The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Win Preseason Opener, Spectacular Monday Night Game, UT vs Florida Talk

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

Rockets Win Preseason Opener, Spectacular Monday Night Game, UT vs  Florida Talk

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. In H-Town, good morning, and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. Normally after a performance of a local team, we will play some highlights of win or lose how things went. Rockets did play last night. It's just the preseason sports rvia. Just the preseason. Do we don't have any preseason highlights? Well, I'm sure we do.

Of you? But I didn't ask for them. Normally you bully us into playing your highlights. Jonathan, do you think that's fair to... Do I bully you into highlights playing? I don't know for basketball. This is my first time starting with y'all. All right, we'll see.

We'll let you to make that decision in upcoming weeks. Now, if they won in Oklahoma City in two weeks and ruin the... Oh, yeah. I want to hear a big... Rockets win from you. I didn't even use my nothing but nylon last night. Oh, really? I didn't use sets, fires, hits.

You kept everything on the shelf. Hammer, yeah. You can't... It was a dry run for... for you too. You can't. You're not pulling out the 360 windmill in the preseason. You can't premature these things. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, you got to pace yourself.

Yeah. I got to be honest with you. The fourth quarter, I had to look down on my note card a hundred times because I was not sure what number of Cameron Matthews was. That's okay. And I was locked in on Chief Jaguars by that time. What a game. Okay, can I just tell you the God's honest truth? Yes. So I got in the car after the Rockets won, and that was a nice

game. We can certainly get into that. Unfortunately, Kevin Durant did not play. I would presume he's going to play tomorrow. They are, yeah, they have now. Coach Jodoka said before the game, he's going to play on Wednesday. Okay, that's good. That's about when I asked you for your tickets. That you offered me earlier in the day, that you came upon. Exactly. That's exactly how I would put it.

But yeah, so, okay, so I got in the car and turned on Westwood. Westwood won's coverage. I can do it today because I did the game last night. Okay. Well, you got one on tomorrow. Oh, okay, I should do it then. The Westwood won's Monday night coverage. Kevin Harlan is, he just called the game beautifully.

And I have such an appreciation for radio play-by-play guys who do a great radio call. There are too many TV Jemokes that like to, when their TV deals run out, they come over to radio and they half ass it. He doesn't do that. He's a maestro. He is, his foundation. He got started in radio. Yes. And what's, now far be it to ask Mr. analogy for this, but what's an analogy of it? It's a skill that people don't necessarily value much these days, but he's great at it.

Well, it's attention to detail. Yeah. Like when Kevin's calling the game, he'll tell you what hash they're on. He'll tell you where the ball was thrown. Howl was thrown. Playcock, where the playcock is sometime? Like, he even gets hang time. I know he's got great stats people with him. He's not doing it. He's not doing that himself, but I mean, he's got it. He's going to stopwatch out? I mean, he might. I remember watching Call the game. I don't think he would. That'd be cool.

I've tried to stop watch it, and I just gave up after one time. Oh, you did really? Yeah, because I was like, if Kevin Harlan can do it, I can do it. And I can't do it. Yeah. But the bottom line is that he's so vivid, and I don't close my eyes in a car, obviously, because that would cause vehicular issues on 59. Yeah, don't do that.

But he's just so detailed. and so excellent. And, you know, we were talking about Eric Collins, screaming and yelling a lot in that Miami-Carolina game. And some people say that was his one opportunity to get on national television and get his flowers on the social media streets. That's just Kevin Harlan.

He just accentuates the most important parts. First of all, a wonderful football game. I don't know. All the details. I look at the box score. I listened, but I couldn't get out of the car. I was in my house yesterday and I can't get out of the car to see whether or not Trevor Lawrence is going to score on this. Was it third or fourth and goal?

Yeah. And he got the one yard line. The one yard line. He falls down. Yes. And gets up and then turns left and gets in the end zone and Jacksonville. And then you got Mahomes very little time. I mean, there was the pick sixes.

There was all sorts of stuff. It was I wish the tonight's the Kansas City Jacksonville game was. tonight because I'd be in front of the television for three hours because from what I heard and what I saw the highlights this morning an incredible football game. And unfortunately, for Texans fans, not a good day because Jacksonville

now also joins Indianapolis at 4 and 1 in the AFC South. Yeah, see? Jacksonville loss, not looking so bad. Well, it's also not looking so good either because now you're still down two in the division and you have Jacksonville. It was a winnable game. Yeah. Yeah. But, I mean,

the Rams, Buccaneers, Jaguar's losses are none to be embarrassed about. And then you got two wins over some wounded slash bad teams. So it's kind of a weird spot where the Texans are right now. Well, the reality is this. It is a jumbled mess in the AFC. And I was thinking about this because, you know, I'm having a hard time sleeping like I always do.

And I got up and I said, I wonder if I don't think 9 and 8 get you in the playoffs. And this would be a gut feeling I'm going to use this in an hour and a half from now. not anything it's not getting you in this year. I think everybody that's in the playoffs, Ross, he's going to have to win at least 10 games. I'm with you. I don't think so.

Because it is, first of all, it took 10 last year. Now, you could say this. You could say that Indianapolis and Jacksonville are surprising to the good side for those teams. You could also say that Kansas City, Baltimore, and Cincinnati are surprising to the bad side. I think Kansas City has just had a rigorous schedule so far. I think they're going to bounce back.

I don't know if Baltimore comes back. Vegas believes they can. I don't know, but who knows what they are. Their division is bad, which helps. Right. But Cincinnati's a hot mess. Your division is not bad. Your division's not as bad.

And for the first time maybe, I don't know, seven or eight years, the AFC South will not be the worst division in football this year. But to go back to the point, though. They've been battling with the NFC South for some years. So you are, you are two and three. And you are on the, you have two, You have eight teams in front of you.

You're a playoff watching now? Yeah. I am. You are Mr. Platt. You are Mr. Standings. I'm Scobor Watcher guy. I am standings watching. Sorry, baby.

A lot of football left. Oh, you don't think I'll be doing it. If the Rockets go out to a two and oh start, that's the one seat. I'm sure you will. Hey, guys, here, the one seed tied with three other teams. Yeah. I'm sorry. That's who I am.

I don't know. I can't explain myself. It is. Well, I don't know if it's charming or not. All right. So we got Rockets. want to get into that last night. If you want to get into the Monday night football game,

we don't, and I wish we did. We're trying. I think I've been trying to do this for a long time, trying to talk about things that don't involve the Houston sports teams per se. Yeah. If you missed out on Kansas City Jacksonville yesterday, you missed a great football game. And sometimes the local football team doesn't give you great football games.

Sometimes the local baseball team doesn't give you great baseball games. It was a great game from the Texas this weekend, though. It was a great game. and it needed to be a great game. But that KC. Jacksonville game, and I don't know, that has to be. Now, Trevor Lawrence did take the Jaguars to, has he taken him to an AFC championship game?

No, that was, was that Blake Portles or something? It might have been Bortles, you're right. But he's gone to the playoffs, I think, one time. They went to the divisional round, I think, because they won a playoff game. Wouldn't that? And he threw four touch, interceptions in the first half, and then four touchdowns in the second half.

Yeah, I mean, Jacksonville's gone to a, championship game in the last 10 years. Or it was just a big comeback, I think. But that was huge for him. I mean, he had one of his linemen step on his feet. He could have just rolled over and died. He got back up and he fought his ass off to get

to the touchdown. And he also makes him brain dead plays. He's still not a great quarterback. I still don't get... Still not super accurate. No, he's still not super accurate, which is stunning to me that he's been only as long as he has and he can't be. But that was a huge, that was a huge, huge win for them.

So again, AFC is a hot mess. Right now, the number one seed, again, this is five games in. And look, that's 30% of the season. 33% right, give or take? Is it the bills? They're four and one. Indianapolis Colts. Oh, the Colts.

Okay. That's because of their conference records. Okay, we're going tiebreakers already in week six. I have an illness. I love it. I could look for therapy, but if I go to my therapist and say, they say, Matt, what's wrong with you? I standings watch too much. Get your ass out the door.

Shut it. But that's not treating the symptom, not the disease, Matt. I don't know how I'd get rid of it. Okay. I'd rather go talk to about these obnoxious dreams I have. Like last night, you're not going to, this is so bizarre. I'd had a dream last night. We got more Matt Thomas dream interpretation?

No, I don't even know how you can interpret. I was in a dorm room at Lamar University in Beaumont. It was a one bedroom by myself. Why are you at Lamar? I don't know. What ties do you have to Lamar? None! Now, one of our great

co-workers, daughters, plays volleyball there. Okay. Alvin Brooks, who was the former Houston Cougar head coach, long-time assistant coach, is the head coach at Lamar now. I've done one football game at Lamar, but that's all I got. When was it?

Oh, 10 years ago? I did it with N.D. Calva, ironically, you know? You had a difficult time for you, Matt? You know, ironically, it was a difficult time. Hmm. Wow. But why would it be Randallel-Rand- I'm going to be. But why was I in a dorm?

Maybe your brain is telling you to come back, come back to Lamar and confront these difficult times. It wasn't about Lamar. Rather than running away with him. No, it wasn't because of Lamar. I actually like Beaumont. I mean, because I'm Mr. Texas. Liking Beaumont doesn't make you Mr. Texas.

It sure does. It makes you boring. Mr. Arkansas doesn't like Beaumont. Mr. Texas does. You're not Mr. Texas. Nobody's calling you that. At least two people per show call me that. Yeah, but they're just saying it as a joke to play.

I don't think so. I don't think so. As a matter of fact, if you're going to call the show... It's like they're laughing in your face. That's fine. They're still calling Mr. Texas. If you guys call the show today and ladies,

please, it would be very polite to you to call me good morning to Mr. Texas. Please don't do it, folks. You're just going to grow his ego, which is already bigger than every room he steps in. That's not fair either. I mean, sometimes it's true, but not in all cases. Depends on how big the room is. Like a bank room, it would be a different thing.

NRG Stadium is just too small. that's fine did you oh by way speaking to big stadium did you I saw on my Facebook feed Paul McCartney played at Allegiance Stadium there must be 80,000 people oh I thought you were going to bring up

Kendrick Lamar and all the people jumping in Argentina I did not see that oh okay I'll send it to you I'm you need to that's fine but he's 83 and sounds like hell really he doesn't sound good he sounds where is this

Allegiant the Super Bowl a couple years ago oh really yeah 83,000. Crazy. Last night. Also, Taylor Swift was on the Tonight Show. She was. She debunked the reason why she's not singing at the Super Bowl this year. What was the presumed reason? She wasn't asked.

Oh, so she was asked. She had conversation. She said, I'm going to see if you can figure this out. Okay. She was asked but wasn't asked formally. And she said, she had conversation with Jayzie. Okay. She did admit that she says that she and Jayzie get along very well. See, I thought Jayze's last year was the year before.

People said. Her words on my. Yeah, I know. Do you, I want to say, I want to give you like three, got a minute left here. Okay. I'm going to give you three guesses as to why she said no. They don't pay. Let me give you some throw.

Oh, what she said? Yeah, what she said was the reason why. Logistics. No. She's busy. Nope. She plans on being pregnant. No, but those are all not terrible.

The reason why she said she doesn't want to perform, I'll tell you after this. 10.13 on Sports Talk 790. LeBron's got a decision today. We're going to carry it. If it's ad-related, we're going to annihilate him. If it's seriously the decision number two, which probably could mean retirement, that's going to be a big freaking deal. Got feelings as well.

1013 on Sports Talk 790. Ross, if we pay off on T's, here on the Matt Thomas show. So the question I brought up was, why did Taylor Swift tell Jimmy Fallon last night on his show? Why she does not want to perform at the Super Bowl? Out of respect for Travis Kelsey. She believes that it would be very insensitive if the Chiefs were to get back to the Super Bowl this year or at any point where he's still playing. I mean, I know how much long he's going to play, that all of a sudden he's playing, he's in his job trying to win in a very tough. And she's, and she's, She's like, oh, that's great, honey. I got to go work on my set. So I fully believe the moment that Travis Kelsey retires that she will be the halftime performance at a Super Bowl.

It just won't be until he retires. Which probably could be at the end of this year. Could be next year, who knows. But that's the reason why she gave. Whether you believe or not, I don't know. I'm just telling you. I guess. I think it kind of makes sense.

I'm not, I find a believe of it. I don't know. I mean, she can control whatever she wants. Yeah, she can do whatever she wants. She doesn't need the Super Bowl. No, she doesn't. I mean, but she's of all the, like, top performers on the planet, she's about the biggest one left off the list that hasn't done the Super Bowl halftime.

Yeah, since they started ramping up. I mean, there's only a handful of really truly top, top, top pop acts. Yes. And I think probably, now look, look, bad bunny is getting annihilated by those that don't know he is or what he believes or the fact that doesn't speak a lot of English and his songs. Again, it is what it is. I don't particularly care. But she will probably face the least resistance because here's the thing.

If you dare, if you dare say anything bad about Taylor Swift, those Swifties will come after you. Oh, those Swifties are vicious. Oh, yeah. That's a vicious crowd. I know. It's like Yankee fans. They're probably worse. All Red Raider fans, by way, if y'all Red Raider fans calm down after all Saturday?

They're coming after me hard. They are? Screaming. Well, they're not anymore. They're tortillas with holes in them. Yeah, we should know. do we need to have a tortilla throwing contest I'd rather not. We're not in Lubbock. We're not on Lubbock radio. Hey everybody come on down to Tom's tractor yard.

We're going to have a tortilla throwing contest. And the tortillas are brought to you by Billy's barbecue. Winner's going to get a pair of tickets to Texas Tech in West Virginia. You want to get tickets to see Women's Basketball Exhibition opener?

Why is my phone on? I don't even have every... You know, we hadn't got a text town from you in years. No, I don't usually have it on. You've been very good about this. I think somebody's been playing with my phone. Yeah, I know who it is. Who? You?

No, I seriously, I swear to God, I did not put the phone tone on. Somebody has been jacking with my phone and I don't like it. Nobody touched your phone. No, I'm just saying, I just don't like the sounds. More a hon, unless you got something to worry about. That's not my phone. I'm on silent. Oh, was it me?

That's your phone. Shut your phone. Shut your bum ass up. No, no, look. It's off. It's off. It's off. Oh, it was Tom's phone.

He walked right out of his. Tom Barby. Tom. Our engineer was in here. He walked out of here is why we were blaming each other. Oh, what a fraud. That's great.

What a fraud. All right. That's pretty funny. Nick Casario just had a Zoom or media availability. Oh, great. I'm sure you had a lot of great stuff to say. We're not going to play that. We're going to read it because he's boring a.

Oh, come on. No, I'm not doing what you're talking about Nick. No. No, we're not doing word salad. That's not happening. That's one of my favorite ones. He does have a Joe Mixet update. You want to, don't look at the tweets.

You want to guess what he says? The update is there's no update. That's not necessarily completely true. It's not far off. It's mostly true. All right. So we got that to get to Kyle Tucker. Oh, please.

Oh, for last night. All right. Okay, you want to keep victory laping this? You want them bring it up? The reason why I bring it up. It gives me faint hope. What, he went 0 for 3 yesterday, I think? Oh, I think 0 for 2 with a walk maybe.

And he did score a run. Yeah, he got a walk and scored a run. You're not paying. That's called run production, Matthew. You're not paying nine years, $49 million for that. What's his batting average in the postseason? This is listed as 176. He's also slugging that, meaning it's all, every one of its hits are singles.

Okay. It's a decent sample size. It's a, oh, okay, five games. Five games. Five games. Five games is a decent. sample size? In October, most meaningful time. Stay with me. Five

games is not a decent sample size. I think it's an amazing sample size. Or really any game. All right. Okay. It's such a decent sample size. I actually am getting a little worried. You shouldn't be. I'm just

doing this more just for conversation between the two of us. Okay. We'll see how it goes. Matt and I have a bet seven and a half years. For those that don't know. Once, yeah. We don't want to do two inside. Yeah, we want to make sure we tell you this. So, again, this is the daily affirmation by me. Is he in your forgetting about the bet?

Okay. What would you give him? Realistically. I think he's worth a 10-year deal. Ten-year 300. Okay. I wonder if he's going to wait for Bregman to figure out what he's going to do and the market set that way.

Or it's regardless of how he does. He's the headliner. Yeah. One thing that really hurt your cause was Vladimir Guerrero Jr. re-signing with the Blue Jays. Yeah, you're right. That's one last name off the list. So I believe he's going to be the headliner of the 26th class.

Or 25 class. What are you going to call it? Yeah. All right, so we got that. By the way, the Dodgers are 2-0 in Philadelphia. Yes. It was a must-win game yesterday. Says who? Jeff Passon.

He did not. It was a must-win situation for the Philadelphia Phillies. That dweeb. Well, they're down 2-0 going on the road. Yep. And then the Brewers won 2-0 on the Chicago Cup. Cubs there. America League starts today. You've got Mariners and Tigers playing

in Detroit. You've got the Yankees and the Blue Jays playing in New York. Go Tigers. Go Blue Jays. Let's get that sweet, baby. Yeah, go Blue Jays. Go? These are strange things I've said. Go Tigers and Blue Jays. How much have we said that in our entire broadcast?

I don't know. Not very many. So we got that to get to today. I would say the real baseball, good baseball matchup would probably be Mariners, Blue Jays. It'd be a good series. Yeah, TV ratings held, but who really cares at that point? They've already got their money. I'm just putting the games on the background these days anyways.

Yeah, it's true. All right, so Casario Talk, we're going to get to that. If you want to chime in on the Rockets, you can get to that. Steve Sarkeesian had some odd comments at his press conference yesterday. Again? What did he say now? Well, it's regarding Texas's opponents this year. Okay.

And it didn't do many favors. So we got that to get to? I'm just, you know what I am today? I'm a tease machine. We're going to get all of this. I've got so much going on. You are the big teaser. And then we got LeBron James.

Really quick here because we got LeBron's coming to thing up in half an hour. What do you think this is? Now, he's got to deal with Amazon rhyme. Could it? So LeBron James, for those of you that don't know, put out on social media yesterday, there is a, is he calling it the final decision or the next decision? The decision part two or something like that. The second decision.

The second decision. Yeah. just a Hennessy thing. Yeah, he put the decision has been made. Cheers to Year 23. Oh, so we're not even carried then, are we? No. So we should do, Jonathan, when you find it,

when you record it for us, we can play it? Yeah, I have everybody whenever you. I was going to say we can call it. I mean, because if it's an ad, we're not going to talk about it. Yeah, and he, this is confusing because he said wait till 11 o'clock, and then he just posted an hour ago, Hennessy decision has been made. You know why? Do you know why he did that probably?

Backlash. Because if he would have gone on the air and said, this is my second or my next decision or whatever the hell he's calling it. And it was that, that would have been highly embarrassing. This is a nice reference. Wait, you haven't seen a Christmas story, have you? Bits and pieces of it. Okay. Nobody put the Ovalteen, a crummy commercial?

Oh, I think for those of the old Christmas story, I think it's a hilarious thing. Yes. It's a perfect reference. Now, ESPN has dropped it on its most important listings. Like, they do the top headlines. It is headline number 10. So obviously they're up to speed on this as well. So it's much to do about nothing.

Yeah. I was kind of hoping he would retire because all the big headlines we get, usually they drop between two and six. I wonder if he's going to want to do. I would imagine. LeBron doesn't normally shy away from attention. No. He would want the farewell tour.

And you know what? As much as I've criticized him in the past for some of the ridiculous statements he's made, he deserves a farewell tour. He's the second greatest player to play in the NBA. I loved when Michael Jordan had his, well, he had two tort. He had two tours. No, three, he retired three times. I loved when Kareem when I was a kid,

Kareem was retiring and he'd go to these different cities and would get like cowboy boots and rocking chairs and stuff. I would do the exact same thing. Yeah. I mean, I, and maybe I'm in the minority of this, I can separate the politics and the goofy stuff that he says to the basketball player. I have been blessed in my life

that I have seen the greatest basketball player ever play, the second greatest player ever to play, the third ever in my mind, well, fourth probably with Kareem. I've watched hundreds of great NFL stars, Major League Baseball pitchers. We're blessed. If you love sports, you have seen

the very best in the last 30 years, especially on the basketball side. I've seen three of the four greatest players ever to play in the last 30 years. It's pretty amazing to me. Very lucky, Matt. That's why I love sports. We're also biased.

Some guy who was watching basketball in 1960 would be like, I saw the greatest. That bullet by Bill Russell. And the second greatest, Will Chamberlain. George Mackey was really good back in the name. And Bob Coosie, I saw the third greatest. Yeah. And Oscar Robertson, that's who you'd be saying.

Oh, yeah. If I was 75, I'd be like, oh, Oscar, he was the greatest point God ever. Who's his Magic Johnson? Why is they so magical? I don't know why I went to the middle of making Joe on that, but I mean, The end is the greatest name in him be a history.

Magic Johnson. Well, and unfortunately, his extra-cricular activities weren't so magical. But he's been able to live past that. I didn't have to bring that up, but you did. I did. Man, he, he just loved the lifestyle. Let's put it that way. You always have to turn that way.

I didn't turn anyway. I'm just trying to be not blunt, but just kind of honest. People appreciate honesty on this show. I'm done. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. All right, Ross and I just saw the video for LeBron. Complete shill ad.

And by the way, what he's pimping or promoting, whatever, it's gross. I've tried it. You're not a cognate guy? Not that. It's not good. What? It's not good. I don't like it. I'm an international man of spirits, too. I don't think you're the target audience. By what you mean, Ross?

I just don't think you're in their target demo. What would be the demo? I would be younger. I mean, I'm not old. Yeah, I think you're out of demo for Hennessy. Oh, Renisee, you mean? Oh, I'm sorry. We're no free plugs. No free plugs.

Okay. Jonathan, you a Benissie guy? No, I don't do dark liquor. Dark liquor. Rossi? Yes. You a Tennessee guy? I've had Hennessy.

That's not my favorite. I'm not a big cognac guy. A former Houston rocket or brandy was a big rennessy guy. It made me try someone. I was like, isn't good. Perhaps it's an acquired taste. A little too spicy. Hurt's when he goes down your throat.

1037. That's all right. All right. Nick Casario is a horrific interview. It is not interesting. It's word salad. So I'm going off of Adam Wexler's tweets. Oh, great. You know Wex will tweet anything. He's got like 9 million tweets. He tweeted today about the UFL coming back to Houston next year. Did you see that?

The UFL's coming back? Yeah. I know the roughnecks went away. Gone. Now are they going to be the roughnecks again? No. Is it Roughnecks Part 3? No.

Okay. They are the Houston gamblers again. What? Yeah. And they're playing at Bell Benergy Stadium. Bell Benergy. Home of the Dynamo and the Dash. Home of the Rhino and the Rash?

I don't think they want to be called the rash. You think they get called that around the league? That's really among your NWSL fans. Why don't you go to those games? They're actually pretty entertaining. You go to drink and eat. Don't kid yourself. Okay.

I'd go for dollar dogs and $3 beers. Yes. I knew you, fraud. But also, those ladies are very talented. All right. It's a good league. Two things. I don't like guys soccer.

No soccer appeals to me at all. It's better if you go to the game. Although I'm going to be going to a World Cup action. I wouldn't watch it on TV. I'm going on this summer. Next go all World Cup this summer. Ready to go. Let's go.

You're all in the World Cup? Oh, sure. I'm going to be. Why? Because it's the world's game. It's a big event. Every four years, got to be invested in it. Now, Team USA is not very good.

Can we just close that program down? Don't watch TMEs. This is what happens. Every four years, you're like, I'm going to give soccer a try. Let me watch TMA. Team USA sucks and you're like, hey, this sucks. Yeah, because the team's not good. Think about this.

This is the fourth time I've said it to you. Watch good teams. Yeah, exactly. Watch Spain versus France. Yeah, but I watch USA versus, I don't even know, Ecuador. I try to go to the soccer bars and they're all jam packed. I'm like, do you know who I am? I need a place to sit.

Clearly they don't, Matt. No, they don't. They don't know. I'm not very well very well versed. in the soccer community. We'll work on that for 2026. Nick Casario, on their player acquisition philosophy,

quote, we're going to take some shots on goal. Some are going to hit, some are going to miss. So the Cam Robinson and C.J. Garner Johnson trade shots missed the cage or the goalie was standing on his head, either one. So he went with a little NHL vernacular. That was Adam Wexler's commentary.

No, he quoted Casero on this. Yeah, the quote ends at some will miss. Oh, okay, maybe so. Okay. Yeah, I got to say, Casario wouldn't say something good, fine. That was pretty colorful for Cassario.

Casario on injured running back, Joe Mixon. Oh, you saw it because you're reading it right now. Now I saw it. He's making progress. Over the next three to four weeks, we'll have some more information. Once we get to that period, we'll have a better idea how that's going to go. All right. So, Glass Half Full says he may be available in December.

Glass Half Empty says, we're giving it one last shot before declaring. him done for the season. Probably. Does that feel fair? Nick Chubbs is looking a little bit better. Maybe getting healthier as the year goes along because he's further removed from his surgeries. And Woody Marks is emerging as at least a threat.

And trading for Derek Henry. You said they're not going to trade for Derek Henry. That's right. I just want to see if you were paying attention. I'm so happy for you. I'm watching you. I know. Thank you so much.

I was so happy you've paid attention. Let's go to the phones and talk to the great people of Houston, Texas. is 713-212-5-790. 7-13-21-2-5-79. We'll talk to Todd at Rice University. Hello, Todd. What up? What up?

What up? Yeah, I'm just concerned about the, you know, the Astros and the season, but now I'm concerned about Jill Mixing and each other. Okay. And you sound kind of down the dumps? What can I do to make your spirits a little higher today? I'm not. I'm doing this. I just wanted to check out. Okay. Appreciate you. You doing all right, Todd?

Yeah, 100%. That's what I'm like to hear. Todd, what's going on your role? A lot of surfing is going on. Yeah, the same for me. The waves are... You're hitting the slopes? No, he's on the... He's at the beach. He's a Jamaica beach. What kind of surfing, Todd? Cloud surfer? You know, the really small ones.

Yeah. You hang in 10 or hanging like 5 and a half? No, I'm like a, yeah, I'm like a 2 to 4 feet person. That's fine. I've been trying to get to 3 to 6 levels. How we feel about the Texans? What are we thinking? What do you think?

What do you? Yeah, I don't know. People listen to the show all day long. They don't know. They know how we feel. People are more concerned about how you feel. I'm just feeling you guys Okay

You're not driving today Are you talk I was thinking about it No No no no you don't want to drive I don't do it Stay on the couch talk Yeah

Or stay on the waves Yeah You know Jack in the box Has these double munchy meals For $10 You can go a long way for you bro You know those McDonald's They got the toys

With the K-pop You know it's right K-pop toys? I didn't know they had those. No, I know they have the $8 Big Mac meal. I'm okay. I've crushed that a couple times. Oh, really? Yeah. How do you feel about the extra bun

in the middle? You know what that's called? No. The club. The club bun. The club bun? Yeah, the club. Because you can eat club sandwich, you get three pieces of bread, too. That's true. The more you know. Todd was calling from Rice Union. Do you think he was in the middle of class? talking like that i don't think so i think he's in the middle of a trip on the couch from workers comp

some percissette you're feeling no pain is he yeah the back strain well so he called about the astros and we appreciate you todd and please stay safe and he heard the update i least gave him by joe mixon and he's like how you all feel about that i'm worried about joe mickson now i don't mean to put a lot of worry on you folks we're just providing information uh yeah sounds like you may be right that He's not going to play at all. Although, have you, you have an official declared on that? You didn't put your name on it. No, no, no.

That actually, to me, sounds more optimistic than I thought it was going to be. Okay. But here's the thing. Do you really want to bring a running back in in week 12 of the season? Yes. Okay. If it's Joe Mixing, yeah. You answer the question.

If it's the best running back you can have, yes. Yeah. You're not going to shove him for the rest of the year. He's like 30 now. But I'm saying what kind of impact, not saying shelving, what kind of impact would you think a guy would have had that has not been on a football field? since last December. I'm not a, I don't, what's the injury?

Yeah, yeah. No, no, don't you ask those things. I'm sorry. Stop asking questions. You don't deserve to know. Remember, you don't care about the Texans like Domingo cares about the Texans. I mean, the long as it's not like Achilles or ACL or something. Or I don't know.

Did the Lefronk injury? How does that hurt explosiveness? We need to get an orthopedist in on this. And then I can answer your question. Do you feel like we should do the Matt Thomas show with Ross and a sports physician? Probably. Because it feels like 40% of our. content is now is trying to decipher what

Houston sports teams are telling us. We've gotten doctors on before. Oh, I know that. Yeah. But it's one of those situations that the secrecy just, you know what? We'll tell you when we want to tell you. Yeah, just watched games over the weekend. I mean, it's Carson Wentz and whoever else, Jake Browning

and all these other backup quarterbacks who are out there because guys are getting hurt. But yet, Jane Daniels came back. What if you and I created a sports league where you had to tell the truth all the time? I think I think we would do you what do you mean like if we impress conferences how we would do like no we're the general manager how the league would do if we said uh coach uh jones you called a run

play on third and nine what were you thinking i had my head up my ass honestly i don't know what i was thinking it would never happen and just saying what would it be like if we had a completely truthfully it'd be more entertaining i think so people would be like i'm going to embrace this you guys are telling us about the truth what happened to uh row bickson oh Oh, he was out surfing with his buddy Todd and shattered his leg? Yes. He was out in Freeport. Nothing but honesty.

Yeah. We should do a completely honest show one day. Yeah. I'll do it. That's never a chance. I would ever do it. Why are you shaking all of a sudden, Matt? No, I'm just saying I'm not telling you all the truth every day.

You get to tell the truth once a week at least at 1130 on Mondays. Apparently, Cassario held a press conference. for 20 minutes. Oh, God, I need. Oh, you need better things to do with your life than listen to that. Some good stuff there, Maddie. What, why are you so, why are you hanging on Nick Asario? Because Nick Asario is the smartest guy in the room, and he's ready to tell you that.

And he's done a crappy job with this offensive line. Back-to-back, big wins? Big's a relative term. Offensive one. Not big one. Big one would be winning in Seattle. That's a big win. Offensive line rankings dropping tomorrow?

Oh, baby. Is that Topic A day tomorrow? I guess so. Can I make a prediction? Sure. They were 31st last week. Yes. They're going to 29 this week.

Oh, man. Oh, you know what? No, no, no, no. Let's go, baby. No, no. That's not necessarily true. You don't have to move up the charts. You can have a great week.

Yeah. Maybe they're in the top 20 next this week? No, I think it's for the season, basically. Oh, okay. I was going to say. All right. You know what? Ross, I think you're going to hit your mark.

They're going to be the top, they're going to be 25. Probably not. I would say under. I would, I'm betting the under or over on that? I don't. you're confusing us now. Yeah, I know. It'll be worse.

Let me put it that way. But they're moving. Big win in Seattle. Trending in the right direction. Needed wins for sure. And I'm telling you, I said this before, Seattle's on a must win. That'd be ridiculous. But it'd be a much needed win.

It'd be... It would get your mojo not all the way back, but pretty close. I think Seattle, look, Seattle, Sam Donald's playing well for them. He just is. he got into a back and forth Seasaw game with Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay is just really good.

He's been one of the more accurate quarterbacks in football. Yeah. In terms of, I saw some stats like throwing catchable balls, stuff like that. So he's been very good. And, you know, everybody said,

okay, sure, he revived his career because of Kevin O'Connell. Kevin O'Connell can win with anybody in Minnesota, but he's been good out there. Yeah. They're really good. And Donald's made good money for being a guy that was left for nothing

with the Jets, right? I mean, he was like, Minnesota really wants to bring this guy in? Well, the funny, people keep going back to is he was with he was with baker mayfield in Carolina and people keep putting up that picture of both of them and panthers fans are not happy about that picture no they're not although I think you're going to be pretty happy with Bryce Young right

he's shown some flashes here and there how about this Bryce Young is a serviceable middle of the pack quarterback yes he's not a 1-1-1 they want better than that yeah the early line from a weekout is up for Texans at Seattle yes Seattle minus 1.5. At Draft Kings. Now, I'll say this.

You usually get two to two and a half for just being at home. So that would actually give a slight lean towards the test. Yeah, for sure. What year was that draft? That was 2022 draft or 2023. Sam Darnold or Bryce? Bryce. 23?

NFL draft. No, 20. Yeah, C.J. Strau, 23 draft. Okay. So let's take a look real quick, because I'm curious about this time. I always like to look back. And it's been a look. Look, the sample size is, it's nice, but it's not completely all there.

Bryce Young, C.J. Stroud, Will Anderson. Two hits for the Texans. Two hits for the Texans. Anthony Richardson, flat out bust for the Colts. I'm trying to look at the other quarterbacks that were taken in that round. That was it. You didn't have one until your boy. Thomas Sports Enterprises is Will Levis.

Hey, hey now. He was repping Will Levis? Yes. Yeah. We were bullish for a while. We're no longer bullish. Yeah. Mistakes were made. That's okay.

Hendon Hooker with the Lions. I forgot Hinden Hooker existed. Jake Hainer. The name like that. How can you forget it? Aiden O'Connell. Clayton Toon.

Hey. Where's Clayton Tune right now? Is quarterback's coach graduate assistant? No, no, no, no. That's not nice. I'm just asking. Is he not a still backup with the Cardinals? No, he was with, apparently he got cut from the Packers practice.

Oh, he's done the Packers Practice squad. Well, Dan, he's in the NFL. He's in the football. He's in football. Good for him. We can put a big poster about. Houston Gamblers are looking for a quarterback. Hey.

What? You can revive your career there? And usually if you go to the U.F. You're going just to collect a check. There was that one quarterback who was the roughnex quarterback. PJ something. Yeah, not PJ Tucker. Carlissimo.

No, it wasn't Carlosimo. Oh, Tucker. PJ Walker. PJ Walker. But he started in the rough mix. Then he went to the NFL. Yes. And what's he doing now?

He's with the Calgary stampeters. Yeah. He didn't really work. Hey, he's got a job. That's true. I hope he's saving up. Well, I got to be honest, we were going to go to this live media availability for LeBron James.

We've ruined that's... Well, he's already drinking Hennessy, apparently. Well, I'll tell you what. I'm glad he did it now because if he'd have gone live and ESPN would have interrupted their coverage for this, and it would have been for an ad, he'd have been annihilated. So somebody got to him and said, or somebody in the media said, you know, I've got to put this thing out so people don't think.

But I still think it's not a great idea to use the term decision with this. It is 1105 on Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you here until 2 p.m. We've got gut feelings coming up at 1130. Rosser, the NFL rewind at 120 today. What a Monday night game between Kansas City and Jacksonville. If you watched the game, did you even watch the game? Did you even watch the game?

Did I know you did, Ross. I'm talking about the great audience of Houston, Texas. I mean, I had it on with the Rockets game. So how did you? Yeah, you are a double TV guy. And I think, you know, I think it's a grown-ass man. I think I'm in a minority on this. Yeah, come on, man.

It's 2025. Yeah. Let's go. But I was at the event, so it's kind of hard to, I don't, okay, well, I'm talking about in general. Yeah. You get one in the red zone and one on the Texans or whatever main game. It's beautiful. So I use it with that, this is the little thing is called a remote control.

I use it previous and it works just as well. No, it doesn't work just as well. That's ridiculous. You think that works just as well as seeing both at all times? I've been doing it all my life. I'm just telling. Okay. You're so hard-headed.

No, you're hard-headed. Me? Yeah, yeah. You are Mr. Hardhead. All right. Yes, I can be very stubborn, but also I'm right. And modest. Will it listen to others?

Come on, man. I mean, TVs are cheap these days. No, no. I actually even have a third TV now. Now I have Cheapo TVs. They're not nice. One of them is okay. So what goes on that channel?

Like, for example, last night, it was playoff baseball, Monday night football, and Rockets. Yeah. Easy peasy, baby. Any thoughts on the Rockets from last night? Not a whole lot of thoughts. Reed Shepard got the start, which we kind of talked about it. If he's made a big leap over the offseason, I'm okay with it. But just what I saw out of Reed Shepard last year wasn't to me starting point

guard material. He actually didn't run in the whole out of point yesterday if you think about it. Ben Thompson was bringing the ball up a lot. I noticed that. Reed Shepard, he had one nice take to the basket that I was like, okay, if he can, now, my concern with him offensively was that he wasn't even trying to get to the basket last year. Now, was that lack

of confidence or lack of ability? I don't know. I'm hoping it was lack of confidence, and he's more confident in that ability now. So if he can go out there and and be a shooter from the corner. That'll be great. Jabari Smith Jr. made his first two threes. He's looking sharp.

He talked with us in the media day about wanting to be a 40% three-point shooter. So you're going to need him to stretch the floor. If you hit him and Kevin Durant out there, oh yeah, man, Thompson made a corner three. He did. If he could be a 37% corner three guy. That's on the baselines.

That's the shortest is 22 feet. Give me to 37% from there. I'll live with that. He was also making a 307% from there. some crafty moves getting to the basket. There was one fake he put on Christop's poor Zingis, and that's how he's going to, if look, the reality

is, we've sat here and said, if this guy could only develop a jump shot and it, a lot of time, nine times out of ten, it doesn't develop. Correct. So we don't know with him in Thompson. The book still needs to be written, but the odds say he's not going to develop, he's not going to become, you know, Kevin Durant in his prime all of a sudden. And

here is the reality of it. If he gets to average, that'll be a win, because everything health he does is exemplary. He's a good ball handler. He's insanely smart on the court, makes good decisions. Doesn't force a lot of turnovers a little bit for a second year guy, but I think that will come in due time. He'll be a better decision maker than he is. Yes. But the problem is he's also 21 years old. He's been, has had a basketball in his hand probably since he was age of five. I don't know of all of a sudden being in an NBA gym shooting 500 jump shot today is going to

necessarily change who you are. Right. So there is a history of guys who are not great three-point shooters who have still been very effective scores. And that would be, you know, Russell Westbrook, John, right? It does it right now. Right. So the way they do that is with speed, craft, and good 10 feet and in touch around the basket. So he can still be an effective score. Right.

Even if he's not able to develop that jump shot. So we'll see. And like I said, I saw some crafty moves from him. So he can win that way. and score that way and get to the basket and get to the restricted area. All right. One guy, I mentioned this on the show very briefly yesterday, that might be able to sneak in some minutes,

is this J.D. Davidson guy played 17 minutes last night. Oh, 22 minutes last night. It scored 17 points. He was 5 of 7 from 3 point range. Now, again, he's going against the second and third units of the Atlanta Hawks. Well, it's better than going 1 for 7. Look at this box score. How many players I had to call yesterday?

Well, that's a lot. That is a lot. Poor baby. I wasn't looking for a poor baby. I just look at this is atypical of a normal game. I mean, I feel bad for anybody. Like, if you ever listen to Robert and Steve during spring training? Yes.

I mean, when their team is littered with guys with 90s, you get the binoculars out. Like, there have been sometimes that Roberts, like, I don't know who's in left field. Like, I'm not sure if I should bother learning this guy. He'll be cut from camp by the end of the game. But, I mean, sometimes the visiting teams won't even bring the right roster. Yes. So you're like 87. I don't have an 87 on my team. So what should we know about J.D. Davidson? Davidson. Davison. I'm sorry, Davison.

Probably should know his name first. Yeah, I mean, that would be part of the battle. My bad to the Davidson family. He has been playing very well in training camp. He is a, was the G League MVP with Maine. Oh, that's right. Had a cup of coffee with the Boston Celtics last year. And shot the ball very well at a night. So there's your obligatory update. Now, again, I don't think he's fighting for the starting spot. But honestly, we've talked about this a little bit with Fred Van Ville being gone. That's 35 minutes a night that you're missing out on. You're looking for a diamond in the rough.

Well, you're looking for me somebody eight the minutes. It does, I mean, the question is, and we mentioned this yesterday, if Reed is your starting point, do you shift amend to the point when Reed's not out there? Like they did with Chris Paul and James Hardin. obviously that's the same dynamic, but you know what I'm going with this. Do they stagger them? Yes, the primary ball handlers.

And then if they don't, does J.D. Davidson take over a San Aaron holiday spot for those backup point card minutes? Yeah, how much do they have? I mean, you just find somebody to dump it into Alpi or Kevin Durant starting offensive sets at the top of the key, stuff like that. They'll find a way. It'll take a village.

It'll be everybody. It'll be a mix. It'll be a popery. Yeah. And I don't think it's. decision that may be made in October will be the one that we're using in January and February. Right. By the way, one other NBA note before we get on to some other things, report over the weekend that,

not a weekend, but yesterday, that the only team that Janice has been seriously thinking about moving to, seriously thinking about moving to, was the New York Knicks. Okay. That that needs to be something that needs to be kept sort of on the radar if the buck struggle and the Knicks and need that little oomph to get over the top. to win the maybe perhaps win the Eastern Conference champions. So I think any of the thought of him going to San Antonio

to play with Wembe or coming here, that was just internet fodder is what it was. And that's the hardest thing about our business now. You know, I've told you this before. I love rumors. I live for them. But the problem is nine times out of ten, the rumors are literally based in zero facts.

I would say maybe sometimes there's phone calls made, which would necessarily, that would be accurate. Hey, somebody kick the tires on this. But I think other times people just go to their social media and just, you know, their NBA hoops world guy or just whatever fake account. And they put it out there and they want to see how much traction they get, how much engagement they get. Yeah. By putting crap out there that absolutely has no sense. It is far from the truth. We're in the age of misinformation and it's only going to get worse.

Well, and again, you don't have to apologize. That's true. It used to be your reputation was on the line. No, people don't care. You have Jordan Schultz making up crap and then he gets a, well, at least Fox dropped him. Yeah, they did drop him. Thank goodness.

Yeah. I don't know where he is now. I don't care. I think he's probably just collecting money from his dad's company, I guess. Yeah, I mean, he's set for life. That'd be cool. My dad was a coffee billionaire. Mm-hmm.

Speaking of coffee, I got 10 seconds here. And I'm going to save this for a little more on Thursday. The pumpkin spice latte bit around this country is out of control. Just don't order it, Matt. No, I don't order it. People lose their mind. And the number one person loses their mind over it, your daughter, my wife. That was my second guy.

I was almost my first guess, but I pivoted. You want to get with a bunch of women, walk up in a conversation and say, hey, how y'all doing? We're doing fine. How are you? I'm good. I was thinking about getting a pumpkin spice latte. You start seeing people sweat because women love it so much. It's incredible how pumpkin spice latte has taken over the American coffee drinker this time of year.

You know what? You can judge me if you want. Pumpkin spice is delicious. I am more of me. I like pumpkin pie. I love pumpkin pie. I like pumpkin bread. Me too.

I get pumpkin bread at raw rocks all the time. You know, I bring you some of mama's pumpkin bread. Oh. You don't turn it down. Mrs. V. Does a great job. Love her for it. I have to bring Jonathan some pumpkin bread.

I'm not a big flavored coffee. I'm not a big flavored coffee person. I do like a little toasted coconut coffee or toasted cinnamon, but I'm not out of the amarettoes and stuff like that. It doesn't drive me nuts or anything. But yeah, pumpkin spice is good. Just walk into a, like if any of you that are single. Single.

Single. Spray yourself with pumpkin spice? No, walk in and say, excuse me, beautiful woman. I'd like to buy you a pumpkin spice latte. She will melt. Her clothes will be off in five seconds. Well, she probably needs to go to the psychiatric ward. Hell of me. That's the power of pumpkin spice latte.

Okay. Tell me, ladies, I'm wrong. Tell me I'm wrong. Y'all go crazy for that stuff. I live with somebody. It's been going crazy for like 10 years. Okay. Well, have you done that? July 19. You bring her home a pumpkin spice latte today? I did. I did a little delivery from Amazon rhyme.

Box of that. Put on some teddy pinaigress. Yeah, some meat, yeah. Pumpkin spice latte. The weight of her heart. In other places. We're watching M.LB network and Ross is like, who's this old fart on the TV? And I'm like, that's Buck Martinez. Former longtime Major League catcher, longtime Toronto broadcaster. So earlier in the year said, stay with me.

It's called the show, let's go. What I said was actually worse. I know, I was trying to clean it up. But I was joking. So Buck Martinez basically said a couple of months ago, the Yankees aren't very good. He says, I don't know why everybody's giving all this run. So Aaron Boone made it a point, the manager of the Yankees, to rip on Buck Martinez. What does he know?

Well, the Blue Jays are up to nothing and Buck Martinez is on them. We know. He's going to go more, bitch. Well, it ain't over till it's over. Yeah, I don't know. It's a little cocky being up too. Yes. Got to finish that off.

It's a must-win game for the New York Yankees today. 100%. Thankfully, you finally come to my side. After all these years. We got gut feelings coming up in about 10 minutes here on Sports Talk, 790. 713-212-5-79. If you want to chime in on the conversation, 7-13-212-5-790. Jay is with us at 1122.

Jay, good morning. Hey, good morning, Matt. How are you, sir? Hey, I'm fine, I'm fine, just on my way to work. I had one question about a rocket's rumor trade I heard. Oh, no, hold up, hold up, hold up. Where did you hear this rumor, by the way? I'm just curious.

man you know how the internet is it's just something that popped up oh I'm gonna say probably not but go ahead alright so whatever I'm gonna guess here's what I'm gonna guess this rumor is completely full of bunk but I don't want to say it ahead of time but I'm gonna say it ahead of time go ahead I mean we don't know yet that's what I'm trying to see that's what I'm asking all right you said okay well I've seen somewhere that the rocket so there's a rumor trade on John Morant maybe possibly

coming out to Houston on the trade deal, but I don't know. So that's why I was asking. And then my second take was my guffin, and I was thinking it might be possible because you need a park guard, so why not job, man? We'll be talking championship for real with KD, so we have a big four, instead of a big three. But him, you know, and Shangun, so just hang up and hear your take on that.

What I'm going to do right now is I have not heard that. I'm looking on the internet. No, that's probably from... That was the very first thing I was going to do is say, is it on the internet anywhere? Facebook. There is... Sports Illustrated, you used to be one of the heritage brands of sports journalism. Unbelievably reliable.

And by the way, the swimsuit issue, fantastic. But everything about the magazine for a large part of my life was excellent. Yeah, there's an article from them in May. this NBA trade idea. So they took a Bleacher Report article that just made up a bunch of trades and then cited that article as saying John Morant could be headed to the rockets. That was from May. So I don't know where Jay is seeing this recently.

Or maybe if that's tied into that, but there's no credible reporter saying John Morant could be a Houston rocket. Do I see John Morant finishing in Memphis? No. But do I see him being traded to somebody in the Western Conference? No. If you're going to move him in your Memphis, first way, you're going to have to get a huge haul. The Rockets already made one big offseason trade.

They don't, they like their core. I talked to EMA yesterday just about that. I said, this is a team that's got savvy veterans at the top. And it's still got, excuse me, and Rossi, it still has a lot of guys five years and younger. You need that because if you are going to go all in on Kevin Durant, unless it the Kevin Durant experiment doesn't work. You're still not sitting there going, well, you're not the L.A. Clippers. You don't have four guys 35 years and older, put it that way. You know what I mean?

I don't think you want to get rid of that core nucleus. Alperin Shangoon is probably your second best player. He's entering his fifth year in the league, Ross. You don't want to mess with that. And I'm not saying Alper and Schengu would have been part of contract in conversations, but Jabari Smith's a young guy, Tari Isan is a young guy, a man, Thompson is in his third year. You got too many young pieces that are already contributing towards a championship or hopefully potential championship run. Well, how would you want to mess that up for a guy's that has had way too many off-the-court issues. And by the way, not even a great perimeter shooter.

You can drive the lane like the best of them. You can get to the free throw line early and often. But I'm not into that. He hasn't played a whole lot of games either. Has he had, I mean, other than, you know, pointing finger guns at the crowd. Other than that, yeah. It's been pretty much a prince. That's not that big of a deal.

Look, he's a couple IG stories that he shouldn't have put up. Yeah. He can turn a game around. I'm asking, has he been in legitimate, legal trouble. I'm not saying, I'm asking, because I can't recall. That I, the, the using, the waving of the gun would be legal trouble. The NBA trouble he's been in there multiple times.

He's displaying a gun at a Colorado nightclub. I don't think you can get arrested for putting a gun on Instagram. That's just, that's just a horrific optic look, you know? What's wrong? He's exercising his second amendment rights. He likes the Constitution. Let's go. What's the big deal?

You know what? You can love the Constitution. He's a constitutionalist. You can love the Constitution. You just want to put it on live IG. He's exercising his right to bear arms. There's no right to put it on IG and wave it around and say, what's up? Well, that's also not a crime.

In the public image of the NBA, it's a crime, especially when the commissioner told you not to do it. Okay, legal issues. Oh, that's right. He punched somebody in a pickup basketball game. 13-year-old, right? It was like a teenager. 17, 17, yeah. Verbal altercation?

I don't know. 17 is old enough to get smacked if you're talking trash. Here is the reality. Here's the reality of it. I need to hear both sides. John Morant grew up in a very good family. And unfortunately people will stereotype to the negative saying this is a guy that doesn't have any family influence, doesn't wasn't raised right. These are all things that wasn't the case for him growing up.

He just ran into some people that are his friends that have been absolutely terrible influences on him. and those friends have been kicked out of the arena multiple times that have been told do not come to the FedEx form to watch him play. You know, it's crazy. The kids love him. Like when they come to Houston, and you know this too, Matt,

there's a lot of times, depending on who's the road team, there'll be a bunch of people that'll congregate at the visitor's tunnel. Yeah. He's almost like, Steph Curry and LeBron are obviously like the Kings. Yes. But John Morant has like 50 to 100 people just waiting for his autograph.

And it's a bunch of kids in Grizzlies, John Moran jerseys. Yeah. They couldn't name another grizzly to save their life. And there's actually, there's actually Jaylon Jackson Jr., who's one of my favorite Jerry Jackson's, one of my favorite players in the league. He's way more of a guy I'd root for than for John Morant.

Because John Morant just can't get out of his own way. But when he's in his, when he's not worrying about trying to create this credit that he doesn't need to have, Ross, great player. He can, he is a play, he's one of the five or ten players in the league that I can tell you can score 12 points in about three minutes by himself. When he wants to play at his very best and is determined and takes the right shots, he's just about impossible to stop. Still a great basketball player, but I have not heard anything about any sort of rocket connection to him whatsoever. 713, 212, 570.

7132-570. Bonnie Joe wants to talk about pumpkin spice. C.J. wants to get about real Rockets talk, not that wild talk. Sorry, I'm reading about John Morant's mother, gotten an altercation with an employee at the finish line at the mall. Finish line in its shoes, place. Yeah. What's the last time you walked into a finish line?

What's the last time we went to a Root? Rocker. Excuse me? A Rutrocker. Okay. That you were stroking out. It's been a while. They still wear referee shirts?

Uniforms? Get whistles. I blow the whistle on you for touching all the shoes. You've been to Rids lately either? Not lately. I don't even go to the mall anymore. Rathletes Rout. Oh, Rathletes Rout?

Does Jonathan even know what that is? Have you ever been to an athlete's foot store? You've been to Spencers? Okay. We're throwing random mall and stores at you. What's the old one? I mean, the champs, you know, they got champs. Champs is there, yeah.

Athletes' foot, you got foot locker, you got lids, you got, what else is there? Oh, one thing you get the bigger stores of Rick's sporting goods. Shoe Depot. Shoe Depot, that's not bad. You go back to your brand dispensers? Yeah, of course, the men spencers. Okay. That's where I used to get my, my, uh, my, uh, posters from my room back in the day.

You were hip like that. Oh, yeah. Athletes and girls. Both. Perip Fawcett? No. Women, I didn't even know who they were. You weren't just hanging

in the back of the store, right? No, what's going on in the back of the store? Spencers? Yeah. Hello? You there? What happened? You know what it goes on in the back of the Spencers?

You don't? I don't. Me either. Me either. I forgot. Innocence is everything. All right, we'll do gut fillings in a little bit. We want to get these two calls in before we get to go.

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I'd ever worry about the University of Texas. Because I do, I mean, look, even though I believe many of your fans are obnoxious and arrogant, I still like your school.

It's one of the greatest places, academic institutions in this country. I got a friend of mine who's getting his daughter automatic enrollment in there. Wow.

She must be very bright. It's 5% now. The top 5%. You used to be top 10 in my day. You used to be top 10. That's how I got in. Five years ago it was top 7. Now it's top.

top five. So first of all, you've got to be pretty damn smart to go to University of Texas. It's a beautiful campus in a beautiful city with lots of fun things to do. Hallaciously big fan base. Jealous about a lot of the things. But I think... Engaged fan base. They fill 100,000 seats here.

They do. They do. And don't need some other school to come in to fill 40. We didn't fill... No, that's... You need a pile of eyes for that right there. We were strong... I didn't mention any names. You're wrong, 7525. I didn't mention any names. Yeah, what is it talking about? You roll him.

He rolled his eyes. You know who he, what do you think I'm talking about? Who are you talking about? What are you talking about? What's the matter with you? No, I just know how you roll. I was just, rude and arrogant. I was just thinking out loud.

Typical Texas fan, rude and arrogant. I was just thinking out loud. T-shirt fan. Okay. Yeah, how many people of the 100,000 in this stadium have ever attended one class of the University of Texas? What does it matter? See, people always say that.

You know why those people are there? Because you're bandwagoners. Nobody goes to your game anyways. Your enrollment is 47,000, and you can, every year. year and you can't get 40 in one stadium. That's embarrassing. That's a, that's a pretty job. People always drop this t-shirt fan

thing, and it's funny to me. Okay, I didn't ask for editorial. I just asked a question. What percentage of the t-shirt are the t-shirt? I don't know. I didn't survey. You're the one that's all worried about it. I'm not.

I'm not concerned. I'm just saying. They're in there. I can give you answer. Probably like, I think maybe 60. Yeah, that sounds good. That sounds really good. There's a student section.

There's a high level of enrollment. Yep. the band I guess yeah the band goes to school you would think yeah the band goes to the school by Texas Tech band came this week that's a long ass trip just for the day maybe they left on Friday but damn that's

an eight hour drive with all those band people on that bus you know what's going on that bus don't you what do you mean just saying you tell me I just think there's probably some intimacy things going on you think people are are having

sex? No. Sexual acts are being committed on this bus? If I was a betting man? Why would you... We're talking about the bands. What's wrong with your brain? I don't know.

It's starting to kill 20 hours in a week. Let's go to the phone. We went from talking about T-shirt fans. All of a sudden, you're talking about band members having sex on the bus. I would be a T-shirt fan if I didn't do it. Within about 18 seconds. You know what the worst thing is? You?

I'm the worst thing. But imagine not going to Texas, going somewhere else, and being and rooting for Texas? Like if you went to like to Texas Tech and rooted for Texas, shame on you. You're an ultimate douchebag if you do that. Well, I... Well, when I was in Kentucky, West of Kentucky, there was a bunch

people that just wanted to, they rocked the UK. They didn't care about it. Yes, at U of age, same thing. Aggie stuff. We used to have somebody who worked here who was a Louisville grad who were rooted for Kentucky. See, it's weird over there. They only root for Kentucky over there. Who is that? Do I remember who it was? Mm-hmm.

You know she was. Oh, I know that is. Okay. Let's go the phones. Bonnie Joe wants some pumpkin spice conversation. Bonnie Joe, what's a good word today? Hey, good to talk to you guys, as always. Great show.

Yeah, so first off, so I know I'm an outlier woman on a lot of things. But the pumpkin spice thing, I hate pumpkin spice flavor drink anything. I like pumpkin muffins. but nothing pumpkin in my drink. I absolutely, even when I see the signs that advertise, it just, it's like yuck. And, you know, but I'm, I know I'm an outlier as a woman, but I just don't like being put into that. All women love pumpkin spice. Okay.

Yeah, Matt. Yeah. All women don't love Taylor Swift, okay? Mm. Wait a minute, Bonnie Joil. Hold on. Let's get this straight here. You don't like pumpkin spice and you don't like Taylor Swift.

Is this both accurate? Can I finish? Can I finish about me? No. Bonnie Joe! Don't talk to me like that. Get them, Bonnie. Matt, Matt, please.

Okay, Taylor Swift's songs are fine, but I really got stale on her when I would try to watch a football game and all I saw was Taylor Swift. Hmm. Okay. Okay. I'm just saying. Thank you, Bonnie Joe. I don't want. I love you guys, but that's just my opinion.

I'm allowed my opinion. Of course you. I wasn't debating. I was just trying to just trying to figure out who you were. You are anti-Taylor. He's trying to let you finish, Bony Joe. Yeah, I was trying to let you finish. You are anti-pumpkin spice. You are anti-Taylor. Give me two more things you're anti. Okay. Okay. Well, you know how women get plopped into certain groups. So, like, this is why I don't go to Super Bowl parties anymore because as a woman, they would want to draw you into the kitchen and talk about who makes the best artichoke dip. and all. I want to just watch the game. Okay. So I haven't been to a Super Bowl party in years because

as a woman, you would always get drawn into the woman group that wanted to talk about where to go get the best massage or where to go, you know, things. And I'm, I was always there to watch the game. Not not there to talk about who makes the best whatever dip. Well, you know, I went to this party one time, Bonnie Joe, that one of the guys you'd be crazy about this. was criticizing the cheese steak flavor. It was terrible. It was a very uncomfortable situation many, many years ago. You're making fun of me, aren't you?

No, I'm making fun of somebody else, the person to my right. Okay. Oh. Oh. This story is not accurate. Bonnie, Joe, let me tell you something. You are such a good friend of the show. I would never make fun of you in any circumstance.

Making fun of Ross, I live for it daily. You probably make fun of me behind my back. No chance. No, no. chance at all. I make fun of Ross behind his back in front of him to the side, whatever case. And Jonathan Bond is back too. Love you guys and thanks for letting me say. Thank you, Bonnie Joe.

We'll see you, Bonnie Joe. Appreciate you getting in. All right. Thank you very much. What do you think the person? I need to click. Hold on. I didn't know.

I wasn't criticizing anybody's cheese sticks at the party. I went to the party and you asked me how the food was and I answered honestly. The cheese sticks. were lacking in flavor. Yep. Was it homemade cheese sticks? No. No.

They were from Costco. We got invited to a party. Yes. And when you get invited to a party. We can say it was Adam Planton's party, Super Bowl party. Which he doesn't throw anymore. Yeah. And he basically, Teresa, and they open up our home to them.

Yes. Drinks and food and televisions and all that. Nice big TV. Wonderful home. I mean, frankly, Adam's making way too much money. you're out of Teresa's making a really good money. Teresa should have a mom. It's probably Teresa.

It's no question about that. Adam spends all of his money on jerseys and jackets. And jackets. And jackets. Yeah. He's got the latest $600 rocket's jacket and it gets cold two days a year. Yeah. So if you go to somebody's house and you serve food,

you probably should just say, how was the food? And what's my normal answer? It's fine. Ross said the food was bad. See, I didn't say that. Mm-hmm. See, you're such a liar. of fraud. He's snickering to himself.

You asked me how the food was and I think I broke down like I don't remember there was like I don't know cheeseburger sliders or something and those are fine. I said the cheese sticks were lacking in flavor. I don't see what the big deal is. So out of everything they served you you only had a negative response by the cheeseings. If I went to your house for a party and you serve food and some of it wasn't great wouldn't you want me to tell you?

Wouldn't you want to be like, hey man, those cheese sticks they need a little salt on them? If I'm asking you how the food was, I'm asking you. the good things. Don't grow me about the bad. I don't want you to keep on going out there and handing out people flavorless food. They're not going to want to come to your party. But what are the other things?

The cheese the burger and stuff? You know what? We got to stop being so soft. All right. If you're out there, if I go to your party and you're putting out flavorless crappy food, somebody needs to let you know. Did you say this on air or like into him? Matt asked me on air, so I answered on air. He asked me a question. I answered it. I don't see why I

Why am I in the wrong? I don't get it. I can't help you on this one. I don't get it. What's the big deal? If I'm putting out a dip, if I have a party and I put out a dip and you guys think it's not very good,

let me know. I won't put it out next time. I'm trying to improve. You got to get better every single day in this life of ours. Life is short. Did you like anything? Improving all facets of the game.

Did you like anything from that? Any food? I can't remember this like a decade ago. I'm sure I like. stuff. I'm sure the Pacea Kani was nice. CJ on Southwest side on the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Hi, CJ. Yeah, what's so, Matt? You tell me. First of all, we've got to stop with John Moran slander. I understand he has had some troubles, but we cannot just sit here and slander this man, okay? He's a great player.

Nobody slandered him. Matter of fact, I just, I talked. It was a little bit of slander. It was a lot. It was a lot, man. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What did I slander on? What did I slander on? Please explain. It was just kind of It was a lot on that guy, man

He's still a great player And if the Rockets could get him I would do whatever we could to get him But that's beside the point Next time don't let nobody get up here We didn't do it That's not us That's you CJ

That's you CJ You know what The basketball guy's like Matt didn't sland I wouldn't slander him We were just reporting What there's been problems in the past Let's see

Yeah he had the altercation With the 17 year old And the mother Multiple gun wielding situation. He told him to say, waving and say, he was waving a gun in a strip club. But I remember saying

a guy can take over the game. I'm going to let C.J. Goosey back connection there. You can call back C.J. I don't know. I didn't slander. I was just reporting facts. He started heading towards a black hole, I think. I called one of John Morant's college games at Murray State. Okay, he was a defendant in a lawsuit

when he was accused of punching a 17-year-old male during a pickup basketball game at his home. Apparently, he also he got the 17-year-old to the ground, struck him multiple times, and Morant claimed he was acting in self-defense. Two different NBA suspensions, correct?

I'm looking, hold on. He flashed a gun at a strip club on an Instagram live stream. Remember that. And then two days later, he would not face charges. And that's all I see right there. But where, yeah, where's his suspension? He was definitely suspended. We're going to take a break.

We've got a good feeling. We've got to do that. Gut feelings are up next. One segment of gut feelings. You got something on your gut you want to say, whether it's about pumpkin spice latte or the upcoming Texans road game at Seattle. Yeah, he was two months after the first suspension,

he was flashing another gun on Instagram live. And then he got another suspension. Yeah. When the NBA says don't bring out your pack of heat, don't do it. You did it. It's just exercising his rights as an American. Stand up for your first.

freedom, Jean Morant. Exercise your Second Amendment rights. And get suspended, though. Because the commissioner says don't do it. And sometimes you get stepped two by a 17-year-old. You've got to smack them down. That comment, Ross Villarreal, not me. There's a slander, previous caller.

713-212-570. 7-1-3-21-5-790. A segment of gut feelings are next. This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. Friend of the show, Grace is listening. sent me this message. She says three hour football game in less than 10 minutes of Taylor

Swift on the screen is so bothersome. Dumb. Shut your bum ass up, Bonnie Joe. Ooh. Female, female on crime. I like it. Love you, Bonnie Joe. Love you, Grace. 713-212-5-790. Now, normally, we tell

y'all that when Brad's on the line, you get in front of him. This is a short segment here. That's still. So if you want to get in before, Brad, you got to do it right now with your gut feelings. It's 713212-5-790. Right now, Brad's the only call it online. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

How do we do last week? I don't think I want to know. I don't think you did well. You said, well, you got some right. You said Detroit would beat Cleveland in the wild card. Okay, I'll take that. Padres over Cubs, L. Yankees over Red Sox, win.

Dodgers over Reds, win. Yes. Texans beat Cooper Rush, but they would lose to Lamar Jackson, who did not play. You had the Cougars covering 10.5.5 versus Texas Tech. I forget. What was the final score on that, Matt? 35.11. Excuse me?

35 to 11. Okay. That's not a cover. You had the Texas Longhorns covering 6.5 versus Florida. Oops. And you had one or more hitting coach gone for the Astros. I'm going to keep that in play. I had the Texans beating Cooper Rush. Okay.

I said Lamar Jackson would not play. I said the Longhorns would not cover the six and a half versus Florida. Okay. Win, win, win for you. I said the Astros have training staff and strength and conditioning staff changes. And I said Walker stays. I guess Christian Walker? Yep.

I don't know. Why did I say that? And maybe then we'll be able to... By the way, can I... I'm going to put one in here. Easek Prod is not playing second base. Everybody's trying to push him over there. That's my first guy feeling.

He's not, yeah. Put that in there. And that's when we're going to keep for a while. I mean, they play Altovao over there. It can't be worse than on two. I know, but I know. You're right. But I'm going to stick with it.

I'm going to say that. Defensively. Defensively. Well, and offensively. That East Sock Predies will not be playing second base. Okay. Define that. How many games?

Zero. Zero. Okay. We'll not play. Yeah. Now, I could be very much wrong on this. Okay. By the way, there's rain in Detroit right now.

That could be delay the 308 first pitch between the Tigers and the Mariners. Get a roof. By the way, I'm getting some support on Twitter. Thanks to B-Diz. Ross is right. Got to let people know about their food. Thank you. Okay.

Roy says you sound like a real thrill at parties. That's not very nice. Ross. I'm not sitting in the corner like, me, these cheese sticks are flavorless. I don't know. No. Shut up. I think old John's got you figured out.

I'm not Debbie downering the whole thing. I've had better cheese sticks at Rappleries. Tidal Town says I can call out pre-made food, but if it's a different story, if somebody took the time to make it. Yeah, Teresa wouldn't back there hand-bredding mozzarella sticks, okay? They were out of a bag. They don't buy that bag next time,

or sprinkle a little salt on them. This is gone on for like five years. They did more than that. There's no way you said this. I'm sorry. It tastes like cardboard. Somebody's got to let you know. I just don't get it.

I love it. I just don't understand. Why this is so controversial? And they don't throw the party anymore. I wonder why. All right quick. Well, I know why. Got feelings.

I know why actually too. It's not because of us. I didn't get the Jonathan's. Vanderbilt beat Alabama. They were up early. Yeah, it doesn't go. Sorry. Texans beat Ravens.

Arch Manning, make or break game. And I was, he broke. He broke. Hey, he threw two touchdowns. Really? He was up and down. Got Philly real quick. Sure.

Straight up. Texas beats Oklahoma. Lines down to one and a half, longhorns. Yeah. UT gets its mojo back. This is the game that not necessarily defines Arch but gets the heat off of him for a little bit

Yeah I'm going with it UT beats Oklahoma I don't even know if it's gonna be an arch great game I just know that UT is going to win the football way All right that's fine What else you got Hurry we got phone calls that get too Oh sorry

Um Skip me for right now All right Jonathan anything from you You know what? No I don't Okay well this has been a roll Bangor over Okay fine Dodgers win the World Series I know

Rost Oh actually you know what I'll be the villain here I think I think the Mariners go Oh you're just as bad No no no no no but I just have a feeling I think they win the world series No no no no no no I just didn't get to the next round

They win the series I'm gonna go Philadelphia because I don't like any of the other And you know Detroit I like you see Detroit or Philadelphia If you win it Okay well who's Toronto Oh I got to pick somebody

Oh you don't have to Oh you don't have to All right I'll Oh, God. I go to Toronto. Okay. I will go with Kyle Tucker. Wait, they play tomorrow or today?

Tomorrow. They played last night. They'll play again today, I think. Okay. Kyle Tucker, extra base hit. Let me check the schedule first. Yeah, we make sure they play. You get a day of rest.

It'll help. You know what? They play tomorrow. They play tomorrow. Four games tomorrow, potentially. Okay. Kyle Tucker, extra base hit on Wednesday. Okay.

I feel it in my bones. Aggie Doug, you're on 7 on 80. What's you got in your gut? I believe it's going to be a Brewer's Toronto series because that's what the MLB deserves for keeping the Astros out, even though we kept ourselves out. And I think Toronto's going to actually win it. And I think they're going to win their World Series.

And I also, I had a gut feeling about Texas as well. I think Texas is going to take care of business against Oklahoma. All right. You guys are pissing me off. Yeah. Sorry, Rob. There's no way. I'm not trying to bring back.

No, you guys, no, this is reverse jinx. I don't like this. Reverse jinks. And I just can't talk about that team at Colistation right now, so I'm just not going to talk about him at all. Why aren't you talking about you beat Mississippi State? Took a while, but you got going eventually. That's okay.

Just keep win after win. Oh, I see what he's doing. He wants to go solid on his squad. I wish my son, my Peyton would do that. He's sending me text. Meanwhile, my team's getting there asking, and he's sending me text. We can't score at the fourth and one. I'm like, dude, we're down three scores here.

Shut. Thomas up. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 124 on Sports Talk 790. It is Matt and Ross. We're going to extend the gut feeling. You know what? Some people just have to do a formula show.

We are going to go with the show, how the show flows. I like that. Whether we're talking pumpkin spice. We're going to flow with the show. We're going to, they're talking about Taylor Swift. Cheese sticks. Oh, my gosh.

Irrationaly dumb stands with me on Twitter. Thank you. I stand with Sports RV on this one. Please tell somebody they're serving blank food. Don't let them embarrass themselves. If you get offended by a little criticism, you're soft. I'm sorry.

I have gone to many a party in the last year where the food has been horrific. I've never said a word to those people. Were you asked? And I would lie. Remember, the lies will set you free. You don't want to hurt feelings. Okay.

That's all I'm saying. I was at, I don't want to give away too much here. I was at one party where the food was so bad, I couldn't even finish. How bad was it? I couldn't even finish it. It was that bad. So I went to the, I'm full. I'm not going to do it.

Okay. I'm just not going to do it. That's fine. They weren't my friends here. To each his own. Yeah. They were friends of friends. I was like, I don't know these people.

Yeah, if you didn't know them, especially. Yeah. But maybe I would change my tune if I knew them as well as you know, Teresa. I don't know her that well. I just know she wants to stab me now. She does. She doesn't like you. And we all like you.

She's, no, she likes us. Tolerates you. She tolerates this, yeah. That's fine. I wish you're the best. She's doing very well first. Oh, yeah. 713, 212, 5790, 713.

I can't believe this still comes up. You're the worst. I just wanted, Jonathan needs to know about us. Most people are backing me up. I'm feeling good. Most or the three? I only had three. Roy says, can you tell my wife her cooking is awful?

I'm too afraid. Yeah, God. Put her on the phone. Roy, if you're listening to me right now, thank you for listening. Get your wife on the phone. Ross will tell your wife her food. I need some details. What does she make?

How can improve? No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. Roy. No, you can't just say this is bad. That's bad criticism. I'm trying to give constructive criticism. But then you can't do it because you've not tasted her food before.

Well, if he doesn't, if he thinks it needs you, I don't know, a little parsley. Here's what you do. Perhaps some dried oregano. My name is Ross. I'm Roy's friend. Yes. Roy doesn't have the stones to tell you your food sucks. I'm not going to say that.

What would you say then? There used to be this. I want to hear you sawpedal this. There used to be this website. you could sign up for and you could anonymously tell people like, hey, you've got bad breath. And you just put in their email. Oh, I've got a company I'm starting out. I already told you about this.

Oh, no, he can do this. I mean, we're keeping a buck right now. We ask. Right after he says it. You know, I'm the name of my company, don't you? One, A hundred go F yourself. Okay, where you call people and... I call people's bosses and tell him to go F off off off off off.

Okay, that's not at all what I'm talking about. And I have an email service, too, 180, gof yourself.com. I've talked about this many, many times. Yeah, there used to be an email service where you would put somebody's email in there and you could send an anonymous email and it could be like, hey, your breath stinks. Remember we used to have somebody around here that was not smelling good? We've had quite a few. It was getting to the point where I was going to say something and then he got laid off. So it was a win for you.

To the phones we go. David Spring. I mean, if you're smelling like cheeks all over the place, somebody's got to say something. How did you say it, by the way? I didn't. You got laid off. Oh, so you saved yourself from him. I think so.

Tell me during the break. Dave, you're on 790, and thank you for holding it. What is in your gut this week? Hey, Matt, here's what's in my gut. Rocket season getting started, lots of excitement about KD. Yes.

Yes, sir. Go ahead. Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, I couldn't sure. Yeah, lots of excitement about KD and what's next for Alpe and amen in terms of the development. But my gut feeling is that when this season's over,

we're going to be talking about how much Jabari Smith has improved and made the rockets better. I think there's a ton of upside. He was so young when he came into the league. And he started a show a lot last year before I get injured and looked good in the playoffs too, you know. But I think Jabari's going to be a big story this year for the Rockets. That's my gut.

Well, Dave, you know what? You and I are birds of a feather because I said yesterday I think he's a main candidate for most improved rocket from year to year. You know what? I want to piggyback on that. Best three-point percentage of his career. You putting it in your gut? Jabari Smith, Jr. Okay.

I'm going to tell you that, oh, you want to rock a lot? prediction from me. I can give you one. Let me see him going off the beaten path here. I'm going to tell you when's the season start? Two weeks. Okay. I got some time. You know, I'll stay mine for next week. You know what?

I'll save it for opening night. That's what I'll say it for opening night. We've got two more weeks to figure this out. That'll be a Tuesday. Yeah, I'll be in Oklahoma City. Oh, great. You, stop. I pay more attention to the show on the road and you'd pay attention when I'm at home.

No, it's my fault. It's more about me, Matt. It is about you. I have attention span issues. I fully admit this and they get worse when you're on the road. I'm going to invite you to five road games this year. Okay. So that's five less shows you can do. You can do it my room with me. We can stay together. Oh, you got my airfare? Brian

on 790. Brian, what's in your gut this week? Real quick, you guys used to have the segment like the brutal truth was rough. Matt, I got a question for you, but only when you do the brutal truth with MT segment. I got to save it for that. It's about two of your favorite.

uh female uh uh topics of discussion and and so but i'm gonna leave it at that no no no no you can't do it that way because we don't do segments like that just tell me what it is enough i can answer it i'll answer it go ahead if you had a hall pass one one night mrs thomas said matt live it up correct you have it this is my gift to you

Taylor from walking bets are the great shahdi you got to choose one shahdi and it ain't even close Okay, okay Shihadi for the she win All right, all right Real quick on my gut feelings But Taylor, you know, Taylor from the walking bed She's a mother now, she's been birthing

Shahati's probably got children, I imagine That's where you draw the line No, no, no, no, I didn't say that I didn't say that Oh boy, I didn't say that What'd you walk into, Matthew? I didn't say that All right, well, not to completely get off topic

But real quick on the, I think the Astros will settle out of arbitration. I saw Chandler posted the numbers yesterday, roughly. I think they will not go to arbitration with Paredes. And most of their players, they will just sign them, meet in the middle with those guys. I do not think Mauricio Dubon will be back. I think they will sign Ramonio Reyes for a cheaper amount to basically do the same thing. and then my gut feeling is OU will beat Texas this weekend

and by the end of the year either Steve Sarkesian or Archmanning one of them will no longer be at the University of Texas Transfer will get loud Whoa The drum beat will get loud That one of them will no longer be there All right, thank you Brian

Ross, I don't believe that to be accurate Sark's not going anywhere unless it's a complete collapse Unless they literally go like five and six It writes down for me Manning gets benched in the next three games Oh I actually feel this one Not for a start

But at some point during the game Right what you're saying Yeah In the next three games He gets benched Okay Man there is the Sark The arch hate is

I mean it is free flown Around this country sports RV Yeah Roger on 7 on a Roger What's in your gut Oh man guys You guys It's awesome man

I love you guys It's not even, it's not even Halloween yet already burning each other up on the, on the Super Bowl. It's classic. Yeah, my gut feeling is probably won't have Ross over for a Super Bowl party. Yeah, I haven't been invited back since. Yeah, I'm kidding, Ross. My mom will come over great and snap the crap out of me. I ever make sleagless sleep.

Anyway, so I've got U of H rebounding well and still water this weekend. and I got the rocket with a minimum running off seven in a row to start season. What's up? Seven in a row? Thank you. I'll take that. Give me a 70 start? I'll take it. Last but not least, Brad, what's in your good?

First of all, I wanted to tell you that at the beginning of the year, I predicted the Astros would not make the playoffs. I'm the only one that did that. I did also predict that Bazz would get traded by a deadline. I was wrong on that. I also predicted Boston would be in the championship. I was wrong on that.

But I was right on the Astros not making the playoffs. You also said the Rockets wouldn't get Kevin Durant. You also said Chas McCormick would be traded. With a lot of predictions. You also said, you also said Chidor Sanders. You said Chodor Sanders is going to, Chador Sanders is going to be the starter for the Cleveland Browns. No, hey, you're bringing up what you got right.

I don't just bring it up what you got wrong. He will. You'll see he will. You also said Jacob Melton is the real deal. There I got. Manning will take two years more at the University of Texas to show and believe he can be a top ten draft pick. Oh, no.

He's gone. He's going to retire from football now. All right. Here's what I do. Brad. The Texans, the Texas's best chance is wild. card or nothing. They aren't as good as Jacksonville. They aren't as good as Indianapolis, so you better be where. And then the last one is the Rockets will get a guard by the trade deadline

because their guards were wear down by then. There it is. That's a lot of stuff. I like writing his down. Did he really say the Astros weren't making the playoffs? Yes. I think. I don't see that any. Oh, here we go. Will Wagner's Blue Jays every day. a third baseman. Oops. He said Las Vegas Raiders double win total. Oops.

I don't think that's onto a good track. He said Brosson Red Sox will win the American League. Oops. That was from April. Give him a pass on that. Thank you, Brad.

The news at 1220 is up next. 713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-2-7-90. He said Brendan Rogers would be traded. I don't he's hurt. I'll give him a pass on that one too. He got released.

Oh, is he gone now? Yeah. That's a shame. Yeah, what was your favorite Brendan Rogers and Astro moment? When he was rehabbing and then broke his nose? Yeah, when he landed in an odd spot in a AAA game. You snort there?

He was a good interview. I liked Brendan Rogers. I liked him, too. He was very polite. Unlike others on that squad. That one guy's gone, so that's here nor there. All right. quick pregnant

pause. All right, we're good. Sorry, I was reading Brad's bad predictions. All right, we got the news at 1220 coming up next here on Sports Talk 7. We have breaking news, Rossi. I've not been checking 20 in the last couple minutes. You only hit it once. Is that it?

One more. I really don't know. Is it a local team or outside? Outside. All right, what do you got? Joe Flacco has been traded to? Oh, no. Cincinnati.

That is correct. Yes, I got it. For a sixth round pick. Joe Flacco. So it's going from one crappy AFC North team to another one. Excuse me, Joe Flacco and a sixth round pick to the Bengals for a fifth round pick. So a fifth, sixth swap Joe Flacco goes in the division. Is Jake Browning that bad or is he hurt too?

I don't think he's hurt. I think he's just been He's not that good. In a fill and roll, he's been decent. DeMars Chase had a big day. But I guess I think Joe Flacco's better. So there's your breaking news on the news at noon-ish. Joe Flacco is a Cincinnati bingle.

I would not have anticipated Joe Flacco being topic number one on the news at noon, and that's it he is. Yeah. Well, it'll be interesting. Feels like the bingles probably think that they can seize the moment in the A.S. of C North with the Ravens as bad as they are. It's not costing them much. Joe Burroughs supposed to be back, I think, what, in like six weeks or somewhere around there? Steelers leaving the division at three and one.

Bingle's second at two and three. So Joe Flacco is going to be at the helm. You have the Ravens and the Browns at the bottom of the division at one and four apiece. If you're Cincinnati, I think the season's done. I mean, Joe Flacco's gone, I mean, Joe Burroughs gone three months. And what's the next injury going to be? Is he is he IH or IP? I mean, Turf Toe is so a randau odd injury.

It was a, yeah, I mean, look, I always tell you, especially in the NFL. I feel like we can argue this more in other sports, but the NFL everybody gets hurt all the time. They do. And Joe Flacco doesn't, I mean, he doesn't have much of an offensive line. He's going to be under duress a lot, and he has been. But speaking about, we have Joe Burrow, we have my Joe's mixed up. We haven't had a IHIP conversation. All right, here we go.

Can we just do and knock it out? With who? Yordon Alvarez. You said he's never playing 130 games ever again in his career. I will bet you he does. We got a lot of bets. Can we pay off one at a time before we start making that next year? Listen, I will definitely bet you on that eventually.

I just not ready to. He's like 28 years old or something. How old is Jordan? Is he even that old? 27? Yeah, he's 20. Jonathan, if you were to join the bet squad, would you bet sports RV with me or me or him? He just heard himself again going to home play, right?

Home play, yeah, step in on home play. And then before that, and before the hand. He only played 140. He only played 48 games last year. I would be on that side, honestly. Okay, I'll bet you too. You know what? Let's go get ice cream cones.

Try something different. Three grown adult, heterosexual man getting ice cream cones. Now, of course, we've got to track Jonathan down eventually. It's right. It could be nine or ten years from now. You never know. It'll take a while to pay this one off. I'm not to ship you some ice cream.

By the way, you got to go. I mean, I have until the end of his career. I'm winning the bet. Okay. But it's only for ice cream. I can live with that. We want to write this down? Yeah, write it down.

For a... Hold on. Let me finish the news at noon and then we'll go from there. Please do. Geez. Oklahoma's John Mateer according to

Pete Thammel is pushing to play versus Texas this weekend just 17 days removed from his hand surgery decision on him being available not made yet. Oklahoma coach Brent Venables

has said publicly it's uncertain when he will return Vinnable's saying Tuesday that he's going through his normal protocol but emphasizes that the quarterback has done zero good on good work. Whatever that means. I guess that's something of a football term,

an actual live action. So just being floated out by a reporter from Oklahoma to give Texas pause, or could John Mateer come back and play for the Oklahoma Sooners this weekend? Let me tell you this. Let me ask you, is the Texas defense good enough to make his life miserable for a guy that's missed the last couple weeks?

I would have said yes last week, but Florida, pushed around the Longhorn's defense. Okay. So I'm worried. All right. Anything else? We mentioned Rockets beating the Hawks. You wanted to mention Steve Sarkisian.

What did he say that was so controversial to you? It wasn't controversial. It was, I think it was a little alarming. And we'll have the quote for you after Ross tells you about Senator Jennings. 1234, it is Matt and Ross. Oh, by the way, I got to work on, believe it or not today. Live or dead. I told you all I was going to handle that.

Thank goodness. I forgot. NFL rewind at 120 today. all right so you tell me see I'm throwing this quote at you and it's unfortunately going to a UT fan what does that mean because you're gonna

listen to your voice I'm unbiased that voice that voice already kind of what happened when Sark called out that reporter and said something stupid what did I say did I defend him you said Steve Sarkasian is godlike yeah exactly no I didn't say that I said that it was ridiculous and he shouldn't have said it

and I also I think I called him out on Chucho bum ass up. I don't know how you're going to react to this. So, show Joe bomb ass up. Yeah. Ross get all feisty. I like it. He was asked about the team struggles against P4 teams.

Yes. Quote, I mean, how many teams are there in college football? 136? Take the other 135 and have them go play at Ohio State and at the swamp. See how they do. Okay, so let me go first before you have a chance to think about it. Okay. Well, I've heard these comments before.

You are the freaking University of Texas. You are a national program. You are expected to compete for and potentially win national championships. You are expected to play top-flight competition. You are expected to not play Utah State and Central Arkansas and Eastern Missouri and those other dregs. You are to play the thoroughbreds, the number ones, the landmark Hall of Fame upper echelon schools. Like the reigning national champion on the road. Correct.

No shame in that whatsoever. complaining about playing at Florida, you joined the SEC. Your decision. No one forced you. Nobody pulled you into the SEC. You knew, I'm not talking about Steve in person. I'm talking about anybody. You knew at the University of Texas you were going to be playing a much higher league competition.

Look, I love the Big 12, and I'm happy to be in it, but the Big 12 isn't as good as SEC. The SEC is number one conference, and it's going to be that way probably for the rest of time. Yeah. Okay. That's what Goldice is. and little, well, what do you expect going to Florida? I expect you to be the better football team. I expect you to have, forgetting about NIL, forgetting about you just, you are two-time

national semi-finalist game. You're supposed to go in at Florida. Florida is in a down period of their time. Billy Napier is on very thin ice at the University of Florida. You've got the number one quarterback in the country. You have routinely top 10, 15 recruiting classes nationally. You're supposed to win those games. Now, Florida's competitive.

SEC is difficult. But blaming who you have to play as to, well, nobody else could do this is patently ridiculous. Okay, there's a couple things here. First of all, I don't think he's blaming it and saying, well, yeah, our schedule has been super hard. He said, well, he was asked about beating power four teams, and they've only played two power four teams, and those were on the road in the shoe and on the road in the swamp. And it is a fact, those are two very difficult road environments. but also, yes, he's being overly defensive and arrogant.

What I guess he wants is he wants to play Kentucky and South Carolina every year. No, I think he's saying, yeah, you're saying, like come back to me in a few weeks when we haven't had to play two in the toughest road environment. I get where he's coming from. He's just fraying in in a very arrogant way because, well, he's a college head coach and Steve Sarkisian is, as we've seen in front of report, is very arrogant. So here's how I think you do it and you go, man, we have played a really, really tough schedule. Going to Ohio State and going to Florida, so far in the first month and a half of the season,

it's presented our challenges. And we look forward to bouncing back. I think you can always turn it to a positive spin because that's who you are. You have to have some sort of dynamic ability in front of a microphone. You just have to. He should, yes.

He's kind of in the ballpark of how he should have framed it. And said, you know what, We've taken care of business at home And then the losses that we've had Were on the road in the shoe And against the Florida team in the swamp With their backs against the wall So we're looking to get better

But it's also been a tough road for us Something like that Right But the way he says Well if you look at everybody else And they had to do what we had to do I'd like to see where they are That's not

Placing blame on others Right Deflecting the blame It's not the right way to do it So Another mishandled press conference from Sark I mean, write it down. I have a question.

Go ahead. It's just, he's kind of implying as well that UTEP and Sam Houston State aren't competitors at all. Well, he was asked specifically about Power 4 schools. And those aren't Power 4 schools. And my question, the second question is, if Penn State head coach said the same thing about UCLA or Oregon, would that be the same? Like, I don't know. Well, James Franklin isn't going to be saying a word. He's a difference.

But I feel like Sarks should be the same way. like you lost a really they weren't even ranked regardless if it's the known swamp. The swamp has been bad before as well as Ohio State's been bad before. I just I think that's like Ross is saying. It's just a

it gives a bad taste in your mouth, especially if I was his athlete. Is that my sense? Yeah, I mean, Penn State lost it in front of like 20,000 people at UCLA nobody cares about that program and UCLA was terrible. It's a little bit different. But I, yeah, the point is he, yes. he had him, he had it laid in front of him to,

I guess you could say excuse making or whatever. Losing on the road in the shoe, there's no, to the reigning national championship, they're champion, there's no shame in that. And I applaud them for playing it. And frankly, as I've talked before, maybe we should stop telling these two teams to play good teams because it obviously isn't a bad ju-ju-throthroth.

You didn't get, you didn't fix yourself in the three games you had against winnable opponents as you came back to playing sluggish football. It's week to week and everything will be all better if they can just beat Oklahoma, which they're favored right. And I believe they do. Now, don't tell Jonathan, I sent you a sound clip. Don't tell Ross who it's from. Uh-oh. But I was able to find a man who I, when I think, when I respectfully think of who can give me the real pulse of Texas football. Oh, boy. I thought of this person. Play the sound bite, please. Give me two seconds. Give me two seconds. Okay. It's somebody when you think of college football analysis. A real heartbeat on Texas you think of this person.

Here it comes. Any second. Loading, loading, loading, loading, loading. Loading, okay. Follow sports MT on Instagram. No, don't do that. I'm almost at 3,000. Oh, my God.

Here it is. Sarkeesia, right here on national television. I respect this man. I like this man, and I think that for the most part, he's been a hell of a coach. I'm very disappointed with what I've seen from Steve Sarkeesian this year. To me, Paul, he has coached scared. He has coached like somebody who's been forced to deal with all the allure, all the attention and notoriety that comes associated with Arch Manning. And he has not lived up to the billing any more than his quarterback has.

And I think that he's been feeling the pressure since the opening of the season, Paul. I think he has coached like it. And I think that an example, for him to say what he said as a quote, what do you mean? You know, how would they do? You're Texas. You came into the season ranked as the number one team in the nation. And this ain't Florida that was coached that's been coached by Urban Meyer, no disrespect. Okay, Urban Meyer is not there.

He's not walking through that door. Tim Tebow ain't walking through that door. This is a different Florida Gators program. For him to come out of his mouth and say that to me just speaks to the level of disappointment. and everybody should be feeling about Steve Sarkesian because I think that he has coached scared because Archmanning is there. There was huge expectations

and he's been dealing with all of that instead of just coaching football like he knows how to coach football. There you go. Stephen A. Smith, right on top of things at the University of Texas. All right. I did that just to poke at you.

Thank you. Feeling great. Just win. Just win this week and I'll be. You're going to win this week. Now, the real thing is, do they, if they make it up and Manning just majesty starts playing better and beats OU and does this, does all the star decision just wash away? Or is this going to be? No, the only way it washes away if they sneak into the top 12th.

They pretty much have to win out at this point. Anything less than a, for our priest is number one not to make the college football tournament, it would be a considered massive disappointment. Did any three lost teams make the playoff last year? Alabama did not. Remember they were a three lost team, right? Yeah, they're right on the outside looking in because of the automatic bids. Yep. We'll get some logical, thoughtful conversation with Longhorn Scott next.

Unbiased, he's going to bring it. Is he always there? Is he going to lift my spirits? He's going to talk me into the Longhorn's going to be okay? Would you like, who's the most famous University of Texas musical performer that's associated with UT? Like Lyle Lovett is he a UT guy? No, he was a Texas tech guy, right? Or something like that.

It would be, what's her name? name that we were saying was overrated the other day from Port Arthur. Why is her name escaping? Oh, Janice Joplin? We'll play some Janice Joplin coming back. Okay. Isn't our new song? Is there our song, our most famous song, was me and sports RV. Isn't that right? I think that's correct. Follow Sports RV on Instagram. I'd appreciate it. Yeah, trying to build it up. Help the big fella out. His squad needs a victory in the worst way.

Meanwhile, mine's double-digit favorite Oklahoma State. Better get that ass. I'm just saying. What if they don't? I don't care if they win by one. Because Las Vegas doesn't tell me everything, Sports RV. Oh, okay. You brought it up. Nobody made you bring it out. I'm just saying that Vegas likes him, so it is what it is. But I don't let Vegas decide.

I think Coach Sark is playing this in the athletic facility. Everybody fired up. You think he's jamming? Getting the kids riled up. Let's go, baby. Oh, Bobby McGee. This is, I do have this song on my phone. This is a jam.

This is a jam. It's my first time listening to him. I actually really like it. It's not bad. You never heard this? It's number one in 1971. it's Janice Joplin's cover of me and Bobby McGee. Did you ever see The Rose?

The What? The Rose. What is that? Movie that was based on her? Oh, no, I didn't. Yeah, Bet Midler played her. Oh, really? Yeah.

I don't know if it's in a strict interpretation of her life or a loose. Yeah. Very distinctive voice. Yeah. Was it good? I don't remember. Okay. How fresh was it on Rottenmados?

Go look at it. I'm curious. Bet Midler. The Rose. They even have fresh tomatoes back then? It was not needed for four Academy Awards. Well, damn, must have been really good then. These things I don't.

I can't, hold on. There's like five things called the Rose. Give me a second. All right. Let's talk to a big Janice Joplin fan. 73% fresh. That's good, right? Yeah.

What is it considered not a fresh? I think it's around 50 or 60, maybe 60. Longhorn Scott. Good afternoon. Hey, guys. You know, Ross, it's interesting. I mean, I really, it's uncanny. I mean, I really enjoy your contributions to the show. Uh-oh.

And as a guy, but, but, but I don't know how this, how it really works out this way, but when it comes through cheap takes, I just go, I never agree. I'm always like, what is he talking about? And it's so odd because of anything else, I, I enjoy, you know, your input. I think, thank you. Probably the doing, you're carrying way more on this show for a guy who's name gets listed. second to begin with. But anyway. Hey, wait a minute. Why am I

catching strays here, Longer & Scott? Seriously, what did I do? I didn't do anything. All right, what am I off base on? Let's talk about it. I think, you know, I think what the world is less of and you guys are not new to the game, but you know, it's amazing sort of the exponential

explosion, as we know, right, with anything, right? When technology, it develops and changes at a warp speed, and so too, the things that proliferate opinions, right? And so when Stephen A. Smith, and I know you did that tongue-in-cheek, but like, Stephen A. Smith, great. Stand by, because I'm about to give my opinion on NASA's

new development of progress they're making on the next man's tomorrow's, you know. I'd be about as qualified to talk about that as he is college football. But it's amazing to me that there's such, there's no gray area anymore, right? So the guy that since 19-1, I've only missed 12 games in Austin. I've watched a lot of ball, a lot of good, a lot of bad.

You see these things have been in flow. You see seasons where you, you know, you over-deliver, teams over-deliveration. She changes it. Obviously, everyone, I think, is shocked about the offensive line being what it was. But that tells me, and when we read the one that makes me the most miserable, is when people are putting the words of coaches in press conferences

and... Yeah, I think our phones are messed up. Oh, go ahead. Hello? Go ahead, finish it. We're having some phone issues, but go ahead. Anyway, at the end of the day, like, guys, catch your breath, calm down.

Are things worth anyone thought they would be? No, but like, let's stop parsing every word of every coach in a problem. You know? All right, we're going to let you run long words, Scott. Yeah, I think I do you want. I'm actually, I think I'm semi offended by his lack of value in me, which is fine. Thank you, Longhorn, Scott.

Appreciate you. Why don't you all get a room? This season is a massive disappointment to this point. I don't understand how there's another way to spin that. Now, losing Ohio State and close game, it happens. But Arch not looking good after that against San Jose State and Utep. And then, okay, he made some plays against Sam Houston. and he was up and down in Florida.

I think the biggest issue that they didn't win that Florida game is because they got beat on both offensive and defensive lines. But yes, this is a disappointment. What did Chris Gordy tell us? The fastest team ever to be number one preseason and be out of the poll. Now, that also may say, hey, Texas got overrated preseason and they're not as good as everybody thought. And Texas oftentimes is overrated in the preseason.

I mean, we've seen it time and time again. But you're not where you need to be. and Steve Sarkesian is acting in an arrogant way when pressed about not performing well against top tier competition and he hasn't done that so far in his Texas career and in the thing where he was asked about he was asked about wincing from Arch Manning

and then he started talking about videoing somebody while they're taking a poop. I mean, I didn't do that. If you want to defend that and say that sounds normal, that's okay. It just isn't. Now, I don't know if John tweets sports is accurate here, but he has Texas as Steve Sarkeesian

is 2 and 8 versus top 10 teams at Texas. Now, you're not going to be 10 and 0 versus top 10 teams. That normally means you're going against top tier competition. You're going to be going against him at least two or three times a year. But you'd like to be 50-50. 2-8 is not a good record. And I like Steve Sarkeesian. I don't

want him fired right now. I think he's a good coach. I think you can win a national championship with Steve Sarkeesian. But this season has been a disappointment. Yeah. I don't know. You were number one preseason. Arch Manning was supposed to be all-world quarterback.

And yes, you lost four offensive linemen. So there was a lot of question marks there. And yes, you've been lacking in the running game because Quintraveon-Wiser has been hurt. Now he just came back and I don't think he's very good. C.J. Baxter has been hurt as well. You've had some injuries here and there all over the place. But you add it all up. It's disappointing.

But it can all be remedied with a win against your number one rival, the Oklahoma Sooners. And by the way, if you run the table, you get to play. in the college football playoff. You're going to have a strong enough schedule for those people that are making those decisions to make that happen. Can I give you one thing I want you to think about? Don't answer the question to the top of the hour.

With Arch being all-worldly coming in and with Quinn Ewers being so highly regarded coming in, you know what the question I'm going to ask you. Okay. Don't answer it yet. Mm-hmm. If I'm a top-shelf

quarterback thinking about where I want to play and the last two quarterbacks that have made their way to Austin, Texas are underdeveloped. Am I going to a place that I want to go play college football if I'm not going to be developed for my future career as a professional quarterback? Just throwing it out there. Answer coming up in mere moments. Final hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Well, it's with Ross. Hi. That's fine. Or as Longhorn Dog would say, the Ross Villary Lowe. show with the other guy. I like that name. Yeah. 713-212. It's fine. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90. NFL rewining 20 minutes.

Alive or dead, I'm believing or not. Coming up at 150 here on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 104 on Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you here until 2 o'clock. Rockets last night get a preseason win. against the Atlanta Hawks, 122 to 113. Nick Casario, Texas general manager, says that he will update everybody on Joe Mixed in three to four weeks,

that he is progressing to what level we don't know, but another decision, or at least another announcement, will come from the team coming up at about a month or so. I'm still going to hold on to my thought he's not playing in 2025. I think they're trying to do whatever they can

to get him going. I just believe Rossi did if he does come back, it's awfully hard to miss 13 or 14 games. Well, it wouldn't be that many, maybe. Man, who knows? If it was missed 12 games, Aldousen to pick up and try to lead a running attack when you have been in the midst of a long season already.

I mean, he didn't practice all season last year, and he hit the ground running in week one. So he's a veteran. For a guy who's a veteran, now it is a new offensive system. So maybe there's something to work with that. But I don't know if he's working with the coaches or if he's in meeting rooms right now. Where is he?

We don't know. If he's around the team and picking up the offense now, and he's going to be healthy and ready to go, and he's a veteran guy who can run, you know, inside, outside, zone, whatever. you want to run that he can pick it up and be fine, I'm not super worried about him. And it's the running back position. I don't want to downplay it necessarily, but it's something I think Joe Mixon should be able to handle.

No matter what week of the season it is. Again, don't know the tenor, but my guess is they said, hey, we owe them an update. Let's give them three to four weeks. Let's say this just to get them off the cent for a little bit. That could also be the case. Who knows? 713-212-5-7-98. Remember, sports teams don't need to tell you the truth.

They're not under oath. And they often lie. Yeah. Because the average person lies four times a day. Four? You know, when the show started, it was three. I think we said two, actually. It was three in the show started.

I bumped it to four with inflation. Yes. I think by 2026, we're lying to the average person five times a day. Yeah. I want you to do an exercise. I want all of you, I'm going to send you guys a little homework today before we back on the phones. I want you to keep a little small notepad with you for one day. And any time you lie to somebody.

It can be a little fib, it can be a grandiose lie. Just give yourself a little checkmark. And then say how many check marks you have at the end of the day. Like, for instance, hey, does this alpha make me look fat? No, honey, it does not. That's a lie, but a check. Okay. How are the cheese sticks at Teresa's party?

Flavorless. They were great. Check, that's a lie. Hey, does my breath stink? No, you smell great. Check, a lie. Somebody asks you if their best breath stinks, you should tell them. Okay, that's the truth.

That's true. Ted, the truth. Tell the truth. Because I'm telling you, if you're not lying four to five times a day, you're probably to have no friends. The truth does not always set you free sports, Harvey. Wait, I don't have any friends. Wait a minute. This is making sense. Well, honestly, was Steve Sarkisian telling the truth?

Man, this schedule's too tough for me. I didn't go back and play some sunbelts. You need, look, the swamp is a tough place to play, but I mean, you're excuse-making if you're saying you couldn't have won that game. You're supposed to be better than Florida. They had three losses at that point. point. Now, it was three tough, what was it? South Florida, Miami and some other.

South Florida, Miami and they... Some other tough loss. Yeah. There was, who was out of Miami's losses on there? South Florida was good, but they're not spectacular. They got beat up pretty good by Miami, so... Yeah, but the Bulls are tough, Matt. LSU.

That was the other loss. Did you ever, if you ever thought you'd said the Bulls were tough? The losses for Florida were, yeah. South Florida, LSU. you in Miami. Okay. And they were one in three. Florida had one win over Long Island.

I didn't even know Long Island had a football team. 55 to zero over Long Island? Yes, I was kind of excited because my, you know, my daughter. Yeah, we're down here to play the Florida Gators. Lucas. Look at their quarterback is Lucas Tanziani. Lucas Sanziani. Lucas Anzani in the Long Island Shacks.

We're coming over here to Florida. I had to play some football. Welcome to Pro's Picks. I'm Lucas Daliani on a recorded line. I got so much inside information about Florida football. I know people deep inside the program. You know what I'm saying? You know what?

It's funny. We unfortunately do, and I am especially horrific East Coast accents, okay? What are you talking about, Matt? Hey, the Liderman Tackles is Raphael Faselino. So, wait a minute. Why do we do it and we think we're charming when we're nearly not? When if we ever heard a WFAN 66 on your dial doing a Texas and get on your horse, that's true.

We're stereotyping. We would get so mad at them for doing that. That's fine. We're hypocrites. Well, duh. All right. So make sure we knew that. 713-212-579 if you want to get NFL Rewon coming up at about 12 minutes from now.

Let's talk to... I said, uh-huh. It's been on the calendar all week. Yeah, I'm ready. And I'm reminding it on Twitter. Michael on 790 at 109. Michael, thank you for holding in. Good afternoon.

Hey, what's up, guys, big fans. I just wanted to touch on a couple things. I listen every day. Thank you. Yeah, the Arch Manning thing, I think it's very clear. I mean, the guy comes from a private school, I just think he didn't see a lot of competition like this in his playing days. I mean, you can, you're playing at St.

Pius or the Woodlands Christian, you're not seeing North Shore talent, you know, Katie talent, the Woodlands talent. You know, better players. You know, you're seeing, you know, 5-9, Billy Jones playing cornerback. You know, you're going to see much better talent in the SEC, and I just think he's just above his walker. You know, he just can't play with these guys. He looked real comfortable against Sam Houston, and I think that's kind of the level he played

at when he was in high school. So, you know, he's seeing these, you know, much bigger talent, and it's just kind of translating. That's just my opinion on that. You know, maybe next year. It didn't matter for Eli Manning or Payton Manning who went to the same school. I mean, it's, it's, I don't think this necessarily. He's been there for three years now. Yeah, exactly.

So I'm saying, we're talking about, is it a private school or is that he's just not good enough? As of right now, I'm just going to say he's just not good enough. Yeah, yeah, I think it's a mesh of the two. That's just my opinion on that. The other thing I wanted to touch on, I called in at the beginning of the season about the Micah Parsons trade. Yeah. You know, fast forward. you know, going down the line, the emergence of James Houston, you know, three and a half

sacks. I think that's pretty good. I think our lines kind of meshing well. I think we won that trade. I want to know what you guys think on that. The other thing is no one's talking about us winning the George Pickens trade. Man, we got rid of a third rounder for a number one talent. And what do you guys think about when CD comes back, you know, how is that offense going to mesh? Is it going to get, you know, bigger or do you think, you know, the pill is going to be kind of, you know, struggle to get spread around with Ferguson, C.D. and Pickens, as well as Williams. And I'll hang up and listen to that.

Yeah, thank you. You're not taking Pickens off the field, period in his story. He is a deep threat. I don't know. Is C.D. supposed to step right back on the field and act as like nothing happened? I don't know how long he's supposed to be out, honestly. Look, Dallas's offense is going to score some points. I mean, hell,

they put up 40 against Green Bay. Week 7? This is what I'm reading. Just on Twitter, quick Twitter search? I don't know enough about their defense. I mean, losing Michael Parsons is a... I've been bad overall. Well, yeah, you allowed 40 at home to Green Bay. I mean, I have a, you know, one of the situations.

Now, the Jets are a bad football team, so I don't even count last week's game. But they can hang around. They're going to outscore their opponent. They're going to try to outscore their opponents. They're not going to get into a low-scoring ball control game. They're explosive. Dax's having a good season so far.

Yards per play allowed. Green Bay second? at four and a half. Dallas 30th. So I don't know if they've done the trade. If Micah was there, would they still be, they would not be close to be 30th. Who knows?

Who's to say? I don't know. The NFC East to me is it? Washington's really good. Big win at the LA Chargers this past weekend. Dallas, I think, is going to stay competitive. Eagles are looking beatable.

Eagles are looking beatable. I thought it was just their first loss of the season. Yeah, but they've had some close games. But they should have lost the rain. game, if not for that block punt at the very end of the game. Yes. Buccaneers game was close. Gee, they've been all close games.

Cowboys and Chiefs, yeah. Can I go ahead and give you the playoffs and NFC? Go ahead. Four division champs through wild cards, right? Ooh, boy. I don't know if I can do it. I don't think I can do it. Because I think the Rams, Niners, and Seahawks all could fight for that spot there.

And maybe one slips in as a wild card. I think the NFC... Buccaneers are running away with the South. South only get one team in. NFC North could get Green Bay. It could get Detroit. Chicago might be sneaky. I think Minnesota's toast.

Okay, your division leaders are Eagles, Lions, Buccaneers, Niners. And then it was at this point? Three wild cards? Yeah. Commanders? These are candidates. Commanders, Cowboys, Packers, Seahawks, Rams. I think all five couldn't make arguments for getting in.

What the Falcons and the Vikings live. I just don't know if Dallas's defense can stop anybody between now and the end of the year. And by the way, are the Giants more competitive now with Jackson Dart? Kind of? I mean, they just lost to the Saints, right? Yeah, that's true. They had that game won too. But, yeah, they're not making the playoffs.

They're one and four. They're terrible. But at least could be a thorn and somebody side between the end of the year. I mean, I could see a Giants team beating up on the Cowboys just by accident. I don't know. This is shaping up to be. And again, we've got a long way to go. I think this is going to be an Uber competitive NFC in it, both conference races.

And Ross, these tiebreakers are going to mean the world to everybody. That's why, even though I don't want the Texans to lose in Seattle, they can still do it and get to that 10 win mark because, frankly, it would be an NFC conference law. It would be an NFC loss. You need to, you can't really afford to lose. to anybody else in the EFC this year. You still have the game of the Niners coming up. You still have the Cardinals, and you still have the Seahawks. If you're going to have some blemishes, you might as do it against the NFC teams,

and your third in your division. And you're going to have to go to Indianapolis and win, and you're going to have to absolutely make sure that you do not lose it home to Jacksonville, which has been a tough spot the last few years. No one said it was going to be easy to win the AFC South. Wait, they said it was going to be really easy. They said exactly that. Exactly what they said.

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When you hear the fit the Beethoven, you think of 1975 dancing at the hustle, the hustle at the club 21, uh, that was a, not club, platform shoes, platform shoes, white pants, white coat with the sleeves rolled up, long hair off your shoulders. Yeah. And of course. I let my hair down. And of course. Ross's NFL rewind for the weekend.

Yes, Matthew, we talked about this during the news at noon, but it bears repeating. Bingles agreed to acquire Joe Flacco from the Cleveland Browns. How often do you see a quarterback trade, Matt? For a guy who's probably going to plug and play and start, well, maybe not start this week, but rather soon. And also in division, a sixth round pick and Joe Flacco going to the Bengals for a fifth round pick. Flacco is 40 years old. started the first four games of the season

before being replaced by Dillian Gabriel. This also bumps up Shador Sanders to number two on the depth chart. Oh, the Shador, that's gonna be the lead on first take today, right? So the Shador Truthers, like Brad and Miami, or wherever he is nowadays, he's a little bit closer to him being your one, Dylan Gabriel, injury away

from Shador Sanders being the Cleveland Browns quarterback. Flackow now playing for his third of the fourth, FFC North teams. Of course, he won a Super Bowl with the Ravens, play with the Browns. Now he is with the Cincinnati Bengals. Matthew. It doesn't matter.

Their seasons are toast. Do the Bengals make the playoffs? No. They're two and three. Done. Winnable division. Nope. I don't even think Pittsburgh's falling off.

I mean, I think Pittsburgh can win nine. I don't think since I didn't get to nine. Every team in that division has a negative point differential. Yeah. They're all going to beat each other up and be about all mids. By the way, three out of the four in the AFC South have a positive point differential. Okay. I bet you can guess who has the negative one.

I'll go to Tennessee for the way, please. All right, let's move along. More news with the Mark Sanchez issue with Fox. The alleged victim in the Indianapolis altercation with Mark Sanchez, if you had not heard. Allegedly Mark Sanchez got an altercation with an elderly delivery driver, and he was drunk and perhaps on something else. released from the hospital as he recovered from stabbing wounds at the hands of the driver who was defending himself according to reports. He has three charges, one of which was upgraded to felony battery.

Fox has not released a statement or clarified any sort of status with Sanchez or Brady Quinn. But the victim who was attacked by Mark Sanchez is suing, has filed a lawsuit against Mark Sanchez and Fox. asking for an unspecified amount of damages. All right, I am not an attorney, but I'll play one on the radio here for this second. They're suing Fox as part of this because they're saying he was on a work assignment and Fox should have done a better job of watching over their employees. Okay, I get that. I don't get that.

And they got a lot of cash. I mean, look, we, I would assume that maybe 40, 50% of our audience does some sort of traveling for their job. Oh, yeah. You get wild. But you kind of But if I'm an employer And I send somebody somewhere

They're expected to do a job But they're not on my clock 24-7 If they're having dinner or having drinks Or whatever the case may be That's kind of their own decision Yes I just I don't like Throwing Fox in this

Civil suit When frankly it was Fox that didn't say Hey Mark Sanchez Why don't you go get ripped them down to Indianapolis, make an ass to yourself, and go get pepper sprayed and get stabbed. You see what I'm saying? I just think there's a little bit of a line. For sure. But I think legally, they want money from Fox. Fox's got a lot of money. So I imagine Fox is going to settle this out of court and get some kind of check. Well, they want it out

of the headlines. So this, my guess is there will be some sort of settlement. But I just, it doesn't feel right. But obviously, Ross, there's a precedent that says if you're a a high-end company with a big, recognizable employee that doesn't behave themselves, their fair game to go after you and the company. And so I just, it's just to me, it sounds a little squirley. All right, Matthew, moving along. Texan's general manager, Nick Casario, speaking on Joe Mixon today, saying there's no timetable for his return.

Of course, he did not participate in training camp. He has been out all season. Nick Casario saying, quote, I think probably over the next few weeks, we'll probably have a better idea. He's making progress, so I wouldn't put it a particular timetable on it. I think over the next three or four weeks we'll probably get more information here. Kind of see how he's progressing. You know what? After you read it, after I read it, he ain't coming back this year.

We're taking it one day at a time, but I think once we get to that period, we'll probably have a better sense of which way it's going for the duration of the year. I'm with you. It doesn't sound great. Of course, Nick Chubb, having a pretty good game over the weekend. Woody Marks has emerged as a possible threat out of the backfield both catching, receiving, and pass blocking. Joe Mixon, will he play it

down for the Texans in 2025? I'm still going no. Feels like it's trending towards no. Now, when I'm right, ultimately, will you please for the first time in your life call me a Texans insider? No. Believe him or not, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.

Did you see what happened over the weekend? It met Life Stadium, Matt. He celebrated a big victory. There is a video circulating on social media that shows Jerry Jones quickly flashing his middle finger to Jets fans in the crowd after Dak Prescott's 4 touchdown

increased the lead to 37 to 14. Jerry Jones on the fan in Dallas. That was unfortunate. That's what church. That's not like Dana Hogger said. Sorry. Sorry, Matt. That was kind of an exchange with our fans out in front of us. There was a

swarm of Cowboys fans out in front, not Jets fans, Cowboys fans. entire stadium was brimming with enthusiasm of Cowboys and certainly late in the game. It was inadvertent on my part because that was right after we made our last touchdown and we were all excited about it. He says he was not antagonizing Jets fans and it was inadvertent. Believe him or not. 100% do not, not, not, not believe him. I'll say this. First of all, Bud Adams also middle fingered, was it Titan fans or Buffalo Bills fans way back in the day?

He throws a middle finger and then he points to somebody. Yeah. It's not an inadvertent. It's not an accident. He's not celebrating with Cowboys' Means. Can I tell you this? And this is a God's honest thing about me. And I tell you all a lot of stuff about me.

Not everything, but a lot. Okay. I probably have shot the middle finger 20 times in my entire life. It's just not one of my mechanisms. I've seen you do it 20 times. No way. I mean, I'm not a middle finger guy. You're a road rager.

I am a, I'll swear at you. I'll call you names. I will insult you, but I will not middle finger you. But I will say in the times that I have middle finger, this is really strange on my part of admitting this, I've done it spontaneously. It wasn't pre-produced. So if there's anybody that could do it that way,

it would be in the midst of an exciting moment where you were sick and tired of hearing jets fans, you know, calling you names, I'm talking about the Cowboys. So I don't believe that's the case here, but I will say me and myself and I have once in a while throw the middle fingers for no reason.

I'm not a double rod's guy. Please. Are you a thumb out to the side? Thumb on the ring finger? Or thumb way out to the side? Are you a full middle finger extension guy? I think I'm yeah. I don't know.

Thumb out to the side is nice. Jonathan, throw up the rods to me. Let me see how you do it. Oh, he's got thumb to the side too. Way out. Fun fact, I got made fun of when I did it just just like this. Yes. They make fun of you.

So it's not like intimidated. You've got to do, yeah. It's more. Here go. So this is how Smoky from Friday did it, so that's how I do it. So call me something. Insult me so I can give you a middle finger. We'll see how it works.

Matt Thomas, you are a bad broadcaster. Oh, it's all. No, they're tucked away. You got it on the, is that the pinky? Yeah, I tucked them away. You see my fingers? No, no, you got it on the index. Yeah, I tucked it away.

Okay. Interesting. Interesting. Yeah. I think you're making more ring finger or out to the same. side. Ross? Is we're having a good time?

Jonathan definitely had his thumbs way out there. Yeah, I'm trying to tell you. But that's when you're partying. This is on radio. This is not making no sense of the audience. We're not on TV yet. Well, someday. Someday.

Is that the NFL? Maybe we'll be on YouTube. There's your NFL. We're not doing YouTube. We actually have media careers. For now. Anything else? Oh.

No. Seriously. What is wrong with you today? A lot. All right. 713, 212-5-7. If you want to jump in, we got one more segment of calls to get to, and then we've got to believe it or not.

Anything you want to get to. Rockets from last night. Can I get... Did we get a Rockets call from last night? Oh, quick. One more thing. The Bill Belichick inside North Carolina Hulu series. Cancel.

Has been canceled since they're getting their ass beat every week. I also heard, did you see this yesterday? They didn't want to mention Drake May at all because he had a good day for the Patriots as their win in Buffalo. and since he was in North Carolina, and there's a Patriot tie. They said, you're not mentioned. Belichick told everybody, do not tweet that out. Do not mention Drake May at all?

Do you see what I'm talking about? He's weird. He's weird. But his girlfriend's attractive. Okay. And she's 49 years younger. We'd all like to have that kind of scoreboard. Right?

Don't you want to date somebody 49 years younger than you at 7. In my 70s, what do I have to say to a 24-year-old? That's ridiculous. No, I don't. Say, what's up, girl? What do you talk to her about? Or binky, blinky? Politics?

SpongeBob? Life? The wild thornberries? Love Island. Oh, Love Island? Yeah, is she making him watch Love Island? Hey, they spot... They got sponsored the...

She's probably making him watch the Love Island. The Senior Bachelor? The Golden Bachelor? The Golden Bachelor, yeah. No, she's probably not a while. Maybe she's interested in that. I don't know. You know, today's young is like the Price is Right, too. You can watch her Price is Right when you're seven.

Today's Youngens like the Price is Right? Of course they do. Is that true? Yeah, absolutely. Jonathan, you're a big fan of Price is right. already discussed this. Yeah, but I'm biased, though. Yeah, I used to watch it with my Aunt Rosie, and we bonded over it, and I loved Price is right, but how old were you when you did it? Mike's eight, well, and you and Aunt Rosie's still tight? She's dead. Thoughts and prayers.

132 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. 137, it is Matt and Ross with you until 2 o'clock today. We've got, believe it or not, coming up at 150. I'm working on it. It's going to be, by the way, it's going to be alive or dead. So if you say believe it, you believe it, you believe the person is alive. You believe the person is dead. You would say not. All mine are television characters. Famous television stars. Oh, great. So, what if I haven't seen the show? Well, then you're not going to provide much help. What if I don't know who they are? Then you're really not going to provide much help. Jaliel White, Steve Urkel, alive. But I will be asking you first and then

getting the answers from the people. Okay. Now, Ross, when we first played this game, was very good at it, and then he got bad, and then he got good again, and now you're back on a little bit of a cool, cool streak. We're riding the wave. All right. So the Texans are off this week, getting ready for, how are we doing, I guess, Seattle, which will be a week from Monday on the ESPN Plus game. Now, for those of you that are worried about ESPN Plus, if you're in Houston, don't worry about it.

It'll be on Channel 13. If you are going to be in Oklahoma City, where I will be, I need to get my ESPN app ready to go, because that will be a digital game only. Okay. So that's where we are on that. What was I going to tell you? Oh, this week, who we were rooting for in the NFL? Are we doing this already?

Are you kidding me? With this jumbled mess? Do you think it's going to split? I mean, now granted, the Colts and the Jaguar are going to play each other, so there's going to be some losses there. Okay, sirrah, sirrah, Matt. Whatever will be will be. The future's not ours to see.

Well, here's the problem. Broncos are going to play the Jets. They're going to beat the Jets. That's going to put them at 4. to. Jets could win? Please. I got news for you. Is Aaron Glenn going to survive this season in New York? Probably not. I mean, neither. Owens five. The first Nimitz high school grad to be an NFL head coach is going to be there for about one year.

Steelers are going to beat the Browns. Here's the one that's interesting. Can the chargers who last week lost at home go all the way across the country to Miami and beat the Dolphins. Could be an additional death nail in the career of Mike McDaniel, the coach of the Dolphins. I can't believe he's still a coach. Chargers need that win to stay alive because that's an Uber competitive West. Patriots are playing the Saints. The Pats may go to four and two if they win in New Orleans.

This is not shaping up well, Rossi. Oh, here's one. Go Cardinals, Arizona Cardinals, at the Colts this week. Cardinals, Kyle Murray's listed, is questionable for that game. Great. Seahawks at Jaguars, go Seahawks. That's a cross-country trip. Go Hawks.

Jags by one and a half in that one. And then, ooh, super go lions. Imagine putting the Chiefs at two and four after a home loss potentially on Sunday night? That's a good, these Lions Chiefs game, that's going to be a great Sunday night game. Chiefs could be two and four. Man, Chiefs have had a tough schedule to start. But they've also been on national television at first. feels like every single time.

Yeah. That's because they're the Chiefs. Got to get Taylor's boyfriend on there. Or a fiancé, excuse me. If you did not know, we mentioned it very early in the show today. Travis Kelsey is still active, obviously. Still playing. I think he caught a touchdown pass last night, right?

Yeah, I think so. Well, you tell me, he's your tight end. He is. I still lost because I didn't play the Carolina running back, but that's not a hearing there. Rico Dattle. By the way, Rico Dottle is expected to score six points this week after scoring 30 last week.

Is that because ESPN is just going to be? mess with my mind. They, oh, is somebody coming back? Is Chuba Hubbard supposed to come back? Maybe so, I don't know, but I was like, I can't wait to put him in there. And like, expected point total, 6.3. I'm like,

Ech. She was on the Tonight Show last night. It was asked about why she's not performing at halftime. And she said because she does not want to take away, when she said she's focused on watching him play, watching him compete in his job, and that it would be not fair to, her to be the good supporting fiancé,

rooting for her his team to go to the Super Bowl, and then all by the way, she's got to take time away from her life to go work on a halftime feature that he or may not be at the game or not. So I think she was saying, look, I don't want to jump into his world

until his world is done playing football. That's the reason why we're getting a bad bunny instead. The baddest of the bunnies. How was his SNL? I haven't looked at it yet. Me either. I got to look at some clubs. Okay.

I'm good. I don't know. He was... I haven't watched an episode of S&L and... Well, maybe I watched a little bit of the 50-year one. That was good. That had all the best... Eddie Murphy was hilarious.

It is funny, though. And this is an indictment, I think, on what people want to tell you and what they want to do are two different things. And I'm guilty of it myself. You'll say, I'm never watching a show again. But yet, SNL is enough viewers. they watch. You know, oh, I'm never going to that restaurant again. You wind up going. We, we, I think we collectively

as a society do that a lot. We are, I'm never going to do something again, but you wind up doing it. Because every other day, every other Sunday, I watched SNL again, and it was not funny. It was not interesting. It was in poor taste, but I'm done watching it.

And yet, I'll go back to that person's timeline and he'll tell me last year how much he hated SNL. Well, people definitely do that with, like, the Texans, Astros, Rockets. I think TV shows it easy to say I'm giving up. Although you said you gave up the righteous gym sounds like five times. I did. I did. But I have, there's a full season on my DVR and I'm not watched it.

Oh, okay. Desper Housewives, Matt, low-key. You gave me a good. That was pretty good. It's pretty good. Good recommendation? Yeah, no, he gave me good critical analysis of it. And I, you know, I really enjoyed it now.

Desperate Housewives, to me, by the way, that's so weird that you're watching a show almost 20 years old. But that's one of those things you can put in the background. You probably should focus on the show because there's a lot of plot twist to it, but I can see how it's just kind of in the background. Isn't it crazy how the kids are now watching shows that are 20 years? Like, my son still is running through all the Friends episodes. My son's 26.

My oldest one, that is. Oh, I mean, I guess when you were a kid, you're watching all the old Sanford and Sons. Yeah, that's true, but I was a latchkey. That was because I was a latchkey kid. Okay. I still can watch me. Well, everybody's a latchkey kid now. Yeah.

It's a latch to their phones. I can watch, you give me a television full of Sanford and Sons and Good Times and what's happenings and the Jeffersons and all in the family. Laverne and Shirley's not so much happy it is. That was kind of corny. But I'm pretty pleased with that group. But now today it's, we've got to run through Seinfelds and friends. And now they're watching, what's that show that they're bringing back, but the mom and the daughter, not Dawson's Creek. Oh, with the Laurelize?

Oh, hell. Gilmore girls? Gilmore Girls. They're bringing Gilmore. They're coming back with that. Okay. There's actually a show on either Netflix and my wife watches that I want to be in the room with her and watching. It's not bad.

It's called Younger. I'm not familiar about a 41-year-old woman who pretends she's 26 and she works for a book company, publishing company. Okay. And how she lives her life trying to act younger than she really is. It's got Hillary Duff. It's got Hillary Duff in it. Oh, Hillary Duff. Hillary Duff.

That's good stuff. That is way underrated, I would say, at the end of the day. I think Hillary Duff properly rated. We don't talk about Hillary Duff. No, just because you don't talk about it, doesn't mean the streets aren't talking about it. Oh, the streets are talking about Hillary Duff. Okay, that's fair. All right, believe it or not, all things alive or dead, if this person's alive, you say believe it.

If a person is dead, you'll say not. Ross will try to assist, and we'll do that next. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-2-7-9. Believe it or not, Alive or Dead edition next. 1140, I make it 145 on Sports Talk 790. Tomorrow on the radio show, we'll have shut your bum ass up at 1130. That's always a favorite part of our week.

Is that the most cathartic week of your week? Beyond that, I'm sorry, because I feel like sometimes you just got things you just said didn't mean and you just got a chance to apologize. We try to be a full-service radio show. We're going to talk sports, sports, and more sports. But frankly, the Texans are off for a while. The Astros haven't made any moves in their off-season. The rockets are in the pre-season.

your college football team is in the crapper. And they're not in the crapper, Matt. Three and two, baby. Mine's going to bounce back at Oklahoma State. Jonathan's may even play this week. I don't even know what FSAFA is doing anymore. They fold it up shopper, I don't know. Don't ask me.

The program's folded. Yeah, they get that beat down by you, but enough's enough. No, Maas. Oh, I forgot to follow back all these people that followed me on Instagram. I appreciate you all. Oh, wait, man, I'm going to check me real quick.

Before we get to believe it or not here. At Sports RV on Instagram, I will follow you back. If you follow me between now and 2 p.m. If you follow me, I will thank you very much. And Matt won't follow you back because he didn't care about you. I care about you. Sorry, that was Instagram. I like you all.

I love you. I'm very nice to you. Matter of fact, shout out to the Coca-Cola delivery driver at TDCU Stadium on Saturday. He is honking at me as I'm pulling in the parking garage. You goes, are you Matt Thomas? I said, yeah. He goes, I thought you looked for me. I said, I'm better looking than you thought.

He goes, oh, you're better looking than Ross. I said, thank you very much. He didn't do that. Yes, he did. I swear I got he did. Okay, well, he's a liar. I think his name is Joe. Shout out to you, Joe, at Rocola.

I said, you got any product in the back? And he goes, no, we're just doing the pipes. I said, oh, damn. Wait, you were trying to bum free Coca-Cola off the delivery driver? I don't think, I think bum is a strong term. Steel? Use his connections. Gift. Gifting? Gifting?

Gifting. And put our R in there. Five minutes up 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. Call 713212-5-790.

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He will give you his editorial advice, but it'll be up to you to decide whether these people are alive or dead. Hi, Bill. Uh-oh. Bill doesn't want my advice. Matt, whoever told you you look better than Ross was telling the truth. Thank you, my friend. Bert Ward, he played Robin on the Batman TV series in the 60s. Believe it or not?

Oh, believe it. Hold on. He said Believe it, sure. I have no idea. Believe it is right. He's 80 years old. Oh, thank God. Believe it.

Second one, let Ross go first. Barbara Eden, Jeannie. Oh, my bad. Barbara Eden, Jeannie. I don't know, Bill. I think she's dead. I don't know. Oh, she's alive.

Believe it. She's 94 years old, Bill. Congratulations. This hurts my heart. Hopefully he's won in the last 30 days, so he can't win today. Probably. John on 790, John,

what was your favorite part of today's radio show? NFL, we whine. Oh, look at that, Ross. People appreciate that. Let's go, John. Ross, any of the original three's company roommates, Jack, Janet, and Chrissy, any of them alive? I don't know who those people are.

Their names are Jack? Jenny and Chrissy? Those are the character names. What are their actor names? Suzanne Summers, Joyce DeWitt, and John Ritter. I think they're all dead, John. What do you say, John? I believe it.

Believe it. No, yeah, Janet is still alive. She's 76, Joyce DeWitt, so good advice not given by Ross. Here we go. Number two, Ross. Gavin McLeod. He was Captain Stubing on a loveboat. I don't know that, brother, John. What do you say, John? He's dead

He is dead That's correct Another winner today Fourth to four Correct Gail on 790 Gil You're ready to play Believe it or not

Hold on Gil Yes Ricardo Montabon Mr. Rorke on Fantasy Island Is he alive or dead? I think he's dead You think he's dead

Believe it He's dead All right That's a knot Ross statement number two For the win All of the Brady Bunch kids Are they all alive?

All of them? Probably, I don't think they're all alive. Some of them are alive. Well, I need the answer. All or none? What do you think? I don't know.

Oh, all. All are alive. Congratulations. No, they've all had issues, but they're alive. Good for them. All right. Sheldon on 790. Sheldon, you're ready to play, believe it or not?

Is this Sheldon from the TV series? Sheldon. Either of everybody loves Raymond's parents. Either one of them alive. No. I think Estelle Getty. The mother is... Or is she dead, too?

Okay. It's a knot. Yeah, they're both dead. Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts are both dead. I knew Peter Boyle is dead. All right. Name number two, let Ross go first. Who is still getting?

Tom Wolpatt. He was Luke Duke on the Duke's a hazard. I don't know that, dude. All right? Good. Tell me what? What do you think? He's what?

He's dead. No, he's alive. Sorry. Thank you for playing. Finally got somebody that got wrong. Brian on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not? You know it.

Judd Hirsch. He was Alex Rieger on Taxi. Is he alive? No, he's dead. No, he's alive. Sorry. 90 years old, by the way. 90 years young.

That is sorry. Roger on 790. Roger. Roger the prize whore. Laverne or Shirley are either one of them alive? Hurry. Yeah, no. No.

They're both dead. You're right. Congratulations. There it is. Up next, two very live gentlemen, Adam Wexler, Adam Clinton. They are the team. We'll talk to you tomorrow at 10 a.m. right here on Sports Talk 7.9.