The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans Loss Reaction & Astros in Rebuild Mode?

Episode Date: September 21, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 12-01 in H-town. What's happening at luncht timers? Good afternoon to you, and welcome to a Monday edition

of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. This is very risky here. You're right at the end of the first. I can see going a hard count trying to get them to jump off sides, maybe even take the penalty and then punt afterwards. But it's fourth and one. We're going to go for it. They come off the edge.

And heavy pressure was applied to Sean Elliott came through and pressured the pocket. And the quarterback, Elliot, who had his NFL debut as a starter last week, comes up big and a fourth and one right here. Baltimore takes over at the end of one, up by three. But thankfully, the season has just been. Begun. Need not worry about what the last two weeks were. You weren't going to win the game.

No chance. Nata. Wasn't it going to happen, Texans, Karen. I'm calling you out Texans, Karen. Texans Olivier, Texans Tyrone for Indy Kalu. It wasn't going to happen. They weren't going to be competitive. They weren't going to keep it close.

And they are playing just like we thought they were going to. Are you saying they are who they thought we were? We thought they were. Yes, the late Dennis Green's like, I'm watching this game from high above. I know what's going to happen. They're who they thought we were. We played them in the preseason. The Texans are who we thought they were.

Seriously. There's probably, okay, Indy Klu thought they were going to beat the Chiefs. Did we, you didn't put out scores predictions for week too, did we? Indy would have had them beating the Ravens. Now, who on the 790 staff would have had them beating the Ravens? No, Indy and that's it. maybe one more maybe

I'm just saying I'm maybe Adam Clanton no Adam Wexler maybe okay just saying maybe no you wouldn't have

I don't know I don't know they make a prediction or not I forgot what our score was I think I was pretty close again well your gut feeling was that they were going to lose by more than 10 points

they lost by 17 yeah by way gut feelings um Brendan is gut feeling like he's two for two and he also kicked our ass again and schmose on Friday.

You're six and two against the spread this year. If only I was winning money in real life right now. Well, I mean, you know, Vegas is right around the corner. That's what we call him the 790 Swami, Matt. Is that what we're calling him? Exactly. You go for 0 for 4. You're the swarming. Yeah.

In all seriousness, gang, and by way, this is Matt Thomas. Good afternoon. I'm Matt. Hi. Ross and I already have a heated debate. And again, it's good because we can debate about things. Organically. Organically.

We don't have to manufacture debates. Hey, guys, I'm a Progian director of a radio station. Why don't you guys go in and have a fight about something that we don't even think really makes any sense? Okay? Sounds good. You don't mind the fourth and one call. Now, Ross, again, is way more math gambling oriented than I am. I am way more of a gut-filled person.

I'm more of a, I've seen this before, act kind of thing. I am more of the belief of, I've said this more than you've ever said this in your life. I don't care what the numbers say. You do something or you don't do something. I don't care what the percentages are, sports are being, and you will give out some numbers here that will make some sense.

Fourth and one, in the first quarter of a game, at your own 34, when you had not really established the run, when you have to play a perfect game against the Baltimore Ravens, kick the ball, force them to get back deep in their own territory,

don't allow them to be on a short field. And all by the way, Bill O'Brien is just not going to out-coach, out-scheme, out-perform John Harbaugh nine times out-of-10. And that includes being at your own 34. Now, I will sit back. I will turn a microphone off and I will let you present your mathematical equations. Well, isn't even have to get it before you even get into the math. The Texans defense is not as good as the Baltimore offense. So in theory, you would try to keep the ball out of the hands of Lamar Jackson and that run game as much as possible.

And one way to keep the ball out of their hands is to continue marching down the field. So yes, you're in your own territory. And yes, if you fail, you're going to give them the ball in their own 34 and they're like a good score, which they promptly marched down the field and did, which demonstrates the point, that the Texan's defense is probably not going to be able to stop this offense. So you try to keep the ball as long as possible. And you have to trust yourself. If you are offensive guru Bill O'Brien, number one, you have to say, we can get one yard.

If you can't get one yard, you're not winning this game anyways. So the fact of the matter is I like airing on the side of aggressiveness when it comes to fourth down plays. I like to say, we're going to line up and we're going to get one yard on them. But Deshawn Watson fires a ball into, I don't even remember whose foot it was.

And it was a bad play call. And it didn't work out. Yeah. But as far as a math, this is according to Edge Sports, which is a mathematical football website. Those guys also do not get late either, but that's on the here over there.

Yeah, that's fine. going for it with only a yard to go gives the Texans 3.6% more chance to win the game. Based on the risk-reward analysis, they only need to convert that 45% of the time. And usually it's much more than that on a fourth and one. I don't know what the exact numbers are, but it's more than 45%. So you try to keep the ball out of the hands of Lamar Jackson. You try to extend your drive. You try to trust yourself to get one yard, but they didn't do it.

Yeah. A couple things. if the ball's at the Rossi 44, maybe I even give it a serious consideration. I just think the 34-yard line was just, especially with Tucker, you are automatically giving them three points, right? I mean, he doesn't miss. He's your boy. Right.

So, a greatest NFL kicker of all time. A mistake guarantees, unless Baltimore turns it over, guarantees them at least three, if not seven. Secondly, if you punt the ball away and grant the end, Baltimore's offense better than the Texas defense. I would rather Baltimore's offense work 80 yards to get that score because that may ultimately pay off down the road than giving a team a short field, not having to use a tremendous amount of energy, not having to use a bunch of play calls in order to score. It was a short drive after that, touchdown. And again, we're throwing things out there just to throw things out there. It doesn't matter, Ross.

the Houston Texans were out-coached, out-played, out-schemed against the two best teams in the NFL. Yes. That's why I have said that all the Bill O'Brien must be fire talk after the Kansas City game was moot, and frankly, just not very useful. And all the fire Bill O'Brien quotes and the tweets, again, moot and not useful. If you want to Bill O'Brien fired, which again, I would think that grows every single day, he should have been fired when the team played the terrible divisional

playoff game against Kansas City, which again, coaches do get fired after divisional playoff losses. It's happened before. And then if you really wanted him fired, which again, and probably 100-fold, was one of the day that he traded DeAndre Hopkins for David Johnson. That's when you fire people.

That's when Bill O'Brien convinced Cal, that was the right move. Remember he came out and they had the thing with the fans. Everybody was pissed so mad that they had the conference call with all the season ticket holders. Like, hey, this is okay. This is the move for the future.

They're not going to do that. And you can sell me that, yeah, the Texans aren't better than the Chiefs and the Ravens, but they should be at least close. If Bill O'Brien's in his seventh season, knowing nothing else, if I had told you, there's an NFL coach in his seventh season and he was just awarded the general manager job. You'd be like, wow, this has got to be one of the best coaches in the NFL. How many Super Bowls has this guy won? How many times has he won his conference?

I mean, this guy must be winning every single year. and really performing. Guy hasn't made a conference championship game. So he should be in that class. Seven years in, Andy Reid's seventh year with the Chiefs was last year. Seven years in, Bill Belichick had won a Super Bowl. Seven years in, John Harbaugh had won a Super Bowl. You're seven years into your, unless you're Marvin Lewis,

you should be further along the Bill O'Brien is this long into your NFL tenure. And Marvin Lewis got way too long of a leash in Cincinnati. He just did. He was really cheap and they have cheap ownership and they didn't care. Yeah. So let's do this, and it may be difficult for us for the sake of a radio show after a Sunday loss. Let's be honest. It's a football team that's got a zero and zero record because they had no chance, no way, no how they were going to win the first two games.

My question is, I'm now questioning, can you bounce back from two ass kickings to finish nine and seven? Because here's the reality of it, Rossi. Tennessee looked really good yesterday. Jacksonville didn't look horrible. Pittsburgh's defense looks tremendous so far. I'm not buying into Cincinnati or Cleveland. I'm not buying into the Chicago Bears, despite the fact they won yesterday,

beating a terrible Giants team. There are lots of wins still to be had. Vikings look beatable. Vikings look beatable. But I think a lot of people had this team at 1 and 3 to open up the first four. And that wouldn't be out of the game. I'm just telling you,

there are enough things that were so porous that I don't know of nine are in play, but I'm going to stay at nine. I don't want to back off that because, again, the Colts looked rather pedestrian their win against Minnesota. Ryan Tannenhill's not going to throw four touchdown passes in a game. And the Jacksonville Jaguars are going to come back to being who they are, which again, you know, they lost yesterday, but they're nowhere going to be an eight and eight football team.

So can we do that today? Can we be honest with ourselves and say the Houston Texans are zero and zero? except for two horrific coach games, played games. We got a lot to get to. 713-212-5-790. What you're talking about Bill O'Brien after today's press conference at 1 o'clock? NFL rerying with Ross at 130. You guys in between lots to get to so many topics on the Texans, the NFL,

the Astros as well, and a hell of a game-winning shot yesterday for Anthony Davis and the Lakers. I just don't know if anybody saw it outside of those two cities. It's the Matt Thomas Show at 1214, and this is Sports Talk, 7-1. But nighting. Wherever you are, so is Matt Thomas. All right. Today is a sounding board. I mean, our material we've used for years.

I feel like we could use a best of today. Because, I mean, there have been a lot of 0 and two starts that just have been. Now, to the caliber competition has not been there. But lousy starts, questionable coaching, players that don't show up, Kiki Kootie, Chimini, Christmas. Fumbles are going to happen, Ross. It's true. It's going to. Yes.

But you just can't fumble when you are barely holding on for dear life for your roster spot. When you're a healthy scratch week one and you finally get the gift of being active in week two, he would like to come up and step up to the plate and perform. Well, he did catch the ball. It's true. But then he lost it. And then it was run back for a touchdown. Which originally wasn't called a touchdown.

There was a series of unfortunate events for Kiki Kootie. What else? AJ looked good. Yeah, a couple sacks. That's positive. Beddardrick McKinney. Well, look at you. I think.

I'm not going to say his name again. Benardrick. Was good in past coverage and at one corner out. It was, you know, he didn't have his face to the ball, but he turned around. I think it just the last second. There was no PI called on that. I thought Zach Cunningham probably needs to work on tackling a little bit and probably needs to go and finish up plays when a ball is called the one yard line to go ahead and not assume the guy went at the end zone.

He was playing up well overall, though Yeah, he did okay He was flying all over the place Yeah, uh, Whitney, our guy M. IA again Is it hard to be on the field for that much And not doing anything? Not that he was just standing there

It wasn't like a lamp post mask Because he's such a, here's a problem We root for good people It's easy to root for for Whitney Mercils He's affable, he's pleasant, he's nice he's very charitable. He works hard. He's not a guy that's just not dogging it.

But he has made zero impact so far in the first two weeks. He was recorded zero shared tackles, solo tackle, sacks, tackles for losses, zero past events or quarterback hits yesterday. But on that, things went well. Even Ross Blacklock had a... Speaking of Ross Blacklock, if you want to join us, 713-212-5-790, 713-212-5-790.

Ross and I, we've been on group text for the last 12 hours. We've already given you all the A material. It's time for y'all to come in here. Because, I mean, I really need Texans Don to call in telling me everything's going to be okay. I want Texans Karen to tell me about her Twitter account says today that we're there for them, no matter what? We still have faith in you, Texans. So I've got a long way to go. What should do?

They do, Ross. They do. I'm actually going to be on Texans' Karen's side on this one. I mean, it's a long season, Matt. Yeah. And again, nobody except the biggest Kool-A drinkers thought they were going to go one-in-one or for that matter, two and oh. This was an 0-and-2 team that got its ass kick twice. Now, you'd have liked to have been one of the games, been 24-21.

Remember how last year, Ross, we went to the party, we had at Lucky's, man, RIP for now, and New Orleans makes the kick to win the game. We and I came back the next morning going, that felt more like a win than any other loss I've ever been apart. I mean, I've been through, we've watched wins that feel more painful than that. Yes. We were like, courage felt good. This is going to be, you know, maybe something special here.

You go mono, mono, and you just lost in a 58-yard kick or whatever it was. To a Super Bowl contending team. Yeah. And then you follow that up next week by barely beating the Jaguars on a Gardner, Minchew, who they, they was a Leonard Fournet. They tried to score on a two-point conversion, yeah. Otherwise, you would have lost that game. Yeah.

So we're up and down. It's Texans football. It's just what it is. It's a long season. It's a long season, Brian. Okay, and the name is Matt. Oh. Okay, so you mentioned Ross Black Clock.

Now, we know, because Bill O'Brien had said this, and it makes a lot of sense, that rookies in the NFL this year are probably not going to have the kind of impact that other rookies have had because of no OTAs, no long training camp, no preseason games. But Ross decides he is going to get involved with throwing a punch. Me? Oh, the international faction of Ross's does not support any of his conduct, by the way. RB, we'll call him your RV. You'll call him RB. This is very confusing.

So, peeling the curtain back a little bit, Sarah Barshop writes for ESPN. He covers the Texans, yes. And she obviously knew what had happened, but, you know, like, you know how good attorneys are when they're asking their witnesses' questions? Well, you say a good attorney never asks a question they don't know the answer to it. That is correct. But you've got to put it out there in testimony. Well, that's what Sarah did today when asking about what happened with Ross Blacklock and what exactly what Bill O'Brien's response was. Phil, after watching film, did you see what Ross Blacklock did to get ejected and have you talked to him about it?

Yeah, I've spoken to him and I didn't see it on the tape. But, you know, I know that it happened. So, yeah, I've spoken to him. What happened? I mean, I've spoken to him, Sarah. So, you know, you guys can watch it too, right? you have the TV copy. Yeah.

Herman. To be honest, to be honest with it, Sarah, neither did I. I just know what their official told me. So I'm not trying to, I didn't see it either, but the official told me that he threw a punch, which I think you've probably already know that. So, you know, I'm just saying that's what the official told me. And, you know, we've addressed it. And, you know, we'll continue to address it today.

You know, Sarah, I'm not trying to be an a-hole, but I'm going to be an a-hole to you. You know, when somebody says not to be rude, they're about to be really. rude. Right. Like not to be stereotypical. Well, then you're going to be stereotypical. Right. That's a Matt Thomas staple right there. Okay. I'll take that. It's unfortunate. But it's true. But I didn't, I went back and looked for it. I actually didn't see the punch. Did you see the punch?

No. I couldn't. No, CBS did not show any replays it either. Yeah, I was trying to figure out what happened. So, I mean, maybe he thinks that Sarah knows, but she doesn't. I don't think she saw it because I didn't see it either. I went back and tried to find it. But Sarah was, knew the answer. Of course she did. I didn't know him. No, but I mean, the reasoning for his objection was by the official. Did she see? Clearly, she said she didn't.

She was hoping that Bill O'Brien saw it, which he didn't. I just... Snarky Bill's back. Oh, I love it. And Snarky Bill goes after the girls. He just does. Tanya Ganguly? The Ganguly got crushed a lot by...

All right, come on, Tanya. Tanya, come on, time. I mean, there are three people that have really gotten the snarky bill. Brian T, the ganguly. And I didn't put Sarah probably in the mix, too, right? Sarah's maybe, but Brian's number one, though. Brian is clearing away. It's almost like Sarah's not in the club.

Like, I mean, half my Bill O'Brien drops are him saying Brian. It doesn't matter, Brian. It's a long season, Brian. It's funny. We've never heard it's a, you know, come on, John. It's a long season, Mark. Yeah. Come on.

Who else is on? Greg Bailey from 13. Come on, Greg. Bob Slovak. Come on David Nuno. Come on, Jason Bristol. Come on, Wex. Wex.

Though he's had some terse answers to some Adam Wexler questions. Because Wex don't care. Wex will ask the questions that need to be asked. From here on out, anytime Wex ask a question, we'll open a new segment called terse questions from A Wexler. Holy smokes. All right. So we got, so I just wanted you to play that to let you know that an O and two

starting his got to him. Speaking of that, we had the JJ Watt comment about Ross Blacklock. I don't know. I didn't even see if we had it in the system or not. But JJ Watt, basically calling Ross Blacklock not very bright.

Oof, that's not nice. Stupid play, immature, got him better. And so when I heard he said it yesterday, I was thinking to myself, do you think he's doing that just because he's big brother to a little brother? Or do you think he is absolutely

like, who the hell are you to be doing this crap so early? Here is what JJ had to say. It was selfish. It was a stupid play. It was selfish. I mean, I've spoken to Ross before, and so it pisses me off. I mean, it's a very selfish move late in the game. And it's dumb, very dumb to hurt your team in that type of setting for no reason.

I've spoken to Ross about this before. So it sounds like yesterday's a little fit of anger was not the very first time. So I guess maybe he's thrown some punches in practices or something like that. That we would never know about it. Right, because they were, yeah, media, well, hasn't been at those. You know how measured JJ is? Yes. That wasn't measured JJ yesterday.

He knows what happened. That was like, all right, listen to you a little pissant. JJ Watt knows when he's in front of a microphone, whatever he says is going to be amplified a thousandfold. That's interesting. You're going to keep an eye on that. Or an ear to it. Maybe they'll be a rumble in the in the, uh, in the locker room. Who would you take?

Young, Sprine, second round pick, uh, Ross Blacklock, or would you go seasoned veteran yet still chiseled JJ. J.J. Watt. Minus 2.35. Is this what we're talking five round M.MA? Yes. Oh, I told you I'm in the MMA a little bit now. Are you? Well, I went to go see, drop Cameron off at Lubbock and, uh, in Lubbock and we watched the whole night of it. It wasn't terrible. I mean, I won't watch a lot of it, but it was not like, just,

This is the worst thing ever. Did you watch the big card over the weekend? No. Oh, okay. So I'm not really that big. Yeah, that's right. Okay, fair enough. You like it.

You're not following it. How about that? But I wouldn't be opposed. Somebody says, hey, let's go to the bar. Well, we can't go to bar. Let's go to somebody's house and watch. I'm in. I'll chip in some dollars.

You can like something and not be following it very closely. Yeah. Like golf. Yeah, okay. I mean, I like golf. I didn't watch one second of the U.S. What did you think about Bryson Di Chambot? I'm telling you, I'm going to use that name as an alias in a hotel this year.

Bryson Di Chambot. This is my also... No, no, no, no. No, no. That's like Ham in Louisiana. Bryson Di Chambot, Hill. Well, I'm not going to be Bryson, though. No, I think it's going to...

I'm going to be like Lewis. Louis, do it. Louis D. Chambu. No, I think it's like, mom and dad are like named Bubba and Darlene. And they wanted to really up the game with the names. No, I think you're going to, you're heading to the greenbrile with Bryson Dichambeau. Xander Shuffley.

Okay, how about our New Orleans Country Club? How about that? Can we split the difference? Okay, sure. Duchampo, party of four, your table is ready. It flows off the tongue that way, isn't it?

At the crimson, the crimson, at the Cajun Club of New Orleans. All right. Have you heard the latest about Bryce and Duchampo? It's scandalous. You know we should do a movie, Ross?

Where we take two really rich guys. Yes. And actually, we'll do. We'll take two people. Yes. One really rich guy and make him super poor. Yes.

Tell me, Brandon, if you'd watch this. Brendan, Brandon, focus. Focus right now. This is going to work. Brendan. I'm going to take a really rich guy who grew up in country clubs, private schools. He wore a sweater with a crossed over his chest, okay? And then I'm going to take that guy and I'm going to put him in the streets.

And I'm going to take a homeless guy who's got a hooker friend. And I'm going to take that rich guy and put him. and flip their positions. What do you think? You're going to have them trade places? Yeah, I feel like that show probably exists, doesn't it? If not, it should. I think it's a great idea.

We'll take a really, really poor person, and we'll put them in the rich person, and then we'll have a bet. Ross and I will determine who is more successful, and the bet will make on how the poor guy runs the company. We'll make it like a dollar bet. Oh, it'll be like a twist index. Can I tell you the one issue? Go ahead. It's probably going to be viewed as insensitive to the homeless person. Oh, no.

Wow. But what if the hooker's hot? Well, what if the hooker was at one point in her life standing? Can I tell you the one issue? Go ahead. It's probably going to be viewed as insensitive to the homeless person. Oh, no. Wow.

But what if the hooker's hot? Well, what if the hooker was at one point in her life hot? Now she looks more like a man. I mean, I think the concept is entertaining. Interesting. I think we should do it. After I tape by Berkeley Ice Center. 713, 2, 1,000, 579, if you want to get in.

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The most. You want to interact? You may. By the way, we also like your interaction on Twitter. At SportsMT, at Sports RV, and at Brendan Riley. Tom and Downtown is another good one. Here's a movie we could do. Somebody's Rich Relative Dies,

and they found out a poor minor league baseball player was his only heir. But before he earns the big inheritance, he has to spend a whole bunch of money according to acquiring no assets. So he's got to literally suspend all the money in order to make the, to get the team. Interesting. Just saying. You guys should be movie producers.

We're going to do a lot of this. Because if the Texans are going to go 4 and 12 this year, which I don't think they're going to do, we're going to have to come up with some more movies. They're going to go at least 9 and 7, according to Matt Thomas. You got them eight and eight. I have nine and seven. What did you have?

You had nine and seven. And I trust you because you're six and two on picks so far. Nice. I went one in three. I think I went one and three maybe. Yeah, you are definitely in last place. That's fine.

But I think you evened up. I lost money on because the big bet. No, good. I had the big bet was the Texas. I lost everything else. I'm sorry, Matt. No, I like watching your picture. I also won money for the record.

Yeah. Just to put that out there. Well, empty bucks. Empty bucks mean absolutely nothing. I've been trying to cash shows in for about a decade, trust me. They're basically the bucks you would get when you're playing like overseas poker. They're worse than, yeah, Chuckie Cheese tickets. Dude, I was such a, oh, I died for Chuckie Cheese tickets.

You know they're trying to do, because all of them are declaring bankruptcy. They're trying to destroy a bunch of tickets so that they don't have to redeem them because it's going to cost them a bunch of money if they all get redeemed because they're in bankruptcy. Chuckie cheese is in bankruptcy? Yeah. You know why? Why? The food is disgusting.

I remember, I like the pizza when I was like nine. Well, again, your palate improved a little bit and matured. Let's go to, is this AJ? A.Y. Oh, A.Y and A-Leaf. A-Y. What's a good word today? March 20th. March 16th?

March 16th. March 16th. It was an Astro Spring training game. Spring training game. No. It was the day DeAndre Hopkins was traded to Arizona. Yeah? Yeah.

It was that day. And you were the first person to announce it on the radio, this particular station. Yeah. And when people started calling, I was your first caller, and I asked you, was it a joke? Because you can see the results. There is no way the show will perform. You can't take away his best weapon and you expect the same result. It will happen.

It would not happen. So everything boils down to being old. So if you expect, there's what they're saying insanity is what is called doing the same thing and expecting different results. That's insanity. It's painful. But when we are going down the drain, at the end of the day, the coach will say, hey, at least we have four ASC titles, ASC South titles.

Not what we want? No. I'm just frustrated. Thank you. Thank you, AY. Ayye remembers the date, and he was the first caller to get in. It's a man that listens to this radio show and this station for that. We thank him.

AY has been a long time. Appreciate A.Y. Yeah. Do you want to tell the audience how DeAndre? Oh, by the way, so the Texans game doesn't start until 325 yesterday because it was a double-heder CBS game, right? The Arizona-Washington game started at 305 because it was the single game in that three-clock market for Fox. DeHadre had already reached the end zone before the Texas game even started.

DeAndre Hopkins, well in his first game, he had, what, 14 catches for 150-some-odd yards? Yeah. Second game, eight catches, 68 yards, and a touchdown. Led the Arizona receivers in targets, yards, and of course touchdowns. So that's basically two games, over 20 catches in the end zone with over two. 200 yards of receiver. Well, it's an NFL record. The most catches in the first two games by a receiver with the new team.

But that's okay. Will Fuller's the number one here. He did great yesterday. No, great would be actually having a ball thrown to him. Oh. So apparently he kept getting off and on the field and getting things warmed up or rubbed up or whatever the case may be. He played like two-thirds of the snaps. That he did.

He got zero percent of the targets. Well, Brandon Cook's is supposed to be here as the replacement. he got five catches for 95? Brandon, you and I already discuss this. Brandon Cooks, people are arguing about, well, who would be the go-to guy? It's Brandon Cooks. I'm not talking about yesterday. I'm talking about this is the season.

Brandon Cooks, if he stays healthy, will be Deshaun's favorite target. I'm just concerned that if Brandon Cooks is your number one target, you just don't have much depth. And by the way, Rossi, poor Deshaun, could the receivers for the Texans get any separation in the first quarter at all? No. I felt like the answer was because, look, the offensive line has underperformed, yes? I mean, we can. They weren't good. But in the first quarter, DeShone had to scramble and run.

And I kept looking downfield when they were to show the replays. Either the Texans receivers are slow as molasses or Baltimore covered him like a blanket because there was nowhere for Deshaun to throw the football. And that's part of what made DeAndre so good. He wasn't the fastest guy. Rossi, he was never the fastest guy, even when he was a. rookie, right? But he was able to separate from his defenders.

And he was able to buy time for Deshawn, get open somewhere down the field, and make the great acrobatic 50-50 ball up in the air. I'm going to snag it, catch it, give you a first down, move the chains. Texans don't have that. They have it in much smaller doses with Brandon Cooks and with Randall Cobb

and one of the plethora of receivers they have. Jordan Aiken's played well. He had seven catches. Frankly, that's a nice little safety valve. Let me tell you that. That's the Texan's best arsenal. If you're tied-end is your number one receiving threat, use in trouble.

Seven targets, seven catches. Yeah, Will Fuller played 63% of the snaps. He played 37 of the 59. Zero targets. Is that because Sean forgot about him? Or will, I mean, how can one of the fastest receivers in the NFL not get separation? I don't know how healthy he was.

Well, I think here's the first. I think the pressure, I mean, it felt like Deshaun was getting hit every other play. I mean, because the game before he had, what, 10 targets or whatever it was? Game, week one, Will Fuller was all over the place. And even Trent Green said, he says, why are they trying these big seven-step drops? When Deshawn, the most thing, the thing I got the Texans moving offensively was the three-step drop and get rid of the football. The offensive line could not hold up for what Deshawn was trying to do. And maybe that's part of the reason why you couldn't throw deep downfields because Deshawn didn't have enough time to stare the defense

down and throw the ball deep down the field. Five quarterback hits for the Texans. 13 for the Ravens. 1243 on the Matt Thomas show. 713212. 5790. 713 212 5790. I have a horrible family feud moment

from this weekend. I must discuss very quickly. Plus the Astros get a victory yesterday. In Rossi? Could we have had our last dose of Springer, Reddick? Guriel Brantley wearing Houston Astros gear in Houston. And Verlander.

I think I already know the answer to that. But we'll throw Verlinder in the mix, too. Oh, soon and two, don't forget that. 1243, Sports Talk 7-9 with a message here for the Woodhouse Day Spa. Let me tell you something. If the Texans stress you out because they've started out 0-2, take a deep breath and go get yourself a gift card for the gift of relaxation. at any one of the two

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This is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Time is 1249. It is the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. I don't know that we're not the fresh material that the 6-8 o'clock shows get to talk about. You know, Sean gets the first reaction from the fans. But you guys, if you're seething, I don't know.

Twitter yesterday was just like Fire Bill O'Brien. That's what it's come down to, Ross. It's just Fire Bill O'Brien. So we will get more into that. We'll play what you're talking about Bill coming up at 1 o'clock. We do have a positive highlight to talk about, and that's what happened yesterday at MinutMain Park. And Springer hits it in the air pretty deep to center field.

It sends back Farsho at the wall, leaps against the wall, can't get it. It's off the wall and in play and kicks toward right center. Springer is on his way to third base. Marshall picks it up. Springer around third and coming home and the throw to the plate not nearly in time. It's an inside-to-park home run for George Springer. Two to one, Arizona. Springer had to do it the hard way for his 12th home.

run of the year. Then he hits another home run and he hits the 2000th home run in the history of the ballpark. All but about 66 of them have been in regular season games. He had 50, 100 by the way. So naturally they go to find it, they go to talk to George Springer after the game yesterday. You know, hey, congratulations, a couple of home runs. And he thought of this being the last game he were playing in Houston, Texas. And he's says. This. I'm concerned about what's happening now.

You know, I'll, again, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. He gone. That's irresponsible of me to take a seven-second soundbite. So I'm going to tell you right now. What else is going to say? I'm going to say that this has the seven-second sound bite and there's nothing to do with what he's doing.

George is going to go Tesla for Agent Waters, as he should, because it's his first chance to really break the bank. My guess is he probably would like to get more money. The Astros may not be able to give him as much money as other teams. And ultimately, Ross, he might just want to get away from the mess that has been trash cans and cheating and sign stealing. He won't be able to get away from it, but at least he won't be with, you know,

the wrath of every team that when baseball fans resume coming to games. Go ahead. For example, on the Justin Verlander contract, the Astros can get some insurance money on that, right? Yes. Do we know how much that is? No. Okay. But maybe a little bit more money to hopefully pay some of these people.

But every dollar of that goes towards the competitive balance. Oh. So they can be threshold. They can be given a tax based on what their salary is. Okay. So even if you get money back. That's right. Okay.

He is, J.B. is on the books. And by the way, that was announced over the weekend. And did I not tell you how that was going to work out? Justin Verlender is not letting Chandler Rome tell the world about his injury situation. Yes. J.V. is going to do it.

There was a lady who called me very upset because I was talking about Justin Verlander and how I was like, I can't believe he did this and you know, it's unfortunate and he tried to control the narrative and he didn't be able to come back and this lady was like, shame on you. Justin Verlander tried his hardest

to get back with the team. So Astros Karen called in. Well, basically. Okay. I think her name was Sue or something like that. Astro Sue? Yeah. Texans Karen, Texans Debbie, Texans Raphael.

Rockets Tim I don't know Rockets Gerard that's our guy Rockets Gerard that's true he doesn't he doesn't

pontificate three to four minutes on the Texans like he does on his rock Oh that's not true He called me over the weekend Did he really Yeah

And ran through all the Texans He called me like five minutes Before my show was over And I was like all right Well show's over Go ahead Gerard That's funny JV's not pitching him

for the Astros No It's just not the best interest The Astros who might be in Rebuild Mode and sucks to even think this Don't the heck

don't say that Rebuild mode Am I right Alex Breggman's young Carlos Correa's young Jose L Tuve's youngish Kyle Tucker's young Lance McCuller's young

Jose Arkiti's pitching well Framer Valdez is pitching well Okay Zach Rinkie's going to be here for one more year Yeah That's a young core Okay so let's let's change us around then he's not coming back here at $30 million.

First of all, no one's going to give him that. No, he's going to give him that, yeah. The question is going to be, is Justin Verlender the kind of person that says, look, I was on your mound, I was competing, I tried, but the facts are you're going to pay me $33 million next year to sit in rehab. Is there any part of a person's body that would say, you know what, I owe the organization to come back and try to do this? I think maybe some people would feel that, but I don't think Justin Verlander would, nor should he really.

You don't know anybody anything. Contract's a contract. I would say this. If I lost my voice and couldn't speak for a year and a half, which probably some of you would like that to happen. And it was time to renegotiate my contract for 2022. And IHeart said, Matt, we want you to come back, do your show, blah, blah, blah, blah. Here's your salary. You've lost your voice a year and a half. We still paid you, you know, even though we had insurance to cover your voice.

I would probably, and this is just me, then maybe this is me being foolish, but I would probably, unless the deal was so obnoxious and so, like if they were offering me 25% of my salary, if they offered close to what I was making, I probably would say, you know what? You gave me a year and a half of free, basically, or money paying me for not working. I'm going to, I'm going to be loyal and re-sign with you. That's how I roll. What if the competitor, what if there was a competitor that said, off you double that. Well, I mean, you would think it'd be immediately yes. But I've turned down offers for more money than tax. And then they raise tuition at Texas Tech. Well, let me tell if Cameron's still in school in 2022, we're going to have some serious problems. Why? Because

he gets a year. When's he's supposed to graduate? Well, he's in his junior year now. Oh, okay. I'm hoping by the end of 2021 he's done or close to it. Oh, you want to graduate early? I want to graduate in four years. He's a junior now. Take a little victory lap. A couple of victory labs. Okay, I'll give him five, but that's about. So here's what I can't automatically say yes, I'd go. Would I consider it? Yeah. Okay.

But that's, his situation, he's going to be, what, 39? Yes. Tommy John after 39. If the Astros give him any offer, there's a part of him that should say, you know, I need to be serious about this. Now, again, if they completely low ball, let's say the market, if the market Rossi says he's worth $7 million in 2022, and the Astros offer $1.5.

Okay, then that makes a little bit of a difference. Well, and if you're the Astros, what makes you want a 39-year-old come on off of Tommy John anyways? That's the bigger picture, and that's exactly right. Do they even want to go down that road? Second hour of the Matt Thomas show starts at a matter of moments. What are you talking about, Bob? Brandon, you have cut these up on a 1 to 10. First of all, how many are we going to do, and how juicy are they this week?

So we have, I think, three good ones. Okay. And 1 to 10? I'll give them a 7. I think they're pretty good. I think he's better in season than he is in the off season. Okay. Are you ready for the challenge?

You have, I would say, pretty much disappointed in the audience before. Yeah, I'm like the Texans. I'm 0 and 2. But it's a brand new season. Okay, man. Of which talking about Bill. It's a new day. That's a new day.

That's right. 1256 on Sports Talk 790. KBME Houston and IHardt Radio station, your home for your home teams. This is Sports Talk 790. From the classic Chevy Sugarland Studios. Find Muraws Is the Matt Thomas show

101 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Galvisin County, you are under a tornado watch until 145 this afternoon. Boy, by the way, I thought I might have to be on Tropical Storm Duty.

fortunately it feels like at this point that's not needed just going to be some just some drenching rain that's good for us is it going to hit anybody else really hard uh well we're going to get rain for a couple days for sure okay all today all tomorrow it looks like by wednesday lunchtime it's out of here and it's very scattered at this point but i think frankly the people that should be concerned from what i understand are those people that live south of i10 everybody north of i10 should be okay oh no yeah but you're like an inch from i 10. It's kind of close.

Maybe not an inch, but you know what I'm saying. All right. So we got NFL Ross's recap coming up at 130. Yes. I'm about two miles south of it. Okay. I feel like you're going to have a lot of injury news. I really wasn't going to bring much of that up, but I can.

No, I mean, just, just a main one. There was like literally 21 major injuries in the NFL. If you're a Dallas cowboy fan, you're not going to want to listen to 130, right? Like Bill Barnwell has an article, the 21 most impactful injuries from yesterday. Wow. What? 21.

That's the most impactful. impactful ones. I guess there were obviously others. Good games yesterday. The Atlanta comeback was pretty the Dallas come back. I should say it was pretty impressive. The New England Seattle game didn't disappoint. And Kansas City kind of hung around strangely

against the L.A. Chargers. Do you see how the end of that game went? First of all, Harrison Butker's going to go kick a 58-yard field goal. Try one false start. It's one from 53 to 58. Then the charges call a timeout.

And then, Bucker, he knocked three of them down, Ross, in real-time, two minutes. The guy is filthy. Guy was making $600,000 a year

going from team to team. He finally gets a good contract. He's worth now over $4 million a year and worth every penny. Do you think... icing the kicker has been proven to not work.

Yeah. You're talking about percentages, right? Yes. Either you make it or you don't. Either your kicker's ready to do it or you can't do it. Kami Fairbairn, Could he kick three 50-yard field goals in a row, only which one counted?

Yeah. Spill's job is. Is he going to make them? Oh. You didn't ask. You didn't ask. Yeah, I said, can he kick them? Well, in theory, I guess he could kick them.

Yeah, I could kick them too. Well, I've seen you try to kick. Is there nothing better in life than watching field goal kicking contests at college and pro games? Where they, where if you kick a 30-yard field goal, you win like $10,000? Oh, and then they fall down or they just fall way short? Well, I would like for them. them to say they fell well short. I like it when the ball is kicked and the ball hits the ground first.

It's like a squib kick. And then it flubs doesn't even reach the end zone. All right. Time for us to play. I don't know how Piper this segment is. I seem to like it. Because again, playing soundbites frankly for radio purposes is a little

boring and rehearsed. I like to test Ross to find out exactly how well does he know his head football coach. We play this. We take soundbite a job by, what you job, ma'clock. Coach O'Brien. We take sound bites every Monday from his press conference, and we give you the question, and Ross has to get it, and we judge I'm on a scale of one that five.

Now, Brandon and I both judge, and frankly, Brandon's more lenient than I am. I'm a tougher, greater, if you will. That's because you secretly hate me, Matt. Well, it's not secret, actually. No, I was going to say, it's very public to my dislike of yours. Are we going from easy to hard on these, by the way? We're going in order of when they came in the press conference. Okay, very good.

We'll leave it that. All right. 42 seconds sports. That's meaty. That's a lot of meat. So don't give us an hour and a half explanation. You give us 40 seconds of explanation on lack of forced turnovers. Lack of forced turnovers.

Yeah, that's obviously something we need to do. Anytime you want to be successful in the National Football League is you have to be forcing turnovers. And we had the Kootie fumble. We had Deshawn Watson threw a pick. And look, by the way, that was just a great play by Marcus Peters. That's one we'd like to have back. But anytime you want to be successful,

you've got to take care of the ball. That's just obviously very important in the National Football League relative to the other teams. If you take care of the ball, you're going to win it, and we've got to do a better job of that. Yeah, it's important. You know, we have to continue to work on it in practice. We have to be around the ball more consistently, whether it's

tighter coverage when the ball's thrown, or get more guys to the ball in the running game. You know, look, both offenses we played are very good, very unique offenses, but that's no excuse. It just means that, you know, every week's going to be different. And so we have to look at Pittsburgh now, and we've got to figure out how to take the ball away and not miss those opportunities when they happen.

And then we also have to, on offense, we have to take care of the ball. You know, we don't take care of the ball on offense yesterday. and that led to, you know, points for them. I'd have given you one more ding, because when he said it back to back in the raw, I'd give you dings on both of them. I thought there was going to be a national football league in there. You didn't say relative to either.

I'll give you two stars. I did actually, but... Yeah, I think two stars. You got a couple points, but I don't like them one or two more. All right, we're going to start making you guys do these. That's fine. I'm going to flip them around. By the way, be lenient on the things.

I feel like he's a tough category. It's okay. 20 seconds. So let's not get too lengthy on this one. On lack of explosive plays, 20 seconds. I look, the Baltimore Ravens are a good defense. They played well. We got to play better ourselves. We got a couple of big plays. And I don't know if you guys notice, we moved the ball a little bit. We had over 300 yards. But we definitely got to do a better job of getting down the field. We have to do a better job. We have to do a better job. That's something that we

have to work on this week. We hit Brandon on the one yesterday that led to a touchdown. We missed David on a play that I think would have been a big play in a game. So we just have to, we have to keep working at it and just keep trying to improve and do a better job. I'm in a giving mood. I'll give you three stars. Thanks. I'm actually going to go four. What? Not you. It's 20 seconds. Thank you. See, that's the important part. I'm not going to say verbatim what he says. In a 40 second clip, he only got two dings. In a 20-second clip, he got three. Okay, okay. But it's the same word, right? Better, we got to

be better than? Is that what it is? Better than it with? Okay. He also talked about getting a big play. There are millions of words in the English language. If I'm mailing a phrase, I think that's pretty good, Matt. I gave you three stars. Hater. Last one. Actually, a second. We're going to play the Sarah Barshop one again. See if he gets it right. Well, I already heard that one.

Well, then that's, you really should crush. Third of the fourth, 47 seconds. need, I need to beat better teams. Hmm. Okay. How many seconds? 47. 47? Look, week to week, every week in the NFL, you're going to be going up against tough competition. And yeah, we try to be a better team and we've been successful here in our run. But we have to show up better. We have to play better. I got to coach better. our guys need to execute better because if we want to be where we want to be,

we have to beat teams like the Baltimore Ravens and like the Kansas City Chief. So we want to be in the conversation and be winning Super Bowls and all those types of things. When we have those goals, yeah, we've got to coach better and we've got to play better at the end of the day. A lot of that falls on me. Yeah, no, I mean, it's the question that we have to answer. We've got to realize that it's a long season, but we also have to realize that, you know, we have to play a lot better to be in that category, but we got to take it one day at a time, one week at a time.

You know, we've been in this position before, unfortunately. We've, many times we've gotten out of this position, but it's a different year. So we, you know, we just have to improve in every area, Brian. That's pretty much all I can tell you, like everybody's got to do better. But we realize that it's a long season. And so the balance between who we played and where we're at, you know, we got a lot of, a lot of games left and a lot of work to be done. but we have to eliminate mistakes, especially early on,

and we've got to play more consistent. Three stars again. Thanks, Matt. See, I'm only going to go two on that one, because the only phrase he got was we need to be better. And a question about beating better teams. If you'd have gone with a one week at a time bit, that would have gotten you're like five stars immediately.

Yeah, I agree with that. That was like half the clip on that one. Alex Trebrex in this in this second. Yeah, we do. That's, again, God loving me is an American or a North American treasurer from Canada. But yeah, you can't be snarky when you already know the answers. Because Alex, I guarantee you, doesn't know 5% of the answers of the history of that show. Right? Maybe he does. You think he's a trivia buff? Or you think he hates trivia?

Let me tell you about the shows he once hosted. Classic concentration. Yeah? High rollers. Done no clue. I didn't know he did anything more than Jeopardy. Oh, yeah. He's done a lot of different shows. To tell the truth. He did that show? First, they, a bunch of people did it. They first hired Lynn Swan to do it, and then he got fired right away.

Lynn Swan. Yeah, that Lynn Swan. Really? By the way, speaking to that, I got me a new reality show I'm watching. Uh-oh. The Bradshaw. The Bradshaw bunch. Oh, no.

Where's that on? I saw that that's... It's on... I found out that exists this week. I don't know what channel it's on. But the Bradshaw daughters? Nice young ladies. Geez, how old are they met?

It doesn't matter. This wasn't a question of age. Well, I'm just saying you like them because they're hot. I said they were nice young ladies. You like them because they're hot, apparently. Am I wrong or am I right? I'm saying that they're a great family. I know you're not watching any reality show unless there's a bunch of hotties on them.

I think it's on E. Don't hold me to do that, though. Yes, it is on E apparently. Okay, well, then you're on the website. Take a look at the ladies. See how nice they are. They all took, they took into, A little monster truck this past weekend.

His granddaughters or something? No, he's got, well, they're not granddaughters and his two. But the three daughters are all blonde. One is a stepdaughter and the other two are his real daughters. Okay. He's been married four times, by the way. That's it? What do you mean?

That's it. Three more than the average person gets married. I don't know about that. That's true. That's true. All right. Oh, last, what you're talking about? Sarah Barshop asked Bill O'Brien about Ross Blacklock.

How many seconds does that sound bite, Brendan? 40 seconds on that. Boy, you've got to play Sarah in this. Okay. Coach. What happened with Ross Black Clock there? Look, that's something that I talked to him about it, and we've discussed. It's something we have been discussing and told him that he can't do that,

and we're just going to move on, and he knows what he has to do, and we know what we have to do with him. Ross or Coach, what did you see? Look, I assume you're already asking. this because you already saw it. So look, I talked to him about it and we're moving on. Yeah, I watched the TV copy. I couldn't see anything.

Oh, look, to be honest with you, I didn't see it either. Sarah, obviously you're asking me about it. You've seen it. But I've talked to him about it and we're moving on. Phil, after watching the film, did you see what Ross Blacklock did to get ejected? And have you talked to him about it? Yeah, I've spoken to him. And I didn't see it on the tape.

But, you know, I know that it happened. So, yeah, I've spoken to him. What happened? I mean, I've spoken to him, Sarah. So, you know, it's, you guys can watch it too, right? You have the TV copy. Yeah, for me. Yeah, really, to be honest with it, Sarah, neither did I.

I just know what the official told me. So I'm not trying to, I didn't see it either, but the official told me that he threw a punch, which I think you've probably already know that. So, you know, I'm just saying that's what the official told me. And, you know, we have addressed it. and we'll continue to address it today. Five stars.

Thanks. Nice work. Nice work. Nice work to wrap it up. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-5-7-90. Are you running into people that are further disgusted with the Texans, or are you running into people that are like,

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one again once his Astro season's over with. Rossi's Celebrity Family Feud was on yesterday. Oh, flipping channels. And you don't like Steve Harvey as a host? He's okay. I think he does an excellent job. I mean, when Richard Dawson's your favorite, it's hard to have

anybody else's saying. But I like him better than I like Drew Carey replacing Bob Barker. Okay. That isn't the point. You really don't like Drew Carey. Seems like a great guy. Just doesn't look he knows the game. He's been doing it for over a decade. That's not on here nor there. So they had these, you know, celebrity family,

they want them to win the money, right? I think so. They have two different... It's for charity. It's for charity. So they ask really easy questions. Who are the families on there? The Bradshaw's?

I didn't know who they were. Okay. It was five males and five males. It wasn't football players. It wasn't like queer guy, queer eye for the straight guy or whatever that thing was. Yeah. They were just 10 dudes.

May have been musicians. I don't know what they were. Because I caught at the very last second. So the very last question, you need the fast money, like they'll say, name of the month of the year where the weather starts to get cold. Let me put September, October, whatever.

The last question was, name a month that starts with A. April. April was the answer. And it got 34 votes. Okay. Okay. So let's do a little logical deduction here. What's left?

August. And what would that person get? Is that the only two? Yeah. You tell me. I mean, we've been around a long time. You get 66? You would get 66.

So the second guy comes out and does the fast money part, and he's giving up dumb answers. But you know what? You got something in the piggy, but you get in the back pocket. Yeah. The fifth question was, and he had like three seconds left, name a month of the year that starts with the letter A. He goes April. The thing goes, eh, eh, and he says, try again. He couldn't think of August.

It took me a second to think of it. So the first four questions come up and his points come up. He's got 151 points. So he needs 49 for the last one to win the money. That's unfortunate. And instead of getting the 66, you would presume he would get because he would have said August, he said nothing in all and he basically costs his charity $25,000. So there's like hungry kids who can't eat in that guy's home city because he couldn't

go there are people that are not getting medicines because the Nimrod could not figure out the second month of the year that starts the day. Well, I mean, these celebrity family feuds, these celebrity Jeopardy's I mean... You're watched Celebrity Jeopardy? How bad the questions are? The actual one. The real one, not the S&L. Parish. Oh, my God. It's so good. Yeah, I would actually not even watch those. I used to watch Jeopardy while

I would get home from school every week. Of course, the toughest was the tournament of champions. Right. There was the college and the kids. Usually the kids and the celebrity, I would just turn it off because it would be too easy. Because if you're getting the $2,500 question right down the very bottom in the second round, then they're not

that difficult. And that's what Celebrity Jeopardy was getting right. But I just, I turned that on and I was just pissed off because I was like, first of all, to ask that question, you're basically giving the charity a free hundred points, right? Mm-hmm. You know, it's like saying, starting, name a month that starts with letter J. We got three options. January, Julio and June. Yeah. Hoonio. Hoonio's what the kids say. Sorry to bring that up, but I just wanted to do it. I wanted to break up the Texan suck monotony. I'm sorry. sorry, Matt. Well, I mean, I just, I feel bad for those kids. They don't suck, man. It's just two very good teams that they're not as good as.

They're going to be completely average. Ross, you're big math, man. We've already discussed. Yeah. If the Texans and Chiefs played 20 times, eight times in Kansas City, eight times in Houston, four neutral sites. How many times are the Texans winning those over the Chiefs? Well, they won once an Arrowhead last year. Yep. I'm talking to the 2020 reincar. The 2020 version plays 20. The money line is going to be, they play 20 times.

They went four, five. Okay. Somewhere in that neighborhood? Same thing with Baltimore. Eight times in Kansas in Baltimore, eight times in Houston and four times somewhere else. Was there any a thought in your mind yesterday that Texans were going to come back and win that game? No. No.

And I didn't feel that about Kansas City. That's why, and again, I'm not right on this, but I'm just telling you logically speaking in my own world. You play the 2020 Chiefs, well, the 2020 Texans 20 times. The Texans aren't losing. Aren't winning any of the games. Was it like 20 to 10 at halftime? Yes.

And then Kansas to the score. Touches. And seven of that was off of a fumble from Kiki Kootie. I remember at half time of the game thinking, okay, the Texans aren't as good as the Ravens, but at least they're just not getting. But we can. I was happy that they weren't down 21 at the half.

You actually wanted to stick around. I was like, hey, well, not happy. I would just say like, hey, encouraged, I guess. You know what I was hoping for, Frank. A complete mud hole stopping? Was the Texans game to get over with so you can watch the fourth quarter of the Kansas City Chargers game? That's true. And we want them getting overtime on it.

By the way, I don't like the overtime roll with 10 minutes. I think they should go back to 15. I know it pushes the urgency to score, but it also pushes the chance of getting a tie. That's fine. Because if Budker misses that field goal, that game more than likely it turns out to be a tie. And you know what you say about ties. They're totally fine. No, they're like kissing your sister.

That's okay. There were ties in the NFL for until for years. There was tied in college football until the 90s. But ties suck. Give me the extra five. And then if you two teams can't figure it out after 15, then you deserve a time. Sometimes you just need to all go home. Who?

There was nobody there. Yeah, that's true. The players, too. But in the rules. Me, the chiefs weren't catching a commercial flight. Nobody wants to be there in the 15th inning of a baseball game. Nobody wants to be there in triple overtime of a basketball game. Oh, so you're saying 10-minute overtime guy likes the running.

second base. Probably. You're probably right now. Let's just go home. It's okay. I'm just saying I don't, I can live with ties. Ten minutes just feels rather quick. Sometimes in these games, quite frankly, nobody deserves to win.

Yeah. But again, if Bucker doesn't kick the field goal, the third one of 50 plus, I don't think Kansas City goes down the field and does it? By the way, we got. How many ties do we have last year? I'm trying to look it up. We have your NFL recap coming up the next segment of the show. One?

Yeah, the Lions and the Cardinals tied in week one. That was it. There's one tie last year. Okay. Well, then maybe it's just me. And again, 10 minutes does press the button a little bit. You can't have these long, dry-out play. You've got to get on the field and get going.

2018, there were two ties. So really hasn't made that big of a difference. Yeah, it's fine. There have been ties in football for years. But that was a better game. And applause for Chargers were keeping it close. They made Kansas A lot more human than the Texans. ever did.

When did they change this 10-minute rule? 2017. It's been two or three years. There were zero ties. I don't know if they changed it by then. All right. Ross has a rundown of all the NFL games. It's an NFL review and recap and a rundown.

And a good Bill Belichick soundbite, which you never can never get tired of. You think Bill O'Brien sound bites get boring and tiresome? I think we should dedicate like an hour to Bill O'Brien, to Bill Belichick sound bites after every Patriots loss. Like if Bill Belichick and Bill O'Brien did a your mama jokes contest, Who wins? Well, I don't know. Your mom relative to other moms is a little more weighty. But that's a lot of moms.

Your mom wears long-sleeved shirts, and I have to cut them out in subway commercials. Is that commercial funny? Because people in the NFL were like, wow, this is hilarious from Bill Belichick. I don't find that particularly... It's okay. It's not a knee slap. Well, we're stunned that he would take the time to do it. Well, I'm sure they cut a nice check for him.

Yeah. And he didn't say much. I mean, the money that probably Subway paid, does Bill Belichick appearing in a subway commercial make you want to go get a six inch? He shows up in a... Or do you want a footlong? He shows up in a hoodie with a pair of scissors and probably made a few million bucks. By the way, do grown many six inches?

Subs? Yeah. Are there more... Subways? Do you think they prefer footlongs? When you go eat. Well, what do you like? I actually, I eat the foot long.

Yeah, you want the whole foot long. I eat a foot long, yeah. I never get a six inch. Well, it depends on, you know, how hungry I am. How heavy am I eating? Am I getting a cookie? Oh, I don't even, I don't bother the chips or the cookie. No chips or a foot long in a soda. That's it. Done. I go to six inch chips and a cookie. Sometimes there's a meal deal. It's like $5.99 or something.

Yeah, I think it's just jacking the prices. There's no deal to it. I've been to a subway like once in the last five years. You can make yourself a better sandwich at home. You can, the Oscar Meyer lunch meat is better quality than the subway meat. I think it's shaved rat by or pigeon or something. I'm not as big a hater on Subway as other people are. Do you want Black Forest rat meat? No, I get the spicy combo is fine. Okay.

The, the... The meatballs subpo. The pepperoni, the salami, and then whatever the third meat is. Oh, the Italian BMT? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's my jam. 128. Ross's NFL review straight ahead after I tell you about what's happening with the Shell Federal Credit Union.

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713, 212, 579. If you want to bitch and moan and complain and be disappointing your local football team, I'm okay with that. We mentioned the Astros a little bit about their final home game of the year yesterday. That means they could be on the road for a very, very, very long period of time. We'll tell you more about that. After we get to Ross's NFL rewind from yesterday. That's right, Matthew. It's week number two.

was yesterday and wraps up tonight. The Saints taking on the Las Vegas Raiders. Yesterday, the Dallas Cowboys got themselves into a 17 to nothing hole. They were getting completely ran by the Falcons turning the ball over all this crazy stuff. But at the end of the day, they were able to salvage the game. For the onside kick, Zerline dribbles it to the left and gone 10 yards. Big scramble for it as it has gone 10 yards. Cowboys think they got it. I think they did. I mean, that's not even possible anymore, is it? Atlanta just let it roll and roll, and it went 10, and the Cowboys have the football.

Apparently nobody told the Falcons that they're able to pick up an on-side kick before it gets to 10 yards, as they just let it roll and roll and roll. As the play-by-playman said, they led 29 to 10 at the half, and they lost. This is what Dan Quinn had to say about it. It's tough to put a loss like that in place. I told the team there has to be a lesson in the pain. of that loss. And I'm sure we will work into that as we're getting into our preparation for next week. But definitely one that stings.

Dak Prescott, 450 yards and a touchdown, Maddie, on 34 of 47 passing. He went from he's not worth another franchise tag at halftime to sign him up long term immediately, right? Yes. How often is Dan Quinn going to be allowed to collapse and disappoint with the Atlanta Falcons before Arthur Blank lets him go? Does he make the end of September? Like, if they lose this week? Well, let's look at the upcoming schedule for the Falcons. The Bears.

At home. Winnable. Yeah, they lose this week. He's out. At the Packers, home for the Panthers, at the Vikings. That's their next four. It's a winnable set of games right there. There's definitely some winnable set of games.

Which, again, that would be good for the new coach to build momentum, right? Something to build on, as Bill O'Brien would say. Wins the by week. Moving on, let's go to the Arizona Cardinals, Kyler Murray dazzling. He had a, I'm sorry, 286 yards passing with a touchdown to this guy. Third and goal at the Washington four-yard line. Snap to Murray, three-step drop. Fires deep middle. Wide open is DeAndre Hopkins in the back of the end zone for his first touchdown as a Cardinal. He was wide open and the Cardinal strike first with 909 to go in the first quarter.

Kyle Murray also had eight carries for 67 yards and a couple of touchdowns. eight catches, 68 yards and a touchdown for DeAndre Hopkins. 22 catches in his first two games as an Arizona Cardinal. Is his report of his work every week going to be on this Monday rewind? Every time he gets a touchdown and or gets 10 catches, what so far has happened, we're two for two on that. Yes, we might hear about DeAndre Hopkins. And I had the Cardinals making the playoffs this year.

Yes, you did, Matt. You're on a good track. Yeah. And the Rams won in the NFC West. And I have the Niners not making the playoffs at all. Well, half of their team just went down with an ACL injury, so I think you're going to look pretty good on that. Moving along, Sunday night action, the Seattle Seahawks taking on the New England Patriots. Cam Newton had 397 yards a touchdown and a pick.

Also led the team in rushing, but it came down to the final play. Left side, Newton's going to run the ball. He gets hit. He flipped up in the air. He doesn't get there. Clock ticks down. It's all zeros. What a play by the Seahawks defense.

They throw their helmets. They are going nuts on the... The first time tonight, I believe they've stopped him dead in his tracks, and I believe it was Bobby Wagner who got there to do it. What an end to what a game. The Seahawks win 35 to 30 over the Patriots. Wow. The spread in that game, Seahawks minus four and a half.

They win by five, by the way. Did Al Michaels bring that up at all in the fourth quarter? I don't know. I was watching it, but I think I was... Was I watching? No, basketball wasn't on at that point. I don't remember if I had the audio on at that point, but I was watching. Bill Belichick asked what his mindset was in that final play,

and you just had a spectacular answer, as always. About what you would think it would be. We had one play to score, and we tried to go with what we thought was our best play. What else is there to think about? I will tear up when he decides to call to a career. Russell Wilson, Matt, 288 yards, five touchdowns, a pick that was not his fault off the hands of Greg Olson, early MVP candidate, early MVP front runner, I would say.

No, I agree with you. There's a lot of different candidates, though. Okay. But he's deaf on the top of the list. Kyle Murray might be in the running as well. Let me tell you, Deionre Hopkins might be in the running for it. Come on. Don't do that. Well, okay, I don't mean to poor Sultan wounds.

Career high, 179 receiving yards for Julian Edelman on that one. Let's go to the AFC South. It was a grudge match, Gardner Minshew, Ryan Tannihill. Two of the best quarterbacks in the NFL? Well, maybe not, but the Titans did pull this one out thanks to Stephen Goscowski. This is going to be a 49-yarder for the lead. Stephen Gaskowski. Snap, set, his kick on the way.

Good! Gaskowski bombs at home. And the Titans lead by three with a minute 36 remaining. Right? Go ahead. No, I'm sorry. I was just going to say, I don't buy a Sunday ticket

because I just, it's just a lot of money for just for me. Don't you think Channel 11 would have been better, sir, by putting the Jaguars Titans game on than the Bears and the Giants?

Yeah, that makes sense to me. What a sucky, sucky game. I mean, I'm not a big fan of NFC's football, but if you're going to give me a great NFC matchup,

that ain't it. And you got Titans Jaguars who we know those teams very well. Come on, Channel 11, wake up. Ryan Tannahill, four touchdowns, no picks, Matt. Tennessee Titans, 2 and O. Gaskowski had all those problems, but he said a, what was the eventual game winner in back-to-back

games. He has better fantasy numbers than one Thomas Brady. I can tell you this in personal experience. Yeah. Sorry, Matt. It is what it is. What do you think about Gardner Minshu? 339 yards, three touchdowns.

They'd have a couple of picks. They're still only going to win four to five games. Well, they've won one round. They've got more wins than the Houston Texans. and Texans alone at the bottom of the AFC South. Just two weeks, Brian, I mean, Ross. That's a long season, Brian. Long season. Is that what you're going to go with? Yes.

Okay. Well, they're down on the standings. There you go. That's your NFL recap. Okay. You didn't point any Detroit Lion highlights. I mean, were there some? They're existing. They're 0 and 2 as well. You were such a braggadocious little Lion fan early that game yesterday, too.

Was I? Yeah. Like, I think you were like applauding this defense? Like, who is this defense? That couldn't have been me. You read somebody else. Some other Detroit Lions fan. So Michael Connor destroys the Cowboys after their first half. And he gets just ratio like a sum being. I mean, the Falcons just choked that one hard. Choked it away. I was texting a friend of mine who's a Cowboys fan too. And he was like, go see, they came back. I was like, yeah, Falcons choked that one. I always said something and I thought, you know what? Once I do, something's going to happen positively. And I was thankful that I'm

You put out should the Cowboys just quit? Right. That would have been... That would have been on old takes exposed, and I don't need that. I was only on there one time. Oh, really? What did you say that time? What was your favorite?

Paul George is a Thunder moment. Which I actually got vindicated. Remember he got traded by Indiana? And then he resigned with Oklahoma City. I think they could pay him more than that. And then one year after that, so I said, what's your favorite, Paul George O'KC moment? He plays a year. Old takes exposed, gets a hold of it, puts me out there, which is fine.

I deserve that. And then the next year, he asked for a trade of the Clippers and gets it. I'm not going to claim vindication, though. He signed a long-term deal. But had no intention of staying in Oklahoma City. Well, he did until Kauai Leonard begged out of, we're not begged out, but he was a free agent. He said, come, Paul, let's go to L.A. Speaking of the Clippers, real quick.

And all of that, got the Rockets Westbrook. So Montres Harrell tweets out, how disgusted he is about the Atlanta Falcons. Okay. Giving up a huge lead. Yes. Who does Montres Harold play for? The Los Angeles Clippers. Who was up three games to one in their playoff series?

The Los Angeles Clippers. Yeah. He got ratioed. So go look at Montres Harrell's Twitter account and find out what it's like to be a fan of the Falcons and ripping on the Falcons when you play for a clipper's team who once again yacked in the playoffs. That's unfortunate. That's pretty funny though.

Works though, right? Same difference. Just a little bit of a longer stretch. That's true. Three one series lost to not win it. I mean, and by the way, Denver and the Lakers played two pretty exciting games. Yeah, well, first one was a blowout. Yeah.

AD hits the game winner to win the game for them. Yes, yells Kobe after he makes the shot. Yeah. And I have zero interest. I don't want to be that guy, but I am that guy. I thought it was great. Nicola Yokic makes a couple of late buckets. He had that weird tip in Anthony Davis taking down that.

LeBron James was point shaving. He literally tried to throw that game away. He was falling down all over. It looked like late game Russ. He was airballing three-pointers, falling all over the place. I'm like, what is going on with LeBron at the end of this game? AD saved their ass. You know what he didn't have?

It was good energy. That's why he's got to fix that. Your phone call straight ahead. 713-212-5-790. If you want to join us, 7-13-212-5-7-90. Are you freshered as hell? You know what? Maybe people aren't calling it because the weather is just kind of, eh.

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testosterone clinics. The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790. We make some little Astros here in the next segment, but I want to get some folks in the lines. We've got a couple of folks that want to discuss Bill O'Brien. What do you think? What are you talking about Tyler? That's the guy.

Tyler of the Woodlands are going to call. What do you think Tyler is going to talk about, Ross? Well, he just wants to talk about Bill O'Brien. Yeah? How he's not the head coach for the future of this team. Okay. Or maybe he's going to defend Bill O'Brien. A certain percentage of fans do that.

Yeah, but they usually put the, I mean, if it said Texans Tyler on there. Battle Red, Tyler would say that. Tyler on Kirby. Yeah. No, no. Our buddy Larry does not like Bill O'Brien. Green light, Tyler, Green Lott, Tyler. The crazy thing is I saw a tweet yesterday.

that said, I'm willing to give this team a few more games. I'm like, for what? They are who they are. If you're a logically thinking Texans fan, which is not, Ross, is that 60%, 40 drinks the Kool-Aid, right? Give her a ever take? I put the poll over the weekend of,

are the Texans going to cover the 7? And it was like 87% no. Okay, so let's go with 15% that are absolute Kool-A drinkers. 85% thought they're probably going to drop the first two games and finished nine and seven and probably be right up there for potential playoff spot and or division championship everything is going according to not the great plan but the plan we expected you i think what texans fans wanted was just a more competitive game and we didn't get we got non-competitive games in both games correct but my philosophy was

the two teams of the texans face the hardest schedule anybody's face since the 60s they're just that much better than you are. Rossi, they need to be very competitive. And if any trip to Pittsburgh is winnable, this would be the one, right? Pittsburgh let Denver hang around for the second half after they jumped out to a fast lead. True. Pittsburgh's defense is significantly better. And Denver also lost their starting quarterback, too.

And the Broncos came back. The Texans have to rebound. and I don't know what the spread is. Three and a half, I believe. But I would lean a slight, lean towards taking those points and going with the Texans. Because I don't think the Texans are going to play this poor three-shirt weeks, especially against a team that is more on part with them. Yeah, three and a half.

And Ross, they better as hell win against Minnesota at home. Very low total, 45. They better win at home. They're going to have 15,000 Texan diehards there with the necklaces and everything. The one thing that's disappointing is I don't think the fans are a lot in Pittsburgh. So traveling Texan can't go to the city hall of Pittsburgh and drape a Texan's flag all over the seal of Pittsburgh. That's a trip you can miss, right? Unless you want to go to that.

Was there the sandwich shop that's famous over there? Was that called? Pimani's? Sure. Yeah, I'm telling you, cold delicious cold cuts stuffed with French fries and coastlaw. It's quite delicious. Sounds good. Pittsburgh's an underrated city. Okay.

It's not like a vacation destination. but it's by no means the dregs of the world. Not bad. Okay. Go to the burg. Too bad we can't make it. They have a little sky lift that you can go up in the mountains and go see the communities up there. It's not bad.

I've only been to Pittsburgh three or four times, but it's not bad. Okay. Not bad that I mean, it's... I'll take your word for it. Never been. I mean, you and I'll never go to road trip there. I don't think so. Unless you want to go to PNC Park.

It's supposed to be beautiful. It is. We're going to go to Seattle first, as long as the air is good. Tyler in the Woodland. Are you Texans Tyler or just regular Tyler? No, I am not Texas Tyler, just regular Tyler. Hi, regular Tyler. Hey, I just want to say, Ross, I'm not a big fan of Bill O'Brien's at all.

I really think this past couple of years he's just bringing this franchise to the ground. And, you know, with the O&2 record, I didn't really see them winning both games. I would have liked to see a split. But I can't sit here and just root for the team. and if I was going to root for them, I would root for them to at least have a tank season so we can't have a good draft take, but we can't even do that because Bill O'Brien traded all the way our draft pick, so we have no future. Or so, yeah, no first or no seconds next year.

And frankly, the thirds aren't doing. Yeah, all right, great. And so, I mean, it doesn't look good. I mean, I don't know how we're supposed to, it's just going to be looking at David Carr 2.0 situation with Deshaun Watson because all these draft picks that we put into, to the O line. They're still getting up the most pressures in the league. We don't have wide receivers that can catch a ball and get open and make separate

expectations from the cornerbacks. It's just sad to see what's going on right now. Todd, you are echoing the thoughts of many Texans fans today. Thank you very much for the phone call. Ross, I had two buddies of mine, and they're both Kingwood residents. Both I would consider them to be very high, high sports fans, not like watch it when the only it's on. I'm talking about I've had sports conversations with them.

Okay. Two of them are like, I'm reading your tweets and I see the Texans are getting their ass kicked. Glad I'm not watching it. Hmm. It bugged me. Not that they, not that they texted me during the game,

but it bugged me that two what I would consider above average sports intellect guys were not watching the NFL. Now again, that's just a very, very, very, incredibly small sample size. I, you know, for me... Were they watching the Emmys?

No, I don't know what they were. No, they couldn't have been because it was during the Texans game. They just happened to see my tweets. Are we losing people? How what we don't, you know, here's the thing. Every conservative website says the ratings are down 20 to 25%. Every liberal website says NFL ratings are either at where they were or up.

So I don't know who to believe. It's just like my politics. I don't know. I have to go to a wide sample size of websites. Right. What's happening with that is they're looking at ratings. They're looking at numbers and they're looking at total viewers and they're looking at certain demographics. And you can kind of, depending on which way you want to splice it, I think sometimes you can find a different way.

I will say this. I did see a story and I follow a couple of media critics around the country. I think the next round of TV negotiations for Fox is on the NFC package. You know how they primarily carry NFC games? They're looking to spend $2 billion. That to me is the indicator of whether or not these are games that are being watched. That you're going to spend obscene amounts of money to broadcast six to seven games a week, of which two or three of them involved horrific teams you could care.

very, I mean, no disrespect to you, but carrying Lions games. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, well, I mean, because even with ratings, people are rating, putting ratings against last years or against the last weeks or whatever, these programs, they're still the highest rated programs of any

network of the week. Like Thursday night football is one of, is getting way more viewers than 60 minutes or Love Island or dancing with the stars or whatever. It blows all of them out of the water. So maybe it's down 15% of where it was last year, a couple of weeks ago.

So you're competing against your Yeah, it's still the number one program. You're competing against yourself. It just bothered me, Ross, because there are, you know, there are people that are bandwagon fans that say they're sports fans that can't pronounce people's last names.

And I just, I can read through those frauds. But these are guys that are in their 40s that would be the perfect show a commercial for a car dealership or show a commercial for a beer or show a commercial for whatever, a house,

and they would be ones to buy. And I'm wondering how many of those men are not seeing those commercials because they've given up on the NFL. We don't have the answer to that. I'm just telling you, that struck me yesterday's. I had two different buddies of mine text me saying,

yeah, man, your tweets are, things must not be going on. I'm like, aren't you watching? No, we're doing something else. And I would never would have thought these gentlemen would have done that in years past. Sounds like they're crappy fans. Normally I would say,

say that, but I've known these guys for one of them in for over a decade. And they would ride and die with the local team. And they just haven't done it. And I know if it's because I think largely it's because the Texans just continue to repeat. I mean, if we took an air check of the show five years ago, we're doing the same thing, right? Bill O'Brien can't coach. Bill O'Brien can decision-making skills, Bill O'Brien's personnel decisions. It never changes.

And that's why I'll never be a fan of the team. At least with my Rockets' heartbreak, I get different forms of heartbreak. It's Dwight Howard heartbreak, Chris Paul heartbreak gets hurt, heartbreak, and now Russell Westbrook can't shoot heartbreak. Yeah, I mean, I get different levels. The Astros give me 100-lost seasons, and then they give me a World Series championship, and then everybody gets hurt. I get variety with my heartbreak on the Houston sports teams, but not the Texans. There was always the thought that, look, you can disagree with Daryl Morey's decisions and how he goes about it. You can't question whether or not he's trying to win.

You say, okay, well, you know what, this is dumb. Well, he's doing this to try to win. You know that. And he's not over-inflating people. I mean, we knew when Russell Westbrook got here who Russell Westbrook was. We knew who David Johnson was. But Bill O'Brien didn't know who David Johnson was. Actually, he did.

He just thought he was getting the 2016 version of David Johnson. How were his stats yesterday, you may ask? They were decent-ish, right? No, no. You know, they were not deconish. Is that what you just made up a word? Yeah, decent-ish. Yesterday, 11 carries, 34 yards.

It's almost three yards of carry. Or it's over three yards of a car. He had two for 16 receptions. So he was accountable for 50 yards of Texans' offense. We start the final hour of the Matt Thomas show next. Is the Matt Thomas show. 202 on Sports Talk 790. The final hour of the Matt Thomas show begins right now.

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And go try some new places out. All right, 7-13. Ooh, they got braised ox tail? 713212-5-79 if you want to get in 7-1-3-2-5-7-190. Ross, the headlines the day would include Texans are 0-2. Yes.

No surprise. Texans got to get better. Texans 3.5 point dogs at Pittsburgh. Week 2 injuries all over the place. Anybody that we should, I mean, fantasy-wise? Cortland Sutton, by the way, for those of you that are me, he's not going to catch another pass for the Broncos this year. Nick Bosa, Niners.

injured. Christian McCaffrey? Yes. What's going on with Garapolo? Do we know? Well, Sequin Barclay, torn ACL. Let's see. Christian McCaffrey is a high ankle sprain.

That's a month. Usually around there. Yeah. Drew Locke sprained AC joint. Yeah. Cortland Sutton torn ACL, as you said. Yeah. Jimmy Garapolo, another high ankle sprain.

So that's another month for him, probably, right? Devante Adams, hamstring injury. Oh, God. You know what I got to do? I got to stop playing. Fantasy football. Get your Alan Lazzard on. Brendan, you get on my spot next year.

I'm done. I can't do this. Marquez Valdez-Gantling going on. What? What did you just say? Right? That's his name. All in one uniform back?

Yeah. Malik Hooker, who cares? Brandon Shurf, that's actually significant. Yeah. Oh, Byron Jones, groin injury for the dolphins. Rahim Mustert sprained MCL for the Niners. Tyrod Taylor chest injury. He went to the hospital.

Didn't even start. Yeah, hopefully he's okay. play, yeah. And tonight we got the read is. Paris Campbell, knee injury. Yeah. Possible torn ACL. Although, no, actually, they're saying not a torn ACL for Paris Campbell to Colts.

Okay. Those are the most notable ones. I feel like that was the... Oh, Will Fuller, hamstring. No, Will Fuller just wasn't interested. You think he didn't want to play? Let's, I'm going to put you on a little homework assignment. Okay.

Because that's what I like to do, because I'm busy with Astros tonight, so I can't do this. He played 36 snaps. Would you like to go watch every one of his snaps? You want me to go that and watch y'all 22? I'd like you to find out what he was doing. Okay. Maybe he was just covered like a blanket. Do you want me to catalog every single one of his...

That feels a little bit necessary. I could do it. Here, why don't you fake it? No, I'm going to go do it. Are you really going to do it? Yeah, I'm going to do it just for you. I got a dollar bet says you will not do it. Okay.

Because you'll forget. Yeah, that's true. Remind me. Guys, Bill O'Brien was asked about why Will Fuller was limited, and I thought the answer was very odd. You got it? I do. Let's play it.

You know, I really don't know. I mean, look, he was in the passing game. He was involved in the passing game relative to health and all those things. I'll see what happens today when he comes in for treatment and things like that. But, you know, we have to do a better job of getting him in the ball. You know, it just didn't happen yesterday. He was not in the passing game. Relative to what?

Ball thrown to him makes him a part of the passing game. Attempts thrown to him makes him part of the passing game. He was not a part of the passing game. Well, last week he got like 10 targets and 8 catches and 10012 yards. She was averaging 5 and 1⁄2 targets per game. Is that what you're going to go with? Well, it's 5. Yeah, 10 targets, 8 catches, 112 yards.

Maybe he just wasn't getting open. We've seen this, I mean, Julio Jones had like one catch yesterday. Okay, so we're going to chalk this up to just the secondary. Ravens being so much better. Or, I don't know. Maybe he wasn't getting anything about separation because he's got a hamstring issue. That would make him with an IH or would they make him IP? Well, it's an IH right now.

Unless he doesn't, as I tweeted yesterday, does he never stretch and he only drinks Mountain Dew? Because, you know, Odell Beckham keeps hurting his hamstring. Apparently he hates drinking water. So he drinks carbonated beverages? Yeah, I don't know. That's what I'm, like, it's got to be, does Will Fuller only drink coffee, tea, and Mountain Dew. I have not had a mountain dew.

Does he never drink water? This is a serious heart attack. I have not had a mountain dew since 1980. You know the exact moment? When was it? We first moved to Houston. Yes. And I drink a lot of mellow yellow and a lot of Mountain Dew.

And I got sick as a dog. Oh, it's not good for your kidneys, Matt. And I don't remember ever having it then. I mean, I can tell you it has been since 1980 since I've had a Mountain Dew. Same thing with orange drink. I drink a lot of orange drink when I was a kid. Makes me sick as a dog. Now, I've had way too many coax and pepsies and root beers and sprites in my life.

I can tell you that. No Dr. Pepper because I don't like it, which makes me, I guess, anti-Texas. But yeah. No interest in Mountain Dew. Me either. What's your Coke a choice? Don't say I don't drink Coke. I really don't, but, uh...

I've got new root beer. I'm a root beer. Root beer is smooth. I'm a really. root beer guy. If I'm having pizza, root beer is really the that's a combo. Like I'm trying, I want to try root beer and bourbon. Do you think it would taste

good? Yeah, I used to put, you know what I used to drink in college? Root beer and Captain Morgan. That was good. Really? Yeah. Because I have both got spice. Because I've been doing this Balconi's sampling now. Bacquanis. Are you going to bring us some or what? Well, I was supposed to bring some to Baylor. Oh, by the way. Real quick on that, we're going to the phones.

Oh, I'm sorry you didn't get to go to Waco, Texas. Let me tell you. Let me tell you. What? Something doesn't smell right at Baylor University. What do you mean? They waited until noon to tell U of H. is this what the game wasn't going to be played? Apparently at noon for two weeks, right?

What was the deal there? You're saying they're scared? Does my silence echo throughout the halls of this? Oh, please. Nobody's scared of U.S. Cougars. Why would you, if you had 17 linemen on your death chart? If you're scared, why would you schedule the game? That's exactly right, because you were, you thought you were going to win it.

I'm telling you. And this is 100, listen to me very careful, as I tell you both of you this. This is 100% Cougar biased, okay? That's the Matt Thomas show, 12 to 3. Yeah. How many games are they going to win this year, Matt? I don't know, probably all of them. Okay, there you go.

My point is this, you don't know about this potential situation involving positive test or contact tracing or whatever. You can't make that decision until noon, the Friday before, and 11 o'clock. lot game. You think too many players got injured or what? I'm saying I don't think Baylor was prepared. I think Baylor was like, I'm practicing, trying to play this game, and we're going to get our ass kicked. I don't want my first game, me being Dave Miranda's first game as a coach at Baylor

University on national television on Fox to be an asswoman like the rest of the Big 12 was getting. And then if I can use COVID as an example, I'll do it. So they were scared of the Big Bad University of Houston Cougars and Clayton Tune. I don't think they were scared of U.S. we're scared about playing anybody. Okay. That's just my completely biased reaction to that.

I just, something doesn't smell right. I'll tell you, yeah, I will say that. It's a very bizarre story. But if you're scared, you wouldn't schedule the game.

I think you schedule the game because you get a chance to play the game, and then you put your boys on a practice field, and you're like, oh, hell, we're not ready, a la Navy against BYU. Something's not right.

We'll never, and we know what, Rossi, we'll never know. That's true. Everybody's quaking in their, boots when the coogues come to town. It's not a question of the cougars. You're missing my point. It's a question of whoever, if they were going to play

incarnate word, it would have been a scenario like that too. Something ain't right, Baylor. Something stinks in Waco. Something ain't sick them. Phone calls straight ahead. No interruption from Ross and myself. We're going right to the phones. All of you online, stand by.

It is the Matt Thomas show. Our time is 212 on 790. More. Matt Thomas. Now on Sports Talk 790. One of the greatest bands of all time with a song that absolutely fits today here on Sports Talk 790. As a white person, I can dance with this song, right? This is a great jam, Matt.

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It was a joke. Turn a little of one. I let them know it was a joke. All right, let's go to the phones. We've got people that want to talk. We're going to listen. John and Cyprus, 218 on 7.Odi.

Hi, John. Hey, guys. First time, long time. Nice to hear from you. I'd like to talk a bit about Bill O'Brien and the Texans management. A lot of blame isn't put on Bill O'Brien for a lot of the Texans' woes, but not enough blame has been put on the Texans management

for giving Bill O'Brien the power he has to make such lopsided trade deals. If a general manager has a coach come up to him and say, hey, I want David Johnson, they would get an acceptable rate for that trade. but since Bill O'Brien is trying to do too much, he overpays. And he wanted to get, he had two ideas. He wanted to get rid of David Johnson, and he wanted to get rid of DeAndre Hopkins. Now, a competent general manager would go out and get his money's worth for those two trades. But since he's trying to do too much, he's just doing too much.

All right, I'll hang up and listen. well here's the thing and a colleague of ours in the business mike milzer put a tweet out yesterday that's like and i don't know if he was doing it to do a slight troll or he was just buying naive he basically said if everything is true about the texans only getting an offer of david johnson isn't that the fault of the nfl for not a vet properly evaluating de andry hopkins Ross, I respondent, and I don't do a lot of responding to other media people on Twitter. I just don't. But that's being hoodwinked by the organization thinking that they really did their due diligence.

I firmly believe in my heart that the amount of time the Texans, Bill O'Brien, Jack Easterby, whomever took to really search a trade was probably a day, day and a half tops. I think if you have a franchise type wide receiver, one of the best in the game, you certainly don't want it to get it out there that he's up on a trading block because then you may reduce your value. But DeAndre Hopkins had to know he was going to be traded. DeAndre had to know that he... He said as much.

He's like, you're not going to pay me. You don't like me. We don't get along. I'm going to be better somewhere else. And my guess is DeAndre would like to keep his mouth quiet, which he probably did. which he clearly did, not to say anything, so maybe he could go to have plenty of options as to where he would like to go. I don't think he went to Bill O'Brien and said, I'm only going to Arizona.

That's never come up in conversation. My belief is, under no circumstance, did the Texans really put the due diligence in on this? And that's what makes a bad general manager. That's what makes a bad front office is by taking the first deal that's being offered to you when the deal wasn't good to begin with. Yeah, I mean, because a couple of weeks later, Stefan Diggs went for a, was it even a week later that Stefan Diggs went away for a first round pick? Within seven days. Because that's when we did the next round of Bill O'Brien should be fired as general manager.

When Stefan Diggs, who's not nearly the receiver, DeAndre, and the Vikings got a massive haul. Anything including a first round pick in 2020 is a massive haul. Do you know how, we talk about this. How, do you know how these NFL teams treat first round? pick, they treat them like gold mines. They're the most valuable thing for an NFL team because you're getting a starter who is potentially and supposed to be a really good starter on a cheap contract for five years. There's nothing more valuable than that in the NFL in the age of the salary.

Because you trust yourself when it comes to the first round pick. You want somebody who's outperforming their contract, right? But Patrick Mahomes, $40 million, $40 million. You're probably never going to win on that deal. They could live up to that deal. going to win on it. You can win on a first round pick on their rookie deal, like a Lamar Jackson, and that allows you to, like, what they did. They traded for Cleas Campbell. They made some free agent signings. When you have somebody who is playing and performing over their heads on a

rookie deal, it's the most valuable thing in sports, except for to Bill O'Brien. So I do not believe that Bill O'Brien did his due diligence. I do not believe. The only other team I heard of, Ross, honestly, that was sort of somewhat kicking the tires was the Philadelphia Eagles. Yes, there was talk of that. I can't remember what they. And didn't even Ron Rivera, the coach at Washington, say that he was stunned by news of this,

that he had heard nothing about this? I'm not sure. So you basically went to Arizona and Philadelphia, and that was it. Don't they have a friend over there in Arizona? I forget. Is it somebody in the Texas organization? General manager there worked with Bill somewhere.

I don't think it was New England. Steve Kime, yeah. Steve Kime has some. connection to Bill O'Brien. And, you know, that's not out of the question. You do work with people you know with. You know and you've dealt with. I'm okay with that.

But how you only really contacted two NFL, the potential 31 other teams that would have been interested. Now, you're not going to train them within the division. So Tennessee and Jacksonville and Indianapolis around starters. But you're essentially thinking about you could have gone to anybody in the NFC and picked him and said you went with, you took the very very. your first offer that someone made sense to you.

And now he's got more catches after two weeks with the new team than anybody else in NFL history. It's like getting hit in the junk repeatedly. Meanwhile, Will Fuller, zero targets. It's like when you're looking to buy something on the internet and you just click on the first website, you just Google it and you go to the first website and just buy it. You don't shop around or anything.

That used to happen to me with Priceline. I used to price on a lot of hotels when I was younger. I remember one time I went to go cover Carlos Beltrons. This goes back how long price on it was 2004, right? Yeah. So we at the station said, they said, Matt, do you want to go to Arlington? Because the Astros were playing the Rangers that weekend.

That's what he's making his debut from being traded from Kansas City. Do you want to go to Arlington to cover the Astros Rangers series? I'm like, yeah, of course I do. So what I naturally did is I went to Priceline. And I put in $65 for a hotel in Arlington. And I'm thinking this is pretty good rate back then. It's 2004. I go to the website where the hotel of the chain, that room was $44.

Bastards. I felt like ass. I gave double, I gave, I gave, I gave price line $21 a day more than I had to if I'd just go on to the website. Do you have to? Well, these you weren't paying for it, though, right? No, but I mean, I still, I always consider myself to be a very savvy business. Yeah, you're a travel whore. No, no, savvy.

not whore, savvy. Yeah, travel war. All right. So do you think that's how Bill O'Brien felt when he saw that Stefan Diggs went for a first round pick? He's like, oh, you could do that? You can get a first round pick for a number one wide receiver? The Arizona Cardinals were price line.

Yes. And you're telling me I can get a 1999 Corvette, David Johnson. Okay. Like a broken down one? Well, it's missing a tire, but it's fine other than that. Okay. And I can get that for the price of $114 a day. I love Corbats.

Sign me up. That meant have been the greatest example, but you get my point. It was supposed to be an untradable contract. It was one of the worst contracts in sports, and the Texas took that on and gave away a number one, number one receiver, one of the best wide receivers in the league. And then had to go chase after another receiver by giving up another draft pick.

Yeah, give up a second for... Which again, Brandon Cooks is going to be... I'm not worried by Brandon Cooks. Brandon Cooks will be $8 million to spend money well spent. Would he have been good money to spend at $20 million? Oh, hell no. And if he's money well spent, you're going to guess what?

Have to pay him too. Or let him go, I guess. Or just extend, you pick up the next year of the contract. 226, sports talk 790, 713, 212, 570. Speaking of contracts, more phone calls in the Texans, and we got to run through. Did George Springer play his last Houston home game?

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Earthwind and Fire? Believe it. Okay. Do you think our audience, I mean, can people name five Earthwind and Fire signs? Five? I don't think I can't. Uh, yeah. Reasons.

The Way of the World. September. Fantasy? Star. Fantasy. Okay, that's good. We're good. Um. Got to get you into my life

much better than the original Beatles version. You can shut your dirty whore mouth. Speaking of fantasies, George Springer ever wearing a Houston Astros home uniform ever again. Tell the truth. No. Josh Reddick wearing an Astros uniform.

No. Michael Brantley wearing an Astros. Yes. You think so. Okay. Yulegareel. No. What are your backup plans of Yulee Gureel?

I mean, he's 36 now, though, right? Or something like that? How old is he? He's not dropped off that much. Yeah, but... Here's the thing. It's hard for us to put that puzzle together because we don't know what he's worth, what he thinks he's worth, and what the Astros are willing to spend,

and what that individual player is willing to take. He's 36. He'll be 37 by in the middle of next year. Do you sign him like a two-year deal? I might be down with that. He doesn't play like he's 36. Two years 20, something like that. Two years, 24?

See, I'm terrible when it comes to that. Me either. I have no clue. That's not my forte. I'm not much forte, but I'm just saying that's definitely not one of the things. Because you can, in theory, have to replace all three outfield spots. Although Kyle Tucker will take one of them. Yorda and Alvarez, Ross may never have to wear a glove again for the Astros. Put him at first. What are they trying to work him out first? And he's just completely long. He's like two left feet. Can't play the outfield.

He can't play the outfield. He does, you know, and first base is hard. The major league level is harder than you think it is. That's true. It's about footwork. It's about spacing. No. just not going to he could jump up whenever Carl's Correa if he's going to sail it over somebody's head

but I'm worried about his creaky knees though I'm worried about him bending over in the creaky knees how are the scoops yeah

he's great at that he if Yordaun comes back he will be a very successful designated hitter and you know a lot of teams wrestle with that dusty I mean

look I don't think Dusty Baker is going to be here five years from now but hopefully Yordan is and I'm not talking about my life I don't know if 77-year-old Dasty Baker wants to my manager 70s.

Well, when you said that, it just in my mind, I was on this earth. Because your mind is warped. I was like, geez, man. That's a little strong. No, I mean, my guess. He's not going to be the Astros manager in five years. He's not. No.

So whoever is the manager of the team may be okay. It's going to have to understand that if Yordaun is still playing for the team, that that DH spot is locked and loaded in the line of every single day. and there'll be no moving around of that, unless you're going to give Yordawn a day off, just like Big Poppy was for basically 80% of his career with the Red Sox. That's true. He was the D.H., and there was no hitting hiding out.

Hopefully, Yordaunt's in better shape. By the way, one of their managerial note, Ron Garnhire, the manager of the Detroit Tigers resigned on Saturday. Oh, that's unfortunate. Health issues, stress, kind of, you know, it's been around a long time. One of my favorite people of all time. Oh, really?

Just a super, super guy. Okay. And one of the candidates up for the manager, According to who? According to Detroit media. Uh-oh. How does Justin Verlander feel about

the Detroit free press? Well, that's part of the bad karma I think he received, unfortunately. Is AJ Hinch? AJ's suspension from baseball ends after the final out

of the World Series. So too does Jeff Luno. You and I have always talked about this. I think AJ gets back in the sport first. I didn't think it'd be after one year, but...

I have said, that I thought his name was, I mean, I felt like his name was going to be toxic with fan bases. I think in Houston we love him, but I think nationally, everyone, oh, they're terrible, you know, the Astros, hate, and all that stuff that they get. And I felt like anybody's name associated with that, certainly the manager who was presiding over the team when that happened in A.J. Hedge, I thought that his name was going to be a little bit too toxic for the PR hit the teams would take. The reason why I don't think it's going to be too toxic is because clearly A.J. wrestled with this. AJ didn't push this.

Carnal's Beltron pushed this. No, yeah. Thinking about it, I have no issue with it from a lot, but the problem is fans are illogical. Oh, no, these guys are cheating. But I mean, people are still in Chandler-Romes and Brian McTaggart's mentions,

look at these cheaters. Like, shut up. You guys are idiots. My point is this, is that AJ didn't say, hey, guys, I got this great idea for us. AJ, now again, major mistake on his part

by not saying anything, not stopping it. But it wasn't like he was leader of the band. Yes. Alex Cora. I think the leader of the band. Carlos Beltrump, well, he's a liar. He and Joe Kelly disagree.

Yeah. And so did Carlos Beltrane? But those two teams are not going to fire their managers unless there were some pretty good foundation as to, it was just an innocent bias internet too. No, you weren't. Because there was no banging of trash cans and no sign stealing in the Astros clubhouse until these two guys came in and said, hey, you guys are behind the eight ball. You guys are behind the curb. Everybody's doing eat metals. We'll do it, too. That's why I can't, I can't wait to see these books that come out. There's like five other than

be published in the next couple of years. Yeah, Evan Drellick is doing one. That's going to be the best one, right? Well, he's the one that broke the story. Most properly sourced. Yeah. And I'm sure Buster only will do it. And it'll be 80% of blaming Jeff Lunoz. Everything, you know, the sun melted. It's Jeff Lino's fault. Right. There was an outbreak of the Marlins, Jeff Luno's fault. COVID, Jeff Lino's fault. Tropical Storm Beta. Thanks, Jeff Luno. Stock market.

Voting fraud. Jeff Lino's fault. Point being is this. I want to know how much digging they'll do in the other teams or how much it will be just based on the Astros. That would probably be very little digging on other teams. I would almost guarantee you. Because again, when you don't have a snitch, it hurts.

Thanks, Mike Fires. By the way, the Astros will see Mike Fires finally in a game. In the playoffs. Yeah. Astros are probably going to face the Oakland days in the playoffs, which would start, I think, a week from tomorrow. And he's their three-starter, right? Yeah.

Well, what if they beat him in two? Well, I can. Maybe you're right then. Let's go to Gerard at 238 on 7-0. Gerard, what's a good word? Oh, man, ain't too much, man. Just out here, you know, trying to get through this rain out here on these streets. But quick thing on the Texans.

I know Bill Bryan is a whipping boy, and rightly so. He deserves a lot of the blame. I got more problem with Bill O'Brien, the general manager than Bill O'Brien, the head coach, man. I just think this team is just not put together well. When you look at them guys on both lines, that's the trenches, officer line and the defensive line, they're below par. You know, you've got the names on there, but, you know,

when you look at the overall office line, defense of the line is just below part. You know, you got basically two good officer line in Tulsa and Tulsa is all pro. Then you got Sharpene, he's good, he's solid. But then your center is not good. They paid him a lot of money. He gets pushed back. You know, fortune is not good. And even a young guy out of Alabama State, he's got a chance to improve.

You know, he's got a chance to get better. But right now, he's not playing at well either. So the officer line is not good. The D-line outside of JJ White is not good. You pay merciless a lot of money, and he just has not produced at all. So that was a bad deal right there for the general manager, Bill O'Brien. And he's just got a lot of holes. You know, secondary is not, you know, Roby is solid.

He's a good corner, but the other side is just a sub. suspect. Your safety's out of read. It's not well. So this team is just not put together very well at all. The special team was good, I think, a couple of years ago, but they've taken a step back the last couple of years. So it's just not a, you know, well-put-together team. And, you know, we sit here wondering why, you know, they're getting beaten, getting tiredly beat by these teams like Baltimore and Kansas City.

They just don't have the players to compete with those teams, in my opinion. Now, Sean Watson, to me, is a good quarterback, but he's going to have to take his game to the next level if he wants to maybe to overcome these holes on the team, man. I think his main problem is to me is he locks in on his receivers a little bit too much. I thought he did a better job yesterday as far as jumping the ball down to the flag when it wasn't any plays about getting open deep. He did a good job of doing that yesterday.

He had a problem over the years doing that as far as jumping the ball down when it's not nobody open deep. He did that better yesterday. but the team is just not put together at all, man. And their problem is on the offensive and beefers-in-the-frenches. If you're not good in the trenches, you're going to have a hard time winning at a high level, you know, and that's been their problem really for a long time here. And they're going to have to try to get that solved, man.

And, you know, the only way you're going to be able to do that is in the draft. And unfortunately, they gave way a lot of their draft picks. So they're caught in a tough, tough situation where they're not bad, like New York Jets bad, but they're not a contender either, like the coach, like Baltimore or Kansas City, those teams like that in New Orleans. So they caught in a tough, tough crossbought. They got to hit on their third and fourth round picks. The picks they do have in the coming years, we're going to be stuck in this cycle for a while, man,

and continue to struggle again on the offensive line and defense line. In the truth, that's where games are won. You know, in the trick, you've got to be strong on both sides of the ball, and we're not, you know, we're not. And that's why we're inconsistent at best. Thank you, Gerard. Appreciate the phone call. Let's play, believe it or not, next.

those of you playing at home, 253 on the clock on that one. 253. Believe it or not, we're getting away some lunch and some dinner. We get away food better than anybody else in the radio. That and concerts of people in the 70s when we actually have concerts. 253 here on Sports Talk 790.

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So the plan is that have Dusty Bake on the show. If not, maybe Wednesday. Who knows? I think a lot of it depends on how things go tonight. Dusty does what Dusty wants. Yeah, Lance McCullors. Home Dusty, Home Lance McCullors is really good. In fact, his ERA, let me pull it up here real quick before we get to believe it or not.

Dusty's, Dusty, Lance's home ERA is 1.42. 3-0 and 5 home starts. Rossi, his overall ERA is 4.87. Now, they're not equal starts, I don't believe, but you kind of get our drift on this. If his Minutemade Park ERA this year is 1.42 and his oral is 4.87, that must be absolutely horrific away from Minutemade Park. And it better be good, because guess what happened? You know the Astros had to pack for a month, give or take? I didn't know that

because they're done with home games as soon as the Astros play the Rangers they're going to fly to Oakland the presumption is they play the A's in the series let's say they beat the A's then they're going to stay in the left coast and play I think it's Dodger Stadium or Petco Park

one of the two National League parks for an American League playoff series that's for the divisional round if they play the American League championship ship series. They will do that, I think, in, I think it's one of those two. I think it's Dodger Stadium. And then if they play in the World Series, they'll be in Arlington to take on the whoever the National League team would be at the new Global Life Park or whatever that thing is called in Arlington.

So, now, I don't think they pack 30 pairs of underwear, but my point is these rich adults are going to have to actually get cleaning services done because they're going to have, they're not, they're not going to be home unless they finish off a series very quickly. They can do a cleaning service at these fancy hotels. Oh, for sure. You just don't want to see the prices. Well, they're not paying them. I was going to get some shorts done.

What happened? You spill mustard all over your shorts or something? Yeah, I've spilled a lot of things. You know what I spilled today? No, I don't. I spilled French onion soup. What? No, no, excuse me.

It was butter. How did you get those too confused? Because I was eating soup and it comes a roll. And I was putting butter on the roll. Where did you eat? I get panera bread sometimes. Oh, okay. I brought it here and the butter had melted.

You didn't go to Lubies? Well, that's on the list for sure until they run out. And I got a huge butter stand in my shorts. So I've gotten stains before. You know what I'm going to have much. I got a huge butter stain in my shorts. Do you know how much it cost to get a pair of shorts cleaned? Where were you asked trying to get them done?

It was in one fancy city. I don't remember which one of them. You're so five diamond mat. That's what I'm going to start calling you. It was $14 and it didn't include tax. And do you have to tip them on that or anything? You have to tax and tip for sure. What do you tip the cleaning person?

I don't know. What is the typical tax? I mean, tip 20%. What do you tip the guy that you go to like pilgrim cleaners or something? You tip them? No, they come and pick it up for you. Or they do it themselves at the hotel. But I thought by the time I tax and tip, they're picking it up.

It was going to be $21 for one pair of shorts. Man, we just live, you live in a whole different life. I didn't do it. Jeez. So you and I lived the same life. So fancy. See, Brendan has not been with me on a rocket season

producing the show. It's fancy Matt. I have, just not a normal season. He's like, can you guess how much I just spent on this pancake at the Beverly Hills Hotel? It's like a $40 pancake. We've done that before.

That's tough. Guess how much Matt spent on a fruit cocktail in some Beverly Hills Hotel? It was an omelette with toast and bacon and coffee. It was $39. That's cutting into the per diem right there. Well, but I got to meet Adam Sandler out of it,

though. So it was the best $39 I ever spent in my. life. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports game show. We simply called it believe it or not. And here's how words. You'll call 713212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Today's edition of Believe it or not, brought to you by Woodhouse Day Spaws. Printouture your gift card for the gift of re-laxation at Houston Woodhouse Spas.com. Category today is all things about Earthwind and Fire because of the great song September. And of course it is. the 21st of September.

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Brendan, what is today's prize? Well, we're giving away two gift certificates to Mabo seafood. And if we need a third, we have a gift certificate to Golden Crust, Caribbean restaurant, and bakery as well. Man, that is some serious prizes

after going, like, NADA for like a week and a half. I need it. It's Mombonifico. John on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Earth, Wind, and Fire founder Maurice White is alive. Believe it or not?

Not. Yeah, he died in 2016. Statement number two for the win. Before changing the band name, Earth, Wind, and Fire was known as the salty peppers. Believe it or not? Not. Believe it. Oh, sorry.

Or as Alex Remck would say, sorry. Zach on 790, Zach, you're ready to play, believe it or not. Believe it. Maurice White got his start in the music business as a drummer. He played for such artists as Edda James, Chuck Berry, and Muddy Waters. Believe it or not. Believe it. Statement number two for the win.

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in the 21st of September was chosen as a lyric because that's the first day of the sign of the Libra, which has a primary elemental quality. of fire. Believe it or not. That is right. The lyric has absolutely zero significance. Congratulations. You got a mombo-nefico gift card coming your way. Let's try one more. Joe on 790. Joe, you're ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. Earth, Wind, and Fire has been nominated for 16 Grammy Awards. They won seven of them. Believe it or not? Not. Yeah, if I've said it once, I said it a thousand. It's a wrong one. So said it one seven thousand times, you've got to know how many Grammy Awards, a particular band is won. Let's play one more. Larry on 790. Larry, you ready to play, believe it or not?

Yes, sir. In 1976, Earthwind and Fire performed in front of over 100,000 fans at a concert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was the largest paid concert ever until they were surpassed by Michael Jackson and others. Believe it or not. Not. Not as right. You want another, my monifical gift card. And that, my friends, is how we wrap up a, believe it or not, with gifts. Feels good.

Ross did it okay. Not great, but it okay. Thanks, Matt. Two winners. Okay, on the show today, I'm going to listen to the A-Team. You listen to the A-Team? Very busy. Okay, you have the A-team.

You have the nightcap at 6 o'clock. It might be the question. Quiet Storm. Is it really that dark? I can't tell. We have coverings over our walls. Yeah, it's pretty dark. Okay.

And then I'll be on the air at 7 o'clock for Astros on deck. Such a good show. It's going to be on two stations. Wow. KTRH and 790. So be ready for that. I'm not ready for that. Tomorrow, Astros player, hopefully to be announced.

Hopefully we'll visit with Dusty Baker. And we'll definitely catch up with Aaron Reese from the Athletic. Up next, Clinton, Wexler. They are the A. team and they're going to entertain you for three to six right here on sports talk seven nighting