The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans Upset The Bills! Can They Turn This Season Around? Rockets vs Nuggets Tonight!

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

Texans Upset The Bills! Can They Turn This Season Around? Rockets vs Nuggets Tonight!

This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 10.1 at H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. You just said you would rather have a McRib than Thanksgiving dinner. Yeah. Mr. Texas says, come over the house. house and have turkey

and McRibbs. It's a feast. It is an absolute feast. It's a feasting Friday here on the Matt Thomas show, Ross. You're sick. Yeah, it's fine. You're a sick individual. I know. And we love you for it. Yeah, you know what? I'm going to just be who I am.

I could be a fraud. Well, we've got plenty of those in this market. All right. Good morning. Ross. How the hell are you? I'm doing great, Maddie. Battle Red Ross is feeling peachy king. All right, so let me tell you something, Battle Red. I got a text this morning from a friend of the show. I won't mention his name, Ryan Rick Raggart. And he says, I was listening to your show while walking.

I think it was on Tuesday, and I swear a caller so the Texas would win 23 to 19. You would try to find it. Well, Ryan, we love you, but we're not going to go out. Yeah, we'll get Brian cracking on that. Don't you come through our podcast. But, however, you did say 20 to 19. Yes, I did. And you called me crazy.

So, first of all, you didn't hit it on the head, so you'll get no credit from me. Number two, I have decided that from here on out, when I start making predictions of scores, I'm going to give you weirdos scores. Because 19 was a weirdo score. I told you. You don't listen to me. Because everybody's going, well, it's because of the mixed extra point from Mac and Prater. That's exactly right. Everybody's going for two now and doing all this crazy stuff.

So you end up with a lot more score agamis than you used to have. Yeah. So when I predict, which I will not do anymore because I'm done something, I'm o'clock. I'm old for like five for the Texans this year. Love it. Love it. But the next time I predict a score of a game of an NFL game or a college game, I'm going to give you something bizarre like, I like that team winning 25 to 16.

Something crazy like that, because we're seeing bizarro scores. Yes, we are. Now, is Matt Prater having a difficult time flying home last night, or do you think Josh Allen was? Josh Allen, I think he might have stayed overnight at Ben Top. Did you see the sack? Who was the guy that got him from behind? I had to listen to the beam.

I think it was Will Anderson. I think it was Anderson. Yeah. When he heard his wrist, it looked like he kind of fell and sprained his wrist. I thought he was going to have his wrist amputated right on the field. Oh, he was overreacting. He was overselling it like he wouldn't believe.

As soon as I saw he grabbing his left wrist, I was like, ah, we're fine. Because I don't, hmm, how do I say this? I didn't get excited, but I was like, oh. That's exciting. No, no, no, you just described excitement. I didn't want him to be hurt. Nobody ever goes, you just did, oh, that's excitement. Nobody goes.

No, that was a side. That was the sound of intrigue. I was intrigued, Matthew. I think you were very thought. Because I don't want Josh Allen to be hurt. You were thinking about Mitch Trubisky out there. As Bell Red Ross. And you were foaming at the mouth.

No, I'll tell you, I wasn't. I'll tell you what I was. I immediately went to the Bill's depth chart. I was like, who's the backup over there again? I'd forgotten it was Mitchell Trubisky. Yeah. I was like, he's still there? Well, it's funny because you have to,

there are a certain number of quarterbacks in the NFL that you don't know who their backup is. Because they always play. Can I give you one? Sure. Who is Pat Mahomes' backup in Kansas City? It's that guy with number seven And he played football

Same with the people I'm not blaming you for I'm just telling you He played a playoff game Recently I can't remember his name Who is One more

Who is the Chargers backup quarterback It's that guy stick Easton stick Are you sure Is he still there? I mean that sounds good I'm going to go with Easton Stick Point being is

There are a handful of teams We don't know who the backups are Like I didn't know when Aaron Rogers went down The Malik Willis Oh, that's right, it's Tray Lance Easton Stick is gone I mean Tray Lance played this year I should have known that because I know he played

Yeah, Malik Willis is the backup in Pittsburgh Tray Lance is on my radar Because you said no chance no way How is he ever going to be good And you've been right about that But I've been kind of just keeping tabs on that Yeah I don't get everything right

I've got a lot of things right. That's true. I get the Texan score right yesterday. Let me tell you, can I just... She's back up as Gardner Minshew. Oh, okay. I forgot.

He was there, too. Yeah, I had no idea. Does he still have that amazing mustache? It's got like hammer bars on it and stuff? It's not bad. It's better than the wispy ones you see out there. These kids today are using the wispies. I told you the stashes were coming back years ago.

Some of Cameron's buddies are we have the wispies. You're either going to be a grown-ass man and grow a real one or just get rid of it. Well, what if you can't grow it? Then you shouldn't give up on it. You can go for a little wisp. No, you can't. I can't grow. I can't grow hair on the top of my head.

I gave up on it. I said took the L. That's kind of a different situation. Explain. Facial hair is different from top of the head hair? No, I think I did the responsible thing. And look, I mean, look at the people that find me amazingly attractive because of it. That would be, I have not heard one person ever say it, except you.

Others have mentioned it to me. Like, man, you sure our handsome. Thank you. I appreciate that very much. Well, I mean, Ms. Okay, well, let's move on. You brought it up. I know.

I don't know. And look, the heyday of the Texans was J.J. Watt, Connor Barwin, and grew, you know, Brian Cushing. Just making. Demico Ryan's kind of, a little bit in there? Towards a tail end, for sure. This defense is better than that one. was. Now,

I'm with you. Now, I'm with you. No defense is perfect. Correct. Except the 2000 Baltimore Ravens. Yeah, especially in this day and age of football. I know the way the rules are.

And people lost their mind on the hook and ladder. And you know what? You probably should have. What you should have. It's fourth and 27. The lateral play has been around for years and years and years. You need to be prepared for that.

You can't bite on that. Yeah. That was, and if they had lost the game because of that in part, That would have been a tough day. That would have been same old Texans. We would have went back to that. Right. By the way, Nick Cayley, you need to personally go up to every member of the Texans defense

and thank them for their service. Because if the Texans would have lost that game yesterday, and granted, again, the missed extra point did have a factor because the bills would have gone for a field goals compared to a touchdown. But that dems the breaks. I mean, you have to make those kicks. the Texans defense is on the marquee. You know, you've seen marquees in movie theaters. This starring this movie. Yes.

And then you have bit role players and people that don't even... It's Tom Cruise? Yeah. And then it's Don Jones or whatever. William H. Macy? Or is the offense. It's probably not even a William H. Macy. No.

He's an Oscar winner. He's a great character actor. No. Steve Bucimi? The Texans offense has appeared and seen. Day rate. It's like Sophia Coppola and Godfather III. it's horrible.

Yeah. The Texan's defense is good enough to win the American Football Conference. The Texan defense is good enough to win the Super Bowl. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. It feels like to me the NFC probably has got a little more. They're first in points and first in yards. That's a Super Bowl defense.

Yep. So the Texans defense can get to the Super Bowl. The Texans defense couldn't win a great cup game in the CFL. Offense, I should say. Yeah. I wouldn't go that far. They struggled in the red zone, but they did score two touchdowns. That's got to be some kind of record this year.

Yeah. And yeah, red zone success after that first drive. Yes. After that, it was okay. And then the entire offense in the second half. I don't want to give the offense any run. We got a time to do that. I'm giving them some credit.

I will give them some credit. Davis Mills was, he was what a backup is. Correct. He missed some throws. He made some big throws. And I swear to God, if anybody calls, if anybody is on a radio show today, If they host a show, if they do a YouTube page because their radio careers are miserable and have no success, if they go on and say that Davis Mills should be the start over C.J. Straud, I want you to find them,

and I want you to pour acid on their head. Okay, no assault. Hi, this is the legal department of IHeartMedia. We want you to know that Matt Thomas is joking. In no way do you want you to commit felonious assault. I'm completely joking. Yeah, thank you. But you can go find, um... A lot of idiots in this world, Matt. We've got to cover our ass. I've got to cover the ass. just don't let that happen don't let the failed radio career people give you the Davis mill stuff don't give you the high

he was fine he did his job he did exactly what you're supposed to do yes didn't cost in the game didn't turn the ball over and didn't get sacked didn't get sacked which this offensive line looking pretty good Woody marks had a couple of good runs now of course

did we say it was against the bills run defense and by the way if again and Nick Kaley and I want to to shine the defense here, but one more than Kelly thing, real quick. You have to run the ball 30 times against them, 35 times. Don't you? How many do they run yesterday? 26, but

two of those were into rounds and two of those were Davis Mills. So overall 22. If you're doing just running backs. That's the worst run defense in the NFL. Yeah, and they were doing, I think, it looked like the bills were loading up because the bills you know if the texans and nick cayler are game planning and saying hey this bills run defense is one of the worst in football you know also also knows that the bills know that so they were bringing a lot of guys up front and there was some there were some room in the play action game unfortunately they just weren't executing i actually did overall like the play calling if if they could if davis mills could have been on the same page on a couple of those there was that one where um where dalton shult he kind of hit him in the hayne and it got broken up. There was one

where he hit the defender in his back trying to find Jaden Higgins who they're clearly trying to involve more in the offense. He got nine targets. If they could have connected on a couple more of those plays, I think we would be talking about a completely different offense or the way that it looked. I actually don't take that much

issue with the play calling because the bills were kind of loading up the front. It is, but it was execution. It was a non-existent offense. You didn't mean it because your defense was fully existent. Yeah. Scoring off those turnovers, you're going to have to In the next two weeks, if you get turnovers and you're getting short fields, you can't

settle for threes like they have been. All right, a lot to get to today. Your Texans defense was unbelievably good. Will Anderson, DeNeil Hunter, Caleb Bullock, I mean, being a part of three different turnovers by himself,

it was, if you were to draw up, if you were to show a classroom of coaches, how to win a football game defensively. That film of making Josh Allen look rather pedestrian. Well, that's even fair. Josh Allen looked like he wanted to be anywhere. He was throwing his helmet around.

He was fake complaining about his wrist being in 14 different places. That was... It's beautiful. That was a symphony. A symphony of Sax. You know what? It was just what I was looking for when I predicted the Texans upset victory. Yes.

And they have a puncher's chance. Yes, they do. Better than we would have said three weeks ago. Let's go, baby. Got two hellaciously tough games coming up. We'll orbit that later. Today is about a celebration day of one of the most dominant performances defensively in Houston Texans history. And you know who's celebrating the most?

Hannah, I'll tell you, when we come back. 1015 on Sports Talk 790. And anything goes Friday. 713-212-5-790. 21 on the Matt Thomas show. It's a celebration Friday. Me and the cool, the gang. I am cool.

To my right is the gang. Whatever. We're going to check on Bill's Moffey at the bottom of the hour. We are? Yeah. Oh, I'm looking at it right now. From the rubble and ash of a table. I'm going to assume that Bill's Mafie has a Twitter account.

There was a lot of Bill's people in the building. They were getting a little loud. Yeah, because they were looking for their 19th beer. That was in the first half, of course. Yeah. Let's take a look here so I'm going to presume there is a Bill's Mafia, right? I guess so. Yeah.

Oh, God. I just put Bill's Mafia in the latest. So Bill's Mafia lost last night, typical they are cursed. Is that the most cursed franchise? Well, let me ask you this. As far as like teams that are really good. curse, something has to happen in order for the curse to come into play. I just mean

like they're always... Unlucky? Always close and never get there. I mean, four Super Bowls in a row, let's start there. This whole Josh Allen era, multiple AFC championship games, I think, or at least divisional in an AFC championship. Well, they're always penciled in. Yeah. They're supposed

to have one of the most dominating home field advantages in football. Seattle Mariners are pretty snake bit, but they've never even made a World Series. No, they don't go to the playoffs on regular like the bills do. Yeah. the bills in the 70s did nothing, the 80s did nothing, the 90s when they went to the four Super Bowls with Jim Kelly.

They were dormant for about 10 or 15 years during the Ryan-Pitt Patrick era. I'm going to say it. Most snake-bid franchise in major American sports. Well, I'll say this. Minnesota Vikings would like to have a conversation with you. That's true. They have four Super Bowls, right?

Yeah. And they also lost an NFC championship game with Brett Firewick quarterback. They also lost on a Gary Anderson, Miss Field goal. They lost on the pass interference. No, was that the Saints lost on that pass interference? It was a minute. Yeah, yeah.

So, yeah, there are a handful. I mean, honestly, the Astros are not cursed. The rockets are not cursed. We've had some bad losses. The rockets were kind of cursed around 2015 to 2020 for some reason. Warriors. Yeah. But that was short-lived.

I mean, Bill's feels like they've been cursed for 40 years. I'm telling you, we brought this up on the show yesterday when it came to, man, this rocket team is so exciting. And then you've got this Thunder team that won't lose. They've lost one time. They won't lose. I know you've got a dominant team that's a championship contender. And right now, somebody's better.

But a lot of basketball left. And a big game tonight. Big game. With Matt Thomas on the call. That's right. It's no local television. It's an Amazon game tonight. So over under start 846.

I got a timing sheet. Okay. It says 842. And it does not mention any sort of any sort of slides. Yeah. But there's an early. game on prime right yes but they could but that's but that's internet there were some people said they weren't sliding was it peacock or prime it feels like to me both teams could both networks could

do it both streams okay because they could do multiple streams let me you know i'm gonna check the timing sheet again just to make sure i'm not making that they're getting crazy with these ads on prime video by the way meaning they're like kevin hard is talking about a product and then it pops up on your screen you could just click to buy it that's dangerous I feel like it's dangerous for me Oh, okay. Because I can impulse by with the best of them on payday, at least. You know, I don't, let me, look, here, I found the game timing. Tonight's game between the Rockets and the Nuggets is going to start when now it's

loading our email. It says 8.3rd. Okay, you're like official league. Yes. Like, again, in baseball, when it says 705, it really means 705. And basketball, 7 o'clock means 7.10. It means when we feel like it. Well, that's not actually true.

They do, they do time these things out to the minute. So calves and pacers, oh, that's going to be a blowout. We're fine. 14 and a half point favorites. What happens to the passes, man? That's so sad. Well, Tyrese Halliburton got hurt, and then Miles Turner went to the bucks. The two and 13?

Woo! Yeah, they suck. Look, I can't even get my internet on my phone to work. All right. The Wi-Fi here has been slow all week. It has been, yeah. It's just saying. We're doing great.

Great job, Exfinity. Good job. At least you're cutting corners with your AI support people that I'm talking to for half an hour this week, and they don't understand me saying NFL network. Yeah, I'm the same way. I'm trying to get a prescription filled. NHL, no. And that's just not happening.

I'm in Texas. I don't want the NHL. Nobody's demanding the NHL network in Texas for the most part. Yeah, there may be a few. And actually, the Houston guys maybe want to do that. Maybe a couple of Saskatchewan transplants, but not me. All right, we're tipping off at, oh, you, I was wrong. 842 tip time because this is the second game of an Amazon doubleheader may be necessary to delay the above

pregame timings probably up to five minutes. Where are we fine? Caves Pacers, blowout. It's 847, yeah, Cavs Pacea. Caves by 30. Let's go. We beat them up tonight, so. Because I'm on postgame.

For the love of God, please. Can we start on time? That's true. All right. Okay, so back to the defense. Oh, you were going to say something. You tease something, and I forgot. Yes.

The happiest person or, I will say, group of people with last night's result, Matt? Not fantasy football owners. Clutch sports group. Who represent? Will Anderson. That is correct. They were doing some champagne toast last night.

You have Will Anderson getting shine from Richard Sherman and Andrew Whitworth and Ryan Fitzpatrick and that crew. Every NFL pundit that I'm watching talking about all loving on Will Anderson, who was a dog last night and was all over Josh Allen in his kitchen and then getting praise from everybody across the country?

Well, Anderson's getting paid. So let me ask you this, and you don't have the answer to this. I'm just metaphorically throwing this out to you. Those are two top three selectmen. You put him and CJ are two of the three top selections in that draft. Yes. And if they're both going to get the amount of money that they either deserve or could potentially receive,

Mm-hmm. How do the Texans pay for both of them? You find a way. You do it and you have to cut corners elsewhere. You have to be smarter getting guys on one-year prove-it deals but Nicario has been decent on. You have to hit better with draft picks, Nick. Which draft picks have been pretty good.

But offensive line draft picks, not so much. Everywhere else, I mean, Kaelin Bullock is a good draft pick. Camarie Lassar has been a good draft pick. Stingling has already signed long. I feel like top five you don't necessarily get too much credit. There are top five bucks. So you're just going to tell the audience right now. And if you do, that's fine because I'll believe you too.

Okay. Nothing to worry about that CJ wants his cash. I'm not saying nothing to worry about it. Oh, you're not. Okay. I'm saying CJ Strouds here. Will Anderson, we'll see. And if you...

Like, Dak Prescott's in Dallas, Michael Parsons has been real. What do you think Dallas fan would have rather had? Dak Prescott or Micropersons? Hmm. If they're smart, if they're smart fans, they know it hasn't been Dax fault, Dack Prescott. Okay.

So I'm not going to put a poll question up today. Okay. Because I know what's going to happen. Because it's a little recency bias. You may be 50-50, honestly, I think. You want to try and see? Go ahead. At SportsMT.

I'll do it then. The question's going to be you can only pay one. The money that... Nah, you're going to be CJ Stroud, right? 6040? What, I have no idea. This is why I love Twitter polls, actually. I don't know what the people are going to say.

I'm going to put it out there. I'm going to say it's going to be very close within two percentage points. The answer is C.J. Stroud, but if you say Will Anderson, I get it. That's not an I just don't get it. That's an I really totally 100% get it. Yeah. And DeNeil Hunter was outstanding. I mean, the entire defense, again.

Beast. The Ilken ladder play yesterday was atrocious. Some of the tackling on the sideline wasn't great. It's like a big red streak on the Mona Lisa. Otherwise, it's a beautiful, beautiful game. Yeah. And you made Josh Allen look like why people in Buffalo don't think he can win a Super Bowl. Because that's a guy that's a reigning MVP.

That's the guy that's tackles. You know how people criticize CJ's drive for giving up 14-yard sacks? That was Josh Allen last night. Extremely mobile. You have to worry about him pushing up through, climbing the pocket, getting outside the pocket, making plays running backwards, which he tried to do multi. multiple times and he wasn't successful. I was worried the whole night because of how good he is

and the Texans defense bottled him up. It was incredible. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. It's an open line Friday. It's an anything goes Friday. You guys should be calling him excited. Let's go. Where's my fellow battle reds? Yeah, where's Battle Red Barrier? It's excited.

Where's Deep Steel, Darlene? Where's Texans Terry? Come on, y'all. Y'all come on in here and say hello. We ain't biting. We're going to be, we're praising. We're praising the Texas defense because we love the swarm. All right, the four question is up. And again, I did preface it by saying recency biases in play. You can only pay one their true market value. Who gets the ultimate bang?

Your choice is Stroud or Anderson. 17 votes are in, 76%. See, Anderson. Really? Okay, it's early. Interesting. To me, it's coming off. I mean, if you do this in July, you get a different answer.

Yeah, or if you do this after C.J. Stroud throws for $300.5 touchdowns, you get a different. Recency bias is very powerful, Matt, for all of us. It's in everything in life. Absolutely. Yeah. Literally everything in life. For instance, I'll give you another example. Guy came home, our neighbor came home and said, I had a great flight on Schmeythed yesterday.

Well, if you had a great flight on Schmite, you're going to tell the whole world. If you had a terrible, you're going to say, it's the worst airline ever made. Absolutely. it's it's what would you do for me lately yeah people say this show is the most amazing fun show and then some days they say it sucks depends on what you call it the uh the pin state nitty lions james franklin this greatest thing ever last year yeah national semifinals and this year they they lose it home to oregon and let's get the get rid of the oh accidentally almost clicked Anderson i click stroud now okay wow it's 8020 right now

But that's interesting. That's why I did the poll earlier this year is C.J. Stroud, a franchise quarterback, and it was like 50-50. When I did it after his first year, it was like 95-5, literally. If I'm voting in this other category, if I'm voting in Will Anderson, I told you that my reasons behind it. It's not because I don't think C.J. can win the games. I got my two-time concussor guy.

This two concussions is nothing in the NFL. Like me up when he gets to, Troy Eakman said, wake me up literally. when he gets to seven or eight. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if in 2020, 6, 27, 28, 29, 30 in the NFL, you can go to six concussions. Two concussions in three years is not insane, I will say. The alarm is going off.

If you can't put the alarm off for that, and again, it's not his fault. He doesn't walk into concussions. It's just a byproduct. Toa, Taka Voloa. That's why you shouldn't be worried. No, he's not a good quarterback anymore. No, I'm not talking about Tua. I'm talking about what?

Because it wasn't like, it's not like he's reckless. No. The whole time about C.J. Stroud. Right, right, right. All right, let's go the phone. Let's talk to some people. We'll start with Charlie on the Matt Thomas show. Ross 1037.

Charlie, good morning. Thank you for holding. Hey, guys. Thanks for having me. Sure. You know, obviously, I feel like you have to sign C.J. Stroud. But if it's just one game, you know, I think if we would have not had Will Anderson but had C.J. Stroud, I don't know if we have the same outcome.

we might lose that game yesterday you know so I understand where the fans are coming from but like long term I mean it's so much harder to find a franchise quarterback than a pass rusher yeah because here's what you would have because here's the thing let's say let's say you decided to move

away from CJ which they're not going to do that they're going to figure out a way to make these things work for both of them but if you were in a really bizarre world and traded him because muligata his agent said if you're not paying me max get me out of there you went and got gino smith you went and got sam darnold you went and got um russell wilson i mean that's the that's the drop off you would get

there are not 5,000 yard passers sitting there going hey i'm here and available for you you have to draft one normally you have to be at the top of the draft yes there are some exceptions but they are right right i think the number one thing charlie is charlie the number one thing for me is, is if people are quick to dismiss CJ, give me what plan B is. And I think if people look at plan B, they would be deathly afraid of what plan B would be. Yeah, I agree. But the concussion thing is interesting because I think Trevor Lawrence had a concussion, but was back the next week. You know, if CJ gets a concussion, that's two years in a row, at least two games. He's out.

The other one was 2023. It was two years ago. Oh, two years ago. You know, it's like, why do other quarterbacks can bounce back the next week and still play, but CJ, he needs two games off. Well, because two things. And thank you for the phone call, Charlie. First of all, all concussions are not created equal. Some can be more severe than others. Yeah. I mean, again, where he got hurt, the one two years ago was in New York with the worst turf in the league. And it was in Houston when he happened to him the first time No, he was on the road with the road games It was when he got hurt Yeah

Last year, he played all 17 games I'm talking about this year Where did he get the concussion this year? Oh, I If he's missed three games in a row So it had been four games to go at halftime Is it the Broncos? It had to be the Broncos because he missed three games

But he would have missed just two games If they were playing on Sunday That's what all the reports are Yes, I think, and I believe it to be accurate. I believe this game, if the Buffalo Bill game was played on Sundays compared to yesterday. It was the Broncos game. Yeah. So, and I don't know what NRG's reputation is.

But again, look, all these services are hard. Our players were going down last night. I'm glad you brought that up. It felt like to me, now I don't watch a lot of Thursday night games because, frankly, they don't appeal to me. I mean, I got to be selective with what I watch. Did it feel like to you there were significantly more stoppages in play for injuries last night than there were in any of the game you've seen this year. It felt like to me every two minutes they were stopping the game for somebody getting hurt.

I didn't feel significantly different than other games. It just feels like that's the NFL. But also, was there some kind of rule change? Because the clock wasn't moving and the Texans had to take timeouts. Like at the end of the first half, when they had kept on having guys go down with injuries? I thought if the clock wasn't moving, you could have an injury, you can have an injury. Did they change that? I don't know.

I missed something. It was weird. It just felt like there were more stoppages for injuries. more guys going to the tent. Whoever runs it operates the tents on both teams. You've got a workout yesterday. Putting it up, putting it up, put it down. Their shoulders are a little sore. They're iced down.

And then Josh Allen tried to sell me on the fact that his arm was going to be falling off of his on that sack. I mean, then he gets right back up. Doesn't even go to the tent. He's fine. Well, he wasn't fine, but no, he was not fine. Let's talk to Orlando on the Matt Thomas show with Ross 1042. Orlando, good morning. How are you? Hey, how's going, guys?

I just want everybody to be open-minded and understand what you saw last night was the reason why C.J. Stroud, even in his prime, shouldn't play any more the next two-day games, at least. Look, there was no, there was no sacks. My boy, Davis Mills, threw the ball faster. He was smarter. Most of the balls, well, if you look at the game again, some of the balls were actually dropped, and some the guys were going the wrong way. Why are you going out of bounds when? and it's open field behind you. And that's why he threw it there. But, I mean, he hasn't lost the game yet. C.J. Straub's lost

and been blown out by Seattle. Yeah, I don't think it's an apples to apples comparison, Orlando. If you think Davis Mills is better than C.J. Stroud, I think you're high. It has been a reconfigured offensive line, and they went with a configuration yesterday with Trent Brown on the right

side, and then Titus Howard on the left guard side next to Ariante Ursary. And there were a lot more clean pockets and you saw earlier in the season no matter who the quarterback was. So I think I don't think you can look at that last night and say Davis Mills. Yes

I did. Am I an accurate? I think you're drunk by I think you're drunk with all the Koolators. I don't know if there's only one way to look at it. So you think Davis Mills is a better quarterback than C.J. Shrout. He's proven it. I'm not saying he No, he's the best quarterback ever. I'll stick with my

original assessment. Well, well look at how many games He threw for 150 yards yesterday. Did they win that game? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, whoa, whoa, time out. Time out. I don't care about the sacks.

They had to, they had to kick a field goal against the worst team in the NFL and the final play from scrimmage to beat the Tennessee Titans, okay? They had to come. And how many times did C.J. Stroud lose games this year? They beat the Titans 26 to zero. If you want to go apples to Apple's comparison, they beat the Titans 26 to zero, and Davis Mills beat them by a field goal. Orlando, come on.

Let's be, let's be, I know you may be just trolling here a little bit of testing five. There is no way, no how the world. Like I said, you know, like I said, you are looking at it one way. Open-minded is all I'm saying. All right. If you look at last eight's game, it proves it. It proves why Davisville should be in the quarterback. Proves it.

Their offense was hot garbage in the second half. What are you talking about? They scored three points. Yeah. I mean, come on, Orlando. Look, look, Orlando, look. I don't sniff glue. Ah, okay.

And first of all, I would like to say, Orlando, I love you. I appreciate you. We love Orlando calling. We appreciate you. We love Orlando calling the show. We just agree. And that's your opinion. I understand. But like I said, I think it's not apples to apples because the offensive line has been reconfigured. And last night, the pockets were clean. It's not like Davis Mills was running for his life and making a bunch of plays. Now, he did make a couple of plays with his feet.

Now, does Davis Mills get rid of the football faster? Does he go through his progression and maybe a little bit faster than CJ does? Yeah. Yeah. And CJ should probably improve on that. but there is no okay five yards an attempt i mean come on folks well not folks orlando i i just want to trust you've got some football acumen there is not another general manager a coach a town evaluator a madden player that would choose davis mills for a 17 game stretch over cj stroud does cj have his faults. Has he not perhaps elevated himself to the

franchise irreplaceable category? Yeah, there are some things to it. But CJ is going to win you significantly more games. There is no conversation by anybody in the Texans' office today with the door closed, smoking their victory cigar. Hannah's

not walking in the offices of de Casarian saying, hey, you know, we should give Davis Mills a shot to continue to be a starting quarterback. And thank to Grace for pointing out. The last game that C.J. Stroud completed against the Niners. He was not sacked. Yeah.

Yeah. We, again, I thought this was like terrible media people that don't have jobs kind of takes or working for third-rate stations. I think we're getting a couple people, maybe back in Orlando. I know. Y'all got a lot of people against you guys right now.

Recency bias. Excuse me. Sorry, let's cough. Now, look, I want to make sure I'm very clear. I'm going to get to break. I am not the president of the CJ Straw fan club. Yeah, that's another thing. We're not saying he's a top five guy right now. No, or not. And I don't think and we haven't been looking for that. We've been looking for

that all year long. But there is, there's no cop to Davis Mills and C.J. Strauss I had another Orlando listener emailing. That wasn't me. That's a different Orlando. Uh-oh. How many Orlandoes do we have? People are disassociating themselves from that take. That is so funny. 7-1-3-212-5-7.9. We have, I'm sorry, it's coming up at 11

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on this Friday. It's an anything goes Friday. Remember coming up in 40 minutes now you're going to call in and say you're sorry for a variety of things. I think we behaved ourselves so far this week, right? Well, you probably got to apologize to somebody. Oh, I'll figure it. There's just going to be a list.

There's always is. It's almost cathartic 30 minutes of major market right now. Uh-huh. For sure. 713212-5-19. Texans with a 6 and 5 record, they've got to get to 10. My mind is set. They've got to get to 10.

They can go 4 and 2 the rest of the way. I think they're going to have enough to win a wild card spot in the American football conference. I agree. And I'll tell you this. This may be stupid. to say, but you know, I say stupid things. If you're going to lose two the rest of the way and get the 10, one of them

could be Arizona be okay. You're going to need tiebreakers. Well, look, it's a week-to-leek week. I know. I know. You know, we've got to go out there and beat who's in front of us and make plays. As DiMico, right? That's his favorite. Guys, we guys got to make plays.

Oh, okay. Thanks, DeMico. That's good stuff. If you ever really listen to anybody talk about how a game is to be broken down, like, avoid turnovers. No. I've never heard a coach saying, you know, I'm thinking about us turning the ball over five to six times.

I think we still win. Just to see what happens. Yeah. I want to put my quarterback down three touchdowns and see what he can do when he throws the first three passes are intercepted. Mm-hmm. Got to me, got to control the clock. Of course, because if you're controlled the clock, guess what?

Win the time of possession? Yeah. Like, we've got to be tough and physical. I didn't realize football was ever a finesse sport. We're going to go out there and be twinkle toes. It's like, you know, your buddy can, you know, does a routine about the must wins. Yes. You can do a, you can do a, Brian Regan.

Yeah, you can do a routine about, you know, we've got to be physical out there. I think you should go out there and treat it like a ballet. Think about that. Yeah. I'm trying to find out. I'm curious what the line will be the Texans at the Colts. Of course, it can change, but, yeah. They normally have, they do have odds you can find like a week out.

Let's go to Anthony on 790. Anthony, good morning to you. Hey, good morning, fellas. Hey, so I'll start out by saying, I think Davis Mills is one of the most competent backup quarterbacks in the league. He certainly came in and did what he needed to do, took care of the football, managed the game. But that's, to me, where the line is drawn between Davis Mills and C.J. Stroud is Davis Mills is going to manage the game. He's going to take care of the football. But let's be clear, the defense won that game yesterday.

there was a couple throws to me that CJ makes that Davis Mills doesn't or didn't last night and those were two throws to Dalton Schultz one was maybe 35 40 yards down the field that wasn't even close to Schultz and then there was one in the end zone that hit off of the defensive backs back that to me FJ makes both of those throws but for comparison the league average QBR is 50 with this is according to ESPN. The league average QBR is 50 with elite being 70. C.J. Stroud's QBR is a 67.9. Davis Mills over the last three games is a 44.

Like there is absolutely no way, no how. There's no quarterback controversy in Houston. C.J. Stroud is far and away, a better passer, a better quarterback. And yes, Davis looked good, but this is also the best the offensive lines look. Let's hold our horses on the CJ stuff and see how he looks in Indianapolis next week behind this new offensive line.

Well, here's the thing that's going to happen and thank you for the phone call. If the Texans, I'm definitely afraid of this. If the Texans lose the Colts next week, which they're going to be the underdog in the game, doesn't mean they can't win. Doesn't mean you can't take that defense, put them on a plane,

and make Daniel Jones life miserable. I'm seeing four and a half right now. Okay, Daniel Jones is not as good as Josh Allen. Josh Allen is better quarterback than Daniel Jones. And Daniel Jones has slowed down some from a really hot start. But you don't think the Monday after we're going to be getting, where's Davis Mills calls, F.C. Stroud struggles?

You know that's a guarantee. Absolutely. And then if you lose the following Sunday night at Kansas City, then they're really going to be coming out. This is going to be fun. You know what this is going to be? This is going to be a sports and football intelligence test. We'll have to see how C.J. Straub plays.

Now, if he's horrible and he's got, you know, one touch, touchdown in five picks, and then we can be open to this conversation. And that could be a criticism not about why Davis Mills is really good. It can be a conversation about why C.J. Stroud is bad, and that sometimes you're going to pull somebody who's bad. But he's never played so poor.

I can't remember a single time he's played so poorly as a Houston, Texan, that he need to be pulled. No. He's had bad games where he's missing throws and been under duress and could have played better. Yep. But he's never looked to the level of, I mean, we didn't say Daniel Jones, what he was, with the Giants.

He looked horrible. Yeah, so we're going to check this out. We sometimes worry about our great listeners and what their thought process behind things. But there will be a call that the Texans fall short with the Colts on the Monday after saying, see, Davis Mills will win that game. Maybe they can go up there and win it.

Let me tell you something. You can beat the Buffalo Bills who have been there, not done that, but been there. Mills beats the Bills? I didn't ask for that. Then you can, I'm saying, I'm just saying, if Mills beats the Bills, you can win with the Colts with C. Oh, you can go to, look, the Colts are excellent,

but they have as many wars as anybody else as in the title contended race. I'll tell you this. I got news for you. And I don't even watch Buffalo when they're in the national games. I don't like point them out. I couldn't, I was frankly disappointed in them. I mean, that was the first time I watched three and a half hours of Bill's football.

I mean, they only scored 13 points against. This is what I said. yesterday. They'd only scored 13 points against the Dolphins who had a terrible offense, a defense, excuse me. And then there was a game a few weeks ago that they lost where they only scored like 14 points. I'm trying to pull it back up. Yeah, the Falcons. The Falcons game, they didn't look great. So yeah, the bills are beatable. That's the thing, the beauty of the AFC right now. Every team is beatable. I think the cults are beatable on the road, especially if this defense is going to play this way. Patriots are young and have not been there and done that for a

Next week, our friend Jonathan Allen will tell you the chiefs are vulnerable. I'm the first one to say it. I'll stay by it. I'm just saying. But because of that, that's why I'm not counting the chiefs out, because they have been there and done that. Yes, they have. They started 0 and 5, I think, in one score games. Now they're 3 and 0.

So that's the Texans as well. I think they started something. They're 0 and 5 in one score games, and now they've won two or three in a row. All right. Let's get to the second hour with the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. We have to say our apologies coming up in one half. hour. Jonathan, do you think I'm going to apologize for my take on the Kansas City Chiefs, even though they lost

the game to Denver last week? You know what? Next Friday, if they lose, you better just wait for that. You better be waiting for that for a long time, my brother. 713-212-570. 7-13-212-5-790. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

Do we have any, do we have any highlights of the game in the audio system? or today, the morning should not do it? I'm just curious, I don't know. I can check it right now. Okay. We need to find, do we have a song for all the good sacks? We got a few highlights in here, I think. I'm just trying to think.

What kind of song would fit the way that Will Anderson, Deniel Hunter, and the company. Wrap it up? Fabulous Thunderbirds? Wrap it up. I'll take it. You know what? That's not your worst example ever. I just came up.

All right. 713-212. 5.790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1103 on Sports Talk 790. It is our number two of the Matt Thomas show, Ross. Thank you very much for spending part of your day with us. Matter of fact, hang with us for 2 o'clock.

We won't bite. A little good witty riparte. Good conversation about the dominant performance over the Texans defense. And look, it is a full complete game. the Texans scored more points than Buffalo did. Yes, yes. I'm trying not to push everything towards a Texas defensive side, but frankly, any logically thinking sports fan

that watched the game last night said the Texas defense took a prolific offense in the Buffalo bills. Granted, they were saddled with some injuries themselves. No, they're saying Money Mills was amazing and he needs to start over C.J. Strout. Nobody's saying that. Well, that one guy did. That Orlando guy did.

Not the other Orlando The normal list is to us. Yeah, poor Orlando or our Orlando who sends me emails about fantasy football is like, that wasn't me. Answer my questions of fantasy football, please. I'm just teasing you. No, you know, it's funny pro football talk.

I think frankly listen to the show about how Davis Mills could be turning this into an opportunity to perhaps become a starting quarterback somewhere else. The Texans do have Davis under contract for one more year. Yeah, okay, trade mate, sure. You can probably get a first.

fifth rounder form or something, I guess, maybe sixth. I don't think you should do that. I'm talking about that in the tell the truth. I don't think you should do that, especially if CJ is going to be in a position where there's a history. But you can say that about every quarterback. I think excellent football teams,

especially because Davis Mills makes decent money. He's not in the poor house. He's not crying over, right? What was he a third round pick, right? Yeah, he was Nick Casero's first ever draft pick. Yeah, he would be making seven, he'll be making $7 million. next year.

For a backup quarterback, it's not terrible. It's pretty good, actually. For a backup quarterback of a quarterback who's gotten hurt a couple times. Yeah. If you're the Texans, you have to hold on to him unless somebody just comes after C.J. Or after Davis and just wants to give the Texans a draft pick they just can't turn down. That's, look, look, folks, you might be in love with Davis Mills, but the tape says otherwise. He makes some throws.

He's a game manager. He missed some throws. He missed some throws. Dalton Shoals is not a big fan of him. his. You know he's not also fan of his Nico Collins. Maybe Nico's more pissed at Nick Cale than he is, probably

his quarterback. No targets in the second half, I think? I mean, where did he go? Was he out of Millcarten? I mean, my God, where was he? They didn't have a lot of sustained drives, first of all. No. I mean, one way to get Nico Collins' targets is to run a lot of plays, and they weren't running a lot of plays. But even so, don't you on a couple of drives

in the second half made a concert effort to say, you know what, he may be in coverage, I'm going to figure out a way to get him involved in the offense somehow because he does win a fair share of the 50-50 balls. Yeah, I mean, you can't force the ball to him every play. He would just get 15 targets every single game, and that's just, I mean, that you could do it more than what you did yesterday.

More than three targets would be ideal. I don't know. I'm not the offensive coordinator. I'm breaking down the tape. Well, you may have a shot at it. Christian Clark was looking pretty, that's true. Jaden Higgins was open on a lot of those plays. He got nine targets, and he was missed by Money Mills a couple of times. Money Mills

is like he's not goal he's bronze he's a good solid backup money mills comes in I feel okay I don't feel great

you know you never anticipate man what could he do for 17 games no for one or two in a tough spot he's a good fill in

he's a backup that's okay 153 yards 16 of 30 like come on guys let's were we watching the same game

I think we were there was only one game Yeah. By the way, so I didn't do your all 22 year specialty feed. Prime Vision. I have multiple people tweeting me telling me they loved it. I'm sure it was great. But I was with a lot of people and You were at a party? No, we were not the house.

You were in Mexico Mode House? No. Well, the roles will be good there though. And the whole family can watch Prime Vision. It's great. We wanted a normal vision. You hear the normal broadcast. You hear Al Michaels and Kirk Herb Street. You didn't even try it. We didn't hear about Peter the Dog and us. Yeah, we don't hear any hear about the dog. Getting on the headset and calling plays.

I wondered the dog was I wondered if the dog went to the McNair suite I don't think he did that'd be pretty funny actually all right so point being I've had so we had on 26 okay now we should peel the curtain back about how you do this so

so you these local these national broadcast that are available for the local cities to they bid on them 26 was not handed them the Amazon Prime video broadcast You had to bid for it. So what 26 does is say, hey, this is an investment.

We'll be able to sell some inventory in the game. We'll also be able to promote what happens right after the game. Like, right after the game is over with, we're going to put on news, news, murders. Or something that's going to try to gain attention. Top three murders of the day. So 26 does their little post game thing. They come on and say, hey, here's the score. Here's the game.

the very first thing they went to was a man on the street live report oh yeah that makes sense it was cringy what were they talking to trunks the reporter had a full

Texan shirt on love it I don't even know who she was oh she was hot I imagine you're talking about the local late news on Fox yes she was all right oh my God

she was all right that's right I mean you know I don't You set me up. I was on Prime Vision. I was watching Sherm and Carissa Thompson break the game down. Carissa Thompson, big fan.

So I go to 26. The 26 is on. It's this cringe. They're all yelling and screaming. Yeah, why not? You just beat the Buffalo Mills. Upset, baby. Upset City.

Some dude said Mills Mafia. Mills Mafia. Let's go. It's... Why can't you be excited, You're such a Texans hater, Matt. You upset the Buffalo Bills on national television. It's Battle Red Thursday.

Why don't you play a bunch of highlights or show something to the game? They went right to the report of 40 lunatics with us. Ew, it's this cringy. Because it's real, Matt. You want the real reaction from the people in the moment who are excited. I'm going to apologize that I didn't stay with Amazon Prime. I should have gone there and just kept it there. So there's my sorry.

To each his own? No, I made the mistake. I thought I'd give 26 a chance, and their news product was embarrassing. I almost texted, I almost texted Mark Berman. I said, yeah, are you seeing this trash? I almost did. Really? He's like, I don't care.

I'm long retired. Like, I'm fishing. Shut up. Yeah. I didn't even know the game was on. I'm retired. It's like catching Marlin and Cabo. You're not worried about what's just going on there.

But it was, oh, God, it was bad. It was just yelling. It wasn't even, it wasn't even interesting a man in the streets. It was just a bunch of people yelling. You couldn't, we're going to go all the Super Bowl. You're going. You think you're going to get a coherent thought from drunks on Thursday night? Again, my mistake, I thought I'd give 26 a chance.

Now, the best moment ever was that guy after the 2022 championship. Remember that? What do you say to the people that say the Astros have been cheating and blah, blah, blah, blah? Bleep y'all. That was a legendary. That was one for the ages. I think that was on Fox, wasn't it? Maybe that was part of the reason why I wanted to go to Fox.

Because they have a little more of a latitude than other people do. Reporters putting on Texans gear or Astros or Rockets gear to do a report is embarrassing. You're not a cheerleader. You're supposed to be somewhat of a reporter. I know. But it's late at night, though, on a Thursday, I mean. It's a very tried and true local news bit. We're supporting the local team, go team.

I'm surprised you didn't have pom-pom signs of a microphone. Now, it's somebody who went to Iowa State and was raised in, like, Columbus, Ohio, who was on Houston TV. but you know you got to play the part that's why I think local news is dying I guess I was fully expecting three murders instead oh you'd rather them lead with three murders and let's go with his rousing Texas win for a highlight recap and instead I got

that it's like your great grandma gets armed at gunpoint and two murders that's what you want and then oh by the way feel good story here's a squirrel cotton tree and then the anchor was running through the highlights after the loud report and he said the score now is 16 to 19 I'm like, that gritted my teeth too. I know that's a big pet peeve of yours.

Ever, ever, ever, ever report the lower score first. It's always the highest score. General Mills. Money Mills, Mills Mafia. In Mills we trust. The neck is back. Gert is sexy. Hmm.

It was a great win. It just was. It was a fantastic, it was a, not a season-saving victory, but a season-optimistic uptick by 500. I mean, I didn't think they had a chance to make the playoffs. Now, you go and you split the next two games. Did you put your name on that, Mother? No, I did not.

Matt. Check the archives. Go check them. You don't even check your archive. You're on vacation in the next half last week. You don't even know what the archives are. You're going to see, not a lot of me in December. I'm on that Michael Barry schedule.

I know. He takes off the whole month of December, doesn't he? Ramon, you know there's only 11 months in the year because I don't work in the 12th. Hey, Ramon, is Davis Mills the best backup quarterback in Texan's history? What, Davis, what, do you think Davis Mills likes sour cream on his baked potato? Hey, Ramon, do you like Texas-style barbecue sauce or Carolina-style barbecue sauce with the vinegar? What's your favorite county outside of Harris?

I'm partial to Terrant. I love me some Montgomery County Why do I sound like George Bush? I don't know. The number one. Strategery. George W. Bush. All right.

713. We send this show in so many different directions. I apologize. That's why the show's great. Anything goes Friday. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. Let's...

Dang, I don't... You didn't use. It's a gut feeling. See? Dang it. You're trying to always catch me. Well, you should know, at least I'm being honest. That's true. Thank you very much for that.

But you can split the next two games, can you not? I have more optimism about that than I ever thought at any point in the year. I do too with this defense and C.J.S. Schrogg coming back, even though people want money mills to start. I'm excited. Yeah. You hear him rolling his eyes because he did it right in front of me. 713-212-5-7-90. 1119 a.m. here on Sports Talk 790. Ross v. Real with you on the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

I don't know where Matt Thomas is. Hopefully he shows back up soon here, or maybe not. We'll see. Or maybe he's going to have some sorries for us coming up in about 10 minutes. Phone lines open for you guys. 713, 21, 212, 5790. 713, 212, 5790. Of course, we've been reacting to the big win for the Houston Texans, 23 to 19 over the Buffalo Bills. We kind of talked about this in the first hour about, of course, they have to finish this season. But right now, I agree with Matthew, and I said it last night on the Twitterverse, best defense in Texans history. They've been number one in yards before, but they've never been number one in points, and they've certainly never been number one in both. And how about just putting, how about taking a very below average offense in keeping you in football games and having a winning record?

That's what amazing defenses do. I mean, Trent Dilfer, and it's always the easy, low-hanging fruit. Yeah, leave Trent Dilfer alone. Trent Dilfer was a below-average quarterback who has a Super Bowl ring. Yes. They had a below-average offense. They had the best defense, maybe one of the two or three best defenses in the history of the NFL singles season-season-wise. A great defense can cover up a lot of Band-Aids, a lot of wounds.

That also was 25 years ago. It was. But let's fast forward now. Where would this team be if it had an average defense? defense. They would be four and seven. I'm going to say worse. I'm going to say worse.

They would have lost those games. They probably could have beaten the Titans twice still, even though they barely squeaked out one of those wins. Yesterday's game was a 100% defensive performance. The W goes to them. The game balls go to them. Yes.

Let's look at their schedule so we can figure out. And again, we're talking about going back a few weeks here, but the reality is how many times did the Texans the defense bill up the offense? They scored 19 and the defense didn't give up. That's another thing we need to remember. The defense didn't give up seven of those points. Right. And you add, just just tack on the extra point for bleeps and giggles.

13 points basically is what the Texans defense gave up to the Buffalo bills over four quarters. You gave up 20 to the Buccaneers. That's pretty good for that offense. That's insane. Actually. You gave up 17 of the Jaguars and lost Oh gosh I mean Oh by the way You gave up 14 of the Rams and lost

Week 1 That was a rough start to the season Battle Red Ross was not feeling great You gave up We're back baby You gave up 18 and lost Oh you know what I just remembered What? What was our 7 and a half bet

Minor I'm feeling good now I was feeling that feeling good four weeks ago It's all about 10 now Got to get to 10 wins Hopefully Oh you know what

I got bad news for all Texas fans Stephen A. Smith on my ESPN app says I don't care You start that sentence Start that sentence again Stephen A. Smith I don't care Can we play it?

All it's going to do is stress me out and make me angry and it's someone's opinion I do not respect and it's opinion they're making things up for sensation so thus we won't do it but it's a minute and 50 seconds

if you want to no no I don't even know I don't know how to clip it but point being it says Stephen A says the Texans can win the EFC well there goes your season actually you know what Stephen A Smith says the gospel

he's smart intelligent prescient and sysis Would you say prescient? Pressant? Yes. I don't know what that word. That's okay.

You'll figure it out. I'll use your context. All right, hold on. Here we go. I'm going to context it. All right. So I'm going to send this right now. Jonathan, get ready.

We're going to play, we play, what, five minutes of Stephen A. Smith per year on this show. Usually says something so outlandish and ridiculous we make fun of him. All right, here we go. Jonathan Allen, I'm sending it to you right now. Stephen A, the Texans can win the AFC. I'll tell you who can't win the EFC. Based on what they did yesterday was Buffalo Bills. Stephen A. Smith is a genius. Everyone knows I've always said this.

Stephen A is so good he should run for political office. He has the feel of America. And who's the other guy? It's, oh, Mark DeShare. We've got a bunch of athletes and sports personnel. Mark Cheshire is running? Yes. Well, Cheryl Ford was a college football player. There's precedent. All right, I got it ready to go. All right, here is Ross's bestie, Stephen A on the Texas.

Here's the deal, y'all. To me, I'm more encouraged by the Texas. is because I'm looking at the Texas and I'm saying these brothers can end up winning the AFC. And the reason why I say that is because we're looking at a guy in Patrick Mahomes. We know what happened when he lost his two Super Bowls. We knew he was running for his life against Tampa. We saw him running for his life last year against the Philadelphia Eagles. We go from there and then we look at somebody who the next two quarterbacks we're going to think about in the AFC. We're going to think about Josh Allen.

We're going to think about Lamar Jackson. Okay. Those are the two quarterbacks that we look at religiously as knocking on. on the door, nipping at the heels of Patrick Mahones, finding a way to overcome that hub. We saw what they did to Josh Allen last night. We never saw him get slaughtered the way he got slaughtered last night. It's being sacked eight times, okay, with Anderson and Hunter all over the place, all over him. And R.C., you're absolutely right about what they were doing.

And their secondary was stingly, and obviously Lassadon, and we can't forget Bullock at the safety spot in the job that he's been doing. I'm just looking at what happened with Josh Allen last night. I think he just, smart. I think he went to the box score and just saw a bunch of names aren't reading him off. Nope. He has been breaking down the all 22. He was watching Prime Vision with next-gen stats.

I don't believe that. He is a football knowledge through and through Stephen A. Smith. Genius. Okay. Okay. Do you want to tell you something that maybe I'm, I shouldn't admit? You got 20 seconds, the floor is yours. I had the same thought.

I had the same thought last night. I was like, wait a minute. Can the Texans win the AFC? I know. Battle Red Ross. Getting ahead of myself. Seriously. Are you on the Texans?

I know. Are you on the Texans payroll? I said I shouldn't admit it, but I'm being honest with you folks. The thought crossed my mind. That didn't look like a Super Bowl winning defense to you. And if CJs, and if the, if the offense can be better,

Woody Marks had some good runs. Now it was against a bad rush defense. I'm not saying their AFC favorites. I'm not. But this is, how can I not feel good about this team? They just went 3 and 0 with Davis Mills in three straight games. They've won four of their last five. And this defense is Super Bowl caliber.

The offense, no. Has a ways to go. Can I be real with you, Matt? Yes. The Texans offense is going to get in the way. Yeah. I understand that. Jaden Higgins is coming along, though.

Woody Marks is coming along. Nico Collins is great. Christian Kirk's good in the slot. The offensive line is going to cost you. They had a better game. The red zone is going to cost you. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this.

It can get better. It's a long season, baby. I don't want to do this. It's a long season. I just want, you know what? We need to bask in the globe what was yesterday. I need to be clear. I'm not calling them aFC favorites.

But you just said you were thinking the same thing, Stephen. That should make you. You know, I don't throw some cold water on you. Go ahead. You are thinking the same thing as Stephen A is thinking. What is wrong with you? It crossed my mind. I'm just saying.

Maybe I just got whipped to. into the city, recency bias. I got all excited. You know, a lot of things crossed my mind, but I don't publicly talk about it. Are the bills an AFC, can, can the bills win the AFC? Yes. Who just beat the bills in the last game they played? The Texans. Okay. That's all I'm saying.

The AFC is a jumbled mess. Yes. And the Texans are a part of it. Yes. But of the, they're not even, the season was the end of the day. They're not in the playoffs. But it doesn't. It's true. You know what?

though, Jonathan, think about this? Maybe this push I'm putting for Kansas City is what Ross is putting together of this push for the Texans. I think... Battle rest, Ross. Battle Red Ross can see the vision. I think you have

this Mahomes delusion from this last couple years. And you don't see the downgrade of the entire team. Oh, yeah, Mahomes is pretty good. I wouldn't be... No, I want you, hold on. I want you to say Mahomes is losing it

again for the audience. They can hear this. I'm not, if no, he's not, if we're talking about the top two of homes, the one that shows out of the... You're crawling out of this hole right now. I'm not. I will stand by this. You should stand by a lot of things. And Sunday, and I can, I will go on the show Monday.

If he pops out and destroys the Colts, I'll sit back. All right, maybe I was over my head. But right now, when the games I've watched, I've watched several Chiefs games, he's not where he needs to be right now. All right. And you've said your piece. Ross has said, I'm mine. The Texans, okay, let me make sure I'm very clear on this. The Texans can do this.

The AFC is not as top heavy as it was in years past. But Rossi, this offense, we are spending too much time loving on the defense not to discuss the warts that are the offensive side. I'm concerned. I'm not saying I'm not concerned. Okay. A lot of football left, though, Maddie. Yeah. Got to get the 10 wins first.

If you're only as good as your last win, Texans are looking pretty good. Wait, didn't you bet that Texans will go 10 and 7, Matt? No, 7 and a half. Oh, okay. That was a long time. That's a deli lunch. And I goaded you.

You did. That's what I'm saying. People think you're nice. You goat me into things. Seven months. You hear that? All right, it's a Matt Thomas show with Ross. Hey, it's time for you to apologize for the things you've said and done this week.

I'm sorry. For what? You'll find out next. 1130 on Sports Talk 790. Say your sorries. Come on in. 713. 212.

5.790. 1134. Ross, in the devious mind, you need to do something right now and say these words. I'm sorry. So sorry. That I was such a fool.

I didn't know. Yep. Time to apologize. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. You want to follow us on Twitter? It's an ad-sports-M-T. But more importantly, just call the show at 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

So I will say I'm going to apologize to somebody called Bering Schultz. I put on Twitter 13 hours ago, right as soon as the game was over with, I said, just put Will Anderson, Jr. in the ring of honor. now. Other McNair family members need to wait. Because that's what we do. We put members of the McNair family in the Hall of Fame or the Wall of Fame. It's good. Other people. Will Anderson

had a Wall of Honor, Hall of Honor type performance last night. Well, Kerry's not going to make it. Carey's not going to game. Matter of fact, Carrie may never be at a Texas game again. He might not be allowed to stay. He may be able to buy a ticket for the game in Indianapolis, but he'll be going to go through Rickett Rastard to do that. It got 8,000 views, which is nice.

It got 384 likes. 20 retweets and 11 comments Let me take a look here at the quote line I just look at your poll results Sorry, go ahead We'll discuss that a minute Okay, sorry So a lot of people are like

Yeah man, he was awesome That was the greatest thing ever And maybe a little jabs of carry or whatever You know, or a cow Or decal hoon as a kids would say Barron says You're so effing petty That's why I quit listening when Ross left last week

Get your VHS out and keep watching those texts Highlights. Oiler's highlights. Oilers highlights. The if-then statement does not match. What did I say that was wrong? I said, put Will Anderson the Hall of Wall of Honor. Baron,

what did I do to you? Are you apologizing? I'm apologizing to Barron thought that I was so effing petty. His words is not mine. So I politely replied, may I wear your shades? It is in This is an avatar photo.

Hmm. So for Barron, I'm sorry that you think I'm so effing petty. When I want Will Anderson in the Ring of Honor and instead of members of the McNair family. Baron, we appreciate you listening. I would encourage you to continue listening even when I'm out. Yeah, that's fine. Because those ratings still count.

Actually, this while I was on the point, we just had a call from North Hollywood say how good he loves a show. And one of the time. Thank you, North Hollywood. North Hollywood, shout out to you. Can you move to Houston and get yourself a meter? Thank you, Norho.

They don't call it Norho. I call it West Hollywood, Weeho. They don't call it Norho. Oh. I guess I could. Soho, South Houston. Norho, I lose money in the casinos at Norho all the time. That big hard rock casino?

It's a Norho. Oh, Norho, Florida? Norho Flo? Yeah. It's the hard rock. Or the Rard Rock. The hard rock at Norho Flo? Okay, that's enough.

Boo. All right. So I want to sorry, I'm sorry for Barron. If you thought I was petty, I apologize. I didn't think I was. But, you know what? Sometimes you've got to take the L. Yeah, you're Texans' hater, Matt.

You should apologize. What was so hateful about that statement? You said they were going to lose by a touchdown? It was wrong. That was hateful? Yep. I'm sorry that TCU is going to get their ass tick tomorrow. I don't think you are sorry.

I am sorry. It's only a one and a half point spread, Maddie. 713-212-5-7-90. Go cooops. And look forward to seeing all of you at the stadium tomorrow for a 3 o'clock tilt 2 o'clock will be the pregame show on 9.50. I'll have it free, but then I'll be cheering the rest of the way. 3 o'clock, I will be watching the Longhorns, hopefully not get upset by the Arkansas.

That'll be 4th quarter by then, right? What time is the game? It's 2.30. Oh, it's a 230 game? I thought it'd be like 10 a.m. or something. 230 on ABC, Matt, that's where they put big time. We're on Fox. That's a big time right there, too.

We're on D. Lean week. It's all powerful week. They're bailing by in your league or something? There's no thing as buys. They're off weeks, not buys. Okay, whatever. You know what? I'm sorry.

Yeah, you should. That was rude. I got like four things to apologize. Let's go. Knock him out. Knock him out. Let's go. Earlier in the week, I read a tweet from Jonathan Alexander about C.J. Stroud practicing,

and I got all excited, and I said two or three breaking news sounders. And I literally didn't read the second sentence of the tweet, which said it was unlikely he was going to play. And then he was ruled out like two hours later. So I'm sorry. Your fake news is what you are. I did the Gin Z thing. read it all the way. I had no attention span. I jumped the gun and I'm sorry

I would like to apologize for that. I'm sorry. I have another apology. Well, you know what? This came up last segment. I goaded you. We were talking about the Texan season and somehow some way I goaded you into betting under seven and a half

wins because I was like, yeah, man, they're going to be so bad. Why don't you bet me? I poked and prodded and goaded you and I'm sorry, but that deli lunch is going to taste good. You only get a half sandwich, by the way. No, I'm not even going to hold you to it. Bet's off the table.

Are you sure? Don't even worry about it. All right. You know what? That's a mulligan. Are we clearing all of our bets? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hibachi sizzle going to come, all right?

Terriaki steak is on the way and it's getting into my belly. I just, you know what? The biggest thing I'm worried about is being patient and not burning my tongue. Other than that, I'm ready for Habachi dinner. I'm ready for him to sign in, like, March 19th in the middle of the middle of spring training. Oh, steak's raw. hot man you know what

let me take five deep breaths I'm gonna go to bathroom real quick and let this cool off so I can enjoy it I want to burn my taste buds off for this delicious abachi dinner I'm about to enjoy anything else

you gotta get off your chest yeah there's one more I wrote it down let me find it 713212 570 if you want to apologize before the season started there was a certain Houston rocket that I was not sure was going to be able to blossom

the way the organization thought he would. Okay. Reed Shepard. Ooh, really? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I mean, he was just so tentative last year. He looked like a deer in headlights.

The athleticism is good, but it's not elite. I was worried. He's been great. And he's been a key part of this team being one of the best teams in basketball. He is a full rotation guy for this team now. Yes. Yes. And I wasn't sure he was going to get there.

Now, of course, a lot of basketball left. We'll see. But Reed Chepard, I'm sorry. Maybe it's your squirly haircut. Maybe it's your wispy mustache, but I was just, maybe it's the short shorts. Maybe it's a combination of all that. May I give you a very fast read Chippertz. I mean, he looked like he walked off the Hoosiers set.

I was worried. All right. I didn't mean. So I try to, I try to infuse humor in a matter where I go, whether it's a show of my life. After the game on Wednesday, I was down in the locker room, and he asked our dietician. He says, are there any wings? left and she says yes there are and I just flippantly said

yeah the only ones that are left are seven mile island wings you know three mile island is the hottest yeah I thought seven would be nuclear hotter he goes I don't know what that means yeah it's a reference to the nuclear

disaster three on three mile island correct he had no idea what seven mile I was I was trying to he's probably never walked the kids don't go to Hooters they're going they're closing up shop all across the country because big city wings is significantly better well that's true that and nobody wants like a 60% of your wing to be breading yeah but i've got to try to stop being humorous because none of them catch it Jeff green catches it Matt he's 20 that and I

understand that reference it's not a good joke it's kind of a bad dad joke I'm sorry I'm sorry Sorry. Seven mile island. Come on, dude. Oh, sorry. Reed, I'm sorry. It looked like he had a little sad face. He's like, I don't know what that means.

So bad. I'm getting secondhand cringe right now. This is I'm uncomfortable. I think I felt. How do you think I felt? I used to think I felt. I used to go out with you. players occasionally. Back in the day.

Back in the day. I'm not going out of any players anymore. It's so sad. They don't want to be out with me. I understand. All right. What else? Jonathan, you anything you want to apologize for? Yeah, I got to apologize to my girl again. Again?

No, no, okay. This one, this one, so we're watching the game, and she had a long day, so she was tired. So she was asleep. She was like, he was falling off. And this is right when I turned the game on, and then Bullitt got that first interception. Well, I had my Zotterburger Full large Root Beer

In my hand And I like When that happened I had the food Other hand had a drink I like jumped up But I squeezed the cup The styrofoam cup so bad

It popped everywhere all over her And the white couch she got And I had to sit there and clean it up So I apologize She knows I'm sorry We're gonna tell you a root 44 root beer Yeah, I have one of those large

You know, I know Yeah, yeah, yeah Ross, how do I feel about root beer? You like it? Love it. I love root beer. It's my top three soda. And the best part of it is no caffeine,

so if you're trying to cut back on the caffeine with the coffee, I have a very important question for them. Please. Rank in order. Yes. Barks mug A&W. A&W1. Oh, really, really?

Mug 2, Barks 3. You have the inverse of what I have. However, I drink me some A&W. I like them all. Have you been on A.N.W. Rubier staying lately? No. They're not a lot of them. But, I mean, they still have them.

They pour them like they pour out of a tap. Yeah, a draft. It's good. And they got the foam on top? Oh, my God. Let's go after the show. Is there our Ray and Rubby you near here? What?

What I just saying? With the Hmong Mon Milvers? I can imitate. There's that one on 45 on West Road. That's too far. You got the gat on you. You better watch out. Plus I've got to bring some heat with me.

Yeah, as long as you're packing, you're good. Don't start none won't be none in the hood, man. It's fine. A two-piece fish with those crispys, some hush puppies and a 44-ounce root beer. Oh, that's ecstasy right there. That's all they call me Mr. Texas. 1145. Is A&W?

Yeah. They're probably from like Kentucky. 1151 on Sports Talk 790. Final segment here. If you got any, I'm sorry, it's to get to. Nobody's one needs to apologize for anything. I'm glad our audience is so perfect. and nothing's nothing wrong with them.

Didn't want to apologize for what they insulted their mother-in-law's cooking dinner night. Wow. So, maybe everybody's just being good, Matt. It's a time of healing. You know what is? Thanksgiving is a nice time of you.

We're going to have a difficult time with shut your bum asses up, and I think a little bit of I'm sorry's too. I don't know. We figured out. People at the grocery store, family members. Pig parkers like me. In-laws talking politics at the dinner table.

Ooh, Lord. this year i'm away from my entire family on christmas where the rockets are on a christmas road trip play christmas night in los angeles be talking to myself you guys will have a dinner out there right i don't think reed shepern aren't gonna be breaking bread over his seven mile island wings terrible you should be embarrassed what if i'd have said three mile island i even then he wouldn't have got it no thought it just said they're really really hot you'd be like oh they really are hmm I guess the guys in Kentucky don't like those really hot wings. It's close to Nashville, hot chicken. That's true.

All right, 713-212. Oh, Yankees Keith. Wait a minute. He can't be saying. He never says sorry for anything. Now, he was Texans Keith, and he got off the bandwagon. Is he back to Texans Keith now that they won three in a row? I believe he's Buccaneer's Keith.

Oh, is that right? He's Buccaneers Keith? Yeah. I think he finds any team that's winning and calls him back. It's funny. He was Mariners Keith for a while, too. That's true. And now he's big time Denver Nuggets, Keith.

By the way, group play game tonight, 8.30 inside Tota Center. Please go to the game. Please listen to us. And a nice red court. It's got some pinkish in it, though, too. It's like, I like my stakes. It's got a medium-rars floor. I'd say more medium.

Oh, so it's rare. The rare is red. The rare is pink. And there's some serious, okay, what am I doing? Yeah, stop. Stop. Let's take the call, please. Take the loss.

Good God. Keith. Good morning to you. Good morning. I'm going to say I'm sorry to my neighbor behind me. And I want to all possum lovers because my dog is killed at least into 12 possums in the last six months. Twelve possums? Our phones are messed up, by the way.

He's high-pitched. Twelve possums. Twelve possums. They stand up on the top of the fence. He can't get to them. sometimes they get off of the fence and come on in there and that's when he wipes them out if they don't take off the fence

I'll just knock them back to where they came from but when he kills them I'll throw them back on the top where they came from anyway so I'm sorry to my neighbor you throw possums and you're... Oh that's gross you're throwing dead possums around in the house yeah you need to be sorry about that man that dog those possums need to look out there's a whole family 12 possums in a year

it's a genocide that's a genocide I think I That's one of your best lines John That's bravo Yeah I was gonna say I don't think six months I'm gonna pull that off

That's nice Getting comfortable I think we're We're uh That's why you can't leave now Also we're clouding his brain Talking about possum genocides That's true

How's the cheek's doing by the way He's fine Please throw him away Man Let let cheeks stop hunting your freezer It's in the deep freezer in the garage Oh, that's even worse. You're trying to pull out a Swanson's dinner and you got hamster fur?

But who is pulling out Swanson's dinners? I don't know. What else you keep in the deep freeze? I don't know. Lots of beef? 713-212-5-790. Maybe we've gotten, we got 50-20 different gallons of vanilla bean ice cream, the best ice cream ever made on earth.

Although that pecan pie flavor is phenomenal, too. Is it? Oh, my God. Do you like pecan pie? I do. I don't eat a lot of ice cream. When I was a kid, I hated it. I must have had some bad ones, because as I grown up, I like it better.

You know what I despise? Sherbert. What's wrong with Sherbert? Gross. I don't like Orange Sherbert. I like all of it. Sherbert, shaved ice, Hawaiian ice. How do you feel about gelato?

Fine. Okay. Sherbert I don't like. I don't like, I don't like, love Froyo. But no Sherbert. Just because of the fruit flavorings? Yeah, you know, one time Ross, you don't know this, Jonathan. Ross, uh, Ross and I went to, uh, Pink Bear to get some yogurt.

And we were going to bring some home for Ross's dog. And that's the last thing. The dog was on its last legs. And it said, all they wanted was some Froyo. And I wound up eating all of it. And Ross's girlfriend at the time got super mad. He should call me a bunch of names and stuff. It was terrible.

Just terrible. 713-212-5-790. So remember, if you go to get fro-yo for a dog, Jonathan, don't eat any of it because the dog needs a frio more than you do. David in Las Vegas. David, what are you apologizing for? David? My heart.

It's our phones. Why are our phones down? It's 1156. It's always mid-afternoon. David, call back. Our Wi-Fi's been bad and the phones are down, so. Tom, we miss you, man. Come back. I'm sorry to our listeners that we can't get reliable phones.

You people want to call. This is an interactive show. We love talking to y'all. You make the show better. And sometimes you make it worse. Most times you make it better. But for the most time, most part, you make it better. And our phones are crappy, quite frankly.

I'm sorry. I would like to echo that. But I can't anything more. than that. Yes. Because I get in trouble. I don't want to get in trouble. I love our company.

I love our business. I love our bosses. I love the atmosphere. I love my coworkers. It's great. I just don't like my equipment. Not like my equipment. The company's right.

Our apologies. All right. David's back. Let's try it. David, you've got to be brief here because we're probably going to lose you here. David, what are you apologizing for? I'm a Las Vegas apology to your I heart colleague, Dan Patrick.

He's out here. broadcasting live for the Formula One race in Las Vegas. And you know how much I love going to live broadcast. Every time you guys are out here, I always sit in with you. I love it. It's a fun thing to do. So I went over there to go do it. Got up at 5 in the morning to sit in there.

Only to find out that the free parking at the, at the Found Blue has become $40 for a special event. So I heard the $40 and I turned around and left. I'm sorry to take you that's worth $40. I was holding on for a second. Yeah, thanks, David. The phone was fine. Look, Dan Patrick's show is okay. I don't know if I'd go watch it for $40.

I would listen to the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Now you come see us. We're much different. Yeah. Chance are we're going to pay you. We're going to give you some food and drink. We'll at least come by and say hello to you. And we'll also tell you secrets about the station.

That's true. We have so much dirt in all of our host. Oh, my God. Skeletons, abound. Abound. Let's talk to Roger before we get to the news. the new and wake the strippers up roger what are you apologizing for i guess i have to apologize for not thinking the texas can pull this off but in my defense uh i apologize to the to the

defense they couldn't collect eight facts on a very mobile and very capable josh allen and um yeah i'm sorry for uh for uh thinking uh money through those meals he's not going to you know It delivers to the promise land yesterday night, and I'm sorry that DJ Scott is going to have to face a lot of pressure coming up to win the next game because that's what it's going to do. All right. I'm sorry. I'm going to get him next. Thank you. Roger.

Have we to figure out where Roger's calling from? I think it was actually Niagara Falls. He's in the shower. You know, the Pacific have shower beers? Oh, I love shower beer. He has shower phone calls. Have you done a shower beer yet? You did?

Yeah. How was it? Oh, whatever. It was good. I mean, look, the cold beer with the hot water and meshes well. But I thought to myself, am I, don't have a problem if I'm drinking beer in the middle of the shower? No, it's usually either you're pre-gaming or winding down. But I wasn't even doing neither one.

That's what I'm saying. You don't do any physical activity. I do, too, I walk all the time. You know, you do an hour and a half of pickleball, and then you go have a hot shower with a cold beer. It's nice. I'm going to ask them to the Rockets if they shower. beer. Okay. They probably, probably not nutritionist

recommended. They wouldn't tell me, yeah. I'll say, hey, hey, Reed Shepherd. Let's go get some... Now in the 90s? Yeah, oh my God, in the 90s, they did everything. They're doing shower lines of blow. They weren't probably by themselves either. 1159. Let's wake the strippers up next here on Sports Talk 790.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 12-04 in H-town. Good morning. to Sports Talk 790 Hour 3 of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Let's go Texans!

Well, we know biggest neck. Who's got the biggest arm? The biggest what? Okay. Can you hit that for me? No. I don't want to work. I want to bang on the drum all day.

I don't want to play. I just want to bang on the drum all day. Can we knock this out? No, no, no. You did all your preening and pat yourself in the back when you won the Bregman Bat. These chickens are coming home to roost. all day

play fake pass wide open touchdown christian kirk pulls it in the teacher's

told me she called me pounding on a desk with my head all the links were so high I mean the teacher

on a dress and it's why Alan throws tip intercepted running it back here Bloc

weaving darting inside the ten he's going to go all the way for the touchdown what's a what's a word for like a soft bust well it depends on what magazine you're looking at what I'm sorry

meanwhile ornament dude who's a six foot Hulk six foot three Hulk comes to town he met her while he was designing ornaments and now they're together oh no the bed and breakfast may not survive if the porridge is in served while i hate the hallmark channel i'm over it matter of fact you know what i would do i mentioned this before i would give up turkey for Thanksgiving to have McRibbs a potter of McRibbs listen listen folks listen to this psychopathy you just said you would rather have a McRibb than Thanksgiving dinner Yeah. Alan throws off his back foot, short pick at the nine-yard line.

Bullock. They've got to call it. He's a flag down on the play at the 11-yard line. I don't want to work. I want to play on the drum all day. Is it anything goes Friday? It's the Texans are still alive in the AMC playoff chase Friday. Woo!

Or as NFL pundit, Stephen A. Smith, say they could win the whole damn thing seriously you ought to you should you should tweet at him why are you doing that continue your run for political office that you're saying you're not running for they could matt a if everyone's looking vulnerable in the afc everybody is literally don't sleep on my baltimore ravens either why are we so why they're baltimore ravens guys you got you you're always accusing me of being a big baltimore raven supporter side well you are you're leaning into it you would love to have relations with lamar jacks That is not true.

People listen to the show for a long time. I love to have relations with him. That's not true, Matt. I support him. We're not judging. It's okay. You hear that? He's not judging.

Okay. I think he's a great football player and I think somehow still underrated. What's up? Not underrated. Yeah. He is properly rated as an elite quarterback. Nothing under about it. I think some people still underrated him.

Well, like whom? Name names. I literally tweeted last year like a tough look for people who say Lamar Jackson's not a passing quarterback because he had 40 touchdowns in like three picks and literally people were still arguing me in the comments of that tweet that he couldn't pass. I brought this up one year ago and I'll

do it again this year. I wonder why that is. If neither one of those quarterbacks go to the Super Bowl this year, you're going to get the haters are going to grow. You notice that great, haters grow when elite quarterbacks don't make it to the Super Bowl. It's almost like when coaches don't go to the national championship in college football. Yeah, when Josh Allen doesn't make the Super Bowl, you poor

baby, when Lamar Doug Jackson doesn't worry. Oh, he sucks. He's overrated. he's the worst you hear that jonathan that is a baltimore raven lamar jackson lover right there to my right you've proven our case time now for the news at noon at 12 o nine well headlining the news at noon matt will be your houston texans thursday night on prime video taking care of business by way they don't spend money with this rhyme rodeo that used to do spots for them that's why i say it well you i appreciate you got in a check now they owe the building of their brand to me if i hadn't done those prime video spots a couple of years ago.

They wouldn't be where they are. So you're welcome. Ryan Radio. You're welcome. Jeff Bezos. Eight sacks for Josh Allen. 253 yards. No touchdowns. Two picks.

The Texans defense holding the bills to only 12 points. There was the special team's touchdown, unfortunately. But at the end of the day, just as I told you yesterday, the Texans pull off the upset 23 to 19. Money Mills getting it done. Woody Mark's leading the way on the run game, 74 yards on 16 carries. And of course, though, the headliner, eight sacks for that Texans defense, which is the best in football and arguably the best in Texans history. And you never really ever see Josh Allen like exacerbated? He was exacerbated last night. Exasperated. He was exasperated, too. Well, that too.

The Texans defense exasperated, the exasperated. Correct. That's what they're called the Buffalo Exasperators. Yes, exactly. Buffalo Bills continue to be snakebip, a lot of football left, but a big win by your Houston Texans. Also, let's keep it local here in Houston. Big game tonight in the NBA Cup group play. The Denver Nuggets, I would say two of the three best teams in basketball are facing off tonight.

Oklahoma City Thunder being the third. visiting the Rockets, Matthew, how about your Houston Rockets holding as two and a half point favorites against Nicoliochich and Baby Yokic? I don't mean to add storylines to already a busy show today, but the fact is this, you have a group play game. These teams would like to go play in Las Vegas and go to that big money at the very end. Number two, it's a Western Conference Early Supremacy showdown. And number three, Yokic and Shengun played in that Eurobasket tournament in Turkey. where Alpi had some funding at the expense of Nikola Yolkich. I wonder if he's thinking about that from just a couple of months ago.

He might be. And I'm deathly afraid of Nikola Yokic. Now, the Rocket's defense is very good. He is averaging 29 points per game on 64% shooting and 40% from 3. Oh, and 11 assists and 10 rebounds. I got to miss 13 rebounds. Sorry, it's 10 defensive rebounds. I read the wrong column.

13 rebounds. A lot? By the way, you forgot, he shoots 40% from 3. 86% from the free throw line. I didn't say that one. And if he gave it damn, he'd really be good. Yeah, this is a guy who, obviously, I think it's a little overplayed. He has to care about basketball to some extent.

This is going to be a big matchup. I'll be with you on the Rockets launch pad. I was going to say Astros on deck. Rockets launchpad, 7.30? Yes, 8.30 tip time. Or 840 or 8.45. Rockets launch pad, 730. I will be in the arena.

Are you really? At the Toyota. Somebody and say hello. Tonight. If I see, I see you. Okay. I'm not going to go out of my way. Hey, by the way, Coach Docs at 645, right?

I'll text me. I'll tell you. Okay. And, well, you want anything else in the news at noon, man? Oh, Dave Miranda's going to be back at Baylor, 2006. Must have a nice buyout, huh? Well, you know, they, I think they're doing this because they want to let the new AD decide the football future. Okay.

Mac Rose, by the way, officially out at Baylor, so. That's a shame. Oh, one more quick note. Former Temple Men's basketball player placed dozens of bets on his owls in games over two seasons, including wagering against his own team, the NCAA announcing today. Hysier Miller permanently ineligible after the NB NCAA finding

he placed 42 bets tolling $473. I knew this was going to be a low number. Why did I know this? Dude, you're doing parlay against your own team and getting ruled and eligible for $5 bet parlays.

This is embarrassing. Come on, guys. Let's wake up here. Honestly, I mean, these coaches and administrations need to do a better job of communicating to these players. Like, this is not worth it. Of course, I'm sure they're doing what they can. Yep. $473 on 42 parlayes.

First of all, parliates are bad bets. Yes. Secondly, if you're going to do, you might as a go for the gusto. Yeah, maybe he was doing 20 teamers. For five bucks. It's funny. Lottery tickets. Over the years, Ross and I have shared parley as a gift.

I said, hey, let's do a parlay. We'll split the proceeds. Have we hit one? We've hit one over 10 years, I think. Maybe. We were like splitting $14 a pop or something. It was embarrassing. Yeah.

One quick NFL note. Jackson Dart is still in concussion protocol. He will miss his second straight game. Oh, by the way, the Cougars basketball team knocked off rider last night. What a tough. Okay, don't say knocked off rider. They breathed by.

You don't know, maybe they didn't. They were successful in their exhibition. What, they win by 60? 46 91.45. Now Texas already played Ryder or they're playing Ryder next? Is Ryder taking the tour of Texas?

Let's take a look at Ryder. I can't believe I'm looking at Ryder's schedule here. You never thought you'd be here. I would never think I would be doing here. What is their master? The record is 1 and 4. Ryder has already Oh, Ryder scored 65 against Texas. Yeah, Texas.

It's scored by, lost by 30. Okay, that means Longhorn's almost scored a hunter? So Ryder already has played this year. Virginia, Rutgers, Texas, and Houston. Paycheck, to check, to check. Yeah, it looks like they're going to league play

and some easier matchups after that. I see a lot of Mary Mac and Sacred Heart. Niagara. Shout out Calvin Murphy. Yes. Can you name another Niagara player? Tucker Winslow You cannot

That's a made-out name And that, my friends The News at noon 1215 on Sports Talk 790 The power forward for the bucks in the 80s No, he was a cavalier, duh All right Are we ready to celebrate the Texans big win?

You know what, I'm sorry For what you didn't do anything Friday, sorry No, it's par for the course for you Not surprised by anything you do these days All right, the great, was that the great greatest defensive performance in Texans history. Single game.

Probably know the last game against the bills. Let's, we'll discuss that next. And by the way, does Josh Allen want, oh, I'm going to give you something. I think Josh Allen next time he wants to play the Texans is going to have what they like to call in the NBA. Let's sort of like call that load management. Take the game off. You can't play against Texans. Texans have their number.

Very few teams can say that about Josh Allen. I know. But the Texans can say it. So Ross wanted me to put up a poll question today, which I did. And it's, it was a loaded question. And I'm shocked, quite frankly. I'm not. Because I brought this up to you earlier in the week.

Not like if you could only eat the question, but I mean, I was sort of saying, is it an absolute no-brainer that the Texans give the mega deal to C.J. Stratt, and you said it's an absolute no-brainer. I don't want to put words in your mouth. I mean, I would be shocked if they would choose Will Anderson over C.J. Stroud. I don't think it's a choice. Because, again, good financial, good dealings of the managing and massaging the sour cat means you can take care of your highly players. I mean, look, the Bengals have two of the highest paid receivers and one of the highest paid quarterbacks, so they can do that.

I mean, it's about what you spend and how you spend it. So it's how you responsibly do it. But DeNeil Hunter will have to be gone. You paid Nico Collins decent money, but he's still under market. yeah here is the question recency bias is in plan i put that out there just to make sure that we were being fair about this you can only pay one there quote true market value

doesn't mean you can't sign both but only one gets the true market value okay who gets the ultimate bag 163 votes are in that's nice sample size but it could be bigger follow me at sports empty to partake in this who do you pay strowder anderson 83% C.J., excuse me, Will Anderson, Jr. gets the bag over C.J. Stroud. I thought it was going to be like 60-40, Anderson. What, 83-17?

Again, I think this is off of last night. If C.J. Stroud throws for 319 and three touchdowns. If we had done this after the Niners game, we'd be getting a different answer. That is absolutely 100% correct. That's why I didn't want to do it, but you wanted to do it. I'm like, you know, well, let's see what this goes. I was curious.

This is crazy. I mean, it's a poll. It's a Twitter poll. People are entitled to their opinion. I just, I'll go back to my argument. Now, I mean, our good debate we had today. I do believe in the back of their mind, now they may be tied to a financial decision

because their quarterbacks are hard to find, but I do believe that there's got to be something in the back of the mind that says, wait a minute, do I want to give C.J. Stroud what would be $60 million a year? He's got a cutthroat, I mean a cutthroat agent. and David are Mulligatta.

He's the Scott Boris of football without the crazy puns. Yeah. I heard he was losing his mind last when I was losing his mind. He's not going to, he's not taking a hometown discount.

He's, he was what was, C.J, 1-2 or 1-3? 1-2, 1-2. He wants 1-2 money. Whether he's played to a 1-2 level, still could be up for conjecture a little bit.

Will Anderson has outperformed his 1-3 marking. He is a, you build your defense around him and you can do so for the next 8 to 10 years minimum. Trevor Lawrence got paid, Jordan Love got paid, Dak Prescott got paid. Dak Prescott is the highest paid quarterback in football right now. Yeah.

Got two mega two extensions, correct? Yeah. I think it's going to happen. Now, can you try to find a Daniel Jones or Sam Donald or a Gino? you can try there are other avenues but it's tough Daniel Hunter I think is going to be the one that's gonna

he's gonna have to come off the books and you're at some point and you're gonna pay Will Anderson and as currently constructed there are too many guys playing and this is a byproduct of having a good team right? Yeah it's a good problem now you're gonna have Joe mixing off the books next year my assumption would be on that

but you've got to go get a real RB1 I don't think in my mind unless Woody Marks all of a sudden does something incredible here. I think Woody Marks is an RB2 in the NFL. I don't think he's your 20 carry per game guy. I just don't think he is. Can he be a guy that can be intimately involved in the offense? Yes.

Can he get you 74 yards like he got yesterday? Sure. Can he be a really good blocking back out of the back of which he already is? Absolutely. I will say this too. He's just a rookie. And he's gotten better week to week. Yeah.

So, and there was a couple of those first downs where he was hit behind the backfield. and he made plays. He's shown a little bit of patience, a little bit of wiggle, and some strength. So I am encouraged, yeah, I don't think he's going to be, you know, you're not going to talk about him like, I don't know, say Juan Barkler, even what James Cook was last night and stuff like that. But he can be a guy you can win with as long as you have pieces around him. And that's the NFL, and that's what you have to do.

When you're paying an edge rusher, when you're paying CJ Stroud, you have the guy have guys who are diamonds in the rough or draft picks who are going to be cheap and they have to perform. So you're going to have to build the team correctly. What I want to know about from last night, and we'll put this game to bed, obviously, today, why didn't the bills run more and why didn't the Texans run more? The Texans should have, I mean,

it felt like maybe the Bill's rushing defense was getting a little better as the game moved along, but there were a couple of runs that Woody Marks got on first down that average defensive linemen would have tackled him for loss. I think they were, I mean, there were some stops. they were getting some stops at the line of scrimmage. And I think they also were kind of just packing things up front. And Davis Mills, I don't know if they're checking or how they do go about it with this offense,

but they were passing in-run situations because of what the Bill's defense was showing them, I think. Yep. All right. So that's going on. And the Texans are six and five. Now, if Jacksonville loses to Arizona. No, wait a minute. Jack, I'm not giving Jacksonville any benefit for the doubt.

No chance, no way, no how. It can happen. I'm just not banking on it. That would put the Ben both at 6 and 5, correct? By the way, good tiebreaker win for the Texans and a good conference win. Yes. Yeah, so I'm saying, if you're going to lose games, the rest of the way, again, I think you have to get to 10. You still have got to go 4 and 2.

You could be, last year, I think there was an NFC team that had 10 wins and got left out. Yeah. It can happen. Especially this year in the EFC with all the congestion. Yeah. If you're going to lose. losing to you don't want to lose Arizona because that's so bad

but I mean if Jacksonville loses Arizona it will hurt them for sure but ultimately the tiebreakers will still go with their conference record only two of their losses are in conference Jacksonville's or Texans Texans because their losses are the Rains fucking ears and Cs but I would presume if you're getting into a

9 and 8 situation that you're going to have some AFC losses and then mix there you've only got one NFC opponent left yeah and you're going against L.A potential tiebreaker. You're going against in Indianapolis

twice. You split with the Jaguars so you could be in a mix with them that would come down to conference soccer thing. And you got Kansas City, that would be another one too. I mean,

you got a lot of AFCs coming up. Some all must win games coming up on the schedule. They are. Because you lose. You're not playing in the playoffs. What's the record now? Six and five?

Six and five. They go four and two. That puts them at 10 and seven. They're in. I think. No, no. I'm, I'll put my name on.

Okay, good. A 10 win Texan team, I think they win tiebreakers along the way and make the playoffs. You heard it here first. Let's take a short time out, 1232. We got Dr. Roto coming up in a half an hour. Are you ready for that? How's your fantasy team doing?

I swapped the Texans defense out against the Toros last minute for the Falcons against the Saints. How many points did the Texans defense score last night? 14. And how many points would you have going this week? Falcons against the Saints. Let's go Saints. A little Tyler Shuck, you're going to turn the ball over?

Let's, doing good. Let's say it with me, friends, friends, let's go Saints. You know, we need to ask Dr. Roto this. Are the Texans matchup proof? Because next two weeks, at the Colts, at the Chiefs, are you still playing their defense? I got one for you, too. Are we going to stay away from Thursday night games? Look at everybody that was involved in Thursday night games, except for James Cook.

James Cook was good. He made that one huge run. Manning Ross with you. It is 1236 on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas show with Ross 713212-2-5-790 713-212-5-790 what are you laughing about just watching this

Ian Rapaport video on the Texans yeah do you know what I'm going to say no but I'm going to go to part B after you do part A the Texans have thrived since Dimeco Ryan's made the selfless decision to hand play calling duties to D.C. Matt

Burke. Oh my God. Oh my God. Burke has become a head coaching candidates. Uh-huh. Boot-licking. Hey, can you find us a sign of effect for boot-licking? Slurping? Oh, we don't want to play slurps. No, no, no, no, no, no.

F-C-C-C-S. Bad idea. Oh, don't know. We don't want to hear you. Hey, hey, John it then. No hog, not too. No, hog, no, any part of that. The SEC comes a knockin.

What's that noise? Oh, that's just hog nuts slurping? I don't think we could actually do a lick on the radio, right? Let me try it here. No, no, stop. Stop. Just don't. Okay. I don't want to hear it. I don't even know if I could do a sound effect of a lick.

You're going to make my skin crawl. I don't want to hear you licking anything. So apparently, yesterday, we mentioned Rappaport talking about how Joe Mixon's not going to play again this year. And then Joe Mixon, called out Ian Rappaport. Yes, he did. And when he said basically was, now I get everyone's looking for splash, news, and clickbait,

but I'm just curious, Ian, how do you know more about me than me? Joe, you're not playing this year. Stop. Well, sounds like he thinks he wants to. Okay, then why wouldn't the Texans do something to promote that a situation where one of their key positions is down and out. I mean, it's one of the worst rushing attacks in NFL. Don't you think the Texans would look for some sort of positivity saying,

hey, Joe's around the corner. We look forward to having him back in December. You could say that and be like, that's great. I think they save money with him on the NFI list. Oh, so, so. Nicky is being, he's trying to help out Hannah and Cal's checkbook. Or the salary cap, I guess. If you're on the NFI list, you don't make as much money, I think,

as you're, if you're on the regular list. Okay. So he also has bonuses in his contract that he's not going to hit if he's not playing. So let's deduce this thing quickly before I go to the phones. If Ian Rappaport, who is a bootlicker, and that's fine. You know he's got to get their job somehow. Yes. How did he come up with that?

Did he just literally, I'm going to just wake up with... Somebody in the Texan side said it, Nick Casario or whoever. so I don't think Ian messes up I truly believe that the Texans as a front office and a coaching staff somebody whispered to Ian Rappaport that Joe Mixon not playing and maybe Joe didn't want to hear that

the Texans can choose not to pay Joe Mixon his seven I don't know that they've been doing that I imagine I mean I don't know we don't know that hasn't we couldn't even tell you his $7 million base the Texans if it's a non-football injury they can they don't have to pay that.

Plus for every game he misses, Mixon's losing a per game active roster bonus of about 30,000. My question is this. If Joe Mixon was really close, why haven't we seen Joe Mixon? I don't know what's going. Are the Texans saying, hey, Joe, we look forward to having you back,

but until we do, please do not come around. Don't be seen by cameras. Go hide. I don't buy it. Joe, you're done for the year. And if he's not done for the year and the Texans have been trying to to hide him in order not to pay him and then shame on them then

unless he did something that was worthy of you know what? You should have been on a skateboard. Yeah, what if he was, I don't know, skiing or got a motorcycle accident or whatever? He was in a WWE event got beat by a wrestler.

No, he's not Cam Scataboo. And the Texans are well within the right to not pay him and maybe they're not paying. We don't know. I mean, this is all speculation. Yeah, that's right. but Ian Rappaport despeculated it

yeah what if Joe Mixon wants to come back and play and the Texans say you had this energy injury you're not good yeah by way you're not going to come you're not cleared you're not come gravy train off of us if their doctors are not clearing them I don't know because it feels like there is more to this story

than we're getting there is more to this and your guess literally as good as mine I don't know nobody's even whispering even except the only whispers are hearing is it well I told you this month ago he wasn't going to play insider right poor gray with training off me that's fine

oh is that right yeah he didn't he didn't tweet you sports mt with the report first those NFL guys don't credit they don't credit usually the local guys that's fine let's talk to uh Ryan on 790 Ryan good afternoon good afternoon gentlemen I'm actually over here by that A&W on Westin 45

so I have an issue not an issue but I need clarification especially from the two guys that were in dream. So I had a dream last night. It's just not bad. I just need clarification.

So, y'all came to my house, met my wife. I were very nice to her, picked me up, and we went to like a 55 and up men's club hockey game. And while we were at the hockey game, y'all were giving me gambling advice. And then Matt said, hey, you should hit the ATM here because you don't want. rank rames on your credit card statement so take out money here break it into ones at the concession stand and then we're going to leave i thought that was a great idea i hit the atm i got some snacks and we were waiting for the uber to pick us up to go to the gentleman's club and i woke up and i don't

know what to think about any of this we were gambling on 55 plus hockey club hockey that sounds amazing No, no, no, we were calling guys and making bets. And I was like, what do I say? You know, we're giving me advice. I'll like, do this. Pick this one. Pick this one. And then, yeah, Matt made me take a bunch of money out of the ATM to go to the strip club.

Okay, a couple things in play. One, I don't go to strip clubs. Number two, I don't use ATMs. Why are you winking, Matt? That's my. Ryan, I think you have misplaced me in this dream. There's no way I'd be a possibly part of this dream. I go to the church.

I'll go sit on the pews at St. James. I'm just saying, I'm not saying you would or wouldn't do it. I'm just telling you what happened. Yeah, it's a dream, Matt. I just want to figure out what this means. What should I do with this information? Should I tell my wife that two sports commentators who are going to take me to the strip clip?

No, no, no, no, no, you already got enough stuff going on with your wife and the girlfriend. In that glass you had of hers. Remember that? Wait, what? don't you have one of your girlfriends somebody else I thought Ryan I thought you had

your wife's girlfriend had dropped a ball or something am I making that that was somebody else I think this case is in this case so I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry Ryan sorry Ryan

you know Ryan go tell your wife everything just be perfectly honest don't do it Ryan see you know what honesty is the best policy remember they call me Mr. honesty no but you don't have to volunteer

no don't volunteer yourself if you get pressed you can be honest I don't have to volunteer trouble you can get in enough on your own no under no circumstance do you talk about your dreams with your wife and if you do just lie about them like we've all had erotic dreams before absolutely don't don't be don't be i've never had an erotic dream i didn't say that

but you gave me a dirty look i'm wondering where this is going speaking of volunteering yourself into trouble i'm saying is if you have an erotic dream do not tell your wife about it Jonathan, tell your lady in your life, zero conversation about your erotic dreams. He wasn't being erotic with us. No, but I'm saying he's had erotic dreams too. All of us have. This is a weird hill to die on, but you know what? I'm walking away.

This is time for a break. Don't walk away. I'm just saying. For those of you that are happily married, stay happily married. Don't mention your erotic dreams. And by no means ever talk about anybody you know being in these dreams. Oh, Lord. Have you done this?

before? I feel like you sound like you're speaking from a bad experience, which you are an idiot in this case. 713-212-5-7-9. Can we get some more Texans talk going? How about the Rockets Nuggets? I'm in for that today. You in for that?

Talk about that. We get two. College football, how about your beloved Longhorn second on Arkansas? Huge matchup. It's an old SWC rivalry. Aggie should be embarrassed by playing Samford this week. Oof, Samford. Cougars against TCU. It's the

I-45 to I-20 showdown. It doesn't sound right. I-45, stop at the Buckees onto the I-20. It's the battle for Waxahatchee. 713-212-5-Cividetti. All right, I believe that Monday's show,

we have a condensed week next week. We're only on three days next week. We've got a lot of doing three days. But I believe Monday's show Sports RV, and we got Dr. Roto coming up in 10 minutes. We'll be doing an ode to Jake Myers. Are you prepared for this? Jonathan, please get your Jake Myers highlights ready to go for Monday's show. I'll be ready.

Five star catches. All you will have zero. Home runs barely scraping over the wall. We'll have very little problem finding highlights. Stop. Helmet getting dirt on the ground after you swings out of his head. shoes. Yes, yes. Helmet leaving his head when he swings, when he runs to first, when he steals second.

Why couldn't they get him a damn helmet to fit? Instead of retiring his jersey, they should retire his helmet. Oh my gosh, you make me emotional. Look at this. These tears. You know what you could do? You could actually pre-record your goodbye so you can take part of Monday off. No. I believe they will see the light. I mean, look, if you believe Zach Cole, Jake Melton, and whoever else can take over the outfield,

Dubon was a center field option, he's gone. Yeah, who's utility from right now? Bryce Matthews and Nick Allen. Oh, oh, you know, you had as many home runs as Nick Allen did last year. It could be Isaac Paredes, he's your utility guy, especially if he's not ready for the start of the season. I mean, you could play him at third and first. What if we're in, what if a middle infielder goes down?

They're going to drive. somebody. They're going to have to get somebody. Unless Bryce Matthews can Mike Allen can do it, but Nick Allen to me should be your secondary utility guy. Kind of like what Eureas was. Really what Dubon was when, who was it, a Ledmus Diaz,

when Dubon came, it was the Ledmus Diaz was the primary utility guy and then he kind of had a secondary utility guy. Yeah, I think it's going to, you know what's going to the worst part is it's going to happen during the A team? They don't deserve that. Matt. Don't even worry about it. I have to. It could happen right. It should happen during this show. It doesn't matter. what happens in their show because we're off the air.

It's okay. All right. Take a deep breath. Okay. Let's control what we can control. Well, we can control when the information gets disseminated and we'd like it to be a little earlier in a day. It's nice, but that's okay. You know why?

Because we're professionals. We can do a four-hour show without breaking news. So you're saying the eight-team can't do it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They need help. Oh, I like it. I like it. Yeah.

They need a crutch. Yeah. They're handicapped. They're handicapped. Mike's here's just going to be mad at you. Clanton's like, yeah, I get it. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90 so yeah

I think Monday we're not going to be we're going to be missing Jake Myers now what the return is may keep us in a good mood I'm not going to if I wouldn't get my hope super high I don't think there's a huge value in return I don't think there's three top 10 guys coming back so let me ask you this then why even do it if you're not going to be able to get a lot up in return

what are you doing if you're sharing money You would get something in return. Yeah, he's going into arbitration. You would imagine whatever coming back is going to be cheaper. So you'd be shaving payroll and you would be giving young guys a shot. And you would be selling high on Jake Myers. Is he going to hit close to 300 next year? The last images of Jake Myers for me was being helped off the field.

Remember that? He was out there for warmth and he couldn't even walk off the field by himself. They didn't take him to the wagon gate out and right. His calf injury. Calf injuries happen. Especially when you're a lot. as quick and explosive as Jake Myers. Jake Myers covers territory.

Absolutely. Jake Myers, you put him in a big expansive, like Detroit, he could really do something. You know those bigger ballparks. Yeah. He's got value. He's one of the best center field. Was he a gold glove finalist again?

I don't know, but he covers more room than anybody else I can think of. He was a finalist last year. I don't know if he was the year before this, I mean this. One year ago, I don't know about this past year, though. So, yeah, I think that's going to happen. I believe there will be some sizzles. towards the Justin Verlain or stuff's going to heat up

that may probably be until after the winter meetings It feels like we're about to wait for the ink to dry on that Like it's already happening It feels like I don't know why Just gut feeling Yeah I think I saw Kate up at the airport yesterday You did? Yeah

Were you hallucinating? Was this a dream? It could have been one of those dreams At my previous call Ryan just had She's short list We saw her Remember she was at the Super Bowl

In Indianapolis I mean she's very pretty Like in print and on media In person she is just absolutely She is a stunner, absolute slu-stunning. I sat, okay, here it comes. We sat in some really good seats for a game. Okay.

Where? What game? Astros game about four or five years ago. Oh, okay. And they were behind home playing. Mm-hmm. Really good seats. Okay.

And so she came down to see Justin Pitch. And she was literally in the next row next. Well, she had a radar gun? What was she doing? Well, she could have. She's scouting? And my wife is like, oh, my gosh, it's came up then. And I'm like, oh, yeah.

Oh, my God, it's Kate Upton. She's stunning, right? Isn't she more stunning in person than she is? The photos of her make her sexy. She's beautiful in person. Yes. Not that you can't be sexy and beautiful? No.

Clearly, she's both. But they're... So you're okay? No. Jeez. Yikes. You hear that too? Point being is that there's an elegance to her that will not be on the photos.

Right. I think, I mean, you have met women who are some of the hottest, or just seen, or come across and whoever and they just sometimes in person people look better and sometimes in person they look worse yeah i agree uh james incline before we get to dr rhodo james what do you got yeah that game last night didn't seem like in the second half they stepped off the gas it seemed like they were just playing not to lose instead of the win i mean they only scored three points uh i don't think it's going to do with the engine and how how they were pressing the I mean on that last

With like 544 left in that last drive They went play action on first down Like they were kind of trying to mix it up And throw the ball They just didn't have the guy I mean look Davis Mills Even though everybody wants them to start and stuff like that They just weren't good enough

I'd have to go drive by drive And see how much they were playing not to lose The result looks like it But I felt like at least on those A couple of those drives And especially the one with 544 left They were playing to win Okay I just thought

You know why are we scoring more points. I scored 20 in the first half. And I started laughing because Rod's kept the 19 right on the right on the button. Yes, I do. I know. Don't give him credit, Jane. You know who made fun of me? Matt Thomas.

19. Who's going to get 19? The Buffalo Bills. What's up? I didn't realize to be a miss extra point. Yeah, I did. You did not, you fraud and liar. God. That's what's the worst part of it is. And not only did you get the outcome was, but the game was

almost to the T how you said it was going to go Scoring-wise. It would be very close. And the Texan's defense was going to carry the day. Let's go. Disgusted by this. I hate when you get things right. I know.

Thankfully, it doesn't happen very often. Dr. Roto, you're going to take a little half-out. What is believe it or not today, by the way? I don't know. All right. Let's quickly. You got 30 seconds to figure this out. Will Anderson, Jr.?

A clutch sports group, cash? How many? Is this athlete going to make more money after yesterday? A-AV for edge rushers? That's what Clutch. sports is looking up. What is the biggest headlines on ESPN today? If Texans went,

oh, the temple player, this guy bet on games, believe it or not. LSU fired Brian Kelly. South Korean third baseman Sung-Mung-sung has posted. Yeah. Sources, players unmoved by the WMBA's proposal. Could do Yokic and the Nuggets.

Yeah, let's do some Denver Nuggets. believe it or not today. Hell yeah or not today. All right, we'll do that next. Roto, coming up in a minute here on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Waiver Claims have to be made. And I've got trade proposals for lying my way

My first round pick Turned out to be a big flop I don't know which wide receiver I need to drive Oh, Dr. Roto, give me the news I really don't know what I should do My quarterback keeps getting sacked. I've got a bad case of fantasy blues. It is the fastest 30 minutes in major market radio.

We present to you Dr. Roto with us and with us today. And then back with us next Wednesday before the Turkey Day. Dr. Roto, first of all, good afternoon. Secondly, we were talking about this during the show today. Are the Texans a must play defensively regardless of opponents? Yeah, the defense is great, which the offense was nearly as good, but the defense is terrific. I mean, look, the bills have major issues. They don't, I mean, Shakir is probably a number two in most teams.

They don't have a number one. They can't stop the run. And they couldn't protect Josh Allen. Now, I know that Texans, you know, front seven is pretty darn good. But when you have those three issues, I mean, Josh Allen and James Cook are two great players, but they're not going in the Super Bowl yet again, and I thought the Texans looked really good last night. All right, so let's go to that.

So if I knew the Texan, the Bill's Runs defense was so bad, my partner here, Ross, who I'm playing with in fantasy football, went with Woody Marks yesterday. 74 yards is good. That's good for real-life NFL, but 7.4 from my running back is underwhelming in fantasy perspective. It is. So what happens is that, you know, touchdowns are everything.

So even if you play in a PPR format or a half-point PPR, right? So let's say it's a full-point PPR. PR and Woody Marks goes for 74 yards and he catches one pass for 10 yards. It's not enough. It's not enough. You need that touchdown. So the problem with Woody Marks is he's not, you know, some games he has scored touchdowns. Other games he's been stopped in the one yard line, what, like 18 times it feels like they run that same play in the one yard line that doesn't work. So, you know, certain guys have value. Why does David Montgomery have value? He's not better than Gibbs, but he finds the end zone. So in fantasy, if you're trying

to decide which player to start, always lean if it's 50-50 with the guy who you think's going to score. All right. Game of the week in the NFL is Indianapolis at Kansas City. The Colts, Daniel Jones, looks human the last couple of weeks. How does he do against the Kansas City defense and who he's sitting and start in that game? Well, he looks human because the offensive line's not been protecting him, right? So when he has time, he's pretty good, but he hasn't had any time to speak of. And I don't think the chiefs are going to give him a lot of time.

Look, you're going to start Jonathan Taylor, but this is not. one of those Jonathan Taylor generational weeks, right? He's not going for 200 yards. He'll be solid. You know, it's definitely playable. I don't really love Michael Pittman. I love Tyler Warren. I think Alec Pierce is certainly in play.

Josh Downs is in play. On the other side, Rishie Rice, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, stay far away from Chiefs running backs. Pacheco should be back. That's not necessarily a good thing. But I think Mahomes, Rice, and Kelsey are in play. I mean, this is desperation now time for the Chiefs. If they lose this one,

I was listening on the radio today. It's like 29% chance to make the playoffs. Yeah, it is a convoluted mess in the AFC. All right, a game that we wouldn't necessarily be overly concerned with, but because the Texans won yesterday. Can the Arizona Cardinals put up enough points against Jacksonville defense to make things interesting in Phoenix this week? Yeah, I mean, look, the Cardinals have been sensational for fantasy managers, right?

Because they've been falling behind by so much that that team, this lineup, MT, the team that won the Draft King's Millionaire Maker last week was Brissette, Dorch, Wilson, and McBride with Christian McCaffrey. That's crazy, right? Ross is laughing, it's true. And then they had Bejean and to Troy McMillan. I mean, that's got you paid. That's fed families last week.

So do I think that happens this week? Probably not. We still love McBride. We still like Michael Wilson. Trey Benson's not back yet. We're hoping for next week for him, for Hampton, and for Bucky Irving. Hopefully all those guys come back next week. On the other side,

ETN, I've been trying to see here. I'm not sure. Give me one second. I want to get this out. He's still questionable. If he doesn't go, I love Bachel Tutin. This kid looked really good last week

before he left with an ankle injury. He's expected to play. So Jacobi Myers is in play, and Tutin would absolutely be in play if ETN's out. This Tudin guy was Ross's lock of the week, by the way, in fantasy football. you a little heads up on that. That's not true, but I got my eye on some Tudin. He's been wanting to say that all day long, Dr. Roto. I'm just telling you that right now.

Hey, New England and Cincinnati, can we get every single human being that we have on fantasy teams for these two teams to score touchdowns? Because it feels like it could be a very high-scoring affair. It could be. It could be. So, look, we're playing Drake May, right? Now, Trevion Henderson owners, I'm sorry, Ramondra Stevenson is back this week. My son has Henderson. He's upset. I'm upset for him. Look, Stevenson is going to get at least a third of the touches, and he's going to get the goal line touches. So Henderson's going to have to score those 18-yard touchdowns,

which he might be able to do against Cincinnati. They're that bad. Hunter Henry, I mean, I don't know. I wouldn't make him a lock of the week, but, I mean, Cincinnati is dreadful against opposing tight ends. He's in a good spot. So is Stefan Diggs on the other side. Is Joe Barr going to go?

I'm not sure. I know that Chase Brown is a great. great play, and I know that T. Higgins is a great play, especially Chase Brown. All right, let's get to some NFC action. No Jackson Dart for the Giants against Detroit. Am I scared about playing too many Detroit guys because it could get up to a 28-0-0 lead, something big like that, and they reserve guys for the second half? Detroit doesn't do that.

You know, some teams do that, Detroit's not one of those teams. And they lost last kick, right? So you know they want to bring it. This is like a bad spot for the Giants. can be a worse spot. So we call us an onslaught. Gough, yes. Montgomery, yes. Gibbs, yes. Sam LaPorte is out

for the year. I don't think Brock Wright is doing anything. So St. Brown and James and Williams, yes, yes. I think they put up 40 on the Giants. I do. And look, could James Winston do something crazy and throw over 260 and maybe a couple of touchdowns? Sure. And could Isaiah Hodgins get maybe

8 for 80? Maybe. But who cares? The lion's all in on the lions as well. All right. Philadelphia and Dallas. the amount of hate for Jalen Hertz. Now, tell me, as a fantasy quarterback, it may be one thing, but as a quarterback that wins football games, he does it for the Philadelphia Eagles. Right. So, well, basically what I was saying was

Devontha Smith is in a really good spot this week because Dallas rolls out a lot of his own. But Dallas's one defense looked better last week, guys. Williams and Kenny Clark. So once again, I don't think this is a great Saquan-Barkley week. Hertz will have to play better if they want to win. So maybe we finally get Hertz. to Brown. I know we're going to get hurts to Devontha Smith.

All right. There it is. Now, if you got a question for Dr. Roto, and it sounds like our line is clean, 713-212-5-790, 7-13-212-5-790. Questions for Dr. Roto? Get him in right now. We are coming down to the home stretch of our fantasy football season, and we need you to get your great advice on one-only, Dr. Roto. 7-1-2-5-79. 7-13-212-5-7-90. But it's just a sweet, sweet man to sit back When I close my eyes I'm going to take it All right, real quick, Roto

Does Mariah Carey have the most famous Christmas song of all time? All I want for Christmas is you. Yes or no? No. Hmm. Greatest Christmas song ever would be?

Oh, man. There's a million. I'll let you think about it. Nat King Cole Christmas song, final answer. What's up? Oh, okay. I got you. Oh, that's a great one too.

Yeah. There's so many. You asked Mariah Carey. She thinks she's got the greatest Christmas song of all night. She's got the argument. Of course. She's on the Mount Rushmore. Of what?

She's on the round of Christmas songs. Oh, I thought you were thinking of other categories. And hottest 90s R&B singers? Yeah. All right. She's very versatile. She's, she can, forget it. First rounder, Dr. Roto.

She is a must play. correct? Is she a lock of the week for Dr. Roto? Okay. I think of Kelly was a lock of the week, I'm telling you. Oh, don't even get me start on that. I've got to focus on something else. Let's go back to the slate. All right.

Hey, you got a question for Dr. Roto, 713, 212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Are you answering these questions to people on Roto on Twitter? I love this. Oh, here we go. One tied-in. Fanon, Goddard, or Otten. I've got Goddard going this week.

Am I going to have some success against the Cowboys? You know, Goddard's good. I think I would go Otten, but do you see last week, Seattle, A.J. Barner had, what was it, 10 catches against the Rams. They're kind of a pass funnel to tight end. So I like Goddard. I just would go with Otten. It's just a little bit better. All right. Well, I want God to do great thing. I'm starting two tight ends as week because of my guys off on an off week. I got Kelsey and Goddard going both. Yeah, it's good. Let's go. If David Noghoku is out, then Fanon is definitely in play. All right. 713-212.5.790. If you got a question for Dr. Roto, get him in right now. 713-212-5-790.

Jim is with us for Dr. Rotto. Hi, Jim. Hi, Matt. Hello, Doctor. Hey, Jim. I need a quarterback. Lamar Jackson or Matthew Stafford this week. Yeah, it's definitely Matthew Stafford.

They're putting the bucks who stop the run well. They don't stop the pass or a while. I think Matthew Stafford goes 260 and three touchdowns. Okay. I'm trying to think what else. Oh, Dr. Roto, we got DAC or golf this week? Yeah, once again, I'm all in on Jared Gough. I don't see a way that the lions don't put up.

I think they're going to get to 35 to 40. I mean, we're looking five touchdowns. Yeah, five touchdowns. I see against the Giants. Five? I don't know. That's too many for anybody going against then. That's, ooh, Lord.

You don't think James Winston's going to throw two picks? That's true. And at least one I'm going to return for a pick six. I can shoot. Exactly. So load them up. All right. 713, 212.5.7.

Are we on these Bryce Young hype train with all the big numbers he put up the last couple weeks, by the way? I mean, look, last week the Falcons just lost it, right? They completely lost it. There was a video out there where Rico Dowdle reached to his offensive coordinator, to the running back coach, and to Canales, and said, this screen is open. Let's do it. And that was a screen that won them the game, right? So it was a perfect storm.

And now Kirk Cousins, I hate to say it because I like the dude, but he's washed. So I think Carolina played the perfect team in the perfect week. Are they going to do the same thing against the 49ers? No way. I think the 49ers are back. You've got Purdy back. You have Ricky Pearsall back. You've got Kiddle.

You've got a healthy McCaffrey. This team is loaded. If I told you an outside chance of the team to go to the Super Bowl, I know the defense is bad, but the offense is good. Yeah, but the problem is you keep saying the word healthy in front of the running back, McCaffrey, and that term is not used a lot for the last

to five years or six years of his NFL career. Totally true, but if we were drafting right now, would he be a top three pick? Yes, he would. Right, crazy. So if he's healthy, he's top three, if he's hurt, and he's worthless to us. All right, 713, 719. 7.1.3.212.570.

You guys are calling kind of light today. Everybody's Fantasy League. You know why? I got fantasy fatigued, am I right over here? His team's going to get his ass kick by the Roto, by the Toros this past week. We didn't have a good night from Woody Marks. And I sat Texan's defense last second for Falcon's defense, Roto. Mistakes were made.

I know. I know. Reach out, Ross, I'm here for you. You're here for me. Last second. You are here for me. That's okay, I believe. All right. So let's go back to this Ramande Stevenson situation. Where are we settled in on the New England running game at this point?

Yeah, so I think if you're looking at a pie chart, you're going to get 60% going to Henderson, 40 to Stevenson. Stevenson is still going to be involved in this offense. He's certainly going to get the goal line carries, even though he fumbles a ton. They like using him. He's a big dude down there. So that's the big problem here.

We've been using Henderson liberally the last couple weeks, and he's been fantastic. Maybe we get 70 yards in a touchdown, but we don't get that game like we had last week. All right from our email Orlando, who's nice. Jags, Rams, Raiders. Which one of the three plays? This dude's got three defense. Raiders against Shador? All day, Raiders against Shadour. Now, don't be shocked if he should door throw for maybe 220 and two touchdowns.

That's possible. But he could get sacked three times. He could throw three picks. He could fumble once. We saw he wasn't ready. And, you know, Max Crosby will be ready. All right. So who is Shadour going to throw those touchdowns to them, by the way?

Well, look, I like Fanon and I like Jerry Judy. I think Quinshaun Johnson Jenkins is in play, actually, against the Raiders. On the other side, Brock Bowers is 100 percent. sent and play. Jentee's got a tough matchup against the Browns, but I absolutely love Brock Bowers this week. All right. To Eric and Magnolia for Dr. Rodo. Go ahead, Eric. Yes, sir. For my flex, Michael Wilson or Jalen Warren, and then for my tight-in, Theo Johnson or Hawkinson. Yeah, so I don't think that Jailen Warren goes. So I'm going to go Michael Wilson. I think that's, and even if Jay Lamarine goes, I don't think he's going to get a full load of

carriers there. On the other side, that's a tougher call. I think I'm going to go Theo Johnson, especially with, I believe Slayton is going to be out. J.J. McCarthy, I mean, he's throwing hospital balls. He's going to get these guys killed, and he hasn't really been looking Hawkinson's way. So let's go Wilson and Theo. All right. Let's go to Nathan for Dr. Roto. Nathan, you're on 790. Good afternoon. Hey, Roto. Tetero McMillan or Ricky Piersall. Yeah, it's always going to be McMillan. I mean, he is, right now, I think if we drafted, he'd be a second or third round pick.

This is a guy who's going to be a first rounder in a couple of years. That's how talented he is. And Bryce Young is using him. I like Pearsall, but he's not McMillan. Two of these three play, Quinchan Jenkins, Ashton Genti, DeAndre Swift. I think I'm going Judkins for sure. Man, the Swift one is interesting against the Steelers. I think I'm going to lean swift.

I know that sounds crazy to bench Gentie. Here's my problem. That front seven for Cleveland is really good. It is. It's really good. And if Genty's not catching passes, I don't see him having one of those 80-90-yard weeks. But I do see Judkins getting at 89 yards in a touchdown.

Is Ashton Genty the rookie bust of the year? Yes or no? No, no. He's had some good weeks. Dude, that team is terrible. Have you seen the Raiders play? Get him, Rodo. Pete Carroll hasn't fixed anything.

I can pipe in with a quick one. Please. You're talking about Ted McMillan. I have a flex, half-PPR. Ted McMillan or Giovante Williams? Oh, I'm going McMillan. Yeah. I mean, look, Giovante is fine,

but that Eagle defense, hard to run against, really hard to run against. Javante has been good, but I don't know. I don't, you know, you always try to look to say, how is Dallas going to score? I think it's going to be like everybody doing a little. Little lamb, a little pickings, a little Ferguson, a little Javante.

How does Carolina move the ball? Doudal and McMillan. That's it. All right, ladies gentlemen, is asking now opportunity for Dr. Roto to come on this radio show, give you the one player who's going to feast this weekend. We present to you, Dr. Roto's. Dr. Roto's, lock of the week. All right, M.T. I think this player has the best four-game stretch coming up. His name is Derek Henry. he's got the Jets, it's got Cincinnati twice, he's got the Steelers, oh man, Henry's going to go for you. I think he has 807 yards.

He may finish with 1,500 yards after these few games here. I like Derek Henry to score at least one touchdown. Wouldn't shock me if he got two. And that, my friends, was Dr. Roto's 2016 lock of the week. I tease, I tease. You know about the D. Derek Henry with Baltimore? The one that's been like slowed down finally for the first time, for his career?

I'm just saying, just when you think he's buried, he's going to score a touchdown, maybe two this weekend, then you're going to wish you had him. All right. Dr. Roto, we're going to find you between now and Sunday. All right, so we're doing a promo. Everybody out there, if you go to Dr.Roto.com, you sign up for our all-access package. It's free for the next, for five days, five days free, and to the promo code playoffs. We will try to get you to your fantasy playoffs, all right?

So that's a Dr.Roto.com promo code playoffs for our all-access monthly package. You can find me on Sirius XM, Fantasy Sports Radio on Saturday from 6 to 9 a.m. Central. And, of course, over at Twitter at DRROTO. And he is awesome on Twitter, D-R-R-O-T-O for Dr. Roto. We'll talk with you next Wednesday, my friend, getting us ready for the busy Thanksgiving weekend of sports. Thanks for the time, as always. Can't wait, guys. All right.

That's the good Dr. Roto with us here on Sports Talks, 7-N-A. Next week's going to be fun. We've got big games to get to. We've got three days to get in five days of material, Rossi. and we've got hopefully a Houston Cougar victory coming up this tomorrow against TCU 3 o'clock inside TDCU Stadium It's in front of 40,000 40,000 screaming, ravenous, yes

Absolutely If you don't fill the stadium up, it's on you It's a glorious place of the place I'm not a fan You should come by the game, I'll get some tickets I'm good I'll put on some purple No, you're not, you'll stay

I have family in Fort Worth They're big TCU I have family in Dallas. I don't put Cowboys gear on. They're big TCU fans. No, they're not. They couldn't even name my family. They couldn't even name two frogs. That's not true. They're big frogs fan. I'm dead serious. They don't love the frogs. Rangers and Cowboys, and they like the stars, too.

Ugh, gross. Separate from that family. Gross. All right. There's a couple weird ones. We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida and share them with the peace. of Houston, it's time for non-florida.

All's time for non-flora. Storm coast to coast will bring the strange and wild. No alligator tales, but something that will make you smile. It's time for laughs from far and wide. In this crazy world, there's nowhere to hide. All right, we'll get to the calls before we get to, believe it or not, which is Hellyer and A All Things About, what is Hellyer and out today? You wrote it already, nicely done, getting it done a half an hour ahead.

time very proud of you uh the denver nuggets denver nuggets all right so gilbert hang time once about you of age we'll get to that in a minute right now quickly an update on what's happening in the world of life beyond the state of florida we call those non florida stories gentlemen i'm going to introduce you to james howard he is 53 years of age he says quote i'm going to jail for a long blanking time you're saying well what do you do november the 8th howard rear ended a car that was waiting at a traffic light at the end of an exit ramp off of interstate 90 in missoula Montana. It's sad. That is sad. It's sad. Well, it was a run-of-the-mill traffic accident, according to the TV station in

Missoula, KGBO, until the Montana Highway Patrol trooper who arrived at the scene detected alcohol on Howard's breath. He noted the large can of Budweiser that Howard had placed on the center console of his vehicle. Well, this can apparently did not have a beer in it. okay it had urine what Howard informed the trooper that it had urine instead of beer court documents revealing that James Howard crashed while he was quote attempting to urinate into the

beer can while driving Howard did not attempt the standard on scene DUI test stating quote I just can't do it he's not a first time offender Howard is being charged with felony aggravated DUI driving with a suspended license and careless driving. Question for you boys is,

have you ever tried to urinate while driving a vehicle? No. No. That looks like you might want to... You look like you're about to... You're pausing there, Matthew. You're saying yes?

I'm trying to remember. I have had some situations in my life that I've had to go to the bathroom so bad. There was nothing. Man, you could obviously get off the side of the road and do it on the side of the road, but if you're on a busy interstate, that's easier to send than done.

I don't think I have, but I will admit to you because I love you all that I have thought about it. I just don't know if I could do it while I was intoxicated. If you're going to urinate into a can, first of you're going to be careful how close the can gets to, you know, the area.

Secondly, you've got to make sure you're pretty sober because you're going to have to also be on a smooth road. A bumpy road probably is going to cost you some issues too. so I will say no as the thought crossed my mind yes should I've ever had that thought definitely not this man James Howard should I have definitely not

had that thought especially since he was driving under the influence and my guess is his clothes smelled of urine after trying to whizz in the can that's my non-flora story all right thank you Matt you're welcome you always find these odd

odd ones that's because they're non-flora stories No, but like, was Ross even here with the Thailand dude? What happened? He was operating out of his Toyota Crollet? Oh, yeah, he was doing circumcisions and penile extensions out of his back of his car. Really? Yes.

See what I mean? Interesting. You were bothered by that? I was like, I was like, what is going on? You mean you the time you wouldn't go in the back of somebody's car and get a penal extension? No. All right. Ross, what do you got this week?

That's a personal question, man. Not what you had this week. What kind of story do you have this week? Yes, Matt. Apparently there was a social media firestorm this week. Did you see the post, Matt, about New York City mayor elect. Zoran Mundami expected to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals. What?

So people were getting very upset. Some posts having 14 million plus views. And some people contacting their congressmen and others, there's only one problem. People don't realize that the Eric McNumerals are literally zero through nine. This shows how stupid of a timeline we were living in. This story from Newsweek outlines how there was a social media firestorm. And a lot of people upset with Zohan Mandami introducing Eric McNumerals to New York schools, which we already use the Arabic numeral system.

It's funny you bring that up because many years ago, Phil Hendry used to do a talk show and he would impersonate people and be fat characters and he called this woman up one time and said, I've got some terrible news about your son

and she said, well, what's the matter with my son? And she says, ma'am, your son's a homo sapient. And she lost her mind. Oh, really? She did. We did that in third grade.

You're a homo sapian. Let me tell my favorite thing to do in third grade. putting swear words in my mad libs live for that hell's an adult i do ho's in your gullet excuse me i was always jealous of of the custodian because he was to get a third corn dog i could only get two of course i was really fat back then probably helping him out of my weight game oh sorry but why does he deserve a third corn dog that's you were just yeah i looked over it's like man that guy got he's knocking back three dogs and i can only have two

you were I'm serious Bar Creek Elementary He always got more rolls than we did He got a second chicken chicken fine steak That the janitor

Use an adult Could eat more cord dogs Yes Corn dogs at Bear Creek Elementary were good Honestly those school lunch Corn dogs weren't bad See

Then why are you ever ripping on me with you All right Jonathan what you're not in Florida story I was jealous I was jealous More than me Hey Good thing you didn't

meet Joey Chestnut Go ahead Jonathan All right mine has come out from Australia Mine is a more weird but heartfelt

one 374 bagpipers from the great Melbourne bagpipe bash at the Federation Square in Australia on November 12th

paid tribute to rock legends ACDC and its performance is a long way to the top shattering the world record for the most bagpipers in a single performance as reported by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation among where a rag type assembly with people as old as 70 years old doing all these songs for SADC to break this world record over there in Australia

piping is really a dying art kinfield that said Kenfield is one of the band members I thought those is cool a lot of bagpipers matt you've always dreamed to be in a bagpiper right piping's a dead art so you're telling me 374 bagpiping is a dead art it's not dead art 374 people disagree with you to acedc

that may be a dead art well I'm just saying I think piping is alive and well you know it just depends on your favorite ACDC song to pipe two highway to hell duh I was gonna say turn off the lights

all right that's teddy pinagress we're done That was not in Florida stories for the week. Let's talk to Gilbert on 790. Gilbert, what do you got today? Gilbert? I hope it's the Gilbert. Is it the Gilbert?

Gilbert. Why do these people do this to me? They're doing, yeah, they want to aggravate you. Gilbert, are you there? Gilbert, though. No, I don't think this is the same, Gilbert. I had to put this one in the system. Okay.

All right, maybe he's not there. He maybe he's, you know what? He is saying, he gave. He put out silence there because he wanted to know that the cougars are going to silence the frog's offense on Saturday. Thank you, Gilbert, for that phone call. All right, let's play hell yeah or not. The category today is all things about the Denver Nuggets. We have a big basketball game in this town.

People realize that? We do. 8.30 tonight. Sports Talk 790. The game is on Ram and Ron Rime. Where were you? Got to have a damn dog thing. Can you stop?

What are you doing? I'm just rhyming. I was like I'm stroking out. You have a stroke. I know. it is on Amazon Prime with my close personal friend Iron Eagle. Is that better? And Jim Jackson, long-time NBA player and college player.

Those two guys, the guys will call the game. Okay. All right. So there you go. Believe it or not. Oh, there's that, Gilbert back on line one. I wonder if he wants to just. Gilbert, what do you want?

Can you hear me? Yes, sir. Oh, it's a different guy. No, yeah, it's a different guy. Can you hear me? Yes, Gilbert, we can hear you go. Yes, I'm your volleyball ref from Kingwood High School where I was talking about U.S. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yes. Gilbert is the best official in high school volleyball. You'll find in the Houston area and several Kingwood games this year. And he's a U of H fan too, and you will be at the game tomorrow, I'm assuming? Yes, we'll be at the game. We'll be tailgating. And also, I was wondering if you'll be making a trip to Las Vegas for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

Unfortunately, Gilbert, I'm not because I've got Rockets basketball games to call. Okay. All right. We'll be there. We're flying up on Sunday. Me and the wife to see The Wizard of Oz at the Spear. Yes. Yeah, she's coming back and the boys are flying up when we're watching basketball all week long until late Wednesday night when we arrived back in town about 1 o'clock Thursday morning.

Excellent. Well, hey, are you going to go to the glitter galtzwire there? the what the glitter gulch i have no idea uh that the boys might i i'd be lucky just yeah yeah if you want to keep you just just to make it through all right well you know what that's right let the boys go to glitter gulch so i can tell you all the details gilbert's good to hear voice gilbert's a great guy big official awesome uh probably called a couple violations against my daughter which were bad calls but gilbert i forgive you no actually gilbert did a great job it was nice to him call the show all right hell yeah or not all things about the nuggets

713-212-5-790 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90 All right, Rockets, Nuggets tonight, 8.30, tip time. Well, more like 845, which means, ooh, that means, it'll be a late night for the old Rockets rap show. You got this Ross? Rockets 114, Nuggets 109. I love it. Can I get a little bit bigger margin of victory, please? Why?

tiebreakers come in to play for the group play stuff I'm sorry they're one of the best teams in basketball you think they're going to blow them out I would love a 13 point win I would too but we'll see I'll talk to you after the game on the Rockets wrap here on Sports Stock 790 Chance to me calling will be zero

That's okay but I'll listen You'll be the one I appreciate you Gerald Gerard call Maybe covers it'll get you to the morning hour 1201 If nobody calls and I get to go home It's not the worst thing All right five minutes left to go on the show

What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show we simply call it. Believe it or not, and here's how it works. You call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Today's edition, believe it or not, is all things about the Denver Nuggets.

I'll read your statement about the Nuggets. Statement completely and utterly accurate, you'll say this. Hell yeah! Yeah, the same as Hieronyus. Full-a-Bone come in up. You'll say this. Not. Two hell yeah, or knots in a row. When you either, we got one pair of tickets left for the

Cougars taking on TCU, plus a super fan Houston Snacks box, courtesy of Houston TX Snacks.com, where every purchase helps support U of H. student athletes. If you want tickets to the game tomorrow, 713 Go Coogs, or UH.Cougars.com. And we also have pairs tickets to see Leonard Skinner, or as Jonathan says, Lennyard, Skinner, and Forner on the Double Vision Double Trouble Tour. August 27th at the Woodlands Favillion. You're not right. Tickets on sale at Ticketmaster.com.

That was terrible. I'm sorry. I should say that two hours ago. I'm sorry. Let's talk to John on 7. Honey. John, you're ready to play? Hell yeah or not.

Hell yeah. John, good luck to you. In their first seven seasons in the ABA, the Denver Nuggets were known as the Denver Rockets. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Hell yeah, they weren't. Statement number two for the win. When they first became the Nuggets, the team mascot was a cartoon miner with the big

Red Beard, known as Maxie the Minor. Hell yeah, or not? Hell yeah. Hell yeah. There you go, John. Nicely done. Robert on 790, Robert. What was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show?

Believe it or not? Or hell yeah or not, I should say. Yeah, thank you, sure. George Carl has the most head coaching wins in Nuggets history. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. No, it was Doug Mo. Duh.

I'm talking about all day long. Andrew on 790, Andrew, ready to play hell yeah or not? Hell to the year. Hell yeah. The Denver Nuggets were originally supposed to play in Kansas City, but there were problems securing a playing venue, so they went to Denver instead. Hell yeah, or not.

Oh, that's a subtle for one I'm going to have to say not. You're going to have to say hell yeah. I'm sorry. Matt on 790, Matt, what was your favorite? a part of today's 10 to 2 radio show. I'll live it, baby. The Denver Nuggets G-League affiliate is the Colorado 14ers. Hell yeah or not.

Hell yeah. No, it's the Grand Rapids of Gold. Duh, come on. How do you not know your G-League teams? Disappoint me, so. Let's go to David on 790. David, you're ready to play a hell yeah or not? Hell yeah.

The Denver Nuggets jersey sponsor is Aero Electronics. Hell yeah or not? Not. That's right. Of course, it's Ibata, whatever that is. Statement number two for the win, the Denver Nuggets all-time winning score is Alex English. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah.

That's it. Congratulations. Happy for you. The two winners today. Edward on 790, ready to play Hell yeah or not? I'm ready. Hell yeah. The official Denver Nuggets colors are midnight blue, sunshine yellow, flat irons red, and skyline blue.

Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah There it is How about that Three winners today Sorry Jonathan Hey I want you Have a relaxing weekend

Good luck to your Texas Longhorns Good luck to you on Sunday I'm working tonight I'm going to midnight That's fine Saturday You're going to watch a game

That's not relaxing That's fine A relaxing weekend I will be playing 3-2 Blackjack in Phoenix Arizona I just got a nice email From a listener

About 3-2 versus 6-5 It was for me I know it was You're a listener. You listen to me. You don't want to listen to me, but you have to sometimes. What else I got going on? Cost you $22.5 an hour at 15 minimum. Provided you get black jails? You don't get blighted since it's moot. Okay. On average.

Okay. On average, I took him for 170, so I'm very pleased. Up next, it's Wexler. It's Clanton. What jersey will Adam Clanton were today? It'll be Texans again. It's got to be Will Anderson, Jersey. Money Mills? Money Mills Battle Red? There's no...

Well, you know, he's such a fraud, yeah. He probably would do that. It's the A team next on 790. Woo!