The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets vs Warriors Tonight! Texans vs Colts & Longhorns vs A&M This Weekend

Episode Date: November 26, 2025

Rockets vs Warriors Tonight! Texans vs Colts & Longhorns vs A&M This Weekend

This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 10 o'clock in H-Town. Good morning, and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Coming to you today from San Francisco, California. Well, later on tonight, the arch nemesis of the Houston Rockets. We'll take on the rockets for the very first time this year. Golden State Warriors. This is just a tough place to come and play.

A, because it's San Francisco. B, it's the Warriors. And C, I have Nightmares Rossi of Steph Curry, Clay Thompson, Dremont Green, hell, even Kavanaughan Luni for the last decade. As you probably should, and as we all do as Rockets fan and all fans. And I should say also, I was mentally preparing myself for a Friday-style open to today's show. So I wasn't ready. But I'm here now.

How are you? I'm doing good. Yes, happy Thanksgiving Eve to all. I mean, I guess we could do one at noon. I wasn't, we'd never know. No, that's fine. We told Jonathan not to have the clips until next week anyways. Yeah, we got to bank some because you're going to be gone for a little while.

We'll get some Christmas holiday stuff coming up. That's actually true. I know. Fresh off a vacation and going to be going back on again. Hey, I get, you get the days. I give four weeks. I use four weeks, folks. Yeah.

I'm okay. It's a use them or lose them. area at i heart media i wouldn't then i get the obligatory hey where's ross the show's better with him there and i'm well you know what you should just appreciate me as your co-host i do yeah well people say that when you're gone i try too hard so it's all good we're better we're better together than apart let's just admit that that's exactly right i mean um what's the laverne was better with shirley when levin was by herself wasn't nearly as good sure why not all right Hey, we got a very busy show for you today.

I'm all choked up already. I have this cough I cannot get rid of. And I'm a little worried about you. And part of it is, is it's the rocket's fault. I'm not blaming them. Have you gone to a doctor? No, here's the thing. Okay, there's who I'm blaming.

Here's the reality. We have amazing accommodations. Uh-huh. We have a new plane right now. Okay. And the plane is always about 30 degrees when we get on it. Okay. well temperature doesn't make you sick matt colds and viruses do viruses and bacteria okay i believe

there's i think going from a warm room to a warm bus to a cold outside to a cold plane doesn't help okay is everybody on the team is everybody on the team coughing uh yeah how's i'm not here he's got the whoop okay i don't wait why not craig's got the because they're not doing the games on team this week so he didn't even bother i got you no no no well i'm here by myself and tonight is an ESPN only game no space city so if you're going to watch the game all these exclusives

maybe radio gig's not so bad it's kind of some moments now do I believe Craig makes double than what I do yes am I bitter about it no why did you bring it up then yeah why did you have information sick

two questions why did you bring it up and why was there bitterness in your voice there wasn't bitterness in my voice I was coughing Oh, I forgot this is an NBA Cup group play. Rockets are out, though, right? Unless they get some kind of crazy point diff to win by 50? I was given an update from the league yesterday. Okay.

And the league says this. Now, again, I don't know about the point, the diff, if you know what I'm saying. But all I can tell you is from the NBA, if Portland wins, Minnesota wins, Phoenix wins, Memphis wins. If any of those four teams win, we are out. Or if the Rockets lose tonight to Golden State. Okay. Sure, why not? I don't necessarily believe that the NBA Cup is top of mind back for the folks in Houston.

I mean, it's got its place. The floor, like I watched the Lakers' Clippers game last night. The Lakers floor was 100% yellow. Do you see any of that game last night by any chance? No, I did not. Yeah. A completely yellow floor. It's tough to watch

I'll be honest with you I know what they're trying to do Trying to create some ince Trying to separate it Yeah well this is They're just trying to give a little juice To the regular season When nobody cares about it until after Christmas

Right And it works to a degree I would say my interest level goes from like a five to a six On random games Yeah I mean Mine's completely selfish Mine's of thinking about going back to Vegas for a second year so mine is like five to a ten to a 26.3 okay but I would say the general fan probably

does not care yeah I would say a mine going from five to six is probably above average yeah oh for sure for sure so we've got that coming up today we got rockets that'll be at nine o'clock with the tip time seven o'clock or eight o'clock will be the launch pad and uh believe no local post game night because it's late plus I'm basically going to sleep after the game No, it's fine. I got stuff to do. What are you cooking tomorrow, by the way? You're not bringing chili to this. I'm generally on mashed...

All the chili's gone. Oh, okay. It's been redistributed to the masses. All right. I ate the last of it last night. It was pretty good. I mean, nobody likes to brag it, but it was pretty good. I am normally on mashed potato duty.

Well, how hard is that? Well, it's generally... It's like the MVP of the plate. If you get the mashed potatoes wrong, the old Thanksgiving could be ruined, Matt. I mean, come on. You know what? I would actually have to agree with you.

See? It's a lot of pressure. Yes. If you get lumpy flavorless mashed potatoes, nobody's going to be happy. No. But nobody's going to say anything because it's Thanksgiving. Yeah.

Well, that's not true. I have never been, I have never said to me. You know what? Actually, I have told her she put too much salt in the guac before. But that's because she asked me to be honest. People know they can actually,

I have a reputation around my, family so it's funny you bring this up if my sister brother mom or anybody cooks anything they know that i'm going to be honest and they all tell me they appreciate it they they think thank god ross comes to my my home eats my food and is it brutally honest with my it says on my cooking no i'm not brutally honest i normally start first of all you say things you like about it and then you say things maybe you don't that could be improved in your mind i got you i got you okay so you slow play the criticism basically. Yeah, first of all, everybody and my family is a good cook. We're just very blessed.

We're lucky. Yeah. My sister's more of the baker. My brother can cook anything. I cook a lot of different stuff and my mom can, she's just a natural. Nice. The Thomas family, just the opposite. We will be going to a restaurant to eat tomorrow. See, that explains a lot actually

about your food tests. It doesn't explain anything. We just want to just relax and have someone do the heavy lifting for us. Are you going to the, I go to the Munchroom mob again? Yes. Oh, by the way, quick question. So, y'all are flying back tonight after the game? Which we normally don't do. But this is three days off and it's Thanksgiving.

That's what I was speculating yesterday. Yeah, I can't imagine an NBA team spending any additional time in Salt Lake City. Yeah, that's just not going to happen. Nobody cares. No, no. Three days in Utah during Thanksgiving? No, thanks. I have spent two or three Thanksgiving's in Utah. Beautiful.

I'm in great food and whatnot. But, yeah, I don't, the night scene would be a little bit tough with the guys. it's getting better but it's still not what it's put this way it's not south beach the night scene meaning the bars close at 10 o'clock guys are going to the the hookah bar with no booze that is true all right uh so let's get into things today we've got uh rockets tonight uh we have a big slate of NFL game did you notice what the NFL did this year they've never done before at least have not done since you and I have been watching football they bumped the first game up a half an hour to start the game at noon as compared to 1130.

Oh, really? Yeah. I like that. I don't know that affects people, but always has been a tried and true formula that the Lions game has always been in 1130 in the morning. Now they're playing at noon. Hmm. Okay. Well, that's a good matchup with the Packers, too.

I think, well, I mean, the first two games are really good. The third one is the Bengals against the Ravens, and I don't particularly care about that unless you get some fantasy implications, which most people will do. Okay. you got three high spreads, totals, I mean, and then two close spreads and then Baltimore minus seven. Yeah, I vote T. Higgins, he's hurt. I forgot about the Friday game they're doing now, too,

on Prime Video. I don't even know how that rated last year. I don't remember the game even being played. I don't remember who it was, but I remember it being like, okay, I'll flip this on for a sec. Yeah, because I don't think you and I are running out to go to do some sort of large amounts of Christmas shopping. Yeah.

I will be getting obliterated. a tailgate in Austin, Texas by then, so. Oh, obliterated? Yes. I don't like that. I want to just like play cool and sip your drinks. No, actually, in my old age, I've really slowed down my drinking. I'm actually not sure. I'm not sure. I don't know how I'm going to be until I get there. Am I going to get activated into old school, 21-year-old Ross mode, Aggie's Longhorns, and just start smashing beers, or am I going to be old, reserved, don't like to drink too much because

it gives me a, if I have two drinks, I get a hangover, and I'm just, old and washed Ross so I'm not sure who I'm going to be what the first time you've seen this game and played in Austin in the last one I was at was at the 12 to 7 Stephen McGee victory where the Aggies were cheap shot in Colt McCoy and knocked him out of the game oh oh that was I believe 2006 and my my roommate on the way out was uh he kicked over a trash can we were so angry I think that was we need to read some University of Texas police tweets on Monday. See how things... Yeah, that was

November 24, 2006. I was a student and had seasoned tickets at that time. My roommate kicked over a trash can. So, do you know this about me, Matt? I get songs stuck in my head and I sing them? I guess you kind of know that, right? What song are you singing right now? So at that day, I got the

Aggie Warham stuck in my head. So randomly throughout the day, I would be going, you know it's a catchy tune good goodbye my coney island baby and my friends were all getting mad at me my brother everybody we were hanging out with that day just drinking after the game and what and commiserating i kept on singing the song on accident because it got stuck in my head that's all and people got mad at there's no PS to this no people just people were getting upset with me yeah well um it's it's a catchy tune I mean, I'll say

I've gone arm to arm with us complete strangers before in Cald Station. Yeah, I bet you have Aggie Matt. That makes sense. You've sought them off, Aggie Matt. Colt McCle was terrible that day. Three picks, no touchdowns.

But you're not bitter about it. Stephen McGee had 58 yards and they won. He had 95 rushing on a touchdown. That was a 12-7 game. Yeah, 12 to 7. God almighty, that's terrible. Javorski Lane had 16 and 60. Mike, good.

Well, you're pulling some deep, you're pulling deep cuts out of here. Well, I pulled up the, yeah, I pulled up the, uh, Kwan Cosby, Jermichael Finley, leading the way, receiving for the Texas Longhorns. Yeah, we will be getting, uh, some insights in this game coming up at the bottom of the hour. Locked on SEC's Chris Gordy. We would be able to stop on. Yeah. Give the man his shine or you just couldn't find anybody who you deem better. I didn't say better. I was just looking for a different voice.

No, you said we could get somebody better. I want to say that as your exact words. Jonathan, we'd have to ask him. You know, it sounds really accurate. I'm not going to lie. But yeah, that was 2006. So that's the last one I was at. And I was very disappointed. I would like to be happier after this game.

The one time I went to A&M, Texas game was in Austin, was that Ricky Williams broke the single season record, I want to say, or all-time record for rushing. And you were wearing Aggie gear? No, I was not. I don't think I was wanting any gear. Good time had by all. I think it's supposed to rain.

We're supposed to have some ponchos. Uh-oh. Yeah, no. Night, cold rain in Austin. Oh, my God. Hashtag future pneumonia. That's okay. You know, when it's big-time football, Matt, you make sacrifices.

Well, my sacrifice will be trying to find club seats as soon as humanly possible. No, it's as, actually, rain might not be rolling until Saturday now. Forecasts changed up a little bit. Yeah, we're good. 50 degrees? Ooh, it might be beautiful. All right, so if you have any Aggie jokes or Longhorn jokes, we want to hear them today, right and they're lame and played but you can still do it it's a wednesday before thanksgiving

if you want to just nobody's going to laugh yeah how's the sales pit today we got a lot of folks looking to make some deals here today uh no i i think everybody's on calls oh everybody's hit and pounding the pavement as they call it that makes me very happy seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven one three two five seven ninety we have our SEC update from Gordy at 1030. We have shut your ball mess up at 11.30. We have Dr. Roto today at 1 o'clock. Willie Fritz and our Cougars

are going to take on bid around Saturday. We'll talk to him at 1.30. And we have, believe it or not, today at 150. Between then, it's in anything goes Wednesday. What do you want to get into? The leash is long. 713, 212, 5, 7.9. Oh, what a great song.

A lot of great sound. San Francisco But this is number one Yeah, I mean, from terms of popularity, for sure Watching the tie And how good it is Well, yeah, I mean, it's Otis Redding, my goodness, excellent.

But we got, well, nothing but San Fran songs on the show today. I am here with the Rockets in the Bay Area, 713-212-5-790. Let's get Ross, get people fired up for the Friday night tilt that you will be at with the Aggie Yeliters getting ready for last year's game, the reunion between A&M and Texas. Everloving, compound, complex.

Fighting takes Aggie, that's some real little brother energy. Fighting Texaggy, there's nothing more disgusting than burn orange. Fighting Texaggy, saw that. fat steers, horns off. Fighting TechSaggy, coach Jim Schlossanagle never belonged here anyway. We're going to beat the Fight and Texas class of 2026.

My middle son is an Aggie graduate. My middle son loved his time at College Station. He wants to go back to get his master's degree there, and I'm all for that. I love the community. I love just about everything about A&M except those some asses. Dasenem.

What? You just can't. And again, I know. They're going to say, well, you don't, you didn't live it. You didn't be around it. I know. I can't be around everything. Okay?

I can't be around everybody's culture, everyone's school, everybody's traditions. I'm just one simple man with a microphone on my mouth. We're next to me. It's stupid. Really stupid. You can do the chance. You can do the cheering. But that dude's monologue will never be forgotten.

And there's probably 500 of them very similar to that. They're pretty bad. Appalachia is not a state. And then they lost to Appalachian State. Mm-hmm. That's real rich calling Texas Longhorn's little brother. Jim Sloss, I'll have been bong here. That's all.

Y'all loves Schloss when he was over there. Shut you. bum ass up hilarious so good it's again so many things about A&M that I appreciate well their fans are the worst I didn't say that you did

it's a great you know what Cougars fans are charging down the stretch and put it that way we're giving them some time yeah that's just really dumb but you know look everything that every school

does does doesn't necessarily make it It's magical and amazing. I'm sure there's things that people do at Alabama games that would make us shake our head, or at USC, or at Miami games, or at Michigan. I mean, every school's got their quirks. That one is just a hard one to get away from. I remember taking Peyton to his orientation,

and the Eliters came in the orientation, and I'm looking at Peyton, and I'm like, what is this? Because they were hissing, and they were doing these weird old hand signs, and I was like, are we sure you want to go here and he goes dad i love this i said okay so he did yeah some people love it

i mean the enrollment's grown and grown and grown and they get like a hundred thousand there these days well and it's hard to get in it's still i mean as the enrollment grows they used to mean when we were growing up it was you know top 10% got in and then they got dropped to seven i think it's like five percent now got automatic enrollment in so hmm i think since they've up the enrollment they have loosened the acceptance rate oh okay i mean i'm not trying to

No, I'm not. Start anything, but... I'm talking about the automatic. It's 57 to 63% now. That ain't no gimmie. Compared to, like, you know, SFA where they, like, beg you to come. Please come to our school.

Whoa, whoa. Whoa. Hey, why they got to catch the strays. Whoa. We don't use all the vowels, but you can come over there anyway. You should be thanking the lumberjacks for getting the cougars this bar. Yeah, they're getting you bowl eligible.

I should only hear thank yous. Mm-hmm. By the way, how did Western Kentucky do against LSU this? past week. Oh, actually, I don't know. The Hill Toppers, I'm going to guess it didn't go so well for them. I remember being low scoring for a while, if I'm not mistaken.

Oh, really? Yeah. We are your official home of Western Kentucky football. Let's take a look. Go Topps. Last week, they played, and the final score was, oh, no, LSU, let's see. I'm looking. Oh, 13 to

10. Oh, my God. Are you serious? That's a cover, big time cover. If you ever went to WKU and you were at those games, it always ends like that. You got a high-ranking team. You sit in the cold, you sit there, and they just lose by three points, by four. It's so upsetting. LSU was a 22 and a half-point favorite thing.

God. God almighty. I might have to get my red towel back out. Do what with it? Wave it? You wave it. Spin it around like a helicopter? Okay. Trying to flag down some co-eds.

Fun facts, by the way, Abraham Lincoln's house is on campus, like his old log cabin. There's no way. You can look it up. Those logs have to have been rotted. It's got to be a replica. No, it's there. I'll put this on everything. Another fun fact.

He never should have gone to the theater. Tom is with us. Tom, good morning at 1026 on anything goes Wednesday. Tom, what do you have today? Tom, hey, yeah, I got an Aggie joke for you. go ahead you ready I was right by the way

the cabin is no longer exists anyway you know there's aggie he went to sorry go ahead this aggie goes to visit in alapkin he's in this bar with a bunch of

lumberjacks and they're sitting around they're all kind of bragging lumberjacks say well you know lumberjack knew anything He says, well, I'm going to text to that. I can do anything better than you.

So the lumberjack said, oh, yeah? Well, Lumberjack can drink a fifth of whiskey, wrestle a bear, make love to a woman all in one hour. And he says, oh, hell, I can do that better. He said, okay, let's get the bets down, okay? You're ready, start the timer. So they shove that fifth of whiskey to him. He scossed it down in about 20 seconds.

He says, all right, I'm going to go get that bear. And he goes down, boy, he's gone 10 minutes, 20, 30, 40, 45, 50. 55 minutes, and then he comes traggling in. There's blood everywhere. He's ripped his shit, his hair, is half of it's missing. He's band, and he goes, God, that bear was tough. He said, okay. All right, well, where's that woman you wanted me to wrestle?

No response? Just be egging. Thank you, Tom. Thanks, Tom. Hey, Tom, you got them to laugh, actually. I kind of see that coming, right? Number one. Correct.

Correct. Number two, that's my problem with Aggie jokes, is that they're just, you just insert whatever. They're not really Aggie jokes. Like, what is the, I want to know, could you possibly Google? What is the funniest Aggie joke out there? I don't know.

I'm going to try to find it. Okay. All right. We're going to go lockdown Gordy here in a few minutes. Yankees Keith wants to ask a food challenge question. By the way, we're not trying to stuff our faces on Thanksgiving, where we're just going to have normal meals and if we just eat until we're full. We're not trying to get sick, correct?

What? You don't stuff your face on Thanksgiving? No, I don't want to be uncomfortable. What? Yeah. Why don't want to get sick? Don't get sick. We're not asking you to go.

against Joey Chesnut. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You eat, yeah, you eat to your full and then just eat a little more. So you're saying go 10% above what I would normally eat? Yeah, give 110% it's Thanksgiving. All right, I can make I can do that.

This is for the pilgrims and the natives or whatever. So the pilgrims want me to eat more than they they sacrifice their lives just like I have one more extra slice of turkey. That feels about right, Rossi. When after our song, if you're going to San Francisco, put some flowers in your hair.

Is this a Bay Area Banger? Uh, yes. This is sitting on the Dock of Bay part two. Is it really? Yeah, I got you. It's Otis Redding. He got a late career turn. All right.

Do we have Gordy on the dryball yet? Yeah, what's up? Whoa! Hey, it's our man. It's our SEC insider. You are an insider. You are, you hate half the teams, and you're really in deep in the other half. Would that be accurate?

I would say hate 80%. Oh. Hey, did you all know that a Longhorn's cost of living is $0? I did not. It's because they live in an Aggie's head rent free. Oh, that's a good Aggie joke. Hey, what do Aggies and Longhorns have in common, guys? Oh, I like this one. Go ahead. Go ahead. They both applied to UT. All right, you know what? These are really good. I got to be honest with you. That's better than that long joke about the guy hanging out with a bear and, you know, make it out with a girlfriend. Last one. Did you hear about the Aggie that moved to Oklahoma?

No. Raise the average IQ of both states. That's why all of you should follow watch on SEC. That's a good one, too. Yeah, which one of the three is the best, would you say, boys? We're going to have to have a rolling list here of the best Aggie joke. second one number two

all right so say it again and we're going to say if we're going to figure out if somebody could beat this one what is joke number two again uh already exed out of it wait a minute you just said it I think it was what are they but what are UT and A and M fans have in common they both apply to UT

oh both apply to UT okay we're going to go with that one all right so let's let's get to the game itself before we go back on the phones and we have Chris Gordy Lock on SEC of course proud part of our sports talk 790 family tell me how A&M first of all if they lose where is their SEC championship future on this thing well that's the tough part I mean they lose the tiebreakers with presuming you know everybody else wins Alabama takes care of Auburn and George has already done their SEC slate. They played non-conference in Georgia Tech.

A&M has played the seven SEC teams they've played are all the bottom of the SEC. Now it's funny because we said this about Texas last year and Texas got all, you know, fans got all offended. They were like, oh, it's not our fault we played the lower half of the SEC.

That's just who we got. Well, this year it happened to A&M and they're doing the same thing. They're going, it's not our fault that everybody we played sucked, but it is worth noting. I mean, they're undefeated. They're 11 and 0. They're 7 and 0 in the SEC. Yet they have avoided all the best teams in the top half of the conference. Texas is going to be the first good team in the SEC,

the first team that has a record above 500 in conference play all season. And so this will be the Aggie's toughest test. But, yeah, if they lose, they lose the tiebreaker with Georgia, and it will be, presuming Alabama wins, it'll be Alabama and Georgia going to Atlanta as opposed to A&M. All right. So A&M is in the college football playoff. They don't have to go to the SEC championship game, right?

They're comfortable where they are, correct? Yeah, if they win, they'll still be in the playoffs. I mean, that's the good thing of where they are. But I created the scenario that this could end. I mean, as historic as this season has been, there's a world where they lose this weekend to Texas. Let's say maybe they do get to the SEC championship game. You know, they lose that one, and then they lose in the first round of the playoffs.

Like, there's a world that Aggies could finish the season on a three-game losing streak. and it would have vibes of how last season ended. But, no, I mean, at least you know where you are. At least you know you're in the playoff. But as we know, anything can happen. All right. Now, as far as Texas is concerned, before we get to the individuals, if Texas wins the game, is there enough they can do to squeak in?

Would they have to have multiple teams in front of them be upset in order for them to give that maybe that number 10 seat overall? I just think people are going to harp on the third loss. You know, it would have been one thing. And this is where it really sucks that you schedule a tough non-conference game against Ohio State in week one. The day they lost that game, everybody's like, oh, Texas is fine. You know, that's a good loss. Yet we're holding the third loss over them because if they had scheduled Texas State won that game

and their only two losses were to Florida and Georgia, both on the road, we'd be saying Texas is a playoff team right now if they win this game. So it sucks, but everybody's going to hold that against them. While everybody else is playing cupcakes week one, I think the message has been sent. Sart, don't schedule tough games. Schedule cupcakes because that's what everybody else is doing. And Texas is getting dinged for going on the road and losing a tough, hard-fought game against Ohio State, as opposed to getting rewarded for playing a tough game.

So the reality is this. As much as we enjoyed that first weekend of the season, we're going to see more Louisiana Lafayette's versus Texas is that we're going to see. Because, look, Indiana has already said over and over again, and why are we doing this? We're going to play as easy as a schedule, and it didn't affect them. It just gives you, I would assume, very little room for error if you have a bad loss somewhere in the mix because you can't justify it with the extra loss because of Ohio State.

You're not getting credit. You're not getting the participation point that you think you should get when you're playing the Buckeyes in week one. Well, I just think you should be rewarded for it. We always want to go to losses, who'd you lose to. I always say, who'd you beat? Like, what's your best resume wins? And, you know, we got Notre Dame sitting out there. Who hadn't played a damn soul?

You know, they played Miami and A&M, Weeks 1 and 2, lost both of those. And then they start beating up on Purdue and Boston College and Navy and Syracuse. And suddenly it's like, well, Notre Dame's in. Well, why are they in? They lost their two toughest games of the season. I think we need to give credit to teams that win big games. Texas beat Oklahoma, who was number six in the country at the time. Oklahoma will dispose of LSU this week.

They will be 10 and 2. They will be a playoff team. That's a great win. We've got to reward good wins as opposed to just going, well, who'd you lose to? All right. Now to the game itself. Can the Longhorn's offensive line hold up against the front four of Texas A&M? It's going to be tough.

Cassius Howell has been a monster for the Aggies this year. He's got 11.5 sacks. He was just named a finalist for the Lombardi Award, the Bednerick. He is a monster. And Texas has not run the football all season. They have not had a 100-yard rusher all season. That's crazy because coming into the season, we thought with CJ Baxter back with Trey Wisner returning, that this was going to be one of the better rushing SEC teams on the season. And they have not been. And the large part has been the offensive line. The one, two big positives that Texas has going for them right now. Archmanning's been playing

very well the last couple of weeks. You know, he's really starting to click. He's starting to find chemistry with his receivers. Ryan Wingo's been great. Parker Livingston's been nice. And here's the other stat guys that I just tweeted this out. Texas is 19 and 1 in their last 20 games at DKR. Their one loss was that Georgia, that epic Georgia game last year.

Remember where all the fans threw crap on the field? That's, that's his home field advantage as you get. and Longhorn fans have been waiting for this game to come back to Austin. Remember the whole thing was, you know, the Aggies were like, you can come to the SEC, but you've got to come to Kyle Field the first year. And Texas won that one. So big, big game here for the faithful of Austin. I know Ross will be there.

It's the hottest ticket in town. But 19 and 1 in their last 20 games at home, Texas must hold serve. All right, Ross, what are you thinking? I'm thinking upset, Matt. And Gordy's right. This is a very highly anticipated game. Like, I'm ready to, I mean, I go to every game ready to lose my voice, but I'm really ready to be in a part of a great environment

and be as loud as I possibly can in this game. It's going to be fun. I'm excited. Let me ask you this, Gordy. We saw South Carolina pull off an incredible first half, and then they just kind of melt it in the second half. How much of that game film can you translate to this game? As Sark tries to kind of replicate that because how the Gamecox,

scored as easily as they did and then just all of a sudden clamped up in the second half was quite astonishing. Yeah, I mean, a lot of it were ragging mistakes. Like, you know, Marcel Reed gets in the red zone, throws a bad interception into the end zone. I mean, things like that, you're just going to have to force them to make some mistakes. A crowd could play a part in that at there live and rocking and loud

that, you know, maybe they force some fumbles or, you know, disrupt that way. but to me that that was you know that was the epitome of it and the secondary was a little um you know they weren't the best in the half of that game and then you know lenore sellers with his running ability kind of kept them off balance arch can tuck and run but he's not going to be confused with michael vick out there so um i'll put as simply as to say this guys you look at the numbers they are pretty identical i mean scoring defense texas giving up 20 points a game a nm's given up 21 points a game, passing offense, you know, A&M's 28th, Texas is 33rd, like,

they're neck and neck in a lot of different categories, except rushing offense. The Aggies are 25th in the country, Texas is 110th. If Texas can run the football effectively, and we're seeing Trey Wisner and company getting four, four and a half, five yards a clip, then that will be the recipe for Texas to pull this off. If they cannot run the football, I hate to put it on it, but Arch is going to have to play They have near flawless game for them to win this one. Yeah, and I'm worried about the rush defense because they got ran all over by the Razorbacks.

I mean, that game ended up being like 52 to 37 looks like kind of like a blowout or whatever, but the rush defense was as poor as it been all season for the Longhorns. Yeah, but largely they've been good all year. I mean, I want to say they're like around. Yeah, but their last game, it was bad, so I'm concerned for sure. Yeah, but they clamp down in the second half too. So, you know, again, I don't know if you can take a whole lot away from that other than, look at the points that they've been scoring with Arch the last handful of games.

45, 34, yeah, Georgia shut him down, but then Arkansas 52, again, this is the best of the offense has been playing on the backstretch of the season. So a confident arch could go a long way in this one. Last question. What's the final score going to be, Chris Gordy? I'm thinking, I mean, this could be defensive battle. If you can keep, if you tell me both teams are in the 20s, I think Texas pulls it out, something like a 23-21-type game.

Their kickers been really good all season. So I was at that Kentucky game. I mean, he was like the player of the game, Mason-Chip League, and the return game, I think, is going to be big, too. You know, so we'll see. But I think if it's like a 24-21, 23-20 type game, I think it's advantage longhorns, and they beat the Aggies. There you go.

Locked on SEC. Love it. I think it would be a higher scoring game with the total is 51.5 with the Longhorn's winning. But we'll see. I'm just happy the games are playing being played again. It's the greatest rivalry in Texas, period of the story. And we'll have it for you. Yeah, it's the greatest rivalry in Texas for sure.

That's one of the probably, it's part of, you know, you think A&M, Texas, Army Navy, Ohio State, Michigan. That does about an accident out right there. And U of H and Navy? U of H doesn't play Navy anymore. We were tired of beating one of the Naval Academy, so we're playing better this week, Rossi. Okay, sorry. All right, 1046th.

Gordy, happy Thanksgiving to you, my friend. Thank you for coming on. Thanks, fellas. He's locked on Gordy. Locked on SEC. Love it. Follow him there. Yankees, Keith, and Dave will get you in it coming back.

713-212-5-790. We have a pre- Thanksgiving Day edition of Shet Show bum-ass up coming up in 45 minutes right here on Sports Talk 790. I left my heart in San Francisco Now Rossi, you've seen, you did see Tony Bedded in person before he passed, correct? Yes, he was 92 years old. And apparently sang two songs back to back to the exact same.

I've heard that story before, right? He did the encore. He sang a song. I can't remember what it was. Started to walk off the stage, stopped in the middle of walking off the stage. It looked like he forgot where he was, came back on the stage,

and then sang the same song, yes. And we were all just like, oh, right. Good job, Tony. It was like he was all of our collective grandpa. We're just like, oh, well, you did great, Tony. Meanwhile, how old is McCartney? 82, 83, 83 years old, just finished up two sold-out shows at the United Center the last two nights.

Tony Bennett, yeah, he lived in 96, so that had to be 2019, I guess, when I saw it. Alec Baldwin has his issues, does a great Tony Bennett impersonation. Oh, really? For what it's worth. for what it's worth now remember he was killing people and met backing on his daughter and it was an accident yeah but he did kill her well he was handed a loaded gun it wasn't his fault yeah he was on the movie set and landed a handed a not a loaded gun but it was it was not properly i don't know then butchered the host of the match game show oh he did what

happened with that got let go oh really he was bad or what happened martin sport and martin short now does it and he does even a worse job how do you butcher match game that's my point everything is written down and rehearsed nothing organic with these shows are all timed down and all the jokes are written down ahead of time it's just not good it's not good meanwhile i again i think i could do a good job i have extemporaneous skills i can get the best of the celebrities i know the format of the game i don't need Well, we'll put you in, Matt.

You apply, Matt. Yeah. You have the connections. You have the connections, Matt. Let's go for it. Yeah, you know what? Yeah, just spread your wings and fly. You know, I got no connections.

I got Nate Burlson hosted the Hollywood Squares. When you think of the Hollywood Squares, you like Nate Burleson? The former receiver? How does he have any national cachet? Or was he on, he was on Dancing with the Stars, huh? Yeah, he hosts the CBS Morning Show that no one watches. Oh, wow. Yeah.

Man, Nate Burleson's a star. Good for him. Not good for him. It's bad for us. It's good for him, Matt. No, it's bad for him. Go to hell, Nate Burleson. Go to hell, Nate Burleson.

What did he ever do to you? He didn't let me host the Hollywood Squares. You're so weird. Go to hell, Nate Burleson. I'm going to tell him you said that. You should. You should. That's not going to happen.

I can't do it because I would, I'd be like, dude, why are you butchering the Hollywood Squares? He's in the, like, 12th round fantasy pick Hall of Fame. Like, oh, I guess I'll take Nate Burleson. I mean, he had a nice NFL career. Yes, I'm saying, like, ah, I need somebody to get me like 70 yards at a bye week, maybe one touchdown. Nate Burleson, you're up. Yeah, Nate Burleson, the epitome of possession receiver.

Now he's hosting, he's on the NFL. W.R. 3, yeah. Today, that's a CBS morning show. I've never watched this. I can't tell you. And then he's hosting a Hollywood scores with Drew Barrymore in the Center Square. Damn. He's hosting that, too?

This dude is a star. Is he good at any of it? I haven't watched. What do you think? I've been some bragging on for three minutes. What do you think? He's got to be great. He keeps getting gigs.

He's on good morning. What was he on? You said, CBS this morning. What? CBS this morning? Mm-hmm. And Hollywood Squares and what else?

NFL today. Damn. And he was doing the Netflix. He was doing the Nickelodeon games on TV. What? Does he sleep? this is terrible i'm now in a bad mood let's talk to uh dave on 790 and 1056 dave good morning thank you for holding you got it no problem hey i was so pumped when i first heard that we got a lumberjack running the board

now for you guys uh the 10 and two lumber jacks 10 and two lumberjacks by the way uh but also you are in the presence of school record holder. I'm sure you already know that. But I did want to ask John about this guy. What? Oh my, yeah, school record, 4 by 100. Check it out. Jonathan, you got school records?

Yeah, I'm in the whole. Yeah. What? Matthew. We got to give this man his respects. I appreciate you. I know you know that, man. That's awesome, man. That's awesome. Well, Jonathan never told us because he doesn't brag. So I didn't know. I know. That's how the Jacks roll.

We act like we've been there before. So, but anyway, I wanted to ask Jonathan about this guy, Masuri Matar. Was he just like a badass? Yeah, yeah. How was he? That's my homeboy. Man, man. He's, dude, real good, man.

He ended up transferring after he graduated at SFA and went to OU, and they ended up falling short his 50 year. But before I got there, they got second international in football four before I got there. That's why I ended up transferring because I knew they had to get squad. okay all right very good now then one more thing uh about an aggie and and these people give aggie such a bad name i got all my sFA hat and my aggie neighbor across the street never mows his damn grass he's got four pine trees so i'm in the street blowing the pine needles to his side of the street he comes out i just finished so maybe he figured out it was me i don't know but he says why are you wearing that hat?

And I kind of forgot to put it on. I took it, oh, my SFA hat, yeah. He says, you can't wear that hat. And I said, why not? You went to SFA, but you didn't graduate. I said, yeah, so. My daughter went to SFA and graduated, and I'm a fan. No, you can't wear that hat.

I said, kiss my. I said, no, I said, shut your bum ass up, man. Why? Why do they do things like that? and that's all I got late thank you Dave I appreciate you Dave Dave representing the jacks it's a gatekeeping thing

and quite frankly it's rooted in jealousy because people like to talk about longhorn fans being t-shirt fans because they were popular and it's like oh you can't root for the team unless you graduated um here's what I don't here's the ruling I have if you went to another school but openly root for another one

that you never went that you never went to correct like you can root for north te you know matt i mean i feel like you can root for not that you would or could but you i feel like you have the option i should say to root for north north texas athletics i went to north texas for one year i can root for them i were talking with their coach by the way we have to get to that at some point yeah we need to i um i went my oldest son went to tech i spent money at tech i spent money at a and m my daughter's going to have a scholarship to Rhode Island so I've got some new schools

but what I don't accept is I went to XYZ school but wanted to go to another school so I don't even acknowledge a school that I went to and just was a fan and don't even acknowledge a school that I went to be like if you went to Texas Tech and all of a sudden you were an A&M fan even though maybe you were a fan of the Aggies growing up if you were the thing that was growing up you should have gone to their school there

But if you couldn't get in? Well, that's because you're numb. What if you didn't have the Smots? Well, that's your problem. I think total abandonment of the school that you went to is dushy. That's all I'm saying. Well, I went to Texas. I did not graduate.

Yeah, but you know looks good. My brother graduated from there. My aunt, my uncle, Richard, as well. And rooted for them all my life. Yeah, that's fine. I can live with that. Thank you, Matt. I'm glad I've got clearance from you

I was going to say I don't why I'm telling you what you can Can I do but I just again Gatekeeping fandom is just It's whatever It's real I just I just don't like I went to SMU but I root hard for Texas Because I wanted to go to Texas

But I don't get an SMU I just say it's just kind of creepy But that's a teacher's own Well it's especially weird when they're on the same level I feel like if you went to If you grew up a Longhorn fan And then you went to I don't know incarnate word

like something on a completely different level I feel like what you're saying like Texas Tech and A&M like that's two major college programs Right By the way I'm getting a lot of dirty A&M Aggie jokes sent to me And I cannot read that one and I just got on the ear Something involving a sock

All right 1101 on Sports Talk 790 Second hour of the Matt Thomas show We got Chachab on that up coming up in a half an hour. So come on and join us. 713-212-5-790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 11.05 on SportsCoc 790. Matt here from San Francisco, Ross, back in Houston. Rockets and Warriors tonight will have it for you beginning at 8 o'clock with the launch pad,

830 network pre-game 9 o'clock tip time from here in the Bay Area. Rockets will not have Stephen Adams available to them tonight. no Kevin Durant available, no Tari Issa, no Dorian Finney Smith, no Fred Van Vleet, I mentioned Stephen Adams, so Rossi, you're going to get a nice diet of Jayshon Tate and Aaron Holiday and maybe a sprinkle of J.D. Davidson before that I had said and done. Jay Sean Tate? He came back, did he come back from the G League? Well, I'm assuming they need a body. It's crazy. He's like a five-year vet in the G League.

Yeah, it's getting some time, but I put him on my, I put him on my card. he's going to be here or not, but if he doesn't, that makes them... They need warm bodies. Well, it would put... If they don't have him, that puts him at 10, and number 10 is Isaiah Crawford, and number 9 is J.D. Davidson. Hey, J.D. Davidson gave some good minutes. You did okay dinner night. Five points, had a three-pointer.

Yes. Holiday was awesome last night, or a couple nights back. He put up at 22 points with six three-pointers. Beautiful. You said the best scoring of the holiday trio? Well, I think one of the guys is out of the league. Drew's still doing his thing But who's the other one?

Justin. Yeah, Justin Hollidays. I was a little league, I think. College basketball last time. I loved a cougar suffered their first loss of the season. Oh, what happened? It was close game, back and forth. I mean, somebody had to win it.

Oh, you guys lost to Rick Barnes? Yeah, it's going to happen. That's tough. Well, Texas took care of business in their big matchup. Who they play? Oh, they played Shamanah, didn't they? What was the final score, do we even know? 119 to 78?

I don't think Texas. the defense is very good. Shamanad scored 78 on them and didn't some other crappy school? Yeah, Ryder got 65 on them. 119 though in 40 minutes is pretty good too. Yeah, but it's Shamanan. It doesn't count. They don't even, they literally still don't have a page on ESPN.

So it's basically the SFA of college basketball. Oh, hey, come on now. We've got to put some respect on Jonathan's name, school record holder. That's awesome. What was the record again? Of all the people... Oh, 4 by 1, it was 391 at the time. Four by 100 relay.

That's awesome. And who were the other three guys on the team? What were their names? Missouri Matar, Jeremiah Curry, and Justin Garcia. And you are friends with all three of them at this point? I can keep up with two of them. I don't know where Curry is doing, but we all follow each other around. Okay.

And actually, for your A&M Aggies, Maude Robinson went to... He's an Aggie right now. he holds a record over there and he's got multiple 400 wins and 400 meter individual wins. And he came from SBA as well. So shout out to him. Wow. SFA track powerhouse. The Harvard track is clearly University of Houston with Carl Lewis.

Yeah. See, I was going to give mad props that we got beat that year, too, the U of H. They are just dogs over there. That's going to happen a lot. That's fine. We've got two new coaches. I've got two coaches looking for new spots. Eric Morris leaving North Texas to zero surprise to go to.

Oklahoma State That's a good leap Well yeah it just shows you again 10 wins at North Texas equals 1 at Oklahoma State We said even yesterday you're like well he's not going to be there And then later that day he got hired away Yeah that's no surprise And then the coach at

Let me see here Oh USF You know South Florida who's a team that could be going into the CFP Alex Golish is going to be the coach at Arkansas. Oh, really? That just came down. And Jim Mora Jr. is leaving Yukon to go coach at Colorado State as they go into the new, what they're calling. Jim Mora Jr.?

Yeah. He's still coaching? Yeah, at Yukon. What? Yeah. Now he's at Colorado State, yeah. Well, okay. Good for him.

Yeah. I had not, that name just shook some cobwebs out of my brain. I didn't have no clue. I'm not giving you any breaking news here, Rossi. The reality is if you are a group of five or group of six school and you win, you're losing your coach. Oh, yeah. He's been good at Yukon, nine and three and nine and four last two years. Which is tough because that's a tough place to recruit.

There's no high school players. Nobody wants to go play and cut stores. Oh, what a dump. Oh, my God. I hate it there. Absolutely hate it. So, yeah, if you're decent, and here's the reality, Ross, it's not even thinking about this. You're Ole Miss.

You are SEC through and through, and you're holding on dear life for your coach. Yeah. It seems like the more of the days roll on, the more that he's going to LSU. If he's being offered $15 million a year, he's got to go. Ole Miss has money They don't have $15 million of your money They just don't It's just a better program

It's just he wants to win championships Let me If the playing field was equal He could win I mean if you're just a great recruiter You can win an Ole Miss You've got good facilities Yeah but isn't your job easier

You also have to be a great recruiter Against Alabama and A&M And Texas and Georgia and OU You need a leg up And LSU is a leg up And LSU is a leg up from Ole Miss. It just is. Yeah, especially when you can add an extra two and a zero

to most of the checks you want to give them. Yeah. Now the roads aren't paved. In Baton Rouge or not? And the buildings are falling apart. Yeah. But hey, hell, let me tell you. But that locker room looks nice.

Let me tell you, Mike the Tiger's got good facilities. You know they're going to be able to spend some money. Every locker has got a 50-inch plasma TV, but we can't pave the roves. But hey, let's go. streaming services too so I can't miss any games that's true even to be let's talk to uh Yankees Keith at 1111 happy pre- Thanksgiving Yankees Keith hey how are you man good gentlemen hey I got a food challenge for y'all I got seven foods that to see whether or not you've actually

eaten them I bet you you probably had two of them and I'm going to guess Ross maybe had for you ready sure right not alright the first one rabbit rabbit man have you ever had rabbit I don't remember

I would say no I will say no I don't think I have I think I might have a rabbit stew at a restaurant go ahead next one raccoon

no no Jonathan, have you had raccoon? He raised his hand. He said, yeah. Oh, wow. How about crawfish? Yeah, of course.

Okay, how about Oxtail? No. Of course, yes. All right, here's the top three. Pig feet. No. No. Bog malls.

I don't know what that is. Hey, here's number one. Chitlin. No. Yes. Who had Chitlin? Ross. Is this great radio?

I'm just curious. Hey, it's anything goes Wednesday. That is true. That's all I am. It was just a little food challenge If anything goes Wednesday That it is Thank you Keith

Appreciate it I mean literally Is anything goes Wednesday I got three How many did you get Matt Oh Crawfish was a no-brainer And then the other one I don't remember

Maybe two I don't know I haven't had rabbit or car I don't I've had Frog's legs Yeah I've had that I don't think I've had

Rattlesnake You've had chicken feet No quail yes I think it's time for a break I think it is too I mean this one we'd like to call a screeching halt on the radio show

we got a good question from James let's go ahead of palate cleanser what if you went to a because Matt you are the gatekeeper of fandom so we have to ask you what if you went to a satellite school of UT or A&M like UTSA or A&M Galveston then can you root for the

main campus does that school have division one athletics? UTSA would I'll give you an example my sister and brother-in-law both went to U.T. Arlington my sister doesn't really care about sports but my brother-in-law is rich for U.T and hey

when we're watching the games and we high-five I got no issue with it I would say UTA is okay because they don't have a football team okay you got to root for somebody on Saturdays correct? Yeah What about UTSA? Nope, you got to be a roadrunner.

What about UTEP? You got to be a minor. Hmm. You just got to. I'm sorry. I think it's allowed. Okay. What A&M satellite schools have football teams?

Corpus Christi, no. Prairie Views is a satellite. Commerce A&M? Is that part of the A&M system? Commerce has F-F-S-F-C-S. I just, I just, the biggest D's I know are the ones that went to Texas Tech but Roof for Texas or went to, went to North Texas and Ruth for A&M. Those are the Ds I'm talking about.

If you're low-key about it and you're chill, I get it, but if you were like, we did this and we did that, but you really never stepped on the campus ever just because your dad or your mom was a fan, that makes you a D. I'm sorry. my rule. Remember, I don't write the rules. I just interpret them. Seems like you're writing the rules.

I don't write them, but people ask, I give you answers. Okay, thank you, Matt. Like, I used to hang it when I was going to U of age in the 90s, and people would wear other schools shirts, that really pissed me off. On campus? No, I would agree with Matt, because that happens that West Kentucky all the time. They wear the UK stuff, and it used to blow my mind. Oh, that's the worst.

That is the worst. 1116. It is a Matt Thomas show of Ross. We got shut you a little bum ass up at the bottom of the hour. You may join us all the way through until 2 o'clock. If you need fantasy football advice, Dr. Orno is going to be with us at 1 o'clock today. Willie Fritz on the Cougars v. the Bears at 1.30. Your phone calls welcome at 713-212-5-790.

We built this city on rock and roll. Rossi, I think if you do a Google search of this song, this is one of the most hated number one hits of all time. This song sucks. I mean, I don't love it, but I've heard way worse. It sucks. But people really hear this song and they despise it. It makes me want to dry heave.

Matt, this dude told me to play this song. Yeah, I know. Don't trust people. No, I didn't tell him it was a great song. He was just looking for it. Look, it's fine. I mean, look, you can play it. I don't care.

I'm like, I'm not going to walk out of the studio. No, I'm going to walk out of the studio. But it's a song about San Francisco. And when we're looking for songs about San Francisco, but it's bad. You can keep it playing. It's fine. No, I'm not mad. So when you hear this song, it just generally pisses y'all.

Yeah, I guess so. It reminds me to that funny bit of family guy where they're like, hard rock, the classic rock. And then it goes, we built this city. Like it's just It's not great It's just so milk toasting Oh

Who's it? I'm interesting yes Yeah it's okay I mean Again I'll never download it They play You know My favorite one from here is

And again it's in If you're going to San Francisco Put flowers in your hair They play an upbeat version of it Here at the Warriors game You know they remix it It's pretty good I wish I could find the real version of that

It topped a 2011 Rolling Stone poll of worst songs of the 80s by a wide margin. Yeah, people do hate it. Why is it played everywhere? Blender magazine and GQ magazine both have called it the worst song of all time. And that's a little much.

You know what the worst song of all time is, don't you? Avant-Garde jazz? Nope. Have you ever heard that? It's just like people wailing and making noise with a pheromit. It's not good. My two worst songs of all time are Edie Burkell and the New Bohemians.

I'm not aware of too many things. You know what I mean? That song sucks. No, I don't know that song. All time terrible. And then girls just want to have fun by Cindy Lauper. Oh, that song's fine. It's not great.

I'm with you on that, but it's... I thought you hated Minnie Ripperton. Oh, loving you? Oh, that is horrific, too. That's a jam. You're just wrong. That is not. Minnie Rupertent is just yelling at the top of her lungs.

Oh, hell no. Oh, no. Don't let this happen. This is great This is not great Jonathan was on the scene He remembered This is one of the three worst songs

Ever made in the world Sing it, Minnie Let's go Love and you I kind of like this song Yeah It's like You can't stand it

You're in a meadow Having a nice picnic With your lady Mm-hmm The birds are chirping The sun is shining Love and you You're getting a quick

quick run of the hand up now this mad this is a song you play with you late it you get lucky you know what i'm playing this song for my lady she's going to walk out of the house when she was going to do that anyways that's true oh jam that is so bad minnie ripperton minnie suckington is what that was that's terrible let's go to uh brian in pearland 1125 on a anything goes wednesday brian good morning to you you. Hey, morning, guys, and I hope you'll have a happy Thanksgiving. Ross should be a good time down in Austin on Friday.

I was there last year, and that the atmosphere was awesome and a good game, even regardless of how it came out of it was close to the entire way. So it should be a good time in Austin, I'm sure. So enjoy yourself down there because it'll be a good one. I've been going back and forth with Gordy and one said he did fail to leave out. Look, I get it. Chris Gordy is the LSU homer and he is not an A&M fan.

I can tell because when I called him and Dan back before the A&M LSU game, he was talking about how the LSU game was the biggest touch for the Aggies and if they lose that, they're going eight and four all of that. They went in and got a coach fired and ripped the hearts out LSU. And now Gordy's got to figure out how much more money he's going to have to pony up to his annual dues to be able to afford that $54 million buyout. So Gordy can shut his bum ass up when he's doing that. And let's not forget, Sark is 2 and 8 at Texas against top 10 teams under his current tenure.

And Sark teams are 5 and 18 against top 10 teams against his entire coaching career. So he conveniently left that stat out. You know, look, I get it. Gordy doesn't like A&M, good deal. But if you're going to be locked on SEC, give me all the numbers before you sit there and say it. But it's going to be a good game. I think it's 3127 A&M. This is not an A&M team in years past.

That South Carolina game taught them something different. They can get punched in the mouth and keep coming back now. I'm not advertising going down 30 to 3, but I think this A&M team is just playing a different breed of of football and they're just built differently than teams in the in the past. But it's going to be a good game.

Roscoe enjoy it. Have a couple of frosty pops for me and you all have a good Thanksgiving, guys. All right, thank you. Sark has two wins against top 10 teams this year. So I think two and 10, I don't believe that's accurate.

Before and 12 now, right? If he's... No, well, they lost to Georgia at top 10. so I don't know. And lost to Ohio State of top 10. So 2 and 2 this year, I don't know about all time. But they've won top 10 games before this year. I think 2 and 10 might have been maybe before this season.

So yeah, maybe 4 and 12. So are we really going to crush the Ohio State game as a reason why they do again? To me, it's more about the Georgia game than anything else. Does not be competitive? I don't know. Florida loss is bad too. I think it's one of those things where you can call it whichever way you want Because there's even if the the longhorns

I had the rankings up earlier Even if they were a two-loss team They would be like 12th Conceivably So and that's still no guarantee that they would get in So we'll see what happens Yeah I again How did they end up yesterday? Did you see the latest?

They are the highest rank of the of the three loss teams I guess Oklahoma has two losses in there eight Notre Dame has nine I don't know if you flip the if you flip the Ohio State loss to a win over as

Gordy said like Texas State are they ahead they're probably ahead of Oklahoma because of head to head right oh yeah maybe this is costing I you know what Ross and we applauded the Texas and Ohio State for plugging each other

And we rip on schools that play the divisional, the quadrant schools and whatnot. I don't know. I think we're learning that the college football playoff loves the number of wins and doesn't love the... Well, two years ago, though, Longhorns did get into the top four because they beat Alabama on the road. But that was also when it was a top four format. But they would not have gotten in if they did not win that game. So who would be... If Texas was to beat A&M,

get in. Who would they be squeezing out that would cause the controversy? I think if they beat A&M, they should put them past Vanderbilt and Oklahoma who Texas beat head to head. Vanderbilt, Texas is 16 right now. Vanderbilt's 14

and Oklahoma's 8. How can Texas have three wins against top 10 teams, one of which is Oklahoma and then be ranked behind them? But who did Vanderbilt beat? I don't know if there was anybody over Texas, right? Vanderbilt is 9 and 2.

Their biggest wins would be LSU, Missouri. Well, the reality is this, Michigan needs to lose It's terrible. Michigan needs to lose to Ohio State for sure. You right? Correct on that? You need Utah

to lose. I mean, I don't care. I'm going to the game Friday and I want to beat the Aggies who are on the field against them. I just can't I understand this is like, you know, fodder and this is what this show is here for, but it's like, for me personally, as a Texas fan, I don't, I don't care. I want them to beat the Aggies, and then whatever happens is out of my control. I don't

know what this committee's doing. I don't know whatever. Like, I'm trying not to spend time mental space thinking about it. It's going to shake out, however it's going to shake out. Whatever right or wrong, there's nothing I can do about it. I want them to beat the Aggies for bragging rights and because I want my team to win and because I'm going to go. Yeah. That's a fresh, healthy approach. I don't think it's shared by a lot of your fellow Agu. Yeah, I know. Longhorn fans.

Yeah, let's spend 15 hours of our week, him and in Hawn, about some poll that we can't control. Like, you should have beat Florida. Like, this is not some good. It's not going to, I'll tell you this. If Texas is on the outside looking in, it's not going to be some grave injustice. Beat Ohio State.

That was a winnable game. Don't lose to Florida the way that you did. And don't get embarrassed in Georgia. Like, this is not that hard. It's not like they're undefeated and on the outside looking in or something. like that. You have three losses. Could have won any three of those games.

Yeah, they have you at 16. So they've kind of set you up for, you know what? We kind of know who you are. And a win against the number three team is going to help vault them past several of those teams. If it's enough, we'll see. Yep. All right, 1131. Let's tell some people to shut their bum asses up. Look, you got relatives coming to town right now. Maybe they're in your house as we speak, and they are driving you crazy. This next half hour for you is cathartic. you want to tell some people to shut their bum asses up?

713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90. I'm here in San Francisco. Ross back in Houston. Let's tell some people to shut the bum-asses up and ain't nobody got time for that. Next on 790. Ain't nobody getting time?

Ain't nobody getting time for that? Ain't nobody getting time for that. Ain't nobody getting time for me. Ain't nobody getting time for me? 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-790 ain't nobody got time for that and shut you bum ass up by the way a tray on Twitter says clearly you've never heard a yoko ono song oh i'm guessing yokea on is wretched too but i don't i never hear yokelona song on radio i hear that minnie ripperton crap constantly oh wolf

shut your bum ass up man ouch Alive or day Minnie Ripperton? Alive. I don't know. She was part of that disco craze. You sure? No.

Not at all. Let's see if she's alive. I'm going to affect my Wednesday. Well, I mean, you know, you are, we have not done dinner. I'm wishing the Riperton family the best. She died in 1979. I knew it. Disco, that's it.

She died that early day. She was 32. What happened? Probably people thought her songs sucked and they only like, Oh, jeez. Not on the dead woman, Matt. Hmm. Oh, breast cancer.

Oh, okay. Well, that's it. Thoughts and prayers or family. All right. He's laughing, by the way. Is he really? That's something that he actually would say. Because he's the one that's the non-feeling of the two of us.

I have feelings. I don't have feelings for strangers that I never met and don't affect my day-to-day life. So. Like everybody says, oh, what a horror. terrible tragedy. The little guy from, what was that show where they're on the The little guy from Fantasy Island died.

Can you believe it? No, I never met that guy. I don't know him. I'm not going to let it affect my life. You were not suffering because of his loss? No, I'm okay. I'm going to make it. Minnie Ripperton died in 1979. It does not affect me. I think if Matt, you died,

or somebody I know or a family member or somebody's aunt and it's affecting me, yes. Someone I have a connection to? Yes. I don't have a connection to Minnie Ruperton. Okay. Let me go to my

Ain't nobody got time for that. To my North Texas group chat who thought they were going to keep Eric Morris. Ain't nobody got time for that. It's not going to happen. They did, really? Yes. Why do these schools always do this?

They, because they love their schools. They love, I mean, they love what they're doing. Didn't that happen recently at North Tech? Didn't some other coach get hired off recently? in the last 10 years or no I don't think so I remember I'm thinking of some other school and you're you had some friends

that were telling you he was going to stay yeah look I can tell you this is the University of Houston guy oh we'll keep Tom Herman we got no problem with that we'll be able to keep him no you're not he was on he was on a plane to LSU and a plane and to Austin

about every other day during the whole last part of the two weeks of the Cougar football season that year so remember it was reported he had agreed to be the LSU coach oh yeah how things would have changed changed. Yeah, well, whatever.

So I would say to all of you that go to non-power four schools, and I mean the big power four schools, your coach is good, he's going to leave you. He may kiss you on the cheek and thank you for your services, but like people like in North Texas yesterday were pissed off because Aaron Morris had a press conference and normally he wears North Texas gear, he wouldn't wearing anything yesterday. Yeah, stepping stones like U of H. I'm not letting that go I'm just gonna let your bum ass up man

exactly couldn't send it better myself no that was for me because you're talking down to SFA he called you stepping stones so now we're both in the same category oh hey get up Jonathan I mean an SFA stepping stone what is the next logical step up

I don't know UTRGV I'm kidding no wait no hold on we're above UTRGV now don't do that well we'll see did somebody said y'all is that true your football team's 10 and 2 Yeah, we're in the FCS.

Okay, we're about to find out where they're stepping stone, too. Yeah, your coach is going to leave no matter what. Whoever the hell he is. I believe he's living too. No, he's been there for like seven years. He's not going to leave. Oh, Jonathan. Don't say that.

I don't think he's, I'm just getting word. He's taking the head job at North at New Hampshire State, ironically enough. Good for him. Oh, wow. Yeah, they're 10 and 2. Yeah, they went from 3 and 8 to 7 and 5 to 10 and 2. Yeah, he's gone. Goodbye.

See you later. Kobe Carthel Yeah From Floyd Dada, Texas Have you ever heard of that? Never have So what's the next logical step? A low D1 from there?

Yeah He won a national championship at A&M Commerce Division 2 Oh, he's definitely gone so He won a Division 2 national championship At A&M Commerce Then he's been at SFA for Yeah, this is his seventh year

Last year, 7 and 5, this year 10 and 2. You know what? what he's started eating atronic five days a week for his elegant dining so seriously let's get the guy some some real food yeah he's going he's staying guys for life his wife you know actually oh here we go guys guys his wife owns a tea like h2 oh um over there and she's like in the franchise now she's settled down over there there just no way he's leaving yeah they made big money with their neck we walked over there today big money and it's got a for sale and you just hear your can you hear yourself guys guys look in the mirror jonathan she's

You also said they were going to crush the cougars. I didn't think we're not going to score a single point, though. Not a single point. Didn't score a point. Didn't even really threaten to score a point until late in the fourth quarter when we had all of our seventh. We get it. We get it. This dude's gone.

Now, maybe not this year, but if he's good again next year, it's over. Like, if Lotech was open, you take the job over SFA. Oh, yeah. What? No, you don't. Yeah, absolutely you do. Yeah. Oh, please.

Southland? They're in the Southland. What's Lotech in? Um, the Sunbelt maybe USA, maybe? Oof. Is that a step up? Maybe you hold out at NAC.

See? Oh, let me tell you, the money at Lotech is better than it is at SFA. The money, maybe, but you don't want to let's that program. SFA, they pay you in hush puppies. Shit your bum ass up, man. Oh, come on. You know, right. All right.

Ross, what's the matter with you? Uh, okay. I went after, uh, Exfinity last week for their, their AI support person and I even forgot what I originally wanted to come after them for that was the fact that I was trying to switch back to cable Matt they have a sports and news package all right so I was like you know what I just want sports this sounds great the sports and news package does not have MLB TV NBA TV or NFL network or TNT or TBS which we know carries sports

If you have the sports package and it doesn't have sports channels, what are we doing here? Yeah, what are we doing? Ain't nobody got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that. And I got to. Go ahead. What they define as sports and news, you and I don't. Because we're actually, I don't know, in sports.

We kind of know where to watch. Like, no, if I, let's say, I don't know, your wife was switching the package. You're like, yeah, honey, just get the sports package. And then you get it and you, like, trying to flip around. You don't have MLB, NBA, or NFL network. or TNT or TBS to watch sports? That's ridiculous. Yeah.

And I got beef. I'm going to call them out by name too. Fubo. You've already been in dispute with TNT, TBS. I hadn't been able to get my NBA. Now that's gone. But now there's other stuff on TNT and TBS that I don't want to watch. I'm already pissed off about that.

I got to go to HBO Max and spend $20 a month on that. And then now they're in a dispute with NBC Universal. So I can't get NBC sports. Fubo, ain't anybody got a time for you to be in in disputes with everybody. ain't nobody got time for that it's ridiculous i don't think i got anything i'm sick of all these people all these money honey money hungry

money grubbing people where everything is going up and up and up and up and then they're getting into disputes with everyone yeah and if exfinity would like to be a sponsor with matt thomas show or ross we're glad to have you i guess well they got to turn some things around i mean i did come crawling back i'm gonna i'm gonna cancel football. I can't be in, you can't be in multiple disputes. Come on, brothers. Let's go.

What are you doing? We end disputes between cable companies and TV networks. It's all we get is, you're going to maybe lose this channel. Oh, you lost his channel. And then you have the ESPN personalities cutting and pacing tweets saying we want our network back. Yeah. And then I saw a deal

for HBO Max for three months, three dollars a month for a year, but then you don't get the live sports. It's shit so bum man just costing me hundreds of dollars a month and I'm still not getting everything where rec review takes care of it for me I don't have these issues I just don't

I guess I can do that one I can just do the stream I don't want to get a satellite I don't even know if I can get a satellite up at where I live come to my house well what's the no I'm not going

I'm not going up to South Nacadocious to hang out with you and the Colby Carthel and watch games Colby Carthel no other radio show on the marketplace is giving you two Kobe Carthel mentions in one half hour.

We're going to discuss some Kobe Carthle. Who wants to do? What the hell is that? Yeah, he could be the next. Well, where the jobs are drying up, though, for Colby. Nick Cayley be better than Kobe Carthor. Is Kobe Carthel better than Nick Cayley? Give me a call. We'll discuss that next.

I'm stroking out. Are you okay? No. I'm a little concerned. With her talking, though. You know what? I've only had one regular cup of coffee today. Different hotel. They're another 24 ounces for $8. And all day of water is in aluminum cans, which is interesting. Hmm.

That's not good. That's like when you're handing out hurricane provisions. Well, I don't think they have hurricanes here. Now, they have some pretty good thunderstorms and whatnot, but yeah. That's the only time I've seen water in a can. So when FEMA's pulling up. Uh-oh, that's not good. All right.

On the phone's next, 1146. if you want to tell FEMA to shut their bum ass up for not giving you fresh water 713-212-5-790 7-13-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 you want to tell somebody to shut their bum asses up anybody got time for that 7-1-3-2-2-5-7-90 Tom on 7-90 Tom what's the matter with you okay so we're trying to plan the family Christmas and my idiot brother doesn't respond to any of the text when we start looking at dates

until my dad says hey let's just not do gifts this year and then he immediately responds oh we've already got gifts to everybody man shut your bum ass up shit your bum ass up man um if i'm if i'm the kids i go thanks dad we had rules rules can't be fucking can't need to be followed you get Nothing I'd like it. I don't know. My wife spends still, my three children,

my youngest is 18, and we still spend money like on Christmas, like they're like six. Mm-hmm. A little of sore subject, but that's neither here nor there. Hmm.

Hey nobody got time for that. Just the season, Matt? Yeah, it's fine. All right, so after Thanksgiving, next week,

we'll go full, full Christmas music, right? No, I hate it. I'm ready for my, I care you. All right.

Oh, you're not yet. I'm already for Mara Care for some things, but singing's not one of them. Yeah, what is the rule? For adults? What do you, what, I mean, I have three children. They're 25, 22, and 18. What is what I'm supposed to do? One of those is, excuse me.

Shit your bum ass up. Yeah, I can't answer that question, Matt. Why not? Oh, you know, why? You're looking for good stuff. No, for many, many years. It's toned down the last few years. But, yeah, I got a ton of presents for my parents still.

Like, I like to get my kids. I still do. I still do get a lot. I mean, it's a pair of socks, be just fine. Maybe a gift card or like Rick Rolet or something like that. I think I stopped getting presents at 18. No, it's funny because, yeah, in my 20s, I was like, guys, stop getting me all these presents. It's ridiculous. And then they started lighting them up and I'm like, oh, I missed my presents.

That was cool. That was cool. Okay. But no, I'm just, no, don't do it. Just keep spending. as long as you can just give me some straight you know what give me the gift card accepted everywhere give me even by your drug dealer straight cash homie

let's go but you know we are not cash givers because we believe it's even more impersonal than the gift card see but it's see that's ridiculous stuff I understand but why is that a stigma how come if I give you a cracker barrel $50 and maybe you don't even like cracker barrel rather than give you $50

cash it's less personal now I'll say this we're not going to give you something a gift card is somewhere you don't like we know if we give out rudder We're going to make sure that you like a runner burger. I guess. I see where you're coming from, Matt. No, I understand where he's coming from, but I just don't get why it's that way.

It's ridiculous. Well, Ross, you got to think about that way. I mean, it's still a gift. You just give him some money, it's like you can do that any time of the year. You know what I mean? Yeah, but you're wasting a plastic card. Just give me the cash. He says, like you said, straight cash, homie.

Let's talk to Willie. Willie, what's the matter with you, Willie? Willie, turn your radio up. Willie, Willie, Willie. Shit your bum ass up, man. Willie. Shut your bum ass up, man. Willie, turn it way up.

All the way up, you can't. He said, like, he said straight casual. This is quite a delay. Well, I think we're like a minute. Thanks, Willie. Appreciate that. You used to be delays back in the day, Ross. We were like seven seconds.

We're like 50 seconds now. what the heck was that was that on the stream no that was her radio that was significant shit your bum ass up man yeah remember the number one rule about calling a show is if you call a show turn your radio off period every single time oh i got one i got one i got one oh nice to everybody on thanksgiving that says they don't like mac and cheese and they won't eat it huh shit your bum ass up man that's all i say mac and cheese is deserving of a thanksgiving plate part of your plate um You can take out the dressing.

You can take out anything else. You've got to make sure. You know why? Get your bum ass up, man. Dressing gets two days a year. Thanksgiving and Christmas. Let give mac and cheese a day off. There's nothing incredible about mac and cheese on Thanksgiving.

You get it up to right. You can get mac and cheese in July. Let those noodles get a break. I know I'm in the minority of this. I know it. I get it. But you know what? If you insist, if you want to have mac and cheese at your place,

just go get the craft box, pour the powder in, a little bit of milk. Let's go. Delicious. You're sick. At least you don't eat it al dente, like Quentin. That was gross. Meets with chunks. That was weird, man.

I don't know. That's psychopathic. That kind of explains why Adam is who he Adam is. Yeah, I mean, he's got the palate of an infant as well. Doesn't like ranch, doesn't like mayonnaise. Doesn't like milk, doesn't like it in cream. It's just ridiculous. Mannaise is kind of gross.

No, mayonnaise is delicious. Manez is fine. I'm with you. Manny's not my favorite. I will eat it. You know what I prefer is olive oil, Mayo. Highly recommend, Jonathan, if you want to try that.

First of all, it's lighter and fat. Yeah, I'm going to have to take a pass on that. I don't know, man. Oh, that's great. Olive oil mayo, it's a lower fat alternative. And it tastes good. My mother would put, uh, when I was a kid, would put lots of olive oil in the eggs.

It was gross. Everybody got time for that. so I gave up an olive oil for a while and then I just dip it in my bread with some pepper and it's all good why did you give up on olive oil because my mother would put it in her in the eggs because my

a whole stepfather liked it that way wow got a lot of deep root got a lot of pears a lot of layers to peel here I hated that dude let me have a segment just for you to just unleash right now before the holidays

that's what's 1130 to 12 is yeah oh yeah I can take a therapy I mean I you know what you get the good and the bad with me at least you get all of me I don't hide things typically shit your bum ass up man

you should know about that was a slip my bad nah yeah okay I promise Matt's opening up about his feelings and past traumas and then John's just with my terrible people

that were trying to be my father oh you're just dropping that in there nowhere I promise it was that Oh, my God. Let's see how you really care about me. That's rude.

All right, let's get to the news at noon next. We've got two hours left to go. We got Dr. Rodo at 1 o'clock, Rossi. We have Willie Fritz at 1.30. Rossi was today's edition of Believe it or not. I'm not sure, but I think coming up next segment, I have to make a shameless appeal, Matt. Oh, this is something we call professional radio tease. You know, I have to do something I don't want to do, but I'm going to do it.

After the news or before the news or your choice? We'll do it before the news and noon. Okay. All right, 12 o'clock coming up here on 790. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 1204 in H-Town. It's our number three of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I'm here in San Francisco for tonight's game, Rockets and the Warriors.

Ross back in Houston. Happy Thanksgiving eat, everybody. Please eat a lot. Get some relaxation time in. We've got three pretty, well, two awesome football games tomorrow, one not so much. Dr. Rortle's going to join us in one hour to help us out with our fantasy football. We've got Willie Fritz at 130. The Cougars is going to take on Baylor Bears Saturday in Waco.

And we've got, as I mentioned, NBA basketball tonight with the in-season cup competition. All right, before we get to the news at noon, you need some help from us, right? SportsCurvy or an admission you want to say? I said it's a shameless appeal. if anybody's got to hook up for a tailgate tomorrow or I'm sorry Friday let me know at SportsRV wait a just a minute what

I told you it's shameless this is the worst thing you've ever done at SportsRV Instagram and Twitter I mean I can find a tailgate if I needed to but one option was sold out and then the other option that I had fell through so

all right what are you willing to contribute to said tailgate yeah i'll pay whatever it takes normally they're anywhere from 30 to 50 bucks for all you can eat all you can drink i'll pay it just like if you have one then have some spots that's not sold out let me know what if it was 100 what's the spread they got filette mignon in there

no it'll be hot dogs nachos pretzels and uh some beers some beers some beers that's what i'm saying it's like bush light and crusty hot dogs, I'm not going to drop a huntsky, but nobody does that. So you're going to go to the game tomorrow and look for rando strangers to interrupt their tailgate. Yes. At Sports RV, you can find me on Instagram or on Twitter. My DMs are open.

I would appreciate it. If you have a lead on a tailgate. A good one. Well, it's probably going to help. I mean, we have enough people to listen to the show that can't. I know. Well. That's why I waited until noon.

Yeah, doing that 1030, probably wouldn't have been a good idea. That's true. That is true. So, yeah, let me know. Last time I did this, it worked. So this is not the first time I'd done this. I did it for the Alabama game, I think. All right, so let's go back to the Alabama game.

You went to a rando stranger's tailgate. Yes. So you knew through a friend of a friend of friend. Yes. And you had a wonderful experience. Absolutely. It was great. They had some carnitas that were good.

The beef rib was amazing. amazing. I'll even shout him out. It's our friend Routy. Oh, Roddy's barbecue. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, well, I don't want to put his business out there, but things fell through for him. He was supposed to be out there. And he's not going now.

No. Okay. You know what? He stood his ground. He knew his worth. I appreciate him. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, so again, if there is a sad sack who can't create his own tailgate, that wants a Jones in on yours. Yes, I would like to Jones in on your tailgate. at sports rv let me know you know that tailgate you've had with the same alums and your same friends you've had for 30 years it's a oh it'd be me and my brother so there'd be two of us oh my god now you're

dropping you want it a party of two i said it's getting shameless in here okay you folks know that i get rid of killed for a variety i'll find something it's fine you know ross you can also just get at the stadium and walk in and sit down and get ready for the game that way no you got a tailgate see you don't understand big time football and that's okay it's not your fault you got to go out there and you got to tailgate me have a good time and get ready for the game mattie i can get ready for the game i here's what i do i get in the car i go to my parking spot or the valley a lot i drop the car off i go to the third deck the sweet level i show my tickets i sit down i have a nice spread of chicken fingers uh maybe chicken finger

you're talking about sitting in media dining no i'm talking about sweet baby back ribs maybe maybe a cheese plate if you will cold beverages maybe there's desserts at half time the dessert cart comes by this week. Sitting amongst the people. Try the west side of the utility plant. Thank you. Oh, that's Aggie, though. That's not Texas.

I'm going to have to go to the west side utility plant next time for a game. I'll have to go with Peyton because I want to see these people getting arrested and what they're like. We never see pictures of these people. I mean, honestly, people walk around campus at UT before games with cans and stuff, and the cops just don't do anything. they got bigger fish to fry so i don't know i guess what's happening at these aggie games where people are getting uh people are getting stopped with with cans and all that type of stuff all right so ladies and gentlemen he's looking for a freebie i'm not a freebie i'm not looking for

a freebie yeah but i will pay my way you look if you're if they're spending money on cakes and filets nobody's getting nobody's having filet minia on a tailgate you just know like a tenderloin Nobody's having tenderloid either. You can have tenderloid in a tailgain. You could. It's probably going to be barbecue or, well, if it's an early game, breakfast tacos, breakfast tacos and Ripley Roanuts. F fajitas?

Somebody's back there marinating those fajitas all day long. Oh, let's bring a complete stranger in. Who's when it comes in and Jones in and drink our Nettys? Yeah, people do that. People have, they have open tailgates where you can just pay your way and get a wristband and go. it's it's again then what are you complaining about yeah i'm going to do that then but i'm not locked in we would have to find somebody and find somebody with some good food yeah you know and also it would be a listener and we can hang out and i can hang out with them what's the problem i'm going to try

do the opposite here jeez everybody he you just heard the message don't help him out let him go let him go like a regular person don't know it's like to maybe like build some relationships oh my god all right i'm getting some tweets already oh this is terrible charge him a hundred and twenty five dollars charge him 150 library lot Okay, here we go. Nice. Thank you. Thank you, Jason. Jason, don't do it. Don't let him sucker you in.

It's too late. Hook of Orange, baby. Mark's asking you a question on line, too. I don't know if it's about the tell-go or not. Oh, question for Ross? Let's get to the news noon. Then we'll get... Okay, sure, why not?

Because I want to get off this horrific topic. Terrible. Gotta be embarrassed. I'm a little embarrassed, but not enough to not do it. You know what you should tell? Okay, outside of a grocery store. Actually, you get all your food and drink and walk right up. There's not a rate where you re-close by.

Let's go sit at the beer garden for a couple hours. Call it a day. Don't Jones in on people's stuff. You know what? You know what? Just for that, I'm leading with this ESPN, NMLB execs, predict free agency contracts. Here we go. Yeah, get the Habachi fired up, Maddie.

Oh, here we go. Kyle Tucker, leading the way. 16 executives polled on what's going to come the rest of winner will Kyle Tucker get more than $400 million

survey says 10 say no man six say yes so they're pretty split there predictions for the signings six votes for the Yankees Four votes for the Dodgers. Three votes for the Blue Jays

and then the Tigers, Phillies, and Orioles in there. If it's the first two, you got no shot. No shot. One exec saying, I see it at $350 million over 10 years. I'm already saving my money. It is what it is. You should. You know that gambling money I want in Cleveland?

I'm giving it right to you. It's a directly right to you. Hmm. Mm-hmm. Most predicted landing spot for Frumber Valdez. Blue J. five votes New York Mets, four votes,

Orioles four votes, which somebody had a gut feeling he would go to the O's. I think it was Cole Thompson. One executive voting that Fromber will come back to the Astros. That guy's high as a kite. Out of the 16th.

All right, elsewhere in the news, Oklahoma State hiring North Texas is Eric Morris as their next head football coach. They announced it following reports of Ross Delinger of ESB and you, excuse me, Yahoo Sports is Ross Dillinger and ESPN. Terms of the contract have yet to be reported.

Moore is just 40 years old. Building a powerhouse at North Texas. That's relative because powerhouse in North Texas means two good years in a row. 46.3 points per game while averaging over 500 yards of offense in 2025. Mm-hmm. Elsewhere in college football news, Jim Mora leaving UConnor. I didn't know he was there until earlier today. Is Yukon to Colorado State?

Is that really that much of a step up? I guess? He must be thinking that new Pac-12 is going to have some good money. I mean, I think it's hard. They're not even, I don't think they're in a football league. I mean, I guess as far as even just places to live. Right. But he's not going to be a Colorado State very long.

He wins there. He will be out of there very quickly. And one more note on the news at noon. Your Houston Rockets in action tonight against the Golden State Warriors. No Kevin to Ron. Grant. No Stephen Adams. Nope. No Fred Van Vleet, Tari Eason, or Dorian Finney Smith.

That'd be a pretty good starting five, actually. But I'm going to be there. That's great. I heard you're questionable. No, I'm very probable. Okay. Hashtaguer Warrior. Dramon Green, a game time decision. He has a right midfoot sprain, as the kids would call it.

Al Horfer is out, as is Jonathan Cominga, and Rocket's legend D. Anthony Melton is out. Yep. Kaminga, they don't like him. He's signed here, but he's like, well, he wants a trade. Yeah. People are like, ah, his foot's going to heal up. It's come trade deadline time for some reason. That is exactly right. He will have a miraculous recovery as soon as we're in different gear.

Yeah. And there's your news at noon, Matt. Thank you very much, Ross. Appreciate all the insightful information you just gave our audience. All right. Mark has a question for you. We'll get to that coming back. Please tell me you're getting no responses that no one. I got a couple. Thank you. Thank you, people. Okay. if there's a couple means two let's keep it at two let's not get the five or six that's fine i'll find something i like i said i can just go to the convenience store get a six

pack and walk around with that if i worse comes worse yeah that's what that's what's what people do is walk around with this with a six pack and put the the six cans on top of your head and call it a day it's okay yeah i'll make it i was just saying you know if there was an opportunity i would like to seize that and your brother don't don't forget folks you're inviting ross you're inviting his brother he's more fun than i am uh I would agree with that. All right. 12.15, and is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Dr. Roto in 45 minutes right here on Sports Talk 790. Just got to text, Ross. You want to know who it was from? You can't even like. Somebody is also looking for a tailgate spot on Friday night. Oh, wow. Wait a second. Is that person going to the game?

Yes. I mean, I would assume so. He's not going to go just for Austin just to hang out. Sometimes you go to tailgate and just stay at the game. You look for tickets and if you can't. Well, back in the day before all the rub of rubs and seat geeks, I'll just say it. You would just go to the tailgate. Maybe you can get some tickets.

Maybe you can't. And then you just stay and watch the game at the tailgate. Yep. Now, is he going by himself? I wonder what I don't know what I haven't even. Look, you want to guess what the get-in price is? It's Smish Morty. He's looking for a tailgate, too.

Yeah, I'll let him know. You know, Gordy came in and gave us some SEC analysis. Let's get him in it. Let's get Gordy into a tailgate before you. Guy works. Guys into the SEC. You're just, you just jump in, jump out when you want to. Jump in, jump out.

He's all he wants to cover the entirely. He's going to a long more games for 20 years. He goes to LSU games. He's bumping around in the SEC. the media days hanging out with guys from Bulldog.com, Bulldogbytes.com and stuff like that. Okay. Everybody, let's make sure

Goody. I'll drink less. You should get me at the tailgate over Gordy. Oh, Gordy can drink a little bit? He's from Louisiana. No, I just mean I don't drink that much. Is he being a seasoned journalist now? Oh, is he working the game? Maybe he just wants food. I'll bring him a plate. I'll bring him a plate. We'll figure something out. not Jones in on a

party and then take a plate and bring it to some of this. Why not? See, you don't understand, Matt. It's about family. Not everybody's all shyshty like you. Not everybody's all about me and me and me. Some people are about family and taking care of others. This is disgusting. What do you mean? You have to change to yourself.

I mean, seriously. You are jonesing on a barbecue and then you're double jonesing with your brother and then you're triple jonesing with your with your double dronesing. I'm bringing a plus one and a plus two. Get in price three fifty right now for the game. I wonder if that'll go down.

And that's, I'm assuming, the worst seat in the upper deck, right? Which is not a bad. I mean, it's a big stadium. So, I mean, you would be far, but at least you'll build a clear view of things. Yeah, and there's a giant scoreboard. You'd be fine. Let's go to Mark on 7.9 at 1223. Mark, good afternoon. Hey, hey, guys. First of all, happy Thanksgiving to you and Matt, or you and Ross. No, you can address me, Mark. It's okay. Go ahead. What's up? I have a question about Arch. I don't know if you watch the Manningcast.

I know a lot of people don't like that. I do watch it, but I have not watched it recently. Okay, so you know what that's about. So if you think back to the Georgia beatdown on Texas, Peyton was on the sideline. So my question to you is, how much. So you think Peyton and Eli actually help Arch? Because from what I've seen, Arch has gotten better. He's learned how to check down the receivers. He's being more steady in the pocket.

So my question of you is opinion-based, obviously. I want to know what you think as far as how much help is Arch actually getting from his family? I don't think I think it's some but maybe not a ton I know that I've seen quotes from Peyton talking about like they will text and then Peyton will send like a

voice text and he'll get like a question and then he'll get like these long voice text back from Arch so I think they're in communication all the time I don't know if they're talking every day but probably every couple of days and I don't know it's probably up and down I don't think he's like actively being coached but I think

if Arch has questions he he can lean on Peyton and Eli to answer them. I think it was like... So what's your prediction for Friday? Pain for the Texas A&M Aggies. I think so too.

Yes. Go horns. So what's the deal with Stephen Adams? I heard you guys said he's not playing tonight. What's going on with that? Let me give you the official injury designation for him. He is definitely out tonight. They are saying

let me get this right. it is uh adams is out tonight with right ankle tendonopathy sore ankle that's okay all right well guys happy thanksgiving hook them born yes and i i hope the aggie suffer me too mark hook him horns bye thank you it's an you know what i'm actually pleasantly surprised we've got more longhorn people calling in today and we've got we had probably a long period of time you know why because i think confidence is high I told you this before, like two weeks ago. This is A&M's best season since I've been alive, honestly.

I mean, they're undefeated. And, yeah, they've not played the upper echel on the SEC teams, but, you know, you did beat Notre Dame, and you, you know, you did have a hard fought win over Sanford last week. They beat Notre Dame, and they also, I mean, it's about, they had to, they struggled against Arkansas, but yes, they didn't play some of the top teams, but going into that Missouri game, it was supposed to be close,

and they destroyed them. Same thing. at LSU, that was supposed to be a closer game than it was, and they destroyed them. So they also won versus Florida, who Texas lost to, even though that was at home, but still, like, even though Gordy, because look, I'm just going to be real, okay? Gordy likes to poke holes in everybody's resume, everybody's terrible, nobody played anybody, and everybody sucks. That's fine. But if you look at the results of the games, it's not like they were squeaking out every single law, every single win. Now, the South Carolina one was, the Arkansas one was as well.

But destroying Missouri and LSU on the road, those are good wins. They just are. No argument. There's nothing embarrassing about the schedule. The Sanford game is embarrassing. And I wish schools would not play of that caliber would play FCS. But, you know, there's a hole in the schedule. I guess the SEC always has that hole because there were a bunch of lousy games last weekend.

You know, Western Kentucky played LSU. there were a lot of there were very few in-conference teams maybe that win does suck but the only lSU losses are vanderbilt a&m Alabama and Ole Miss there's not an embarrassing loss in the bunch yeah uh and again you can only play what your schedule tell you that you can only dictate your non-conference schedule but back to my point though rossi if you are having the best season of your life and you have a and m who goes to austin chance here to really make up for a lot of issues of yesteryear and the losing at home last year to them.

Yeah, it's a big game. It's what it's all about. You win it. You are legitimately thinking, get out of the way. I want to see Ohio State in the national championship game. See you there. I don't trust you, Indiana. There could be more on the line, but there's still a lot on the line.

Texas still wants to get into the playoffs. A&M wants to stay undefeated. Then it's the rivalry. All this stuff. Yeah, it's going to be a huge game. I'm so excited. It should be a lot of fun. All right.

630. We'll have it for you at 530 here on Sports Talk 790. That'll be on Friday night. 1233 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross It was really weird this morning The show starts here at 8 o'clock Pacific time The 6.45 wake-up called to a radio show Is not what we're normally accustomed to.

Ross, I can't see you do a morning drive ever. It's a kick of the ass. I did it. Producing for a little while. I've done some fill-in work. Yeah, it's a challenge. I could do it. I could.

I wouldn't want to. Those of you that weren't morning drive radio, especially if you've got talent, good luck to you. You deserve it. It's a tough gig. Tough gig. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

We've got Dr. Roto coming up in about 25 minutes. By the way, the Astros announced earlier today. In fact, it was half an hour ago. They're complete pitching and co-complete. coaching staff for the 2026 season. Okay, go on. Joe Espada is the manager. Omar Lopez, the bench coach.

Josh Miller, the pitching coach. Ethan Katz, assistant pitching coach. Victor Rodriguez, hitting coach. Anthony Ayapace, I-A-P-O-C-E. Assistant hitting coach. First base coach, Dave Clark. Third base coach, Tony Parrish-Chika. Oh, Jason Bell.

I know. The Paris cheek. I wouldn't great. We thought he was going to be gone. Yeah, I didn't think those guys respected him at all. They waved through him every time time. Sure he's a swell fellow, but. Yeah, I thought, and maybe he's going to get some good coaching.

Can you just put on a VR headset and do like a third base send? They've got to have a program for that, right? Yeah. Jason Bell is in something called Quality Assurance Coach. We could all use some quality assurance at our place. Oh, yeah, we could. our quality assurance coach is Chris Gordy

Tommy Kawamura is the game planning coach Game planning coach Watch this This is what game planning coach does You all sit down Say hey guys You play to win the game

No You must score more runs Than the other team That's the game plan I'm sure it's like outfield positioning And stuff like that I think So which Framber, I believe, once.

He wanted that spot. Catching instructor, Tim Kossens, director of hitting, which is not to be confused with hitting coach, and he's the offensive coordinator, Dan Hennigan. You got the offensive coordinator? You have a hitting coach. Okay.

You have an assistant hitting coach, and you have a director of hitting an offensive coordinator. Aren't there too many? No, no, no, no. Too many cooks in the kitchen? yeah um i don't know that feels like that feels a little heavy for let's get it let's get them all going let's go i don't care what did you just say i don't care let's get them all going so they're all going to say it's because now the new hitting coaches are here and everything

is going to be a okay does does um does jim crane know about these people they're actually going to be better offensively and then people are like see the new hitting coaches well dubon is gone, Ureus is gone, and Yordon's presumably going to be healthy. And we'll see with Christian Walker. Paratus. Paratus is healthy.

And Jake Myers, maybe going back to batting. Oh, hey! Come on, man. Jake Myers, don't look at his batted ball luck. Hey, he's a slap hitter. Not a sloppy, but a slap hitter. It looks pretty good.

No Chas McCormick either. 2,024, batting average balls in play for Jake Myers, 263, 2025, 353. Probably going to go back down. No, no, don't whisper it. If he's still in the roster, he can match it or surpass that. Okay. Look, he's got two hitting coaches and an offensive coordinator.

How can you screw that up? Okay. Hey, the Texans got a new offensive coordinator, and look at L. CJ Stroud rally behind that. Yeah, they're doing better. Davis Mills looked good. No, no, no, no, no. C.J. Strada was like, get your ass out of here.

This is a big game this week. I think the Texans are going to win it. I think they're going to upset them. I think the offensive line is shuffled around and stabilized and a little bit better. Now, they are on the road. Are you speaking this into existence? No, I'm just telling you what's... I'm giving you my analysis, Matthew.

All right. Now, am I wearing battle red glasses? Maybe a tinged? Well, put it this way. If there's no building in the AFC South, the Texans are afraid of, they've won in all of them. I'm feeling good. Texans on the money line. It's a lock at a week.

It's on a record in line, though. Of course. 713-212-5-790. Dr. Rodo is going to join us in 20 minutes. Get your fantasy questions ready for the good doctor. He'll be with us between 1 and 130. We've got Willie Fritz at 130, and believe it or not today, at 150. Let's go to Gary in spring.

Gary, good afternoon to you. Hey, good afternoon, guys. Great show as usual. I have Thanksgiving to you. I've got a couple things real quick. I'm going to give you my prediction on the Aggie's Longhorn game here in a minute. But first I want to, let me ask you this real quick before I do that. I've been trying to find an update or a firm comment on C.J. Stroud.

Have they announced anything today or whether he's playing or not? I have not looked at tweets at practice. Today would be the first day. It doesn't mean it's a definitive day, but I'm going to look and see if anybody has said anything. It doesn't look like they've done anything at this point. He's going to play. I would be shocked if he doesn't play.

Is Wex out there, our Texans reporter? Are Texans insider? I don't know if he's out there yet. No, Texan reporter. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I'll keep listening to you guys.

You all up a pretty soon. We'll tell you as soon as it happens. On the A&M, the Texas game, of course, what's his name yesterday? He said I was 250 years old. He's pretty close. So with that comes a lot of knowledge. But back in the day when they were played every Thanksgiving day, that was big, big thing, big stuff back then. I have an older brother that graduated from A&M.

I have an older brother that graduated two years behind him that graduated from Texas. So you can imagine at Thanksgiving, we were kind of split in half right there. But I ended up falling on the A&M side, my brother, two years older than I am. He's a big time Longhorn fan. He goes to all the Longhorn fans when they're in the state of Texas. So here's my prediction. I predict the outcome will be the Longhorns will score 24 and the Aggies will score 34. The Aggies have as much talent on both sides of the balls that I've ever seen in college in a long, long time.

They are just loaded with talent. So anyway, that's my prediction, and Edgar Maggie's. All right. Thanks for the phone call. You know, I have a dog on the fight. I mean, A&M is, I think, significantly better in Texas in a variety of areas. But, look, Arch is playing a lot better. His best football of the year.

It's in Austin. They have a lot to play for it. If they think they got a shot to maybe squeeze in the back door, the college football playoff, they need to win the game. A&M is already locked in as a tournament. tournament team so you know you're doing it just for the rivalry standpoint that's got a lot to do with it too but i'm a hundred thousand screaming texas fans there and that's going to be i think it does make a difference it certainly does if the game is in college station i think that the yaggs

will win the game by 10 points but i'm not so sure about friday kelemont's been great though i mean you know he's gotten more he's been hype than arches and for all the right reasons he's been fantastic what he put together this year in general especially the second half of that game against South Carolina when everybody and their mother was ready to leave the building

it was incredible he's been excellent all season long Marcel Reed Marcel Reed what I said Kalamond that was mixing my

quarterback side Marcel Reed yeah he's so good I wanted to give him a different name yeah he's been good and I think that'll be

a little bit higher scoring than maybe people think just a gut feeling just a gut feeling tell me again if A&M's offensive line can hold up, you've got a chance. You haven't had a hundred-yard rush or get this season, have you, against a legitimate opponent?

I don't think so, no. So why would things change all of a sudden when you have this great defense that's coming? This Arch Manning's runner for 200. How about this? If I said that Arch Manning rushes the ball ten times, is that a good thing or a bad thing in your mind? Probably bad. But he gets a couple of, he gets three, four, called runs a game.

maybe two three called runs a game yeah I think ten would be too many if he gets to five it's pretty good I don't know to me this is a game where don't you think sark just starts to dial up some things and put some things in a motion that he hasn't used all season I would hope so

show a little creativity into the kitchen sink play to win a big game rather than playing not to lose that'd be cool that is the funniest thing I see about anybody that criticize the sark as they say man I wish he would play up to the competition I don't know.

That feels like that's a pretty low-hanging analysis right there. That he goes in naturally apprehensive about trying to open things up. If your offensive line is one of the five worst in the SEC, what are you supposed to do about that? I don't know. And like I said, the competition has been great, but they've been, like, trouncing a lot of the competition. Yeah, as of late.

Arkansas and South Carolina. All right. Are we doing, believe or not, all things about the Astros, new coaches? What? That seems kind of boring. No, I'm in vacation mode. No, believe it or not today. What? San Francisco. What do you want? Jim Mora?

Junior? I want the new coach at Oklahoma State. Whatever, Morris? Eric. Not to be confused with Guy. Hmm. Or Van? that's van morrisson oh i crack myself up i'm sorry

yeah no the definitive song about san francisco is coming up next no the definitive san francisco song's already been played well then the second most definitive song you would you love folk folkie i like fokie Folky cheese. Yeah. Yeah. I'm in. And by the way, I put that, I put a picture of my trip arriving in town yesterday on my

Instagram account to that. Oh, you did? Yeah. That's great. You posted it or you did a story? I posted it at SportsMT. You know what? Let me go drop a like on that bad boy.

Everybody, listen to me. If you want to have endless amounts of turkey and leftovers at SportsMT. Yes. That's the Instagram. And if you have a good tailgate, for the A&M for the A&M Texas game at SportsRV. If you feel like that Ross is jonesing in on people's tailgates uninvited, at SportsMT. If you're going to San Francisco,

you're going to meet some gentle people there. Was this in Forrest Gump, by the way? I believe so. Great soundtrack, by the way. Good, great movie, that whore jenny's. Hey. Hey, what? You said it earlier. It doesn't affect me.

She's dead. I don't care. Hey. Well, she's not dead. She's a character played by Robin Wright. Well, her character died. I don't feel sorry for somebody, you know, took the forest around for the... You've seen a movie. She had a checkered past, Matt.

Yeah, and Forrest tried to help her, and she would just not take the good advice. Terrible. So they play an upbeat version of that song when the Warriors are warming up. It is excellent. And I've been trying to find that. I can't find it anywhere. The remix? Yeah.

I don't know if the YouTube has it or whatever, but it, as the kids will say, Rossie, it pops a little bit, pops. Okay. I don't think the kids are saying that, but that's okay. What are the kids saying? I always go to my 17-year, we'll see what the kids are saying. I don't know. She just makes up words. all right uh rockets and warriors tonight we'll have it for you be getting at 9 o'clock 8 o'clock on the launch pad who's hosting that by the way

launch pad at 8 o'clock that'll be me all right and um do you want to do a post game show we could certainly promote it no i'm good are you sure mm-hmm you want to do post game show at midnight on the wednesday before thanksgiving i did i did till midnight on kTRH earlier this week i've paid my dues any calls to be fair KTRH is not the normal home for the Rockets It's not the normal It was a great post-game show I'll listen to the air check on it Okay

But yeah Draymond Green is listed as I believe Probable for tonight's game Right mid-foot sprain Right mid-foot sprain Yep Golden State in their last game Here's a little anecdotal thing for you

They beat Utah by 17 They took 104 shots in the game Ross Exactly 52 of them Half three point shots That sounds about right That's kind of who they are You think it's time to link to the three point line

No Okay I mean you can't go further out in the wing On the corners really No you can't No Got Jbarre Smith Jr. going out of balance all the time.

Yeah. We're seeing a lot of that, and it's been like the last 10 years, guys stepping on the sideline a lot after inhering the pass. Mm-hmm. Because there is no wigger room over there. All right.

What else going on sports? We've got Texans and Colts on Sunday. Looking forward to that. You have the Texans won in the game because you are a battle red Ross. No, because C.J. Stroud's going to, they have the number one defense in the land. Yes.

And C.J. Stroud's going to do just enough. What's up? Now, remember, the number one defense in Lincoln also give up yards. We saw that. Yes. You know, we saw the hook and ladder not look particularly good. Okay, there's one play. That's right.

And then one 40-yard touchdown from James Cook. Whatever. I'm trying to see if there's anybody reporting anything on CJP's at practice. Wex, our Texas reporter, is there. I don't see anything. Maybe he'd send us a text or something. I don't know. I'm not going to hold my breath.

Not me either. Neither. We got three football games tomorrow. Now, will you watch all three start to finish? I can watch the Lions and the Cowboys. Cincinnati, Baltimore does nothing for me. Although, if you are a Texans fan, you are rooting heavily for the Bengals to upset the Ravens tomorrow.

Oh, wait. You asked, I'm sorry, I got confused. I thought you meant Friday. But yes, tomorrow I should be able to watch all three games all the way through. That's my plan. okay yeah again if you're if you're a texans fan

you want the ravens to lose tomorrow they've won what five straight games the ravens yes we went we talked about this weeks ago I told you not to count that we both said it

they were going to be we went through the schedule yeah it's been bears dolphins Vikings browns jets then they have the bingles home for the Steelers bingles again but then they will be home for the Patriots

that'll be a big one if Baltimore's really rounding in a form and then at the Packers at the Steelers and what will the Steelers have left in the tank at that point? Yes, he's tough man I don't think the Steelers are me and the outside looking in I got news for you though Rossi there's going to be two teams on the outside looking in

because right now it's that you have nine you have ten teams with a record of six and five or better Mm-hmm. Three of those six, those ten, don't get in. All right, I'll help you. Pittsburgh out. Okay, Pittsburgh out.

Go ahead. Say it. Jason fell out, although their schedule's soft. I don't think they're going to be out. I don't think so either. What's the charger's looking like? Their schedule. Oh, really? Raiders. Hold on. Home for the Eagles at Chiefs at Cowboys. Home for Texans at Broncos. Chargers could be out.

Chargers could be out. They are a seven and four team. They is a big game for the Texans. These are two big games. They need to split these next two. They're the best seven and four record-wise. The Chargers, the Jacksonville Jaguars, and the Buffalo Bills are all seven and four as the last three teams in, and they would be the five-seed. Chargers and Texans play in Los Angeles. Okay, so we can easily agree on Pittsburgh is on the outside. We can somewhat hope and pray that Jacksonville regresses to what they normally do this time of year, which is not win big games.

What Trevor Lawrence is due for a dud, he can throw a dud out there every week. Right. But there's one more team that can't make it. Say it, Ross. Kansas City. Okay, you heard him. I'm kidding.

I was just trying to get Jonathan all hype. I think Kansas City is going to make it in. Sorry, Jonathan. They lose tomorrow. Could Buffalo be the team? It could be, it could be, probably Houston's the favorite. Yeah, you have no more Tennessee's,

no more Jacksonville's, two with the Colts. Did you know what you do, Ross? Do you go to win those games? You want to win those games? It's very easy. This is a mood conversation. People are like, oh, not you, Longhorn fans. Oh, we got to make the playoffs.

We got mood. Win your games. Beat Florida on the road. Win against Georgia. Win against Ohio State. No more root in others. Just do it yourself. Win your games.

Don't start, stop crying and pointing fingers and win your games. Yep. All right. Dr. Roel is going to help us with our fantasy teams next 1258 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Waiver claims have to be made And I've got trade proposals for lying my way My first round pick

Turned out to be a big flop I don't know which wide reason receiver I need to drive. Oh, Dr. Roto, give me the news. I really don't know what I should do. My quarterback keeps getting sacked. I've got a bad case of fantasy blues. Well, well.

Here, Market Sports Radio, we present to you the good doctor on the Sports Talk 790. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90 if you want to join the conversation. 7-1-3-2-5-7-90. Good, Doctor. We've got three, well, two really interesting games. One's mid, but nevertheless, we've got to get our fantasy teams ready because we are down the home stretch for the post-season. Good point, MT.

Happy early Thanksgiving to you and yours. There's the 1 o'clock game. It's been moved to 12 from 1230 to 1, case people remembering those 1230 games forever. Love that Packers line. matchup. Chiefs Cowboys should be a really good one. Cowboys surprise people last week, surprised me for sure. And then Bengals Ravens, start your Ravens tight ends because every tight end does well against the Bengals. But I'm with you. I would think in the Lions Packers game,

take a real close look, obviously at Gibbs and take a look at David Montgomery. St. Brown is in play. Don't love James Williams as much in this one. For Green Bay, I like Romeo Dobbs a ton. Josh Jacobs is expected back so I think those are your two main guys there Chiefs Cowboys I think this is one where look for names we haven't heard from in a while maybe like a Xavier Worthy

Pacheco is due back Hollywood Brown Dallas runs out a lot of mixes their coverage up a little bit I could see Worthy against Dallas's man coverage doing well for Dallas you got to be in on CD Lamb he was awful last week right and he knows it

Schotenheimer knows it Jerry Jones knows it everybody knows it he'll be better this week so you don't want to count him out pickens is good to go adam schaefter gave him the blessing he's he's going to play javanti williams has been good no matter the matchup which is interesting and now under your side we're going to see joe burrow surprisingly he's back it doesn't feel like there's any reason that he needs to get out there but he should be fine jemar chase is going to play t higgins is out so everybody out there needs to know that mike josecchi is a really great start if you're looking for a tight end because it always seems like he plays well when there's only

one of those receivers there. All right, there is a complete rundown of the games, and we've got other specific questions we can get to Dr. Roto in just a couple of minutes. Look, I had Jamir Gibbs. The man who chose San Juan Barkley first over Jamir Gibbs is very

upset. Hey, man, why are we going to call this out right now? Let's move on. What pick did you have in the draft, Ross? I don't remember four or something, five maybe. I did Sequin over Gibbs. yes I know I was worried about David Montgomery oh yeah let's not do that again

Gibbs might be the number outside he could be the number one player in fantasy honestly all right thank you for bringing it up that is such music to my ears thank you Roto for that so very much well you know I wanted to let somebody else win Roto I was back to back to back champions you can't win four in a row the arrogance that is unbelievable what arrogance

I just talked about how stupid of a draft picked I made Yeah, but then you need to bring up the four-time champions or whatever you were. Yeah, so you're zero time, but that's all right. One for the thumb. Hey, so the Ravens have won five straight games, and we were just talking before you joined us about, we think they're going to win the NFC North. Are we seeing a significant uptick in everybody than Lamar has been back there, or is it just more about just Lamar being back there and putting up his normal numbers?

I think we're forgetting the defense. The defense is finally healthy, right? Roquan Smith is missing games, the guys and the secondary were missing games. They were a complete and utter mess. So when the Ravens don't have that imposing defense, and Lamar, as we know, was injured, they just couldn't find themselves. But luckily, they're in a division of, honestly, some bad teams. Cincinnati's terrible. How does Zach Taylor have a job?

Does anybody know? Because I don't. Cleveland, I mean, they're rolling out to Dorse Sanders who actually look good against the Raiders, if that's even possible. And then you have the Steelers who, I mean, are just back and forth. Some weeks, the defense is good. Some weeks, the defense is bad. I mean, Aaron Rogers is done. They don't throw the ball to their wide receiver.

So Baltimore is likely going to win the AFC North, and I don't know if they're a great team or not, but it doesn't even matter. 713-212-5-7-90. We'll get your questions in for Dr. Roto coming up in the next segment. All right, bears and Eagles. Everybody jumped in and watched the Eagles get out of the 21-0 lead, and then Pickens and Prescott did their thing. There were some turnovers in the mix.

are we a little nervous about Eagles position players against Chicago and Black Friday? Not at all. I think that Eagle game was just a little shocking. I mean, Sequin fumbling, you saw so many fumbles in Dallas just seemed to get more confidence. The Bears are not

great. They are a week with an eight and three. They're a week eight and three. I mean, they've gotten lucky in some of these games. The luck has to run out, and it runs out against an Eagles defense, which is terrific. I think they're going to smother Caleb Williams. The one guy who I think is really interesting for the Bears is Kyle Monong guy. This guy looks like he's shot out of a cannon.

So the more they can get him the football, the better they can run the bears, the more chance they have. But I don't see it. I think A.J. Brown has a good week. I think Dallas Goddard has a good week. I think Sequin could finally have a good week for Ross. It feels like it's been all season for this since we've even said that. But I think the Eagles win this game by, I don't know, 7 to 10. You brought up Shador Sanders.

Are we starting to use some Browns players now with him back there? It felt like it was a very fast start but a cool finish for the Browns offensively. Well, I mean, look, what happens is by this point, just bad teams, you're able to take advantage of bad teams. The Raiders are awful. I mean, really awful. And to make matters worse, I don't know if people saw this. Ashton Genti got injured like on the last series.

Somebody, please tell me why he was even out there. I don't know. But there's a chance he could miss this week. So getting back to Sanders, yeah, he looked good. He threw a five-yard pass to Dylan. Samson, who ran the ball like 70 yards for a touchdown. I mean, he at least threw the ball to his wide receivers, which Dylan Gabriel hasn't done yet at this point.

I mean, are they playable? I don't think so. I think the 49ers are really good. I think the 49ers may be, honestly, one of the top three teams in the NFC West behind the Eagles and behind the Rams. Speaking of the Rams, I go to Charlotte this week. Did the Panthers become human last Monday after a loss against the Niners, Dr. Roto? You know, the problem with the Panthers is this.

They want to run the football. But you have to stop the run. When I was watching the game with my son, he was home for Thanksgiving, we're watching the game. Carolina didn't even get the ball for the first 10 minutes of the first quarter. My son said, I think Carolina's going to have the ball twice in the first half. Didn't it seem that way? If you can't control time of possession, you can't win. I love Rico Dowdle and fantasy.

When Carolina is controlling the line of scrimmage, when they're running the ball well, Rico Dattel's like a 20 to 30 point player. When he doesn't, Rico Dattle is going to get like six. to eight points against the Rams. The Rams control the line of scrimmage. Stafford has been amazing. Pooka Naku has been amazing. So be very careful with your Panthers players this week.

I wouldn't play Bryce Young. I don't really want to play RICO Douddle. Tertoya McMillan is a great receiver, but I just think this is a really tough matchup. You've got Adams, who's a must start. You got Kairn Williams, who's a must start. Puka and Matthew Stafford is having an MVP season. All right, let's get to the local game.

Texans and Colts. The Colts literally, I think we have. I had a report around from Indianapolis yesterday that the running back, Jonathan Taylor, ran the ball one time in the fourth quarter. The chance I can't do that two weeks in a row, correct? Oh, no, not at all. I mean, you know, Malik neighbors got caught by saying some crazy things and they had to delete the post, but he wasn't wrong. It's like, why are teams doing crazy things at the end of games? Why were the Giants throwing the ball at the end of the fourth quarter?

Why were the Colts not giving the ball to Jonathan Taylor? Does anybody know? I mean, sure. I don't care if Kansas City was playing good run defense. You still give the ball to Taylor because all he needs is a crease to go and make a big play. This is a really good football game. I think a lot here is going to depend on Woody Marks, our friend Woody Marks, and Nico Collins. But right now, I think it's harder to throw on the Colts than ever.

Kenny Mort is back in the slot. sauce Gardner is there, Charverius Ward is there. That's tough. I think the Texans, I don't see a pathway to success unless, one, they pressure Daniel Jones all game long, and two, Woody Marks gets really involved in this offense. Because I can see Nico being shut down. Sauce Gardner is a tough matchup. All right, there you have it. That's Dr. Rorto.

We'll go to the phones next. If you want to join our conversation, get your questions in, 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-790 it is 113 it is the matt thomas show at ross here from san francisco more with rhodo next here on 790 all your dreams will come true right away and we will live together with dr roto helping us out with our fantasy football 713 212 5 790 719 713 212 5 790 719 let's go to the phones and talk to the great people of Houston, Texas. Matt and Katie for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Matt. Hey, doctor.

Two quick questions. First one, I need to play a quarterback out of Daniel Jones, Brock Purdy, and Joe Burrow. Second question, over multiple leagues, one-point PPR. Could you rate these three players one through three? Michael Wilson, James, and Jalen Warren. All right, great question. So firstly, you got at this point of the season, we're totally focused on matchups. I like January Jones.

I don't want to play him against the Texans defense. I don't play anybody against the Texans defense, right? That's a rough one. Same thing with Purdy against the Browns, right? But Joe Burrow, first game back, that's worrisome to me too. So you're really looking at kind of a mess here. I hate to say that. I think I'm probably leaning towards Joe Burrow.

I don't know whether the 49ers and Browns explode. Brock Purdy was very off. There was some bad throws. There was one point that I turned to my son. I said, do you think they'd be better off with Mac Jones? So I think I'm going with Joe Burrow. So here's the problem with Michael Wilson. Michael Wilson has been a revelation for Arizona,

who never really has thrown to him before, but Marvin Harrison Jr.'s back. And I think Trey Benson's going to be back. So when you have McBride and you have Harrison and you have Benson, Wilson doesn't get featured. So right now, who's the guy that gets featured? Jalen Warren, because Buffalo can not stop the run. So I think this week

it's Warren 1. Probably Michael Wilson 2, Jameson, Williams 3. Don't love James Jameson unless he's playing man coverage. That's when he really thrives. So I think I'm going with Barrow and Warren here. Thanks for the phone call there. Let's go to

Greg and Livingston for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Greg. Yes, sir. A couple of quick ones. Swift or Walker. And I've got to make room for borough, so should I drop

Friamuth or Strange, and that's it. Thank you. Yeah, you're definitely dropping Friamuth. I mean, Strange came back in his first game off the IAR, and he looked like he had an instant connection with Trevor Lawrence. So hard to find a reliable tight end, I think Strange is a good one.

So here's our problem with DeAndre Swift. It's just a really rough matchup. It is. You're playing the Eagles, and like I told you, Manang guy, by the goal line, in the red zone, he's looked good. So Kenneth Walker at home against the Vikings without J.J. McCarthy, most likely, start them. All right.

To Josh on 790 for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Josh. Hey, guys, thanks for helping me. I got a tight-end question first with the Giants' tight end or Evan Ingraham. And then the running back situation is ETN, Woody Marks, or Pollard, unless you won't need to dump McMillan and take two of those running back. I want you to dump McMillan. So listen, it is really hard to trust Tony Pollard at this point.

But it's not a terrible matchup. We're definitely playing ETN, for sure, 100% we're playing UTN. I think I'm going to go with Woody over Pollard. I think Woody is going to have to be part of this process if Euston wants him win this game. Now, Evan Angroom has been one of the bigger disappointments of this season. I mean, this guy has a great name, comes to Denver, and they're throwing the ball to 27 different guys. Theo Johnson's been good, whether it's James Winston or Jackson Dart. I know it's a tough matchup, but I think I'm starting Theo Johnson.

Thanks for the phone call. 713, 212-790. Kyle is with Dr. Roto at 122. Go ahead, Kyle. Hi, Dr. Roto. And, you know, I'm debating between Kareem Hunt or D'Andre Swift in my flex-stop. So, yeah, the problem with Hunt right now is that Pacheco's back. So last week, you could almost predict that Hunt was going to get a touchdown.

It was just a great matchup. Is he still the goal line back? Maybe. Do we know that for sure? No. Do I think Pacheco is going to get 10 touches? Probably. So there's just so much we don't know.

But here's what we do know. Swift is going to be involved. They're going to throw the ball to him out of the backfield. so I think you've got to lean swift. All right. 713, 212, 5790. Jake is with us, Dr. Roto, at 123. Go ahead, Jake.

RB2, Kenneth Walker, David Montgomery, or Kamani Badal. Yeah, so here's the thing with Kamani Badal. He's a great start if Hampton's not back, right? We know the Raiders are bad. So the question is Hampton was brought back that he's eligible to play. I saw some video of him.

He looked good in practice, but we don't know if he's going to play. So here's what I'm doing if I'm you. I'm going to not play Montgomery. Why? Because I want the flexibility to play Vidal. If Vidal isn't going in Hampton's back, then you pivot to Walker and you're good to go. So I think that's the right move here. Let's wait on that because, look, Chargers against the Raiders,

Chargers scoring four touchdowns in that one. All right. 713-212-5-790. JP for Dr. Go ahead, GP. Hey, Doc, I've got a quick question. Need a flex spot, and I'm looking at Gainwell running back from Pittsburgh or D. Neal running back for New Orleans or possibly C. Watson, wide receiver from Green Bay.

Love to hear your thoughts, buddy. Thank you, JP. Yeah, those are actually pretty good choices. So, look, how do you beat the bills? You run the football. And Gaywell will be involved, and they've been using him a lot recently. So I don't think that's a bad start. I really do like Devin Neal if Alvin Kamara's ruled out, which we don't know that for sure.

Tayson Hill is going to be involved, but Devin Neal is a good player. He was good at Kansas the last couple of years, right? Now, Christian Watson is a boom or bus play, so the Lions play a lot of man coverage. Watson should be in play. Here's the problem with Watson. They have so many guys, so many options, right? So meaning in terms of, do they throw it to Dobbs, Jayon Reed is going to be back, Jacobs, hard to predict. I'll pass on Watson.

I'll probably wait to the last second. If I see that Camara is officially out and Neil is going to start, let's give him a shot against the dolphins. A few emails are coming in. Egbuka or McMillan? Choose one of those guys. Yeah, you're going to play at Bucca. I was just actually reading something during the break

where the Cardinals play the most cover for in all of football. And there's nobody who thrives against that defense more than a Bucca. So I expect Baker to play. He's a tough dude. even if he doesn't, Teddy two gloves can figure it out. Henderson, Walker, Irving, running back. Two of those three play, who does not? Oh, man.

You're killing me on this one. Normally, I mean, I'm playing, who's the third guy, Henderson Walker, and I'm playing Bucky Irving for sure, right? If Bucky Irving and Washington, yeah. Yeah, we're playing him. The problem is the Giants are so bad against the run. Look at what happened with Gibbs. You know, look, who can we say is Gibbs light?

Trayvion and Henderson has that kind of explosive game. So I'm going to go Henderson and Buckingervyn. Hunter Henry or Dalton Kincaid? I think, I don't even know if Dalton Kincaid is playing. He's still dealing with a hamstring. So, you know, Henry against the Giants looks good. And you know what? If Kincaid does play, because Henry's playing on Monday night,

you can wait until the very last second. PPR League, Javanta Williams, or Breece Hall? Well, that's a good question. You know what? Wow. Give me a little Breece Hall. The Jets actually look like a real team with Tyrod Taylor

there. See what happens when you have a quarterback that actually can complete a pass or two? Maybe the Jets win this game. I know this game is close. I mean, Vegas doesn't see it as high scoring, but they see it as close. So look, Javante Williams is a good player, but this game could get out of hand. If it's out of hand, they're going to pass more.

I'm fine with Breeze Hall. All right. Otten or Kincaid at tight end? I think we have to go Otten for now unless we know that Kincaid's playing. It's just a little too soon in the week. At wide receiver, Michael Wilson or Troy Franklin? I don't love Troy Franklin. I think this is going to be a Sutton week. So let's stick with Wilson for now. All right. And last one. Hampton coming off the injured list. Who gets cut? Godwin, Henry, Hunt,

or R.J. Harvey in a 12-man PPR league. I think we're cutting either Hunt or Godwin. I don't want to cut Godwin. I think Godwin is going to be the key. to Tampa Bay's playoff hopes. He's going to see more snaps as the season goes on.

Hunt is interesting because if Pacheco's there, Hunt goes from like a 12 to 15 touch guy to like five to eight. So I think

we probably could get rid of him. Look, you're going to be starting Hampton every week. If Hampton goes down, your team's probably going in flames.

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Playing the Saints who may not have Alvin Kamara, I think Devana Chan is locked for 100 yards in a touchdown. And that, my friends, is Dr. Roto's lock of the week. Are you working tomorrow, Roto? I'll be watching, I'll be home watching football with the family, for sure. So we're always on, MT, right? You know, sports is 24-7-365, so we're all being part of it. But please check out what we're doing over at Dr.rotto.com. And to the promo code, playoffs, you get five free days of our site.

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always. Can't wait. M.T. Same to you and yours. Take care. You got it. Dr. Roto with us here on Sports Talks. I'm really quick. C.J. Straud is practicing today as expected. He is progressing towards being cleared from Concussion Protocol. Same goes for Jalen Petrie. We hear from the head football coach of our Houston Cougars next. His name is Willie Fritz. One 29 on Sports Talk 790. 132 on the show. We're going to spend a few minutes here with our good friend Willie Fritz. He is a football coach of your Houston Cougars going to play a game Saturday in Waco for the 11 o'clock start and Willie is with us here. Coach, thank you for the time as always.

These 11 o'clock starts are becoming kind of a regular thing for the University of Houston. The kids, I know they practice early, but getting up and being ready for a game day may be two different things. Well, it is a little bit different. I kind of like them myself, to be honest with you, but, you know, we get up. We're already done with practice for today. finished a couple hours ago.

So, yeah, we start off. We had meetings at 7.30 in the morning, and then we practice from 9-15 to 11-15 most days. So our guys are used to it, but, you know, the TV kind of sets the game time and whatever it is. We've got to go out and play at that time and play the very best we possibly can.

You know, we try not to change the schedule up very much. What we do is, as far as meetings and walk through, and time to go to bed and we try to eat three and a half hours before the game and different things like that and the warm up is the same so we try to keep it the same whether it's an 11 o'clock game

or heck I think we played an 8 o'clock game against Oregon State at their time so that was quite a contrast but try to keep the same schedule as much as we can no matter where you have gone you have been undefeated this year away from home I don't know if that's coincidental or not, but in your mind, this is a football team that puts on the white jerseys and doesn't seem to be phased by it at all.

Well, you know, I think part of that is having the same schedule, you know, and doing things the same way. And even though we talk like crazy about trying to eliminate distractions, you know, when you start getting 48 hours prior to the game, and then same thing, 24 hours and resting and recovering and staying off your feet and, you know, and eating properly, you know, all those different things, studying your playbook. You know, it just seems, you know, the guys who've done a good job of that all year. And sometimes it's also based on your schedule. You know, I like home and away games, obviously. So, you know, you just got to do what the schedule tells you to do

and play the very best you can. But we have done a very nice job this season on the road. You closed out the homeslaid, unfortunately, with the loss. to TCU, it felt like to me, if you were to describe the game missed opportunities, is that the way you could kind of see it? No, I think you're exactly right. You know, we had an opportunity there on the goal line before halftime. And, you know, it hurt us, you know, hurt us not only that we didn't score,

but hurt us that they got the ball out on the twink with the interception, the end zone. And, you know, we talk all the time about four-point plays, you know, scoring touchdowns instead of kicking field goals. You know, those are, you know, it's a big indicator who's going to win the game, who scores touchdowns in the red zone, and kicks field goals. So there was some opportunities that we didn't take advantage of, unfortunately. You know, and we've got to do a better job of that. As I've said many times before, everybody in this league is pretty good.

Right. And if you don't play good, you're going to have a tough time winning. If you play real good, you've got a good chance of winning. So, you know, we've played some close ones we've won. We've played a couple close ones and lost. You know, you just got to play well. And you've got to make the plays when they're there to be made. I have some very good friends, Willie, that are TCU alums and have gone to a lot of games this year.

And the one thing they told me before the game Saturday was you'll know what TCU squad showed up probably by the end of the first. quarter. Do you size things up like that? Part of me was thinking they were obviously very embarrassed with the way they played against BYU the previous week. They were going to give you everything they had because look, they want to go to a bowl game, they want to go to a better bowl game. You guys have a lot to

play for. And I thought when they were competitive early on and scored early that this was going to be a knock-down drag-out type of game. Yeah, they did a good job early in the game, especially at first series. You know, sometimes, you know, get late in the year, it's hard to

you know, replicate, you know, the speed of the game in practice, especially when you're banged up a little bit and things like that. But they did a very good job that first drive going down the field, scoring a touchdown. And, you know, we, you know, played a very good defense in the second half. First half, you know, we gave up a few big plays. Heck, the field goal in the second half was based more on a big punt return by him than anything else getting the good starting.

field position. But yeah, it's, you know, when you start off good, sometimes that's what gives you confidence, but you've got to just keep playing even if you don't start off good, which is the case with us. And that's happened to us a few times this year. We didn't play real well early, and then we started coming on later in the game. And, you know, so he's got to keep weathering the storm throughout the ball game. All right, this Baylor trip to Waco will feature a team.

They're at 5 and 6. They do score a lot of points, Willie, as you know. A thought or two about Sawyer Robertson, basically three to one on the touchdowns, got 3,300 yards through the air. Tell me, when they're dialing up and scoring, they look like they're a pretty fierce team, but they're the victim of themselves of some silly turnovers that wind up getting games out of the way for them. Yeah, they're really loaded on the offensive side of the ball. Huge offensive line, really big. I got a big tight-in, had a great game against us last year, a big wide receiver, 6-1, 220, 2-20.

25 out on the perimeter. So they're really loaded with skilled kids. And then, like you said, a veteran quarterback and Robertson knows where to put the ball. So, yeah, our defense is going to have to play great early. Last question for you, Willie. I know the kids are excited about the postseason and playing in a bowl game. Do you try to squash that? How often is that conversation brought up to your kids, your position coaches?

Are they naturally interested? Are they saying, you know what, we can have this visit maybe in a couple of weeks? Yeah, you know, I think they know that Nobody said anything to me about We know we're going to play in a bowl game We're excited about that That's great for the program But you know, we want to finish this

Regular season out And, you know, great manner Nine and three, year two is fantastic And, you know, we've You know, got a tough opponent You know, to be able to get there to nine and three And, you know, we're just going to have to play As well as we can Saturday

I know it's not like a broken record but everybody in this league is pretty darn good. And, you know, that's going to be the case, you know, this weekend, this Saturday, two good teams playing against each other. We just need to elevate our play and play better than we did last Saturday and come out of there with a win. Well, I love the fact the media was wrong and saying the squad was not going to do well this year to have eight, maybe a ninth win is something to be proud of for you and your staff

and, of course, those kids. Willie, thank you for the time. Safe Travels to Waco. Happy Thanksgiving to you and the family, and we'll talk again before the bowl game. Thank you. Go Coogs. You got it. That's Willie Fritz joining us here on the program.

140 on Sports Talk 790. Cougars taking on the Baylor Bears. It'll be 11 o'clock start. It will be over on 950 KPRC, and I will have the pregame show for you beginning at 10 a.m. All right. We've got, believe it or not, coming up. What is the category of today's sports RV? We'll figure it out.

Okay. I think I heard you once. the last 40 minutes i'm just just curious get a snack get a rest mowing over things i think he's working on believe it or not all right let's do that what you're working on believe or not yeah i'm just i'm messing with you happy thanksgiving ross happy thanksgiving matt i want you have a nice nice turkey day get in the car drive to austin pay a hundred twenty five have a great tailgate. I mean, we'll see.

$125 for a tailgate would be ridiculous. All right, so what's our ending number on the Twitterverse about how you're, what are your options at this point? I think the listenership is low. Huh. Do you want me to venue use of money? Yeah, sure, why not? Yeah, if you got a suggestion for a tailgate at the UT game, I'm all ears at sports

RV. And you can have two, potentially three, guess that you weren't anticipated having, say, three days. Well, it'd be two. I'll definitely get my brother in. Gordy, we'll see. Gordy's, he gives a guess on our show. We've got to take care of Gordy. My brother got me the ticket, so.

Fair enough. All right, 141, 713, 212-5-790, if you want to play, believe it or not, it's next. 7-1-3-212-5-790. I don't know what the category is. It doesn't really matter. You guys are prize-hors. It doesn't really matter what it is. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

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What is not on there? Huh. Most people would want on the one plate. What am I leaving off? I don't know. Here's my plate. I don't know if you heard Adam Glant in the background. Well, his is full of ranch dressing.

Ranch dressing and mayonnaise? Manas all over his. I like everything. I like a little bit of everything. I just, I know I'm weird. I guess I'm the weird one. No, no, no, no. I think you're no, you're in my journey this.

Here is my plate. Turkey. Yes. Mashed potatoes. Stuffing. Uh-huh. A little bit of cranberry. Uh-huh.

Green bean casserole. Ham. Uh, yeah, I would have some ham and a roll. That's all I got room for. Is it? No, see, that's, okay, that's fine. Because if you're going to add mac and cheese to that, I'm adding mac and cheese to that.

I'm adding mac and cheese. I'm having sweet potato casserole. No, you got one bite. You can't do it. It's not possible. You get a little bit of embarrassing yourself. What are you talking about? The plate's going to be like a...

When you go to a Chinese buffet, you're having all the different meats. Ooh, that is fair. See? I'm an equal opportunity. You're a fraud. Yeah, that's right. Thanksgiving is a buffet. They get mad at you by the way.

They do. The Chinese people get mad at you on the second plate. No, they don't. Oh, they do. People pulling up there and getting mad at you. in three, four plates. I'm usually about I'm out one main plate, one medium plate, and then one small plate for the last

things that I really want. And you know what I really like to get on the Chinese buffet? And we're moving over from food to food. Are those fried wontons dipped in the sweet and sour sauce? Fried wontons are good. Mmm, delicious. Gotta watch your stomach space, though. It's finite. Unless you, you know. I don't think I've been to a

Chinese buffet since COVID. You and I used to go all the time. I know. We got to go to that place on Westheimer. Knock that out. Which one? Around? Not that, that jacked up one off of, I don't even want to name them. They're so bad. You're not talking about the one that's by like, by Voss.

There's a bunch of strip clubs in the area. Well, that's everywhere. Walk a bow, if you will. No, there's one of five, ten, that's decent. We'll go there. It's not far. We'll take Jonathan. In lieu of Habachi?

No, sir. No, sir. I'm trying. Let's get that hot stove burning, baby. Come on. Come on, Kyle. Three year with an option. How you've got no shot.

Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest-growing sports radio game. Shall we simply call it B, believe it or not? And here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-790. Today's edition of Believe or Not is

All Things About San Francisco. I'll read your statement about San Francisco. Statements completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. You have the statement's erroneous, full of bunk and made up. You'll say this. Not.

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Andrew, on 7.90, Andrew, what was your fair apart at today's 10-2 radio show? Cougar Talk. I brought it up literally for 30 seconds. Thank you, though. San Francisco was first settled by Juan Ponce de Leon in the early 1500s. Believe it or not. Not. Yeah, that's made up.

Statement number two for the win. There is archaeological evidence, archaeological evidence, that San Francisco was settled by Native Peoples as far back as 3,000 BC. Believe it or not? Believe it. There you go.

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Believe it. According to the national health care system, San Francisco has the second highest homeless population in the U.S. behind only Los Angeles. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, there's 7th. New York.

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Believe it or not Not Believe it Believe it's believe it Sorry I have a good weekend So Daniel on 790 Daniel

What was your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show Dr. Roto Pretty good today San Francisco is a 17th Most Populous U.S. city Just behind Indianapolis and just ahead of Seattle. Believe it or not.

Believe it. That's correct. San Francisco is part of a huge metropolitan area, but the city itself is just decent size. Statement number two for the win. Sister cities of San Francisco include Barcelona, Spain, Seoul, South Korea, and Zurich, Switzerland. Believe it or not.

You got to believe that. You should. Congratulations. Nicely done. Chris on 790. play, believe it or not? Chris. Here we go, Chris.

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Believe it. The official animal of San Francisco is the wild parrot. Believe it or not? Believe it. Believe it. That's good. Ross, four hours of C.J. Stroud preview against the Colts talk on the next show coming up. I think so.

I know they're ready. Our Texas reporter, Adam Wuxer, was there. Upset weekend, baby. Longhorns and Texans pulling off. the upsets you heard it here first. You have the scores really quick. Oh, geez. 33 to 30, Texas.

Okay. 27 to 23 Texans. All right. And I am not going to give predictions because I do a lousy job at them. Okay. Well, come on now. All right. 2622 Colts.

Aggies on a field goal in the final minute. Whatever. 2724. Boo! Who that was that? I don't know who that was. It shouldn't be booed on your own show.

Boo! Unless your producer's doing it. SFA. Playing DeVryde Technical College basketball. Hey, we're in the playoffs. We're in Leverdacks. Plus the 46 and a half. We're in the FCS.

Put some respect on it. At least we're in some type of playoff. By the way, tell your coach. Coach, best of luck and putting his house up for himself. He's going somewhere else. No, I'm telling you that leave it. He's leaving. Up next, Planton, Wexler, the A team.

Happy Thanksgiving talking for Rockets and Warriors at night. Thank you.