The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans Find Their Groove! Rockets Preseason Opener Tonight

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

Texans Find Their Groove! Rockets Preseason Opener Tonight

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-0-1 in H-town. Good morning. And welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Call it a streak, Rossi. You're Texans. I don't care. What you call it? I call it a dub.

Granted, it was probably the worst Baltimore team they've ever assembled. See, I knew that was going to be the first thing you said. But you know what? But it still counts. I'm not a blind homer. You want that? Go to your YouTube channels. I picked another one bites of dust and that's exactly what they did. Another one bit the dust.

You're getting me all started up. Well, I saw people going after you on Twitter about it. One person went after on me on Twitter. One. Well, that guy was right. You got to stop hating Maddie. 44 to 10 in the NFL is a huge victory. You don't even believe that.

And the Houston, Texas pulled it off. Yes, I do. You don't even believe that. There were two and a half point. You played it. And they went up there and they whipped the Baltimore Ravens ass. They played, they played a CFL team. CJ Stroud looked great.

Okay, well, they weren't 34-point favorites against the CFL team, so they still took care of business. Nobody's ever had a nice win. And I understand you're going to be Texans hater mouth. You are a blind home or you are a blind home or you. Do you have a YouTube page? Do you have a big win? Give a YouTube. It was a big win.

I'm excited. I play the song. CJ Stroud, four touchdowns. Nick Chubb? actually looking like he's got some juice in his legs? What happened? He saw Woody Marks last week. He's like, uh-oh.

I guess fine. I got to empty the tank. I'm not one of the toy store character to be a RV one of my team. Exactly. I think freaking job. Yes, he did. He saw objects in the rearview mirror maybe closer than they appear. And all of a sudden, he's like busted tackles and showing some bursts.

This is a horrible analogy. Oh, here we go. That was the sales guy who's been the really good sales guy for a long period of time. who just kind of sat back in his chair, saw a young whippersnapper make the big deal and he's like, I'm still the big dog in this office. Well, that kind of works except for

if the sales guy is coming off of knee replacement surgery and he's hobbling around. Or rehab step, you know. And he's in a new place. He's not necessarily the old dog for the Texans, but the analogy's not the worst one you've ever made. There's worse coming. Yeah, I was, even before he busted that 27-yard touchdown,

I was like, Nick Chubbs got a little pepidous that this weekend against the Ravens. Maybe he's doing this. You never know. What is that, Matt? What is that your minding over there? I'm not on TV. Not on TV.

We're not special enough. Yeah. C.J. Stroud making plays. Xavier Hutchison getting touchdowns. Christian Kirk with big catches. Over 36 and a half yards on Christian Kirk. It's nice.

I don't know. Who's W.R. 2? Is it Hutchison or is it Kirk? It doesn't matter. Or is it Schultz. Shultz is getting catches like crazy. Forget what I said. It's Schultz.

He's been tart. him more than anybody else it feels like. I looked at the game chart. I look at Dalton Schultz goes to, and this is what Dalton Schultz was supposed to do. I mean, last year took a little regression, but he's playing much better. He's become the number two target for him. And yes, absolutely. You can say you can take everything with a grain of salt in the last two weeks.

Titans, one of the worst teams in football. I mean, that was the gift of the gift of the gift of wins that they got against the Cardinals yesterday. They still should be over this season. They're not a very good team. but you still pounded them 26 to nothing. And yes, it was the walking wounded in the Baltimore Ravens, but you were still on the road. And according to Vegas, it was a tight spread,

and you took care of business. So absolutely in the back of your minding me, like, okay, these aren't the two biggest wins ever. But at the end of the day, the Texans have taken care of business for two straight weeks, and that's a lot better than what we saw from them in the first couple of weeks of the season. We see large point spreads differentials in college football all the time.

I want to say, and we can look this up between now and 2 o'clock. but I don't know in my history of me doing this. I can remember a 17.5, 18 points spread in the NFL. I don't ever remember a team being favored by more than that. I think 20 or something is like run the historical high. Might have been like the Cowboys against. Who did they slam in a Super Bowl? Was it the Chargers?

Well, I mean, there could have been, you know, there was a year of the Lions didn't win a game. Yeah. And I'm guessing it was a huge spreads on those. But, I mean, we're talking. I mean, I remember when it gets to 10 or 11 people kind of do a double take. But here is what I do take from this. And this is what you cannot, you must, even if you are a little hesitant to brag on the local football team.

C.J. Stroud looked very crisp. Best game of the season. I mean, looked decisive. It looked confident. The throws were there. There were very few miscues on that. getting Nick Chubb back a little bit of his mojo. You can't argue that.

And honestly, you can't argue the Texans defense. They don't get an A for the season, but they don't get a C. They're a solid B. B plus could be a potential A minus defense when it's all said and done. That has been consistent. Kami Fairbairn's been good. Tommy Townsend's been a little mid, but you didn't have to use him yesterday. Yesterday for me was about C.J. Stroud getting some of the back of the mojo.

I think he's frankly lost the last few weeks. Yeah, that's the headlining story. Absolutely. Is that C.J. Stroud, I mean, I literally put up, I wonder what would happen if I did it this week. I put up the Twitter poll a couple of weeks ago. Is C.J. Stroud a franchise quarterback? And the results were 50-50. If I put it up this week, it would look a lot better because, well, he looked a lot better.

Yeah. As you said, confident, throwing in rhythm, finding his guys. It did take a couple of sacks, but it wasn't that bad. And also, the protection was holding up. There was a number of times where he had. some clean pockets. Someone was able to find some guys down the field. It was great. No, you, the best thing that came out of this for me watching the game yesterday was

you had a wounded Baltimore team that you never let them get in the game. You, I mean, Cooper Rush, numbers got a little bit better later in the game, but it wasn't, they weren't great at any point. You know what? Derek Henry, who is in the Texans Hall of Fame or will be in the Wall of Fame ultimately later? I mean, a non-issue in the game. A defense that was beat up and had many starters. You didn't let other guys become heroes, making them quote-unquote most of their opportunity.

Tommy Fairbairn? Look good, knocking in 57 yards? Yeah, yeah. I mean, honestly, Baltimore, I don't even know if they can come back from this. I mean, even if Lamar is to come back in two weeks, you're going to be staring at about a one in five, one and six. You're going to have to go basically 9. You've got to win in or 9 in a row to get back.

This AFC, I don't know if you notice this yesterday. Now, again, Washington beating the charges helped. But this AFC is going to be very, very congested. Yeah, they're home for the Rams. It might take 10 to get in the wild card. Just think about that. Yeah, the Rams are, they played on Thursday, right? So they got a little bit of extra rest.

Right. Yeah, home for the Rams next for the Baltimore Ravens. They could be one in five. easily. And here's the thing. Kansas City plays at Jacksonville today. You got a roof with the Chiefs. Let's go Chiefs. Because you don't need two teams to climb over in the EFC South. And by the way, the Colts, my God. I mean, they are, I don't know. It's funny. There is a storyline for me in college football this year and in

pro football this year. And I'm amongst many. the Daniel Jones Indianapolis cults whatever they're doing this year Renaissance? Yeah. Is I think stunning the NFL world. Would that be fair in saying?

I would say so. Four and one where they are. Now, the teams they've beaten have been They're all not going to the playoffs. Right. It's been the dolphins. Okay, the Broncos, but as we have pointed out, they should have lost that game.

They should have lost that game. And then it's the Titans and the Raiders. And by the way, Speaking of the Denver Broncos. I talked about how congested Ross it is. They went and beat Philadelphia yesterday. So you have very little slip-ups coming up. It's going to take probably 10.

It might even take 11 to get in the playoffs. We could have, I mean, it's been three must-win games in a row. We could have six more must-win games in a row. A lot of must-win games, maybe. Tell the truth coming up today, 1130, we'll feature whether or not to must-win. Love it. All right. So the startling the pro-football storyline of the year.

All right, hold on. the Indianapolis Colts. The startling college is unfortunately your beloved squad. To go from preseason number one.

Now again, it's just a poll and these AP people don't, I mean, they're just doing it just to fill out. Yeah, I didn't vote them number one.

I'm not saying you, but a lot of people did. I know. And they are out of the top 25 after losing to Florida. Now, I cannot speak too much to the game

because I was at Rockets practice justifiably so. And I did see a little bit when I got to TDCU on Saturday before the Texas Tech game and Houston game. It felt like looking at the timeline that there are some serious protection issues. Would you agree with that or is it more on? We can talk about it. You know what? Well, they got their ass beat on both lines, offensive and defensive. That's no way to win a football game.

But that isn't even really the biggest choke job in college football. Penn State, three touchdown plus favorite at UCLA. At least they're not Penn State, I guess. And then I had all these Texas Tech fans coming at me. Uh-oh. Who clearly don't know the show. And I had to point it out to somebody. It's like, I had enough's enough.

Good for you, Matt. Matt's getting in Twitter fights. Find them at SportsMT. And by the way, I'll say this real quick. Shout out Cougar fans. I was deathly afraid of it was going to be a 50-50 crowd. It felt 70 to 30 to me. Now, you Texas Tech fans were there.

I get you, and you won and you congratulate you. And you kicked the Cougars out. and there wasn't even any fans or butts about it. But I was really afraid that the Texas Tech fans would overhaul the Houston crowd. And I took a photo of it beforehand. You could tell because if you're a Texas Tech fan, you're not wearing the blue shirts. There were blue shirts all over the place. So I was, if there was a saving grace to me, it was a U of H fans showed up.

Now, when we got there, we weren't particularly pleased. What happened? Was the final score? I don't know, 3511, something stupid like that? I don't know. It's bad. I think we had a score agamie. You ever been to a 25-11-half-time score?

No. I don't think so. I think it was 25. I don't know. I kind of lost track and lost interest. Oh, 35 to 11. Ah, I didn't see the final there. Yeah, not good. And Tex-Tech is really good. I got news for you.

And then there was tortillas all over the place. Yeah, you know, why do some of them have holes in the middle? I asked that aerodynamics. It helps fly further? It helps fly further. Well, there's not a hole in the middle of a frisbee. You're asking the wrong person. Okay.

But there were a lot of them that had, the holes in them. Okay. It's weird. I don't disagree. 1014, it's a Matt Thomas show, Ross. You guys want to chime in. Your Texans have won two in a row. Will Seattle be a must win? We'll find out

today on the truth at 1130. And also we've got to get to Mark Sanchez. What in the world are you doing Mark Sanchez? 1014 on Sports Talk 790. Do you ever find yourself working with someone who throws these haymakers at you

before you go on the air. Jonathan, you and I have had nice, simple conversations in our time together. Yeah, all the time. You don't throw all these,

I can't possibly respond because the bump music is coming back, clips back at me, do you? I would never do that to you. I'm not going to remember what you said, and I can actually comment on it in a few minutes. I do this on purpose,

folks, and you know what, maybe I'm a bad person. I'll say something crazy or way off the wall to Matt right as we're coming back, just so I can see. see how long it takes for him to compose himself. It takes a while.

It is the Matt Topics Show, Ross. We are largely open line today. We do have the, we've got to tell the truth at 1130. We've got the news at noon. We believe it or not today at 150. We have your phone calls. Let me give you the phone numbers. And look, you know, always the 10 o'clock hour is a little slow for some reason.

I don't know why that is. Maybe all are just like getting, you've had your coffee for a while. You're on Facebook for a while. People are getting into work and then settle. They have to pretend to work till about noon. Right. And then that's when you really check out for the day. So you 10 o'clockers are more than welcome to jump in early.

If you're listening, for that, we thank you. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. The Texans, look. Yeah, I want to hear the people how they feel. Are these two really, by the, if you look at the box scores, these are two really impressive wins. But if you contextualize them, there's a way you can say,

wake me up when they beat a real season. this. I think there's a happy medium to this. Again, to me, you watched Baltimore yesterday, and you know that was a team that was not an NFL defense out there yesterday. It just wasn't. But

upsets happen, teams overcome obstacles, played higher than they're worth it over our ability, or are you just or you insert your well and you do things and the thing that cracks me up is that I went so impressed with Nick Cayley, you guys

were ready to throw Nick Kelly to the curb two weeks ago. So let's hold I would just say this. The hyperbole of Weback is a little thick right now. But take it for what it is. And that's why I want this audience to do this. I want y'all be a smart audience.

You had a terrible Tennessee team. You dispose of them. You never let them in the game. Frankly, it might have been a different game if the field goals were made, but it wasn't. So they didn't. And your defense didn't allow a tendency to hit the end zone. and then you had a very, very poor backup quarterback. You took me, you made sure Travis Henry wasn't a part of the offense.

Derek. Derek, or Travis, for that matter, the great Buffaloville running back. Zay Flowers was just okay. I mean, which didn't have that one big catch. Yeah, but that... I had a big catch for you. Yeah. He needed to get to the end zone, if you know what I'm saying.

But he didn't. He didn't. And the defense was, again, that defense doesn't play for any other team in the NFL. If I'm Baltimore, I'm really wigging out because, again, if I'm digging a huge hole, how much can I overcome this? Now, I'll say this, Kay Adams just tweeted out, the Baltimore Ravens are still the favorites to win the division via Vegas. I don't know where she got it from, but she put the four teams up there.

They are a slight favorites to win it. And I guess what they're saying is the Pittsburgh Steelers will regress, and the Baltimore Ravens wants Lamar Jackson and some of the defensive starts will come back. Browns are terrible. The mingles have Joe Burrow hurt. Bengals are toast. They can't score. I mean, they scored some late scores against Detroit, but generally speaking, they've been in the field goal range for about three weeks consecutive weeks.

Steelers are three and one, but they're like, we always count them out and then they're just in the playoff picture. I mean, and everybody and the Steelers fans hate Mike Tomlin and he's the worst and it's like, whether it's tiny-handed Kenny Pickett or Mitch Trubisky or Russell Wilson and Justin Fields. They just end up, I mean, they play hard and they end up winning games. Yeah. But at this point, again, Vegas, not to be all end all, but Vegas does still have the Baltimore Ravens not being done.

Correct. And I wonder if their schedule softens up back half the year because they have been. It has to because it's been so brutal. Yeah, for sure. Bill's Lions and Chiefs they've already played. They've got the Rams coming up. Yeah, it softens up. It softens up.

Oh, yeah. Here's their run after the Rams next week. Bears, dolphins, Vikings, Browns, Jets, Bingles, Steelers, bingles, Patriots. Although, that's all winnable. Although, New England goes to Buffalo last night and beats the Bills. That's true.

Bill's finally lost a game. Yeah, we are done with undefeated teams. It ain't never happening again. I don't think so. Not with the parody. And didn't Don Shula pick their schedule that year? It was a bunch of cupcakes. What do you mean by picking?

Like the coach, somehow the coaches picked the schedules or something like that? That was 1972, so I couldn't tell you. But then if everybody coach, everybody, if every coach is picking this schedule. I don't remember. Yeah. Okay, maybe I'm making that up. How about this? Will we ever see an undefeated college football team ever again?

That's a good one. There's a lot of parody at the top and you have to win how many play, however many playoff games now, three to four. Well, you can cherry pick your first two or three, but if you're playing nine league games now, that makes it much more difficult to be able to get that fourth scrub in there. Maybe like an ACC, like if Clemson had a powerhouse team or Florida State. or maybe a Boise State, something like that.

I don't think an SEC or Big Ten teams doing it. Yeah. Big 12. There's 16 teams. You're telling me you're going to run through the whole top to bottom on that? Well, I'm going to try to. I don't think any... Texas Tech could do it, I guess, if they spend enough money.

By the way, I saw Cody Campbell at the game on Saturday. You did? He walks around like he's a rock star. Do you have like a platinum grill? I'm going to tell you something right now. If you're a Texas Tech fan, you should go find him and bow down to him. Yes, you should. They are spending...

ungodly amount of money and it's working. It's a good football team. I don't know if their national championship good, Rossi, but they won't make the playoffs seems like, right? I think, I mean, they may be so good. They may make it as an at-large. They don't necessarily have to win the Big 12 and make that happen.

So, all right, so back to the Texans, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. What are your thoughts? Ross has laid it out. It's very simply. Are you buying in? Do you need them to beat Seattle? Seattle lost yesterday in.

of bay. Yeah, that was a back and forth game. That was a high scoring game. By the way, should we be asleep on the Buccaneers? Buccaneers' loss wasn't embarrassing. No. They're four in one now, I think. Yeah.

First in the AFC South? I'm sorry, NFC South? Yeah. That division's a hot mess. Falcons, Panthers, Saints, yeah. They should have been wrapped up by late November. Is Mike McDaniel going to be on the way out already? They might be back to. number one in the rotten five. You're up 17

nothing on the Panthers. Yeah. Now the game was in Charlotte. This shouldn't that make a huge difference? I don't think so, but you would think, you know. And Tyree kills, I mean, his leg is gone. You didn't have him, but they should have been better. Yeah, and the great running back. I had him on bench yesterday. Devon A. A. Chan, you put him on the bench?

No, no, H&N, I started. I'm talking about Carolina's running back. Oh, oh, Rico! Rado! He had a big game for Rico Dattle now, man. Yeah, he's 31 points in on my bench. He had 206 yards, and he was cramping up in the 4th. quarter. Otherwise, he could, uh, he'd be coming after Adrian Peterson or something. You got that right. All right. 713-212-5-7-90. Are you buying on the Texans? Are you on the fence? They're really, honestly, there's no wrong answer. Because again, it's an easier answer if you had

beaten, say, Kansas City and a healthy Baltimore in back-to-back weeks. Or you had beaten, I don't know, if you'd beaten Tampa Bay yesterday and you'd beaten, you know, somebody, Indianapolis, you had beaten up a, 40% healthy Baltimore team and a Tennessee team that might go 2 and 15. Tennessee should not have won the game yesterday. That was a little timer. And I'm going to applaud a former Texans head coaching candidate for the way he handled the situation yesterday. And we'll tell a little bit about that as well.

713212.5.790 to tell the truth at 1130, the news at noon, believe it or not, at 150. And you and me and Ross the rest of the way at 713-212-5-790. We have a lot of topics to get to today, so we're just going to rotate them throughout the course of the show. We have obviously a busy week of NFL football, the Texans doing their thing. We've got to get to this Arizona Cardinals, Jonathan Gannon situation. That was interesting. We have...

What's your guy, Amari DiMarcato? We're talking about him with Roto. That was. Isn't it funny? We were just talking about Demarcato. Yes. And Jonathan Gannon, for those of you that don't know, Rip, he did the obligatory. I'm going to be short of the end zone and drop the ball and get a touchback.

And Jonathan Gannon, you know, DeMercotta was being consoled by a bunch of different players. And Jonathan Gannon went over there and told him exactly how he felt about him. And I was like, good for him. Ross, I don't know when is this ever going to stop. How many times is a NFL team? And I guarantee you every one of these 32 NFL teams are telling these guys, don't be flipping with the football run to the end of the end zone. Then you can throw it in the high in the stands if you want to.

I said this last week when A.D. Mitchell did it. Everybody, coach, should just sit everybody down and make a rule, and I know it's old school, but you should just do it. Tell everyone, do hand the ball to the referee, and then you can do whatever you want. Yeah, something. You do cartwheels. You can do the electric slide.

You can do the cha-cha slide. You can do the Ravens Dance. Moonwalk. You do whatever you want. just hand the ball to the referee and then do whatever you want. That's problem solved. I don't believe in choking people.

But okay. If I was Jonathan again, I would have choked the guy. I mean, it's seriously. Mara Di Mercado would have choked him. I know, I know. He would have broken the mouth. I'd have gone from the throat. Does that seem better?

I'm just telling you. He probably didn't want that smoke. I don't have a dog in that fight between Tennessee and Arizona. But I saw that. And I was like, when is this going to stop? I mean, you want to talk about any given Sunday. That felt like a one in a million game. They get the Demercato drop.

Then they get a touchdown. And then they get the, was it a fumble intersception? Fumbled into the end zone. Fumbled into the end zone touchdown. That was insane. Vince Marada, who's the PA announcer for the Sons, who is a talk show host in Phoenix. He says that's the worst loss he has ever seen in person for Cardinals game. That's got to be up there.

I mean, that was insane. The Titans had zero chance winning that game, but now they're one and four. You want to talk about it. That's the most any given Sunday of any loss I've seen that I can recall. And the reality is, the NFC South is going to be very competitive. If the Cardinals don't make the playoffs, they're going to be sitting back that one and going, we literally gave that one away. Yeah. All right.

Also, Rockets preseason opener tonight. The Kevin Durant era begins. Any word on how much everybody's playing? Everybody is suiting up. That's all I was told. Okay. Now, it's preseason... It's just the preseason.

20 to 25 minutes, you would think? I want to watch. Yeah, I don't know. What have the hell of it? They've done the last couple years. You've honestly been there for more preseason basketball than I have. I don't normally pay attention, to be honest. People are the current back really quickly.

You can have his... You can have like 17 or 18 players per team. Uh-huh. It's a play-by-play nightmare for basketball because... I mean, Nepali Dante is a backup for the Hawks, former Rocking Great. I was going to ask where he was. I was going to bring his name off.

I'm like, no, he's off the roster. Jacob Toppin is there. That's Obie's brother. You've always got some player's cousin or son. Keaton Wallace. L.E. Engai is a Real Madrid-Spain player now on the back of the bench. Of course. Of course, you have Mohamed Gay.

And then you've got Nicola Jurechich for the Hawks as well. Sure, why not? And I read somewhere, Jabari Smith Jr., coach Udoca announcing he's in the starting five, right? Yeah. It's going to be a men, Jabari, Durant, Shengoon, and to be determined, that's a lengthy lineup. To me. Tell me, just me. Okay.

It's Reed Shepard's job to lose. NBA starter, Reed Shepard? Just saying, throwing it out there. Is that what the Matt Thomas whispers he's hearing? Well, I'll say, I'm just going to say I'm wary of him so far. I think, I don't even, even if you want. in the building you'd kind of deduct that who would you like to see you want to see a men playing point

I guess would it be a men playing point with and you're going to throw who are the candidates Tari Isson is a candidate you could do you could move a men Thompson to the point but then you would not have a traditional two guard because Tarii isn't would then be there yeah you basically don't have traditional two guards you could go Aaron Holiday if you wanted to

He's not going to start I don't think Um How is Tari Easton's leg. I was a practice. He was there yesterday, so he's doing that. He's not going to... E. May did say that Tari and Stephen Adams are not going to play Wednesday against Utah.

So, I mean, tell me. I mean, you... You're a rocket fan. I don't know. I'll throw a dart and say Tari, Eason. Who's your main go-toe throw out the bench then? Reed Shepard. No, I'm going to stand by my thought. If it's...

Reed play so poorly that he's he's he I don't think he comes I don't think he starts and contributes or is he back into the bench I will say I don't know how much Reed has grown as a player in the offseason if we're getting Reed Shepard from basically what I saw out of him last year I don't think he's an NBA starter there's one guy J.D. Davidson cup of coffee in the NBA was the G league MVP last year really keep an eye on him not how much he's going to play tonight but he's number four for the Rockets okay so So just throwing out. Is that like being valedictorian of the remedial school?

I don't know. I mean, remedial school. I mean, maybe a 4.0 in a junior college? Okay. I like mine, Alex. Yours is better. Mine's better than yours. I never get that.

Yeah. I never win these things. You're one and 175 now. I know. That's terrible. 713, 212-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-1-7-90. Let's start talking to some folks, and we will begin with CJ on the south side.

Hey, CJ, CJ, are you? on the fence or off the fence about the Texans after the two straight wins? Definitely on the fence because of the circumstances of the two wins. I will be off that fence if they don't have

to dominate Seattle. If they win that game, even if it's a close man, then I'll be off the fence. But we definitely we took advantage of the situation. The plus for me is that they beat Osmore in the way that they should have. The minus for me that it took all the way into the fourth quarter to get going against Tennessee.

But, yeah, I'm still on, I'm sorry about that. I'm still on the fence about them. I need to see it happen against the 49ers and the Seahawks. And the last two things I'll say, yeah, it's definitely Rees Shepherd's job to lose. I don't choke the players, man. Don't influence. All right, I shouldn't choke, but, man, seriously, did you see the play? I mean, Jonathan Gannon.

I did. I mean, you, I don't know. know how many more times these NFL players who are insanely talented in terms of athletic ability are so mind-numbingly dead when it comes to dropping the ball before it reaches the end zone. Once or twice, I get it, but it's happening. I don't know what it is, but it's, it's, it makes me mad and I don't even care about either one of those teams. It is dumbfounding that it continues to happen. Again, I think it's arrogance. Because you have to be arrogant.

to think what you're going to do before you even do it. You know what I mean? Like you're acting like you've already scored and you haven't. You already think about the celebration and you haven't achieved the points. Yeah, I think it's, I think it's crazy. I think it's tragic. And I think players like that, they need to be sat down for a while, you know, and understand the consequences.

I actually, and I agree with that rule. I thought it was kind of crazy the one you said you would make them hand on the ball, the ref. But like if that player, yeah, I would make him from now on when you score, if you score, you hand the ball to the ref. You know what I would do? run to the wall, CJ, and say you cannot come back until that ball is in your hand at the wall. Go touch the wall in the back of the end zone.

Thanks for the phone call. I mean, seriously. Any kind of rule. Any rule. Hand it to the ref, hand it to somebody, hand it to your mama. I don't know. Go throw in the stands. No, not throw it. Go jump in the stands with the ball and hand it.

Hand it to somebody, yes. You don't want them loading up at the two. Because you know, Ross, every single team when they're in the film room, all the guys are together, hey, receivers, you don't do that. You got a full montage. Played at the beginning of every team meeting. Yeah.

You got an NFL film's got a whole DVD of the best of a hot play. They didn't do DVDs anymore? I don't think so. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. You know, I'm sorry. All right.

1043. Laser disc. Laser. You know, just go to iPad. iPads can get highlights. There you go. All right. We got to get to James and Klein and we got to get to Mark Sanchez.

Holy smokes. What the heck's going on over there? So let me ask you this question. And I'm sure many of you. you know by now. Don't give an answer yet. Okay. Does Fox keep Mark Sanchez after this? 1043 on Sports

Sports Talk 7.E. Like I said, we got so much to get to today. We have not gotten in the deep dive on the Longhorns, which we'll do at 11 o'clock. We went to the Cougars, too. We sucked. We absolutely suck. What kind of deep dive you're looking for? I don't know. Just, I want you to pour your soul out to the audience. Why? Because your team is massively underperforming.

You think I'm shocked they lost? Oh, come on. I think it's a little easier to say that. The line moved from six and a half to four and a half. I don't know about the line. Texas should be in Florida. I'm telling you. I'm telling you what the line was. I don't care about the line.

Texas Longhorns should have gone to Florida line. I'm telling you what a logical person will look at. If you look at the line and see that it went from six and a half to four and a half, you understand that the Longhorns could very well lose that game. My life doesn't play well. I don't live in the line. I live on the Texas Longhorns should have been a better team. Yes, they should have been a better team, but they're not that good.

Well, I just, you should be good. Okay. Are you shocked? I'm okay. I'm just going to give a statement to you. I'm very surprised. If a team is a four and a half point favorite and they lose, is that the most shocking thing you've ever heard?

The shocking thing. Okay. So I'm not shocked. But I'm not looking at it. I say the Florida Lottogators are about to fire their coach. Okay. Well, I wasn't sitting there with pom-poms and saying, yeah, Texas Longhorn is number one. All right.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry you thought that your team could have lost. You're talking about a quarterback who has not shown anything all season long going on the road in the swamp and getting beat on both lines. And I'm supposed to be shocked that they lost? Art sucks. There it is. Okay.

We got it out. We got an all out of her sister. We're good to go. He's pretty bad guys. I can't believe how bad he is. I'm shocked. Oh, when I'm supposed to be surprised. I am. I want you to be surprised.

Oh, my God. I want you to be fired on your belly. I want you to be mad on my belly. The team's not good. You lost to Florida. Who loses everybody. Okay. I also watched them play their other games.

I didn't sit there saying this team is a world beer. You dominated Sam Houston State. You dominated UTSA. They struggled against you. U-Tep. They, quite frankly, Arch looked terrible for a while

against San Jose State, and he got progressively worse than those couple of weeks, and I'm supposed to say, I'm shocked. They lost to Florida? I'm not.

Will you be shocked if he gets benched now? I would be surprised if he got benched. Really? Yeah, because the backup is Matthew Caldwell. He's not getting benched.

I want Quinn Ewers back. Let's go. Quinn Ewers was, I mean, above replacement level, but not great. Arch Manning is looking like just a guy.

It's what he looked. He made some good throw over the weekend. Oh, you said we'll get to it 11. Yeah, 11 o'clock. That's a little tease. That's right there. Ridiculous. I just don't let Vegas tell me. I let Texas, again, I bought in the headlines. I bought it. Exactly. I bought in and I'm a fool. All right, now let's get two other things. We're quick. So Mark Sanchez, for those, everybody knows where it happened by now, right? You would think? Well, the details came out. Yeah. Let's go back. So Saturday morning, we all woke up, to Fox Sports Analyst Mark Sanchez.

Yes. Was stabbed in Indianapolis. First initial reaction was, oh my God, is he going to make it? Thoughts and prayers out to Mark Sanchez. This is unbelievable. He's such a nice guy, such a good family man. Okay. Then it became he got into a fight with a DoorDash person.

Which is incorrect. That was strike two on the inaccuracies. Yes. And then politicians are coming out. Oh, we have to curb this inner city violence. Mark Sanchez is a victim of this inner city violence. This is unbelievable. By the way, inner city of the country.

I remember since inner cities have existed. It's unfortunately you'd like to curb it, but I don't think you know what? Oh, yeah, there's crime where people actually live in cities. This is shocking. Okay. So that's strike two. The strike three was the fact that it wasn't a DoorDash guy. It was a 69-year-old man in an alleyway that worked for a grease trapping company.

Yes. He's collecting cooking oil. So he's doing his job late at night. I don't think the 69-year-old thought that former NFL quarterbacks would be doing sprints in the middle of this alleyway after having, I don't know, 9 or 10 or 11 cocktails. So now, again, summarizing this very briefly, Sanchez wanted the grease truck guy and his truck to move so he could run his sprints because that's what people do at a middle of the night. I didn't see this. He's running sprints? I didn't see it.

Okay, I missed that part. Yeah. He's running sprints in an alleyway in downtown Indianapolis late at night. Huh. Apparently Sanchez goes after the guy, the guy who didn't have his hearing aid on, hearing aids on, was like, who is this psychotic coming after me? He tasers him. Pepper spray, right?

Oh, yeah. Okay. You may be pepper. It doesn't work. I saw pepper spray. They then go. after each other and he plays like, this guy's going to kill me. So the guy in self-defense takes a knife and stabs Mark Sanchez multiple times.

That's apparently the most accurate of all the stories. Okay. Now, there are, apparently Sanchez had his phone on. Apparently the grease trap guy had his phone on. So there is lots of video on this. And the family of the 69-year-old grease trap truck driver had video. has took some pictures of the said man in the hospital yesterday. He got his ass, I mean, brutally beaten by Mark Sanchez.

Oh, no. Brutely beaten. Matter of fact, I would not suggest any of you looking at the, trying to find the photos of the guy in the hospital. Because he, I can't believe he's alive. He's beaten to a pulp. So, fast-forwarding this even a few minutes ago, Indianapolis police have now announced that Mark Sanchez now faces a level five felony battery charge, which carries a one to six year sentence. So that's the very

latest as of about 35 minutes ago. So you're saying to yourself, well, how did Fox handle it? I want you to listen to these things without a comment. Okay. This is Carissa Thompson on the Fox early pregame show. All right, Friday night in Indianapolis, one of our team members, Mark Sanchez, was involved in an incident that we are still trying to wrap our heads around. And at this time, our thoughts and prayers are with Mark, his family, and all of those involved. Okay. Perfect, right? Yeah.

We have no details. No details. They don't want to say too much. They don't know what's going on. Here's Kurt Menafee moments later. All right. Thank you very much, Jay. Well, Friday night in Indianapolis, one of our team members, Mark Sanchez, was involved in an incident that, to be honest, we're all still trying to wrap our heads around.

At this time, our thoughts and prayers are with Mark, his family. and all those involved, we'll be right back with more football right after this. Okay, Fox, Fox, could you not have written two different things? They said the exact same thing. I mean, come on.

That's a good statement. That's terrible. That's PR spin, baby. We're wrapping, they couldn't even come up a different vernacular for wrapping our heads around it. Sounds like Chad DBT. I mean, yeah. Did AI write that for them? Perhaps. That's, that's, that's absolutely crazy.

Yeah, maybe they're behind the scenes like, yeah, Mark's a live wire. We don't know what happened here. Let's just go ahead and put something generic out. So what has happened is, unfortunately, what Ross said is accurate. You had everybody crapping in downtown Indianapolis. Yes. Because Vanessa Richon, who works our sideline, she's from Indianapolis, and she says that people are always talking about the downtown in Indianapolis.

And Vanessa and I were talking about rockets. I was like, every city's worried about inner city crime. We're all worried about inner city crime in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit. I mean, everybody's worried about inner city crime. And so is Indianapolis. So this was another indictment against Indianapolis. If you would have waited

just a little bit of time, you would have figured out it was Mark Sanchez's fault. Now again, there could be more to it because it feels like things are moving along here. Things can still come out. We haven't heard his side of the story, have we? No. All we're hearing is that they arrested him

on three misdemeanors, and now they have changed one of those to a felony charge. Yeah. This is bizarre. I think he's done at Fox. I think you're right. Unless his story comes out and there's video to corroborate it. That a 69-year-old man was trying to do his job and started messing with him, which I don't think is likely. Let me soft pedal a little bit.

If he had gotten into a fight, okay? And people get drunk. People make mistakes. I'm all for second chances. But when you are peppered sprayed, and the guy is fearful for his life and you go look at the the photos of the guy in the hospital? You're 100% right, Matt.

Nobody looked this up. You cannot. You saw it by the way. Yeah, yeah. I told you have to look. Why, he said not to do. I told you have to look. Here, look, I don't have to know.

Yeah, it's bad. I don't think Rossi comes back from it. I don't think so either. He's a good analyst too. I think he does a good trial. Number three crew. Our buddy Adam and me, that's his partner. And I'm not going to reach out to Adam

because he's probably in a very uncomfortable position. He was doing good games. He wasn't doing like Miami, Carolina. Yeah, I think he does a good job, but honestly, again, I'm wondering if he's on some sprints in the middle of the night. What does that even mean? And pepper spray's not slowing you down?

I mean, pepper spray can be erranted, but you can still kind of, I don't think it doesn't paralyze you. No, it's, no. If you get pepper sprayed, unless you're on something or inebriated like he was, that should slow you straight down. Should you? I mean, that should show you down for an hour.

hours if he got him in the face and he's saying he just wiped it off his face like he's Michael Myers or something all right go look at the photos I talk about Berkeley you're gonna want to look maz well go on it no I don't know I'm good you really came you saw him earlier oh I saw it before you were

I saw it before you gave your warning so thanks for nothing all right let's talk some more college football about my cougars not showing up and turn of the ball over over and over again And is A&M the best football team in the state right now? They ain't even played Texas Tech right now. Who would win? This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

I have been obsessed with the, and I know this, I don't mean to poke the bear Rossie, but I've been obsessed with how many people loved Arch Manning coming out of high school. And I have been as I spent a lot of time Saturday because I got to the T.D. earlier, the Cougar Stadium, very early before the game, because I was worried about. about traffic and whatnot. I was like, I think we need to stay away from private school quarterbacks.

I just, I don't know why I shouldn't paint with that broad brush on that. I'm sure we can find some, somebody that was good. I'm sure there are plenty. I mean, the nephew,

I mean, the uncles are great examples of that. Yeah. Good NFL quarterbacks. But there are so many bright football minds that have missed on him. I can't find anybody that's like he's going to, I hear,

I mean, I'm hearing all the things. I was listening to, to serious on Sunday morning driving around going to Rockets practice. He doesn't work through his progressions. His arms strength is mid. He has mechanical. I mean, all these

things, Ross, that I don't understand the number one high school quarterback in the country would have. If you're the number 23 quarterback, you've got some issues. He was the consensus number one high school quarterback in the country. Yes, he was. So help me through this.

And the number two quarterback, I will go back to this. The number two quarterback was Nico Yomileava. He had a very good. Dante Moore. Which who, Dante Moore is actually being, is pretty good, but with Oregon, but he was with UCLA. Yes.

And didn't do much. Jackson Arnold. Malachi Nelson. There was like a bunch of five-star quarterbacks that year. Five stars don't always hit. Is this an indictment against Sark? You tell me. I don't think so.

There is always the line of how much do you, blame the player and how much do you blame the coaching? Right. Everybody's got an opinion by the way. Everybody's about developing and it's like, okay, the offensive line is bad. Well, they got to develop the players. Well, they had two, both of their tackles were in the NFL draft last year. Texas Longhorn.

So they seem to be developing tackles or you say, is that just the player? I don't know. So the offensive line, they're not getting help anywhere. It's almost like what we were talking about CJ Stroud a couple of weeks ago. Arch Manning has a bad offensive line in front of him. He's getting pressured like crazy. the run game is basically non-existent and then he's basically

on Saturday he was their leading rusher and their leading passer of course I didn't see the two picks were they his fault yes the last one was an unbelievable catch by the Florida DB whose name I don't remember but it was a bad throw and that's another thing he was trying to drive the ball

downfield he also made a couple of great throws especially that second touchdown it was an unbelievable throw But those are the ones. He's bombing it deep. And I talked about this last year in this offseason to where he's not taking the throws in front of him. He's just trying to get the chunk plays. He's trying to make the highlight plays.

And he was doing that against Florida. And granted, they were down. And I hadn't seen as much of that from him. But there's problems with inaccuracies. There's problem with, as you said, going past his first read. And he's also running for, once he hits his first read, he's running for his life. so everything is going wrong with the Texas offense. The offensive line is bad.

The running game is bad. Honestly, the wide receivers aren't special, and the quarterback's not good. There you go. That's your problem. Everything. So everybody in this country, from college coaches to media

who have AP votes that you would think would have a response, I mean, yeah, they brought into the hype. Texas Longhorns were hype preseason. Oh, stop. me if you've heard that before. I mean, come on. Let's end this hype.

Listen, we're done. We're done. No, you're the one. Tell me they're back. Who told you they weren't back? I told you they weren't back. I don't know. I don't care.

I'm indifferent to their camp. I would say it all off season. They're not back. But I'm... But I don't need this. I need to see more. I don't need them playing in the Music City Bowl. I've been hurt too much.

And clearly I'm going to continue to get hurt. And somehow, they're favorites again this weekend against OU. Is that because the quarterback situation? Perhaps, yeah. The favorite against OU? Yes. Oh, come on. We'll use quarterback situations up in the Europe because of an injury.

And you're not going. Are you going? I don't know yet. The prices are going down now. See, this is how sad my life as a Longhorn fan is. The silver lining is like, oh, okay, I'm talking to my brother as the game is on. Well, at least, oh, you tickets will be cheaper now. Maybe we'll go. Because last week, get in prices $450. Like, top of the top of the cotton bowl.

Which isn't a bad seat. It's high, but pretty high. Yeah, but two people spending $900 to go, yeah. And it's not usually the weather's fine. Put on a little sunscreen, Matt. It's okay. People at every stadium across the country in college football, Matt, they sit outside. But I love the club seats.

Oh, my God. Fancy Matt. Go get some fresh air, Matt. I love getting fresh air. I walk from around the stadium before the game. But I mean, it's... Well, don't stab anybody. I do like air conditioning.

Or get stabbed. Don't be born in... You know what? All these years have been... Travel and Ross, I don't run sprints in middle of downtown or hotel alleys. Here's the run game. Arch Manning had 15 carries for 37 yards, and he was

running, you know, of course in college, your rush yards for sacks. Out of that, it was Quintravian Wisner, who I think is just a replacement level for Texas replacement level running back, who has had great running backs like Pejan Robinson and Rochon

Johnson recently and Jaden Blue and whoever else we can go through the list. Eight carries for 11 yards. Two carries for four yards for Ryan Nibblet. And that's basically been your running game. It's nothing. No running game. And you're asking, Arch is not good.

Arch could thrive in a situation where he doesn't have to be the one that wins you games. Because he's just, he's not shown that he can do anything else. He's not carrying a team. He made some good throws. Overall, his numbers weren't terrible. But he makes bad decisions. And he doesn't have a great arm. And he doesn't read defense as well.

So, man, it's so hard to deduce. Is it he just didn't mature to the spot? Is it because the pressure is too much? Is it his offensive coaching? Because I do believe at the collegiate level, Ross, you still, I mean, look, you get coaching at all levels. But you're going from a private high school to playing major college SEC football. You're going to need coaching. Yeah, but it's also his third year.

I think was there some people. like, oh, you know, he's only started a few games. He's in his third year. He should be better than where he is. He should. I don't think anybody would dispute that at all. Yeah. Well, some people are.

But that's the Longhorn homers. Is that, how is, how is, what's your guy's name? There's Jeff Ketcham that's a big UT honk. I don't read those guys, honestly. What's that other guy's name? That was Mac Brown's best friend. Chip Brown? Chip Brown, yeah.

I don't know. Hope Chip's okay. I don't know what they're saying. Has Billy Lucci chimed in on the Texas, setbacks. I'm sure he has. A&M. Undefeated still. Good for them. They got Florida coming into their building.

I'm sad. It's looking like 8 and 4 at best type of season right now. I don't know. Who's feeling worse today? Texas fan? Well, the answer... Clearly, it's Penn State. Probably Penn State. You lose the Oregon game at home and then you go across the country

UCLA where you were what... I think it was a 24 and a half point deficit? I mean, Vegas means everything. No. But. No, you can't mention it. It doesn't matter. Nobody said that.

I don't let Vegas aside. That's ridiculous. No, it doesn't matter. They don't know anything. The seeing eye test says UCLA sucked. And Rick Neuheisel's son, what kind of hair does that dude have? Have you seen that big old floppy hair? He's got floppy blonde hair?

I didn't see his hair, no. Then he was mounting his girlfriend on the field after they won. They did? Really? Yeah. She jumped into his arms and they were like, like it was an awkward embrace it felt like it where were his hands above the waist or below uh i believe on her buttocks that's below we're always watching everybody's hands aren't we i'm just asking

and then my cougars just kept turn the ball over how many turnovers they have three i didn't catch that game why i was on espan it was the game of the week oh by the way longhorns were on uh yespn yeah you said abc you said abc you I thought it was. Yeah, I was wrong. You were wrong. It's funny. They had Vanderbitt Alabama on one on EBC, and they had Texas, Florida on the ESPN.

ESPN's like, we don't care. We're paying all this money. We'll put the games on with damn well, please. Thankfully, the Cougars are a double-digit favorites at Oklahoma State. Seeing-Eye test says they should win by 21 points. Okay. Oklahoma State's awful. They're called Mr. Seeing-Eye.

And I'm going to Stillwater for my first ever game of Teaboo Big & St. You're always squinting. I hope that. All right, to tell the truth is coming up at the bottom of the hour. If you want to chime in right now, 713, 212, 570. 713, 212, 790. More on the Texans would come back. And to tell the truth is going to involve a couple of Texans nuggets, so be listening for that.

I'm intrigued. You should be. 713, 212, 5790. 1119 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-1-2-1-2-5-790. Now, do you have, it is a group text Monday, by the way.

And I don't have anything really juicy. I mean, if I would, I'd probably not mention it because it probably would hurt some feelings. We didn't make fun of some people that have YouTube shows, but that's a different issue for a different time. That's also a day that ends with why.

It feels fair. I wasn't going with this. I don't know. So, in your group, chats. So what you got to do is you got to take away the Texans darlings and I don't consider you a battle, you're a battle red Ross. I am.

But you're a little more saying. Let's go. They want to know this week. That's all that matters. So I want to know from those of you that went to your office today. Mm-hmm. And do people even water cooler anymore? You can call it water cooler, but maybe it's the kitchen.

Yeah, we're around the coffee machine. Yeah. And the ice and water machine. We chat around the kitchen. We actually do that here at the station. What's in the kitchen today? The kitchen to me, and if I'm wrong, please tell me, the kitchen to me is you've got to go beat somebody first.

For the Texans, okay. Thank God they beat Baltimore. The Ravens were awful, and the Texans made them look even worse than maybe they really were. But they were terrible. And CJ was very effective. He had great accuracy. he looked like getting a little bit of his mojo back. That's how I would describe how the Texans' offense looked yesterday.

Yes. The swagger levels were up. Yeah. But you need to go do it against a team that's a full complement of players. I mean, the injury list for Baltimore before the game was terrible. Obviously, Lamar Jackson's a huge loss for them. And the fact is the Texans have not won in Baltimore or whatever. Ever.

That was their first win in Baltimore. It just shows you what it. what it took. I'm not discounting it. I'm just saying that you've got to feed off of it. You got to take the positive mojo that you got from that game and you're feeling better about yourself. Because look, the NFL world, when you're in the bubble and in it, D'Amico Ryan's game plan this week like he was facing the 72 dolphins or facing the 85 bear defense. Okay. In reality, all of us that watched football knew that was the Ravens weren't showing, Real Ravens didn't show up.

Yes, they didn't. And it was almost like a dress rehearsal preseason game in a way with that. But you still, you checked all the boxes you wanted to check. Because it could have gone not your way. It could have gone against you. You could have had, you won the turnover battle three to nothing. You didn't have a lot of penalties. You basically doubled them up in yards gain.

It could have gone 10 different ways. And if they play that game 10 times, it comes out 10 different ways. But this was the one where you really wanted to see. see this team bounce back and flex their muscles on a weaker opponent and they did it. Because it's still the NFL. There were guys that made a roster. Yes. But the depth chart, it's like going

against, you know, for instance, the game would have been a little more I mean, how do you think the Ravens would have felt if it are going against Davis Mills as compared to going against CJ Stroud? I mean, there is such a dramatic drop-off between A and B that we don't focus a lot of times on that when it comes to people in the secondary.

We don't focus on defensive tackles, but we notice when quarterback's changed. Cooper Rush looked like a backup quarterback. In which he was, he played like a backup quarterback. He made some throws. He also was ill-timed. He was also pressured. He's not elusive.

He doesn't have the running ability. There's a sizable difference between the number one guy and the number two guy, and thankfully the Texans didn't make the number two guy come across as a hero for one week. And they bottled up Derek Henry very well as well, where he's had some issues this year. anyways. The yards per carry have been good, but that's because he's busting the random explosive 50 to 60

yard carry. Outside of that, he's been bottled up, and the Texans didn't allow that big carry. Penalties were still a little bit of an issue. There were some holding calls and whatnot that took teams back, but generally speaking... Yeah, it wasn't as bad. It wasn't as bad. I'll tell you what, I got one for you. Four for 26.

You're going to want to look at that Wednesday offensive line breakdown from PFF. Oh, could they be marching to number 25? Let me tell you, those poon hounds are going to be, have been, they're going to do some very good work for the Texans. If you don't know what we're talking about, it was a great moment in the show last week.

The pro football focus guys. Yeah, Matt always says they're not having sex. Well, since you called them boon hounds, I'm going to change it completely. They're not the PFF guys. They're the Poonhounds. That's what the P and PFF stands for. Poonhound football focus.

When you like to What are they based out of? I don't know. Didn't, didn't Chris Collinsworth buy a share of them? Yes, he did. Now, he lives in Cincinnati, but I don't believe the PFF guys live in Cincinnati. No, I don't think so either. I think the guy that founded us from Scotland or something.

Yeah, we've had him on the show before. Real thick accent. Yeah. Yeah, Neil Honsby. Speaking of that, I don't know where their offices are. And if you think I'm... I'm that guy. I want you to...

Headquarters in Cincinnati, actually. Oh, is that really? He must have moved all the bros there. He's like, you're coming to my house. You know what? They're in Chris Collinsworth's spare bedroom. Probably. And in the basement.

The basement's in the natty. Yeah, they're... Okay, so... I go to Rockets practice yesterday, but I wanted to hear the Minnesota Cleveland game. Okay. And there is a national broadcasting group called Westwood One that does all the national games.

Yes. Westwood One... I goaded you into that. You did. You did. Don't do it. I'm about the Call the Rockets game. that I'd be going to say it.

Yeah, stop it, stop it. Okay. That's what the Westwood One guy started. Jonathan's confused. Yeah, he is. Listening to Westwood One. That's what the guy sounds like. Yeah.

Okay. So, Westwood One, if there's a national broadcast, they get the call of that. Well, Minnesota, Cleveland was a national. They had a guy that lived in London calling the game.

Really? It was, difficult to say the very least. And I want to put this in context. Okay. If you gave me an assignment, said Matt, do call a soccer game. I could get the lingo down.

Mm-hmm. I could get, but it would sound very technical. Does that make sense to you? It wouldn't flow. It wouldn't be a, I'd have a bunch of listing points of what to say on the pitch and, you know. Offside?

Well, no, no, no. That's a call. I'm talking about, Oh, okay. Just like he would say first in 10 for the Cleveland Browns against the Minnesota Vikings at the Viking 17-yard line in this National Football League contest. It was very mechanical.

It was almost like AI helped him call the game. Uh-huh. I couldn't listen to it very long. I had to go on my serious X-M app and listen to the Cleveland and Minnesota broadcast because the guy, first of all, I'm not a big fan of listening to British voices unless it's in the mood for it. Yeah. They're very soothing, I think.

Do you really? Yeah. Okay. To each his own. But he was trying to call the game and it was so hard to listen to because he was so mechanical. And I wish I could better pinpoint what I'm trying to explain here. But it was, it's just, you know, you don't want a free flowing game when you hear a guy that's done 200 games in his life. It sounds like he's been scully.

Yeah. It's effortless. Yeah. When Mike Bring calls a game, he's calling an Ian Eagle called the game on TV yesterday. He's a maestro. Like Kevin Harlan on football is beautiful. Yeah. It's like a soothing.

wave. It was very choppy. Oh, okay. Here we out at Tottenham Stadium on the grass. It was like he was narrating as compared to calling the time I play. That's what I'm going to go with. He was narrating. Two tight ends to the left

and one to the right. That's kind of like how they call soccer games though. It's very poetic and flowery. Well, it's funny because, you know, Gus Johnson many years ago tried calling soccer and everybody hated him because he didn't sound like he was a soccer guy. And that was a thing for me.

Yeah. So, I don't know. I mean, the sports are so different. Yeah. Now, I've done soccer before. You have? Oh, that's right. You're a hot shot guy.

Wait a second. Wait a second. That's right. And they folded. For $10,000, I ask you this every single time. Oh, no, I always forget. The mascot's name was? Shottie.

Heat. Torpedo. I don't know. Pico de goalie. That's right. Pico de goli. I just liked it. Yes, I know.

You love it. Makes you laugh every time. we had a good friend of mine I meant if I was the best man in my wedding and you guys don't know this I think I mentioned maybe once or twice Glenn Davis was my partner on these games

and the folks of the hot shots would serve us a hot dogs before the game okay Rames Rorty Rhineland yes and I had three dogs before the game one time that's a hefty meal

so we're calling the game I'm not feeling well I put the headset down I said Glenn you're about to make your play-by-play debut. And he did. How long were you gone? About 15, 20 minutes.

20? Came back at halftime. He goes, you okay? I said, yeah, I got a little sweats gone, but I think I can make it. So I started calling the third quarter. They were quarters. Oh, they did quarters in the soccer game? Did they do four downs, too?

I said, Glenn, you're about to finish this broadcast. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, three chili cheese dogs and onions. Remember how Portland I was back in the time? the day too. Yeah, three seems like a light snack for you back then. That was part of the problem. Maybe I wasn't nourished enough. You're still hungry. You're malnourished.

1130. We're going to play the Tell the Truth next. Gentlemen, I have four sports takes. You ready for this? I only believe one of them. Okay. You only believe one. Only believe one. Yes. Okay. 713. 212-790. To tell the truth is next. Well, the great thing about me is

I do know how to tell the truth. Now, I will lie to you and have zero problem with it. It's going to say some of the time. Yeah. All right, here we go. I got four sports takes, Jonathan and Ross. You are to believe only one of them. Three of these, I don't believe.

Hmm. Okay. Up to you to determine which one of the four I do believe. Wonderful. Number one. Right out of the get-go. Wait, how many you believe? One. Okay. Three nights.

Three nights. If you want the Texans to be a serious playoff team, they've got to beat a serious opponent. I think next week ago, week from Monday, no, it's actually two weeks from Monday. Is there all next week? Yes. It's a must-win against Seahawks.

If you really want to get this people in this city engaged, you have to beat the Seahawks. Tennessee and Baltimore doesn't do enough for me. You gotta beat the Seahawks. All right. Okay. That's number one. A must win game. Must win a row, by the way.

Three in a row. Must win games? Oh, people said the Jaguars. People said the Jaguars game was must win. Could have been, yeah. Number two. If the Ravens continue to slide, the Texans should make a phone call.

That's the trade deadline. Lamar Jackson, come on down. And go try to trade for Derek Henry. Okay. Hmm. All right. Number three. I think in order

for Aaron Boone to keep his job with the New York Yankees, they've got to come back and beat the Blue Jays. These two ass kickings they've had in the first two games, coupled with always the hesitation about whether or not he's the long-term solution for the Yankees,

adds up. I think embarrassing losses to a divisional opponent is bad. I think the Yankees have to come back to beat the Blue Jays in order for Aaron Boone to keep his job. Wow. Okay. And number four. I have been wavering about this for quite some time. And right now as we speak at 1137 on Monday, October the 6th, I'm not sure about the future Dana Brown and Joe Espada. I thought I was. But I'm not. I think something's still going to maybe happen that's going to rock our world. So I would say,

say again, in my mind, this is just opinion only, that Joe Espada and Dana Brown are still up for consideration of potential moves. Both of them. Both of them. Now, maybe neither one of them get it. But if I was to dial up Jim Crane, I don't think Jim Crane would say, Matt, they're locked and loaded for next year. Okay. I think there's some, a little bit of wiggling in those streets. You know how we like to wiggle here. I like wiggles. I know you, which one was your favorite wiggle? Tommy. Kim Basinger and Wayne's World 2. Oh, that's fair.

All right. So here are my four takes. If you want to be a serious playoff team, you must. It's a must win to beat the Seahawks. Okay. Two weeks from today. Wonderful. I think the Yankees have to come back to beat the Blue Jays

in order for the Aaron Boone to keep his job. If the Ravens continue to slide, the Texans should call the Ravens about trading for Derek Henry. Okay. And I'm wavering about whether or not Joe Espada and or Dana Brown return for 2026. Which one of those four am I telling the truth?

Gentlemen, you may discuss. All right, what are you thinking? You know, I'll go to you first. Number two. Young Padawan learner. Derek Henry, we don't have the offense line for that. So I don't even, I think there should be other priorities, especially.

We have the defense, right, but what do we, we can get Derek Henry, spend all that money, and then what are we going to do in the front? I don't really like that. I'm not too sure about that. Yeah, I don't know about the cap space fit, but not that Matt Thomas is paying attention to that, so he still could believe it.

All right, just to let you know, I was not worried about Cap Space. I know you're not. See, I told you. I'm the anti-worryer about Cap Space. Okay. What else, Jonathan? Aaron Boone, I mean...

Can you repeat number one? It's a must-win game. Yeah, I think the Seahawks is a must-win game. Okay. There's no way he would do that to me. I got to throw that one out. I would do a lot of things to you, Ross. I would.

Excuse me? What? Pause. Okay. I would do a lot of sports related content to you, Ross. I'm throwing that one out. What else, Jonathan? What do you think? No, 4 is rarely, it's like the bait right now.

I don't know. Because, I mean, they... I think he thinks Dana Brown's pretty safe. He should. I don't know if he does. But the both would be on the... Four is in play for me. I don't think he believes number three.

either because Aaron Boone did go to the World Series last year. They made the DS. They beat the Red Sox. He'd probably be back next year. I mean, the Blue Jays have just beat them up. It's not like he's making any mistakes. Yeah, and like, who else would they hire for the Yanke? I don't think so. I think they have a good relationship. I'm going with number two, because you got to remember Matt

hates Joe Mixing and thinks he's out for the season. He is the Texans insider. I am the insider. Have I not given you nothing but gospel on the Texas? He's saying they should try. He's not saying they're going to trade for him. And that's what they're slipping. If they're slipping, right, If Ravens start losing, like, yeah.

Okay, okay, okay. I'm gonna go with the obvious one. I'm just obvious, I think he was, because he has to win this game. You got to win this game if you want this momentum to keep going. Like, you have to win the Seahawks. So you say it's a must win. I'm saying it's a must win. Okay.

I don't think Aaron Boone's going to lose his job. They won the America League pennant last year. I mean, it'd be awfully short-sighted. I have been a huge Derek Henry fan for a long time. Oh. But I think there is. slipage for the first time. And I do think that's a lot of money.

I do believe that Nick Casario... You're considering the salary cap. I do believe Nick Casario loves his draft stock. Okay. I don't know if that all of a sudden makes it... I think they're going to try to make it work with Woody Marks and or Nick Chubbs. So I would not think the Texans would call on Derek Henry. And as much as I do believe in the must wins in the world...

Oh, where we both lost? Frankly, the Seahawks to me, it's a... an NFC game. It wouldn't kill you on the tirebreaker at all. You got to win your AFC games more than you win your NFC games. I'm going to win a lot of games, period. But that Seattle game is going to be a tough game. Long trip, West Coast.

It's not a must- I'm okay with this now. If you believe that one, we were going to have some issues. There's something. Something in the air? Something in the air. I don't. I think Dana is way safe.

Way safe. Joe, I could hear your argument. How long does this spot have been here? Three years? He just finished his second year. See, I'm the opposite. And both of the years were disappointments. I think there's more on Dana than I would think on Joe.

Really? Why? Because Dana's trades did not pan out. The Kyle Tucker trade was great. It's been good. What trade didn't pan out? Well, the Urius and the Hazer Sanchez ones? Those ones hurt. Okay.

While the Seattle jury manager. The trade was great. You got great. for nothing. And he was good when he came here and he's going to be your third basement. But if you're in Jim Crane's mind, you're thinking, I'm the one that brought Correa back. You think so? Right.

Just throwing out. I'm just congenital. He might be. That's probably true. Jim does that, I.e. Justin Verlinder. I'm not saying it, I just, I was not ready to waver on that four or five days ago. I'm now wavering. So that was my truth.

I'm wavering on the future of both those guys. I can respect it, though. I can respect it, though. So not a horrible loss of the one, are you? No, this is not. You've done worse. I think, thank you? Significantly.

Okay, thanks. You're going to argue for me today. Thank you, Ross. That means a lot. Usually you annihilate me on these things. We'll see. Will there be heat on Aaron Boone at the Yankees? Oh, here we go.

They've got manufactured topics on MLB Network. I mean, I think national programming just has to manufacture topics. That's true. I mean, it's 24. We're in the days of the 24-hour sports cycle. and new cycle. But we're on the air live on this station for 13 hours a day. We don't manufacture stuff, do we?

Or you looked at me like we do. No, we don't. You and I don't. Oh, others maybe. Okay. Name the show. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-1-2-5-790.

I was checking the 4 U-Tab Rossi, which is usually a mistake on my part, but I just do it. Oh, by the way, got a game time for the Houston, Arizona game. Saturday, October 8th at TV, ECU Stadium, 11 o'clock. The morning. It's not the big noon kickoff. It's the big noon kickoff. Stettbrother. Yeah.

How was the stadium, by the way? I was curious about the... Oh, I forgot to mention it real quick. So I was scared as to me 50-50. Yes. I think it was 70-30. That's right. I think you did.

I did say, yeah. And somebody else, but also was a Cougar fan, told me 70-30. I'm curious, Red Raiders fan perspective. About the breakdown. quarter is about 90s. See me a tweet at SportsRV. I'd appreciate it. And after you do that, from an unbiased source. Follow me on Instagram at SportsMT. Why? What do you post them? Would you like to know? What did I just post? Let me see what I did. I posted most recently. A Kingwood volleyball content. Me, you and James and Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant. Okay. I'm 71 away from 3,000. Big party at 3,000.

I was getting called an idiot all weekend for my Oilers video. Still? Yeah. I mean, I'd call you an idiot, but You can catch you down my Instagram at SportsRV if you want to call me an idiot. Well, if I just call you right to your face, yeah, I said, I already follow you, though. You're one of my people I follow, so it's good. All right. Oh, so here is what I was just checking, and we got to get to the Rockets Rock, but I want to bring this up. Okay. Something called Los Polos TV.

Los Pollos? He's got 426,000 followers. What? My son, Cameron, and Dr. Roto follow him. Oh, is he a streamer or something? You know, does this look familiar to you? that guy is? I don't know that guy.

I guess he's, I'm going to guess he's a streamer. He's got something called polos P-O-L-S dot TV. Poyos, Matt. Poyos. Chickens. Los, the chickens TV. Yes. Okay.

Here's what he tweeted at 430 yesterday. Not even joking at MLB. Please investigate the at the Blue Jays origination. This is another Astros incident written all over it. doesn't even make sense. This is fishy. They're more than likely cheating. Well, bro, it's organization, not origination. You lost me there. Yeah, I'm not a lot of Rhodes Scholars, professional streamers.

Just saying. Well, why is my son, I got to find out why my son's following him. I don't know. I'm going to go text him right now. He's so disappointed. I am disappointed. This guy's saying the, basically, the Blue Jays are cheating like the Astros cheated. I mean, what a weak take. Yeah, I guess he's, yeah, I guess he's a big streamer. And Rodo follows him too.

On Twitch or kick. Gross. It's just terrible. All right, I said to bring that up that, you know, if you're going to go on there, proofread your tweets because if you're going to give out with something that hot takey, you better not have any flaws in that tweet. Oh, there's a picture of him with Drake on his Instagram. I know your son is a huge Drake fan.

He is a Drake guy. That's fine. Drake, Drake makes it. But he's not as good as Kendrick. I didn't say that. You were thinking it, though. He's a better pop artist. He's more popular.

Drake is. By what, did you see Bad Bunny on SNL this weekend? I didn't catch it. I didn't either. Oh, well, you're at Mr. S&L. I am. You get it on the DVR. No, I actually, I'll go look at the clips.

You didn't, well, so you didn't DVR it now? No. So there's a Puerto Rican hosting now and you can't watch it? No, I don't ever devir. I used to follow. Oh, okay. You don't anymore? No, I used to, I need to follow.

I follow SNL's. a Twitter account that helps me just get the clips. Oh, okay. So you just, yeah. Yeah. They usually post the funnier stuff. In theory. Yeah. So basically, anything after about 1130, they don't put anything on there. Exactly. Hey, I got my skin on SNL. What time you're going to... There, it's 1147. I know. Nobody will be watching. Yeah, we're good. All right. Rockets tonight against the Atlanta Hawks.

We'll have the pregame show with Adam Wexler at 630 and tip time at 7 o'clock. No postgame rockets wrap after. Thank God. You get to be a Joe fan of it tonight if you want to. Yeah. I'll be watching Monday Night Football. Okay, so tell me the three things you are most curious about. For Monday Night Football? No, for the Rockets.

I don't care about Kansas City Jacksonville. I was like, I need Patrick Mahomes points. I need Patrick Mahomes to get hurt and Travis Kelsey have a big game. Whoa, Matthew. Just said it. Sorry. I'm not talking like a serious guy. Well, maybe a broken arm or something.

Broken arm is kind of serious for a quarterback. Just for one week. I would say. Just for one week. That's fine. I'm already lost. I'm done. Okay.

To me, I want to see how Reed Shepherd works. I want to see the starting lineup. Don't know that has not been confirmed yet, so don't know how that's going to work out. But I'm going to presume he's going to get major time with them. I mean, this is, we, Duran doesn't need these games. No. Amen doesn't need these games. Maybe we're running some more point.

Tari, we'll get some good run tonight. Okay. Adam's will go to some run. Curious about, can I give you a story? line for this year? Yes. I think you're going to be amazed at the amount of double bigs the Astros the Rockets can put out there. Now they've got Clint Capella here. They could put

triple bigs. They put quadruple bigs. So on nights that Adams doesn't play, you can use Capella. You can also go with a second tier big line-up out there too if you wanted to. With Jabari and Alpe and play zone and have them with their long arms covering the entire

court. So that's Shepard to me, the amount of double bigs and Kevin Durant's seven-foot. And Durant's just being on the floor, does he allow, does he, does he, by just being on the floor, give some more free space to the, to the Rockets offense? You're talking about one of the greatest three-point shooters of all time. Arguably, arguably the second greatest shooter of all time. Steph is one.

Let me just get what I wrote down from my pre-game hype on him. Two-time Golden State Warrior champion. Where do you go to college? I believe you went to Fayetteville community. That's incorrect. 15 time All-Star MVP Out of the University of Texas at Austin

Yeah but you guys have about the same amount of... Longhorn legend. I got about the same amount of hours. Oh, I got more hours than he did. Come on. Okay. I got 60-ish. Career averages of 25, 7, and 4.

He's averaged 25 points or more in the last 16 seasons. I would say that's a record, but I think LeBron has the record. No, there's, yeah. LeBron's done it for like 20 years. 11-time All-Star. Played 62 games this year.

Only an 11-time All-Star, actually. That seems low, actually. Yeah. So, there you have it. So, yeah, again, just seeing him, and I watched practice the last couple days, seeing him wearing Rockets gear, Ross, it's going to be...

I have 15-time All-Star. On basketball reference. Oh, 11-I'll be in NBA. Yeah, yeah. 15-time All-Star, 11-time All-MBA. That's right. Woo! He's pretty good.

And he's wearing rockets gear? And I got news for you, too. He doesn't look slow. He's looking quick. We're looking at athletes that are playing in their 40s now. Now, will Kevin Durant at 27 be the same as 37? No chance. So if you get Alpi, Adams,

Durant, and Jabari, I mean, that's basically four seven-ish footers on the floor at once. And then, like, I'm in Thompson at 6'7? How's how tall is I'm in Thompson? 6.6? Yeah. Okay.

You got a long wingspan. too, though. That's lockdown. Can I give you an very super early candidate for most improved player from year to year? Yes. Jabari Smith. I like that. He was looking jacked at Media Day. He bench pressed me during a commercial break. That's true, actually. He broke your back. Like Bain did Batman. He broke your Batman? Yeah.

But he picked me up. Dussed me off. It's good. All right. Let's celebrate the Hillary. you like a nursing he was nursing a baby yeah yeah he burnt me like jabbi knows all this yet we'll tell when i get to the arena all right uh the news at noon and another one bites of dust in baltimore that's 1158 on sports talk 7 90 this is the matt thomas show with ross and j j what discussing a complete annihilation in baltimore you know what i can't feel bad at bad for Baltimore. They've had nothing but you shouldn't. Great run. No, they've not reached

the pinnacle in a while. They got a Super Bowl. Joe Flackle got him one. Lamar Jackson not so much. John Harbaugh, how are we feeling? Grumpy? I don't even about him as a coach. Is his job on the line this season? How did they do last year? They lost in the... Mark Andrews lost a Buffalo game. Drop the touch to the two-point conversion. The division around. Yeah, they were trying to do. They were trying to do. They were to come back. Lamar Jackson turned the ball over a couple times early. Mark Andrews had that big fumble that cost him and then he had the drop two-point conversion that cost him and otherwise that game would have been going to overtime, I think.

I will say he's safe. I think you're right. I don't know how many, how much your Ravens fans agree with you. If you're a Raven fans, forget it. If you're a Texans fan, you're welcome to call. Yes. Because your squad has won two straight games. Now, Indianapolis did win.

Jacksonville tonight. We're going to say, go chiefs. Go chiefs. Go chiefs. That's easy for me. That's fine. Go chiefs. Whatever.

Yeah. And if the referees want to give some 15-yard penalties to Patrick Mahomes, that's fine. Go Taylor's fiancé. Yeah, he's stuck with that, right? She, he, yeah. I think he's comfortable with it, too. He's one of those five most famous people on the planet? More famous than the Pope, yes or no?

I would say no. I would agree, but not my much. It's close. It's Pope 1. I got the Pope out of minus 135. Okay, so we got Pope. I can't we were doing this. We got the news and new to get to.

Hope. Yes. Taylor. Mm-hmm. Who's the third most famous? Vladimir Putin. No, I don't think. I mean, he's, I don't know.

Worldwide. Where's Trump? Is Trump on these up there? Yeah. I think Donnie T's in there. Okay. So Trump, Taylor, the Pope. Leo Messi?

Oh, stop. Yes, Leo Messi. Okay, Leo Messi. Oh, my God. All right, move on. Let's go to the news and news. It's a good segue. We'll think about this down the road.

Rossi, would have gotten the big headlines. Well, we do lead with your Houston, Texas, destroying the Baltimore Ravens. 44 to 10, now two and three on the season. Back-to-back wins. Back-to-back blowout wins for the Texans. couple of key numbers here, including that CJ Stroud's wonderful Sunday, 23

of 27, 244 yards, 4 touchdowns, no picks, also important. He was only sacked a couple of times for 17 yards. Total QBR, I believe, is on a 0 to 100 scale. He was a 99.3. So much improved for him.

Also, Nick Chubb, showing some juice. 11 carries for 61 yards with a long at 27. He was breaking tackles and making some moves. Woody Marks only seven carries for 24 yards. Also, go ahead. I was just going to say, I brought up to tell the truth about Derek Henry. Do you think they should kick

the tires on a running back? Do you think they didn't? No, I said Derek Henry. Okay. Do you think it should go kick the tires on a running? I think maybe they're going to feel set with Nick Chubb kind of, maybe more weeks removed from his bad injury. He honestly, as I said, before even that 27-yard run, I was like, he's looking like he's running with a little more juice.

It's because Woody Marks is trying to take his job, too. that'll help you and motivate you. And you hear that what Ion Eagle said on the call, Woody Marks might get an A plus for his blocking ability. Yes. He's been doing a very good job as far as the third down back. You're not seeing Dari Ogunbo-Wale much after the first couple of weeks.

I don't even know if he got on the field. So the Texans dispatching the Baltimore Ravens 417 yards to 207, 27 first downs to 12. That's a beat down. That is a beat down. What was the most discouraging thing? Were you mad by anything? Man, I don't know.

It was a complete victory. You're going to give up sacks. That's just part of it. You're going to commit penalties. Tommy Townsend had a quiet day? He's always having a quiet day. Exactly. Only one punt for 59 yards?

Is there something that's aggravating you when you know your kicker, whether it's college or pro, when the side judge is walking down the sideline? He's got his right hand up. He keeps going and going and going with you out. It's so annoying. It's like the cliffhangers guy. You're right. We didn't ask for that sound effect, but thank you anyway.

But I brought it, Matt. You did bring it. All right. Well, elsewhere in NFL news, unfortunately, Mark Sanchez charged with battery, the Fox Sports analyst, as he has had his charges upgraded to a felony over the weekend for his role in a weekend fight that ended up with him being stabbed by a 16-9. year old man fighting over a parking spot, according to Marion County prosecutor Ryan Mears during a news conference announcing the more serious charge. Provided with additional information

about the victim's current medical condition, additional charges needed to be filed. And again, if you do not like graphic photos, do not look at the guy that was attacked by Mark Sanchez. It was a drunken fight where Sanchez was also sent to the hospital. with stab wounds. I thought for a while he wasn't going to make it because they kept saying critical condition, you know, don't know the details. And there was, I'm sure it was touching go for a while, as if no stab wounds would be. Officials are investigating evidence, including information on Sanchez's toxicology and blood alcohol content levels as well.

Apparently, there was a dispute as there was a man who was parking his work box truck at a loading dock he used to collect. used cooking oil. I didn't see a Friday night thing, yeah. Yeah, I'm reading the Indy Star Report, so I didn't see about the winds. Apparently Mark Sanchez is running windsprits. I think he was doing something. And he was pepper sprayed by the man, but just wiped it away. The man thought that Sanchez was trying to kill him, pulled out his knife,

and struck Sanchez two or three times with his knife. I would still say this because, again, it's innocent and to a proven guilty. Yeah, we need more details. We will, this probably, from what. I've been reading about this the last day or so, Ross, this is going to be, there'll be little room for guessing, guessing on things. The video will set, will set the truth free. Yes. But of course, if you're a politician, you completely immediately jump to conclusions.

And use it for political pulpit, yes. Yes, of course. Elsewhere, just one quick NFL thing before we get out, a horrible collapse by the Arizona Cardinals, allowing the Tennessee Titans to win their first game. 22 to 21, the Titans win. And Kyler Murray is saying after the game, I don't even know. I really don't even know.

That's how to lose a game 101. I don't know. It was crazy. There was a fumble out of the end zone from Amari Di Mercado on an easy touchdown. And then there also was an interception fumbled by the Arizona Cardinals into the end zone that was recovered by the Titans for a touchdown in one of the craziest losses you will ever see.

Never show out that. Real quick, U of H. Connor Wegman held out of practice today in concussion protocol, but Willie Fritz said it is press conference today that he is trending in the right direction and could be available Saturday at Oklahoma State.

Thank you, Matt. You know, it's the big matchup, Texas versus Oklahoma. Of course, U of H representing the Lone Star State, Oklahoma State representing Oklahoma. No, I don't think anybody's. The kids call it bedlam. No, we check the ratings. Yeah, but we're on

T&T. T&T? They have college football? They do this year. Okay, so it's an episode of bones and then it's you guys. Charmed. Yes.

Then the game. All right. That's cool. What is it? No, Shawshake and Redemption. That's what's always on. Yes. All right.

We're going to play a little game we don't do very off on the show. We come back. It's called Rate the announcer. And rate. Rate. What did I say? Rate.

Oh, I think you said, okay. Rate. R-A-T-E, rate the announcer. And I will not be involved in such event. Yes. I don't want to give a bias one way the other. No, I do want to hear you. But you're the expert.

Okay. Well, you've got to weigh in with the expert opinion. Okay. Oh, is this sounds like somebody you don't want to crush. Well, I don't know this person. Okay. I know of him. I don't know him personally.

It's fine. He's not going to find the video or the audio. All right. We'll just play rate because this guy is getting a lot of national run. Okay. And I want to know if it's the way we're going in sports broadcasting or... Oh. No more. I think I know where we're going. Okay. We present great quality here. All right. We've had piping hot calls all day on the Texans. Want some more of them. Come on in. Brang about your squad. You did not allow a subpar team to make it a competitive football game.

First Baltimore win ever in Baltimore for the Texans. That should be celebrated. I am celebrating. If you want to celebrate, come in and yell and go, oh, hell yeah, on the Texan. 713, 2,1, 2, 1, 5, 790. 7.1, 3, 2,1, 2, 5, 790. Fox had the Miami Carolina game on you on Sunday. It was seen by, like, Miami and Charlotte folks. Yeah, I mean, yeah, not in the red zone. It's not a lot of it on the red zone.

Not going to move the needle when it comes. Okay, so this is where we're going. Yeah. Good. Eric Collins was filling in for someone. Okay. They have, you know, two of their broads, NFL guys were doing baseball. Adam Amin and Joe Davis.

Okay? So they brought in some other guys to fill in. And Eric Collins was filling in on the game. And he is a Charlotte Hornets broadcaster. I've talked to him a couple of times. Nice enough guy. Matter of fact, he does some FS1 games with Spencer Tillman in front of the show. Oh, really?

Does college games. So they said, hey, you're in Charlotte. We don't have to travel. You can say a little bit of money. Ready to do your first NFL. Make a little bit of money. Yeah, make a little bit of money. So he did the game and he was the, I would say,

needless to say was the social media celebrity of the night? Before I saw people talking about him on social media, I noticed the calls. Okay. So we'll play them and then. There is a website, somebody did it on Twitter that took all of the touchdown calls in a Miami Carolina game. Oh, okay.

And put them all together. Okay, great. It wouldn't be three and a half hours of this. but here is every big call that was made by Eric Collins of Fox. And I want y'all to listen to it and kind of just give me your general thoughts about the tenor of two. Let's face it, this was the least attractive game on paper the weekend. It turned to be a very good game. But it wasn't going to be with anybody that would be considered serious Super Bowl contenders.

So here is Eric on the call on Fox, the highlights of the dolphins and the Panthers. Tungo by Lowe and Dolphins. Young Bryce Young So Now people were like Why are you putting a Panthers A Hornets guy on a Panthers game

Again He doesn't have a dog in the fight And he did call Yeah He did call the excitement level To vote Yeah And it does happen a lot

When you have guys that are in that area That can broadcast the game If you're going to look for backups You'd look for maybe a guy That would save you a little bit on travel cost So Your thoughts? Any thoughts? I love to

it. I really did. I noticed it during the game. I was like, wow, this dude is calling it like he's in the middle of the friggin Super Bowl. That's the thing that was the overreigning sentiment was he was calling a mundane, who gives two blanks game

like it was the Super Bowl. But a lot of those, but it was a crazy game. It was. He had to be, he lent to how crazy some of those touchdowns were. Miami gets up 17-0 and then Carolina starts fighting back and then I want to say Carolina took the there was like three lead changes in the fourth

quarter so yeah I'm pulling up the play by play yes a touchdown by Carolina makes it 20 to 17 then another touchdown by the dolphins and then another touchdown by the by the Panthers that was three touchdowns on three successive drives where the lead did change so I thought that's another thing we have to contextualize those calls right and It's not hard to do that because just trying to smidge them all together. Three of those were fourth quarter touchdowns where the lead changed. Right. Changed.

And so I noticed, I was watching on Red Zone and I was like, oh my gosh, this guy's called, but this was a crazy game. And I loved it. It was fun. It didn't feel forced. It didn't feel like where sometimes Gus Johnson is doing that when it's like 44 to zero or something like that. I liked it. I thought it was cool. It is, you know, again, it's to each his own.

It's hard. Again, we smushed them together. It sounded like. like he's having fun is what I'm going to put it. He's calling the game like he's like, oh my God, this is insane. It feels genuine to me. Yeah, again, I wish I knew him better to give you a sense. We've been watching Gus for 25, 30 years, so we know exactly what Gus brings. You know how I'm broadcasting school, Matt, they tell you, they call it with a smile on your face, or do something with a smile on your face because it can come through. It sounds like he's calling it

with a smile and he's calling an NFL game. Yeah. And it was a crazy, it was a 17-0-0. and then touchdown lead change touchdown lead change it was crazy yeah but it's I would say this would you would agree that's not the norm you would hear

in an NFL game not the norm no because think about it you've got Kevin Burkhar who's the number one guy on Fox very smooth and even keeled

Jim Nance created even keeled right I thought that it was a breath of fresh air to me yeah I like to yeah I'll say this it got more attention to Miami Carolina game

than normally Miami Carolina games that's true But yeah, if he was doing this And it felt like to me the overall sentiment was Mostly positive Mostly nice breath of fresh air Breath of fresh air Some people were saying

You're just trying to be a Gus John This is your one chance you want to make it You wanted to make it about you Yeah, maybe he was excited Maybe he did get over excited I don't know Let me tell you something If I got to call an NFL game

I'd be losing my blind quick Yeah, it was a game like that 17 nothing and then boom boom boom boom Touchdown touchdown touchdown Touchdown will lead change in the fourth quarter It's a crazy game Yeah So I just thought I wanted to see

what you thought and what you listened to it's like could that great on you after a while I mean did you want 17 weeks of that exactly I was watching on catching it on red zone so on red zone I thought it was great if he was yelling

he's like four yard gain oh my God first to 10 handoff to the 19 to the 20 exactly I don't have that context like for instance as I call my play by play I can't call 1614

like I'm calling 150 1, 14 with 30 seconds. Right. You don't know what I mean? And you don't. You don't. So exactly. For me, only catching the highlights, really for the, well, I mean, plus

whatever else in the game of the Red Zone, I didn't notice that he was overselling every single play. Yeah. But he's definitely qualified. So that's not the issue. It's done years and years of college. For those of you that may, this is really in the weeds. SFA beat Duke years ago in a game at Cameron Indoor.

and I think he called the game on Fox. So he's been around a long time. He'd been a long time Hornets announcer too. I just wanted to see what you thought about it, whether it was, is this charted guy, is this trying to be the next Gus Johnson? But, I mean, he's,

you know how some days you can go to social media and feel pretty good about what you've said and done? Yeah, he can do that. It seemed like he also wanted to make sure everyone knew he practiced his pronunciations. He was like, yeah, we got it. Let me tell you, you get an NFL game. He's like, league it.

You get an NFL game? you better get it right. I checked the pronunciation guide. It was cool. You should have heard the guy in Westwood won the British announces. They'd be like, they are playing on a grassy football field of 100 yards and, you know, 10 for a first down, and he got 11.

Like he was reading the rulebook? It was like it was listening to an AI broadcast. Technically correct. I don't think you can't AI that, can you? I'm not yet. They're coming for you. Don't remind you. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 it is an open line Monday we've gone through a little bit of everything we've

give you a little bit of rockets a little bit Sanchez we try to mix in as much Texans as we can to be brutally honest people don't necessarily like to call in when things are going good yeah that's true I'll tell you this that'll lost the game it'd have been Domingo needs to be on the hot seat yes cereal definitely fired Nick definitely being fired. Yeah. Nick Cayley's all of a sudden, oh, he's a genius now.

They're scoring points. When you win, the lines are open. Yes. So I'm going to challenge you right now. Can we get, I'd like to get two texting people to call on and be happy that you won.

All right, let me go grab my phone. You can't count. John, you can't count either. I need two people that are not employed by our heart. This is a fan. Go, charges, go. Charger fan's not happy.

Chargers got their ass whoop. That was not good. Yeah, let's go past that. Yeah. I can't believe you're the second Charger fan, I know. One of my best friends of my entire life is a Charger fan

But he lives in Southern California His family He's born there Yeah my family's right outside of the Self I stadium actually too Right Oh you're in Englewood? Yeah

That's where my friend That's really what my mom's My mom's family grew up Really? All right I can drop your name When I go to the casino Over there

So it's a kind of a I don't know I'm not a big fan of the casino You win yeah you can It's not It's not the late It's strange California games With strange Amies and stuff

Not the commerce What is the Hollywood? No it's Hollywood Park Hollywood Park. They call it a Resino. All right. So I'm going to call out, I'm putting on the APB for two Texans fans. Call and brag about how your squad did yesterday.

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Well, Ross, we've asked for two Texans fans to call in. Happy about their team. And the results are in. Okay. Zero people already to talk about the Texans. That's disappointing. You know what else is disappointing? Hmm.

Derek Stingley's Pro Football Focus Grid. Should make you happy, Matt. It's funny because guess what happened in the Cowboys game with the Jets? What? Want to say it was George Pickens with a long touchdown grab on coverage? Thomas Sports Enterprises won and only juice. No, juice. Sauce, sauce, sauce, same difference.

Same gravy. Herbs. Derek Stingley rated as the 92nd. out of 106 cornerbacks. Now, I don't think the new grades are out just yet.

Where was Sosson? Before that. Soss was number one the first few weeks. I don't know where he's going to be now. We'll check the grades, but I was just kind of

pulling it up, trying to see some things. Tim Settle as one of the best defensive tackles in football along with Sheldon Rankin. So that offensive line for the Houston Texans.

Like, I was seriously to be defensive line. When the Cowboys scored the touchdown the fourth quarter to get to 30, I was like, oh, Houston's in the second day. Oh, Soss,

oh, Soss, it's going to be texting. We want every... No, I didn't. Five seconds. That's okay. Sauce is very good. I don't hate sauce.

I like sauce. I love sauce. Undergraded sauce? Brown gravy mushroom. Okay. All right. For what? Sauce.

Yeah, but what are you putting it on? Meatloaf. Yeah, meatloaf is the first thing I thought of, too. Put on a chicken breast? Yeah, I like the tomato sauce on the meatloaf too, though. Can't go wrong. Okay. With a ketchup crust?

Clearly, this is a lunchtime show. It is. All right. So Ross, zero Texans happy people. Maybe people aren't happy. Maybe we're overselling it. It's about the cleanest pockets that C.J. Stroud. Now, of course, you had some defensive linemen out for the Ravens as well.

No Humphrey for them. No Marlon Humphrey. So it was going to be easier. No Dequan Smith. But still, it was your implied total in the game was like 20 points. You scored 44. You look good. Your implied points?

Yeah, by the Vegas total. I love it. Two and a half? Total 41 and a half. Let's go. Let's go. We're out going in the implied. Who is the bar?

Y'all with the sports bar yesterday 1115. Y'all talk about the implied points. Okay, well, we can be smart. We can be smarter than the average bear. I don't need smart. No, if you want to be the average guy. If you want to be an average guy. If you want to bring people.

We are the show of the average people. You want to bring a little thoughtful analysis to the table. You can do that. Oh, then why are people coming here? Why are people listening? Because we're entertaining people. Okay, we're going to entertain and inform, right? inform is we can do it sometime okay

all right so there we go well I don't want to hurt your brain with four I'm just implied points okay yes it's very simple when the Vegas total is like 41 and a half and you're supposed to win by two and a half implied a total is like 21 so this a minus B look at you wow solve for X it's very simple

ladies and gentlemen I'm going to give you the implied points of the Carolina Kansas City Jacksonville game go ahead do it I bet you can do it mad I believe in you. Give me some really pretentious music. I was going to say give them the Jeopardy. Give them the Jeopardy theme.

Here we go. Implied points in Kansas City and Jacksonville. Good afternoon and welcome to implied points. About it as an 81% pick percentage on the Pigskin Pickham Challenge. Matt wants some music. Yeah, I'm still killing time here. What is pretentious? Just some symphony?

Some symphony. you go and you drink some you to great poupon. The implied points. The chiefs are minus two and a half. The over and under is 45 and a half. The implied points for the game. The deuce would be around 20-something.

That's your implied points. Wow. There's your implied points. In our attempts to get music quickly, we're unsuccessful. All right, let's talk to Dave on 7.98. Oh, what? All right, let's fix this here.

The computer is not working. you want to chart Dave for us. There we go. There we go. Oh, this is fucking. This is good right here. Implied points. I'd like to know the implied points, please.

Would you like to know the game tonight of the National League Playoff series? The implied points for the Chicago. It's 24 and a half for the Chiefs, 21 for the Jaguars. That's the implied total. There's an other station. Towns can give you implied. Actually, we'll actually give you implied points. He might.

He would definitely be a... He's an employed points guy. Ross, my computer's not working. I'm sorry. Don't hurt yourself. I'm trying. Dave, on 790 and 1240. Dave, thank you for holding a good afternoon.

Hello, M.T. You're a beautiful bald head person. And, Ross, how is your weekend? It was great. Thank you, Dave. He doesn't think you're beautiful. That's okay. You got a good head of hair, though.

That's all right. I'm confident in my looks. Dave, what's on your mind? Go ahead. I will like to talk about the Texans because in the show today, you had no Texan phone calls. We had like two early on, but we've been struggling for the Texans fever ever since then. But yes, go ahead.

Yeah. Well, the Texans are on their way back up to the top because, you know, C.J. Stroud is being C.J. Straught. Throwing a touchdown passes down the field. It was nice to see him bounce back. The accuracy was there And he had some time to throw as well Wasn't under duress as much as far as the pressure rate And sacks giving up and all that type of stuff

It was good to see the old CJ Stroud That we knew we knew and loved from a couple years ago Yes and also I've seen the defense control the game They only allowed one touchdown To Baltimore yesterday That was impressive Mm-hmm very impressive

Yeah I mean you can't That Baltimore that was a game Dave, thank you for the phone call and appreciate you calling me a beautiful ball, man, which is fine. I appreciate that. They didn't, they didn't, never was a game. I mean, I know Baltimore came back. You got the field goal to get it close, but it, there was never a point in time,

and I thought this is getting scary close. The Dalton Schultz connection was working well. The running game was giving you just enough. CJ Stroud, for the most part, had plenty of time. He was insanely accurate. It was perfect. It was a beautiful, football game. Yeah.

And you need, how many more do you need, nine of those? Nine of those? Yeah. Do you need 11 wins to win the division? I think 11 gets a division. Because, man, aren't the Colts due for some kind of let down here? I'm saying, they're 4 and 1. Now, they, again, we will say they beat the bad Raiders team, but they destroyed them.

Same thing for the Titans and the Dolphins. So three of their wins have been huge And without that AD Mitchell drop Who knows what had happened in that Rams game Right So yeah The college are looking pretty legit And they're gonna have it

They have an easier schedule Let me give you the next five weeks Are you okay with that? Yes Home for Arizona this week Win At the LA Chargers Coinflip

We'll call that a loss Okay Home for Tennessee Win Yes At Pittsburgh That's that could That's almost

I'm going to call it a coin flip. I'm going to give a slight edge of the Colts, but they could lose that game. And then they go to Berlin to play the Falcons. Anything can happen in Berlin, Matt. Now, after Berlin, this is Thanksgiving week. At the Chiefs,

home for the Texans, at the Jaguars, at the Colts, home for the Niners, at the Colts. Week number 18 of the season. Oh! N-R-G Stadium,

maybe for the AFC South championship. Vision crown on the line. Now we've got to get the pesky jaguars out of the way. That's going to happen because we're going to be plenty of everybody. He's going to be beating each other up. So let's go Chiefs. All right. 1244, the Matt Thomas show, Ross.

What's believing or not today? What? It's an hour and six. We're doing that? Well, we are today. All right, fine. I'll do it tomorrow, by the way. What?

Yeah, because you got NFL rewind to get to. I like this a lot. We're going to do alive or dead tomorrow. It's been a while. It's been a while. Yeah. I got crushed on the last one. Yeah.

You were bat like your implied percentage accuracy was about 875. Yes. And you went down about $3.50 last week. We're going to bounce back. We're due. Yep. All right. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-790, 12-45. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross with a word right now for the Shell Federal Credit Union. Matt and Ross with you on this Monday, 713-1-2-2-5-79. if you want to join our conversation 713 2125-790. If you want to follow us on Twitter, you may do that as well. At SportsMT and at SportsRV. You know who's been all over this? Mark Sanchez

has been TMZ. That's not shocking, I suppose. TMZ has obtained an image of Mark Sanchez being placed in an ambulance after Saturday stabbing, showing him shirtless and wounded on a gurney is he received medical attention. Happened around 12.30 in the morning showing a large police presence in the area.

Wow. You looking at the video, the photos? Just him on the gurney, yeah. He says, we broke the story. Okay. At least you're braggadocious. Yeah. Aye, aye, yay. Yeah, both men were in bad shape following the incident.

Monday morning, a trail of blood was still visible. on the sidewalk. Yuck. I'm not due to going to in Annapolis for a while. You don't want to go to the scene,

do you? Are you going to? I mean, I can't if you want me to. Well, somebody would have to have died for you to go, right? Because you went to the,

didn't you go to Brown Simpson? I didn't go to a Brown Simpson. That's not a bright shining moment for me. That's so weird. I expect from Adam Clinton, who has been there, I think. He's also been to where

Tupac has been shot. He went to where Prince died, I think. Well, there's, I won't mention who it is, but there's some in our traveling crew that likes to go to Jeffrey Dahmer's house and do what?

And see what that's where he was Jeffrey Dahmer? Where he was domering? Is that a verb? No, hope not. All right, let's go the phones. Get out of this horrific conversation immediately. That's my fault. Steph, you're on 790. Steph, thanks for waiting and good afternoon to you.

Hi, how are you doing, guys? We're amazing. This is the stuff you know. Say again? This is the stuff that you know. Oh, I know who this. is. I'm calling about Texas.

All right. Come on now. You are the official barometer of the Texan fan base. How is the collective Texans fan base feeling right this second? I am not going to speak for the collective Texan's fans. I will just tell you that I am having absolute fun. I'm back from ACL Fest. I hung out with a Texan fans.

They were like golden acres. for a watch party, which was super fun, you know, beating the crap. Yeah, all right. Unfortunately, Steph, hold on. Line number two is always. Take a deep breath, Matt. Take a deep breath. It's all good.

Okay, Tom's back this week, so. When you go get him, he's actually in the office. I mean, I think it's just the internet. It's just sometimes. Well, I'm talking about it today. He knows. He knows. Yeah, yeah, okay. All right he already does?

We're having, he was already hit this morning. We're having phone issues. Steph, I love you. thank you so much for calling. You can try a different line. Can we block out line two or is that just not going to happen? It always, I don't think, I don't know why. It seems, one, too, seems to have gremlins.

Try line line line. See, it says phone line, you got a buggy phone line. Uh-oh. You know, they say about the buggy phone lines. Hi, Stephen. I hope you can hear me. Go ahead.

I just wanted to talk about if I'm spotty, just let me know. You know, I, uh, good things yesterday. Uh, one of the, uh, put them on old, put them on old. All right. Everybody call back in 10 minutes. Maybe the, uh, maybe the internet will be doing better. I don't know, Matt.

I'm sorry. It's not fun. One more time. One more time. Are you sure? Oh my gosh. You're just going to make Matt matter. No, no, because we need to, we need to figure it out so we can.

What do we figure it out? No, because. We're old for two in this segment. We thought it was line to, right? we thought it was on to it. Well, it could be, I think it's the phones. Yeah, I mean, all right, last chance. Steph. Go ahead, Steph. Hello. Can you hear me? Kind of. I'm in LaGrange now. Oh, okay. That's good. LaGrange is good people there. Yeah, that's pretty. No, I'm still in Texas, actually. I really have to say that some people are kind of bratty. I'm about the NFL football. Oh, my gosh.

Yeah. like it's different than college ball and some of the young people don't know the difference. The NFL is bad, bad football and just working through things. You know, we're going to cut it right there, Steph, because we get the, we're in the essence of what you said. I'm going to go take a walk. Okay. Deep breaths.

We're back in four minutes for the start of the final hour of the show. We're going to be great. It's going to be good. We're going to have trying to stabilize. I've been having Wi-Fi issues too. Okay. Let's go for a walk. I will not say anything inflammatory.

I'm so proud of you, Matt. Count to 10, deep breaths. I'll be thinking about it, though. Okay. We take calls. We like to talk to the people of Houston. We just want to make sure we're very clear and abundant on that. We don't want to hear ourselves think for talk for four hours.

713-212-5-7-98. I suggested Mark Sanchez, believe or not. Ross does not want to do that. Oh, okay. Famous Indianapolis hospital trips. What? You could do famous stabbings. All right.

We're moving on. See, that's what happens. We'd have been taking phone calls. This wouldn't have to happen. Full 57 on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. All right, Ross. I went for a walk.

You feel great. We got an hour left to go. The Matt Thomas show with Ross. We have the greatest jobs in the world. We get a chance to visit with you. Hopefully on the phone lines this hour. Hopefully, through the social media, it's known as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook.

and just y'all be with this we're one big happy family now we sometimes have in our squabbles and whatnot and sometimes you know the phone lines don't work which is daily but that's the calming down back here that's why i'm okay it's three times a week i feel that feels over uh overestimated as well okay minimal minimal issues with our phone lines yeah very rarely yes isn't that right jonathan Yeah, we're all good. You know what? Give me some cool to gang, some celebration. Really?

We got the Texans win in two in a row. That's right. Let me tell you. We got news for y'all. Your team, Houston, that actually plays games. I mean, look, Ross and I love the Astros, but it ain't going to be a while. We got to root for Detroit, by the way. I do not want that Seattle ass going to the American League Championship series.

Sorry, I just said. Rooting for Toronto's going well so far. Nationally, I don't really care. Nah. I would want to root against the Dodgers, but they won last year. It's over. Whatever. They're playing a different ballgame than everyone else. I am kind of rooting for Kyle.

Getting a billion dollars deferred. What is he hitting? I think 158 in the playoffs? That is correct. That's correct. Slugging the exact same that his batting averages. Not a good sign. Abachi's still in play.

I've already saved the money. But for every out he gets, I feel like a little more glimmer of hope. Okay. you're so confident No, I'm not I'm not I'm not Yeah you're

You're seeing what happens You're smug You're confident It can happen By the way Smug is different For any other day Speaking yeah

Speaking of the Do you see that The Breggman stuff Out there About the Red Sox are like You can go on Do your thing We're not giving you

Extension You can take what We're going to offer you He's gonna opt out Right I mean Well yeah But I don't think

He's looking He was looking He was looking He's looking He's looking He's looking for they Out and extend And I don't

Think the Red Sox May want to do that They're worried about his injury, history, okay. And being on the wrong side of 30. I understand that. Enough about them. Celebrate the Texans.

I'm just going to be awesome numbers and make you want to smile. Poor Steph, driving back from LaGrange, trying to call the show. She had a good time. Good to her. I hope she stopped by at Kruska's Bakery. Now, that's the one that you per- What's the one I like to go to? You used to be called, you like Weichels?

Yeah, I was a Wichols guy back in the day, but I mean, Colopportuny. Bruce goes better. Bring me some Ranger cookies, Steph. Shipley's okay. Shipley's? Yeah. Shipley, I think. Oh, yeah, Shipley.

You know, in Houston you say Shipley. It's like you say Waterburger. That's true. All right, let me just say things wrong. 33 carries for the Texans rushing. Keep the music up. 167. Go ahead.

CJ Stroud, only four incomplete passes. 23 of 27, 244 yards. You've got some Davis Mills action in there. Davis Money Mills. two of four for 23 yards. Baller. Dalton Schultz targeted six times and got five catches. Christian Kirk, four for

four on targets and receptions. Nico Collins, still underwhelming, but he did reach the end zone. Xavier Hutchison his first two career touchdowns and a Houston Texan in one game. Beautiful. Jalen Petrie with a interception, actually had two of them.

Marry Lasseter. You only had to watch Taylor Townsend, punt the ball one time. Tommy as well as brother. What I call him? Taylor. Taylor. You're fixated on Taylor.

Yeah, Taylor. Yeah, Taylor. Oh, I'll go check on Taylor's picks. I'll give you all what she tells me in a minute. She's been Cubs fan. I don't even big. Really? Voluminous.

She may be a Busty Cubs fan. But aren't we all? 7-13-21-2. Go Kyle Tucker. What are you going to be three-four. four with a double and a jack. Let's go. How about O for four or three strikeouts? We'll see. Six LOBs.

Look, this meal is going to cost one of us a lot of money. It's actually two meals. It's two. You wanted to add, you wanted to add the drive-thru. Oh, when he went on the injured list, that was me, yeah. All right, let's try it. We're bringing back the phones. We've given it a nice old 10-minute break. We're going to try easy. Father, son, Holy Spirit, amen. Here we go. Easy. on the dreaded line number two on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross.

Can you hear me now? Yes, sir. Go! Yes, go. There you go. Yes. I see he's doing his job, sir. Yes. By the way, celebrating the Texans win, they're going to be far in between this year. I'm going to take some fan die hard. Another question for you guys, who has easier job?

The backup quarterback, the long snapper, or the punter? I don't hang up a list. Ooh, good question. Easiest try to be a backup quarterback. I'm going to agree with that for two reasons. One, you don't play unless the game's a blowout or your guy gets hurt. And B, the expectations are minimal. Long snapper, you mess up.

You do your job right a hundred times. Nobody says a word. You sail one. You're the worst long snapper in history. Yep. And you get your punt blocked, and you're really in a bad spot. You had one job, as they always say. You had one job.

You had one job. Well, if you don't do it. that one job people get upset oh shoot i went to a i what's wrong what are you doing the kall tucker predictions why oh what did they i what is chat gpti say are you sir you're doing this in the middle of a segment right now between 400 and 600 million dollars no way that's bad money spent he he he he he it's been bad money spent uh who'd you ask jimini chat gptt uh this is bing bing Bing AI. Ooh, what is Bing using?

Bing usually has those AI images. Bootleg. That's true. Google Gemini says 12 years, 400 million. Would you do, forget about the bet. Would you do that? I wouldn't do it.

I don't think you would in Houston. I'm not asking Houston. I'm talking about anywhere. That's 33 million a year. And who is in that race? Is that Chicago, New York, L.A., I mean, tell me that. Yeah, New York, L.A., Chicago.

I don't think. That's the thing. If you get them to bow out, Matt, that's when your odds become greater. There's two different markets every free agent off season. It's the Dodgers, Mets, Yankees, and maybe, you know, the stray Phillies or Cubs if they feel like ponying up. And then it's everybody else. Would the Mariners want to do it? They don't spend usually big money on freedom. Now, they've spent a lot of money getting these train acquisitions coming in. Yeah, they're not usually big spenders. Which, by the way, tip of the captain, Jerry DePoto. Everybody in Seattle wanted them fired for years and years and years. sometimes you've got to trust the process.

Yep. All right, we're mixing football and baseball together. That's what this show does it. Nobody else can do. Football? Looking good. We can cuss in. On the professional side.

College side, both you and I are very upset. You know what, honestly, people, I don't think I ever predicted to win. I was wanting us to win, but you predicted a cover on gut feelings. I did. We'll recap that tomorrow.

I think I said first quarter cover. I also said the longhorns would not cover on gut feelings. So you're realist then? I can be. What's the most unrealistic thing you think about? Unrealistic. I think I'm realistic, but I can be optimistic.

When you don't know the outcome, you can choose to be positive. Well, I guess that was pessimism, but I think I was realistic. Okay, so I'm going to put the cart well before the horse here. Okay. You don't make the playoffs. No, I don't think so.

Okay, so if you don't make it, what does Sark do in terms of staff changes. Because he's not going to fire himself. He's not going to fire himself. He calls the pay. Pete, I always get this wrong. Quatowski.

Okay. The defensive coordinator. Oh, last year, he was a genius and one of the best in football. And the defense has been good before this last weekend. Can we really dumb it down to the quarterback just not very good?

I mean, is that what we want to do? I don't think it's that simple. No, as I said, it's early season, Texans. No run game. No offense. offensive line, quarterback underperforming, and the past catchers haven't been good.

And, Trayden and Wisner came back off an injury, but C.J. Baxter is a better back, and he was hurt. You're telling me that four different key positions on the football side of things are not performing expectations? Well, Archmanning's favorite target, Parker Livingstone,

got hurt in the game. Ryan Wingo's good, and DeAndre Moore's good. but they're not like they're not to the level of what guys have been in the past the Matthew Goldens and A.D. Mitchells and whoever else of the world. Why don't you just poach players like you normally do? Well, they poach some guys and some they're not working out. They've had some injuries too.

Step up the NIL game. NIL game is about as high as spending as anybody in football. I know. What is it? A&M, Texas and Tech, basically. Everybody else is a distant fourth. I don't know. Ohio State's up there.

And Oregon. Oregon. Every year. Phil Knight's shelling out cash. What he said, I'll keep right and check until I'm alive. I want to go to, I want them to win a championship before I die. He's got a chance of doing it. I'm rooting against them.

Hard. Against Oregon? Yes. Really? I don't know why. I do know why. It's just because I don't want Phil Knight to win. Just because he spends money.

I don't know. That's, it all, you know, the number one thing that came across as I was living the stadium in and I was, we got to spend some more money. That's, that's what fixes it. speaking now, again, Florida State, guys they're asked me by Miami over the weekend. They've spent a lot of money and they have to a great start, but they have been a little sluggish the last couple weeks. All these programs are spending money and they all have expectations.

Everybody. We're all going to be let down. Mm-hmm. Except Texas Tech. Cody Campbell, walking around like he owns CEDEC statement, probably could buy it. I think he'll be fine with this year, he'll be fine with them making the playoff and not winning at all. Mm-hmm. And how much is he going to keep shelling out? there's been a bookoo's money on two quarterbacks

that's the thing is you have to if you're going you know I don't even know what our NIL situation is but I guarantee webman did okay for himself I get the number one high school quarterback coming here next year for you of age yeah man come on you got to get that fun fun back up man hey come on let's go I'm not touching it no let's go no I do I do a lot of charitable things is Connard Wegman for the Matt Thomas show with Ross

brought you by um you Oh, bought it by me? Yeah. Then I want to... Then I want a billboard by the stadium then if I get that. 7.13, 2.1, 2, 5, 790.

Larry, Neal, and James, we'll get to all of you coming back in a few minutes. Presumably. Yeah, I mean, Lord willing. Although, we got two straight calls in what are okay. Because you know what I did? I did my little walk. See, it worked. As compared to just ranting and raving, I just walked.

It was a better thing. I'm going to start doing that with everything. There's the people that irritate me in this for a moment because go for a walk. there you go and get your steps in that's true I can take my phone and give my step credit

though 713212 570 719 712 212570 believe or not it's coming up in 35 short minutes okay and you're doing it you're not doing on

oh what Mark Sanchez yeah we'll figure it out you do Brady Quinn the guy who filled in for him that'd be kind of nice he's the backup he was the backup

it's like those one of those insurance commercials bringing in the backup he did okay Quinn. Brady Kim was good. Ready to rock. Yeah. 713.

212. 5790. All right. Lord willing, our phones are working. We got a lot of folks that want to talk, so we're going to get out of the way, Rossi. We're going to let those great people to Houston have what they want to say. Let's go to Stunna. Stunna, what do you got today at 120?

Hey, what's going on, man? We're doing good. I just want to get a shout-out, man. You look pretty good over there on TV doing the volleyball game. Well, thank you very much. I do clean up very well. I appreciate you saying that. Hey, who's that eye candy with you?

Me, me? Yeah, that's eye candy that was working alongside you. That is a... That is Shelby Coppich. She was my analyst for the game. Oh, my God. Hey, I got to give you... I got to give you a hand, Matt.

You know how to pick him, man. I did not pick him. Shelby and I have been friends for a long time, but she's a beautiful young lady, yes. man i just wanted to call and say i heard your voice this is his voice cracking in front of shelby did i have meat what's going or something or what man hey i got to say

hey that would have been a slump buster it's a little better than a slump buster i don't think that's a slump buster i'll be honest with you i don't think that's my definition of slump busters and yours maybe two different things my friend see you later. He's not trying to get me in trouble. Matt, you're red. No, I just was like,

Shelby and I have been a long friend. Can you get some sun this weekend? Yeah, I was out there working. That's mowing the lawn and stuff. Let's go to Larry and Galveston out of Matt Thomas Show at Ross. Larry, good afternoon. M.T. How are you? Amazing.

I tell you what, man. I'm doing just fine. I want to talk a little bit of Astros. First of all, I think Daniel Brown needs to step up, and he needs to find somebody that wants Gianna Diaz while we can still get a little bit for him. Because, unfortunately, his arm could not throw a one-legal. get grandma out at second base trying to steal in any game.

The next thing, he needs to step up and sign Victor Tarotini, who's the switch hitter and not a bad catcher, but a pretty good gun decent catcher. And the third thing, and you're probably not going to agree with me on this, but that's okay, we all stand the capability to agree and disagree is pick up Martine Maldonado for a little bit next to nothing, and let him be the backup to maybe the backup catcher, and let him be the catching instructor for our catchers so that they will know how to build a game plan like he did for Justin Verlander all the years that he was with us. And that is the reason why Dusty stayed with Martine

matched up with Justin the whole time while he was pitching for us. And I just, I'm strongly convinced that that would be the right thing to do. And as far as Jim Crane is concerned, it's not going to cost him a whole heck of a lot of money. and the Astros would be a better team defensively for that reason. Yeah, Martin doesn't bet 260, 27, 280. He probably bats 210 to 2090. Larry, Larry, and thank you.

Thank you for the phone call, my friend. I appreciate it. Marti Maldono is never going to play majorly baseball again. He may coach. He may be a field manager someday, but he's never playing again. I mean, yeah, it's just, this isn't even a conversation piece. Would you look at me and put your hand down? What's wrong with you?

Yeah, I mean, I'm sure if he, I don't know if Martin wants that, but most catchers have been, have typically lead themselves towards careers and He actually had bounced back season offensively. 572 OPS. Last year he was 403. 147 is this real he played 147 games last year he had a 403 OPS that's not true stop dude 135 starts 147 games 403 OPS 119 average did not you're making that up you're making stats up dude read it I'm blown away too what was your adjusted number that you were talking about oh I lied

147 played appearances you're right I was wrong yeah okay that didn't seem crazy That didn't seem real to me either. I wasn't playing 147 games. Again. We'll be here. Entertainment and provide information. You get bad information. I fixed it.

We were both like, there's no way. No chance. Oh, man, that was hilarious. All right, let's go to... 147 plate appearances. Nigel. How are you, sir? I'm excellent.

I'm, like most Houston Texans fans. Yes. I wasn't going to correct you this. I got you, Nigel. I got your back. It's very simple. The one for Vancouver. Hoover's Nigel.

Nigel. That's correct me. Every time I make the mistake, you must correct me. Every single time. And this will not be the last time, Nigel. Noted. Noted. Like all Texans fans, I'm celebrating the win.

I'm really excited for the week off. And then, of course, the game in Seattle. If you recall, the last time the Texans played in Seattle, it was a 41-38 loss, but it was a very, very entertaining game. I believe Deshawn Watson threw for over 400 yards. in that game. And you will be there, correct? I will absolutely be there, 100%. I didn't pay for the club seats, but my wife

and I, we've got decent seats. We're very excited. Good. Yes. I haven't seen the Texans since the last game in Seattle, so yeah, I'm very, very excited. I have a question for you. Do you think that the Texans would be willing to trade a blue chip piece? Camari Lasseter even comes to mind if they were able to pick up a stud on the offensive line.

That's my question. And because the division is a lot better than most, if not everybody, expected. Is this a season where they should try to go all in? I'm not entirely sure, but I'm certainly encouraged about the game yesterday. I wish I was celebrating at Big City Wings. The deals there sound. I know. $10 burgers today.

I'm not kidding around. they're delicious too. It takes two people lead them. Last time I was there, we went to this place called Twin Peaks, which is also a good bar. I'm not sure if that's one of your affiliates, but it was a great time. Great show today, guys.

Enjoy the week off, and I'll call you after the game in Seattle. Nigel, I look forward, and see, I got that right. Nigel, I look forward to the Monday, the Tuesday post-game calling. That's a Monday night game. The game is so big it's on ESPN Plus. Love it. Huge.

You know, they put the main talent on ESPN Plus. These are coming. Mr. ESPN Plus. Good. It's a very popular streaming service. You know what it is? It does help because my daughter

will be playing volleyball at Rhode Island and all their games are in ESPN. Oh, really? I would normally not be able to see her and play. You're welcome. What did you do? I'm executive. Disney.

I thought you're going to say in charge of emotional support. I've got the ear of Mickey Mouse. Do you? Yes. Can I borrow a couple dollars? You're executive? I could use something. I take care of you when I can.

I'm just saying. I think he's going to buy your birthday. burger on Wednesday. I thought you were. Oh, man, okay, that's right. You keep flaking. You're a mega flake Thomas over here. Mega flake.

I'm still waiting for whatever excuse you come up with. You know what? You know where I'm going to be Wednesday night. I got to be in the city. I'll go to hamburger with y'all. Okay. And take a nap after, though. Oh, guys, got a doctor's appointment.

You do? That's you. Not me. All right. A pair of James are up next. What? Oh, James. I thought you said James.

And I was like, that would have been shocking. We've had James called the show before. That's true. It'd be hard to have to get two Janes on one show. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790 if you want to join us. I got great news. The phones. We've been taking phones for 45 straight minutes. Things are going well. Oh, yeah. Tom came back. I want to tell you, he came back. He heard it. It was got a hold of it with IT and everything. So they should be over to fix it here. God bless him. You know what? I'm in a better frame of mind.

All I want is equipment to work. That's it. And then give me easy-peasy. It is working. We're good. We're good. Feeling great. reset the router. 713, 212.1,000, 5, 790.

135, sports talk 790. If you've not heard about Mark Sanchez, the charge of an upgrade to a felony. I don't know what that's going to, again, innocent and too proven guilty, but apparently there's lots of videos and lots of photos that are not going to necessarily make Mark Sanchez's life any easier. Fox Brady Quinn You're going to do some games now So One man's fight

There's another man's opportunity To work some games Crazy just a wild story Alcohols Can do crazy things And I will just say It sounds to me Like other stuff is involved

If he's randomly running sprints And all You don't get drunk And normally say it's time for some sprint Was he wearing dress shoes? Maybe okay, maybe you're a track athlete. Yeah, hold on track athlete. Maybe you'd think it's...

I have a tattooed guy for a free tattoo one time. Right, okay. Right, you know what? Drunken races, but you just decide to run by yourself and you get pepper sprayed and you just wipe it out of your eyes and you're all good and still charging forward? Yeah, it's not looking to get for a minute.

It sounds like Papa Aed as spinach is what it sounds like to me. Like when I drink too much, I dance. That's fine. I'm not going on a marathon run. I don't skinny dip in the pool at the hotel. Well, people will do that. I know, but I want to keep my job, too. Hey, guys, I'm hammered drunk.

It's time for, to running, I need some more details on this. He's running sprints in the alley, or he's running from the police. It could be of right. Again, there's still a lot of stuff to be determined. I need more details on this, because I have questions, more questions than the answers at this point. Now, when Britney Spears wants to drink too much, he's skinny dips. That's true. And I got zero issue with that.

Okay. Have you seen her now? What's that? Have you seen her now? She's kind of... Kind of what? Kind of crazy looking. I think she's always been crazy looking.

That means I don't like it. Moving on. Yeah, that's fine. Let's go to the phones. You know, the phones are working. We're happy. Let's talk to people. So good to have Tom, our engineer, back helping us out.

James on 7 on a. Hello, James. Hello, gentlemen. Thank you for accepting my call. Oh, James, where are you been, man? We've been missing on you. They need new hitting coaches. We need new hitting coaches.

James' outside pitch. Well, you know, I've been frustrated with the Astros front office because Jim Crane, I don't know who he'd listen to, Reggie Jackson, or Jeff Bagwell, Dana Brown. You know, the whole thing about what the Astros just did, I think the team did as great as they did considering all the adversities that they went through. How are you going to make the playoffs if you let your all-star third baseman

gold glove walk? You trade your all-star right fielder slugger, trade him for a prospect. Now, if the Astros was in the business of winning, I wouldn't have done that. out of sign Tucker, regardless. Jim Crane went through nine consecutive years of bonus money. 40% of guaranteed games, 100% every game after. Jim Crane made over probably close to $8,900 million over the nine years, that he has

the Astros have performed and putting money in his pocket you mean to tell me he can't sign he couldn't keep Kyle Tucker or he couldn't find a way to he could have backlog Alex Brickman like the Astro's backlog

Jeff Bagwell he could have done that's why I give a front office an F and I give damn you're tough we're just following instructors If the boss man says we're not going to sign Kyle Tucker, see what you can get for him, then you do it.

Well, okay. Did he collect any bonus money this year? I don't know. Who, what? Okay. Okay. If it's a business, you and the business are making money. Yes.

Everybody say, everybody say, this is a business. You can't pay him that. But Jim Crane is the envy of the whole need because he went. nine consecutive years playoff bonus money. Jim Crane made money. It ain't like he at every sports character.

The Department of James, and we're going to let you run on that note. Thank you, James. You just can't pay everybody. You just can't pay everybody what they want to get paid. You have to draw a line in the same. Jim Crane didn't buy the Astros to lose money or even break even. So, and you're not in New York.

You're not in L.A. And you got to, if you want to remain profitable, you can't pay everyone in Houston, Texas. You just can't. And they have issues with their team. And they always have a top seven payroll. Yes.

Always. Yeah, they're not driving Bentley's and Rolls-Royces. They've got a high-end SUVs. They got a nice Mercedes. They got a wrestler. Yeah. Okay. I thought those are affordable.

The high-end ones aren't. Okay. Plus you got to buy the battery charger and all that kind of stuff. And get up there. James, you're, you are painting with an extraordinarily broad brush. And sometimes you can make Picasso out of it. And guess what?

If he wants to pocket as my... Look, I mean, it just is what it is. Jim Crane can pocket as much as he wants as his team. Let's deal with a couple of realities. Kyle Tucker did not want to stay here. Under any circumstance, no way, no how, no chance, not going to listen to offers. Jim Crane has drawn lines in the sand. He doesn't want to pay long-term huge contracts.

He's stuck to that. Kyle Tucker is going to command one this off season, much to the chagrin of some. and much to the light of our habachi workers everywhere. And as far as Breggman's concerned, there was a dollar amount they were comfortable with, and at some point you're not comfortable with a dollar amount. Right. And a lot of these long-term albatross contracts don't work out over the time. But I understand the flip side is, well, then why do you pay for the prime and then you take it on the back end?

And well, they've taken it on the back end with Jose Abraeu and Christian Walker. And I still believe the more teams backlog their contracts, the more they're going to hurt them in the future. At some point, it's going to put a ding in the Dodgers for the money they gave Shoyotany. It just is. I don't know when it's going to be. Maybe not in our lifetime, Rossi, but it's going to be at some point.

They deferred. That's going to be fine. And they also have more economic means. Their television dollars that go to their team are significantly more than anybody else in baseball. It's the Yankees and the Mets and the Yankees and the Dodgers and that's it. Anybody else is a distant third.

And Mets are spending, obviously, because Steve Cohen's a billionaire, and he loves the Mets, and he doesn't care if he's losing money. And he's worth billions and billions more than Jim Crane is. Yes. I want to say, Jim's probably if you were taking the 30 owners, he's probably 28th or 29th in wealth. Jim's here to win and turn a profit. And he's doing both. Yeah. All right.

Lastly, James with his son, 790. Let's see if this James goes as well as the last James. Hello, James. Yeah, Matt, it was a disappointing Saturday, no doubt. I mean, U of H, they were outclassed. I mean, there's no question about that. As far as UT, UT I felt bad for it because

for whatever reason, I watch that UT all the time, and I wanted them to win, so I was pretty disappointed with that as well. But in UT's defense, they lost a heck of a tight-in last year. That tied-in they had last year was all-world, and they lost Matthew Golden, they lost them offense alignment.

So you can kind of see why they're not winning right now. I mean, I know arts are missing targets, but they had an awesome tie-in last year. And as far as the Cougars, well, you know, they weren't the better team. I mean, I kind of knew that going in. You know, I didn't give me good credit for. It was at least a five. You know, gave me a four-point-five.

I thought it was a decent five at least. But nevertheless, it's your own's voting, not mine. The one thing I want to ask you about is Houston's identity. Do you think they have an identity problem? Why would you wear blue? Why do you keep wearing that oil or stuff? What's wrong with red and white? They do wear red and white?

They were the, that was the third time they've worn the city blue. They like it. People like it. You know, you know how you city connect? You city connect by winning games. You win games, the city's going to be interested. You go out and you lose the big games, not so much, no matter what you're wearing. We could have been wearing orange.

It wouldn't have mattered. And we weren't going to be Texas Tech. Well, that's true. That's true. That's true. We weren't going to be a good time. People wore blue with a good crowd. I mean, you know what?

Did we make you buy any of that? No, so don't, don't worry about it. Let us, let us enjoy our blue. I understand that But one thing about the Texan that I'm 11 this year is not wearing those H-town uniforms. Oh God, those things are ugly. Please keep those in the closet.

Which one of the H-town? Thank you for the call. The H-town Blue? With the Blue H. Oh. Yeah. Like Old English. I don't know if they're wearing those this year. I don't know. We need more Clay Walker Games. Maybe sing the natural anthem or second time this year.

We need an end to update the fight song because it was so catchy the first time around. I think you need to win games. Yeah, win games. Again, you could wear... That's another thing. We were all talking about the Oilers and how people

hang on to them. One of the reasons they still do that is the Texans haven't given you a reason to hang on to them. Yeah. Give the AFC championship and people will be burning those uniforms. I'm not burning them, but you know what I mean? Don't need them. Okay. All right, believe it or not, much to Ross's chagrin. It's on Mark Sanchez. We're honoring a guy who just got his liquored up and stabbed and arrested and

forgot fit now facing phone charges. We celebrate birthdays, we celebrate deaths, we should celebrate felony charges. All things Mark Sanchez next, 145 here on Sports Talks. I think Major League Baseball is goofing up here. I know they are worried about audiences, but the baseball games today, one starts at five, one starts at eight. I mean, that's 9 o'clock in the East. What's wrong? I just, what are you trying to do?

Do you want to make people watching this possible? What should they do? I'm not curious what direction. Okay, you want them... Three and seven. Whatever, yeah. Three and seven? Yeah.

I mean, I just don't think that's smart. Is there a West Coast game as the one, the 8 o'clock one? No, it's five. Why did they flip them? Five o'clock is Dodgers. In the Phillies are in these, technically. In Cubs, Brewers, in the Midwest. That's in Central.

Yeah. 808 is late. I mean, it's even late for the Central Times. So you have that. You have Rockets preseason. You got Monday night football. Woo! It'd be nice.

That's three TVs in the week. The next day, Mariners Tigers play at three, Blue Jay and Yankees at seven. And then Thursday, and Wednesday, there's a chance of having four games in one day. Oh, yeah, tomorrow they're doing three and seven. There you go. We're happy.

Yeah. Oh, you know why? Why? Are they staying away from my night of football? I don't know. That's a good question. Starting in an hour later, yeah. So you can get the exciting conclusion.

Yes. Yeah, maybe so. All right. 713, 212. 790. 719. 212 570 5 minutes left to go on the show

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for U.H. Homecoming on Saturday, October 18th. Oh, homecoming? It's 11 a.m. start at TDUCU Stadium. But they're home last week. But they're going to home bring up. It was like a road game. Shut up. Or a pair of tickets to see Keith Urban

on the high and alive world tour with Chase Matthews, Atlanta Springsteen and Carly Scott, too? That's at the Woodlands Pavilion. Tickets are on sale there at Ticketmaster.com. Keith Urban currently separated from his wife, Nicole Kidman. Being Nicole Kidman a fan. I don't care what you said.

I don't care what you said. I don't. I know. Not on my list, but that's fine. Let's play, believe it or not. We'll start with line number we can go with here. Let's go in line number two. Ken on 790.

Ken, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Mark Sanchez, Major. Well, he was at USC was, quote, American Studies. Believe it or not. Believe it? No, communications. Bye. See you. Duh.

Nijal? Yes, sir. Oh, shoo. Are you ready to play Believe it or not? Yes, sir. Mark Sanchez, third all-time in Jets passing yards behind Joe Namath and Chad Pennington. Believe it or not.

Believe it. No, he was six behind Benny Testa Verdi. Let's go to Matt in K. Matt, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? Oh, a little baseball talk. Mark Sanchez played for five NFL teams, the last of which was the Dallas Cowboys. Believe it or not?

Not. That's not. He played for six, and his last team was the Redskins. Statement number two for the wind. Mark Sanchez appeared in season number four of the mass singer as the baby alien. Believe it or not? Believe it? Yes.

Congratulations. Now, Jay, are you calling us from Lubbock right now? No, I'm in Houston. All right, thank goodness. Here we go. Mark Sanchez is an avid fan of musical theater and has even presented at the Tony Awards. Believe it or not. Believe it.

That's right. Statement number two for the way. In 2010, Mark Sanchez sued sports memorabilia company Heritage Auctions for selling items with his forged signature. Believe it or not. Not. That is also a not. Correct. congratulations.

Felipe on 790, Felipe, what was your favorite part of today? You send the two radio show. You're going for a walk, man. I'll show you're paying. Felipe, God bless you. Mark Sanchez is an older brother, Nick, who played quarterback at Yale. Believe it or not? Not.

That's a believe it. Believe it. Sorry, thank you, don't. Thank you for listening. Sometimes the walks do help. Michael on 790. Michael, you're ready to play, believe it or not? I'm ready.

Mark Sanchez is married to 4. former victorious secret angel Aaron Heatherton. The couple has two children. Believe it or not. Believe it. No. He's good looking and everything, but I think I'm going to have to Google Aaron Hederton. How is she like? She's married to some actress.

I can't remember her. Oh, okay. She hopefully can pay some bills for a while. She's probably hot too. Yeah. Speaking of that, I'm going to check on Taylor's Picks and look forward to talk. Picks or PICS? PICS. P-I-C-S. Mm-hmm. You don't believe me? Because there's video with those picks. Maybe.

Should have to go for a walk? Walking's good for you. Taylor walks, I walk. Up next, the team. I'll talk to you for Rockets at 7 on 790.