The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans Blow Lead Against Lions, Who Deserves Blame? Rockets Defeat Pistons

Episode Date: November 11, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" react to the Houston Texans dropping a 23-7 lead at halftime to lose their second of three straight primetime matchups. The Detroit Lions scored 19 unanswered points to take down the Texans 26-23. Matt and Ross also:discuss what the Texans can fix before a Monday Night Football game against the Dallas Cowboysrecap Cougars men's basketball losing an early-season test to Auburnreview Alabama destroying LSUplay "To Tell the Truth" and more.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 10.5. Good morning, Houston. And welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. We're not going to get it all at one chunk here. So just one at a time.

We'll do that. We'll play this out until we get two minutes up in the fourth quarter before we turn on. But we'll do it. He said it. They had to get takeaways, and they do right out of the gate. First and goal, Detroit, trying to get back in. The end zone. Touchdown Detroit.

It's ground. Jimmy Butler's like, do not give the city of Houston any run. You are all Tomball. Jake freaking Bates. U.F.L's Jake Bates. Salesman, Jake Bates. And Detroit Lions clutch kicker, Jake Bates. Meanwhile, Kami Fairbairns kick went from northeast to southwest and about a 14-mile-hour breeze.

That's why you have to close the roof. Sometimes you hook it, Matt. It happens. That's a hook. Let's go. This is why I'm on a Texans fan. I don't want this. I mean, I can discuss it, but I don't have the emotional tie.

It should fall in line with most of what you're used to. in sports. Yeah, I mean, seriously, I've been given in my life, Fyslamma, JAMA. Yes. I've been given the Oilers Buffalo game. Yes. I was given Damien Lillard shot against the Rockets. Absolutely. Um, 2019 Astros. Yeah, I mean, oh, yeah, 017, the cheating scandal. I mean, 23 Astros. We got a long history, baby. Yeah, I mean, I don't need it. And it wasn't necessarily a full chapter last night, but it was at least a few pages. You get up 23 to 7. Yeah. You get five interceptions. Four, really.

I don't count that interception at half time. I can even say three. Oh, on those. You ended up on the one yard line. They put Lasseter down at the one yard line. I mean, most teams aren't going to go 99 yards and score a touchdown off of that. So you went three and out after being pinned at the one yard line. Yeah.

That also wasn't the gift that the final line of turnover battle tells. No, but Jared golf was terrible yesterday. But still at the end of the day. let's say we take both of those away. That's still three turnovers from Jared Goff, and he had thrown four all year long. You had so many opportunities to capitalize, so many opportunities to go all in,

not be so conservative, and that's becoming my biggest frustration with D'Amico Ryans in this regime on Sundays is that they don't go for the gusto, and they didn't do it. You have the lions in your building, you have them on the ropes, and you let them off the hook.

Yeah. The reality is this. Everybody's going to start wearing this, okay? Everybody's in their fields today because they're trying to say, well, who takes the blame? Bobby Slois got to get fired. C.J. Stroud, it's not your fault. D'Amico Ryans, your defense did a good job. Everybody that is associated with the Texans that was on the field yesterday has to wear it.

Bobby Sloick, and I'm sorry, C.J. Stroud, Truthers, your quarterback wasn't good yesterday. There were moments that he was great, but the silly interceptions in the second half, the inability to move the team. And the fact is, your offensive line was okay. He still got sack four times, but the run game was non-existent. Joe Mixon could not find any holes. It was terrible. Embarrassing. But that's, I mean, we're kind of, when Houston teams lose, they just don't want to go down 20.

1117 and a tough loss. It was, you know, let's watch Jared Golf turn the ball over over and over and over and over and over again. It's bad. It was a bad loss. And that's why this team's going to be out probably in the first round of the playoffs. So why don't you... I'm still feeling second round. Let's go second round.

Okay. You know what? You can be Denver. I mean, hell, Pittsburgh is playing. Unbelievable. Really big win yesterday. I told you about the Pittsburgh Steelers. I ain't sleep on the Steelers anymore. I told you not to sleep on him. And Russell Wilson's good.

I know. I told you. I mean, I don't know what happened, but they're good. They're first in the AOC North again. All right, so let's get after it. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you want to place blame on different people, good.

Just make sure you're balanced with it. Because it goes all the way around. This team is nothing close to what they were in the first half they were in the second half. And I don't want to hear about Nico Collins not being able to play or Will Anderson. You had 23 first half points. You were kicking the dog crap out of the lions in the first half.

So don't give me the, well, the guys were gone bit. Because you were doing just fine. By the way, shout out to John Metchie. Long forgotten as a wide receiver. Best game is an NFL player hands down. C.J. Strauss' quarterback rating, 63. Whatever it was. Not good. 64.2.

Oh, excuse me. I was off by and point. I'm sorry. I'm bad on that. QBR 33. by the way, that's on a scale of 1 to 100, a 0 to 100. Yeah, but that ESPN made that up, so I don't

count that. And they made it up, but still, okay, if your, if your QBR is 33, did you think you had a great game? No, probably not. But if the scales 1 to 35, it's fantastic. Well, Jared Goss was 29. But that's the thing. You had the, arguably

the best team in the football on the ropes, and you just, you couldn't get it done. You score zero points in the second half. How disheartening is this team, I mean, literally Jekyll and Hyde in the first and second half of games. And here's the first and, Here's the thing for Darlene that, you know, she's running around wearing her bling last night.

Okay. You got Dallas coming up. You're going to beat them. I think so. You've got two Tennessees coming up. You're going to beat them. I think so. You're going to beat Miami.

That's one, two, three, four wins right there. You got another Jacksonville. And what the hell was that yesterday? 12-7. Ooh, yeah. So that's five more wins. They're going to get the ball back and then Trouin Walker loses his mind and gets a penalty. So they could have won that game.

It's the Vikings. You're going to go five and two the rest of the way. Probably. Okay. And that's going to put you at a little. 11 and 6. Kind of what you thought they were going to be. That was my preseason prediction.

It's good. If you hit it, you hit it. We'll see. 11 and 6. You're going to host a first round playoff game against probably either Denver, the Chargers, or Pittsburgh. You could lose to any of those teams. Easily.

You win that game. I mean, it seems decent at home, usually. And then you're going to lose in a second round of the playoffs. All those teams have a positive point differential. You have a negative. The calendar is set. Okay. Because this team is showing a pattern.

And by the way, enough with the team meetings, enough with throwing up the H's, enough with bragging about your uniforms, score some points in the second half of football games. It ain't much. Put your ages down and put your points up. Is that what you're saying, Matt? Ages down, points up. I like that.

Burgers down, field goals down, long touchdown plays up. That'd be nice. 713, 212, 579. If you want to get in, let's go. I want to hear y'all. Let's let you spot off. Take as much time as you want. We're here until 2 o'clock today.

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I just think, you know, they got some runs on us. when we didn't set the edge, we weren't triggering fast enough at the second level. We just kind of, we stalled a little bit there defensively. I think it was nothing, you know, about being tired or anything. It's just us consistently executed. And that's what, you know, I believe in, just out-executing our opponent. And, you know, when things got tight there at the end and the second half, just like we didn't execute.

We had multiple opportunities, right, to get off the field, but we didn't make those plays. But you know, Domingo does give us a good rundown of the game we just watched. So, I mean, he's not seeing two different games. I mean, I know the latest edition of how can you lose that game, you lost that game.

First, we could also, we also do need to say, the Lions are really good. The Lions are the best team in the NFC. If anybody can withstand five turnovers and win a game, it'd be the best team of the NFC. I expected the Texans to lose that game. You expected them to lose by double digits. We thought maybe they were going to get their doors completely blown off.

And they didn't do that. Especially when Nico was declared unavailable for the game. When Nico Collins was out, I just was like, how are they going to score any points? And that really did come to fruition. I mean, they scored their first touchdown on a short field. Then after that, they really only had one sustained touchdown drive. And that was at the end of the first half when that was when, I mean, C.J. Stroud looked like a freaking my Stroud out there when they got that second

touchdown to go up 23 to 7 and that was after the lions got the ball with under two minutes to go and they were just basically running it out. I was like, oh my gosh, the Texans got them shook. They're trying to get out of here and then they went down CJ Stroud made a couple of great

throws on that drive including that touchdown throw to John Mechie. That's special. That's a special throw. And I'm sitting there saying they're going to freaking win this game. CJ Stroud is locking in. The O-line is playing good enough.

Jared Gough is off tonight. They are going to win this game, and then they did not score another point. And haven't scored a second-half point or touchdown since the New England game. Yes, against the New England Patriots who are not good. Who, by the way, beat the Bears yesterday.

That's true. Chicago's imploding right now. That's their issues. unbelievable there Matt Caleb Williams just can't get it done I'm going to Chicago this weekend as a matter of fact You are? No, that's what you're going to be hearing And the bears said I ain't going to know a soldier field

First of all that stadium doesn't look like the soldier fields That I looked at when I was a kid going up And I got me a dog and a pearl there I was not a pearl what's the old English No no not an old deal I guess you could drink old either Old style that's an old style beer there in Chicago Chicago old style is not good but it's It's Chicago

Yeah. It's like having a lone star in Texas. Yeah. You drink it because you're from there. Okay. But here in Houston, we're upset. We got our own problems. Yeah. But again, but it's 11. Get ready. It's 11 and 6. Put it down. You win. If you thought this team was 11 and 6 before the season started, you're happy. You got your 11 and 6. I was hoping the expectations were that they were going to be pushing into the elite.

And that's just not happening at all. I'm not seeing that at all. And I'm seeing them, I'm seeing when they have the lions on the ropes, they're playing for field goals, they're not being aggressive, they're running the ball, they're slamming Joe Mixin into the center of the line for one-yard gains. And I just, they're strip sacking their own quarterback. They're not in 2024 NFL, just look on the flip on the other side, Dan Campbell.

You know that he's going to roll the dice. He's going to go for every fourth down. They're going to be aggressive. They're saying it's not necessarily even aggressive. It's confident. They're saying we're going to punch you in the mouth. We're going to get this fourth and one. We're going to get this fourth and two.

And you can't stop us. And what you just described, they didn't do in the late second quarter. Exactly. I mean, it was like, I was watching some, I was watching the Texans running a drill. One 16 left to go. He'd two run plays? I was stunned. I was stunned.

I was like, Detroit, that's not you. You have all these. receivers, you've got two great running backs, you've got golf who's had an amazing season, and you're doing these Mambi, Pambi, I mean, that was gifting another chance for the Texans to score before the half in which they've done that

a lot so far this year. I thought all the stars were aligning. Detroit got an Uber conservative late second quarter. You took advantage, you had the mojo and then you come out in the third quarter and throw the interception, and obviously they get it right back. They got it right back, but at the one-yard line. It was a, it was a bad

throw there from C.J. Stroud. The one to Tank Dell. I mean, look, you get jumped. The corner jumps you on an out route. That happens. It's bad. It shouldn't. But that's NFL football.

The other guys are talented. They're good, too. Yeah. But, I mean, just completely lofting that ball to Tank Dell for that second interception. While he is in, he looks like Jake Myers in center field. Nobody's around there. I think Chris Collins was like, oh, this is going to be a lot. Uh-oh.

The whole stadium, you can hear it going, and then it's like, oh. Oh, it was very deflating, very deflating that second interception. And C.J. Stroud, after the game, I got to be better. I got to make more plays, all that type of stuff. And, by the way, it's okay to criticize C.J. Stroud. Yeah. Because guess who C.J. Straud should be criticizing himself. And he is.

He's not waking up this morning going, man, if I had an offensive line or, man, if Bobby Sloat could call some more creative plays. That same sort of activity in the first half came in. I don't know. Maybe there is a mindset. set in coaches, whether it's offensive coordinator, whether it's the players, whether it's the head coach, they just can't put the foot on the throat and finish teams off.

Unless it's the New England Patriots and Drake May making his first start. That's it. Yeah. That's it. And I think that is, if I have a criticism of D'emico Ryan's his coaching style, I think he does a great job Monday through Saturday, great leader of

all that stuff, but a little bit too conservative. Whether it's Bobby Sloick, under instructions, or Domingo Ryan, or as well, I don't care who it is. I don't know who it is. But it's just a little too conservative for my taste. Maybe it's too much reliance on Kami Fairbairn. And I'm not kidding. Yeah. I think they're like, you know what?

We're within 60. Let's get Kami Fairbairn this kick. And you know what? Sometimes you're going to miss a 58-yarder. It happens. I'm not mad at Kymie Fairbairn. No. It would have been nice if he could have made a 58-yarder.

Right. But you can't expect that. That's too much. Yeah. But he's made so money this year that it's like, well, get him to the 40 and he's going to be golden. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. This is a Matt Thomas show with Ross.

We have to tell the truth today at 1130 while I will give you some of my sports takes, one of which I will believe a couple of mine will not. We've got the news at noon. We've got believe it or not. And we have what I believe to be in an aggravated fan base of the Texans. And LSU, what the hell was? that this weekend. Absolutely an embarrassing

performance at home. Oh, you're talking about their fans throwing stuff on the field? Well, that's becoming the new norm in sports. You know what they say about Texas, Matt. What starts here changes the world. Clearly. Start on an end.

And then we have an AD getting, going on the podium, Mike after a game and ripping the officials for a call. Frankly, that was correct. And then the Big 12 is like, shut your bum ass up and get your checkbook. We're going to find your ass. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Join us here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. We're not going to point fingers or, you know, one, I pointed myself and then two, you know, we've got to just move on from this and still understand. We just took one of the best football teams, best NFL teams to, you know, the wire, but we really should have, you know, put them away after the first half. So, you know, it's really on offense. You got to be better. I got to be better. I mean, you cannot point fingers, but you probably could and should.

I mean, what's the end game? Are we all just trying to be nice? I mean, what was a team meeting for? By the way, great job by John Alexander, a legit member of the media going to find a story about the Texans. Good for him. Two are, again, team meetings typically don't work, but at least it makes you feel.

better. Well, it got Joe Mixon voted captain and it got them to within three points of the Lions. Maybe if there wasn't a team meeting, they would have lost by 25, Maddie. Is that what it is? By the way, and we kind of joke around about Vegas. And my philosophy about Vegas is

they're right some of the time, but more times and not they're not right because, again, you've got blowouts, you've got teams that lose. Vegas is there to inspire people to go bet on these things. But sometimes, they got some really good people that are creating lines and point spreads. And sometimes they really, really nail them.

And last night, they absolutely nailed it. Texans were a three and a half point dog. They lost by three. What was there over under? Under the game. 49.5. 49, depending on where you looked. And the final score total, the final total was 49.

So if you're in Vegas today, you are fist-pub because you've got a lot of action going because people are like, man, they know what they're doing here. The question is what side you bet on? That's the most important thing. I don't really care who's side. No, they make good lines. They do pretty good. Yeah. But that was weird. I was in Detroit on Saturday and bet on a lot of college football. And ironically enough, my bad beats were by one point or less. Happens. Yeah, it happens. That's why I probably shouldn't be betting on sports. Because it's aggravating. But you didn't do any research, right? Normally, that's what I said. You're 80%.

My grandiose non-research research bet of the night was I had the over in the Maryland-Oregon game. It was 57 and a half. 57 was the final number. So I lost that. And again, remember, if I would have taken the under, I would have won. So it's depending on which side you're on. But it was really bizarre how close that game got. I took Florida State giving the nine to rice.

and I think Florida State won by 8 on Saturday in college basketball, the double header downtown. So what happened in the other game? They called it off. Are you sure? They just said it's a no play. Oh, okay.

I thought that was the coronation. Auburn, they had flight issues. I didn't have flight issues. The team is fighting on the flight. Yes. It was going to be the Cougars cruising to victory. I didn't catch the final score. They lost.

Oh. It's early season. got a nice early season test. It doesn't matter. As Franfichel of ESPN said, it was a final four game in November. You don't get those very often. Love that. They can get back and regroup and I mean, it's not like it's a league play loss.

No. The Cougars will be better for it as they go along. And I'm guessing this week, the Cougars have a complete puff cake of an opponent so they'll get fat and happy off of them. Yeah, that's good. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-7-90. So let me ask you this, because I really don't know the question because I've never been

on the other side of the curtain on an NFL team. I mean, realistically, the lowest of lowest hanging for it is, when in doubt, blame the coaches, blame the instructors. You know, we have people that call us during baseball season and say that you should fire the third base coach when they mention it's a pitching coach

and vice versa. How much do in your mind, Houston, should really Bobby Sloke be wearing on this? Does he all this, let me ask you this, and I'll give you one more preface. and then I'll let you answer that. Does he all of a sudden become this amazing play caller in the first half?

And then he takes the first four pages of that plague sheet and goes, I already use that stuff. I'm not going to do it again. Where does the blame go? Because I am of the belief nine times out of 10. It's about the performers on the field as compared to the coaching. Now, sometimes you can have some brain scratching moments. You can have why do they call this in a situation knowing the clock and time and distance.

But, I mean, it's, Is it just too easy to say Bobby Sloak's got to be replaced? This is terrible. He doesn't know what he's doing? I don't think if he gets here that everything is all of a sudden going to turn around or get to they get rid of him, that all of a sudden everything is going to turn around. I think he's in a tough position because he tries to establish the run on first down. And I think a lot of the people's biggest criticism of Bobby Sloick is that he runs the ball too much. Well, number one, that could be coming from D'Amico Ryans because defensive. coaches like to establish the run. Number two, that's the Shanahan tree philosophy and that is the,

and Bobby Slovak has a branch off of that tree. You establish the run, you go with the bootlegs and the play action, and then you drive the ball down the field. That's just how it goes. That's that coaching philosophy and that's, that's ingrained into Bobby Sloick. Number three, if we went the other way, if Bobby Sloak didn't try to establish the run and he tried to chuck the ball 55 times. It's very predictable offense then. It's very predictable. And then what will we say? We would say, oh my God, C.J.

Stroud's under pressure every time he goes back there. He's getting killed. He's getting sacked. Why are we throwing so much? You've got to establish the run. That's what we would be saying. And then when he does throw on first down, how about out of the gates? It's 23 to 7.

It's the third quarter. And you, in the predictable old Bobby Sloick, you think that he's going to run on first down. They throw on first down and C.J. Stroud throws a pick. So it's like he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't, in my opinion. That's why I said it's very hard for me to do this because it's everybody's responsibility. Is there a lack of killer instinct on this football team? Clearly. Even in the Buffalo game they had to hold on for Daryl. I mean, think of their losses and their wins this year.

How many have been by one score games? How many of them have relied on Kimey Faber? And how many of them relied on late game execution and because they've had these larger leads? The killer instinct isn't there, but when you're up two scores, what was it? No, it was scored halftime. It's 23 to 7. So 16. So two scores.

I'm going to at the two-point conversions. And you have an elite running back who's having a fantastic season. Why wouldn't you try to get Joe Mixing involved, loosen it up, at least so your note become nearly as predict? predictable of a team that just throws a ball every single down. He ran it 25 times. He got 46 yards. I mean, they tried to establish

the run. And C.J. Stroud threw two bad picks. And like I said, that was out of the gates in the third quarter. I think the whole world thought they would run on first down there. They threw and it was a pick and interception going the other way. It's just everything went wrong.

We can blame, you know, fair for the kicking. Like I said, I don't want to get too much blame to him, but he missed the kick. Their guy made his 58-yarder. Your guy missed his 58-yarder. You could call that the difference in the game. We also didn't talk about that pass interference that wasn't called at the end of the game.

And I'm not saying that's why. Well, I say you add it all up. The CJ Shroud turnovers, the conservative game management, the bad play calling, the kicker missing his kick, and then the bad refereeing. You should add it all up?

But you know what, though, as you say that, and we're talking about this in a big grandiose frame of mind here. There's bad officiating. Absolutely. Ramping. If you get a really well-officiated game, it's like going to a steakhouse and getting the biggest cut of meat and paying for a smaller cut because you're just, you can't, you cannot expect officials to help you out.

They're going to screw up calls. They're screwing up calls in college football. They're screwing up calls in pro football. They're missing pass interferences. Rossi. They're missing face mask. They're missing off sides. officially officiating in the

2024 year for football maybe is and talking about college and pro is probably at its worse in a very long period of time which makes no sense because the technology is better. You are hiring younger officials. You are trying your best to open it up to recruit people to come do this. The sports, the world of sports just can't,

the speed, the athleticism just can't handle regular old human beings going mono and mono with these guys. I'm not blaming the referees necessarily. But it's always a factor. It always is. But it was a miscall. But also, you can't necessarily expect to get that. It's like the last 10 seconds of an NBA game.

Somebody's got to get hacked. Somebody's got to get like suplexed for there to be a foul call. And it's like that in those crucial moments in an NFL game. And it was the right call was a pass interference. But having that being a no call, if it was flipped on the other side, it would have been like, hey, third and four, you got to make a point. play. That wasn't, that was tickey tack. So,

all right, so what do you mean, we can't be totally surprised at anybody, I shouldn't say this is tough. Friday, you and I, we didn't think the Texans were going to win this football game. No. So you and I personally aren't shocked by this. But we also

didn't think that they were going to get gifted four, we'll just call it four interceptions. There you go. You won the turnover battle by two, and you had the opportunity to seize the moment. And if the Lions came in there and Jemir Gibbs russed for 120 and two touchdowns and David Montgomery went for 110 in a touchdown and they beat you down physically, I would have been able to accept that. But to get up the way that you did to have Jared Gough try to hand the game to you on a silver platter and for you to say, no, thanks, I'm good. That's what's frustrating.

713-212-5-790. Will a Dallas win next Monday night make you feel better? Because you're going to get that. I mean, the Cowboys were embarrassed yesterday. Cooper Rush was awful. Trey Lance was terrible. I mean, the entire Cowboys team was pathetic. And so you're going to catch them at a time where they're probably going to be firing their head coach in the not too distant future.

It's just that bad. By the way, Doc Prescott likely out for the year after having his hamstring surgically repaired. Off of his bone. That must have been a serious pull. That's not great. And shout out to our good friend James Jones. He was on some Fox show or something yelling about how Dak Prescott needed to be, that back in there with his boys and he's

being soft for getting out of the game. Who is James Jones? I guess it's, is it the former wide receiver? He's somewhere on Fox and I saw it on Twitter. He was like screaming like Jack is being soft. He needs to be back there with his boys like, okay, well, turns out he's on IR and his hamstring was off his bones. Shut up. All right. That might be something for Wednesday.

So where are you feeling? What are you feeling right now, Texans fans? I mean, Ross and I'm kind of just giving you our thoughts over the first 455 minutes of the show. What do you got? 713, 212-2-5-790. 7-13-212-2-5. are these correctable mistakes Ross we got a pattern growing here

we got a pattern growing of a team that doesn't know how to put the throat of the foot on the throat of an opponent is it the same old Texans or can they turn this around I don't think so thanks I mean I'm just being honest I could lie I can throw my h's up and throw your hs up

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Detroit last yesterday, late afternoon in Detroit. Houston coming off a win against Detroit. I know. One out of three ain't bad. We haven't said that whole lot these days. We'll take it. By the way, I was told by my engineer in Detroit yesterday that they

started the new chant in Red Wings and Pistons games that had happened during last year's playoffs and the Lions. That out of nowhere, where people would just start chanting Jared golf at the Red Wings and Pistons games. Okay. It's kind of a bit.

They didn't do it yesterday. Oh, were you disappointed? Well, it was like, and she was like, it's going to be coming sometime soon and it never came. Maybe they got, they had a feeling he was going to throw five interceptions. Yeah. He was, he was absolutely terrible yesterday, and you let him leave town with a win. And you let him off the hook.

And that super fast runner for the Detroit Lions. Jemir Gibbs? Yeah. I mean, how many times did Torrico and Collinsworth say? this guy can fly. This guy's the fastest guy on the planet. I mean, yeah, I get it, bro. I know he's fast.

He was okay yesterday. 19 for 71. That's lost than four yards of carry. That's not great. Not great. That's okay. Yeah. The defense did a pretty good job overall.

Defense was significantly better than the offense. It's crazy that you gave up 26 points and we're saying that. But I mean, against this Lions team, they can drop 50. They drop 50 on the Titans, although that was also turnover driven. But, you know, yeah. Yeah. Yep. You also didn't have Will Anderson.

You didn't have Will Anderson in the first half. You were fine. Let me tell you, you were throwing your anxious up. You were loving on the uniforms. You were looking for Cal. You were looking for Hannah to give her a hug at halftime. Oh, I'm sorry. That's members of the fake media in Houston that was doing that.

I'm sorry. I was talking about the fans. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Neal on the Matt Thomas show. Ross, Neidel, the floor is yours. Good morning. Hey, how are you guys?

guys doing today. Okay. Well, I think, you know, if it would have been a close game from beginning to end, that Texan fans would have a little bit more to be upset about on that missed pass interference call. But if you guys, I mean, it kind of balanced out. If you guys remember the drive right before that that Detroit had, they were like third and five or third and six.

And the Texan defensive tackle came in and kind of left his feet and he, hit golf in the side of the head, and, you know, they didn't call late hit to the quarterback or blow to the head, which would have given them a first down and put them right around midfield. So that's another drive that would have been going for Detroit as well. So, I mean, the call's really kind of balanced out right there because both teams lost a possession off of that deal. The problem is you get five interceptions.

You should, by law of averages, at least luck into a field goal. somewhere there. Just no points at all in the second half is just inexcusable. Yeah, to me, and I, as a broadcaster, sometimes it's, it's hard to do this, but I'm not a big officiated blammer. I'm just not, these things tend to equal out. I know some people don't want to believe that, but they just do. There are as many calls that will go for your team as they go against. The results are you didn't score anything in the second half. Your team just could not move the football. Detroit's defense is good. And thank you for the phone call, Nejo, good to hear from me. But you were able to do what you wanted to in the first half.

Hell, you got John Mechie involved. You got Dalton Schultz involved. Tank Dell was finding open seams. C.J. Stroud had enough time to throw, although, again, Rossi, he felt, again, a lot of pressure yesterday. Dids get sacked four times. But withstood that, it was able to put up a pretty, I mean, you had to have felt good the way you played the first 30. I just don't think Dan Campbell's halftime adjustments all of a sudden change. There was a philosophical, indirect change in how the Texans came out of that locker room. It wasn't because all of a sudden, Detroit threw new schemes at you. They just couldn't have. No.

And I mean, second half adjustments are kind of an old trope. Adjustments are happening literally after the first drive in NFL games these days. They're like in the midst of the first run of drives. coaches are adjusting at all times in the NFL. So it's a bit of an oversimplication to say, yeah, the Texans just aren't adjusting properly at halftime. You don't even have all that much time in a half time.

You have to get all the team together. You have to go in there. You're in there for like, I don't know, seven, eight minutes. And then you've got to come out because you've got to get ready for the second half. So at the end of the day, it's just the, to me, I think part of it is the way that the Texans, are conservative conservatively coached when they get leads, they go to protect those leads at all costs.

It's like, it would be like an NBA team getting a 10 point lead in the third quarter, and then they're running down the shot clock to one second every time. It's just too, it's premature. They don't put their foot on the gas. They don't just go to try to score more points. They have a 10 point lead in the third quarter. They're like, okay, we're going to try to win by 10. They don't try to win by 24.

That's just how they play to me in my mind that I just see it too often. And I'm watching the Titus Howard stripping the ball by his own, by Howard. I mean, unbelievable. Titus. What was he doing trying to grab the ball? Titus, come on, Titus. What are we doing? This offensive line sucks.

And by way, thank you very much, Nick Casario, for doing absolutely nothing in the trade deadline. Hey. Thanks again. Thanks again for giving us word salad earlier this week. I hope you enjoyed watching that. They were ready to roll with Jared Patterson and Jew Scruggs. The lines shake up. CJ still felt the pressure.

But again, to their defense, every quarterback feels pressure. They're in a game, but you're going to watch a quarterback going, man, I was sitting back there. I had a chance for lunch. I ordered room service. I door dashed. No, that's pressures by the NFL. It was better this week, but it wasn't great. They lost the Jets game because of pressure.

They didn't lose this game because of pressure. No, not at all. All right. More of you on the line. Richard, Jim and Jacob. to you one, two, three, starting the second hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713212-570. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We take this program today until 2 o'clock. We've got to tell the truth in one-half hour. The news at noon coming up, which will feature, I sent to Conner

something that I thought was interesting about a coach's brutal honesty and how he handles getting himself ready for a football game. We'll have to play that for you coming up at the news at noon. Rockets with a win as well. LSU fan, what the hell was that? Is Alabama still rushing another 150 yards here on the ground against you? That was embarrassing. You have 80,000, I mean, basically junior high-level educated people in one facility, and you get your ass kicked.

Texas, by the way. Oh, my gosh. Beating up on those gators. Gets your horns up, Ross? Suck at gators. That wasn't even a game. It was bad. That's fine.

I have a friend who was a floor. Florida grad who's been talking about the SEC for like the last 20 years. So he got some texts on Saturday. All right. Second hour next on 790. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 1103 on Sports Talk 790.

It is painful, Rossi. All the NFL network ESPN show on the, did Jared Gough really throw that many interceptions? They really turn over that much. And who is this kicker from nearby Tomball? By the way, the fugals. Oh, my God. That second one was snuck them both in.

That was maximum Houston sports pain. Maximum. It's almost like part of the football got some of the yellow paint off of the goalpost. At least the Kimey Fairbairn one, you're like, oh, he hooked that. You knew immediately. Like, oh, that's not going in.

But they snuck, or Jake Bates sneaking both of those in. Tom Balls, Jake Bates, by the way. With a kiss. Ish. Ugh. Not great. And think about this.

At halftime, we were in flight coming back from Detroit, and they were up 23 at the half and 236 or 238. No, 237. 237. 237. Yeah. I'll get the score right. That's fine.

A second, we were talking on the plane. This will be the signature win. I don't care if it's at home or not. Detroit's a legitimate NMC title contender. Detroit has won huge road games. Detroit has beaten everybody up except one on team. This would have been the, okay, The team meeting worked.

The uniforms are cool. The roof is open. The vibe is good. Energy's a place where teams can't come in and win. Statement game. Yeah. Statement game. That's what it should have been.

Yeah. Didn't get it. You had them on the ropes. They're running the clock out with two minutes to go. Then you go out there and C.J. Stroud orchestrates a masterful drive to get you up 23 to 7. And then the second half happened. And here's the thing about the Texans, especially in first half of these games. is they're taking advantage of some stupidity.

There have been at least, I want to say, three touchdowns this year or field goals. The Texans have scored in the final minutes of quarters before the half because of peculiar play calls or weird use of time. I thought Dan Campbell's or whoever is running their offense of the Lions. Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson's, right?

Who, by the way, is being probably highly regarded than Bobby Slovak is today. But the way they called the plays with a minute 15 left to go, and I think they had at least two of not all three in their. timeouts was highly confusing. They gifted the Texans an extra possession and to the Texans credit. They got it. They scored. That's when I thought they were going to win.

And the first half of you were, after John Metchie was doing this thing, you're thinking, hey, Nico, take your time, bra, you're good. Tank Dell's getting out there. The 10th quarterback in the Super Bowl era to throw five interceptions in a game and win it. See, this is why, this is a prime example of why I don't like Jared Gough wins the game. It's, okay, well, it says and win, actually, never mind. I thought it said and win.

Because it's like, Jared Gough won this game. No, the Lions won the game. Because Jared Gough didn't do a whole lot of help. Quarterbacks getting all the credit for the wins and losses. I just don't like that. Yeah. No, but that's what sports broadcasting has done. I know.

It's all the quarterback. And it's like, you know, C.J. Stroud wearing it. I mean, he wasn't good in the second half. He deserves some of the responsibility. I mean, I don't think anybody that's a key skill position player doesn't deserve some criticism of this. And it's okay to criticize him because, again, you can, you're allowed to do it. It's nothing personal. It's performance-based.

And I guarantee you, C.J. Stroud, in his car, driving home is like, why don't I throw that ball like I through it. Why don't I miss it? What am I doing? What are, am I, am I forcing my hand? I think part of the issue is he's losing confidence in his offensive line. I think he's rushing throws. I think as I've mentioned this before on multiple occasions. I think his feet aren't set. I think he's skittish. And that's a byproduct of not trusting the people around you. I think there was some of that in the Jets game. I didn't really see it much here. I thought he was really confident and cool. And on both of those throws, he had, I mean, he was maybe, I would have to go back look, he was maybe under a little pressure on that

Dell throw, but the first throw, he was just a rhythm throw. It was just like a quick drop and then boom, get it on and out. And he just didn't put enough zip on it and the corner jumped the route. And I'm watching some of his throws at Jared Galt through. He's throwing dead ducks. These things have got, they're like, Eiffis pitches.

The ball of his hand was terrible yesterday. So, I mean, I don't think, I'm not going to put either of those interceptions from C.J. Stroud to getting happy feet or any of that stuff. But I'm saying I think it's a byproduct of it. I think there is, there is, the confidence

level on his offensive line is nothing close to what it was last year. And last year it was bad too, but he was able to overcome that. I think he I'm just going to say he had, he just had made some two really bad throws. It happens. Yep. Let's go to Richard

in League City at 1108 on 790. Richard, thanks for holding. Good morning. Hey, good morning. So I got a couple things I want to say about the Texans. At first, I really hope there were a few Texas fans enjoying their afternoon, and they had the TV on the Rockets, and they saw Jaylen put a little party hat on Kate Cunningham, because that was a sick duck. And if you were a Rockets fan, you wouldn't be sad today. And so get on the, get on the wagon. So what I want to say about the Texans, so I'm, my glass half full is that we know, we know C.J. Stroud is a franchise quarterback.

There's no question about that. That question's answered. We know Mixon is the right guy. We know we've got the right head coach. So I'm still bullish on our future. But where I think is going on, and Ross, you talk about kind of playing aggressively and then conservatively. The way I talk about it, it's like you're playing to win until you're playing not to lose. And I feel like last year, no one had any expectations for that team.

They were like playing with house money. They had rookie quarterback, rookie coaches, pretty much rookie everything with a status. Bad Sack franchise. And they came out and they way overperformed and became the NFL darling team of the year. And we love them and we expect great things for them. But this year, their picked as one of the five teams to go to the Super Bowl. And I don't think that I think they're overthinking it because they seem to play better when nothing is expected from them or when CJ is flushed out of the pocket often.

They just feel more intuitive. but my feeling is they're overthinking it they're they're trying to play as if they are the super bowl contending whatever choice and and and they don't know how to they they don't know how to take that pressure and play loose they don't know how to play loose under that pressure well you know the answer is though the response to that is well guess what when you're considered an elite team in the afc and you are considered a super bowl contender richard don't you you agree that pressure that comes with that i mean that's if if you want to be a big boy and you want to step up you have to be able to adhere to having teams scout you properly and not overlook you and get

ready for you and so i i want that from any of the teams that i watch follow a fan of i want them be able to say you know what it's tight it's it's a competitive matchup it's a quality team we can get past that i don't want to be just overlooked because you know what you're going to be if you're overlooked all the years, you're going to win nine games every year, and you're going to be winning a walled card or maybe division once in a while, and then you're going to be out in the first round, and we say, well, this team only won nine games, what would we expect? I think the expectation levels for a Texan fan base in this town, rightfully so, was significantly higher going into this year because of what they did last year. Well, I don't, and I agree with everything

you're saying, Matt, but I think my core point is just this is growing pains. Like, we have all the pieces to warrant the pressure of being a championship contender, I think the thing we forgot, and I think they forgot, is that these are the growing pains you have to go through. I don't know. I'm not enough of an NFL fan to know if Mahomes went through a period like this, or Brady ever went through a period like this. I know. So, I just, yeah, well, yeah. Mahomes didn't, sadly, but he's also probably on the doorstep of the Hall of Fame already, But do you have a question for I let you run, Richard? That's it.

Okay, you got it. Thanks for the phone call. Appreciate it. Good conversation. I mean, it's, yeah, the temperature's turned up. It is. Yeah, no, this is not even necessarily like a dress rehearsal. Like, you got put on five primetime games, and there's three in a row right here.

This is, the network said, you know what, Texans, we see you, we're making waves. We're going to put you on the national stage. And they are falling flat. on their face. They're getting destroyed by the New York Jets. They're getting up on the Detroit Lions and then cratering in the second half. They're looking like they're just not ready for prime time.

And that's what is boiling down to right now. They're looking like not a bad team but just not an elite team. What incentive does NBC have to say we need the Texans on Sunday night again? After the way that they've been playing in these big games. I don't even know what the ratings are. I'm sure the ratings are good.

Yeah, I mean, anything on Sunday night's good. they would rather go to any number of other teams. We've been begging for the Texans to get national shine and talking about how they've been slided and all this other stuff for years and nobody pays attention to Houston sports. They're paying attention to the Houston Texans. They're putting them on national television. And then they're scoring zero seconds, zero points in the second half of a game. And then the other game, they're giving up eight sacks and they can't do anything offensively.

So what do we need to do? We need just to stop with the, you know what I blame the fake media in this town for this. You put them on a pedestal that just wasn't there. I'm not blaming in. No, the fake media didn't get NBC to put them on Sunday night football. No, no, no, no, their record did. Their record did. And the fact that they looked like they were going to make a leap. They traded for Stefan Diggs. They got Joe Mixon. And Joe Mixon has been a smash. Unfortunately, Diggs tore his ACL.

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Now on Sports Talk 790. There's no excuse. You know, that's a game that we should have had. We did have and, you know, obviously it slipped. But, you know, it ain't going to get no easier. and I'm going to take it all upon myself to make sure our guys, you know, is ready. You know what I'm saying?

We finish these games. We've got to stop playing to, you know, to lose. We got to stop playing to not lose, you know what I'm saying? And go play to win, you know what I'm saying? So I just felt like we got to just take initiative, own it, own our work, and look each other in the mirror. It is what it is. I know what you are saying.

Thank you, Joe. Oh my God. Thank you, Joe. Playing not to lose. Was that a callout? I hope it was. By the way, I hate to correct, Joe. It's going to get easier. You're going to beat the Cowboys next Monday.

Everything's easier after the Lions. That's one thing if we want to step back and look at the Forest. The Lions are arguably the best. I'm going to say it. Look, the Chiefs keep getting lucky. The Lions are the best team in football. Yep. The Lions are the best team.

An average team doesn't come back from 24. 3.6 of the half. 23-7th of the half. But you get the best team in football. They try to gift you the game by turning the ball over so much you have to take advantage at home and the Texans did not do it. But that's awesome. I love that Joe Mixon, that's what our caller said. That's what

we've been saying in a different way. Like not aggressive enough, playing not to lose. The words out of Joe Mixon's mouth, that's perfect. They're not playing to win. They're playing not to lose. And he said, know what I'm saying? And we said, yes, we do know. We know. We know.

Exactly what you're saying. Yes, Joe. We've seen the second half of these games. We know exactly what you're saying. Win at the Cowboys, 7 and 4. Win at home for Tennessee. That's 8 and 4. Win at Jacksonville, 9 and 4.

Win for the Dolphins 10 and 4. Lose at Kansas City 10 and 5. Lose to Baltimore, 10, and 6. They will beat Tennessee in Nashville. They will finish 11 and 6, and they will be your resounding AFC South champions. Can I be honest with you? No, I'd rather you lie, but go ahead.

I hate when you tell the truth. 10 and 7-ish. I'm feeling like we I feel like we just chalk up all these the Jaguars almost beat the Vikings. Okay, the Titans suck, but it's just the Texans haven't put anybody away.

They're absolutely, I feel like they're absolutely going to drop one of those games to the Titans are Jaguars. Those are not guaranteed wins to me. All right, you know what? I'm trying to be glass-half-full. I mean, yes, okay. But I could all, at the same token, I could see them splitting between the Chiefs and Ravens, winning one of those

games. The chiefs look extremely vulnerable. Now, you're going to be in Arrowhead. You know what, though? They're extremely vulnerable, but what do they do every time the gun has zero, zero, zero, zero on the clock? Yeah, but that's because the kicker from the Broncos doin' the kick at the end of the game. Like, they are so lucky. That was a kick that was blocked.

Oh, I'm sorry. And if you listen to Sunday from Kansas City, they knew how to game plan it. Seriously, when you get off the show today, you will see a number of stories about we knew exactly how to block that kick. Maybe they're full of BS, Rossi. Maybe they are. They might be right, but they knew how to block it. And the Ravens have lost the Browns and they lost to the Raiders.

So I'm saying, like, you can split those games to me. All right. But also, but that's the Texans. I feel like they could split those games, but I also feel like they're going to lose to one of the Titans or Jaguars teams, games. And that's just to me, they're not mediocre, but they're just good, not great. That's a phrase I'm going to keep using. And guess what? During the

AFC South Rain, what were they? Good not great. Nine and seven is not the bar, Jacob on 790, thanks for holding good morning. Yeah. Hey, man. Hey, this is a first, a second year quarterback and a second year coach, man. They are still learning. The office of coordinator is the problem, I feel.

And streaking the game, it's nothing wrong with streaking the game and playing not to lose. Because when you've got a league going in the second half, if you have, they don't ever use the play option. You know what I'm saying? They were setting up. They knew that they wanted to. to shrink the game so they was going to play for the run. So Mixing, they was going to try him out to get. They never play action. They never

just, they officer coordinator. Don't know what he's doing, but I don't know who had them going to the, to the AFC championship over Baltimore and Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Everybody's talking about Pittsburgh, Stilers, needs to get a quarterback. They don't give, they'll get Russell Wessor, like, oh, he just, that was so long ago. He went to Super

Super Bowl, but he's this and that. And like a borough, trash. And I'll tell you something. Detroit, they got to deal with Philadelphia. Philadelphia, they're not going to, they're going to squinting all leagues. And I think that the Texas is on their way. How long it took Andy Reeves to finally get it? How long did it take Belichick to finally get it?

It ain't like they came out the top winning. For his second year, I think he's doing a great job. And I think he needed to get him an O.C. They got a lot. They was injured. they get Mario back on the line. They stay injured, too, man. So I understand, you know, you know what I'm saying, that, you know, that people walked on the wind, that thought they were going to the Super Bowl.

I don't think they, I think it's great that they went in a day going to win the South two years in a row on their way and they develop. And then I think eventually they get there. All right, man. Thanks, Jacob. I mean, that's a glass half full approach. I guess. But, I mean, what he's saying is that this is all second year stuff and that second year teams

typically don't do this. Well, the NFL world, meaning the television networks, thought this would be a team that was not going to be playing like an average second year team under new coach and a new quarterback. The guys in the building over there on Fanon didn't believe this was a second year. This was a, we are the division champions, we got better, we got aggressive in free agency, we went and got a new cornerback, we've spent some money, we're going to go compete with Baltimore and we're going to go compete with Kansas City. I think, Jacob, what you just explained was for a young team like, who would be a second year, like a Bronco team would be with Knicks next year. We're getting better, but we're not going to be. We're not all the way there.

I believe what you think are the Texans in second year is not what the people on Kirby believe. And I think there's, there is serious disappointment that this team has not gotten over the hump against the elite teams. The Jets just got destroyed. by the Arizona Cardinals. Yeah. Like, okay, this game to the Lions, it's about, it's about the cumulative adding up of this season. At the end of the day, you're six and four, but you have a negative point differential, and you were the only team in the NFL with a winning record and a negative point differential.

That's who the Texans are. That's where the disappointment lies. Yeah. Jim Memorial on Sevenani. Hi, Jim. Hey, how are you guys doing? Can you hear me okay? Yes, sir. Go ahead.

First of all, y'all nailed it. But the main thing is, I think Roth said it. They've only played one complete game, and you could argue that was inferior because it was against the Patriots. And there's a problem making adjustments at halftime. Second of all, CJ, his pre-snap reads, I was at the game yesterday. I didn't see it because I went to the restroom,

but Andre Weir was saying that Shultz was wide open on that last play, and he was waving his hands, and he wasn't even looking for him. I don't know if you guys saw that or not. I can't comment, but that's what Andre Weir was commenting on. So why is Shultz not being utilized? I mean, everybody else utilizes their tied-in. They caught two touchdown passes from their tight-in. I don't understand why we're not moving the ball around more.

And second of all, you just can't win games if you don't put two halves together. So that's it. Yeah, by the way, thanks to the phone call. Shultz was thrown at four times yesterday. That's not a small number. It's not terrible for a tight end. But also, to me, he just looks slow. And he does get open, like, in zone coverage.

But he's not beating guys in man coverage. And he's just not very open to me. I don't think in the games early in the first half of the year he became a threat. I think there was some drops along the way. I think he was inability to get open in sometimes. I think the Texans are going to have to absolutely address the tight-end position. I think this will be Dalton Schultz's final year as a member of the game. I think he's underperformed.

Well, what kind of deal did they sign him to? I think it was just a one-year deal. Oh, was it? Okay. Well, I'm down to move on. I think he's just been very pedestrian. But again, yesterday. Sam Leportez, a freak athlete. He had three catches for six.

66 yards and Dalton Schultz had three catches for 66 yards. It's just the one of Loportas went for a touchdown. Here's the targets. Dell nine times, Metschy, six. Schultz, Mixen, Hutchinson, were all four. Cates Dover was two times. So you threw to your tight end six times. That's not a terrible ratio there out of 33 attempts. Schultz is on a three-year deal.

Well, okay. Dang. You know, he's going to be released after one year. How about that? This is what I get for Tristan Matt. Eh, you know, we... Yeah, I wasn't... I wasn't trying to...

You weren't in Nick Asario's office on that one. No, I was trying to... to decipher his word salad. No, but I think Dalton's been very poor this year. Not even a sense of just a number of catches. I think drops, I think.

I think his blocking hasn't been good. Other than that, he's great. I'm sure he's a wonderful human being. His usage has ticked up. And he's a reliable like zone, like I said, zone beater. But he's just not one of the best tight-ins football. He's not even close.

And he's yours for the next two years. Let's go. Well, you know, NFL stuff. Depends on how much guaranteed money he has. got up front. Yeah, I'm not caught you much to let them go. What's that dead caps going to be? Exactly.

We could look at that. All right, quick check on the tell the truth up next. Then we got more of your phone calls. We'll talk to Troy, Ray, Gary, C.J., Jim and Gary. All right. This is what we were talking about right here. Let's go. I'm glad you guys are in because, look, a lot of folks bumping around this city.

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You love him. We love him. So excited for the opportunity that Matt has in front of him, for sure. This is the Matt Thomas show. We have to win first and second down, right? Too many negative plays on first and second down. We didn't run the ball well. Only 56 yards rushing the football. So, you know, we didn't control the line of scrimmage when it came to running the football, which is what we've been doing a good job of.

So when you don't play well on first and second down, you find yourself in third and long, and it's hard to, you know, continuously work. win third and long. Killer Insink. That has been the central theme so far. We're going to push to tell the truth back a little bit because frankly, unlike other people, we don't need to necessarily hear ourselves talk.

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Sorry to hear about that don't shows, man, for that long because he's one of the worst pocket tight years in the NFL. He's an absolute zero at the run game. But it looks like you can cut him after this year. without much cap issues. Well, we'll see. About the Texan, look, all they think that's good

is they don't have to play the NFC Central now. They're done with that because three of their losses have come to that division. I just think, I mean, injuries does, injuries, they've had injuries to keep people.

I mean, I'm not making excuses, but that does add it. You know, you're starting all pro wire receiver is missed the last five games. And he misses the, Stefan did.

So. Yeah, but you're up, but Troy, you're up 23, seven without those guys yesterday. Let me go to that part. I'll get to that part.

Okay, we get to that part. So I'm going half, like to say, glass half empty on that. You know, Christian Harris supposed to be one of your best starting lineback since he ain't touched the field all season long. You got you start the rookie at corner and a rookie at the safety. Having said that game after game, these last losses, you've had a chance to win these games via Green Bay and all those close games. And this game should have been a blowout.

No doubt about it. The way you dominated Detroit. And I just go back, I don't want to blame it on the officer play caller, but it's a combination of everything. CJ, like I think you mentioned it, this year, CJ has been off because of the past protection, I wouldn't say happy feet, but these are throws that he normally makes kind of deal. That tank deal that was wide open.

I just think he never saw that safety. He just thought tanked was just wide open, busted play. And he just threw it the way he did. But having said that it's incumbent on your car. coach and your offensive coordinator to close these games out. You know, you've had every chance to win these games. To go zero, no points in the second half, five games without a touchdown in the second half. It's just that with this offense, this so-called offensive play caller, it doesn't make sense.

And so the glass half of it is that they're six and four and they got the Cowboys coming up. I don't want to see no close 23 to 20 win over the Cowboys. They need to stomp them. But they need to take stock. Okay. because CJ did have a pretty good pass protection last night. I know he got sacked four times, but he had time to throw. So they need to lock it down because the fans are, like I said, we're upset,

but we're not think they're a bad team. They're a good team. We just feel like they're playing without confidence right now. That's what I think. CJ, they had all the confidence, CJ. He made every play, every throw last year, and the team went at CJ Strault. This year, you don't see as good, much confidence in them this year. and I think the team is struggling because of that.

But I got confidence in him. They're going to get it going. I still got confidence in my Texas. That's all I got, man. Thanks. All right. And you should still have confidence your team. I just think what I've learned here in the last couple weeks, Ross,

is I think that the expectations have been, this isn't a fan base that's going, well, we've had a couple of tough games against some good opponents, and we're going to get past this. And once we get to December, and get the engines going again, look out, here we come. I think the reality is starting to kick in that there is still, and you and I've talked about this a lot, such a separation between the elite teams, the NFL, and where the Texans are right

now and the Texans are not. They're a good team, but they are far from elite, and they're haven't put together in an elite performance except for the game against a team that's won three games this year, and that was the New England Patriots. Yeah, and it was their first round quarterback in his very first start. You have lost three of your last four games. The one win was a field goal game at home against a quarterback that was benched the next

week. That's it. Three points over the Colts. And these last two, and what I was saying at that point when they were six and two was like, you know what, I'm going to be glass-havilled. We haven't seen them play their best football and maybe things

are going to be okay. They're going to get better. They're going to clean some of this stuff. Stuff up. They have cleaned up a lot of the penalties. They hasn't been as as it was early on in the season, but it's still far too often the pressure, the conservative play calling, they're not taking advantage of the opportunities afforded to you by the other team. They just haven't done it enough. Let's go to Gary and Montgomery at 1140 on 7-90. Gary, thanks for holding.

What's on your mind? After a good guy. I want to touch base on something that CJ said. I think it was week four in a press conference. He talked about he is not allowed to check out of plays. and when he said that, I was completely shocked. I couldn't, one of all, it's probably too much information to release out there,

but I don't know if you guys noticed that because I started watching a lot more. After that game, other teams can hear that too, by the way. Well, how about this? How about the fact that every time they break snap? I don't even interrupt you, but how about time in time they break the huddle? There's hardly any time left from the playcock.

Even if he wanted to make an adjustment, there's no time for him to kind of look over the field. 100%. And where do big, huge plays come from. They come from checkouts. They come from those plays. Ask Peyton Manning. Ask Tom Brady. That is critical to big plays.

They're missing that so much. Not allowing him to check out of a play is absolutely amazing. I cannot understand. He's second year quarterback. He seems smart. He's talented. What is the problem? So in that effort, you can see where even defenses, maybe

even heard that and said, oh, well, let's make your adjustments at the halftime, too. They're not making the right adjustments. So they're coming out, and even though they had a good first half, right, C.J. still not checking out of plays, but it had a good game plan. Second half, they seem, hey, this is what they're going to do to us now. They're making their adjustment, and C.J. still can't check out of a play. There's no, there's not a chance of anything happening with the, with the Texans until that happens. I just 100% believe that. I don't, I don't really know exactly

about the structure of their offense and what they're doing. I have to imagine that they either if C.J. Stroud isn't able to call his own play or his own audible, they probably at the minimum have two different plays that they call and then he can check to the second. Yeah, I can't imagine in today's NFL world with the communication that once the play is called out of the huddle that there's no room for adaptation. At the very least, they probably have two plays and he can check to the other one. I don't, and look, this is not, I don't know. This is a question for C.J. Stroud or Bobby Sloick or Damiko Ryans or somebody. But I would say at the very minimum, likely he can check to another play. Yeah. Let's go to Ray in North Dakota on 790. Hi, Ray. Hi, what's going on, Father? Hi.

Hey, man, quick question for a question. Before asking a question, and that played with Armist St. Brown, when he got that first down, did we have a timeout left then? When was this? When Armine Brown got the first down on the third and six, did we have a timeout right there? They might have had one timeout, I think. I can't remember. You're talking about the very last drive of the game?

Yeah, the very last drive of the game. We had a time out left before he got that first down, right? Yes. This is the second time or a couple times where I see that with D'Amico ride. I'm not in the RICO RISE. The RICO is the coach. But at some point in time, like, we got to put summons on the Miko because, like, when Feitchie was kind of that situation with Adams,

you know what I'm saying, and they didn't call the time out, Like, they were running a zone right there on that last drive when St. Brown got that first down. And there was a lineback that shot in there over there. Like, why are we not, like, in a nickel on the third and sixth and having more Dibbs on the field? I know we had the injuries. And then, like, I think it's up to DeLico Rye's too, man. Like, he's got to do something about this play calling that Bobby Sloog is putting out there. Like, can they please get him to take these reverses out of the play?

playbook and just not call those plays and these like on creative screen. Well see, I didn't necessarily mind using Joe Mixing Lange had a couple of times. I thought there was some diversity to it. I think some of the Tank Del Reverse. Yeah, maybe so. But I mean the end around with mixing worked out well. I need my moving parts moving around a little bit here. Just running over left tackle wasn't doing the job. Yeah, but I think we might have to get an obligatory Texans

end around failure. It feels like it. happen at least once a week. Yeah, that's true. Ted Dell's losing like eight yards of carry on these things. What's going on? But to the defense of him, at least there's some diversity to it. I just, I think predictability

is part of the reason why this team becomes such a tough team to watch in the second half. And also time and place. On Thursday night when C.J. Stroud is limping, literally limping around on the field and you run a goal line fade against him against DJ Reed, one of the better

cornerbacks in the league, that was not, with Joe Mixing throwing the ball. Not the time, not to place, Bobby Sloick. Nope. 1145 on Sports Talks, 70. We're going to take our To Tell the Truth move it to 1230, right after the news at noon. We'll do that. So we have four sports takes that we'll get to, of which three I don't believe one I do. We'll get to that.

We got Roger and Gary will get to you guys, the news at noon. And more on the Texans, failure to crush, failure to finish. Ooh, I like that. How about failure to finish? You know, there's a movie failure to launch. Failure to finish. Hmm.

Okay. Is that the new theme of the Texans? I guess. I mean, it happens, Matt. By the way, unpipe-led or take real quick in five seconds? Yes. Texans uniform is hard to read on TV. Mike Torrico kept calling them awful because he couldn't read the numbers.

As a play-by-play guy? I know. I'm 100% behind him. You know what? As a Joe fan, it's okay. As Joe fan, shut your bum ass up. Is the Puppa Play guy? He's 100% right.

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But it is news The University of Nebraska Is going to have a new offensive coordinator this week I think they're playing USC If I'm not mistaken Let me double check and see what that is They are playing Yeah USC

The new OC for Nebraska Dana Holgerson Oh really? 10 days ago he signs up as an assistant, as a consultant, and now he's the OC. Okay, is that where he signed up as a... I'm trying to remember where he signed up his office. No, he went to TCU originally.

Oh, okay, yeah. Okay, I didn't think it was Nebraska. So he's moving from Fort Worth to Lincoln to now the OC spot. Well, Matt, go Huskers. You know those OCs make crazy money. Dana's done quite well. Dana did quite well for himself in Houston.

Dana's... God, Dana's doing really well. language, Matthew. I said Dana's doing really well. I don't think I said. You said, God dangie Dana. No, no. I was like, what? Excuse me?

No, no. I know. I'm just kidding. A lot of whiskey. A lot of bourbon. A lot of beer. A lot of other things. What are you talking about?

Country concerts? Exactly. Gary and Spring on 790. Hi, Gary. Hey, Matt, Ross. Hi. Hey, let me, I have a question I want to ask you. No doubt they should have won that game yesterday.

They're having trouble scoring, obviously, in the second half here. Nico Collins. Man, I love that name, Nico. I was going to have another kid, and then it was a boy, I'd name him Nico, but I'm too old for that. But let me ask you two questions about Nico. And he's been out how many games, four or five? Five now, total. And what's their record?

Well, he's been out? Two and three. Okay. And I'm not a man that thinks one man or one person can make all the difference in the world and team. But some are, there's a few. And what was their record when he was playing? Well, that would be four and one. Okay, that's kind of a big difference right there.

It's not that they would have, I don't think they win the Jets game if Nico Collins is on the field. Last night you could argue that they would win if Nico Collins were there because it was a close. closer game. He definitely makes a difference, but there have also been some really good competitors. I mean, they're, you know. Yeah. But when he was in there, did he catch any touchdown passes or any, the score in the second half when he was in there?

Hey, Google's your friend. Go knock it out. Roger, go knock back. Yeah, everything was better with Nico Collins. Yeah, everything is better. He's playing an all pro level. So, so you guys, neither one of you think that he's, that he's a single difference in why they're going on a downhill.

I know their offensive line. Is he playing left guard? Yeah. Was he playing left guard for, if he could have played left guard for Kenyon Green, then maybe I would argue that it's. If he could have played on the offensive line, that made him a difference. But no, Nico was leading the league in receiving guards when he went out. He is very much missed. He's a deep threat.

But that hasn't been the issue. I mean, there has line protection. It's been part of it. And now, Gary, I disagree with you. Yeah, is that the point you're trying to make, Gary, with this Socratic question asking? Like, are you, what did you say? Socratic? Yeah, no, he's not a guard in any of that, but he is a best receiver in football.

So with him coming back, it could make a big difference. Yeah, I think it absolutely makes it big difference. And as I said, I think that we could argue that they win that game if Nico Collins is on the field last night. But they don't beat the jet. Kenyon Green was getting blown up every other second in that Jets game. they don't win that Jets game if Nico Collins is there because because you're getting sacked eight times and you're under pressure every time that C.J. Stroud drop back.

So does it help? Yes. Is it the sole reason they've been losing these games? These games, I would say no. Go back to that word you used a minute ago. The Socratic method of tea. Are you familiar with the Socratic method of teaching, Matt? I would like for you to run. So he's asking Quest.

That's how you do to kind of prod to your argument. How long has Nico Collins been? Right. How many games have they lost with Nico Collins out? What's their record before he was out? They needed to get to get to his point. There was a little bit of a I want to get a gotcha moment in there. Yeah, I like the Socratic.

I'm with it. I think Socratic is a great word. Sox. It's how, if you read the old. Socrates. Right. If you read the old Plato stuff and it's. We should do on the show from here on out a daily Socratic argument of the day.

All right. That's what he was doing. Yeah. It would be too simplistic to say if Nico Collins on the football field, they would not have dropped three or four. I agree. Would have helped? Absolutely. Is he one of the elite receivers in the NFL this year?

No question. Yeah, if he was throwing to Nico Collins rather than Xavier Hutchinson on third down, things probably would go better. For sure. I would agree. And you know what? The defenses would have given Nico Collins more respect. Now, granted, we got to talk about this. The safeties for the Lions, did you see the stat during the game?

They had not given up a touchdown this year. Really? Yes. They had 10 interceptions between the Lions. The two safeties are Branch and Joseph. No touchdowns allowed to them. Ten I&T's, numerous past breakups. You went against an elite secondary yesterday.

Real quick, let's go to Scott and River Oak. Scott says you were at the game last night, and what did you see that maybe the rest of us didn't see? Well, the only thing I would say, I know we were just talking about, the previous caller was talking about Nico Collins. he's obviously going to make a little somewhat of a difference. I really don't think, you know, from my eye being there,

I actually thought the pass protection was a lot better yesterday. Would you guys agree with that? It was better, but it was not a lot better. He still got a lot of pressures. Pro football focus already put their grades out, I think on some of the things and said it did not turn out particularly well. It was better because he wasn't running for his life every single play. It still gets sacked four times.

The running, run blocking was not good as it was in previous. weeks. It was, I would just say a little better. Is that, is that okay? Or do you want, do you see something that I didn't see? No, no. I mean, I would say a little bit better is fine. But I mean, there was some of it yesterday in my mind was on CJ, to be perfectly honest with you. There was one sack he took and we were deep in our own end zone where he, yes, he got sacked and the protection wasn't great, but he didn't move up in the pocket as well as he

probably should have. Obviously that played a tank being there, tank, the one in the end zone where you threw an interception, live, it looked like tank was wide open and the ball was either underthrown or late, you know, from my vantage point is what that, and that would have been the difference in the game, but, you know, it was just, that was just a brutal loss and to get home at 1230 and still have to go to work today and be very tired. I mean, it was just unbelievable. And oh, I have a good, fun observation for you. I guess who I saw there, Mr. Detroit, Tom. to ruin Houston's lives himself.

I saw AJ Hinch at the game actually. Oh, no. You serious? Who was he rooting for? Was he wearing gear? He was not wearing gear. I saw him at the end when he was going down the, I was in the club section, and he was going down the escalator, and he was not wearing any gear.

But, I mean, I would have to him, and I didn't get a chance to say anything to him. If I would have, if I would have been close enough, I absolutely would have, just like asking who he was rooting for, but I don't know who he was reading for. I'd have to imagine he was reading for Detroit to just keep this. Yeah. Yeah. My guess is, thanks for the phone call, my guess is that Dan Campbell probably invited it. Those coaching fraternity guys, they all take each other.

They're broskies like that? No. Broskys are like 25-year-old dudes that make $40,000 a year. I'm talking about real grown-ass man. I think partying with Dan Campbell would be pretty fun. But I don't think Dan Campbell's a brosky. He might have been a brosky 20 years ago. As long as he doesn't like chug a beer and headbutch you, it might be probably a fun time.

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We are halfway done. We want to hear from you. It's 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Where are your Texans in your mind right now? Did you sell them too high on being a team that would be a legitimate Super Bowl contender? Or is there still too much work to be done?

We'll discuss more of that after the news at noon. And with that, the 790 Sports Center, the sports desk. Here's Ross. All right, Matt, we're going to go ahead and take a look at the news around the world at noon. Let's start with a heartbreaker in Houston last night. 23 to 7 at the half. 23 to 7 at the half. You do not score a point in the second half, and you lose on, I mean,

right side kiss of the upright, left side kiss of the upright, Jake Bates field goals. Tom balls, Jake Bates. And you lose 26 to 23. The Texans picking up the pieces, Matt, and they get the extra day. They play Monday night at the Dallas Cowboys. Get right game, I'm hoping,

for my, as I am Battle of Red Ross, my Houston Texans. Have you seen the opening line on that game, by the way? I believe it is a seven-point spread. Yes, seven and a half. now. So you gotta pay for the hook now. You want the Texans. Ain't scared.

I'm a little scared. Because it on the road or just because they're just the doldrums continue. Michael Parsons is back. He seems to be very upset. Yeah, but you've got Tray Lance and Cooper Rush. Well, at least it's going to be a night game, so nobody's going to be blinded in the red zone by their own players. And darling, where are you

going to be, girl? We got to see where you and your fan bases. I'm sure they're going to be there. Oh, traveling Texans. It's not going to help because it's Monday night. I bet you it'd be more it was Sunday night. Oh, yeah. Or Sunday noon or 3.50. Or it still should be a lot more Texans fans, I would guess.

Yeah. A lot of. So they're going to be doing noon hookups. What does that mean? They're going to have sex before the game on Monday. You know what hookups are. Traveling Texas is going to be bored on a Monday. What else are they going to do?

Why did that just come out of your mouth? You're a one of a con, Matthew. Okay, here's the deal. If you're a traveling, if you're a traveling Texas, tell us what's really. going on on these trips. I'm flabbergasted. Back to the news at noon.

Back to the news at noon. The Rockets won. Fred had seven in the third, along with a couple of the steals, and two assists. And a man Thompson comes up with a turnover into grand. The emphatic call. So I'm sitting here calling on a couple stats. Oh, a man Thompson sold the inbound pass. And he throws it to J. Legreen.

Good God, that man's got, Kay Cunningham's got children. I mean, I don't be does, but I'm a... I'm assuming he would like to. He doesn't. He's got a family of some sort. Well, he was also taken number one ahead of Jalen Green, who screamed at him and got the tech, Matthew. Yes, he did.

What was that like? He got that. I was like, what happened? And they go, yep, got teed up. He goes, I'm not number four, bitch. Or number two. Well, yeah, he wears number four. Yeah, where's number four?

So the Rockets. Now, explain that game to him, Matt. I had it on. I'm going to be honest, I wasn't 100% invested. We have to go back and check the tape. Apren Changu missed a free throw. Then Detroit comes down. They get fouled.

They have a chance to get free throws. They miss. Then they get fouled again. And the free throws are missed. And then Jaden Ivy in the right baseline grabs the second rebound off the miss. And can't put a shot up and the Rockets escape. If the playoffs started today. Oh, you know much I love that.

I'm on pace guy. Seventh seed for the Rockets. They were the four seed two days ago. I know. Damn. Well, you lose. I mean, they just got destroyed. The Oklahoma City Thunder defense is really good.

But bad news for them, by the way, as Chet Holmgren has a Lillac-Wing fracture, Matt. How's your right-liac wing? I think the NBA does a really good job of making up names for injuries. No, they go. The injury report, they talk about metatarsals and metacarpals and right-lac wing fractures. They don't mess around.

I kind of like that. It's refreshing. because it makes me have to go to the Google to figure out exactly what he's talking about. Yeah, but this may yeah, but would you rather have that or the a Astro? He's got some discomfort in his body. No, no, foot injury. A lower, ankle sorens. Lower body discomfort. No, no, no, dumb it down.

Give me the right lilac wing wing. The general public does not care about what a lilac injury is. But I can learn. You say bad hip. Say bad hip. Right wing lilac fracture. So that begs the question, Matt. Chet Hongren, I-H or IP? What's his body,

height and weight? Oh, it's a pelvic fracture. He fractured his pelvis? That's not good for anyone. He's good, too. Block shots. Hits threes. Something we were thinking about when he was coming out of the draft.

I've told people in Oklahoma City, I said when the number one pick was Pado Bancaro. All of Rocket Fanbation was like, don't pick Chet. Don't pick Chet. I wanted Paula Baccaro. And then Chet got picked two, and the place went bonkers. We got your box. Jibari. Jibari's been

overwhelming. Offensively, he has not performed well so far. He's averaging six, 11 points per game, six and a half rebound, shooting 41% from the floor and 27% from three.

All right, Matt, well, elsewhere in sports, how about them New Orleans Saints? Beat the Falcons yesterday. They beat the Falcons. They mean, backs against the wall, bunch of people on IR,

not expected to win the game. They did. And well, here is interim head coach Darren Rizzy after the game. No, man, I'm a pretty open guy, so this is how my day started. I get down here to the state, I get down here in the head coach's locker room, which

I've never used before, right? So here I am early in the morning. I go to the bathroom, and this is how my day started. I clogged the toilet. And I'm like, this is going to be a crappy day, pun intended. And so, listen, I'm like, okay, this is not really a great start to the day. Here we go. And so, yeah, I'm not really feeling like a head coach of an NFL team right now. So I'm like, really?

This is really how we're going to start my day. But listen, there was moments during the game. I'm so wrapped up in my routine. There was moments today where like I'm almost forgetting. I'm just going through my routine. And I'm kind of forgetting that I'm the head coach a couple times. All true. All right.

So the issue is, are we blaming his digestive system? blaming the old plumbing at the Superdome. I got to imagine they have modern toilets over there, right? It's an old building. It's an old building. I don't want to be talking about this, Matt. I guess I brought it up on News at Noon. I'm just saying, the News at Noon brings you stories that other news stations are

uncomfortable bringing it up. This is why you tune in to the News at Noon on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I mean, how many times in your life have you gone for that morning one and he called your toilet? It happens to all of us. Yeah. And then you slip where you're getting up and get a lilac fracture. Is that what happened to chat? Yeah.

He was trying to drop a couple pounds. I believe this happened on the court. Okay. That's the news. How's your right? Lylac. It's better my left. Okay.

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Ross your beloved Texans had a 26 to 9 lead at the intermission 23 to 7 are you okay it just feels better when I make up the score

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I feel like this game was on me You know definitely Gotta make plays Got to make throws Can't turn the ball over And when we're in scoring position So yeah I blame this on me

You know I got to be better In those moments So yeah It's really just you gotta go down To score in the red zone And defense is getting the turnovers Like they were So you got to be able to you know

reward them with points and that's something we didn't do so you know i feel like i'm the one to blame all right is that lip service from cj or is he being authentic i believe the answer that is he is being authentic i think he is wearing this as much as anybody else and i'm way okay with that 713212 5 790 i don't believe when i see cj straub ever speak in front of a podium microphone. He's doing it just to be politically correct. Other quarterbacks? Absolutely. Play it again. Play the cut again, Connor, if you don't mind. I think this is him being authentic and not just trying to give us quarterback speak.

I feel like this game was on me. You know, definitely. Got to make plays, got to make throws. Can't turn the ball over and we're in scoring position. So I blame this on me. You know, got to be better in those moments. So, yeah, it's really just got to go down to score in the red zone. And the defense is getting the turnovers like they were. So you got to be able to, you know, reward them with points. And that's something we didn't do. So, you know, I feel like I'm the one to blame.

Don't be so hard on yourself, CJ. What? He should wear it. But he should not wear it by himself. He's part of it. Yeah, it's not by himself. Yeah. I think he does know that he has to play better.

I think there's a tinge of him. He's going to put it on himself. they could lose any they could lose a game and give up a bunch of 55 points and he would say it's on me he'd be like yeah I got if I had to throw that just one more touchdown there is some of that but I do think there is some genuine feelings of I cost us this game and well I'm not going to say he cost them the game it was a number of things that we can point to but those were two really bad interceptions you're coming out of the you're up 23 to 7 you want to put your stamp on that game You want to get a touchdown drive going.

You throw on first down, shocking the world, really, the way that the Bobby Sloan calls plays, and you throw a pick. That was tough. And then the second one with Tankdale wide open. You know what it is? Part of this is that he's making throws that a normal rookie would make. He didn't make those throws last year. And this is stuff that we're not seeing him accustomed to doing. He still made some special throws.

that second quarter drive that Dalton Schultz to the side line was special. That John Metchie touchdown pass. That was an incredible throw. He made a handful of like wow throws and he does that every week. He still is going to delight you way more than he's going to disappoint you. But he's a little more human this year than he was last year.

I would say those, especially the Tank Dell one really hurts. The other like you're throwing an out route and it gets jumped by the corner. That happens every week in the NFL. That feels more excusable. But the one to the Tank Dell where he just kind of lofted, casually lofted it up there and allowed the defense to come back. That was a bad one.

Let's go to Biscuit on 790 and 1224. Biscuit, good afternoon. Hey, good afternoon, my brothers. Hi. Hey, Ross and Matt, I'm going to kind of disagree with you on a couple points you guys been talking about. And to see Day's response, he's absolutely right. You know what I mean? He's absolutely right.

Like you say, that coming out the locker room and throwing in a second on the first play? I mean, that's like the momentum, you could just steal the most. That gave Detroit life. Even though they didn't score, it's like, no, man, we're a different team in the second half. And that's where I get to, I disagree with you, Ross. When one team comes out the locker room and does better on a regular basis and one team comes out of the locker room does worse on a regular basis, yeah, there's something going on.

It's something that's happening. And to me, what's happening is what you did in the first half no longer works. Now what can you do next? And that's where the techans are getting stuck. To me, there's no difference between last night game and the Buffalo game,

only that we won the Buffalo game. So we kind of like, well, yeah, now there's some issues going on that they got to address. And then another problem was Kenyon Green was the scapegoat for the offense. Now he's gone. So you can't just put it on Kenyon Green.

It's more things going on that they need to correct. And to me, I'm going to disagree with you again. I think Shultz need to be targeted more. Because that's what, CJ, if you watch that first player out of the halftime, when he tried to throw it to Tankdale, Dawkins showed you the hook on the same side. He was open. But CJ, for whatever reason, he likes throwing it to the,

white out. And he tried to whip it. It's a harder throw toward the side line. And you're right. The guy was reading, paint Dale kind of rounded off the route, so the guy jumped the route, and he intercepted it. But if he just took the easy throw to the shoulder to Schultz, we've got six, seven yards.

That's what he got to do more of. And last I would say, for Slow it, they did make an adjustment. We got to give them credit. They did make an adjustment on the offensive line. They were double teaming with helping the left guard out and that stopped a lot of it and then the backs would come up tight on

some of those long third down plays and they were picking the blitzes up the A gap so C.J. had a little more time. It wasn't perfect but it was better and so I see the adjustments being made. The penalties are down. It's just the Texas that's got a few things to tweak but they're right there and that's all I've got to say they're right there.

They're right there with the best team. No they're not. No, no, no, no, come on. You brought up a lot of good information. They're not right there. They have lost. Man, this is what I'm saying. Matt, this is what I'm saying to you. The lack of experience is the biggest problem, in my opinion.

The lack of, these other teams have been through wars, man. They just got to realize it takes four quarters. And you get some of the guys healthy and stop running on first every time. I think they're going to be okay, man. Let me tell you. Laramie Townsell's been through the wars. Joe Mixon's been through the war. I mean, Dalton Schultz has been through the wars.

But it's just two players, man. That's just two. And Tonzo, don't get me started on Tonzo. Oh, no, you know what? You're preaching to my choir. You're no, yeah. Oh, my God. And that's one of the problems. He's supposed to be your leader, and he's not coming through in the court. There's no excuse. Okay, we believe the guard get beat up the middle or, you know, some of that. That dude kind of out there's on Trump, they didn't get a hand on him.

And it's like, and this is in the fourth quarter. It's like, come on. You're supposed to be the star. We're supposed to not worry about the left side. And tons of, you know, for whatever reason, man, he's just not, he's not the clutch guys they need him to be when the rubber meets the road when it's nut cutting time in the four quarter. Thank you, Biscay, I got to roll, my man. Thank you. They're not right there. I'm sorry. You don't force all those turnovers.

You don't have a cyclical patterns. And the cyclical pattern is this Texans football team is not performing the second half of games. Yeah, but they lost on a last second field goal. They're not right there. And you know what I mean by that. I mean, literally... It's a semantical argument, which... Correct.

That's for a later show. Yes. Being in the NFL, they're a couple of plays away, but in the NFL, a couple of plays away is what separates the good from the good. Yeah. So... It's like losing a baseball game over and over four to three. You know?

Yeah. You still take a loss. You don't. You don't put teams, elite teams figure out a way to force the turnovers and hold on the games. Elite teams put feet on throats. Yes. Elite teams are aggressive. Elite teams blow people out once in a while and not just the Patriots on their first start.

Like we talked about the Ravens. The Ravens have three losses. A couple of them were bad. But the Ravens have, they've boatraced the bills. They've boatraced teams where they're destroying them and where they look unstoppable. Have at any point in this year, have we said, man, the Texans looked unstoppable today? No. And that's the problem.

We have seen the lions look unstoppable. We have seen the Ravens look unstoppable. We've seen other teams in the NFL looked at the bills. We have not seen it from the Texans. You hung around with the Colts twice. Anthony Richardson got benched and you can barely beat them out of field goal. Look, the Texans are good, but they're not just right there. And that's what I think is frustrating.

Like I said, it would have been almost easier. It's easy to say this afterwards. But if Montgomery runs for 120, Gibbs runs for 100, and they score three touchdowns, and you just get out physical, it's easier to take to where you had it on a platter and you fumbled. You fumbled the game away.

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Real pale Texans talk continues on the Matt Thomas show. What up? What up? Love talking to y'all. Seriously. I mean, I always agree with you, but we love talking to you. And that's why we don't really do it to tell the truth at 1130, but since so many people wanted to talk, Texans, we push it an hour back. And that's what we're going to do. We're not going to just put segments in just to, Kill time. If people want to talk Texans, we want to talk Texans with you. We want to open those phone lines up. Get you guys going at 713-2-5-790. 7-1-3-2-5-7-90. Time now for us to play a weekly feature called The Tell the Truth. And here's how it works. I'm going to give you four sports opinions, Ross and Connor. And you're going to say, nope, the three of them. One, I do believe. Which one of the four am I telling the truth?

This is strictly opinions, not facts. Okay. My opinion number one is Kansas City continues to live by I mean... Hanging by a thread. Hanging by a thread

on their skin or their teeth. Whatever. Escape with wins. I got terrible news for you. This trend's going to continue. I can't believe this. But they've won so many games the same way. They're going 17 and 0.

And I'm not happy about it because they should deserve at least two or three losses. But the reality is, If they're doing this and barely get When they get firing in all cylinders, they're going to be unstoppable. They're going 17 and 0.

Okay? Number two. I like me some Marine Shepherd. I wanted to become a jump shooter because this team still needs perimeter threats. But I don't know if 10 minutes per game is going to necessarily cut it. I have seen a lot of high draft picks for the rockets, including now Cam Whitmore.

A man Thompson went down there. I think a short run down to the G-League to kind of get the jump shot going for Reed Sheppard wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. Okay? Because you already got a man, Thompson, backing up front of the point. So if you lost him for a few games just to go down there and be a viper and score 35 points and knock down in eight or nine-threes,

it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. You'd go dunk on Brony? Correct. So I would say Reed Shepherd, a G-Leod trip wouldn't be the worst thing in the world for a while. Okay. Okay. Number three, there's going to be talk.

And I don't agree with this talk. But you're going to hear a sports personality be mentioned in a political campaign for 2008. I would not be completely surprised if Stephen A. Smith is being regarded as a potential candidate in 2020. Okay. He was asked about it on The View just this last week. You're watching The View? No, the 4U tab on Twitter. Okay.

I had to mute a lot of words. Oh, I know you did. I know you did. But I just get the sense that we are going to be in a run here of atypical candidates. And I think that Stephen A has ventured into political commentary more than the last six months that he has probably in his entire life. And I don't think the view just brought that up just for blank and giggles. Okay. So that's number three.

And number four is, call me not surprised when the text. Axons beat the Cowboys by double digits next week. That it's Mike McCarthy's last game as the coach of the Cowboys. Oh, Mike McCarthy fired. I think it's Jerry Jones is going to say, here's how it's going to work. It's not Jerry Jones' fault that Dak Prescott got hurt. It's not Jerry, it's, you hate to blame the coach for everything. But we need a change in philosophy.

We've got to readjust things and they can't fire myself and the season's lost. and the commanders are great and the Eagles are great. Might as well find out if I got somebody in our system that I'd be worthy of replacing as I'm going to get rid of Mike McCarthy anyway. So to have a Monday night home game in front of your cross-state rival, get your ass kicked in front of 100,000 people, I would not be shocked if it's Mike McCarthy's last game as a Cowboys coach next Monday. See, your take is that you wouldn't be shocked or that is going to happen?

No, it wouldn't be shocked. Well, I guess nobody would be shocked. would they? No, I think there would be some people like, no, Jerry doesn't fire coach in midseason. This is again going atypical of what he does. Okay. But if you want me to further clarify, I'll say, yeah, they should

fire Mike McCarthy. It should be fired. If they lose a relatively easy Texans win, if it's a game, it goes on the final gun or it's a field goal game kind of thing, but if they lose by 10 points or more, which I believe they're going to lose this week, bye. Okay. I think they should let go

to Mike McCarthy. So these are my four takes. Chiefs are going 17 and 0 this season, much to my chagrin after thinking they weren't going to do that. Reed Shepherd should get some playing time in the G League that he can get more reps. I wouldn't be surprised if Stephen A. Smith is brought up in a 2028 presidential campaign conversation. And I'm not talking about just on a rando talk to.

I'm saying that there will be legitimately talk of who is the outside of the box candidate. That'll be the guy. And number four, Mike McCarthy probably should be fired if they lose by double digits this week to the Texans. next Monday night. Those are the four. Which one am I telling you the truth? Connor, how are we feeling? I feel kind of confident with one of the four already. I'm ready to throw out one and three. I am as well. I believe he's Matt said something about

he's going undefeated in a past. He did it a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, I did. And I'm changing my mind. I'm saying that you're changing the mind from faking changes his mind. He's back on and changes his mind from the mind. Correct. Actually, everything you said was completely accurate. And then Stephen A. Smith, he's not ready for a way. There's not right. There's no way. I don't think he believes four about Mike McCarthy should be fine. I don't think the Cowboys are going to do that. And I mean, reach up here to the G League's not a bad idea.

Cam Wittmore went down there and dropped 28. So maybe it's good for Shepard to do that. I have bad news for you. We're 100% on the same page. Okay, well, that's fine. I'm going with two as well. All right. Chiefs aren't going 17 or no.

I'm sorry. You're just playing with faith there on that bed. I mean, they're, man, the Chief's voodoo magic. The Taylor Swift curse. The Taylor Curse is real to other teams. Stephen A. Smith is not running for office. There are way too many skeletons in his life. Yeah, do some vetting with Stephen A.

That would take about a minute and a half, I think. I don't think you can run either, Matt. Guys, I feel kind of bad because I wouldn't necessarily think that Reed going down to the G League would be the worst thing in the world. But, Cam Whitmore was a mid-first-round pick. Can't Whitmore was in a massive shooting slump.

The Rockets and Marine Chippertive. He's played, what, how many games he played as an NBA player? Ten. I mean, he's staying. I wouldn't. I think if the Texans beat the Cowboys by more than 10 points at Mike McCarthy should be fired. All right, we'll see. This could be another

long list, in a long list of bad takes in this segment. you can i need to see i want you to print these out before hand look there it is right there what is it say number four yeah you just type that i did not just type that i can't do you don't never believe me here's that okay why here's the reason why i put up about this mannaway football it's the only game it's the texans it's the against the state's team america's team and you get your askic 37 to 20 you don't press god is not there that is what is that what is that what is that to coaches from firing, owners from firing coaches?

It's like week 11. You gotta have interim coach for six weeks when you're, when you, Dak Prescott is down? The Jets have zero problem with this. And Jerry Jones loves, well, that's because they thought they were going to turn their season around. How's that gone? Arizona Cardinals say hello. That's true.

Okay. Hmm. I think, I think if it's a close one score game, it's okay. I think if it's a blowout where he's embarrassed on national television and the next day on Sports Center and the next day on all the national TV shows, they're getting ridiculed even more. I think there's going to be a fallout. Now, if it's 27-24, then I think he probably stays.

Okay, I will say if they lose by 10 points, McCarthy will not be fired. Okay. That would just be a better take. But this is just take. Yeah. It's not etching stone. You can be right. So you don't think the rockets are going to send Reed Shepard to the G.

I don't think they're going to. But do you think they should? Um. I know that wasn't your take, but I'm just curious. You know, not not really. Because Cam was just shooting so. poorly. I think Camelaine won three-pooner so far in the season before he got sent down. I think there was some defensive lapses. I think it was kind of a get down there and get your mojo back.

Reed's not looking good and comfortable out there though. But I think Reed's getting a little bit more comfortable. It's just to have to come with playing time. So right now I would say, and again, I'm more than able to amend this, I would say right now the best way for Reed to let the game slow down is by getting in the game and letting it slow down naturally. Okay. Because I don't think G League makes the game slower. Right? What do you think the role of G league is? The role of, yeah, to get some seasoning and to get better prepared, it's this, I don't know if it's, I guess, relative to Spanish or whatever.

But, I mean, it's obviously a huge step up from college. Yeah. It's, yeah, it's a minor league. You get some seasoning. Okay. Or to fix some. And build some confidence. Or get the confidence back.

I think that's what Cam went worse. I think Cam's going to be back next few days, though. My guess. All right. 1244, it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-7-19. We are done the rest of the way,

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Ooh. Could you... Does he have a Wiki page? No, I mean, Jake Bates sold bricks. Believe it. I'm not doing Jake Bates. Screw Jake Bates. I don't like Jake Bates at all.

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We just had a bunch of folks drops. If you want to get in, now you can do so at 7-13-212-5-7-90. So I had the Texans like going 11 and 6 losing. all the games they should lose to, which is Baltimore and Kansas City, and winning all the games they should, which put them at five and two the rest of the way. You think four and three, you're thinking one of those five could be a slip-ups. That seems fair. I mean, I'm being a little presumptuous by saying that they're going to win every one of the games they should win. CNFL, Jaguars were a stupid penalty away from possibly beating the Vikings of all teams.

Yeah, that's true. Well, the Titans weren't really close to the Chargers. they got destroyed by the lions. They did beat the Patriots. I just feel like this team is not good enough to the level where I can say I can guarantee wins against bad teams. Okay. Because they've been squeaking it out against bad teams. Take your first sentence and stop right there.

They're not good enough. So let me ask you, how do you in the towards the back half of the season become good enough? You become good enough by protecting better, getting more this offensive line. You've got one game with them. Is it schematics or is it physical? physicality that's getting beat. I think it's mostly schematics. It was a lot of physicality with Kenyon Green, unfortunately.

I mean, in Shaq Mason, unfortunately, what's the name of that defensive tackle for the Lions? It's really, really good. He was beating up on him. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He can get beat by tough... Well, it was Campbell, too, the linebacker.

Alie McNeil. Yeah. Aline McNeil was... I mean, Lee McNeil is a monster. I mean, he's one of the better defensive interior players in all football. So, yeah. He was playing D-Line. for them too. He's going to get a lot of problems. Yeah, DJ Reeder a little bit.

Texan great. Texan's legend, DJ Reeder. You've also gotten beat up by DeForest Buckner. I mean, but you're also going to play teams with good interior players in the playoffs. So it is what it is. So they do have to get better. I would say the communication and the schematics and without like looking back and watching the whole game over again or anything, it seemed better. yesterday, certainly that it was. I mean, the bar was extremely low, right, with the Jets game. They were all over the place. There was constant pressure and just blown blocks and bad communication. And unfortunately, Kenyon Green getting destroyed.

I think that can get better. I think getting Nico Collins back makes you better. But also, this team is teetering on an edge to me where if you do lose Nico Collins again, if you do lose Joe Mixen at any point, obviously C.J. Stroud is a given. We don't even need to talk about that. But I think those two players, this team falls a part to where you just cannot afford those losses

because you've already lost Diggs, you've already lost too much. Pro Football Focus does their grades for Tuesday, correct? Typically? Generally, yes. I wonder how Patterson and Scruggs did in their new respective positions. I'm curious as well. Let's go to Arlington and talk to Roger on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Our time is 1253.

713-212-5790 if you want to jump in, 7-1-3-2-2-790. Roger, good afternoon. You're on 790. How you doing, guys? Love your show, Matt. Thank you. Hey, you know, I'm a big Texan diehard fan.

I'm going to be in Dallas watching that game out there. I think we're going to feast on the team. And it's true, we're going to see McCarty get fired after that beat down. But here's my question. I saw, you know, does all this go on the players as far as, you know, C.J. Stroud and all this. Because it's a scheme game. You have to build a scheme to win games, correct? Which are your coaches?

Yeah. I mean, that makes sense. Yeah, I get it. Okay. So, yesterday, I saw a play. I don't know who made the decision. I'm pretty sure that it had to do with our coach. It was a fourth in nine or a fourth and four, which was laid into the game.

And then they put our Fairborn out there to make the field go, correct? Well, it was, yeah, to get the lead at a long field goal attempt that probably the Texans, not probably. The Texans went conservative offensively knowing that our guy can kick 60-yard field goals or thereabouts pretty easily. Exactly. Exactly. But I'm not a coach. Thank God, because there's a lot of pressure right now.

But as I was looking into the game, we were throwing a lot of short outlets and they had the defense stacked. So my thing is, I think they should have gone knowing that Fairborn had already missed a field goal. Does that make sense? Try that one more time. Fairborn had already missed a field goal, correct?

Yes. I think they should have gone for it there and then and sealed the game. The only kick he missed was the last one. No, no, no. Yeah, he made everything else he made. Plus he made a 50-yarder before the, earlier in the game. He made a 56-yarder. Yeah, Ron, no, you knew that Kami has made those before in the past. I mean, he's had a plethora of 50-yard field goals.

As a matter of fact, he's bailed the Texans on a multiple cages. because it was 50 plus. So I understand. I know how they set it up. They set it up for him to kick the long one. He's 11 of 14 this year 50 plus. Pretty good. Unfortunately, he missed that one.

It's a 58-yarder. Their guy made the 58-yarder and a 52-yarder to win the game. Your guy missed his 58-yarder, unfortunately. It's obviously more complicated than that, but that's one of the ways to look at it and why you took the L. Yeah, to me, anything beyond 55, placing a tremendous amount of blame on the kicker is fools gold on that. I think in the NFL world today, 55 in should be made.

Sounds crazy to say that because when I was growing up, 50 was like, oh my God, no. But today's kickers are bigger, stronger, they're more athletic. They don't have beer guts, except for Randy Bullock, obviously. But they're supposed to make those. But 55 plus, I don't know how the weather was. conducive for it, but that doesn't really matter. That's a kick that he's made a lot so far in his 10-F Texan's career, but to assume that he can make it every single time is tough.

But then that damn Tomball storyline kicked in. Did it not late in the game? I don't want to talk about it. You want to hear about it? No, I don't want to hear about it. We'll do it next. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Final hour of the Math-Tomba show with Believe it or not at 150.

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Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. We're not going to get it all at one chunk here. So just one at a time. We'll do that. We'll play this out until we get two minutes up in the fourth quarter before we turn on. But we'll do it. He said it. They had to get takeaways and they do right out of the gate. First and goal, Detroit, trying to get them. Back in it with the end zone. Touchdown, Detroit.

From the nine, St. Brown on the edge, got pluggers. Alman Ross, St. Brown. Touchdown, Detroit. Light. Kick there. Earned the job at the line. Texans, offense, Rossi in the second half was as cold as ice. I think zero points qualifies as cold as ice.

By the way, Forner? All right. Do it, do it. Do it, do it, run to the discography. Underrated. to run the discography. Or properly rated. Oh, I didn't know we were seriously going to do this.

We're going to have to, unfortunately. All right, fine. I would say right now it's highly rated as one of the great rock bands of the 70s. That's the bar right now. Okay, you just want their single hits, right? Yeah, yeah. Feels like the first time, top 10. Cold as Ice, top 10.

Hot blooded, number three, double vision, number two. Dirty White Boy hit number 12 in 1979. I'm not familiar with that one. Blue Morning, Blue, Blue. day, 15, head games, 14, urgent, number four, waiting for a girl like you, number two. I want to know what love is number one.

I'd be underrated, Matthew. Say you will, top 10? All right, there, first of all, underrated because I don't have, I think I've got one foreigner song on my phone, which means I've underrated them. Eight top ten hits.

That's more than enough for a casino and or a run at Cynthia Woods. That's pretty good. I'm, you know, what, maybe they're underrated. Yeah, you and I agree. A tinge, not a way overrated, but a tinge. Houston Texans, overrated, underrated, or properly rated? Well, if you're talking to Darlene, she doesn't even know how any of the players' names are,

so she can't give you an answer. But she overrates them. She's overrating them. I like my question better. Is the Texans honeymoon over? Is the reality is that we thought, we being those of you that are considering yourself, big fans or and or Battle Red Ross that you thought, you know what,

one game swing here or there, win a game, you're not supposed to win, be different than you were a year ago, and you can go to Baltimore, you can go to Kansas City, and you can go knock them off. I don't think anybody within the sound of my voice right now believes the team can jump on a plane, go to either one of those two teams,

or for that matter, they came to our building, NRG, and think the Texans would be favored and or win the football game. I don't think they're going to be favored. I'm going to say you get Nico Collins back, you give this newly reconfigured offensive line a couple of weeks of cohesion, and I think they can beat anybody. Well, see, the problem is here's the, and I'm not saying it's false hope,

because you have to play your best every week. You can't just say we got a dog crap opponent coming in. But the reality is the Texan schedule is significantly softer in the next four to five weeks. I think that's the perfect time, the perfect time. But is it false confidence? Grugs and Jared Patterson as your center and juice Grugs as your left guard. I don't know if it's gay. We're not to see how the games play out.

Yeah. Because we didn't have a whole lot of confidence. They beat the Jaguars 24 to 20. I was by the skin of their teeth. They were barely beating the bears and the Colts early on. And there was a lot of people, excuse me, there was a lot of people saying that this is a, the worst six and two team in football history and they're not good. So it's about how the games play out.

How are you looking on the field? field. Are you dominating teams? Can you snuff them out and beat them by 21? Can you boat race somebody? They need to do that. If they're winning these games against Cowboys Titans and Jaguars, 19 to 17 on last second field goals, then yeah, we're going to be concerned. And alarm bells should continue to go off. It's about how these games look. So the question I have is, honestly, at this point, are you like, you know what? The schedule softens up. We get Nico back. The offensive line can work in cohesion. Maybe there's a philosophical heart-to-heart meeting between the coaching staff and saying,

hey, we've got to be, we've got to dial some things up that are more aggressive, mainly basically D'Amico to Bobby Sloan. Maybe there's somebody that's whispering into Domingo's here. Don't keep settling for 54-yard field goals. They're just not as automatic as you think they are. As good at kicker as Kemi Fairbairn, it's been this year. Yeah. I think what has been a storyline all year, kind of one of the further down the pecking order

storylines has been the lack of aggression and I think that was on full display on Sunday. But history Ross unfortunately is repeating itself. All these one-score games, all this second half utility, it's not just a one-off. We've got a trend developing. And I don't know if you can fix such a thing in the middle of the season. I don't know. You can, but I don't know that the tigers are going to change their stripes in the middle of the season. And the good news is, they know it.

We played that Joe Mixen bite earlier. He said it himself. We are playing not to lose. Yeah. So what was that meeting for a couple days back then? What was the purpose of that meeting? That was for rallying the troops and covering the spread, baby. Three and a half of the vines.

Let's go. Let's walk through this here. Your, my cohort here says, Joe Mixon got up and said, Hey, everybody, listen to me right now. Vegas has a three and a half point dog at home. That's unacceptable. We need to cover this game. No, but we all thought, let's be honest,

we thought they were going to get their ass kicked on Sunday. I thought by 10, yeah. And they lost on the last second field goal. Now, there's a lot more into that, of course, with Jared Goff and the turnovers. But the Texans four-steps turnovers, they were pressuring Jared Goff. Kamari Lasseter was making great catches. It's not like Jared Goff gifted all of those to them.

they were making plays. Now, of course, the Hill Mary one was a gift and it doesn't count, and we shouldn't be talking about that. But the Texans defense harassed. You made them look terrible. You made them look like old Jerongoff. You had them shook. You had him with two minutes left. They were trying to run the ball out and get to the half. They were running scared. So that was a great overall defensive performance, especially in the first half. So credit to the Texans there. Just the offense and that second half performances and the missed kick by. Kimee Fairbairn and the bad call,

the bad no call on the pass interference on that last drive as well. You add it all up. The Texans lost a close one in the last second field goal to the Detroit Lions who were arguably the best team in football. And you really take nothing away from that,

unfortunately. Because if you would have been mono and mono with them and I got a 15 round heavyweight fight, we were like, oh man, we were just, we needed one more possession. You had a huge lead and you gave it up. Yeah.

And that hurts more. And the reality is, thanks, Texans. A 16 point lead, you're not supposed to give up, especially at home with a rabid crowd. By the way, Lion fans showed up. I didn't realize Lion fan traveled so well. Yeah, that's been a storyline for a while. The Lions fans are, I don't know why or how.

Like, they travel. By the way, I was in a casino on Sunday on Saturday night. Okay. What I always say about stereotyping of Michigan women is the case. It just is. What's that, Matt? What's your stereotype of Michigan women? I'll tell you off here.

Yeah. 113 on the Matt Toppy show. I don't want to, you know, it is what it is. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90. Your question for you guys to dial in right now is, is the Texans honeymoon over? Are we starting to deal in the reality of this is at best,

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We were going to try to get Gordy to come in studio at some point today, but he's still chasing Jalen Millrow. Could you imagine tailgating? Too soon. For hours in Tiger Stadium. Yes. Game days. there. Yes.

Where Pat Mac if he convinces the fans to yell a sexual slur. Hmm. Not once but twice. I didn't notice that. Go look on Twitter. You can find it. Talking about doing things to the, okay, whatever. The tiger?

Correct. Oh, yeah. That's a, it's a, it's a verb. Yeah. Yeah. And then Jalen Monroe is like going to the house over and over again. They are running up and down. Is Brian Kelly just,

at the end of the day, just a really overrated football coach. Hmm. I don't know enough about him. I mean, obviously, a lot of success at Notre Dame. Yes. Played for national championship. Yes. Big money, gets to LSU, immediately puts on this thick Cajun accent

when he doesn't really have one, not from there. So it's grinding on recruits in that little studio they had with the flashing lights. That was weird. Yeah. And then losing football games. Yeah. With like Jaden Daniels. And he looked like a Daron.

headlights. Garrett Nussmeyer pretty good. Let's see. First season, 10 and 4, 10 and 3, now 6 and 3 are the LSU tag us. Yep. I mean, I guess we could get Gordy to assess. I'm sure he'll be extremely objective. Oh my God. He hates he should be locked on SEC.

He should be called, hated on Alabama should be his website. He was at the Aggie game as well when they lost, right? Yeah, and sits out there for hours and hours and has to smell all those people. Oh, gross. Yeah, but it's it's, you know what? It's like, it's like that commercial with Eli Manning.

You can win the tailgate, Matt. You never lose the tailgate. And I'm sure LSU fan wins a tailgate almost every single time. Absolutely. But they were flying high. And unfortunately, they've lost two league games. Yep. So out of the playoffs now?

Going to be the Tigers? I think so. They were 15th and they just lost again. Yep. I think so. Now we've got to talk about the other school in the state of Alabama. The Auburn basketball team, They beat my Cougars and congratulations to them.

Sorry, Matt. I swear to God, usually when you have fights on planes, you usually lose the next game by like at least 10 points. You know what, Matt? I mean, but sometimes you get in a fight with your brother and it brings you closer together. He can respect each other after that. Okay, so word traveled Friday that they were, we were flying here, they were flying on a charter from Auburn to Houston.

Yes. and I have the flight ofware app which I like to say what kind of planes people are flying it was a chartered prop plane so it doesn't have all the creature comforts of a prop plane yeah

propeller yeah there's still some of those out there they put teams on the propeller planes yeah that seems extremely dangerous I'm gonna assume that Auburn's runway isn't huge were they dusting crops after a while

I don't know them but those some of the bigger ones probably seat 60 people on them really Yeah, and my guess is Auburn to Houston's probably an hour, 15 minute flight tops. This is shocking news to me. They got propeller jets flying that far?

Not a jet. Propeller planes, yeah. Wow. Huh. So they're up in flight. They're 40 minutes into flight. The flight's an hour of 15, so they've got to be at least halfway, if not further, to Houston. And all of a sudden, everybody got on the ground's like, Auburn's coming back.

Really? Apparently two players They're among many were evolved in a scrape on this propeller plane And had to go back to Auburn where the police were ready to arrest people, whatever they get Again the details are still very sketchy about all this because everybody's kind of keeping it quiet They go to Auburn, they land They handle their business they get I guess they get some They get the blood off the player's faces and stuff because apparently they were thrown

They get them stitched up Could you imagine being on a plane? I don't know. No, I can't. In a legitimate pierc six brawl breaks out in the middle of a prop plane. On a propeller jet? On a jet, you can kind of get like a big 737. It feels like it makes a list.

It's still not good idea. It happens on Spirit. I mean, every week. Yeah, you fly a Legion or Frontier or one of those airlines. Yeah. Spirit, like, you get a free, after your fifth flight, you get a free fight. Hmm. I like that.

But you're on a prop. You land. Seriously. And everyone's like, what's going to happen? The game is going to still be playing. The game's going to play. And then they get on the plane, they fly here, and they then go to Toyota Center and beat my Houston Cougars.

I fired the squad up. As my son said, Bruce Pearl teams always figure out a way to Bruce Pearl things. That's true. Let me ask you this. If you have two players fighting on a prop, it had to be a brawl, right? Did somebody not want to just get up and interrupt that bad boy? That's what I'm saying.

That's what I'm thinking it's like a brawl. because if you're trying to break that up and then you catch astray and then you start brawling too I mean to turn the plane around and I'm assuming guys that are 6, 4, 6.5 there's not a lot of wiggle room. That's true. They must have been in each other's seats or something. Maybe that's what happened.

Maybe somebody tried to recline their seat and then somebody got pissed off about it. I don't disagree with that. I'd brawl over that. Then the other story of the weekend is that BYU and Utah play each other in Salt Lake City. It was a late game. Yes.

And Utah jumped out to a huge lead, stayed with me on this, and lost the game, I think, by one point. They didn't score a single point in the second half. That happens. There was a sack of the BYU quarterback around the one or two yard line, but it was taken overturned by a holding call

on Utah's defensive back. BYU keeps possession, and then BYU goes on to kick the field goal to win the game. Mark Harlan, I believe, is a gentleman's name. is the athletic director at Utah. He, before the press conference speaks where Kyle Woodingham, the Utah coach comes up on the podium, Mark Harlan goes up there and rips the crap out of the Big 12 officiating crew. He said, we were happy to join the Big 12.

But this game was stolen from us. I looked at replay. It was somewhat ticky-tack, but it was definitely a hold. It looks like holding to me. It was, yeah, every official that you see on TV, TV said, that's a hold. And on top of the fact, Mr. Harlan forgot to mention that his Utah used to not score a single point in the second half.

You can't bitch about that. So he rips the Big 12 on late Saturday night. Yesterday, Ross, the Big 12 was like, Mark Harlan, shut your bum ass up. We're finding your ass $40,000. And a public reprimand. They should have fined them more. Now, my guess is Harlan's making a milling so that $40,000 is nothing to him. That's something.

That's still something. It's a Hawaiian vacation for you and three of your closest friends. Hmm. I just... So the argument being that they were trying to keep BYU, the Big 12 officials were trying to keep BYU in the playoffs. The officials were, I think the call was BYU, the big 12 officials suck. Ironically enough, the crew that worked that game apparently was primarily full of

ex-pack 12 officials. Hmm. Well, they got to land somewhere. Isn't it weird, though? that why wouldn't, I mean, the AD hadn't to have a few cocktails. Now that's Salt Lake City where they don't drink as much. Yeah. It's near beer. And the beer is not nearly as

powerful, potent, if you would have to call it. But you can't as an AD after your team doesn't score a single point in the second half. Go up there and bitch about anything. But yet he did. He got himself $40,000 fine. Interesting. He apologized, by the way. Not going to work.

Brett Yormark's like, I'm the Big 12 MF and King. You're going to get $40,000 fine. If you do it again, You can sit your ass off for a couple of games. Wow. AD bitching cannot happen. About the officials? You know, like you said, he had to be half drunk, minimum.

Half drunk. He was full drunk if he was outside of the Utah? How many sheets into the wind was he? He was against the wind. Okay. He in the silver bullet band? Yes, he had a few silver bullets. You never know.

713-212-5-7-90. That's your college recap for the weekend. Jalen Millroll scores more touchdowns. Auburn's Flight. gets delayed because of a pier 6 brawl in the middle of 23,000 feet. And they had a fake Mike the Tiger out on the field. I need Gordy to explain that whole debacle. He's busy.

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Is the honeymoon era for the Texans over? Not era, the honeymoon season. are we just going to be I mean we can go ahead and book it right 3.30 Saturday afternoon Wildcard game weekend Energy Stadium must go It feels about right

I don't know now because they're putting the They're putting games on Peacock now Okay so let's do this Let's let's try a program real quick before we're going to talk to our buddy Doug By the way I watch the game on Peacock Because look

Xfinity Get it together The picture quality is better and it was closer to live on Peacock. So I watched a game on Peacock. You did. It looks great. They got Premier League action on there as well.

I like the app. Peacock's good. It's ever been of NBC just a streaming service. Apparently they're hemorrhaging money with it, though. Well, I mean, duh. Yeah. They're looking for mergers. Well, I mean, Paramount Plus, the same thing with the CBS stuff.

I mean, it's just crazy. Mm-hmm. Oh, it's owned by Comcast, actually. Expected losses, hopefully, to improve in 2024. They lost $2.75 billion last year. I wonder if it's because of the sports acquis or it was because of the operating costs or the, I mean, is the W.W.E part of that, too, I think, at some point, the money they're spending on that? Yeah. Apparently, they've already lost $800 million, over $800 million this year as well. So, ooh.

Remember one game used to be on 2.11 and 13. We were just happy with that. Oh, okay. That's going back like 30, you know. Okay, channel 2, channel 11 channel. I was like February 11th. I was going to look something up and I forgot. Okay.

Dang it. Sorry, it's my fault. It is your fault. That's my fault for talking about the peacock. Does that have a nickname for the network? You okay? Excuse me? Yeah, I'm fine.

Like when they're running around the offices. Like if you, I remember when Warner Brothers had a TV network, they would not call it the Warner Brothers number. They called the WB. The WB and now it's a CW. Yeah. What are they, what's the nickname for the Peacock Network? I don't know of anyone. Okay.

The PC? Sure. Doug and South Padre at 136. Hi, Doug. Hi, guys. How's it going? Good. No, it was a tough week to be both a Cougar fan and a Texan fan.

And like everybody, you know, the games get over. You're pretty upset. that and sleeping on it, I've kind of changed my position. You know, when the Cougars lost Auburn, and that was a hell of the game, I was upset with the players. When the Texans lost the game, we should have won. I was upset with the coaches, just like everybody else was. And after sleeping on it, you know, against Auburn,

their best player, that low-post guy, the All-American, Tugler was continually leaving him and running to the free throw line to double-team the guard, and then trying to run back and guard that guy, and it was just easy scoring. and it was something Samson, I mean, you can't really ever criticize Calvin Samson, but it was an adjustment we never made and it's why we lost.

When it comes to the Texans, everybody's on the coaches, and I was as upset as everybody else was. But if you think about it, you know, that first and goal on the three and Juistrugs has a holding call, which killed that drive. That should have been a touchdown. And then the past that never made it to Tank Dell,

there was nobody in CJ's face, and he just threw a dying quail and it got intersubject. if both those that happened, we would have won that game or if even one of them would have happened and then the coaches would have been spotted. So I guess my take is I just, I know the coaches are getting really, really reined

and probably they should, but those two mistakes cost you the game, and that's on the players, not on the coaches. Yeah, I, thank you, Doug, for the phone call. Good to hear your voice. Ross, I, what's the proper balance, and this is in all sports, as sports fans, as broadcasters,

when do we, when do we, When are we going to start to put more of this on the players? The throw to, or they tend to throw to Tank Dell, there is nothing that Bobby Slob could have possibly done to draw up any better of a play than that play. He was wide open by himself in the end zone. In the end zone. It's a great play.

Holding calls. Illegal formations. False starts. I mean, the offensive line coach, which I couldn't even name him if you paid me to, is getting the heat like three or four weeks in a row. If your guys are underperforming, look, let's just call this as is what it is. Titus Howard has underperformed as a first round pick. Laramie Tunsell isn't worth the money that he's been spent on.

He's not. He's not all world. He's good, but he's not all world. He's paid like he's a top five tackle, and he hasn't. He's been good, like he said, but not a top five tackle. Green. Bust. Scrugg's second-year player, to be determined. Patterson, probably just a swing. Who am I forgetting?

Who was a game that came in for Tuntler? Jack Mason. Blake Fisher? Blake Fisher. To be determined. He's not good, but he's also a first round. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Shack Mason, good, not great.

Can get beat by the better interior players? Probably being overpaying. But you know what? When you're trying to rebuild an offensive line for a team and had not taste the playoffs in a year, you have to overpay for guys. But let's not hide who these people are. Did you notice on the Sunday night football?

We had spotting internet for part of our flight. They always put the pro football rankings. Yes. Did you see there were very few top ten on either side of the Texans? Even the secondary was like, Kamari Lassar was considered just okay. Petra was considered just, I mean, there was nobody like number six on the PFF. Now, not that PFF does everything, but they give you some sort of gauge as comparing players of similar positions. This is about the team that was thrown.

out there, which goes to the general manager who creates the team. Now, obviously, Domingo is not bringing players here that he doesn't like, and that Nicosero's like, too bad you have to have him. In fact, there was one player that Damiko

wanted here very bad, and that's Alisa Aasarir, and he's been fantastic. He's great. He knew who he was and said, get your ass here. Help me out. Now, I got uncomfortable when Chris Collinsworth was comparing him to Fred Warner. It's like, he's not, on Fred Warner's planet, but also Fred Warner's a freak of nature, but as he's out show you,

it has been very good for the Houston Texans. And by the way, I'll tell you, there is a Texan who is number one in their position on pro football focus. Who would I have to guess? If you want. Offense or defense? Offense. Number one.

Not going to be CJ. Not going to... I'm going to go Joe Mixing. Nico Collins. Really? The number one graded wide receiver on pro football focus. Good hands, good separation, good speed,

good yards after catch. That makes good sense. And you're going to get them back, and you're going to be better. Do you think it was kind of wonky how things turned out this weekend with not only did he practice Friday? Yeah, what was that? It was a little weird. It was like gamesmanship stuff? It could have been.

Why did they activate him? Because I was ready to put him in my fantasy lineup. Why did they activate him? Because Saturday, everyone's like, oh, he's off the list, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then Sunday morning we wake up and he's like he's been considered inactive. Yeah. I think it's 100% gamesmanship. Or maybe they thought he was close and then they were like, you know what, let's give it another week.

I don't know. That's a question for them. And he'll speak tomorrow, I think, because they're taking Wednesday off. Maybe they were trying to confuse Nimitz legend, Aaron Glenn. By the way, Aaron Glenn. Who's the next head coach of those coordinators? Both of them. Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn, I think, are going to.

they're going to get interviews. Ben Johnson, I think, did get interviews. Do you remember, I'm guarantee you. We can go back and look at the air checks. People were like, please, Bobby, say. I was happy. Stay one more. You're here. Bobby, please stay. And I think I defended him more than most. I think he's a good coach. I think he's good, too. I didn't think he would be seriously considered. I did say in a gut feeling that he would be gone at the end of this year. I was thinking, for a positive reason, perhaps on a negative reason.

But I think people want him out of here. Now, to me, again, offensive coordinator, it's what you're given. You know what Bobby Slocke's given? He's got one super awesome, amazing wide receiver gone. He's got one running back who's really, really good, but not much behind that. And he's got a subpar offensive line. And he's got a quarterback. I don't care if you want to disagree with me until you're blue in the face.

I think he's lost his confidence. I think I disagree. I think there's pressing right now for the first time in his younger NFL career. And it's okay to press, especially with the fact that you don't trust your offensive line. I firmly believe that C.J. Stroud does not trust his offensive line. Ross, what is today's edition of Believe it or not? Detroit Lions players. That is up next at 713-212-5-790.

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on Sports Talk 790. Final second segment of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Believe it or not, coming up in seconds, 713, 212, 5, 790. Is it true? Now, I guess I'm spoiling what we're going to say. We have Justin Timberlake tickets to give away. Is that true, Connor? We need to be teasing this for like hours on this show.

Yes, this is true. Okay, 713, 2125-790 for tickets to Justin Timberlake. We need to start pro- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm sorry, I was walking, I was talking to the bosses. Wait, we're giving away Justin Timberlake tickets? We need to start prolling this like every hour. Wait, wait just a minute. Normally do terrible bands of the 80s. How many tickets do we have for this?

We got a pair of tickets. Are you trying to steal some? No, no, I don't know. I do, I do. Yeah. Whoa. So how many pairs do we have? One for each day?

This we've got five pairs. Okay, so the second winner of, believe or not, wins what? $790 T-shirt. Oh, Jesus. A little drop off. Well, I can do some Monster Jam tickets Yeah, I'll see that because the T-shirt is, I mean, I'm always playing for a damn t-shirt.

Just, this is really big. One per day, we have five believe it or not this week. So, yeah, we're going to have five winners to go see Justin. Now, if somebody wins today, we'll carry those tickets over for tomorrow. So it makes you want to listen. Yes. All right, Rockets tonight, you're going to listen to that. I will be listening, kind of.

Who does the launch pad at 6? That will be me. You want to copy and cut and paste these? Yes. If you go ahead and photocopy that for me, that'd be great. I'd be happy to. 630 network pre-game show, 7 o'clock tip time wax and I will have the call. And we'll have the post-game call-in show, The Rockets Wrap.

I went in the office and I said, everybody named a wizard and they said, Sadiq Bayne. I said, that's actually true, but he's hurt, so it doesn't really count. That's been an active player. That's half credit. Jordan Poole is still there? Jordan Poole is still there. They have the youngest starting lineup in their franchise's history. The average age of the starting five for the Wizards is 21.06 years old.

Do you know the spread for tonight? game. May I guess? Go ahead. 9. 13 and a half. Let's get that win, baby. Let's go to 7 and 4 tonight. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply call it Believe it or not. Here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2.

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today is all things about Detroit Lions players. Ugh. I'll read your statement about one of the players. The statement is completely not utterly accurate. You'll say this. Belief Vince. Erroneous full of bunk and made up. You'll say this. Two believer in a row. What will they play for again? Connor D. McGovern. Our first room will get a pair of tickets to see Justin Timberlake on his forget tomorrow to world tour December 4th at Toyota Center.

We've also got a four pack of tickets with pit passes to Monster Jam on Sunday, February 2nd at Energy Stadium and 790 T-shirts. Phyllis on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not? Hello? Hello? Excuse me, this is not a party line. Who is this? Who's talking to me? This is Phyllis. Philis, you ready? Yeah.

All right. Do they have two people on the line at one time here? No, we're good. Phyllis, Dan Campbell is a huge Metallica fan, and it was even known as a Dan Telica in college. Believe it or not? Believe it. Believe it. All right, Phyllis, good luck. This is for Justin Timberlink. Jared Golf is an avid hunter and has appeared on the Outdoor Channel program Gridiron Outdoors.

Believe it or not? Not. Oh, he has. Ouch. John on 790. John, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Yeah. Hayden Hutchinson's mom was Miss Michigan Teen USA back in 1988.

Believe it or not? Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Brian Branch is one of six players to ever win NFC defensive player the month in the first month of his rookie year. Believe it or not. Not. That is correct.

And you win. You're going to see Justin Timberlake or Monster Jam. That's up to you. Let's go to chat on 790. What was your favorite part of today's radio show? You know what? I just tuned in. I just left the golf tournament, so I...

Sorry. Well, at least you're honest about it. Jake Bates briefly signed with the Texans in the summer of 2023 and was cut a couple of weeks later. Believe it or not? Not. He was. He was in Camp Rossi? Is that another Casario Miss?

They had Jaime Fairbred. Yeah, that's fine. Robert on 790. You ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Jared golf is 29th on the all-time leading passers list just ahead of Boomer O'Styston and just behind Donovan McNabb. Believe it or not? Believe it.

No, he's 46. Not even close. Thank you, though. Let's go to Neil on 790. Neil, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. DJ Reader slipped to the fifth round of the 2016 NFL draft after tearing his bicep in senior bowl practices. Believe it or not.

Believe it. No, Ross made that up. That's actually really good. You know a lot of things very poorly, but this is just your wheelhouse. I got to be honest with you. Scott on 790, Scott, your favorite part of today's radio show. Just now. Amon St. Brown's father was a prolific bodybuilder and was even a two-time Mr. Universe.

Believe it or not? He was very physically gifted. Sorry. So we had one winner today, which meant we gave away one set of tickets. We'll have another set of tickets tomorrow for Justin Timberlake here on the program. All right, before I get you out of here, let me tell you about quality home products of Texas. I'm very pleased to be speaking for them because they have taken care of 77,000 different folks at least with quality standby generators from Generac. And if you want to get a generator, because you're worried about the power going out, it's going to go out.

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Rossi, we have gut feelings tomorrow at 11 o'clock. Have we got a feeling that there'll be more Bobby Slovak talk tomorrow? I'm a feeling that Bobby Slovak probably can't get a free meal in this town right now. He's fine. Who else? We've got Rockets, Wizard. Recap? Huge. Yeah, I think it's going to be a two and a half hour recap. What if something crazy happens?

Minute by minute. Like what? Like Jailing Ring goes for 56 points. That would be cool. I don't know. If that happens. That'd be a two and a half hour conversation piece. Maybe a game winning highlight will play over and over again. Over and over for you. Just throwing that out as a possibility. And then what else we got going on tomorrow? We have Monday Night Football tonight, a game that will be of interest to.

Me, 17 PPR points for Puka Nukuoka, please. Oh, I didn't even check my fan. I think I've got a three-game winning streak. How are the toados looking, let's go. Tolls are going to make a run here, I think. All right, so we've got Rockets. We've got Monday night football, and we have more on what was a very disappointing night inside NRG Stadium. Thanks to all that joined us.

Thanks for all of you for listening and calling and emailing and tweeting us. We'll do this all again tomorrow at 10 o'clock. Up next, it's Wexler. It's Clayton. It's the team right here on Sports Talk 7-9. Thank you.