The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show 12-9-19

Episode Date: December 9, 2019

The Matt Thomas Show w/ @SportsMT, @SportsRV, and @ProNickLow 12/9/19The Texans blow it against the Broncos (0:00)The Patriots get screwed by the officials (32:45)Watchu Talkin Bout Bill (41:41)Ross' NFL Recap (1:02:02)

Much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 12-0-2-H-Town. What's happening in lunchtiders? Good afternoon to you and welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show. This is Sports Talk 790. You kick up the leaves.

For the third down in 12. Born inside by you die. Fort Tick QT. He trucked the ball. He's still alive, breaking tackles with an entourage. Because you had a bad. Catchy song. Secondly, the Texas were terrible yesterday.

Just terrible. Nothing redeeming sports, Harvey. Probably good to see you. What are you talking about, Matt? They showed some fight at the end of the game. Scoring points. Looking good. Getting on the right track.

Building momentum into the next game. Is that what it was? I'll buy into it because you know Denver is a terrible fourth quarter team. Not at all. you're going to love what you're talking about today ross they only lost by 14 all right so today's what you're talking about monday i can't wait is going to be some of you ross and some from our audience because i feel like some days that are more difficult than others that's we don't want to test the audience but i feel like today is the day where they could probably win some fantastic prizes okay like what oh i don't know what do we have in the old prize vault for what you're talking about bill coming up at one o'clock this afternoon let's see we've got Since Kansas still coming to town.

Tickets to bumping mics with Jeff Ross and Dave Attell. That's pretty good. Jeff Ross, the comedian? Yeah, David Tell the other comedian. Let me tell you something. I would go to that. Jeff Ross, I love when he's on the Comedy Central Roast. Could you imagine a Comedy Central Roast of Bill O'Brien?

Who'd be on the dais? First of all, Jeff Ross is on every dais of every Comedy Central Roast. Andy Dick. Andy Dick is on there. Bill Belichick's on the dais. You know what? There's always one person that you don't think supposed to be up there that is.

Like B. Arthur made quite a few appearances on those. Brian Gain. Brian Gain for sure is on there. So I had to take the fall for you. Not Cal McNair. No, Cal McNair can't be on there because he doesn't speak. Man, I'm sure he speaks, but just not with a microphone. Right.

Well, the Texans need a roasting after what happened yesterday. Okay. So, I don't want to say I'm not completely shocked. But I'm pretty shocked. I'm completely shocked. I wasn't expecting the same level of supremacy that the Texans put out against Patriots. Because that was big boy growing ass football. I was thinking, remember how the Texans be the Jaguars in the last kick of the game or whatever?

Like 1917. I was kind of expecting a, you know, a, oh, there's a non-inspiring yet when the chips are down, all the cliches you put into play. They rose the occasion. They played their best one and they had to play. One of those, I wouldn't even call them gritty, but just enough to get over a team that was threatening to pull off the upset. I didn't expect it to go as poorly as it did.

38 to 3. Yes. They got up 38 to 3. Look, I could have bought that they struggled. I could have bought that maybe things didn't necessarily go their way and some crazy stuff happened and they lost a close one. if you'd have told me on Friday that the Texans are going to get down 38 to 3 to the Broncos, I would have said, I mean, Deshaun Watson must have just quit football and decided he was going to walk the earth.

I cannot believe. And I'm still sitting here right now, almost 24 hours later. I cannot believe it went that poorly against a, I mean, an NFL team in the Denver Broncos. Average, just average. But they're, yeah, they're not the, you know, the dolphins or the Bengals, but they're not a good playoff team. So how? How? Second start for what's his face.

I don't want to call him his name because I don't even care. I mean, because you just don't let rookie quarterbacks go on the road. And by the way, looking at that forearm pad the entire time, he had no idea what the plays were under any circumstance, and he's still throwing the ball deep down the field. I don't understand how this happened. Drew Locke, I applaud you, my friend. You had no idea what the plays were, but yet you still best of the time.

Texans defense. All right. Now, Ross, I have to be very honest with you. I always think my tweets are amazing. Some people do not. Okay. But yesterday, I put on a tweet that I was completely serious, and yet it hits home with any Texans fan. You ready for this? The Texans, I put the tweet out yesterday. The Texans are playing like it's a wild card Saturday. What that was yesterday is what we've had to and dear many early January Saturday afternoons 3.30 time slot on ABC slash ESPN. That's what that was.

You are, if last Sunday's win against England was the division championship clinching win and a great way to end a regular season and beat your chest and like, come on January, here we come. That was Wildcard Saturday yesterday at NRG Stadium. Apparently with a lot of Bronco fans

too, which I didn't realize Denver fan travel I really was surprised that Denver fan would travel to see a team that's 4 and 8 and no disrespect us, but we're not a destination that people would say, hey, I want to go spend a long weekend in Houston. Oh, the Denver Broncos. I don't understand how you beat the Patriots on Sunday night football. You position yourself for first place in the AFC South.

You position yourself, if things break your way, you can get the two seed. They were alive for the two seed if the Patriots lost of the Chiefs, which they did. and then I think they got another tough one on the schedule. You position yourself for all that in a byweek and a two seed, and then you go, you're at home against a bad den for Broncos team, and this is what you do. I keep saying I should not be shocked, but I am. I am.

I just really, I really couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing on Sunday. Do you still think the Texans win the AFC South? It's coin flip. I don't know now. I'm going to, you know what? Based on what I just saw, no. Well, they've got two of the next, their last three games on the road. Tampa is as schizophrenic as it gets.

They can be wonderful one week and hot mess the next. You're telling me James Winston's got a fractured finger, right? Fractured thumb. He's getting it looked at. We're not sure if he's going to miss time. You have Tennessee, who is probably one of the two or three hottest AFC teams, not named Baltimore, who went to Oakland yesterday and ran beat the Raiders comfortably, especially with their second half.

Yeah, Titans have won four straight. against the Chief Jags Colts and Raiders. So they're running hot right now. And they're going to host the game this week. Yes. All right. Poll question is up. You know,

I like to poll questions. I do know how much you love polls, Matt. Almost 500 votes or ins. If you've not put your voting, come on in at SportsMT on the Twitter. My question is, so Texans after yesterday, your three options, Ross,

were bad L, still confident, meaning, you know what, things are going to get better. You know what? sometimes you're going to just you know have a bad day of work Ross some days at work are fantastic still come how could anybody vote that get with me after Tennessee which is kind of a

wait and see and then same old team no thanks 498 votes are in 62% said same old team no thanks can you blame them no this team is just as you talk about Tampa Bay Buccaneers being schizophrenic

how about the Houston Texans being schizophrenic? Well they have been schizophrenic since the franchise has begun. If, I mean, if you lay out... And honestly, again, I don't want to... We're going to get into the facets of the game, including air guitar, including Laramie Tunsel, including one damning soundbite after the game. We're going to play this free coming back.

There is a player in the Texans locker room that gave us the quote that we knew every player was thinking, but he just had to say it. Stand by for that. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-790 The morning sports show for those who partied in Midtown way too hard last night The Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790 All right, so if you're frustrated, let us know I mean, I can't imagine maybe, again, a very small segment of the population going,

you know what? It's human nature to have a really big win and a letdown. Let me ask you this. close a big deal at your office. Are you super productive the next three days or do you keep going? You know what? I'm going to go grab more of those accounts. I think everybody's built differently.

But this is, you only get 16 chances, and that's a problem with this. It's an Uber competitive race. You want to win your division. If you don't want to win your division, you certainly want to be in the walled card. This is a bad loss. Really, really bad loss. Can't justify it. I don't care who you blame. I don't care Bill O'Brien

takes the blame all day he wants. Bill O'Brien doesn't put the pads on. He's not the one throwing the passes. He's not Rosson the one defending the passes. There's play calls. But Drew Locke, again, take Drew Locke, he didn't know what he was doing yesterday. He would look at that notepad on his forearm. He'd stare at it. He'd look up. He'd be confused. And then he would take a five and seven step drop and find every available tight end to him open for basically two and a half, three hours.

That's what it was. A confused quarterback who's athletic beat a Texan's defense that has again made Tom Brady's life pretty miserable well until the fourth quarter and then when he kept finding James White over and over and over again I mean yeah he must not have been too confused he completed 22 or 27 of his passes so I mean at the end of the day I just have to figure out we have to get to the bottom of how this happened and like you said Matt you can you know in anything in life

if you have a high maybe you kind of rest on your laurels for a little bit but but this is the national football league as Bill O'Brien likes to say Right. This isn't Bill O'Brien's first rodeo. He's always talked about being a week-to-week league. And when you were out, I was talking a lot with Brian Smith, Brian T. Smith, of course, of the Houston Chronicle, about whether or not this was a trap game. And my argument was no because, and I said, well, this is what I said. I said, if it is a trap game, it's because of bad coaching.

So I think that's where we have to put it. If these players don't know that they're going for a 12 and 4 record in AFC South, And if they took the Broncos lightly, which all the evidence shows. But Ross, they're not babies in that locker room. They know what's ahead of them. That's true. I mean, how much, not that we should open up a pie and split it into pieces to determine the blame. But, okay, so I'll give Bill O'Brien a lot of the, some of the blame.

I think he deserves the most of the brain. Okay. But I don't need my, if my coach has to get me fired up during the course of the week in the last month of the NFL season, when I'm trying to get to the playoffs and win a division and prove the nation. serious wrong, then maybe I'm in the wrong business. The coach is supposed to have everybody prepared and on the same page, and that did not happen with the Broncos.

It just didn't. I can't believe that they would have gotten down 38 to 3 to anybody, much less the Denver Broncos. Here is, this is going to be tough to play, honestly. Ross, you found this in the post-game

audio. This is DJ Reader, who's having a very, very good season, right? on the defensive line. Yes. Was asked a question by somebody in the locker room yesterday. Listen to the question

and then listen to the response. We'll play it twice just so you have a chance to get the full context of it. That was Bill's message to what you have to? I don't know. Zoned out and tried to listen to

and stuff at their loss. Just he said we got to play better. We've got to win. Okay. Just in case you didn't, you maybe thought what you heard. and didn't hear.

DJ Reader again, media question, followed by a player answer. That was Bill's message to you? I don't know. Zoned out. You try to listen to it. It's stuff at their loss. I guess he said we got to play better.

So we've got to win. First of all, thank you, DJ, for being brutally honest. Asked what Bill's message was. He's like, I don't know. I zoned out. I zoned out. So did that zone out happen on Wednesday? Did it happen at 12 o'clock on Sunday,

or did it happen at 3 o'clock after it got in the locker room, they shut the door and went, my God, we lost the Denver Broncos. Yeah, my question, I mean, that question was in relation to what the message was after the loss. Oh, okay, okay, that makes better sense. But I can still ask when the team zoned out. Did the team zone on Monday morning after they beat the Patriots? It seems like. You know, yeah, I'll be honest here.

We fight at least this audience. Now, again, there's going to be some hardcore football Texans fans that are going to, to eat every word of Texans information, digest it, analyze it, and talk about it. Our station, we just don't do that. We have a large astro contingent. We have quite a few rocket fans. We don't have as many Texans fans that listen to the station.

It's just, it is what it is. But the Monday after our Texans game, this should be no matter who you root for and what you like or dislike, we want you to be the place for you guys to come and hang out with us. And Ross, you and I, for a better part, of two years, for the most part have tried to say, look, if this isn't as bad, when they lose, it isn't the end of the world. And when they win, we shouldn't be printing up Super Bowl parade route

maps. Right. So last year during the amazing run when they win 11 straight games, it was lukewarm. At best, yes. At best. This year, frankly, has been lukewarm at best. somebody, one of our listeners, Joan, was, I think, at the game yesterday, she said there were thousands of empty seats at Energy Stadium. Yeah, I mean, I saw, even at like halftime, I mean, after halftime, of course, there's no reason to stay if you got other things to do and you want to go home. Or tailgate. Yeah, you go back to the tailgate, have some tequila.

But, yeah, the crowd did not look good from what I saw on TV. Now, they're all sold, and the PSLs are sold, and there's a waiting list, so I don't want to hear about nobody cares anymore. That's just not accurate. But, man, if you are. a middle of the road Texans fan. Don't have season tickets, maybe go to one or two games a year, but you want to make sure in front of a television for all 16, you're not buying in on this.

You're not buying in on a team that had its act together that Romeo Cornell was downing a beautiful defensive place for the most part against the Patriots, and then that Texans defense looked like a deer in headlights. How many tight ends of the Denver Broncos have that either caught passes of more than 20 yards or got to the end zone? Yeah, Noah Fan had a number of big plays as it. I mean, it just, that's the thing.

Is it the problem of what keeps sticking in my mind is how easy it looked for Denver. How they just continued to march down the field like it was LSU against an early game against Colgate College or something like that. It just looked like a somebody, a power going up against an FCS team, but it was two NFL teams and one that had just beaten the Patriots. and one that you thought if you keep the game close has a history of struggling in the third quarter, has a history of giving up leads. They gave up 20. They mentioned how many times on the CBS broadcast

that Minnesota had given and that scored came back from 20 down to win. So if you kept it somewhere close, you had a puncher's chance to win the football game. But 383 didn't keep it close. Your phone calls are now welcome at 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-7-90. How are we supposed to direct this? Because if we keep talking about the big game coming up, the big game coming up,

at some point there's not going to be a big game coming up because they're going to let you down and they're going to end this season and they're going to lose a game they weren't supposed to lose, like in the case of yesterday. How do you push that this is a big-time game with Tennessee when Tennessee's playing at their best and the Texans lay a terrible, terrible leg at home after what was a very important win against New England? England. Us as fans, we as fans want to see that. Houston Sports Talk 790.

From the owner to the coach to the players. Your home for your home teams. It's NFL football. I mean, every week is different. And that's that. You know, Denver is a great team. Yeah, they got NFL players. They get paid a lot of money to do what they do.

And it was a new week. And we didn't come out and they got the double. Is there any part of you that says, all right. Terrible loss. It sucked. But there are still the best team in this division. I don't care what Tennessee's done.

At the end of the day, they've got more threats offensively and just enough defensively to stop Derek Henry. They're not going to make Ryan Tannanhill look like a hero. And the Texas are going to win this division. You don't believe that. Not right now.

Based on what I've just seen, I'm labeling them as a fraud right now. there's no reason for me to have confidence in them. This sucks. I mean, you did this. They beat the Patriots who the offense had been struggling a couple weeks coming in, and we just saw them struggle again as they lost the Chiefs now. So maybe that wins not looking as good as it was.

And also, if you look at the Patriot schedule of their 10 wins, I don't know how many of those are against quality opponents. I think maybe like one, if that. So that win is not looking as good. In hindsight, you had, of course, even three weeks ago, we have the evidence from the Ravens game. where you went up there in another big game where we got the rug pulled from under us

or if you want to go full peanuts, the football pulled away from Charlie Brown. Thanks, Lucy. And you get down 34 to zero in that game and you get down 38 to 3 in this game. I'm out. I'm out for the Texans being making any noise in the playoffs. Okay, so one playoff win, maybe on a long card weekend.

I don't know that they're getting in the playoffs. They don't make the playoffs. Bill O'Brien keep his job? Yes. I know the answer to them. I'm an attorney. The first thing you learn about an attorney is ask a question. You already know the answer, too.

Yeah. Worst take of the week. This one, Laramie Tunsel. Targeted on my back, like I said. Keep it simple like that. Next question. No, there's not a target on your back, Laramie. There's a target.

There is a target because you insist on committing false start penalties. Do we have an obligatory on him yet? Obligatory Laramie Tunsel, false start call. Obligatory Laramette Tunsell, false start call. Bam. we can get him working on it, the imaging department. Mike Bobillon, listen to the show, make it happen.

He's the department. Three more times yesterday, Ross. Three more. How can you say you have a target on your back? Look, if he's getting called for an unhealthy amount of tripping calls or holding or something like that. Illegal blocks. Maybe he has a target on his back. False start is they either you did it or you didn't.

You flinch or you don't flinch. It's like getting a speeding ticket every week because you're going 90 and a 60 and say there's a target on my back. They're catching me every time. They just keep pulling me over for speeding. I can't believe it. By the way, I do want to offer a public service.

There is a massive speed trap in northeast Houston. Okay. 59 feet of road getting off into the humble area by Deerbrook Mall. Do not speed. That's still there. It's been there for 20 years. That's what I was going to say.

That was a speed trap. back when I was working as an auto parts delivery driver like 10 years ago. Let me take some. I love the Humble Police Department. They're wonderful people, but I'm not saying I got a ticket lately, but I'm just telling you, I was because the reason I brought this up is because Peyton in my middle one is learning how to drive. And he, I said, this is a speed trap coming up. Because what is that? And I said, watch. And lo and behold, there was somebody to happen in getting arrested, or not arrested, but getting a ticket. And then there's like, there's like a chair king or something two blocks down.

Umble knows, that's a sweet spot for them. Well, because that one drops from, it goes from, It goes from like 50 on 1960, and then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, it drops to 30. Yeah. So the people just don't realize they continue to go 50 and then go. I've gotten warnings there before. Yeah. I'm just telling you, that's your speed trap moment of the day. Let's go to Chase in Sugar Land on the Matt Thomas show.

Chase, good afternoon. Hey, how are you doing? Good. I think the Texans can win their next three games. I'm confident in them. Okay. And why is that? Why?

I'm there. What? Why? Why? Because we're playing the Titans two times and three weeks, right? Yes. That's not a lie. That's a fact.

It's just a why. That's just what's on the schedule. I just feel confident in Deshawn Watson. I think he can do it. Okay. Our offense can get it together and win. All right, Chase, thank you. Not good.

Yeah, I don't I don't buy that at all Now 5% of my audience does So says Twitter Well yeah They're I don't think they're gonna win out Rossi they go two and one that puts them at 10 and 6 Is that good enough for a wild card Are they splitting with the Titans?

I think they still win the They still win the division if they split the Titans They split with the Titans yes Two and one gets them to 10 They win the AFC South That's not a crazy thought Now, you didn't ask me if they were going to win a playoff game. I'm telling you that 10 and 6 gets them to the playoffs.

They'd probably be in the four spot going up against the bills coming in town. No, they could be as far as six. No, their division champions, it would be three, four, four, five, yeah. So you'd be four hosting the bills. Buffalo can come here and beat the Texans. I'd pick Buffalo to win that game right now. And this is from, I'm being Buffalo Hater number one all season, but I'm starting to buy in to them at least being a good team, better than average.

Thanks, guys. What you're talking about Bill O'Brien coming up at 1 o'clock today? The bills played the Broncos three weeks ago and won 20 to 3. Yeah, but does Buffalo beat really good teams? The good team that they've beaten is basically no one. But, I mean, the Cowboys win. Cowboys are a decent enough team. They hung with the Ravens.

Hung the Ravens, lost the Eagles at home. Lost to the Patriots and lost to the Browns at a close one. Yeah, I mean, they're good. Texans could beat them, but again, Waukart Saturday. You know what happens on Walg Cart Saturday, Ross? The Texans have higher highs, but lower lows. Yeah, the highest of highs. For a football team that has New England and Kansas City in the W column,

we should have a much better feel for this football team than we do so today. There's no argument to that. You have beaten too legitimate AFC.F. contenders. And I still count the Patriots and Chiefs as contenders. I don't think they're the lead fit contender, but I consider them contenders. Yeah, of course. You should not have Carolina L and Denver L. Mm-hmm.

I accept the New Orleans loss. I accept the Indianapolis loss. You can accept the Ravens loss, but the manner in which it happened, though, is it's a tough pill to swallow. That's true. 41 to 7. I mean, come on. Walter, Northside on 7. Hello, Walter.

Hey, how's it going, guys? Well. I just don't buy into Bill O'Brien or Romeo Cornell I think they've lost touch a little bit and Bill O'Brien you know he just he just does not come up with good game plans it's a miracle whenever he does

I just don't buy into them even if they make the playoffs I know they're just going to lay a big goose egg that's the thing and thank you for the phone call because Bill has devised some pretty interesting game plans this year it's a good player call I don't think he's had a horrible play calling season. He's a good offensive coach.

But that's only, really it should only be about 20% of his job responsibilities. But he has spread way too thin. He's the head coach, the general manager. Probably has something to do with Capology. He's calling the plays. I don't care who's offensive coordinator. It's Bill O'Brien calling this stuff. And the number one thing you have to be is the fantastic motivator slash administrator.

Basically, when the door is shut. in locked, guys, we practiced this all week. We're going to do this. We're going to get ourselves ready to play this team. We're not going to be, we're not going to let this have to be a letdown. And all the things I just described, he failed to mention Sunday at 1159 before the guys kicked off. Or Saturday night or during the week. Because I don't know if they were going through the emotions, because Denver's not a better football team than Texans are. No chance. Now defensively, they showed some terrible, terrible problems. And by the way, Rossi, Kareem Jackson, could he have looked any more motivated to go against his old teammates?

He was ready. He was ready. I mean, I put this on Twitter. He absolutely circled the road trip to Houston on his schedule the day the NFL schedule was released. He was ready for Battle Red Day. He was ready for deep steel, Liberty Blue, white, anything you want to call, any color, he was ready to go. Doesn't matter. Yeah, he was good. Von Miller was good. Bob Miller, by the way, who only played, what, half the snaps?

I mean, it looked like he was far from 100%. But he was still getting to the quarterback when he was out there. So, I mean, oh, I just don't understand. Okay, so let's do this then. Let's go to our crystal ball now. Texans beat the Colts, the Titans next Sunday. How are we feeling one way from today? If they do.

I'm not buying in the rest of the. You're just done. You're like, you know what? You are the scoring lover one too many times. Your girlfriend has cheated on you one too many times No matter how good of a lover she is And how much she cuddles you and sends you sweet messages And buys you treats

That all sounds good You're not in No, I'm not So Bill O'Brien and the Texans are your jilted lover for the last time Yeah, look, maybe I'll still hang with them here and there But I'm not going to trust them Will you have sex with them Yeah, well, wait, I'm not having sex with the Houston Texans

I mean, no What kind of question is that? I just said the Texas are a jilted lover down the Houston Texans and making sweet love to them. I am going to say I'm out on trusting them. They can win out. Mark my words. Hold me to this. They can win out. And I'm not buying them as an AFC contender. I'm not. Okay. So you're telling me they're going to end their season at what level?

There'll be 10 and 6 AFC South champions. And that is the Christiana moment of their 2019 season. And that's it. Will Bill O'Brien ever take the Texans to a Super Bowl? Maybe. What? I don't know. I do know. You do know?

I've told you this for many. I've told you for a long time. What have I said over and over and over again? You said he can't do it. Can't do it. Won't do it. Not be able to. Okay.

Not a good enough coach. And by one more thing. One more thing before going to break. So two weeks ago, I'm watching this. I don't watch a whole lot of NFL pregames. Are you big NFL pregame guy? Never. I'm just, I'm just not.

But for some reason, I watched a lot of the NBC pregame show. the Sunday night, the Tony Dungey, Rodney Harrison. And they all make their predictions. Everybody on that dais predicted the Patriots to beat the Texans except Mike Tarrico, who he said, I'm just being contrar. I'm trying to gain some. Right. So everybody, there were like seven votes.

Six of them went to New England. And they were all wrong, except for Toriko, who did it just. Got a game up. Yeah. Game theory. So I'm watching NFL live or the Sunday show with Samantha Ponder and Rex Ryan, Rob Ryan, whatever one likes the foot, has a foot fetish. Randy Moss is on there.

They have some couple NFL reporter dudes. It was time for them to predict a Denver Houston game. Every single one of them, Ross, had the Houston Texans winning the football game. Well, prediction segments should be just abolished. Put your money where your mouth is. It should be instead of having, hey, time now for what Randy Moss thinks, Randy, why don't you put up one of those Mercedes on tonight's game between the Falcons and the Eagles. What would you have predicted?

I would have predicted both scenarios. But it's just a part of the NFL landscape of these pregame shows. Hey, time now for predictions. What those predictions mean? Squat. They don't mean anything. Yeah. We make predictions on this show. They don't mean it. We play beat the schmos. But what do we do when we lose? We give away pizza. Well, that's true. And the MT Bucks don't have a whole lot of value in the street. Trust me. I've asked around. But two top and pepperoni pizza sounds good, right? That's true, but we don't get those. Because we don't beat ourselves. yes we do sometimes that's true

point damn act together yeah thank you jerry is this oh you were not here for these jerry jones quotes oh i know amazing point being is i don't have patience to jack with you today all right here point being is i think these predictions parts of these shows should now be like hey

um Samantha ponder uh i heard you just got yourself a brand new summer home summer home in uh tallahassee florida you gotta give that up if you don't make this prediction bright massive penalties why don't you do that on this show I give away pizzas.

Enough said. The pizza instead of a home? Good news. It's the Matt Thomas show for lunch. Let that boring brown bag lunch rot in the employee refrigerator. Oh, what's that smell? The Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. All right, coming up in 10 minutes.

We're going to play, what you're talking about, Bill. Where Ross has a guest of sound bites from today's press conference, 130, the NFL recap, which includes apparently we're going to have to talk about how the Patriots got screwed in the lack of a touchdown call. I mean, they're right. Yes, they did get screwed. Do I feel sorry for them? No. Is NFL officiating horrendous?

Yes. Yes. But that mistake that was made on the run, that was an innocent mistake by the official. Okay. That was an egregious. That was an innocent mistake. It was close that should have been overturned

without having to worry about whether or not Bill Belichick had multiple challenges. Do it like college football. Forget the challenge system. So you want more challenges. I want the calls right. Yeah, that's true. It's hard, though. That would have been hard.

Plan to review. Let the official on the field do it. Let some app upstairs do it and say, hey, Sparky, down there on the field. Give him a touchdown. You know, Andy Reid should have showed some sportsmanship and challenged it for Bill. That's a great take if we were doing Kansas City Radio. But since we're not. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-790. We have Ross's NFL recap at 1.30. which you're talking about Bill. Believe it or not, today's got to be about Sesame Street, right? The voice of Grouch and Big Bird passed away. Did he?

Yeah. Oh. I think the guy's name is Shelley, if I'm not mistaken. Okay. You watch Sesame Street. I mean, who didn't watch? Yeah, I love Sesame Street.

Yeah. My jam back in the day. And Lamb chops play along, of course. That's the one I don't buy. I don't get it. I don't get it. I never got into Lambchops. Lamb chops was my jam.

Was it? A Charlie Horse? Yeah, the gang. We could play a day of childhood show theme songs. I can go with a little one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, at nine, ten, eleven, twelve. I go with a little, the song that doesn't end.

Not bad. Yes, it goes on and on my friend. Or how about one of these things doesn't belong with the others or something like that? Hmm. And then good old fashioned Sesame Street is a fantastic rift. Let's go to Jay on the northeast side on seven. Any, hello, Jay. Matt Thomas, Mr. Rocket.

I got two things for you. Yes, sir. Billio, he reminds me to Jason Garrett. Every time they win, he gets no credit. Every time they lose, he gets all to blame. But the second thing, does the team's record reflect on how they're supposed to play on Sunday? Not necessarily. I mean, because look at Denver.

They came in here, four and eight. Right. The quarterback, he was looking at his wrist and didn't know what to do, but he just scorched the Texans. So, hey, they were better Sunday. come next Sunday Texans might be better than the Titans or they may not be or they could lose

or they could lose too Jay thank you Jay appreciate the phone call or a super volcano can erupt this week and the game will never be played very very too soon on that there was on New Zealand this morning oh really multiple died

I didn't hear about that clearly that's unfortunate thoughts and prayers to the New Zealanders but let's not get into volcano talk today okay I'm just saying the game could not happen at all It's true. By the way, did you, and I did not, I don't have the details in this.

This could be a good little segment. The game between the Chiefs and the Patriots almost never took place yesterday. Oh, because of the gear? Yes. Well, they would have moved. They would have not taken it. Well, they would cancel the game. Was that talked about?

I heard the word forfeiture, but I don't think the NFL would have to let that happen. Yeah, you could just push it back an hour or something. Or to, yeah. Or they should go to Dick Sporting Goods, pick up some gear. All right, we'll go and tell it. So here's what I don't know about it. How did the gear get on another plane or how did it get to Newark? To New Jersey?

Yeah, the flight went from Kansas City to Boston. The gear, the helmets, the shoulder pads, much of the stuff that you would have to wear for a game, why not being in Newark, New Jersey? The equipment folks at Kansas City figured it out, then apparently got a ride up to Newark or met the van or whatever. They got a police escort to Foxborough and were there with about an hour and change left to go. I feel like Steve Belichick was involved somehow I think you want to believe that Steve Belichick's involved in everything

I feel like he's I feel like his dad has put him up to so many dirty deeds Are you a borderline obsessed with Steve Belich? A little bit, yes Is the hair? Did you hear his quotes from last week? Here, see him. They were asking him about like something about it was like pregame quote or Pete, you know, they talked to the defensive assistance or something like that

They were like, so what are some of the things that you know you and your dad did? He's like, I'll leave that between both of us. He talks like his dad He's like, I'll leave that between both of us. Don't most sons talk like their fathers? Yeah, but he's also saying, like, they're asking him, like, fun activities he did with his dad, and he's like, I'll leave that between us. Meaning nothing. Meaning my father was very weird.

Was in a film room studying Cleveland Brown's tape when I was growing up, and all I wanted to do was play ball with him. He was like, what are some of your young memories of football? He's like, I'll leave that in between us. That means nothing. It's weird. Manuel, Southern California. How are you, sir? Hey, how's it going, Matt?

I'm glad it. You're back. everything's safe and you're back to town. Thank you, friend. I appreciate it. All right. Well, I want to comment about this Broncos, Texans game. Now, I know you don't know much of Drew Locke because I'm here to inform you.

He wasn't confused. He looks at that. It has a set of plays on there, and there's two plays every time he snaps the ball and he picks a play. That's why he kind of looks like he doesn't know what he's doing. But he knew what he was doing yesterday. I mean, unless he was just faking it because... No, well, here's what it was. In all seriousness, he did know the plays, but there was no doubt in my mind, and everybody

picked up on it. Drew was still very confused about the play calls. He was constantly having to hold his hands on his helmet so could hear everything. He was looking at his... I mean, that was a quarterback that I watched yesterday, Manuel, that was making his second NFL start, and he absolutely looked like it. And that's the most frustrating thing of it all is that he looked like he. He was confused and dazed, but it didn't matter because when he took the snap, he found open receivers, and that's the end game.

Well, here's another thing that you're why you think you're a little, why the Texas lots of the Broncos? And the reason you brought it up right at the end, right before you went to a commercial break, it was KJAC. I mean, when he had a mission to just destroy the Texans yesterday, and he wanted to prove a point to Bill O'Brien and the higher-ups that you messed up. You let me go. And he probably lit the whole team. I'm a diehard Denver brother's fan. And I'm just telling you why, because I listen to a lot of their talking radio, they're talking radio, they're talking radio too.

And the whole team, for the whole week was just lit up. Like, they wanted to, like, Banoa has a sprained MCL. He really shouldn't be out there. But he wanted to go out there for him to prove to just so they can destroy the Texans so they can beat them. So I really think the Texas just ran into a bus saw. They weren't. There was no way they were going to win.

And then they didn't know about this kid. He does have a crazy cannon. I don't know how good he's going to be, but that team was just ready to light anybody up that was on that field yesterday. Well, they certainly play like him. Thank you, Manuel, for the phone call. They look like a team Ross that gave a damn. The Texans look like they were absolutely going through the motions.

And by the way, again, I want no more Laramie Tunsel fall starts. And I am a huge, huge. huge Whitney Merciless fan but I want no more drum guitar solos on sax when you're down four or five touchdowns hmm

okay and by the way this whole gimmick and then putting uniforms on before the game too that probably can stop too why? Because they look like asses when they go out there wearing that crap and then they get their brains beat out and you know I'm right I thought it was cool no I don't know you're right you know I'm right they can't put on you average Joe uniforms

they can do they can put a suit on and walk in the like most NFL teams do. You know, their attention-seeking is what they are. I'm okay with them having a little fun. I'm okay with them, too, as long as they are 13 and 3. Halloween is one of the best, best holidays of the year, and they're taking it out to a new extreme,

and they're doing it every week. And they're letting a rookie quarterback and his second start beat the hell out of them. Yeah. Is the Matt Thomas show. All right, it's 104 on Sports Talk 790. Time for us to as we do every Monday during the Texan season.

Opportunity for us to hear the sound bites of your head coach, but doing it in a more, I think, interesting style. And when we ask Ross to guess what we're going to hear, we simply ask this. What you're doing, what you're doing about? Coach O'Brien. Okay. Ross, we have a couple of, we got quite a few this week, as you would assume, after the terrible loss.

I'm sure he's in a great mood as well. I would like to welcome two of our listeners to play. play what you're talking about Bill. So if two people would like to play, and we're going to give you the prize regardless, we're not going to, we're not there? Yeah, because they're nice people. They're terrible.

Okay, only if your responses are absolutely terrible, you're not going to win a prize. Nick, what can we give our audience here in this 1 o'clock segment of the show for playing, which is talking about Bill O'Brien? How about some of those tickets to see David Tell and Jeffrey Ross? That's a great prize. Two very funny comedians. I don't know the first guy vertically well, but...

David Tell, he used to do that show Insomniacs on Comedy Central. Dave Attell, is that what you should? I know that. He's really funny. He's really funny. Jeffrey Ross is absolutely hysterical. So if you'd like to play... David Tells great.

What you're talking about Bill. We're going to give Ross a couple of layups to kind of get you warmed up for it. And what we do is I give you the slug, the information on it, how long it is. And you've got to get as close you possibly can without going over to what you're talking about Bill. So we'll start with Bill O'Brien, 38.6 seconds. Wow. It's meaty. Asked about how his O-Line played.

look the offensive line got to play better I mean of course we had the false starts we can't have that but everybody's got to play better we just didn't play that well and it's something that we have to get corrected we got a big game coming up this week against Tennessee so obviously the guy's got to play a little bit better but we all got to play better Deshawn Watson's got to get rid of the ball faster so it's a team game and we're focused on the team

and we got to play better because we got a big one against Tennessee coming up this week so I'm assuming you were taking this generic offensive line and pushing it out to the other parts of the team. Sometimes he turns into it. Sometimes he deflects. I'm going deflect. All right, here we go. That was good.

That worked out good. I mean, those guys, that was a good deal. Those guys played pretty good. We ran the ball for over 100 yards. I mean, it was a horrible game, but like the offensive line, you know, again, we had some issues with penalties, like, has been pointed out 50 times between the last two press conferences. Rightfully so. But I think the offensive line actually played a decent game.

I mean, there were some things on offense. They were pretty good. I'm not sure if you guys watched the film. Look, I know it was a terrible game. Oh, I hate him! I hate him! I'm done with him! I did not know he was going to go.

What was that? I didn't know he was going to do that. Nick, are you even incredulous of this? You show no emotion whatsoever. I've heard this a bunch of times. Did you all catch the very tail end of them? You don't know if you watch tape or not. We did you.

We watch a tape. We scored 10 points when the game mattered. We got down 38 to 3. What a jerk. What a jerk. I don't know if you guys watched the tape. We did pretty good. We ran for 100 yards. In the fourth quarter when the game was over.

I know it was a terrible game, but just throw that out there. Oh, God. It wasn't horses. Offense. Is that him throwing the defense under the bus? That's what I'm wondering. Oh, hell yeah, he is. we ran for over 100 yards.

I want to be perfectly clear. May I be perfectly clear, Ross? Yes. The Texans are never going to go to the Super Bowl with Bill O'Brien as their head coach. Never. You know, not if you guys watch tape or not. I don't know if you guys watched the tape, but we got down 30. I saw enough to know you got down 38 to 3.

All right. I'm going to play this again. And then I want y'all to get, I want you all to call them. I want you to tell me one to ten how arrogant he is. All right, so here it is. This is a kind of a subpart of what you're talking about, Bill.

That was good. That worked out good. I mean, those guys, that was a good deal. Those guys played pretty good. We ran the ball for over 100 yards. I mean, it was a horrible game, but like the offensive line, you know, again, we had some issues with penalties

like has been pointed out 50 times between the last two press conferences, rightfully so. But I think the offensive line actually played a decent game. I mean, there were some things on offense. They were pretty good. I'm not sure if you guys watched the film. Look, I know it was a terrible game, but just throw that out there. It wasn't horseshit offense.

Rare instepole within the, what you're talking about bill game? Ross, one being not arrogant, 10 being massively arrogant. How arrogant was that quote? at least a nine and a half 713-21-2-5-790 1 being he's actually got a point there or 10 being

what the hell are you watching Ross says 9.75 Nick what do you got? 9.87 I'm going to go 9.946 how arrogant was Bill O'Brien line 2 in the instant pole 1 to 10 he's more arrogant on the arrogant

poll than fancy mad is on the fancy phone. Wow. That's pretty arrogant. That's pretty arrogant. I will admit that. Line 4, 1 to 10, how arrogant was that quote? Oh, if I'm trying it sucks with a step on a mobile.

Do you want a mobile? I don't know. We'll do one more of these. Line 5, 1 to 10, how arrogant? He's an ass. He's an ass. All right, that's a closing poll.

I don't know if you guys saw the film, you know, uh, you know, We had a lot of good things happened on offense. And when you scored 14 in the fourth quarter when the game was over. All right. One more from you and then we're going to let some other people play. What you're talking about, Bill? You ready?

13.6 seconds. This is short but sweet. Asked about the Laramie Tunsel target comment. How much? How long? 13.6. So this is he's obviously going to be testy about it. This is a hard one.

Yeah, so I can't give it to the audience. I had to give it to somebody else. Thank you. Look, I don't know. I can't speak to that. I don't think, I don't know if I can speak to him, but obviously we've got to do better on a lot of things and the penalties have been hurting us,

but I really can't speak to him having a target on his back or not. No, look, I don't know what he said. I'm not. Laramie's a really good pro. And like I said, after the game, he's going to work hard to fix the things that he needs to fix. He didn't really address it. Well, that's what I said.

So I'll give you three stars. on it. All right, Joe in Deer Park. Hi, Joe. How are you? Fine, fine. Matt, how about yourself? Very well. Joe. Good luck to you, my friend. 24.7 seconds. How do you stop the poor starts to games? We have to start better. Basically, we have to play better at the team. Offensive-wise, we have to run the ball and we have to not commit penalties. Overall, I think if we get that done, we'll be okay. We just have to commit to better habits, coaching, and playing. You know, we drive the ball.

We're moving the ball in the first drive, get a penalty, you know, give up a long pass play on their first drive. You know, just these things, you know, we talk about starting fast, but talk is cheap. We've got to go out there and actually do it. Nice work, my friend. Joe, congratulations. You're going to see a pair of comedians. Appreciate it. All right, we'll put you on it.

We'll do one more when we wrap it up. Let's go to James in the Westbury area. Hi, James. How are you? Hi, good, man. How are you? Good, buddy. 20 seconds.

Asked about how the Titans have been playing. Asked how about the Titans how they've been playing, 20 seconds. Well, they've been playing good. I don't know if you watch the game. They've been playing pretty good. They obviously, you know, we look pretty good in the first half. I mean, the second half, the first half was, you know, dog meet with penalties and stuff. The offense played good anyway.

I can't say that for defense. But, yeah, no, they're playing great. Do you watch the game? I mean, they have over 30 points a game in their last, what is it, four in a row, is it? 30 points or more per game, the last four games in a row. Playing good defense. Got a lot of good players running the ball. Very difficult opponent.

Yeah, I will give it to you. I just like, did you watch the game? You saying that would just make my day. I had to say that. I had to say that. You did great. You did great. Congratulations.

We'll set you out of those tickets. Enjoy the night. And that is another week's edition of... What you're talking about? What you do, my job? What you're talking about? Coach O'Brien. I'm actually shocked.

He didn't name drop Derek Henry in that in that. Yeah. What if we did ever did? What you're talking about Cal McNair? That would just be silence. Well, let's do it now. Yeah. Ask me.

Okay. Let's play. Play the sounder so we at least interrupted here. Go ahead. What you doing on? What you draw them about? Cal McNair. Zero seconds.

His thoughts on the team's performance against Denver yesterday. Zero seconds, Ross. Go ahead. All right. And here it is. And that was, what you're talking about, Cal McNair? 114 on the Matt Thomas show. It's going to get better, though, right, Ross?

They're going to win. They're going to beat Tennessee this week. They're going to go on the road, and they're going to surprise us. And they're going to win the AFC South by winning two. two or last three, going 10 and six, raising yet another AFC South banner in the city of Houston. Why am I trying to convince you? I'm out.

I'm just so out on this team. All right. 713, 212-5-790. NFL recap at the bottom of the hour. Your phone calls are next week. All of our lines are available if you want to get in. And some of you on Twitter are like, you could talk about something else. The Texans are the story, gang.

I mean, trust me, we have four of the days in the week. and unless you want to get into a deep analytical breakdown of Rockets versus Sacramento, I'd be all in for that myself, but I don't think most of the audience would be. Winter meetings and baseball start up today. Astros are supposed to speak tomorrow. When they do, you'll hear it and we'll discuss it.

But today is the day about a Texan's loss that never should have happened. Matt Thomas, we'd like to thank his parents for only giving him two first names. Because who would listen to Billy Ray, Thomas, talk about Houston sports? The Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. It is 121 on the Matt Thomas show.

We take you to 3 o'clock today. We have NFL rundown with Ross coming up at 130. Wonderful. You know, I had a blog made like eight years ago on our website called Ross's Rundown. How is that doing? It's no longer operational. Yeah, it is what it is. I did a podcast for like three times.

Yeah. And then I realized that no one was listening to it because I was on this air. It's just 15 minutes. Yeah. we should do it though we can talk about off-air stuff by the way bring it back you want to 15 minutes it is just 15 minutes i did a great video with me and matt thomas of the toronto raptors it was just too long so i'm going to have to have the IT department IT but our social media departments shave it down a little bit you shave it down i don't know how to shave it oh why don't you learn busy uh such a delegator but he but he was a really good guy so it was nice to visit with matt thomas of the toronto raptors What was his initial reaction like meeting you?

Well. Like, hi. How do you go up to him and say, hi, my name is Matt Thomas? He said, nice to meet you. And then I gave him all the, I gave him all the material to take a few subtle jabs at me. Oh, okay. Wait, you fed him material for your own video? Yeah.

It works out beautifully. Okay. So we'll put on the blog, hopefully the next day or so. Me meeting my own Matt Thomas of the NBA. Now, he's got a fractured middle finger and is not playing. Oh, really? which I very easily could have the same sort of element. You always use your middle finger.

That's true. All right. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Can I tell you, and somebody said, hey, can you give us a couple things off non-textants, which we will do here right now? Ross, so I was at a bar yesterday watching the last minutes of the second half of the double-header games. And this bar had like 15 different TVs and it had different games on. And one of them was the conclusion.

of the DePaul versus under who they were playing college basketball game. Okay. It was on FS1. And as soon as that was over, guess what showed up? Ultimate Fighter, MMA. That's actually a very good guess, but not accurate. It was the highlight video of the Washington Nationals winning the 2019 World Series. It's now being narrated and talked about and pushed out there.

Is it commercial for it or the actual thing? I don't know because the sound wasn't on it. but I looked at it for about five minutes, and this will happen a lot to us in the next year. The Astros didn't win the World Series. Correct. Watching the Nationals celebrate. Not only celebrate Ross, but toast in Houston, Texas.

And here we are in December, whatever that is. Ninth? It stings. You still hurt? Yeah. I'm over it. And it's probably going to sting until the first day of the next opening season.

I'm still focused on what's going to happen with this punishment. I'm trying to. I'm going to try to not think about that because that's probably going to put me in an own different level of depression. But you had Patriots versus Chiefs on one television. You had Pittsburgh versus Arizona was playing. You had Tennessee Oakland going. And all the televisions were on except this one channel that had FS1 on.

And I was staring at that. watching all of the nationals celebrate. And it hurt. It's not supposed to hurt, but it did hurt. And I'm just telling you, you're saying, Matt, I'll be fine. When you're flipping the channel on a particular Saturday, and those highlights show up, it's like, you know, we always have to make it real life.

Like if you are dating now after you broke up with a girl and you're feeling good, you're like, man, this girl's hot. I can't wait to go with her tonight. And then you go to your Facebook page and you see your ex-execkel. girlfriend, her status change in a relationship and a bunch of pictures with her holding hands with a different dude, it stings a little bit, does it not? Unless you just hated her. That's never happened to me.

But yes, I guess imagine it would stink. I'm just telling you, as a little public service announcement from me to you in the city of Houston, you're going to start seeing Washington national videos pop up on FS1 or any other channel that has sports. And it's going to hurt you a little bit. Let me just change a channel. You'll be fine. That's what I did.

I move on. I move quickly over to watch Tennessee score another touchdown. They beat the Raiders by like three scores. They've won four straight. And they're scoring, as Bill O'Brien said a minute ago, they're scoring more than 30 points a game. And they're tied for first place in the AFC South with your beloved Texas. But I don't know if you watch a tape, though.

Bill says their offense is really good too. So when he says, did you watch a tape? Does that mean that you get an automatic invite to his room? Or does he mean go home and watch the exact game that we just saw on DVR? No, you can get the all. 22 as a regular consumer. But not right after the game, right? I think it's shortly after the game, probably.

Yeah. I don't know exactly how quickly it goes up, but if you have NFL game pass, you can get the all 22. And somebody said on the show a minute ago, did you think he was being passive aggressive towards the defense? I don't think so. I think he was just being more standing up for the offense rather than taking shots.

Here is Bill O'Brien kind of giving you the, let's, you know, that fumble play that Kiki Quti got. the Texas isn't any new to receivers. Will, what's his face, is injury prone. Filler? As the IP kids, as the kids say, he's IP. Okay. And Kiki Kootie's IP and can't hold another football.

He was, Bill O'Brien was asked after the game if the team gave up after that fumble. That was a weird play. I mean, you know, the ball came out. The back judge, I mean, Am I going to get fine for this? The back judge said he was down. The rest of the officials let the play go. Somebody heard a whistle.

The ball was scooped up by one of their guys. Akins had him in the grasp. And then he handed the ball to Kareem, and Kareem ran it back for a touchdown. It was just a strange play. So I don't think anybody, I mean, Laramie Tonsle, he chased the guy down the field to try to catch up with him. You see that? That's unbelievable.

And he didn't catch him, but, I mean, he was gaining. So I don't think we gave up on the play. I just think it was a strange play. If I want to say, gave up, I didn't give up. No, I know what you're saying. And I, nobody stopped playing. I mean, I just think it was a weird play where it was just a weird play. Now, if one of the officials told Kiki the ball was down, then that wasn't fair.

I didn't see. I didn't catch that. And I don't know about, I mean, I didn't know that he says somebody heard a whistle. I don't know about that either. That feels kind of like selective. Hey, did someone come in our house and steal our stuff? Yeah, but the door wasn't on lock, was it? No, of course it wasn't. But it was.

Well, maybe somebody heard a whistle and then they gave up for the next two quarters. Because they didn't play much the next two quarters. Where do you put yesterday's performance? It's an all-timer. you're eight and four you're trying to go you're a lot you have an outside shot at a two seed and a buy especially because new england is starting a little bit yeah and your eight point favorites so you're supposed to win this game and if we had beat the schmose on friday i would have picked the texans to cover i would have done the same thing thinking the denver second start for a quarterback he's got every

play on his on his wrist he can't figure out what the hell is going to going on. He's confused. And then he takes seven-step drops and he finds tight ends open for 20-plus yards almost every single time. Maybe that was a big decoys what that was. Do you need the Texan were deaked by Drew Locke? I don't know what happened. Hey, I'm very confused. I don't know what the play is.

Said hut. Oh, I'll just throw the ball down the field to one of the receivers. A lot of quarterbacks have the plays on the wrist. But it was getting annoying. Was it not? I didn't really pick up on it. Oh, my God. I was staring.

Get off that thing. Stop. Memorize a play once in a while. And then I realized it was just his second. He has the thing on his wrist too. But he wouldn't stare now like he was getting ready for a college exam. At least now we know that losing sucks. And if anybody knows how much losing sucks, it's Matt Thomas. I'm outstanding.

This is Whitney Merciless. Back to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. All right. Back on the Texans in a little bit. A little bit on the Rockets and their performance against the Suns. A little bit on the college football playoffs. And where our favorite teams, instead of Texas, are playing the bowl games,

all coming up in the next 90 minutes. Believe it or not, today is all things about the Alamo Bowl. Oh, I was going to go with Sesame Street, but that's even the same difference. But first, it's time for Ross's NFL recap. Yes, Matthew, let's go ahead and start it off with the big one in the NFC. You mentioned yesterday.

Here's your football game. High snap. Wisnowski got it down. Robbie Gold's kick. is good. Robbie Gold beats the New Orleans Saints at the gun.

The 49ers both losses this year were at the gun by a field goal today. Greg, I can't do this. They do it. They win it. I can't do it anymore. I told Robbie Gold he's going to be the NSC Special Team player in the week today. That's it. Tim Ryan. I can't do this.

To 46, the 49ers beat the Saints of New Orleans. What a football. game this turned out to be. Extended cut there as the Niners beat the Saints in a shootout in a clash of NFC powers after the game, Sean Payton asking if he feels encouraged by the way they performed? Listen, you're talking to me right after a tough loss. So are you telling me how I'm supposed to feel?

All right. I don't feel encouraged. All right. I feel frustrated because we had opportunities earlier to them offensively to take advantage of field position. we had a number of opportunities. We had misassignment, so no, I'm not encouraged that way. The crazy thing, Matt, these are two of the best defenses in the NFC as well.

And you got a 48 to 46 final. Jimmy Garapolo out dueling Drew Brees? Are you now buying on the Niners being a legit NFC title contender? Absolutely. I've been buying on them for a while. I can't remember. It was maybe two, three weeks ago. Who did they take care of business against?

It was the Packers. They destroyed the Packers 37 to 8. And I said, you know what? I've been trying to downgrade the Niners all season. They're legit, and that gets reinforced for me after last weekend. Let's move on to the big one in the AFC, the Baltimore Ravens, visiting the Buffalo Bills. The bills I've been calling them not legit for a while,

but at the end of the day, I finally accepted. I think they're as an AFC contender. Fourth down on eight, Josh Allen out of the shotgun, Devin Singletary with him in the backfield. Raven Show Blitz. Here comes Earl Thomas off the edge. Singletary's pass over the middle. It is incomplete.

No flag on the play. Marcus Peters with the play. And with 103 left in Buffalo, the Hayes in the Barn. Why are they doing this on for the telephone? That sounds like... It's 2019. Was that a call from like the 1940s? I felt like it was about to be a fireside chat with Frank of FDR after that.

Live from the Polarground. It's the New York Football Against the Jets against the Saskatoon. Against the Kent and Rough Riders. I don't know what was going on there with the radio call, but at the end of the day, the Ravens get the tough, hard-fought win against the Buffalo Bills, 24 to 17. So Matt, I ask you, have you bought in on the Buffalo Bills?

No. Okay. I think they're legit. Ravens, though, 11 and 2. And it's like the Ravens have gone through this stretch right now. They destroyed the Patriots and the Bengals. Then the Texans, the Niders, bills, all wins, all playoff teams. presumably, well, the Rams probably are going to be on the outside looking in,

but they get the record of a playoff team. The two teams that the bills can beat the EFC playoffs, Pittsburgh, Houston. If the Texans end up as a four seed, Buffalo Bills are coming to town for the playoffs. And we'll see how that goes. But schedule does ease up for the Ravens. They get the Jets and the Browns the next two weeks and the finish out with the Steelers.

Let's move it along here. The Tennessee Titans, as you have, heard Bill O'Brien talk about how great their offense is. They went up against the Oakland Raiders and pretty much destroyed them in the second half, winning the second half, 21 to zero after being tied at 21 at the half. John Gruden says they're fighting out there. We miss Renfro, we miss Trent Brown, we miss Moreau, we miss Berwick, we miss John Abram, we miss Carl Joseph, I keep going. But our guys are fighting, you know, I wish I could give you more. Tennessee's a good football team. They're in first place, and they proved it today why they are.

Oakland Raiders now six and seven on the season. But more importantly, Matt, Titans been rolling. Winters of four straight. Who you like in Sunday's game? Texans Titans, one, two, three. Titans.

I'm holding my opinion. Oh, what? You can't bring up the question and then juke us like that? I'm the MC, not the one giving out the answers. Oh, my gosh. Well, I'll do one more time. Texans or Titans?

One, two, three. Titans. Titans. Oh, come on. This team is so schizophrenic. They can go to Nashville when they give. You know they can. I'm not saying it's impossible.

You asked me to make a prediction, and I made a prediction. All right, let's go with Sunday night football. A little bit of a stunner. The L.A. Rams at home, the Seattle Seahawks coming into the game as at 10 and 2 and division leaders and all that stuff ahead of with the tiebreaker ahead of the San Francisco 49ers, but they did not perform well last night against the Rams. Shotgun snap. Blitz is coming.

Golf is going to throw deep. Got a man out here. is going to overthrow it. It's intercepted by Diggs. The ball intended for Brandon Cooks. It's overthrown. And Diggs looked like Earl Thomas again sprinting from his free safety spot, getting to the play and intercepting inside the five-yard line. I just wanted to put that quandary Diggs play in because it's an actually longhorn making a play in the NFL, which doesn't happen on Saturdays anyways.

But the L.A. Rams get to win 28 to 12. And really, it wouldn't even that close, Matt. What do you make of the Seahawks? Who's the best team in the NFC? I asked you the question three minutes ago. Could it be at the end of the day, the San Francisco 49ers? I've said 49ers before. I'm going to stick with it now.

49ers, best team in the NFC. And last but not least. Oh, that's all I got. Oh. You want more? No, let's talk about Texas's bowl game with Utah coming back. Well, unfortunately, I have other plans at that time of the year, so otherwise I would. What?

The rule is if you work at IHeartMedia and you work on the Matt Thomas show, you get automatically every Alamo Bowl game off just because we think your squad's going to be there. I'm off during that time, but I actually was thinking about possibly going to the Alamo Bowl. I'd love to go. It would be my fourth Alamo Bowl, which is sad in itself, but I'm not going to be able to make it. Hopefully Texas wins. The line's got to be already out on all. But you know what?

I would say Texas has got to be a pretty good spot because Utah lost the peck. 12 championship game. They very well could have advanced to the college playoff if they had not getting their brains beat up by Oregon. Utah, six and a half point favorites. So is you talking motivated to play that game? Yes or no?

I don't know who Alabama's playing, but I can't imagine Alabama being overly motivated to play. I don't know. I think that's something that gets a little overblown when we have these teams underperform. I don't at all. I think motivation, especially for teams

that are accustomed to being somewhere and not getting there, the letdown is immense. Okay. We'll see. And look, Texas loves going the Alamo Bowl. You've said this over and over again. It's like their second home. They're going to be amped up to go back there again.

I don't think so. The fine cuisine on the Riverwalk, the water that is a Riverwalk. See, that's what factored in. I mean, I want to go to the Alamo Bowl, and I've been there for New Year's before. But, I mean, who wants to go be in San Antonio for New Year's? Okay, just saying. All right, 143. Thank you for that's the NFL recap from Ross here on Sports Talk 790.

713-212-1-2-5-790. LSU fan, if you are out and about today, they just want to yell at the top of your lungs because your team is probably going to win the national championship. We'd allow that. Why hasn't Gordy called him with an Atlanta update is what I want to know? He called the Sports RV show, and he said that the LSU was going to win 38 to 17.

I told him he was crazy. He got it pretty close, right? Yes, he did. Is LSU fan going to infiltrate every southern radio station? They're out of control right now. Seriously. I'm deathly afraid of LSU fan screaming and yelling

and doing terrible Ed Ogeron impersonations and talking about how Joe Burroughs the greatest quarterback ever to play at LSU. Is that coming? If it is, let's hear it now. Joe Burrow statue at Tiger Stadium. Because they're going to win the national championship, aren't they?

Ohio State might have something to say about that. Clemson might have something to say about that. Oklahoma will not. Probably not. They labored against... I need them. to just, I need them to get destroyed. Please, LSU.

Really? You're that much hatred for Oklahoma? Yeah. Your second biggest rival? The biggest rival for Texas Longhorns football? Absolutely. The second biggest rival. 145 on the Matt Thomas show.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. LSU is the number one seed. In all honesty, and you know, we always kid on the show here. That's what we do.

Kid, about 90% of the time. I'm actually happy for LSU. We've got a lot of LSU fans listening to show that we work with, Nick. I'm okay with it. I'd rather have a rooting of interest in LSU winning than, say, Wisconsin, right? Sure. Nobody cares about whether U.S.E. is going to the national championship. Go Tigers.

No, just don't do it. It's go. G-E-A-U-X. Go. That's how I speak French. I know. But so, yeah, I tease because y'all are a little crazy. Now, you are not a little crazy. You are a lot crazy.

But your team is ridiculously good. You've got the best quarterback going. You've got a big-ass offensive line that helps. You've got an all-star receiver. Your defense has gotten a lot better. And you just beat the crap out of Georgia in the SEC championship game. Didn't even make it competitive. And that Georgia defense was supposed to be amazed balls, and it wasn't. Yeah, it was supposed to be all-world. But as Chris Gordy, related to me on the sports RV show, Saturday's 11 a.m.

Here on Sports Talk 7-90. No need for the plug. Why not? Too early. Okay. Why is it too early? You do it on Thursdays at 11 a.m. The sports RV show.

Good radio. As he said, he looked at the quarterbacks that Georgia had gone up against. It hadn't really been a who's who as far as who they'd gone up against. So he expected them to move the ball against Georgia, and that was the case. And Joe Burrow, we've seen good offense. In the last several years, it used to be always good defense beats good offense. That's not the case. I mean, we can look at the Saints and 49ers game with the way the rules are and the way the game is played.

if you have a great quarterback and a good offense, you've always got a shot. And the Patriots the last two weeks going on the NFL side. They were supposed to be this ferocious defense. Kansas scored pretty much at will. So the Texans. So LSU, congratulations, my friends. You guys are going to, you own it, and you're probably going to win the national championship. And frankly, I'd rather have you win it than obnoxious Ohio State fan.

And Clemson, by the way. No, I just don't want to hear. There's too many LSU people up here. I don't need to hear it. No, but that's okay. Once in a while, we can let them excel and have us good time. I'm rooting against them. Chad on 7-90.

Hi, Chad. Hey, you talking to me? This ain't Chad. This is all it. Oh, boy. Hello, Coach, Joe. How you doing, guys? Go to Tigers.

I'm just returning emails. What else you got? Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. How do you feel about this matchup against Oklahoma in the first week of the playoff, coach? Oh, man. We got Joe Burrow.

We adopted Joe Burrow. He comes down, he eats the gumbo, and he gets the right dressing and everything. Yeah. And we're going to keep him. We're going to go ahead and change the college rules. We're going to keep them here forever. So, Coach, you always look pretty jacked. What's your workout regimen like?

I drink muscle and Red Bull. Every five minutes, I give me another one, and I do about 50 push-ups between each one. Wow. That's a lot of push-ups every day, coach. Thanks, Coach. Go Tigers. Yeah.

Yeah, go to go to Tigers. He does that even, I was listening to the LSU broadcast at halftime the car. Go Tigers. He does go Tigers. Yeah. I think every coach, when you become a coach somewhere, you have to say your school's little fight phrase. Like Nick Saban, joining us here at the half, Nick, your thoughts? Well, I thought we...

Yeah, he doesn't say roll tied. We did okay, roll tight. Coach Schaven doesn't go, well, we got to get a little better on the offensive line and we've got to score some more points. Roll damn tied. Hey, Tom Herman does it for UT. Did it for UH. We'll drop a little hookah horns in here every now and then, but not normally. I don't think.

We're coming. we're coming and we're back to now you know why i like them you know and this is honest truth forgetting about how many employees where we work with no one like that hire no one not a single soul they wanted they wanted they wanted tom herman time is a better fit for austin i wanted tom herman and you got him yeah and you're going the alma ball and i'm wrong with that going there for the fourth time in six years not wrong not at all time like 12 years whatever it feels like six i know we have some breaking news from the world of baseball. We'll tell you about that in a couple of seconds. Let's go to Ray in Angleton on 790. Hello, Ray.

Hi. Good. Good. Good. I just want to talk about the coach for a minute. I know we had a record at 8 and 4. He didn't think about the game or trying to stay busy until Sunday night when the game's on Sunday night. I just have a nervous twitch about me. And it's not because I don't believe in the guys. The guys have all the talent in the world. They're either number one or number two, probably between number one, two, or three quarterbacks in the league. And we've got some pretty good players on both sides of the wall.

But what gets me nervous is, I don't know what the heck. This, say, for instance, we were down, okay, first of all, We're not going to even talk about the play where he let us go for fourth and more. I'm not sure if you guys watched the film. Yeah, they went five wide on the fourth and one. That was weird. No backs. By the way, Ray, no backs.

And by the way, they never should have gone for it to begin with. I don't want to hear, well, I don't mind the play call. The execution was poor. They were down three touchdowns. They were giving the ball, and then back at the 34, 34, 35-yard line somewhere in that range, Ross. No way, no how. You kick the ball, keep them, pin them back. Do not give him a chance for seven more points before they have.

But that was a bad ball. Sure. This is my major point. Okay. When he gets out of the pocket, they can't control him. Why do we spend the second half of this same game, the second half when we're down 35 to 3, or 30, whatever we were, whatever it was, why when we're down, why don't we see, plan that reflects that we're down because I actually saw them in the third quarter running the ball

and my wife even asked, she said, don't they spend more time on the clock when they run versus passing? And I looked over at her and I said, damn, you could be the coach. Because that's all you need is somebody that understands that you need to call plays that you think you can make. Well, the fact of the matter is, thank you, Ray, for the phone call. I'm going to give you My quick answer. You can't score 35 points on one possession. It would have been, I mean, a very, very impossible feat to come back as much as they did. It's happened before.

We clearly know that on the playoff game. But I don't think you all of a sudden become a hurry up from the moment the third quarter begins. It wasn't horseshit offense. Yeah, they did great on offense if you asked Bill O'Brien. You know what I'm saying, though? I think you have to still mix things up. Yeah. Keep things where the opponents are guessing.

And if you put your team in nonstop throws over and over and over again, you're going to open yourself up for a lot of poor passes, some sacks, some interceptions, and some force plays that probably shouldn't be there. And unfortunately, the Texans offense is one that's predicated on the run. They run on first down more than every team in the league except for like a four of them. So they're one of the more run-heavy teams. And the reason for that is so the play action works so they can let Deshaun Watson operate and get them thinking about the run.

and that's when he's at his best. So, I mean, once you get off schedule, unfortunately for the Texans, it's hard for them to play catch-up. 159. We start the final hour of the Matt Thomas show. I know you all are mad, and that's okay.

Because we just can't figure out who they are. Consistency, we have been asking for it. And this franchise really, how many times in the, how long have you been around 17 years? Have they really had it? How many times under Bill O'Brien? Not very often.

Is the Matt Thomas show. It is 204. It's the final hour of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790, where your Texans are tied with the Tennessee Titans for the EFC South League. Ross, we're going to get a guy on from Tennessee this week, because I have to find out. Are we talking about a Tennessee team that completely changed who they were because of the quarterback change?

Is Ryan Tannock that good? Or is Derek Henry just crushing it the last handful weeks? Or was Marriota that bad? I think Marietta was just that ineffective, and sometimes you need a little something to change up and add some juice to the offense. And clearly Ryan Tanell has been that answer. But Tannahill threw a 91-yard touchdown pass yesterday.

Did you see his tackle? No, I did not. He was a defensive tackle for the Raiders they were playing, right? And it was either a fumble or an interception or something. And Ryan Tann, the guy ran for like 50 yards. Tannhill ran him down and straight truck that dude. It was one of the tackles of the season. It was pretty awesome.

well all I'm telling you is I can't believe because they're the most schizophrenic team in the division up until this year I thought Jacoby Brissette and the Colts are going to be a lot better than what they are they gave up a huge lead to Tampa Bay yesterday oh whoa there's this look at him Brian Tana Hill going for that tech that is athleticism right there yes he was a former wide receiver so we got that okay we have the Colts who have disappointed. We have the Jacksonville Jaguars who have just flattened, given up, right? Yeah.

They're done. It's Houston and Tennessee for a division that I don't think has gained any more respect than it did before the start of the season in September. You could talk about it as a tough division. I mean, it's better than it was in years past, I think. And a few weeks ago, you're talking about it as actually one of the tougher divisions because of the way the Colts were playing and then Titans as well. But yeah, more weeks come out, the more things shake out. You have eight and five wouldn't be good enough to lead any division in the AFC, and only, of course, the NFC East and the NFC.

Look, we've still got another half-fifty minutes of the show, and we're going to do this. We're going to, I don't want to spend a lot of time on it tomorrow, because you can only kick a dog so much. Okay. But we're going to kick the dog today. We don't believe in violence. But that was awful yesterday. I brought it up in the first hour of the show.

I tweeted out yesterday felt, you tell me if I'm wrong about this, yesterday felt like that was AFC Waldcard Saturday. All the buildup, because you're coming off this whole awesome victory against New England, you have a chance to. Do you say something, Bill? You didn't say anything. Final four weeks of the season with a very winnable schedule. Remember we kept thinking these were the four games you had.

These were a piece of cake. these were no doubt about it. Now I'm not so sure they're going to win at Tennessee. I still think they're going to beat Tampa Bay because Tampa's just at the end of the day is terrible. Well, I thought they were going to beat the Broncos too. I'm not sure if you guys watched the film.

Look, I know it was a terrible game, but... Yeah, I don't know. I didn't watch the film, no. That's what I want you to do, Nick, is every week I feel like he gives us fresh soundbps. I didn't watch the all 22 of you getting curb stomped and getting down 38 to 3. No, I didn't catch that. It wasn't a horse-off offense. It wasn't great.

Why do you think he's doing that? Do you think he's doing that because he's mad that people are kicking his team down a little bit? I guess so. I don't know. I don't know. Actually, I don't know. I don't know why you would act like scoring 14 points after you got down 38 to 3 and the other team's letting up. I don't know why you would brag on that and act like you would have it.

You had good offense. So let's do this. We ran the ball for over 100 yards. Okay. Okay. That's fine. Let's do this then. Let's roll play.

It's the Monday press conference at 10 o'clock in the morning. after a Sunday beatdown. He goes up there and says, look, we sucked yesterday. I don't care about the running game in 100 yards. I don't care that DeShon Watson threw his body up in the air to score a touchdown. I don't care within the second half.

We were not prepared. We're going to spend the next six days preparing our ass off for this incredibly important matchable Tennessee. We let ourselves down. We let our fans down. We let the team down, and we're going to fix this. Instead, he comes up, he's got his dukes up a little bit. He's trying to deflect.

He's combative. Yeah, he's trying to deflect what was horse crap yesterday. That was good. That worked out good. I'm telling you, when these coaches get into a bubble Ross, they, and they know more than we do. I'm not, I'm not ready to tell you that I know more than they do. I'm not going to do that. But our eyes and our ears watch that game.

yesterday. Okay? We watched a variety of people from Denver we had never heard of before until yesterday score ad nauseum on the Texans. They went three deep with their tight ends. They didn't even use Cortland Sutton, who was their terrific downfield threat to do much damage, and the Texans got burned by tight ends who were pushing Jonathan Joseph aside.

It was terrible. It was absolutely terrible. So why do we, are we supposed to come in if the Texans beat the Titans next Monday, Sunday, to get the division lead back again? Why are we supposed to say everything is fixed? Why would we want to think that a schizophrenic up and down, seesaw, roller coaster, any other cliche I can use team is going to do damage in January? Who does it that way, Ross? Who is so schizophrenic in the regular season that put it together in the month of January? I'd like to know a team because the New England Patriots,

have been the model of excellence in the AFC for just about 20 years. They don't go 9 and 7. They beat up everybody week after week after week. Granted the AFCE sucks, but they do have some big wins along the way. They've gone to Pittsburgh and went over the years. They've gone to Kansas City, the wins.

They've gone to the left coast and won. You have had teams who can catch fire in the playoffs. I mean, the Giants, both the years that they won it with Eli Manning. One of those years, they were 10 and 6. I want to say when the Broncos won with Joe Flacko, what were they like 10 and 6, 11 and 5 somewhere there, and they just kind of caught Joe Flacko caught lightning in a bottle and what was it, like 11 touchdowns, no other exceptions.

Right? So, I mean. Okay, so you're telling me it can happen then. It can't. A lot? It's probably not, no. I've told no, I'm not trying to sell you. Don't make me try to sell you on the Texans.

I want you to sell me. Because I told you I'm out. I'm out. They can win out. Well, that's not good. You can't be out. Why not? We have three more games and a playoff game to discuss.

They can win them all. I'm not going to predict them to win a playoff game. I'm sorry. Don't get down 38 to 3 to the Broncos. Don't tell me you're going to have this big matchup with the Ravens and get down 34 to 0 in that game. You can't, you will not accept sometimes you lay an egg. Sometimes you just suck for a particular Sunday.

Well, they lay a lot of eggs the last few weeks. Maybe they're not. Some issues with penalties like has been pointed out 50 times between the last two press conferences. Rightfully so. He's such an ass. Stop pointing it out, Aaron Wilson. The holier than thou arrogance.

John McLean. The I'm better than you. You guys, I'm going to piss on your questions because I'm smarter than you and I know everything that emanates from him is just tiresome. I'm not sure if you guys watch the film, but... No, I didn't watch a film. Why would I go back and watch a film? Are you getting your ass beat down 38 to 3?

I'd rather watch God befriending me. I would rather watch that show and I have no interest in it. So here's what happened to me yesterday. So you know how the NFL, the CBS double-header game, always runs late. Yes. 60 Minutes had a story about Adam Sandler, my new friend. Right. Well, he didn't know who you are.

Well, we visited. So I didn't want to miss that. Okay. So I told Kim, I said, you need to hit the next show after 60 minutes in the DVR. You put an extension on it. Well, she didn't do that. She went with the next show. What the next show was?

God friend in me? God friended me. Oh, how was that? I didn't want, no, it was, it got so late that it was most of 60 minutes. Well, but when, let me taste them, you get, you get hives and you go to your DVR and you see Godfriend to me on the screen. You just do. Because no one should be DVRing that show. Hmm.

It's awful. I never watch one episode, but that's the way I'm judging it. Stupid premise, stupid show. Okay. I'm not going to watch it. You're not going to watch 60 minutes either, but. No, there's good stories in 60 minutes. I don't watch every week.

I'll take your word for it. But Adam Sandler talking about his. life and comedy and doing that he's apparently he is in the jewelry business in this new drama that he's coming out. He's getting a lot of a pre-Oscar hype if you will. Oscar buzz. That's what the folks called. Should have asked him about that. He'd have really

been impressive. I don't know that. Yeah. Because I'm guessing when he's breaking bread in Beverly Hills, he's kind of tired of Billy Madison conversation. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's true. Do you know why he got kicked off to Saturday Night Live? I don't. Because the network

and the critics both thought he wasn't funny. Keith flat out said, I got fired because Lorne Michael's executive producer never worries about what critics say about comedy, the comics that are the actors on the show. But he says when the comics and then NBC, the parent network says, these guys spayed him are not funny. They all got fired. Wow.

And he had the last laugh because he's built over $4 billion in movies. He's doing okay for himself. And he's a new friend of mine. If he'd follow me on Twitter, it'd be great. But we're not going to get dead. Does he have a Twitter account? Yes, he does. It's probably just run by his team, right?

Adam Sandler's got a better chance of following Sean Salisbury than it as me, even though I've talked to him. They're boys. They are boys. 214 is our time. Bill O'Brien's arrogance, and Ross is under no circumstance accepting a laying an egg, and things are going to be okay. We'll update our Twitter poll on that topic in a matter of moment.

713-212-5-7-90. Hi, this is former running back of Herschel Walker. You're listening to Matt Thomas on the Sports Talk 7-9. Baseball breaking news. Stephen Strasbourg has a home. The Astros? Strike one. The Rangers?

Strike two. The Nippon Ham Fighters? That would actually be quite a stunner. He is going to stay with the Washington Nationals. Wow. Seven years, $245 million. which if you want to do the U of H math on that, $35 million, of which $85 of that is going to be deferred.

Oh, so he's going to get Bobby Bonilla treatment? He's never going to ever not get a paycheck from the Washington Nationals. That was good. That worked out good. You cannot mix Bill O'Brien and baseball in this show. I don't know. I'm not letting you do it. Not letting you do it.

I don't mind it. You can do it. Garrett Cole is going to sign this week, Ross. This is the anti-last year's free agency where everybody had to wait for the very last second. The bar has been set. I know it's not 9 and 7. It's $245 million.

Garrett Cole is going to get north of $245 million. That is north of $35 million per year. And it's not going to be a Houston Astro. No, there's just no way. Let's see. Garrett Cole is younger. Less wear and tear. No real signs of injuries throughout his career where Strasbourg had the Tommy John and had to be on a pitch count for a long, long time.

Yeah. He's going to get that ballpark and above. So let's guess it. If Strasbourg is 7 and 245, could Garrick Cole get 9 and 300? Would you give away? Would you go eight years on a pitcher? Let's see. what's what's 35 times 9 it's like 315 35 times 9 45

35 times 9 45 carry the 420th 350 9 years 315 million dollars no way no way my guess is he gets it stays at 7 7 and 320 or something no no no I wouldn't think it'd be 300 I'm sorry not 320 um 260 yeah that's what I meant I'm at like 250. I think you see. Gary Cole's going to be thinking I'm worth $5 million more than than per year for nine years. Yeah. I mean, I can't argue with him being worth that.

I don't know who's going to give him that. Could he be 7 and 280, the first $40 million player? For a guy that pitches, I know he's magnificent, but it's every fifth day. That's out of control. He's not 40 and 120. I wouldn't do it. I know the Astros aren't going to do that. somebody thinks on Twitter I don't know it's I think it was a joke but maybe somebody's thinking that Strasberg's deferred money is to get Garrett to go to Washington they'll have both of them

I'm just saying that's just one rumor out there wow by the way ESPN put out at Sunday night schedule for the first just win the world series and you add Garrett Cole that would be that'd be like a kick in the groin repeatedly back to what I was saying so ESPN put out it puts it Sunday night schedule off for the first half of the year You know, there's going to be illiterate with the Yankees and Red Sox came out. Probably nine. Two Astros. Okay.

One against the Yankees and one against the Red Sox. Wonderful. One in home. There are zero Washington National Games. Zero? Zero. The world champions do not get a Sunday night appearance in the first half of the season. See Astros fans, you can stop being mad about you getting disrespected.

Let me tell you some. We have significantly bigger fish to fry. It's like, please, Major League Baseball, take it easy in our guys. That's what I was like, take it easy on. Us, us because we are astro. I'm Astrobody, 1979. Alan Ashby, Ross. The seven-year-old Matt Thomas does not want the Astros to get heavily suspended.

Deathly afraid it's going to. But not, but definitely doesn't want it to happen. 47-year-old Matt Thomas is like, oh, my God, this is going to be awful. Seven-year-old's like, please don't hurt my team. Hmm. Well, we don't need to go back to this well, but it's, I don't think it's going to be good for the Houston. Astros. I think suspensions are coming, Matt.

Sorry. All right. Let's go to Steve and Huffman on 7-9. Steve, good afternoon. As long as they're not exempt from postseason play. Yeah, I don't think Major League Baseball would do that. But anyway, I didn't call you about that. Bill, I don't know.

I got 20,000 names for that guy. They're all not going to be played on the radio, and I'm not going to say them. But let me say this, Matt. Since last year, I took the... the view that I'm not going to take this team seriously or really follow them. I don't care what they've done so far. I really kind of expected them to lay an egg against a rookie quarterback and a bunch of guys that probably won't be on their team next year because that too, that guy is.

Bill Belichick would never follow a game like that against the Broncos. and neither would, you know, Sean and New Orleans, a lot of coaches we could name. The bottom line is this team is not going to do anything until they get a bona fide, legitimate tier one head coach, now, either college or pro, but this guy lives in his own reality. I mean, most of the game, I don't know if you saw the same thing I did, there were four guys lined up in the box, and they were playing a lot of Zon. and I'm going, you're down, three plus touchdowns, are you nuts? They put no heat on this kid.

I would have been rushing seven guys the whole day with my intent to put him on the sideline and get to the next quarterback. And none of that. And to me, I don't blame people for booing and leaving, but then again, I'm not going to get upset about this team because it's all about this guy. And what's scary now is that the guy who does own the team has a lot of the team. no knowledge or clue about football, like his dad did, God rest his soul. And he probably told Bill, hey, I don't know what to do.

It's yours. You decide. And the problem is with that, that guy's going to be here forever. So I think we can all kind of either choose to pick another team to follow or I don't know. But that's my feelings. Thank you, Steve. Rightfully so.

If you had a chance to go get a dream head coach this exact moment. But here's the problem with this question I'm about to ask. Okay. Jack Easterby is going nowhere. Yeah, it's not happening. Whatever he is. Jason Garrett.

And Cal McNair is not going anywhere because he owns the team and he's very, very lucky that his last name is McNair. I think it goes Sean Payton. You know, I've had a great affinity for Sean. Or maybe, I mean, are you still, is Sean McVeigh has been a hot name? Of course. But there's no rumors of him being unhappy in Los Angeles, is there?

No. Well, you're talking realistically or we're doing fantasy? Oh. Fantasy Bill O'Brien's the coach for the next decade. It starts to be real life. I've got to do a lot of things better. If we're not doing fantasy, Bill O'Brien's going to be here for a while. Let's do semi-vin.

Let's come back. If a coach is currently under contract and there's no signs of that person leaving, he's not in the list. For instance, Sean McVey, Sean Payton. I would then give you every college coach that could leave for the NFL tomorrow or the hot coordinator. And if there's such a thing right now, who would you like? I think the chief's offensive coordinator. Save it for the brain.

Okay. We're a little professional radio tease here. Who would that be? We're going to do it next. I don't care what you say, Bill. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Believe it or not today, all things about is it the voices of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch?

Are we going all things Sesame Street? Yeah, well, it'll be all related to that. And Carol Spinney, the person that died. How old was it, Carol Spinney? 85. That's a great life. It's a good run. Let me tell you something.

Carol Spinney, we always talk about whether he's got a straight shot to heaven or he's got to stop in purgatory. He's got a straight shot to heaven. Why is that? Because look what he did. He gave us all smiles and laughs. What if he was like, what if he was a really bad person? No signs of it.

You know nothing of Carol Spitting. Correct. I'm just presuming that he said. What if he was like controlling with his children and emotionally abuse them and kicked dogs on the street? You think Carol Spinney dropped F-bombs on the set of Sesame Street? Of course. Maybe. I don't think he did.

I don't know that he didn't. I'm going to presume that he did not. Well, you give him card blanche. I'm not going to do that, Matt. He's going straight to heaven with no stop in. No Southwest Airlines stop in purgatory. Okay. The Houston Lunchtime Sports Conversation most respected by head coach Bill O'Brien.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for Matt Thomas. In his career here in Houston. Of sorts. The Matt Thomas Show. 233 on the Matt Thomas show. All right, real quick, you get to pick the coach if the Texas has made a coach next year. Who would you want to get? Without a doubt, is there one defendant of mind?

Let me give you a few. Matt Rule. Thanks for stealing it. I think Matt Rule's going to be an NFL head coach. I really do. I think he's going to skip the colleges. I think he's he was a assistant coach with the New York Giants, I want to say, many moons ago under Parcells. Turned Baylor around from a program that was not supposed to win anything to playing Georgia in a New Year's Day Six Bowl.

Pretty damn good, right? Yes. I would kick the tires on Lincoln Riley. Okay. Matt Rule. Anybody else that would come to mind in the college ranks that I just think would be amazing. I'm not giving Chip Kelly another chance. I'm not, who else would be out there?

It would be high profile that's looking maybe to leave that. Those are about the only two guys I can think of. I'm not in the movement of who's the hot hipster coordinator yet. Those names kind of come out of nowhere once the season ends, typically. The Chiefs Offensive Coordinator, Eric Biennamy, is highly... Colorado running back. is thought of highly in NFL circles

as somebody who could potentially land as a head coach. Okay. Do you want him? Don't know enough about him. Okay. I want no one as part of the Beloitrek coaching tree. Did you mention Ron Rivera yet? Oh.

Ron Rivera or Bill O'Brien? One, two, three. Ron Rivera. Ron Rivera. What does that say? Why did he get fired this year? I mean, I guess they've been losing. Yeah.

You know, new owners like to put their own people in. Right. What about this? Would Ron Rivera be the coach and Bill O'Brien can be the general manager? Because Bill clearly loves being the general manager. He's not that horrible at it either. Well, no, let's be careful on saying that. There have been some nice moves, but are you robbing Peter to pay Paul?

Yes. They're going to have a tough time fixing that secondary in the draft this year. I was listening to the sports RV show last week when I was off. And I think you were going over draft picks and lack thereof. Yeah, they don't have a lot. Saturday's 11 a.m. Sports Talk 7.9. Again, promoting Thursdays and Friday. Greg Roman,

the Ravens OC. A lot of people like what he does. That name has been brought up. Would you like Greg Roman? Put it this way. If I'm of the belief, Ross, that Bill O'Brien can never leave the Texans to the Super Bowl, why would I want to, why would I choose him over anybody? If I don't think the end game belong in the Super Bowl and Bill O'Brien belong in the same sentence.

You could legitimately throw anybody at me, and I would say, sure, why not give it a try? Urban Meyer? Urban can coach. I don't know if his mannerisms, his My Way, the Highway would work in an NFL locker room. Although there's a lot of rumors about him going to Dallas. The two hot names I keep hearing about the Dallas job are Urban Meyer and Lincoln Riley. because I think when Jason Gary gets fired, let's not hide this, fat guys.

They're going to have to go get, Jerry's going to, this will be Jerry's last hire in theory, right? It's going to be a big splashy hire. It's not going to be some tight ends coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Probably not. It'll be splashy. Bill Parcell's coming back.

Because Stephen Jones, his son's going to say, you no longer get the keys to the car. We're not letting you out and driving. Or maybe we'll let you drive during the daytime, but that's it. because Jerry Jones apparently has lost his marbles after doing a post-game interview after the loss of the Chicago Bears has passed Thursday. Am I right, boys on that?

There's a whole bunch of time when I have to bullshit the hell out of you. Do you understand bullshit? Put your damn act together. All right, Jerry. Could you imagine Tillman Fertita coming on my show and saying that? Yes, I could, actually. Actually, he'd be like, you know what? What is the name is the book?

Shut up and listen? Yes. You'd say, Matt, shut up and listen. Here I'm going to tell you what's going to happen with our team. I could imagine Tillman saying, I don't have time to jack around with you today, Matt. I don't have the patience to jack with you today. I love it. Jerry's absolute best.

Let's go to Jay and Midtown on the Matt Thomas show. Hi, Jay. Yes, sir. I was calling to discuss these coaches. I really don't agree with the names you've been listening because they have never won a Super Bowl and they don't have any proven experience. I think the Texans need a change in culture.

When they play hard, when they play teams like the Ravens and Pittsburgh, regardless of what? what their record is, Pittsburgh and Baltimore are going to beat them because of the culture of defense that they play. I would like to see Bill Cower or Jimmy Jones, somebody who has at least been to the Super Bowl. Jimmy Johnson? Ben for the Super Bowl?

Yes. Now, you'd understand that Bill Cowher hasn't coached since, like, 2005 and 2006. He's been gone from the game for almost 15 years. I know, but maybe not his. but somebody who has been to the Super Bowl before. The guy that just got fired in Carolina was the best name. Yeah. Revere.

He was the best name that you mentioned. I mean, don't you want to go in with a coach who you have confidence that he knows how to get there? He's been there before. I mean, it's time off for experimenting and thinking, oh, this is new and how. I mean, look what's going on in Arizona,

experimenting all the time. I mean, that's what losing franchises do. They experiment, and they try to low ball and I always go to cheap route. Bill Cowher, maybe that means he's fresh. No, he's the opposite of fresh. You'd be stale and old, unfortunately.

Bill Cowher is not going to be able to devise a staff with guys that he knows that have been in the NFL today. I mean, Bill Cowher's best days of becoming the head coach were when the Texans were firing Dom Capers or they were firing Gary Kubiak. This is too far away. Go ahead. I got a name for.

you. Ken Noyton over there in Seattle. Hmm. That hadn't brought his name of you, right? There you go. Okay, don't you agree before I let you go that it needs to be somebody who's going to bring that hard-nose culture that when they play Pittsburgh and that when they play the Ravens that they're going to go head-to-head-to-threat? No, I don't care who they beat. They need to win 12 to 13 games, win a division, and not suck up to lose the games. They have no business beating.

I'm not going to hire a coach so they can beat one. one team. Because you may not have to beat Pittsburgh. You may not have to beat Baltimore to go to the championship. Especially in the case this year. You may have to worry about Pittsburgh. You may have to worry about Baltimore. But how about this?

John Harbaugh, Ross, was almost going to get the hook in Baltimore, if not for the fact he decided I needed to bring in a new offensive coach. And, oh, by the way, I want a Lamar Jackson be my quarterback. And I'm moving Joe Flack out to Denver. Things worked out okay there. So good on John Harbaugh. But as far as this point about needing somebody who's been there before, I mean, how many coaches have bought multiple franchises to a Super Bowl?

Bill Parcells off the top of my head. Is that it? Has it been more? Multiple coaches. Andy Reid hasn't been with Pitchie. He could be on the potential to go out on that list. NFL head coaches who've been to the Super Bowl with multiple teams. Parcells is the only one I can think of.

I don't know if there's more. No, Jimmy, I'm trying to think of the multiple. Bill, a check's been in with New England forever. Jimmy Johnson, no. Mike Tomlin. I mean, these are all guys that have been with one franchise. That's what I'm saying. I mean, it's just, it would be pretty much unprecedented.

So going with the, I need some. Maybe you do. It would be nice to have somebody who's, quote, been there before, but it's not necessarily a requirement for the job. Let's go to Hector and Spring before we play, believe it or not. Hi, Hector. Hi, what's going on? I'm well.

All right, I got something like I got on the radio right now. Like, Oaks Boomer, you can save all of them old names for somebody else. Don't nobody want them old-capt coaches here in Houston. You need a change in blood. They need a change of scenery, change of culture. There's one guy out there that's probably overstayed his welcome in Michigan. Goes by name Jim Harbaugh. He went to the playoffs, went to the Super Bowl, almost went to another one.

If it wasn't for the Legion of Boom. And then you got Urban Meyer and Lincoln Riley out there. Jim Harbaugh has been average at Michigan. Yeah, but he did pretty good in the pros. And then he got forced out. Yeah, he did get forced out. He got forced out by the owner that wanted to run it his way. Well, so far, that's looking like the right move.

Yeah, I was going to say, if you can't beat Ohio State, how am I thinking you're going to go to the playoffs? You know? Yeah, see, yeah, you can't beat your biggest rival. I don't know. I mean, maybe Jim Harbaugh would work. The next coach of the Texans, which will not be for a very long time, will be somebody that you will never heard of before.

I don't think you guys really care what I say, just like I don't really care what you say. Perfect. Believe it or not, next on all things about the great voices of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. Load up on those napkins, straws, ketchup, hot sauce, mustard. Oh, and don't forget duck sauce. It's the Matt Thomas show for lunch on Sports Talk 790. Tomorrow we'll have a... Aaron Reese, join us at 130.

On Wednesday, we get an update from the baseball winter meetings happening in California. We'll also have the return to non-flora stories. I need a ruling, Nick, Ross is busy working on, believe it or not. I will be in Florida next on Wednesday in Orlando.

Don't you think I can then use a Florida story on a non-flora story week? I mean, when in Rome, right? No, I don't think that works. That's not how it works. unless it like happens right in front of you then we'll take it. If you're involved in the non-flores story.

Whoa, whoa, time out. Wednesday, I'm in Cleveland. So that would technically, so then forget what I just said. But so you're telling me that if I'm in the state of Florida, I cannot use a Florida story. Only if you actually are the center of the story, then I'll let you use it.

Man, that's not going to happen. Thursday, I'm going to be laying in my bed doing my radio show. Florida does think it's just a people, Matt. Oh, don't remind me. Hey, Paul question is in. I had 535 votes. The question was, so Texans after yesterday, you had three options. Bad L, comma, still confident. Get with me after Tennessee and the same old Texans, no thanks. Sixty-two percent of you say same old team, no thanks. 31 percent said, get with me after Tennessee. Six percent said bad L still confident. That's the final poll off of 535 votes. Thank you all for spending some time answering the question on. the Twitter account at SportsMT. What else going on? We mentioned the college football playoffs. Rockets tonight against Sacramento. Sacramento's, I don't think Darren Fox is playing.

Rockets should beat up on them. The next nine games for you rocket fans to be optimistic about things, the next nine, eight of them are against teams with losing records. Should get fat and happy. The only team with a winning record they will face over the next nine will be the Los Angeles Clippers coming up in another week and a half or so out in Los Angeles. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do?

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Printout your gift card for the gift of relaxation. Houston Woodhouse Spas.com. category today is all things about Carol Spinning. He passed away the age of what Ross, 85? Yes. He was the longtime voice of Oscar the Grouch. Was it Oscar the Grouch? Yeah. And Big Bird. I'll read your statement about Carol. Statements completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. The erroneous full of bunk and made up, you will say this. Nah, to believe it or not, on all things about Carol Spinning will win your prize. Ross, what is the prize? Matt, I got a pair of tickets to see Bumpin' Mikes featuring the comedy of Jeff

Frost and Dave Attell at the Revention Music Center Saturday, January 18th. Is I in town then? You want to go? Yeah, I want to go. January 18th. Ah, Rockets by that night. Hopefully, I'm not on pregame. It's Lakers, too.

Maybe. Yeah, you're walking. Hi, Bill. Man, this guy, black or white? He's white. Okay, let's go for it. Carol Spinney's mother gave him the name at Carol because he was born around Christmas. Believe it or not.

Man, that's unbelievable, but believe it. Believe it. That's what white people do, Bill. Wow. Thanks for Miss South Africa. Did you see the Miss Universe last night? I did not. She's good looking. Man. It was between her and Miss Puerto Rico, it was a tough cause. Puerto Rican girl, she was built like a sister, but the South African's just built like, never mind. Go ahead. Staying number two for the win. We've just lost their license. Carol Spinney served in the Air Force when he first started working on comics and cartoons. Believe it or not. Hey, he's white. Believe it. Believe it. Makes me sad when he wins. Line number two. Jeremiah on 7.90, ready to play? Believe it or not.

Believe it. Carol Spinney almost quit Sesame Street after his first year because it was too expensive to live in New York. Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win, Carol Spinney was married only once to his high school sweetheart. Karen, the two had three children together. Believe it or not. Not. That is correct. He was married twice. I'm sorry, Nick. Nick, he's got four statements and four correct answers. That's not a good sign for you, my friend. This one is kind of mailed in. Johnny Johnny. What was your favorite part of the radio show today? All of it. Carol Spinning was supposed to be on the Challenger space mission,

whose ship was destroyed early into its flight. Believe it or not. Believe it. What? Do we know it? Why? Big Bird was supposed to be on the thing with him as Big Bird, yeah. You're kidding. So he... They almost blew up Big Bird? Pretty much.

That would have been a horrible... I mean, it was horrible to begin with it. It's horrible, Matt. Come on. Yeah, no. That didn't sound right. Kevin on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not. Believe it.

Carol Spinney hired an apprentice to replace him in 1998. Believe it or not. Not. Why wouldn't he hire an apprentice? Sorry. Bum, Bum, Bum. Garrett on 790. Garrett, you ready to play, believe it or not?

I am, Matt. We've had a good show today. Thanks for taking my call. It's my pleasure, my friend. I mean that sincerely. Carol Spinney. Oh, by the way, Sesame Street has collected 189 Emmy Awards and 11 Grammys.

189 Emmys. 11 Grammy, Sesame Street. Believe it or not. I spent 189 Emmy Awards. And 11 grannies. You know, I'm going to say not. Oh, it hurts my feeling to tell you that you're wrong. All right.

Last one belongs to line number four, and that person's name is. Mori. Mori, you ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, it's Corey, though. Oh, okay, Maury. You are the father. Sorry, Corey, Maury. Carol Spinning drew inspiration for the voice of Oscar the Grouch from a New York cab driver.

Believe it or not. Believe it. There you go. Three winners today. Nick, don't hate him. All right. Speaking of winning, how about going to Big City Wings today and getting one gift card for $25? You'll get $5 to use for yourself.

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