play Tennessee the next night. Oh, the Rick Barnes classic. Hmm

And then I don't know who we're playing after that Because it's a determined format So there you go Well it's all on TNT Great UT is playing tonight In the Maui Invitation Yeah it's a 1030 tip

Ooh Are we carrying that game? I don't think so No carrying the rockets Do you think that Craig Waygo I mean he ain't turning down a Maui trip Right?

No I don't think so Yeah I mean I'll be watching while I'm doing the Rockets Wrap program tonight here on Sports Talk 790. And it's going to be a win, so get ready to celebrate with all the people. Got a lot of calls on Friday. It went until past midnight. I listened. It was good.

Oh, okay. Thank you. I was very impressed. I mean, they were trying to shut the lights off at the arena when I was broadcasting. They were like, we need a GTFO. Yeah, it's funny. We like to broadcast in there because it's important to be at these events. Yes.

By 1130 hits, look at the hell out. Yeah. I remember doing some games back in the day before I was calling games and I was at the arena and they're like we need to pull the power I'm like, no you don't

I'm thinking this is an 18,000 seat arena and you're worried about pulling one power strip? Yeah such as life all right we got to tell the truth coming up at the bottom of the hour I am ready for that one truth

three lies yeah that's going to be the name of your memoir mine's going to be Did Matt ever tell the truth? That's much more applicable. All right, I'm going to tell you the truth about something here. By the way, are y'all out there today?

Hey! Sorry. How's it going? Hello. Hello. You want to call, tweet, text. Let us know. Somebody's out there.

Follow me on Instagram at Sports Harvey. I'll follow you back. I'm going to follow back until I get to 790 followed. I would like to have all of you follow me on Instagram at SportsMT. That's Twitter and Instagram. I cannot guarantee I will follow you back. Matt won't follow you back because he thinks he's better than you. I will follow you back because I appreciate you.

No, because what Ross will do is he will follow you for a couple days. That's not true. He's a sneaky unfollow you. You're a liar. You're making that up. Just saying, follow me for organic sports commentary and hilarity. Organic. Organic's a word.

Yeah, I make it up. Not right, Jonathan. We make words up on the show. We don't care. time, a lot of time, you know. Matter of fact, Jonathan and I are going to go make up some words where we go see a Leonard-Skinyard in concert.

I knew, I knew it. Let me tell you something. Ross, this coffee's kicking in good, but I'm just, I'll be just fine. All right. Leonard, you know what, whatever? Leonard. Leonard? Leonard.

Oh, like the actual, like the name, Leonard. To tell the truth is coming up at the bottom of the hour here on Sports Talk 7. I have some lovely people that are going to call and say hello to us. Because, again, we do like talking to y'all. There are other shows in the marketplace that don't like talking to you all. Ross and I are just the opposite. We're as friendly as it gets. 713-212-5-790.

David and Kingwood on the Matt Thomas show. Ross, David, thank you for holding you. Good morning. Hey, Matt, Ross. How y'all doing, guys? Excellent. Thank you for dialing in. Hey, man, I might be late to the show on this one.

but I'm a shift worker, so forgive me. But this morning I heard the morning show, and they were signing off, and well, they insinuating that you don't like brisket? It's fine. I like it. I'll eat it. I'd rather have ribs and sausage and turkey than brisket, but I like that.

He's not a big brisket fan. No, again, don't put words in my mouth. It's okay. It's not my favorite. Yeah, you're not a big fan. Well, I heard that when they were signing off about coming up, and I said, man, I've never heard Matt mentioned he didn't like brisket. That'd be a first time for me.

Don't meet many people that don't like a good slice of brisket. You know what I like? You know what I like, David? Honestly, I like finely chopped brisket on a sandwich or put in a baked potato. That's my favorite kind. But just, let's like a piece of, yeah, it's just okay. I mean, I'd rather have sausage and ribs and turkey and ham probably over, would be over brisket. But I like brisket.

Now, Ross has sent me to some spots for some good brisket, so maybe I'm just catching a bad one. But I'd rather have it chopping anything else. I got you. Okay. I, before I get to my questions and takes, luckily, Maddie, we try the new fuzzies over there in our hometown over here? The new fuzzies? Fudgy Tacos Fuddy's tacos

Oh my wife is addicted to the place Okay I hadn't been there yet I just wonder if you thought it was good or not I ain't been there yet Yeah apparently it's very cheap too They have The tacos are like three dollars of pop And they're enormous

So yeah you should definitely get over there Okay cool Well hey I'm gonna get to my U of H steak I got a couple things First of all I like the team so far this year They look good My comment was Is that it looks like

Samson has gone from building these players not highly recruited and build them through two, three or four years, sometimes five years, and develop in a very mature, great club that works together. It looks like I can't remember the coach for Kentucky that went there, but maybe seven or eight, nine years ago, he was there. I think like two years in a row, I think four of his freshmen went to the NBA, and he had a reload the next year, then the next year I think three out of the five went and it looks like Samson might be getting that kind of sliding that way a little bit because I mean hell the recruits he just got this past week looked fantastic and I already talking about Kingston maybe being a top 20 and then you know Senac comes along yep yeah I would say thank you yeah David I think you're right thank you for the phone calling the food recommends

Flemings and Cinec are both going to be out of one and duns. They just are. I mean, the reality is this, and we can speak more to a macro view of this. It's fun, develop kids, and be there for a while. But that's 15 years ago. Even Duke Ross was like, I can't, we're not turning down kids that they want to come play here for one year. Yeah, Coach K, I remember he was like criticizing Coach Cal and all that stuff. And then he beats just the way the game is played at the top level of basketball.

Yeah, David, you're thinking of as John Kalapari. He's the one that was the king of the grabbing kids for one year and going on somewhere. Yeah, literally everything about college basketball that you even like to even say 10 years ago is done. Everybody is one and done for the most part. Everybody, now, the only difference is now if you have money that you can spend on the kids that the school can pay, you can keep some kids. And if you also get them sweet NIL deals, you can keep them around. But the super megastar future NBA players, they're not saying any more than two years. There is nobody going, there's nobody.

I'll honestly safe in saying this, Ross. You tell me if I'm wrong. There will never be a player that will have played three years of college basketball. They'll ever be a top five pick again in the NBA. I don't think you can correlate the two. I would disagree with that. Sometimes there's later bloomers. I think there are some guys who have been late bloomers who will end up top five.

But for the most part, you're going to be right. Yeah. And now that top five is not just college players. It's international kids. I mean, that's the thing. That's why I said what I said. I just, if you're in rarefied area, if you're a top five pick, I don't care what year the draft is. Hell even Reed Shepard was at Kentucky one year.

I mean, he knew, you know, you got to go out there when it's hot and the money is there. and now will nil change a little bit of that will the abilities to directly pay the kids through the revenue share of college sports yes but i don't know these rookie deals are getting higher and higher and higher i mean think about this if you're a top five NBA pick this new television deal is now amping up the salary cap in the NBA which means you get a bigger piece of that because those guarantees are those you know those kids are getting four-year guarantees so yeah uh enjoy enjoy kingston there at University of Houston. He'll say go Coog's all you want. Enjoy Christenac as long as you can. They're both gone. I would be astonished unless something happened like an injury or somebody kicked in with some NIL money

that made their wives worthy of not being a high first-round pick. Let's go to Ray in Miami. Now, Ray, you have been kind of certainly the last week. Is everything okay? Are you worried about your Texans or what's going? going on with you? No, I'm not. First, about the chopped beef. When you get back to Texas, you can get some chopped beef at a place you wouldn't imagine. Go to Burns Barbecue. Okay.

It's Houston. Our side. Burns Original and Anchors Homes. It's good stuff. Yeah, shout out to Michael Berry for it. He makes me laugh every commercial. Every commercial. Shout out to Michael Barry. Now, I think C.J. is going to lose two more games this year, and this is an ice cold lock. I think he's going to lose a regular season game, and he may lose a divisional game or a UFC championship game. I'm looking for Tuesday to only lose two more games. I think this guy, when they open the gate, it's going to be like a rodeo.

This guy is going to be bucking like a bull, and he's going to be hard to stop. He saw what Mills did. He saw how the offensive line is protecting their back, and Nico's getting. open. You know, this guy is going to be locked in. I think he's going to be the most locked in CJ we have seen yet. And I'm talking about that thriller against Tampa Bay. I'm talking about that kind of CJ. I think this guy is going to be locked in. I don't think he's going to get hurt the rest of the year. And I think he's going to just lose two games, guys. He's going to, you know, the Raiders. Come on, dude. Look how Jonathan Taylor got stuff yesterday. You know, and he got to play our

defense. So I'm looking for CJ to lose two more games. I don't know if it's a divisional or the FC championship, but just two more games, he's going to lose. Thank you, right, for the phone call. I appreciate it. Wex, you know, our Texans reporter, Ross, has the Colts, Jaguars, Texan

schedules side by side by side? Hardest of the three? Colts. Easiest of the three, the Jaguars. Texans in the middle. Jaguars are 7 and 4. They have two Titans games left. So you're telling me there's a chance.

I'm telling you, here's the cult schedule. You tell me, okay, their Colts are at 8 and 3. So do this in your head real fast before we get to tell the truth. Okay. Home for the Texans. When? At Jaguars. Let's throw a loss in there.

Sure, why not? At Seattle. Oh, that's L. Home for San Francisco. When? Home for Jackson. Jacksonville. When?

At Texans. Loss? What's that? 3 and 3? That puts them in 11 and 6. Jaguars. 11 and 6 still sounds weird. It does sound weird.

Really quick. Jacksonville. At Tennessee. Dub. Home for the Colts. Win. Home for the Jets. Win.

Oh, no. Loss. At Colts. Loss. Home for the Titans. Win. Oh, man. Jaguars.

got it easy street i told you they had the easiest of the three now the last come on battle right here we go win win win win win at colts you heard me at chiefs okay fine loss uh loss and then uh you know what they upset the chiefs baby win i thought you're gonna say tie cardinals win Raiders At Chargers Loss Home for Colts Win

So you've got one two You said four and two did you know I think so That's 10 and 7 Be tight Be tight Go be tight What's tight

That is Playoff race Oh okay Playoff race is tight What are you talking about Just make sure that one slipped up Just you know You know what you're trying to

Catch us. I'm here. Penn's ready. We know when things are tight when they're not. Trust me. It's tight. All right. Here we go.

To tell the truth is up next. 713-212-5-79. We'll see how Ross and Jonathan do. I have four takes. Three of them, I don't believe. One I do. To tell the truth next, 1132, on Sports Talk 790. So, lie, night, you're telling the truth.

I never know why you don't know how to tell the truth. You don't know how to tell the truth. Yeah. And that is indeed accurate. I do not know how to tell the truth. I have four sports takes, ladies and gentlemen. And three of them, I do not believe which one of the four am I telling the truth.

So, Ross, if there's four takes, how many of them are the truth? One. Jonathan, how many of them are lies? Oh, no. No. No. Three of them are lies.

Three. You're just learning Spanish. All right. Here we go. Take number one. Okay. I've talked about this before. I really would like to see Lange.

Kiffin State Ole Miss. I think it's got a good thing going here. All right. Okay. But gentlemen, if these reports are true that Lane Kiffin is being offered seven years and $90 million, he's got to take the LSU job. I'm sorry, that's crazy money for a ridiculously fertile recruiting base. Clearly, they've got enough money to pay off Brian Kelly's contract, and they've got money banked for LSU.

for the head coach i mean my god seven years 90 million dollars lane kiffin i know oxford's beautiful nice people there but you've got to take that bat and lose money so i would say if that if the contract is really legit lane kiffitt should go to ls uxu number two is a food take boys uh-oh i'd rather have ham than turkey on thanksgiving that's take number two you just said you'd rather have ham and turkey than brisket he also said he one a McRib over turkey on Thanksgiving if I was given two things at Thanksgiving ham or turkey

I'm taking ham Let's take number two Number three Did you see the Bill's defense last week Did you see the Bill's offensive line Lack of protection? It's a mess Their wide receivers are hurt and not good

The Buffalo Bills gang Are not making the playoffs It will be the biggest surprise this year in the AFC, and for that matter, football. The Buffalo Bills are a mess. And right now, if the playoffs were starting up, they'd be on the, I believe them on the outside looking in, am I not correct? No, they'd be the 7th seat. I just ran through Jacksonville's schedule.

I'm telling you, the Buffalo Bills are not making the playoffs. And I don't know if there's going to be trouble up there in northeast Ohio or northeast New York. You've got a brand-new stadium, and expectations are going to be high. And Josh Allen, you need some help. You're not making the playoffs. And number four. Jonathan, you'll like this. I was so impressed with the Cowboys coming back from behind after being down 21-0.

Pickens and Lamb and Prescott were good. The defense was forcing turnovers. They've got one of the best kickers in the sport today. The Cowboys are beating the Chiefs on Thanksgiving Day. Now, I'm not back off of my thought about the Chiefs going to the playoffs. and making a run. I'm just telling you the Cowboys got Mo.

That's momentum. What a day for them yesterday. Don't the Chiefs have momentum? They had a overtime victory. I'm talking about the Cowboys. Oh. Cowboys beat the Chiefs on Thanksgiving Day in the 3 o'clock.

Who's got more momentum? That's right. We'll find out on Thanksgiving. It's a momentum game. Number one. If the report should true and I'm Lane Kiffin and I'm being offered $90 million over

seven years. I'm taking the money. I'm going to LSU. Number two, I'd rather have a ham over turkey on Thanksgiving. Number three, the Bills run defense is atrocious. The wide receivers are a mess. The offensive line did not protect the quarterback. Buffalo's going to struggle the rest of the way. They can't

win big games on the road. Buffalo is not making the playoffs. Number four, the Cowboys are going to beat the Chiefs on Thursday. There are four take. I do not believe three of them. Which one am I telling you the truth? Gentlemen?

You know, this is tough because, I mean, I have no idea if Matt likes ham over turkey because, I mean, his food opinions are so bad. He seems like a turkey guy. I mean, yeah, turkey. A ham over turkey is fine, I guess. I mean, it has more flavor unless you're getting like a, are we talking about regular turkey or like an injected Cajun turkey? I don't know.

Any Cajun. Any Cajun, fried, oven baked, I don't care. Boiled. Boiled? Nobody's it boiling a turkey? Nobody boils a turkey? Maybe in the 1560s. By the way, I am 53 years old.

I look 40, but I'm 53. No, you don't. I've never cooked a turkey before my life. I don't think he's going to, I don't, I don't think he wants Lane Cipin to stay at Ole Miss. He does. But I don't I think that's he's lying about too. But why wouldn't you take $90 million from LSU? I mean

Yeah, yeah, I guess LSU is a good job. The Bills one's easy to throw out. Bills are making the playoffs. Matt doesn't believe that. Right. Cowboys could beat the Chiefs. I'm going to throw that one out too, though. Really? Okay, can you rehash your number one statement, Matthew?

You say Lane Kiffin has to take? I want Lane Kiff and State Ole Miss. You want to State Ole Miss. But if it's seven years, $90 million, Lane's got to go to LSU, period. Hmm. I'm going to go with ham over turkey. I don't know.

Why not? That's the truth. I'm going to go Cowboys over cheese. You guys ready? Here we go. Sure, why not? The bills run defense is bad.

The wide receivers are a mess. But it's still freaking Josh Allen boys. He's going to will them to the playoffs. It may not be as a division champion. I was New England's got it, but they're going to stay as a wild card. So the Buffalo is going to playoffs, in my mind. Number two, the Cowboys are very lucky that Philadelphia played an atrocious second half.

How can I, Jonathan, be the hype train for Kansas City, and then all of a sudden think they're going to lose the Cowboys? The Chiefs are winning. The Cowboys are going to. to lose on Thanksgiving. The Chiefs are going to go in there that football game. Well, at least we're down to the two that I believed. All right. Number three, Rossi,

I like ham. I like turkey. On Thanksgiving, Rossi, I prefer turkey. If you're laying kiffin and you're offered $90 million, I'm telling you the truth, you've got to take that deal at LSU.

That'd be a two L for you on these. Because you said they you said they weren't going to get an FBS coach. and then what was the other one our power four coach and then you said lane kiffin was staying so i hope that happens i know it'd be a two loss if it happens i know i love it i just first of all in all honesty ross

how in the and we don't know the finances and we know we know how they're doing it but it's LSU it's broke-ass state Louisiana how in the hell they can't be able to pay 90 million dollars when they got to pay Brian Kelly's 50 to go away it's very easy

the as Gordy will barge in here and tell you LSU money, it makes all the money for the state so they can spend all the money for the state. God, almighty. I'm stunned by this.

And the governor, he's bad-blank crazy, correct? It certainly comes across that. Yes. He is. He's going to spend $140 million plus on the previous head coach and the current, or the next head coach.

What is plan B for LSU if Lane Kiffin doesn't come? Oh, yeah. What's that guy's name? John Sumrall. They like him there. But they like Link Kiff and more. Yeah, it'd be a smash hire. Meanwhile, Florida's like, we got some money, too.

Have we argued this before? What's a better job? LSU or Florida. I say it's LSU, right? Probably. I think it's close. Either way. You still able to say Florida states down. Miami's up.

I'm just trying to think of this state. I mean, LSU, of course, they have there. You would control the state of Louisiana, plus you get a lot of Texas recruits. Yes. I would just say, you know what? If I were Lane Kiffin, I'd say what's you guys' NIL budget? Because wasn't this, wouldn't it come with some huge promise? Correct.

Yeah. The LSU deal? Yeah, huge contract for him, huge contract for his assistance, and a huge NIL budget. And that's the reality of what it is. Let me tell you, I got news for you, Ross. If SMU had a ginormous budget, he'd think about going to SMU. I think Texas Tech is the biggest prime example. All right, there it is.

So my take was, if the reports are true, Lane Kiffin's got to take the seven years, $90 million at LSU. I'm telling you, there is no take of mine, Rossi, that has more changed in the last 15 years of us doing the, show than athlete compensation good i'm glad i got brought you over to the to the wise side matt well i don't know if you did it i'll give you a little credit but not a lot of credit the reality is it's the amount of money that is being paid to these coaches to just i mean think about your old miss you took you took you took lane kiffin on because look lane had some warts right you want

mr winner everywhere he went and now you got at Ole Miss back on the relevancy board and he's going to I think he's going to leave. I don't want him to leave because I think it'd be going for the good guys. I'm not going to have no ties to Ole Miss at all. But damn. Maybe Gordy's shipping

in some of that money. Maybe that locked on SEC money is helping out. He's making donations. You've got to be doing something. All right, that's to tell the truth. Let's take a quick time out. Come back and talk with you folks. 713-212-790. About an hour and change from now. Closer to 1 o'clock. D'Amico, Ryan's

going to speak we'll also talk with joseph torte at the players era tournament in los Vegas where schools are getting serious cash to play top 25 teams i don't know if the teams love it the players do thus the player the players era 1147 on sports talk 790 i was looking at the offer that apparently uh lane kiffitt's getting beyond the 90 million dollars for him he's being offered n iM money of 25 million dollars who It means that collective's going to be busy. That doesn't even count the money that the school can officially offer these kids. That's just, that's money on top of that.

Is he going to go full Brian Kelly, start speaking in an occasion accent? Now. Is that him? Finger slip. Was somebody infiltrating our radio station? No, I think we're good. News Radio 744 cast thunderstorms this afternoon. Yeah.

Thunderstorms this afternoon. That's not good. Are you coming up? I guess so. People who it rained here in Phoenix. yesterday and the day before people are flipping out here they don't ever get rain like two days in a row oh my gosh when i was in l.a it was light rain for like two days it was literally wall-to-wall news coverage yeah there was a dude out in a raincoat it was sprinkling it was not they're like

we're getting one to two inches of rain in the next two days guys we're hunkering down i was like oh my gosh this was so embarrassing well do you know why because they have those mudslides there It rains at all. Also, there had recently been a fire, so fire plus rain does make mudslides. So that was a danger. But the guy out, I was like, the guy out in a raincoat when it was sprinkling for a day, like, relax. So you're telling me there was fire and rain at the same time? No, there had been a recent fire up in the San Gabriel Mountains, I think.

And yeah, so obviously there's a lot of ash, there's a lot of, I mean, just loose whatever. So when you combine that with rain, then yes, that can be very dangerous. Jonathan, I've got to let you know, I've seen fire and I have seen rain. I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end. I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, but I always thought I'd see you again. Look, it's Thanksgiving week. It just is. on 7 on a hello biscuit.

Man, well, you're something else, man. And you know, and Ross, you could agree with me, what makes it tell the truth so hard, Matt, is trying to figure out what the truth is to you. Yeah, exactly. Because Matt's takes her so bad. I'm glad you're here, Biscuit. That's not true.

You're like, is you all better than that. Like, you have to get inside the mind of a madman. Hey, hey. You see why I get it wrong all the time, right? Yeah, but let me say this, Matt, and I'm telling the truth on this, man. And you had a caller talk about earlier about the aspect of maybe one and done, but what that also mean is you got better talent, right? Correct.

And you got more depth, you got better talent, you got better shooters, you got more height. Man, I'm telling you, I was at the game of the night, man. Calvin sitting on a gold mine over there, man. And low-key, the pickup from Sam Houston, that other big guy, so if somebody getting filed trouble or hurt or whatever, man, and number four is this dude, how he wasn't a McDonald's All-American is beyond me. And now, Matt, Mercy is starting to play, right? Yeah, double digits yesterday night.

If Uzan don't pick it up, man, his men is going to get, they got much better ball handling too. You know what I mean? And that was the issue last year because Cryer and, you know, we couldn't really get into offense if teams picked us up. And so now Fleming and Mercy a better ball handler than Uzan is. And so they got a beat team, man. Got to stay out of foul trouble.

Jojo's got to stay out of foul trouble. because, man, they're not a lot of depth behind that. That's the only guy. That's the only guy that's true. But I'm telling you right now, Matt, the big guy, a Cernac or whatever, you can see the improvement in him game by game. And it's going to be interesting to see what his people do

at the end of the season. Because if he stayed two years with Samson, that dude could be lights out. But, you know, how you pass up if you're going to be the top two or three pick. I don't know. but that dude if he stayed with Samson, because you could see Samson

talking to him every time he goes to the bench he's in that guy's ear. He's getting coached up. And if he stayed two years with Samson, that dude could be an NBA All-Star, man. Cougars, Matt. I'm going to see you in the Indianapolis, man.

Yeah, I got to set if I want to go, though. I just... It's a lot of work. Come on, Matt. You know what, invests all this, time and not be there when they win it all you're probably right by the way uh i'm looking at mbaidraft dot net which is you know it is what it is just ones it's got um it's got let me take a look here really quick here uh it's got chris senac going seven to memphis and kingston fleming's going

to eight to charlotte if that's true those guys are leaving they're one and done top two top ten picks and then one draft they're gone and you know what ross i i used to begrudge that i i don't Because to the point, if Duke's doing it, Kentucky's been doing it, you just have to make the most of the one-year time. You just do. There's just no other way around it. You got to be able to enjoy the one year, make sure they get paid, make sure they're happy,

go to class occasionally. Then I don't really have to go to class if they don't want to. I mean, it is what it is. It just win games. It's minor league basketball. It's not college basketball. I don't want to, I don't want any more four-year players, because four-year players usually don't rebound or don't score,

or aren't big enough, not fast enough. You need like a scrappy big man Who's not going to hack it in the NBA Nope Like where was Zach Eady drafted Lottery wasn't he not It was later lottery right He's a foul machine by God

Oh ninth actually ninth overall by the Grizzlies But that was kind of a surprise he was taking that high Yeah And he was a two-time college player of the year At Purdue correct? Yes Yeah and he looks like he's a deer in headlights in the NBA he is a foul machine

but he's a ninth picketing multi-million dollars he's a four-year guy who got taken ninth mm-hmm that was before the money you could start paying directly to the kids so thanks for the phone call let's get to the news at noon we'll do that next we have one hour away from to beiko speaking to the media

130 Joseph Tortay from Las Vegas we have some news on a former NBA coach in legal trouble we'll have that as part of the news at noon next here on 790 This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We're halfway home on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We'd love for you to be a part of the program.

It is a little easier this week to get in because of the fact it is holiday week for many of you. If you want to come in and join our conversation, it's very simple. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. We present to you right now at 1204, the news at news. And with that, our friend Ross Villarreal. Yes, Matthew,

for the news at noon, we're going to go with a couple of news items in the NFL, as it was a big Sunday yesterday. You mentioned earlier that Justin Tucker is getting a tryout with New Orleans Saints. It'll be his first tryout since being banned and suspended for the

the first 10 weeks of the 2025 NFL season due to violations of the NFL's personal conduct policy. Ravens released him in May after he was investigated, of course, for sexual misconduct. 36 years old, Justin Tucker, could he be the next kicker for the Newland Saints after Blake Group missed a couple of kicks on Sunday, bringing his total misses to eight on the season? Uh, he's getting better. He's getting under job. Probably. Speaking of our job, do you see that Art Bryles has got a job back in coaching college football? Really doing what?

Eastern New Mexico, I want to say? Non-D-1. Hmm. Eastern New Mexico? Yeah, it's compared to Western New Mexico. Huh. I think it's, I think it's Eastern New Mexico. Okay.

Sure, why not? Good for him, I guess. Elsewhere in the news, Matt, also sticking with the NFL, the Giants have fired defensive coordinator Shane Bowen after their latest late collapse. Yeah, it was a collapse. Bowen's defense has allowed a 10-point lead to slip away 10 times, although isn't that complimentary football?

If you're allowing 10-point leads to slip away, that probably means your offense hasn't been scoring much. and that's more onus on your defense but anyways Shane Bowen five times this season the team has given up a 10 point lead which ties an NFL record

oh ouch interim head coach Mike Kafka saying it was his decision to make the move the results just weren't where he wanted them to be so Charlie is going to step up that being Charlie Bullen the linebacker's coach

who will step in as the interim D.C. How does it feel when the interim guy fires you? Can you even fire me? You're the interim head coach. Wait a minute, bra. You and I are on the same length, on the same pie chart. You can't fire me?

Yeah, I can. Bye, bitch. Damn, it's harsh. That is tough. That is tough. All right. Elsewhere in the news at noon here, Matt, as you hinted about this going into break, Chauncey Billups. I love this headline.

Chauncey Billups pleads not guilty in mafia-tied poker scheme. Did you ever think in a million years, I would read that headline to you? How about the fact he's got a mortgage his house to pay the bail? $5 million bail. I'm going to read this again just for kicks. Chauncey Billups pleads not guilty in mafia-tied poker scheme. Aren't you Again, I'm not an attorney, I don't play one on the radio either

But don't you by default have to say not guilty Right now, yes And then you'd go into a plea deal And this is right This is perhaps a mere formality Try to get to a plea deal Try to try to snitch To help yourself out

Maybe something like that But Chris Hayward Who is his attorney says Billups is a man of integrity and denies the charges. To believe that Chauncey Billups did what the federal government is accusing him of is to believe that he would risk his Hall of Fame legacy, his reputation, and his freedom. Man, I feel bad then because the FBI certainly screwed up

in all these years trying to indict the guy and they messed up. He would not jeopardize those things for anything, let alone a card game. By the way, call him on a recording line. It didn't say that. He didn't say this press release is brought to you by Fandul. By the way, is his attorney Tony Valentino? No, I just said it's Chris Haywood or something like that. No, it's, it's, uh, it's Mario and Badoucci.

Mario M. Badoucci. Mario M. Bucci. That's his attorney. Okay. Well, Matt, you mentioned the men playing in the players era championship. In Las Vegas. It is a championship, yes. How about the women?

UCLA and Texas facing off in the Players' Era Championship. Matt, your thoughts on that game? Actually, you know, I'm more curious about us how much money they're getting. The number four Texas Longhorns, undefeated at 5 and 0, taking on the number three UCLA Bruins at 6'0. So where's Craig Way? Can he do a game in Hawaii and in Las Vegas? Okay, you're Craig Way.

You want to call crappy Longhonds? men's but you're in Maui or good women's and you're in Vegas. What would you choose, Matt? I'd figure I'd do both games in one day. Honestly, one's at 1 p.m. and one is at, how long does it take to get

from Vegas to Maui? Five hours. Games at one and then the other ones at night you're done at three and then the other one's not till 10.30. Yeah, but you don't have it. If you're Craigway, you don't have a charter plane ready for you. Yeah, but Vegas flights will even out of Vegas every five minutes.

I'm still going to Maui first I think you're right But it is By the way, the Maui tournament is no longer a sexy tournament The future games are not great You know why Playas era It's players era is buying them all up

If these What are you talking about? What's that? It's all marquee matchups, baby At the Maui Invitational Run through the teams Shamanade Okay

They're there every year Yes Texas Go Arizona State That's not bad NC State Yeah

USC Yeah Uh Craton No wait Who is this? This is in Creighton Who the hell is this

Seton Hall I think Next year's Mauian Potato You ready? Shut up. Arizona, BYU, Clemson, Colorado State, Old Miss, That's good.

DCU, Providence, and Washington. I don't hear Duke. That's nice. I don't hear cans anywhere in the mix. Hmm, that sounds like a big match. I don't hear Houston in the mix. I don't hear any of it. Houston will be coming off their eighth final four.

Don't even, don't just don't say it. That's what? Just say. What? A final four. That's all I got to say. That's all I said. That's it.

I don't want you anymore. That's it. No more. All right. What else you got? Anything else? I don't know. You want some more? You got one more headline. We have the news and noon. People come to us for the news. Bernie Cozhar has been discharged from the hospital. I didn't realize he was in the hospital. A week after a liver transplant says he's doing well. That's encouraging. Turning 62 tomorrow.

He's had a quite tumultuous post-football life. Has he? Yeah, a lot of drunken public appearances, apparently, over the years. Oh, really? And then he just got a liver transplant. Yes. I'm going to stay away from that one. Yes.

By the way, you got a tornado watch until 7 o'clock later tonight for parts of Southeast Texas. That's not good. I don't think so. Stay safe out there, folks. Meanwhile, people here would die for tornadoes. I'd like die dying, but I mean, like, would love the rain. Yeah, I don't think people would, I don't think anybody's dying for a tornado. Yeah, all right, real quick, we're going to take a time out here.

Did anybody go to the Rice game on Saturday for the free beer? Oh, yeah, what happened? What was the attendance? It said 20-something thousand. Really? So close to the U of H game. Which had 30. It was like a double header.

Dang, you almost got outdrewed by rice? Well, I mean, if you're offering free beer, we'd have four million people. of our games. That's true. You have a bunch of drunken alcoholics. All right. There you go. That's today's news at noon. Again, I was thinking, how do they get away with it? Oh, they got their ass-wamped. They needed some beer. 56 to 24? I'll tell you what. North Texas might make the tournament. They had 24,598.

Yes. So Rice Football almost out drew University of Houston. Yeah, but, I mean, we charge for RBA. A ranked top 25 team. It's not great. Well, until they got lost. Yeah, because bad officiating. I heard it was bad kicking.

It was not great kicking. I'll be honest with you. Let's go to the phones in a second. Real quick, we mentioned Chauncey Billups, the Portland Trailblazer coaches, bails at $5 million. You get to pay 10% of it usually. It's $500,000.

He must, they must consider him a travel risk, right? Or is it just such a severe set of charges against? That's a high bail. Yeah, I'm no legal expert, but $5 million bail sounds pretty high. Man, oh man, oh man, that's high. That is crazy. $5 million. Mm-mm-mm.

All right, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-2-5-7-9-0. to our friend Willie at 1221 on the Matt Thomas Show and Ross. Willie, thanks for holding and good afternoon to you. Good afternoon to you. We went to the football game Saturday night, you know, the Cougars. Yeah. And it looked really, it really looks like a good crowd.

People started to fill in a little late, but, you know, people get their late. Now, you bought, this has been done before. I've offered tickets for, what, 20, 25? you're right when you get to the parking lot and we are donors you just pull right in the blue parking lot and park if you don't have a donation there it's 50 bucks what it's 50 dollars who's paying for this you've had a cheaper ticket but your parking is going to eat you up now i don't know what it is in the green parking lot I know a lot of people park on the street, but that's limited, really limited parking. And though U of H can afford to build some new memorial there to honor its 100th anniversary,

and they can build that new modern seating area in the football stadium, I really wish, too, they would fix the doors in the girls' bathroom. There is so much pressure on these doors, you have a hard time shutting it. And this lady told me Saturday night in the bathroom that she locked her, in. She just couldn't get out. Well, I don't know how that happened, but that's because the doors are hard to close. But, you know, and the water is not running right in there either. It's only a few spouse that put out water to rinse your hands. But anyway, I really was calling about this parking lot issue. I just thought I add that on. It sounds like all I'm doing is complaining today. I don't want to

talk about the football game and the fact we probably should have taken the three-point field goal in the first half. But that's water under the bridge. I'm still proud of this team. Eight and three is really outstanding. No one thought they'd probably win three games this season. I know. So anyway, I probably should have called on a different day and talked about, I think you have a segment about talking about what's your beef or whatever.

It's called what's your beef. That's exactly what it's called. What's your beef? Yeah. So, yeah. So anyways, I just, you know, if they, if they, offer those tickets at 2025 or next year to be 2026 can they waive the parking for one or two two games that way i think people might consider more about coming when you're hit with that kind of parking lot charge you just can't afford you can't rationalize that well i believe charging high amounts and parking no matter where it is what sporting of it is and thank you willie for the phone call is pure evil and greed

because you don't have a choice I mean I guess you could take the train but then you just have to park somewhere there it's just a no-win situation parking is the ultimate greed and I don't know if it hurts people going to any sporting event I mean let me do people not go to Texans games and Rockets games

and Astro games because of parking costs I don't know doesn't seem like it I don't think so I think if you I was talking about this the other day with some people on my broadcast group at the U of H games There are certain teams that can have up and down seasons and withstand that and still have a loyal, ridiculously, week-in-week-in-week-out fan base. The University of Houston fan base just doesn't do that.

When you win eight games one year or win 10 and then you go to four and then you go to five, and you have to be able to win consistently. And I always tease about Texas Tech being year-in-year-in-year-out seven and five, but if the Cougars can give you five or six years of seven and five, eight, and four, you'd take it. But this up and down roller coaster ride of winning games, going to Super Big Bowl games, and playing in conference championship games, and then all of a sudden taking a step back, we don't have that core that just is such to die hard. And so, you know, again, ticket prices are reasonable.

It's a good place to watch a game. The team is competitive. Didn't win. Now, granted, again, three home losses is not great. But, yeah, it comes down to doing this on a regular basis, five, six years in a row, winning between eight and nine, ten games. Thanks, Willie, for the phone call. Sorry about the water issues.

Ross, any water issues at the DKR? Not that I know of. Well, let us know. You know, if the plumbing is, I mean, how old's Darryl Royal Stadium? Like 100 years old? I don't know. 100 years old? No way.

Eight 100. That was a good guess. That built in 1924. Is it really that old? Yeah, well, it is not. Is it really? I just looked it up. Why would you be so dismissive of that?

I thought it would be like 50 or 60 tops. I didn't realize Darrow Kay was that old. I mean, not him, but, you know, may he rest, but... He's dead. Yeah. Yeah. War Memorial Stadium opened in 1924. You know what the coolest part about Tiger Stadium in LSU is and how old that is?

They have apartments in there. at least they used to. You used to be a co-ed at LSU and live in the stadium. I thought somebody said that's how they got it built. I believe that the... Because they didn't want to do the... Apparently people didn't want to fund it or something, but then they earmarked it as like campus living or something like that.

I think there was some kind of underhanded deal to get the stadium built. Whatever works. I would, could you imagine being a college student and saying, where do you live? I'll live at the stadium. That'd be sound awesome, actually. Yeah, you might want to vacate in Saturdays. Go to the park.

It'll be a little loud. Pools of vomit everywhere. But I don't think anybody lives at LSU at the stadium anymore. I don't think so. I could be wrong. Again, asbestos, no direct TV. I mean, yeah, I don't know. It plays is old, but the man's jam-packed, and it better be.

By the way, if you're an LSU fan, ticket prices has gone up. I'm sure they're going to have. You're going to pay $15 million a year for your head coach. You better well be ready to do that. Yikes. 1228. It is the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. 7-13-212-5-79.

7-13-212-5-790. It's 1228. It's the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. We look forward to talking with you until 2 o'clock. Ross, you want to do believe it or not, Chris Paul? He announced his retirement yesterday. I thought he announced it earlier in the year. He's going to retire at the end of this season.

He's going to announce his retirement every week now? I think so. To try to get the clip or some headlines. I guess so. Lord, that team sucks right now, and I'm okay with that. Just saying. Great listeners sending us a couple anecdotes, first and foremost. And I knew this already.

but the University of Houston Athletic Department does not set the parking prices. The University of Houston Central Campus sets the parking prices. So, you get in the beef with that, you've got to go right to President Couture from that. So that's number one. And number two, our LSU insider Rossi, Chris Gordy says there is no humans living in Tiger Stadium.

Is there a tiger living there? No, you know, you've never seen Mike the Tiger's spot, have you? No, I haven't. I don't mean to be rude to you He lives a better life than you do No he doesn't Oh he does No he doesn't

Much better life No he doesn't It's got security It's got a good bowl of water in front of him all times Got decent looking caretakers What's his female companionship Situation Her name is Delilah

I made that up By the way Did you say, I hate to do this. Leave by himself? Has he been neutered? I don't know. I'd rather be me than Mike the Tiger. What's true?

Which tiger would you rather be? Mike the Tiger or the Tiger in the hangover movies? Does Mike Tyson? Neither? I'd rather be a human being? Okay. Ross's coffee starting to wear off a little bit. We got him down the home stretch, right?

I'm doing fine. I'm doing fine. I'm not worried about you. What about me? Okay. Then air in the Valley of the Sun. Hey, what was I going to tell you, too? Oh, I forgot.

Oh, okay. We could do, believe it or not, on Chris Paul or Dylan Brooks. Can't do it on Jalen Green. He's not playing the night, so can't do that. We're going to do it on his hamstring. How long would that take? It's sore. Believe it.

Believe it. That's a shame. No Kevin Durant and no Jalen Green in this game. Peacock's like, can we really have to do this game still? Yeah, who's the, is it the late? Is it a double-header Mondays or is this the only Peacog game? It's a double-header game, and they also can push the game back five minutes, which it's a subscriber service.

You could be able to play two games at one time on Peacock. What's the early game? I only see one listed as Peacock on the ESPN scoreboard. Oh, Cavalc. Are the Cavaliers just the, is Peacock home of the Cavaliers? Well, name a sexier Eastern team. I guess the Knicks would be it, right? It feels like every time I look up, the Cavaliers are on Peacock or Prime Video.

Yeah, but you can't, because again, you can't put the Pacers on there. They're terrible. You can't put the magic on there. Nobody cares. I guess you put Milwaukee on there a bunch. Yeah, Pistons probably aren't really getting people excited, but they're good. They've won 12 games in a row. By the way, speaking of that, do you see the only had one loss this year?

Yes. The Oklahoma City Thunder. If they are healthy, the 2026 World Championship. in Oklahoma City Thunder. I'm sorry. You don't have to apologize. I mean, I'm not happy about it, but you don't have to apologize. I mean, anything can happen?

Pray for something different to happen? You don't want to pray for Holmgren's Tibby to snap or something like that. I mean, I wouldn't be that devastated, honestly. I don't think you're the best team in basketball. They're 17 and 1. So on-paced guy says that's going to be 66 and 6. No, no, that's not right.

76 and 6. Last year, they set the NBA record for the best point differential of all time with 12.9. This year, they have a 16.9 point differential. They are destroying teams. And they could potentially have as many as three lottery picks next year. And has Jaylen Williams finally back? the good one I think yeah there's there are two

it's that's fair to say that god there no he's not he hasn't played yet he didn't play in their last game maybe he took a day off against the Blazers I'm looking at their last a box score

oh man yeah he played oh yeah you're right I'm looking at his last five games are all in the NBA finals Oh, my God. Why, when the Rockets have a great team, there's some Death Star team in their conference? Death Star?

They're like, get out of the way, Chicago Bulls. What year was that when they went 72 and 10 or whatever that, or 673? 1998, they went 72 and 10, and then the Warriors in 2016 went 73 and 9, and then the Warriors in 2016 went 73 and 9 and then lost to, in the finals to LeBron James. They got up 3-1 in the finals and lost to LeBron James and crew.

So you're staying there's a chance. I guess. I mean, do you have prime LeBron James would help? Well, that guy was pretty good in his prime. We got Prime Reaphert Shepherd playing well. Well, you know, Red Shepherd's great.

Reed Shepherd's good. Getting there. I'm encouraged. I'm not sure you're better than the Nuggets right now. You just lost to them at home. I'm bullish. And by the way, Aaron Gordon will be out a handful of weeks

with the bad hammy. And by the way, Rockets 4th in the West behind the Lakers and Nuggets. Are we going to raise our concern level for the Lakers yet? I put them on fraud alert last year. I'm not saying I'm not putting him on fraud alert yet.

We need LeBron to get some sort of bacteria infection. What? That seems extreme. Why can't he just twist an ankle? I don't know. What do he have a? sciatic something or something

he got the sciatica and his glute yeah that's that's a fresh interesting injury get him something different I don't think it's that interesting how about arthritis he's got to have some kind of arthritic hips he's 40

yeah how about a titanium hip that needs to be replaced because of bad parts well he hasn't been playing or hardly been playing in their 12 and 4 Austin Reeves is like making a next step in his career

no I can't have that either I want no I want none of this conversation. I want all about the Rockets winning like 10 in a row. Stunna on 7. Hello, Stunna. What's up, Matthew Combs and Rossville, yeah? Yo.

Hey, man, what's you drinking in that, man? Y'all, y'all drinking some egg knock already, man. You're talking about the Cowboys ain't going to beat the Chiefs? Come on, man. I was lying. You didn't listen to the show. You didn't listen. I said the Chiefs are going to beat the Cowboys.

You got to listen to show. clean out the wax out of your ears. No, no, no, man. Hey, man, ain't a way don't cheese going to beat them cowboys. Yeah, they are. Hey, you might as well go with the ham the day because we had some buried over the weekend, so we'll let you know that part.

Oh, here it comes. What other thing, Matt? What other thing? Hey, man, I want to give a shout out to Cole. Hey, I picked him off from when you first brought him on back. I knew he was going to be a great addition to your show. we don't know yet he could suck he's only done one show hey man i didn't told you he's got that adam and charley syndrome man they

them guys you know hey i paid him out man he's gonna be a great addition man i hope so hey he's riding your co-tail so hey you you you like a brand for him you're like Kevin Durant leaving the rocket that's funny actually thank you he's swallowing your coat tail so lead him right man

I will you know what son I'll do whatever I can thank you friend for the phone call you hear that Ross on the Kevin Durant of the radio station 16 years in the industry 30 plus broadcasting okay

you know it's kind of accurate Ross, turn your microphone off. I don't want you commenting on anything. Yeah, names are coming to my mind and none of them are nice, so I am holding my tongue. I just want to let you know. What were you thinking?

Go ahead and say it. Jeff Green. Oh. What? You're the veteran, man. You're the guy in the bench helping me out. Yeah. The savvy vet, Jeff Green.

All right, oh, real quick. I got to do this really quick because we got D'Amico coming up in about 15 minutes. Can we get the sports? RV ruling music out. I got a quick... Right now? I need to write this out. I won't have time tomorrow.

We'll get busy the next couple days. Here it is. When he finds the music, just start playing it. This is sports RV chorus we're calling, I think. Okay. It's got an ad. What's all these ads lately? You know what I was?

We'll find out of that. This is like the remix. All right, Rossi, here we go. This is the off-key remix. This is like, yeah, at the Rockets Nuggets game on Friday night, at least a half-dozen dudes I saw in the section where I'm closer broadcasting from, had jerseys on, right? Not a big problem, right?

That's normal at a game. They were not wearing t-shirts underneath them, and they were not toned. Oh, so you like toned men if they're going to wear jerseys. I'm not saying I like tone men, but I'm saying for a public image, standpoint, if you don't have some sort of definition in your shoulders, should you consider putting a t-shirt on underneath your jersey? Yes or no, Commissioner, or Judge Sports RV? You're not going to like my ruling, Mr. Thomas. Please. I don't care what another man wears if he wants. As long as it's not, I don't know. Uh, impacting children or something in

some way. Correct. That's fair. Okay. Ruling is in. Like Mike Tyson before the Jake Paul fight as long as it's not like that. Oh, that was a lot of rear end we saw there. Way too much. That was double cheeked up on a Thursday afternoon. I mean, it was bad. That was funny. All right, so, Commissioner

or Judge Sports RV says, I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't advise doing it, but whatever. You're saying acceptable. I'm not saying it's acceptable either. I mean, well, what's, what's acceptable mean? Like, you're going to go and didn't tell him something? You're going to have them escorted from the building?

No. Guys, either the same in as do what you want to do or you do you or be, you cannot do this unless you've got some sort of muscle definition up top. Okay. Well, how much definition are we talking, Matt? Like, what do you want to see? You want to see some rocked-up dudes in Jersey? Flabby shoulders look like. Okay, minimal flab?

You know, I wasn't paying attention. Why are we talking about? What's the question? This is Matt Thomas's warped mind. He wants men to be muscled and rocked up. No, I didn't say that in general. On an image standpoint, should you go out there wearing a jersey without a t-shirt?

Now, there were some guys that had t-shirts on that clearly had five-up-off. Oh, you know what? Okay, this is a, all right. I'm not going to hit on Matt too much, so this is a good topic. Oh, thank you, Jonathan. See? Because even my girl, it's like, we went to a game. She's like, why don't we have a t-shirt underneath?

I get that. You know what, man? All right. I'm going to start calling us Jonathan's court. I understand. I understand. You guys got, you can't have the beer belly in there. You know what I'm saying?

You got to have the little. You've been working out. Make sure you start the guns. You get what I'm saying? Thank you. I don't care. Sports RV is giving it a... I don't wear jerseys in the first place, so...

What do they call that a no contest on this one? No decision. A hung jury? Hmm. No, don't even follow that up. 1245. Dimeco to speak at 15 minutes on Sports Talk 790. 1250 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

We will be joining the press availability coming up in a few minutes. Wex, our Texas reporter, says, closer to 1 o'clock. So we'll be keeping an eye and an ear on that. Thanks to that information for our Texans insider here at Sports Talk 790. Adam Wexler. And again, thanks to Wex for giving that to us. When we define them as two different things. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-7-99. The playoff picture is, again, I thought yesterday, if you're a Texans fan, you enjoyed Pittsburgh losing to Chicago, that helped. You did not enjoy Kansas City winning because if you listen to Tony Romo for any length of time, that would have buried the Chiefs. And look, I guess people rooting for the Chiefs to win, we're hoping that the Texans could overcome and win the AMC South. I mean, they could do that. It's possible? It is possible. Well, they're only two back now, but I would presume that if you're going to win the AFC South,

you're going to have to beat the Chiefs at least, I mean, beat the Colts at least once, if not twice, which you would then have a tiebreaker on. So we'll see. To me, first, remember back Ross way, way, way back in the day when they were 0-3, how we kept hearing about teams that don't make the playoffs at 0-3. Yes. It's very unlikely. Right.

Well, guess what? The Texans are in the mix. Now, they've got teams in front of them. They are holding... What are their losses? They have a Seattle loss and a Rams loss, so in conference they're doing... In a Buccaneers' loss. Yeah, there's three of their losses.

I only have two losses in conference, Jaguars and Broncos. That's not terrible. I mean, again, worse... You could be in much worse scenarios. Now, the only negative is you've got teams around you that have not played the Jaguars, the Titans yet. And your two games of the Titans are over with. Yeah, you've already chocked up those wins.

As close as the second one was, it's still a win. Yes, right. The reality is this, Ross, the defense can not only win this division, but probably could win the entire AFC. This defense is a Super Bowl winning defense. Yeah, absolutely it is. The offense... Work in progress.

No sacks last week. Now, I'm going to suggest, Ross, that this Sunday, when they play the Colts, and if CJ throws an incomplete pass, that we turn our Twitter and our exes off for a few minutes, but perhaps the entire time. Because it won't take long for somebody to say, you know, Davis Mills would have completed that pass. Well, that's fine.

And you know what? Who cares? Why do we give so much attention to stupidity? It's just because, I mean, some people do listen to us that are stupid. That's true. I mean, okay, that's why. You know what, listen to my voice. You're listening to me right now,

and you think Davis Mills is better than C.J. Stroud. You have, you're dumb. It's not the smartest takeout. You're dumb. And if you're a radio host that tries to sell your audience on that, that makes you, you should lose your job. You should lose the ability to use your microphone. We can disagree on certain elements of sports takes.

The seeing eye, forget about the numbers, forget about the metrics, the seeing eye is. The numbers and the metrics say it too. Yeah. But even so, but we have a tremendous sample size of Davis Mills as a starting quarterback. He's a great good backup. That's the definition. That's who he is.

He is a nice backup insurance policy that frankly the Texans should not try to move because CJ can go down and like any other quarterback can go down. That's why the Cardinals went with Jacoby Brissette because they wanted a decent backup because they know Kyle Murray's had a history of going down. Lower completion percentage, lower Q. lower quarterback rating lower yards per attempt lower yards per completion yeah uh lower success rate i'm i'm trying to find he's got a oh you know what davis mills has a better sack percentage so good job oh you know we forgot to bring up today and a better record but yeah wins are not a

quarterback stat i submit we forgot damien pierce got released over the weekend and got we even talk about that yeah damien pierce got released for those who don't know and texans legend he's going to the Kansas City Chiefs and joining their practice squad for real Andy Reid's savvy what you got for the get you bringing that playbook with you by any chance what happened to Damian Pierce

I mean he had that crazy gangbuster season his first year do you know what happened that Amy and Pierce running backs happen they are literally Ross a dime a dozen they just are that's why teams don't use first run picks on guys anymore except you're the Raiders

yeah or Bejohn Robinson. Now, Bejohn's a different care. He's not a dime and doesn't. No, he's not. But you've got to be really careful about not only investing in draft and high picks on running backs, but paying them lots of guarantee money. Now, sometimes it works.

And you go, man, that was good money not spent, or you could be the Giants and say, you know, we don't need you to say, Juan Barkley. And we've seen how that's turned out. Jonathan Taylor got paid. He did about that. Derek Henry got a big deal from the Ravens They're not mad about that

No, they're not He was good yesterday by the way I'm just going to look to Oh, Eagles paid Sequin Barclay They're not mad about that He's had a down season But that was hard to recap What he did a year ago

Yeah I mean he ran for 2,000 yards And they won the Super Bowl They're not mad Yeah Oof Saints and I'm just looking at highest AV running backs Christian McCaffrey

Eh Win healthy, great He's having a great season But yes He's had some injury issues then it's alvin camara josh jacobs james cook kynne williams erin jones those are all really good joe mixon hey a wild joe mixon has appeared i haven't heard word of one about if he's playing this week or not because he kept counting

telling us on a social there is so much more to this story oh i really want to yeah i'm curious the details well we'll have to wait a year probably let's uh get to demico coming up starting the final hour the matt thomas show at ross 713 212 575 7 Matt here in Phoenix at 1257. This is Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Here we go at the final hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We take this program until 2 o'clock.

Believe it or not, coming up at about 50 minutes from now. We've got an update from Las Vegas with our friend Joseph Dwarte. And that'll be in just a few minutes as well. The bottom of the hour, we've got the head football coach, Domingo Ryan, is going to speak today is getting ready for the Texans and the Colts that I see Rossi the line three and a half by the Colts is a favorite is that correct? I saw four and a half so it must have moved

Oh no it matters Oh no it doesn't matter all According to some people Just for the sake if you're gonna put a couple Sheckles on it by the way big casino Phoenix is going to take some business away from Vegas First of all the weather is amazing second of all people are nice third big sports books big poker big blackjack big craps yeah i heard uh from a reliable

sources a big poker room there it is probably one of the largest poker rooms i've ever seen in my entire life really i mean it is a it's a convention hall is what how big it is so oh wow looks oh they got like tvs wall to wall too yes big sportsbook i'm gonna irisona's got it down they just do if i came to phoenix what the top five things i should do besides go a casino. Flights are usually pretty cheap. You should go with Craig on a massive hike. Big hiking area here.

How far is it from the Grand Canyon? That I can't tell you. I thought Green Canyon was closer to Vegas. Is that true? I don't know. I'm just saying. I'm not a geography major. Three and a half from Phoenix.

Flagstaff is in the north part of the state. It's supposed to be beautiful. It's supposed to be a different world up there. Like it's really cold. It's about four and a half from Vegas. Okay. So three and a half from Phoenix. Okay.

We go to Sedon. and go find uh stevie nicks hmm okay let me tell you anytime you want to go on the road with me you can stay on the floor in my hotel room on the floor well maybe I'll get you double bed

can we get somebody bring it a roll in roll in bed I don't know did they have rollins at these nice places? You can't imagine why not I don't know it feels very rowdy and express Press.

Hmm. Hmm. All right. Phoenix has got it going, though. Beautiful, nice people. Weather is crazy-ass hot here in the summertime, but you can get past that. We got that in the East.

Grand Canyon snows in the winter, huh? Right now it's 62 degrees here in Phoenix. 62. Very pleasant. Now, their sports teams are not great. But, yeah, it is what it is. All right, so let's get to it. We've got Domingo still is yet to speak, and when he does, we'll get to that.

Coming up in a couple of minutes, what else we'll get going on? Rockets and Sons tonight, no Kevin Durant. Monday night football game. We've got Carolina at San Francisco, college basketball. We've got the Cougars playing tonight at 5 o'clock against Syracuse. And anything else going on? Oh, Chauncey Billups had to pay post to bail today at $5 million. that's crazy how much money that cost now when you post when you go with the bell's bonds when you do 10% and they keep it right yes just to make sure you don't jettison out of town so did he drop off 500 gs to somebody or did he pull the post the full five so he can because you get it back when you appear in court right yeah you get it back yeah that's yeah it's um now i've never had to post bail ross so this is not one of my expertise not for anybody uh any of your children or anything

No, I almost said to do it for a roommate of mine. Guy, and it was, the guy's name was Jane. He calls me, he was a coworker mine, way, way back. And this is when I was single dates. And he says, Matt, I'm in jail. I said, well, I ran a stop sign. I said, okay, that's I'm going to put you in jail. Two, I hit the stop sign.

I said, well, that's strike two. You can't run a stop sign that you hit, can you? Apparently, you can do both? You need double back? And then number three, you didn't have any insurance. So it was like, there was a three strikes in you're out. He's checking all the boxes. I had to go pick him up, but he was able to post his own bail.

Oh, that's good. Well, that was tough. That was a 3 o'clock morning in the morning call I was unexpected. I'm telling you, when your phone rings at 3 a.m., it's 99% of the time. It's terrible news. Did you ever used to accidentally accept collect calls from people calling you in jail? Wasn't that like a scam or something? would you like to receive a collect call from

and then you pick it up and it's somebody in jail that's never happened to me now my phone will not allow people that I don't know to call yeah I'm talking about back in the day Maddie yeah I would say no not back in the day when you could call collect Jonathan which would mean the person on the receiving end would pay for the charges

see the only thing I can really think of is the home phone with a little wire and, like, you had limits on how long you can text or, like, your data and, like, your phone would just shut off. That's as far back I can, I think I'm doing. I hate you. You know what I don't hate, Matt? This chili Ross made.

Oh, hey. You, fire. Like, I'm not even trying to, I'm not even trying to gas them up. We were sweating. I got the bullets like you do, the sweat bullets. It's good. You know, that makes me happy, Jonathan. Is it too spicy?

No, it's just right. Like, I'm telling you would like it. Like, I want a little bit spicier. And I mean, I know it's just right for you. No, I mean, everything Ross has brought me, his mom's bread is delicious, the banana bread.

Oh, she made some tortillas yesterday, too. Oh. I got those at home. You know what? I might save Jonathan one. Just since you just gave me some nice compliments, I might save you one of my mom's tortillas. You're missing out this week, Maddie.

I was going to bring you chili. I literally prepared the, the container of chili with a little cornbread for you. Oh, you made cornbread too? Yeah, and then I remembered you were gone, so I gave it away. Oh, man, I love cornbread. Sorry. Mm-mm-mm.

I'm hungry. This coffee by the way, this second 24 ounce I've finished, it's worn off. I am... Oh, you're going to get coffee. You're going to have heart palpitations. It's ready to go, by the way. Here we go. Let's go to Domeka. He will be our starter whenever he's back, ready to go.

When it comes to building a defense you guys have, what are some of the real philosophies and basic tenets that you wanted to instill the defense that you put this together? You know, for me, you talk about defensive football. It's just about everybody really playing together. That's the one thing I believe. True defense is when you're a good defense. Everybody's playing together.

Everybody's communicating well. And, of course, you have to be a fast physical outfit who's flying around to the football. And that's what we have started with our guys up front. They're the key to what we do. They've done a really good job of when we do cover them well in the back end, just having those guys have more time to get out there to passer. They've shown that they can be very effective at that.

If you guys are ready to go up and face the Colts, they've been much better like running the ball and what they do offensively at home. What if you talk about just some of the big challenges that you guys have, getting ready to go face that team at all? And for the Colts, you can see. see, they've been a very explosive offense. Like, they has what's powered them this year.

I think Daniel Jones is playing the most productive that he's played in his career. So Shane has done a good job of putting them in positions, putting guys around him to really make the plays he needs to make. So you have explosive receivers on the outside. The rookie tight-in is doing a good job as well. And then, of course, running the football, Jonathan Taylor. And can't say enough good things about him as a running back. It's balance, power, the explosiveness. Like, you have to be able to set the edge

because he can take the explosive run, 50 plus yards, and take it to the house. He can hit cutback lanes, right, and make you pay. So it's going to take everything we have, you know, defensively, first and foremost, stop in the run. But we know that's not the only emphasis with this offense. They do a good job of their play-action pass game, like really timing it up at the proper time,

really catching a lot of defenses and off guard. creating a lot of explosives there as well. So you got to play true. So I'm telling our, if you have to play true, you have to play with elite eye discipline, elite awareness to what your job is and being on it. Because if not, Shane has always done a good job, offensively, of creating, you know, eye candy,

as I call it, to mess with guys' eyes, to put their guys in position to make plays. You just mentioned high discipline. And that discipline in general, you feel like your defense has continued to play with more and more of it. Yeah, we are doing a better job of being more disciplined, than where we started the season, we can still be even better. D'Amico, with Jalen and C.J. still being the concussion protocol,

are they expected to practice Wednesday? Does that mean it's closer to the final stuff? Yeah, we'll see what happens on Wednesday when Wednesday gets here. What went well with the rushing attack early on in the game against Buffalo? What are some of those things that you can maybe carry into future games with that offensive line that you had out there? Yeah, for our offensive line, the rushing game, we have. to just stay connected on our blocks. I think when we have double teams and we're coming off

at the second level, we stay connected and we finish our blocks with the right mindset and we have good running lanes. I thought Woody ran the ball well, especially like on our fourth down play when he's one-on-one right in a hole with the with the defender, like for him to play behind his paths, really keep his feet moving. Like that's how you have to run the football. So we continue to block it well. We continue to make good decisions with our running backs, running the ball well, and we can run the ball effectively. Julian Reed and all your rookies can go at their own pace, but what do he show you against the bills?

And can that be by that performance? Can he want to play more for you? Yeah, Jalen stepped in, and he played Swarm football, right? He was C-ball, get ball. He's flying around, you know, making players, of course, some things to clean up. But I'm encouraged with what he did, you know, being that it was a short week,

he didn't get a ton of preparation to get any live. So for him to go in and do as good of a job as he did in that game, I'm excited for him to just continue to progress and continue growing. Coach Stevens done a really nice job working with Jalen while he's been out. So the more he gets, I expect him to be even better for us. What do you see Tyler Warren, what he's added to their offense? Yeah, Tyler Warren, he's a playmaker, man. Wherever you get this kid to the ball, like he's explosive, little faster than anything,

tougher than you think. Like he, and he showed that at Penn State. Like, he was a one-man wrecking crew. Like, he did a really nice job at Penn State, and it's carried over here to the league. He's still doing a nice job. And you can see they're trying to put him in spots to get him to football because he is that type of guy.

He's a playmaker, a guy. It seemed like you can trust, you can count on him. Like, he continues to show up, play after play down after down for those guys. Has that iteration of the officer? offense line done enough to earn them another chance next week and separate from that. What does it say about Titus that he's been able to adapt and play every position and still not miserably? Yeah, we'll continue to roll with our offensive line. For me, it's always been about trying to get our best five guys out there.

I think Titus has done a great job, just unselfishly moving, where he's played right tackle, right guard, left guard, whatever we've asked him. You know, he's done it. It shows that he's a smart player to be able to handle as much as we put on his plate. So he's done that, and he's played good for us. Coach Judge, on that third game, some of the offensive play calling the second half have to do with the way the defense was playing some of the first. No, it doesn't necessarily correlate. Like, we still got to do a better job moving the ball in the second half.

I don't think our second half offense was good enough. And, you know, so we have to continue to strive, continue to get better at, Executing the plays, calling it better. We got to do a much better job, coaches, players, everybody. We've got to be able to move the ball way more than we did in the second half. We're going to finish games right way. After assessing after the guys coming back off in a minute break, how would you assess the legs and everything where they're moving around on the field?

Yeah, everybody came back, healthy, ready to go. So we're guys are bouncing around, guys understand where we are. It's just for us, man, it's always. whether on the rink or in the comfort of your home you have to be on like to make plays that's what it's going to take like as we continue to go out how we finish this season it's going to be it's really the mental part has to heighten it has to be heightened it has to be heightened for us to be where we want to be getting into a draft preparation when you first got here you all knew that you need as a quarterback and took cj's drive but what was it about on film that made you all make that decision to go and get will in the way that he's been performing of this last three years here. Yeah, for us, when we started out

with my first year here started out the draft process. That was, you know, you knew we got CJ, which he was a really talented quarterback, did a lot of great things in Ohio State. And then you flip it over on the defensive side knowing that we needed, you know,

a foundational piece on that defensive side. And you look at Will Anderson and just his track record in college, everybody you talk to at Alabama, everything they had to say about Will, the type of leader he was. You didn't even have to talk about the player. You can see how relentless he was on tape, how he finished. But just to hear the leader that he was, how he held other guys accountable,

how, you know, he was the guy. Everybody talked about Alabama, he was the guy. And I remember I wasn't even, look, I wasn't even thinking about Will at this time. But I remember when Will was a rookie at Alabama, my older brother, he called him. Like, hey, man, whenever you get a chance, this guy from Alabama, you need to get him on your team. It's like, all right, I'll check him out. And who know, like, full circle. Mama, like, come when I had a chance to actually be in a position to draft him, like, yeah, my brother was right.

He was spot on. I needed to get number 31, and I'm happy he's here with us. Real quick, coach. Thanksgiving question. Cranberry or crembert? Yes or not? Cranberry? it depends on how good the dressing is.

It can't come out of the can. Yeah, it can't come out of the can. No, but. The traditional food is a must-hap. The traditional. I'm always traditional. For me, it's, you know, having the mac and cheese, the sweet potato pie.

But as I told our guys, too, I told them, hey, we can save that food for another day this week. I mean, we're focused on the Colts. But happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Hope you guys enjoy that time with your family. We will be working. All right. Thank you, guys.

And get that cranberry question in. Rossi? No cranberry. Not the jelly, nasty cranberry sauce. Years zero to 51 in my life? No cranberry at all. I will eat cranberry this Thursday. You will?

I have changed my tune about that. I don't know what happened, but I like it now. That's good. What I've asked the head football coach of the Texans said about his cranberry? Probably not. E. May Adoka at the Availability Friday, you were all sure you're there with me. Question was asked by a reporter if you want to call it that. Coach, what are you thankful for this holiday season?

He's thankful for coaching, he said, a lovely basketball team. That was pretty funny. And I would eat cranberry out of a can, by the way, just to say. I mean, not today, not next July, but if it's all I got left, I'll have a couple of bites, sure, why not? Okay. and no on the sweet potato pie definitely yes on the pumpkin pie what yeah i do like sweet potato but i don't i don't like it in the fried variety okay um you know what you don't serve you don't serve mac and cheese in my thanksgiving either i'm okay oh my god you don't have

listen to me stuffing mashed potatoes you would rather no i forgot about this you know what It's like uncovering It's like we're archaeologists I mean I'll eat it but it's not it's not prefer I forgot you would rather have craft mac and cheese out of a box And actually good homemade mac and cheese You are a sick human being What did they do to you Matt

What did they do to you? Let's go let's go to you know what A little bit dinner You are so wrong And box mac and cheese Mmm perfect dinner Perfect Not at Thanksgiving but just in general

You are mentally disturbed. Just go to break. Yes. Oh, okay. Now he's mad at me. Look at it. No sweet potato

pie, no homemade mac and cheese. I am not eating a Thomas family Thanksgiving. Yeah. Quickly, here it is. Turkey. Stuffing.

Mashed potatoes. Green bean casserole. Cranberry. That's five things on your plate. Do you need a sixth? I don't think you do. Five is plenty. if you go hand that's six

if you got prime rib that's seven just like he said rolls oh I forgot about the rolls eight you don't eat mac and cheese needs a day off yeah I'll stand by you're digging your whole Thanksgiving day off 120 on the Matt Thomas show Ross Joseph Torte in 10 minutes after this brief timeout we caught the very

tail part of the opening question C.J. Stroud and Jalen Petrie are still in concussion protocol. Now, that could be cleared, obviously, by Wednesday. That could be D'Amico being a little coy because he doesn't have to report any injuries until Wednesday. Yes. Aaron Wilson says they're expected to play. Yeah, I don't know. That felt like a little bit of, well, I don't want to tell you.

I don't have to tell you so I'm not going to. It's very D'Amico Ryan's. By rule, if I have to tell you on Wednesday, so be it. I don't have to tell you anything. And I still believe, and again, we don't know because we're not the doctors in a room. But my guess is the game, if the game with the Bills was yesterday, that C.J. would have played. And my guess is the same thing that would have been with Jalen Petrie. And if they don't, Ross, then they need to go see some serious doctors beyond what they've got right now,

because those are some serious concussions. Yeah, I imagine they'll both be back. Defense is going to get better. Offense is going to get better, too. Yes. Davis Mills Lovers. Mills Truthers. Mills Truthers are back.

It's ridiculous. Remember the Mills Truthers were selling us? He was going to be all great. That first year he got like the full-time start. Yep. And then what did he go? Like 2 and 10 as a starter or something like that? It wasn't great.

Of course he could be better. That was years ago. I'm sorry. 3.10 and 1. That's my bad. You know what? The end of the year this year, let's do a top 10 list of Houston Truthers.

Okay. And maybe now we go, 10 deep, but we could certainly go 5-deep comfortably. I'll go with one that wasn't even a Houston athlete. Go. Professionally, anyways. Vince Young. That's fine. Yeah. The Vince Young Truthers were bad.

Well, the whole 2000, that draft was nothing but truthers. Case Keenham Truthers? There was no Mario Williams, truthers. There was like, who is Mario Williams again? Let's go to KJ on 790. KJ, thank you for holding in good afternoon. Man,

after know, what I've know, as usual, a lot of show, fellas,

y'all guys compliment to them very well. Been a bad for a minute. Two quick

questions for you. Then I got a comment about the Davis Mills Steve Stroud situation.

Well, question number one, I didn't hear you guys take on the trading of

Maricio Duvon. I want to hear what you guys have to say about that and you can answer most questions after

I'm done. And my second question is, and I know this is completely random, but I'll be listening on the back end. Do you guys think Deshaun Watson will ever take another slap in the NFL? Now, on to Davis Mills and C.J. Stroud. I'm going to purpose this contextual commentary by saying this. I, in no way, shape, or form of advocating that Davis Mills is the starter. C.J. Stride is and should be our starter moving forward.

If for no other reason that we can definitively find out, what we have under the hood before we give him $60 million per year. But across the board, C.J. Strong is better than Davis Mills, tangibly. Better arm strength, better accuracy, ball placement, mobility, all those things he's better as the Davis Mills act. But there is something to be said about the fact that when C.J. Strave first became the starter, his rookie year, set the league on fire.

He was leave the league in passing yards for game before he got hurt. only through five receptions had a phenomenal one of the best if not the best rookie season of all time coming into a second year last year wasn't as good as his rookie year but there was no pressure there because he earned so much good grace

this rookie year. This is going to be legitimately the first time that sees a shot legitimate face his pressure that's not on the field and I'm saying that to say this. One thing that I think Davis Mills has done in his three starts, that he is better at CJ at his temperament,

his evenly kill on the field, not to let his gowns get too low and not to let the things going on between his ears affect his play on the field. Now, a lot of the throes that Davis misses, CJ is more than capable of making those throws. But, CJ, I mean, Davis

has manipulated the pocket a lot better than CJ has. He's taking advantage of what the line has done for him. In the instances that they've done it, better than C.J. Excuse me. And bottom line,

there are several opportunities when C.J. rather than drop back and paying back and taking a 10-yard sack, he could just take a step in a half into the pocket and buy himself another second or two and needed an accurate pass. And that is what Davis Mills

has done better than C.J. C.J. isn't the first quarterback to play with a bad officer line. I thought with him. I don't think Joe Burrance out a good line because he's been in a number. believe that it still puts up MVP caliber numbers every year.

But he also, and I got to, and I, see, I can't say I got to roll. I'm getting laid here. And he also can't stay healthy. He put up great numbers, but he's hurt every single year. In no small part because the offense lines a mess. I'll answer your questions quickly. Deshaun Watson Ross, I believe, will play as

a quarterback in the NFL again. No doubt in my mind about that. And number two, you can bring up all the arguments you want. There ain't a single argument that's going to convince me that that Davis Mills should start up for C.J. Stroud. Sorry. And C.J. played all 17 last year.

There's nothing that could convince me otherwise. And you may be able to say, he always calm and cool and doesn't get rattled. Well, guess what? Let's see, let's see Davis Mills do this for 15 weeks and see how that's going to go. C.J. Straught is not perfect. He's better than Davis Mills. Period. We go to Vegas next and see what's going out with the Cougar basketball team. 131 on Sports Talk 7-9. We're going to spend five minutes right now with Joseph Dwarte.

He's at lunch in Las Vegas, getting ready to cover U of age at the Players' Era tournament. Joseph, what are you having for the audience? Well, I'm trying to have a nice burger here, but, you know, some radio that keeps calling. I know, my bad. Hey, listen, take me through for the audience how this tournament works for those that are unfamiliar with. First of all, the amount of great teams that are there, but they're there for a reason. They're collecting checks. So explain the audience how this works.

Well, it started last year. It was eight teams. You had Houston, Alabama, Oregon, Rutgers, Loder Dame. So it was, you know, eight teams. They went ahead and made it 18 this year. And it's played now in two venues over at Mandalay Bay. Houston's going to play at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. And every team is guaranteed a $1 million payout,

which is pretty good money for three days work. You're guaranteed two games, well, you're guaranteed all three, but you'll play two opponents that you know of. They'll do a, they'll break down the scenarios on who advances in a championship round because there's a possibility. There's multiple, you know, two and oh teams. And, yeah, you play and you get paid, and the winner can get an additional $1 million. And then I think it's like for the one through four can get anywhere from $100,000 to a million. And then, by the way, next year it's going to be 32 teams. And Houston was the first team that ever said yes to this tournament, to want first of its kind.

And they sort of have a lifetime contract that they want to continue to play in this moving forward as long as it exists. They're invited. And again, correct me if I'm wrong. This is strictly money that goes to the kids. None of it goes to the school or they split it on. Absolutely. It's straight. It's straight to the kids.

So, you know, last year, about a week after the game, maybe a little less, the money was wired. And, you know, they do NIL events here as far as the rules and how things are set up. And once they get back to campus, the money is distributed, and it is completely roster-related. And it's said this is the way things are going. Kelvin Samson said, it's a no-brainer. You have no choice. You have to play these. Maui invitation, it costs an arm and a leg just for the teams to travel out there to the islands.

The Bahamas, same thing. So this is the way teams are going. And you mentioned the field. Half of the teams in this 18 teams are ranked in the AP Top 25. And they also have a smaller 14 women's version of it where the Lady Longhorns of Texas are playing in it. So this is the wave of the future. And, you know, it's, to my knowledge, it's only going to get bigger than it. next couple of years.

Last year, the Cougars had two losses out there. It didn't affect him, obviously, as he went to the national championship game. I'm assuming that Kelvin Sampson kind of feels, and the kids are the exact same way. Let's see how good we are against the elites. Maybe it'll pay off for us down the road. Yeah, and this is November, and you've had Kelvin on your show, and he doesn't get too high or low on wins or losses, and the outcomes of this week are not going to have any bearing.

It will be interesting to see Chris Zanak, Kingston, Fleming's, Isaiah Harwell, all the freshmen, how they respond to really what's their first big stage moment. But, you know, they were four and three coming out of this last year. Everybody thought the sky was falling and they went 31 and 2 the rest of the way. So it's pretty good. And, you know, I don't think anything bad can come out of this other than getting there. their guys, some much-needed experience for the Big 12 play that starts in about a month. Two different players are projected on the Cougar roster to be lottery selections. I know that's not a conversation piece you're going to have with Kelvin Samson.

That's more related in the year. But it feels like to me the only way they stick around is if the NIL money comes in big time. Is that fair to say? Well, I mean, if you're in lottery, no. I mean, the NIL money is not going to be anywhere near what you'll get. for starting your MBA career. Where it affects people is take, for instance, someone like JoJo Tuggler. Right now, he's probably a second round pick.

He can come back. People project that he'll eventually go, maybe go after this season. But why, if you can make more money in college right now? And that's the way this thing works. You know, Kingston Fleming's, Kristenak, if they're lottery picks, Kelvin will be the first one to tell them, you've got to go. but it's interesting you bring this up Matt because I was looking at a big mock board

for the 2026 NBA draft I think the top 12 maybe 13 all but one or freshman I mean this is an unreal year for freshman talent and the Big 12 has quite a bit of it with Darren Peterson from Kansas a cat I can't say his name

from BYU, AJ from BYU and then you got two Houston kids yeah so It's a loaded class from a freshman perspective, and there will be some decisions that need to be made. Last question. Any rumors? I know I saw an Alamo Bowl representative at the game on Saturday for the Cougar Football Squad. Any gut feeling on where they can be playing bowling-wise? I think it's two – I think it's two balls right now, Alamo Bowl or Texas Bowl. I would probably at this point lean a little bit more toward the Texas Bowl. but, you know, the Alamo Bowl folks were impressed. They liked the idea of having a school like Houston that's not far away

that would be able to get fans to travel. So I asked Willie this morning on the conference goal, not a lot of movement yet on that. He expects maybe a few days before that December 7th announcement is winning. We'll know for sure. But the fact that we're talking about a bowl, a good step in the right direction for them. All right.

Look forward to reading your stuff, friend. Thank you for the time, and enjoy that lunch, and enjoy Vegas. All right, thank you, buddy. Yes, Joseph Dwarthe, Houston Chronicle, joining us from the Players' Era Tournament in Las Vegas, a chance to make up a $2 million, all going right to the kids. Larry and Larry will try to squeeze you guys in before we play, Believe it or Not. Today's edition of Believe or Not is all things about the city of Phoenix, 143 on Sports Talk 790. All right, we need contestants for Believe it or Not.

If you want to come in and play, 713, 212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-790. Larry and Spring on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Larry, thank you for holding a good afternoon to you. Hey, man, I know you have a gift, and I'll just say this. I'll just say, I wish you and Ross and the 790 crew a happy Thanksgiving and safe. and I'm trying to give my both tomorrow and not you all have a season and happy Thanksgiving how about that thank you Larry's nice you to say that

and mac and cheese and sweet potato pie for everyone mac and cheese good for 30 to 63 days a year give it a day off for a couple days Larry and Galveston hi Larry what's on your mind I am okay I'll tell you what I'm doing great I'm trying to get ready for Thanksgiving and I want to ask you something. You really put a question in my mind.

Here, just a few minutes ago, when you were talking about your Thanksgiving Day dinner. Yes. And there was one thing, and there was one thing that you left out. Do you have any idea what that was? Tell me. The make rib.

well we're giving that a day off as well i know it's it's america sandwich oh it's not america sandwich it's not even on the menu year long it's it's it's a it's a true treasure thank you larry for the phone call remember here's your plate it's america's step child nobody likes it's america's cousin it comes in for a long visit and says wish you'd stay longer there's that does not exist and you know that what was that who's laughing back there. Adam Clinton. He has a question

about your mac and cheese take, by the way. I was told you don't like mac and cheese. I like the cheap box He doesn't. He would rather have

box craft mac and cheese rather than homemade mac and cheese. And that will, I will not, I will not come off that take. Matt, I'm torn here. Don't be torn.

Well, no. I like mac and cheese in the box. Yeah, that's fine. But I also make it like a serial killer. What do you mean? You make it like a

serial killer i've said this on the show before matt have i told you this no you make it with breast milk no no no what's the matter with you i i mix in the butter and the milk you know this is the box one right the butter and the milk and some salt and pepper and i stir that in until it's like all then i put the um the powder in and i'd make like maybe two stirs and i eat it chunky like that oh that's gross that's nasty get on my level get on my level do you like truffle mac and cheese No, just give me the cheap dollar ballbart or... You would rather... Okay, so you're at literally Mastroes.

And they say truffle mac and cheese Red pudding there. Or craft mac and cheese out of a box and you're picking the latter. Do I have to have mac and cheese with my steak? Yes. Craft mac and cheese. Oh, my...

Have you had it there? I'm not a big mac and cheese guy. What is it that you don't like, America? No. No. It's creamy cheese and pasta. It's just perfect. Yeah, it's just, it's not one of my favorites. It's okay.

But you don't like insulators, right? Here's the thing, really quick. Listen to me very carefully. Your Thanksgiving dish, your plate has turkey on it. It has stuffing or dressing, depending on what you want to call. I don't care. Green bean casserole. It's got rolls.

It's got cranberry. That's five things. You're probably running out of space. Mac and cheese needs a day off. It's like a grown man. or remove the disgusting cranberry oh cranberry's fine

no it's not you just said for 50 years you didn't have it but I've changed you know what I've moved the times you're evolving you're progressive now thank you

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