The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans Suck, JJ Watt's Future & Watson's QB Tier

Episode Date: October 26, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 1202 and H-town. What's happening in lunch timers? Good afternoon to you. And we welcome you to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Lockside Ross and Brendan.

I'm Matt. It is very nice to have you with us. and for the second consecutive week, as I drive in from my southeast Nacadoches home into the gallery area to broadcast his show, I think to myself, what song could we play to open up the Matt Thomas show for a Monday after another Texan's loss?

Now, last week was just aggravating because it was overtime and there was a chance for the Texans to win it. This was just a beat down yesterday. In Ross, I find myself in a world of hurt because I can't find songs that revolve around you suck, you're awful, you're so bad. I mean, I could do that, but I'd have to go 40 to 50 years back in the music library, and I don't want to play songs that people have never heard of before. Why not, Matt?

Well, I mean, as long as it works. Yeah, that's true. But I guess the bigger question is, gang, I can't find songs that match the futility that can be found. in a basically Lambeau Field South crowd. I'm not going to... I'm not going to Texas again this year. It's a ginormous waste of time. So I like to watch the game on television.

And I got home from Washington, D.C. very early Sunday morning, so I was in and out of napping. Oh, wow, they let you back in? They did. No quarantine either, ironically enough. And it was Green Bay. It was every time something happened with Devante Adams, which apparently was, I don't know, other play.

The Packer fans, and it's funny, Fox didn't really show a lot of that. They were probably smart not to show so many road fans in the home stadium. But man, oh man, it was Green Bay in Lambeau Field South. How many, I mean, if you went to the game, you got to let me know. How many yards did it take for you not to find a clump of Green Bay fans? Because that's all it felt like to me. It's all we ever heard. And a lot of the reporters who were there kept talking about all the chance

the defense chance at the end of the game while the Texans had the ball and things like that. By the way, so many little things to get to. And I don't know what's left in the body and soul of Texans fans. I mean, at some point, Ross and I talked about this before we came on the show, apathy is going to really start to kick in. We felt it a little bit last week. It's really going to, with a by-week, really going to seep into our souls.

But Tim Kelly is an awful offensive coordinator. He doesn't have the, what do you call it, the nipple of Bill O'Brien to suck on to keep his job here. Ross, they're down three touchdowns and they're running it to David Johnson in first and second down. Matt, you got to move the ball. No, you don't. Not with him, you don't. I don't know if you're paying any attention out there, but we move the ball in the second half. All right, we got some field goals.

He sucks. Eric Murray sucks. This team sucks. It sucks. Ironically enough, I predicted, as I think all three of us did, I don't know how you guys did on the point spread on Sunday. I was wrong. You had Texans?

I said it was going to be a shootout. Texans didn't hold up their end of the bargain. Okay. So I put a $3,000 M.T dollar buck wager on the... I should have gone five like I did the last week. I went on my other bets, though. Okay, good for you.

So what was I going with this? You don't know what we thought about the game. You said, I don't know what you guys said. Okay, I've already forgotten. That's fine. You were going to talk about how you predicted the game. Yeah, so I got the game right. I just don't know at one point, are they, oh, I know what it was.

I predict them to lose this game, but didn't I go through week to week last Monday or Tuesday in the show? I still have them finishing 7 and 9, which I feel like a complete idiot because the schedule does soften up. Yeah, it does soften up. But the Texans are soft themselves. But they're so soft that I can't predict them to go 6 and 3 the rest of the way. That'd be stupid. Well, let me put it to you this way. Let's think about it.

If we're on Jaguars radio right now, this game coming up. Are we on Jaguars Radio talking about this as a loss? No. Here in Houston Radio, we're talking about it as a win. Especially with them being the home team next two weeks. No, here right now, we're like, oh, they'll beat the Jaguars next week. Jaguars, in Jaguars Radio, like, okay, we got a chance. Yeah, Cleveland Brown's Radio in three weeks.

Is Cleveland Browns Radio saying, oh, Texans are coming in town? Yeah. I don't know if we're going to win this one. Patriots Radio. Ooh, Patriots Radio loves this game. They're struggling, but Patriots Radio is like, okay, it's time for Cam Newton to get right against his Texans' defense. lions, Colts, Bears, Bengals, Titans, Radio. Are any of those saying, oh, oh, Houston, Texas is coming to town?

I don't know if we're going to be able to win this one. So I unfortunately have to take a loss on what I think is going to be a 7-9 season, even after I knew they were going to lose this Sunday. You went 9-7-9. You can recalibrate. It's like when you were in the middle of all the Astro series. I feel like I'm in a hotel where the thermometer just isn't right for the room. You know how when you first get to a hotel room, you put it on.

62 to get as cold as possible. By the way, hotels will never let you get down that low. Oh, I try. It may say 62, but it's really 73. Certainly if they feel like you're paying too much or something like that. You try to screw them on something. You try to, but it just never works out. So then constantly you're up in night, you're trying to adjust to just get the right temperature.

I don't know what the temperature of the Texans is, except it sucks. Jack Easterby and Bill O'Brien have screwed you. Texans, Darlene, um, Battle Red Rob, whatever you want to call yourself. Your team is screwed. It's,

uh, it's a bad situation. It's like you just bought a house and then you found out the foundation is cracked and it needs a new roof. And you already paid. And you overpaid. Oh, actually not only did it,

you paid cash. Oh, you already paid cash. Yes. You overpaid and it's, and there are going to be some issues. They're going to take a long time to fix. And oh, by the way,

you can get rid of the good parts of the house. Like you got a dining room table that's awesome. But that dining room table that you paid $6,000 for, your neighbor down the hall and down the street wants to give you $1,500 for it. Dang. That's not good. You bought this amazing outdoor patio that you think is, well, you know,

retail value was $3,500. You thought it was so good you paid $11,000 for it. Jack Cunningham, wouldn't be merciless. You get my drift on that. Okay. Everything about your house sucks. You overpaid for things? Oh, oh, by the way, your quarterback's really good.

So it's in a good neighborhood. He's not amazing. Yeah, I said it. I said it. I'm sorry. I'm not talking to say it hard. It's sorry to you. I'm just saying sorry to Texans Beaufort.

Texans Beaufort. Texans Buford's not happy about this, Matt. Neither is Texans Mortimer. But, you know, I've been talking about this as well because what do we say all off season is? Well, you know, Deshaun Watson is on the cusp. And when people say bright young talents at quarterback, you start with, of course, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson. A lot of people throw Russell Wilson in there.

And then the next name usually out of people's mouths has been Deshaun Watson, but he hasn't been close to that tier. He just hasn't been there at all. That's true. That's true. That's true. watching last night's game, Kyler Murray has jumped him.

Let me tell you something. If Joe Burrow gets some people around him, he may jump him. Josh Allen. Didn't have a great day yesterday. He threw for over 300 yards. I'd still take the Sean over Josh Allen. But if you look at the numbers of the season,

it's not even close. It's true. This is a absolute train wreck. You know how you see train wrecks and you try to not avoid them? I actually want to look at this thing. And I want to see how bad it gets. And that starts with trading everybody that anybody will take.

And here's the problem, Rossi. Other teams know this. Other teams know that the Texans don't have any draft capital. No first and second round pick. Other teams know the Texans are way over the salary cap. Now, the only benefit the Texans have is that there are a bunch of teams in the NFL this year. It feels like way more than in previous years are on the cusp of making the playoffs, on the cusp of winning their conference championships.

Do you think the AFC is wide open or is at Kansas City and everybody else is a distant second? Kansas City looks a little vulnerable. Yeah, Kansas City doesn't look perfect. They beat up on Baltimore, but I think they're still up there. The Steelers are really good. Tennessee looks good. But all these teams we just said need one more player of some sort. Yeah, I think the AFC is open.

I think it's fair to say that, yes. So what do you do? You need an extra receiver to help you get that third and five? Do you want that downfield threat? Do you want one of the greatest defensive players in the last decade to come help you, maybe play two or three downs? And get reinvigorated? Because JJ's pissed at life. JJ Watt looked like he wanted to be anywhere else but in RG Stadium.

And that's why. And that's why I said he would have loved to been traded midgame to be able to take the flight to Green Bay home. He could have gotten a room at the Green Bay airport. It'd been fine. It'd be okay. I'm telling you. I probably wouldn't have to pay for it. The Houston Texans have got to move.

several players. Do I think they're going to? No. Will they move one or two? I would certainly believe that. But Rossi, you have to start grabbing draft capital. You have to load up on third and fourth run picks. There probably isn't a player on the Texas team that can get you a second, maybe with the exception of JJ Watt. But you may have to bundle that together. I don't think JJ by himself gets you a second. But if you throw a possession receiver in the mix as well, like if for instance, if the Packers wanted Randall Cobb back. Randall Cobb and J.J. Watt for a second and something else, you probably could see that potentially happening.

How about you throwing a dynamic running back who's only making $10 million this year? Okay. When the Texans get one, let me know. Because at this point, they don't. Gang, and I don't assume that everybody is a Texans fan, but I also presume that a lot of people that listen to this show are, your squad is screwed. And Jackie Serbri is the one in. charge before November 3rd.

Just let that sink in a little bit. He can make trades. I don't want that to sink in. But here's the thing. Other teams know how Texans, how vulnerable the Texans are, and thus they'll get screwed. So it's going to be a bunch of third, fourth, fifth round picks, unless you can throw JJ in the mix and get in the second round.

The Texans would have had the fifth pick if the NFL season ended today, except the fact that Bill O'Brien and Jack Easterby moved that first and second round pick to Miami. the Miami Dolphins are foaming at the mouth on potentially having a top five pick for next year's draft. Your team is screwed. Your team sucks. Your team's defense is atrocious. And Eric Murray would have a better chance, would have as good a chance of bringing down Devante Adams as I would have had on Sunday.

I've lost some weight. I'm not nearly as athletic as Eric Murray, but I feel like the desire for me to bring down Devonta Adams would have been significantly higher than what I saw yesterday from the Texan safety. Hold on. I'm just picturing you in a full-on uniform in the helmet and shoulder pads. Put me in number 29. Number 29? I was 99 back in my portlier days. Oh, you were? Yeah.

I was more alignment, but I can play safety now. Okay. You're converted. I am. Still don't mean I'm going to stop any, but if I'm going to try. Usually it's like a corner that gets converted to safety. You're going from D-Line to Safety. That's not, it doesn't usually have.

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it's like it talks like Morgan Freeman almost. Okay, well, we get that. Your rewind at 130, and I have a fast food story. I've got to get off my chest about a restaurant that I love. But they continue to get the order wrong, and I've just had it. Shonis? There's no more shonies wrong, but not a bad try.

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It is a Texan suck Monday, 1219 on Sports Talk 790. And I, God, it's just brutal. Because I was in Washington, D.C. over the weekend with the U of H and Navy, and they're thinking, okay, you know what, Redskins got something going, and Dallas comes in, wounded.

And there's no Redskins, Matt. They're the Washington football team. Yeah, Washington football team. Jeez. And they're getting fans, and they had fans of their game for the first time this year. Slowly but surely, things are moving around, and then come to find out today that ESPN is squashing the bubble for their preseason basketball tournaments for college basketball. Why are they doing that?

Because ESPN has different protocols than these colleges do. They want them to quarantine for 14 days, and these colleges are like, no, we're not doing that. These are student athletes, Matt. that want to play, that don't want to be stuck in their house. Yeah. So they're like, screw it. We're not doing it. Can't agree.

All right. J.J. Watt mentioned this last week, Rossi, has to be traded. 100%. It's not going to happen because Cal is right now at lunch. Well, he's, I think Hannah brought him lunch again today. Again, what you bring? All right. Now, two weeks ago or three weeks ago when they fired Bill O'Brien, he was eating chicken

salad on Triscuits with sliced cheddar cheese and grapes. when Hannah doesn't come to have lunch with him, he orders ribs in. And he puts a big napkin all over his chest. Well, since you went to a chicken salad with grapes, like he's a kid, I thought you were going to say he has like the little pretzel sticks with the cheese.

No, no, adult people, no. Adult people can have chicken salad on Triscuits. I've done that before. When's the last time you had chicken salad on Triscuits? Within the last 45 days. Yeah. You go to the store, you get this Tarragon chicken salad, H-E-B. You put it on crackers.

You eat it. You have some grapes and cheese and call it about it. I did that maybe like eight years ago. Okay, well, different strokes were different folks. So what is Cal having for lunch today? You said he's ordering in ribs? No, no, that's when Hannah's not there. Oh, she's not there.

She is there. She is there. I said it's not going to. I'm going to go with a toss Caesar salad. Okay. Extra grated cheese, extra parmesan cheese because he likes the white sprinkles. Coutons or not? Yeah, of course. Likes the white sprinkles.

Is that a cocaine reference? No, it's Parmesan cheese. He likes the white cheese. He can't say Parmesan. It's just easier to say white cheese. Okay. The stinky white cheese. Is that what he says?

What he puts his bib on? So he's got the salad. He's got a bib on because he doesn't want to get the dressing all over his tie. I'm sure you're out of control. Yeah, come on in. J.J. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Trade my ass.

Hi, J.J. I know things are tough. Aren't you going on vacation? I said trade my ass. It worked for firing Bill O'Brien. If JJ is smart, he's doing what he's doing. Boom, boom, boom. Rumbling in like he's the brawny paper towel guy.

Trade me. No. Let me go to Green Bay. Did he say Fifi Fofum when he walked down? He did whatever. Green giant. That's what he wants. He says, I want to be a green giant.

A Green Bay giant. A Green Bay giant. Boom, boom, boom. Then he walks out. And Hannah's like, you got a little Caesar dressing on your chin there. and you got some of that white funky cheese you get some crouton debris in your beard yeah that happens

and your mustache that fine stash and by way I love your stash honey that's how today so what does he say then he can't figure that out at this point he's finishing his lunch okay meanwhile jack he used to be like

oh j j j why went up to cow's office what are supposed to do think he's gonna fire me too because he's got the power he does no he jack used to be like I'm watching Joel Osteen in his office. No, but he knows that JJ went up to Cal's office.

Does he? Oh, absolutely. He does. He does. He's got little birdies? He's got birdies. Okay. He's like, what was the name of that, that eunuch in, in Game of Thrones?

You're not, you're asking the wrong person. You're right. Varis. He's like, Varis? This is it going over your head. Yeah, let's explain it. Brendan, do you get it? Yeah, I got you.

Thank you. Just Veris was number one bald. Well, okay. Number two, duplicitous. Ooh, big word. And number three, he had little birdies all around. Yeah, Jack's got birdies around there. Because Jack's going to write recommendations for those people to go find jobs elsewhere

when this new general manager and hopefully his new coach cleans out the entire department. Jack Easterby is the Varus of the Houston Texans organization. Why don't you put that on Twitter and see what kind of reaction you get? Okay. Do you believe he has the same good intentions? Does he want to succeed? I would say probably yes. Is he looking out for the Houston Texans?

Well, he's looking at the end, Veris. was always looking out for himself, though. No, I think Jack wants... Yeah. He said he was protecting the realm, but I don't know if he was. Jack's wants the Texas Dwayne. I don't believe he doesn't. I just think that he knows that he can't do it. He is way over his head. Everything in this organization is moving way too fast for a guy that was a chaplain three years ago. And now is the interim general manager. God, this team. I don't know how you do it. I don't know, and I've always said this every year.

I don't know how the Uber diehard Texan fan does it. Because even Uber and diehard Cowboy fan knows what it's like to have a ring on, right? Well, if they've been born in the last 25 years, they don't. True, but at least 42-year-old fan, 31-year-old fan knows how it is. Yeah, vague memories.

Vaguely. But there's nobody here that knows the pinnacle of excitement. Nobody knows what it's like to get to a championship game. The most exciting moment for me covering the Texans was the first game ever. Sure to that. Everything is falling. Billy Miller. David Carl holding his, holding the number, what do you have the number one finger

up with his helmet off? Yeah, that's it. That's what the Texans are. The first game was the best game. Big Dan in Cyprus at 1225. Hi, Big Dan. Hey, Matt, what's going on, man, and join the show. Thank you.

You guys are killing it. I wanted to help you out. I know you're OG, man. You know these old-school songs. You got to teach them to these young groups. You know, they got to know. They got to know about these relationships as well. And so the phone that I came up with, and I think it would really help out,

it's about a Delphanich. It's called Tear it down and start over again. So if you could play that, you would help us all move forward and embracing our new future, okay? And what is it called again? Tear it down by the Delphonics. Yeah. All right, tear it down.

Brendan, let's come back from the break. I only know, didn't I blow your mind by the day? We'll play some Texans low lights over it. Didn't I blow your mind, baby? All right. Hey, thank you very much. I appreciate that very much. That helps out tremendously.

By the way, our buddy's CEO, faux show. Jack Easterby is retweeting like a mother sitting in the last two days, three days. He has three new treats. And they're all from the same website. Well, yeah, he keeps retweeting growing leaders. He's got no comments. He actually has got one comment on one of them. And it says,

Oh, it's, well, do we need, if we're going to go through these, do we need Jackie's to be tweet music? Are we going to save it for tomorrow? We'll knock it out today. It's up to you. You know what we're going to do and come back. We're going to play that song that our caller just brought up. We're going to see if it matches the low lights that Devante Adams catches for touchdowns. And then we're going to play that.

And then we're going to hear from JJ Wad to show you how really pissed off he is. His press conferences continue to get shorter and shorter and shorter and shorter. What's talking about, Roamie? 1 o'clock. It's 1226. The Matt Thomas show continues. You're welcome to join us all throughout the day. 713212.5. 790. 710. 719. It's your home of fastest baseball. This song is so depressing. So while I've never heard it before, it's a good fit. I would never play it again. This will be the only time the song has ever played on this show

because we've got to play songs that people actually recognize. But, you know, I appreciate the effort of somebody saying, hey, I got the definitive song for you. What is the name of it again? Something by the Delphonics. Tear it down. Tear it down. Yeah, we need to tear it down.

Well, you have a franchise quarterback? You have a Tier 1 quarterback. Well, Tier 2. No, I think Tier 1 is franchise. guys. Don't you think? Yeah, I think so. He's tier two.

He's significantly... You can win with... He's putting his feet firmly in the tier two category. Because Matt Ryan won with Atlanta and Matt Ryan's not Tier 1. That's true. Tier 1. Let's go to the tier 1.

Ryan's actually playing kind of well. But in theory, though, if you look at the career of Matt Ryan, he is really, really good. He's never going to franchise... He's never in any one point in his life, but in the quarterback that you start your franchise with. You can start a franchise with Pat Mahomes. You can start a franchise with Lamar Jackson.

You can start a franchise with Russell Wilson. You start a franchise with Aaron Rogers. John Watson is second in the NFL in yards. 15 touchdowns, five interceptions. Three to one's fantastic. But stats aren't everything. I test is he's really, really, really, really, really good. but even Romeo yesterday was kind of saying there were some times that some passes needed to be completed.

Yeah, the stats don't tell when the completions were dropped or the pass was not thrown effectively or he should have run for the first down as compared. I mean, yeah, stats are huge, but they're not everything. And I watch Deshaun and I go, you're really good. You deserve a much better fate than you have you have been given so far in your Texan's career. But he's not outplaying his team, not to the point where, I mean, Aaron Roger. can have a defense that gives up 40 points in particular game, and he's just going to go out there and say, I'm going to go beat them.

I'm going to win the game 424. Case in point, Ross, the two-point conversion last week against Tennessee. I feel like that Pat Mahomes would have been able to figure out a way to get that two-point conversion made. So even though the Texans defense gave up as many points they did, as much as Derek Henry ran up and down the field, the Texans with quarter of the first. quarterback like Pat Mahomes left Nashville last Sunday with a victory.

Deshaun Watson not Pat Mahomes and I don't think he's ever going to be. Nope. That's what I'm saying. He is in the tier of ridiculously good. He's not in the, you know, you know how there's the chairman's club and then there's the like the gold ambassadors. I don't know your country club terms, Matt. That's just not a world I live in. I think you can figure it out.

Context clues. Okay. I'm usually, they only let me through the back entrance. We get to play on Mondays. 713-21-2-5-7-90. One guy who needs to be moved, and I will continue to say this until the trade deadline passes

and he doesn't get moved. Is J.J. Watt. This is a man who doesn't want to be here anymore. J.J., what's it like chasing Aaron Rogers and getting close to him and then found out he's already completed, a great pass down the field? What do you think that's like?

JJ, we kind of asked these questions several times this year, but now you're going into the by-week at one and six, what are your feelings about this team going forward? Got to get better. As a leader, as a veteran on the team, what do you tell your teammates the way the state of the season, state of the team right now, as far as holding it together, keeping it together? Show up to work and do your job.

JJ, how would you assess your level of confidence in this defense and in this team right now, considering where everything is? I mean, we're one and six. You are what your record says you are. You can talk about the way Rogers played today and compare it to the ways you'd seen him play earlier and when you guys played against him? He played very well today. Would he do that made him play well?

Through the ball to the receivers and they caught. Jay, J.J., you all came close last week in the second half. Your defense had several stops in a row. So there was a chance if something could happen if your office could have done something. Do you see any light at the end of the tunnel for this team going forward? Just got to go to work. Get better. J.J., how did you characterize your emotions at this point?

Just kind of, I would say it's frustrating. It's tough for night. accustomed to losing around here and you won a lot of football games over the years. What's this like for you personally? Frustrated, I'm angry. It sucks. I don't know. I don't know what else I'm supposed to feel.

You know, when the questions to a press conference or availability are longer than the answers, you know it's a tough day. And look, I have been in those availabilities before whether it be in person. You have to soft pedal the questions as much as you can. because if you flat out really want to ask a question that you really want to ask, it can get ugly really quick. For instance, if we had a Truth Serum press conference after JJ, two questions out of the gate, get go. How pissed off are you that your team defensively took Devante Adams for credit and treated him so poorly in the first quarter that he continued to, gash you for yards and first downs and touchdowns.

And then at some point during the interview, you would then say, JJ, do you really want to be here? You really can't ask an athlete, 15 minutes after an ass kicking, if he still wants to be a member of the Texans. But that's the first thing you had to thought of, right? As you were watching the game yesterday, didn't, weren't you thinking JJ would rather be anywhere else but here.

That's what it looked like. Even when he was getting attacked, he got a tackle for loss at some point in the second half. And everybody was hitting him on the helmet and a, he wanted no part of it. It looked like he was, someone just told him that his dog got hit by a car. Yeah. And all by the way, enough of this guitar crap.

I didn't think they did it yesterday. But no more guitar crap. When you're one and six, you don't get to play your guitar on the field. I don't care if you think you're Jimmy Hendricks. It's not going to work. You cannot be Jimmy Hendricks when you're five games under 500 and your team is one of the worst defenses in the NFL. I hope we see it this weekend. There's no chance you're seeing this weekend.

Why not? What if they, what if they, not this week in the next weekend. Oh, dang. Yeah, you're so smart. No, no, no, no. You cannot go to Jacksonville, a team that sucks as much as you do, and play the air guitar. Why not? Because you're a douche if you do that.

I think we might see it if they blow them out or something. Really? If they're up 30, if Deshawn Watson throws a touchdown to Will Fuller to go up 34 to 14 in the end of that game, he can't celebrate? No. Why not? Because you're beating up the team as bad as you are. You suck, they suck, your wins are going to suck. Why would you do that?

Okay, well, I'm going to guarantee you he's going to celebrate. That just showed you the mentality of a team then. They don't really care about their one in six. Because JJ was by himself yesterday trying to get after Aaron Rogers, and he had no feelings of celebration. He didn't want to do his, you know, salute and the, you know, shooting jump shots. They've been down multiple touchdowns before, and JJ Watt has celebrated and saluted and preened and all that type of stuff. Absolutely he's done that.

But this is different. He wants out of here. And as soon as he goes upstairs, while Cal's finishing his chicken Caesar salad and getting this thing done, it will get done. Okay. And Cal's not on the phone with other teams. No, but Cal can say, Jack, can you trade JJ, please? Bye. Why has he become porky pig all of a sudden?

I've made him cartoon characters because that's what the car. It's a cartoon character franchise. Mickey Mouse operation? Is that what you're saying, Matt? No, I mean, you can use whatever you want, but it's just. Rossi, the fifth pick of the draft is there for the Texans. Oh, but it's not. And Laramie's played well.

I mean, I'm not saying that Laramie hasn't played well, but God. David Johnson has been a disaster. Oh, by the way, DeAndre Hopkins, when he's not interrupting Trump rallies, has 10 catches for 100 yards and a touchdown. He wasn't interrupting. He was just driving by a caravan, apparently. Apparently, middle fingering and swerving in and out of people to stop it. Okay, DeAndre, that's cool.

Was he swerving? I didn't see that part. Well, somebody tweeted, said that you were, that he was, there was a tweet out there that's not making DeAndre sound particularly good. Now, again, that could be embellishment. It could be true. I mean, he is driving a Lamborghini. You swerve in and out when you drive a Lamborghini, man. That's what you can.

That's what comes to the vehicle. You don't drive a little Lamborghini to get in the carpool lane. Joshua on 790 at 1240. Hi, Josh. Joshua. Hello, Joshua. Hey, first of all, Deson Watson has people, pass blocking that he should get on there behind like Tom Brady does.

I saw a tight end, I'm 85, not able to block a defensive back. And I'm like, are you serious? And then I saw number 31. I don't even know his name. Missed a lineback. He didn't even look at the linebacker coming straight up the middle. And I'm saying to myself, why aren't these guys making these pickups? a quarterback gets shell-shocked when he gets hit all these times, and it's just unbelievable the way all these things are happening.

If I was him, just like I just said, if I was DeShan, I would get in those offensive liners face, the tight-end face, the running-back's face, I say, did you see that guy coming? Why didn't you hit him? I saw the running back go down for a cut block on a defensive back. who does that you're supposed to grab him in his chest hold him as long as you're in front of him you can hold him

and he should be on his back he should be on his back you can hold a running back you can hold a defensive back I didn't realize that was a good no no no no you can hold anybody when you pass blocking you can hold him in the chest as long as you're engaged in front of him if he goes around you have to let him go

but as long as you're in front of him you can hold right up in his chest they don't even call that and when you hold him in his chest you drive him in the ground that's just the way it goes that's the way you play football you don't play football going down

at a defensive back knees if you're a running back that just makes me upset and the child has to deal with all of this but he needs to get his he needs to get his languages together and tell these guys, you guys have to block.

I can't survive with all this stuff coming at me all the time. I mean, you can't be a nice guy all the time. You have to go crazy like Tom Brady does. All right. Thanks, Josh, for the phone call. Appreciate it. That running back, you're speaking of it that you didn't know was David Johnson, 31. So, what a mess.

I don't have a problem with running back's cut. line people. I don't care what their size is. Whatever it does to clear path. Did you feel like that Deshawn was overly feeling the heat? I thought it was an average game in terms of heat. No, I didn't think he was running for his life the whole time. A little bit in the second half, but I think over the balance of the game. I mean the first half, but a little over the balance of the game, no, I didn't think so.

I mean, he faces as much pressure as Aaron Rogers did. Aaron Rogers is better. Yeah, he's just better. He's just, you know, Deshawn sometimes you know, gets too much of the, well, if he had people around him. Sometimes he's just not going to be as good as, you know. This year, he's gone against Pat Mahomes. He's gone against Lamar Jackson.

He's gone against Aaron Rogers. That's a pretty tough little trio right there, right? Oh, and Van Rathsburger. Has he outplayed any of the four of them? I wouldn't say so, no. No. That's what the tier ones do. The tier ones go beyond and go against the other tier ones and outperforming them.

But this isn't on him. This really isn't on here. I don't want this to be the message. It's not his fault. The Texans gave up 35 points and 196 yards to Devonde. The defense is terrible. It's the Texans administration's fault that they thought that Eric Murray could stop people in the NFL because he had never shown any signs of doing it on a full-time basis.

Not only did they sign him here to be a starter, but they gave him ridiculously high amounts of money. These are the amount of points the Texans have gotten up this year. 34, 33, 28, 31, 14 to the Jaguars, and the win, and then 42 and 35. Unless it's the Jaguars, you're giving up a minimum 28. By the way, our buddy Jones says, oh, by the way, Dwayne Brown looked great as usual, protecting Wilson. Carlos Hyde ran very well. Add those to your list of by the ways. You get that right. This is Craig Vigio. Vigio.

Back to Matt Thomas on Sports Talk, 790. Oh, we're having some fun. You're home of the Stros. Speaking of the Stroes, would you like some good news on this otherwise depressing Houston Sports Monday? Yes. Go check out my Twitter account at SportsMT. Never heard of it. Well, you should because I've been mentioning it to you for basically eight or nine years.

Go check out the photo or the video that I retweeted from Chandler Rome. Yaron Alvarez is on a treadmill and he's running. That's all I got to say. Do you hear any creaking? No, he looks like he's thinner. Good. I don't hear any... What?

Yeah, I never thought of him as fat. Oh, bulky. Yeah, he's strong. That's what I'm saying. So, I mean, put the muscle back on. Maybe a little leaner. Yeah, the muscles barreling up balls with the, you know, high exit velocity as you like, man. But the problem is the big bulk can cause the creek.

That's the creaky knees. No, let's keep him strong. It'd be fine. He's just got to hit and walk to first. Just go look at him. No first to third. No second of home. You just hit home, just hit dingers and trot around.

He's, yeah, he's station to station. Yes. Or four bags at one time. Yeah, so Chandler Rome put up a video. I don't know how he got it. His agent must have sent it to it. No, he ripped it from his Instagram, I think. Oh, did he really?

That's what Chandlerum said. Well, he said via his Instagram. Oh, okay. He just recorded it off his Instagram. Well, that was one step half. He's on baseball beat. What's he doing right now? Yeah, what's Chandler up to?

He's just got to wait for where George Springer's going to sign. Yeah. I know it sucks to hear that, but it's just the truth. And it could be in Houston. So I've called it my bright, shining moment of Houston sports right now. Okay. No longer the creaky needs. Would it be the one shining moment?

No, I said the bright shining moment, not the one. There'll be the bright ones. Would you call Yorda and Alvarez a big bright shining star? I would. Okay. Especially if he can be the DH because that means one less spot in the order you have to worry about. And probably one less outfit, are you worried about their offensive production? That's true.

It is the truth. You know what I'm saying? Because Limas Diaz, Abraham Toro, you don't want those guys ever playing DH unless you Jordan's on a long weekend or something. You got to say that, Matt. Not just the truth. I want Yordon. And where he's going on vacation?

Well, I'm saying it. Let's say he needs a weekend. It's a breeze. Decompress, if you will. It's like Cuban Independence weekend or something. Whatever. Whatever he wants. Maybe there's a big Nutcracker Festival opens up somewhere.

He wants to go to that. Okay. Long weekend. 713-212-5-790. Brian's in Moe City at 1253. Hi, bro. Brian? How's it going?

Well, yourself? I'm great. The question you asked was Deshaun, a tier one or two quarterback. I think the question you should be asking, would Mahomes be in the Texas offense with the personnel that he had? I think that Deshaun would excel really well in that Kansas City offense. And also with Green Bay quarterback. too. You've got to look at it. The Texans in and out, personnel wise, is a bunch of swell. That's

about the best I can do. Hey, have a nice one. And thanks for taking a call. Love your show. Sure. Thanks for the phone call. Rossi, here's the question. We always know that Deshawn putting him in Kansas City, Deshawn's going to do just fine. I think the argument is you take one of the other quarterbacks that just mentioned, and can those quarterbacks will them to a victory that Deshaun has been unable to do. Now, again, this is just conjecture. But there have been, there have been, the only quarterback

I will say of the mix that I think could do better than what the Texans have done with Deshawn, I think is Patrick Mahomes. I feel like Lamar would have had one guy. Yeah, it's pretty, it's a rarefied air. Yeah, I think you're, okay, definitely dial needs to be dialed back from the Deshawn as a phenom and all that type of stuff talk, but

I also think maybe you're being a little harsh on them right now because the defense is atrocious. It is atrocious. I don't want to be too hard. I mean, he doesn't have to score 40 points every week. And I mean, I just don't know that they have the talent to do that. And Deshawn Watson, I don't think he's played poorly or anything like that. No, I didn't say that he was.

But I think there's a certain element of, can you make that pass to save our bacon, please? Like, for instance, I'll give you a Texas compare, Texas football comparison. And I know, I didn't see the Baylor game as I was up in Annapolis. Sam Ellinger. tried everything in his power to will his way to a victory over Oklahoma. Didn't get it, but he did not, and especially the second half of that game, he did everything in his power and then some to win that football game. I don't know if Deshaun can do that every single time.

I'm just telling, and again, this is such a slippery slope on this. Because he's still very good. He made a lot of, but they just fell short on a lot of drives yesterday. They weren't as far out of that game as the final score indicated. I don't think. They just kept settling for field goals. They were moving the ball and then they run into a tough third down. So I think it's a little unfair of an indictment of Deshaun Watson. Deshaun Watson has made huge big-time clutch plays in the playoffs for the Texans.

So, I mean, he can do it. Here's the thing I still. He just hasn't been able to do it much this year. And I think that's because a lot of it, that's what's around him. Well, the biggest problem, it's not really the receiving court. He's got plenty of targets. It's that no one respects the running game. And the offensive line has taken a step back from a lot.

last year. So yeah, I don't want, I don't want anybody to think, oh, you're being too, no, I think Deshaun's fantastic. I think the money that was spent on him was great. I'm just one of those. Everything is against the Texans. And Deshawn said, put the entire team on my shoulders, I'm going to win this one for us. In the moment like that, so far there's been one moment like that this year that would have been the most amazing one of them all. It would have been the Tennessee game in a game that Derek Henry just runs rough shot. Ryan Tannahill's putting up big numbers, and you still converted that two-point conversion to help you win the game. Yeah, I mean, they were down 21 to 10 at the half, and then Deshawn Watson threw three touchdowns

in the second half. Zero, wasn't it? What's that? They didn't score any points in the first time. In the first half of the Titans game? Oh, okay, I thought about it on Green Bay game. I don't, no, no. And I'm talking about two weeks.

Yeah, I was talking about the Titans game, sure of referencing. Yeah, they were down 21 to 10 in that game, and then second half, DeShon Watson brings them all the way back, and then he throws three touchdowns in the second quarter leads four touchdown drives. They're supposed to win that. that game. That Deshawn Watson, that was a comeback moment when you didn't have to come back, but the defense did not help at all. And you didn't get the ball in overtime because your defense give up the touchdown. Blows. Blows. They blow. Zack Cunningham should be traded. Whitney Merrisal should be traded. I think you lose a lot of dead cap space on both of those.

Probably. J.J. Watt is no cap loss. That's why I'm totally on board with that one. But you know what? You're going to take big cap hits if you trade those with the guys. If you're taking cap hits, if you're getting trade, if you're getting something back in return. Okay, if you're getting good draft picks, I'm with you on that. I understand. I'm just telling you, Ross, with this team's already saddled with salary cap issues, you have to go cheap. And it doesn't mean going after cheap players you don't respect. It means going after draft picks that you control the dollar amounts that are spent on that.

That's my point. Starting draft picks are the most valuable thing in football and a starting quarterback on a rookie deal as well as the most valuable. All right. Second hour begins with what you're talking about Romeo? How many do we have today, Brendan Riley? I would say three good ones and maybe a fourth if you wanted to give Ross a challenge. I think we will give you those challenges. It's the debut with Ross and Romeo next on 790.

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I mean, that's how you describe it, right? Come on, Matt. Am I being too harsh after another beat down by a decent team? Who were embarrassed a previous week on the road at Tampa Bay? Tampa Bay is really good.

Okay, so the Texans are? Tampa Bay might be the best team of football. By the way, Tom Brady, ooh, big fantasy day for me. Ooh, Lordy. Well, I was just wondering how your fantasy team did, Matt? No, you weren't.

No one ever worries about it. More screenshots. at SportsMT, please. That's what the people want. Well, when it was Devante Adams doing all the heavy lifting for me, what was I supposed to do? Oh, I'm sorry, Devante Adams, your one-on-one against Eric Murray.

I wonder how this is going to go for me. It's going to be good for me. Go to Viva de TORos. Hottes team in fantasy football, maybe the entire city after an 0-and-2 start. I have won five consecutive games. Wow. Okay.

Good job. Just saying. Wonderful. Be afraid of the Toros. Be very, very afraid. Right. We're in Pampa. What is it?

Pamplon, Spain. Is that what they call it in the city there? Paloma. Paloma. Wait, when the running of the bulls? Yeah. Is it Pamplona? Pamploma.

So we were both kind of close. Pamploma. No, I mean, I'm right, I think. Pamploma? No, you said Paloma. Well, I corrected myself. Is it Pamplola? Okay.

Point being is that my fantasy football team is in running with the Bulls and we're the Bulls. Yeah, Pamplona. Whatever. That interests you at all? Running the bulls and getting in front? No, I'm not stupid. Okay. So I want to make sure.

Well, I mean, I might be, but not that stupid. If you had eight or nine whiskeys, would you try it at least? No. Things like that, putting yourself in danger, that much danger, certainly in foreign countries does not interest me. Yeah, I have zero, I have zero dangerous ideas. I don't. You know, when I was in Columbia and my friend was like, hey, you want to go hang gliding over the mountains? No.

I don't want to go with some rusty hang glider in Columbia and go crash into the side of him. mountain. I'm good. Quite a quite a story though. Yeah. It'd be a great non-flora story. Yeah, you guys would be like, yeah, sounds about right. He went to hang gliding in a foreign country?

Not a good idea. Not a good idea. All right, ladies and gentlemen, every Monday at 1 o'clock, we ask our producer, Brendan Riley, to go deep into the Monday press conferences with head coach, interim head coach Romeo Cornell. Used me call what you're talking about Bill, where Ross, it became basically a layup drill for you

because we knew what he was going to say every week and how he was going to say it. these perhaps are a bit more challenging. We play this. What you do you drum out? Romeo. Four sound bites this week, my friend. Good luck to you.

We scale at one to five. Brendan is a little more lenient than I am. That's because you hate me. The last couple of times you did quite well. I thought I did quite well last week. Actually, because I heard the press conference. Wow. You cheated?

No, no, no. Actually, tell me the truth. You only did one, right? I didn't want the audience. As a sample, we let the audience do the rest. Okay. Because I was actually on the Zoom call when he did it last time. time. Wonderful. Did you ask a question?

No. On the Zoom? No. Why not? Because I let Aaron Wilson and John McLean, talk about this. Talk about this. Talk about how your team sucks. Talk about how you're going to continue to take losses as a head coach. Can I say, though, the beginning of the JJ Watt thing, that question from John McLean was not a good question.

Terrible question. Play it real quick. This is what you would not get on a sports talk. What was it like getting close to Aaron Wals? What was it? It was like chasing Aaron Rogers and getting close to him and then found out he's already completed a great passed down the field.

Here's what I would say. That's a lot of fun. What kind of question is that? What kind of question is that? JJ, what's it like chasing Aaron Rogers and getting close to him and then found out he's already completed,

great pass down and feel? Well, you know, John. What do you think it's like? John, what do you think it's like? It's a barrel of laugh, John. I'm burning calories. I'm getting my steps in, and he's throwing to Devont Adams,

who's completely uncovered. JJ, what is it like knowing that we're in the midst of a global pandemic and the entire West Coast, including Colorado, is on fire? What's that like? Can you walk us through your emotions of being one and six? Oh, I'm having a great time. How about you guys? Again, it's not fair, but I know what the reporters are trying to do. You're trying to get questions to evoke emotions and responses.

For quotes for your story. For quotes for stories. And it's just not working out. They're trying to. Again, if I was in their position, I probably would ask the same silly questions. I would not ask that dumbass question. First one was dumbass. The rest of them were just kind of, we know the answer just, it's like an attorney.

We know what the testimony is. Just tell us so we can put it on the record. What is first up on what you're talking about Romeo? All right, Romeo Cronnell and what they need to do to finish strong. How long is it? 26 seconds. It seems it sounds easy. What do we need to do to finish strong?

Well, we have to play better. in all phases of the game. Why do you sound like somebody else? I can't pinpoint in who it is. I don't know exactly what Romeo Crenel talks like. Yeah, it's, but I'm going to pretend it's like this. Yeah. You sound like Morgan Freeman.

This is not what you're talking about Morgan. This is what you're talking about Romeo. What are you talking about Mr. Freeman? Okay, hold on. Yeah, we have to be better in all phases of the game. We have to play better defense. We have to get, and I know we can play better. So we just have to execute.

We have to worry about ourselves. And we have to just learn what we're doing wrong. We have to fix it. It's correctable. I don't think we're that far off. And we've been close in some of these games. And I think we can turn it around. I think we need to be more consistent.

Sometimes you see guys, they make really good plays. And then other times, guys, they make plays that are not so good. And what I would like to see is I would like to see is I would like to. to see this team become a more consistent team down in and down out and be able to play it throughout the game on a consistent level. Four consistence in one 26 second soundbite. Well, there's a million words in the English language. I'm sorry I didn't nail that one.

Was there a word that you said that was comparable to consistent? I'll give you two stars. Thanks. Yeah, I'll go two stars. The one thing you got right is that at times they're playing well. You did say something along the lines of. I did say we're doing something's right. Right.

So I'll give you two stars as well. Thank you, Brendan. I gave you two stars. It's okay. Up next. All right, Romeo Cornell on stopping teams from keying in on the Texans pass offense, 28 seconds. Well, in any football team, you want to play complimentary football. You have to be able to run the ball.

You have to be able to pass the ball. You have to be able to stop the run. You have to be able to stop the pass. So it works both ways. We have to play on both sides, and we have to be more consistent. Well, I think that we have to establish a running game also. If we can establish a running game that pulls linebackers up on the run fake, then you can throw play action passes.

And then you can drop back when you want to, not when you have to. Because when you drop back when you have to, they know you have to and they can pin their ears back and bring the heat basically. Yeah, this is your first week. Okay. Yeah, it was a good start, but then nothing really after that. I'm going to give you one star. Wow, thanks.

You know that they needed to establish the running game. You just didn't hit the running game hard enough. I'll give you one and a half stars because I feel bad for you. I'm going to start making you A-Hol's do this. I'll do it next week. That's fine. I can do it. I'll do it next Monday.

Third, on what you're talking about. All right, Romeo on if other teams will be. targeting Texans players for trades. Oh, come on, baby. This is your sweet spot right to you. That's not something I worry about. We're worried about the Texans and the players that we have. If other teams are interested in our players, that means we have some good players. So we have to focus on ourselves. We have to focus on playing better. That's really not something that we worry about or that we need to worry about.

We're worried about going into the buy week, and then we're going to be worried about the Jaguars after that. Like I told the players, I'm trying to win games, and I'm not trying to trade players. And so I want to keep as many good players as I can. Now, I know the record doesn't say that we're very good, and we are what the record says we are, but we do have some talent, and I think other teams realize that, and they would like to get their hands on it. But most of the time in this situation, they're offering peanuts and not offering legitimate trade value. Now, are those the peanuts you get from the gas station in Louisiana? and ones that are boiled, that come in the pot?

The boiled peanuts? Oh, those are disgusting. I never had them. Okay. I feel like, especially with COVID, the boiled peanuts at the convenience store, probably wouldn't be the smart play. I just wouldn't want to see, yeah, you don't want to get into that boiled water? I guess it's boiled so bacteria can't live in it and viruses. But still, you're putting, there's people all around it.

You can sneeze in it. You can do a variety of things. Yeah, backwards Louisiana. I'm going to give you three stars on that one. Oh, thanks. I'm going to go four. I thought that was really good. Maybe you go.

All right. Last one on what you're talking about. All right, this one's going to be really tough, I think. Romeo Cornell on the timing of the buy 14 seconds. This is the extra credit portion of the game. You can't get zero stars. This will give you a chance.

Give me zero stars. No, you get a chance to improve your grade. No, it's fine. I want zero stars. 14 seconds. 14 seconds on the timing of the buy. Well, anytime you can get a week off in the NFL is a good time.

I mean, it's a physical game and it's a tough game. And we're looking forward to the week off, but we also need to be ready to get back to work. Well, this is almost about halfway through, and I like to have the buyer halfway through. That's good. Because that way, you've got the first half of the season out of the way. You get a break, and then you rev it up for the second half of the season. Yeah, I'm, now you're getting, you had a chance to make as many as five points bonus on

towards your average. I'm going to give you three. Thank you, Matt. So you got a chance to go from a D minus to a straight up D. Wow. Yeah, you're a straight-up D kind of performer. I don't want any kind of And that has been this week's edition of

Oh, what you're doing? What you're going to have that next Monday with them being off this week? I hope so. It's usually talked midweek during the by week, right? I'm saying. Maybe he changes things up a little bit. No, he talked to him every day. But this is a Monday staple of the show.

I want to keep it that way. All right, bottom of the hour, Ross, go around the NFL with some of the strange things that happened. It was a wild Sunday. The strangest thing happened in the game that you, I'm sure, Mr. Roddy, watch quite a bit this weekend. The absolute strangest thing ever. Not ever, but among the strangest things. And most importantly, they covered that they did.

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He makes it, and he's fouled. This is Russell Westbrook. One thing's for sure, I did not get my amazing style from Matt Thomas. Oh, hammer job. Still don't have a Rockets coach yet. Should I go over to the post-old? What's the hold-up?

I don't know. Maybe they're just... Helmand's your boy. What's going on? Well, he doesn't really give me a lot of information. He's, I don't know, he's trying to run his $5 billion businesses. Well, they've taken a hit in value over the last year. Well, I mean, do you think his arena announcer and radio play-by-play announcer should be lobbing, hey,

when do you go make a decision calls? Well, you always call him and try to get a free room with the nugget, so... That's actually not true. I would love to be able to have that kind of availability, but no. by the little casino gambling at the MGM up in Washington over the weekend. How's that? When did they build the MD? I didn't know they had MGM.

I don't know. I don't know how long. I've only been there. It was only my second time I'd ever been there. The show you how the casino industry is probably rebounding nicely. They had six or seven craps tables. The cheapest craps bet you could make was $50 a roll. Now, anybody that knows craps

So how much did you roll? I didn't roll any. It hurt my... It physically made me nauseous. I went to a casino and I couldn't throw the dice. Because anybody that knows craps knows you've got to put $50 in the pass line. You've got to put some money behind it. And you've got to have some sort of action on the table, too.

Normally, I would say like a $10 craps minimum is equivalent to like a $25 blackjack equivalent. Would you say? So let me just give you an example. So that's almost like, what were the blackjack tables of minimum? $25. Oh, go play those. So I did that.

Okay. The woman came over. And usually when you go to a black check table and it's at a certain limit and they raise it, they say, well, you guys are grandfathered in. They did not grandfathered in. What? They said in 20 minutes, his table goes to $50. And were they all six to five?

Did you at least get three to two? Oh my. So I went in there, won my nice tidy profit and left. I was there. I took me a half hour to get there. I was there no more than a half an hour and left. Would you drive a car? Yeah, we'd have run a car.

Oh, nice. What kind of car? It was a Kia SUV of some sort. It was fine. Nothing crazy. Sportage? Don't remember. Sedona?

Wait, that's the minivan, I think. Tell you ride? Point being is this. Casino business is doing okay. You and I've been to Lake Charles twice since the pandemic. I'm so sad. Every table is $25 a minimum. It's harder and harder to find three to two.

It's harder and harder to find small limits. It's just. Yeah. So on a normal craps table, if a minimum is 10, well, now let's go 15. I'll put 15 on the pass. I'll put probably 30 behind it. That's 45. You'll, yo 11, a little heart eight.

And then I'll put some money somewhere else on the table that's 15. So a normal $15, every time I roll, I've got an investment of at least $60 out there. So try to put that into a table that's $50 minimum. They'll put $50 in the front, 50 behind the pass line. It's $150. $150. It would have been $200. and I would have probably had to file divorce papers at that point.

You'd that or go right to Gamblers Anonymous. Or right to Casino Credit. Also known as Gambler's Anonymous. If I'm going to get a credit, we got serious problems, sports Harvey. Just telling you. But you know what? If you own the MGM hotel, the casino in Washington, why wouldn't you do the exact same thing? All the tables were full.

Every table was full. Social distancing. They were large partitions, glass partition. in between people. It was interesting. I'm sure that's the way Vegas is right now. Hmm. Yeah.

That's interesting. So, but every table is full. They disinfect the dice. Everything. Everything you would think they would do. So you couldn't go to it. There's an attractive woman next year. You couldn't have her blow on the dice for good luck.

Excuse me? Blowing the dice for good luck. No, there's none of that. Okay. I'm just asking. There's no blowing of anything. You might get droplets. You never know.

COVID droplets. Uncertain times, my friend. Let's go to, uh, Drew in Westchase on 790. Hi, Drew. Hey, Matt. Hey, Ralph. How are y'all doing this?

We're great. Thank you for calling. What's going on? Well, I just wanted to talk about two things really quickly. The first is just to just kind of talk about the Texans as a whole. I think when I listen to Romeo Connell talking about this running game that, you know, really hasn't been here all season long, I think it's time for them to really just, except the fact that they can't traditionally gain rushing yards with the personnel that they have.

They don't have a guy that they can hand off to 15, 20 times a game, and he nets you 100, you know, at 80 to 100 yards and get you some first downs and makes the running game something dangerous enough to where you can actually be successful in those play actions that they love to beat us to death with. with them not having a running game, I don't understand why our passing game is set up off of play action. It literally just wastes time and movement. I think what they should do is similar to what the Patriots have done,

ironically, but similar to what the Patriots done in past years when they pretty much had a revolving door at running back, they let the short passing game, you know, replace that. They got ball to playmakers in space and let them run. I mean, Deshaun is a great down-to-field throw. I think he has the most down-to-field throws. And, you know, he's second in passing yards in the league. But I think it's time for us to get the ball to playmakers in space

rather than hand it off and, you know, get three yards to carry. The second thing real quick, I heard earlier, you know, always listen to the show. heard earlier about how you would think maybe Pat Mahomes or a couple of other elite quarterbacks would do under, you know, what DeShan is there to go through. So let's, you know, let's quickly look at it. What if Andy Reid got rid of Travis Kelsey, his best option as a receiver, got rid of Eric Fisher, similar kind of to, I guess, Dwayne Brown, one of our best offensive lineman, got rid of guard, got rid of Tyran Matthew, and another great defensive player.

What if all these things that add and help Pat Mahomes be as great as you is, what if all those things were literally taken away by the head coach who's supposed to put you in the best position to win? And on top of that, you're a young player. So you're being taught that I guess you don't need these guys. guys or that I'll buy into everything you said except for one thing. Yeah,

Dwayne Brown has missed, but the Texans went and got Laramie Tonsil, so let's, let's negate that into the equation. Oh, yeah, definitely, but I mean, that was what, last year? But, okay, well, we can stick to this year. Okay, well, I'll take back to Eric Fisher, but let's get rid of

Travis Kelsey. I guess we can't say let's get rid of quiet air with the lair and bring in someone else. No, I mean, but Carl, let's be honest. And Drew, you bring up a lot of good points. Carl's High would have been better for this team than David Johnson. First of all, from an economic standpoint,

and secondly, from a production standpoint, there was nothing wrong with Carlos Hyde. There just wasn't. Nothing. They just didn't value him as much as Carlos valued himself. And now Carlos is in Seattle with a chance to maybe win the NFC championship up there, so good for him. Drew, all very good points.

I mean, that's why I said. It's a very, very tough conversation to have. I want to see that one moment, and thank you for the phone call. I want to see that one moment, Ross, where he just fights everything against him and makes that winning play. And I think the only time I'm going off of what I've seen this year that he could have done that was, could there been something that allowed him to complete that two-point conversion? That's the thing I'm looking at.

But by and large, again, he's having a really good season on a lousy football team. It's not much of his fault at all. And frankly, he is dealing with. not a full deck of people around him. He's got, first of all, an offensive coordinator who is very slow on tempo. He's got a non-existent running game, and he doesn't have the type of

receiver downfield that the ball is thrown up high in the air, and nine times out of ten, your guy's going to grab it. He just doesn't. Did you see the video last night of Kyler Murray? He sees DeAndre Hopkins at one-on-one, and he cracks a smile and then tosses it up to him, and he catches it? No, I refuse to watch those types of moments.

It hurts too much. It was painful to see. All right, on the NFL rewind, we're going to get to a game yesterday that frankly, nobody in America outside of Brendan really cared about, but it had such a bizarre ending to it. We'll tell you what that was in a moment.

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Rewind. Can we talk about the radius? De Rated. They're not going to be mentioned well much in this rewind. It is. We'll start with Sunday night football last night, a thriller. In Arizona, the Cardinals getting down 20 to 7. They fought back.

Overtime was wild with multiple turnovers like this one. Snap to Wilson, quick for over the middle. Picked off. It's intercepted at the 40-yard line. Isaiah Simmons has it. Running far side of the 45 out of bounds at the 50-yard line. 57 seconds left. Cardinals have the ball and a timeout.

The rookie made a play. After a misfield goal from the Cardinals, an interception by Russell Wilson, allowed them to come back and win a 37 to 34 win for the Cardinals. Matthew 10 catches, 103 yards, and a touchdown for DeHonner Hopkins. And decided to interrupt a Trump train. Well, apparently, yeah, I try to find there's no video of this. there's just a couple of tweets.

There was a pictures. Yeah. I didn't see any video of it, unfortunately, of him flipping the bird. The man's got political on his mind and winning football games. So starting next in two weeks for the Texans,

you would rather have Deshawn Watson or Carla Murray. On the next game. Oh. Oh, all right. Well, let's go on. No, I will say Deshaun. I agree with you. But that gap has narrowed considerably, unfortunately.

But let's move on. of narrow gaps, let's talk about the Lions versus the Falcons, America turned its eyes to the Lions and Falcons game. Okay, maybe not. The Falcons have just been completely terrible. They gave up, well, let's just let you hear what happened at the end of this game with the Lions lead, or they're trailing 15 to 16 to 15, correct? And then this happened. All security now. Early to carry at the five, Todd fell down. Did he fall down shy of the go line? Or did he score? No, he broke the play to the end zone. Touchdown Atlanta.

So Gurley goes in the end zone with 104 to play. And the Lions did that on purpose, West. They let Gurley through on purpose. That made a 22-16. Yeah. Not to 16 to 15 and 14. It was 16 to 14. So they could have kicked a game-winning field goal.

Instead, Gurley tries to fall down. And he fails. And then, well, the Detroit Lions win on a touchdown at the end of that one. Matthew, your thoughts. Todd Gurley destroyed himself in the post game

and said what was I doing I was out of my blank blank mind I never should have scored so let's see we have the Falcons

giving up massive leads to the Cowboys a massive lead to the Bears they lost that one I mean it's just a complete disaster they are now one and six

on the season and Detroit are they 500 on the year now is that right they are they stumbled their way to 500

spumblit bamblin Stamble and Remland to 500. All right, elsewhere along the NFL, the Pittsburgh Steelers facing off against the Tennessee Titans in a battle of five and O teams. Pittsburgh got up 24 to 7 and a half of that one, but the Titans fought all the way back to get within three. And Stephen Gaskowski, one of the most up and down seasons for a kicker you can remember. Gaskowski trying to not the count. Snap.

Set. kick on the way no good no good he missed it wide to the right he did not hit it well he goes from one of the most clutch kickers in NFL history to a guy that you

cannot trust anymore and would have given the Titans a 6 and O mark and would have had the Texans hey there's a bright spot the Texans are still only four back of Tennessee atop the AFC cell he did make a 51 yarder in the third quarter doesn't matter

got to make him you got to make them It counts, but now five and one are the Tennessee Titans. So that helps the Texans since they lost Matt. They're keeping pace in the AFC South. Just four back now. Yeah. It's anybody's division. In the AFC South race, all right.

Let's keep it going. Let's go to Texas, though, on the NFC side. The Dallas Cowboys, of course, lost Dak Prescott for the season a couple of weeks ago. Well, one of the dirtiest hits you'll ever see Andy Dalton hit out of that game. And something called Ben Danucci is now their quarterback. Here is Mike McCarthy on the hit. on Andy Dalton. Yeah, I mean, it was definitely a hit that caused of disqualification.

But yeah, we speak all the time about playing for one another, you know, protecting one another. Definitely, it was probably not the response that you would expect. Cowboys lose 25 to 3 to the Washington football team, and I don't think things are going to get better for them anytime soon. Texans by the Cowboys, who would win? One, two, three. Texans. Yeah, I think so. And I think comfortably.

You don't have any faith in a Benjamin Nanducci? He makes quite a calizone. You add a little of spicy pepperoni to what is the name again? Benjamin Dinoucci. What are he quite college ball? It's a seventh round pick? I don't remember where he played. It doesn't really matter.

Do you want the full? Is Ben Danucci today's believe it or not? Oh, Ben Danucci, believe it or not. No, there's no way. He went to James Madison. He was a seventh round pick this year. Hashtag football factory. Well, something like that.

Let's see. keep it moving along here. How about the Battle of Ohio, man? You don't necessarily think of Cleveland Browns versus Cincinnati Bengals as one of the all-timers, but it was yesterday. Mayfield back to pass. Lots going towards the end zone and it's caught by Donovan. People's Jones touchdown from Michigan got it. A huge back-and-forth battle for the Browns. I like the guy's name. People's Jones. Yes, Joe Burrow with 400 yards, three touchdowns and a pick. Baker Mayfield started that game awfully. And then he completed 22 of his last

23 passes, had five touchdowns in the game, but unfortunately you do have Odell Beckham Jr. who tore his ACL. Baker Mainfield or Deshawn Watson? One, two, three. Deshawn Watson. Okay, I'm glad.

Make sure you're consistent. Baker Mason or Joe Burrow. What is it? Joe Burrow? Or Deshawn? One, two, three. Deshawn Watson. I don't know, though.

Joe Burroughs been throwing pretty. well so far this season. Okay, well, let's hold that off for another six weeks. All right. Well, let's go with that. We played the missed field goal by Goscowski at the end of the game. How about your favorite kicker in mind, Matt, Joey Sly?

65-yard field goal attempt. This would be an NFL all-time record on fourth down in 18. Joey Sly from way downtown. Good spot. And the kick is away. This kick is no good, just short. Right down the middle and just a little. It was just short to 65-yard to send it to overtime against the Saints.

That's Mick Mixing. It calls the game. He's so Carolina. They're going to try this kick, and hopefully it'll go through the apprides, and we'll go on to play an overtime game with some country time lemonade and some ham biscuits. Is you doing your House of Cards voice? I am. I feel like I'm Frank Underwood. Frank Underwood on the play-by-play. And there you go.

That's your NFL. Rewind, Matthew. I think it's the first time every play day field goal that was just short on an NFL rewind. We've seen them go wide left. Probably.

Did you see the Rice? Four Doyx? Middle Tennessee State game? That's in all. You'll never see that again as long as we live, I don't think. I don't know if how you would call that. I mean, you could call that,

but you'd go. Quite a dribble doink. You would just say doink, and then you would go, doink, doink, and you wouldn't want to say four doinks in the same sentence, would you? That's a lot of dox. If you were a play-by-play-play guy?

I don't think you would, I don't think you call the doinx live. Do we have to, can we find that call? I don't know. I don't think we've got it readily available. Oh, well, that's unfortunate. All right, 142 is our time. Thank you to the rewind.

We've got, believe it or not, coming up in an hour and change from now. I'm trying to get Ross to do Devante Adams, believe it or not. Is that going to be successful? It's depressing. Do that or Trump train? We can do that. How? Carvans?

I don't know how many cars were in the caravan? No, no, we're not doing Trump train. You're the one that keep bringing it up. I just like saying Trump train. Favorite train. I'll go Seoul. What's your next? I will go Thomas the tank engine.

I will go Gravy. Okay. I'll go Love Train by the OJs. Oh, love to do. That one. Next I'll go, what's my favorite train after? Soul, gravy, love.

I got John Cole Train. How about that one? Get on the Blue Train. That's a great album. And how about Anthony Thomas the A train from Michigan football? Oh, yes. I'm going to go.

go the Silver Streak. Okay. Great in 1970s movie starring Gene Walder and Richard Pryor, hysterical movie for its time. And then also I'm going to go with Train, the band. You know, she's got drops of Jupiter in her eyes or something.

I'm going to pass on that. 143. The Matt Thomas Show continues. Meet Virginia. That's actually not a half bad song. Train is actually not horrible. They're not great. Do you like Gravy Train? It's one of my favorite. I use a try to use it as a gravy train

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I think Mike's listen to my show now that he doesn't coach the Rockets anymore? I don't think he ever listened. That's probably true. All right, 148 Sports Talk, 7-90. My good buddy Bradley just texting me and said, how could you forget Dick Knight Train Lane? That's a good one. Or how about the Midnight Train to Georgia?

Yeah. Soul Train still to me is my favorite. With Don Cornelius? When I was a kid, oh, my God. I would watch American Bandstand first, and then I would watch Soul Train. And all those good-looking women, we get out and they would go through the little train thing where they would, you know, dance and get in line. A sole train line.

So what they call it? I didn't mean it over-complicate the name of the line. There you go. Famous trains? 50 minutes away. Just saying. Is the girl with the Phoenix Sun is going to be involved? I just want to say we can't get into that train, but you should Google that train.

How would you Google that? Let's move on. Are you sure? Because there are some gentlemen like, Matt, what are you talking about? Let's just do this, how we would do it. Phoenix Sun's girl train. Phoenix Suns seven players is all you need to do.

Phoenix Suns seven players. That takes care of that train. That's a Mike Dantonee playoff rotation right there. Yeah, nothing to do with Mike Dantone or postseason games. That has with activities involving things not involving. the court. All right, we've told you about the Rice game against middle Tennessee where the kicker did something that I think I've never seen in my life and probably will never see again. Here is the call.

From 45 yards, the kick is up. It is off the upright and out. It hit the upright twice, then the crossbar and stayed out. Stunning. For my Chicago Bears fans out there, that would be called the triple doink. I don't think I've ever seen the ball hit all three posts. This is unbelievable. There it is. That's student radio? That sounds like Middle Tennessee radio or televice.

You know what we got that from? Yeah, that was Rice. No, it wasn't Rice Radio. We got it from, I mean, that's SportsCenter's Twitter. But that was Taylor McCargg on the color. Oh, so it was TV then? Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. Well, do they have a TV deal? No, it was an ESPN 3 or whatever. Yeah, it was, yeah. Whatever those answers were. Oh, okay. Great job. Why are you back on the microphone?

What do you mean? You what do you mean? What do you mean? What I mean? I just saw you back off. They didn't do great job. They didn't miss one doink. Yeah, it was four doinks, right?

It was. Yeah, well, they said two and then they said three and then. Well, I mean, everybody's going to miss a doink once in a while. No, it's never mind. matter. Great call. Let's go. Move on. What do we got? I thought it was college radio. It didn't sound very good to me. Well, it was a TV version of an impartial crew that wasn't, I guess it was not going to go emphatic one way or the other. Harlan probably would have sold it a little harder.

Yeah, I'm saying it wasn't up to the par of, say, Matt Thomas. I didn't know you were expecting that on that game. No, it wasn't. It was Middle Tennessee and Rice. I mean, thank God they broadcasted the game. I mean, right? I mean, I can't imagine. You know, Middle Tennessee State is quick. One, two, three. Anybody know? It's in the middle of Tennessee. Murphy'sboro, Tennessee.

Okay. Just outside of Nashville. I've done a game in their arena before. Oh, really? Yeah. How do you get there? Plot of Nashville and drive. Like, it's like a half an hour.

Okay. It'd be like going to Jersey Village from the airport or something. Okay. Nothing too bad. All right. There you go. Ross, breaking down broadcaster analysis of low division one games. James and Alvinan 790.

Hi, James. Hey, fellas. Thank you for your. my call. Sure. Awesome show. Awesome show. Hey, man, listen, I feel sorry for my man, JJ White.

I mean, he is one of the top 10 defensive players of all time. I've got to put him in there. If you've got to level men on the field of all time on defense, he got to be in now. The Houston, Texas, I mean, the Texans should give him go to him out of respect. Hey man, do you prefer leaving here if so? Name your team. They owe it to that man.

That man will come back from injuries. He has done read and stated itself. He's still, of course, double, triple team. I'm going to say this here. The Arlors in 1971 had three Hall of Fame. and they went one and 13. They had three Hall of Famers. JJ White is a Hall of Famer.

He shouldn't end his career like this. Let me ask you this. You know what, James? I'm going to disagree with you on one little thing. You ready for this? I don't think the Texans owe him anything. He's been compensated a lot of money in his life. And he has negotiated and got a new contract.

He knew exactly who Bill O'Brien was. He knew exactly what the infrastructure was. So in my opinion, James, they don't owe him anything. thing, what the Texans owe themselves is we have a player that has some value. We need to go get value back if there is such a thing, if there's a market for him. And I believe the answer to that be yes. I don't know what that value is, James, whether that's a third round pick, a second round pick, or a combination of picks.

But I'm not doing this so JJ can go in a Super Bowl. I'm doing this because JJ is the most attractive trade ship the team has right now. That's why I'm doing it. And maybe I'm in the minority on this. but JJ has made a lot of money. He's done quite well for himself. I don't think he has to, we don't owe him anything. When you sign an NFL contract, you are not owed a championship.

You are owed to play to the ability that you're being compensated to. So that's why I'm saying trade JJ. This isn't a JJ deserves better. I think this is, JJ's miserable here. JJ would like to go play somewhere else. And oh, by the way, you can probably get something back in return for him. So why not at least kick the tires on that? That's my philosophy.

Okay, you know, I looked at the situation when Andre Johnson walked off the field. I thought that was very degrading as a player. J.J. White could have walked off the field at any time, just like when, before the game is over, I remember Andre Johnson being so frustrated. So he let his emotions carry it over into the game, actual game and stuff. And my opinion, JJ White never done that. even though he may like don't want to have interviews with the media or whatever cause of those situations teaming.

He's taking all that and he's swallowing that. He could come out and I never heard him say a harsh word toward the organization, toward the city, toward the fans. So in my opinion, yeah, the money side, they, yeah, he's one of the best. defensive player paid a man. But on the personal side, he's still a human being. That's true. And he deserves a chance to win a championship.

He deserves probably do it somewhere else because he's never going to do it here in Houston, Texas, because this team needs to be completely redone, refinish, reworked, and it starts with trying to grab draft picks because you have no money to spend, because you have spent terrible, terrible money on free agents and your own guys. Thank you very much for the phone call. I understand. There's a lot of people who are also going to feel like JJ is deserved better. And maybe you could have a part of you that believes that.

I'm telling you, if JJ wasn't worth the value that you could get, then I would say go move him just to move him. But I think you can get something back in return for him. I know he's 32. There's something left in that tank. It's not what he was at 25. But you mean to tell me that there aren't four or five, teams that are on the cusp and maybe one in their conference championship that couldn't

use a pass rusher that still got a little ump left in his system absolutely so try to get something in return for it and by the way help your own financial situation at the same at the very same time yeah you have the extra playoff spots so more teams invested in more teams thinking they have a shot and to me there's not really any i mean there's a couple of clear favorites in the afc but there is a number of them and i would say the same thing for the nfc so there there should be a number of suitors i would imagine. But the problem is, as Romeo said, if you're being offered peanuts, do you suck it up? You're starving. You are starving. You can't, you can't. Tomorrow's gut feeling for me is going to be on what the team does trade-wise. But if JJ Watt is still on this football team, there is no real

interest in trying to get better for the future. This is, we're too bullheaded and we're too afraid that Texans Carleen is going to be so mad that the Texans traded their beloved JJ Watt. And you can't make moves for Texans Carl, you know, Carlene or whatever hell her name is. Texans Melinda. Battle goof Texan. Nobody's named Battle Goof Texan.

Jeez, Matt, you're so rude. I'm not rude. Texans fans. I mean, how big is traveling Texan group going to be in Jacksonville? They're letting people left and right going to Jaguar games. They're dying to get people in there. They'll take some of the tarp off for you. Can you go put the Texas flag on the seal of Jacksonville?

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Dick Night Train Lane Night Train Wine Train the band John Cole Train Soul Train Oh I didn't put soul name me Soul Train

I'll give you one Here's one of the questions That will be on believe it or not today How Don Cornelius Would end every episode of Soul Train by saying Peace Love

and so everybody knows that except maybe Brendan Brendan had no idea what I'm talking about I have no clue I'm vaguely familiar with Soul Train but I didn't know that because that's one of the questions that's an easy one do this let's change it up

what make make it love love peace and chicken grease so like what? No make something make it up so it's not the answer no it's too easy are you sure? Yeah like be good to each other

peace of the world all right I'll use you know what I'll use that one something like watch they're going to get it right I know, and I'll be so mad. Whoever gets it wrong, whatever prize were in 50... Hold on, I'll write it now. At the end of every Soul Train episode...

Typewriting on the phone. Post Don Cornelius would say what? Be good to each other and love the music. Okay. That's going to be a knot in 45 minutes. There's no way anyone gets that wrong. Be good to each other and love the music? And be sure to love the music.

Okay. Oh, no. How about this one? Love each other and love the music. That sounds, that's a little more believable, right? It's definitely better. Okay. Love, love each other and love the music. That's going to be a knot in 45 minutes. Now that you all know. 713, 21, 2, 1, 5, 790.

Ross, how much do you love the Texans train? It seems derailed right now. It's been derailed. It's stalled. It's in for report. And what happened is Zach Cunningham's tackling techniques? He had like four of them. But he also had a chance to get his mitts on not easily moved around Aaron Rogers.

Aaron Rogers is Wiley, Matt. He's Shifty. Is he Wiley? Is that what white people are, Wiley? Well, he's Shifty. I mean, I think it's a white only term. Wiley? Are black quarterback's Wiley?

Kiley Murray's pretty wily. You think so? Absolutely. Okay, I'll give you that. He's Wiley A.F., Matt, as the kids would say. It's like high motor guys. Well, he's only white people are high motor. Coyote.

That's not true. Who's also got a high motor? Derek Henry. No, he just beat you up. D.K. McCaff? DK.M.M. Can we talk about that really high motor? Let's talk about that play.

Who was the Arizona player that made the interception? Buda Baker. Buda Baker? I believe so. Okay, so Buda Baker has this ball intercepted. And he's about to go, what, 98 yards of the house, give it a take?

Something like that. And Metcalf, who is in the other side of the end zone, goes, slips through a bunch of players running the opposite direction. He chases him down. What about the 25-yard line, give or take? I would say you're closer than that. What would you say? Give or take, it's fine.

15 or something? I could find it. You have to go look at it. I think Michael Connor put it on the Salisbury blog. You have to go see it. He runs like an Olympic sprinter to chase him down. It's pretty incredible. So you think originally that at the worst case, he saved the Seattle Seahawks four points, right?

Seattle doesn't, I mean, Arizona doesn't even score because Carter-Marie goes for it on fourth down and throws a terrible pass in the left corner in the end zone after being chased. So that save of a play saved the Seattle Seahawks seven points. Now granted, they lost the game anyway. But that play in itself was one of the most incredible athletic plays ever you ever would want to see. As Sean mentioned this morning, excuse me, I interrupted you. Seattle, as Sean's this morning, when Metcalf goes in the Hall of Fame if he does, that's the play you

show, right? Not the great catch, not the route, but the heart and determination he had not to let Arizona score on that pick six. It was returned to the eight-yard line. Oh, man, so we were really off on that. Did you see Buda Baker tweeted about it? D.K. hawked my ass. Well, the problem was Baker was looking at the scoreboard, and at least he knew he had somebody on his way. Because if I'm him, and I'm Buda-Baker at the 10-yard line, and I've just run 90 yards, And I'm about to touch the end zone. What am I going to do, boys? I'm going to put my hand out there, show the football, see how cool I am.

He actually caught a break by looking at the scoreboard to see two things. One, that Metcalfe was chasing. Two, he should nonschal on his way into the end zone. It was still one of the most incredible plays. That should have been part of the rewind. That was massive fail on your part. Okay. Sorry.

Let me mention the game. Two better next time. I'll see what I can do. Can I tell you about a similar story? What I just told you that happened in a fast food restaurant on the show later on in the hour? Sure. You got hawked at a fast food restaurant?

Somebody ran, you tried to, you don't run off of the food and got ran down? No, no. But I need to tell you about doing better. Okay. Because somebody called themselves a miserable failure to be passive aggressive towards me. I like that.

And I hate when people are passive aggressive towards me. Oh, no, I love passive aggressiveness. I know you do. Texan Steve 209. the Matt Thomas show. T.S. What's going on? Amen.

Matt Thomas. Where have you been, Texan, Steve? I haven't had nothing to talk about. Well, you guys on the talk about now. I know, I know. I hate calling in all the time like this. I know. I know everybody's hurting.

The team is basically, I don't say, it's destructive. We don't have no draft fix coming in for next year. We don't have a head coach right now. We don't have a GM. I'm not opposed to getting a college head coach who has, you know, seeing the players who has, you know, other players who went to other college programs

that he didn't, that he was trying to recruit while he was a college coach. And so he, you know, I think of a college coach, college coach would help us right now. I'm not saying it might be a long-term solution or whatever, but I'm saying a college coach could help us with the draft. And speaking of the draft, I know Rick Smith lost his wife and all this stuff, but I think he need to get back to work.

Rick, Rick need to get back to work and put his head down and get back to looking for some more free agents somebody that can help us. Because right now, we can't stop the bleeding. And we have been here before. And I see everybody blaming the linebackers. We have decent linebackers.

As you can see with McKinney, the linebackers are getting beat up. They do not have any protection. Their defense attackers are what protects the lineback. You remember when Ray Lewis, got a loader and neither he said y'all just

put five years on my career because you just got me a decent defense attacker somebody to take on

the double team now that's what reader here was for and y'all forget Rita was on their clenzing team

playing against Alabama those two years with Deshawn Watson was the quarterback they yeah they massively

they let reader go. They just, they didn't find the value in him. And it's a terrible, terrible mistake. T.S. I'm going to let you run. It was terrible. Thank you. I'm going to let you run. I get to a break here. But, uh, boy, T.S.'s' voice. He's out. It's not feeling good. They couldn't afford DJ Reader. I mean, he got paid a massive amount.

He got overpaid. You know why? Because they got, they were busy overpaying other people. Yeah, you had to pay Jeremy Tunsell. They paid Zach Cunningham. They have to pay to Sean Watson. Whitney Merciless. Unfortunately, you can't pay. Well, no, I mean, there, there is, there is too much fat on this team in terms of salary. I mean, let's be honest. Cunningham overpaid. We love Whitney. And Whitney's not going to turn down what he's offered, right? But Whitney, for his production, has been overpaid. Eric Murray never should have been signed to begin with. There's three players right there that are not, that are not, as you like to always say, perform or outperforming the contract.

They're not doing it. That's what you need. And nobody, nobody's outperforming their contract as far as those guys that we're naming. A minute who's been a non-issue. Brandon Dunn's been a non-issue. Blacklock doesn't see the field that often. Tyrol Adams is okay. Cheap. I like Tyrell. He's okay.

He's okay. He's fine. Vernon Hargraves, terrible. Eric Murray awful. Justin Reed, at a down season. Bradley Robey was good until they got hurt.

You're just depressing me, Matt. What am I supposed to do? Do you want, you want, what is the great cook you say? Sunshine and Butterflies or something like that? Yeah, let's get some sunshine and butterflies and lollipops and rainbows. Is that what you want? Yeah. That sounds delicious.

Next segment. Butterflies and rainbows. Okay. I don't know how I'm going to do it. I think I'll figure it out. I will open up the next. I will introduce the next segment. Matter of,

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Hey, it's Daniel House. Matt Thomas continues now. On Sports Talk 790. Sunshine lollipops and greenbows. Everything that's wonderful is what I feel when we're together brighter than a lucky penny. When you're near the rain ghost disappears here and I feel so fine. What is this? You wanted some feel good music, man.

Wow, this is it. This is actually perfect. Come on, join everybody. Sunshine lollipops and rainbows. Everything that's wonderful is sure to come. I have never heard this song before. Really? Uh-uh.

Would you be surprised to know that I had heard it before? Give me the initials of the singer. L.G. Leslie Gore. That's correct. Most. Wiley known Leslie. gore song this one no not even close what is it downtown i don't know i think it's this one

go look it up i mean you're going to be wrong all right would you like three things that were awesome from the game before i go go the phones lily pops and rainbows what are you going to talk about lollipops and rainbows the texans right um all right how you never heard that song never in my life never my life uh Let's go with number one. What's her? She did downtown? Downtown.

I think that's her most famous song. That's not Paula Clark? Patula Clark. Oh, so yeah, Patula Clark. Oh, I'm wrong then. Leslie Gore's most famous song. It can't be that one. There's something else she's done.

It's my party. It's my party and I cry if I want to. That's way more famous. Okay, I got it mixed up. You were so confident in yourself. I was. Now, the song I was going to go with, which is,

Do you remember the song I gave you? You don't remember. Something to do with balloons? Yeah. Leslie Gore also did You Don't Own me. Oh, that's not better. Leslie Gore had some hits.

She didn't have some hits. I had no idea. I mistakenly thought she was Al's sister. I lost a bet to my wife over it. What? I did. I was such an ass. It's still a running joke in the family.

I thought Leslie Gore and Al Gore were related. Okay. So no disrespect to Leslie Gore on this one. But give me, wouldn't you like to rely it in my beautiful balloon? Would you like to ride in my beautiful up up and away? Up up and away. Go up up up and away. That felt like to me a much more positive song.

Okay. Well, nothing's more positive than sunshine. It is. You win. Your song is better. David Johnson. This is sexually charged songs. Oh, this is definitely.

Four catches for 42 yards and a touchdown. Wow, very nice. Brian Anger averaged 45 yards a punt. Wow, that's beautiful. That's a great average. Fly! More positives. The weather was nice.

Kami Fairbren was perfect. An extra points. Let's see what else is positive. DeAndre Carter didn't fumble. It's true. Zach Cunningham at 11 combined 10. tackles. Now, he should have had a sack, but that's not here nor there. Tyrell Adams had ten tackles.

I think Tyrell Adams has been playing well. In theory, yeah, for Bernardrick McKinney, who will also be released this offseason. I think his name is... I don't know. I think his dead money might be kind of high, too. It doesn't matter. You have to start from scratch. Are you uplifted by this song? Not really. You mean people in the 60s didn't have sex in the song? Randall Cobb had his best game as a Texan, right? He sure did. 8 for 95

Brandon Cooks look good for a while 7 for 60 These are all possession receivers Will Fuller 3 for 35 and a score Will Fuller is a not a possession receiver No He's a break the game open burner Matt As long as he hold on to the football

Well as long as he His hamstrings okay A.J. Dillon only average 2.2 yards per carry on five carries Devante Adams dropped three passes One of them was

poorly overthrown by Aaron. Deshawn Watson threw for over 300 yards, had two touchdowns and no interceptions. Up and away. Man, there are some weird-ass songs that have sex with the 60s. There were no major injuries. No. At the end of the day, like 75% of songs are about sex.

But this is what people had sex to in the 60s. Nobody had sex to the song. Oh, absolutely, dude. I would feel like I'd call my mother, but that would be really an odd conversation. I don't want to hear what your mother is or who she's on betting. And then the 70s, and the 70s sex song was the one about, what was another group of two? What's that song?

1976. Oh, Rossi, help me out. What song? It was a song about sex, too. Are you talking about the Starlight? Sky Rockets in Flight. Yeah, afternoon delight. People had sex in that in the 70s.

Did they? Absolutely. Play 30 seconds of that. You absolutely, if you, your parents had sex in this song. There's no, well, my parents, my mom was 16 when this song came out. Okay, in 18 she still had sex of this song, maybe. There's no question that people had sex in this song in the 70s. Brendan, if you were 20 in 1970s, did you have sex in this song?

In 1776, you had like, Isley brothers and Teddy Pendergrass and I don't, Donnie Hathaway or there are any number of options better than this crap. Yes, appetite, meaning smoking pot, eating popcorn. And now we're going to have midday sex. Let's move on. All right. So, Brandon, your job is to come back from the break and tell us songs that today's kids are having sex to. Okay.

I always put you in the worst spots, did I not? It's their having sex to whoop. What is Wop? asking seriously. It's a song. It is? Yeah. Let's play walk coming back.

Can we play it? Yeah. Can we do it? We have it in the system. Okay. Richard, Northwest Houston. You're on 790. Good afternoon.

Good, buddy. What's up? Hey, I'm calling to talk about the Texas. I don't think we're there for a way. From what? Two and 14? You're right. No, no.

Listen, I understand that we're a little bit off, you know, rocker right about now. But if you think about it, if the game wasn't too far off, I mean, we need some defensive players, but I'm looking at these guys doing all this reaching instead of hitting. I think part of the problem was the COVID virus. I mean, they probably couldn't practice like they wanted to, you know, not being able to touch one another and this and that and got a little sussing to the tiger. They're missing that determination in the heart that normally comes with a Texas team. We used to hit hard, and they used to remember us, by the way, we used to hit.

Now, the offense is like that far as far as we are trying to get a little bit more creative, and therefore our offensive production is going up quite a bit, but the defense is lacking. We're trying to on-tackle. You can't on-tackle. We know that. I don't know what they're doing, and that's each and every one. That's Lolly Gaggin. this arm tackling crap.

You know, they might as well sit down on a bench. But something has happened between that time and now, because we used to be the team that would issue out some pain on people, you know? That's the way I used to remember the tech. So what's good, though, is we are getting creative on their office, and I see that Watson is starting to run the ball a bit. You know, he can run a little bit. The roll out to the right, roll out to the left.

They get in trouble. He can throw it out of bounds. won't get penalized for it. And in fact, in fact, he's been finding people when he roll out, you know? So potential in a time, I'm not giving up. And JJ needs to stay. You know, he's the pillar of our team. He's one of the pillar of our team.

He needs to retire, just, you know, runners and things like that. I don't want to let him. Well, but see, the thing it is, Richard, I'm looking for the future. This season is gone, done, finished. If you don't trade what you have in terms of trade chips, this is not going to be a quick fix, Richard. You don't have the draft to use. You're over the salary cave.

You're going to be making some hard cuts as it is. So why not start now, start to replenish a little bit of those drafts and additional picks that you've lost and maybe give yourself some financial freedom? Right now, they can't do anything the things I just said because of the current team that's put together. Well, I see your point. Yeah, JJ is one of our biggest assets. I mean, he's probably got, like, you know, most people say two or three more years. True enough, but what can we get?

You know, that's the point. It's got to be worth. Well, that's what I said. I don't necessarily, and thank you for the phone call, Richard. Good stuff. I'm not training him for a fifth and a six, okay? I'm not just saying that. But Rossi, wouldn't you think if you put out there in the trade wins that he's available,

that there are not 12 to 14 teams that think that the JJ Walker could be the difference going from a playoff team to a legitimate contender for a conference championship? Wouldn't that? I mean, he's got enough left in the tank to do that. Does he not? That's the only thing you can do right now is you have to negotiate with multiple teams and you have to leverage them against each other. Because otherwise they say, oh, well, you can just cut him and then we'll pick him up

or something like that because they can cut him without losing any money. You have to try to get what you can with draft picks and you have to have multiple teams negotiating, which I think they can. I think they should. I'm telling you, you have a good gym. That's the problem is. The chaplain's running the team. But he isn't even that stupid to trade JJ for fourth and a fifth, right?

He wouldn't do that. I would do it for, if that's all you can get, get it. What else is he going to do? Yeah, you're waiting. Sit around while they go 2 and 14? What's he doing for you besides making a big paycheck? If JJ's pissed at 1 and 6, how insufferable is he going to be when this team is 3 and 13? Yeah, you're going to be paying him a million dollars a week to do what?

I guess you're right. I haven't thought about that the way. All right, 2.30 is our time. We've got two more segments left to go. Believe it or not, at 250. You guys can jump in. We've got two lines open. 713-212-5-790.

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So this is what the kids are doing the thing to, huh? Can you even get like our 40% of the words are bleaked out of this? I'm kind of wild. Look at my mouth, look at my thighs. It's what it's wet. Come to a dog. Sign me up like I'm surprised. That's roll play.

I read the skies I want you to park that big Mac truck Right in this little garage What? That's face I don't cook I don't clean But let me tell you I got this ring

Gobble me swallow me drip What? I don't know This is exactly right call why you ride that day. Okay, we're done. This is just highly inappropriate for this show. I'm getting a lot of suburban dad eyes for Matt right now.

I was waiting for Matt to tell me to stop it. I was feeling uncomfortable. Thank you. I'm completely comfortable. I know you are because you've got no morals whatsoever. It's the radio version. A radio version of a highly offensive song. I wasn't offended.

Were you? Yes. That's why my eyes got all beating. What's wrong? You can sing about afternoon delight. Why can't you sing about some wop? Yeah, but I feel like that afternoon delight did not have a hundred words deleted from it like that song did. It's only because the FCC are a bunch of fascists.

Oh, is that right? Yes. I see how you are. 713-21, 2-25790. 713-212-1-2-5-7-90. Let's continue and go to our buddy, A-Y. A-Y is the eternal Texans optimist here on 7-90. Hello, A-Y. That's not true.

I'm not an optimist. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. It's empty. Nice to have you back. I was after a great weekend for you. I did. I did.

So let me just make it quick. The Texas has become a laughing talk. Imagine when the Texans and the Jets are in the same, they're using them in the same sentence. It's an insult. And it's all because of what Bill O'Brien did not do. Brze O'Brien just put us back when you say the only team the Texas are better than the Jets. And the Jets, because we and the Jaguars, we have the same record. So we are not really better than them.

And look, we have good players. They show is a top five second-time. I just say first tire, but second tire. He was among his generations is a top three. Maybe you can say, well in my home is better than him, that's the honest truth.

So it's just painful to see us going down the truth. I'm not happy. Thank you. Thank you. We'll get to meet AY sometime. I met him. When do we mean it? Do I mean him too?

Well, no, you weren't there. Oh, okay. He came out to the Lady Jane's haircut place. Oh, did? He was me and Sean Salisbury and was Michael there too, maybe? I hear it in his voice. Frustration.

I text and Steve called the show in the first part of this 2 o'clock hour. I hear it. And I'm happy that I'm hearing it, but Ross, that frustration becomes apathy pretty quick. I'm the same person that just earlier last week said, they're going to lose the Packers. They're going to fall to 1 and 6. But I had them going 9 and 7.

I mean, excuse me, 7 and 9. They're going to rally, Matt. Schedule softens up. The schedule really does soften up. Do you really believe that Detroit's going to cause major problems? Or Chicago? Detroit could. Or Indianapolis or Cincinnati?

How many games have the Lions won this year? They're three and three. So they've won two more games. Yes. Chicago's won five. But they're a paper tiger, though, right? I agree. I mean, come on.

But like the Texans aren't even a paper tiger. They're like a paper kitten. Tissue. Deshawn can win some 40 to 35 games. He just needs to do it. yesterday was not one of those situations. I think Ross at Tennessee loss, and we brought it up multiple times so far,

that one's going to sting a little bit more because of the fact that if they complete the two-point conversion, it's a nine-point game of the minute and a half left to go. Tennessee, as great as they are, weren't going to score nine points in 95 seconds. They just weren't. Yeah, if the Texans turned a couple of those field goal drives

and a touchdown drives, I mean, they move the ball. You look at the overall stats. The Texans had 365 yards. The Packers had 379. But they were so sluggish in the first half. And again, please explain to me how on God's green earth does Tim Kelly rush David Johnson as much as he does. Now, granted, you cannot completely... You have to establish the run, man.

No, I was going to say, you can't abandon it. Although the Texans abandoned it when they decided to give David Johnson first round carries. Or, you know, first back carries. He averaged three yards of carry. Okay, so we know who Duke is, who, by the way, is up for trade speculation. We know who David is. David Duke? Is C.J. Procyce, does he have anything in the tank?

Would you like to see who he is at least? No. You have no interest in seeing what he does. I guess. He's CJ Pro Seasis. He's a street free agent. I mean, he had a little flash with the Seahawks a while ago. Would it be any significantly different things we've seen from what David does,

which gives you a yard on first down, maybe two? We had that one long run, like week one. And then he tied. I guess he's been petered out over. But you know what he's been doing? He's been getting in the end zone. How many touchdowns he has he had so far this year? He's got through or four, does he not?

I think so. Yeah. But it doesn't tell the story. David Johnson, 42 yards and 14 carries. This is when Bill O'Brien and Jack used to be had a little happy hour. And I said, please try to convince my audience, who talks to me that David Johnson for DeAndre Hopkins was going to make us, was going to be a good training. He goes, yeah, they are like, we think he's going to do it. We think he's going to have the ability.

He's healthy. They just, Rossi, they couldn't have screwed it up anymore. The guy looked like he could barely walk. He was benched. He was relegated to third string on his own team last year. And Ross, the dollar amount that's being spent on him is the fourth highest paid running back in the league is nuts. You and I don't know David Johnson at all. Do you think Dave?

I'm sure he's a swell fellow. Do you think in the back of his money is going, my God, I'm stealing this money in the NFL? No. Or do you think, well, if I had a better right-side line and offensive line, if Zach Fult, one, getting a holding penalty. Why is that, not Zach, well, who was the center? Who's the center? Zach Martin.

Martin. Why is he getting a holding penalty when the play was not even close to him yesterday? And the little slip screen was it to Cooks? I think they would have gotten him the first down. He gets called for all. First of all, if you're a center getting a holding call, you must be extraordinarily lazy, right?

How many centers get called for holds, typically? I don't know. I mean, I think Philly and I get happens frequently. To centers? I don't think so Left guards, of course. Left tackles, sure. Right guards, right?

I mean, anybody else on the offensive line, I get it. You got beat. A center who's involved in a slip screen gets called for a hold. You can look at those beady little eyes all you want. You know I'm right. It happens, Matt. It does happen.

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on Sports Talk 7-90. Tomorrow on the radio show, we will have gut feelings at 1 o'clock. Is that the fastest growing segment in Houston Sports Radio? Oh, easily. We'll have Aaron Reese from The Athletic at 130. And you never know what else is going to pop up. Can we get a Rockets coach by it?

Wouldn't tomorrow be a good day for a Rockets coach? This week would be a good day for a Rockets coach. I told you by tomorrow. That was my going to feeling last week. You best hurry. It's happening during the show tomorrow. During the show? During the show?

I'll accept that. Doesn't mean we're going to have a press conference meeting, but I've even followed. woge during this time. I'm an off and on follow woge. Really? Yeah. I get in for when I need to get in and get out when I need to get out. Why do you unfollow? What's the reason? Too much stuff that I don't care about.

Like, I have no interest in what the Minnesota Timberwolves front office looks like. But he'll put that stuff out. He will. He's must follow when it comes to coaching, hires and fires, and then around for agency. Although this year's for agency class, I don't think it's that spectacular. I think Anthony Davis is going to, opt out with the Lakers, but I think everybody thinks he's going to resume and resign with the

with the Lakers. But yeah, get me a Rockets coach. We're hoping by sometime between noon and three tomorrow. I'll text town and see if he can get that deal done for me. Perfect. At least he can do it. And I'll look so good if it happens tomorrow before gut feelings. Remember, we don't crush gut feelings.

We crush predictions. We don't crush gut feelings. If it hasn't happened yet by the time the show starts tomorrow or buy gut feelings tomorrow, can my gut feeling be that it will happen? Nope. You cannot repeat a gut feeling. either going to happen or is not. Let's see what else.

We got something else going on later this week. We got Joel Clatt. It's going to be talking Big Ten football. And by way, real quick, if you're a college basketball fan, some bad news. ESPN had set up by, I think, 10 different tournaments, I want to say, in Orlando at the bubble at Walt Disney World, where the NBA was. The colleges and conferences could not coexist with the protocol rules that ESPN wanted. So ESPN said, we are out. that does affect the University of Houston.

They were supposed to play Texas Tech, Oregon Zaga, or Auburn in the preseason NIT. That has been scrapped, at least for Orlando. It might happen, but it will not be at Walt Disney World. So college basketball teams are going to have to now scramble to play a couple of non-conference opponents. Five minutes left to go in the show. What should we do?

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We have one more four pack of tickets to see the new exhibit in South America's Pantanel at the Houston Zoo. I'm just happy you were able to say Pantanel. Thank you for saying that. I would have completely butchered it. Let's play. Believe it. Or not? Charlie on 790, Charlie, you're ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. Charlie, the word train comes from the Latin Trahir, which means to pull or draw. Believe it or not. Not. Believe it. Yet another reason why we all should have taken Latin in high school. Line number two.

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There you go. Congratulations. There's some more music headed to do away. By the way, Coltrane is not a famous train, Ross. Why not? It's C-O-L-T-R-A-N-E. It's like saying famous air conditioners

and using the word train as part of it. Really? It works. Matt on 790. Ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. The first locomotive train was invented by German civil engineer Ernst Carl Abbe. Believe it or not.

Believe it. No, he didn't make it. What did you find that name? He was an inventor. That was a good pull. I must give you credit for that. Kevin on 790. Kevin, you're ready to play Believe it or not?

Rig it. Dick Night Train Lane, married jazz singer Dinah Washington in 1963, five months before her death. Believe it or not. Not believe it. Oh, how do you not look at the biography of the lovely and talented Dinah Washington?

Line number five. Trevor on 790. Trevor, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. The famous line, King Kong ain't got bleep on me uttered by Denzel in Washington. You didn't risk. in the 2001 film

Oh, in the 2001 film Training Day was improvised? That's how you say it. Improvised? Improvised. Yeah, improvised. Yeah, improvised. Believe it or not? I'm going to say, uh, not.

You should have believed it. I'd butcher the whole sentence. Yeah, you didn't mean you believe it. You added too many prepositions in there. I think it was word. I'm reading it. It's fine. Robert on 790. You were ready to play believing or not.

Believe it. The single. Midnight trained a job. Georgia. We're going to play that, by the way, in the song, The Show, by the Midnight Train, Gladys Night, great song. By Gladys Night and the Pips and Love Train by the OJs, both hit number one in the U.S. Billboard charts back in 1973. Believe it or not. Believe it.

Believe it. Statement number two for the win. The band Train was founded by Pat Monaghan, who got his start music with Led Zeppelin's cover band. Believe it or not. Not. Believe it. Yeah, darn it. away nothing again today. I thought we had a winner.

We had one winner. That's right. Congratulations, Jay. You got it. We're going to have some raging Cajun to give away starting tomorrow. Okay. Are they going to bring some po' boys up here? Well, if we don't give it away. A little jambalaya? Mm.

Boll shrimp, fried shrimp. Here's God it's night. That's a good song. Would you like to have been a PIP? I don't think the Pips got treated well, did they? Well, they're not. evolving her in her band anymore. She's glad it's night. Straight up. Where is a PIP

when you want to find one? Adam Clatton. Adam Wexler. On the midnight train to NRG. Three hours of breakdown of the Texans. Six loss of the season. They're part of the A team.

And as late Don Cornelius would say, we look forward to talking you tomorrow. Until then, peace, love, and soul!