The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets vs Thunder Tonight! Nico Collins Misses Practice

Episode Date: January 15, 2026

Rockets vs Thunder Tonight! Nico Collins Misses Practice 

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790, where today four more hours of Texans preview because no one else is doing in the marketplace. I'm really frankly ashamed at our market because you've got a Texan team in the divisional round of the playoffs and yet there is so much conversation about buying L.A. Olympic tickets right now. It's just crazy, Ross. Thank God, we're here for you.

We're here to cuss and to discuss the Texans game against the Patriots. Yeah, a lot of World Cup talk firing up, I think, too. A lot of World Cup. There's been a little conversation about the college football player from which no one in Houston cares about. When's the final tonight? Monday. Okay, I knew that. Yeah, see?

I was testing you. No, okay, whatever. You name one Indiana player not named Fernando Mendoza. Yes, it's that defensive end that's really good. Perfect. I remember his name. I would say the exact same thing. Is it even Fernando. Fernando Mendoza.

The Heisman trophy winner. I mean, Gordon yesterday when that Oregon quarterback's like, I'm staying. He's like, man, did you see the big news? I'm like, yeah, he came rushing in here. He was like, he came rushing in here like JFK got shot. Yeah. He was like, did you guys hear the news? Dante Barre.

He's like, what is he doing? He's staying in Oregon. Can you believe it? We're like, what? I will give credit. I was like the longhorn wide receiver. Oh, that's DeAndre Moore. Yeah.

College football fan loses its mind over everything. Yes. Like, I lose my mind over the universe. Oh, God. Oh, Lord. Was that a drop? That was Cole Thompson. Locked on something goofy.

No, he's unfiltered. No, whatever. They got beef. They got rivals. Does they have a fight? I think it's kind of like an unspoken, like, rivalry, yeah. Like, they're definitely foils for each other.

I mean, they're competing SEC podcasts. It's one of those things are like, yeah, yeah, you're doing great. Sure, why not? Yeah. Okay, so my point. It's like Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, you know? They're not calling each other out. They're not fist fighting, but there's a little something there.

It's not like the Anchorman News teams meeting in the middle of the town square? Yeah, exactly. They're not throwing hand grenades and tridents, but there's like unspoken tension. Okay. What's like going with this? Oh, I don't know. Oh, when the University of Houston does something, it's very important to me. When the University of Texas does something, like went over Vanderbilt yesterday.

Which we will not discuss. Don't watch out now. I'm fighting horns. What? One at Alabama on Saturday. That's a Q1. Then beat Vanderbilt on Wednesday. It's two quad one wins.

Let's go. Also have a win over Ryder. What? And Fairley Dickinson. Are those teams any good? They're great shamanade they beat. Okay. when the University of Houston does well,

University of Texas does well, we love our respective. If there's a good game on, I'll watch it. You're talking about SEC? No, just in general. Right, okay. But I mean,

Homeboys there, Cole and Gordy, they lose their damn mind. Oh my God, the linebacker from South Carolina is leaving to go to the draft. What is he thinking? Yeah, it's great, man.

They're passionate about it, so they do podcasts about it. Yeah, they're way more passionate, and college football fans are more passionate about their sport than maybe any other group. Congratulations. Because look, here's the reality of this.

When the Astros sucked, y'all didn't give two blanks. When the Rockets suck, you didn't give two blanks. When the Texans suck, you made fun of cow for five years. Well, we're still making fun of cow. That's true. Does a Texans... How about this one for a ridiculous tease? Does a Texans win help them get a new facility?

I don't know exactly if it would, but it wouldn't hurt. Oh, it certainly wouldn't hurt. I just don't know if you attach direct victories to... I don't know. How tax money is being spent. I don't know what the political polls is in Houston, Texas. Oh, I have a pretty good feel. Okay.

I haven't checked the exit polls or any polls. Are there any polls out there? I don't know. We could do one. I bet you they're doing their own kind of polling. Oh, let me tell you, they are, they're not stupid. They're going to, and they hired a president a year ago that was, has experienced. So he not only knows about opening them, but he also knows when to open the press conference with,

hey, we really need a new facility. Yes. And for those of you, there's a generation of you out there in our younger audience that doesn't know what that's like. I lived it for five years in Houston before, like, I want to say 93 to 2000 was nothing but that. I wouldn't say nothing but it, but it was a large part of the show.

Because the Rockets got their arena, didn't pass the first time. They got it a second time around. The Astros had to wait and basically had to think about going elsewhere. where the Texans or the olders did move when we didn't give him didn't give bud his stadium so and this will be your first car on to that. I ain't worried about it. I wouldn't worry about it either.

It's not going to die, but it will be much more of your conversation than you never thought it would be. They're not going to leave. They're not going to go. No, no, no, the NFL's not going to leave. It's just going to be a question of where they're going to refurbish energy or they're going to build a new stadium. My guess would be outside of Harris County.

Like Chicago Bears, Gearing Indiana. How weird is that? Yeah. Gary's not a good area. The Galveston Texans. Let's go. Could be the Clear Lake Texans. Could be. Is there a plot of land? I don't even go south.

The Fulcher Texans? A little too far. The Stafford Texans? The New Waverly Texans. The funny space out there. The cut and shoot Texans. That's funny. Like Jacksonville, they're getting a new

new stadium is going to be, I guess, either rebuilt again or a new one. they're going to play a year with half the stadium not working, meaning they're going to dramatically reduce the capacity, and then they're going to go to Orlando for a year. Which team? The Jacksonville Jaguars. Really? Yeah, isn't that weird?

Huh. They finally took the tarps off their regular stadium. They actually had a full crowd last week, and then... They weren't rewarded with anything. They went home sad. You think Jaguars fan is the saddest fan in history? because there's no other professional teams in your city. That's true.

When you're a one-horse town, you are going to get most attention. You're one-horse town, and well, this horse is pretty beat up. Well, think about this. Arizona's gone to the Super Bowl. Yeah. The Saints have gone to the Super Bowl and won one. Who else is? Lines have never been.

Lions have never been. But there's other sports teams in there. I mean, yeah. Well, I guess the Pistons were. Hey, we'll see the Pistons next week, as a matter of fact. Pizza, pizza. Let's go. Great media dining.

I heard. Lordy. Oh, Lord. Second best meeting dining in the league. All right. I said you were keeping track of that. I wasn't. Okay.

So here's what I got going for today. Since again, we're the only show in town talking Texans preview. We'll continue to go over some elements. We will continue to give you our regular Thursday feature, which is I just don't get it at 1130. We're also going to do something that Instagram has been doing. And I got caught up to speed with this today because a great friend of mine sent me an Instagram. You know, when you put a bunch of pictures in one area, what do they call those? not a landscape. What is it called? Because I did one today. It's a layout.

Okay. And I was in a picture of hers from 2016. Okay. Everybody on Instagram and social media is going back to 2016 today for some reason. That's great. So I thought we'd do that a little bit. Sure. What was it like? And I kept looking for photos of you and I from 2016. There was nothing there. Okay. I can maybe find some. It'd be cool if you did. I went to, Facebook. I didn't, I don't know, can Twitter go I had short hair and no beer. Can Twitter send me back to 2016? I mean, I have to scroll

like 20,000 tweets, would I not? You can go, you can go look for tweets from a specific date, I believe. All right, well, we can do that because I want to, you're going to be astonished at how the sports landscape was in Houston in 2016. Remember in 2016, Rossi, we did not have two world championships. We had a

young James Hardin. That was the the Astros were struggling after the big 2015 wildcard. And I want to also say Rossi, did we not have Brock Oswater running the Texans? Maybe. Was that 2016? I'm trying, yeah, I have some photos from 2016 in my phone. Okay, and you and me?

No. No, well. I got some barbecue. I mean, barbecue is still good back then. Well, the lines as long in 2016 as they were today. Oh, this is from Killens. Good for you. Oh, I have my, when I went to, when I went to, when I went to,

I went as Pablo Escobar is Halloween. I have my mustache. Should I tweet that out? Yeah. There's zero percent chance I'm tweeting. No, I did. Did you see my collage? Jonathan, I don't know. Well, it's not this camera. And his camera's frozen. Are we frozen again, imagine that?

Frozen or is he not moving? No, he's blinking. Oh, there he is. Okay, good. He's really alive. He's just locked in. Look at him. Now his eyes aren't moving. Oh, now he is moving. See, for those who don't know, Jonathan's in a different studio, and we can't see him unless our cameras working, and our cameras only work about 40% of the time.

all the time. Yeah, 30%. Okay, it's true. But yeah, photos of me in 2016, I think I was at 210 pounds, I think. I want to say, give or take. Okay. And I'm now at 188, which is fine.

Yeah, I'm a little worried about you. You're withering away. No, you know, I do I gain way on the road. I mean, I really gain away on. I'm a little scared. No, you shouldn't be. We're fine. Okay, so that's on the agenda today.

We'll talk a little bit about 2016. We'll also get into what's going on in 2006, where the Texans are going to go to New England on Sunday. And have you... Now, my first blush guess on this team on Tuesday was I had it 5149 in my mind favoring the Texans over the Patriots. Oh, this is when I went to Columbia.

Sorry, I'm looking at pictures of 2016. Do you want us to take a break so you can look at some more? Yeah, yeah. Go ahead. Ross looked through his personal photos. You brought it up. Yeah, but I didn't ask you to look through photos during the show. You kind of did. I did. I said, look for stuff for you and me.

Yeah, that's true. I'm sorry, you're not involved. That was your six of the show. Okay. Were you in the mornings during 2016? Maybe. Yeah, I don't know. We'll figure that out. Some dark days. They weren't dark. It just was too dark. It was literally dark.

It was literally dark. Yeah. I'll say this. Love your morning host. Yes. Whomever it is. If you choose a morning show, just love on it because those, you just, you don't get a normal life. It's not easy. I mean, especially if you're a sports. sports fan. Because you can DVR it if you want to,

but more times than that, you don't want to DVR. You want to go to bed knowing on a particular game ended. Now, tonight's a good night because the Rockets do play at 630 against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Dan Matthews will be on the postgame show. Really? Look at him putting the hours in. Well, I did Sunday and Tuesday. I'm doing Friday, so.

Oh, no. Tomorrow night's a little different. Yeah. Tim and that bad boy off until, I believe, 11.30 p.m. Correct. It's 830, but you get our drift. Wow, would you see what Kevin Durant said that we were a second half town, second quarter town? And she's on Twitter?

Oh, really? Mm-hmm. Is he wrong? No, he's not wrong. Okay. This is an indictment against anybody except the people that go to the arena. I mean, you know, not an indictment against the city of Houston. It's just a rocket fan shows up late.

A little bit of an indictment. Well, I mean, it's indictment to 18,000 people, and not it's a six million. Oh, look, I, uh, no, never mind. All right. Ross is going to look through his photo. Oh, there's pictures with me and El Tuva in 2016. There was one of me at George Springer and A.J. Hinch. Okay, I'm not worried about that.

I'm talking about me and El Tuvei. Oh, that's fine. And Michael Monter. Put your photos out there. All right. 713-212-5-790. Look what's on ESPNU right now. Miami versus A&M.

First round playoff game. 100,000 people in Kyle Field. How'd that turn out, Aggie? My poor son. Went to Bonfire. Went to early. I clicked on this on accident. Let me find something else.

They ain't I even scored. They had a field goal in the game, right? They scored. They can get shut out. Congratulations. That Miami team. By way, Notre Dame is, Notre Dame has been pretty quiet during all this Miami run. Have you noticed that?

Marcus Freeman's been talking about how great Notre Dame is. Yeah, and he's like, I commend my kids for not wanting to go to the Pop-Tarts Bowl. Probably the best bowl not named a CFP Bowl, right? It's good the most. I got a ton of ratings. Even without Notre Dame. Yeah, it's funny. 713-212-5-790 7-13-212-5-790 we've got more on the texans to get to we'll let you hear what's going on in the locker room we'll also get you something ready for the rockets and the thunder it's a time for revenge after opening nights double overtime loss 1014 sports talk 790

all right so we're trying to figure out all the little intangibles about the Texans and the patriots coming up on sunday Ross says to me, hey, there's a chance of snow in Foxborough. So I went to the Weather Channel forecast Sunday during the day. Mostly cloudy with snow flurries and snow showers. Especially in the afternoon. Yeah, I follow, there's a fantasy website I follow. Roto Grinder's chief meteorologist. And he's always very good on that stuff.

And for football purposes and how it impacts football games. Right. So yes, he said the same thing. Snow flurry or even snow showers wouldn't shock me. I'm not expecting impactful amounts of snow. Winds stay fairly light. And that's the most important thing. Snow, cold, whatever, that's fine.

When there's a ton of wind, that's when the game really starts to get affected. So under 10 miles an hour sustained, so not a whole lot. So he says all in all, it might not be perfect weather, but it's not good enough to not cause any, not, it's good enough to not cause major issues. I don't care how often the Patriots practice in it. Bad weather is bad. I mean, less than ideal weather is harmful for both sides. There have been very few teams that I've watched in my life. Now, the only time I've ever seen teams really embrace it is when it gets ridiculously cold like them.

You know, the Miami Dolphins have never haven't won a game in decades with temperatures under 40 degrees. I think it's always been discussed. I know that if you are, like there was a game that I, when I was living in Minnesota, when Green Bay played for the NFC championship, where it was like, was it Giants Packers when it was like minus 10 Green Bay or something crazy like that? I mean, I don't want to be making something up, but I felt like there was a year that recently. No, this is when I was living in Minnesota. This had to go back 15 or so years.

I don't know about that one. There was the Chiefs one was really bad recently. Remember people got frostbite. Yes. The last couple years sometime. Now, not that I'm not worried about the fans, but the players are going to be properly insolid. They're going to have heaters. They're going to have these little full-length coats on. Yeah.

I mean, they're going to. The little helmet heaters. The equipment staff's going to be ready. Jalen Petrie is going to love his little beanie cap that he's got on. Yeah, he's going to have extra protection. Yeah, extra padding. His head will be warm. But the only thing to me would be if it's so ridiculously cold that you can't keep your mind thinking on the game, then that would make a factor.

35 degrees for the Texans. They were in Pittsburgh last week. They were in Kansas City last month. Steelers fans said they were going to get frozen out. Where are those Staler fans of my mentions? It's like you're calling them out. And they're not listening, but that's okay. May I tweet, hey, Steeler Nation,

your guy Ross is waiting for you to respond to last week. No, I quote tweeted myself, and so I said something. You getting responses? No. They're in mourning. They lost their coach. Their team sucks. They need a quarterback.

Yeah, but they should be happy. They're over there booing Tom. They're chanting Fire Mike Tomlin and booing him. Where's the Steeler delegation in Houston? They're Steelers fans. Every time they come here, there's thousands of them in the stadium. They're in every city in this country. Can we reach out to the Steeler fan club, Houston Chapter?

We should actually do that. No, why do you want to pour salt in their wounds? No, because like I said, they might be happy. Oh, as I was saying. Okay, all right. Because a lot of Steelers fans hate Mike Tomlin. But it feels like to me the people that were attacking you or found you on 4U tab.

He hadn't. Yeah, exactly. Somehow I got in the Pittsburgh 4-U and that's when the anger really ratcheted up. Thanks, Elon. But you know what I do now? And I've told just before. And maybe it's to my detriment.

When an out-of-town person attacks me, I go back at them tenfold. Oh, really? I mute them and move on. That's probably smarter. I But I just I wonder what percentage of Steelers fans are happy that Mike Tomlin is gone

Because there were some And he was getting booed And they were chanting fire Mike Tomlin At multiple times in the season Which Aaron Rogers called them out for And said it was ridiculous No I know I understand that No you're not going to appreciate Mike until he's gone

Oh yeah Especially you're already on the back foot on this coaching search Now there's only been one higher now Right John Harbaugh is that done? I think so. Pretty close, sounds like it's going to happen. So the next dominoes will fall, but you're late in the game. Well, the reality is you're going to go get a coordinator.

If you are going for the number one free agent, John Harbaal, you're probably way too late on that. But everybody else is going to be probably frankly a coordinator somewhere. I would get the brightest offensive, innovative, offensive mind you can find and get that guy. I would, yeah, because Pittsburgh needs that. I mean, you can't create a prolific offense overnight, but if you have an offensive-minded coach that understands that goes to

Tells the general manager, hey, what's the game in Pittsburgh's GM? Oh, I can't remember. Khan, isn't it, of some sort? See, yeah, that's what I was trying to avoid. Yeah, see, I got half it right. Con of some sort. Yeah, I was an Omar sort. I didn't say Omar, if somebody Omar, I said, Mr. Khan.

Omar coming. Omar Khan. If you go hire the coach, well, first we're going to, Omar Khan's making the hire with obviously the Rudy's blessing on this, but you're going to want to align with what the Pittsburgh Cillers want to do. And I think if you're the Pittsburgh Cilers, this is the greatest opportunity for you to kind of tell Aaron Rogers, thank you very much for your services.

And I don't know if you go after free agents and quarterback, make a trade. Don't let the door hit you on the way to your darkness retreat. Yeah, those darkness retreats didn't turn out to be so well for them today. Maybe it's good for him. Actually, I think I would do something like that. I'm thinking about doing something like that. You mean you'd go into a dark room for multiple days, No phone, nothing.

Absolutely. How did he get food, by the way? When I go camping and I go to the woods, I stay off my phone. That's nice. And I love it. It is a great way to refresh your mind. I think I wouldn't mind it, but I have a wife and children, so it's difficult for me to do that. It would be fine.

If you're away, if you're in, like, Washington for a week, there's nothing you can do. But if a cell phone can change all that by, you know, hey, something's going on. I mean, my wife, my mom's battling cancer right now. Yeah, it would not be the time to do it. Maybe 10 years from now. Okay, in 10 years. Trying to get you to relax, Matt, one day. It's not going to happen.

What happened to this Hawaii trip you were supposed to go on? We've canceled me. I need you to go on relaxing vacation. It's just not going to happen. You know what, in all honesty? I relax when I get to stay in a... Like, where we're going? Yeah, but then...

Like next week's not relaxing. We'll talk about this offer. Yeah, all fair. It's not great. I'm going to try to air your laundry. Going on a different... city and not having a show and on a weekend, it's relaxing. I need you to go on a beach for a week and stare at the waves and the sun.

Properly, uh, sunscreen, of course. We don't want you burning up. I got, I am the pasty white guy. Yes. Yeah. And just relax. Okay. I don't, you could go with you.

Well, with your wife and kids is not going to be relaxing. No, they'd be fine. With your wife, it's fine. Yeah. Give them some money and send them on their way. Yeah. Go on a, go on inclusive. Go get a jet ski.

Bye. Yeah. See you. Just don't do parasailing. They don't have the regulations. That doesn't feel like it's very relaxing either. Looks dangerous. My arms would all be tense.

Like, am I going to fall? Don't Google parasailing accident. It's a Mexico. I don't want to do that. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-1-2-5-7-90. We're going to run through some of the audio we got from Texans practice yesterday to let you guys hear a little sample of what's going on there.

There is some interesting baseball news. We could very well during the course of the show today have a Kyle Tucker signing. It sounds like it's down to two teams. And it sounds like one team I win and one team you win. I have not seen eight years anywhere. The Toronto deal would be a long term. That's the thinking. But nobody's ever mentioned eight, right?

Long term could be five or six. He's not signing a five or six year deal. Are you sure? You seem very confident. It would be four, it would be three or four, or it's going to be like 9 or 10, I think. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

Oh, the Pittsburgh Steeler Nation has weighed in as well. And they said what? Glad he's gone. Oh, I would probably say, when you lose a first-round playoff game again and you don't score any touchdowns, it's pretty easy to say, don't the door hit me ass. Well, ATX, Hobo Girl.

Also, I was going to bring this up, leaning defense, because that's what they do. I mean, Tomlin, Cower, Chuck Null, defenses back in the day. But I'm sorry. You got to evolve with the Times, Steelers Nation.

It's an offensive league. Yeah. Defense can win now. Of course, the Texans are trying to disprove that. And you can win with a defensive coach, but I would say it's the exception more than the rule. So for the third consecutive day, Ross,

I get in my car, listen to the morning wake-wake-up call with Dan and Dan, or to Dan and what's called. It was, this is the 6am to 10 a.m. 2.10 a.m. show on Sports Talk 790. That's the name of it, right? Yeah, that's it. And they're talking about something we've talked about a lot this week

that I don't think we can ever get past. When we come back, you're going to tell me what that is? 1030 on 790. I was listening to a wake-up call with Colin Dan. 7-13. Why are you shaking your head? That was called. We should be supporting our fellow brethren.

I mentioned their names. The lead into this show. I mean, the morning drive. Right? You're not even sure. I said it with confidence, though. The morning drive. Is they going Cole and Dan or Dan and Cole?

I don't think Cole ever gets top billing. Why not? Great question. I mean, alphabetically, it's Cole and Dan. Dan and Cole sounds better. That's what we do on this show. It's Matt and then Ross. Okay.

First and 10 this morning was talking about the issue that will not be not this can't be not discussed over and over and over again and we're guilty as charge of this as well okay I listened for about a half an hour this morning people can't get past the cj stride contract negotiations coming up in the next year or so i've been thinking about it well but you're not the only person who talks about sports i mean i'm just saying i listened for a half an hour it was cj's lost his confidence cj's lost his swagger how in the world can you put 55 to six a million

in front of him. Is he, and this is the one I I don't know if I heard on this show, their show or another show during the last day or so. You know the Arizona Cardinals thought they had a quarterback in Kylea Murray. Yeah, but even when that deal was signed.

Even when that deal was signed, people were like, oh, Kyler Murray. Well, hey, what do you think of tomorrow? CJ Stroud. Wait a minute. If the announcement came tomorrow that CJ Strouds on a long-term contract, people are you sure about that?

New York Giants, Daniel Jones. You don't mean to tell I mean, you don't think it'll be some... Let me some... James are good, yeah. Ain't going to be a... Yo.

That'll be on... Well, I mean, that's what I'm telling you. He's going to get paid. I'm not telling you he should get paid. I know he's going to get paid. But we got to get ready for the... Oh, really. What's out of our hands, Matt?

That really. Oh, really? We're going to go up there and... We're going to Hannah's podcast. You go up there and slap the pin out of his hands. Listen to me, Hannah. Listen to Hannah, very closely. You're going to need my support of a new stadium.

I'm influential in this town. Are you? I mean, I can help, I can make decisions for people. Hmm. Not really. Who? Yeah, what, yeah, what kind of pull you have with the, you don't know, you, you don't know the value in my poll until I actually try to pull something.

What? Okay. $55 million. Probably going to be the low bar. David, uh, what is his name? David, uh, Moologeta is going to say. Look at his numbers. He's not getting a hometown.

discount. Hannah's like, we got to pay Will Anderson. I don't care. Your decision to take two guys in the top five. I'll let you figure it out how to pay him. Okay. David, Moologeta, by the way, Longhorn alum. Well, then maybe you can have a phone call to him. Say, one bro, Longhorn or another, bro, Longhorn.

Okay. I like the Texans now. I need my quarterback to be happy with a very successful defense. I don't need Daniel Jones version two. or Carter Murray version too. Now that you brought it up, I'm trying to think of

quarterbacks who got paid that people were like, ooh, I don't know if they should do that and then it worked out. My homes. Nobody was saying they shouldn't pay out. Oh, you're saying got queasy about it

and then all of a sudden it worked out. Oh, that's a great question. Maybe Jared Gough of the Lions. Jack Prescott? Nope. Jack Prescott's been great. He's been great, but it's not their fault.

But it comes at the expense of other positions. Jared Jones is, well, Jerry Jones didn't know how to run a team. Let's see. If Nick, hold on, if that Prescott would have taken 7th or 8th money, which is he doesn't have to do that. That's not his responsibility to be a cost cutter.

Is Michael Parsons still the Dallas Cowboy? Probably the answer is yes. Michael Parsons left because it could E. Lamb, too. That's true. And pay everyone. But you can pay some. People were like, eh, on the Jordan Love deal, and I think that's working out.

Even though they lost their playoff game. Maybe Green Bay Packers Radio might disagree. How does Packers Radio feel about it? I'm looking at highest AAVs. People weren't sure. Well, I guess. Jalen Hertz? How's Jalen Hertz doing financially?

He's doing great. But he also signed well before he had to potentially be franchised. Yeah, people weren't sure about Jalen Hertz and they won a Super Bowl. Now they hate Jailen Hertz and Philly. Yes, they do. They do hate him. Brock Purdy. He's a good quarterback.

Ooh, big money because they were thinking, well, if he doesn't want to come back, you got to save money for Mac Jones. I'm just looking at 50 plus million quarterbacks here. Josh Allen, obviously, nobody thought that was a bad deal. Jordan Love is fourth in AAV. So maybe Jordan Love is the parallel. How is Packer Nation feeling about Jordan Love? How is Packer Nation before it?

I think before they were like, and maybe he's been good. And maybe that's the argument with every quarterback. No matter how much you love a quarterback, you're going to be a little squeamish about paying that. That's why there's so much conversation about winning games when your quarterback is on his rookie contract. You have my personal guarantee.

C.J. Shroud will not fumble five times this weekend. Okay. We have that down. Write that down and you put your name on it. Yeah, I put my name on it. You know the weather's going to be worse than Pittsburgh. No way. No how he fumbles five times.

No chance. Think about this. You just gave the most optimistic Texans fan hope. He fumbles five times and you win by four touchdowns. Could have happen. He fumbled five times and they won 30 to six. Now the Steelers and the Patriots are two different animals. But they're road games in cold weather.

Mm-hmm. It's going to be all right. How's Nico Collins doing? Did you check the injury report yesterday? He was a DMP, I believe. I believe he was in a Tahitian hotel getting a rub down. Really? Yes.

That's good. I guess. I'm glad he's not in the neurology center. Funny, Joe Mixon didn't show up on their injury report this week. He wasn't in brain surgery. That's true. Joe Mixon, what? Has Joe Mixon has he taught?

tweeted since he tried to dunk on Ian Rappaport and say he was going to be fine? The insider may have information. Oh, here we go. Wait a minute. I said I may have information. But sometimes you don't have to, you cannot give an information just because you want it when you want it. I got to give it to you in due time. Okay.

I'm doing some investigating. Okay. And when I'm done with my investigating, I'll be happy to share it with the audience. All right. But, yeah. It took time for Woodward and Bernstein had to be. to track down all their sources. That's exactly right. You've got to check your sources with three different people too. That's true. I'm just telling you there is something

uber shady on this. Yeah, something bad happened. Yep. Something off the bingo board. No, yeah. ACL tear upper left hand corner. Shoulder separation down on the bottom right. Yeah. Grade two ankle sprain. All right in the middle there. Yeah, it's off the bingo board. Shot his own foot, not on the board. That's, as we were at the betting board, it'd be the field. We'd be bed in the field. Shut of his own foot. I mean, it could happen.

Again, why they... Plaxico did it 20 years ago. But why are they protecting him? If he was the dumb ass, he should be told the world, hey, we have a running back. We want to pay him a lot of money and he shot himself. What's the

point of what goodwill are the Texans giving by not telling us? Are they hoping he's back next year? They're looking to avoid criminal charges. you said, or somebody said on Twitter, I think. So now the Texans are trying to

are trying to hide potential police activity? Is that what you're saying? No, this is... The Sean Watson's like, I didn't have me once. This is what you lead yourself to. Jason Texans, when you shroud everything in mystery, even if it's bad. Just take your lumps. Say it in

June. He's out for the season. He discharged a firearm accidentally into his foot. Let's move on. That's right. Because guess who gets to shade at that point? Joe. Joe Mixon does. Joe Mixon takes the hit and then we move on with our lives.

We wouldn't be talking about it right now. Terrio's like, I don't even, I told you. You let the story grow when you don't confront it, Matt. It really, in the big picture thing, it's not really growing. It's just kind of just more, it's more comical. You let it take over your lives. I can sleep. It's like any sort of issue in your personal life, Matt.

You got to confront it. You got to get out in front of it. You got to be honest. Would you like the most... Could not let it grow. Speaking of that, you know, you know, you're some of some of it. me I need to see a therapist. I didn't tell you that.

Well, I think you've mentioned it before. Okay. You know how weird dreams? Yes. You need to see therapists. I had an all-time disgusting one yesterday. Oh, I don't even want to know what you and Tub Girl were doing. No, it was not involving a woman.

Okay. Which like to hear, which is like some dream in it? I need you to analyze the dream. On air? Next. Or off air. No, on air. Okay.

And you said it's disgusting? It's disgusting. Oh, my God. All right. Let me get, you know, the, this. The doctor is in. Let me get my notepad out. Jonathan, we need some cathartic therapy. Like, if you're going to a therapist, you're laying on the couch.

I need to know. All right. A disgusting story in my dreams last night. And this dream only lasted about two minutes, but it was two minutes too long. 1044 on Sports Talk 790. 10.50 on Sports Talk, 790. Rockets and the Thunder are playing tonight at 630. The game tonight is on Amazon.

But, of course, right here on 790. I'll have the call with, I think Adam Clanton's working with me. Wax will have the launch pad at 530. 6.30 to start time. Which means you need to be in the building by 615. Not likely. 6.15 start time, folks. 615 tip.

And if you're not in your seat by 616, the seat goes open to anybody that wants it. Yeah, I like that. All right, I haven't looked. What do you think the line is? I'll go 5.5. I thought I heard 4. Oh, you heard 4?

But I'm just making it. I guess I wanted to say 4 and a half. but I was like, maybe one extra point. Okay, so can I have... I'm gonna stuck with my gut. Can I'm taking my horrible nightmare? Okay, go ahead.

So those, again, I'm sure many people, some people can sleep straight through the night. Are you a straight through the night sleeper, generally speaking? Oh, hey. Hey, Matt. Dr. Villarale. You know what? I'm glad you asked me that.

First of all, I'm glad you're here. You're welcome. You're trying to help yourself and you're trying to improve... What's your co-pay, by the way? It's going to be $150. Damn. Do you have an HSA?

Yes. Okay. If you can go ahead and give me that card information right now. Let me get my story out of the way. Okay, well, all right. Well, first of all, the first step to helping yourself is starting with me, and that's very brave of you, and I'm very glad that you're here. And I'm happy, and I'm proud of you. So I just wanted to thank you for being here in the lining my pockets.

Okay. This dream, which is a true nightmare. Yes. So I've been sleeping at about 90 minute increments for the last week or so. That's not healthy, man. I don't disagree with you. As a matter of fact, I told my wife last in us, I'm going to start screenshoting every time I wake up. Well, you could also get perhaps a Fitbit or an Apple Watch and try to track your sleeping that way.

It's been helpful for me. I can only relate my own personal experiences. And I would highly suggest doing that. It can track your REM sleep, your high sleep cycles, your low sleep cycles. and you can even set alarms, smart alarms with it, to help you wake up better. Apparently, when I looked at my phone and said, Matt, how'd your sleep go?

And my sleep said, you sleep like the poo emoji. All right, here we go, Dr. Villarreal. So I'm in an arena, and I'm doing, I'm sharing the PA duties for a game between Denver and Oklahoma City. Okay. Denver and Oklahoma City? Yes. You've only called PA for the rocket.

In the Olympics. And the Olympics. And the Goodwill Games and they used to be around. But that's a different issue. And that's, you had to learn Mandarin. You were the Beijing Olympics? Oh, I worked the London Games. I forgot about that.

Okay. Okay. So the guy that started the game, I don't know who it was, had this big board of names on it. Okay. And he says, so the guy said in the second quarter, you're going to take over. So the game is moving very quickly. He gets out of his chair. Yes.

I run to the PA spot because we didn't want a basket to be scored and no one say anything. Okay. So I sat down. This is a gods on his truth, folks. And Jonathan, jump on this as well. Second quarter of the game between Denver and Oklahoma City, and I'm calling the baskets like I would as a Pee announcer. And there was a large plastic cup to my left.

Okay. And it wasn't my drink. Okay. But I was thirsty. Yes. So I took a swig of it. Mm-hmm. It was a spit cup.

As in like a tobacco. Correct. I took a large swig of the tobacco. And then started hurling it all over the scorers table while still doing the PA of this game. I was so horrified by this action of my nightmare that it woke me up for the fourth time that took our night. Were you gagging when you woke up? No, no. Okay.

No, this is a nightmare. No literal gagging. Did you wake up your wife? No, she was asleep. Well, she's a heavy sleep. ask us, why am I dreaming about doing the PA of an Oklahoma City Denver game with a

plastic cup that's not mine? You would never drink out of someone's cup that wasn't yours. And then when you take the swig, it's chaw. It's chewed up to backy. Well, first of all, how could this have entered your mind? Oftentimes, Matt, our dreams,

things that appear in our dreams are things that we've been recently thinking about or have come across or maybe even a long time, you know, primacy and recency, Matt. So perhaps recently you've come across any sort of tobacco spitting or have you seen any, what's the last time you can recall a tobacco spittoon being in your vicinity? Last time I was in a tobacco, near a tobacco spoutootoo would have to have be probably when Cameron was playing youth baseball, maybe. So we're talking 10 years

10 years Okay that's interesting So you were doing a job that wasn't Yours correct for two teams that I don't work for And you grabbed a drink that wasn't mine Right And what happened? Your psyche rejected things That weren't yours so maybe this is a message to stay on your own path

Matt Stay in your own lane Stay true to yourself Don't work jobs that you've moved past That you've grown from In markets that aren't yours and maybe this is your your psyche rejecting you doing things that you're not supposed to be doing. Jonathan, you agree?

To thine own self-picture? Anything else you want to add to this? This is my apprentice, Jonathan. Jonathan, what do you think about this one? Well, Dr. Villarreal, it sounds like this is an even deeper crisis than we think. What? I think you could be right. I think, I was trying to be nice.

Maybe our patient has, you know, took something of others. Wow. Oh, interesting. Yes, I like this take. And maybe he just hasn't visualized exactly what he had did that he's guilty about. Maybe he's repressed in there. Well, people are going to, first of all, they're going to be thinking, don't take your phone to bed. I listen to a podcast to fall asleep.

Yes. That's probably not a good idea either. But if I just, I can't just go to sleep at a moment. I need a podcast to listen to. Okay. Well, I would suggest any number of techniques not involving listening to a podcast to go to sleep. breathing breathing techniques

melatonin meditations have been helpful sleep sounds I have sleep sounds already listen to guys talking about injecting steroids

and wrestling each other that's getting tapeworm they're not doing that is not really great stories or not tapeworm ring worm I should say all right

I just wanted to tell you all that and again you're like man we need more Texans coverage you're gonna get it three more hours of okay I promise yeah we are but

yeah you've got some issues I think Mr. Allen, you know he's been graduated from Apprentice. He's full doctor now. You got a lot of repressed issues. I just know from deep down of my heart to you all, because I do bear my soul to you more than perhaps other radio host do.

I have the strangest dreams in America. It absolutely makes no sense what that was last night. I'm concerned about your sleep habits. I would be concerned about my sleep habits, too. That's why I take naps between... No, in this break, we're going to have a serious talk about your sleep habits. because it's not right.

That's why I'm sleeping between the show and the Rockets game tonight, getting a little nap in. Okay. Hopefully no terrible dream during that before the Rockets against Thunder. Because I don't need to shake Gilger's Alexander nightmares in my... Maybe I was thinking about tonight's game for some reason. I don't know. Maybe. Denver?

Oklahoma City was the other team. But you were in Denver. I don't know why today I was in. I was just in an arena. Okay. You were in the Cloud City. Maybe so. All right. Back to more intensive tech.

since coverage. Again, this is a little part of me telling you who I am. Now, again, I couldn't make up that sir if I tried to. But anybody that ever used tobacco, just be careful with your spit bucket or your spit cup. Keep it far away from anybody that could potentially be in a bad spot. I saw a guy drink one at a college party once. He yacked immediately. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1102 Sports Talk 790.

It was our number two of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. You hungry, Rossi? I'm getting a little hungry. I'm always hungry. I woke up a little extra early. But I'm trying to, my triglycerides were up, according to my doctor. So I'm trying to cut out, like, high fatty foods, like cheeseburgers. Cheeseburgers are good, though.

I know. I love cheeseburgers. You know, Big City of Wings serves great cheeseburgers. Yes, burger Mondays now. Right. Used to be Burger Wednesdays, but cheeseburgers on Monday. Monday. Monday.

$10. With a side. Yeah. That's a deal. Great. deal. I was there on Monday night. Football for the Texans. You had a cheeseburger. I suggested, I literally suggested it to everybody I was with. I did not do a cheese. I did a salad because as I said, my triglycerides are high.

Trying to keep my fatty foods down. So no cheeseburgers for me. All right. Let's get to what's going on with the Texans. The injury report was out yesterday into no surprise. Nico Collins did not partake. It's not a surprise. It's a zero percent. He's not playing. So we did have to ask C.J. Stroud about finding success for the Texas. without Nico Collins. Yeah, you know, we're hoping, you know, Nico can play and, you know, be able to play this game, but, you know, if not, you know, we've had this experience before, you know, played a couple games this year without

them, sadly, but, you know, all our guys are talented and we have a lot of depth in that room and, you know, I'm the most confidence in everybody in there, you know, to get the job done. So, you know, hopefully Nico is all right, but, you know, I think if not, you know, we just got to, none of us we can do, just go forward. you know, try to, you know, build with the guys we have. Could you imagine if he just said, oh, man, we're out without Nico. We got no chance.

Oh, Lord. Yeah, we're done. We're going to fold up shop. I don't even know we're going to go there. We're going to give the ball of the woody marks 40 times. Nick Kaley's not answering my calls. Yeah, I cannot, hey, I cannot throw it to my tight end 15 times a game. Well, you could.

By the way, how many times it? I know athletes say you know a lot. And we all, you know, we all say it. We all have crutch phrases. to your point. That was a little excessive. But that's neither here nor there. How many times do you say you know?

Play it again. Hold on, wait. Get Jalen, by the way, ready to go. Am I good? Let me test this out. All right. Let's go. Let's go.

Yeah, you know, we're hoping, you know, Nico can play and, you know, be able to play this game. But, you know, if not, you know, we've had this experience before, you know, played a couple games this year without them, sadly. But, you know, all our guys are talented. We have a lot of depth in that room. And, you know, I'm most confident in everybody in there, you know, to get the job done. So, you know, hopefully Nico is all right. But, you know, I think if not, you know, we just got to, if none else we can do, just go forward and, you know, try to, you know, build with the guys we have. I couldn't even, I can't even go fast enough.

You didn't notice. I didn't notice until now. Well, what is this way? He didn't say, um. That's good. I say, um, too much. I say a lot of things too much. but I just, I don't know,

it just kind of caught me off guard because normally he doesn't do that. I'll be brutally eyes with you. We all have crutch phrases. That's just a lot. I don't know why. Well, I mean, would you rather have had,

um, or you know? You know what? Now I'm taking Patriots minus the points. Why? He said, you know too many times.

Oh, stop. Let's get to the other side of things. Here's Dimeco on the quarterback that'll be throwing for the Patriots on Sunday. His name is Drake May. I think Drake is doing a, doing a really good job of not making bad decisions with the football.

He's doing a really good job of utilizing where his playmakers are open. He's getting those guys to football. And I think Josh is calling it really well for him to give him easy plays to make good decisions. And where he's taking that next step is his ability to escape the pocket. I think it's really doesn't get talked about much. But his athletic ability, his ability to escape the pocket, it's been really clutch for them. He's made some big runs to really hurt a lot of defense. so we have to be conscious of that.

But he's making good decisions, good young player, has a really bright future, can throw the ball at all three levels of the field very well. Yes, that's all accurate. Good praise. It's why playing sound bites is sometimes, I don't want to say waste of time, but it's not a waste time. Well, it depends on what the soundbite is.

Well, it adds some accents what we've been talking about, giving a different perspective. Sometimes DiMiko does give you a little something if you can want to read between the lines, but not necessarily there, and he's not going to do that. everything's going to be close to this. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, we've got like five different ways we're going to exploit this guy.

So the only way we were able to read between the lines with him is when he was cranky earlier in the year, when people were worried about his offense and timeout use. Remember last year, end of the year. And he was like, we got to do this better offensively. We're like, oh, Bobby Sloak's gone. Bobby put that four-sale sign up in front of your townhouse there. He was asked about Bobby Sloick, and he, like, deflected the question or something. I can't remember.

Yeah, he's not going to lie to you, but he's, not going to tell you the complete truth. Of course. And remember, I always tell you this before. It's okay to lie. It just is. It makes it easier. It depends on the situation. We had a situation last week we were talking about where it was. Oh, it was about the Luca Donchage trade between the Mavericks and the Lakers. If you're Nico Harrison and he's a general, it was a general manager of the Mavericks at the time and someone says, I have reports that you've been talking to five or six teams. You just say, no, I wasn't. you gotta get the market

drummed up. Yeah. What a ho. And now there's talk about Anthony Davis being traded. And he's got a, he's got ligament, Dan, and Jane, and his hand. He's going to be out multiple months. It wasn't Shams tweeting about him being traded like he's on the market now. I think he still could be traded.

Because whoever wants him, wants him for a playoff run for the four games that he might play in. How old is Luca? 26 or 27? They traded away Luca freaking donchish. He's getting weight again. Is he? Mm-hmm. He's back on the...

He's back to doughy. That's not good. Well, I think, you know, perhaps he needs to root out whatever issues it is that causes him to overeat. Maybe he needs to go on the Rossville Real Diet. Let's try to get my notepad out, man. What's happening is they're treating the symptom, not the disease. No, they're just going for... So what they're doing is...

Oh, we're opening up the... They're not kidding... The stomach's back opening it? They're not getting to the core of the issues because when we go for too many things, you know, when you're going for too much alcohol, too much drugs, too much food, too much gaming, whatever it is you're doing too much. A lot of times you're trying to escape from something. A lot of times that's something is yourself.

So what Luca Donchitz needs to do is he needs to get to the root of his issues and he needs to figure all that out and everything else is going to fall into place. Because he is overeating and he seems like he can't control it because he's probably going to be a stretch. So you can try to do it for a little while. Maybe it's not going to the workout room. And an alcoholic cannot drink for a day or a week or a month, but eventually they fall back into old patterns. I gain way when I go on the road.

They're running away from something. But I lose it when I get back from. I'm not talking about you, man. I'm talking about Luca donches. So what they're doing is they're treating the symptoms, as I say. If you have a running nose and a sore throat and you keep taking medicine, but it turns out you have allergies because there's literally an oak tree in your living room. Get the tree out.

Don't just keep taking medicine. take care of the roots. Get the roots. Root out the issue. Root out the cause. Don't just treat the symptoms. Treat the disease. I don't know what to go from here.

We were talking about Nico and Drake May and we got to a rando about Luca and then we went into a two-minute diatri about his weight. I'm just trying to help Luca Dongege. Yeah. You know what you do? You are healthy people.

If anybody needs any help, yeah. Dr. Villareale is here for you. I'm trying. It's 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. J.J. Watt had some high praise. Four? Who do you think?

Tric May? The team you used to play for. Mike Vrable? Oh, I'm sure he did. No, he's not breaking down Cardinals. I mean, maybe the Cardinals in the Church, but not the Cardinals he used to play for. Isn't it crazy that he left with a double-digit sack season? He went out on top, kind of.

I mean, he had slowed down a little bit, but he could have played more. I'm just happy he passed Sean Jones, who tried to say he was a better pass rusher than JJ Watt because he had more sex. Love you, Sean. Sean also said he tried to save him. He saved him in a radio career, too. Actually, he did. Or he started your career or something like that, right? He started it and saved it all in the same month, apparently.

Everything is owed to Sean Jones. I love that, actually. I believe it. You shouldn't believe it. I think Sean's a liar. I love Sean. But he's a liar. Yes, Matt.

You know what? Your talent, the cream would have risen to the top even without Sean Jones. A good liar can also spot a good liar. Oh, it takes one to no one. Exactly. I got you.

Exactly. All right. So we got some high praise coming from JJ Wob. We'll let you hear from that coming back. We got, oh, at bottom of the hour we have, I just don't get it. Okay. For those of you are new to the show, which first of all, where the hell have you been? Have you been listening to cussing and disgusting?

Is that what you've been doing? Come over here. We're going to entertain you and give you a variety of things over, four hours every single day 10 o'clock until should cj stroud be signed long term no let's not do that well it would be easier to do a show that way but that's not great radio yeah we don't pick the low-hanging fruit man well sometimes we can sometimes we do summertime we definitely do that what's your favorite pizza topic the summer on three two one two five seven 90 no uh so cj's i should say j j j j j is going to have seeps and high praise we'll get to the rockets a little bit here

as well and will we have a Kyle Tucker signing between now and the 2 o'clock witching hour of the Matt Thomas show at Ross you just made my stomach flip flop I'm making your wallet flip flop you better get that second credit card out there I deserve it I can't even be mad I will deserve it every

every bit you bring up every scream every tweet every one of them every IG every every one of every picture You put him the meal. I will deserve it. I can't even be mad. That is accurate. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. All right, 1118 here on Sports Talk, 7-90. Ross, I just told this to Ross a minute ago that Space City is coming today.

They're doing a feature on me, a day in the life of me. You don't seem too thrilled. I don't care. You excited for me? Yeah, that's cool. Middle of the season, obviously low on content. Wait a minute. You got to figure something out. Playoff team. Get ready for the playoff push. They're looking for a ratings hit.

They're going to get it today with me. Okay, great. So they'll be in about 130 today. So if Vanessa comes by, I don't know, Vanessa worked ESPN last night. So I don't know if she's... Oh, I got to fix my hair. I'm going to be on TV. You're definitely getting on TV.

Oh, crud. When are they coming? It should be between 1 and 1.30? All right, I'll wet my hair about 1245. Okay. I didn't bring any hair oil today. Do you are, are you a big hair oil a guy? I normally in the mornings, if I remember.

Like what kind of oil are you talking about? That's a Moroccan sleek? Hmm. I don't know. It's good. I don't even know the kind of comment. Yeah. I guess it's better than sunflower oil.

Yeah, I don't do. You can put whatever you want in there, coconut oil. Mm, gross. Do you ever cook with coconut oil? Yeah. All right. I guess. No, avocado will have used.

I got you. You're a grape seed guy. All right, we're moving on. My fault. This is your fault. My fault. This is your fault. This is your fault.

Oh, oh, ha. Hey! By the way, great tweet from friend of the show, Rich, Southside Rich 64, good morning to you. Matt, 30 plus years ago, your nightmare actually happened to me. I was in a bar shooting pool, reached back behind me, and grab what I thought was my beer bottle. Took a swig, realized it would happen, and ran to the restroom. Which is going to happen. He went to the ladies' room, though.

No. I went to, recently went into the ladies' room on accident at a restaurant. at a restaurant. I got the one for you. How many times in your life, Jonathan, you go first. How many times in your life have you accidentally gone into the ladies' room? Maybe like once? That's it? That's pretty good. Yeah, just once. It's happened to me once this year on the Rockets road trip. I think I've done it twice in the last year. It's bad. I was in San Francisco at a half time of the Rockets Warriors and I like to go to the bathroom right away so I can beat the crowd.

Did you use it? No. No, yeah. You run it because once you see all stalls, you're like, this is wrong. No, no, no, no. I've never gone to. the rest. That's not true. Oh, that's not true. It was an emergency situation? Mergey situation at a convenience store.

So that's wrong about that. You're at the stop and get? Yeah. The come and go. You know what I mean? And I had to go. But yeah, I was in the Rockets Warriors game in San Francisco, and I ran into the bathroom at halftime,

realizing there was no stalls. And I looked around and there was women walking in, and I was like, I'm out of town. And if all cities, I'd probably let you go to the bathroom in different ones. It's probably San Francisco. And that's why you're on that predator. watch list. That's probably so. All right. J.J. Watt was on a certain national television show. We won't

mention which one it was. Okay. You guys can figure it out. And he bragged about the local football team in town, including the Texans defensive coordinator, Matt Burke. He took over this defense after week three or four of this year when it was when they were 0 and three. And he turned them into the number one defense in the NFL. Now, that's not to take anything away from Domeco, who obviously has had the 49ers defense. He's had this Texan's defense playing well the whole time. So D'emico obviously has hands in all of this. But Matt Burke has done an unbelievable job. And there's plenty of people that when you bring him up in head coaching conversations say, well, can he bring Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter and Derek Stingley with him to the next job? It's like, well, you can say that about literally any

coordinator ever that gets a job. Can they bring the Josh Allen with them? Can they bring this guy with them? Like, yeah, if you have good players, you're not going to do all this exotic stuff because you don't have to. You play to your team's strengths. And right now, their team strengths are very strong. You don't need to do any exotic stuff. Matt's a great, great dude. I think he absolutely should be getting head coaching calls.

And he is getting head coaching calls. He is? I believe Tennessee was on the list to speak to him. Oh, really? They're talking to everybody. Well, why wouldn't you? I mean, eventually Amy Kronk-strong's got to get it right sometime. How do you think she feels watching Mike Vrabble doing this thing in New England? How do you think Tennessee

Titan fan feels about Mike Vibald being as successful as he is. I think generally she probably is doing some mental gymnastics to convince herself she still did the right thing. She's probably still like, oh, well, you know what? We don't have those players. Oh, we don't have Drake May and oh, we don't have this. She's like doing all this. Oh, they had a soft schedule. You know who's probably championing the Patriots had a soft schedule?

Amy Strunk. Let me tell you what Amy Strunk's thinking about. She's hate watching. Ooh, who is she rooting for this weekend? She has a new stadium coming up. She got no complaints. No, she's fine, but she's got, she's hate watching this game. She's rooting for the earthquake in Patriots Texans. Who is, uh, she's, ooh,

she's rooting for the Patriots. Ever so slightly. Because guess what her dad never brought Houston? A Super Bowl. A Super Bowl. You're going to let, what? Mike Vrebel getting one step closer, though?

She can live with that. She can live with that. The lesser of the two evils? What if Mike Vrable wins the Super Bowl? Same thing. She can't deal that. No, no. She cannot handle the Texans going to the Super Bowl.

She will lose her mind. This is actually, you know what? I actually want to do a Twitter poll now. Even though I don't know how it's much that's going to resonate with the people. Probably not much. But that's okay. No, I firmly believe she, again, both situations are less than prime.

Both, she's gritting her teeth on. are you kidding no way the adams family never brought a super bowl to houston and hannah brought one no way is she licking that she hates the texans and the texans hate her i guarantee you hannah sent amy a strunk a cronk a text and said suck it bitch there's no you can i get you're guaranteeing me yes suck it there's zero we got one you didn't biage bye and then amy says look at my new stadium you don't have one yet bye oh yeah oh yeah You win a Super Bowl, you might be getting easy. They're cat fighting right now. They win a Super Bowl. The resolution is going to be on the ballot come fall. That may be the case. All right, back to more JJ.

He thought of one player that should get more flowers than he's getting. Who is that, JJ? I've been saying this for many years that DeNeil Hunter is the most underrated player in the league. He legitimately is a Hall of Famer. Like, he should be a Hall of Famer. He is the least talked about future Hall of Famer in the world. mind, especially if he continues to do what he's been doing.

Hmm. All right, I'm pulling up the all-time sack list. By the way, would you also, I'll look up his contract stuff. DeNeil Hunter? Yeah, because I got some terrible news for you. He's going long time. You can't pay Will Anderson and

C.J. Stroud and Nico Collins and DeNeil Hunter. And it's easier to get rid of because he's 31, but he looks like he's in the prime of his career, so I understand. He is under contract through the 2026 season, which just one more year. Yeah.

If you love Daniel Hunter, cherish the remaining games he has as a Houston, Texan. Because I got news for you. The Texans need a running back too. And I would think and you're going to presume they're going to be spending some money on a running back, right? They just can't. Draft. Draft one.

In what round? Second or third? Okay. Offensive line, first round, running back second round. I like it. I like it. Fourth, fifth, six round. Yeah.

Load up on linemen and running backs. Yeah. Don't miss on O line. Kenyon Green. All right. So, let's go back to JJ. Blake Fisher.

What is Danielle Hunter's all-time numbers? He has... Oh, I'm sorry. That's at sacks or everything. Yeah, but I mean, as far as Hall of Fame careers. Yes, it's hard to get those linemen in. He's 37th on the all-time sack list with 114. And a half.

Tied with J.J. Watt all-time. ahead of Khalil Mech Aaron Donald was an inside guy but he had 111 I'm trying to look at like Hall of Famers he's ahead of Randy White

head of Charles Haley But those sack numbers Oh no Charles Haley had sack numbers Charles Haley had guest on Radio Road at some point with us Warren Sapp also an interior guy Hmm I mean Danielle Hunter It sounds like you

I mean if JJ has given him endorsement It's not like he's very close to that but it just, it doesn't roll off the tongue. When you're building your all-time defensive line, DeNeal Hunter's not the first thing you think of. T.J. Watt has half a sack more than DeNeil Hunter all time, but Daniel Hunter has two more years in the league. He's tied with J.J. Watt. He's ahead of Sean Jones by one and a half sacks.

Oh, don't tell Sean that. Oh, Lordy. Wile L. Zato with 112, but also most of his career, I think they might have went back in, pro football reference, like went back and watch tape or something like that. That's because, you know, they're not doing. What? J.J. Watt says the Texas defense. You know, how just, how good is that defense, JJ? Two defensive touchdowns. They get three turnovers on offense, the Texans did,

and the Steelers still ended up with six points on the night. Like, that's unbelievable to do. The defense is just incredible. Will Anderson's insane. Miles Garrett, obviously very clearly the defensive player of the year this year, but Will Anderson's year is incredible. And I can definitely see defensive player of the years in the future for him. And then the back end. Like, I don't know who's tweet it was. I saw somebody quote it, but somebody said, the Texan's defense looks like a bunch of velociraptors holding machine guns,

11 of them coming at you. That's exactly what it looks like, dude. They are just hyenas out there, just flying and killing people. It moves different. It shakes different. It hits different. They're unbelievable. And can they overcome, oh, below average offense?

They've done it once already, and they've done it about nine previous times before that. They overcame it. Well, they got four. This is the thing, too, though. The turnovers were bad. The Texans gained 400 yards in that game. That's not nothing. 400 yards still like 175, I think, for the Steelers.

Well, again, Christian Kirk had almost 150 yards receiving by himself. I think we are, the turnovers were bad. The fumbles were bad. But they were moving the ball with Woody Marks. And as you said, Christian Kirk, 250 yards of C. Strowd. 250 yards, one touchdown, one interception, isn't the worst line ever posted by a quarterback,

not even close. So they were moving the ball. They just weren't punching enough sevens, and they turned the ball over in the red zone. So be a little better. Don't turn the ball over. Be a little better against a little better team. And you're going to win,

which I'm sticking with, 19 to 17. The Patriots are going to score less than 20 points two weeks in a row. Yeah. Okay. I'll go for it. How better? Chargers, defense, or Texans? Texans.

Okay. Now, unfortunately, you know, one busted play or whatever. Whose defense is better? Patriots or the Steelers. Steelers? Comparable. Comparable. Comparable. 713.

Oh, here we got to do our Just Don't Get it. It's coming up. Yeah. This is a half hour we spend every week or thereabouts or something. That in your life you just don't get. And we, with three different generations, married, single, young or in my case all the above I might can't be single I'm married

I'm married. He's basically married. Yeah yeah yeah he's going to say more married than anybody He's got to save up for that ring. Thank you. You know what? I'll send you to Sethi's fine, Jerry. Don't remember about that. I just tell you get that the ring pops fine. Well she went to New York for Christmas. I mean that's expensive. She's been in some cash.

You see what I got to work with? Poor you. Uh-oh, high maintenance. All right, there may be some sort of misunderstanding or you may just something in life you just don't get. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. So make sure it's still on.

713-212-5-7-90. This is where you're calling with it. Literally anything can be sports-related. It can be life-related. We are here for you because we will get back to the Texans conversation throughout the course of the next couple hours. We do the Rockets game against the Oklahoma City Thunder tonight, 630. It's the tip time.

Well, it's like 640, but we're on your sheets at 615. So I'll go there. And maybe the answer is, even if, the games are at 7 or 730. Why are we a late arriving crowd for frankly all three of the sports teams? Is it because of the venues? Is it because of where they're located? Texas fans don't get to NRG until late first quarter. Is it tailgating? Is it the club scene in the arena is really good? But that's not 18,000 club seats. That's about 2,000 if you think about it. I mean, most people in the lower little can't even get in the clubs, upper or lower.

you pay for it. Astro fans can get their second inning, but that's a little bit different because there's so many games. I think, though, also... By the way, let me just say, I just don't get it. Okay. I think Astros fans are pretty good, especially playoff time. But it took a while. It took a while. Yeah. Maybe that's part of why we get it. I mean, the Rockets haven't won in championships. I mean, you tell me, 94, 95, was the crowd there early or no? Was it still late? I want to say they were there early. Like, for instance, there's about four or five places in the NBA that I go. that they're there at tip time

Chicago, Toronto, Brooklyn, New York. Maybe it's just the culture of the south, maybe. Atlanta doesn't get there any faster. San Antonio does a pretty good job. I think it's not any one answer. I think it is a lack of team success overall, long term.

I think it is maybe, you said maybe it's a culture or a southern thing or whatever. I think it is the corporate crowd, especially with the rockets. It feels like more than the others. Well, if it's north versus south, it could be travel as well getting to the stadiums. It's, yeah, but I mean, it's a decent location. Traffic's bad, but, I mean, they have the garage. There's a lot of parking around, I feel like.

Am I wrong? Because I'm spoiled because I go to the garage as a media member? Well, some people don't like the garage because it's very congested around the garage. Yeah, but usually I do post game and it's cleared out, so I got no problem with that. It changed a little personal spin on it. I know. That's what I'm saying. I'm spoiled.

Yeah, yeah. So I don't know. I can't speak to it. But I think that the team were better and that it is the corporate. Like I said, I knew a guy who was not from Houston who worked with a bank downtown and they had great seats. And he and his banker bros would go to a happy hour and like forget what, oh, the games, oh, it's seven o'clock, game starting. And then they'd get their 738. Like that's just, that's a lot of people do that.

Or they also just stay up in the club area. It sucks. It has been an argument that sports teams in this town have had internally for 30 years. I can't speak to the Texans. Can we get Wex on the line? Wex isn't impressed by 10 o'clock in morning. He wouldn't bill to answer this. Yeah, but he's in his seat by noon, so he knows who's... I mean, yeah. How many times do you look at people shooting videos or photos of energy at noon at kickoff? And there's like 15,000, 20,000 empty seats.

But again, we can go back to the winning well. Never made a freaking AFC championship game. They're back-to-back Super Bowl champions. They'd be people butts in seats at noon. Right. But the Rockets have thought about 7. 7.30. They've thought about how to the weekends go at 6th? They used to do 7.30.

When did they switch that? 7 years ago? Something like that? Longer than that. I mean, when I was doing PA 10 years ago, it was 7 o'clock. Okay. So it's been probably 15 years, probably, since they were 730s. I would say the prevailing number one reason would be just win, baby.

The Astros are the best in this town as far as people getting there on time. And it's not a coincidence. They're the most successful team. Well, I also think it's Astro fans, see if this makes sense. Astro fans purchase the tickets and actually are the ones that buy the tickets. The corporate numbers are probably higher for the Texans and the corporate higher numbers are higher for the Rockets. Yeah, let's just say there's, I don't even know. Well, it's a random number, 8,000 corporate seats in every stadium.

Well, there's 40,000 in the Astros. There's 65 or whatever thousand in. NRG. So the percentage is going to be higher in the rockets. Overall, are we buying that? I don't know. But it's a tough. It's a higher percentage of corporate. Because also corporate wants nicer seats.

They're going to want suites. They're going to want floors. They're going to want lower bowls. Corporations aren't buying the 400s. But it is, Kevin said it. Durant down on his Twitter. It's like, man, we're a second quarter city. We are. And I don't know if, maybe a championship

would change that. Absolutely. And probably would be. Yeah, go ahead. Jonathan, or Jonathan. Yeah, let's go with you, Jonathan. Jonathan, why don't you get this week, my friend? All right, mine might sound funny, but I swear this is genuine. Okay. Because earlier this week, some car, some Toyota Corolla just cut me off, and I'm looking

right at its bumper, and it goes baby on board. Then I started thinking about it. Why do people even do that? I don't get, why are you putting the little sticker baby on board if I don't like student driver I don't understand that I mean if you're driving you're driving I don't

Baby on board to me sounds like Please be careful and stay far away from us Yes so I actually read this recently on Twitter Or an article like Your people Jonathan Jin Ziers Yeah Are

You know a lot of times You know they've grown up on their phones Their whole lives So they have anxiety when they actually go into the real world So because they're so anxious And they want people to be careful driving around them They have people who don't have children, people who are not student drivers.

Because I've been seeing student driver everywhere lately too. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. People who they're putting student driver and or baby on board stickers on their cars. In their minds, it's going to make people drive more cautiously around them. That's what I can Google this now because I literally saw this. Like I said, it was there an article on it recently. Yeah, because that person cut me off and I was like, wait, you don't have a baby in your car. And that's all that like three more cars.

I was like, dang. Yeah. So that's why they're doing it because they want people to drive more cautious around. It's like an unofficial stay a little further away from me. Now, you don't expect the baby to be on board every single time, right? You can't do the baby everywhere. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, exactly.

So you're asking you want the sticker to come off when the baby ain't on board. So you want them to like hang a little sign in there and take the sign down. Like yeah, that's how some morals here. Like when the doctor is in. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to start putting a baby on board in my car. I want people say, wait for you for you. for me.

I wonder if that actually does work. You know, I just, I don't know. All right. Rossi, what don't you get? Y'all are going to say you get it. That's part of the show. Why is everybody using AI for everything? Chat GPT,

whatever, Google Gemini, GROC. I get it. Because, no, but this is the thing. I get the idea of it. It's easier. I don't have to think about it. I ask AI. But how many more times do you need to be burned by AI being wrong and getting incorrect information? And we've seen people who are publishing articles using AI and it's misinformation and things that I do believe it or not every day.

And I ignore the Google AI. I don't look at it anymore because it's been wrong too many times. So when you get burned enough times and then you continue to use it, I understand the idea of using it. But at this point, it's so wrong so often. I don't understand why people are still using it so much. I have a friend of mine who will not name his name. Gets in arguments with Google AI. Yeah, they're wrong all the time.

Yeah, because Chad GPD, they're all wrong so much. Arguments, though? Yeah. I personally... People get girlfriends. They get the AI girlfriends. This person says, if you get this wrong, Chapit, GPT, I want your...

He says terrible things to this chat GPD. Really? It's like I'm going to have a guess who it is. I'm going to have you shut down. I'm going to have your computer program restarted. And chat DPT gets really different. It's like it's like a conversation. I'm like what, what are y all doing? Walk out of your houses people. Please go for a walk amongst the trees. Smell the fresh air. Smell some fresh air. Touch some grass. And it doesn't help that every time you look up something is straight AI. It's not. It's right. I, you know what? I need to figure out like a, I think you put, I think you put Google search and you put minus AI or something like that. I need to use that because I'm getting tired of this.

All right. We got folks that have questions for us on things they don't get. We'll get to them next. 1145 here on Sports Talk 790. All right. Well, we wouldn't, we don't like to have dead air. Computers are frozen. It's been an issue all week long. Yeah, that's okay. And it's been really a problem.

We moved to this building, but that's a different issue for a different time. Life is hard. It's fine. 713. Dung, do, doong, doong, do. Let's go to our friend, provide the phones work. Larry and Spring on 7-9. Larry, good morning to you. Ross, Jonathan.

Hey, man, okay, this is just personal experience. My wife, I don't get it. After over 40 years, we plan on going somewhere the day before. I give her time, everything. I get up the next morning and time enough, and we never leave on time. I don't get it. Now, to correlate that with this, do you notice how many women be at Texas?

Not just football, baseball, and basketball, Texas events? Huh. So you're saying it's the women are holding, is the reason the crowds are late? No, no, no, no. No, I'm not saying it. Don't get in trouble. Okay.

Thank you very much, Larry. It sounds like you. Yeah. Yeah. So he doesn't get why his wife? always late. You know, it's funny, women are never late for their nail appointments. Or hair appointments. You're right. You know,

we can get this going. For hair appointments, I've stayed out of this. They're not late when the Nutcracker Market opens up. When they want new shoes or new clothes of the mall. They're not late when it's girls on out. They're not late when it's

bridal party, I mean, a engagement party. Bridal shower. Baby shower. A man, it's late if you're going to meet some couples to have dinner. and drinks at a restaurant and watch a big game. They're laid for that. Yeah, women, let me ask you all this. Why y'all leave for stuff that's important to us and you're not laid for your own personal stuff?

Ross, any thoughts? I mean, I'm pretty bad punctually in general. I always overestimate. I should say underestimate. Like, let's say something's 10 minutes away. I'm like, oh, I'll be there in 10 minutes. Well, I'll have to brush my teeth. I have to get ready.

I have to shower or whatever. So I'm not going to be there in 10 minutes. It takes me 10 minutes to get to. there, but for whatever reason, I can't make the... I'm just bad. I'm getting better. I'm kind of. Trying to. Hey, I was here

a reasonable time today. And I was early yesterday because I had to pre-record something. But you weren't here just for the sake of the show. I was here. I was here for 845 yesterday. I was here before you. You're not even here half the time. That's true. I got the road next week.

Kind of looking forward to it. I love getting up late and just putting on the radio equipment and just going four hours of greatness from my room. Yeah. The things I can do in my bedroom while on there is amazing. Okay. Of course, providing great quality sports content and other stuff.

David and humble. David, what don't you get, my man? I don't get where some people, Matt Thomas, and we look around Houston, all the malls in Houston, and everywhere that we go, that I go, that people do the same thing over and over again. It's the art of insanity. It's the art of insanity is that people do things over and over and over and over again. Respecting a different result? As expecting a difference.

What example are you looking at here, David? Well, eating disorder. Eating disorder. People, when they're fat, they eat cookies and cakes, pies, and things. of that nature, and knowing that they are eating too much of the cookies, cakes, and pies, and candy, and it's not good for them. And they do it, and it's insanity. And in their mindset, they don't want to lose weight and become healthy.

David, I got a problem for, I got a quick solution to you. David, cookies and pies and cakes taste good. That's why they do it. I know, but too much of it, no, well, too much of it, it's not good. Too much of a bad thing. It's actually what we talked about with Luca Donchich. David? These are generally deeply rooted psychological issues.

Not liking yourself. You need that little hit of dopamine. You need that little joy, these little, because you're not, you're not. Yes, here we go. Oh, yeah. Let me get the hand. Oh, here. Yes, this is great.

Is this a billable hour, by the way? I love this bit. Yeah, I'm going to start charging all you. Because when you're not happy with yourself and you're not happy with your life situations, you look for happiness. elsewhere. These little bits of happiness, whether it be eating too many snickers and M&Ms, whether it be too many alcoholic drinks, or you're trying to escape reality and you're trying to bring yourself up. You know, I've also often equated it to like a hot air balloon mat.

You know, along this life that we're in, we're in a hot air balloon, okay? And there's these bags of sand that drag us down in this balloon, whether it be personal traumas, whether it be unhappiness with our work or our lives or anything going on. Things stressing us down. Those are the bags of sand that drag us down. And in order to find an equilibrium often, what do you do with that hot air balloon mat? You fuel it up. You hit the fire.

You try to get so you can rise above it. And a lot of times that fuel for people is going to be food. It's going to be alcohol. It's going to be drugs. It's going to be just scrolling your phone endlessly. And what you need to do, rather than just fueling up with those things, you need to those bags. You need to cut those bags of sand. You need to figure out and address those issues and fix those stresses and fix those traumas. So those bags of sand aren't dragging you down

anymore and you don't have to fuel up as much with food or whatever other vices. So cut the bags of sand and you'll live a happier life. And we all say amen. Can C.J. Stroud have a fewer turnovers this Sunday than he did this past Monday. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. A great week for college sports in Houston, for that matter, pro sports in Houston, especially tonight and Sunday. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. Our time is 1201.

Good afternoon to you. Ross, how the hell are you? Doing great, Matthew. Get your nice career as an amateur therapist working beautifully. You're taking consults right now. Your co-pays $150. That's reasonable. Is it?

Sure, why not? Sounds good to me. Let's get to what is most important. The reason is why we do pay you the large amount of money that you make here at the radio station. Yes. And that's to give us the news at noon. Yes, Matthew, a number of things going on in the world of sports. The Rockets will be in action tonight.

It is an early... Those of you who have tickets. It's an early 630 start. Starts at 3.30 actually starts at 6.15. 615 start Rockets taking on the Oklahoma City Thunder They are four and a half point dogs at home In this one should be a cracker of a match

Also they'll be on a back to back Matt No rest for the weary How are you feeling by the way? On the road all year long All these road games and doing okay? I look great Had been two days off and however long And they're not getting another one for like what

Three more weeks or so We have a hilarious schedule games coming up Yeah it was a lot of days off early this season Three games and four days coming up Now they're getting tightly compacted. They're on the back. This is the first leg of a back-to-back. They'll be taking on the Minnesota Timberwolves tomorrow as well.

Also, some news of the NFL, according to Adam Schaefter. John Harbaugh expected to be the New York Giants head coach. Of course, they've tossed in the barring a setback. So barring a setback, John Harbaugh is going to be the new New York a giant's head coach, your reaction. I didn't hear, I'm sorry. John Harbaugh? Oh, Giants head coach. Was the chalk pick all the way through, right?

Yes. It felt like the best mix. Does he have the best quarterback of any of the opening jobs? Unless you like Cam Ward. I would, you know what? Cam Ward played pretty well towards the end of the season. Do you want to be with Amy Adams Strunk? Also, do you want to be at the Maras?

The Maras have a bad track record. We'll put it this way. These teams that are looking for coaches, they've been looking for coaches for a long time. Tennessee, Arizona, the Giants. It's organizationally as Steelers are the best situation? Like a stable, good ownership situation?

Well, if you go off of the number of coaches they've had the last 40 years, the answer would be yes. Okay. Hmm. Just something to think about. Okay, Matt, well, we have the latest in a gambling scheme with the NCAA and the FBI. These are coming every couple of weeks now.

But now, according to ESPN, And this article written by David Purdom, their gambling writer, 20 men have been charged in a point shaving scheme involving 39 college basketball players on 17 different Division 1. Teams leading to 29 different games being fixed, according to a federal indictment unsealed today in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. you. Now, I saw the list, a partial list. I didn't stare at it. It looked like to me a lot of very, very low Division I schools. Doesn't make it right. But nothing that really synced our teeth into going, oh my gosh, the essence of the incidentally term it could be impaired. I would say the most recognizable of these programs would probably be Tulane, Southern Miss. Yeah, like I said. St. Louis had some recognition back in the day.

Nothing lately. Hall, Alabama State, yeah, then it's like Fordham, LaSalle. Uh-oh, we need to get Bill Raftery's thoughts on the LaSalle corruption. You know, his last coaching spot was Seton Hall, so. He's a LaSalle alum. That he is. And beloved, I believe, there.

So apparently a pretty pervasive corruption scheme that is being called historic. The scheme was focused on fixing games also in the Chinese Basketball Association. Uh-oh, we know. know somebody used to play there. Okay, you know what? If you're betting on the CBA, if you're betting Chinese basketball, please seek help. I mean, look, I don't mind getting a little taste on the under or the over.

I'm going to throw together a $20 teaser for the playoff game this weekend. But if you're betting on the CBA, you need to seek help. My God, you're sick. Tell me how you really feel. Okay. Apparently, they targeted college basketball teams as well, offering bribes to college players, from $10,000 to $30,000 to compromise these games. The defendants defrauded sports books as well as individual sports better

who are all unaware that the, unaware that the defendants had corruptly manipulated the outcome of these games. I guess you're saying is how outrageous are we supposed to be? Is this going to keep on how? Are we going to hear, am I going to be doing the news at noon in the next couple of years and we're going to hear this gambling scheme, that gambling scheme, Or is at some point the fire is going to be stamped out somewhat. Let me give you something that's really going to bother you. Okay. Because gambling is so intertwined now with college and pro sports,

somebody's going to throw a game that's going to be a star and involving a very, very, no, I said a star. It's going to involve a very important event, a college national championship, a final four, an NFL playoff game. I really hope I'm wrong about this, but unless these sports organizations have these 24-7 surveillance on these kids and these athletes, how are you, I don't know,

I'm definitely afraid this is going to only not say give us more cases, but the next time we hear about this, it could be about something that's much more magnified because of the importance of the game and the importance of the athlete and who it is. I hope I'm wrong. Yeah, I can't rule anything out.

I have to be open-minded about everything, because I didn't think that the gambling scheme, I underestimated the greed of these gamblers and these schemers. Yeah. Because that's what we've talked about. Like, once everybody's going on. Matt, don't you think it's red flags in the sports book when they're getting a flood of activity on the LaSalle game?

Yes, it's a red flag. So I want to say, are they going to wisen up and not do this anymore? I want to say yes, but the logic, the greed has defied the logic. So I don't know what's going to happen. It's a byproduct of society. We cheat at our companies.

We steal money from our company. We embezzle. We steal from the, we try to get away from stuff from the IRS. I know. We're always trying to put more money in our checking account. We just are. By any means.

And again, if you're an athlete and these athletes, and look, I live part of this world, they think they're immune from stuff. And as long as you hold true, You're also dealing with, yeah, 20, at this point, these college kids, 19, 20-year-old, very naive. You put $30,000 in front of a LaSalle player. That's a lot of money. Or, as in the case, that you have done some gambling and you need to make it up and you don't have the cash to do so.

I would throw this show for 30 G's. You've been throwing this show for 16 years. Yeah, they paid me those. You used to be great, too. Oh, wow. What else you got? Elsewhere in the news at noon, Matt, a recent news on the World. World Baseball Classic Front.

Clayton Kershaw going to pitch for the United States of America. And Alex Bredman. Is going to play for Team USA, the newly minted Chicago Cub, who by the way, I think you,

was that a gut feeling, did you put your name on it, that no Asher would play in the WBC? I did not say that. You didn't want, I don't want an Astro to play. Did I even say it, maybe? You wrote it down, didn't you? I got to find, check the files. Please. Tell me I'm right about this.

You know what, this is wrong. I shouldn't be bringing up all your past errors and failures. It's not right. You know, I'm going to try to be better this year. You know, it's funny. You bring up the errors regularly. You never bring up the things I hit. Because you've really, you launched a whole character off of one prediction.

So I was like, you know what? Somebody's got to bring this guy down to earth. It was such an amazing prediction. No, not only am I. Out of your ass. Listen to me. Now only am I a great predictor. I'm an analyst and I'm most importantly an insider.

Yes. And very humble about all the above. Yeah. Okay. So Breggie is going to play. play for the WBC and Team USA, not Team Israel. Congratulations to him. Worry number three for the Chicago Cubs.

Yes. Okay, let's keep it with some baseball news, Matt. Now, this is a believe him or not when it comes to John Heyman. Yes. Dush. He still has arson judge going to the San Francisco Giants, I think. That's not nice. Folks involved say a deal for number one free agent.

Kyle Tucker, this was posted at 630 this morning, could come as soon as today. X teammates guess he'd prefer Toronto over an even bigger market and like spring near Tampa. So I guess Toronto Springs near Tampa? No, spring training is in Dunedin and it's a suburb of Tampa. Okay. The Mets offered a $50 million a year deal. Dodgers are used to winning anyone else is a major upset. So Mets, Dodgers, Toronto.

Looking like the favorites for Kyle Tucker. Don't ask me to up the bet. But I also don't want to lower the bet. I'm going to tell you right now, I don't think the years are as big of a thing to him as it is to you. I think it's about the per year of money. The AAV? Yeah.

Yeah, but I mean, you also want, what's better? $400 million or $200 million? I think. If he wants to bet on him and say, he could absolutely do a short-term opt-out deal. He had the injuries last year. He had a great season. Like, you had no shot when he was like OPSing 250,

OPS plus. I mean, then he got hurt. Then he got hurt, and he was playing hurt hurt on his calf injury. And had him mid postseason. I'm sad.

Sad for you. Sad. That's okay. The habocchi meal's going to taste good no matter what. Especially when the check comes your way. Yeah, when the check comes,

you know what? I'm going to try to put that out of my mind. I'm trying to enjoy the meal for what it is, and then when the check comes, I'll be sad. You know what we're going to do Jonathan during the entire meal? We're going to do it.

We're going to live stream it? Live stream the entire dinner. What if I win? So that's fine. But when people we continue to order, would you like some more wine? Yes. Would you like to make that a fried rice compared to a white rice? Absolutely.

I'd go for the fried. Would you like your steak to be a sir line? No filet mignon for you, sir. No, sir. We're tapping you out at cube steak. Oh, the rules certainly change. It's your piggy bank paying for it. Well, your piggy bank's bigger than mine.

That's true. I mean, I can't argue that. That's your news. That's true. I don't know. It's probably close when you get to house payment and kids. That's why I'm working these two jobs. 1212 on Sports Talk 7. I mentioned Rockets against Oklahoma City tonight.

What a great first game we had. That was October 21st. That feels forever a day ago. It was a long time ago. And a must-win game for the Houston Rockets. Says who, you? I don't know. I like it.

Probably somebody saying that. Hey, I would love for. for the Rockets to, you know, by the way, Denver won last sign against Dallas, and Denver didn't have Nicola Yokic. They only do is win. They're in the two-seat now with the Spurs losing a couple in a row. Spurs are human. And by the way, the Oklahoma City Thunder are human these days. By the way, they're in the two-seat, you're only three games behind them.

Oh, that's easy. Let's go, baby. Make that up in days. 1213 of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you'd like to be a part of our show to get into some Texans' conversation, 713-212-5-790, if you want to get in some Rockets talk. and Kyle Tucker, where is he going? And more importantly, how long is it going for? And, you know, we have not done it a while. We've not even worried about Jake Myers. I have a quick question.

Or Isok Paranids either. What's going on with Verizon? Is it still down? I'm not. I'm seeing a lot of tweets about it. I have a May Me account, so. Yeah. Me too.

All right. Well, I hope you guys are okay over there. And you Verizon people try, is that the reason people can't call them today? Because they're all Verizon subscribers? Oh, it could be. I've just figured it out. 713, 21, 2, 4. 570. Hey, if you're an AT&T here, come on in early. Call us from Google Voice. Do we want that?

Sure, why not. Call us on a Zoom. We tried that with Kevin Harlan. Didn't work out. Did we ever get him on the Zoom by the way, Jonathan? Or was it all strictly phone call? No, he was on the phone call. It didn't sound good. By the way, Kevin Harlan... He was in the other room on the call tonight as a matter of fact. Oh, with Prime Video. He's in the building? You're going to see him? Yes. Maybe I will come to the arena. I've only met him once. He's a sweetheart. Yeah. You should come to the game because they're going to be filming me doing my pregame activities too. No, I don't want to take your shine like you said. I'm actually leaving when they get here. No, you're staying. It's a Matt Thomasville Ross.

Not the Matt Thomas show with my hair. Yeah. You didn't put a nice sweatsuit on. It's good. I didn't even try to. I am matching. You are matching. I do got the fit on.

It's not fitting that well. 1214 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-79. If you want to chime in, 7-1-3-212-5. 790. That's one. We'll give another one. And that feels about it probably

because it's not really breaking no Nico Collins at Texans practice today. Okay. Yeah, he's done. He got, he gone. And I said, got feeling we weren't going to see him

to a Super Bowl Sunday. Now, whether he's in our house watching the game with us, or he's actually on the field playing? I hope you're wrong about that. Did he haven't had a, what was, he missed a game or two this year, right? But it wasn't concussion, was it?

No, I don't believe so. It was a healthy scratch in the last game. Oh, yeah, it was one game maybe for something and then a healthy scratch. Okay. I'll be more with you. Not more with you because we don't know. Right. We're not his neurologist.

But when it's multiple, for sure, multiple weeks, it's more likely. So hopefully one week miss for Nikko Collins. They can sneak past the Patriots. Sneak? You can't say that. that. Why? There's no sneaking around the Patriots. You're going to beat them. You're not going to sneak around them.

You're not going to catch them off guard. Stop me if you've heard this before. Texans win Ugly in New England. That's not a sneak though. An ugly win is sneaking by. That's that's a man to your strengths. Okay, save the Samantha's for two to six, Matt. Come on. What are you talking about? Come on now, man. Come on, man. I hate them.

Okay. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. Go ahead. You put me at a loss. This is not normal. What were we talking about? Nico Collins. Yes.

So I know some people counter argue that, hey, now C.J. Stroud doesn't have to lock into Nico and he can distribute the ball everywhere and stuff like that because there are some fantasy, not fantasy football, the NFL analysts who chart and talk about C.J. Stroud relying too heavily on his first read, stuff like that. but when you're running for your life, you're going to rely on your first read. So that's the counter argument. But anyways, Nico Collins out.

Does that mean could this maybe be a blessing in disguise? Some people like to argue because then he can spread the ball around where it is Higgins and it is Kirk and it is Shultz and it is checking down to the running backs and not getting locked in on Nico Collins? I don't think it's a blessing in disguise. I think we're not used to it, but we've adapted to it. Because again, he had a good season, did Nico? He's still a WR1 in this league. 1100 yards in 15 games, very good.

But will you put together the super highlight reel of the Houston Texans? First of all, it's 90% defense. Yeah. And frankly, it's 5% Kimey Fairbairn and then it's 5% the rest of the offense. It's Knowles' progression. It's Higgins progression. It is what he marks is progression. It is, I can't, the Tidon's name I'm dropping.

I can't remember. name. Case over or Dolan Schultz? Dilton Schultz? I was going to call him Dallas, but that's Dallas Clark. Dallas Clark. It's Dalton Schultz continued progression. This by me, remember when Dalton Schultz got his deal three years ago, people were like wigging the F out?

That's been money you had spent. It really has been. He's been durable. He plays. He catches. He has very few drops. It doesn't commit nearly as many penalties as he used to. He's been the, I want to say the unsung hero, but he's been the nice security blanket

that CJ has been able to do. He's really come along in the second half of the season, especially in the play action game. He's been especially effective. Nico Collins receiving yards per game. I have him at 8th in football. Behind, you know, all the

top names you would think of. C.D. Lamb, Drake London, Amon Ra, Jemar Chase, Pickens, Jackson Smith, and Jigba Pooka, Kaka, Kna Cua. So he's in the 8. That's great. I had a Trey McBride, Alave, Rashi Rises, A. Flowers. Yep.

So, yeah. he's important catch the ball runs good routes I don't know what his run blocking is like don't particularly care that's good enough

he's physical yards if a catch is good he's no Kevin Walter but who isn't especially the greatest the greatest blocking wide receiver of all time

of all time you guys in Houston went nuts speaking of 2016 you love Kevin Walter or Kevin Walter or Kevin Walters depending on what you want

to add an ass to his name or not good times he's a good Blonker, that's why he's on the team. He probably went there in 2016. That probably was past the time. Yeah. Well, hopefully he's doing well wherever he is.

But Nico Collins being missed is significant for sure. Okay, somebody said this is Nico. It was a concussion. Okay. I wasn't sure. Let me go. No, but no, if listeners are getting it right, I mean, they're not going to send his wrong information. People love to jump in and correct us, so it's good. Yeah, that's fine.

I mean, I was wrong. I wasn't sure. No, that's okay. You know, we've had so much conversation. And the way that his head hits. the ground at, well, he's behinds field. Twice. Accresure, yeah.

And that field looks nasty, right? I don't care if it was the 83 degree day or it would have. The field just doesn't look like it's ever had real grass on that stadium. I don't know why they do it. But that's a different issue. That's their own issues. Did we just 30 years ago just pretend that concussions didn't exist in the NFL? Yeah. You give some guys some smelling salts and send them on his way.

Did you see the smelling salt video of Jalen Petrie? Do you remember when Brett Farve, what was like a Monday? His dad had died or whatever? It was like a Monday night or something? Or was that two different stories? No, no. His dad and he played against the Raiders. He got the concussion and didn't remember throwing the pass? Dad, I don't know about that part, but I remember him playing his after

Dad passed. I don't know if I'm blending two stories or if it's one story. Either way, I don't remember if the Dad passed. Let's just throw that part out. He got a concussion and like completely got knocked out, came back in the game, and then after the game said he didn't remember throwing the game winning touchdown. It's like against the Raiders or something.

Now, I told you this before. I mentioned this a few times, but the audience always changes. The only time I ever remember covering the Texans and worrying about a concussion was when Chris Brown made a special team's tackle, and I went to talk to Chris in the locker map for the game, and he said, hey, did we win? Yeah, I was against the Giants in 2004. He's like, yeah, I don't remember throwing that pass.

28-yard touchdown, game-winning touchdown to Javon Walker. But I mean, let's put it this way. That was 20 years ago. It's not that long ago. Our audience, which is, you know, between 25 and 54, generally speaking, maybe a little bit older in some aspects. I remember the older than the 90s? I mean, it was 30 years ago, but it wasn't 50. I mean, we have a large collection of our audience that remembers Haywood Jeffries and Ernest Givens and Drew Hill.

We, you tell me, all those guys didn't take nasty spills. I don't remember Ernest Givens missing serious periods of time because his head hit the turf of the Astrodham, which sucked at the time. And they would play through it. They would literally go check back into the same game. Yeah, it's nuts. And this is good. Now, the on-field product, you know, a guy can be good about Nico Collins,

but for the health of these human beings, Nico Collins is a human being. He's not just here for our entertainment. Yeah. He's a person. It's good for them. All right, 1229. It is Matt and Ross with you till 2 o'clock today.

What is, believe it or not, at 150? I'm about to ask you the same thing. This show is blowing by. 2006. Oh, 2016. It was a concussion against the Seahawks. Yes, multiple people are telling me. Okay, good.

So, yeah. Give out the shout-out to the concussion people. A shout-out to Brandon and J.F. Yeah. Appreciate both y'all. Thank you, gentlemen. So, yeah, that leads me towards more you're going to be right. If they make it to the Super Bowl, it'd be that long until Nico Collins came back.

Yeah. If you're Nico Collins fan, you're going to see him on Super Sunday. Now, whether he's at a bar doing an appearance or he's playing in the game, you're going to be able to see him. All right, believe it or not, today is 2016, because a lot of people on Instagram are celebrating the year 2016. I posted some photos of my sports life on Twitter in 2016. I'll put it on IG. I'm going to put them on IG.

I'm going to put family stuff on there too. We're trying to blow up the IGs. Let's go. I'm at 3110. Good. That's low. Come on, man. Wex has passed you. No way. Well, Wex also Instagram's like 95 times a day. So what? You know what he was doing the other day?

He Instagramed his dessert at the TOTA Center, Media Dining. Good for him. No, it's not good for him. We don't need to see everything in your life. Let's take a look here. Honing it's a Wex have. I see now I got you motivated to go to Instagram. This is great.

Wait, who's this guy on your Twitter? This guy with the red hat on your Twitter, Matt? The guy on the red hat. What are you talking about? There's go, Adam Clinton's got 9500. Let's get you. He's an IG whore, though. That's difference.

Yeah, but we need to get you. Come on the red hat. I'm going to get your numbers up. This black guy you got on the picture with you in the blue shirt. Who's this? Oh, oh, that, you know, that is? That's, what's his face? Oh, okay. Yeah, it's what's his face.

Saturday Night Live, comedian. Does all the impersonations. Mm-hmm. He was on with Adam and Adam Internight a few weeks back. Jay Farrell. Good job, because I couldn't remember. Yeah, Jay Farrell. That's my guy.

He was, Jay Farrow's my guy before he was Adam. Is he your guy? Of course he is. Very close. I can call him right now. I think if he's your guy, he'd remember who you are. He does remember who I am. How many lies the day you said?

713-212-5-790. It's 1231. It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Mr. Ross with E 1235 on Sports Talk 790. Our friend Pedro said Verizon is finally back as of 9 o'clock last line. Eight hours of outage. They offered you $20 for compensation on our bill.

You know there'll be a class action lawsuit coming. I missed a phone call that could have helped me with a medication, B, finding my wife, C, my job, I'm suing you. Or can they do that? They're probably legally, probably there's a user agreement that outages are going to happen. Yeah. Whenever you agree to their services. Yeah.

I always get you in those terms of service. I think really, frankly, the satellite TV providers that knock out channels for length of time and the satellite and the phone companies, they don't, they don't, they don't, go overboard. Give them 50. let it make them feel good. But my guess they're thinking of $20 and $50, probably don't make that big of a difference to the average person. All right.

Matt and Ross with you on sports jumps. What's believe it around today? 2016. Oh, okay. Sure, why not? Just various events that happened that year. We can't come up with anything else. We never did John Harbaugh, did we?

We don't have that officially signed yet. Let's get him officially as a giant coach. I thought it was done. No, I don't think it's done this. Adam Schifter is posting a picture with his hands. hat on. I mean, I think he's the, are you sure?

On the, yeah, I think this finalized. Oh, maybe it's not. Look, Adam Schifter is posting, look, this is a bad Photoshop.

ESPN, get a new Photoshop guy. No, that's not it. He's not wearing a real jersey, real hat. Yeah, no, it's a fake hat,

but Adam Schifter posted it. An hour ago, except the Giants offered to become a new coach. So it's done. Yeah. Okay. Well, if you want to do,

if you want to do John Harbaugh, then that's good to. Let's talk to the folks. Let's say hello to Richard and pass a get down Dina 1236. Hi, Richard. Hey, man. Thank you, you and Ross for having me on. You know, we need to get excited.

We are three games from a world championship in football. And you know we've got the best defense. And all we have to do is hold it together on offense. We need to get behind these guys and really talk it up in this city and this town. We're that close. can y'all i know y'all do a great job that's the reason i want to pass it on to y'all if we can get this town fired up in some way we need to get fired up about these guys i gotta be honest richard i believe the city's pretty fired up i i don't hear a lot of hesitancy now is there a concern

yeah but i think people especially if we get closer to this kickoff which will be sunday at two o'clock the city of houston's going to lose their minds you know how i can tell you that richard i want you to go to any TV station and watch a bunch of dorks go to a sports bar and then a reporter who's got Texans gear on going look where I am, look at the man on the street. You'll see those stories left and right. People are going to start to get more and more excited.

There's a certain level of excitement. It's going to be ramped up by Sunday. Trust me on this. I love it. Thank you. Hey, thank you. Thank you guys for reporting. I love your show. Thank you. Nice to hear from you. You know, you're a great reporter, Matt. Thank you. The Texans insider. Yeah, was that big city wings. As I said on Monday.

Place was packed. Yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't, with Texans fans. This is, look, we are an avenue to talk about everything good and bad about a sports team. We, hell, when the Astros winning a World Series, we were worried about George Springer leading off. You know what I mean? This is what we do. We, we break it down and not necessarily X and O's, but we discuss layers to everything. So it's not going to, you just can't come on the air and go, you all excited?

Segment two. You all excited? Segment three, you all excited. I mean, you may find some spots to do that, but we're going to try to, halfway in, telling you and talk about the game and so there are issues to it but no i absolutely believe people are excited yeah i think so i think there's been a lot of more buzz around the city and i think you know uh i haven't felt or at least as much on twitter or wherever with callers as well that they're going up to new england in the divisional round or usually normally you say that

texans go to new england for the divisional round we would all be like oh this is not here we go again here we can play off game and done perfectly said here we go again yeah i'm not feeling that. I'm not feeling that at all. Look, this is it literally. Now, I don't care of Vegas. To me, this is a coin flip game. If the Patriots and Texans

play 10 times on a neutral field, I think both teams could win five times. I really do believe that. Neutral field Yeah, that's probably right. I want to give the Texans some, but I can't. You can give them, if you want to say six, four, three at home is probably, they generally, three at home is a neutral field is 50-50.

Yeah. If you put it in a middle of a stadium, whether it was a dome stadium or you put them in a middle of Nebraska. Hmm. Could be windy. I just think it's, I think there's too many elements. Let's do this quickly. Quarterback. Vantage Patriots.

Running backs. Vantage Patriots. Wide receiver. Offensive line. Vantage Patriots. Offensive line? Patriots. No, I don't know.

I don't think so. You got rookies on the left one on the left side. You would pull up. those final rankings from the season? Oh, okay. Yeah, do this. I can do it. Let's do it. Give me the New England. Hey, I think you're going to be a little disappointed. Patriots 11th, Texans, 27th.

Okay, maybe I'm disappointed. So, bar the PFF rankings, remember, they're Poonhounds. It's just one data point. Yes. But if it's 11 to 27, they're not going to get that far off. Special teams, I would lean Texans. Sure, why not? Because Fairbairn has had an excellent season.

Jalen Knowles, the goat. Yeah. Tommy Towns had booted one real bad. He shanked one bad. Yeah, yeah. Okay, defensively. Secondary? Texans. Linebackers, probably Patriots, especially in coverage.

Defensive line, Texans. Coaching, Patriots. Patriots. Okay. 5545. Because of Josh McDaniels when you add in the, if you added the whole, you're talking to a whole staff. Yeah, I would say a whole staff.

All the staffs, well, you're a Patriots, I guess. Let's talk to Rick on 790 at 1241. Rick, good afternoon to you. Hey, Matt, and Ross. Just got a question about CJ being having Max protection or a roving pocket form where they roll them out to one side and give them a little bit more room. But making them have the availability to throw down the field with a long appeal. period of time. And then also

the option of him running, because a couple times in the last game, he could have gotten the first down, especially on that pass that he threw away in the red zone. I'm just wondering whether or not that is something that they're

probably training on. This week, I think they're going to blitz him a lot. Rick, did you watch the game against Pittsburgh? Yes. There was at least three rollouts to the left for C.J. Strider in the game. So to answer your question, you must have a line of communication between the Texans and your thoughts because they rolled him out. They had Blake Fisher as a sixth lineman a lot.

A lot this year. That's all right. You're not getting any breaking news out there. The things you want are things they're already implementing. Yeah, but I think CJ just gets nervous in the pocket for some reason. Either doesn't go like I got to throw the ball or he doesn't take the option to run. and that's something that he probably can handle. You know what, Rick, I think he's been told not to run.

I really do. I mean, I can't, no one would ever say that because if Damiko admitted that, that'd be giving up a huge component of the game. I thought there was so much hesitation or lack there of willing to run that I think C.J. has been told not to do it. And that's how he got his concussion.

Yeah, I really believe that. I'll hang up and listen to you. Thank you very much. Now, it doesn't mean that, now, now, If he gets a three-yard game for a first down. Yeah, but I'm saying, as part of the offense, he is looking through all of his progressions, and he is going to take off at the very, very last second.

Or if he's going to run, it's because he can go to the weak side of the field, the short side of the field, and get one yard and get out of bounds. I don't think there's anything that is a component of CJ's game that says, hey, if your first look down the field is covered up and you can't go to a safety valve, use your legs. I don't think that's in the vernacular this week. I think that it needs to be. I think if you want to say, yeah, during the regular season, don't run as much, don't do anything crazy.

But it's playoff time. It's time to throw caution in to win. It's time to just play and be yourself and do whatever the defense is giving you. Because I keep coming back to those couple of plays he made against the Chargers last year that were huge, where he was rolling out and running away from guys, and then also running down the field. and getting chunks of yardage. It can be an element. It's not something that needs to be.

He's not fast. I'm not saying run a bunch of zone reads with him tucking the ball and running, but something that he can do when it is afforded to him by the defense. Take what they're giving you. Take those yards.

Yes, we don't want you to get hurt. We don't want you to get concussed, but it's the playoffs. You got to do whatever it takes. So if he's not going to take those yards against the Steelers, why would he do it against in theory a better defense? I'm saying he should have done it against the Steelers. I don't know. Ross, I don't think it's, I think it's either in the hesitation in his brain or he's been told don't do it.

We don't know. We're not in the meeting rooms. It does feel like it's something they're trying to coach out of him because that's, because, right, you open yourself up to being hurt more. I'm not asking her to be Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson. Pat Mahomes is somebody who can run a little bit, but also probably faster than C.J. Stroud, unfortunately. Where does C.J. Stroud finish in a foot race among quarterbacks? like James James and James, back in the end with James Winston. It's not good. Well, think about it.

We can't do foot speed of quarterback. We'd be totally guessing. Go find the Madden ratings. Speed and acceleration. We'd go back to their 40 times back in college. Yeah, I guess we could. All right, 1245 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 if you want to join us.

713-212-790, either John Harbaugh or 2016. What have you decided on, believe it or not, today? Yeah, figure it up. All right. We'll talk some Rockets Thunder when come back as well. Plus more on the Texans. We've got a lot to get to between now and 2 o'clock. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

We thank you for listening to Sports Talk 790. We'll get more into the Texans or the final hour of the show, plus believe it or not. But we had a COVID call on the Rockets. I'll mention that really quickly before we go to that. Rockets and Thunder tonight. 6.30 start time right here on 790 at 5.30 with our coverage with a launch pad. 6 o'clock on the network free game show and then we'll tip things off a little past 630. We want you in the seats at 6.15.

nice to show the national audience that we can fill a building up early. Don't waste your breath. I'm trying. I'm not going to stop. That's true. I guess. You know what? Not going to stop. Don't stop believing. All you can do is try. It's a Thursday night. Tonight's a get out night, right? Thursday nights are big night squad. Oh, yeah. Getting hammered.

I wouldn't say get hammered, but you want to have a good time. I hit the happy hour. I hit the, what did you say? Pre-friday. Yeah. And then tomorrow, wake the strippers up tomorrow, we'll be celebrating a rock It went against Oklahoma City and getting ready for Minnesota tomorrow night. Back to back.

Three games and four days. I got four straight days of calling games. Next four games, Rocket's record. Next four games. Four and no, of course. Because I'm purely biased. Okay. I've got $100 for you at the betting window.

I don't bet on sports. Can't bet on the NBA. It's illegal for our NBA employee. Okay, you've... I don't... You're in Costa Rica. Okay. Nobody knows my name.

Nobody knows your name. They think your name is Mateo Thomas. Oh, yes. I am a Colombian drug lord. Yes, I'm sure why not. All right. Two and two. I would take three and one.

Two and two be okay. Three and one make me excited. One and three makes me depressed. Zero and four means an end of day off. By the way, can I just say the Oklahoma City has been human lately? Mostly against the spurs. Since December. December and obviously,

a little bit of Minway of January by a happy payday for those who are 10 in 10, I think. But go ahead. Oklahoma City is 14 and 6. How many of those

three of those losses against the Spurs? They have seven losses this year. Three to San Antonio won a piece to Portland, Charlotte,

Phoenix, in Minnesota. Okay. Four and a half point dogs. That's nothing. Nothing. Due for overdue for a three-point barrage.

I'm hoping. I'm hoping for a lot of sets, fires and hits. Six straight games. A lot of nothing but nylons. Six straight games under 30% from three. You know, just to peel the curtain for the folks, our highlights that are made by producer Jossi,

when it's a nothing but nylon, it gets slugged NBN for nothing but nylon. Play one. Did you know that? No, I did not. When you play one? I don't, they haven't been nothing but nylon. Oh, damn.

They haven't had it in a couple weeks. That hits the source part now. I can try to find one. That's not nice. take a minute. Stop. That's because I don't do nothing but on two-point shots. Yeah, I know.

You don't do it for free throws. That's about all they've been making. You have to go the Rocket Archive for this? Yes. Oh, this is so, fine one anyway. Here, this is from January 3rd. Shot clock at four, at three, at two. Bounce pass out, right baseline, Tari for a three-pointer.

And that's nothing but nylon. There's a three-pointer for Tari's at his first shot. And making that distance. And the rocket's... They're up 60 to 44. Oh, 60 to 44 sounds good. Yeah, none in the last game. Stop.

You know what? I got to do. Would you text me and remind me to... No. It's got to be organic. Because here's the thing. Nothing about Nileloon means it goes right through, doesn't rattle around. There's a lot in November. There's a lot in November.

Not a whole lot in December and only one in January. Rockets, by the way, have won seven consecutive games at home. across the timeline. 545 remaining in the first quarter. We've got a straight on 26-foot shot, and that's nothing but nylon. And the Rockets have put together a great run. Now leading 19 to 15. 1915.

We'll play some early highlights, don't we? You're dropping that in and be in early on. Yeah, well, you know, let me tell you, if it's 3.0. 0.9, I'll do it. I've never done 3-0-0-0-0-0-0-9. I might have to do it tonight. Got to get one in. All right, Rockets again, trying for their eighth consecutive win in home.

Let's talk to Koso on 7-8. Kesa, what's a good word? Hey, Matt, hey Ross. Isn't there that one drop I had where Craig does the popping the polyopery or whatever that is? Popping the polypropylene? I have no idea what you're talking about. Yes, so we talked about how they... Popping in the polypropylene.

What is that? Popin propylene is really the texture of the net. We were talking about nothing but nylon. And man was talking about the thing. and I was like, hey, the net's not even made of nylon. It's what's it made of. And we looked it up, and it was polypropylene. And then we tried to come up with what would work there.

So I said popping the polypropylene. I said you should do that. And then I think that day we happened to have Craig Ackerman on or something, and we told him to do it. And then he did it later. I texted him because he did it late in the season. When were they really terrible? Like two years ago, he did it like with the last game of the year.

There is no chance I'm saying that. Koso because I can't say that word properly without butchering it 15 times plus nothing but nylon's my phrase I gotta keep with keep with the phrase but it's not nylon Matt it's inaccurate great phrase I think people understand what nothing but nylon means

no I don't think they do oh they're gonna learn the night I'm gonna say it a bunch of times say pop in the polypropylene I'm not doing it that's ridiculous it made me so happy when I just randomly heard Craig's it was like just I was doing the post game show it was like Jay Sean Tate and Justin Patton and the

boys were on the floor. Justin Patton, what a pull for you. Thanks, Koso. He was dropping the pop of the polyproplane. It was great. Was that when he was doing the home radio and I was doing the PA? Or was that, uh, no, you were, was I doing all radio at the time? We were in the old place.

I know for sure. How long have we been here? Two years? Yeah, this is my 10th year, ninth, in finishing up. I was saying for you to do it on radio. I don't know if you were full-time radio yet. I did PA for five. This is my fifth year radio.

So we'll see. All right, whatever. Nothing but Ile on. If you like that phrase, I don't care if you don't like it. By the way, I got this jackhole who continues to berate me for saying off the heel on a missed three point shot. There is a heel on a basketball rim. There just is. The rockets are certainly popping the polypropylene.

Yeah. You found it. Good for you. Matt, you got to say it. That's a radio call. He definitely, he wouldn't have said that on television, I don't think. He has, he did. Oh, did he?

Okay. I mean, I don't know if this was. Does this sound like radio? The rockets are certainly popping the polypropylene. Yeah, yeah, with the mix or the crowd, absolutely. That's a radio call. So I must have been doing PA at the time and doing radio on the road. Okay.

All right. What could be a loud swell of the crowd? What time of the night was it? Final hour, Matt Thomas Show at Ross next, 1258 here on Sports Talk 790. If you want to join us, we'd love to have you. 713-212-5-790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 103, final hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790.

A busy time for Houston sports fans. Good times tonight, hopefully inside TOTA Center as the Rockets take on the Oklahoma City Thunder. Sunday 2 o'clock, AFC divisional playoff. And for the first time, maybe ever, optimism is at least good, if not great, for the Texans to go to. Foxboro and beat the Pats on Sunday afternoon. Divisional round against the New England Patriots, and we're not even talking about all the ghosts of years past for the Texans. Yeah, we're not talking about Baltimore.

We're not talking about New England and Brady or Pat Mahomes and Lamar Jackson. Never went to Buffalo for a playoff game. That's probably still on the to-do list. Although, if the Bills beat the Broncos on Sunday, they'll be coming here for the AFC championship one week from Sunday. That's what I'm predicting. That's what I'm going with. That's what I'm sticking with.

I said they were going to make the AFC championship game. Yeah. And I think they're still going to make it. All right. Rockets in action tonight against the Oklahoma City Thunder. They've won seven consecutive games at home. Oklahoma City Thunder has been human as of late. Still a great basketball team.

Still the predicted favorite to win the West. Rockets need to get their mojo back again. Clearly a much better team at home they are on the road. And just the fact that they're home for a few games has got to be a good sign for the Rockets. You get home and then you get to settle in for a game at home. You do have the back-to-back with a couple of difficult games, but just have those legs from under you. The three-pointers haven't been going down.

Feels like a lot of them have been short in your mind. Do you feel like that? Like, just get your legs, get some three-pointers going in. They're due for a barrage. It would be nice to get them tonight against the Oklahoma City Thunder and then tomorrow against the Timberwolves. You know what the craziest part is? They still continue to rebound beautifully.

They're just taking a lot of second-chance shots. Second chance, third chance, fourth chance. That's what made this run so frustrating. is they continue to get the chances. Most of the games, except for Sunday against Sacramento, were close, and the games have been right there if they would have just convert on a couple of the chances. Kevin Durand continues to put up huge numbers.

20 plus points in 15 consecutive games of the Rockets. Alpi's got his feet under him a little bit. Says the ankle's on 100%, may not be for a while. That's life in the NBA. And I'm glad he's gotten through it. Three games in four days. You're not getting days off. You've had all these games on a road.

It just sometimes in the NBA at some points of the year, the schedule works against you. And it feels like there is an element of that. And the fact of the matter is Denver won last sign in Dallas, no Niccolo Yokic. Anthony Edwards and a part of Minnesota's line the last couple days. They'll be in town tomorrow. They won, they destroyed the Milwaukee Bucks without him. Teams just fight past this kind of stuff. Yeah, it can happen.

You can win games when things aren't going your way. Rockets won 2 and 0 when Durant was gone. You can win when Durant's gone. You can win when Alper and Shingun's gone. And Coach Udoka will say that. They can make excuses, and there are some excuses, but you can still go out there and win those games and play well. All right, 713, 212, 579, if you want to jump into the conversation. 713212579.

We are still awaiting word where Kyle Tucker is going to be playing. I was hoping it would be during the show, because let me tell you, if it happens between now and two o'clock today, we are going to absolutely destroy you. Really? And the best part is we have Space City Home Network here recording us. And they'll be able to see the carnage firsthand. It's fine. I mean, I've resigned myself. It'll be, whatever will be will be.

Okay, I got excited. I definitely overplayed my hand. Overplayed it. We mean, an understatement. I thought there was no way that Kyle Tucker was going to sign for under seven and a half years. I just didn't think it was going to happen. We'll see. And I have a nervous switch to check my phone during the show.

I might still be right. Are you sure you don't want to? a hedge. In what way? You want to, we can, you can pay for my meal now and downgrade the meal. What do you mean? From habachi? Yeah. We upgraded. What was the first bet? We can go to, we can go to Rillies. Really? Yes. And get you a two for 20?

And get a two for 20. Okay. Chips and salsa, chicken crisper's iced tea, and you pay for it. And we say the bets off. I'm a gambler, baby. You are going to lose. Let the chips fall where they may. scared. You should be scared. I'm a little scared. Remember, I'm a Rockets insider? No. Texans insider. No. What happened to Joe Mixing? Texans insider. I'm still working on that. Yeah, you don't even know. And I'm Mr. Texas.

No, you're not. 713-212-5-790. Let's talk to Greg. Let's talk some Texans football 108. Greg, good afternoon. Good afternoon. I was just thinking. I said, well, we don't want to be like the all-of-send. slash tightens and get to the one yard line, you know, McNair rest in peace and not win the Super Bowl. Then we take on Barnes-Phillips old thing. That's just bust the door down. And then the fact that we won nine straight games before the season ended,

and we have four more. That's a Baker's dozen. And so 13 is not a bad number after all. I think we can get some T-shirts made. The Texas won the Super Bowl with the Baker's dozen victory in 2026. Greg, I think if there was a T-shirt made for a Houston football fan, it would be finally. And everybody would know what it meant. Right, right.

But 13 is not a bad number after. We won nine. Now, it was four. We got three more to go. Again, that's the Baker's Dug and we'll knock it on out of here. You only need three more. No doubt. What's he talking about?

You don't need four more. No. They get to 16 ones? Uh-huh. No, we won, but I'm saying that we won nine straight. Oh, nine straight. Oh, I see what you're saying. Now we're going to make it sense now.

Yeah, right. And so 13 is not a bad number after all because it took us after that O and 3 start. Well, actually not going to 3, but when we won 9 straight and then four more, you can't ask it for no better than that. You can't. And that's a baker's dozen. 13. A little big parade downtown. I should get my own fire engine.

Why? Because you hate the Texans. I don't hate the Texans. You're a Texans hater, Matt. I'm a Texans observer. No, you're, no. You should be nowhere near that fire engine. Where would it go?

I will be in the same. Downtown? I will be in the same fire engine as C.J. Stride and Will Anderson. Why don't they just have the parade around the stadium? You can go by the Timmy Chans and the Tachos. This is an Arlington, Ross. You go by the hooker alley.

Oh my God. We're not letting you, no, we're not doing it over there. I'm planning the parade. I got it. No one's going to your parade. If there's a parade, if there's a parade on a holiday hall, no one's going. You don't want to go to all three of those places that's named? Well, we'd go there for lunch, but that'd be as far as it goes.

Thanks. Thanks, Greg, for the phone call. I appreciate it. No, we're not, no, the parade's downtown. The Texans aren't down there. They're on Kirby. You go off Stella Link and Kirby. No, no one wants to go to Stella Lincoln Kirby for a parade.

Nobody wants to be on OST. Yeah, you'd be the Old Span Trail. No, you've got a Pat Key for the parade. I don't want to pay. You pass a parade? That's fine. No. That's all right.

Be prepared. No. I think it's a good idea. So you're telling me we started Timmy Chans. Yes. What are we going after that? Chachos. Chachos.

There's got to be a P.I. Close. Yeah, absolutely. You start the Pallagia. You go over a Scottish inn somewhere over there. Oh, yeah. There's got to be relaxation in somewhere there over there on Maine. Yeah.

There's a Shipley that's still over there. Sure. Why not? Get some donuts. That's a Houston institution. Get some Kalachis and on your fire engine. You know, you do.

And Hannah leading the way. No, they're not. No. They don't want to have a completely enclosed in glass. They might have to. I'm telling you, you get a Super Bowl win. You go with a Popemobile on it? People will be right.

Tana like, I want a stadium. Didn't somebody get hit by it? Didn't, was it, Ted Cruz got hit by a beer can or somebody did? At the downtown parade. At the downtown parade. It was not far from us. Maybe we should not have a parade at all. Maybe we shouldn't.

What would you do in spite of a, a parade. I don't think you can do any. I mean, a celebration in the stadium or something? Now, you know, when the Rockets won the championship in the 90s, I was one of the co-host of the Astrodome celebration for the Rockets. What do you mean? They had all, like, inside the dome? Inside the dome. Really? I was there.

They cleared the rats out and all that? Stop. Stop. You're right. I'm sorry. There were no rats back then. It may have been rats, but they were hidden. Yeah, that's right. They were getting exterminated. Now they're just running free. We had 50,000 people. You did, really? I didn't know that. I went to the parades when I was a kid. Yeah, we had a home celebration. My brother got Robert Reed's signature on his shirt.

Robert Reed wasn't in part of that team, though. Yeah, but he was at the parade. Oh, he went to the alumni in Parsons. Yeah, I think he was. Okay. I mean, you see hanging out? Were you on, were you in the parades? No. I know, you're still bitter about it. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to uncover past traumas. Hey, when the Rockets win the next championship,

hopefully the next year or two, I will be in the parade. Doing what? I don't know. Driving one of the... Get you in a turbo costume. I'm not trying. dressing up like turbo. That's not happening. I'm busy enough as it is.

All right. I'm calling games. I'm talking to you. I cannot dress up as a mascot. You don't have to like my ideas, but I have them. And so far your ideas are terrible. OST parade and me dressing up like turbo. See at the Scottish Inn.

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give you a free month of their on their, straight to phone access, right? Oh, really? Was it $20 a month these days? Not bad. Not bad. Okay. And let me tell you something. We were just talking about this. TV networks are going away. Be happy. Be happy. All right. It is the Matt Thomas Show. Ross 120 is our time. 713-1-2-125790. I brought this up to the very beginning of the show today.

And I brought it, and I also discussed it briefly yesterday. Is there as much angst among the other NFL teams about the quarterback spot that there is in Houston, Texas. Let's do this again. We kind of did the whole team situation. Which nobody feels perfect because there's no perfect team in the NFL

and that's by design. Most parody with the hard cap. Okay, so you should want to do strictly quarterback situations. Let's talk about Bo Nix. If we're doing Denver Sports Radio right now. Yes. Is our confidence level 1 to 10? What would it be?

Five. But don't you think... Where are we with C.J. Stroud, by the way. Are we going to get there? We'll get there. Let me tell you this. If you're 14 and 3 and you're the number one C in the AFC, you know that they've not won 14 games in spite of Bonix.

He's had to have made some plays, right? Just like C.J. Stroud made plays here. 25 touchdowns, 11 picks, almost 4,000 yards. Completion percentage? I don't. Total QBR 58.4. Hold on. 63%, which is low for the NFL. Yeah. That's a good season.

I would assume And he has five rushing touchdowns. Yeah, I mean, look, I hope that we get to talk to Denver next week or to Buffalo next week. We've got contacts in both those cities. I would say that And look, the only person I talk to about Denver Broncos football is my engineer that does the Nuggets games with me.

He likes him a lot. He says, you're one to year two. Yeah, about this guy. He wanted him to lose. Well, digging him as still got on the number one overall scene. No, he said, progression year one or year two was really good. I mean, I don't think, no quarterback progressed as much as Drake May did from season one to two.

But Bo Nix made a significant. I mean, Bo Nix, let him in the playoffs last year. That's a two-year playoff team. Number one seed. You got to give flowers. So I would say, again, I guess we should have called the Denver sports party. I get the true indication on this. We could have. But it feels like to me that if a confidence scale for the average Denver fan should be about a seven on him on one of the 10 scale. If 10 is my homes

He's not done anything in the playoffs If 10 is a healthy Mahomes He's a 7 Nah I'm sticking with Maybe you can convince me to get to a 6 Okay Let's go to Buffalo then

Okay 10 Absolutely a 10 Oh 9 Now we're in semantics He can turn the ball over Come on wax He can turn the ball over

No we're not doing semantics It's a tick Going from 9 to 10 I bet you there are some Buffalo Bill's doubt. First of all, you're Buffalo Bill fan. You've got doubts in the back of your mind no matter what. You have doubts about the other side of the football way more than about your offensive side.

Right. But Josh Allen can occasionally be turnover prone. You got a top two running back in the league, at least rushing-wise, yards-wise. Occasionally he can turn the ball over and make you say, what the hell was that? You can also, you know what I thought about him? But he's dynamic, yeah.

You know what else thought about... 9.5. Okay, whatever. You know what I thought about... when he played the Texans. He takes terrible sacks too. Yes, he does, because he tries to run out of him. And a lot of times it works, but a lot of times it does not.

Like who would you think, forgetting about the teams that are still in the playoffs, who is the best sack taker in the NFL? I think Mahomes is a good job. Mahomes like, yeah, I'll take the loss. Let's go. I'll get him doing this again. He can run his way into more sacks. Lamar Jackson's on a great set.

Aaron is somebody, completely lacking in mobility. Aaron's like, I'll go fetal position quick. Yes, go straight down. Because he knows he's never. making a play with his legs. Let's see what. Who else is a good quarterback in the NFL? Good, good, really good quarterback. Who knows when to take the L?

I mean, Lamar Jackson does get, I mean, he makes incredible plays of wizardry. One still in the playoffs. Matthew Stafford. Matthew knows when the pocket collapses. I'm just going to go down and make sure I don't get hurt. I guess the question would be the least, the quarterbacks that are the least mobile, no one to say, all right, no moss. Exactly.

All right. So you have nine and a half on Josh Allen. Yes. Six on Bonix. Six on Knicks. It sounds like a podcast. Stinging with that. All right.

Let's get to the AFC side of things. Drake May 8. Eight for Patriot fan. Conference level. Not a spectacular week to last week. That's what I'm saying. Because the playoffs are a different animal. He's going to finish second in the MVP.

You can't be a guy. You can't be a Patriot fan who love. on a guy for 17 weeks, and then he doesn't throw for 3.50 and 4 scores and all of a sudden the guy's hot garbage. 31 touchdowns, eight picks. He ran for a few as well. He does fumble the ball quite a bit. First in the NFL and total QBR. You know what? Eight's fine. It's fine. Now, the difficult one. My answer is going to be different than most. Give your answer. This is going to be a wide range.

And then I'm going to give what I believe the fan answer is. Six. Fan answer is five. One to ten, confidence level on your quarterback. Now, this is, we do average. If we did an average, it probably in a round five. Because there are people who are like a one or two and want Davis Mills in there. And then there's seven and eights and say, hey, get him a running game.

Nico's not out there. And oh, by the way, the offensive line, even though it's better, is still average. It was so funny because I was tweeting some on the game Monday. And I was getting, I was getting both sides. I was getting, you're being too hard on C.J. Stroud. And I was getting, he needs to be benched immediately. Davis Mills needs to be in there. There's a wide spectrum.

Please, please, please. Do not tell your friends, even if you're joking about how you want to see Davis Mills on Sunday. It will ruin what little football IQ you have. Well, credibility, yeah. Your football street credit goes very down quickly if you want Davis Mills to start. Oh, no. Or play. Or even play.

Even play. So you're saying your confidence level is six. The average fan is five. I would lean towards six. Because look, the fumbles, they weren't a regular, they were not a regular habit of the team. There wasn't center quarterback exchanges.

Now actually, you know what? More than I think about that, remember that ball that went through the lay arms of him and then it went right to Woody Marks for a fumble recovery touchdown? That happened. Yes. And then there was one that went to,

they messed up the snap with Toggiye. He didn't hand the ball off. Okay, I can't use it. that then forget that. There is a chance for fumble issues. There just is. We have an example. We just gave examples. Plus last week. Woody Mark's one was the, I think it was the center. Jake Andrews or was it still him? Was he out?

I can't remember. Whoever the center was thought they were in shotgun and they weren't. So the ball goes on a fumble technically a fumble recovery to Woody marks he scores when the NFL's like, that's not a rushing touchdown. That's a fumble recovery. Yeah. So.

So let me ask you this. Was that more on CJ or more on the center. Yeah, that's to me. So, I guarantee you. Okay, go ahead. Under five fumbles. Jesus. It's wrong with you. A lot. It's going to be better.

CJ's going to be better. You know what? I'm going up to a 6.5. What's up? I'm staying at 6.6. Mike Brayble spoke today. Ooh. We'll hear him next. Fire and brimstone from Mike. Oh, stop. No?

How much coach? week. Who is the better coach beak? Vrable or D'emico. We'll discuss that next. 128, Matt Thomas show Sports Talk 790 with Raw. 713-212-5-790. Believe it or not, today coming up in 20 minutes from now and it's all things

about you were to decide which we're going to go with. Believe it or not. Today? Today? Yes. I'm going to figure it up. All right. I try to give your promotion, give you a chance to look it up on Wikipedia. He's not helping me out here. All right. Vrable next at 128.

All right, let's go, let you hear what the coach of the Patriots had to say. My thought is this time of the year when you're down to four teams in each conference, you're going to hear a tremendous amount of coach speak. Maybe Mike Vrable will prove us wrong. Let's hear from him. We'll start first with he says something, well, it's only nine seconds. You want to do what you're talking about, Vrable? Let's do it.

Is he going to be like meatheaded coach guy? I don't know how to approach these because I don't really know how he does his press conferences, but I can guess. He comes across not meatheadish, but Captain Obvious. Okay. All right. Now, here's the problem. Who slugged?

This is a Dan Matthews slug. Oh, Matt. Which normally means he puts the entire quote in there. Ha, ha. I like this then. Go ahead. All right. I'm going to give you this first one because if this slug matches exactly what he says,

Dan, you're going to get crushed, okay? You slug stuff to promote. You don't slug the answer. Nine seconds, Ross. Texans defense is for real. What do you have to say about this? The Texan's defense is for real. They've been great all season long. They've got a lot of dogs. And DeMico Ryan's is a great coach. This is nine seconds? Nine seconds. I'll stick with that. We're good.

They have great talent, great scheme. They play hard and respect how hard they play. They're just not only talented, but they have a play demeanor that I can appreciate. I think I got it kind of close. Yeah, he said, do you say play demeanor? Play demeanor, yes. Their demeanor on the field. That's good. Ferocious.

That's a vicious. I have to play demeanor that I can appreciate. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dogs. Yeah. That's good. You got a terrible grade, but whoever saw that, nice job. I said they play hard and they're well coached.

All right. That's what he said. 22 seconds on which you're talking about Rable. Okay. Texans are improved on offense. What do you say? I link if you look at where they were early in the season to where they are now. I've seen a lot of improvement with the play call.

with the scheming. C.J. Stroud is playing really well. The run game is doing good. So we're going to have our hands full with an offense that has much improved. Here it is. They're gaining confidence that looked like in a run game and the physicality, which they played with the other night. And when you can do that, then it varies with, you know,

your play action opens up and your spaces over the middle open up. Your boot game, it all marries together. So that, to me, looks like what they would want to do. And a lot of success with it the other night. But they played physical. They ran a football. He's way more technical than I would have thought he was going to be. Yeah, you lied to me.

I did lie to you. I didn't mean to. Put that on the list. Lives of the Day from Matt Thomas. All right. And one more. Oh, this is going to be good. Now, how many lies will be detected in this following statement?

27 seconds, Rosson. C.J. poses problems for them. Yeah, C.J. Stroud is a, you know, a great. quarterback and he's extremely accurate. He can make plays with his arm. He can make plays off schedule with his feet as well. Extend the pocket. He's got a great feel for where his guys are at and it really does a good job of running their offense and getting the guys where they need to be. You're going to get five stars on this. Go for it. He's athletic enough to extend, but also the pocket presence that you want. He can turn his back to the defense and come

out of there and throw play action does a good job on the boot game he keeps his eyes downfield he's accurate um so he kind of gives you a little bit of both as far as the ability to extend plays um but always keeping his eyes down the field good job by you all right nice good job by you all right is that it well there's some more um let's see is there anything else that's overly juicy Oh, he's a, let's go to cut one, Jonathan, if you don't mind. He apparently is a, and I'm not going to let you, you don't have to worry about guessing this. He's a huge Al-Z's Al-Shire fan. Oh, it's great, great, great linebacker, plays downhill, plays hard, and he plays fast, but he also plays smart.

He's a good job, he's a good job, it does a great job of diagnosing plays, figuring out what's going on, having everybody in the right place and they just plays with a lot of energy and force. Great leader. I mean, he starts there. He's got great leadership in the middle. A good skill set. And we talk about a journey to this national football league and to a career and haven't been undrafted and his story, which is really special. And, you know, I'll always appreciate the year that as he spent with us, still stay in contact with him. So he's done a lot for me personally and my family.

So I always appreciate that. I wish nothing but the best for him. He knows that. I didn't know that. I forgot he played with Rable. By the way, don't you want to go to Vrable and say, you got any comments for Amy Kronk? Why?

Because he would like to say. You're not playing the Titans? Yeah, but wouldn't you like to say, no, no, no, no, no. By the way, your side is winning the poll, not that I was against you. Who is she rooting against her? Hardest, 70% Texans.

Oh, yeah. No. Or against Vrable. Vrable, she'll root against hard next week if they win, which I don't think they are. Yeah, she just, she really hates the Texans. At least they stopped wearing Oilers gear because they got embarrassed every time they tried to wear it against the Texans. Because here's the thing. You will, there will be two generations of Houston football fans that will come after her. The Texans fans of that generation.

Yes. And the old school owner fans. you did something that the Adams family never could do. Now there were a lot of good times. I mean, look, I grew up with the elders. I'm talking about the ad nauseum. Barry the Oilers. When Texans need to win to help further bury the Oilers.

They haven't played in the game. What was the 96 they left? 30 years. Yeah, I've long been telling you, Madding. There's a lot of people hanging on and got mad at me when I said they needed to let go. No, it's actually, frankly, easy to let go. Because look, the organization's a good hands. I mean, Hannah's running things.

D'emico, you get the football side. Nick Cicero, I think, deserves a lot of praise. I think somebody I saw within the last three, 20 of the 22 starters that have been added to the Texans within the last three years. And they're in the divisional round. Yeah. Good?

Yeah. And there are some misses, of course, that we can point to. Well, you know, in fairness to Nick, no one's going to have shot himself allegedly. It's not his fault. You know what the best part is? You're coming around to that a little bit. It's just funny to say. Did you hear that? It's just ridiculous.

John, then you hear that? He's coming around. He wouldn't even utter that phrase five days ago. And I was like, okay, maybe a chance. It sounds so insane. You're starting to give you to hope it's true. Have you been around the NFL? Yes, I have. You can only name me one player ever who shot himself, and it was Plaxico Burris and a nightclub. Let me tell you what we got. We got NFL players hanging out with porn stars.

We have people shooting. that. Stay with me on this. How many other shooting? Well, there was some shooting incidents with Marvin Harrison. Lots of shooting incidents. Lots of robberies. Uh, yeah, Tankdale got shot. Jalen Reed got, got, uh, he got carjacked. He got robbed and carjacked. Was that in Houston? We got speeding incidents. Welcome to H-town. We have players that are always saying, I can't believe I ingested that when you know exactly what you did. Stop. Be kind of crazy. But certainly believable. I'm sorry. I'm not saying it happened because Lord knows the Texans haven't told us anything about that,

but I'm not discounting it now. Okay. Because why, again, if we're going back down this road again, why would you, if you don't hide normal injuries. Something bad happened. I'm with you that something bad, something off the big go board, as we said, something in the field. Now, unless he went in there and called him a Nicar on MF or, I mean, then you could also say conduct detrimental to the team. Done, bye, see you. No, it's not, yeah, NFI, non-football injury.

And it's not like Joe Mixon's a choir, boy. Go look at the video back in the day. Hey. Just being reels. Reels. He also had some other issues too, right? Well, I can speak of as that subway shot video that's not great. Are you looking at the prior record of Joe Mixon?

Yeah, legally, he has a whole legal issues segment on his Wikipedia page. God. 2014 misdemeanor assault charge That was when Well he broke that young woman's face Mm-hmm 2003 Alleged aggravated menacing incident

He said you should be popped in the face I should shoot you now Yikes In a as he pointed a woman A gun at a woman Before the Bingles and Bill's Playoff game And then an injured child incident

Oh, that was when there were shots fired at his home. He was not arrested. I believe he wasn't there, right? All right. I'm just saying this right now to wrap things up. The top spot on the board of what the hell happened, and shot to foot. Now, the favorite doesn't always win.

Can I take the field? Yeah. Are we doing another bet? No. Let's do it. We'll do some bag of chips. We cannot bet on this. There is a clear answer to it.

You said it's the favorite. It's a chalk, so I want to take the field. Yeah, see? Okay, small bet. Deli lunch? No. Change it up. A bag of chips?

No, change it up. I'll pay your tolls for two days. How about a coffee? A coffee? Yeah. I make my own coffee. You tell me how you wouldn't take a free ice coffee from somewhere. I want it to not be marmucks.

That's fine. This is not my favorite. We'll go somewhere else. Okay. 2 p.m. coffee. 2 p.m. coffee and with a with a pastry. like a slice of

lemon cake or whatever we can go to Barrocks and get that yeah we'll go there fine I'll go with you I'll go with you I got to get the note write it down

final out the file I should say I have coffee you have the field what is wrong with us we're great this is terrible

nobody else doing this what's big and bets on John Mason what side do you like Jonathan if you're a bad man Jonathan you want to jump in on this

you know I hate this, but I'm on that side. I don't know why. I just can't be that. Please. Okay. Coffee plus pastry. Post-show coffee plus pastry.

How, why Joe makes him done for the season? My choice. Pastry of choice. I will not get a, I won't get a venti. I'll get a grande. I won't get a super cent. You can get the drink, whatever. No, venti's too much coffee.

Yeah. That's for sickos. Too much. Give me one. All right. Believe it or not, it's up next. category is? Hold on.

It's John Harbaugh. John Harbaugh, believe it or not, it's up next. It's 144. If you want to play, 713, 212, 5-790s. All right, tomorrow, I'm going to try to get somebody on from Boston one more time to give you a different perspective. You've been hearing us talking Nelson about this game. Good to get somebody in from Bean Town. E. May Doca is going to join us, I believe, for a few minutes tomorrow as well.

Hopefully to celebrate a victory against Oklahoma City and get ready for Minnesota tomorrow night. Rockets have three games in four days coming up. Tonight, Oklahoma City is in town. They've won four in a row. The Rockets have won 7th Street at home. Rockets, Rossi, are under 500 at home. Excuse me, under 500 against the West at 12 and 13. Your concern level is...

One. Out of 10. Yes. Yeah, I get you. Because, you know, all of a sudden you boost yourself up when you have these victories against a really good teams. It's just the losses. Two to Sacramento Hertz.

Two to Dallas Hertz. New Orleans giving up 20 I'm moving on yeah gotta be positive so that's when they call me Mr. Positive

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is all things about John Harbaugh. I'll read your statement about John's statement, completely not really accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. If a statement about John Harbaugh is erroneous full of bunk and made up, you will say this. Not.

Two, believe or not, and all things, John Harbaugh. Win you a prize, that prize could be one of two things. One, a 790 t-shirt, or a pair of tickets to see Motley crew on their return to the Carnival of Sin's Tour with Tesla and Extreme. That'll be September the 11th at the Woodlands Pavilion.

Tickets are on sale right now at Ticketmaster.com. 13-1-2-5-790. John on 790. John, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. John, good luck to you. John Harbaugh is younger than Jim Harbaugh by 15 months. Believe it or not.

Believe it. No, other way around. Bye. See you. Yeah, that's wrong. Dean on 790. Dean, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it.

John Harbaugh played his college football of Miami of Ohio, where he was a defensive back. Believe it or not. Believe it. Yes. Statement number two for the way, and John Harbaugh spent two years working on a law degree before quitting school and going to coach with his father at University of Pittsburgh. Believe it or not?

That's correct. Congratulations. Michael on 7.90, Michael, your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show. It's got to be Ross's extreme faith in his Houston, Texas. He has them in the championship game. While at Miami of Ohio, John Harbaugh was roommates with Rob Carpenter running back for the Olders, the Giants, and the Rams. Believe it or not? Not.

First of all, that's a Hall of Fame question right there. I remember Rob Carpenter as a kid. How did you pull Rob Carpenter out of your ass? I just looked for Miami, Ohio. Unbelievable. Statement number two for the win. Outside of the Ravens Super Bowl run, John Harbaugh has won four playoff games as the Baltimore Ravens head coach.

Four, believe it or not. Not. That's nine, correct. You're a winner. Dave on 790. Dave, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. At no point in his coaching career, has John Harbaugh been either an offensive or defensive coordinator. Believe it or not? Not.

That's a belief. Thank you for playing. 713-212-5-790. Roger on 790. Roger, your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show. Kyle Tucker Watch, of course. John Harbaugh's daughter, Allison, is also an athlete. She played lacrosse for Notre Dame. Believe it or not? Believe it.

Yeah, of course she did. Statement number two for the win, John Harbaugh and his brother are deval Catholics and made a visit to the Vatican in 2018 to meet Pope Francis. Believe it or not? Believe it? No, John didn't go. Come on now. He's busy. Those are great questions.

again, you in the last 10 minutes, you must be the best five-minute worker in the world. Not the first time I've heard that, Matt. Thank you. I'm not talking about believing or not. All right. Tomorrow, is it anything goes Friday? We'll check in with somebody in Boston tomorrow for sure. We'll wake the strippers up at noon.

And we're going to bring back the Fantasy 5 tomorrow at 120. Unfunniest people. And Ross and I are not included. Hey. Adam Klan could be. He's part of the A team with Waxon 790. Talk to you for Rockets at 630.