The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans Win State Showdown, Mixon Dominates, Bucks End Rockets' Win Streak

Episode Date: November 19, 2024

Matt Thomas of the "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" and Dan Mathews of "The A-Team" recap the Houston Texans defeating the Dallas Cowboys 34-10 on "Monday Night Football." The Texans snapped their two-game losing streak while Joe Mixon rushed for three touchdowns and 109 yards. The Texans' defense sacked Cooper Rush five times, recorded an interception and scored a touchdown on a strip sack. Matt and Dan also:react to the Rockets losing 101-100 to the Milwaukee Bucks, ending their five-game winning streakreview Week 11 in "Connor McGovern's NFL Rewind"discuss their favorite yacht rock classicsgive their latest "Gut Feelings" and more.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 10.02 in H-Town. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Dan Matthews filling in. This is Sports Talk 790. Texans aren't spending a lot of time at the line of scrimmage once they get up there.

Hand to Mixon. Cutback. Joe Mixing, goodbye. Touchdown, Texans. You can see the center. At Patterson making his second start there at center. He gets Mazzie Smith on skates. And you've got Joe Mixon, who he cuts back.

A nice crease there on the backside. Excellent job up front by the offensive line. Mixing, a walk-in. Touchdown, Texans. He wants to run the ball right at the Dallas Cowboys. There's no doubt. They come in feeling like they can get it going with the issues that Dallas has had stopping the run.

Josh Butler, who I mentioned, making the start tonight. he gave up contained and mixing bounces it for the second and six rush ball knocked out of his hand and ends up in the arms of guiten he gets it knocked out by petrie and the return for the touchdown by derrick barnett barnett with the defensive score a one-on-one with derrick barnett and he comes in makes the play and then he's also able to get it after it bounces around and run it in. So Barnett forced the first fumble. Then Guyton gets it.

Here's Barnett's play, who he ends up with a touchdown. Guyton gets it, and Petrie knocks it out of his arm. And there's Barnett staying with it, and he gets the touchdown. Nixon, touchdown, Texans. And the second half drought is over for Houston. I'm going to go Texans 34 Cowboys 10 Oh wait a minute

That wasn't a part of the Highlight package from last night, was it? How did that happen? No, they threw it They threw it in there at the end. Dan? I'm tired with Joe and Troy. I sent that to their production team.

They said, Dan, we got you. Yeah. And as soon as it went final, they were like, hey, shout out to Dan Matthews on Sports Talk 790 in Houston. Come on, man. didn't hear it. Yeah.

I mean, a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while, but I'm going to give you, you know what, I'm going to give you more props than that, honestly. It's hard to get the score right on the nose. And you did. And I'm actually proud of you. Hey, you know, like you said, gambling is a complete inexact science. And it wasn't even necessarily a gamble. Yeah.

It was not even going the prices right route, right? right there because it could have very easily just gone 31 because I think you had 30 to 17 if I'm something like that. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, I wasn't going to completely do that to you. I mean, nobody is worse than that or the $1 wager person. I mean, those two people are the absolute worst contestants on the price is right. Somebody's going to swing on somebody one day. But you know what, though, you have to do that. For doing that. You have to. I'm going to tell you this right now. If you all don't know Dan Matthews personally, I would call his cell number and text him about a variety of things in your life right now. Like, how many kids are you going to

have? Are you going to stay with your current spouse forever? What is your economic future at your radio station? Because you are the great Dan Matthews. And you will get that name the entire show today, no matter how bad your takes are. And some of your takes are awful. but I'm telling you today will be a day that Dan should brag there is only one person in the marketplace and I'm talking legit media

that people that actually work for media companies and I create their silly-ass YouTube pages that got the score right and that was you Dan and for that I applaud you it's probably best that I have the recorded message I don't think walking bets works for me well you do have a rack

I don't know if it's a good rack no no it's not it's not By the way, Taylor's got a competition now. How about that girl from the fight on Friday night? Oh, yeah. The Alabama girl? Is that who you're talking about?

Yes. Yeah. Oh, my God. She's strong. Tuscaloosa's got some talent. Oh, the entire SEC does. Could you imagine being a 22-year-old guy? Vanderbilt and Mississippi State, maybe not. Yeah, but we don't even count those as really SEC schools.

You know better than that. For sure, for sure. You know, who deserves more credit. And I've even told Connor McGovern this. I was pleasantly surprised when I went up to Columbia, Missouri. Is that right? Yes, I was very pleasantly surprised. I was like, I was walking with a buddy of mine as we were leaving our car to head into the stadium to cover the game.

And I was just like, where are all these hot girls from? Like, I was like, seriously. I was like, this is unbelievable. Yeah, yeah. You know, we've done it in the past here, Dan. By way, that's Dan Matthews filling in for Ross. I'm Matt. Good morning.

Or Ross 2.0, remember. Oh, that's right. You are Ross 2.0 today. Because you know what? Battle Red would not even have said 34 to 10. No, no. He would have said like 21 to 17 or something like that. Mambi, Pambi close prediction. Put yourself out there.

Let's go. Yeah, you went on a limb and you did it. We've done a polling of Texas Division I schools and the once-around talent. I got to say. And I know it's not the academic institution of people. perhaps other places are, but if you're going to do it once around, I'm going Texas State for the win. Oh, Texas State, definitely.

I mean, a silver medal goes probably to Texas Tech. Yep. And then third on that list is TCU. It's the rich kids who didn't get into A&M or Texas. Yeah, I'm going to tell you right now. At me if you're angry about it. No, they're not mad at you. Far away, folks, you cannot get mad with Dan under any circumstance.

He predicted the score on the nose. Damn right. if you were there's a bowl projection out that has Texas Tech playing Texas State in a bowl game that's basically nothing but hot women in booze oh easily easily and forget about the game I mean it doesn't even matter about the game no I mean it's just an added bonus that they're somewhat good at football now so yeah yeah nobody cares about that everybody cares about the river that runs right through campus there in San Marcos or yeah going to Don's fish camp right there if you know about Don's fish camp on the San Marcos River, you know.

Yeah, I just told Carly, you're not going to Texas Day. It's not happening. It's just not. I mean, there's other places I don't mind you going. That's not one of them. I was going to say, along with the good-looking women, there's, you know, with guys that are that age, we're never really that smart, but we're especially not smart at that age. No, I don't want to hear it to fight that off. That's ridiculous.

All right. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross and 2.0. Dan Matthew's filling in today. Gordy's going to be in this. Gordy 3.0 or is it would we determine what he is yesterday? I don't know. I mean, I'm trying to remember what caller dubbed me as that yesterday. I'm just assuming that probably the caller didn't remember my name at the moment, which is fine. Yeah.

But when you get, you know, score predictions right the way I did caller, you better come correct and you better know my damn name. So there we go. So maybe he will be at least 2.5, I think. Maybe like an, you know, like iPhone will come out with like the half new version of like the old phone. So there you go. Yep. All right. So let me tell you what we've got going today. We've got gut feelings at 1130 this morning where we will make our predictions. And hopefully Connor is going to write them down because there's no way I'm going to be able to do that.

We have the news at noon. We have at 1230. Conner's NFL rewind. He's going to fill in for Ross on that. I'll handle, believe it or not, today at 150. And there's a simple question I asked on Twitter yesterday and got a lot of responses. And we'll certainly put it to the show here for those of you that do not participate in social media. How satisfying, and I'll leave this statement here, open-ended, how satisfying was the Texans victory? Now, Dan, don't give your answer yet. We'll do it coming out of the next time out.

But I want to throw that out there, and I want you just to be real and raw, and tell me the truth. Because here are the things I want you to think about. And by the way, if you want to join us, 713-212-5-790, 7-790, 7-12-2-7-90. How satisfying. From beating Dallas and anything, that's got to be a factor, to beating Cooper Rush, despite the fact you threw for 300, to seeing Joe Mixon own that field on Monday night,

to the Texans finally scoring a touchdown in the second half, to the defense continuing to play very impressive football, to the fact that Laramie Tunsell continues to commit penalties. Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to put that in there, but I did. What a waste. Seriously, one of the most overrated Texans players of all time. Sorry, I don't mean to be. I'm a little sleep deprived, to put it down.

Be blunt, so. Maybe you're hangary, too. That happens to me sometimes. Oh, no question. We didn't get home until 3.20 this morning because there was a terrible headwind and rain in the Milwaukee area. So it took us almost three hours to get home. So it was long trip, but that's not either here nor there. But, yeah, I want to know how satisfied, if you're satisfied, with the Texans performance.

713-212-5-790. Let me hear from you guys right this second, and ladies too, at 7-13-212-5-7-90. Rockets almost steal one in Milwaukee last night. We'll get to that. But a lot of it is about the Texas game last night. And poor Dan was handling both Rockets duties and watching the game at the same. Texans and the game at the same time. So he'll have a lot more details about some of the things.

But I was able to do as much recapping as I could. Plus, I would watch the game during halftime and whatnot. Joe Mixon's incredible. He really is, and he has saved this team's baking. But we'll get to all layers of the game and talk it out with you. 713-212-5-7-90. How satisfied were you with the Texans performance? 7-13-212-5-790 with Dan.

This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross as you listen to Sports Talk 790. Lunch-timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. The run game starts with our offensive line. I asked them to challenge them to play fast, play aggressive, thought they did a really nice job. And Joe, you know, when he's on, he's a force for us. Over 100 yards, three touchdowns.

It's really like the way we just kept turning it in the run game and proud of the guys for stepping up to the challenge. The reality is this. You needed the victory. You needed a dominant performance. You took on a Dallas team that was awful, that looked checked out. Yeah, you gave up too many yards.

Yeah, there were some silly penalties. Yeah, the offense still had a difficult time moving the football in the second half. I mean, short of Dan, the Texas is winning 49 to 7 and throwing, and CJ throwing for 525 yards, you were setting yourself up for it's a win, but it's not making me feel any better, about where this future of this team is going to go long term.

I can see this from a variety of different angles. It was a get better game, but are there still concerns going into this Tuesday, going into this week's game against Tennessee? Of course there is. Well, I mean, not necessarily because of the opponent. I mean, I think it's more of what the Texans don't do. But there was never a point in that game last night where I said, oh, man, this is starting to get a little shaky.

I mean, you could have maybe kind of nudged that direction in the second quarter. but I mean, imagine if you're Tray Lance, and they showed him on the sidelines. Like, he had a look on his face. Like, I must really suck if they're not putting me in over this guy. Like, there was never any remote possibility of Cooper Rush that I was like, man, this guy actually might start to get a little bit of a groove and find something. Once they went up by 10, I knew this game was over. It was just a matter of the time running out.

And Joe makes it. I mean, Casero, look, it deserves some criticism for a variety of things like any general manager does, but to fleece the bengals of him for a low pet draft pick is, I mean, it's the move of the year for him. No, 100% it is. I mean, because yes, you're exactly right. I mean, when it comes to the offensive line, then we can have that conversation about Nick Casario. I mean, not only him, Danico Autry has been a fantastic find. Aziz al-Shayr has been a fantastic find. And in terms of the draft, I mean, it's hard to argue with his defensive back finds. I mean, we didn't get to see Kamari Laster last night because of the concussion, but he and

Kalin Bullock have been pretty good for this team. But I've asked it numerous times. I mean, every single executive seems to have a blind spot. I almost wonder if Nick Casario's is the blind spot that you absolutely don't want to have with the franchise quarterback. Offensive lines amiss. Juice Gruggs isn't good. He just not.

Patterson played better clearly. You heard Troyickman a minute ago talk about the open lane he gave for, for, for, for Joe. Laramie Tunsell remains overrated. Who else am I forgetting about? Titus, but I mean, they were given Titus's flowers after the game. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. So just throwing it out there.

This team's going to fall in the playoffs because of the offensive line's not going to protect the quarterback. Period. End of story. You would think right now, but I mean, I think it also, too, lends to wonder what about teams that have been able to get on a role in the late stages of November and the December and seemingly find their identity as a team. I mean, we'll only know when they play against the Ravens and the Chiefs. That's when we'll know really how good this team is. And there's still time before you get to that point.

I mean, you can be able to gain a little bit more confidence this week, definitely gain more confidence next week against Jacksonville. But you go into that Kansas City game at 9 and 4. I mean, all of a sudden you start to wonder if maybe a second seat is a possibility. No, no chance. You say that right now. Zero chance. All right, without seeing what, I mean, because it does look like Pittsburgh's going to hold on and win that division.

Which is crazy. Who in the world? How does Mike Tomlin do this every year? Because he's the best coach in the NFL? I mean, my God, Dan, you can't name. Look, Watts amazing. The quarterback situation has been in flight. I mean, Justin Fields and Russell Wilson, two.

guys left for dead are running that ship and doing it pretty well honestly absolutely so i mean for all of the criticism that arthur smith got as a head coach which lord knows he deserved a ton of that he's been able to kind of make chicken salad out of you know what and yeah george pickens has definitely helped there's no doubt about that he's catching a ball now he looks like he's more invested i don't know what happened because i remember watching him last year going this guy's got speed he's able to run good routes. He's being, and then he just looks like he checks out. But man, Mike Tomlin may be one of the five greatest coaches we never talk about.

Now, I'm not saying he may be one of the five greatest coaches of all time. But when you think of that short list of amazing people that simply win year after year after year and are competitive, that cat is on the list. You know who he is? He's Eric Spolstra. Because the same thing happens with Eric Spolstra. The same thing happens with Eric Spolstra. Everybody, when you had LeBron and everybody there, it was, oh, it's about the Heedles. It's these guys.

And then, okay, they all left and went away. And then he got them back to the NBA finals with Jimmy Butler and crew. No, that's who he is. He's Eric Spolstra. Let's get on the phone. [phone]. I have an open-ended question for you guys this morning. And ladies, how satisfying was the Texans win last night?

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Josh, by Minute May Park at 1025. Josh, good morning. You're on 790. What's going on? Good morning, MT. I want to tell you, man, love the show. Love the energy that you bring in the passion for Houston sports. Thank you. It's nice to get an extra hour of you, but I do miss Mr. Stan and wish him all the best.

He's a good man. I miss him, too. Yeah, he was a good friend. Good people. Yes, sir. So jumping into the Texans, man, just got to lead off, man, exactly with what you said getting Joe Mixing for a seventh round pick is amazing because it wasn't that long ago where we had a general manager whose name, you know, runs with a Shmilla Wine. But he, you know, trading off star talent for literally bags of potato chips. And now we have a GM who literally trades back to potato chips and gets a start,

star caliber players back in return. It's just such a stark comparison from where we were to where we are now. and you just love it. Obviously, with the offense, I think the second half still wasn't really up to par. Obviously, Joe Mixing was Joe Mixing. He's an absolute beast. Over 150 plus total yards, three touchdowns on the night. Like, finally a primetime dub only took three weeks, but the Texans got the job done.

Stroud missed those two passes that would have been touchdowns. They were just, you know, the passes wasn't quite as accurate. as what it needed to be. But, I mean, it was nice to win, but I mean, when you beat up, you know, backup QB there towards the end, I know Dallas had a lot of offensive linemen injuries, but it was nice to see, you know, Hunter get a sack. And just the Texans win finally for the first time in Arlington. So it's still fun to watch. Always great to get a W.

I know that, you know, Coach Ryan always says, you know, it's hard to win the NFL. Right. So it's nice to get that victory. But just love the show, man. Love what you guys do. And, you know, keep up the great work, man. Thanks, Josh. Very much.

Appreciate it. You know, it's funny. You hear these sports cliches, Dan, about it. It's hard to win in the NFL. Well, really, it's not because two teams meet on the field and one of them leave for the win. Yeah, I mean, you would think it's that easy, and especially last night, too. I mean, had the Texans had, and I brought this up on the A team when we did good, bad, and ugly yesterday. I said,

avoid December 22nd, 2011. Do you remember what happened on December 22nd, 2011? Matt Schaub got hurt, got his foot stepped on? That was, I believe, a couple of weeks before. It was a Thursday night up in Indianapolis, and you lost to a hapless Colts team that had Dan Orlovsky as their quarterback, and they beat you. And that was pretty much when the Texans were out of getting either of the top spots

to avoid wildcard weekend because of that loss. And that's what last night would have been if you had been just absolutely milk toast in that game and just gone through the motions and possibly lost that game. But again, like I said, when they went up by 10, I had zero belief that they were going to lose that game. Not a shred of it. Yep. 713212-570. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

I've said this for a couple weeks now, and I think most of you would, agree with this. There's only two ways this team before the start of the playoffs is going to really reach ultimate satisfaction. And we'll tell you about that what it is. And I think you guys can figure it out here in a moment. 713-212-5-790 with a word right now for Big City Wings. Today is two for Tuesday wings at Big City Wings.

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What up, what up? That's what I am. Real pale Texans talk continues on the Matt Thomas show. What up, what up? We did play four quarters. We didn't really change nothing. Didn't change no philosophy. Just came out here to play four-quarter football, you know, so.

We look back in some other games. We did that. We would have came up on top, but would have should have could have. Now we've got to learn from those things. That's a good lesson to learn, you know, being where we're at, you know, our futures in front of us. And, you know, we want to put ourselves in the right position, you know, playing good ball in December, you know, going to January and into the playoffs. I agree with you, CJ. I'm all okay with that.

1034. Matt Thomas show with Ross and Dan Matthews filling in today. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. My simple question for you, folks, is how satisfied are you with the performance of your football team last night? We'll get to the Rockets coming up in the next segment, but right now, let's talk to David and Cyprus at 1035. David, good morning. Hey, what's going on, man?

Thank you for having me. Sure. Hey, you asked the question. How happy are you with the win? I'm absolutely unhappy. I think it was a horrible game. Yeah, they should have won about, they should have won about, like, 50-some points.

I'm so sick and tired of them throwing on every down. You've got a running back that's averaging five yards of carry and might bust one for 50 yards, and they throw on every down. It makes no sense to me. And not to mention they're going to get the quarterback killed with their offensive line. Well, I'm looking at the game book from yesterday.

34 passes, 25 runs. That's a decent balance to me, honestly. I mean, I don't necessarily think that's the complaint about the incident. What about, hey, Matt, what about when it was starting inches? And they, Mason just had a five-yard run, and they throw the ball, some stupid outpass to the, you know, out of bounds or whatever. I mean, they could have done a quarterback sneak and got the first down. I think the plate calling is hideous Yeah you know I can't speak to that in play in particular

I'm gonna let Dan jump in down that if you can but Look I will be honest with you I got on the plane yesterday before heading back to Houston and the the Bobby Slowick stuff I mean once that ball got rolling in terms of he suck he's the worst person on earth got to be fired It's pretty hard to stop that train unless the Texans were just to come out and just to click on all cylinders offensively. I mean, the third in inches play, I'm trying to remember, because I thought he was

talking about their second possession, where they went forward on fourth down, and CJ got picked. He just threw that ball behind Nico Collins. But, I mean, I will agree a little bit with David on some of the calls. Bobby is still overthinking himself. I mean, you know, the run game part of

it, I get that. Maybe you could have seen more of Joe Mixon. Sure, why not? You also found out during the game that Nico was probably on a play count. And I'm sure tomorrow when D'Amico meets with the media, he's going to say as much. He even did allude to it after the game.

But, I mean, for example, case and point, with my point, the shovel pass to Tegan Quatoriano. Like, I almost think that if there is still a paper-based playbook inside that building, D'emico should tell Bobby, hey, what page is that? All right, pull it out.

Where's the waistbasket? Where's the lighter? Light that on fire. Don't ever call that again. Like ever, there should never be a play that is a shovel pass with this interior offensive line to Teigen Quatoriano, to Dalton Schultz, to Cade Stover, any of the tight ends. Don't ever run that play again. And that was- By the way, people asking about tight ends involved, Schultz got targeted seven times yesterday. Got him involved, even saw Kate Stover's name called and also too, like I just said, Teigen Quatoriano, even having.

that shovel pass throwing the hem. But I mean, it's just, it's stuff like that, man, like where I'm just like, why are you overthinking yourself this much? You see what Joe Mixon is doing. Like, stick to the basics. I almost feel like Bud Kilmer in Varsty Blues right here, where he's hitting mocks with the whistle on his helmet. Stick to the basics.

Stick to the basics. Like, that's seriously, for Bobby right now, honestly, just stick to that. And when you could get a little bit more success, then get a little bit more exotic. but when you're not even doing the basic stuff right, why are we doing shovel passes to Tegan Guateriano? Was that considered a run? Because he's not on the receiving sheet here. Yeah, I saw that too.

I couldn't remember if it was a penalty or if maybe they did consider it a run, but it did go forward, so it should have been a pass. It might have been incomplete too, but... No, but even targets are listed out here. You would have that on there. Yeah, so I just remembered seeing that just... I mean, like you said, I had, you know,

one eye on the game and one eye on... the final two minutes where you have a six-point lead in the rocket scheme, and it doesn't go the way that you would hope. But like you said, we'll talk about that next segment. Yeah, by the way, for those of you keeping account, Dan has made one movie reference today. My guess is the over-under on that is four. So just be... I will definitely, definitely probably push it up to the line.

If I go over, it could be a stretch. But they're going to come genuinely. They're not going to be forced. if the situation dictates for me to drop one, then I definitely will. Trust me. That quotes, you always know you can count on me for that, Maddie. Yeah, I was going to say, Dan, tell Connor that anytime there's a movie reference, he needs to play the Jalen Rose Ding so we can keep track.

Okay. One is in varsity. Was it varsity blues, you said? Oh, yeah, it was varsity blues. Excellent movie. Love Mox. Yeah, Mox tried to run the upe-de-oop in practice, and all that Coach Kilmore wanted him to do was just run a simple draw. Dummy O with the Dummy O scrimmage right there.

Yeah. And appreciated shaving cream too in that movie as well. Allie Lauder's back, by the way, on Landman. How old is she now? I got me in her 40s, right? I think so. Yeah. But yeah, she plays...

How is it that Billy Bob Thornton always has a hot wife on shows or movies? Like, I don't get it. Well, you don't think he's a naturally attractive man? I don't think so. I think he's an awesome dude and he's fantastic in this show. He's amazing. All right. All that right there was just one reference.

So we'll see what happens over the next three hours and 20 minutes. 713-212-5-7902. Payoff one I said a minute ago, Dan. And I think everybody would agree with me on this. You're about to reach a stretch of games. You've got Tennessee this Sunday. You've got a road trip to Jacksonville. You're going to become what you are ultimately by what you do against Baltimore and Kansas City.

I think if the Texans can split those two games. I think there will be a renewed energy base for this team. Now, there are obviously hundreds of thousands of people that love this team and we're very happy about beating Dallas and you know, to hear from Cowboy fan and how many Texans fans went up to the game yesterday, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But Dallas is a wounded animal. Dallas looks like they have done the one, two, three Cancun bit really early on. They're just not very good.

They can't stop anybody. The run defense was putrid. the attempt for the strip sack offensive line grabbing the ball and trying to move down the football field was one of the most comical things I've seen in quite some time but you can beat up anybody you want to you got Miami too which Miami may be better than we think they are they're going to be an improved football team that's going to be a tough game yeah you're not going to really be able to beat your chest until you either go to Kansas City and win or beat Baltimore on Christmas to stay. There's just no other way around it. Well, I mean, because it's also, too,

even though at the time, I mean, it'd be interesting to see how the Texans would do against Buffalo this time around. But seemingly, you got them at a good time because the receiver core was not what it is right now, and they didn't have Amari Cooper at the time, so that helped.

But no, I mean, you're right. You win either one of those games, then all of a sudden you get the national talking heads saying, hey, maybe we rode off the Texans too early. That'll happen. Trust me. We do that every single week in this league. And look, you'd love for them to win both, but a split with those two heavyweights that probably won.

And I don't know if Baltimore is going to be able to supplant Pittsburgh. I mean, Baltimore didn't help themselves by losing it at Pittsburgh this past week. But they'll be the number one wild card, put it that way. And probably, at least from a national perspective, considered a scarier opponent than maybe the Texans. I mean, I would even say that Baltimore, especially with Lamar Jackson and his perceived struggles in the playoffs, he needs it more. They need it more. I mean, Derek Henry is not there by mistake. Deontay Johnson wasn't traded for by mistake.

They did it because they're like, hey, we've gotten so close up to the line. Like last year, what was everybody saying heading into that AFC championship? Yeah, it's cute what you did up in Buffalo, Kansas City, but you're not going to go to Baltimore and did it. And then they did. Yep, 713-213-2-5-790. 7-1-2-2-7-9-0. Rockets last night. Almost got one.

And then I wake up this morning to find out that Janice's foot was in a spot it shouldn't have been in last night on the final stretch of the game. We'll talk about that in a moment. 713-212-5-790. We've got feelings at 1130 today. That's where you make your sports predictions.

I mean, you need to get on these phones and make those predictions. That's at 1130. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Dan, fill it in on 790. lunch timers this is the Matt Thomas show

Liller with Brooks in front of him Damien left side turns, spins to the window lay up got it Bucks up by one 3.9 seconds remaining timeout Houston

and down by one Lillard with the right hand floater off the window Oh Dan Damian Lillow did it again not nearly as dramatic as he did as a Portland Trailblazer but God the guys had some success against the Rockets.

He's almost kind of reaching the level of Stockton, Hornacek, and Malone. Like, he really is that close. He was 6 of 18 last night, I think. Did not make a three-pointer. John Stockton with those stupid short shorts.

Yeah. Here's the thing, and I applaud the Rockets for their defensive switching. I mean, look, Dylan Brooks and Fred Van Blyte are not scared of about going against anybody. but Janus is a special beast. He's so incredibly skilled.

And he's such a great downhill score, especially from the top of the key. Like Victor Wenbayama doesn't have the athletic skills yet that Janus has. So you can kind of get away with a little bit because what Janus will do, well, what Victor will do that Janus won't do is he will, Victor will pull up for those three-pointers.

And you kind of feel like the victory there. Last night, I thought the defense, switch probably hurt a little bit because when Janice got going in the second half he was able to go against anybody defensively and not score at ease but it wasn't nearly as troublesome as it was when you've got bigger guys going against him. Yeah and you know speaking of the downhill comment I heard you have that call as I was driving the pickup dinner and you're not wrong and how about Tari Yessen after the game too of saying you know we weren't really worried about his shot like that that wasn't an issue. I wonder if somebody kind of pulled Tari aside after that and said, hey, we kind of want that

guy on our team. So hopefully they keep using. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Someone down now. We don't know that. You don't want Janice Antacompo here? I do. Well, I mean, I would take Janus, but I mean, I don't think there's open courting at this point. So, no, that's true. That's true. I mean, I know. We're not talking about, you know, any type of tampering by any means, but no. I mean, you know, the rumors are out there for a reason, Matthew. Oh, I know. I know. Rumors are crazy. I don't know what to believe. I don't want to ask because I don't want to know.

You know, it's funny. You know, people in life like surprises and like drama and not knowing things ahead of time? I'm one of those people. Just tell me. Tell me later. Tell me that after it happens. I mean, I don't know.

I mean, I was always a kid that when it came to Christmas, I would have a Christmas list and would definitely hope that it was on there. So if you had the anticipation and then it was met by the unwrapping right there and you got exactly what you wanted, which for me was Master Splinter's Underground Lair for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Once I got that, Christmas was made. What? What did you just say? Now you confused the hell out of me. Dude, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toys were a hit when I was like five or six. And, you know how you used to have the old home movies of the camcorder, everything like that. And my parents broke it out a few years ago of me losing my mind when I got Master Splinters

underground layer, along with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It was a great Christmas. Okay. There's on another radio show in the Marketplace. It's going to give you Dame Lillard, Janice Dentagumpo, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the same conversation. I dare another station in the Marketplace to do that. 4 p.m., Channel 20, every day. Got home from school.

Afternoon snack. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Book it. Let's go. 713-212-5-790. Jason and Kingwood of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Good morning, Jason. Hey, so, yeah, I would be interested in Janus, too, but it depends on what we give up.

That's kind of my thing in regards to Janus. But I wanted to say, so I went to the Toyota Center for the first time since Kobe's last game. Wow. Yeah, since the last cup game that we had, which I believe was last Friday. And let me tell you something, guys. If you haven't been to the Toyota Center, go. I had such a fantastic time there. And the thing that surprised me the most about the Toyota Center is the food there is delicious.

But if you haven't been to the Toyota Center for a while, this is for all my rocket fans that haven't been out to a lot to a game. Go. Go. Take the initiative. Get your butt up. Go to a rocket game. It's fantastic. You know, you got you got good visuals everywhere.

I would say take the opportunity and go to a rockets game. Rockets care. Oh, what's that, Jason? Look at you selling the Rockin. You must be a team employee. Do I know you? No, no. No, I do not work for the Rockets.

Okay. I'm just a, I'm a lifelong Rockets fan. Man, I went to the parades when I was a kid. Nice. But a lifelong Rockets fan. So the last thing before I hang up, hey, how far are we from Liberty White Matt? Are we close? Oh, no.

It's got to be the Super Bowl. Super Bowl. Got to win the EFC. That's it. That's the only way that we're. getting Liberty White Man. There's nothing less than that. No, because Jason, let me, Jason, you and I are tight, right? Okay. Let's just be honest. I've had a lot of disappointment in my life. We talked about this last week.

Sports has meant for disappointment. I've been disappointed with my Cougars for a long period of time. I've been disappointed with the Rockets. It's been 30 years and they won a championship. I don't need any more. My life is pretty good. I've got a beautiful family, got two great careers. I'm kind of good. I'm kind of tapped out on my sports fandom. Now, Liberty White Matt will be there when they hoist the AMC, the Lamar. I believe it's the Lamar Hunt Trophy.

Am I right about the game? For the AFC, yes, it is. Correct. Yeah. When that happens, I will be Liberty. You can call me Liberty White-ass man if you want to, Jason, because my ass may be Liberty White, and that's fine. But it's got to happen.

I am I am fandomed out. I cannot be any more of a fan of anything else. I'm pretty good. That's fair, man. Enjoy your day. It is beautiful outside and get out there. Thanks very much for the phone call. Good to hear your voice.

How about that? Jason giving a food review of Toyota Center. Hey, everybody, go to the Rockets game. It's fun. The food is great. I mean, I didn't. That's not one of those calls you normally get, but I appreciate the enthusiasm that Jason brought to the show.

Well, I mean, we do know that the pretzels are really good, according to Adam Clanton and Adrian Chavaria. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, yeah, the reality. Clinton really would not share the pretzel with you? No, I said, tear me a piece off and he goes, no problem. And then he ate the whole thing.

And by the way, Schmanton eats it with a fork and knife. What the hell is a pretzel with a fork and knife? Fork and knife food is not allowed at ball games. It's not. Well, I mean, I don't, look, if you're getting a hot dog with like 19 toppings on it, I kind of get it. But come, seriously. No, just get some extra napesel up like a grown-ass man and eat it. Yeah.

And that's for for a, forkin knife for a, he's going to hear about that later. Good. Especially, especially to, you know how we'll go ahead and take people behind the curtain here. Because as I say on Space City Saturday, it's the show of honesty. So we're the show of honesty here is yesterday I had texted Clanton, much like you do with me with coffee at times. He claimed he didn't get it. Oh, no, no, that's a lie. Yeah.

And I was like, dude, I mean, been here since like 830. you know, a nice little pick-me-up for the two to six. It would have been nice. It would have been nice. So we're 0 for two in that category. We got to remember that. We have to have a long memory when it comes to Clanton, I'm guessing. Yeah, let me tell you, if there's somebody that's addicted to his phone more than Adam Clinton, I want to meet that person.

There's no chance, no way, no how he didn't see that. I just want to know when he's going to be in the next influencer video with the wife, you know, with the shirts and the purses and everything. Yeah, that's creepy. I wouldn't bring that up. Okay. All right. Well, let Teresa live her life. She's the best.

No, that's not a slight whatsoever. Yeah, but I don't need him in there. Just hers's fine. Well, I mean, they're an influencer couple. No, they're not. I don't get zero influence. Are they the Houston version of, what's the Georgia couple? Pookie and I can't remember the other one, but they're like all over in Georgia.

So you just call Teresa a Pookie? No, that's what actually, I think the guy's name is that in Georgia. But they're like TikTok. stars. I'm not going to let a man named Pookie ever influence me on anything. I wouldn't. I would expect nothing less from you. I hope not. There you go. All right. Second hour of the Bat Thomas show starts.

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It is the Matt Thomas show at Ross. Dan Matthews is Ross 2.0. Fill it in today. Gordy will be with me tomorrow and Thursday. Brian McTaggart makes an appearance on the show on Friday. Looking forward to having him with us. Tomorrow on the radio program, we will have IMAIDOCA. Robert Ory is in town for the 30th anniversary of the 94-95 championship team.

And what else we got? Let's see. Oh, shut your bum ass up tomorrow. So I've got a busy show tomorrow. But our first thing's first, we've got gut feelings coming up at the bottom of the hour here on Sports Talk 790. So if you want to jump in 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790. So I've been asking the audience all morning, Dan, and I really haven't gotten it from you. Are we satisfied with last night with the Texas win over the Cowboys?

dominant, you called it right on the nose. It's 34 to 10, good for you on that. Where are we on the satisfaction factor? After a game that, I mean, there was some clunky parts. The past, Aniko Collins got erased with a touchdown because Laramie Tunsell was an eligible man downfield, which... Why are you chuckling?

Because the antennas are raised by Texans fans that whenever you see a flag near the line of, scrimmage. It's almost like Texans fans are like gearing up at games at NRG for if he says the referee that is. If he says number 78, I'm going to lose my mind. And sure enough, number 78 and the booze start raining down. So as soon as that happened, oh man, Texans Twitter was ablaze. By the way, traveling Texans showing up last night. They made you proud, Matt. Yeah, I'm happy for that. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-790 what were your motion so answer my question do not dodge it my friend oh satisfied let me let me give you some food parameters okay you ready yeah because you like to eat

oh yeah taco bell at 2 a m after having a couple of cocktails where you go get a couple of gorditas and you're like oh this is not good for me but you know what it fit A little indulgence is good. Okay. Number two, a home-cooked lasagna by mom. Yes. Okay. Or a night out with the lady at a nice steak restaurant, good wine, good appetizers,

a nice piece of steak and a delightful dessert shared with two spoons, one plate, and you left the building going, this was a perfect date night. Where are you on that Texans performance last night? I would say that I'm the lasagna. I mean, don't tell the fiancé, because the last one was very tempting. But I first wanted to steal a line from Brett Beelma a few years ago when he was the coach at Arkansas. When they were kneeling down to beat Texas, he said that it was borderline erotic, which was pretty off-putting to a lot of people.

But as I start to think about it, because for the reasons that I wanted to say the Beelma answer, it was the shots of Jerry Jones in his owner's box, leaning over. over to Stephen, basically staying, I don't know how much more I can put up with this, which Jerry, it is your fault. It's the sad shots of the fans leaving. It's Micah Parsons. It's C.D. Lamb, all of that. And that led me to conflicted because you would have liked for the Cowboys to be more competitive in this. Like, there was never, like I said, a moment in that game where I said, uh-oh, maybe. Like, it was one of those, the Texans will pull away and they're going to win this game handedly.

Like, it just, that's a non-competitive football team over there. So I settle on conflicted. Conflictive would be to me, excuse me, 20 to 17. I mean, was the game, and again, I wasn't watching every moment because I was called the Rockets. But was the game ever seriously in doubt? No, like I said, it was never in doubt. Like, as soon as they went up by 10 points with Cooper Rush, I mean, and again, how

bad do you feel if you're Tray Lance? And their building is falling apart. I mean, and I love how they tried to say, oh, well, nobody was really in the area and in danger. It landed right next to a guy. There were like technical people running around for their lives. I mean. Like it landed literally like two feet to the left of a guy. I don't want to hear about NRG's panels when I have to hear about this on the Monday Night Football

broadcast last night at AT&T Park or whatever they're calling it. Did you like the, did you like the Texans creative team? going to work on their L that they had where they put together two pieces of sheet metal to form an L for and the caption of it said look out and the L in below was in caps. It was very nice. It was it was very well done. Is that on their social media accounts? It is.

It is. Twitter, Instagram, all of it. They did a great job. I did not see it. It's funny. These team social accounts try to push the envelope a little bit until they get sculled by their bosses and they all of a sudden take five steps back. Just be careful with the emojis. I think we can agree on that.

You've got to be very careful with the emojis. That's right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Let's talk to some people. We'll start with Randall and Sugarland at 1110 on 7-90. Randall, good morning. Hey, good morning.

I'm very satisfied because I believe that the development of this football team has exceeded expectations based on starting from last. year you know you have a lot of fans calling in whining and that are never satisfied and you know let's give the office coordinator opportunity because he's developing also and he's growing so I'm very happy because what if we woke up this morning with a three and seven record like the Dallas Cowboys you may not have any callers calling in so I'm very happy I'm very satisfied and hey Texans fan let's be grateful and and

just ride the ship. I'll hang up in this. Thank you, Randall. By the way, if the Texas were 3 and 7, I don't have five times as many callers. Let's not kid ourselves here. It's, I mean, that's the thing. It's better to be either really good, which I think even when you're really good, people are exactly like Randall. They're satisfied,

so they're like, I don't really have any hot takes. Things are good. Demico's doing his work. When you're 3 and 7, yeah, it's everybody is dumb. The quarterback sucks. The offensive coordinator is a moron. Demico is in over his head. Nick Casario, I really thought this guy

was much better than he really is. Turns out he's just Jack Easterby 2.0. It would be all those takes. Yep. What I don't understand, and maybe I have a simplistic answer to it, is Bobby Sloak was considered this offensive genius in all of the city of Houston.

It was like, please, Bobby, don't go take a job, stay here, help out CJ's second year, and now he's public enemy number one. Is that because Bobby Sloak all of a sudden has changed his tune of how he calls games? Is it our defenses now, catching up to Bobby Sloics. Play calling strategies?

I don't have the answer to that, honestly. I just think that in sports, there are low-hanging fruits, and one of them is, well, if the pitching staff all of a sudden sucks in baseball, it's the pitching coach's fault. If the hitting, if the Astros or any team doesn't score six runs a game for like seven straight games, it's the hitting coach's fault. I mean, are we, if we had an opportunity to really put some truth, serum down the body of

D'Amico Ryan's is he exasperated? Is he disappointed? Is he understandable? The situation of what is presented to him, and that's a Texan's offense that doesn't have you know, Stefan Diggs. It's got a makeshift offensive line for the second

executive year. You've just missed Nico Collins for five games. And by the way, Nico was out there but as you mentioned before, he's on a snap count. It's not not a full-throttle offense right now. Brutely honest. It's just not. Well, it's also, too. I mean, I'll start with the last point.

I mean, Nico Collins definitely covers up for a lot of the issues that you have. He did that last year. And he did it for the first three or four games, however many he played before he got hurt. So that's on, you know, the Nico front. In terms of Sloick, he's a victim of his own success. Nobody had any expectations of this team last year. The fact that the team was even in position to make the playoffs, I think we would have been disappointed had they gone to indie and lost and missed out on winning the

AFC South. But I think once the emotions subsided, people would have been like, hey, you know what, that's a hell of a jumping off point. The team is far and away in a much better position than they were the year before. But that's just it. I mean, he's doing a lot of the same things offensively that he did last year. And now it's just we have expectations. It's kind of like, you know the saying doing your job is not enough. Like doing the bare minimum is a.

C grade in terms of, you know, A, B, C, all of that. Like, that's what it is. And I think people kind of perceive Bobby Sloick as he's just doing his job. And there's supposed to be so much more growth in year one to year two. And he seemingly, at least in a lot of people's eyes, has taken a step back when really in reality, he's pretty much done the same things that he did last year. Yep. 713-21, 2, 5.7.

I just think it's one of those situations like quarterbacks. If the team is moving, it's offensive play calling is amazing. If the team is struggling and can't put up enough points and second half struggles, it must be because Bobby Sloick uses a playbook in the second half that he doesn't use in the first half. 1113 is our time. The raw emotions of beating the Cowboys. And, by the way, we've not discussed that enough.

A lot of sad faces in Arlington yesterday. A lot of empty seats in Arlington yesterday. And any of you that were at the game last night, any of you that went to Ruckies on the way there, on the way back, was it Texanville, USA at your local watering stop to get a nuggets and what else, a jerky and a pulled pork sandwich and from those great potato chips. And anybody's got any recon on what happened at the Ruckies, either direction.

Let us know. 713-213-2-5-790. It's 1114. We got gut feelings at the bottom of the hour. This is Sports Talk 790. Lunch timers. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show.

It was awesome seeing all our Texas fans show up, right? That was really cool to see on the road, to see all the Texans' jerseys, see how fired up our fans were, created some crowd noise. Man, that's cool. Anytime you can come in in a way stadium and really feel your fans, hear your fans, all right, being loud, being disruptive, that was really cool for our guys. You know, it's funny. I have never been to a game.

I've been inside AT&T's game, but I've never been to a game there before. But everyone that tells me that goes says you spend about 80% of the time looking at the Jembo Tron. Pretty accurate. I mean, I've been to a couple of games there, and it's a lot of fun.

I'll tell you what, too. Here's the other part of it is, I saw last night behind Scott Fian Pelt. They had a time clock going. They kick you out of there. Like, as soon as the game's over, like I had to use the bathroom, like nobody's business after a Thanksgiving day.

game and they were like, no, bathrooms are closed. You got to leave. And I was like, no way. They're not going to let you yearning on yourself. They're going to let you go to the bathroom. I sprinted to the nearest Porta John that was out there that I guess was rented by a tailgate. And I was prepared to be like, I will give you $20 if you let me use the bathroom really quick. They're like, just go ahead.

They saved my life. This story doesn't jive. No, it's 100% true. You can ask the fiancee. She was with me. It was the Cowboys and Raiders game a couple of years ago. Raiders walked it off with it. field goal, so she was happy.

And yeah, I was about to burst at the seams. And it was a one, so we were good. But I appreciate the tailgate for letting me hop in there. Well, at least it was a one. Yeah. Oh, dude. I mean, I never allow the other to get to that point. Like, I plan ahead for that.

So, yeah. I mean, I'm curious, how do you plan ahead for such things? Well, like, I never, knock on wood, ever have any of those issues. So just take care of it in the morning and you're good. Okay, well, then don't eat a lot of heavy foods at the game. I mean, usually by that time the process plays out where you're in a place where you're in a good place. Okay, that seems fair. 1121.

It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Dan Matthews is in, filling in, and we will have Gordian with us the next couple of days. Brian McTaggart on Friday. and we look forward to talking with you at 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-2-1-7-90. Now, I always goof this up. Is this Nigel or Nigel? I'm going to go ahead and guess. Connor, which one is it?

Nigel. We have a needle on Nigel. We're going to Nigel on 790 at 1122. Nigel, how are you? Good, good. Thank you for taking my phone call. Nigel is English. I'm assuming that's why it's Nigel not.

Nigel. I mean, the takeaway for me is to think that our defense did what they did without Lasseter, without Anderson playing last night, I thought they could have had more takeaways is a really good thing. But just there's not, you know, to go back to your food analogy, we're missing the icing on the cake, the salsa on the taco. Like, it's obvious that the team in its current state is not going to beat a Kansas City or Baltimore. more coming up. There's no way we beat Buffalo again. And that's what's

a little bit concerning because you see some of these plays, the stupid penalties, the anemic offense, and then you start to remember like, oh, yes, I'm a Houston Texans fan, and that's what I'm worried about. There's just something completely missing from this team. And I fear

that we could go down in flames pretty quick. I'll hang up. Thank you very much. Thank you. So he says missing. Dan, did we, whatever that is. It's an intangible. It could be whether it's solid offensive line play, whether it's aggressive play calling in the second half, isn't missing, and the Texas need to get it back, or do they never have it to begin with? I mean, I do agree with them that it does seem like

it's, if the offense is playing really well, then the defense gives up a crucial drive for a touchdown. If, you know, the defense is playing pretty decently, then Kiami Fairbairn misses a crucial field goal and then obviously the penalty aspect of it all. I mean, you know, we can talk about the Jalen Petrie hit, whether that was a penalty or not. Obviously, we've already covered the Laramie Tunsell part of it. It ended up not mattering because then they went down the field thanks to Joe Mixon and scored a touchdown. But, I mean, yeah, there are things like that.

But in terms of, you know, he brought up about beating Kansas City and, you know, Baltimore, here's a thing. When it gets to the playoffs, I only need you to beat him once. that's all I need from you. We're not talking about a four or five game series here. Like I'm talking about you just need to beat them once. You just have to survive that one day and move on. And numerous teams in the NFL have done that throughout the years.

I mean, let's just take the first year that Brady was in Tampa Bay. Nobody thought that Tampa Bay was going to go all the way to win the Super Bowl that season. So, I mean, that's just it. You just have to beat that team once. It doesn't matter. Do you know how honestly, and I don't mean to get well ahead on this situation, but I'm not, look, if anybody is really getting into a deep dive over Tennessee, Jacksonville, and Miami the next handful of weeks, you don't, you have no idea what you're looking at. The big picture is, frankly, playing well against Kansas City, playing well against Baltimore, and then doing something in the playoffs. I don't even, I mean, look, life will not end if they don't beat Kansas City or Baltimore.

It's just going to give you zero confidence going in. To use your train of thought on this, they win playoff games by their defense, forcing turnovers, and giving the Texan short field. That's how they win. I mean, and that's the thing is... Everybody does it be this way, but especially a team that has at times spotted offensively. Give CJ the ball at the 30-yard line after a strip sack or a Petrie interception, or a stinging interception.

That's how I envision. If I was to close my eyes right now, which I can because I'm not driving. If I was to close my eyes, Dan, and say, here's how I envision the Texans going on the road and beating somebody they're not supposed to beat. And that's forcing Pat Mahomes to throw an interception. Or Lamar Jackson, a fumble of balls he's trying to rush for a first down

and given the Texan short field. Short of that, you do not want to get out in shootouts with either one of those two teams because you will fail miserably trying to do so. Well, it's also too. I mean, you're going to fail miserably because you don't necessarily have the utmost confidence that you're going to get into the end zone in those situations. I mean, we saw it last night. They had short yardage at least a couple of different times.

And one of them, you turned it over. Well, you literally turned it over, but it would have been a turnover on downs. And the other one was a field goal. I mean, where you have that huge catch and run by Mixin after the chop block by a Dallas defender. And you get down there. again, that's where you threw that ridiculous shovel pass to Teagan Guateriano. We've covered that. But you ended up settling for a field goal.

And, I mean, it's to a point when you play those teams, you can't settle for three. You've got to be able to get into the end zone, especially when you have those advantageous yardage situations. All right. Time for us now to get your sports predictions. Now, Connor, do we have last week's from Ross or did he just put on a file and leave it and take it with them? I got it. Okay, good. How do we do?

By the way, we're going to give... I've got the file. Okay, good, good. We're going to give the flowers early to Dan Matthews for predicting the store right on the nose yesterday. So why don't you go ahead and play that sound bite again like five times so Dan can brag about it because he deserves it. 713-212-5-790 is how you reach a show.

If you've got any predictions about what it's going to happen the week of sports this week. 713. 212.790. 713. 212.5.790. Gut feelings. You call and you make your predictions.

If you get them right, you get to brag on them later. If you get them wrong, ain't no blip. No worries. We'll forgive you unless it's a completely absurd prediction. 713-212-5-790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Our buddy Dan is filling in today here on 790. Listen up girls and more.

This segment so appealing. Just Ross and Matt Thomas. Yo, they got a gut feeling. This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Time for you to call in with your sports predictions. Whether it be about the future of Alex Spregman,

whether it be about the future of the Texans game against the Tennessee Titans this week, whether it be about the future of the Houston Rockets, whether it be about the future of your favorite college football team, in your case, Dan, the future of your two favorite college football teams. One of our listeners, Des, good morning. Do you want the one of the predictions about one of your 19 favorite sports teams? See, it could be worse. That's true. You've only got it down to two.

And I've got valid reasons, too, by the way. Yeah, yeah. You know what? Look, I enjoyed the twins in Minnesota when I was working there, but I never, the Astros are always still my team. I mean, there's no offense or buts. That's the same deal with me and the Braves and the Astros. I mean, I even just mentioned it to the sales staff this morning that 2021 legitimately sucked for me in Atlanta because professionally I was happy.

Personally, it sucked. Did you get a ring? Did not get a ring. Yeah, it's going to happen. Some people were very upset about that. Yeah, I, I didn't, I didn't, look, I'm not an employee of the team. I didn't deserve one, but. I mean, there were just a lot of people who got rings that I was like,

I think I've been better promoter of the Astros and others, but that's a different issue for a different time. I'm not better, though. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-2-1-7-90. You have predictions. Let's hear them from you right now as we take you to gut feeling is to the top of the hour here on Sports Talk 790.

Before we get to this week's predictions, Connor, how do we do last week? All right, Matt, you had a Dalton Schultz touchdown. That didn't happen. Rockets win two out of three They won three out of three Yes So it's positive but you got the prediction wrong Texans win by double digits

You got that correct Thank you Alex Bregman signs by December 15th Yet to be seen And Juan Soto is a Met Also yet to be a scene Yeah I think I bit stole up A lot of what Ross was saying honestly

Yeah you guys have some similarities Rockets said two out of three That didn't happen They won three for three Good Tankdale touchdown Didn't happen. Texans win by under 10.

That also didn't happen. Nope. Alex Bregman signed by the time he gets back on December 3rd, so still yet to be seen. Yeah. So it was a Mets. Texans go 3 and 0 in their next three. So also yet to be seen. That was also, that's kind of a weak one.

I mean, God, they're playing like Division 2 football teams here coming up. It's the FCS slate of their schedule. That's right. And I had Nico Collins and a Joe Mixon touchdown. Only half of that was correct. and had three. Texans win by under 10. That didn't happen.

And the Rockets, I said they'd lose Wednesday against the Clippers, and then win Friday, they beat the Clippers twice. And by the way, you did have Nico Collins right until the ineligible receiver down field call was made. That Danny Jeremy Tunsell. I can't really claim that, I suppose. No, you cannot. 713-212-5-790.

I'm going to give you a Rockets one. Rockets are going to the next to the knockout round of the in-season tournament. you heard me now do i want them to go to Vegas yes is it purely selfish yes but they're gonna they're gonna at least have a chance to advance where they didn't advance last year so i mean you're privy to a lot of inside information have you already found out where if indeed a Vegas trip did happen where the team would be staying no but i don't want to be too nosy about that because that was a good move cross is man you are putting the cart well before the horse so it's also too i mean not stick in your nose where it doesn't belong. I mean, you know, maybe that is one like we were

talking about being pleasantly surprised. Be pleasantly surprised. You can't go wrong. It's Vegas. Let me tell you something. If they wanted to put me in a palace in and Vegas, I'd go. I was going to say, it's not like they're going to put you at, what is it, Ellis Island, which is like a messed western? Yeah, I, look, who stays in their room? There's something about Vegas, and I know, I know you both have gone before. You can go, you can be dog-ass tired and go get three. hours or four hours of sleep and feel like you slept for 15 straight hours in Vegas. You just don't want to be in your room, period. Yeah, that's true.

I mean, that's also part of the reason why rooms are so cheap is because they're like, we can take the front end right here because we know you're going to lose it back to us downstairs. You know what, though? The rooms are not cheap anymore. Vegas is no longer cheap. Period. In the story. I always thought that the price has never really changed because they always knew that people

would be there. No, they're more expensive. and now the biggest scam going on in Vegas is adding these resort fees to it. So you might get a room for like $1.39 and go, that's good value. And then you have to pay $37 so you can get towels and water and internet. Oh, gotcha. Internet. Who the hell?

I mean, I understand that it's a huge convention town. But who the hell's using the internet in their room in Vegas? Well. You're doing it wrong if that's the case. I mean, honestly, if you're not having much success with the ladies downstairs, you're, you know, forget. move on. You on my note? Ladies and gentlemen,

Dan had the Texans score right on the nose. So if you ever took notes during this segment of the show, this will be the time. What other gut feelings do you have, Dan Matthews, in the world of sports this week? Yeah, so we had 3410 Texans beating the Cowboys last night. That was the final. I'm going to go a couple of quickies that will pay off here

before the next time that I'm on with you. rocket sweep this next homestan. Pacer's are a little banged up. Blazers are not good. So I like my chances there. Okay. Texans are an eight and a half point favorite against the Titans on Sunday. I know that Will Levis made some nice throws against Minnesota. But come on, you need to beat this team by more than nine points, which is what would cover that. So the Texans will cover the eight and a half against the Titans on Sunday. Okay. I like that one. I'm going to go one step further. 3410 was the score on Monday, huh? That's correct. Texans beat the Titans by three touchdowns on Sunday. I like it.

Because I think they want to piggyback off what they did yesterday. I think they want to have, as a complete of offensive game, they've had quite some time. Tennessee is already trying to figure out their future. Titans have zero to play for. They're a miserable failure. they've been close in some games they're due for a good old-fashioned ass kicking and that's the Texans

will provide. Texans by three write this down Connor Knights, I'm not stuttering. Texans by three touchdowns this week against the Titans. And no more shovel passes to Tegan Quatoriano or any other tight-in. Got you. I don't think I've ever had a Keaton Gatoriano

that had to be amiss by the stats. I swore I saw that happen because at first I was like, who the hell is number 85? And then I had to look it up, and I was like, you really did a shovel pass to Teague and Quatoriano. Yeah, well, it's not showing up a stature. I think you're making this up. Did you have a dream about him or something you don't want to tell the audience about? Yeah, I mean, you know, my good buddy Aaron Rogers came to visit, so, you know.

Okay. All right, so I got the Rockets in the in-season semifinal knockout round. I've got the Texans by three touchdowns. I don't necessarily have an Astros prediction because, again, there's nothing really juicy going on except that I'm holding up. that this is going to be probably until at least December the 15th, if not later, for Brighman to make up his mind. One of the league meetings?

Soon, right? They're always before the start of the year. Yeah, I think it's like a week after Thanksgiving, because I have one on the Astros on that. All right, I got one for you. The Astros will make no significant moves at the winter meetings. It will be nothing that you'll go, ooh, wow. By the way, I'll throw one on for you.

Astros do not re-sign Justin Verlander. I'm on the other side on that one. I mean, I think the fact that it's even being remotely entertained shows you that Jim is in Dana Zier of, hey, let's give him another run here. Let's give him a healthy offseason, a healthy start in spring training. But what is that going to happen? He's not that guy. This is happening for two straight years. I don't disagree with you, but I'm just saying the fact that it was even remotely entertained shows me that there's at least legs to it.

All right. Connor, what do you got this week? I'll say the Rockets win their next three straight. And Alpe gets a triple double in one of those games. Okay. Texans beat Titans by at least 15, so maybe not three touchdowns, but by at least 15. Okay. And Nico Collins touchdown sounds like a good prediction on that one.

By the way, Cougars beat Baylor at TDCU Stadium on Saturday. I like it. Well, the Cougars red zone offense. we got to work on that. My goodness. I had a buddy of mine who's a Tulane guy go, you think Willie regrets leaving Tulane? I said no.

No. No. Zero chance. He knew what this season was. I mean, you know, the previous captain said that ship had sailed. I still remember back to Dana's press conference after they lost the TCU last year and was like, it takes time to build this up. It's like

you knew you were coming to the Big 12. Like, the hell you've been doing, dude. Mm-hmm. That's exactly right. No. He got the pay grade. He got the talent bump. Oh, he told you he got the pay upgrade, too. Remember that. Well, yeah, they can just pay me my buyout.

And they did. Yeah, how did Nebraska do that? Did they play last week? Yeah, they played USC and SC won the game. How did Nebraska's offense do? I don't know actual stats, but the fact that they lost to USC, who's not very good this year, well, hell, they beat LSU. Seemingly everybody has.

They lost 28 to 20. 20. Okay. I mean, I like Dana. I just, Dana put a can of quit out there towards the end that I was not overly happy about that. I'm going to ice my dad out really quick. Remember the West Virginia game last year? Yeah. So remember the touchdown that West Virginia scored to take the lead late and you're just thinking, great, they just blew another one. My dad lost his mind yelling at Dana Holgerson on the sidelines. And I nudge my dad, I go, look who's a couple of rows behind us. it was Tillman. So maybe my dad got the ball rolling, Matt. Oh, your dad is taking credit for ultimately Dana being fired?

I'm not, he's not taking credit. I'm giving him credit. There's a difference. Okay. It's kind of like, you know, a person that says, hey, call me T-bone now. It's like, whoever called you that. Well, I just want you to start calling me that. No, no, no.

That's not how this works. It has to be organic. It has to be genuine. Yeah. I got it. I got it. All right. So if you guys have any predictions, let us know.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you've got any sports predictions, let your voice be heard right now here on these airwaves that we call Sports Talk 790. We have the news at noon coming up. We've got the first ever Connor McGovern hosted edition of the NFL Rewind. And I have not worked on, believe it or not yet. What is the most pressing thing going on in sports today? Pressing thing going on.

They die either? I mean, I'm trying to think. Um, the Jets GM got fired, but that's not really, you know, you know, it's not really region specific. No. I mean, you've probably done a Dallas-Fort Worth one before, haven't you? Yeah, I mean, I don't think I've done a Joe Mixon one. And by the moment, if I was to do a Joe Mixon, it would not be involving him hitting a woman at a subway. Let's not do that.

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Lunch timers, gut feelings continue now on the Matt Thomas show. All right, before we go to the phones at 1151, apparently we had Ross make some predictions on Friday. So Connor would put him to old sports RV have to say. Yeah, before he left us, he said the Texans, he reiterated the fact that Texans go three and no in the next three games, but two of those wins are going to be by double digits. He said the Texans beat the Cowboys 23 to 13, so not bad, not bad. He said Jake Paul wins by decision and then Mike Tyson's fight. He got that correct. He said when I come back, the rocket starting five will be the same barring injury.

Mike McCarthy will be the coach of the Cowboys still. Alex Bregman will not be signed. Soto signs first. And with the Mets. Okay. We're not giving him his flowers. He's 6,000 miles away from us. We can't give him any flowers.

By the way, I'm just irritated. He just, hey, I'm here overseas, having a good time. Battle Red Ross is here. He's enjoying himself in the Far East and I'm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. By the way, underrated city is got to tell you that. I've heard that about Milwaukee. I've never been. Yeah, I met these women that were there.

They're really cool. Okay. They worked at a brewery, ironically enough. That's Wisconsin. That's part for the course. But yeah, go on. And they had, they lived in an apartment complex and their dad and their dad ran a bowling alley and pizza

joint. This is getting more and more Wisconsin. And they had two really strange friends that would just interrupt, they would come in their house unwelcome. Like while they, were you at their house?

Well, I mean, we went over there and they, it was strange. These two dudes just knocked, didn't even knock on the door, they just walked in and went, hello. I was like, who are these people? They had strange names. I don't know. forgot what they were.

And perhaps the strangest part of it all in this time that I was in Milwaukee yesterday, you won't believe this. One of the girls like to mix Pepsi and milk together and drink it. I would have left immediately. And she called it milk of Pepsi. And it was really gross. She asked me to try it. It was uninterested.

No. And the other girl, she was probably, in her 30s and she seemed okay but she loved this pet cat of hers and she'd hold it for like hours

while we were sitting there trying to have a conversation it was really odd you know people at a certain point in their life are single for a reason Matt I learned that a long time ago yeah she kept calling the cat boo boo boo-boo kitty it was really weird I was like what's wrong with you both

I mean like I love my dog I love pixie but like you know if nobody's around then yeah, I'll do the dog talk and all of that. But if like I have company around, like, I'll pet my dog. But, like, yeah, it's just, it, it kind of gets uncomfortable because not everybody loves their pets. Like, not everybody loves pets. Right, right.

But this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, was, like a fake, was, obviously a stuffed cad. She was, she was holding in and, and massaging. I was like, this is a really, I mean, I just met you guys in a bar the night before. You invited me over to your place. You had two strange friends come in the apartment unwelcomed. And then you're sitting there petting this kitty. It was just really odd. It just seems like this ends as the plot of a horror film.

Like almost like an episode of Tales from the Crypt. Like that, what was it, when Joe Pesci met the two twins. Yeah, yeah. Oh, one more thing. I met the girl that has booboo kitty is this cat has a boyfriend. And he is like, come on. Oh, they all do. Yeah, no.

And she wouldn't give it up. It was like you could clearly tell that he wanted to get romantic with her. And it was the weirdest part was he had this really bizarre name. And I was like, what are they calling you? And his name is Carmine. He's a good dude. I enjoyed visiting with him. That's a true Italian guy.

Yeah. But they kept calling him the big ragu. I was like, this is really, who would call you that? I don't know if I'd want to be known as that. Carmine's a cool enough name as is. I like Carmine. He was a good guy. He was a dancer.

Carmine Lou Pratazi on the surprise. I don't know what his last name was, but it kept calling him the Big Raghu. Yeah, that's... Johnny talked to you about me, right? Johnny, who? Sack? That was when Polly realized that Johnny Sack was playing him. So let me just recap again. We go from Chicago to Milwaukee.

I go to a bar that served pizza and bowl. These two women said, come back to our apartment. I'm like, you know, it's kind of late. Okay, I'll come have one drink. I was thinking it was going to be an alcohol, beer or something. And it wound up being milk of Pepsi. Then the girl brings out the stuff cat. Then these two strange neighbors walk in and go, hello.

And then the girl, and then the boo-boo-boo kitty's girl guy comes in and is like, come on, let's go, let's go. And she's like, no, I don't give it up. And I'm like, this is, I left really quick. The two neighbors just showing up, that's a lot. really a Midwest thing. Is it really? I didn't know that. It's called visits. Yeah. But you go to somebody's house and somebody's apartment complex,

unwellcomed? Yeah. I mean, because you're all very friendly, very familial with each other, that there's that trust factor. Yeah, you can just show up. That's fine. Okay. I just want to give you that story. I don't do a lot of socializing with strangers, but they were such nice girls. And the pizza

was good. Apparently it was the dad owned the the pizza pub and the in the bowling alley. Let's go to the phones. I told you they worked at a brewery, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was the first part. Okay. Bill and Port Arthur on 790. Hi, Bill.

How you doing, Matt? Good. I have a gut feeling, and it's not going to be popular. Uh-oh. But my gut feeling is Willie Adomas will be the third baseman for the Astros next year. I mean, is that a... Why doesn't you think it's popular?

I mean, Adamas will be a good backup plan if Brighman goes somewhere else. I think, and I hate to say it, but I think Brighman's gone. Well, I mean, I've said that as much, too. I think he's going to take a spicy hot take. I mean, I think a lot of people agree with you on that. I do. Yeah, let me look at William Adamas. Thanks for the phone call, Bill.

I think you're actually in the minority. 251, the batting average, 32 home runs, 112 RBIs, OPS of 794. What's the one metric that Ross always likes to throw out? B.A. Plus. OBS plus. That's right. That's what it is.

And it's 100 is average. More than 100 is considered good. 118. He's 109 for his career. He is, and I don't know much about him, except I'm thinking that defensively, there's nothing close to what Breggman would ride. Little younger than Breggman. He's 29, so he'll turn

30 in September. Hey, the day before I do. Well, I'm not turning. turning 30, but you get my point. I get you. Let's go to James Incline at 1158 on 790. Hello, James. Yeah, well, there's two women, Laverne Shirley.

How do you know their names? Because I know Lillian Squicky, too. Wait a minute. How do you know Lever? I don't know. How do you know their names? I knew that you didn't just go over to someone's random house. Kimberly would absolutely murder you. I'm old enough to know that map

All right, all right Did you not know Honestly, hold on Dan, did you not know What I was talking about? Yeah, I had zero clue I mean, I knew, Oh my God, it's so good

That is so good I knew that Laverne and Shirley Was in Milwaukee Just because of yesterday's Milwaukee Mention of Wayne's World When they did kind of the montage But I never once watched an episode I mean, it's kind of like

One of those old shows you heard about it But yeah, I never once watched I'm so happy that I was able to fool you for as long as I did. I'm beyond happy. I figured you going over to some random person's house. I was like no married man either A would do that or B, admit to it into a live microphone anywhere. Because then that story gets back to the wife. What?

Why were you at some random person's house? Yeah. And the two strange guys just walked and go, hello. You had me. You got me. That's good. It's very good by you. I'm very happy.

James, I got to run to the top of the hour. Thank you very much. I'm very, very happy with myself. I'm going to try that again, at least one more time. You'll be with Monday and Tuesday next week, too, I'm going to try it again. I mean, I am less goable than I used to be, but I'm still susceptible. Good by you. Good job. And Connor had no clues.

That was the easiest part was trying to fool Connor on that. No, yeah. If I didn't know, he definitely wouldn't know. No chance. Yeah. All right. The news at noon is next on 790. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show This is the Texans theme song for 2020, 2020.

Turn it up. See, that's part of the reason why new shows don't really have a lot of charm. They don't do theme songs anymore. Yeah, sing it. I actually know the words of this song. It's troubling. I mean, like I said, I've heard it before, just from Wayne's World, but to say I know the words.

Listen to those words and how it fits the 2024, Texas. Go for it. Settle for field goals in short yardage. Oh, what a great show in the 70s and early 80s. Great theme song. And it really is the theme of the 2024 Houston, Texas. 1206. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Dan Matthews in today. We are happy to have you with us. It's time now for the news at noon. Do I just go? No, you don't just go. You got to wait for the music. I just wanted to make sure. Let me tell you something.

Do the anchors on the local TV stations, do they just go? They have to wait for the big news drop. That's fair. I mean, yeah, if they're on location live, I mean, there might be like a second or two of them just staring into the camera and you're like, what's happening here? Yeah, that was just the delay. Okay.

By the way, when I was a kid, I used to know all the news anchors. I was going to drop a news anchor reference on you. I don't know any of the news anchors in town. I know, I mean, let's see. Mia Gradney and Lynn Cannon on 11? See, you don't know. You can't even sell it that hard. I know that Eric Brahas is on 13. Okay.

All right. There goes your oblique at Turk. Who the TV anchors in town update. Let's get to the news at noon. All right, Texans takeover AT&T Stadium, beat the Cowboys 34 to 10. The fans showed up. up, they were loud, and their stadium was falling apart. That's the news

at noon right there, that was it? Oh, no, I didn't know if you wanted to react. All right, well... No, I was thought we were going to play a highlight or something. No, no fancy hotline or anything? No. Okay, that's good. I mean, that's the crux of it right there. You're the news anchor, not me. All right, oh, go ahead, please.

No, I was just going to say, good win, could have been a great win, but a good win, you beat Dallas, you shut them up, you did not give them any real hope of making it a game out of it. You sacked to Cooper Rush a bunch of times. I think what? C.J.

was only sacked one time in the game. Offense finally scored a touchdown on the second half. Granted, I think they were trying to force it, right? Don't you think? It was like, we've got to get this off our chest. Oh, that's 100%. They would have gone for it on fourth down. Yeah, yeah. And Joe Mixon was amazing.

Joe Mixon was absolutely amazing. He was huge. How about that sack that Tim Settle had? I don't know if you saw it, because I think that you actually, I know, the Rockets game was over with by then, so you probably could have been watching it on your phone. He seriously was face to face with Cooper Rush. Like in the post game, I would have wanted to ask him, like, did you say anything to him? It was like, y'all were going to the ground?

Because that's what it kind of looked like. It was like, I was like, I'm wondering if he said something. But anyway. All right, Rockets lose a heartbreaker in Milwaukee 101 100 to the bucks. They snapped their five-game win streak. Fred Van Vleet, continuing his hot ways. Coming into the game last night, Matt, he was averaging. 19 points a game, his last three games. Well, 26 last night.

Jaylen Green, strong fourth quarter. Finishes with 21. Wasn't enough. They're off tonight before the Pacers get to town tomorrow. Yeah, Rockets had a chance. Two seconds left to go in the game, and Freddie V throws the ball, I think, a little bit too tall for Alperin. He had to go to the baseline to go grab it. By the time he did, he tried to keep the ball in bounds, he threw it. Janice was there. Even if he had got it to Tari, it probably would have been a little too. a little too late. There was only two seconds left to go in the game. That's what I said too on Rockets Rap. If that pass

is a foot lower, then that's an easy right off the glass, Rockets win the game. Yeah, but Jalen was great in the fourth quarter. Fred was great in the third quarter. And people have really started to ask me, and I'll just be honest about it, they're like,

what does this team need you to do to maintain what they've been able to do so far? And that is, again, crass the boards, play a good defense, forced turnovers, get second chance opportunities, get on the break when applicable. But I think last night was a good case, and you disagree with me if you want to, the spot shooting, the perimeter knockdown, knockdown, no doubt about it, three point shot, just needed to fall a couple of times in the fourth quarter and it did not. Yeah, I mean, you had Dylan right there in the corner. He had a good look at it. I'm surprised, Fred. I don't know who was. was on him defensively. He should have been whistled for an offensive foul, but wasn't.

And then he has the spacing and he misses the three right there. Alpi gets blocked at the rim. Yeah, the final under a minute 58 last night was not great for the Rockets. But we persevere. All right. Major League Baseball, Yankees right-hander. Luis Heel and Pirate starter Paul Skeens, Rookies of the Year. By the way, somebody did a rundown. Like, there's nobody that's dominating life right now, sports, entertainment, wherever it is, like Paul Skeen's, right? Can I be brutally honest with you for one second on this? Please be. There's a video of Paul Skeen's on, I guess, an interview or a conference call or something, and his hot girlfriend was right next to him the whole time.

I could give two blanks what he was saying. She's stunning. Oh, Livy? Is that what her nickname is or what? Yeah, Livy Dunn. So you know it well enough to call her Livy? Well, I mean, that's what she goes by on social. I mean, she gained notoriety while as a gymnast at LSU on social media.

And, I mean, that's where a lot of the name image and likeness came in, all of that kind of stuff. Right. And, yeah, I mean, she's incredibly good looking, too, so that helps. So let's put it this way. He's got an electric fastball, great off-speed stuff. Yes. He made an All-Star game after being on a team for two months, started the All-Star game. And he's got one of the hottest women as his side piece, or his piece.

And won a college world series title 11 months before. Okay, I guess it's big for college, yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, I mean, you reach the highest level right there. So his life does not suck. No, not at all. Not even close. Is he a Pittsburgh pirate in six years? No.

No. He's a Chicago Cub. He's a Los Angeles Dodger. He's any of those. Okay. Got you. Yeah, because, I mean, the pirates have pretty much shown you that they're willing to get up to the line and then, hey, you can pay them some money. Yeah, we don't want to do that.

I mean, they did it with Garrett Cole. So, who knows, maybe the Astros could have the second coming of Garrett Cole. You put together a nice enough trade package and Paul Skeens is here in Houston. Don't put that out there. Why not? Because that's crazy. It's not crazy. You know where this team's going to be in six years?

On top of the baseball world? Okay. All right. Well, then maybe he'd want to be a part of that. Okay. I'm in. I'll buy. All right.

One final one for you. Thirst Traps, a mini. The viral ring girl from the Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight. Her name is Sidney Thomas. Uh-huh. Not related, by the way. Yes. She has gained over 500,000 followers in just a few days.

On what platform? Instagram or Twitter? I believe Instagram. By the way, I'm going to stay with Twitter. I know it's maybe not the most popular thing, but it's still the most popular form of social media interaction, you know, at least with information. I need less social media.

I don't need more. Like that's like these people who are, oh, I'm going to, you know, Red Sky or whatever the hell it's called. Yeah, I don't have time for anything else. I tried Freds for like a day and a half and realized no one was there, and then Blue Sky, I don't know. But what I do want is I want less political people following me on Twitter because I don't ever talk about politics,

especially on Twitter. Yeah. So all I'm coming across to me is there's just a bunch of bots. And I'm... I just want... You know what I want... I want nice people who like sports and like Laverne and Shirley

and like Yacht Rock to follow me in game shows. Is that too much for me to ask? And Taylor Mathis. Who's that? You tell me, Matt. I think Taylor's in trouble. That's a different issue for a different time. What?

I just want nice people with pop-cultry type things. I don't want political. Like the last five people that have followed me on Twitter are all heavy politics. I don't care about politics. I don't want to know about your politics. And you sure as hell don't care about me because I'm not telling you how much you like your politics. Well, I mean, we were supposed to be done with it after November the 5th, but we knew that wasn't going to happen. Oh, well.

All right. And that's the news at noon, right? That's correct. All right, nicely done, Dan. Thanks, buddy. All right, 713, 212, 5790. 713, 212, 5790. So when are the Texans going to lose again?

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Ross is in some foreign country. I want to guess because I always mess it up. Dan is with us in Houston as well as I am, and we look forward to hanging out with you between now and 2 o'clock this afternoon. believe it or not is coming up at 150. I'm working on Joe Mixon. Okay. Dan, Joe Mixon's had some issues off the field.

Yeah, I mean, that's why I almost wondered if I should suggest a pivot to maybe, like I said, Dallas, Fort Worth, which I'm sure has probably been done. Oh, yeah. Maybe AT&T Stadium. I'm working on it. I got Joe Mixing going, but I'm just, it's. Oklahoma, possibly. I mean, there are many different ways you could go with this. You could go with, you know, his time at Oklahoma.

I got it a handle. I'm just saying it just too much legal stuff in here that I'm a personal pleasure. Which it will not be a part of the believe it or not. No, no. 713-212-5-790. Connor has the NFL rewind at the bottom of the hour here on 790. By the way, you know Connor, and Connor knows this.

We use the hustle as another fifth of Beethoven as the bump music. Name another radio show in the marketplace, Dan. It gives you a fifth of Beethoven with the NFL recap of the weekend. Or even the hustle. I mean, the hustle would be fantastic. That's a song, you know, it's one of those that you could put together a list of like songs that come on. And no matter your mood, you're immediately in at least a better mood. It's a white person's dancing song.

Dude, easily. No, that's one of those that you go to the party at the yacht club that's being played. Like, I have a theory that white people weddings, they have two songs always somewhere on the playlist. Or if you have a live band, the live band play. is it and you know what those two songs are right uh the chicken no shout and don't stop believing oh yeah i got a hot take for you don't stop believing journey's most overrated song i would agree with you on that it's it's the one that everybody goes to i mean you know just because when it takes four minutes to get to your chorus it's not a great song yeah i mean it was long enough too for

meadow to try to park the car and then tony to probably get whacked now that's not a movie reference That's a TV reference. Yeah, that was the end of the Sopranos. Yeah, got you. Alex and Conroe at 1224. Hi, Alex. Hey, what's going on, guys? Just a couple of things I wanted to hit on real quick.

Sure. First of all, the Texans, obviously, they're having a lot of success in the first half, and then they're coming out, like, just not flat, but just not inspired in the second half. I'm wondering if maybe they should just try thinking about baseball for the first half and saving it, and then whenever the second half comes, just really, you know, getting at it. Because that seems to work for me. But secondly, I don't know anything about basketball, man. I'm a complete casual when it comes to basketball.

If Yon had stepped out last night and we have all this video of it and blah, blah, blah, is it not possible to protest that? I have no idea how this works. I don't know because the only way you can, the only way you protest something is if a rules interpretation was incorrect. That is a judge, foot out of bounds is a judgment call, which seems silly, but it is. Wow, that's semantics at its best. Oh, no question it is.

But that is a normal course of play. If they would have, for instance, if they would have given a team a three-point basket when you had both feet inside the arc or you had a guy, in the lay I mean if there was a if there was a massive rules violation that would have altered the game that's when you can protest something and by the way protesters don't work in sports in basketball

I can't think of any that has happened in a long long long time and your words came back to bite you Matt where you had talked about how they need to do something about the replay reviews and the rockets had lost theirs earlier in the game yeah I mean could have possibly come in the play right there but how but see I don't know how you could have done that because you can't backtrack and say

hey go back 10 seconds ago you have to you have to only challenge so it's got to be a whistle at the whistle that's the problem okay yeah okay and uh I got one last question um I know you love yacht rock and I was on Instagram the other day and I found an account of this guy who's doing remixes of

like traditional not traditional but like alternative rock songs and he's turning them into yacht rock and I sent you one on Instagram. I don't know if you've seen it, but this guy did the 9-inch Nail song. I don't animal or I want to love you like an animal. That was one of the words he says.

But he rehashed it into a yacht rock song, and Matt, it killed. It was so good. It's a banger. It's a banger. It's an absolute banger. And I really want you to hear it because I think you'd love it, to be honest. All right. Well, why don't you do is do me a favor.

I'm looking at my Instagram right now. It might be in your sent messages like people trying to contact you. Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. Do me a favor. Send it back again, and if I find it, and I like it, we'll play it up before the show's over today. Oh, you're going to love it, Matt. Is it clean or no? It's absolutely clean.

Okay. Well, do me a favor. Get back, get out of your car, and don't drive and send me a message, but do it that way. Send to me, and we'll see if we can play it before the end of the show. Yes, sir. I got you, Matt. All right, we'll see. Thanks for the phone call.

See you, buddy. Yeah, I honestly, and you remember, I've only got two eyes here. And I'm watching the ball, and I'm watching, trying to watch 10 things. Did you see it clearly him step on the baseline when Janus was thrown the ball to Lillard? No, I did not see it. I mean, I actually didn't even know about it until you had brought it up today. Like, nobody had said anything during the broadcast that I could hear. Yeah, somebody said, by the way, if you're out there right now and you know what we're talking,

about. Apparently his, I think it was his left foot was on the left baseline. Send Dan and I a tweet with the photo. Because I want, Daniel, I want you to see it because it looks like to me, it's pretty apparent that Janus's foot is on the baseline. So it's NBA justice.

They got screwed over, what was it, Saturday night against Charlotte? And then the NBA probably comes back and says, hey, see, we got you back. You're good. Hey, by the way, you know, U of H's band likes to play how long has this been going on? That's a yacht rock song, isn't it? Absolutely

Because I mean I figure I guess like you know Easy on the other instruments A little bit of a high hat That's considered to be Strong Yacht Rock Yeah I mean look

Let me tell you something There is a documentary coming out I want to say in the next 10 days Help me out with that either way Yeah I still haven't watched the Elvis one I need to do that You will not be able to find me

For multiple days While that is on Matter of fact You know, Yacht Rock, usually the review comes to Houston once a year. And I think they go to the House of Blues or something. If they do, we'll do a night where we can invite the audience to come out and hang out with us and listen to the Yat Rock. Only if there's Captain Hats involved. If there's Captain Hats involved in it.

And I will wear a shirt and only have three buttons buttoned. Yeah, there you go. You got to let the lettuce show. That's part of it. I don't have a lot of lettuce, but I have some. Good for you. Yeah. And by the way, Connor, you're.

are invited too because i want to see you dance to some yacht rock you will get the you will get every oh it connor's been to plenty of white people weddings he has heard tons of yacht rock in his life i guarantee it yeah yeah we as white people have to have as much yacht rock at our weddings it's just the real and you know those uh like neon glow sticks like that's a big thing at weddings yeah it's like uh the halos kind of deal like yeah they're huge at weddings now especially like i said white people weddings that's that's another staple of white people weddings got to break out the neon glow sticks we could do a fantasy five of things that happen in a white person's wedding oh i'd have like at

least fantasy 10 yeah you'd have father-in-law blank faced with a long rambling speech the chicken dance uh you'd have uh four different groomsmen who are blitzed up there making an inappropriate references to the bride. Don't you love when the best man speech bombs. It's so good. It really is. Hey, I didn't think you guys are going to be together forever.

Man, girl, you are fine. It's like comedians who love going to see their comedian friends and they love when they start to bomb. Yeah. That's 100% what it is. White wedding is the best. Chicken fried steak.

mashed potatoes, nothing spicy. Green beans. Green beans are an absolute must at a white wedding. Yep. All right, NFL Rewind with Conner D. Up next, 1130, 1231 on Sports Talk 790. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show.

A lot of pressure right now. Connor D. McGovern, filling in for Ross. On the NFL Rewind. All right, so Ross usually starts with Monday night football. I know we've been talking about the Texans, but we'll do that here. The Texans defeated the Cowboys 34 to 10, as accurately predicted by Dan Matthews. Houston finally got a prime time win after losing to the Jets and Lions, and they got it with their biggest margin of victory so far this season,

led by Joe Mixon in the run game. Mixon had three touchdowns to record his sixth 100-yard rushing performance of the season. Defense also played well, sacking Cooper Rush five times, getting an interception, and scoring a thick-six-by. by Derek Barnett. Second and six. Rush. Ball knocked out of his hand and ends up in the arms of Guyton.

He gets it knocked out by Petrie and the return for the touchdown by Derek Barnett. Barnett with the defensive score. One-on-one with Derek Barnett, and he comes in, makes the play, and then he's also able to get it after it bounces around and run it in. Who is this Guyton Gibroni? What the hell was he doing? Tyler Guyton. Not an athlete.

Usually you're on the offensive line for a reason, and he showed that reason last night. Unbelievable. Yeah, he played at TCU in Oklahoma. I mean, is he considered a plus offensive lineman? Because he's not a plus receiver or a running back. He was their first round draft pick this year. He's 6-8-3-22.

29th pick overall. All right. That was embarrassing. Absolutely embarrassing. And then I love the shot on the sidelines too, where he did, you know, the universal side for my bad guys, you know, the tapping your chest. Oh. I think that's, I'm supposed to make it feel better.

It's one of those that's, you know, there's no response even needed. It's already a tacit agreement of we know. Yep. For sure. Thank you very much, Dalles, for embarrassing yourself. And I can't believe that there's stuff. saying with Mike McCarthy. I mean,

I know that nothing was going to change, but you might as well kick the tires on Deion right now and say, hey, bra, let's go. Why don't you get him higher before the bowl game, so Dion doesn't have to quarterback coach in that game. Oh, oh. So it is a former player, but it's not Deion. You didn't hear what Jerry said?

No. He thinks that Jason Whitten will be a really good NFL head coach one day. As a matter of fact, he reminds him of a former. Cowboys tied in that's doing good work in Detroit. Dan Campbell, really? No. Yeah, that he says that Jason Witton reminds him of Dan Campbell. Yes.

Okay. You know, we're still in Connor's shine here. Let's go back. Yeah, yeah, sorry. This is a good conversation. But anyway, we'll move on to a game that was all about defense with the Pittsburgh Steelers taking down the Baltimore Ravens 18 to 16. Ravens kicker Justin Tucker, who many think is the greatest kicker of all time,

missed two kicks continuing his season-long. struggles. Lamar Jackson was 16 of 33 for 207 yards and a touchdown, as well as an interception as Lamar continues to struggle against the Steelers holding a one and four career record against them. Lamar is still a frontrunner for MVP, but he had his worst performance of the season on Sunday. Now a first and 15 with Hill and Ricard in there. Jackson, deep drop, timing route, drops it in the bucket, caught by Hill. Steelers fighting for the football. They come away with it. Play is whistle dead. The question, who's got it?

The player of the game has to be Steelers kicker Chris Boswell, who scored six field goals with three of them being from 50 or more yards out. The Steelers are now one and a half games ahead in the NFC North, or the AFC North. All right, Connor, trivia question for 10,000 MT bucks. Where did Chris Boswell play at college football? No clue. Rice University.

Yes. Segment's over. Why? I mean, come on, man. If he doesn't know a man who's right around the corner from us, he's right in front of his face. Oh, come on. You can't name five rice owls, period. Don't crush the kid.

Jeremy Bates. I mean, we're talking baseball? Boy, I could name some baseball players. No, that wasn't the question I asked you. All right. Can I just tell you, I don't know how Pittsburgh's doing it, Dan, honestly. How is Pittsburgh doing it? Ferocious defense.

Russell Wilson has found the fountain of youth, but they're not a high. I mean, the game, what was the score? 15 to 10, something crazy like that? 1816, I believe. 1816, it was a low-scoring game. It wasn't like they were prolific offensive work. Yeah, they just beat you up defensively, like you said. Naji Harris is a good compliment to that team.

So he's a huge help as well. Boy, Steeler fan, you just have not much to bitch about. You really don't. If you ever got a franchise quarterback there, imagine how prolific that team would be. Well, they had one. His name was Ben Rathlisberger. But I mean, that was like five years ago. That's true.

All right, we move on. Probably the most highly anticipated game of the week was the Buffalo Bills, handing the Kansas City Chiefs their first loss of the season. The bills put up 30 points against the defending Super Bowl champions, while the defense forced two interceptions from Patrick Mahomes to win 3021. The biggest play of the game came from MVP candidate Josh Allen, who scored a 26-yard touchdown on a fourth and two with less than three minutes remaining that killed any chances for a Chiefs comeback.

This is the check. Quarterback's legs. Fakes left. Now taking off. Going to run for him. He got it. And there he goes. Inside the 10 to 5.

Oh, the play of the year in the NFL. Buffalo, who sits at 9 and 2, have kept their hopes alive of getting the AFC's top seed. Buffalo scares me as much as Kansas City does, honestly. They got it going right now. And by the way, shout out to CBS. putting their pregame show in Buffalo. That was, that had every bit of the feel of a college game day. Now, you can't do that at 32 stadiums,

but you send that pregame show there where they were all jumping on tables and breaking them in half. That was the best part of a pregame show I've seen in years. See, the younger guys on the broadcast team there, they can do it. Like I think, did Matt Ryan do it? Yeah. Bill Coward did, he almost broke his back. I was going to say, you don't want to have.

guys like cower you know jb anybody like that doing it we can be getting some broken backs some broken hips you just don't heal up as fast as you used to matt the only problem with those on-site pregame shows is that sometimes the fans are so rowdy it kind of gets in the way of the content but i'll say this i never watch the nflb today i never watch fox's pregame show i was riveted by watching the nflip today from buffalo yeah i've never been to buffalo before but And I sure is how I'm not going this late in the year. But I would like to see a game in that city because those fans, Bill's Mafia is, they're unplugged, literally.

That was my regret. I told Connor this, that I wanted to go around the tailgate lots for the Texans and see if I could find any of Bill's Mafia just to see a table jump. Like, I do want to see a table jump. I don't want to do it, but I just want to see one. I just want to see someone to get caught on fire. I mean, that's part of the joy of watching the building. There's that.

And then they're also like a part of like one of their tailgates, where like you get sprayed with like ketchup and mustard. Like a hot dog? Yeah, like you walk up to somebody that's like on top of a truck with bottles of ketchup and mustard to like put ketchup and mustard on your hot dog. And chances are you are head to toe and ketchup and mustard. Quick question for you, Dan. Which conument would you not mind being lathered in? Not mind being lathered in.

Let's see. ketchup's got a lot of sugar, so stickiness. Yep. Maybe, I don't know. Butter feels like you'd be slipping around a bunch. Butter would be tough. I mean, sour cream could be cool, especially if you have sunburn. Then that's like, you know, eggs and mayonnaise.

It starts to, you know, the stink factor. All right. No, no, no. I love sour cream. Okay. Answer my question quickly before we get to wrap up this segment. We'll say mustard. You know, I'm going to go with.

Stone ground mustard is the comment I like to be louder. There you go. Feels like it's got a good smell to it. It's got a little texture to it. You won't slip. Easy to scrub off? Yeah, I would think so. All right.

Lastly, is anything else? We totally butcher this segment. No, we'll do one more game recap because it was an exciting ending. We'll go to Chicago where the Green Bay Packers defeated the Bears 20 to 19 and a classic showdown. Jordan Love and the Packers were trailing 19 to 14 until Love hit receiver. Christian Watson for a 60-yard catch and run. That's out of the go-ahead score with less than three minutes left in the game. Caleb Williams looked better in his first start since firing offensive coordinator Shane Waldron

and was this close to leading the Bears to victory, but Packers special teams came up big when blocking a 46-yard field goal attempt on the final play of the game. Here we go, 46 yards for the win. Goodness, the Packers block it, and they're going to win. Green Bay survives. and heartbreak for Caleb Williams. The Bears are now 4 and 6, but their playoff hopes looking pretty bleak.

The Packers are now third in the NFC North. All right. And by the way, what a bad day for Chicago sports fans. They lose on the final play to the Packers and the Rockets kick the crap out of the Bulls at United Center later that night. That, my friends, excellent job. Conardee McGovern.

That was the NFL Rewind from this weekend. 713-212-5-7. 9713, 212.790. We are open line the rest of the way. We have, believe it or not, coming up today at 11, at 1250, the category of things all about Joe Mixen. 713, 212, 570, 719. 719. 212, 570. 719. 1245. This is Sports Talk, 790. Matt Thomas returns on Sports Talk 790. Baseball, football, basketball in Houston. Home for your home teams. The Jets fired their general manager today, Joe Davis. Excuse me, Joe Douglas, excuse me.

Well, that's a mess. Boy, those are New York franchise. Daniel Jones yesterday finds out he's going to the third team. I'm never going to cry for New York Sports franchise. I mean, they, by default, win something every once in a while, right? There's so many pro teams up there. Yeah, I was going to say, I mean, your chances of, being able, I mean, you know, they're huge hockey people up there too.

So, oh, the Rangers, oh, the Islanders. I'm just like, okay, cool. I mean, the Yankees and Mets both made it to the playoffs. Mets nationally championship series, Yankees to the World Series. I mean, the Mets, I kind of, I mean, that's the funny thing is we probably should never somewhat root for the Mets, but I found myself rooting for the Mets this year. Because they actually were an enjoyable team. Let's not go that far.

Now, Mets Dodgers, I'm rooting for the Mets, but no, I, you know, no, I, I'm just not going to root for other teams just for the sake, unless there's like two or three of my favorite players of all time. Like, for instance, if Bramman goes to a nationally team, I'll root for him personally, but I won't like, oh, let's go nationals or something like that. I don't see myself doing that. What's like, I mean, you just mentioned the nationals. Like, let's just say that that does come to fruition. Like, what's the one team that you're kind of like, okay. Like for Correa when he went to the twins, it wasn't like, you know,

indifferent. It was just like, you know, good for him. He got his money. Yep, yep. Let me give you who, it's easier to give you the flip side, the teams that will piss me off. Are you ready? Oh, yeah.

Tigers. Anybody in the American League West. The Yankees, the Dodgers. Red Sox? No, I don't, they're not, they're, uh, maybe the Red Sox. but I would say that's a tiered group down. I'll narrow it down to about six teams.

Anybody in the American League West, especially if it's Texas, the Yankees would really irritate me, and I think it's about it, maybe. I don't know. I think he'd be great. I think people in Chicago would love him. I was going to say, a little birdie told me to look out for the Cubs. Who's this little birdie?

Announce to this person. I can't give out my sources. Come on, you've been in this business long enough. No, but come on. It's probably just about a year's that called you in Texas, you're saying. All right, it's just again, you know, I can't divulge. Okay.

I'm not under oath here. Oh, tigers would irritate me. Yeah, you said that at the beginning. Yeah, okay, I just want to make sure. AJ coming in here after he just had one go off the foul pole. It's much better to be on this side of the foul pole. I know, by the way, came in and beat the Astros two straight games in a wallet card here. Yeah, exactly.

You know what? I was at one time thinking if I ever ran into AJ and the woodlands, you know, we're out of place that serves the fermented grapes that I would possibly send over a glass. But now, no, no, no, it's not happening, AJ. No, no, no, no. I know how much money you make. He needs to buy you a beverage.

That's true. That's true. But, you know, it's usually one of those things. Like, I mean, remember that in the movie funny people. Adam Sandler talked about, it's funny how you get rich and you get everything for free. Connor? Ding. There you go.

That's two. It's two. Yeah, you got two more left in you. We're down on an hour and seven minutes left of the show. Just being, I'm being judicious with them, okay? I got you. I just, I don't want to go to the well too often. Yeah, I will say this, and this is a completely personal take.

I've had a really good time in my broadcast career working with a lot of coaches that I've had tremendous respect for. And general managers, a couple of owners. But if I was to put together a list of my five favorite. people that I've had to deal with. AJ's on my list. I've heard that. We're like personal friends. Now that we go break bread,

but he's just as thoughtful as it gets. He's a super smart guy, clearly by his Stanford ties. He clearly matured after his time in Arizona where he would be the first admit he was overwhelmed by being a manager at his age. The guy can flat out manage.

He took a dormant Detroit franchise first of all he made sure the general manager that was there before got out of there because he's like I can't work with this job at it was a villa right as I think of it was a villa yeah and he is patient he stern when he has to be and um and look I like Joe Espada a lot I liked Dusty for a variety of reasons as well but if you had just said give me give me AJ Hinch on a new 10-year contract to come finish out his career as a manager of the Astros, I would take on the heartbeat. I think most of the fan base would too.

And it's, again, it's no disrespect to Joe Espada. None whatsoever, because Joe's a really good dude, too. He was here for Camelot. He was Camelot. I mean, he was everything of what we think of this current incarnation of Astros baseball being. By the way, you mentioned Dusty. And I know that Dusty is a huge music guy. Did you ever ask him about his love of Yacht Rock?

Not that rock, but he would definitely bring up some music. We would play bump music, and he always thought our bump music choices were good. Okay. That's how we used to ice break until we'd ask a somewhat difficult question than Dusty would like, hey, man. Yeah. Or he'd drop a damn dude on us. Yeah. Injuries, you ask about injuries.

Yeah. But no, Dusty's an easygoing guy with the wine and everything like that. I mean, he's a West Coast guy now, so. I may see Dusty in a couple weeks. As a matter of fact, Rockets put the Kings in Sacramento, and he lives in Sacramento area. Okay. I don't know, they'll come by on the broadcast, but... Maybe you ask him then, hey, you know, are you much for Yacht Rock?

I guarantee you on his playlist, he's got some Christopher Cross, some Michael McDonald. I guarantee you he does. Who doesn't? I mean, if you don't have Michael McDonald, Christopher Cross, and who else would be a good... Toto? You're just not living life the right way. Toto is a great one. And Weezer did a great of Africa, too.

they did a cover of it. It was fantastic. We don't say weasering does great with any conversation piece. They did a really good job on that. Are you sure? Yes. By the way, Conor, did you see the song that got sent to me for the Yacht Rock remix? I got to send it to you, I think. You got to send it to me.

We'll play it at 120. How about this? You know what we're going to do? We're going to play. You know what you can't do? You can't play enough cool in the game, right? What are you laughing for? You can't. You can't.

I was agreeing with you because it put me in a good mood. Yeah. When you're going to hear, you're going to hear some cool in the gang to open up the final hour of the show. A little ode to what was the excellence that was Joe Mixon. He has today's topic on, believe it or not. That is coming up in about 50 minutes from now. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

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Texans aren't spending a lot of time at the line of scrimmage once they get up there. Hand to Mixon, cutback. Joe Mixing, goodbye. Touchdown, Texans. You can see the center, Jared Patterson, making his second start. They're at center. He gets Mazzie Smith on skates. And you've got Joe Mixon, who he cuts back.

A nice crease there on the backside. Excellent job up front by the offensive line. Mixing. A walk-in. Touchdown, Texas. He wants to run the ball right at the Dallas Cowboys. There's no doubt. They come in feeling like they can get it going with the issues

that Dallas has had stopping the run. Josh Butler, who I mentioned, making the start tonight. He gave up contained. and Mixon bounces it for the score second and six Rush ball knocked out of his hand and ends up in the arms of Guyton

he gets it knocked out by Petrie and the return for the touchdown by Derek Barnett Barnett with the defensive score one-on-one with Derek Barnett and he comes in makes the play and then he's also able to get it after it bounces around and run it in.

Next in touchdown, Texas. And the second half drought is over for Houston. I'm going to go Texans 34, Cowboys 10. I'll give you credit, Dan, you've not bragged about this enough so far. Final hour of the Matt Tombe Show with Ross, congratulations on your head. Hey, let others heap the praise, brother. That's the way it is. No self-promotion here.

All right, very good. I like it. 713, 212, 790. You know if I had a hit on the head, I'd have been talking about it every 10 minutes. Oh, of course, I know that. You know they call me Mr. Modesty. I was going to say, I mean, in addition to that and your strong work ethic,

I mean, you know, God forbid there is an Astros afternoon game ever. God forbid. I'll say this. I have two amazing careers going at the same time, but it's these these games in Miliwake that take three hours of fly home because of a terrible headwing.

When you get to the house at 320, it doesn't necessarily, the 10 o'clock time slot doesn't necessarily give you a lot of time to get that extra rest, so to speak. No, I mean, that's why, you know, you're kind of venturing into the morning show territory where when you do morning radio, you know, the lifeblood of morning radio is the post-show naps.

Like if you don't do the post-show nap, you're done. I mean, I love Adam and Adam more than life itself, but I'm going to be asleep by 201. Just going to be brilliant honest with you. All right. So after 201, we can have endless shots at MT. Got it. Oh, yeah. It's in the notes.

I put it in the show, Doc. Okay, you're right. All right. Well, you put some hours in yesterday, too. You produced their show. You did the Rockets. Did you get any calls last then? Or was it hard because of the Rock.

It is just like, all right. Here's number three, Connor. Just like in the movie History of the World. Not a one. Nay, nay, nay. not a one. Ding. For those of you that don't know,

we are counting the number of movie references that Dan Matthews brings into the sports commentary spectrum that is the Matt Thomas show with Ross, and he's at three so far today. We're working towards a push. See, the thing about you is, I don't have that memory of movies like you do. Now, granted, you probably have seen more than I have, for sure.

I can refer to television shows like anybody's business, but movies is a hard one for me. Yeah, I mean, It's a blessing in a curse. I mean, it's a blessing, whereas, you know, in terms of being able to fill four hours of content, sometimes it comes into play. But I've often told my mom that I wish that I was able to retain, say, like, financial information a little bit better. Like, if I knew, like, everything about the stock market, like, that, that would, I would trade that for that in a heartbeat, absolutely. Yeah. Do a little day trading in addition to doing this every day.

The worst part is for me is that I can tell you the 86 Rockets 5 starting lineup, or I can give you the Astros 98 lineup for the most part, but I can't tell you what Cameron had for his fifth birthday party. You know what I mean? Sure. Then that gets the wife mad and whatnot. Well, I mean, it's also too, because obviously where I was, this was when the Astros started to rise to prominence again.

So I would wear my Astros had a lot. And of course, then you get the people, you always been an Astros fan, and that was my thing. give me a year. Give me a year. 1998. Sean Barry, third base, platooning with Bill Spires. Go all the way around.

And I'd be like, yeah, brother. I go all the way back to the dome. Don't try that with me. You thought you knew. You came correct. That's right. That 98 team still hurts. And look, we've got two world championships,

so I should get passive. But it's almost like that first girlfriend you had that you thought you were going to marry. That's 98 to me. 86 was just a nice I was too young to be in a relationship that was that first girlfriend but 98 hurt

Yeah I mean because 86 I wasn't even one years old yet My parents actually left the deciding game Because they had to come home and take care of me The sitter was going to have to leave soon What? Yeah So they had to come home and make sure that Their less than one year old son was okay

Now granted that game did go a bunch of extra innings Right I understand that But still I mean seriously You've got to get a better. If your babysitter has to understand that if your clients, if your customers are going to a supporting event, they're not going to be done in two hours and 15 minutes. Sorry. Yeah, you would think not.

But, I mean, I was at game two in 98 when Wagner gave up the game tying home run to Layrits right in front of us. And then Billy Spires with the broken bat walk off single the right. Okay. Well, there was some good times then. 713-212-5-7-90 if you want to join us this hour. We are open line until we get to believe it or not, which is at $150 this afternoon. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Headlines, Texans win against the Cowboys.

I've been asking this question all morning long and certainly want to do that for the 1 o'clockers that are with us. Let's, you know, and we've never done it in a numerical scale. One to 10, I'll say this, and then you go, and on then you go, Dan. Satisfaction 7. That was going to be mine. So were unanimous. Ten would have been

like what the Detroit Lions of the Jacksonville on Sunday. Yes, absolutely. One would have been a 58-yard field goal by a Tommy Fairbairn at the buzzer. I'd agree with that. I mean, especially too, like you just made with the

Detroit Jacksonville reference, because I think that's what people want. They want like beginning to end domination. Like remember last year against the Steelers. Like that was fun. Like you were like, I didn't know that this team was capable of this. Like especially right now. Like no way.

And they did that because I mean, the way that the season started last year, you were kind of like, all right, I get it. I mean, rookie quarterback, you know, just young guys across the way. Right. Young head coach, first year, offensive coordinator, and then they went to Jacksonville, and you were kind of like, all right, that's cool. And then they beat the hell out of the Steelers, and you're like, well, maybe, actually.

And I got news for you. Detroit's going to have a really good year in sports. Michigan won the national championship. Now, of course, their coach got disgraced and had to leave. But the Lions, and not that we're going to do a deep dive on Lion football, but I watch a lot of that game because the Green Bay, Chicago game kind of bored, me when I was in Chicago. How in the hell is anybody going to try to outscore the lions in a football game? Because Baltimore can't do it. The Texans can't do it.

Kansas City might be able to do it. Buffalo might be able to do it. Not that I'm trying to put Super Sunday on the map this early, but we've got to deal in realities here. Well, I mean, like I said, though, it only takes one either Saturday or Sunday in the postseason, and it's all over. I mean, that's kind of, you know, you can play your best. football all the way up to that point and it's not going to matter.

So that's the one thing that they have to guard against. But this seems like it's a team that's well coached and well prepared every single week. So I don't necessarily see the hype not being met. But, I mean, again, there's that. I mean, I'm trying to think who in the NFC you could possibly look at and say, yeah, they could get them with a good game. I mean, I guess the only other team that's really good in the NFC is the Eagles. And I don't see that happening.

I'm realistic, unless Jared Gough throws, well, I was going to say, throws five interceptions, but that doesn't matter because he still wins games that way. Well, then they're going to stop doing the chance at regular grocery stores there in Detroit, Pistons, and Red Wing games. Yeah. All right, 713, 21, 2, 5, 790. 1 to 10, how satisfied were you about the performance from your Texans yesterday? And more importantly, how excited about you, are excited are you about them winning the next three?

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felt this way And this would not be Yacht Rock to me though I was gonna say It's almost like Could have like convinced me This was a Justin Timberlin

Lake song. I feel like I play this when I was hosting the quiet storm. Help me. I mean, the beginning of it was quite graphic. 949. 790 The Quiet Storm.

Is the Yacht Rock Channel up on the satellite? Oh, it's always up. It's on 311 now. It used to be on Channel 14, but they moved down. They only played during the summertime. I was going to say, yeah, you got to bring that back during the warm weather months. I'm serious.

I may have to take a day off just to watch that documentary about yacht rock over and over again. If somebody were to put you to it, your favorite all-time yacht rock song, I have mine. Oh, you know, that's a great question we've talked about this before. I'm going to go with Sweet Freedom by Michael McDonald. Okay. Thunder Island is mine. Hmm.

It's a good one. Not one of my favorites, but definitely a very much a yacht rock jam. It's going to say the full sale is up. The jib. Ross hates it when we talk yacht rock. He's like, that made-up genre. It's real and it's spectacular. Yeah, it is.

I mean, especially to our caller, was it Alex from Conroe? Yeah. Oh, Alex definitely listens to some yacht rock. I mean, if you're right there near the water or on the water, yeah, it's on. With some wine coolers or a zima? Or the Jolly Rancher on the bottom? I mean, I think back in the day when those were in vogue, yes. although seltzers have kind of made their return as being pseudo,

those things that you just mentioned. Yeah. But, yeah, I mean, I would say that the seltzers are really big. You know, like the one that's a direction and a time of the day is a really popular one right now with the different fruit flavors. High noon? Yeah. I never had one. Really good.

I'm not a seltzer guy. I am for like high noon. Like the other ones, the ones that aren't with. vodka. I'm not as much for them. Okay. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Let's talk to Dave in spring at 124, the Matt Thomas show with Ross featuring Dan. That's a lot of work. Hi, Dave. Hey, what's going on, guys? Hi. How about anything by, anything by Christopher Cross would probably fit in your John or there. But, amen. But, hey, listen, I was telling your call screener, I haven't listened to a lot of talk radio today. So maybe this has been covered ad nauseum.

But I just starting to wonder a little bit about D'emiko's judgment in some of these games. And just last night, early in the game, I mean, you guys saw that backward pass by the Cowboys that we just let it go, you know, didn't challenge it. And it was clearly a backward pass that was not caught. So it was a free ball. I think we recovered it. the rest didn't call it and it ended up going right back to the you know the cowboys just ran another play and it was all done and then the other one a question was going for you know it was like fourth and two and a half when you have a seven nothing lead early in the game and we pass on three points you know what should have been an easy three points don't get the first down i mean it's just sort of i don't know i mean what do you guys think i think he's in a bit of a second year slump sort of like cj is in a little bit of a second year slump both of them So anyway, that's my comment. Okay, thanks for the phone call, Dave.

Again, pardon my inability to give you the deep dive into the game because I was calling rockets last night. But I did see enough to go over. I've seen enough of D'Amico. I would say as an in-game play caller, risk-taker, judgment, I would say he's a game. probably about a C. Would that be fair? Or is that too harsh, too little? Well, I mean, last year it was fantastic as, you know, Dave referenced. And this year he's still been good. I think that the only thing that D'Amico necessarily gets in trouble with is he trusts his players as a whole a lot. And sometimes that trust can kind of cloud his judgment a little

bit. Like, I got what he was doing last night when he let them go for it on fourth down. It was, hey, we're doing this because I trust you. Like you're C.J. Stroud, I trust that you're going to make the play. And it didn't work where you're like, come on, man, kick the field goal. But, I mean, aside from that, I don't really have any complaints about the job that Damiko has done. Like, I can't look at any of the four losses this year and say, actually, no, that's not true. The Detroit one, when he sent Kaimi Fair Baron out for that 58-yarder, I was like, no, man, like, no. You know what, that play he should have gone forward on fourth down because the same result would have had.

happened. If you don't get it, at least you backed up the lions a little bit, but because he went for the field goal, moving the ball back, it made it a shorter field for Detroit. Well, it's, and that's exactly it is, I was even going to say punt the football. I mean, because Townsend had actually had a good game that night. So it's like, give him a chance to be able to pen them deep. Your defense has already forced five turnovers in this game. They've played all in all a really good game the only time that they started to falter a little bit was when your offense was going three and out and having them out there too much. Yeah, again, there isn't any massive malpractice, but I would probably, man, it's just tough

because again, my feeling is, and Dan, I've talked about this a lot with Ross. I think the average coach just does a very poor job in generally making decisions. I mean, I've just never run through a consistent run of NFL coaches saying, man, that was a great savvy move by this guy. I've seen guys as good as Belichick and as good as Andy Reed, screw up two-minute drills and timeouts. Remember, football coaches always think they're the smartest guys in a room. Trust me.

And they make tactical mistakes over and over and over again. Well, I mean, there was, you know, a football coach that used to be here who may or may not have been bald and had a butt chin that would let you know that pretty much on a regular basis. You were an idiot. Yeah. Yeah. I really honestly am thankful to God that I was not here while he was here.

Yeah. I cannot stand people like him. I would say that there's nothing. You coach a game where people run around in helmets and pads and hit each other. Yeah. You're not a genius. Yeah, I would say there's nothing directly that makes me think a decision made by the head coach cost this team. Could you have put games away?

could you have given yourself a little more breathing room, could conservative polling or conservative decision-making given other teams a chance to hang around? Yeah, I think all those are fair. And I'm not saying I'm not trying to over-defend D'Amico, but I don't think there's been something so egregious. Like, there have been times where I've watched the Jaguars or the Colts make bone-headed decisions. What was the game we had a few weeks ago?

Oh, it was Detroit in the first half that ran the ball three times with a minute 15 left to go and then gave the Texans all that. I mean, that was Dan Campbell completely boneheaded coaching decision. I mean, I feel like we've seen a lot of that this year with opposing Texans coaches. I thought you were going with Buffalo with McDermott trying to throw the ball three times. The two straight passes. one was almost intercepted, the next one was intercepted. Right.

You're absolutely right about that. Yeah, I mean, so there was that one too where, I mean, you set up Fairbaron to win the game, kick the field goal and win the game. No, I mean, I think that it's obviously the shortcomings are the ones that we look at the most because it's never going to be, oh man, hey, the coach has put together a really, really good game plan for this. I mean, D'Amico's not wrong. Yeah.

It's execution. I mean, more often than not, the coach is going to get the blame for it. But when he says the truth of the matter is, we have to just go out there and we have to do it. He's not wrong. That's right. I mean, CJ's got to play better. The offensive line has to be better. I mean, yeah, he's not wrong.

All right. 130 is our time. We got, believe it or not, coming up in 20 minutes here on the radio program. 713212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Did any of you peek in on the Texan the Rockets game last night as the Texans game was pretty much. out of hand by the end of the third quarter. Close game for the Rockets.

Rockets still playing some excellent basketball and have a chance to get fat and happy this week, I think, with some very winnable games against the Indiana Pacers tomorrow, and then two games with the Portland Trailblazers coming up on Friday and Saturday. Rockets in the four spot in the West, but there's 67 games still left to be played. I know.

713212-5-790 7-1-3-21-5-790 Dan is in for Ross. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Fred, ball over the top of his head. Lob's a shangoon. He can't gather. Hands it off, try two to Jabari. He knocked it away, and it's going to be a ballgame and a win for the box.

Alpy was wide open underneath, but could not hold out of the basketball. He tries to tap it back in bounds of Tarry. Eason, but by then it was too late. And the Rockets' five-game winning streak is gone. Yeah, that pass, I think Fred admitted, was too far. About a foot too far. At first I was upset with Alpi. I was like, come on, man, you've got to bring in that ball.

Yeah, yeah, I saw it. Same thing. The little too much. The long court view, I was like, nah, that's not on Alpy. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah. I looked at on the second reply, and I thought the exact same thing. But, man, Janice is good.

He really is. Dame has taken a step back. I mean, I've got to be. And now, granted, he missed the previous three games of the concussion protocol, but he can still take over games when he wants to. But freaking Brooke Lopez is knocking down three-pointers like they were layups. That was one of my keys to the game. I said, hey, look, you know, Janice and Dame will get theirs, limit everyone else.

it wasn't only him. Gary Trent, Jerry Trent Jr. in the first half. The hell, me. Bobby Portis. Jeez. Yeah. I still want one more dead-eye shooter. I don't know if Reed's going to be, Shepard's going to be able to crack that shooter rotation, 19, 20 minutes a game guy.

I don't know that's going to be in his cards this year. Don't know that. It could certainly change. But this team, if it wants to take that super leap, is going to have to get a, I'm not necessarily even saying a star, just a dead eye shooter. Does that make sense to you? No, and I've said as much to you as well.

That, I mean, you definitely need at least one. I mean, maybe even two as well. I mean, does one crack the starting lineup? And then another one is off the bench for you. But, yeah, at least one that can come in and you know that you can dial up a couple of three-threes. And they're able to kind of be that. Was it Vinnie Johnson?

Was he the microwave? Yes, he was. Yeah, there you go. I'll give you a little more of a recent example. JJ Reddick came on the floor to the minute where team he played for and just shot jumpers. That's it. And then he was a pompous jerk.

That's true, but he went to Duke, so what else are expecting? What is it about those Duke guys, man? Like, they seemingly are that way. Like, I dealt with Danny Ferry at my previous spot. I mean, just insufferable. Even as an executive he was? Yes. Really?

The worst. Huh. Smartest guy in the room. Like when they hired Mike Boodenholzer, somebody asked a fairly innocuous question. And Danny was like, he's not going to answer that. You don't have to answer that. It's like it's his introductory press conference, Danny. That's when he does it.

Huh, the things you learn of having Dan Matthews on your stand. Yeah. I mean, if I ever found out, oh, yeah, the rockets have added Danny Ferry to the front office. I'd be like, no, there it goes. All right. Keith and the Woodlands at 139 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Hello, Keith. Well, hello, folks.

I was calling, this is a deter. I was listening yesterday, so there's a name change that it meant it made. I think y'all were talking about. Dyken Park, yeah. Dyken Park, okay, and so I had to go in a meeting, so I couldn't hold. I wanted to call and throw in my two cents,

and maybe it's already been y'all asking about nicknames. So Dyken is an air conditioning company? Is that right? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. H-Back. Okay. So anyway, so I was thinking maybe for the ballpark, it could be called the Big Chill, something like that.

The one I keep seeing more than anything else, Keith, is the Icebox. I hear that, but we have Juice Box. That's so what I want to say, obvious, I guess, juice box, ice box. That's fine. Big Hill is cool. And the field could be called the Killen Field. okay so we got the field and the stadium so that's just my two-same thanks Keith you know I'm not a big nickname of ballpark guy

I call it what it is I mean it's it's not something that I'm going to lose sleep over no you're absolutely right I it's just I more often and not I'm going to the park that's it yeah I don't I've you could air check me Dan over the last 20 years and I I probably was the juice box less than five times. Yeah, I mean, we had a caller. Josh, was it earlier? And you've said from Minutemade Park, and I didn't want to correct you, but. What did I say? What was I supposed to say?

Oh, Diken Park, right? Yeah, Diken Park. Oh, dang. It's going to take a while. You know what we ought to do? We ought to have like a tip jar, like a, what do they call it when players find themselves? Kangaroo court. Yeah.

Yeah. We should have a kangaroo court, and every time we catch one of our on-air host calling at the wrong stadium, then we've got to put a dollar in there. That's going to be. a pretty nice little hall for whoever, you know, is deemed the winner at that point. Is that like almost like the Pass the Hat game at baseball games? I haven't played past the hat since I was in a game at Wrigley Field about 15 years ago. Yeah, I even forget the rules, too, of how to play it, but, I mean, it looked fun.

The group in front of us at my parents' Astros' season seats used to do it all the time. By the way, real quick on that, I was talking about being a game in Chicago. You know, Wrigley Field had Ohio State versus Northwestern on. Saturday, right? Right. Are you all ready to see a football game at Diken Park? I mean, we're in Texas. I feel like we don't really have a shortage of good facilities to be able to play a football game at.

But you don't think it's, see, I'm always into the atypical places to watch games. For instance, I love when basketball games are played on ships. you know when the military have games played on their on you know the USS whatever aircraft carrier games aircraft carriers I love when

NHL hockey goes to sports stadiums and plays outside I think that's really cool I feel like the NHL one is is a little bit more because I mean still the sight lines are pretty decent and all of that now I remember when

Wrigley Field had an NFL game or a college game years ago they only went one direction because they were worried about the wall Do they do that again this past weekend? No, they didn't. They actually put padding because their whole thing was, well, we're playing at Wrigley Field. The Ivy is what makes Wrigley Field what it is.

And, of course, there's a brick wall behind the ivy. So you don't want somebody going full speed into a brick wall. But they did have padding behind the end zone at the right field fence area of Wrigley Field this time. All right, I'm going to go ahead and say it. I want to see a football game at Diken Park. Dikin Park. Yeah. As long as it's not the one sideline thing, like that's always so goofy.

I never understand that. I got another one for you. I want to see a basketball game at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. See, now that one, because it does look like it's configured where you could do it. Sure. It's a stadium setting on a tennis score. Yeah, I think that could work. You know, you're actually going to get a college football game on a major league baseball field again this weekend.

Notre Dame and Army from Yankee Stadium. Okay, but they have a bowl game there, so that's not out of the ordinary. And Fenway has a bowl game every year too. Fenway does, I think doesn't the Diamondback Stadium, whatever it's called now? Chase Field, right? Then Seattle used to, right? And I want to say that maybe even one of the lower tier San Diego bowls is now played at Pecto Park. I did call a Utah versus Georgia Tech football game.

This was Calvin Johnson's last year at Georgia Tech. Okay. So, it shows you how old I am. With CPJ, Coach Paul Johnson. Love CPJ. I'm glad you heard that because nobody knows what you're talking about. So we played at the Giants Ball, baseball part. They put the media, the broadcasters, the broadcast crew, which was me, in the Giants baseball press box.

I had to call the game lengthwise. It was horrific. So lengthwise, you mean like all 22? Yes. Okay. Meaning that once the ball got past the 50 yard line and the other side, I had my silent reporter whisper in my ear what yard line it was. Yeah.

I mean, and it's also, too, it's becoming more and more that way. I mean, full straight on press boxes that are in like the premium possible seating areas. Those are gone. Like where Vandamere had to call the Texas game yesterday was terrible. It's like in the corner of the end zone. I think he said there about like the 35 is where. I think they were. And I know that Mercedes Ben's Stadium in Atlanta, I think it's the same way,

too. They're about the 2530 is where they're at. Okay, but as long as you're high up, it's not that big of a deal. I'm sure. And again, the general audience, listening to us doesn't care where the broadcasters call the game. I just think having a game at Dyken Park would be interesting. It may be a complete disaster, but why don't you try it once? See what I would go?

Well, it's also, too, I mean, what do we run into with a lot of these bowl games? We run into these huge NFL stadiums that are not even, halfway full. Like, for example, maybe I'm letting too much out of the bag, but what the hell? The Texas Bowl, I do know that whatever the team that they believe

will have the most, they have that fan base on the opposite side away from the cameras, so it looks like it's more of a filled-up stadium. Right. All right, let's play, believe it or not, next. Stephen, I'm going to get to you, I promise, before the top of the hour, we're going to make it really quick with you. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

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last year they probably lose that game by 20 points being back-to-back. So, you know, overall, everything seems to be encouraging so far what I've seen this season. I think you said you put the satisfaction level at a seven for last night's game. I would agree with that. I still think, you know, they offensively, they're leaving a lot of meat on the bone, but, you know, I'm not going to dismiss scoring 34 points on the road, especially where they've been struggling. Right. Last night was a get-right game.

The next two weeks are a get-right part of the schedules. As long as we can keep everybody healthy, let's get it right. Thanks, guys. Thanks, Stephen, for the phone call. Appreciate you squeezing. you're calling and joining us here before the end of the show. Five minutes left to go in the show. What should we do?

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over 186,000 followers. Believe it or not. Yeah. Belied it. Yeah, he was doing his homework at the beginning of class right there,

the beginning of the show. What part? I should have tested him and I. He should have. We had so many great moments today. The movie references.

We had your 30. 34-10 prediction. We had... You tricking me on Laverne and Shirley? I know. I mean, so much entertainment and so little time. Come on. We're giving you gyms here. This is what you give us? Come on.

We got brawny on the line. What is brawny? This is like in Bronny James? Only one way to find out. Brani on 790. You ready to play, believe it or not? I'm ready. Joe's pre-game ritual, food-wise.

A strawberry smoothie, two scrambled eggs, and a chicken breast before every pregame. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, I made that up. Not. That sounds good, though. It does sound good. A lot of protein, that bad boy. A lot of protein, not heavy stuff in there either, so you can still be light on your feet. Correct. I thought it was a great question. Yeah. Marcus on 790. Marcus, you're ready to play, believe it or not?

Yep. Joe has four 1,000-yard rushing seasons in the NFL. Believe it or not. Not. He does. That's a quick wood competing check. Branded on 790, Brandon, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. While on Oklahoma, Joe was an African American studies major.

Believe it or not? Believe it. That's right. Statement number two for the wind. Joe was born in July of 1996. Thus, his birthstone is ruby and his zodiac sign is Leo. Believe it or not? Not.

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