The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans Take Down 49ers, Demeco Doesn’t Like The Noise, Rockets vs Nets Tonight!

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

Texans Take Down 49ers, Demeco Doesn’t Like The Noise, Rockets vs Nets Tonight!

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Morning and welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. This song is a jam. I don't have a lot of quiet ride on my phone. Matter of fact, I don't think I can name another song besides this one. This is a banger sports RV. How the hell are you? I'm great, Matt.

You don't like this song? Tell the truth. Just tell the truth. See, it's not a vibe It's fine. Turn it up! As far as 80s hairband cheese goes, it's fine. I listen to this.

Seriously. Look at this riff. You're not fired up for a Texas team It's one game away from 500? We went past 1978, so I'm happy about that. Stop it, you meanie. You've asked you by honest opinions. Yeah, but you took a shot at me.

I didn't take a shot at anybody. What do you tell about? You said looking past 1770. Yeah. Uh-huh. You just, you caught. that story. Did you cut the story that I got?

I don't know what you're talking about. It's giving my feelings on the choice and the selection. He was done. TechSense. He used to take sense. Fire up, baby. I predicted the victory. I told you this was going to happen.

Yeah, you did. Good for you. I'm sick of predicting. Suck it, Mac Jones. He didn't have any time to suck anything. He was hardly on the field. Excuse me. That was really odd.

That might be. Oops. 10.4, right? Out of the gate, Fox. My goodness. Our recording system's not working. Well, we do sometimes have recording issues up here.

Yes, we do. By the way, C.J. Stroud? Hey, Cooke fans, y'all suck, too, so screw off. What happened? Our boss said, yeah, they're still ripping the crap on us. Don't worry about it. You all suck you.

Because you're all, you're all going to beat the game on Saturday, anyway, so y'all can suck it, too. Matt. Somebody's got a case of the Mondays. Oh, my God. Here's the problem. So, truth be told, I got to we went to Phoenix for the day to see the Cougars play

Arizona State which they won Big Big win for our beloved Cougars. Huge road victory for the University of Houston Cougars. That's awesome. We're now 7 and 1 in the top 25. Awesome. And in the mix for the Big 12, it's going to take some other people beating each other up a little bit, but they're out of a 16 team league they're in the fourth spot. Not terrible.

That's great. Predicted to be 13th, right? Yeah. So, suck in predictions. I think I'm going to stop saying suck it. I'm done saying suck it for a while. Feels like it's the word of the day. It's the prevalent. Yeah, I got to change my phrasing. All right.

So I did not get home until 4.15 in the morning. Slept until about 9. Went to the Texan. I mean, I went to watch the Texans game for a little while. And then I went to a Rockets, a reunion event, which was kind of nice. It was like they have the alumni group of the Rockets get together. And it was, you, Yaw was there. Is that what Y'I was in for this?

He was at the game on Friday. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So it was a nice event they had at the Postalco Hotel, which was really cool. But I think I went to bed at 845 last. And I was pretty much beat. Okay. I think I got two months sleep because I'm really grouchy this morning for absolutely no reason.

Number two, I had, again, a plethora of strange dreams. Uh-oh. Hmm. I told you to stay off those pills, Matt. I don't know what it is. I got to either change my medications or go to, I don't know. Maybe some herbal tea at night. Some warm milk.

I just, I told you this, and you've always said it's good for brain activity. I don't want to ever, if you said you can never dream again, I'd be okay with it. No, you need it. Because I don't have any good dreams. I only have weird ones. Yeah, that's, that, yeah, you got to get to the root of those problems, Matt. When I was 12 years old, I had great dreams. Hmm.

Yeah, herbal tea and all that. You're just treating the symptoms. You've got to treat the bottom, what's going on. Maybe I need a therapist. Sit down in your psyche, yeah. I mean, I'm all for it. So if you, any of you might want to be my therapist? I know the last one quit on you.

The copay ran out. That's a different issue for different time. All right. I don't think I can help this guy. The Texans kick some ass yesterday. That was a joke. I was a joke. I'm sorry.

I'd like to apologize to Matt Thomas and his family. Yeah, I didn't even hear it. So you're lucky. Okay. I'll go back on the podcast and listen to it. CJ probably had his best game in, I don't know. For sure, for the season. CJ Stroud, franchise quarterback.

Feeling good? It's been a little rocky. of the season. Yeah. It was really rocky. Time possession, huge part of the game. Texas defense elite. Kami Fairbear needs to know how to kick to his zone, but that's neither here nor there. He still kicked a bunch of field goals. His hall of his ring of honor spile will still be firmly entrenched. He's good. Yeah. He's good on that. 14 fantasy points, I've heard. So yeah, he's good. Yeah, I got crushed on fantasy. And I have a good team. But I had, I had Jemir Gibbs out on a box, so I was kind of screwed away. Sorry to hear that.

Matt. Jonathan and Taylor, good God, the Colts, just beating people up. All right, since you opened this Pandora's box, how did I get minus nine points from the Bengals defense? I got minus nine. Have you met them? Did you see that? Did you see what happened? Yeah, but minus nine is, okay, minus five, sure. Minus nine? That means, if I did not play them, I'd have nine more points than I did. You give up 39 points. You give up a minus nine? I don't know. That doesn't make any sense. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's got me a scoring error. I need a petition. ESPN. Yeah, seriously. Oh, maybe this because it was a jets. They're like the jets. The jets. The algorithm was like, if you give up points of the Jets, you really suck.

It's double, yeah. I mean, Justin Fields had a good game. Yeah, it was Justin Fields in the Jets, so I picked up the Bingle's defense. Are you sure you got a minus 9? Minus 9! Well, who did the scoring on the league? Oh, that'd be you. It's left over from whatever kind of trash you left on there.

I had to correct a lot of stuff that you did. You've had two years to fix that, so that's really on you. I've never seen a minus 9 on defense, so now I've got to put it under the microscope. I apologize to yourself. I might lose to Wex and fall to 1 and 7. Yeah. Okay, so we got the Texans to get to today. We got D'Amico being salty after the game yesterday,

which I don't understand why he's salty when you win. You don't understand that? That's why I play, come on, feel the noise. You know, that's why I picked that song. Apparently, D'Miko doesn't like the noise. It doesn't respect your noise. It was pretty interesting. He came out guns ablazing.

Yeah, we'll hear that comment coming up in segment number two of the show. D'Miko will speak, by the way, 1115, we will carry that as long as our technology allows that. So we'll look forward to hearing him at 11.15. Maybe he won't be nearly as salty as he was yesterday. And then at 1130, you got to tell the truth coming up today. The news at noon. We've got a lot of the things to get to.

We have quite a few LSU fans. Well, we frankly work with everybody that went to LSU, so we're in a Baton Rouge mafia in here. The alumni group, I believe, is in this building. Yeah. I believe 40% of Brian Kelly's bio is coming from people that work here. It's probably accurate So we'll get

We hear who picked that up No we won't Okay it was like Mama Lafouches and Dewee sausage Is picking up the buyout I mean Darling's crackling barn's got to pick up I sell a lot of cracklings pick up that tab Boudrauss fan boat farm

I think is picking up the buyout And darling yeah We sell at cracklins We got to sell a lot of cracklins We got a pay for Brian Kelly's contract We had cracklin's barn 14 Bat Rouge locations. We like them spicy.

We got croat-hap flavor. We have all the flavor. Barbecue, salt cream, onion, cracklings. We sell them all. Today's, today's crackler. If you ain't buying them, darling, your crackling blank. Oh, baby. Now, read the amount now, baby.

They're going to get out of California. They're going to get an odor-on, man. Ed Hose your own, man. official brown wheel and I'll your own. Put on a pot of gumball, baby. De La Breck and he go. At least a little stereotype on this show.

And by the way, speaking of college, keep music out. What the hell is going on with your longhorn? What the hell is that? What do you mean? What do you mean? Comeback victory. Archmanning, digging deep. You ought to be embarrassed. You ought to be embarrassed. On the road amidst a flurry of cowbells and he came through and then got concussed.

I didn't see one bit of the game with a cowbell's driving you crazy, or could you live with it? I mean, you get used to it, but it's ridiculous. I feel like if you're in the crowd and you've got to put on your earplugs, it's out of control. And Brian Kelly out of it, I mean, Bat Rooge doesn't even have paved roads. How are they going to pay for this contract? That's what I'm saying. Like, they can't do anything in that town or in that state, and they're going to fund a 50,000. million dollar buyout? I mean, it's dentist

optic, not optimal. Optional state. I mean, dental care. Okay, if you want it. They're like closing the libraries at the school. I mean, GED is the next best thing. I mean, seriously, what are you doing? LSU?

First of all, you never should have signed up with that crazy money. And second of all, what are you doing to fire them? It's not been that bad. No, I mean, lost it. They lost it. They lost it to really good teams. You know, everybody's a failure. You got Penn State, Florida, LSU, who else, UCLA. All these schools all think they need to be winning the championship every year,

and it just ain't like that. You know why? It's because this pressure, I mean, you've got donors were giving money to begin with. Now they're really giving more money because they're not only paying for the school, but they're paying for the players individually. And they want to see results quickly. We've got to talk about Sark and the NFL flirtations, or not, according to Sark.

Well, he was highly defensive. Which means I totally believe. Which means you're totally innocent. The agent did it. Just throwing it out there. If you listen to any 8-year-old, you know the more defensive they are, the more guilty they are. I did not steal that candy from that to convenience store. What did you say, Ross?

I did not steal that a candy. Right. And then D'Amico was defensive about the noise. Hmm. He doesn't hear it. Why was he so defensive? We'll hear from him and we'll talk. We got so much to get to.

We also have the athletics top. 50 free agent guest baseball list Who's number one? I'm not happy with any of that article. Yeah, I know. I hear the sizzling.

You should be hearing the sizzling. I told you, I'm upgrading to ribby. No, you're getting, you're getting like sirloin. Maybe I, can they have Bachi ground beef? Ooh, I'm upgrading to ground beef. I'm upgrading to Wagg U.A5, baby. So discouraging.

God, I'm, I'm, I'm, hoping everybody's wrong. We'll get to that. Rocket still looking for their first one of the year. They'll take on the hated Brooklyn Nets tonight at Totis. And we'll have a conversation for you as well. News at noon, Domingo, press conference, and to tell the truth, all today. We want you guys involved as well.

Hope you guys had a great sports weekend. If you're a Texans fan, you are thrilled. If you are an Aggie fan, you are thrilled. You got a coach fired over the weekend. If you're a Cookewagher fan, you are thrilled. I got to tell you something. We were talking about this on the plane ride home on late Saturday night. There are very few cities, Rossi, in this country.

And there was only two other ones we could think of that are, the colleges are in the major metropolitan city that just routinely show up for their games. Like, unfortunately, we have a problem here in Houston with the Cougars, because we're also spread out with so many different schools. Same thing can be said for SMU and TCU. Miami only draws when they win. Minnesota only draws in Minneapolis when they win. The only three places we can think of in terms of major metropolitan cities with big time schools that just always fill the building.

It felt like to me is Seattle University of Washington. Georgia Tech usually always draws for Georgia Tech for Atlanta. And that's because those teams have been good. And Arizona State's been relatively good except for the Herm Edwards years. They've drawn well. There were 60,000 people at that game on Saturday night. great atmosphere. I am a huge Tampa Arizona fan.

If you happen to go look at the clientele, you'd be impressed with that as well. I heard you brought the extra big binoculars for that one. I used the normal size, but thank you for asking. For spotting. Yeah, because it's, I will say the press box. The players on the field.

Yeah. I knew you meant what you meant. It's really high up, but Sun Devil Stadium, or what they call it, the corporate sponsorship now, but it's great place, great atmosphere.

and the Cougars went in there and, I mean, huge surprise. Now, we had a whole line kind of towards the end, but that's expected. Or I don't say it's a good football team. But we knocked Sam Lovett out of the ball game. And the Cougars, Conner Wegman was the best running back in the field either way. I think it had over 100 yards in rushing, including 50 on one play. Wow. Yeah. They call them Crazy Legman?

They call them Scoot. Yeah, I like that. It's fun. It's fun. Now, I'll say this. That two-hour plane. ride from Phoenix to Phoenix back to Houston in the night. That'll

screw up your sister because you're playing a late game as it is. Then you have the time change. But it was well worth it. And congratulations. The Cougars are now. 7 and 1 on the year. Hopefully going to beat West Virginia. I believe I didn't check the line. 14 and a half. I was going to say they were probably pretty big favorites on that.

And a kind of puncher's chance. Now they're going to probably have to run the table in order to get to the Big 12 championship game. I'm honestly not super well versed on Big 12, so forgive me. But at UCF, home for TCU, at Baylor. How does that, as far as a slate?

Realistically, I could, I mean, being as non-biased as I can, but it can't be. I mean, if they could go three and one in their last four games, I don't think it gets into the Big 12 championship game, but it probably gets into a pretty decent bowl. I mean, that would be a 10-and-2 football team. Now again. Well, none of those teams are very good. But you got to go on the road for two of them.

TCU does have a decent record this year. Yeah, they're six and two, actually. Three and two in conference. They're pretty good. I don't know much about UCF, but a road game is a road game. But hell, I'm so happy. And you know, and I'm meant to bring this up, but I brought this up to you several times.

And with Willie and all the situation we had could we expect, Willie was awesome. He was at the plane as we're getting on the plane. He greeted every single person getting on the plane. Yeah, you've told me about that. I mean, I'm telling you, ladies and gentlemen, I have been around college and professional athletes in team situations for 30 years, 35 years,

traveling on these planes. Nobody does that. He carries bags and puts him in the cargo section. Wait, he does? He picks up players bags? No, I don't know if it's players' bags, but he's helped with bags. He's helping the equipment guys? He's helped.

Really? I've seen it myself. Oh. He was serving up to Salisbury steak at lunch, too. And it goes back to, frankly, his days when he was running junior college program was where you had to be the coach and the equipment manager and the trainer, and you had to be the SID and you had to take care of academics. He's taping up ankles, too?

I don't know. He's doing everything. But I was like, Willie, it's 11 o'clock at night. He's just trying to congratulate everybody. I'm like, you're just the best thing ever. And by way, LSU, you can't have him. So suck it. You're not getting him.

I don't think they're getting him. I would think the reason, one of the, first of all, he's a great football coach. As I said and have been saying, gone, yes. And a great hire for the university. I mean, one of the reasons that he was such a great hire for U of H was one of the reasons

that Calvin Samson was a great hire. I mean, let's just be honest. It was the age factor. Somebody who's not going to necessarily get hired away. Correct. They're getting hired to their final destination. That sounds dark. But, you know, their final coaching stop.

The place to retire. Yeah, exactly. Thank you for helping me. You're welcome. We help each other out. So, yeah, it, I mean, I guess we'll see. But that would probably

it makes not only that it would make him want to stay in Houston, but it makes other teams and programs perhaps hesitant to go barking up that tree. Yeah, again, I think Willie is 65. Yeah, he's 65. Yeah, so, you know, I would think. He's got something building very nice. Yeah. Obviously, you can win at U of H.

Mm-hmm. To an extent. Yeah. And he's winning right now, seven and one. But we will be celebrating the 2015 Peach Bowl champions this Saturday at the game against West Virginia. I can't believe, like you said it last week, it was 10 years since the effort. I feel, I don't want to feel old because I don't want to ever feel old,

but I feel like, man, it felt like it was just around the corner. I remember partying in Atlanta. You know, they have the, in New York City, they have the Big Apple drop. In Atlanta, they have the peach that drops. Really? Yeah. At New Year's? Yes.

They drop a peach? Yes. I'm not kidding you. I mean, it makes sense. I mean, it is. What would you drop in Houston? A jalapeno? Hmm.

Oh, a brisket? Oh, and then you'd be running away. I don't have a bite of it. I don't have a full meal of it. By the way, this is a little question. We had barbecue at the Rockets game on Friday night. Did you enjoy it? 7-1-3, shut up.

Yes, I did. Good. That's the right answer. I shouldn't have even asked. The guy at the carving station, I asked him, I was like, is this going to be every game? He's like, I don't think so. It was good. Oh, man, it was nice.

It's probably better than the game. Oof. Yeah. Tonight's guaranteed win night, by the way. I hope so. It better be. Mitchell on a mobile line at 1027

on the Matt Thomas show with Ross, Mitchell, good morning. Good morning, gentlemen. How are y'all? Good. Well, I didn't expect to speak on Georgia Peaches, but since you mentioned it,

so yeah, we'll just leave that, let that sleeping dog a lot. So I called in about, I predicted this Saturday night. that LSU has done with Brian Kelly, which was a strange hire to begin with if you asked me. He's next.

Paddington Bears going as well. Who is going next? Who's Paddington Bear? Who's Paddington Bear? Dave Irando. Oh, okay. All right. I didn't know that was what is.

Is that a nickname or something you just made up? It sounds like that. It's one of a weird type of personality or whatever. I mean, you know, not leading young men into football. I was like, does he always wear a raincoat? Well, he's just a strange guy. I will say he's a little different. Yeah, I will agree with you on that.

Yeah. So I posted Saturday night that, you know, it's time for both programs to move on. I love both of them. I graduated from Baylor. my friend was an All-American and now an NFL Hall of Fame at LSU and my teammate in high school here in a greater Houston area. So Brian Kelly number fifth, LSU. I mean, that's really what it boils down to. And so if Matt Rule doesn't take Penn State, I think that's where Brian Kelly, you know, starts.

And if Matt Rule takes Penn State, then I think he goes to Nebraska. but we got we got to figure out a way to get rid of Dave Miranda and I think that I think the money the years have passed so the buyouts not as bad as it was say two years ago I really I like James Franklin to come over and take over the Baylor program you know he made me he made Vandy relevant well we got to get we got to get Dave Miranda fired first thank you Mitchell for the phone call trust me James Franklin will be a coach next year in college football somewhere. He'll have a chance to choose a variety of spots. I'm not the biggest James Franklin fan, but James Franklin wins games.

Now, he doesn't win the super big ones. Is his case and his record against top ten teams. Yes. But he did get his team to the college football playoff last year. He's run two programs successfully. He's going to have work next year. If I'm Brian Kelly, I don't know if James Franklin's contract is the same as Brian Kelly,

but if Brian Kelly takes jobs, it negates some of the money that LSU has to pay him. I don't know if James Franklin's situation is the exact same. Most coaches are kind of that. Where if you make $9 million a year from another place, it's the tap can come off. Yeah, yeah. Usually it's offsetting.

Yeah. There you have it. Yeah, Dave Oranda is still the coach there. I know there was some pressure on him last year, and my guess is the pressure is heated up a little bit. I don't know, Rossi, in the history of us doing this show together, Will there be an offseason of so many high-end D-1 jobs available? It's interesting, and we've got to get a break,

but I am just fascinated by all of this and where this is going, and how long this is, is this just going to be, is this the new normal, especially in this era of NIL and dumping all this money into these programs to where we talked about it, these guys are going to want to see results. These donors are going to want to see, they're spending all this money on these players,

you're going to want a championship. and only one team every year wins. And if you lose three in a row in the middle of the year, you literally make the semifinal one year and six games later, you're fired. That's the leash. It's about you've come for us to ask us for money. We're going to dictate who stays and who goes.

80s jobs now? It's an impossible standard. It's an impossible standard. It's an impossible standard. 1031 on Sports Talk 790. 1036 in the a.m. here on Sports Talk 790. Ross v. Re-R-Aout with you. Follow me on Instagram at SportsRV.

If you don't mind, I really would appreciate it. I put up the picture of the black bear that I ran into at Big Bend. If you want to go ahead and check those out. Yeah, he didn't kill Ross or maul him or injure him. Apparently, I didn't know this until after my encounter. There's never been a black bear mauling in the history of that park. That you, oh, I was going to say they document such a thing? Yeah.

Yes, they know the bears that are in the park. Now, mountain lions, there have been mountain lion attacks. And they also say, if you see or hear the mountain line, it's too late. So, good luck with that. Wait a minute. What? Yeah. The mountain lion will not want to be seen unless it wants to be seen.

See, your idea of roughing it is to survive a mountain lion attack? No, I'm not trying to survive. My idea of ruffeting is not having room service at the hotel. I don't want to go out there and be like, hey, I can't wait to tangle with a mountain lion. No, I want to go see nature and trees and wonderful animals and avoid the mountain lions. Okay, so your idea of a vacation avoiding mountain lions. Me being able to dial six and older eggs Benedict up to the room. Yeah, that's fine.

You're a fancy mat. You've got a long trip to Toronto, by the way, tomorrow. You don't like being out in the frontier or camping. This is why you're not qualified to be Mr. Texas. No, because there's plenty of places I've been to. Mr. Texas can't pitch a temp. I'm not talking about what you're talking about either. You don't know what I can't pitch.

So a way to kiss ass to a coach is to say, hey, what do you think about everybody saying these things about you? After a win, yeah. After a win. That's how you kiss ass to a coach. Uh-huh. So anybody that asks that is trying to get in with a coach. You know, buddy, buddy, wink, wink. I got your back.

You're trying to set them up. I'm not the media guy that's ever criticized you. Just kind of just, you know, it's an elementary question for, it's not a very bright media person. Well, I didn't catch the press conference. I don't know who, I kind of have an idea now the way that you're framing this.

Well, if I gave you one guess and one guess only who said it, you'd probably be right. Okay. So the question was like, how do you block out the noise? That's why you play quiet right. And here is Dimeco Ryan discussing. the noise around people criticizing the team's play so far this season.

It really doesn't matter about outside noise. And we hear a lot of that every time you lose. Everybody wants to come up with something of get rid of everybody, fire everybody, you lose the game, you go out, don't play well. The noise is just a lot of people who don't know what they're talking about. Because here in this room, as a team, we stick together as a team, and we know it's only about us, right? you never let the outside noise creep in and control who we are.

We know who we are. We know what we're about. We know the formula. We know what it takes to go win games. And we just understand that the outside noise is just noise. We would never go ask anybody who's given the noise. We would never go ask them their opinion about how to game plan or how to play football. So we keep that in-house and we go, we press forward and we go out and play good football.

That's what it's about. There you go. So he's not going to call you at home, ladies and gentlemen, and ask your advice about whether or not they should have gone over left guard two straight times against Seattle and third and one and fourth and one. So he doesn't listen to the noise. Did he ever say that? No, did he not say that? Okay, good.

I don't think he said that. Because he's saying the noise comes from the people we wouldn't ask. I'm like, okay, if you're not listening to the noise. Then who do you know who the people are? It doesn't make any sense. So there is a fine line to this. Okay. Number one, if you're a part of a team,

you should not listen to sports. radio. You should not read message boards. You should not listen to TV shows. But they're all over the place. Now, you can avoid sports radio because you have a satellite radio. You have your iPod. You have your phone. You have CDs if you're even so inclined. But if you're a sports fan and you're a coach, you're not spending a lot of time looking at the Hallmark channel. You're going to run into some things that you see on television talking about. your squad. Every day, team public relations departments

put together a clip service. They Google their name, and anything that comes up, there's a PR, usually an intern or a lower end PR person, will cut and paste it and then send it out to the clips to usually the head coach, the general manager, and the ownership group.

They want to know everything that is being talked about them. Everything. And so if Domeco takes that note package and throws it in the trash, then he's not reading anything. But my guess is, Damico, if he's having some lunch or something, it's kind of just going to want to see what's going out there and what is being said. So in that respect, D'Amico, I understand why you don't want to listen to that.

And I've said the same thing about that with the Astros and the Rockas to a lesser extent. But the noise, this team still is underperforming. This team made a change at offensive coordinator. And I don't know if you want to include yesterday, but up until yesterday it certainly didn't pan out and hasn't panned out. This team has had deficiencies in one particular category. And that was on the offensive line. And again, yesterday was significantly better than it was in previous weeks.

But again, you had two key members of the Niners defense that were injured, two game changer type players in Warner and in Bosa. I think that is an important caveat. So my argument with NFL coaches has been, it's not just Amico, but it's more in the NFL than anything. else. They like the noise when they hear about how great their teams are, but they get uber defensive when somebody says, what are you doing on this play call? Because more so than any other coaching fraternity, the NFL college coach puts themselves in the quote-unquote building,

shuts the door and locks it, and doesn't come out to breathe until the game is over or the season is over with. So they don't understand that life does go on and people can say, hey, that was an awesome game. That was an awesome win. Or man, what were they doing? So I, what I, you know, and I, I, I am guilty of this with my wife all the time. When my wife and I argue about things, I am the king of, you should have said this instead. If we have any disagreement, I'll say, well, if you, if you, if you would have said it this way, I would have understood it a lot better. And I think that's because I'm in the communications business. If the question

was posed to me, what do you think about the noise? You should have said, which is what I would have said. I said, hey, look, I know people aren't happy, we're disappointed too. Everybody's entitled to their opinion. We're really focused on really, really, really good in here. We're going to keep getting better, and we believe

in our guys, and we're going to keep on. It can't, there was just too much of a tinge of, we don't care what you think. And I'm not a fan of that under any circumstance. I'm under if a coach says a general manager or a player says it. I think we don't care what you think is a little off-putting. Not a lot off-putting, but just a little bit.

I get it. But also, he, I think he wanted to make his point, and he made his point, is that there are people who are talking heads and we're in front of these microphones as well. You're not a football coach? I'm not a football coach. But also we don't sell that we're football coaches. We just give our opinions about the team. And if he wants to make the point that y'all don't know football and all that time,

He's not the first coach to do that. He won't be the last coach to do that. I got news for you, D'Neco. I don't have the problem with what he said. The problem is that there are people that have played football, that have coached football, that are watching this going, I don't like what y'all are doing. Absolutely. And so you have to answer to those people whether you want or not. Yeah.

So I don't think. It had not been good. And quite frankly, your three wins are against teams. The Titans defense is horrible. The Ravens defense was missing a bunch of people, some of who they're slowly getting back and some who are still out. And the 49ers, as you mentioned. are missing two of their, two of the best defensive players on the planet. And they were dropping like flies yesterday.

Yeah, and they also had multiple injuries during the game. So, look, I may say yesterday was a good win. I'm not going to dismiss that under any circumstance. It was. But I just, again, I'm a very, how do you say it kind of person? It means a lot more than what maybe the overall intended message is. I just, I don't want a person of authority to tell somebody you don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, but see, we crush him when he gives us coach.

speak and then when he kind of gives us a little flare, a little personality, I mean, I like it. I think it's, I'm going to see, again, my point is, and this is me being who I am. I would have thought there was a better way to phrase it without, was saying that but also not going, you don't know what to hell you're talking about. He wanted to say, y'all don't know football.

And you know what? If a head coach who was getting criticized, wants to win a game and a statement game against a good team, he wants to say, y'all don't know football. So next week, if they do lose to Denver, are we not allowed to speak about what wrong? Of course we are. Hey, we're going to keep talking. Yeah, yeah. Damika, you can't tell me how we can't talk.

Because I'm under contract. And look, he ain't worried about us. No. He's probably more looking at the Stephen A's and the other folks that, again, he's in his office. He's putting television on. He's not putting on HGTV. He's watching sports. I don't know.

Flip this house is good stuff. No, he might do it, but in July. Okay. He's focusing. He's got a ESPN on his room. Because Sarah's got ESPN on his television in his room. We just know these guys. We do.

All right. 713-212-5-790. The Tell the Truth is coming up in about 45 minutes. D'Amico is going to speak at 1115, and we'll see if there's any dumb-ass questions from media that think they're really media. 7-13-212-5-790. So at this point last week, I had probably four or five Texans phone calls locked and a little already done about how bad things.

It was a week ago yet tomorrow I'm at because it was a Monday night game. Right? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. you're saying people call in more when they lose and I feel like I throw that at you four times a year so let this be the first of four or maybe even second of four times

is that my thought is we're human nature on that we don't ever come we never write an airline a tweet or send them an email when the service on a flight is bad as good we only do it when we got screwed our flight our lost baggage the rude flight attendant the TSA we never

complain about a restaurant we go to. That's why I always go when I look at Yelp, I, I treat him with a grain of salt because there may be 500 great of restaurant appearances. 10 people may have had a loss of experiences. Who am I to believe? When the Texans win, it's a vast land of kind of what they're supposed to do. Yeah. Empire gets 99 calls right. Hey, that's what you're supposed to do. Right. Get one wrong. Hey, what the hell's going on here? And of course They're not supposed to win every game So what I will do is this

I will politely ask I will politely ask our great audience Your football team Won a very good football game yesterday They looked really complete Now probably could have been a bigger margin But you know what We're not going to fight over this

Your defense played to a Playoff level Will Anderson could taste the breath of he could. He knew what he had for breakfast? Mm-hmm.

Of Mac Jones. Yeah, it's like, Mac, yeah, Mac Jones, pressure tea, bra. Cinnamon toast crunch, huh? Would you? Something is wrong with Chela.

You started this. Matt started it, first of all, number one. Jell's some chili before the game? Number two. With beans? Yeah, Mac Jones under 200 yards. Christian McCaffrey, eight carries for 25.

yards. They weren't even on the field in the first half. So my point is, it was a 24 and change they had for the first 30 minutes, right? Yeah. Your squad won a football game. It's time to celebrate. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. I know we've got people that love the Texans,

they've had their Texans flag on the back of their truck that are wearing Texans gear all the way through that cannot wait to dial up this radio show and talk about how happy they wore the team bounced back. 713-212-5-7-9 Okay, I'll talk about something I'm happy about

Woody Marks 11 carries for 62 yards There was also a couple of runs There was one run To the right side I think Where he kind of like threw a little shoulder Shake to try to get through a hole Like he was showing like a little extra There was another run where he kind of he

He stopped for a beat Like prime Levi-on Bell Right to let the block set up Found his hole and then he gained some extra Like that's the thing that one of the things that we've talked about that Joe Mixon does better than some other guys is he makes yards where there are none.

And I thought on a few of those runs Woody Marks made yards where there are none. And that's when you have a plus running back. So some flashes, not saying he's there yet. Work in progress, all that stuff, but I was encouraged by a couple of those runs from Woody Marks. Yeah, I don't think you're ready to make him a franchise

running back. You may not even ready to make him an RB1, but he's done enough that he should be getting a fair number of snaps per week. And I think that's for a guy that was a middle round draft pick, Ross. That's all you should be asking for at this point. Yeah, you knew coming out he was a pass catch, a great pass catcher. He led all of college football. I believe it was in receiving yards for running backs with USC. So we're still seeing that four catches for 49 yards, but also some of the running that he was doing, I was impressed by.

All right. Justin is happy about the Texas performance. Justin, you're on 790. Good morning. Good morning, man. If you should be getting a fair number of stamps for weekend, I think that's for a hello, right? Hello, sir. Yeah, good morning. coming out here in the past, a great past. Good morning. All the college football, I believe it was in receipt. Hey, Justin, do me a favor. Oh, that's too late.

Oh, damn it. You're going to tell him to turn his radio. Don't. Don't steal the bit. I'm not stealing it. He's gone now. Don't preclude. Don't give out the magic trick.

That's a magic trick I like to use. Yeah, but with the, we don't roll like a 20-second delay. The magic tricks takes a little longer. For those of you that don't know, that was a classic case of Justin listening to the radio and listening to me at the exact same time. And if you did not notice, there is a significant delay between the two. I love this.

2025 and that still happens. Beautiful. Because we used to teach our producers turn your sound down on your phone. I've told Jonathan not to mention that just for those situations just like that. John, we've allowed some people to try to,

we've sent them turn the radio up and it's just, it's causing a lot of issues. A lot of confusion. Screaming at the microphone, screaming at their phone, making bad driving decisions. Not we don't make any accidents or anything. All right.

Ross, we do have a plethora of Texans happy phone callers on the line. Who do you want to go to next? I don't know what you're looking at. Maybe my software is off. I see empty. Okay. We'll ask again then. Happy Texans fans may call and discuss your squad winning yesterday.

Okay. Happy A&M fans can discuss how awesome. You basically got a coach fired. Longhorn fan. What? I don't want to do this to you, Rossi, but collectively college football is really pissed at Mississippi State.

They should have won the game, correct? Why? Wouldn't they have double digits late in the contest? So what? 27 something like that? I don't know. What was the biggest episode in how long? I think it was 17 in the fourth quarter.

Arch Manning rose above everything. Yeah. We can talk about this. I know that he's not going to maybe get the love. Arch Manning was slanging that thing. Like he was looking legit. Now I know. Did it have a zip on the football? Yes.

With spirals. All season long, we've been seeing a lot of ducks fluttering in the wind. Yeah. I was like, oh my gosh. Maybe he's getting healthier. Maybe he just, maybe just there was no, very little pressure when there when you're down 17, you're like we're going to lose anyways in the fourth quarter. But he, he was slinging the football better than I've.

than I've ever seen him. I'll just put it that way. Can we hear from Sark about his answer to his Texas interest in other NFL teams and whatnot? We'll do that coming back at the second hour of the Matt Thomas show. We'll find it. We've got about three minutes. Look on Twitter. We'll get to hear Damiko Ryan's come up in 15 minutes as well. It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross 713-212-5-790.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. All right. So Brian Kelly is out. Willie Fritz is a cougar for life. Mike Elko was the best value that A&M's ever had as they remain undefeated. The Texans with a win. Rockets looking for their first win.

World Series game number three tonight in Los Angeles between the Dodgers and the Blue Jays and Steve Sarkisian with a gutsy, gritty, come from behind victory against Mississippi State. You got to go to your backup quarterback in overtime. How was he? Matthew Caldwell? He's fine.

Not great? He threw one pass. They ran. They ran the ball. Got a touchdown. They ran the ball for the most part, got a touchdown and won the game. All right. So after the game, and we should set this up a little bit first.

Before the game. Diana Rossini, formerly of ESPN. With the athletic now, I believe? I believe that is accurate. Matter of fact, let me do this a favor because I want to read it for you. You order to get the exact. Yeah, just because I don't want to embellish anything that was said. So this is Diana Resini.

By the way, follow me on Instagram at Sports. God. What? Go ahead. Let's see. I'm going back here, back here. Did she? Erase it, did she?

Let's see here. No, I don't think so. Oh, here it is. This is one day ago. You got the time? No, hold on. Keep talking for a few more seconds. Okay, so there was a report from Diana Rossini

that there have been some interest from Steve Sarkesian. She's a lot, a lot of her tweets, I don't follow her. A lot of her tweets are, I've been told what I'm hearing. Okay, please read it then. 9.05 a.m. This would be the 25th, which is Saturday. Correct. So basically before, a few hours before the Texas Longhorns game against Mississippi State.

I'm told that representatives for Texas coach Steve Sarkisian have left NFL decision makers, have let NFL decision makers know that he would be interested in a potential head, in potential head coach openings, including the Titans. All right. So way back in the day, Rossi, when journalism meant something in sports, or for that matter, news, you had to confirm that with two to three people, unless it was the person directly telling you. Now, Diana Rossini, I don't remember her, she got a bunch of stuff wrong?

She doesn't seem unreliable to me. But Diana Rossini is a national recognized name that she prides herself on being in the know-on things. Now, if this was a guy at the Marriott that was serving the food, and he happened to see the word Tennessee Titans on a piece of paper that Coach Sark wrote down, then that's not a, that's not conferred.

Well, some of those guys know stuff too. They probably do. Point being is this, I think in the Twitter world, you don't have to do that as much. So if Diana Rossini got a phone call from somebody that she trust, could be the agent,

could be the friend of the agent, it could be the administrative assistant to the agent, it could be one of the, of Starkisians golfing buddies. It could be somebody they went to high school with. Who knows? She's not going to give that up. But I would assume if Rossini wants to keep her integrity and wants to keep her mark as an NFL

reporter and a person that gets information, she's not going to flippantly put that out there. I agree. I don't think she there's no reason for her to just make this up. First of all, I don't know if the Titans would be interested. Second of all, why would

you go from a top five branded college program with everything you want to basically a poverty-stricken Tennessee Titans organization. And I know it's the NFL. I would say, especially these days with this NIL and Transfer Portal mess, the NFL, the college football has always been the bigger headache, but it's even worse now. So after the game against Mississippi State, Steve Sarkisian was asked a question about that, and here is his response.

I'd love to touch on this, so bear with me for a second, because it really pisses me off. that one person can make a report that in turn the entire media sports world runs with as factual to the point of my agency and my agents have to put a statement out that they never have done historically CAA Jimmy Sexton and Ed Manowas have never did do that but I had to do that to protect my locker room and my team and I thought it was absolutely ridiculous I thought it was completely unprofessional of that person to put that report out. And the fact that everybody ran with it is borderline embarrassing for the media. And I respect what you guys do. I really do. And everybody else. But the fact that everybody ran that as truth is really embarrassing.

Okay. So I've got a small circle when I make decisions on what I do and what I don't do. And nobody would speak on my behalf without me knowing. And so where that report came from, I'd love to talk to that person because it's absolutely ridiculous. Okay, you are... I've asked a couple things there. Your lip is quivering. That's not true. Now, remember, Rassini isn't Jim Bob Joe from the Austin Times or from even something like an on-three or rivals or a longhorn nation or goofy, stuff like that.

It's Diana Rossini. It's the athletic, reputable people. Diana's been in the world of the NFL. And as I've told you for, I don't know how many years, Rossi, people lie. First thing. Okay. Did you hear an out-and-out denial in that? I heard they're running with this as the truth without saying it's not the truth.

I heard they're putting this out. I didn't hear an out-and-out. This is not true. I am not looking for jobs in the NFL. The University of Texas is my dream job, and I want to be here for the rest of my life. Did you hear any of that? I did not. I did not hear any of that.

No, we don't have the entire press conference. That's true. That's true. Perhaps it was in one sound bite, maybe you were missing it. Another thing. Do you feel like there's a direct correlation between the amount of times somebody pounds the table denying something and how guilty they are? I learned that for Raphael Palmero. Exactly.

I just feel in general, the more you come out emphatically against something, As you mentioned, Raphael Palmero, we can go to, I don't know, Lance Armstrong suing his accusers, any a number of examples. Bill Clinton? Oh, Bill, sure, why not? Nick Sabin, I'm going to tell you right now, I'm not going to be the head football coach at Alabama. I mean, he's absolutely looking in the NFL. There's no reason for Diana Rossini to make this up. And I'm going to tell you, it's all one of those situations where we're all looking.

for the guy who did this and it probably was Jimmy Sexton because it's it's win-win for Jimmy Sexton. Jimmy Sexton has been playing this game a long time Matt, you know that. Yes. He's had a lot of these big names. He orchestrated, the Nick Sabin floated to the Texas Longhorns. People say that was

vetoed by Mac Brown, so maybe there was true to that or whatever. But it's win-win. He knows that because either A, Steve Sarkeesian, who just got re-uped by Texas in January, by the way, is going to get even more money for Texas, Or B, this is signaling to NFL teams if they're interested to go ahead and contact him

because he might be interested as well. And that's going to help them out. It's win-win for Jimmy Sexton. And then they have to release this statement. That probably was, I'm going to guess that Steve Sarkesian isn't happy that this was leaked out at this moment because he is trying to, you have to keep a locker room. And especially in 2020, when people can get into a transfer portal basically about any time they want. You have to keep your locker room in.

college football. So I'm not saying that this was him, but also this was not made up, I don't think. Can I give you the overly simplistic thought of when as soon as I heard all this was, so you Texas fans are not happy with how we're playing this year? Oh, you really think I'm not very good, huh? Well, guess who wants me? NFL teams, the Tennessee Titans. You know what? Okay, that could very well be true as well. That's how I interpreted it as. is that if you don't like me, guess somebody else does. Look, Sark is a good coach. And I remember the darker times.

And this is the thing. And this is what's happening. This is happening at LSU. It's happening at Penn State. It's happening basically everywhere. You have a guy who's, they've lost two games this year. And all of a sudden, he's the worst coach ever. He's a bad play caller.

They need to restart and people are calling. It hasn't been, the drumbeat isn't very loud calling for Steve Sarkisian's head. But there's not love. lucky normally gets. If they lost that game, which quite frankly, they got lucky to win that game on Saturday,

the drumbeat would have gotten louder. I don't think he's looking for more money, although the agent always looks for more money. I think it was, oh, you're not happy with what's going on here?

Well, guess what? A bunch of people would love to see me run their football program. Let's hear from Domingo next at 1112 on Sports Talk 790. Damaico's going to speak here in a matter of moments. When he does, you will hear it.

We believe. We'll have to tell the truth coming up. The presumption is around 11.30, give or take. Will we hear any dumbass sucking questions to kiss-ass to the Texans head coach? Wow. Yes. Okay, Matt. Really, you're going to be Monday, huh?

No, I'm just asked a question. Maybe the answer will be no. When that be nice? For coffee, I'm feeling better. Are you? Cold brew or regular? I already drank my cold brew. Now I'm having some real regular coffee.

That's bad. A little too extra caffeine. I'm feeling a little stuffy. I don't know if my allergies or what. Yeah. I got a super large tea today from Rocco-Rorana, so I'm going to be rolled jacked up. Yeah, that's bad boys. We got a Route 44 over there.

Yeah, I do. Or is it a Route 44? That's a good question. Route 66. Yeah, I think it's... That's where you get your kicks. Yeah, it's got to be root. Okay.

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It was fun. Early day, I think I was gone 21 hours total. Okay. But it was well worth it. Cougars won in Arizona State. Surprise folks in top 25, yeah, 7-1, let's go. What was the line on that game? Arizona State, six and a half, I think.

Oh, okay. They're ranked now, right? Yeah, it's in top 25. Yeah, I'm not a big person of the. ranking things, but I know a lot of people do get excited about that. The number one rankings to me is how the big 12th standings look at the end of the year. Yeah. It's good

to be back in the top 25. It's easier to find when your college football team falls out of the top 25 and you've got to go to that extra tab when you're going to look at the scores. Yeah. I can't do it. I got to go to the SEC tab because they're out of the top 20th. It hurts. We're looking to kill a little time here before Domingo speaks.

Though the Arizona State fans were not happy with some of the fishing calls, they started throwing water bottles on the field. Oh, really? Expensive. ones. Why would they do that? What a classless sand dice. Basically, that's the warning, right? If they had done it again, would that have been the $100,000 fine in the

15-year penalty? I guess so. Because tell me, water bottles, tortilla is the same thing, basically, right? I mean, I think the tortillas are hit is hard. Longhorns did that in the Georgia game, of course. Yeah. A couple years ago? Yeah, again, was it last year? I got to be honest, if I got a water bottle and I'm mad about something,

I'm just going to drink. I'm just not going to throw it on the field. Those water bottles are $8, $8 a pop. I can't afford to be throwing $8 a bottle. bottles on the field? Yeah. Because you're throwing empty bottles, it doesn't do any good. Gouging of the water bottles, by the way, is not as low as it gets, but it feels like it. There should not be a water bottle sold for more than $2 in any of these stadiums. Well, how about this one for me? People are trying to hydrate, and you're gouging them? This is the one I get pissed off about parking.

Oh. If I'm going to your stadium, I'm not walking there. Yes. I mean, I guess I could Uber, but you're basically, I'm at your whim to how much you're going to pay. How much I'm going to pay? Gouch. Bad there. You know what I'm saying?

No. Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, if you wanted to say, okay, parking's $5 so we have to maintain the area, I could live with that, or even 10. Yeah. But there are lots, and this is all the sports teams in town. This is not just in our, there's just sports teams across America.

$7,500, 100. I mean, look at the a Astros were charged during the playoff times. $150 to park. I know. Now, some of those lots are. You got to go six block away and bring your rollerblades. Now, some of those lots are not, most of the lots are not owned by the teams, but I'm presuming at Energy Stadium.

that's their stadium, that's their lot. There's really no other, you can't park down the street where the old Marcos was because they'd tow your ass from there. You got to get there early. You got to find your secret parking. You can't park at the Madison Hotel, Madison Hotel, because they're going to pull your, you're stuck.

Yeah, it'd go to the extended state downtown. That was the greatest thing about the summit was that when you went to a rocket scheme way back in the day, now this is also 30 plus years ago, you didn't pay to park. Now you're getting gouged. It's a different time, Matt. Gotta get those profits up, baby.

Let's go. Well, I mean, it's revenue. I get it. But I just feel like that's the one area that, you know, would be nicer if they would not, just crush you. And that they do.

It's not going to stop. It's only going to get worse, Matt. I'm killing time here. We got any luck on Domingo talking or we're going. No, we still got this graphic going. All right. We'll get to it. I promise.

It'll be amazing. We've got to tell the truth coming up about them they are. It should be great. And you don't know that. Usually you rip on it. That's not true. Not usually. Last time I think you were free and clear. I thought those were some decent opinions. Oh, no, no. I was when I was on my vacation. But then I guessed it immediately when I came back.

It was the next seven one, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The other ones are good. I told him he should have put it number one. If you put the other, like, if you put it up to. I'm trying to rotate around. Look, I can tell you, you go out a lot, which you'll be out tomorrow on Thursday. It's, it's a hard segment to come up with good ones. Yeah. Because I sit here, because I see here, I kick my feet up, like, Alex Trebek with all the answers, or I guess, no, it's a reverse of that. But, and I'm like, oh, man, these are terrible.

And then when I have to come up with him, it's difficult. The only different, and look, Alex Trebek, you didn't ask this about this, but he was a top five all-time host. Really? Maybe top seven. I don't know. I was going to say. But he came across as kind of arrogant when you got the answer wrong on. He's like, what are you, dumbass?

Yeah, I mean, you had the answer in front of you. Exactly. Why don't you go try to, you go sound the contestant side for 20 minutes, see how it goes. Right. Jeopardy can make you feel stupid I know. Like there's, of all the history of game shows, you know I'm a game show fishing out. I like the kids one. I crush that one.

Oh, rock and roll Jeopardy, I did okay. But point being is that you, a celebrity Jeopardy, I crush. Yes. Black Jeopardy I love, but I can't play. Okay. You're DQed. All right, we got it up. Here's it.

Oh, here we go. Oh, we can clip that for yourself. Here's Domeico. Find the ball got everybody can run with the guy and also locate the ball. Then get the ball. What do you see from him in terms of when it's up there that he's going to go get it. And Kamari's there. a great job of really

working his technique and coverage of being able to not find the ball but be on the receiver, find a way to look up for the football and come down with it. That's a really nice play he's made here in our stadium. Two times this year he's been tried down the

sideline. He went up and made the play. So really proud of just his growth and development. He's doing a great job for us. Where is Nico Collins at in the concussion protocol? Yeah, we'll see how how he progresses throughout the week with the concussion protocol. What is it about the defense that has made it effective this season? I mean, I think the defense, first and foremost, the guys are, they're swarming to the football.

They play fast. They play physical. That's the first thing that allows you to play good defense. And, you know, we're getting off the field on third down. I think that's really been the key to limit drives that all. Offenses trying to do, trying to drive the ball down, but defense is doing a great job of getting off on third down, causing havoc up front. Guys doing a good job when the coverage is right and guys are where we're supposed to be, it's really tough, all right, to make a play on us. How beneficial was the offense for the defense yesterday?

Kind of sustaining those drives? And we all played collectively together as a team, offense, defense, everybody fed off of each other, and that's how it should look. Offense did a good job of controlling the game. Again, man, winning third down, allowing them to stay on the field, ran the football effectively, made great decisions with the football from a quarterback position, just played really efficient offense. Well, the younger players have mentioned the word confidence in how they feel like their confidence is growing. Xavier Hutchinson was one of them.

Where do you typically see confidence manifest itself outside of game days? Are there moments in meetings or practice where you, you could see a guy's confidence growing. And confidence just comes from doing your job the right way, executing it on the practice field, doing it, seeing the success from doing it the proper way, doing it the way your coaches are asking you to do it, and you show up in the game,

and you perform that technique the exact same way, and you take the coaching points that your coach is giving you, and you do it in the game, and you make plays. I think that's what gives guys confidence. Where do you see the opportunities to improve in red zone efficiency, Get in the end zone. We got down in the red zone a few times, and we kind of stalled out, a couple negative plays.

We can do a better job of just keeping our foot on the gas and being more productive. A great job of getting in the red zone, and Emi did a great job of really finishing those drive with points, but we want to finish those drives with seven if possible. It looked like when you guys ran on traps, the draw, things that need to be really, really effective against the Nader's defense. What just kind of went into making those plays effective?

I think our offense guys did a great job of game planning and putting our guys in position to have successful plays. And the players did a good job of executing those plays. I'm a big play like the one that CJ throws to Woody in the flat. How much are you looking at it or making sure that the guys out front did their job to turn it from a 20-30-yard play into a 50-yard play? The most exciting part about that play, and CJ made a great decision, Woody catches the ball, you know, in the flat,

but to see our receivers finishing downfield, finishing their blocks, training, that's the most exciting part of that play for me. And that's what it looks like, you have to take advantage when the defensive, they dropped the back in coverage, and we made them pay. That's what football is all about, right?

Making guys pay when they do make a mistake, we did that, and we came up with an explosive play there to Woody. That play is unfolding, basically right in front of you. Are you immediately looking ahead to see who's out front and doing their job? No, you can feel, I can feel those guys. I see Woody coming there. I mean, I can feel the guys, feel the receivers working.

It was Hudson. Hudson Higgins. They were down there just training to try to finish their blocks. What are the challenges for a coach when pushing away outside noise? I know that was a topic yesterday. What are the challenges? And is there a balance between like positive outside noise and negative outside noise? No, it really does matter.

you can see there's a lot of negative talk about us we get it I hear people try to give it to me all the time I get it right it's like but it really doesn't matter right it and again I talk about it everybody wants to write a hot story and most of the time it's negative stuff that people want to talk about right nobody wants to talk about the positive stuff that happens and again if you feed off of that and you're riding the pendulum of oh we're great because we won no we suck because we lost fight like that's a our business, I get it. But that's the nature of it. We keep moving forward, really. It doesn't drive anything. It means nothing, literally nothing, to what we're about. It does nothing to drive our team.

We just got to go out and play good football. You don't think you've gotten any positive stuff? Yeah, I was about say that. You don't think you've gotten any praise at all? Guys, what's your question? I'm just saying, like, everybody says negative. I said, I said,

I said that's what people thrive on, it's the negative stuff. You don't think you've gotten any positive? I said people thrive on the negative. You guys are good. You guys must be the one with the negative stuff. We're playing football. You talk about outside noise. I'll say it again.

It doesn't matter. Good, bad. It doesn't change how we prepare. It doesn't change our week of preparation. We're going to work. We're going to work our best, the game playing our best. the game playing our best and go out and play good football. But for your first couple years and a half,

you've gotten nothing but positive coverage for the majority of the time. So when you say everybody wants to focus on the negative and not right about the positive, I don't know if that's, how is that accurate when you've been here for a couple of years? You've got a lot of positive coverage. You guys good? Your record when you're messaging with your team at all?

No, the messaging doesn't matter. The messaging isn't from the outside. It doesn't matter us. It's not about the record. It's about that week. And we truly focus on one week at a time, one day at a time. And that's how we operate. Do you have a projection for, like, Kate Stover?

Is it close on him? Kay's doing a good job. He's working his way back. He's doing a good job. We'll see where he ends up. But he's doing a good job here working out with our guys on the side. He's doing a good job. Go again.

What makes playing in the red zone difficult? And as a defense, when you go against a good red zone team, what do those teams have? What do they possess? Good red zone teams, you just sound in the red zone, right? You're not allowing guys to be wide open. You're challenging routes. You have really good.

You mix up the coverages, mix up the looks, and that's what makes it tough when you're playing a good red zone defense. And to do that for offense, you just got to find those plays you've seen on tape, how you're attacking those coverages, catch them in the right one. Like we were able to catch Higgins right in the cover two, and we were able to, it was a great play design by the offensive guys, and it put us right there in the end zone. CJ made a nice throw.

Hig made a nice catch there. So it's always a true chess match when you get in the red zone because that's where teams mix up their game plan and mix up their strategies a lot week to week. Dalton Schultz, a player that sometimes serves as like a, guy that kind of checks other guys on the offense. He's talked before a lot of times about experience in offense and making sure some other guys are in good spots,

helping CJ at different times. He kind of a guy that goes and helps kind of implement and make sure everybody's executing. Dawton's been a really good leader for us. And he leads first just by how he's playing. Like you talk about playing tough, finishing, playing through a lot of different nicks and pains. like he's doing that this year.

He's doing a really nice job. So I think it starts there. You lead by example of what you're doing. He's doing that. And when he needs to be vocal, he can be vocal and get guys on the same page, get guys moving in the right direction as well. Do you think of any thoughts on Boonex

and what you see from him does? I have not started on the Broncos, yeah. So I'll get there this afternoon, see where they are. I know they're a good team, good record, good defense, young quarterback, seeing a couple highlights where he's made a lot of plays. So we'll see what that challenge presents for us as we move forward.

For the first time, can it be an advantage as well? For you going against a quarterback for the first time, what are the challenges that that possesses? Each guy possesses different challenges. I would have to look at him and study more to see what those challenges are. I think about a few weeks ago, Nick Sergoo said that you all would have a better idea on Joe Mix. and do you have an update? I know he was at the game yesterday. He had an update on where he is.

I do not. Does Dalton have a unique way that maybe he kind of keeps some of the guys accountable that's different from some of the other players? Dalton is himself, and that's the cool part about it. Like, everybody has a chance to exhibit them, their own personality and their own way, their own unique way.

Everybody is different in their regard, and that's the cool part about the team. Whatever you have to say, however you say it, however you get it done. it's perfectly fine here. So Dalton has done a great job of that all year. All right. Good.

What do you think, sports, Harvey? Compelling stuff. And he got a little challenge. Last time you heard a coach challenge that way in a press conference. I don't know who those people were, but shout out to them. A guy usually doesn't, usually kisses D'Amico's ass and get to ask question this week. But we got a little pushback from. from D'Amico when he was talking about the outside noise and people like,

you don't think we've ever said anything positive about you? They're saying this is some guy called Landry. I don't know. Okay. I don't know who that is. There was two different people talking there. Yeah, it was a couple of people. I don't know.

A couple of people were like, what? Hmm. Hmm. That's how to say, hmm. Hmm. If y'all like to digest anything he had to say. Okay. 713, 212.

5708. We've been robust with Texans calls about the big win against the Niners yesterday. 713-212-5-790 we've also got to tell the truth coming up we'll do that but we want to hear from you if you want to comment anything you heard about feeling the noise girls rock the boys I don't think that's accurate oh sounds like it though sure that's probably a lyric mess up on my part it's I'll get it ready it's close enough 713 say it with confidence sounds good it didn't sound yeah 713 212 570 7191 3212 5 790 1 The great thing about this radio show is that I do know how to tell the truth, but I can lie really good too.

I'm a great liar. I don't mean, I don't hurt to, I don't, I, um, all right. Yeah, I don't need to preface it. Here we go. Mine are all college related today. Really? Yes. It's a college football or basketball too?

Everything. Not necessarily basketball, but just in general. I have four takes, gentlemen. I believe three of them. One lie. One lie. mix. Okay. Which one am I lying? Which three am I? All right. Telling you the truth. Number one, LSU will not be hiring a power four head coach from somewhere else. My reason?

It won't be able to afford it. You will be seeing a good but not a sexy hire at LSU. Okay. Really? That's my number one. Do you believe me you're not on that one? Number two. The athletic director at LSU, his name is Scott Woodward. He was a former athletic director at Texas A&M. He signed Jimbo to the first contract, not the second one, but he got the first one. Okay. He won't out survive this latest shift at LSU.

I think when the new president gets signed in there, I think Scott Woodward is Gonzo as the AD at LSU. I don't know if he's a good AD or not, but I think there is, when you're having to pay out a coach all this money for a school that's not, cash flush, the presumption is. I think Scott Woodward is going to be in serious trouble as athletic director at LSU. Number three, I think Lane Kiffin stays at Ole Miss. I think that he is going to listen to everybody that wants to listen, and I think Old Miss is going to find the money to keep him there and keep him happy. Lane Kiffin stays at Old Miss.

And number four, I think colleges should make public, the money they are directly paying their athletes from their revenue sharing fund. Not the NIL, but the money that's a $20.5 million, we should know how these schools are spending their money. If they're spending on a position, a player, a team, what's the distribution? I'd like to be able to know how much Arch Manning is getting paid for by the University of Texas. I'd like to know if Connor Wigman, how much money he's getting from University of Houston. I'm just using examples. Well, okay, you mean the NAAO money or the money from the school?

Money from the school. No, no, no, money from the school. They call revenue sharing fund. Well, those are public schools. That stuff's going to be public, right? Isn't right now. Okay. I think when we see height, wait, whether they're at the high school.

You want to see their salary or salary? On the roster? You want it on the graphic? You don't put the NFL players contracts up on the graphic? Or do I? No, you don't. They don't. I'm just saying, or do I?

which one of those four am I lying about? Which one, which are the three? Yeah, these are some ridiculous ones. There's multiple ones that you're ridiculous for having these opinions. LSU will not hire a power four head coach from somewhere else. They can't afford it. Non-sexy hire. Number two, the 80 at LSU, Scott Woodward will not survive this.

He will be out eventually at LSU. Number three, I think Lane Kiffin stays at LSU at Ole Miss. And number four, I believe colleges should make public the money. They are directly paying the athletes from their revenue sharing fund. Which one of the, one of those four? Just one. am I not telling the truth am I lying about? Gentlemen, discuss.

Well, Ross, first, I don't think Scott Woodward's going anywhere. He's the ADS is a bad hire for football, but he runs the entire sports. LSU is still dominant in every single division of a sport. Does Matt believe that? Is there takes, not Matt?

Yeah, Matt doesn't know anything about the rest of the LSU Athletic Department. You have to remember, he's coming from the place of, um, what's it? Matt's in the collegiate. Matt's in the collegiate. He no, no.

That's a nice way to say ignorance. Oh. There's no nice way to sing ignorance. Nyativity, you could say. Yes. Niativity. Let's go. I love you too, Matt.

I'm not saying anything. I know. You got stuff to say. It's got to be one of the two LSUs. Okay, I don't think, I mean, but come on. Lane Kiffin is staying at Ole Miss. Lane Kiffin is going to, he wants to be a star. You can't be a star.

Oxford, Mississippi. They're doing good. LSU, of course, we'll hire a powerful coach, probably. They're LSU. Their last hire was Brian Kelly from Notre Freaking Dame. These are, I know, okay, number four, we're tossing out. He wants to know, I mean, it's kind of ridiculous, but I know Matt wants to know.

He said this before, I think. So four is gone. I agree with you on that one. I think he believes Scott Woodward is gone, I guess. You know what? I'm not even, I don't know. There's no way he can get in the mind of a madman. I'll go to number.

I'm taking two. I go with number three. You guys aren't final answers in? Sure, why don't? I do want to know how much you're making. Yeah, I'm just curious. That was easy one. Because again, I want to know if the money's being spent.

You're always trying to pocket watch people. No, it's called a salary cap. It's a 20-5 million dollars. It's got a scourri-a-cats. You like to pry and that's cool. LSU may go the NFL coordinator route. The LSU may, I mean, you know, people have been talking this morning about, you know, Mike Elko was a Duke.

Now, granted, it was a Power 4 school, but Duke is not known as a Power 4 school, but Duke is not known as a power football program. Now, if it's still a power four to lose, that's the wrong take on my part. I would not be surprised if LSU says non-sexy can work. Mike Elko, non-sexy hire. Now, granted, it was Duke again, but it was Power 4.

I would not be surprised. Joe Brady's name has been brought up. He's the offensive coordinator in Buffalo right now. Okay. That'd be kind of convoluted in the middle of their season. I wouldn't say it's a non-sexy hire. But my question was, LSU will not hire a Power 4 head coach. You're saying they're not going to do that.

So I believe that as well. So that's a belief. So it comes down to two. See, I think you're going to be wrong on that. It's fine. It's called opinion. It's fine. I think Lane Kiffin's going to listen to every single thing he hears.

He's going to go back to El O'Miss and say, pay me Biach, and they're going to pay him. I think, I think Lane Kiffin stays at Ole Miss. I see, I think you can be wrong on that one, too. There's no way you think. See, but that's what I chose. There's no way. I told you. You've got to get in the mind of a madman.

I think he was dominant since 2019. in so I, hold on, hold on, no, no, no, no, no, no. I do, no, no, you guys are missing it. Wait. I don't believe laying Scott Woodward's getting fired. That's my lie. I think Scott Woodward stays. Okay, wait.

You said, you said, Lane Kiffin stays at Ole Miss. Yes, I did. That's what I said. I think Lane Kiffon says, that's a truth. You believe he's staying. Oh, yeah. Okay, never mind. Yeah.

So I was right. You're right. I got confused, too. I confused myself. I don't know how it's confusing. I wrote it. You know what? I'm going to write that.

Yeah, you're right. Yeah. I mean, I don't think this is hard. This is not difficult. It's difficult. You're going to be wrong by about three out of four out of these. Now, I'll say this. I don't think Scott Woodward gets to make the hire.

Okay. I think the money, if you're asking these people to pay the contract, they're like, well, we'll write you a check. No, I said it wrong. I thought you would believe that Lane Kiffin stays. I got, I confused myself. I'm sorry. No, I believe that. I believe that Lane Kiffin stays at Ole Miss.

That's what I do believe. Yes. And I do believe that Scott Woodward does stay. There's no way he stays at El, L. You don't think so. With all these openings? I think it's bargaining chips. I really do.

Lane Kiffin loves him some Lane Kiffin. He's going to want to be a star. I think Ole Miss finds the money. See, I thought you believed that. I messed up. I know. I know. I know they're going to stay. I know. I messed up. I'm sorry. I'm stupid. Get you some more coffee.

Yeah, let me chug this down. Get some water. Obviously you drink water at once. Yeah, when you got to drink some water? I usually drink water after my coffee, but I've got to finish a coffee first. All right. We've got the news noon coming up in 15 minutes. I'll fill this up with water. The NBA has released a statement about gambling.

We'll read it to you next here on 790. It's locked on Gordy coming in here, giving us little tidbits about LSU. Hmm. I think firing ADs, especially when it's out of your hands. Unless the boosters hate it. Again, if the boosters hit the AD, you're done. But if it would have had to go to boosters to get this paid off, right? Yeah, or a big sponsor.

That's what I'm saying. Same thing. Boost response. Apparently, yeah, Adidas was, his foot in the bill for the James Franklin firing at Penn State. Mm-hmm. I mean, has Brian Kelly really been that bad? Let's see.

Honestly, Ross, none of these guys have been that bad. When coaches get fired when they're supposed to win nine games a year and they go four and eight. You know what I mean? 10 and 4, 10 and 3, 9 and 4, 5 and 3. All three losses to what, top 15 schools? I think so. again, I do believe pay roads and making sure

fifth graders get to sixth grade is more important. I mean, those are Louisiana issues. Yes, but of course, the LSU homers will tell you, well, the program brings in all this money so they can spend it how they see fit. Because without the program, they don't have the money in the first place. So I don't know if you notice this or not, because I was looking on Twitter during the U of H Arizona game.

Apparently there was just a mass exodus at Tiger Stadium, was the fate of complete frame. And there was a lot of tech, yeah, the boosters, I'm sure, were all upset when the Aggies were sawing off horns, even though they weren't playing the horns. But anyways, sawing off horns. They sawing off a long horns. Soing off tiger feet, I guess. Do they have a Cajun version of that fight song? No.

I don't think so. They just saw the horns, no matter who they're playing. So obviously the attorneys of the NBA office have been busy with all this gambling stuff, right? because they, so they gave their, they gave a memo to all the NBA teams. Could you imagine if you're a general manager or you're an owner or a high-end executive of an NBA team and you walk in the locker room, hey guys, y'all need to sit down for a minute.

And you got guys like Nicola Yolkich, or you got Victor Wemagnamow, or you've got Jalen Brown, they're all sitting around in the locker room. I need you read you something. And it goes like this. This is how legalese this sounds. given the spread of legal betting to the majority of U.S. states,

the recurrence of integrity issues across sports and the emergence of novel betting formats and markets, this is an opportune time to carefully reassess how sports betting should be regulated and how sports leagues can best protect themselves, their players, and their fans. I mean, that's in one ear and out the other, correct? Let me continue. While the unusual betting on Terry Rozier's unders in the 2023 game was detected in real time because,

the bets were placed legally, we believe there is more that can be done from a legal regulatory perspective to protect the integrity of the NBA and our affiliated leagues. In particular, Proposition Betts and individual player performance involving heightened integrity concerns requires additional scrutiny, i.e., we may tell our casino partners to back off on the prop bets. We also begun a process reviewing league policies regarding injury reporting, the training and education of all NBA personnel and safety measures for NBA players. With sports betting now occupying such a significant part of the current sports landscape, every effort must be made to ensure that players, coaches and other NBA personnel are fully aware of the dire risk that gambling

can impose upon their careers and livelihoods, that our injury disclosure rules are appropriate and that players are protected from harassment from betters. We are also exploring ways to enhance our existing internal and external integrity monitoring programs and better utilizing AI and other tools to synthesize and all available data from betting operators, social media, and other sources to identify betting action of concern and activity of concern. Love MBA.

What a word laden legally. That was written by a team of lawyers. How about hey bees, stop betting and stop getting involved with crime activity? By the way, rumor mill ablaze. Oh, okay. What's on the NBA

rumor mill? This is some nobody, these are people from outside of the Houston market. Okay. I'm in a group of some, you know, my group text, group text Monday. Okay. There is growing sentiment.

Doesn't mean it's fair, but it's just, these are just rumors take them with what they were. That Chauncey Billups might have been coerced to do this illegal poker games

because he was being told you either do it or else. That's possible. Again. You're saying mafios. or blackmailing people? I'm saying there is, Hey, Johnson, get over here.

That was terrible. You're right? No, it's not terrible. That was ridiculous. Okay. Point being, that could be completely false. Yeah, he could have run up some debts. But there are,

there are some sentiments in three different cities that have said, hey, we know Chauncey, really good dude, might have gotten sideways with some money issues, and this is how he was. was supposed to pay him back. He could have been in these illegal poker rooms, and this is a way, I mean, this is kind of like the mafia playbook. Get somebody in your debt and then take advantage of them.

I mean, this is very simple. Mafia 101. He could have been in these illegal poker games that they were running. Maybe he lost his ass. What if he lost a million dollars in these poker games? He's like, I get it. Hey, you know what, Chonzie? We'll forget about this million you owe us if you do this or you do this or you set up, we set you up in these

other games and you allow us to monitor people or if you'd let us give us a tip if you're going to be sitting some people absolutely absolutely could have happened and so even if this wasn't being talked about in the quote unquote group chat in my world that's plausible

because again Chauncey Billups has no he does like he apparently there's a history of him being in these poker games you talked about this before since 2019 so maybe he has played in some games that he just got out of control who who do

Again, we're throwing a bunch of things against the wall here, but we're just talking to guys. And millions of dollars can be lost in these private games. I mean, I'm going to tell you, I've been posting, I mean, at least especially, you know, not as much within the last, say, five, six years since I've kind of gotten out of the poker game. But you would always hear about these poker games

with movie stars, with player, professional players. I mean, talks about even when they were filming Rounders and Matt Damon and other guys being around some of these private big games and these clubs that they held in New York and Vegas and L.A. and all that time. You would always hear about private games. where guys are doing that stuff. So that's why I think there's going to be a long investigation

as to who's protecting whom or was just Chauncey being greedy. I mean, that's just as much of a possibility as he's being blackmailed or forced into being in these games. The news at noon is coming up after we feel the noise. I think extortion is the word we're looking for.

It's a good word. And it's for sure. 713-212-5-790. Are you feeling the noise, Rossi? No, I don't hear the outside noise, man. No, it's positive, remember? Hair lane is never a positive noise around the Texans. There's only like 19 YouTube hosts up just...

A whole language. I have... FCC regulated station, Matthew. Yeah, I filtered myself. I'm sorry. Good job. I think. We don't play enough quiet riot. Can we do quiet ride?

Can we play enough quiet right? Are we doing our limits? We have a limit, actually, today. How many hits do they have? Quiet Riot Songs Come on

I feel the noise We have nobody That's a quiet Riot fan You know that one Slick Oh bang your head Is a real jam

Are you being serious You don't like it I don't know that one All right Bang your head next break All right All right It's good

I know it's from Guitar Hero This is the only reason I know Yeah Real ones know No maybe I was like seven

okay all right there you have it no other radio show in town is going to give you some quiet riot with Texans highlights like we do here that's how we roll on the sports talk 790 time now for the news at noon by the way Lauren shihadi oh right just delightful to me

god took a break in the couple days it's not even like the offseason this is like a world series yeah she's she's looking in pennant winning form i can tell you that okay well the Texans defeat The San Francisco 49ers, Matthew, to improve to three and four on the season. The line got up to three before the game. So really, Vegas was loving on your Houston Texans. They got the victory.

But even the final score does not tell the tail. How about 23 to 12? First downs. Texans outperforming the 49ers. 475 yards. I mean, that has to be close. What's their franchise record for yards? 500 yards happens in college.

500 yards in an NFL game insane to just 223 for the San Francisco 49ers. CJ Stroud with his best game of the season. He had 319 yards, excuse me, 318 yards. A couple of touchdowns with one interception. And Woody Mark's looking good. 5.6 yards per carry for him to just 3.3 for Nick Chubb in the game. But overall, the best performance. performance of the year, shall we say?

By far. They were great against the Ravens and Titans, but both those teams were beat up. Right. So would you say a little bit of a stiffer competition despite it being, or are we going to say, no, it was Mac Jones? The 40-0. The 40-0s had some injuries on defense as well. And a couple of guys get injured during the game. I don't know of any of their three wins, our franchise turning wins.

It beats the alternative. I think next week if they can beat a Denver team who smacked around a bunch of teams this year I think you can get some people to turn the corner on them a little bit I think you can give yeah-butts for any of the three victories for the Texans and it would be less so the case

if they were able to win this week. Have you seen the line for the Texans versus the Broncos? Actually, I have it opened up late yesterday is Denver a one-point favorite. I see it at one and a half right now. Hmm. This is going to shock you.

The total is low. 39 and a half. For example, Bingles Bears is 53 and a half. By the way, did you see Denver? I mean, they just kept scoring over it. Now, granted, Dallas's defense is atrocious. The Texans defense is...

If Dallas is 32, the Texans are won. Not maybe, literally, but, you know... I think... Was it Kyle Shanahan or Mac Jones after the game saying this is the best defense in football? Talking about the Texans. It was one of those. One of those dude, dudes, yeah.

Point being is this. Bowenix is going to face tremendous pressure this week that he didn't face against the Dallas Cowboys. Can the Texans put up numbers against the Dallas against the Denver defense like they did yesterday? Remains to be seen. Next week will be no excuse, quality, unbelievable, maybe season-saving victory.

If they lose to the Texans, to the Broncos, it'll be, you know what, you beat up on the second-tier squads and you can't beat the good ones. Yeah. Well, elsewhere in the news, Matthew. Brian Kelly, out at LSU. After just four seasons,

well, actually was it, I think it's his fourth season. As the headman of the LSU Tigers, Brian Kelly gone after the loss this weekend to the Texas A&M fighting Aggies. Five and three this season are the LSU Tigers. previously 10 and 4, 10 and 3 and 3rd and 3rd and 3rd. So the 4 season, 34 and 14 overall in four seasons. Not terrible, but not up to standard, says LSU and the school.

And well, if your offensive coordinator Joe Sloan, you're like, all right, it's my time to shine. I'm going to be interim coach. Not so fast, my friend. You got fired today. 91st in red zone efficiency also 83rd in points per game what happened to

Garrett Nussmeyer and all that Heisman hype Where's lots on Gordy during all this You know he has been so silent on this I'd be curious his opinion on the firing He was on this morning You didn't get up at 6 a.m. normally? Normally you would do though

Normally. Normally I don't But there you go Both of those guys out at L.A. you. Vanderbilt, by the way, with their big victory this weekend over. Missouri. Missouri? That's right. It was a tough one. A one-score

game up to number nine in the country, visiting the Longhorns and some interesting news there, Matt. Archmanning not practicing today as he continues to be in concussion protocol and his status is in doubt for this weekend's game against the Vanderbilt

Commodores. So I would take a sports RV line and say, how are we feeling? Not great. It's going to be Matthew Caldwell or Campbell. I don't even remember that guy's name. He's a senior. I think he's been to four different schools in his college career. Most recently at Troy.

He was a one, perfect one for one this weekend. Against the Mississippi State Bulldogs. That line, Texas, I saw it open at two and a half, now down to one and a half with the recent Arch Manning News. Am I rude to say that I lose respect for kids that play in multiple schools? or over a four-year career? Multiple schools? Like more than one?

I'm saying... How many people are still in one school? There were Arizona State. There were Arizona State players that had been... That Arizona State was their third school. I mean, that's... I think, Jonathan, in your college athlete, you made the one switch. I made one switch in my life.

Yeah, you switched. You switched schools? But the difference is that I moved for a job. I didn't move because I was unhappy in North Texas. I got a job in radio. moving for a job too. That's true. Get that NIL money. I think one transfer

makes a lot of sense. Two comes across is you're just there to play football. What if you start somewhere, you're like a one, two-star recruit, you get to start somewhere, and then you have a good season, and you get to get bumped up to a decent power four, and then you have another good season, and then you get to a great power program where you have a chance to win a national championship, you get more

NIL opportunities. Oh, absolutely. I'm not saying you can't do it. I'm just saying I don't think nearly as highly of those players. That's just me, though. It's just my own personal opinion. Yeah, that's your opinion. I got no issue. Okay.

Kids trying to get his bread. One rocket note, Rockets play the Nets tonight over here on 790, beginning at 6 o'clock with the launch, but who's hosting the show? It will be me. Okay. Hi, Ross, it's me.

You don't want to listen at 630 on our network. I would say generally about 67% of the time of the Rockets game, you hear it's going to be me. Okay. Fred Van Vliet spoke today for the first time and says he is not ruling out a potential return this season. Of course, he's not going to rule. it out.

I mean, it's the alternative. I'm going to cast and don't want to see any of people. Is your Wi-Fi down, Jonathan? The Wi-Fi's went down. Let's see. Phone lines. The phone lines is so good up here. Yeah, I think it's your computer.

I'm going to write right right now. What's the matter? I got something wrong with it. This Wi-Fi went completely down. So that's the news at noon. Okay, I'm saying. That's why I added something. Thank you, Matt.

At Fred Van Bleet. You know what? I'll tell you this. What are you can tell me, Matt? I think if you're sleeping on him not playing, it's wrong. I'm not sleeping on it. I'm going to say, of course he's going to be optimistic. But there's a difference between lip service and doing it on the NBA court

where you've got to run up and down the court for 40 minutes. Now you're trying to be a Debbie Downer. I'm not, am I being a Debbie Downer? You're being realistic. You're being realistic Randy. Jeez. I get it. Actually, my name's Ross.

It works. You can call me Ross. Realistic Ross. That's how I would brand myself. Everybody thinks I'm a hater or I'm an optimist or I'm a pessimist. Generally, I try to keep it real. Keeping it Real with Villarreal. Does that name of your podcast?

Could be. Keeping it real. With real? Keep it real. What's up? Keeping it real with Ross. Roger will talk to you and I'm ex. I knew these new...

These microphones get turned out at 12 noon. Isn't that crazy how it works out that way, Rossi? No, I don't know what you're talking about. We appreciate all of you. We love all of you. One quick note, Rockets, 15 and a half-point favorites against the Nets tonight. It's a must-win Monday. The Nets are 0 and 3.

They give up almost 130 points a game. They are garbaggio. Yeah, they are. You need to win. These first two Ls were painful. Yeah, and they were against two really good basketball teams. Yes. One title favorite.

They still hurt. One, I mean, legitimate Eastern Conference title favorite. And then the Nets just suck. Although Cam Thomas, no relation to me, scores 29 points per game for them so far. But they're on three. That's not your cousin? No, we don't know resemblance.

By the way, did you see Victor last night with, what, 32 for the Spurs? Something like that? Victor Wominiuma? Yeah. I think he's just a guy? He's doing alien stuff. I mean, these highlights, he's getting like three blocks and then going coast to coast, hitting step back jimmies. Like, this is not, he's a friggin alien. Alien is the nickname that it works.

That what they call him? Yes. Okay, because I would never want to personally call another person. Or just Wimby. Yeah, that's true. I mean, I want him to lose a lot, but it's not happening, unfortunately. I also appreciate. sports.

I appreciate sports. I also appreciate if he was doing it in the Eastern Conference. I would appreciate it better if he was on the Pistons. If he was a Cleveland Cavalier, I wouldn't have been with it. By the way, Cavins on Peacock tonight. On a Monday night? It's a peacock opener. On the peacock.

713-1-2-5-7-90. Come on and join us. We are celebrating because we've had zero celebratory Texans calls in two hours and 18 minutes of this show. I think we took one. What was it about? Nah, he was going to call and say the Texas blow. See? Let me tell you something, Houston, Texas.

We've had, and we're the only show in town that takes phone calls. The rest of them don't care. They want to hear themselves talk. Am I right? Okay. We are taking your calls. If you are happy about the Texans, if your name is Texans Darlene, I'll even talk to Texans Darleney, and I don't even care today. Where's Texans Keith?

Where's Texans Keith? Where's Battle Red, well, I'm working with Battle Red Ross. Where's, where's Deep Steele Doug? 713-212-5-7-9. All right, it's a celebration on the Matt Thomas show of Ross. all things on the Texans huge win. We've had nobody call yet on the Texans

winning, but that's okay. We are interactive, which means we do get to let you talk and we don't, you know, filter you. We don't say what you have to do, and what you can't say, and we can't want to say. I want to get our buddy Roger in the show. Roger, you are a prize or on the show. We love you for that. You know this, right, Roger? Yes, I do, Matt. I have thank you for it as well.

Thank you very much. Hold on. Before you go any further, hold on. Hold on. We have a little, we have a little experiment we have to try. This is not against you, okay? So don't take this nothing personal towards you. I want to ask you a simple question. What team does Anthony Edwards play for? Maybe he plays for Gantman plays for Minnesota. Oh, thank you very much. He's out for two weeks with the hamstring string. He's out for two weeks with a hamstring.

I'll be fine. these who we're about to just out. How about the cold weather? So, congratulations to the Cougars. Thank you. Listen is our. LSU's already trying to steal the head coach away already,

but I don't think you've got to buy into it. Hopefully not. Man, who's that quarterback for you of age? Connor Wigman? Connor Wigman's going to get, Connor Wigwood's going to get

drafted as well, I think. There's some room for Connor Wigman in the NFL, I think. Also, So, congressional Texans, that's funny what it looks like, a whole complete game without a shot on his backside, without all the jumping pockets and all that good stuff. Finally, can we dare say the offensive line can stay where it is, at least for a game or two, because it looks like that's how it's supposed to look like.

Just saying, you know, usually they try to mix and match and go with different offensive lines on a different positions. Maybe we can read this all off and see what it does. Also, that's how that strad to me looks like he can do more with less. No Nico and who's the other guy, Kirby, that guy was not available, and he gets the unknown guy that makes the superstars out of him. Nice. It's very nice. Also, you know, it's going to be hard to go to conference finals and we put a championship,

but we don't win any radio season. Hey, hey, hey, be nice. Roger, it's not going to be that bad. My God, they're not going to 182. Hey, well, I feel like Kevin DeRanfield. Coach's Shast pissed off. The players are pissed off. The play by playing Houston Rockets guys.

Pissed off. I'm pissed off. I'm mad as hell. Thank you. Thank you, Roger. Appreciate the phone call. I don't like calling losses, Ross. I get paid to call wins.

No, you get paid no matter what happens. That's actually true. then you'd be really mad. You only got for wins? Oh, in 2022. Jonathan, I did three years of the Christian Wood era. Oh, hey. I think Christian Wood's out of the league now.

Is he actually? I did Daniel Tice. I don't think Christian Wood. Hey, come on now. Who else was in those groups of players? Oh, Garrison Matthews? Garrison Matthews. Gary Bird?

Carrie Bird. Yeah. Christian Wood's been out of the league for like two years now. Oh, snap. Who else did I do during? Jay Sean played a lot. He's still on the team. He's the only, he's an OG from that squad. I did Boogie Cousins for a short time.

Very short time. Very short time. You want to bring up that DJ Augustine? Okay. Assistant coach now or in the scouting department, yeah. Kevin Porter Jr., Kelly Olinick. I mean, I can. Oh, I did some serious. Atlantic basketball. Armony Brooks, if you need them?

No. Cougar's legend? No. I mean, nice kid. Nice kid, but Why are you shaking your head at me? Like he's a five-time all-star. Well, he did to go to the Harvard of Southeast Texas. Should be awesome. Where was that? Rice. University of Houston, of course. All right. Who else all those teams? Sterling Brown? K.J. Martin. Oh, K.J. Martin. I forgot about Avery Bradley. David Nauaba. Oh, man. You're pulling out the deep cuts. The deepest of cuts. Daniel House Jr. Uh-huh.

Daniel House Jr. Don't ask about the bubble. Just saying. Leave him alone. It gets lonely. It gets lonely in the bubble. It gets lonely in the bubble. It gets lonely in the bubble.

There's R&BT. Thank God those days are gone. Josh Christopher? How's Josh Christopher doing these days? Not much. I think he's out of the league too. Jalen Green. I don't think he's played for Phoenix yet.

Although Dylan Brooks scored like 20 points a game for the Suns. They're not very good. All right, there's your rocket past. 1230 on Sports Talk 7.9. We've been playing a quiet riot in the noise. So D'Amico said something yesterday about the noise. Yes. And then there was a response to the noise.

There was some more noise. There was some more noise about the noise. Okay. We'll play all perspectives of it next here at 1230 on Sports Talk 790. 1235, Matt and Ross, Sports Talk 790. What is today's edition of Believe it or not? Brian Kelly Oh it's got to be

No I don't think so He got fired We're supposed to honor people We can also not Let me tell you he's getting $50 million We're going to honor him I like the memes all this weekend

Like here's Brian Kelly interviewing for the UCLA job And it's like the guy doing the surfer talk If I'm him I don't work again Because remember when he got hired at LSU He's like Hey

Ben Bav oh yeah He started trying to talk Cajian So you're going Hang 10 at UCLA? Exactly, yes. Bro. Right.

It was pretty great. And if he's going to Coach it, Rutgers on the games or on WFAN. That's a good, you know what, I'm going to tweet that now.

Stealing your material. That's fine. Just put like a Tony Soprano. Can I get a hat tip? I'm not going to put it up there. Okay. Let's talk to Vince in Midtown on the Matt Thomas show at Ross.

Vince, thank you for waiting and good afternoon. Hey, good afternoon, guys. really enjoyed the Cajun thing you guys did earlier, I was cracking up. We find ourselves funnier than the average people do, so we thank you when we get

once again, get an applause from you once and a while from that nice folks on yourself. No, it was great. No, hey, listen, I won a ticket from you guys to go see the U of H exhibition this weekend. Oh, yeah, how was it? Matt, you're going to be, who, you're going to be impressed with them guys.

The defense was just incredible. incredible. Frankly, I think they won by 1450. I can't remember the exact score, but that's only because one of the Mississippi State guys got really hot. He was throwing up some long three-pointers. And then Sharp, I think it was 0 for six from three-point land. So it's kind of like you don't expect that to happen, continue. But let me tell you, Uzan looked fantastic. Tuggler's got a back-to-the-basket game now. and the Senac kid, he is a beast on the boards and defensively. And Kingston Fleming is just athletic and just, I've never seen anyone move up up and down to court as fast as he does. Yeah, last night I'm looking at the box score. It's 61 to 52 as a final score. It doesn't really matter. It doesn't really count.

But it was an SEC team. And, you know, I mean, how was that building, by the way? I've never been to the Fort Bend County epicenter. Is it nice? Okay, that's another subject. Uh-oh. No. Really?

The building from the outside, no, I want to tell you the truth, the building from the outside, as far as basketball, no, because, so they had the lighting for the floor, and basically you're looking at the, you know, it's not, it's kind of a low ceiling, so you just had this constant glare in your eyes from the lights. Hmm. And then they didn't have, they didn't have any scoreboard to show any kind of statistics who was checking in and out of the game, who the fouls were on. The concessions were okay. The food prices were pretty reasonable considering. But the concession lines were kind of long at half time, so I don't know if they had enough less spots to get food. But overall, I mean, the experience is great.

The experience is great, but the team is going to be incredible. I'm going to tell you right now. Well, that's what I like to hear. And if they go to the final four, I'll be sitting in my home or sitting in a hotel enjoying because that was too much for one man to overcome last year. going all the way to Sandturn and watch that loss. You're right. I'm a fraud. This is like you're talking about the

fantasy football. I'm done with fantasy football. I'm never ever going to play again. All right, I'll play. Watch. They hit the final four. You get all excited. I'm glad you asked. I'm going to look. Thanks. Thanks for the phone call. You're already checking the dates now. Lifelong fan. I'm going to check right now. When is the final four out? Can you look it up?

Really quick. It's beginning of April. Yeah, week one of April. There you go. Okay. Oh my God. Where is it this year? Is it an indie? Indianapolis. Is it April 6?

Is that when the championship game? Fourth and six. Okay. Oh my God. I could go to both. You fraud. Hold on. Let me explain.

Jillet. Let me explain the situation. On the third. Okay. The rockets are home for Utah. Okay. The fourth, I'm supposed to leave for San Francisco. Mm-hmm.

No, just go to the final. fifth, they play in San Francisco. If they were, you know what I might do? I might do what I did last year. I might skip the semis and then fly from San Francisco to Indianapolis for the championship game on the sixth. Okay, I'll do it. You're such a fraud. It's like five seconds.

Not even. He looked at his paper. I'm like, I got this. Okay. I won't go back and forth. I will go just to the championship game. Okay, Matt. I'll book with Miles right now. If they make it. And get a liquid IV, get some emergency.

You can't get you sick again. I'm not getting sick again. That was not worth it. Just wear a mask. I'll do whatever. I'm not getting COVID again. That was sucked. Sorry, Matt.

Tell me, I was stuck in L.A. for three days in a hotel room with 103 degree temperature. Couldn't shake it. Not fun. All right, I'll go. That is so funny. I am seriously Why don't y'all

When I tell you things I'm definitively Going to do or not do Just take the opposite Toros are doing well this week Well you got beat this week I got beat this week Yeah we're gonna be six and two

So we're happy That's good We're happy How are you guys doing? The rough riders are one and six And we need We need somebody to outscore Somebody else by three

Rashi Rice Roshy Rice to outscore Isaiah Pacheco by three Okay You got a punch your chance then. We can do that. Okay. Anything in the NFL, we have talked.

I mean, we try to talk about Texans. Really. Minus 9 from Bengals. I need a correction. You have to check. There's no way. As commissioner, I'm stepping in. Because let me ask you this.

Now, for those, I mean, we all have you to play fantasy football. If you get minus 9, that means you gave up like 56 points. Are you sure? They gave up 39. Yeah, I'm sure. I'm looking right at it. Terrible. All right.

I got a squad. I got a goose egg from Quentin Johnson. I'm upset. Nobody cares, but I'm mad. I really do want you to look. As a active participant in your league and a former commissioner, I can't believe we would give you, Doc you nine points for 39 points a lot. I mean, 39's a lot, but it's not a lot. If I left the spot empty, I would have to save nine points. That's terrible. That is absolutely terrible. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

so much of the noise D'emico canceled out but had to answer for the noise and we're going to play both parts of it coming back I thought it was pretty interesting what was being said so we'll hear that coming up also oh the athletic we'll do this

at the top of next hour the athletic has the top 50 free agents out there there were two things I was looking for how many of the Astros are potentially in on and where was Kyle Tucker going to go did they do contract projections Yes. Ooh.

Don't look. Okay. When are we doing this? Top of 1 o'clock hour. 1 o'clock. Okay. I won't look. You're going to be pleased.

Your bell is going to be full. All right. Did D'Amico hear the noise after Ross tells you about synergenic? All right. Let's evaluate this. This was yesterday. when Kissass Media member was... What?

Go ahead. Am I wrong? I don't know. I didn't hear the question. Oh, I guess, okay. It was, how do you block out the noise? And this is D'Amico yesterday talking about blocking out the noise.

It really doesn't matter about outside noise. And we hear a lot of that every time you lose. Everybody wants to come up with something of get rid of everybody, fire everybody, you lose the game. You go out, don't play well. The noise is just a lot of people who don't know what they're talking about. Because here in this room, as a team, we stick together as a team, and we know it's only about us, right? And you never let the outside noise creep in and control who we are.

We know who we are. We know what we're about. We know the formula. We know what it takes to go win games. And we just understand that the outside noise is just noise. We would never go ask anybody who's given the noise. we would never go ask them their opinion about how to game plan or how to play football. So we keep that in-house and we go, we press forward and we go out and play good football.

That's what it's about. All right. A little nice twisting. We would never ask, we would never ask you how to game playing. I'm not listening to call-in shows asking you and we should do on third and one and fourth and one. I shouldn't talk about, you know, bringing an extra blocker and to help out protect CJ Strauss. Making himself very clear. We don't care about your opinion.

you don't know football, get out my house. Pretty much. So today, fast forwarding to the press conference, which we carried it at about 11, 20 this morning. There was a little back and forth. I think two members of the people that were asking questions, correct? Okay. It were two. Two different voices.

I think it was. So here is the exchange with D'Amico one day after hearing about the noise. Everybody wants to write a hot story, and most of the time it's negative stuff that people want to talk about. Right. Nobody wants to talk about the positive stuff that happens. And again, if you feed off of that and you're riding the pendulum of, oh, we're great because we won.

Oh, we suck because we lost. Fight. Like, that's our business. I get it. But that's the nature of it. We keep moving forward, really. It doesn't drive anything. It means nothing, literally nothing, to what we're about.

Like, it does nothing to drive our team. We just got to go out and play good football. You don't think you've gotten any. positive stuff? Yeah, I was about to say that. You don't think you've gotten any praise at all? Guys, it's, what's your question? I'm just saying like, everybody says negative.

I said, I said, that's what people thrive on is the negative stuff. It says negative, but you don't think you've gotten any positive? I said people thrive on the negative. You guys are good? You guys must be the next one with the negative stuff. We're playing football. You talk about outside noise. I'll say it again, it doesn't matter.

Good, bad, it doesn't change how we prepare. It doesn't change our week of preparation. We're going to work. We're going to work our best, the game playing our best, and go out and play good football. But for your first couple years and a half, you've gotten nothing but positive coverage

for the majority of the time. So when you say everybody wants to focus on the negative and not right about the positive, I don't know how is that accurate when we've been here for a couple of years? You've got a lot of positive. You guys good? You guys good. You guys good.

Let me, let me, let me be perfectly blunt. Okay. I feel like I can be fairly blunt with you all right? Mm-hmm. 90% of the people that cover the Texans are blatant cheerleaders for them. That call themselves journalist. Now, I'm not a journalist. I'm a talk show host.

I'm an entertainer. I'm a broadcaster of games. I root for them, but when things aren't going well, we don't go well, you know, bad calls got us every single time. When the Rockets lose, unfortunately, we've got to talk and speak in truths. And that's what the Rockets want for me, and that's what I expect for myself. For D'Amico to think that the people that assemble at these Monday get-togethers that don't write positive stuff is patently absurd. whoever said 90% I don't know if it was a percentage put up

but the guy had said for two and a half years we were talking about how great things are he's absolutely correct he's right this is an overly positive media market when it comes to the football for a team that has never gone to an a FC championship game and Domingo is worried about the noise

of a few of a losses in this year where expectations were very high I mean come on Damico I will say also that it is is to be expected. I mean, there has been everybody, everybody talking about Nick Cayley needing to be fired after he's only been here for a couple of weeks and the team and the

offensive line, but a lot of it has been warranted. I will say that as well. It's not, it has been a lot of negativity, but it's also, they played very poorly. And the ones they have had are against the Titans, against a very wounded Ravens team and a semi-wounded San Francisco 49ers team. And here's the thing I do

want to back to Miko on. He's trying to defend, A, his guys, and he knows he's not stupid. He knows Nick Kaylee is getting crushed. Yes. And if Domeko Ryan's and or Hannah and or, I think, CJ to a large extent, wanted slow at gone, you just brought somebody else and knew and I complained about them. That's how they interpret things.

That's how that football office interprets, oh, you guys are never happy with the offensive coordinator. You're never happy with who we bring in. The reality is, if you're brought in. somebody, and I don't even know if anybody was out there to do this, but if you brought somebody in that was an experienced offensive coordinator that had some success elsewhere, you wouldn't be, Nick Cayley wouldn't be feeling the heat. If Nick Cayley, if Sean McVeigh was the offensive coordinator here, not Nick Cayley, Sean Cayley's got skins in the game. He's got honors and he's got success. Nick Cayley was with a good football team, but Nick Cayley didn't, it was never a play

caller ever in Los Angeles. It was John McVeigh's offense, still is to this day. And so, yeah, I think people have high expectations about what their offense could do, especially because Ross, we've talked about this before. You have to make your mark if you have a really good quarterback in which C.J. Stroud is a really, really, really good quarterback. And he's on a rookie deal. Because if you don't do anything and your quarterback is now in that super mega dollar deal, you're going to be hamstrung other positions. If you can get your quarterback who's really good on the cheap and when you're in a really good spot because you can't spend other money in other places.

You can't do that when you're paying your quarterback $50 million a year. Yeah. So just with the, it's interesting to me because when Damiko goes out there and he does his coach speak thing, we kind of all move about our day. But when you start kind of going after people, that's going to make them go after you. And we just saw that.

I mean, how long have we been hearing D'Meiko Ryans in these press conferences just go out there and say a bunch of coaches? speaking we've never heard some pushback like that so when you do try to kind of push back then then the media is going to push back some at you and so that that'd be interesting to see this monitoring this going forward especially that group who's there there was that's nothing but cheer not cheerleaders but it's easier to write positive than it's negative it's easier to talk about winning things and losing things and you have to kind of wiggle your way around area when the when you're covering a team and talking to a person face to face

when things are going right. Hell, if the Rockets lose to the Nets tonight when I-May joins us on Wednesday, it's going to be difficult for us. It's not fun. It's not easy. It's not easy, but you... We've been doing Joe Espada for two years. We've done this before. We know what this is like, so you have to be polite and respectful, but at least... But ask the right questions.

Ask the right questions in the right tone. And I just, Nick Cayley criticism is fair. We're not talking about how bad a body odor he has. We're not talking about how wispy his mustache is. We're just talking about the fact that's team is underperforming.

And when you are a professional, bad red zone, when you are a coach at the highest level, whether you're an assistant coach or you're a head coach, it comes with a territory. It just does. So, you know, look,

D'Amico's feeling a little bit. I will just say it this way. That not everything, again, if you want complete positive, your team's media department will help you with that. And even the people that cover stuff, they're generally speaking pretty positive people. So for him to push back on, well, wait a minute, we have written nice things about you.

And again, you notice who he was written. He didn't say, I've heard or I saw. He's getting the clips, like I told you about before. He's getting the clip service that shows you every article that's written about the Texans. So he's, when he's eating his club sandwich at lunch, he's, he's looking through that stuff, right? I guess. I don't know.

Club sandwich, underrated sandwich, generally speaking. You get ham, turkey, cheese, and three breads. Bacon. And mayonnaise? Ooh, baby. That's a win. And tomato and lettuce, as long as a lot of, lettuce is thin. Good club sandwich.

Are you hungry or something? A little bit. That was out of, it's kind of out of nowhere. Yeah, that doesn't a club sandwich sound good right now? Then make club at the deli next door? I don't think they make club to that? Yeah, they do. They can BLT.

That's what I'm talking about. All right. 1257. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We're going to come back. And Ross is going to gloat about his future meal that is going to get paid for. What are you talking about? You're going to gloat.

I'm not going to gloat. You're going to glow it on the daily. I'm all about humility, Matt. I'm going to remember I told you how people lie all the time? There's a king liar right there. 713-212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Final hour.

Matt Thomas showed Ross. is next. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 102 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We have been celebrating the Texans win.

We've celebrated Domingo getting rid of the noise. Rockets home tonight for the Brooklyn Nets. Don't call them New Jersey Nets. We've got Brian Kelly out as coach at LSU. I say non-big higher.

Meaning, I don't think they poach a power for a coach from somewhere else. Why do you say that? Yeah, I want to ask you that too. Okay, let me give you the reason why. LSU's got money. LSU's an attractive job, but LSU is not got a blank checkbook. I think there's got to be some infrastructure pressure. Maybe Gordy can speak more to this.

If he's still here, maybe he's taking a nap. Who knows? You're going to pay out Kelly's contract. You're going to pay out the assessment. assistant coaches contract. You're then going to go spend as much, if not more, on a new coach and a new set of assistant coaches. You're talking about, as Matt Muscona was on this morning on the morning show,

between $100 and $115 million to replace your football program. Yeah, but they knew all that when they fired him. They didn't just plop into their lap. This was all talked about in some boardroom behind closed doors before this even came out. And this decision was made. Yep. I think the heavy lifting is done with paying out the coach. I think you think about what it's going to cost us down the road.

Now, did they bring up what's going to cost us? Of course. But I'm just, it's not a gut feeling. It's just how I feel that. I feel like when they lack, I mean, and we got some phones coming in at 713, 21, 2, 1, 5, 790. Let me ask you this. Jimbo Fisher gets fired. Yeah.

Was the name you were thinking about replacing him was Mike Elko? No. No, they tried to do Mark. Wait, Mark, Mark Stoops? What's the Stoops? Yes, Coach Kentucky. Mark Stoops was going to be the higher. And then there was a huge firestorm report there.

And then Mike Elko was the guy. But Mike Elko was from a powerful school, but not considered anything close of a football factory. LSU is a more prestigious job than Texas A&M. It's not even close. I think the government. Here we go. Here we go.

Get it. If you want to talk about money, then of course A&M's up there with anybody. But you want to talk about prestige, LSU is ahead of the text saying to Maggie's and it's not even close. All right, so I'm going to preface it again. I'll say my statement again,

and then Gordy will come in and interrupt the show. Here we go. I want to hear Ross say that again. I feel like the audience, the people in the back didn't hear it. I've said it twice now. I'm correct, right? I mean, come on.

My thought is, Gordy, is that you're going to spend, there's going to be a tough pill to swaddle paying up the Kelly contract. To have to go get that money and then some to get somebody that's going to be super, super sexy and profound. and noticed.

There's something you're missing here. The verbiage in his contract says he is required in good faith to go find new work. And there's a buy-all clause that says any job he gets, whether that's new head coach, administration or media, it offsets whatever they have to pay. So they will not pay him 53 million. Okay. But if they, let's see, if ESPN pays him $1.5 million a year to do game day or whatever game day, that's nothing. That's, that's, that's, it's, it's pennies and a dollar. job within two years. His ego, he ain't not coaching. He's going to be coaching somewhere.

Okay, so even if he went from 53 to say 38, let's say you go to like UCLA or something. But here was the thing too about the whole conversation yesterday was we're not paying you 53, period. So let's talk about, let's talk this out about what the number's going to be. There was one report that came on and said they're only going to pay him somewhere between 20 and 30. And what they may negotiate is a full lump sum pay. So instead of them just cut. him a check for 700k every or 70K every month for the next six years.

They'll just do, hey, let's do a full 25 million lump sum pay. Now that could change my thought process on this. Whatever it is, they're not paying him 53. Okay, well, what I want is so I'm going to go on the assumption that they're going to. Because you can't, you are assuming that he's going to be able

to get a high pro. Brian Kelly may be damaged goods. Might be. But what I'm saying is, he's going to get a job. The whole reason they had this negotiation yesterday was to say flat out we're not paying you $53 million. So where do you want to go here? We can roll your ass out in two weeks and get embarrassed again against Alabama and we keep ruining your legacy or

let's part ways right now and we'll figure something out. You can ruin my legacy for $53 million. Okay so my point. Coaches are prideful. So let's go back to it though. How big of a hire is this going to be? Do you think at the end of the day? It depends. They'll have the resource. Look, the big money, here was the big reason why this happened when it did. on Saturday night they honored the board of supervisors and the big money people on field. So that was...

You mean the Tibado family, the Arsino family? The whole reason Osirang got fired after the loss at Kentucky a few years ago is because all the big money people made that trip to Lexington and they were there in the stands. Well, then I wouldn't invite him any future trips. Yeah, they're bad luck. I'm just saying like when that happens in front of those people, those people are quick to write checks. So they also had to see the Aggie's saw on the horns off and basically taken over the stadium. Hey, look, their first win there since. 1994 good for them. I mean, you know, blind squirrel finds a nut every down.

But they dominate that game. By the way, it's their first, it's their first ranked SEC team that played all year. Congrats. Are you going to outspend Florida, Florida State? Florida State can't get out of that Norville contract. I'm just throwing the names against the went around. Are you going to outspend Penn State? Are you going to outspend UCLA? Who else could be available? Here's where it gets true. Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State. Virginia Tech.

Yes. They're going to outspen the Arkansas. They're going to outspen all those schools. Here's the game that's being played. Lane Kiffin's number one of their list. Lane Kiffin, the administration Ole Miss just said two weeks ago

when Kurt Signetti got that deal, that they'd like to get a deal done similar to that to keep Lane Kiffin in Oxford. But here's what Lane Kiffin needs to ask himself. Lane Kiffin hasn't even... Ole Miss has never played for an SEC championship. Ever. They've never been to be.

to Atlanta. Link, if it needs to ask himself, am I better served here? Do I have a better chance to win a national championship in little old Oxford, Mississippi, where they sell chicken on a stick at the gas station? You sell cracklings of the gas station. What are you talking about?

Oh, I'm sorry, three national championships since 2004. A championship program like LSU. With three different coaches, correct? And three different coaches. And even Florida, 20 years ago, Urban Meyer won back-to-back titles there. Ole Miss ain't won Jack. So, look, as nice as the chandelier is in the Grove and the Red Solo Cups, I don't know if you can win a championship there.

So that's why the wandering eye catches Lane and he goes, am I going to, because here's the thing with Louisiana, you put up a fence around the state, they just manufacture ball players. Literally for Ed Ogeron, Jamar Chase and Justin Jefferson fell out of a tree and knew his backyard. Like, so Lane has to keep going to the portal at Oxford because he can't recruit in Oxford, Mississippi. Well, LSU you can recruit. Are you talking about Kirk Signetti, or are you talking about Lane Kiffin here? Kirksonetti's has zero problem with Indiana and he doesn't prefer a recruiting ground.

Well, he'll probably fall off another year or two. But here's where it gets tough with Lane. Okay, Ole Miss says he's making a 10 million right now. What if they go, we'll make that 11. Jimmy Sexton's going to turn to LSU and go, you're going to go to 12? And then if they go to 12, they're going to go to Ole Miss and go, you're going to go to 13? And so it's just this going to go back before.

Who's going to blink first? Exactly. Exactly. That's what I think. Yeah, I don't think you're crazy to think that Kiffin's going to stay, Matthew, but I think you are, there's too many others. It's the money favorite right now. The favorite is Kiffin stays. That's the easiest move.

But if he were to leave, these are two premier jobs in Florida and LSU. I also think that Lane Kiffin likes him some Lane Kiffin. He does. And you get some more eyeballs on yourself. I think Kiffin's going to use these as bargaining chips. At Florida. Yeah. Because it's going to go to the highest bidder.

Here's the thing, too. He's happy in Oxford. Because here's the thing. if he goes seven and five next year at Ole Miss, they don't give a damn. If he goes seven and five, seven and five, seven and five in Florida, they're going to go, hey, we didn't pay for this. We paid for championships. All right, so before we let you go,

because you've been putting in some serious hours today, who are the top three in the list? In your mind. Don't know who you want. Who do you think of the top three on the LSU list? I said this on Locked on SEC, and you can subscribe wherever you get your podcast. There's a little plug. There we go.

You're worthy of five minutes. The I-Hare radio app. I said their top three. Kiffin want, well here, the very first phone call you make is to Nick Saban. Just to say, hey, are you sure you're done? Because it was in January of this year on the pivot podcast sitting down with Ryan Clark. Nick Saban said the words, professionally the biggest mistake in my career was leaving LSU. He said that this year in 2025.

So Ms. Terry said a few weeks ago, too, when Penn State opened, she said, what's the number? Her name is Terry, not Miss Terry. That's Miss Terry. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. So you start with that. Sabin will go, no.

but at least you make the phone call. Number two is Lane Kiffin. You get into his bidding war. We'll see what happens. Number three, I think they love Joe Brady with the bills. But here's the problem. Which would be a sexy hire. Here's the problem.

No, I just said top four power coach. Bill's a sexy hire. Bills are going to be a playoff team. Can you wait until January, February, for Joe Brady to get there? Keep this in mind. First week of December is a signing period. Probably not. First week of January is the transfer portal.

And there's only going to be one portal window this year. So you basically have to hire a whole staff to come in and do all that for you. Or Joe Brady leaves mid-season with the bills who appear to be one of the favorites to go win a Super Bowl. So why would you leave that? So that's a tough one. And then after that, it's John Summerall at Tulane, who they're very high on. And then after that, maybe Willie Fritz. I knew you were going to.

When you said after that, I knew where you were going on. Willie Fritz is a winner everywhere he's been. Yeah, and you can't have him. Okay, I'm just saying. You can't. Go get Tom Herman. You know what I'd love to Tom Herman 10 years ago? I can't wait to give him a standing ovation. A standing ovation on Saturday.

Do you know this for us if Tom Herman is coming back to? I did know that. Is he really coming? Yeah, he's brain burnt hot dogs. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. In his hydration chart. Do we know he's coming back or the other? I know the player's coming back.

No, yeah. No, no, no. No, they already said, yeah, Tom Herman's going to be there. Shut the front door. Why are you saying? I really didn't think he was going to come back. What else is he doing? I'd give him a standing O?

He was a great coach. Yeah, what do you mean? I like Tom. You know what I brought you guys to new heights. I'm all, I'm team Tom. Now, Ross may not get a standing ovation before he did in Texas. I didn't think he was that bad. He got let go because of the whole eyes of Texas thing.

I think. I think that was part of it. Tom Herman, in front of the show. Let's get him in studio. Where is he? I don't know where he is. You can count money. We've got a really nice house in Austin.

Okay. So when I say not a power for head coaching job, I might be right. You might be right, man. You may be right. You may be right. You may be crazy. You may be crazy.

Would fit that bill, yeah. But they're not, I can't see James Franklin. I can't see Mike Gundy. Probably not. Probably not. Like, that's just. Well, our friend Adam Rittenberg from ESPN has ranked the head coach openings right now. Really quick.

Number one? LSU. LSU. Florida 2. Florida 2, Penn State number 2. Oh, I like Florida over Penn State. Oh, Penn State probably a little easier to win. Florida number 3, Oklahoma State.

Here's the thing with Penn State. You don't have to pet. You don't, the schedule rotates. You don't get Ohio State in Michigan every year. So beat up on Indiana and Southwestern and James Franklin couldn't do that. Enough. That was the thing.

He would beat off everybody not named Ohio State in Michigan. And since you are SEC Honk, I mentioned this to my buddies on the trip in Arizona. So, you know, for years, it was the SEC on CBS, right? I mean, you had the sexy Auburn, Alabama. You had Georgia versus Florida. Brian Nessler and Gary. Danielson. You know, they're doing the Big Ten now. They did Minnesota, Iowa.

I mean, Jesus. I mean, what a fall for, not their fault. CBS's fault for not paying. But you go from covering the, I mean, the top matchup every week to some middling big 10 game. We said that was going to happen. You know what they've done now, too, on ABC is all three games all day or SEC games now. The morning game, the midday game, the night game. Joe Tessator referred to it on Saturday.

said it's the all-day SEC network. It should be. Hell, they are. When Texas Mississippi states on the SEC network, that shows you how deep your game list is. Oh, I can't wait for that. Took me a minute to find it. Did you guys see the news today out of Texas?

What that Archer? Concussion protocol. He got concussed. And Sark was gushing on Matthew Caldwell. I think it's going to be Caldwell against Van. Yeah, I think so, too. His head slammed into the turf. And what happens when Caldwell's awesome?

What do you do that? Oh, stop. He's the Troy transfer You can't go back to Arch No, yeah, absolutely you can Arch was great in that game If Colwell If Colwell throws the 300 and four touchdowns

And they beat Vanderbilt They're going to go back to Arch Come back here next Monday And let's see that Matthew Colwell Gollwell jersey So where can we find Locked on SEC? Wherever you get your podcasts

He's a hater He just comes in here He's a hater gordy He loves LSU He hates Alabama But he loves LSU I can't wait for Titans head coach

And then Texas You're the king of inventing scenarios that are never going to happen. Diana Rucing is reported. I do reported. I'm talking about the Matthew Caldwell. What if he throws for 350 and four touchdowns? He could be good. You don't know?

He threw the game winner on Saturday, Ross. He's going to be fine. Through the game winner. All right. Yeah, his one pass, then he completed. There it is. 713-212-5-790. Mike and Tim will get to you next.

We've got, believe it or not, today, all things about, we're doing Brian Kelly? Why? What do you want to do then? He's fired. He's disgraced. I know. Oh, wait, is it?

1.15? Yeah. Well, the show has flown by. Yeah, I'm saying you're 35 minutes. Well, my computer's doing updates. 713-212-5-790. Come on back. 121 on the Matt Thomas show.

By the way, June Lockhart could be a topic on believe it or not today. She passed away over the weekend. 100 years old, Mrs. Cleaver from Leave it to Beaver. 100. May she rest? I would hope so. She lived a good life. What was her name?

June Lockhart. June Lockhart. She was also on the TV. show lost in space. Oh, really? Yeah, she played the mom. Hmm. Okay. I only watched that. It was a reruns when I was a kid. It was in the show was in the late

60s. But yeah, that's, uh, that, she'd be best known as Mrs. Cleave. She also invented cold cereal. She did not. Okay. Okay. Can I give you two seconds of being bougie? Yes, go ahead. Fancy Matt. On my flight from Houston to Phoenix on Saturday, I got upgraded. How?

Status. I use my credit card for flights and whatnot. I didn't purchase the first of us. That's what they call you point grifter Thomas. They call me the accumulator, not the grifter. Incumulator, I like that. So I had three choices. I had the strawberry assaye a bowl for breakfast. Okay.

The eggs and potatoes. Okay. Or oatmeal. You went with eggs and potatoes. You didn't do iceaie. There's no chance. Oatmeal. That's right.

Oatmeal is my second. So the oatmeal comes out. Okay. It was the first time of my life I never had cold oatmeal. Cold meal. Cold meal. Ooh. It didn't taste like oatmeal.

It tasted like rice pudding. It was delicious. Oh, it was good. It was really good. But it was, and it had like a peach, a layer of peach, not melba, but, but, um, compote. Compote. That's a good call. Thank you.

I couldn't think. How often does a grown-ass man say compote? I don't know. And a peach compound underneath, cold oatmeal. Uh-huh. Nuts and berries on top of it. It was, it was phenomenal. If anybody's ever flown shmited.

Okay. What I tasted. I told, because Kevin Eschenfeld was sitting next to me in the plane, and I was like, have you ever seen this? Because usually when I get oatmeal, I get hot oatmeal. I like to put a little bit of milk in it, a little bit of brown sugar and some, like some granola or something. Cinnamon tube. And I don't put raisins.

Oh, but blueberries. No. But it was cold. I was like, what is this? And I was like, this is interesting. It's good. It's really good. Okay.

So I just want to say, shout out to you, Schmited, for serving me cold oatmeal. And actually, I enjoyed it. That's all I got. Okay. Thank you, Matt. I had nothing to show and I apologize but that's how I usually do the show I don't throw a bunch of things to you

and doesn't really end much of the show I thought there was going to be more to this story there's nothing more of the story than I ate Colo O'Neill no I just hate it that's all I got thank you Matt Mike on 790 Mike good afternoon Mike

wow shut up Mike I don't think that's stuck to the wall of it but the I Gordo is out of the room I assume Gordia is left yeah He's back on tiger droppings.net. Oh, you know what? Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I got to make another mistake.

June Lockhart was not Mrs. Cleaver. Barbara Billingsley was Mrs. Cleaver. June Lockhart was definitely lost in space mom. You didn't know who this dead lady was? No, no, no, no, no. June Lockhart was definitely. Lassie's mom, too, right? Yes. Yeah, and definitely was lost in space mom. Yes, yes. Okay. Thank you, Joan for Christ in me. And Petticoat Junction? No. She wasn't really in Petticoat Junction? That's what this is.

No, you're lying. Google, put her up on Pedicoe Junction. All right, go ahead, Mike. We're sorry. Go ahead. Oh, gosh. Is Google's lying? What?

Go ahead. Okay. So it was almost a year to the day. Matt, it was you, me, and Gordo having fun the week of Thanksgiving. And I was telling Gordo that my Irish were thrilled to get rid of that man. And he was going to rue the day. that they hired BK. And he went on and on,

braving at the mouth about my Marcus Freeman, who's what kind of coach is that? You guys can pull this up. We were both born at it. This sounds familiar. So I did want to remind him of that phone call because I told him he will not work out. We were done with him.

We were blessed to have him depart, so we get Marcus, and now they keep listing Marcus under all these job openings, which drives me crazy. So we are going to have to fight to keep him and pay him more hours. Under the category of I just don't get it, I don't get why Notre Dame isn't a premier number one job. Is it because it's too hard to get athletes? Is it because the NIL is not great? Is it because non-conference affiliation? That's a great freaking job.

All they do is win there. Marcus Freeman is an excellent, excellent football coach, and if I was him, I'd stay there for the next 30 years and call it a day. Yeah. You hit on most of it. I mean, a lot of it is just not enough. And they had problems with facilities. They're improving those. The stadium, it took a while for them to improve that as well.

I will say this. Brian Kelly did push them. He pushed them on facilities and pushed them on. You know, the scoreboard. He pushed them on other things. but yeah they still hold tight to the academic standards

so there is that downside as well so it no question it's it's not it still won't be the premier job as far as now that we're in the

you know the area of you can fail and still walk away of 53 million they just they just can't do that and so we we can't do that so but thrilled to have Marcus. He's fabulous. He relates to the players.

Just incredible coach. I hope we keep them for a couple more years. Thank you, Mike, for the phone call. I appreciate it. Again, I think it's a great job. Maybe it's because, again, maybe Rossi, it's just SEC. It's everything is, everything great,

SEC is greater than everything else. Maybe that's got to be it. I don't know. Yeah, well, I mean, I guess it depends on the motivations of the coach. As we were talking about Lane Kiffin, what does he want to do? Where does he want to be?

where does he have to win a national championship? And a lot of these coaches are very ambitious and very motivated to reach these heights as they do. But when to Notre Dame not become that? I don't know. What is the last national championship they won? They were early 90s? They played in the national title game.

A couple times. Got beat up pretty bad. Is it because, I wonder if it's because of the academic requirements are a little stouter. If anything Rudy has taught us, the academics are, you got, are very serious there, man. Let me tell you something. Rudy can shut his bum ass up.

You can suck it, Rudy. You know what? Every time, every time you said. I know you hate Rudy, so I brought it up just to do that. Yeah. But no, the academics, I mean, as the caller was talking about, the Notre Dame fan, the facilities are behind the times. You're in South Bend, Indiana. I mean, there's a number of things.

But you could scoop up every decent Midwest player. Ohio State's doing that. Yeah. You could scoop up every decent Catholic, although really they're not running, Catholics aren't running at Notre Dame to play. Church is kind of, it's not the 1540s anymore, Matt. Well, so you're saying the college football brain in the 1540s is significantly better. All right, I got you. The Catholic brand's kind of, right.

Not what it once was. I say this as a, of someone who has raised Catholic. I understand. Yeah, Notre Dame should be, if they could ever upgrade, keep their facilities good. I mean, I've been to their football statements mid, basketball arena's okay. I don't know about the rest of their facilities, but my guy, I'm wondering if the academic requirements are something that gets in their way. All right.

Speaking of a man who is an excellent football coach, I'm going to let Willie Fritz spend the next minute talking about Cougar football. You ready for that? Okay. Right this second. Here is Willie Fritz on the Houston Cougars this Saturday. I'd like one on one other thing too. I hope we can get a great crowd out there.

You know, I always get our marketing people and our AD. And they always have me do different things. You know, hey, coach, let's do this, to draw a crowd and all this other kind of stuff. Every place I've ever been, how you draw a crowd is you win. Right? So we've done that part of it. We want to continue to keep doing that part of it. And we'd love to get a big crowd out there.

It's 11 o'clock in the morning, Saturday. I think that's a perfect time for a ball game. All right? So let's get everybody out there on Saturday at 11 o'clock. We'll have a fantastic crowd and get ready to cheer on the cooks. Peach ball. What's that? Peach ball.

Oh. Yeah, one other thing, too. We are having the 10-year anniversary of the Peachball champions. Adam Clanton said four hours of endless Texans conversation today. Can't wait for that. 18, 2 o'clock here on 790. Okay, for the last time, June Lockhart. Lassie's mom?

Well, not literally, but, you know, I mean. The dog? Yeah. She's the dog mom. And lost in space. She was not Mrs. Clever. She was on Pedico Junction. What she played?

I had it pulled up. Mrs. Craig or something. You know, a lot of these TV moms survived a long time. And, like, I think I want to say that Richie Cunningham's mom is still alive. She was Dr. Janet Craig for 45 episodes in Petty Co Junction. Who tried to tell me she wasn't in that show. I never watched one episode.

Why were you telling me so definitively she wasn't in it? You know what Penny Co. Junction was? Much of a 20-year-old hotties. Who are now 73, 74. 75, 76, somewhere in that range. Are you okay? No. They were hoties back in 1966.

If you were in that group, I mean, we got some 75-year-olds listen to the show. They thought they were hot back in the day. Matter of fact, Jonathan, get the Petticoat Junction theme song off of YouTube. We'll play it after we play the call. Say it again. Pedicote Junction. P-E-T-T-I-C-O. What?

What is so funny? I don't know. Seriously, focus. I don't know why that's trucking me so funny. I don't always. I'm talking to Tim. He's a bunch of 20-year-old hotties. Now they're in 73.

Tim, good afternoon. Sir, how are you doing? Amazing. Thank you for asking. I'm not doing great, Tim. What's up? Hey, last one was talking about five years ago. You were coming back from the Tulsa Airport,

and you had a burnt sandwich from Quisdos at the Tulsa Airport. He was probably ironic because I had the exact same thing happen to me. Was that nice to you? Yeah, they're polite. But anyway, that's why I'm calling. So here's what noise be. Why did we have a 9 p.m. Monday football game, and why is, this is my big question. Why is not the world, why don't you have the Super Bowl on like a Saturday night?

Okay. Can you explain that to me? Yeah, I can be happy to. Number one, the 9 o'clock game was originally supposed to be an ESPN Plus game. They got out of that because they figured, look, every game we put on NFL draws huge numbers. Although the Texan Seahawks game did not do well. They'll never have a 9 o'clock. We can put this down. Oh, oh.

Put your name on it. There will never be a, oh, God, I don't know if I can do that. Forget what I said. Never say never, man. There'll be no more than one per year. the rest of the history of the NFL. Putting a a non-clock game,

putting a game on at 10 o'clock Eastern time was a terrible idea. You just, you just, it's a football game. Millions of people want to watch football. They're not going to stay up at 10 o'clock at night in New York City or in Boston or in Philadelphia to watch the Texans and Seahawks.

It was just a big, it was a big mistake. I don't think they'll do much of it if ever again. I can't say never because you never know on these double-headed things. Now, will they stagger these games like they've done in the past? Unfortunately, I think they still will. You know, sometimes I put games at six.

and they put another one at 715. They could do that. Okay. Hold on. I'm writing this down. But I don't think we'll ever see a 9 o'clock game again. Don't put, I'm not put my name out. It's a gut feeling for tomorrow since I'm not here tomorrow. Oh, there's a gut feeling. Oh, okay. I'll just make it a gut feeling.

And the bottom line is people say that they would love for it to be on a Saturday. There's really no reason why you can't put on a Saturday. It's the most important sporting event of the year. Do more people watch TV on a Sunday? Yes. More people are going on on a Saturday. Saturday is usually the least. But I think you can buck that trend if you put it on 8 o'clock on a Saturday night.

I think it's such a big event. You could skirt it there. But then revenues would go down. You wouldn't get as much from advertisers if you're having fewer viewers. It's all about money, Maddie. I know it's about money, but this trumps, it's 250 million people. You can put the game on at Thursday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and have still have 250 million people watching. It's a Super Bowl.

Why haven't they done it yet? I think tradition. And I do believe Sundays are a highly television watch night. But let me put it this way. You can put on CSI Detroit at 8 o'clock a night and 250 million people are going to watch on Sunday night. So it's about the event. It's not about the day and the time. It's a Super Bowl.

So I'm all for it. I think Saturday's cool. Saturday would be great. I just don't know if the TV execs agree. Who can we ask? You have to ask Goodell probably. Roger Goodell. Yeah.

Ask Cal McNair. Cal has no idea Hannah goes to those meetings I like Super Bowl Sunday You know what Cal does Cal does what I do when my wife and I go shopping And she wants to go to a boutique I sell I'll sit in the car

Yeah or you can just find those massage chairs Ooh I know you like those I love the massage chairs At airports too What's your gut feeling? We'll write this down I don't think I've got one

No it was about Oh no 9 o'clock games next year in the NFL No 9 p.m. NFL games. Look, I got one for you. I think I know the answer. Should we see baseball go back to a 2-2?

Not go back to, go to a 2-21-1-1 format? For the World Series? I say no. Too much traveling. Baseball works in series anyway, so they're used to. NBA media was very upset when they did it in the NBA. They preferred 232 because it's fewer flights. Right.

There's so few people traveling now to these mega events. only the national folks and they have to do it anyway. I think we stay right there. I think we say two, three, two. Because baseball is full of series. It's not, you know, I'm saying it's not, I don't mind two three two. I don't either. All right, let's go to Tim before we get to believe it or not today at 141.

Hi, Tim. It's Kim, and it's in Galveston, and it's beautiful down here, by the way. Oh, you know, I love Galveston. You know that. I'm Mr. Texas. Right. Oh, gosh. So my gut feeling is that...

Okay, we don't do a gut feeling today. Oh, come on, man. It's fine. All right, you can do. You can do it. You can do it. Go ahead. Okay.

The bottom line is, Matt, I'm pretty sure you got in trouble when you went and sat in the car when your wife was in there shopping for clothes, you know? No. No, she actually respected because when you, are you married my ass, Tim, or camera, whatever hell your name is? Oh. You're okay. 30 years. You have been married or not been married? 30 years and I would never pull a trick like that.

Oh, no, no, because she's going to spend money that I, she doesn't have to look at me, look at my watch saying, are we going to leave here soon? You get in the car, you put the radio on, if you're on your phone, you can tilt the chair bag, take a nap. Oh, I'm all for staying in the car. I'm team staying in the car. You do realize that most of those places like serve champagne now?

Not the middle of where you're going, but I ain't going to J.C. Penny or Jock Pene. Jacques Pinet. Well, look at you all humble bragging about the money you're spending on your wife's clothes. Good for you. I'm glad you doing that. Oh, I didn't say I was spending it on my wife. She spent it on her. Okay. Yeah, I'm staying the car or I look for a good HSA. That's what we call a husband sitting area. Okay. Which usually is the food court. Can we talk about the Astros? Please do. Yeah. I'm trying to do a segment here. Okay.

So what are we going to do with pitching for next year? going to go get some. They're going to need some because I think from oh if I got to do the baseball thing from thank you for the phone call Kim Jim Tim. I think Fromber's gone I would not rely on it Lance McCullors. It's Hunter Brown Christian Javier and a bunch of who's going to fill the rest of Moe there. They're going to sign somebody. Okay, real quick. We've been portrayed. We've been trying to tease on this and it's my fault. So the athletic put out a list of the top 50 free agents, Rossi. Okay. Your buddy is is number one at Kyle Tucker.

No surprise there. What about Ross? Yeah, you know, I was thinking about the terriott chicken. That smells good. That's kind of cliche, though. I want some steak. Yeah, Matt, he's spinning the egg. Oh, Matt, he's spinning the egg.

Look at that, Matt. All right, sorry, go ahead. Team Fits. Best team fits. Doesn't predict where he's going, but best team fits. Okay. This is really hurting me. Dodgers, Yankees, Mets, Phillies, Giants.

You weren't so toast. Can you read that list one more time? Dodgers, Yankees, Mets, Phillies, Giants. Big spend, big spend, big spend, big spend, big spend, big spend. Contract prediction. Okay. Ten years, $427 million. Woo!

Real quick on the list. Kyle Schwabor 2. Pete Alonzo 3. Framber Valdes 4 I disagree with that Bobauchette 5 Alex Breggman 6 They're projecting Breggman to get

6182 wasn't that what he was offered from the Astros to begin with Was it 6182? He's got them And they've got him at 6182 No it's like 6156 or something like that Okay so he's looking to make 25 Rangers Torres 7 7 Dillon Cis number 8 by the way they don't have the Astros as a team for

Dillin Cs number nine Tatsaya IMAI he is a Cebu Lion Japanese professional Betts

Betts I guess he's going to the Dodgers Mets Giants Red Sox Cubs Cubs Oils Astros Padres Now best fits in getting there are two different things

Cody Bellinger at number 10 He's got a salary comp Of six years at 168 Teams interested in him Yankees Mets Astros Padres Guardians Royals, Angels, Mariner's. But again,

Kyle Tucker number one on the list at 10 years, $427 million. That's the money you're going to be spending on dinner, I believe, when I lose the bet, unfortunately. 713-212-5-790. Believe it or not, is up neck. Oh, did you play Pedico Junction? We'll play the theme song coming back. I got it ready, though. Coming back, playing it back. 145 here on Sports Talk, 790. 7-13-212-5-790.

Come ride the little train that is rolling down the tracks to the junction. Forget about you cares. It is time to relax at the junction. Lots of curves you bet and even more when you get to the junction. Pedicote, Junction. Yeah, never watch one episode. Jonathan, the hotties that were in the 20s are now, one of them is 81 years old right now.

A couple of them are dead. It's kind of catchy, I look, a lot. It's not catchy. This is what this is, no. What year was this show on? I mean, look, here. I think 60s is this? 62.

Started in 1963 and ended in 1970. There was a show called Petitcoat Junction and went seven years, about three hussies that were near a train. Okay. Did you ever watch Green Acres? You know what Green Acres is? No idea. Okay.

Beverly Hillbillies? No idea. Beverly Hillbillies was a jam. I did watch Beverly Hillbillies. Green Acres, I watched like one episode was bored. I'm trying to think what else would be in the 60s. Batman, the TV series. What about that one?

It's black and white, and he's like a cowboy in like that old town. He's always like, the intro is him flinging his gun, like, shoots a couple times. The gun smoke? Gunsmoke. Gunsmoke? I think he's gun smoke. Bonanza. Something like that.

Do you ever watch Gilligan's Island? No, I don't know what that is. See, my old folks are more of the loony-toons type of people. I got you, I got you. By the way, Marianne no longer with us. Ginger's still alive, ironically enough. The things you learn here on the program. All right, five minutes left to go on the show.

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You'll say this. Believe it. If a statement's erroneous full of bunk and made up, you will say this. Not. Two, believe it or not, it's in a row about all things Brian Kelly will win you either a pair of tickets to see Maroon 5, live November the 7th at the Toyota Center. Tickets are on sale now at TotaCenter.com. You can get a pair of tickets to see my and your beloved Houston Cougars taking on West Virginia this Saturday, 11 a.m.

It's a blackout game. Come early, be loud, wear red, and go call 713 go Cougs if you don't win the tickets with us today. But we got tickets for Cougars versus West Virginia or tickets to see Maroon 5. That's a nice way to play, believe it or not, but you've got to call on and play. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-7-9 if you want to win either one of those tickets. but you first must believe it or not. Let's go to the phones. Oh, what a nice surprise we have here.

Right out of the gate, we have Bradward is with us. Bradward, I know you're ready to play, believe it or not, correct? Can you hear me? Yes, I can, Bradford. Good luck to you, Bradward. Brian Kelly has twice been the AP National Coach of the Year, both in 2012 and 2018. Believe it or not.

Nah. Oh, Bradward, I'm sorry. That hurts. Sam on 790. Sam, you ready to play, believe it or not? Let's do it. Brian Kelly's first job in coaching was as a graduate assistant at Grand Valley State University. Believe it or not? Believe it. That is correct.

Statement number two for the win. The NCAA ordered the Notre Dame Fighting Irish to vacate all of Brian Kelly's wins from their 2012 and 2013 football season. in an academic misconduct case. Believe it or not? Not. That is a believe it. How are you guys going to win the tickets if you don't know stuff about Brian Kelly? Come on now.

713212-579. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Matt on 7-90. Matt, was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? LSU coach getting fired. Brian Kelly's 113 wins in Notre Dame are the most in the history of that program. Believe it or not. Believe it.

Correct. Statement number two for the win. Through different stops, his college, throughout his different stops in his coaching career, Brian Kelly served as an offensive play caller and as a defensive play caller. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, it was a defensive guy. I'm sorry.

I like that one. Maybe a friend of year. I couldn't believe he's the all-time Notre Dame win leader. That's crazy. Over Aira Parsegian and everything? Over Lou Holtz? All time, Maddie. All-time.

The things you learn on the Matt Thomas Show of Ross. Adam on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Brian Kelly met his wife, Kelly, while coaching at Central Michigan, and her name is known as Kelly Kelly. Believe it or not? Not.

Yeah, we made that one up. That's funny. Statement number two for the win. Brian Kelly's first bowl victory as a head coach was in the champ sports bowl in 2009 with Cincinnati. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, it was the international ball.

That's kind of semantics, but that's fine. Anthony on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Brian Kelly graduated from Grand Valley State with a kinesiology degree back in 1989. Believe it or not? Believe it? No, it should have sold it a little harder. You got a political science degree from some assumption college or some Catholic school.

And he never dated a girl named Kelly. It'd be funny. It'd be funny. It did. All right, up next, a pair of Adams. It's Ross with tomorrow. I'm going to Toronto. Oh, Canada.

I have a little gorty, a little Clinton, and some Tim Hortons. Oh, it's me. Up next, the A team on 790. Now.