The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans & Rockets Took Care Of Business, Coogs Beat Auburn

Episode Date: November 17, 2025

Texans & Rockets Took Care Of Business, Coogs Beat Auburn

This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 10-1 at H-Town. Good morning, and welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Inside the outbeat jump hook on the way. He got it. As the time expired, it's a five-footer to tie the game. Excellent pass. No hesitation.

And Alpy sends us to overtime. Well, the NBA said there was point two left, which was ridiculous. B.S. B.S. B.S. Jonathan and his girl at the game last night, a very good luck charm for the local basketball team. Not a good luck time for my pockets, but, you know. Yeah.

Hognette, you got that taken care of. Pockets weren't hit that hard. Well, they were already too deep when I saw them. Come on now. They were drinking beers like a ride of ease. Pockes had a soft landing, I'm guessing. Yeah, yeah. Look, let me tell you, John, my guess is it was all worth it, big baby.

No, hey, especially that game. Oh. Hey. How the hell are you? Hi. Hey, Matthew. Now, did you, you didn't, you and I did not text for an entire week, which is kind of what you like to do? Because, you know what?

We see each other 50 weeks a year. I didn't think about you at all. Yeah, I was going to say, same for me. uh you did you even go to the phone much at all the last six or seven days i actually so funny i'm you know it's funny you ask that matt you know sometimes your instincts are impeccable thank you um i was trying to stay off my phone as much as possible while i was out because my screen time had been creeping creeping up and up and up i was trying to keep it under two hours every day while i was out there so i was trying to i honestly when i came back i watched both texans game

and i watched the last rocket's game so that's that was the catching up that i've done so far so I'm somewhat up to speed, but I'm also in the dark about a lot of different things that are going on. Well, we could do a game called Does Ross know? We could. You know what we got to do? Here's we're going to tell the truth today. I know what happened in the Georgia game. Let's talk about that. Yeah, I didn't, yeah. That won't even fun. I came back Saturday afternoon, so. Oh, so you've had, so really, I could have, I could throw a bunch of stuff at you. Yeah. You probably have a car. I was still, I was still fairly disconnected. But yeah, coming back on Saturday is clutch. You can just hang out and do nothing on Sunday. Yes. This is very nice. It's the day, like when you go overseas, you should always give yourself a buffer day to catch yourself up on the time. Well, yes, especially if you're going to be jet-lacked.

It wasn't that bad, but a nice rest day. I'm learning as I get older is perfect for your vacation. How are the delays and or TSAs at both airports? Zero, no. Good, it's good. I had no issue, and then the shutdown's done, right? Yes. Okay.

The shutdown was over. There's still some flights that are being delayed. I was flying out of Long Beach, you're out of there in five minutes. Yeah, that's low-key the airport to go. There's not a lot of flights out there. Unless you're trying to carry on a tent with tent stakes, and they're calling them tent spikes and acting like they're really dangerous, so you have to go all the way back out, check it late, and him and Haugh,

and then go back through security, and then I made it okay, but it was a little stressful there. Dark brass. Look at you, dark breasts. I'm like, their tent stakes. They don't have a sharp end. And they're like, oh, sorry. They're like showing me the website on their phone that I can't have tent spikes. I'm like, they're not spikes, they're stakes.

Was this TSA or Dark Breast Airlines? I'm not going to go into the cockpit and take over the plane with a bunch of flat tent stakes. Is this airline or TSA? It was TSA. Oh, okay. They were probably still pissy because they probably had a, you know, need to get a paycheck to come through. I got to be honest with you, I have tried, and I don't fly a lot commercially these days, obviously, with the rocket stuff, but I have tried in the last couple of years to really go overboard to be pleasant to TSA people. because it is a very difficult job.

You are dealing with people. First of all, you're dealing with hundreds of thousands of people. I'm assuming you don't get tremendous amount of breaks. You're on your feet the whole time. You're in charge of a very important thing like making sure people don't bring guns and knives on planes. But I do sense, and this is even before the shutdown, TSA people are getting crankier. And I don't, I'm trying, again, I am the king of the benefit of the doubt. but there are just been times because I literally want to be as polite as possible and they're still just

I don't mean to stereotype we don't believe in stereotyping on the show but if you're going to look at the five grumpiest people that work for America TSA is probably at the top of the list yeah I'm with you I tried to be now and I was very polite I was I know I was very kind of I wasn't well maybe I wasn't super polite when I was trying to argue if it's like spikes or stakes but I wasn't rude but you and I travel together and we try to do what I wasn't rude yeah yeah It is what it is. Because like you said, you're dealing with idiots all day long. Yeah.

Who don't listen. The guy's like, please take your jacket off. Please put everything in the bin. The guy doesn't put everything in the bin. The guy in front of me doesn't take his jacket off, doesn't put everything in the bin. How many years I told you? Do not put water or any liquids in your bags. Get rid of the water.

They tell you this over time. So I would get mad too if I say, please empty your water or get rid of the bottle. And people go, oh, I really forgot. I mean, again, benefit of the doubt. I give to the TSA folks. It's again, are funny you say that. literally another the first time i went through a woman in front of me had a half a water bottle she shows it to the guy and says is this okay the answer he's like no you have to throw he's like you

have to empty that out no no no but like i said i would say you know 80% of the tsa folks are sweet and very nice but that 20% that's a grumpy bunch really grumpy and i understand all right um here's what i'm not going to allow you to do today me yeah or people you and the audience Okay. Battle Red Ross, you're you're taking the day off today. Why? Because that was a game that I would not... Hughes the Texan!

No, don't do it. I'm not going to you do it. No. No. What's wrong? No. The Tennessee Titans suck. Okay.

You had 300 yards of total offense. You suck too. Hey, ask that Kansas City Chiefs if wins count. Wins count, baby. I don't care. Jonathan shut up. I don't want to hear from you. Three of the last four.

Ross, I got something to tell you, man. What happened? We played to tell the truth. last week, and I still in Kansas City as a favorite. And I was the favorite. And I lost the cold, and I was like, what are you talking about? He was calling BS. I might have to tell the true. Oh, okay. And I told him, okay, wait until this Sunday when Broncos beat the Chiefs, and guess what happened? Well, actually, in Matt's defense, I think, well, as of last week, Kansas City Chiefs were the best, like, market team. So Vegas is still big Chiefs

believers as well, Matt. So you have an ally. You have a friend in Vegas, which is a good friend to have. No, I did not see any of the Kansas City, Denver game because I was either driving to the Rockets game we're getting ready for it. So how in the world do they? I mean, look, Denver's offense, we saw that firsthand, they're not very good either. How did Kansas City struggle?

Now, Jonathan was out cocktailing with his girl, so he didn't get to see the game either. So if anybody happened to see Casey Denver, what happened? Travis Kelsey got to the end zone and that wasn't, that was it. 22 to 19. Chiefs 5 and 5.

I'm still not back in of what I said. They could miss the playoffs. They could miss the playoffs. There's a three-way tie for the eighth seed in the AFC. Now, remember, it only takes seven to get in. Jacksonville crushed the chargers yesterday. Jacksonville, are they the most Jekyll and Hyde team in the NFL? They are the most schizophrenic franchise in the history of the NFL.

I mean, you know how dog crappy it looked like against the Texans in the fourth quarter? And then they just, I was watching Red So on Walls watching Texans game. By the way, I got to be honest with you. I fell asleep twice during the Texans game. Now, I DVR, so I can go back and check on things. I think Davis Mills took a snooze in the first half too. Yeah, I'm not letting you better ride. You're not celebrating this game.

Why not? Okay, I'm not going to act like they're charging towards the Super Bowl, but hey, the wins a win is a win, baby. But there's going to people cussing to discussing it today, like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Nobody's calling it the greatest win since sliced bread. I don't know. You don't think anybody in markets go, well, that's a big grudcy win.

How about this? I'll qualify it. Not a single soul with a brain in their head. is calling this a good, gutty win. Now, I'll say this. We can have this conversation revisited on Friday. You beat Buffalo in a short week when them coming here, then we can go all in on the Texas. The bills are vulnerable.

Three and a half point favorites of the bills right now. They did put out a 40 spot against the Buccaneers. But Josh Allen's one of his worst games ever as a pro was right in this facility. What a year ago, right? Yes, sir, against his Texan defense, which might even be better this year. Oh, I think it's definitely better. Again, I don't know how Will Anderson and DeNeal Hunter and Derek Stingley, who else, Henry Toa, Toa, Aalzir, Alsharayr, how do they not want to throttle the Nick Casario? It's not all his fault.

It's a lot of it. A lot of it. Did you just shield yourself from the- What was that offensive line? Yes, I did. I don't want to watch this. 35 to 10. Show up, fellas. Jesus.

Sorry. By the way, you have a new. You have a new best friend. Who's that? Kirk Herb Street. Why? He was, I mean, loving on the Longhorns, beating A&M and still getting in the playoffs with the three-loss season.

That's going to be tough. Now, if the game would go on 27-24, like Georgia won on the last kick or something, I could probably buy into that. I think that game was closer than the final score, not that it matters. No, no, I don't know. 35-10 to me still looks like that's someone that's going to be too much to overcome.

It's not looking great. So it'll be Houston versus Texas in the Texas Bowl. we'll have some fun we'll go we'll sit together that will be an ass whooping for the coogs for the coogs or two the coogs you heard it here first kookers are by how much issued apologies after that ass whoopin why it's for all the trash i'm talking i'm making having some friday sorries hey by the way kugfans dot com you losers want to go the game on saturday we're playing three o'clock at tccc it's a decent time

i don't hear about 11 o'clock i'm busy it's too early whether should be great right or some I think a cold front's coming in through this weekend, right? I don't care. 3 o'clock TDCU Stadium, senior day, 8 and 2. Let's go. Who are they playing? TCU. Oh, okay.

They get their ass kicked by BYU. All right. There's your Big 12 report. Thank you, Matt. All right. Today at 1030, we have a feature that we like to do after A&M home games, which normally is lighthearted and fun, and there'll still be some of that. We're going to be reading TAMU police tweets today at 1030.

Did you see what happened? Yes, I did. So we'll be getting that too because that was a tweet. DPS officer DPS officer Now, Aggies, I'm not indicting you on it I'm just indicting the DPS of the college station area That was a truly, truly embarrassing

moment But that's part of the TMU tweet So we'll read them We'll check it out We'll check it out I'll reserve judgment until then I'll read them you cannot commentate Why not?

I guess you can you're back I mean, what am I sitting this chair for? That's true So you're kind of looking forward to the next step I can just eat my tacos and kick my feet up. You'll have something to say. 11.15, Damico Ryan's going to speak. We'll have to tell the truth today at 12.30.

We got the return to believe it. Thank God you're back. I had to do the shows three days by myself completely. And then I'd call come in for a couple hours on a couple days. Doing five believe or nots in a row in five straight days. A lot of work. Oh, am I back on that? Now, give me one more day off.

No, you can keep the training wheels on. No, no, I'm done. I want you to do train Jonathan. You need to do some believe it or nots here. That's true. Yeah, I need a little the arts. Yeah. I'll give you the secret. I'll tell you the secret right now. Believable not is the secret to a good believe it or not. Believable not. So if you see me put all believe it's, I mailed it in.

I think I did a pretty good job this past. I'm proud of you. He did, actually. I didn't listen at all, but I'm proud of you. I know. I didn't want you to listen. A for effort. I want you to stay away from the business for a week. Makes you feel better. 1015 on Sports Talk 790. 713, 212-790. If you're a Texans fan and you want to call abroad your team beating the Tennessee Titans on the very, last play of the game?

Nope. I want honest assessment. Yeah, coming up in 10 minutes, we're going to read some A&M tweets from the police department. Normally, Rossi, a light, fun, hearty, gaffa segment. Uh-huh. Well, nobody died. No, but it was...

I mean, a lot of people are outraged, and this guy needs to be fired, and that guy needs to be relieved of his post, and he needs to be, you know, strung up. Well, he doesn't need to work anymore. Like, let's relax. He bumped into somebody and he was mad. Yeah, he needs to spend it, but I don't think he needs to lose his job.

A cop overstepped his bounds. Never seen that before. And then again, most cops are amazing people. Yes, of course. A DPS officer just wasn't, didn't have a great day. Maybe he saw Varsis Horn's Horms off prematurely. By the way, maybe he had the South Carolina on the money line. I mean, on Texas A&A.

We got to get to my son at the bottom of the hour. Your son? My boys went to the game. Is he okay? It took him a while. Do you ever have something in your life where you try to reach out to somebody and they're like, I need some time before we talk about something? Not usually.

Just you after whatever the latest Cougar's loss is in the final four. By the way, Cougar basketball knocked off Auburn yesterday. You're welcome. Welcome to who. Welcome to being supremacy up top of the college basketball world, number one team of the country. Let's go, baby. Yeah, congratulations.

Yeah. Should be a great season for the Couges. Probably Bruce Pearl's son apparently was pissed off at the end of the game. I didn't see it because I was working on robots. I forgot Pearl Jr. was in there. Yeah. When in doubt, just hire your son. sure why not and you know the new the new thing is is these older coaches that are hiring their sons they're resigning with two weeks left to go to start of the season so it's like hey it falls in the left yeah it's kind of there so yeah 73 72 the cougars knocking off uh Auburn and they called in a

neutral site game in Birmingham but Birmingham to Auburn's a couple hours okay like how Texas was in a neutral site game in Charlotte playing Duke just think you got all that look all that basketball look forward to coming up soon great haven't even checked up on the boys. Okay. They were beating up on some bad teams last I checked. All right. So let's get to it.

Look, Davis Mills isn't bad. He's not. There was no running game to really speak up. I thought the relationship between Davis and Nico was excellent. Because, look, Nico's going to make any quarterback look good. Well, and Davis made a couple of great throws. He sure did. That throw on that last drive right over the defense with Nico Collins on the sideline.

And that was a big-time NFL throw. It was. Yeah. And Davis Mills, you know, honestly, it's really not that much that separates the great quarterbacks and the mid ones. It's a handful of throws a game. And thankfully, he was able to make a couple of those and keep the guys in it. So let me give you some backups. And I'm going to just go for a couple that I can think out of the top of my head.

Malik Willis replaced Aaron Rogers yesterday for the Pittsburgh Steelers. I'd take Davis Mills over Millick Willis in a heartbeat. I got one for you. Marcus Marietta or Davis Mills. Marriota It's close It is close I'm trying to think of what else is around

Who's the Minnesota quarterback that started For a few weeks when Carson Wins Carson Wins or Davis Mills Carson Wins? Yeah So put it this way He's in that group Yeah

It isn't wonderful Andy Dalton or Davis Mills Probably don't because he's done more of it Yeah I just pulled up an S-I ranking of backup quarterback because Davis-Mills was 30th. When was that last?

May. End of May. No, so, yeah, okay, bump him up, Ben. He is 2-0. I'll take Jacoby Brissette over, Davis Mills. You would? Okay. Mack Jones?

Yeah, yeah, for the... Yeah, but Mac has a better football team around him, I think. Well, at least off an offensive perspective. If you got McCaffrey, you're good. Kirk Cousins? They didn't win yesterday. Joe Flacco? Ooh, Joe Flacco or Davis Mills?

Joe Flacco. Even though he had Flacco was terrible. So maybe I'm giving false hope to how good Davis Mills is. He's a guy. He's capable. He's a mid of the mids. Yeah. I thought Tennessee was, I mean, Tennessee played like a one-win football team.

Tennessee is terrible. Lots of penalties yesterday. Cam Ward, Rossi, he's had enough starts. He's throwing, he's throwing role. out passes three yards behind his receivers. There were two open plays. Now, he didn't have that one great throw. Oh, it was a spectacular throw. That ultimately

got the game to overtime. To Chagosium Oconquo? It's that three times fast. By the way, did you think that Tennessee was going to go for two and go for the winner? Do you think going for the kick was the right thing? I'm going to go first on this one. Okay. I think going for the kick was okay because it wasn't like the Texans' offense

was explosive during any port of the contest. You know what? If my defense can hold, I got a better shot as compared to just maybe losing the game on a final play. Yeah, it's been such a slop fest that I didn't mind not going for it there. I, again, you and I have kind of had this debate over the years. Nine times out of ten for me, Ross, I don't care what the records are. I still go for the tie.

I hate when something goes down. I want to live for as long as I can. You play to win the game. And that depends. Are you on the road? Are you the worst team? What's the state of your, who knows? If you had some injuries or whatever, how are you feeling?

Yeah. Well, you know, certainly, too. It's tough, yeah. Again, when they went for the kick, I totally understood why they did that. Hey, we're Tennessee, we're one. The last thing we need is to add another loss on a play when it comes down to one play. So I didn't mind that at all. But I really, I hate the Titans.

I hate Amy Kronk-strunk. I thought Cam Ward, by and large, was poor. Yes. He made a couple big throws. I'm not going to say that he's done or anything. like that, but he's got some work to do. Well, you can kind of tell late first seasons

of quarterbacks. Like when Oliver Luck or Andrew Luck was going, you could tell. You could tell late first season that Peyton Manning was going to be the guy. Who else recently? Trevor Lawrence never gave us that and still doesn't to this day. Who's somebody that's not necessarily a late bloomer?

Oh, I'll tell you what, Drake May, late bloomer. I mean, last year was a hot mess and now he's I mean, he is an MVP candidate. I mean, it's the hardest position in sports. And generally, when you're the number one overall pick, you're on a terrible team, and Cam Ward is on that. He's on a terrible team. But he had two throws that a decent quarterback could have completed

that would have changed the outcome of the game for sure. I'll give you another one. How about going for that field goal after, was it the fumble that they got? First of all, didn't Will Anderson not get touched and run that fumble up? They didn't get those yards. That's right. That's exactly right. Second of all, it was a fourth and one at the Tennessee.

see 25 and DeMico, conservative Miko kicks the field goal. We're the kicker who had doinked an easy kick early in the game. Another one. How about Domeco on these challenges too? He's a terrible, terrible challenger. Who told him to challenge that? That's Nicky's seen with a headset on.

We would like here to four to throw the challenge flag here. Thank you, Nick. And, you know, if the flag, if we get the call, it's great, but don't get the grounds of great. You know, we told him we came. We know when sometimes we throw the flag and you go, you say to yourself, you can take the chances like that. It's like, oh, my God.

Usually lost that ball. Somebody on the replay hit pause. They saw the, they must have saw the first broadcast replay because they didn't show the whole incompletion of the catch. Correct. Which was terrible. I thought the vibe of the Texans game first half was atrocious.

I mean, it's ugly. Now, you, did you notice the very first drive of the third quarter where they score? What do they do? They sped things up. Why does it take an NFL offensive coordinator? It's supposed to be elite in his position coaching-wise. Why does it take 30 minutes for him to figure out how to go and up-tempo through the Tennessee Titan defense off? Can I tell you, I don't know this at all, but just from a gut feeling is that Nick Cayley and Bobby Slorg before him are under instructions to not get too cute, not get too crazy, establish the run, don't color too much outside the lines, then let us win with defense.

Okay, so you're going to sit around and play around with a little. lousy Tennessee team that? I mean, and they won the game. It's not ugly. I'm sorry, it's not pretty. But they didn't win because they were methodical. They won because Tennessee didn't make some plays. And the one drive that finally showed that the Texans at a heartbeat took in the early

third quarter for that to happen. Well, yeah, if you want to go up tempo and air it out, you know, throw every down, you're not going to want to do that with Davis Mills and a bad on line on the road. So it's kind of I don't know if it's the chicken or the egg or the bad personnel or the bad quarterback play or

instructions from the head coach i don't know what it is but it's surely pretty when it gets out there on the field all right so today is a day where you get to not brag about your football team and i don't care if you're larry stephanie you go holla i don't care what you know he doesn't calls but he calls other shows except i don't worry about him i ain't worry about it either come on larry you got stones call this show because i'm ready you are a little worried about it i guess well i'm saying that i would like for him to call this show because i don't think he faces much resistance when he calls other shows you're going to face some resistance here okay where are the resistors

Wow Like, Viva la Revolution No, if we had a band We'd call ourselves The Resisters I like it Three-man band Huh

Jonathan on drums Me and the harmonica You on the bass guitar I thought we were putting you On the tambourine Oh, I can play a tambourine With the best of them I know

Tambourine and harmonica It is a Monday on the Matt Thomas show following a Saturday A&M home game Perhaps my favorite Twitter account Just a handful of times a year is the texting and police Twitter account

and they have 76,000 followers. That's it. That's pretty good, right? I need millions. Well, they should. It's really, really good content. The game day content is unmatched. Okay, so real quick, before I start reading this,

go see what UT Polices, how they're doing. Because I don't even read their UT Polic. I have no idea who they. Do you guys get MIPs and all that kind of stuff at your games, too? I'm assuming they do, right? Yeah. Good old UTPD. I don't know.

It doesn't look like they have a Twitter. Maybe they don't. But this A&M police one is fantastic. And the reason why it's fantastic is because we get to hear about what people do at games, basically involving alcohol and underage and over serving, right? That's the gist of it. So let's go back. I'll go back from earliest to latest.

This is, again, two days ago. Two days till kickoff, let's beat the hell out of South Carolina. Stay safe. hydrate, be aware, and report anything suspicious. That feels fair and right, right? Mm-hmm. Next, MIP in Section 100A saw officers and attempted to hide his drink, citation issued. Hashtag BTHO, South Carolina.

Can you not have alcohol in that stadium? Because I know you can in the Texas Stadium and the Houston Stadium. But he was just hiding because he's young, maybe. Yeah, it says MIP, so I was like, okay. Next, MIP, 100A, saw officers and dropped drink on ground, citation issued. Somebody's just knocking back a cold beer and goes, oops, and then just drops it? Why don't these kids just putting bourbon in a coat cup,

like we did back in the day? Yeah, I mean, talk to your elders about this kind of stuff. Come on, now. This is rookie stuff. Next, MIP times two. Saw officer and passed drink to friend. Another subject saw officer and threw drinking the trash, citation issued.

Let me ask you this. If the kids are getting rid of the drink and throw it in the trash, you just let them just let them. just going and be to do their thing, or do you think they're going to go back and get some more? But, yeah, the MIPs are coming out free flow in there, like the drinks where, apparently. Next, MIP, saw officer and tried to hide beerk in Red Solo Cup. Citation issued. Why don't you put it in the Solo Cup and then walk around with it?

What are we doing here, folks? Yep. Next, fail to ID and MIP. There was a two-time digger. Provided false name. saw officer and put drink down, provided false name and DOB to officer. Come on now. Yeah, that's going to get you arrested.

Now, you can't be doing that. I mean, if it's an MIP, just come clean. Take the L. Yes. Pay the fine, tell mom and dad. Because what mom and dad probably did the exact same thing when you were doing it. You cannot say Ross Villarreal born December or whatever you were born in. December 19th.

Next. This was under capitalization. Neat. N-E-A-T. Is that a Senate, what do they call? Accum for something? Probably. Subject removed a 16-ounce metal light

from shorts after entering station. Neighborhood enforcement alcohol team? No? So the question I want to ask all of you listening to us this morning, have you ever put a 16-ounce miller light in your shorts? I've had a tall can in my shorts.

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Subject with two Mickelob Ultras in pocket Was ejected Ultras, huh? Ultras On a nice Saturday afternoon The kids are into Ultras They were the low carb

Calorie thing Yeah but it's like Last night It's just It's like one more calorie Than a Miller light So basically if you're drinking Two Mickelope Altras

Should you be really give him the back kid some grief seat and nobody's ever played a basketball game for an ultra play for an ultra said no one ever worst commercial campaign

oh they're on the golf course long as drive wins an ultra no nobody's doing that sorry next MIP Subject stated she wasn't drinking but she was just throwing it away I'm not drinking this

I'm throwing it away for a friend Get off my back This is the good stuff I want from TMA Police. Next, we are aware of the incident in the Northeast Tunnel involving a DPS trooper. Oh, boy. He has been relieved of his game day assignment. There's a Debbie Downer.

Mm-hmm. Next, TAMU Police retweeting Texas DPS. The Texas Department of Public Safety is aware of the incident that occurred today during the Texas A&M football game. the VPS trooper involved was sent home from the game our office of inspector general known as the OIG is also aware of the incident and will be further looking into the matter no additional information will be released at this time

and that was the last tweet from A&M police and that was it looks like Saturday by two or six right yeah so they were like we're going to go ahead and take the rest of the day off well my guess they were probably going to be worried about the fans being mad about being down 30 to nothing

it there. 30 to 3 or whatever it was. Now they came back. Gutsy win. Gutty win over tough South Carolina. Yeah. Yeah. So for those of you that do not know, my middle

son is the most emotional Aggie you'll ever hear from your entire life. Calm and cool when things are down is not in his repertoire under any circumstances. His brother, his oldest brother, Cameron, and a long-time Texas Tech fan, but

I want to spend time with his brother. And for that, I love him before that. We grew up an Aggie fan. Grew up an Aggie fan, but we decided to go to the Texas Tech University. And so he's reporting to his mother and I about how his brother is behaving. Yes. And losing his blank, going out of his MFing mind, it was 3-0. It was 3-0.

Then it got worse, I imagine. It got worse. It got worse. So then, Peyton my middle is texting his mother saying, I want to leave. and Cameron won't not leave with me. Now, Peyton certainly could do that because we solve an apartment in college station. We've got it until July. Oh, okay.

Peyton could go on his own, but he felt like, look, I can't go by myself. I'll probably do something stupid or say something. So Cameron told Peyton, he said, look, if things aren't any better, by the end of the third quarter, we'll leave. Well, things got better. Yeah, this is a lesson for the young lad.

This is an important lesson. Hopefully. They won the game. I had finished doing, I was doing a U.H volleyball game against Baylor, Saturday and I texted Peyton and I said can you talk

because the game was at 11 o'clock about 2.45 and game it over and he says I don't want to talk right now. I need to think about things for a while. Huh. That's good. So they drove back to from Kyle Station and we had a nice visit face to face but he had won in no part of talking to me until

he got back to Houston. Even after they won? Yes. Huh. Because he knows I've told him many many times. Sports is not fun. He didn't want to hear and I told you so. Yeah. I said, you know what? You don't win everything. I said, you are 10 and freaking O. I said, do you realize how good you have it? Look at my friend, I'll just go, I'll rhyme his name. Oh, there we go. Go ahead. Doss's team was preseason number one of the

country. And they're going to play Georgia later in the night where, uh, uh, uh, Cooper Manning or, you, whatever the hell is. Arch Manning's going to throw about four yards per attempt. That's not true. And he's going to have no run game. to speak of. That is true. That is true. D-Line was okay. O-line, not so great. So things can be worse. You could be a Texas fan. And it's like, you're right, Dad. Hold on now. Hold on now.

I slip that in, I made that up. Or did I? I don't know. There's no battered Longhorn syndrome that I know of. So, by the way, shame on you, A&M, by the way, because I do love you. There are rumors on the streets that Mike Elko is getting an extension and a big contract race oh okay somebody see now i got off the plane and somebody we're not somebody said they was announced was that a joke no it wasn't announced but uh it was linked a and m media relations told the reporters there don't ask about it and they're all the reporters are like f you what do you talk about you can't tell us what we can't ask so that's number one for you today's kids when

media PR flax tell you what you can't ask ask it right away yes because that's you can't control the narrative. Unless you're Aggie 12th man, Aggie Network.com. There's a lot of that. There's a lot of that for sure. All right. 1046, it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you want to chime in, if you are a realistic Texans fan, call in today and talk about how your team realistically played yesterday. Defense is outstanding. Offense did literally just enough. Rockets with a huge win last night. We'll get to that coming back. 713-212-5-790. Demiko speaks in one half hour here on Sports Talk 790 with So a couple of Aggie sources

One being my buddy Wade Two being locked on Gordy Said that Mike Alco's deal Extension's been signed I don't What I don't know I haven't a chance to look at The details of that public

They will be It's a public university Yeah that's for sure But the thing was is that A&M's like well You know we don't This isn't the time If it's out there

It's always the time And by the way it's not a bad thing You didn't get a reduction in your contract. You said, you know what? We like Mike Elko. We're getting him some extra time. So apparently, our buddy Josh Z sent us and says that, yeah,

it's now on the Twitter account. She said we ain't going nowhere. So the wife is signing the contract, too. How about that? I didn't realize the wife had to sign the deal, too. She's got to sign off on it. Oh, she's going to say yes. She said as how much?

Okay. Fine. We actually talked about this while you're going a little bit. Okay. They had to do this. There are too many jobs open. Oh yeah, they did.

No, they didn't. Yeah, they did. Too many jobs? No, they didn't. They did, though. Let them get higher way. And keep shelling out $50 million a year for NIL and find a good competent coach. Yeah.

Mike Alco was not on anybody's hot list. Nobody said Mike Alcoe is the greatest thing since sliced bread. And I'm not saying that any coach can do it. I'm saying you find a certain level of competency. and you shell out millions and millions and millions for NIL? We'll see. And if they're saying they had to do it, what if they lose to Texas,

as a certain SEC expert was laying out recently to us, Matt? Yes, sir. What if they lose to Texas, lose the Big 12 championship, and they maybe win one playoff game? Is everybody going to say, got to have Mike Elko? He's the greatest thing ever. You've got to do this?

I don't think so. The reality is you win a little bit. You get a contract extension, immediately and if you lose a little bit you'll lose your job. I think I think these coaches I mean these schools have to start getting smarter because Jimmy Sexton

and the boys are playing the game with them they're getting all this huge money they're giving all these huge buyouts I don't know it just seems insane to me especially when you consider that I don't know how much public funds is being used but they're they're lighting money on fire

do you understand when as soon as Treve Alberts took over a Texas A him. He was in the middle of that Fisher buyout crap, right? They laid off people. They literally laid off people to start paying the Fisher buyout. Okay. Yeah,

that's my point being made. So guess who didn't learn their lesson? Texas A&M. That's what I'm saying. They don't have to do that. But they did. I'm not saying Mike Elko's grow on trees, but what has he done at the end of the day? If people are saying Steve Sarkeesian hasn't won anything, which some people are saying,

what is Mike Elko won? you're getting the bumps a lot faster and you're getting fired a lot faster it's it's ridiculous it's a gross misallocation of public funds well it's really it's really boosters paying it right i mean when at the end of the day well if you're saying people are getting laid off at the the it's costing people jobs well that on the fisher buy it was for sure yeah ross i have a question for you though so i mean since you say like he's they shouldn't have resigned them but what about the recruiting and like uh and keeping that product coming to A&A.

Well, how many more years was Elko under a contract? His contract's not ending this year, or next year or the year after. Oh, see, I didn't know that. Yeah, he was on a lame duck under any circumstance. Yeah, he's a second year there. I think he probably, he probably, generally, it's a five, six year deal. Let's see if I'm on Google and see if I can get an extension update here. Okay, the new contract, six-year extension with A&M making more of the highest paid coaches.

Average salary exceeding $11 million. The new contract runs from 2026. to 2031. He was previously earning $7 million, which ranked him 32nd among FPS coaches. Okay, well, he was going to go if he was at $7 million. Yeah, all this is out there. This is huge.

Yeah, I mean, he got a big... So let me ask you this, Aggie. You just lost your mind when you gave Jimbo the huge extension. Could things turn south from? Mike Alco in two years? Of course it could. It's not like A&M has his sustained success. This isn't a team that's universally

a top 15 team year and year out. Now maybe they think Mike Alco is the difference maker. But Rossi, they just they're giving them $11 million a year. Now granted, their stadium

is super full. They just signed a super big third party marketing rights. deal. That's the most lucrative in college athletics. And the SEC TV deal just kicked in with the SEC. Now all the SEC games are all on ESP and ABC slash Disney. So there's more money coming that direction too. Yeah. If he's making $7 million, obviously he needs a bump from that. No, he doesn't do using your thoughts. I'm going to go with you. No, he doesn't. He will. He's more likely to go somewhere then. If he's going to go from $7 million to like $15 million at Florida or something

like that. But I'm just thinking in general, guys are getting re-signed too fast and then getting let go. And I mean, how many, I wonder if we could figure it out or find out, how many millions and millions and millions are being paid in coach buyouts? Well, I mean,

those coach salaries are insane. Let's go to who's being bought out. Florida State's going to buy out Norville. You've already got Florida looking for a guy. You got Penn State. You got LSU. Oh, by the way, did you see my tweet over this week? Yeah, LSU is the city The state's like bankrupt, and they're dropping 50 mill.

I replied to Gordy on a tweet over 2.2 million views. You did? Yes. It wasn't even that good. How many views did he get? I think I piggybacked off him. Okay, yeah. Oh, okay.

So you were the barnacle on the Gordy Express. I was gravy churning off of him. Like Ben Van Lender used to great gravey teens off of Justin Verlander. Well, I'm proud of you, Matt. Glad your views are up. So, you know, I'm thinking about it. I'm going to have to go to the blue check mark. Go ahead.

Because I want to make 15. bucks on that. That'd have been a $15? I don't think it's $15. That'd be a $15 tweet. I think it would have been like a dollar. I'll take it. Go ahead. Well, it's costing you $8 a month. Oh, God, I'm going to figure. Can I... Come on now.

Can I do enough good tweets that justify $8 a month in payage? See, and this is how you end up with a horrible website. Can I make enough waves to get enough views to make my $8 back? And you end up with a dumb-ass, ridiculous website like Twitter. Good job, Elon. All right.

I'm sorry. That's not a thing against you, Matt. Nice. Brian says he disagrees with y'all on the Alco conversation. We will hold that to start the next hour. Plus, in 15 minutes, we're going to talk. And, well, you and I won't talk to. We're going to have to. I'm looking for this. Where's this gorty tweet? What's he tweeting about? No, I was talking about how he was mad about LSU shouldn't have to pay out all the money left over to Brian Kelly because he had fired. Oh, you know what? I think your tweet in here, like he signed the contract, et cetera, et cetera. I think that ended up in my for you tab. Should be the following It's an unfollow Well, you're getting hacked every other week That's true This is the Matt Thomas show With Ross

Texans beat the Titans At the gun The kicker named Matthew Coming through Matthew Wright Matthew Wright The kick was right Oh I could have done a lot of that

Oh here we go I could have rock and roll that bad boy All over the time the dad jokes are right there in front of all of us uh rockets win last night thank you out brin shangoon and kevin durant yes first time all season and kevin durant took more than 20 shots in a game one of the best to ever do it i'm telling you ross and i literally feel like i'm repeating myself when he gets the elbows which is the free throw line the left up you know how i look an elbow

would look like a left and a right elbow i don't want i'm doing this somewhere on tv i don't know why you're kung fu fighting i'm doing mr rabbi All right. Okay, just make the point. Please. He's perfect from just, he's 95% from the elbows. Yeah. He's one of the greatest, one of the greatest mid-ranged. But everybody else would do it.

No, Mike Dan Tony would let him do it because you know why? He let Chris Paul do mid-range. Everybody said that. I don't know. But because, you know why? Because Chris Paul can make those. Yes. Because Kevin Durant can make those.

PJ Tucker can't. PJ Tucker, we're good. Trevor Riza. I'm good. Maybe go step behind three-point line, Trevor. Corey Brewer, please note. All right, college football this weekend. The Aggies come back.

My son didn't speak for several hours after the game. He was an emotional hot mess. Was he any remorse, any contrition from him after you give him the old old your dad told you so? No, he just. He said, bleep off. Well, yeah, he swears at me more than he should. But I love him so much that I just let it just go in one ear and out the other way. Okay.

Yeah. And his brother, think, I mean, his brother is cool as a cucumber. I mean, his brother's team is kicking UCF's butt. He's just like, he's there to be a good, you know, older brother to his, there was me younger bro, and my painting is just losing his mind. It was South Carolina. Is he going to, is he going to awesome? No.

Okay. Would you take him? No. Why would I sit with your son? Who's going to be losing his mind if and when the longhorns win? Correct. Why would I want to be next to that? Because I want to enjoy myself.

Because Uncle Ross is, you're buying Payton before you've done. I met that brother once. I'm not taking him to the game. I wish him the best. It's actually smart on your party. I don't want to stand next to him. I wouldn't put that on you. In that situation.

Maybe if we were watching the game at, I don't know, big city wings. That might be a different situation. Right, but not at the stadium. I don't want to be in the stance. Because he'd be like, I got to go, I'll leave, while you're going crazy. because you're wearing your orange and he's yes I will be you know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna buy him a movie pass

he's not gonna be able to watch A&M Texas it's just easier for him that way well good luck I think he'll ticket me up on it okay I think I can convince him to not watch the game take his phone before he goes to the movie yeah no phone nothing okay shouldn't have your phone on the movies anyway

no 713 212 570 Brian is with us opening up the 11 o'clock hour Brian good morning Hey, good morning, guys. I just wanted to defend my Aggie's extension of Mike Elko. I think it's a good move considering all the battered Aggie syndrome we've had to deal with with these past coaches. Speak like different sport, but the battered Aggie syndrome was pretty real after we lost the baseball Natty.

And our coach went and left after he said he wasn't going anywhere. And there is a point that there's a bunch of openings right now. So I think it was a good move to extend Elko when we did. I hope we don't make the mistake of leaving a blank national championship trophy like we did with Wimbo with Jimbo. But, I mean, we haven't done anything for sure. But, I mean, we are now doing what we've never done before, which is beat 10 and 0, undefeated in conference play. We've pretty much got a playoff spot secured. We might even be to the point where if, you know, we go in 11 and 0 to Texas, do we rest starters and not even take?

Oh, rest the starters? You know what I mean? That's fine. You guys clown on my Aggies a lot. Okay. Definitely are short horn fanboys. And sometimes I want to tell you the short horn fanboys. Who is?

Well, first of all, the Aggies haven't won a national championship since Hitler was invading Poland. Second of all, Brian, how are, let's be honest. Okay. No, let's throw the, you know, we're just bantering with each other. Let's be serious. Let's be serious, Brian. How did you, I have two questions for you. How did you feel when Mike Elko was hired and then how did you feel after the eight and five season last year?

And losing the Las Vegas ball. Yeah. I'm not really a fan of defensive coaches as much as offensive coaches. So I kind of get, I was a little disappointed with Elko, but after last season, you know, the 8 and 4 curse continued, but I didn't want to not give him his, like, chance. Like, you know, prove it to me that, you know, you can earn these millions of dollars.

And I think whatever he told the guys on Saturday, I have time to get them to play the game that they should have played from the very beginning, I think that's going to be worth every penny in the future. And just the way that he has shaped the culture now and these boys believe in him, I don't think any player or any locker room has really believed in a coach the way these guys do in a long time. And I'm really happy with the direction we're going, and I'm glad that he's proven me wrong. Going down 30 to 3 at halftime, I was like, you know what, we might not come back, but I never gave up hope, and we pulled off the biggest comeback in school history.

Yeah, what if that wasn't pulled up, Brian? How much different would you feel? He would be the same coach. If a couple plays went the other way and A&M lost to South Carolina this week and he would be the same exact guy, person, all the same football knowledge, and you would feel differently about this extension, don't you think?

I would wait until the Texas game and if we do the same old crap that we do against the big schools and we have the same performance that we did last year against you guys, and I think I would be like, well, maybe the extension wasn't worth it, but right now, like, he has my confidence and he has my vote. And considering, you know, all the ways we've been burned by these deals with these coaches,

some of them didn't pan out well, like, what Jimbo didn't turn out at all how we wanted to. And, I mean, things are finally looking good for us. So I'm just going to enjoy it because I've been in Aggie for a while now. Yes. Things haven't been great for us in a long time, and they finally are. So whatever happens this season, of course, I want us to win it all, win the Natty. I'm with Elko

all the way until he proves otherwise. All right. Thank you very much, which could be two seasons. No, I'm just kidding. I think Mike Elko's been fantastic. I mean, they're reaching levels right now. They never reach before. So you have to live in the here and the now. Yeah, but people weren't saying that when they're down 30 to three.

No, they weren't. I'm saying we are so, we're trapped in the moment so much. And I'm not saying this because it's Aggies. I know Brian saying, oh, but you know, but you don't want to have any fans anymore. It's administrations. It's university presidents. Yes, yes.

it's university presence, it's everyone. And I don't know what the solution is. And maybe I'm just too much on my soapbox, but it's ridiculous. The season is not over. He's saying they deserved it. He's earned this extension. They haven't won a conference championship. They haven't even made the conference championship game yet.

They're going to. But they haven't yet. The playoffs is yet to be played. If they somehow lose to the Longhorns and the end of Georgia, this is all plausible, by the way. Somebody whispered in Trev Alberts here, Mike's going to be on the lookout for a new job. There's no other way. I'll give you this guarantee, Ross. We've got to get to a break here.

If there are three jobs open, not 12, Mike Yalco isn't hearing about this. Well, then get into sign him to this deal then. Why can't you sign him to that deal? Is he just going to up and leave? I'm thinking. Why do you have to do it right now in the middle of November? Because I think these coaches getting fired earlier was for a reason. get people's names out to go get the best

of the best that's out there. Okay. That's just reality of it. And then you send them, you get them the same deal. The season hasn't even played itself out yet. Aggies are going to be pissed if they lose if they lose three of their four or five less games. Treb Edwards did not want to hear Mike Elko's name being attached to Florida

or to LSU or to Penn State. Period. End of story. Let's get to D'Amico. He's next at 1112 on Sports Talk 790. All right. Demico's going to talk in a couple minutes. We'll get to that. So we're going to just hold off until he does by getting an eating super controversial or conversational. By the way, today's edition of To Tell the Truth is at 1230 today, Ross.

I'm going to really put you guys the test. I'm going to have five takes, four of which I believe. Time to get my average up. John, I'm not happy after last week when I said Kansas is still the favorite. Favorites to win the AFC. And you believed that. Yeah. Okay.

I do believe it. That's a week-to-week league. All right, so let's do this. Here we go. Let's go to here, D'Amico. Good for her to have Kaimi back this week, so we'll see how that goes. And with CJ and Jalen, we'll kind of, again, we've got to see how the week goes. You know, when they're in their concussion protocol, there are steps. They have to pass to be available.

So we'll see how it goes for them this week. How do you handle that with it being such a short week and say, CJ not having played been in the practice in a couple of weeks? You obviously don't want him healthy, but he gets healthy. you, how's the decision then decided about whether or not to put them on the field in such a short week? Yeah, look, we're hopeful for CJ to get back healthy. That's the first thing, the most important thing.

And for me and my spot, I just have to deal with it based on when they pass the steps, they need to pass. And if they are available, then being able to see them on the field, see them get reps and see how that goes. But as a right now, it's kind of nothing, you know, that I can do, you know, from my seat here. I'm just, and praying for those guys to just get back healthy. What do you think about the bills, especially after their offensive performance yesterday? Bills are a really, really good team.

Coach McGarmer has done a great job. Since he's been there, they're always a contender. Play great defense, of course, they have a great quarterback, and Josh Allen who can make any type of play you need him to make. So it's a challenging opponent coming up this Thursday for us. We're up for the challenge, as always. as every opponent. So we're looking forward to it.

They've done a really good job. They've done a really good job. They go for him running the football. And, you know, Josh can move around and make those plays. You have to cover them twice for sure, you know, with his scramble ability. And also, he's done a good job of mixing up some QB run game as well. He does a good job of that, you know, escaping the pocket, making plays. And we have to do a much better job defensively of controlling that because we've let a few plays get out on us when we allow the quarterback to scramble.

So it would be a really big challenge for us. Defensively, the offensive side for us, you know, they're fast defense. I mean, they run, they hit, they play fast, they play physical, their sound, and their assignments. They're going to be where they're supposed to be. Not a ton of bust on their tape. They play together. They play fast. So, you know, we have to do a good job of trying to sustain drives as best we can.

You know, trying to winning on third down be key for us. We didn't do a great job on third down this past week. So that would be key. Third down, and then we have to finish drives. In the red zone, hasn't been great for us on both sides. So we've got to do a great job of finishing drives defensively and offensively in the red zone. What have you learned over the years about how to approach this short week

for Thursday night games? Yeah, what the short week is, for me, what I've learned most is don't talk about how much of a short week it is. Like, everybody goes in. It's the short week get it. Like, let's wrap it up and let's go. Like, everybody has the same amount of time. Like, let's do what we have to do to go out and have ourselves physically and mentally prepared to go play.

Can you touch on the chemistry last couple of weeks with Davis and with Nico and 16 catches, something like that, a bunch of targets, and how that connection is really up to go. Yeah, Davis and Niko, they've done it before and they continue to do it. They're doing a good job. Davis is doing a good job of finding the right guy, throw it down there to 12, and he's going to make a big play for us. Those guys are doing a really great job. And, you know, it's no bigger play than the third to 16. I mean, the play that Nico makes the catch to be able to get both feet down. It's an outstanding play.

Great job by Davis, of giving them an opportunity to finish that play in bounds. So, you know, when we needed a spark, we needed to get going. Like, we started to feed the ball our best player, Nico, and he showed up and showed why he's, you know, one of the best receivers in the league. Coach, what I've seen you from Dalton Shult as far as the great determination that he played through? I think that on that last drive that you all had for the game when the field goal, he made a big catch. But he also made a big block on Simmons on that 30-16 to be able to help Nico get that catch. Dalton continues to play really great football for us.

To get the drive started there in the two-minute, that was a huge play in the two-minute drive that doesn't get talked about a lot. But that was big for us to get going. And he's made play after play for us. Each game, dog, shows up in critical moments, make it plays. And he's fighting through, you know, as everybody is at this time, fighting through injuries and things of that nature. But he continues to scrap. He continues to battle.

Like, it's important to him to go out and play his best for his teammates. And he shows that he puts it on the line every single week. And I'm proud of the toughness and grit that he's showing. Second game in a row you guys had primarily Woody Marks as the ball carrier for the offense. What did you make of his performance? And what created some of the challenges in the run game yesterday? Had the challenges in the run game or Sweat and Simmons. Those are, it's tough to run against those guys.

And, you know, we had our hands where we knew that going in. But we were able to turn out some yardage here and there. And we didn't hit a ton of explosive in the run game. But I thought we, you know, for the most part, we did okay. Still some yards to be had out there. We can do an even better job of finishing some blocks and running it better. Will's been a great player for you guys since he got here, but what do you think about this current stretch he's on

where he seems to make these huge plays like every single wait? Let's keep it going, Will. He's doing a fantastic job of not only disrupting the quarterback, but being in position to get the quarterback down, to take the football, making game-changing plays. That's who Will Anderson is, and we hope that street continues. You mentioned a minute ago about the red zone,

maybe even goal to go defensively. Been so good everywhere else on the field, just not nearly as good in the red zone in Goldville. Is anything you're seeing from your defense that isn't getting done there beyond the results? Yeah, defensively in the red zone, we got to make the play. Like, we got to be where we're supposed to be, and we have to make the play. That's it in the red zone. Like, there's no other way around it.

I always tell our guys at any given point in the game, like, you're going to have a one-on-one opportunity. And it's your job to go make the play. When you're in position, like, you have to finish and make the play. We've been there a lot of times in the red zone defensively, and we have not made the play. So we got to get on the right side of that, right? We got to just finish better. So when it comes to assignment football and Josh Allen, some of the multi-dimensional things he does,

where's some good rules of thumb, best practices, when you play a guy like that. And last year, obviously, you just had some success against him. Yeah, when you're playing against Josh out, everybody just has to remain disciplined, especially as we're rushing our rush lanes. Everybody just has to rush with integrity, understand, as quarterback can escape the pocket anywhere.

So you just have to have awareness and remain disciplined for four quarters, right? If you get out of a gap, if you fall asleep on a play, you're not playing with awareness. Like, that's what he can gut you. So you just have to play with awareness for four quarters. You can never let up. When you go through the game plan preparing for a team, how do you, on the offensive side of the ball,

think about how many plays this player is going to get him? For an example, Jay Leno, who, a couple of weeks ago had a lot of targets had a lot of routes and then, you know, we've seen I think over the last two weeks his targets and routes have decreased. How do you all game plan for that to get him more involved? Yeah, man, look, I want Jalen O'n in there

more, getting more opportunities, sometimes how the game goes, whether it's run plays. We have different personnel groupings for different plays that we're running. So it just also depends on the flow of the game, right? And, of course, everybody wants to be more. We want this guy in more. We understand that.

We're trying to get as many guys opportunities as we can, and that's a good problem to have. We have a lot of good guys in their receiver room that can go and make plays for us and that have shown that they can make plays for us at any given moment of the game. How did you feel about this offensive line combination yesterday? I thought the offense line did a good job. I thought they did a good job, and, you know, for the first time having that group out there, they worked well together and did some really good things. I've been on DeNeil Hunter coming out of the game.

Yeah, Danil is fine. How do you feel about the operation at this point in the season between you and the communicating that you're getting from the people to determine when to throw your challenge flag? It's been good. You know, the one that we challenged there, of course, I mean, the guy didn't, looking back at it, we didn't, we didn't complete the, we didn't complete the catch through it. We didn't survive the ground. So looking back at it, probably shouldn't have thrown him. But I feel like the guys saw something that I didn't see up top. And that's why, you know, in the first half there.

It's not like we're losing it to lose the timeout. It's not as big of a deal as it would be, you say, in the second half, when the timeouts are very critical. We talk a lot about, obviously, DeNeil and Will understand. Can you talk a little about just the continued play of, oh, yeah, and what you're getting from here? Yeah, Tommy, our most consistent player inside. Like, he makes play after play where it's run game, the awareness,

him, if we have to send him on the field late to go battle pass, down, he can do that as well. But Tommy's just, he's consistent because he does it right. He does exactly what we're asking him to do. It may not be flashy to a lot of people, but consistency is what I'm about. And that's what makes a good professional football player. It's the consistency at which you operate down in and down out, and you know what to expect. You know what you're going to get from Tommy.

And he shows up every week making big play after big play for us. You've closed out wins the past two weeks in kind of the final moments of these games. What effects can like wins like that have on a football team? Well, when you have wins like that, you would like to hope that it would continue to spark some confidence in our guys and continue to help us to push forward. But as I know, just a realist, like each game is its own game. Like you got to go out and do the things necessary that it takes to win those games. There isn't it a magical elixir that comes out like, oh, you guys finish because this certain thing happened. No, you just got to go finish games.

You got to execute the right way. You got to make plays in those critical moments. Former Astros manager, Dusty Baker, when we asked him about watching the standards, he said, yes, I watch them every day. I look at the standards every day. Is that something that you do as well with the way that your team is playing, getting back to five months? You're seeing, you know, where you're positioned in the AFC? Just find a way to win You know those standings really doesn't matter

You know right now at this point Like what matters is whatever had the stand However the standings look I know what improves the standings is winning So my focus is on doing everything I can possibly do to help our team Be in a position to win this game this week And the standings and all those things

They would take care of themselves All right thank you guys Thanks coach 1128. Anything you want to chew on on it from things you heard there? You know, I'm getting the feeling that coach thinks they need to make plays. I'm getting the notion that you're not going to see C.J. Strauch, hard to beat the Buffalo Bills on Thursday. We'll discuss that next. 1128 on Sports Talk, 790.

713-212.5 is 790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. We've got the news at noon coming up. We've got, believe it or not, today, at 150. I'm so happy you're back for that. What? I know. What's the category? Uh, I'll think about it. Okay.

All right. So last week on the tell the truth, I fibbed about Davis Mills how the Texan should try to trade him in the offseason because you can, nothing, the value won't be any higher. They need a new jugs machine or something? Second or third round draft. Okay.

Third rounder for, I'm just throwing it out there. But people didn't believe me in that, so that was an easy one to get rid of. Okay. You can't trade Davis Mills. He's got another year left on his contract. He is a very valuable insurance commodity because...

Is that another year? C.J. Stroud is going to miss another game. That's three and a half games. Is that a Matt Thomas gut feeling? No, I mean, they basically... They're still in procoat. There's procote. protocol. They're in a percussion call.

Yeah, concussion protocol. Correct. Yes. Can you, I guess the answer is yes to this. Can you be prone to concussions? The answer is yes, you can. Yes, you can. The more you get them, the more likely you are to continue getting them. It's my understanding. So he misses last year. Remember that Thursday night game in New York on that terrible

turf he gets concussed? Yes, I think that was two years ago. Okay. Was a concussion two years ago? or last year? I thought it was last year. Last year, when they played the Jets, that was when he was like hobbling around

and that was a horrible game. Okay. I think two years, I think his rookie year he got confessed. But point being is he has had quite a few hits to the head in the last three or four years. Yes.

And you don't see him warming up. You don't see him throwing the ball around. You don't see him out of concussion protocol. You're not getting a tremendous description, nor do the NFL teams have to give it to you except to say that during the concussion, percussion, percussion protocol, you got me saying.

it's my fault yeah um let me ask you this generally two weeks is what you miss i i feel like he's going to be back just based on history last uh yeah he's missed two i guess the question would be if the if the texans were playing the bills on sunday would have had a better shot but it sounds like to me that it's not going to happen this week he missed two games in 2023 okay he did he play how many games did he play last year did he not miss a game for something he miss yeah what was that was that a leg issue or a knee issue

I can't remember okay whatever you want if you want to paint a broad brush on his injury says but concussions to me are the biggest thing to worry about I mean he missed some games but he might have been on the field yeah well you know he takes a lot so are the Texans

in a little bit and again I'm not trying to manufacture a topic I'm literally just us talking at the bar here just talking shop about this team Is there a little bit of fright about trying to put a huge paycheck in front of a guy that's going to be concussed two times in the last three years? Anyone will have missed three games, three and a half games because of it? 15 games and 23, 17 games last year.

Okay. I mean, we'll see, I mean, guys missing a couple of games. Let's go through the list of quarterbacks that are missing time. That's a lot. Jackson Darge just got, he's hurt again. Joe Burroughs been hurt. specifically on the concussion route as what I'm thinking about.

Okay. I guess you know what? You think about this. All injuries do count up. You miss time, you miss time no matter what it's for. But yeah, there would be heightened concern

for certain things including brain injuries. Yeah. No, I don't think it would factor in at all. Unless he gets like another one and another one, concussions are a part of football.

They just are. Remember, I mean, Tua, going through the concussion stuff with him as he started every game this year? Yes, but he's not good. Yeah, well, he's not good.

You're saying he's brain got scrambled. I'm saying that the concern level for me on Tua, even if I was a Dolphins fan, is minimal because I know for a fact I'm not going to put crazy money in front of him long term. Well, he did sign an extension, though, didn't he? He did, but I don't think it was for one of that one. I mean, when I say this crazy money, I'm talking about these guys now right now, Ross in the NFL making $50 million a year. Yeah, he got four years, $212. Ooh, how much of that guaranteed? I'd have to click on that.

Last year, he got four years, 212, with 167 guaranteed. Oh, God. This is the way of the world. Okay, let me ask you this. You got a quarterback. So here's what we going. Are we going to be going,

oh, God, for a guy who can't stay upright because he's in concussion stuff. Two times is not a pattern, but it's noticeable. You can't argue that. It's a concern, but is a worry. Well, I'm saying it is because I'm bringing it up. Yeah. Okay. You can be worried. What are the Texans going to be worried? They're going to weigh into it for sure. It's going to be discussed. Like, hey, should we do this? And I'm going to say, you know what? No. This is the NFL. You know, top 10-ish where I don't know what we're putting him right now, courtex don't grow on trees. Even if, even if CJ played 17 weeks a year, it was completely healthy. It was the star-studded quarterback we thought it was going to be. When you pay somebody 50 plus, you suffer at some other point. You don't get to keep both receivers. You don't get to keep both running backs. You don't get to keep both cornerbacks. You don't get to keep both cornerbacks. You don't get to keep. Those high-end safeties are linebeckers.

Will Anderson. Well, put it this way. The Bengals, case and point, said we're going to spend all over money on offense. Yes. They took care of T. Higgins. They took care of Jamar Chase and they took care of Joe Burrow. Defensively, those guys are having to work at food banks on the weekends for extra cash. That's Trey Hendrick.

He's not pleased. He hates the Bengals philosophy. Yes, that's the beauty of the NFL. There's parity because you can't sign everyone. Well, let me ask you this question, putting the cart well before the horse. If I'm going to invest, relatively speaking, based off the position they're in, do I want to make sure that Will Anderson's taking care of for the rest of his Texan's life? Or am I going to worry about making sure that Will Anderson, or that C.J. Stride is making quarterback money that would keep him satisfied.

It's the latter, and you don't even think about it. Unfortunately. Quarterback, I don't think, I know you were very quick to it, but it's easy. I don't know. Will Anderson or C.J. Stroud. It's going to be C.J. Stroud. If it comes down to that guy or that guy. They can cut some other guys and figure something out and try to keep both. I try to keep both. I will personally guarantee you. They will not let C.J. Stroud go to sign Will Anderson. No way. Okay.

You want to make a bet? We can. No, I don't make a bet. Because I was, I'm certainly would certainly lean towards your side. But. However. However, Will Anderson stays healthy. Will Anderson is feared. Will Anderson is one of the best in his position. He's amazing.

C.J. Stroud has been hurt twice. He's been good, not supreme. Micah Parsons got traded. Michael Parsons is better than Will Anderson. Well, look how the Dallas Cowboys feel about their life right now. They're not feeling. I'm not saying, you have to make hard decisions than the NFL. This is why anybody can win. This is why a team from Kansas City, Missouri can become a dynasty.

Because you have to be smart and you have to have the right players. So all I will say to disagree with you slightly is I don't, you didn't gasp. I would take a deep breath before I made that decision. You didn't take deep breath, but we're going to end up on the same side. Are you 100% sure? 99.7% sure. Because look, it is hard to get a quarterback. If CJ gets two more concussions this year, I'm a lot.

come on your side but as where we sit right here and i'm not trying to say i'm not trying to put a side on this i'm just saying will anderson was the number three pick and could have been the number two pick if things turn i mean whatever you know yeah he's great i mean he might be a future hall of famer the way he's playing he might be i don't think you say cich is going to whole fame but that's what jerry do do you want to be jerry jones i calil matt got traded in his prime from the what, the Chargers? Von Miller, yeah, I mean. Von Miller, yeah. Okay, we're talking about philosophy changes in sports.

We're trying to get these coaches on to get these big contracts in college athletics. Can we be smart general manager and go, we love you, CJ. We do want to get you a raise. We do want you to be our guy. But I can't break the bank for a guy who misses two to three games a year because of a variety of ailments. And it's the second round of concussions. and most concussions again we're not trying to make all concussions equal I'm just saying this is a three-weeker here

when it looked like to me that there were folks that said oh I mean he may be back for the next week's I mean I don't know he's just been a lot of he's in the protocol last time he missed two games that's what I would expect but just based on history but we'll see maybe I'm just too big of a Will Anderson fan and maybe you're amazed at the way you love me

Hmm Okay 1143 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross I'm the one doing movie references Okay I almost got I almost got to Cole and Jonathan the other day You'd have been so proud of me

We were talking about how stupid it is that Alabama coach Nick Saban calls his wife Miss Terry Yeah I was like I don't know I don't know Because it's stupid call her Terry she ain't miss Terry also where's Nick Saban from that's like a southern thing

I know but don't but nobody I'm from the south did he call her miss Terry when he was in East Lansing does your mom call your dad call your mom miss whatever no they're divorced and so six thanks for bringing it up terrible example um does anybody get out of this I'm so back to my point I was like I only know one family that calls her mother names Stop. Try to focus. I didn't have this problem when you were gone last week.

Ah, you're welcome. So I said only in one Texas family that I know that used to call their mom Miss Miss Miss. And I said, it was my friend's, the Uings of Miss Ellie. Oh, okay. And he's like, yeah,

and Bobby and does it and Ray. And then I said JR, and that's when Cole's like, oh, you're doing a Dallas thing, aren't you? I never should have said J. I was a big problem of my fault. You went, you took it too far, man.

I did take it too far. But I felt like I got him good for a while at least. 713, 23, 212, 5-7-9 if you want to get it. Am I just, okay, let me just ask you all this. Am I nuts when I'm thinking about watching the piggy banks of both Will Anderson and C.J. Stroud?

In theory, you can sign both of them to make sure they don't ever leave. You could do that. But there's going to be some other spots. You paid Stingley. Oh, you did pay. Petrie got a deal. You got to pay Lasseter down that he's playing really well. O'A. Lassar is playing well.

Kumar Lasson. I wouldn't get any real estate here. just saying. Ross has the press conference on with our buddy, Steve Sarkesian. Of course, your home for Texas football is right here on 790. The greatest, you know what? They need to sign him to an extension right now. All these openings, sign them up. Let's go.

Give them $15 million. Ten more years. Man, you are spending that money well. Hey, let him go. Mike, I'll go. You're going to hit the portal? Okay. Do you know what I wish we had?

What? Wish we had the audio of when he got hired and how you felt about him. I'm not saying that you're being hypocrite. Steve Sarkisian? No, I'm talking to Sarkisian. Oh, I said I like the high. I wasn't over the moon, but I did like the hire

and as long as he can recruit, I think he's a good play caller. And see, at least, that's where I sit now. On the record for me, I love the Willie Fritz hire and it worked out well. We're 8 and 2. Going to go to a bowl game. We're going to beat Texas and the Texas Bowl.

Let's go. Well, you're delusional. But that's okay. That's, par for the course at this point. We'll see. I don't know. I'd rather go to the Pop-Tarts Bowl.

And put jelly all over yourself? You got that right. Okay. But look, I said I've never been, I like Sark. You can win it all with Sark, but you're not going to win it all because of Sark. I think that was a good example this weekend of Kirby Smart playing to win, going for a fourth down in your own territory, and also with the onside kick. He played to win. Sark doesn't do that in big games.

He plays not to lose. So is somebody holding him back? Answer my question. The offensive line isn't great. But look, this is how it's going to be sometimes. Other guys are going to be good, too, especially in I.L era. You're spending $40-50 million. Everybody's spending $40-50 million.

All the big dogs. That's how it is. So I liked a lot of the play designs and stuff that we see from him sometimes, but a lot of it gets blown up when the offensive line isn't holding. And, oh, by the way, when Archmanning is... He's not bad, but he's not special right now. His first year is a starter. He can grow and he can get better.

But I would say it does feel like the last couple of years, great Texas defenses are being wasted. Someone could say it about the Texans. Great Texans defense being wasted. And so when we were talking about going back to CJ Stroud, you have to win when he's cheap. Because when it's expensive, that great defense is going to lose a couple of pieces. And it's hard in the NFL because you can't sign everybody.

It's hard in college because guys either A graduate or B transfer out. Yep. Let's go to Dave and Austin at 1153 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Dave, good morning to you. Hey, good morning, guys. Man, I can't believe I'm going to say this because I always are usually agree with Ross. But in this case, I agree. Wait a minute.

You're saying you don't ever agree with me? Dave, this is how you know you're wrong, Dave. Maybe so. It's funny, I was wanting to call in a couple of weeks ago regarding Stroud, so when you brought him up, I decided to finally call in. But, you know, in this league, you know, unfortunately, you know, you are not unfortunately, but you need a quarterback that can not only pass the ball but can run with the ball as well.

And unless you're an elite passer, like I'm talking like Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, unless you can dissect the defense and be an elite passer. Unless you can do that, you also got to be able to run. And you don't even have to be a great runner. If you can just scramble a little bit, you know, like Baker Mayfield or Brock Purdy or, you know, any of those guys that aren't rig running quarterbacks, but when they need a first down, they can scramble and run and not just slide all the time, but like even Davis Mills is like running. And when he dies, he goes head first, and he's not afraid of that contact.

If Shroud gets concussions, you know, he's not going to dive head first. He's going to try to slide, and he's not even good at that because he got hurt trying to slide way too late. But he's very slow-footed. I mean, this guy looks ridiculous when he runs. It's like, if there's something wrong, like, he's just not quick-footed at all. Well, Dave, look, I want to make sure I'm clear with this. I am very pro-C. Stroud. I'm not saying this is a guy who's a bum or is not worth it.

I'm just saying that the Texans are potentially, Dave, and a little bit of a pickle here, because when you have a good quarterback, the if-then statement is then you pay them obnoxious amount of money. And I'm saying it's going to really be a difficult conversation to have in the front offices of the Texans when you're about to put this 50-plus million-dollar contract on a guy when you're going to be,

A, worried about his concussion health, and B, you may have to sacrifice another star player on this World League awesome defense because of that, and that would scare me a little bit. I'm with you. I think we should, I don't think I would move forward with him. I wouldn't give him a big contract. I would try to trade him or move him and get a better quarterback that can both run and pass. You've got to have that in this league, a dual threat quarterback. I would move on from him.

But the problem is, I know you're just kind of playing with the salary. but I'm just saying like he's not even I just would get rid of him. But Dave, you could have a all-world and thank you for the phone call. Ross, you could have an all-world run, quarterback, and past quarterback who can also get concussed. Concussions are there. They don't

step away from other quarterbacks. Every quarterback is susceptible to concussions. Trevor Lawrence, and he get blown up by Aziz Al-Shahir while sliding. I think he missed some time last year. Jordan Love, I think, got hurt. Dak Prescott's been hurt a ton. Some guys. Joe Burrow's been hurt. Josh Allen's been fairly

reliable, but Joe Burroughs has been hurt a lot. James has been healthy for the most part. Brock Purdy's missed almost all the year. By the way, I'm just pulling up the top AAV and those are the guys I'm going through. Lamar Jackson hurt to start this year. He went on IR correct with a hamstring injury. Missed four games or whatever it was.

Kyler Murray's been missing time. And I'm also to Dave's what he's talking about. I'm not sitting here telling you C.J. Stroud is no doubt about it. This guy's going to lead you to a Super Bowl. He's one of the five best quarterbacks in football. I'm not saying that. I'm saying he's shown a level of competency and ability to possibly grow to where you don't let go of that in the NFL.

I mean, think of the guys who did get paid. I don't know, Daniel Jones who got paid, to a tongue of a low who got paid. Deshawn Watson got that big deal from Cleveland. I'm not saying it's going to work out. I'm saying if you have somebody who you think you can win with, which I think they can win with C.J. Stroud, you don't let it go. You don't start over. You don't. Starting over can be painful.

Now, the Seahawks, I'm trying to think of exceptions. Seahawks are getting Sam Darnold, but also they had a, it was a weird situation because J.J. McCarthy toys his killies. Okay, I'm going to give you another one. The Lions financially did not want to continue to pay Matthew Stafford that crazy money. They got Jared Gough, and they're pretty happy with the situation. They're not Matthew Staff. You do to go to L.A. and won a Super Bowl.

They have one at all, and Jared Gough is making $50 million a year. So, man, like I said, this is, These are difficult decisions, but the easy chalk prediction would be if you got a guy, you keep the guy. Yes. But who doesn't stay in three years because of that? Again, that takes a very good general manager who doesn't make mistakes that the appropriately signs guys at good amounts and separates the years so guys are not all getting paid ridiculous money at the same time. Yeah, two things. That's the way of the world of the NFL. That's just how it is. It's the most important position in major American sports quarterback.

And number two, it also highlights for me the lack of Nick Casario capitalizing on having C.J. Stroud. And the defense is very strong around them, but offensively, they're not there. And oh, by the way, you're going to want to get some better offensive linemen. And you're going to need to spend money on that too. Yes. All right. The Texans and the Rockets were taking care of business. We'll hear from them. and some of the highlights of their games yesterday.

713-212-5-7-90. We have to tell the truth coming up at the bottom of the hour. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Free throw line, 15-footer. Out of the way it in. Durant with 35, three-point lead. Time-out, Orlando. Fun game.

We've not really got into the Rockets much. We've got plenty of time for them. Two, four game winning streaks already. That's good. Probably a 20-game winning streak. Let's go. Part of the news at noon. I'm so glad you're back.

Good to be back, Matt. Go ahead and clip that for me. Thank you. I already have one. I already have one. Don't play it. Don't play it Friday 11 o'clock. It made me feel good.

Thank you, Matt. Yes, the news at noon, we will lead with your Houston, Texans. they gutted it out on the road against the division rival and they won 16 to 13 Matthew Wright backup quarterback backup kicker those are their two best players well arguably if you want to throw

I don't know Denil Hunter and Will Anderson in there I understand but they're two honestly they're two most important players so far this season out they get the victory they have won three of their last four now I don't know what gut feeling you did last week Matt but I think two weeks ago you said Texans out of the playoffs, they win two in a row?

How are we feeling? I will be happy to amend my gut feelings. They have to beat Buffalo on Thursday. It's a must-win game. No. But, I mean, there's a log jam, but you get three teams at five and five. All three of those teams are on the outside looking in. You still have to jump Jacksonville, who's six and four.

Yes. So you got a lot of meat left from that bone, as the kids would say. Well, you get the home game versus the bills on a short week. Then you have to go to the Colts and two Arrowhead to take on the Chiefs on Sunday night football. So this schedule is heating up for the Texans. Thankfully, they take care of business against two division opponents in the last couple of weeks with the victories there. You had D'Amico Ryan speaking earlier today. Both Jalen Petrie and C.J. Stroud still in concussion protocol, putting their status,

in Thursday on Thursday in doubt against the Buffalo Bills at home. Thursday night on Prime Video. Yeah in doubt is one thing they're not playing and by the way the game will be over the air. I don't know what TV station is but you're fine. Check your local listings.

Check your local listings. Have you watched a lot of prime video games? I love it. They have the extra prime. I'm going to tell you this folks. If you're like a football junkie, you want a little next level they have, I actually don't even remember with the alternative, it's called like next prime video next gen whatever they highlight players that they think are blitzing it's the normal

broadcast you get al michael's and kirk herb street but every now and then there's this analytics guy who cuts in like hey this is why they're going for this fourth down decision we see that it's 55% go 45% kick hey this is look at keep an eye on this they like to do they like to blitz on third down he pipes in and out but you still get mostly the normal al michael's and kirk Curb Street stuff. I love it. The alternative broadcast on Prime Video, two big thumbs up from me. Way better than the Manning cast, if you will.

I like the Manning cast too, actually. When they would have Bill Belichick on and they'd just be talking football, that's cool. Now, when it's some guy who's like in a movie that I'm not going to watch and I don't care about, that's lame. But when it's like, usually like first quarter or so, it's Eli and Peyton, that's good. And then when they bring on a football guy, that's good. But when they're bringing on like Paul Rudd to talk about his latest crappy romantic comedy, then I'm out.

The oldest romantic comedy, Paul Rudd. Was Amy Schumer going to be on? That probably hers. She's going to be on there. All right. What else you got next? You got me all over-clumped. Paul Rudd.

All right. Also, Matt, as you just heard, the wonderful highlights from full-throat Thomas. You're over-clumped. You know what? I don't know. I didn't spread something to you. You want to drink my water? I think I got some water down the trot.

All right. Yes, the Rockets get a win in overtime, a thriller. A horrible turnover at the end of regulation. Alpern Shingoon comes back and totally redeems himself because he had a good game unless you look at his field goal percentage, which was 11 and 31. But other than that, he was great in 45 minutes.

He had 30 points, 12 rebounds, 8 assists. Kevin Durant with 35 points as well. and the Rockets win their fourth in row against the Orlando Magic a couple of days off before being in action on Wednesday against Cleveland Cavaliers. Cleveland Cavaliers. That's on the road, right? I hate it to. We're going up there for one game. I am, that's my only pet peeve about traveling. If I'm going to go on the road, I want to go to two cities and knock them out. Oh, poor baby me. Don't don't put baby me. That's a long trip to Nardis, Ohio. And your

private jet. It is private. Oh, you poor baby. A hotel's nice. A free shrimp cocktail and anything you want to eat. There is actually a true cocktail sometimes in a play, yes. Oh, you poor baby. Good desserts. Fottetons are very sweet, nice. Always have two pillows and two blankets ready for me. Everyone shed a tear for five diamond mat.

If you're going to shed a tear from me, 713, 2,1, 5, 7.9. It is weird. On the road for one, home for one. Oh, we got a big whopping road trip coming up. Great. Great. You are the human road trip. That's not true.

You're the California. Yeah, I was gone for a week. week. I didn't connect from there on a shady connection with a delay. You didn't have non-stops? Oh, no. No. Never mind. By the way, next four games, ESPN, Prime Video, Peacock, and ESPN. How about them Rockets? National Exposure, baby. Yeah. How about me getting on some national exposure, too? No, it's just some great calls. All right, good night. Yes, you're doing great, Matt. Thank you. Good to see you haven't changed. That's what I need you to verify for me. You're doing fantastic.

A couple of notes elsewhere. I got one. Go ahead. The AP College basketball polls out. Okay. Okay. Number one team in the country yesterday beat a top 25 team. Okay.

On the road, or I was a neutral site, but Birmingham is not neutral when it comes to Auburn, right? Cougars dropped the number two today. What happened? I don't know. Idiots that vote. That's why these polls don't mean squat. See, there you go. That's what I'm just saying.

Especially in basketball, it doesn't matter. Football matters a little bit. Josh Hepple, man, out of shape. Watching that second chin bouncing around? Look at that thing. Got a warble going. He looks like he just walked from his garage after crushing 12 bush lights. Seriously.

Josh Heipel is a coach Tennessee, and he looks like he is a guy that just fixed my car. Yeah. He was a former quarterback. Sorry to me to interrupt you there, but look at him. Josh Heeple, yeah. He was great at Oklahoma. Sure was. Beat Texas a couple times. All right. I'm going to have to bring that up.

Sorry. Oklahoma's always beating up. on Texas. Not this year, baby. All right, what else you got? You made me forget. Oh, I was going to talk about Antonio. A couple of NFL notes, but we can get some of these tomorrow with the NFL rewind. Yes.

But Terad Taylor is now the starting quarterback for Justin Fields, who has been benched. Elaine Johnson, the All-Pro or former All-Pro right tackle for the Eagles, is out with a Lefronk injury. So he's probably going to miss the season. Same thing from Michael Penn. It's potential season-ending knee injury. See, Matt, look. Injuries everywhere, baby. It's part of the game.

But in Atlanta's case, you're not paying crazy money on Pennix. You are paying crazy money on Kirk Cousins. That you are. That's their fault. And now he can live up to it. That's their fault. All right, that's the news at noon. We got to tell the truth.

And this is the first time ever, boys. Five statements, four, I believe. I'm scared. Does that actually help you or hurt you? Well, we'll see how bad these takes are. I think it's going to muddy the waters. You need to give me no shot there to give you five solid. I mean, Jonathan said you had a bunch of bad takes last week.

Well, he just was. I'm not the only one that's Kansas. I'm not the only one thinks Kansas City's got a shot. I just know I'm not. You still think they have a shot. I still do. Unless the Texans go up there in Kansas City and beat them, then I think we can talk differently.

1216 in the Matt Thomas Show of Ross. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. If you want to follow us on Twitter, it's at SportsMT, at SportsRV. Our station account is at Sports Talk 7.9. I'm watching these Denver, Kansas City highlights. They're all defense and for a good reason,

because Broncos are elite defensively. Their offense sucks and are 9 and 2. The one-score game chickens are coming home to roost for the Chiefs. Didn't they have this crazy one-score game record last year? Everybody's like, oh, they're so good. They just win. Andy Reid's a good coach. Pat Mahomes is a winner. Oh, and five this year in one score games. Those things tend to even out. They do. Just like officiating. By the way, I didn't see a lot of Scott Fosser's slander on those Houston streets yesterday. He's looking young. He had some work done or something?

Either that or he's coloring his hair. Yeah, he's doing something. Got a little... Just for Man, he and Clyde Frazier? I have two radio partners. Adam Wexler and Adam Clinton that split on the Rockets broadcast with me uh-huh and one has hair and one doesn't one has hair one doesn't one has hair one doesn't one would bring up scott foster ad nauseum during a broadcast okay and one doesn't and one doesn't okay so shout out to wex for not making it about the officials i i didn't think there was anything uberly controversial i did get some it's funny though i think people are just they're set to say when a particular official works things are going to get screwed i got two

text, one from, I won't say his name, Badham Wrenton, and then one from another friend of mine. He's like, Scott Foster sucks. And I'm thinking, I'm calling the game. Now I'm not watching every single thing literally that Scott Foster's calling, but I didn't think it was anything in terms of while he was trying to hose the Houston Rockets. It's super easy. Head over two hours east. Drop five figures on whoever you think Scott Foster wants to win and you'll never lose. Well, what was the line last night? Actually, I have no idea. I just got back in town So I didn't even know they were playing until the game was over

And then it had to be like, oh God, I got to watch this now I forgot. Yeah. I was out of sorts. I can find it. I just got a text from From who? Chase, it declined. My wife spent some money at Walgreens today And they're saying it's no good. Mm-hmm.

Was this you or I'm going to put yes. This was an authorized user. So I'm going to put yes. Good job. It was seven and a half was the line. So Orlando did cover. All right. Here, the Rockets Minus Treehunted on a money line which they did win.

Yes. Four in a row, baby. Nine and three. I think by our old friend, your favorite metric mat net rating there, second in basketball. Behind, of course, Oklahoma City. The behemoth that I think,

if healthy, is going back to back. I mean, I'm just going to say I don't want you to say it Probably right I want you to say they're going to go 58 and 24 And finishes the 4C in the West No way I lied

Nuggets are second And then in the Rockets Those sets I hey My gut feeling was Rockets finished Top 3 in the West I think that's my top three Lakers been playing well too though Lakers have played well

LeBron still hasn't played for them yet You still got the sciatica in his back In his boot He commented all on TMU police I think you tweet Oh he did Oh yeah he did Why just mute him

I was on the 4-U side. I guess I could just mute. You know, I'm going to mute LeBron. I use. Because he's such a wonderful player, but he just, stay out of everything. My favorite thing to use to mute people is the 4-U-Tab. If you're muted by Raw, 713, 2-1-2-5-7-80. That's true.

Oh, you know, that's the beauty. I can definitely tell who's muted me on a variety of things. No, sometimes people that. Like, people that will put Facebook posts out there that will never like my Facebook post. people that will never like my tweets. No, you can fall out of somebody's algorithm. There are some people that I follow and I haven't seen their tweets in ages.

And it's just because you either don't click or interact with their tweets and they kind of fall out your algorithm. Now you're giving me decent justification for that. I thought it was people that. I thought I was setting up a petty argument for those people. I'm trying to help you out. I'm trying to help you get better in the big 20-25. You know, it's almost 20-26. I do

believe that I was definitely muted. No, it's fine. You shouldn't mute me. There are tons of people who I don't. I don't tweet. I don't overtweet. I don't insult you, generally speaking, unless you insult me first. Then I come back to you ten times harder. I usually tend to respond to most of you that are decent.

No. There are a ton of people that I don't have muted that I'm like, oh, I still follow them and I don't ever see their tweets. Okay. You ready for some to tell the truth? I guess. All right. How are we doing, geez on the phone right? I was going to say the prize vault.

Is the prize vote enough to me? You can give away a prize? We could give away a prize. I'll take a prize. What do we got? John, what we got for prize? He's on the phone. John, what do we got for some prize?

We got enough to give away for it to tell the truth today? We'll be missing one, but let me see. We've got to believe it or not today coming up at 150. We got Linnear-Skinard and Leonard Skinnerd? Leonard Skinnerd? Or their cousin Leonard? Well, I was going to say, which one is it all their son of Leonard Skinner?

Who's still left in that band? So we got U of H and TCU and then we have the... How do you say? I don't know I said this band's name. I'm sorry. Leonard Skinner. Now you got to put it out and you got to say, Leonard Skinner. Skinner's coming to town now.

Sweet Home Alabama. Yeah, on the Double Vision, Double Trouble Tour. You know what we're doing? Wait, with foreigner? Because tomorrow we're not playing, believe it or not, because I'm leaving early. So why don't we do it today? You are? Yeah.

He's going to Big Ohio. Yeah, we just talked about this earlier. The struggles I had going to Northeast Ohio. No, I didn't get the email this week. So let's do this. Let's give away. Let's set up five lines. And let's see if you guys can, and Ross and Jonathan, you both can help the audience.

to kind of leave them in the particular category. I have five statements. Four of them, I believe. One of them I do not. Okay. So, Ross, how many lies are there? Five. No, one.

One. I just literally told you. I heard you. You're back in mid-season mode now. My brain was clear for like the first two hours. I know. All right. So if you want to play to tell the truth for a chance to win either, is it Leonard

Skinner tickets? Is that correct? And foreigner, yeah. In Forerner. And or Coogers versus TCUU game tickets. Where's Skinner at? Oh, and a Superfan Houston Snack Box. What?

Included with the tickets. What? All we do is give away nice gifts here on the show. So, Superfan Houston Snack Box, Houston Kugher tickets, and Leonard Skinner. If you play to tell the truth next, I will be telling one lie, the rest will be true. 713212-5-790 7-1-3-21-2-5-790 if you want to play to tell the truth so night night you're telling the mind i never know why you don't know how to tell the truth you don't know how to tell the truth yeah but rossie the wonderful thing about me is i do know how to tell the truth

I'm going to do it for you here on Sports Talk 790. All right, gentlemen on the line, Edward, George, Allen, Mike, Richard James. If you knew to the segment, first of all, where the hell have you been? Second day, I'm glad to have you. I have five takes written down. Four of them, I believe. One you do not. One, I do not.

One you don't believe. One you don't believe. Jonathan, how many lies are there in the group? There's one lie. Thank you very much, Jonathan. here we go and if the callers online can figure out which one I'm lying

they win you have to tell me which one I am lying the other ones I'm telling the truth number one it was cute for a while but I think if I'm ESPN and I'm Amazon I tell Kirk Herbstre enough with the dog videos okay

people are cruel society is tough what happened He's just every time it's a video of it's him and his dog out there. I think dog fatigue is kicking in. Okay. Okay. So if I, again, I think sometimes if you do too much to something, people start to get irritated by it.

I think people are getting more and more irritated. I'm ESPN on my Amazon. I tell Kirk Herb Street enough with a dog. Number two. If the Astros sign Justin Verlander, I will say, good move. to how much one year 12 13 million dollars

something in that okay nothing multi year well if it's 20 not so hot but I was presuming one year in between 12 and 15 million dollars

okay number three I desperately want the normal onside kick rule back in the NFL I know it hurt your beloved longhorns Rossi

yes but that on side kick the Georgia pulled off on Saturday against Texas was a thing of beauty it's also very rare I know But I liked it.

Okay. So bring me back the onside kick rule. I don't care about safety. I want onside kick rules. That sounds about right. I believe this one. Number four. Did you see the end of the Detroit Philadelphia game between the Eagles and the Lions last night?

There was a past interference called against Detroit very late in the contest that at bare minimum should have been no call. It probably should have been an offensive PI instead it was a defensive PI. The Eagles were able to hold on to a low score. boring wind. It was a completely disastrous call. The NFL's got to do something somehow, some way to bring back video reviews of pass interferences. All right. Okay. And my last take, the college basketball season. I like college basketball. I love the NBA. But right now, they're both being dwarfed by college and pro football. If I'm college basketball, I don't start till Christmas week

and I end this season on Memorial Day weekend. You are so far irrelevant college basketball. You will not become relevant until at least the beginning of the year. Push your season back a month and a half, two months. Go to Memorial Day. Get your guys

ready for the NBA draft that way to... Go to Memorial Day? Yeah, for the championship. Final four, Memorial Day weekend. Classes are way over by then. That doesn't matter. They play the College World Series in June. They're all done. Is that true? Well, a lot of them in a summer class. Stop.

Get out of here. So I say start the college basketball season on Christmas week and the season on Memorial Day. Those are my five takes. One of them is a complete lie. Which of the four are the truth. You've got to tell me which one I'm lying. One, ESP and Amazon should tell the Kirk enough of the dog. If the Astero signed Justin Verlander, I will say good move.

Three, I want the normal onsites kick rule back in the NFL. Four, I want PI video reviews back. in the NFL. And five, the college basketball season shouldn't start Christmas week. It should end and should actually end the season on Memorial Day weekend. Which one of those am I lying? Which one am I not telling the truth? Gentlemen, you have your own thoughts. I'm sorry. Can you say number four again? Exactly. I want PI video reviews back in the NFL. You want them back reviewed? Yes. Okay. Okay. In fact, you know what? I'd review every single one of them. Wouldn't even bother using a challenge system. I think if it's a PI's call, you know how they review every

Now you're being ridiculous. Hold on. If they review every touchdown and turnover, they should review PIs. Every single one? There ain't nobody got time for that. There's such big decision. They can change games. Absolutely.

Oh, that's a bad take. So I don't know if you believe it, though. That's the hard part. You believe a lot of bad stuff. I believe a lot of good things. They call me Mr. Good take. See? I got Jonathan winning nowhere to my side.

Last Monday, he was leaving some wild stuff. I don't know he's about a little bit. Shut up. Shut up. Oh, he's still bitter. Look at the bitterness on John's. I was bitter. You got a rusty bitch face. He's still heated.

Okay. Jonathan, you want to parse through this with me? Yeah, let's go. You want me to start? Do you want to start? Well, first, he likes Verlander. There's no ace to that multiple times. He loves white belts. You can't get enough of Verlander. I mean, that's a reasonable take.

Verlander won a 12 to 15 million. That's a fine move. Whatever. You need some starting pitching help. Definitely. I think Matt was tweeting about wanting the onside kick rule back yesterday. That one I definitely believe I saw his tweet Definitely

Unless he's just He's either lying now Or he's lying when he's tweeting So And I can lie I'm a great liar The first one was ESPN and Amazon

Matt probably is tired of the dog We talked about that So I think he believes that I'm down to the last two For me personally Four and five I mean Pass interference every week

Every single one of them That's ridiculous But does Matt believe it Who knows? I don't know. I'm going to go with five. You know, for once, I'm going to go with five as well. What?

You're going to piggyback? No. Are you sure you want to do that? Yeah, that's fine. I'm going to go with five. Because that's the only one that I would think you wouldn't believe. All right. Let's see what the people have a chance to win some prizes on this. Again, real quick, ESP and Amazon should tell Kirk enough of the dog.

If the Astros signed Justin Verlinder, I'm okay with her. Three, I want the normal onside kick roll back in the NFL. four, I want PI reviews back in the NFL, and five, the college basketball season shouldn't start until Christmas week. Here we go. George, which one of those five takes do I not believe? Which one of those five is a lie? Well, I know you're a cat guy, so I know you believe the first one.

So I'm going number four. You're lying about the passenger appearance. You hate the robots. All right. Number four, passenger appearance is a lie. All right. Put you on hold there. So put George down as a four.

let's go to Mike on 790 Mike which one am I lying about I think it's Verlander okay yep all right that's

Berlanner Verlanner in a one year deal James and Klein which one am I lying about James it's Burlander that's a band-aid you don't want any part of that okay thank you very much

and last one is Edward on 790 Edward which one of those are I lying about yeah so I'm going to Stop posting dog videos. I know it's getting tired. I am going to go that Verlander is over to Hill and you're picking Verlander. Okay. Thank you very much.

Oh, wow. That's a lot of support for Verlander. Number one, I did, the reason why I made five this week is because I put on Twitter how much I love the onsides kick. That was a freebie. I did get into the game here. I do want more kicks. I do want PI video reviews in the NFL. Now, I may have stretched it a little bit by saying on every play, but I wouldn't be opposed to it.

PIs are so subjective and can be such game changers. I do want P.I. Video reviews. It's Alpha George. I do believe college basketball should start their season later in the year because, look, I mean, we had Houston versus Auburn on yesterday. Did anybody in America care about that top 25? March. Madness. You're not going to call it May Madness.

May Madness does work too. That is so ridiculous. Madness works. That is ridiculous. That's a bad take. Okay. You want May madness? But they're my, I don't care.

I want college basketball to get some shine. They ain't into now. Oh, you want the game versus Samford and Ryder and all that at the beginning of the season to get some shine? How many calls we take on Duke, Texas? Zero. How many would we have taken if they happen in Christmas? We don't know. You don't know.

You don't think everybody's going to be locked in on Duke and Texas in January. Two top 30 teams. It should be. In December, where the NBA is heating up and where NFL is coming down to the playoffs, that's ridiculous. NBA is not heating up in December I'm sorry, yeah, that's normally that's when people start paying attention.

Go to college. Christmas. College basketball gets in the NBA starts to heat up. Get somebody's getting into playoff time. That's bad. I'm playing November, nobody cares.

May Madness. If the Astro has signed Justin Verlander, I say good, fine, one year 10 million dollars, $12 million, whatever the case would be. You want more dog videos? Listen to me. So everybody got it wrong?

I do believe there is some fatigue, but you're not going to go tell ESPN and Amazon to tell Kirk Herb Street to get rid of the dog videos. That's not going to end well, especially because America loves pets. Not happening. Okay. So number one, they wouldn't put out a press release. We want Kirk to stop talking about his dogs. No, because if Kirk was told to stop talking about the dogs, people say, where's your dog videos? And then say, well, ESPN Amazon told me not to do it anymore. So that was a lie

So all of you are wrong All of you And you get nothing like it Well that's what happens when you put out a bunch of bad takes Great takes May madness How ridiculous does that sound How long as much madness being the thing

It's like the 70s now? May madness, it'll work Probably It'll work, don't worry It's been a college winter sport Since forever basically Well I've been college forgotten about sport Forever too

Yeah. Okay. Let's check this Houston schedule, these big games that you want getting shine. I do want some shine. They're playing Arkansas. They're playing. They just finished playing Auburn. They're going to go to Las Vegas and play this big turn. Lehigh and Towson and Oakland to start the season. I'm not asking for national championship previews every game. Next game is against Ryder. Okay. So is UT playing Ryder too, by the way. I know. Rider must have said, we'll come and take these checks. Ryder's like, hey, we're going to come down in Texas and get our ass kick for two checks. Take these cheeks and give us the checks. Syracuse and Tennessee in Florida State That's good

So you want more shine for the Jackson State New Orleans matchups? No, I didn't say every single guy There's a better chance to shine Oh, there's a big one If we're coming up versus Middle Tennessee as well Don't argue with my takes They're good ones

Yeah, could you imagine ESPN going to them saying You know, Kirk, your dog's cute enough of the... No, I could do that privately They ain't going to do it privately No, yeah, they're not going to do it publicly Kirk's me like, shut your bum ass up Me and what's the good dog's a dog No, again, I do believe there is...

He's got next man up. I do believe there is a little bit of fatigue. I do. I'm not as arguing that. I'm fatigued. I mean, I don't care. That's what I'm saying. I don't really watch Game Day that much anyway.

I haven't gotten up for game day since basically ever. Jonathan, you're going to be 90 years old someday in your life, long, long, long. You're not going to know anybody that's been awake less hours between 6 a.m. and noon than my partner here. I like to sleep in, man. Or stay up late. Which one is it? Both?

It's both. Like, if I text you at 1.30 this morning, is there a better than 50-fifth chance you respond to it? If you did it this morning, yes. Generally, it's probably, since we moved now, when we're on at noon, yeah, about 90% chance. 90%. Since we've been on 10, it's more 50-50. All right. Ross, what is believe it or not today?

I don't know. Why? Are you doing it? Yes, 150. Oh, what's the topic? The Chiefs. No. You're just trying to twist that knife.

How about Michael Pinnock's knees? A.C. Altair. Believe it. His third one. Is the third one free? No, you don't get a freaker rewards card for this. You should. You should get some points at least. You know, can we do... How about Davis Mills?

We've done a day. Go see if you can find the library of all about Davis Mills. How about Mills? Olin Mills, General Mills. Henry Mills, former fullback for the orders back in the day. Oh, you're making that up. Would you think I make that up? Dave's his cousin. Brad Mills, former Astros' manager. That's true. Mills'izz's? Haley Mills,

wouldn't she like the child actress in the 60s? Leroy Mills? Saxophone player. Oh, really? I made that up. Okay. 713-212-5-790. You make it up, people. 7-13-212. Or did I? You did. We know you, you fraud. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

We have another hour to go here on a two Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. Tomorrow on the radio program, we will have gut feelings, NFL rewind, and you know what else is going to pop up. We'll go check in and what's going on in Buffalo on Wednesday. Emudoka joins later in the week. Rockets and Cavaliers Wednesday night. Cougars back on the football field for the Saturday's game against TCU. Don't call him Texan Christian or TCU. Why not?

because they don't like it. Why not? That's a good question. You know what they're called? They don't like that, actually. What are they wanting about? That's the name of your school. Let me give you schools that don't like what they're like, what they are.

You ready for this? BYU, is that okay? BYU is okay. Brigham Young, I can say? Yes. Okay. Here's who doesn't like it. SMU does not like to be called Southern Methodist.

Why not? I don't know. I have no, I have no explanations for any of these, okay? Okay. As Southern Methodist, Texas Christian, Texas El Paso Yeah I guess that

Louisiana Lafayette Louisiana Lafayette is Louisiana Central Florida They don't like to be called UCF Why I don't know That's odd This doesn't make any sense

I don't disagree with you Who else doesn't like You can't call them Pennsylvania State Hmm Huh You have to call me Dragon I'm not Ross anymore I don't like it

Like Dragon is in that The TV show on HBO? Not a drag net. Oh, okay. Oh, you're talking about Game of Thrones? Game of Thrones, yeah. Yeah. The Dragon's mom.

He got to come to good with the Lord. Kaleesie, Mother of Dragons. The Dragon's mom. The Dragon's Mom. He only said that because she came to Houston and on the PA, he called her the Mother of Dragons. He has no context for the show. That was probably my second most biggest viral moment ever. Yeah, that goes viral.

the time. Well, it was her. Oh, it was definitely her, but when I called her the Mother of Dragons, oh, people lost her mind. Who told you to do that? Because you had no idea. No clue. As a matter of fact, I was so nervous about trying to butcher the introduction, I wrote it down. Callisi. Calisi was nice. The one scene I did watch her, she was being handled. What scene did you watch? Yeah, it was very early. Why did you watch only that scene? Yeah, what's going on, Matt? Because I was trying to figure out if I liked the show or not. And that turned you off the show? Didn't...

Well, that's not the word I would use. The action was fine. It was the verbiage that was kind of confusing. What verbiage? Old English? Yeah, them talking really fast and talking in... They weren't that fast. It was...

Yeah. I mean, now, you did need to read like a dissertation on every episode, which I did. Yes, I had to go back and read the recaps off the internet. I did. You get like a map of Westeros every time. very early on, we're good. Mr. Texas, everybody.

That is Mr. Texas. Not Mr. Westrose. I don't even know what that means. That's fine. Okay. My wife's got this new show she's watching with Billy Bob Thornton and Landman.

Yeah, Landman. Isn't that just Yellowstone, but instead of in ranch, yeah, was it Oklahoma or Texas? I don't know. I don't know. It's oil. instead of whatever they were doing

out there in Yellowstone they just put it in oil fields. So basically they're taking one plot line and just changing states. Like in California, the Gold Rush. I mean, it's classic. Isn't that what they did?

Like you make one spy movie at James Bond, then you make some kind of other spy movies and you do Mission Impossible. Yeah. Feels about right. They play off of each other. And then when they're going to be a landman

for Louisiana. We're talking about the gumbo circuit. Yeah. You got Perry Mason, then you do Colombo. You know Dragnet, Columbo, yeah. The Rockford Files.

All of it. LA law and let's do the practice Oh how about this one NCIS, New Orleans Miami, San Antonio CSI NCIS NCIS Detroit

I mean you know Same thing NCIS Brenham And there's like 19 Blank fires Chicago fires Brethenham fire Denver fires

And 9-1-1s are everywhere too Yeah You and I gotta We're gonna sit down One long weekend And we gotta create a really good show I think the key to our show was to do a show about nothing.

And we just, we have, Jonathan, stay with me on this. We have four central characters, and then we have some of their, we have some of Ross's other friends that come in as characters. Like wacky neighbor. Okay, what's the theme, though?

What's the, what's the, what's the, I'm glad you brought that. I think the theme of the show would be, Jonathan, would be a show about nothing. We'd be nothing in particular. We'd go stuff that happens. Ross and I would go to the same restaurant over and over again. Okay, okay, okay.

Or we were like waiting in line at a Chinese restaurant. Like, that's 30 minutes right there. Yes. And crazy stuff happens. Yeah. and then we could have and then one of our friends could get a job

with the baseball team is a traveling secretary okay I don't know the show I'm trying so hard hold on we're not talking about a show what are you talking about

yeah and then how about this Jonathan would you join us in a contest what kind of contest Matt I'm glad you asked Jonathan it's a contest about who could be the last one to survive not

self pleasure pleasuring themselves what Yeah. Here's what we need to do. Me, you, Ross, and we'll get, we'll get a girl. At least put $20 down. And whoever is the last one did not to pleasure themselves wins the whole money. Yeah, a whole of 80 bucks? It's 80 bucks, 80 bucks. Whatever a piece.

Yeah. Sounds great. It's a good idea, Matt. I'm so lost. Yeah. You wouldn't even be lost, man. I'm just Ross and I'm talking about our future plans. I'm so lost. It should be young again. I'm going to answer this call. When I come back, hopefully you explain it.

All right. We've got to get a break it anyway. I think our idea sounds great. I think it's a great, great idea, Matt. All right, 713, 212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. A show about nothing. Hmm, I think it's got a chance.

1259 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. All right, 103 on Sports 790. It is the final hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross on a Monday. We got, believe it or not,

today coming up in 45 minutes. We're doing famous Mills. Is that what you're going to go with? General. Davis. Saw? Hmm. Yeah, I mean, whatever.

Mills Davis, the jazz trumpeter. Love that guy. Love is great performer. So I'm a live on concert once. All right. 713212.5 is 790. If you want to join the conversation, 713-212-5-7-90, what are you laughing about? No, uh, Cam Newton's hat.

I like him on TV, by the way. Yeah, he looks, it's like he looks like the man with the yellow hat and curious George, except the hat is black. Yeah, he's good. I think he's very good on the show. I'll take your word for it. By the way, speaking of former Panthers, my son. has had some affiliation my oldest with the Panthers for so long. He was a big Cam Newton

fan because his name is Cam, right? So the other day he gets, you know, he's got money now because he's got a full-time job, which makes me happy. And I'm thinking to myself, son, oh, by the way, you know what he did last week that kind of irritated me? What's that? I felt like I'm just airing dirty laundry. He went to the Renaissance Festival. Okay. That's fine. What's wrong with that?

Well, he also... You got you a scotch egg? He bought a costume. Oh, really? Yeah. He could be jolly Renaissance guy. He was jolly renaissance guy. Did he talk in ye old English? He said, Milly like a turkey leg. Poor K.J. is trying to call

the show here. Let me see what we're going to get a lady. We're having some issues with our phones. Imagine that. Are they still having issues over there, Jonathan? KJ. Can you hear us? I don't hear KJ. I don't know. Is this on? Is Jonathan there? Our phones suck. They always suck. Okay, I'm sorry, Matt.

Take a deep breath. That's why I won't. poor kid jesus call this here jonathan because we're having video camera issues but that's okay we can't see our producer we can't get our phone screen in anything else is great oh kj is that you yeah can you hear me yes just talk i don't care about we're talking about i don't care it's always an adventure man oh you think so i'm living this adventure for 20 hours a week and i got to work with this guy come on now k j well i give you a week off give me again Give me something good, KJ.

Man, real quick. I don't want this take to be considered negative, man. But first and foremost, let me give a shout out to the Rockets. I remember Shingoon's rookie year watching him in the Summer League. And, me and my, I told my dad at the time that I loved his footwork. I know Jaylon Green was the headliner. He was a higher pick. But with what I saw in Shingoon, again, I'm not sitting here saying.

I saw him being this good this quick, but I knew he was going to be a good player and he's more or less developing to exactly what I thought it would be. So shout out to him. My take on the Texas, obviously I'm a Texas fan, so I appreciate the win.

But it comes a little bit of sweet of it, simply because it seems like there's a lot of excitement for us doing what we should have been doing all along, and that's winning games against teams like this. There is, KJ, there is no excitement whatsoever.

There is nobody at the water cooler's at their offices today if they go to the office. There's nobody fist bumping. There's nobody at the bars that were a high-five each other. There were people around this town yesterday, Jonathan, excuse me, KJ, that we're going, are we going to screw this up? Are we going to allow the Tennessee Titans to win this game? Oh, by the way, some Matthew dude's going to kick a field goal for us at the buzzer and win. KJ, there is zero buzz, zero energy.

I don't care what uniforms they wear I don't care what water guys are on the water cooler are saying I don't care what media who think their media are saying to try to get publicity because the team is trying to get some positive buzz there is no buzz to this football team the only way you get buzz for the football team

is you beat somebody you're not supposed to beat and that would start Thursday against Buffalo Bills Absolutely and the thing that gets me the most is I look at Detroit I look at the Rams and the way they execute on the offense and I know the main thing that people keep referring back to is the fact that our offensive line is bad. We're not the first team in NFL history

that had a mediocre offensive line. But some type of way, whether it be through play calling, whether it be through the play of a quarterback, I'm looking at the game yesterday with Kansas City. Their line isn't as bad as I was, but their line is bad. So they're getting the ball like quick. And it seems like we keep falling. And when I say we, I don't mean you guys, but it seems like the consensus is we keep going back to the offensive line and it's woes when the fact of the matter is a lot of teams have bad offensive lines,

but they find a way to beat up on the teams that they should be and at least be competitive in the upper echelon teams. And that's why, again, I'm glad we're 5 and 5. Obviously, I want us to make the playoffs. But until I think we've changed their mindset, and the energy he had after yesterday's game, was too much for me. Because I need you to have that same energy

when it's time to hold people accountable. And I don't consistently see that. You're a hurrah guy, when by enemies necessary, fine. The win is a win. But I need you to be consistent with it, man. When guys are out there getting penalties, when guys who are out there doing things on the field, they shouldn't be doing.

And I'm hanging up here what you guys got to say, man. Let it show. Thank you, KJ. Well, the Chiefs are losing, too. Yeah. Everything's great for the Chiefs. No, it's not. They're 5 and 5. No, there's teams that are struggling to. But the Chiefs have Super Bowl rings and appearances and Hall of Fame

quarterbacks and great receivers and Hall of Fame tied in. And overall, their offensive line is still significantly better than the Texans, especially what the Texans are putting out there. I was like, who's this dude? I was watching the games. Because I was catching up yesterday because I just got back into town. Like, what

is Trent Brown doing out there? He's huge. Do you see a tertiary sack you gave up yesterday? Oh my God. Mark Schiller's like, how does this happen? He has been underwhelming. Sad to say. Except the bootlooking media that loves the Texans.

They're not going to tell you all these things. That's why you come to us. We're being reals. R-E-A-L-Z, Reels. Thank you, Matt. You're welcome. Thank you, UrbanM-T. I am UrbanM-T. Matt is keeping it a buck.

Yes. We appreciate you for it. We're having a... Well, that's what Cam Ward said, and they are. They are terrible. Texans are won three of the last four. They're five and five. Texans are mid.

This is what they've been mired in basically their entire existence. Yeah, they're not horrible. They're not embarrassing. They win the games they're supposed to win and they lose the ones they're supposed to. And so, you know what, buck the trend. Let's go beat the Buffalo Bills on Thursday.

And then you start talking about good vibes and energy. But the reality is this in KJ has brought this. I'm not the exclusive factor of the phone call, but Demico is super conservative. Demico doesn't necessarily use his timeouts particularly well. He does not challenge particularly well.

He's basically in the line with 80% of other coaches in the NFL. What's the prognosis on Ed Ingram? How much time is he supposed? to miss. We don't even hear about Joe Mixing anymore. Oh, he's off the team.

In my mind. The insider had it for you. A long time ago. All right, relax. Woody Marks has been decent. Decent. Decent. How was a running game yesterday?

I don't know what they ended up with. Woody Marks had a couple big runs at the end of the game to ice it. Yeah. I don't know what they ended up with yardage-wise and yards per carry. Do you know who the second biggest impactful player for the Texans offensively

that's been this year? Second biggest? Yeah. Dalton Schultz? Dalton Schultz. He's been good. They keep doing these play action to the right or left and then let him leak out the other side. It's working every week.

Every time that ball is thrown and it's a catchable pass to him, he catches it. Dalton Schultz has been an unsung hero for this Texas football team. Yes, he has. Oh, 18 carries for 44 yards for Woody Marks. I thought it was better than that. Okay, my quick math tells me

that's about two and a half yards. 2.4 yards per carry. Folks, that's bad. That's Ashton Genti level. Got that right. Don't doubt me on my running back predictions. No, you're going to be wrong.

You said he never in his career was running for a thousand yards. I said, that was absurd. No, you did not. I wrote down the time on that one if you want to go time check it. Go ahead. I should get an inflation bump.

Oh, really? No, inflation's down. Everything's perfect. Because it was an 18 games schedule, 17 games you play. The economy has never been better. Well, I don't care about the economy. I care about my football conversation. Well, inflation's down, Maddie.

Okay, I'm telling you, I was not wrong about Joe Mixen. I wasn't wrong about Stefan Diggs, who, by the way, is having a terrific season in Buffalo. No, not New England. Excuse me, not Buffalo, New England. I was right about C.J. Garner Johnson. What were you right about there? He was a pud. You didn't.

you said he was going to be out for the year he was no well in a different way he was injured out for the year he played yeah I did and then so where is he now practice squad I think for the

two teams since the Texans practice squad of the second save I believe he's a practice squad in the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League Mertz Minikar do they even have live operators is everything automated

I've not running out of the long time No, you have to still talk to somebody, don't you? Well, if you want to complain. Yeah. And they want to offer you, they want to charge you all those insurance. Give me a representative, representative, agent, live. In order to better assist you. Now, I was thinking about the people that you go to the airport.

You know, you're handing your driver's license. They want to upgrade you a car because, man, I get you this great deal, get you this extra long SUV. They get way worse gas mileage. 1475 a day. I'm like, no, thank you. Okay, I was going to take what I'm originally offered. then they give you the same car. Oh, we're out of that.

So, go ahead and take it. Jerks. We're in a car, people. Slimy. I thought I was going to get banned from Mertz when I went 3,000 miles in like two weeks. They didn't say anything. Did you buy unlimited miles? Yeah.

I've heard that unlimited, they still, they unlimited like they're not going to charge you, but they were reserved a right to be like, because you can't just get one. Wait, minute. They can't charge you for giving, they. No. If they say unlimited, but they can give you a dirty look. They won't charge you, but they can also put you on the like, don't rent them.

many more cars list. If you go like 10,000 miles in a couple weeks, you'll get to end up on a list. That's what I read. Hmm. The things you learn on the Matt Thomas show of Ross.

I don't like to drive, so I try to avoid cars under all circumstances. Limos and big stretch SUVs. Yeah. Well, I went to Montana. I'm back. That was like 3,000 miles.

Trip over a lifetime. It's great. You just put the radio on and listen to you wanted to. Yeah. You ate when you ate. You drank what you drank. Stopped in I'marillo and Denver

and Wyoming. You know what you did? You Forrest Gumped the trip. I did. It was great. Highly recommend. Only hit one bird. And two mountain lions. No mountain lions. 114. On the Matt Thomas Show with Ross, 713, 212-5-790. 7-13-212-790.

You Aggie fans, what was more startling? The 30-3 halftime setback or the fact that the DPS officers going after South Carolina football players? Texas fans You know what The Alma Bowles a lovely place in San Antonio Late December, right? It's kind of like your home. Well, actually, it doesn't have an SEC

tie-in. It's your hum-away from home. Rocket fans, four straight wins, overtime against Orlando. And I want to say, Rossi, that might have been the first ever game-winning or time-tying shot in Alperin-Changoon's career. Probably not. That meant a lot of them, but it certainly looked good yesterday.

Plus, KD is a beast. 713-212-5-790 speaking of the rockets rocket fans i got to call you out a little bit we'll do that coming back the reports i'm hearing about what happened yesterday at the toyota center before the game with the bobbleheads 115 on sports talk 790 all right so there was a lot of people outside toota center before the game yesterday because i was thinking maybe they just want to get to the arena early enough to catch some pre-game shoot around guys warming up big game between orlando and Houston. Rockets are playing well. And I realized, well, it was for a giveaway. And giveaways have various charms. T-shirts will do one thing. Coffee cups will do another. Maybe a Hawaiian shirt.

Or sometimes the bobblehead's coming to play. The Welcome to Houston bobblehead was a giveaway yesterday at the TOTA Center. And they were giving away, I think, 3,000 of them. Yes, 3,000. So people waited. Mm-hmm. And is their right to do that? You scan your ticket and you get your bobblehead. Yes.

Some people got a bobblehead and then just left. That's strike number one. Got the bobblehead and left. Strike two, Rossi, and there's no strike three. There's strike two in this particular case. They went to eBay as soon as they possibly couldn't put it up there. Yeah. $140 if you want to get a bobblehead off of the eBay.

a gift that the rockets were giving away yesterday. Look, this is not get off my lawn. There's one right now for 150, 140, 147. This one's for 200. The rockets did these as a thank you. They didn't do this for you to go try to make some aftermarket deals happening. there is nothing we've lost value if i got a kevin durant bobblehead in which i did not receive yesterday because i didn't buy a ticket i mean i'm working the game so i mean they could have somebody

could have handed me one but i didn't take it there wasn't offered didn't care it's kevin durant it's one of the greatest players of all time he's wearing my rocking gear and if i'm care and if i am a bobblehead collector which we do know people in our lives that are that's what's one you just don't need to put up there. Well, then you could say, well, if there's somebody, somebody's going to be out there to do it, it takes one sucker to buy it. Yeah, I mean, if there's a, yeah, that's kind of struggling with. If there's a market for it and somebody is going to make money off of it. But they didn't make it, they didn't, they didn't give, they didn't make those

things as a way for you to say, hey, Rocket fans, want to make some money, some of your money back? Here, let's give away our premium item, which we charge you nothing for. and you go try to sell it. I just think it's... What's the solution? There isn't a solution. Hand them out like... No, there's no solution.

The second quarter to everyone or something? No, because that doesn't stop anybody from going to put them out on the auction. Yeah, they can go do that. But at least they've got to say the second quarter. We hand them out of the third quarter. Fourth quarter. No, the problem is it's too hard for the, for the pipe. I mean, you have people going through the stands,

and it's just easier to do with the way they're doing it now. It's just, I just think it's a bad look, but it's not just Houston does it. It's other cities to do it. No, it's not Houston. And it's also the Astros, every bobblehead they put ends up on eBay. Every single one. And you always have, now bobblehead guy who's over there getting like five bobbleheads and slapping them up on eBay.

I mean, that's ridiculous. I feel very confident in the following statement. If you are a bobblehead collector, the James, the Kevin Durant, Welcome to Houston bobblehead collector is not going to get you 25 times the value. You're not going to hold you. hold on to it for a month or a year in five years and all of a sudden this bobblehead is worth $10,000. You're going to sell them now. This isn't going to be worth $150 in a couple

years. There's no way. So my question is this. Is your life that void of importance that you would go to the arena, grab your bobblehead, leave the arena,

run home, and put your bobblehead that you spent hours or, I mean, at least an hour, I'm assuming right, unless you got there It's got to be worth it for some of these bobblehead whores

Now if you're a bobblehead collector and you're keeping it That's fine We know one in this building Yeah, I'm okay With collections on things But if you're just Bobblehead Flipper

You're weird If you got to the arena At the arena open at 5 You got there probably at 3 How lucrative is this business? You get there at 3 You get your bobblehead at 5 You're home by 530 or 6

You didn't watch the game You spent probably bare minimum on one ticket of $50 to $75 if you were sitting the upper deck. I want to hear from a bobblehead flipper. I don't think they're out there. There's got, no, there's got to be dozens of them.

Not in our audience. There's 10 of them on sale right now. On eBay, more than that. Brand new inbox. Kevin Durant, bobblehead. Ooh, this one's only 125. Do you see how I attach the time chart to this?

All that time to make 120, What if you got five of them? How could you get five of them? Oh, here we go. Bumblehead guys here. It's Gordy. Yeah, if you're keeping it. Are you locked on bobbleheads too? I'm a collector.

All right. But I'm a collector in that. You don't flip it, right? I get the bobblehead. I own it. It's mine. I take it out of the box. I don't keep it in the box. And I put it on display. And that's it.

There was, I was in line yesterday. There was a family, oh, I thought it was a family in front of me. They brought 30 minutes before the doors opened. They had a group show up with them. There's a guy with a backpack. There's several kids. They're all of different ethnicity, so they're not related. They are, and they're meeting each other for the first time.

Hey, how are you doing? Hey, yeah. There's a meetup. And she was giving this young, this older short lady was giving directions. She was going, when we get in, you're going to hand them to him, and he's going to put him in the bag. Oh, it's a whole operation. So they let these kids go to the game for free. or something, and then they walk off with the

bobbleheads. They're like, oh, I get to go to Rockies. Yeah, I would do that. I go to the Rocket Game for free. He keeps to keep my bobblehead. I just pulled up eBay.com. There is the top search result under Kevin Durant, Bobbohead, $152.

There's at least 10 of them. From 130 to 150-ish. Again, like, I'm a... This is a sign of the apocalypse, who is sitting there? I'm a collector in that I will buy a ticket to the game and go get the bobblehead. I am not.

going to the secondary market and paying $130, $150. But apparently people do that. So where there's a market, people are going to find it. There's no way anybody, any red-blooded American Rockets fan is spending $150 on these cheap-o-hot bobbleheads. How much does your kid cry and complain that they want it? Tell them, shut up and go mow some lawns. You get to make me $150. I'm just starting.

Nobody's doing their lawns anymore. You got a kid who's a big Rockets fan. He's like, Dad, it's Kevin Durray Ball. That's the saddest part. Once I was in the game and I'm walking, I'm seeing, I'm literally seeing them folding up the boxes because they ran out and there's kids coming into the game with their parents that aren't getting one because these dofuses are all collecting them. I don't care about that. Life's hard kid. So instead of the rocket saying, hey, let's give something really cool to our audience, they're basically feeding a group of people that are looking to take these things and turn them into a profit. I'm saying this, do the rockets really care if the tickets are sold?

well that's the thing is that would a sunday night six o'clock game or with orlando have a exactly there was there an extra attendance boost because of it well you tell me well put it this way you were in the building every game is sold out it has been so far sold out with air quotes whatever tickets how full is it been full is to tickets sold and people in the building are two different animals we've talked about that before you ever go through the wood forest lounge though there's a lot of people in there enjoying their cocktails that have seats down low and they're not sitting in their seats I know What's what I'm saying? Tickets are sold. Thankfully, I am the journalist working the game

and trying not having time to hang out with that journalist. Riff-Raff. They should sell just those tickets. Could I pay 50 bucks and just go hang out of the bar at Toyota Center? I don't need a seat. I just want to be in the building. I don't know how people do it at the bar because the prices of the bar. Oh, my God, $46 for a single beverage.

No, that's got to be a double. So last game, I ordered a, you know, like a white claw thing. and they can't give you the can. They have to pour into a cup. Well, the cup they poured in is that massive clear cup. It only fills up half of the cup. So then you feel like, you know what? They're like, do you want to double it?

And so you go, yeah, sure, I'll double it. So they pour a second one in there, and it fills up the cup. $36 for two white claws. I've never had a white claw before. Isn't it good? It's fine. It's all the celtzers are the same. It's like, yeah, it's the new Mike's Hard Lemonade or whatever.

Yeah, it's. It tastes like a seltzer water kind of with, And the alcohol taste is minimal, so it's good for training wheels drinkers. It's not a knock on, it's not a knock on to you. No, it's every same. I've been caught up before, maybe. But I see people getting up going to the bar four or five times during a game. Like, brother, you just dropped 400 bucks.

Well, Toman likes that very much. Everybody likes it. Everybody likes it. The Matt Thomas Center opens up. I'll be charged the same prices too because all I'm going to do the same. No, I can't afford it, but they tend to do it. Now, NRG did the same thing on their suite or the, what's that middle level called? the whatever that is. That's the cow section.

It's not the suites. It's the club level or whatever. They have bars now there with bar stools and you can sit back there and they got TVs. You could sit at the bar watching the game on TV and I'm going, why did you come to the game? You could do this at your corner pub.

Don't ask me. I don't know. Alcoholism culture. So just my general point, I just want you if you get a Biblehood, just give it to somebody you like or you're kids Or you flip it on eBay for 150 Ugh

But think of So did you buy the ticket Like because tickets aren't cheap It's not like you're I guess you get them like last second I don't know Maybe they have season tickets I don't know

I don't know how to have like Five six tickets That's where I'm like Where's the net value here I saw that with the guy with Astros Like a guy Had a whole group he collected At an Astros game

To collect these bobbleheads And then they were on eBay that night For $40 I'm like you probably spent $40 For the tickets With fees and everything else So what's your net profit here? I don't know.

If you're making, I don't know, let's say even 50 apiece. And you get 10 of them, 500 free bucks. So there's like a bobblehead society of guys that get together and say, hey, let's turn a profit on this together. Oh, there's a whole underworld out there. The bobblehead underworld. Deep beneath Houston, Texas. The bobblehead underworld.

How many bobblehead do you have? Probably about 100. Are you sure? It feels a little low. No, it's not that many. Does somebody make the cut? Do you ever, like, had to make roster cuts? Do you have a shelf cap where you have to get people, you know, like, not guaranteeing their final year?

They get called up to the big leagues? It's like, all right, Colby Rosmus with a ski mask. They've been called up. There are like, yeah, the former players, they get moved to the back. I mean, Bregman got moved. You're pressing Tucker bobbleheads in the way back. I would believe Breggman. Breggman still has a place in the front row.

Yeah, LSU, baby. My two favorites, though, are they did a limited edition Bun B-1, where he's standing on the corner outside Minut-Made. That's cool. And then I got one, Mike Jones, the other Houston rapper, Bumblehead. Kind of two different levels. So what's your most expensive Bumblehead? Like, if you sold every one of them on eBay, which one would get you the biggest return? I don't know if the boxes anymore, so I wouldn't get full value.

But the B1B owns like $100. Okay. Yeah, so you don't be like Gordy. Drink White Claws and enjoy your bobbleheads. Sounds like a time there. I don't know. You get your one bobblehead. It's a little...

Isn't it white claws of girls drink anyway? It's a little peculiar, though. Hold on. Cranberry vodka guy. So a family of five walked in. The mom, the dad, the three kids, and two of the kids are real little. And every one of them is holding a bobblehead. I'm like, why do they need five? I feel like you come a family of...

I get it. But if you're a family of five, you get one. I'm sorry. No, we can't get one from the family. Now you're all in the same house. Isn't that so what? You're all going to have this Kevin Dore to share it. They're not going to, you know,

get it on Tuesdays, Timmy, and you get it on Wednesdays, Jenny. You don't pull the head off either. You get two because the kid's probably going to break. Now you're doing out of here. Now you're doing LSU math. That's terrible. Go get ready for a game against Central family now, baby. Who are they playing this week?

Somebody sucks. LSU? I don't know. Central Arkansas or something like that. Louisiana Tech. Are you all playing Western Kentucky? Yeah, there we go. Oh, geez. Auburn's got Mercer. Bamma's got Eastern Illinois. Who's Texas got Sanford. Texas

Arkansas. Conference game. Oh, right. The Texas Christian. Sark was crying about, we played all our dog concerts early in the season. We don't get a break. By the way, we're going to hear from Sark coming back on the break. Wow. Oh, no. Yeah, we are. What did he say? You'll find out next. I'll extend them. He needs a 15-year

extension, folks. 134. The market's open. A minute of Sark goodness next. All right. We mentioned earlier today that weekly press conferences around the SEC that would include Head football coach Steve Sarkisian at the University of Texas. I have not heard this, but I will say in fairness, Ross, that two Texas A&M grads, friends of the show, sent me this and said, you got to play this today.

Oh, really? Aggie's got long horns on the mind. That's shocking. Needless to say, there may be a spot where Rossi, you may not be overly pleased with what is being discussed. Okay. Again, I can't speak to that for sure. But here is Steve Sarkozyan, and I'll make sure I lead into this properly here. Oh. He didn't talk about anybody going to the bathroom, man, didn't he?

No, he was asked if his team has underachieved. Oh, my God. That's into who voted us number one. Okay, what I think is that this team has competed their tail off. They've been faced with a lot of different adversity and injuries, and a lot of stuff has come across this team's plate. I'm very proud of them with their resiliency. You know, at the end of the day, at the University of Texas, we're held to a very high standard.

And the standard is to compete for championships year in and year out. And we're going to play the best teams in the country. We're going to schedule the best teams in the country. But by the end of the season, we'll play of our 12 regular season opponents. Five of those teams will be top 10 teams when we played them. So nearly half our schedule. And we have an opportunity at the end of the regular season to do something that nobody's done since 2019. And that's beat three top 10 ranked teams in the regular season.

Last team to do that was LSU with Joe Burrow. So have we been faced with a pretty difficult schedule? Have we been faced with high expectations? Sure. But that's why we came here. So we'll be okay. He was starting off on a, well, we have a really difficult schedule. And I was like, you created this.

And then he eventually did say, well, we signed up for this. So I was going to back off. I'm going to back off on the criticism of that. Because he has to. He said we signed up for this. Yeah, I would say it's been an underachievement of the very high expectations, but Steve Sarkeeson didn't vote the team number one overall.

Well, maybe he did, actually. No, he got the coach. He definitely did. Coach's boy, he might have. He didn't, it was in everybody. It's unachieving. Preseason number ones are supposed to be in the top 10 for most of the season. Not necessarily been number one all season long. I mean, that people are supposed to be.

Nobody expects any more in the world of the SEC, especially, to go undefeated. Now, Big Ten may be a little bit different. Indiana and Ohio State would back you up on that, but SEC is supposed to speed each other up. I just don't know if three losses was on the agenda, but there was certainly a possibility for that to happen. There was nobody thinking that they were going to go to Ohio State, and that was a game-y victory. And there was no automatic thought that they were going to go into this SEC slate and not leave. lose at least one, if not two games, which they have. I thought two, three losses, maybe even four before the season.

So I don't know if my expectations, it depends on what happens the rest of the season. Of course, you have to take care of business against Arkansas at home, and then you have to beat the Aggies. Otherwise, it is four losses, I think, is a massive underachievement. Nine and three with this schedule, it's fine. It's not great. It's basically mid. Because, I mean, we do have to remember that even if it's your own. nine and three. Three of those wins are against what?

San Jose State, Utep, and San Antonio. UT San Antonio. So the Florida loss, bad. Oklahoma win, good. Vanderbilt win, good. Ohio State and the Georgia losses, not great, and especially the way that

it ended up with the final score against Georgia. Will you allow me to please look at 2026 schedule? Sure, if you want. Okay, I'm going to do it real quick. I think it's Michigan. No, no, it's Ohio State at home. It's the big one. Texas State at home. Ohio State at home, UTSA at home. Well, you guys aren't going anywhere.

They went to Ohio State this year. It's called home and home, Matt. OU and Dallas, at LSU, at Missouri, at Tennessee. What did you say? At LSU? At LSU. At Missouri, at Tennessee, home Arkansas, home Florida, home Mississippi State, home old miss, at fighting Texas A&M.

At the greatest coach of all time, Mike Elko. It's going to still be there, too. Yeah. Got a new deal then. The reason I brought this up. Nine and three this year, right? High in? You said at Tennessee too?

Oh, Lordy. Nine and three next year? Any heat? No, we'll see. Any heat? Maybe Arch gets better. See what's happened? The recruiting class, I think is top ten-ish.

Yeah. Money's coming in still good? It's hard to win, man. Hard to win. All we do at U of H is win, win, win, win. We'll never won a championship ever. We're getting closer, though. Close we've ever been.

No, that's not what you. Literally, that's the least thing you do. Unless you're talking about golf in the 70s. Nope. All right. Message for you, kookfan.com losers. What? You take more shots than than I do.

Yeah, they started. I'm going to finish it. Okay. Losers go to the game on Saturday. No excuses. Three o'clock. Have you guys back in the top 25 yet? Yeah, we're back in the top 25.

Thanks for asking. And the tickets for $25. for the Saturday game against TCU. $25. Just see a top 25 team. Correct. In the sprawling metropolis that is Houston, Texas. Yes, let's go. With 300,000 alumni base in the team, in the city.

Actually, Matt, you got a caller early in the morning, got mad at you because he didn't play any U of H highlights. Oh, yeah, Matt. See, you're not doing your job, Matt. I don't have you of H highlights. You're always bringing the team down. I don't have any highlights. Oh, we carry my 95, but number 25 in the AP, nice.

And we got dropped from one. to two in basketball, which is utterly ridiculous. Well, that doesn't matter. U of H versus TSTU, 8 and 2 the Cougars nationally in the top 25. It's senior night. Come early, they'll be honoring the seniors. We want you to be there. $25 for a 3 p.m. tilt against the hated Texas Christian University frogs.

I think I'm going to say that all week just to piss them off. Texas Christian and U of H. This Saturday, 3 o'clock, TDUCU Stadium, 713, go Cougs. Saturday's 79 degrees at kick time. 79, not 99, not 49, 79 degrees, be there. 713, go Coogs, UHCougers.com slash tickets. Get your tickets for Houston and TCU, Saturday 3 p.m. TDCU Stadium. Be there.

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whether or not C.J. Stroud and J. Petrie are going to be available for the game against the Buffalo Bills on Thursday. For those of you that have a rooting interest in it, from a betting standpoint, the Buffalo Bills are a three-and-a-half-point favorite. Thursday, 7-20, if the Texans are going to be legitimately a playoff contender,

they have to win this game. Thus, Rossi, it would make it a really need. to win game. Not a must. Now, if you don't know, there is a three-way tie with two other teams at five and five. I would have never in a million years would have thought

Houston, Baltimore, and Kansas City would have all been five and five. They are seeds eight, nine, and ten in the AFC. Top seven make it. Who's in the seventh spot? The Jacksonville Jaguars, who throttled the Los Angeles Chargers

yesterday. But lost to the Texans the week before. Now, you could have multiple teams with the same record, so it's going to come down to, I think, conference record. Okay. And I believe the Texans will do okay in that. Yeah, they lost to the Rams and the who else, Buccaneers. Mm-hmm.

So, yeah, take care of business in the AFC. TCB, as BTO says. Tomorrow. Gut feeling. Texans make the playoffs yesterday or no, tomorrow. We'll see. 11.30. Why are you smiling?

What do you mean? Why do you mean? I'm not smiling. You're excited. let's go baby batterette they gotta beat somebody good first why because that's all I got left well they got Las Vegas still any of the Raiders in there somewhere Las Vegas no they're done with the Titans down with Titans can't dang it done with Jacksonville dang two Colts games left oh Arizona there's two wins yeah feeling good got the Chiefs too you know

Chiefs are mad oh chiefs in Kansas City you are high of the tight you drink you drink too many you drink too many white claws of the Rockets game last night. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply call it B. Leave it or not. And here's that it works. You call 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Ross, I have no idea what the category is. It's Matthew Wright and Davis Mills. Matthew Wright and Davis-Mill. Two backups helping out the cause. If you get two statements about these gentlemen, and they're completely utterly accurate,

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