The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - UH vs Texas Tech & Texans vs Ravens Talk, Eddie Nunez Joins

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

UH vs Texas Tech & Texans vs Ravens Talk, Eddie Nunez Joins

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 101 in H-town. Good morning. And welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790 alongside Rossville, Our producer is Jonathan Allen. My name is Matt Thomas. Good morning, everybody. Hopefully the commute wasn't as horrific as mine.

I'm serious, Ross. I don't know if you need a roommate, but you're going to get one pretty soon. I got to pull out comfortable. for you. I mean, I love the family and everything, but I don't love the drive. I got one rule. No loving on the pull-up pad mat. Really? Yeah. So if I don't bring, if I don't... Unless you're going to lay down a tarp or something. What about just fresh sheets? Tarp. Tarp preferred. Tart preferred. Okay. Goodness knows what you're into.

Clock that at one minute into the show. The first of many rude statements coming up from the one in only sports are you. I'm taking it personal. It wasn't rude? I'm not judging. I'm just saying lay a tarp down. Oh, I see. I see. The running of program that it will feature We'll usually hit Brian Bogg's epic at 11 o'clock Brian Bogie's gone? He's gone.

We need to ask him one more time about the hitting coaches. No. You know what? I'm putting a moratorium and you cannot discuss hitting coaches. Good, because I don't want to. It all it does is anger our audience. I don't want to. They hate me.

Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of reasons to hate you, but you've added another layer to the hitting coach defense. So we got Shut your bum ass up at 1130. I'm going after a group of people today. Oh. And I have tried to understand why they do it. This is so vague, but it's more the thing.

There's just a group of people that I'm going after today that I just, and something sports related. It's just something that I'm having to fight with as I drive these streets, actually park these streets of Houston. So it's going to give me a little teaser on that. So that's 1130. Eddie Nune. Athletic Director of University of Houston's going to be with us at 1230 today.

Oh, wow. Getting ready for the Titanic matchup between Texas Tech and Houston. 6 o'clock on the Entertainment Sports and Programming Network and our sister station, 950KPRC. It's ESPN? Yeah. On a Saturday? 6 o'clock, baby. Let's go.

Wow. Must be a light week. It's a wonderful week. It put the primetime game in there. The appetizer is Texas, Florida and the main courses, Texas Tech Houston. Sure, why not? Okay, we'll check the ratings. Well, one's on ABC, ones in the ESPN, so ABC's going to draw higher anyway.

I'm just saying. Okay, well, we check the ratings week to week. Spitting the facts out. By the way, the Red Raiders are now an 11.5 point favorite. Ooh, that means a lot of money's piling in on them Red Raiders, Maddie? They're really good. I mean, Cody Campbell, shout out to you, my friend. You are spending the money in the right places.

That's the first time that Texas Tech set a defense in 30 years. See, Matt? You said that the NIL was going to keep the halves and the haves and the haves-nots. The Raiders have been a have-nought and now they're a half. Yeah. By the way, I did, I've got some great friends within the Texas Tech Athletic Department, and I did ask. I said, so I'm just curious, you know, because every school now has $20 million

that they can budget towards paying the athletes directly. It's not an A.L. This is a direct payment to the players. And it's up to each individual school to decide how they split the pie up of 20 million. They can give 80% of the football team. They can give 10% to baseball. They can give 10% to basketball. They can give 10% to women's sport. Whatever.

And I said, I asked this person, I said, has the Cody Campbell resonated to the women's side of things? And he goes, oh, no. Well, I thought that softball pitcher was getting a million a year. But that's NIL. That's not direct payment. Okay. But Cody Campbell doesn't anything to do it with that? That's actually, you're right.

I told two different stories. Cody Campbell does pay for that girl. Okay. The lady, I should say. But the direct payments from the school is not going to the, I wouldn't say non-rev sports. They call Olympic sports, but it's really non-revenue. Non-revenue.

So, yeah. But yeah, so it's going to be up to NIL to take care of those sports that don't normally get it. You call them the money pit sports. That's what we call them. That's true. That is true. It is, I mean, the $20 million is, that's the first positive sign because that's above board. NIL is getting a little dicey as compared to being paid $8 million.

by Joe's hot dog stand to do something. So, you know, the number one thing is the payments are legal. They're not, you can't, if you pay beyond that, you can get in trouble, and there is a clearinghouse for that kind of stuff. So, but I don't want to talk a whole lot about that because we're in the world of competition. And the competition involving baseball teams Rossi is nothing Houston related. I did watch a little bit here and there yesterday.

I had it on. I saw the Yankees choke with a bases loaded. Max Fried. 102 pitches, I feel good. Aaron Boone's like, no, you're done. Bullpen came in and gave it up. Yeah, the Yankees, two of the best teams in baseball are the Dodgers and the Yankees,

and they both have bad bullpins. Garretre Crochet, meanwhile, 117 pitches. I'll go throw 150. Yeah, he threw 100 on his last pitch. And then Rollis Chapman, who had been nails all year. Bases loaded, got out of the jam, got it done.

Playoff baseball, folks. I'm rooting against the Yankees, but I don't want to root for the Red Sox. You know what? I don't know. I've done this with the local football team. You don't have to root. Okay. It's easier. Yeah, but when you're watching, you kind of feel like you pull for an outcome, naturally. I do. You know what I do in that situation? I pull for drama. Dramatic home runs or a big strikeout or maybe something controversial, something like that.

Okay. Like, for instance, on Saturdays, do you ever put on an SEC game between, I don't know, LSU and O Miss and you don't have a dog enough fight. You're like, just give me something crazy. Yeah, you get a live taste on the over. That was that. It's always a betting perspective. Okay, I mean, that's fair. Just kidding. Or am I? Yeah. So if you were

a betting man right now, would you take Texas Tech minus 11.5? Or would you take the Cougars plus the points? Even though it'll be a home crowd for the Red Raiders. You don't know that. I'm just kidding. I mean, I think I'm kidding. Well, you know, look, my philosophy

on this is not what the Cougar Nation typically agrees with, but I'm a realist because I've been around University of Houston all my life. I mean, basically, it's a fan as a kid and I'm going to school there. I want the building full. I would rather be full of Cougar fans, but we just don't draw like we're supposed to. So if Texas Tech wants to put 10,000 people in the building, so be it. Okay. It'll make it a more boisterous crowd because, I mean, Texas Tech people like to drink and throw tortillas.

Yeah, they'll be more fist-fighting if you get more Red Raiders in there. Oh, yeah. More Raider rash. More overall raucousness? Yeah, now my son will not be involved in that such thing. You don't know that. You weren't in Lubbock watching a party. That's true.

You don't know how he's getting down over there. The only video he ever sent me when he was at Texas Tech was he got a hole in one there at the golf course. Oh, wow. Yeah. That's wonderful. Something I was never able to achieve. He's got two now, right? I think he's got it.

He might have two, yeah. All right. We have video of both of these? We have video of one for sure. One, maybe just say, Dad, you and boy? believe this. I don't believe you. I still believe that if you, and it's a weird rule, that if you get a whole one, you have to go to the bar and buy everybody drinks. Yeah, what if you still tell anybody? That's what I would do.

I tried to, this is Ross before you and I were working together. I tried to get a national referendum to reverse the rule. Like, you walk and say, hey, I just got a hole in one. Everybody's like, yeah, get over here. We're buying you around. That's what it should be. You're the one that can, you're the one that can, I thought, could accomplish me. Hey, you probably got some broke, drunk waiting around for a hole in ones. That's right What do you hear for? I'll like a glass of water, please.

And when three or four guys come in, I'll take a bourbon in water. Heavy in the bourbon. And I'll take care of sports for the day. Brian Snickert, not out now as Brave manager. Ron Washington out in Anaheim. Well, I was going to say, will Troy join him? Are they going to be vacationing together?

Ooh, that'd be kind of rough. But Brian's got money. manager, World Series champion. I'm sure Troy's doing okay. You've been a hitting coach this 2019. Probably doesn't pay peanuts. You know, it's funny. I don't have a real great grasp of what coaches make in any sport.

I have no idea. Because they don't have to report it. It's not against a salary cap. You don't have agents bragging about it. Isn't it kind of weird? Yeah, it can leak out. Especially the NFL, it feels like. But yeah.

You know what the only thing that we ever find out about when it comes to coaches' salaries? Can you guess what I'm thinking it is? Buyouts? Well, buyouts. I'm saying, I have a pretty good feel of how much college coaches make. Well, yes, because a lot of times it's public record because of Freedom of Information Act because of public institutions. Well, we need that freedom, Ross. Less so for private institutions.

Like USC. There was like a lawsuit and something else happened. That's how they found out what Lincoln Riley was making. But normally they don't have to make it public. That is not money well spent. And that's really the only, I don't know how many private schools are really big football factory. It's not a mini. Miami.

Notre Dame. is Notre Dame, Miami would be one. Yeah, but for the most part, the powerhouse is. We don't know what Dave Miranda makes it Baylor. We don't know what Sunny Dikes makes at TCU. The Sunny Dikes at TCU, right? Sure, why not? Is he still there?

Well, didn't he go from S? No, he went from TCU to, or he went from one or the other. Sunny Dikes. Is he a TCU, right? I should know that. And it's fine. So, all right. What else going on?

You tell me, baseball, playoff baseball. No Astros. Sucked. Alex Breggen was two for four with an RBI. Yeah. By the way, he was a minus 220 to get a hit yesterday. Yeah. So again, for those who don't know,

if you were to go make an individual prop that and a player, minus 220 men, you had to give the casino $220 in order for you to make $100 back. Yeah. Minus means you're giving plus means you're getting. Yeah. and if you put the 220 up you got your $100 out of it. And Shohay Otani hit two bombs.

It's insane. It's hard for me to separate the player from the team. It just is because if you're rooting for Shohayotani, you're in de facto rooting for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Can I tell you the way that I see it? That I think makes it a little easier too. When we come back, would you like to tell us? That's not that dramatic.

All right. The Dodgers playing different games. The Dodgers, they're giving out, they got like $500 million worth of salary. To me, it's like I'm rooting for a team in it in a different planet when you root for the Dodgers. The way that they spend money and the way that they have recruit talent and Shohayotani. I'm like, and they already won the World Series last year, so who cares if they win another one? We all lived when they won last year and when they won in 2020. I don't want to root for the Dodgers either.

Yeah. But it's not like Joe Kelly is there. It's not like a lot of the same Dodgers were there. Clinton Kershaw is basically retired now at this point. And Shohi Otani is incredible. So it is easier for me, I think, to separate the Dodgers from everyone else. Well, play with the Yankees, of course, and with the money they spend. But it's almost like they're playing a different sport.

But it's almost to me, it's, I don't, I'm not rooting for any of them. I was able to sleep the night the Yankees lost. I mean, the Dodgers won the World Series. I'm not a fan of the L.A.'s in New York's winning because it feels like they get to celebrate a championship to better every other year. But I'm more much. I'm more hyper-focused on what the Astros are going to do to get back to the situation where we were busy in October. Because, honestly, this is just truth be told, this isn't fun. And I mentioned this on the Twitter today.

I just, to put these games on and not have sort of penny passing interest, I mean, it was kind of nice for us personally. We'd go to the ballpark. We'd do our shows out in left field. People would come by and say hello, ask for autographs. All that's gone now, Ross. Nobody's asking for my autograph anymore. I know. How do you feel, Matt?

Not great, I just told you. Those are always the greatest days of the year as far as meeting and greeting fans. Yeah. Because, you know, and, boy, Detroit, up 1-0. Does that, does A.J. Hinch's success in that series have anything to do with the future of the Astros? Possibly. Possibly. Well, it's possibly could also be, there could also be Jim Crane in his office going,

do you all hear those gibronies on 790. They think that A.J. Hinch is coming back. Well, also, yesterday, they could have said Joe Espada is our main. manager next year. And they didn't say it that way. Dana Brown's like, he's under contract. Like when you just say he's under contract? So they could

have quashed this a lot better than they did. They could have come out and unequivocally said, Joe's spot is our manager next year. And they didn't. The opportunity was there. Yeah. It gives me pause. So if that's the case, then why would you put the guys out there to force it to answer

that kind of question? Maybe like you said, you're waiting on a result here. 1014. It's the Matt Thomas show. Sports Talk 790. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-790. Shut your bum ass up at 1130. The news at noon, Eddie Nune is 1230. Believe it or not, today at 150. And we will figure out the rest intense Texans Ravens preview starts today. Sports Talk 790. 1020 on Sports Talk 790. They're trying to interview jazz chisholm after the game yesterday. He will not even turn around and talk to the cameras. Ooh, he's grumpy.

Not happy. We're not listening to the audio because obviously we're on the air right now. He is being asked multiple questions. He's just combing through all his jerseys in his locker room. Oh, turn around for a second. Now, what is your take on that? Because you could say, this is my take. Go ahead.

If they would have won the game and he would hit the game winning home run, he be talking? Here's my simple take. Be a grown-ass man. You're a major league player that has median responsibilities. Turn around and answer a few questions and get out of the way. You cause it way more of a scene by you turning, by you staring at your locker and not answering the questions and you ever would

have if you would have just given a few answers. I know you're pissed. I know there's a cooling off period of 10 minutes. It feels like it should be 25 or 30, but that's not how we deal in sports. Turn around, answer the question. Questions? Yeah. I would say, again, like if,

If you hit the game winning home run, you're ready to talk to everybody, then you have to be ready to, when you don't come through, when the bases are loaded in the ninth inning, you've got to be ready to do both. Yeah. If you say you have anxiety and you're never out there, I get it. Either way. Like Zach Grinke, didn't like cameras, didn't like interviews.

Win or lose? Just very consistent. Respect the hell out of that. Absolutely. Made sense. He didn't like talking to people no matter what. And that was okay. And I don't know.

is jazz just jazz jism do that a lot i don't know exactly i don't know i don't work for the yes network but clearly if the yes network which is own by the yankees yeah is putting that out there then they're probably saying this is this is something out of the ordinary for him to do these things it would be a real shame if the yankees were out in two games if you fire erin boone if he loses this series i guess they would but did aaron boon caught did he have a big hand in them losing again he went to the bullpen but they had bases Garrett Crochet was spectacular

and they had bases loaded with nobody out. Well, Crochet went 117. That's abnormal in terms of number of pitches. Pulling a pitcher after 102 hoping that you win this game, win the series and you can use him

fairly early in the series against your divisional opponent. I mean, it's not the craziest thing in the world, I'll be honest with you. It's just the problem is the bullpen for the Yankees has been a hot mess this entire season, and the Yankees are a much better team hitting on the road

than they are at home. Yeah, it would take answers to questions I don't have. Was Fride's Velo down? Was his spin not as good? Did he look not as sharp? Was he going another time through the lineup? And they didn't want to go, maybe it was a, I don't know,

three and a half or fourth time through the lineup. Did they feel like he's a lefty? Did they have a pocket of righties that he wanted, they wanted to get a righty in there? I don't know the answer all those questions. Because I wasn't watching the game. But I think what it does is, unfortunately, when Frit is performing as well as he is, and the guy on the other side of the dugouts doing the same sort of thing,

and they said we're going to give him an extra inning to get to that number. It just makes... Well, first of all, it's a big, bigger problem. It's the Yankees don't win the big games. Yeah, they brought in... But they won the American League pennant last year. So, I mean, this is not like he's like he's as miserable failure of a manager. Yeah, they brought in the righty Luke Weaver.

He's got a 362 ERA. one, a whip of one to face who? I don't know. I can bring it up. By the way, I'm looking at MLB Network. The Yankees have lost to the Red Sox nine of the last 10 times in postseason games. That doesn't help either. That's pretty funny.

I mean, to put this way, the Yankees can't beat the Red Sox and they can't beat the Astros. By else, very little issue. Poor guys. Couldn't happen to a nicer fan base. but every time Aaron Boone is like, is he going to return? He winds up getting a one or two-year extension to his contract. It was for the eight and nine hitters. Raphaelah, who is a righty, and Nick Sogarde, who is a switch hit.

And how do those guys do over the course of the night? Those guys? O for three, well, Raphaela walked and Sogard had a couple of hits. But that was the eight and nine hitter that Boone brought in Luke Weaver. I would say, you got a Luke Weaver. us got to get the outs no matter what and he didn't do it yeah by the way where's all of our yankee fans yankees keep that and called in where's our man in garden oaks he should be calling in yeah james james garden oaks you should be upset because your team if they lose tonight it's done finito

finished you're not going the playoffs you're not staying in the playoffs i should say the season is on the line i like that's i like the wild cards keeping everybody invested but man being out in two games that's rough signed astros fans last year Well, the reality is if you're squeezing in an extra round of playoff, you don't have a whole lot of time. Yeah, I know. Fighting weather here eventually. Yeah.

And they're never going to go to 154, I don't think. No, the only way that you can add a little juice to these wild cards is if you go to 154, because if you start the season ending earlier, you are going to run into problems in 6% of the country. Minnesota was going to be on the road for five series. Yeah. Good luck playing a game in Cleveland until like April 23rd. Yeah. Maybe we'll come to a little.

spot in our world where every stadium is domed. Doubted. Well, maybe like 50 years. No, I mean, because I don't think Fenway's ever going to go. I mean, there are a handful of cities that are never going to go domes. I mean, the Yankees and, well, it's most of them. Domes cost a lot of money.

It's really only the stadiums that have really severe weather, primarily in the south, are the ones that are covering up their stadiums these days. So, all right. 1027 here on Sports Talk, 790. We are a Popery of conversation points today?

We're going to entertain a hell out of you. So anything goes Tuesday? Well, it's kind of like a... What do you want to get into Tuesday? How about that? Okay. You found a very interesting list about college football quarterback.

Yes? I did. I don't know how interesting it is. I think it's a terrible list. Now, who put it out, by the way? There would be some dude from ESPN. Bill, somebody Connolly or something? I want to go back.

Bill Conley? We call him Will? Mike Lowry. Is he reputable? Bill Connolly. Okay. Don't know the name. Doesn't mean he doesn't mean he's not reputable.

I'm not familiar with him, but whatever. Well, he ranked the top 60, every quarterback, starting quarterback in the Power 4, which be 64 different schools, correct? Yes, a 68. 68. I wonder how my guy, friend of the show, Connor Wegman, is on that list. We can find out. And how your friend and Katie's bestie, Arch Manning, is on that list.

Okay. And Texas A&M quarterback, by the way, they could have scored a lot more points this past weekend, but they've had a good season. I mean, that Notre Dame victory was very, very impressive. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross coming up in one hour from now. We're going to tell some people to shut their bumasses up here on 790.

1032 Sports Talk 790. It is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713212-5-7-9-0-7-1-3-212-5-790 so this ESPN poll is out of the 68 quarterbacks that play for a power-for school and why don't we first not give us the top five and then we'll go to some schools in our area. Not the five or you want the top five? I want the top five first. Okay. And then give us some schools that we would be fairly interested in. Number one, USC's Jaden Mayava.

Okay. 15 total touchdowns on the season. Number two, Diego Pavia, Vanderbilt, By the way, game day is going to Vanderbilt, Alabama. I don't know if they ever would have anticipated Vanderbilt ever being on a game day. One of the reasons Vanderbilt's been relevant the last couple of years has been Diego Pavia. Yep. Trinidad Chamblis of Ole Miss is number three.

Okay. Fernando Mendoza, Indiana. It's funny. I thought Indiana was going to get their come up and they played a I mean a wispy weak non-conference schedule

and they've just blown by people in the Big Ten. Yeah, good for them. Wishing them the best. Dante Moore of Oregon is number five. Okay. And I mean, yeah, there you go. That's top five.

All right. So let's go to Marcel Reed, Texas A&M quarterback. Okay, we'll quick. Some notable names. Julian San, Ohio State's 11th and John McT. tier, the Oklahoma quarterback is 12.

Yeah. Okay, you said who? Marcel Reed. Marcel Reed is number 26 on this list. Okay. Now, I don't know if these are too high or too low. Yeah. He's done a lot more research than I ever would on this.

Number 28 is Baron Morton, Texas Tech. Ooh, he's going to get sacked four times this week. Number 29, by the way, Haynes King, Georgia Tech. Former A&M quarterback. Yeah, funny. all these guys, basically everyone on this list has transferred from somewhere. Well, you know, it's very funny to me. And, you know, I watched Kevin Eschenfelder prepare for the Cougar broadcast.

I even did a volleyball match this past weekend for ESPN Plus, and I was riding down the former schools. Usually when you were, when you were prepping for a game, you go height, weight, classification, where he went to high school where he grew up. Now you skip where he grew up, you go to the last school he played at. Yeah. Because there's so, I mean, the amount of transferring, is even before NIL and this guaranteed salary, it was still moving up. Because once you got rid of the rule where you didn't have to sit out of year,

guys are moving left and right. But yeah, that is one thing. It's not where, like for instance, who's the sucky quarterback for Oregon State the other day? Hey, Malik Murphy. Hey, Longhorn legend, Malik Murphy. So before I fell asleep. The sucky quarterback. You didn't have to add that in, Matt.

Just the quarterback for Oregon State. Okay. Be ridiculously poor quarterback. So he was decent at Duke. So here's the thing. So he starts at Texas. Yes. He knows that Arch is coming.

He's like, I'm getting the hell out of here. Yes. He goes to Duke, and I think he does a pretty good job there. He started off hot and then I think cooled significantly. Okay. So I watched the game, and this is before I went to sleep, because it was a super late night start. You know that Oregon State has been?

paying him $1.5 million to be sucky. That's great for him. Oh, it's great for him. Duke, he had 26 touchdowns, 12 picks, almost 3,000 yards, it's not bad. But he went up to Oregon State, took that cash, and honestly, probably smart on his part because he ain't going to the NFL. There's no chance, no way, no how.

So if you remember the Murphy family, tell your young man to please put that in a savings account, invest wisely because that's about the most money you ever going to get. High yield savings is your friend, Malik. He was, I don't know what you saw the guy. He's terrible. Just terrible. He's regressing. Well, I didn't think he was great to begin with, but

he's got, well, yeah, people were longhorn people, when he was started off hot for Dutche. Look at you. Look who we let him go. I can't believe it. Wisely done, Texas. Because Quinn Ewers was struggling and Malik Murphy was playing well. But anyways. All right. So let's go to our new

all-American quarterback, Connor Wegman, University of Houston. You want to get? How about I guess? I'll give you a year. Marcel Reed is where now? Marcel Reed is 26th. I want to do the range game.

Wegman is behind everyone I've listed. Okay. And I've gone to 28th. And there's 68. Okay, so I want to either direction to win the game. Sure, why not? 49. Oh!

What? 46. Oh. Well, that's bad on my part then. regarded as the top pocket passer in the 22 recruiting class, Wegman has come to rely on his mobility. He has run for 13 first downs and four touchdowns. He's also taking hits on 44% of his dropbacks.

That is 120th nationally. He's going to have to run for his life because sex tech defense legit. If we bring that same offensive game plan to TDCU on Saturday, we're going to lose. Badly, unfortunately. They stay scuffled. Oregon State just game. Look, Cougars.

were able to win it by playing some great football in the fourth quarter, but those first three quarters were as difficult to watch as you could possibly watch. And we have not yet mentioned the biggest name on this list. All right. Archibald Manning. 41st. Well, he averages 3.1 seconds to throw. Seventh most in the country. He's 100th in interception rate, 96 in the completion rate.

Texans defense will buy him development. time, which is true, and things could click it at any moment, but they have not yet. First of all, that's all fair. That all feels fair. My guess is the guy that did his due diligence and really size it up. He's not, I'm sure this guy doesn't have a super bias. In fact,

probably if you're going to do anything with Archman, does he really? I'm just kidding. He's probably going to take a star and move him a little higher than he probably should be. Maybe, yeah. Nine touchdowns, three picks. A lot of rushing touchdowns. Yes.

five rushing touchdowns. He's looked, to me, he's just looked average. And he was supposed to be the greatest of all times. So help me out with this. Everything going into it was he was the most sought after high school quarterback in the country. Yes. He goes to a school that has had its fair share of very successful quarterbacks. Not necessarily the greatest professional quarterbacks, but collegiately, you've had a nice run, right?

It's fine. It's a mixed back. I mean, you get guys in the league every year. Sure. Quinn, you were seventh round pick. Sam Ellinger, sixth round pick. Don't forget Cole McCoy. Did he even get drafted?

But he ran or he was around. You know what I'm saying? But I mean, you're not a factory, but you're certainly not a place where like you're not. It's a football factory, man. It's one of the heritage brands in college football. Like Air Force has not developed quarterbacks. Texas has had its fair sure quarterback's over years. Sure, why not?

Sarkisian has, I believe, under the tutelage of I want to say, didn't start coach Tua and, well, maybe this is not the best example anymore. No, Tua's NFL quarterback. He just has a terrible team around him. Is Jailen Hurch was he there too? I don't remember. So he's a highly regarded quarterback. Yes. He is sought after, you know, he goes to a school that produces quarterbacks and he's got a coach who's an offensive mind of coach. Yes.

Why aren't the puzzle pieces fitting here? Maybe he's just not that good. He's just hitting his ceiling. I keep going, turning to the guys hit their ceiling everywhere somewhere. The number two quarterback in that class was Nico Yamaliyava. He's 58th on this list. He's at UCLA right now, right? Yes, okay. And he's horrible.

He's 58th out of 68 on this list. And that's why, and I think we don't spend really any time talking about high school recruiting because it's, first of all, very subjective. Secondly, you have services that don't really, they sometimes want to gain an advantage by propping up a player that is better than, or not as good as a ranking would indicate. I will say this, we can go through dozens of five stars who didn't work out. But data has shown, if you collect the most, you get the most chips in the game, basically.

You're collecting the most ping pong balls. If you recruit 10, 3 stars and I recruit 10, 5,000. stars, year after year, I'm going to be better. Yes. Just by the math. And all those five stars, a lot of them aren't going to work out. And a lot of those three stars are. But on average, you acquiring as many five-and-four star players works.

But you can also win at a pretty competitive level if you don't, aren't lit it with them. I mean, I'll use case in points. Anytime you see a non-power four school win, Tulane with Willie, was winning games, didn't have five stars. Right. Houston, except for Ed Holliver, didn't have five stars. stars. Boise State has made a very successful program of not having five stars. You can compete, but generally

you're not winning championships. Chips, but that really is down to about five SEC schools. Yeah. So, I mean, there's a very high correlation between best recruiting classes and best results. So I'm going to ask you. Georgia, Alabama. I'm going to ask you this question for the second

time, and it may come across as come on now. Mm-hmm. Should we stay away from private school players? No I mean Odell Beckham Jr. went to that school Eli and

Peyton Manning went to that school Yeah question hasn't answered So it can happen But To Matt's point though Let's just put Houston for example All these five stars

I went to school with multiple NFL players now You have these private school kids They're only in that TAAF circuit in Texas which is the private league, you know, for private schools to go against. Right. A dude from Fort Ben Christian is not beating anybody or even recruit status, even close to athletic prowess than a dude, say, from George Bush,

for a Ben, George Bush. And from a national point, you have these dudes from Florida, Alabama, Georgia, name all these big states. And you're going to pick from private school guys. And that's what Archmanich, Suckees already came out saying that he hasn't gone through adversity. That should be the number one, like, red flag there. Okay. We'll discuss more of this in a minute.

Because my guess is you can probably get to a list pretty quickly of private school quarterbacks that have done just fine. I'm sure we can find some. Everybody has nephews. I mean, his uncles have done are two class examples of that. Yeah. And everybody's their individual case. Did he get some extra hype for his last name? Absolutely.

Absolutely. But you can't do that. You can't be a success. You can't be the University of Texas and just grab them because his last name is Manning. Because you're at the University of Texas, Ross. If you are Arkansas State, you can brag on that. You've got a manning there. But you're UT.

You should be able to, and I'm not blaming you, I'm just saying that UT can pick who they want. If there's a five-star that plays at a major metropolitan high school in Portland, Oregon, and he's better than Arch. Love you, Arch, but I'm taking the Portland kid. Yeah. But also, I would say maybe there are some biases, maybe because of his last name, when he throws an interception, you're more easy to forgive. Or when you're watching tape, and he makes five good plays and two bad ones.

And if you change his last name, you'd be like, ooh, I'm concerned about those bad plays. But when his name's Arch Manning, he's fine, he's going to iron that out because he's Arch Manning. You know what I don't know. I wasn't breaking down his high school tape. I'm going to be honest. I just wonder how many in this power four group are private school quarterbacks? I guess. We'll get Jonathan on that.

Jonathan, I want you to need to work on that for the next show. Two hours. Private school and the power four. 10.40. I mean, a dissertation. We'll need it by Friday. Or in the next hour. 713, 212, 570. I'll give you one small example.

Then we'll go back to the phones. And again, there are five million examples of, I'm sure, private school quarterbacks doing very well. I remember when I first came back to Houston, there was a kid named John O'Corn that this is when Tony Levine was the head coach at the University of Houston. And he was telling me one time he says, there's this kid that plays high school football. in Fort Lauderdale. That is unbelievable. And I mean, we got to do everything we can to get him here. He was a private school kid, Fort Lauderdoke,

Florida. Came to Houston. He had a lot of different schools all over the country wanting him. Comes to Houston, kind of falls flat on his face. Not flat on his face is too strong, but term. Just doesn't perform very well. Gets beat out for the job and transfers to Michigan, finishes there, where he's a backup there,

and never played again. Never got drafted in the NFL. But, I mean, when a coach comes to you and says, we've got to get this kid, he's something special. And now I totally trust Tony Levine's town evaluation. You do? Well, yeah.

And now he should you? Well, yeah. I mean, now he's evaluating chicken. You know what he's doing? He's printing money. That's true. You ever own one of those Chick-fil-A? No, I don't own a Chick-fil-A.

I would not be speaking to you right now. Why don't we, well, we open up a restaurant. Want to? Oh, it's easy. Yeah, sure, why not? It always works out. This, yeah. Point being, it would be, it would be things only you like on the menu.

Yeah. No biscuits and gravy. We'd have one. No brisket, no tamales. French onion soup. Lots of French onion soup. We'll call it Maddie's. Maddie's.

Yeah, Maddie's Bar and Grill. You walk in, hey, welcome to Maddies. everybody in the back and goes, Maddies. Yeah. That's a right to it, though. Thank you very much. And you're alive.

You'll be our night manager. And the menu has different categories. Instead of like lunch and dinner, it says, it's fine. Mr. Texas special? Yes. Mr. Texas.

Mr. Texas. Oh, yeah. And it's like stuff that's not from Texas. Stuff, bell peppers. Yeah. Uh-huh. Appetizers. Instead of appetizers says,

neither here nor there. I like this, actually. Yeah. We've got legs. We can create a. I concur to Maddie's bar and grill menu. We certainly could. But yeah, my point is that...

And we can't let you hire the waitresses because the place will get shut down immediately from harassment lawsuits. They'd be called Shihattis is what they'd be calling. Oh my gosh. That's what they remember bar. Shehatties Bar and Grill. Everybody's got to look like Lauren Shihadi from Mayfield.

I don't think that... I don't think she's one of one, Maddie. That's true. That is true. So my point is, Eric, can we get back to football here? You just started it. I know. Actually, I did. I don't know.

Maybe I just had the... this private school bias. Maybe that the competition, I mean, first of all, he's, to what Jonathan was saying, competition level is, yeah, it's not going to be as good. You play Cy Fair, you play, you know, North Shore. It's not playing, going against, you know,

Kincaid. But a lot of these kids go to, like, camps and step on seven and do a lot of work year-round on stuff, too. But you can't hit, you're not getting hit in those camps. I mean, Arch was at the Manning Passing Academy. And, you know, I just thought of a point, too, in basketball, private school is a really good competition because they compete with the other public schools. If football like into twilight.

Well, football does too. Some of them can. Like straight Jesuit has been playing. Yeah, right, right. Okay. Normal football, not normal, but, you know, public school ball for a long time. Because sometimes those really powerhouse private schools are tired of being beaten up on the taps to eight schools. So, I don't know.

I just something to ponder. 713, 21, 2, 2, 1.5, 790. Let's go to Dave on line 1 in. spring on the Matt Thomas show. Ross at 1054. Dave, good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. I kind of agree with you about the private school thing, and the guy who comes to mind, and you maybe already talked about him, but it's almost deja vu with Chris Sims. Remember Chris Sims coming out of a New Jersey, I think, private school? And he was like super highly, you know, thought of. And he just didn't do much at

UT. In fact, he kind of knocked a better quarterback, Applewhite, out of his job. Chris Sims was actually really good compared to what. Ars Manning is, especially. Well, true, but it's early with Arch. But let me say this. You know, on Arch, you can talk about it on coming from a private school in New Orleans, but it's the same private school that produced Eli and Peyton. So, I mean, sort of takes the argument away, doesn't it?

Yes, and I mentioned O'Dell Beckham Jr. went to that school as well. But maybe those are the Manning. Generational talents. Well, maybe Arch isn't. Maybe it skips a generation. Thanks. Thank you. Yeah, no, I mean, you can use Amanda.

I think it's two great examples. Yeah, so you can go there and thrive and still be good. And both of those guys were really good in college. I'm going to put, I'm going to put Google. Maybe they're just, you know what? Maybe they're just better than Arch. I mean, maybe Arch just isn't, I mean, it happens. Yeah, Dan is telling us that even in Georgia, public and private schools still play against each other.

Yeah, I mean, it's not an ordinary for that to happen. And I don't even know if John O'Corton played in a public school game, but I know he was at a private school, so. Private high school. I'm letting Google. Look at this. High schools. This is great radio.

We'll call you Mr. Research. Well, you know, it's basically Google MT. Let's see what old AI has to say about this. Okay. Nothing. Forget it. I tried. Okay.

Thank you. But, see, I'm not even, I'm not even trying, I'm not even a supporter of UT. I just, arts looked apart. Everything about him coming out of school. school, all the heavy recruiting. And I still think we should not bury his career. I don't think anybody is. I'm not. But the ESPN

putting out a poll, putting him in the 40s was not necessarily what I think anybody was expecting at this point in his college career. Yeah. And he'll have a chance to improve on that when he plays Florida and probably puts the final nail in Billy Napier's career. At least as a head coach of Florida.

How are we feeling? It's a must-win game for the Longhorns this weekend at Florida. Or it's not. Whatever. We'll see what happens. Can Texas lose three games? If they lose, prices of that OU game will go down. Those tickets are forfeity of pop right now to be in the top top row of the Cotton Bowl. Now, do you know, I'm speaking of ignorance in this, do you know what sections are UT sections and one in Oklahoma sections? Have you ever set in OU section? No, no. So you will not. Yeah, they're numbered. It's the same numbers every year.

So you will not, you, if I gave you the choice to, if I gave you an OU ticket at half the cost, you would not sit in that I guess I could. It'd be fine. I'm sure. There's no way in the world that people that not people have stuck in each other sections. I've sat around, oh, yeah. I mean, I've sat around OU people before. Yeah. How was that? Let's see. We beat him 26 to 10 in 2006, and we were screaming at him. Also, I was a young rabble rouser in those days, and I might have had a few too many. And now you've calmed down?

Yes. I'm much more mellow than I was at 21. Can you bring the Fletcher's corny dogs into the stadium with you? No. Ooh, party found. They sell corn dogs, but they're not Fletcher's. Everybody tries to say they're corny dogs, and everybody's like, it's like when you go to New York, everybody's the famous original race,

but there's really only one. Fletcher's original corny dog. It's better. It's just the corn meal's better. It's fried perfectly. I miss it. I'm just getting sick thinking about it. Why?

You don't like corn dogs? I love corn dogs. What are you talking about? Because I felt like I... No, you're just saying that because it's Texas. You're being a hater. No, it just feels like I get a heavy stomach when I eat one of those things. No, it's a good base layer.

A corny dog in two to three beers is a nice base layer for your day at the game. It's perfect. So it goes down your throat rather easily. It's like when you're laying brick and mortar. The corny dog is a nice, like mortar. Really? And then you put some bricks on there, Maddie. You know who knows exactly what you're talking about, Cal McNair?

Remember he was brick and mortar in these things a long time ago? We're going brick by brick. And you're starting with a corny dog is a foundation to a great day. the state fair. All right. So you're going to corny dogs, then beer. Yes. And what's the what's the finishing touch? Well, and then when the game's over, you go around and you go to try every single deep fried food that

they have at the fair. Deep fried Oreos, deep fried pork chops, deep fried grilled cheese, deep fried whatever. I've got to take you to the Minnesota State Fair because that's the only reason we ever went was eat all that fried They probably have the list of the best food. You want me to find the best foods this year? You know what we're going to do? We're going to tell you right now.

Today's edition of Believe it or not. Oh my gosh. Is this, as this food ever been a state fair of Texas food. I can't find every single food ever. But make some stuff up. Crab and mozzarella aren't skinny. What? That won the best food savory this year.

Ooh, Wagyu bacon cheeseburger, deviled egg sliders. I mean... See, you go and find... There's a state fair list of all the best foods, and you go find all of them. That's what you do. And they're priced reasonably?

No. Not as much they used to be. Second hour of the math. Thomas show starts after you need an energy boost after you know that food you know what it's this is the Matt Thomas show with Ross it is 1104 on sports talk 7-90s with you game number two of the Detroit Cleveland series starting in about 55 minutes from now if Detroit wins they're going the division series cool I know wishing you the best Detroit Cleveland feels like a noon first pitch right actually unfortunately people in other cities are like the aster's play it feels like a noon first

pitch. Hey, yeah. I mean, it's true. I know. We'd have taken it. They've been, I mean, the profiles raised a bit for sure from where it was. All right. So, we are moving on to basketball.

Rockets are practicing right now as we we speak. They are? A training facility. All right. I saw posted all over social media, Reed Shepard, getting a tough bucket over Kevin Durant. We need to agree to go. We love Fram Van Bly.

Yes. We'll miss him, obviously. If Reed can take a seismic leap in season number two, we won't miss him nearly as much. Okay. How about this? Are you going to miss him too much or take your time getting back? Those are the two ways to go with us, right? I think I could see some early season growing pains with trying to figure things out,

and then they'll hit a stride in the middle of the season and start ripping off eight, nine wins, or 10 out of 11, something like that. And then by around trade deadline, we're going to be feeling really good about where the rockets are. I think it's going to take a little time with this reconfiguration of the team, which would have been helped with Fred Van Fleet being there as the floor general. And I think that kind of makes things a little bit more out of sorts. So I think we could see the rockets get, you know,

five and five out of the gate or something like that. I will say this. If they don't like what's going on, EMA will call Rafael and say, go get me somebody. Yeah. And I will also say this. I was rarely impressed by Reed Shepard's first season,

but guys can always grow, especially young guys. So I think in times, I've made a mistake of judging young players a little too early and letting them grow into their bodies, especially the way the guys come into the league, how young they are, letting them get better, and then we'll see them we'll reevaluate. So that's all I'll say about Reed Shepherd. I'm not, I don't think he's going to set the world on fire,

but he can be better and he can be effective. Yeah. And he's going to get an opportunity. The way of the world will not be on his shoulders. This is Kevin Durant. This is a man Thompson taking the next level. This is Jabari Smith with a brand new contract. This is Tari E's in trying to get a new deal.

I mean, there are other guys that have just as much responsibility and pressure on them as Reed Shepherd. It's a question of how much were his problems physical, where he was, I mean, he wasn't driving to the basket at all last year, where he couldn't get by, was it he couldn't get by guys, or he wasn't confident enough to try to get by guys? Because he was doing a better job of it late in the season. He's going to be a shooter and that's what he's there for. But you've got to have a little dribble drive game in the NBA.

You just have to. All right. Speaking of a game, Kevin Durant was on this show a couple days ago, and we were fan boys. I fully admit it. I was not going, I didn't think I was going to be, but I did. You were. I kept it cool. You see the smile on my face, normal smile.

You were 100% fanboy from the jump, and I don't blame you for it. That's not true. Oh, please. I was keeping it cool. You were not. Until he put his arm on my shoulder. You were melting like popcorn butter is what you were doing. That was awesome. Remember that time you scored 48 points in the game and only took 17 shots? He's got game apparently on the social streets as well. Now, Kay Adams, she's NFL Network. Is that correct? No. She kind of...

I thought she was. Was she before? How did K. Adams become the delightful K. Adams? I mean, she's... She's what? Finish your statement. Smoking hot. There you go. I mean, what you asked.

Well, I asked it answered. She was an endgame host for the St. Louis Cardinals. Then yes, she was on Sunday ticket and fantasy zone. Fantasy zone with K. Adams. She also worked for Fandul and NBC Sports Network. And she works now for? Oh, yeah, she was on NFL Network's Good Morning Football. You're right.

I wasn't making that up. Good morning football. I'm not getting up for that. I'm not either, but I knew she was on it. Let's see. She was on impractical Jokers. She was on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? How'd she do? And now she decided a couple years ago not to resign with the NFL network. Now she hosts her own

NFL Daily Show up and Adams on Fandual TV. Okay. Well, she happened to get a major NBA star guest on the show. And we'll let you hear a little snippet of that, which is making the social media rounds. We hear Kay Adams talking to our new favorite rocket, Kevin Durant.

And then if you come down in Houston, which I'm expecting you to come to a game. Mm-mm. I came to a game and you did not even. You wouldn't even. I was hurt. You literally would not even like wait. You came to a game. You came to a game.

You didn't come out and say like, hey. You came to a game and I had to find out the next week on your show that you had my game, which is crazy. Kevin, I think I literally told you I was at the game. No, you did. But it's all good. That's old. No, I literally said, see you tonight. We're moving on to the next season, and I'll see you at one of these games in Houston. Which game?

Which game? We're going for barbecue down to Texas when you get out of here. What's the spot? What feels like home so far? I heard you say it feels like home. Why does it feel like home? Because it's Texas. There's just southern hospitality.

It's just Texas. You know what I'm saying? You're going to see once you get out here. I ain't going to keep telling you. You just going to have to immerse yourself in a coach when you get down here, all right? I feel like, fool me once. Fool me twice.

Wow. All right, bye, Kay. Hmm. Oh, it's dripping with flirtations. Some tension in there, huh? You know what they both need? What kind of tension, John? Yeah, what kind of tension is you talking about there, Jonathan?

You guys know what tense out? Sexual tension. You know what? Do, does Kay need a cold towel, Katie? Are they both in the towels? I need one. Cold towel. Wait, what are you talking about?

Wait, what? If you're hot and bother, you've got to cool yourself off. Okay. Now I'm just jealous. So then the question became... She's current Mount Rushmore for me, I'd say. Oh, she's spectacular, but Shahadi's on the top of the list. What's Shahdi's in there?

Maybe it's because it's a seasonal sport. We're going to double date. Of course, you're happily married. Yeah, I don't know if my wife would appreciate that, but that's... She can't chaparone. She'd be the fifth. Well, she'll be the driver. Uber Excel. She's not listening.

That's not right. That's not right. She don't hear it. I'm sitting here this clip. No, you're not. No, you're not. I'll be in much trouble as you are. I know. Trust me.

I'll throw you on the bus faster than me. So what I thought, and I've not looked at the replies on Twitter, I'm assuming that then it became a debate as to where he's going to take her for barbecue. Now, Ross, you are the barbecue snob of the show. Okay. Do you want me to say? I want you to rhyme it because we don't give away free plugs on the show. I mean, they're never going to plug the show.

So what I, if you were to, like there used to be a show back in the day called the dating game. Uh-huh. Where they, or love connection, for that matter. We'd go on a date and you'd have a chaperone and they would do dinner, drinks, movie, whatever, go out to a concert. If, if K.D. and K. Adams are going out to a date to a date to go get something to eat after the game. Where are they going? Barbecue Snob, one. To eat.

Or we're going to... Ruth. Ruth. Okay, now you and I have been to Ruth. You liked it. Loved it. It's great. Brisket, ribs.

Sausage is Immaculate. Dessert was good, too. Dessert, very good. Sides. I mean... Sides are good. I mean, soup to nuts. And the weekend, you get yourself a big beef rib.

Weekend, Saturdays, I got beef ribs. Mm-hmm. Woo! Woo! Yeah. You ever had a beef rib by yourself? No, I've never had a beef rib by myself. I've shared beef rib.

It doesn't share a beef rib. Yeah, you can't have, you can't tackle it all by yourself. No. You have that thing in your mouth at one time. You got to bite it off and give it to somebody else. Well, don't do that. You can cut it up. That'd be kind of tough.

No, it's not. It's quite tender. So when I see Katie, I'm going to go to practice on Saturday. Okay. I will say take her to Ruth. Yes. Okay. That's my number one spot.

Got it. All right, there it is. So a little flirtation for the Rockets New Super. Superstar and a, she does her own podcast for Fandul. Is that what it is? Okay. Fandual TV. I don't even know.

Is there a real channel of Fandle? I think actually it might be. Maybe you know what it is? Maybe it's all those regional channels that, like, look into Phil programming. We got to shut you bomb ass up at the bottom of the hour, Rossi. And I have been as plet as I can to a group of drivers out there that I just can't do it anymore. Hmm. Mm-hmm.

Hmm. It's a professional radio tease right there, ladies gentlemen. But Kia sole drivers, they're usually pretty bad. One of my vehicles is a Kia, so. Or Team Kia. Very comfortable. It's a tell you ride. It's a big one.

It's nice. Oh, tell you rides. You got a telie ride? You've got a telie ride? Whoa. Whoa. That's nice. Mm-hmm. Wow.

So if there's a Ria dealership out there, would like to have me do commercials with them, I'd be happy to do it. Okay. You need a refi? You're not upside down, are you? No, no. If I was going to refi to go to the, of course, the Shell Federal Credit Union. 1114 on Sports Talk 790.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. I'm not going to be honest with you. I don't think Vegas is respecting the Texans at all. Now, I don't think they're a Super Bowl contender. I don't think that these issues are going to be solved overnight. I do believe the Texans made a philosophical miscalculation in deciding that this offensive line they put in front of

CJ Strav was going to work. But with that all being said, sports RV, the win total for the Texans has dramatically shifted. It was what, nine and a half to start the year. Am I correct on that? Yes.

And right now, if you were to go to Las Vegas and final win total, which you can't do this much longer, I'm assuming it's you're at the quarter pole, the season coming up here, right? Well, you're already at the quarter pole. The over-underweight. win total for the Texans right now is at six and a half.

Rossi. That feels low. Oh yeah, Matt. Are you ready to go over? No, I'm not making a bet on this. Okay. But let's do this. Let's revisit where the Texan schedule is. Okay, we've got to find six more wins. We've got to find... I need seven

more to beat you in a bet we made preseason. Because ours is... I had the under seven and a half, yeah. And it was just a it was a deli lunch. I go out of you into it. You did. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't even really care. This is my fault. Yeah, I know. And I'm going to lose now.

No, hold on. Let's figure this out. I'm going to tell you that they're going to split the next two games. Okay. That'd be Ravens and Seahawks. All right, so that would put them at two and four. Sure, why not? Home for the Niners.

Utterly beatable. Yes. Home for the Broncos. L. Beatable. Home for the Jack? We're looking kind of decent. At Tennessee, win.

Home for Buffalo. Thursday night, short week. They're going to lose by 15. All right. At the Colts. Lost. At Kansas City. Lost.

Home for Arizona. Win. Home for Las Vegas. Oh, win. At the L.A. Chargers. Hell. Home for the Indianapolis Colts to close out the year. L.

You can't find six more wins in that group? How many was that? Well, let's do that. We should have been counting. We should have counted. We apologize for the last 45 seconds. I think that was... Okay, so one in one. I think that was six.

I think we got them at seven wins. Can they split between the Broncos and Niners? Yes. Yes. That's two and two. All for the Jaguars? They're beating the Jaguars at home. Three and two.

Okay. They're winning at Tennessee. That's four and two. They're not beating the bills. The bills. They're not beating the Colts and Indians. They're not beating the Chiefs. They're going to beat the Cardinals.

So that's Cardinals makes five. Vegas at home makes six. Yes. And then you've got to split either at L.A. or a home game against the Colts to end the season. It'll be tough. So I've already got you said that we're looking for six, right? We got five.

Yeah, it's possible. That's a massive in my part as a massive stayaway. That's a stay away is exactly the way I would describe it. I am staying away from that. because look this team to me still had a lot of fundamental problems while all the people that are fake media

people that think they have are media because they're on YouTube were putting them in the Super Bowl they're not as bad as what their record indicates I just don't think first of all their defense is going to keep them alive in many many games you have with the lowest one of the lowest point totals

in the NFL through four weeks maybe the lowest 51 points something like that I think they they have points per game allowed it's the pointer yards they're number one. I mean, that's going to keep you alive. Now, is the ground game a hot mess

the rest this year? Look, Woody Marks was really good against Tennessee, but that, we cannot say that's an irregular occurrence. He's ready to bust loose, baby. Rock and roll Woody Marks. Why are you looking at me like that? That felt overly positive.

We're trying to have a thoughtful conversation here. Woody Marks and Nick Chubb, I'm feeling decent about them, feeling better about the backfield than I was. When it was all Nick Chub and Dario Gungbolele and Damien Pierce, I wasn't feeling great. I'm feeling more optimistic than I was early in the season

and we still have no word on Joe Mixing, that's fine. Well, we're not going to get a word because he didn't be playing this year. See, I correctly didn't put the Texans in the Rotten 5 because they destroyed the Titans. Yeah, and there's no chance they're into tomorrow on any circumstance. No. Okay. So they're going to, look, it would take

an active, it would take a miracle for them to get the 10. Still possible, but that's just, that feels a little ambitious. By Vegas lines, there's a guy who kind of looks at the markets and determines where everybody would be. They have the Titans as the worst team in football. By Vegas lines.

Texans 14th. Yeah, I... That feels right. No one should be thinking that the ills have been fixed because you're beating the worst football team in the NFL. I mean, that first half, Ross, you know what? You know how

the NFL network puts on the best five games of the week? Yeah. and sometimes they archive things just for just for repackaging purposes they literally burned the tape I see I didn't think it was that bad but also I had still good good buzz going from the tailgate so now who'd you tailgate with this my my peeps they have a full spread of food and drink no you just drank beers literally on tailgate of a truck old school Maddie oh so there was no no food no why you want to kill your buzz that way but because you're in the minority they were probably more people with food at their tailgate than just alcohol.

That's called Amateur Hour, Matt. Oh, is that right? Yeah. So you're calling all those people that cook out amateurs. Yes. They would probably think you're the amateurs. That's true. Because you didn't have the barbecue going.

You didn't have the eggs Benedict. You didn't have the skillet going, frying up the bacon and potatoes. Who needs to bring a bottle of Hollandeys to the tailgate? I think the Texans fans are serious tailgators. They're so serious they don't get in their seats by the first quarter. They were throwing the pig skin around, grilling up Fugitas and whatnot. Was there any relationship building out there? What do you mean?

Like, somebody got married at the Texans game. Really? Yes. This weekend? No. I wasn't there. I must not have been the Orange Lot. No, no.

They got married in the stadium. Okay. I didn't see that either. Where was that? It was during a commercial break, apparently, or they at least at CBS showed it. I didn't catch that. I'm going to tell you something. I love sports.

Yes? And I'm not getting married again, so this is kind of a moot conversation. That's true. Jonathan, is there any amount of money we could give you? to get married at a sporting event. No, she would tell me no straight to everybody in front of the crowd. I can do it on track. No, this was an engagement.

This was the marriage. You can hurdle over. You can come down the aisle and hurdle over some hurdles. That'd be fun. You don't know what you need to do? That's not bad idea. If you propose to her, you need to get one of those paper mache, what do you call those things? What do you, batons?

Yeah. And put the ring in the baton. You can pass the baton. The ring boy can pass you a baton. Okay, now we're thinking. I like this. I'm passing my heart to you. And don't run too fast because this ring may fall out.

Don't do any of this. The dad passes me first. Like, it's a blessing. Then I pass the, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What if he drops the baton? Why is what I say you do it? You get your mom and your dad and her parents on one four by four relay. Yeah.

And they walk the baton over to you and then you hand it to her at the very last second. This is actually a really good idea. This is a wonderful idea. This is genius. I'm going to write this down. But to my point, though, I would never get married at a sporting event. I can understand the engagement part, sort of, you know, your lifelong fans, you met together at a sporting event. I kind of get that.

But to literally get married, I mean, she's wearing a dress and everything. To each, their own. But they're nerds. I don't know if nerds is the word. Dorks? Dweebbs. Damage people. clinically ill?

How do you want to say it? Yeah, what are you going to say it? I think we've run the gamut of characterizations. Time for break, it is. You know what we're going to do? I don't know what we're going to call us and they're going to say, shut your bum ass up, man.

Let's get married and we want to get married. True love can happen at the 11-yard line. Guess so. They were on the field? They were on the off of the side. But I want to say, I want to say Toro was there. is like a witness or something? I must have been getting my brisket barbecue sandwich from the Ruth Barbecue Station. How much was that

going to run you? It was 19 bucks. That's actually not that bad. Do you get filled for 19? I got a bag of peanuts too. You know what? You had a red jersey on. Did it say Battle Red on the back? No, it said A. Johnson. Oh, we got to get you a custom jersey. I had multiple people asked me if I wore my Dominic Davis jersey,

and I guess I should have. That would have been really funny. It's like one of those old Reebok replicas. It's just ratty. I didn't want to be wearing a ratty jersey at the game. That's funny. All right, ladies and gentlemen, it's time for you to call in at 713-212-5-790 and tell some people to shut their bum-asses up.

Gordy's like, hey, I may come to the U of H game against Texas Tech. And, of course, when the Cougars are down 20, I'll leave. You know what I said at Gordy? Shut your Cajun ass up. Shit your bum-ass up, man. He's just bitter because his LSU squad choked away at North. no miss last week. You know, a college smack talk is more than I live for it.

It's nothing ever personal. That's how I feel. So when the Cougars lose this week, you can send me a text. I'll send me a text. Sorry for your loss and I'll accept it. I won't send you a text. You could. I mean, maybe if they were actually relevant. God, you are the king of just backdoor, low-key, horrific insult.

Again, it proves why you're just one of the meanest people I know. I think I'm nice. All right, you're not. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. If something is bothering you this week, someone has bothered you, you want to tell them these sweet little words. Tell them. Shit your bum-ass up, man.

If some of the office is asking you to do redo a file or change one word in a particular document over and over and and over again and you're trying to get this deal done and the semantics are not that big of a deal tell me ain't nobody got time for that ain't nobody got time for that i got it ain't nobody got time for something i meant this is the second time i brought this up but i'm really starting to get peeved by it we have way too many people in this country that are insisting i'm backing into their parking spot it is becoming a terrible terrible epidemic it happened at kingwood high school yesterday it happens in our office building all the time. Your car has a reverse for a reason.

Park like a normal human being. Take your two seconds to park, get out of your car, and reverse your way out. You taking four to five attempts to try to back your car into the spot so you can leave a little earlier, ain't nobody got time for that.

I'm done with you, people. Ain't nobody got time for that? So what I've decided to do is if it happens here at the start, station again. I'm going to get my little yellow sticky pads and I'm going to put a little sticky note on there and say you park like a dumb ass. I'm doing it.

Didn't somebody do that to you before? Yes, they called me an a hole. And I deserved it. Ross, I'm serious. I'm done with the backing in. Stop doing it. Couple things. First of all, I don't mind it. I do it probably half the time. It depends on what the scenario is and where the spot is or if I pass it up. But I will say

I think you get full you allow it fully to trucks because trucks it's hard for them with if a truck is pulling out it's hard for them to see because of where I think trucks should be allowed to back in to matter what personally and this is I'm not somebody who who drives a truck

but I have before it feels more allowable with trucks because it's just hard to get in and out of spaces anyways may I allow one exception if there's no cars around you if the lot is empty and you're just trying, not empty, but it's not like you're adjusted with cars

going either direction, trying to get out. Yeah. I'm okay with that. I mean, I don't have a problem with it in general. Oh, it's a new pet peeve of mine.

Well, they say, shut your bum on us up, Matt. I wonder what percentage of people back in every time. For me, it's about 50. If you can do it on the first go-round, I'm okay with it. Or second.

Sometimes you've got to retrain. I'm running into the third and fourth time. Well, that's a problem. And then I'm putting my middle fingers to them. Well, you got to relax. then. Take a deep breath. That makes me mad.

Just sorry. I understand. If you're doing it like three or four times and they're in the way. That's bad. Especially in our office building. Seriously. Because then you make people think that you're leaving and you're not. Correct.

But you can't do it in a high school parking lot. You know, those are things are dangerous as it is. So that's my one thing in the week so far. I don't got a problem with people backing in. All right, Ross, what's the matter with you? I'll tell you what I do got a problem with. Oh, here we go. I was at the Texans game this weekend.

Yes, sir. As Battle Red Ross. And there was, I would say 10 to 15% of the crowd wearing oilers gear. And I'm going to tell you, it was about 50-50 Titans and Oilers fans. And this is why I have told you, the city of Houston, the Oilers left you. But Adams hated you. They never accomplished anything anyways.

They never went to a Super Bowl. They never won a Super Bowl. Why are we still hanging on to a team that left in 1996, man? It's been 30 years. Ain't nobody got time for you showing up rooting for the Texans and Oilers gear. Ain't nobody got time for that? I totally agree. The elders are my team.

When they left, they left. Then there were people there where it was like a 50, you were like, is this guy rooting for the Texans of the Titans? Because there was people in Oilers gear with like Cam Ward Oilers jerseys. And there was people in Warren Moon Oilers jerseys rooting for the Titans. I was confused as hell all weekend. Houston Texans fans. If you're going to go to the game rooting for the Houston Texans and do not wear Oilers gear.

Ain't nobody got time for that. If you are wearing Oilers gear, that means you're a Titans fan. And you say, well, no one. Then don't do it then. Exactly. You are giving away the sign that you're a Titans fan. And of the Titans fan at the end of our row. He was talking mess all game long.

And then as soon as they got the touchdown to go up, what, 19 to zero, he left and never came back. Shut your bum ass up, Titans fan. There was a lot of Titans fan. Shit your bum ass up, man. To Rennies. Rennies. Rennies.

You got crappy pancakes now, Rennies. Rennies. I got a sandwich with you a couple days ago, and I wanted to get seasoned fries. They cost like 39 cents more. Putting a little bit of salt on them and seasoning them should not cost you extra money. Oh, the seasoned fries? The seasoned fries costs more. Up so.

Anybody got time for dumbass up sales? Oh yeah, getting up so long time. Because here's what I don't do. If my meal comes with the up with the season fries and I downgrade a regular size, I don't know if it's for money back. So stop it. Stop penny pinching us. Have you met America?

Squeezing you for every dime, Matthew. Yeah, but for a little bit of season salt, don't, come on. You know what you should pack your own. Bring my own season, salt to Rannies? Yeah, bring a little Tony Shacherees with you. All right. A little slap you a mama. Why you hurt my mom that way?

Oh, you're talking about the salt. Okay. Jonathan, what's the matter with you? You know what? To all the people that, when I'm backing into my spot, which I do it every time, I'm backing my spot every time. So people that are on my butt,

not letting me have time to back in. Shut your bum ass up. I'm trying to pull out good. You know what? You just start acting like a grown-ass man and go to parking school. Not the first time. You don't need your 1978 Chevec going four different times. No.

I'm going to back in, have a perfect spot. Oh. Then I'm going out just smooth and easy wherever I want that. He's pulling out smooth and easy. If I'd go to your house and smooth it easy at your house. You don't smooth and easy at the parking garage in our office building. And I'm back then today, too. I'll give you something smooth and easy.

Is that a threat or a promise? that's it's you then you're the one that's taking your sweet-ass time actually i'm an excellent it takes me one smooth well then i'd another complaint about you you do it one time to slide it back in there the right way it's good you take two or three times i ain't got time for that that's all i'm saying this isn't training academy here either you know i do what are you doing exactly her all right seven one three two one two five 790 you heard what we're mad about what are you guys upset about and ladies too 713 712 212 5 790 719 713 713 2 1st 5 790 this is the matt thomas show at ross and we thank you very

much for listening to sports talk 790 you're not on the mat 66 wf and with morty i'm we do moody moody moody what happened aaron boone is an idiot he's in old joe tory's Jack or Joe Girides for that matter. Yeah, Joel Torrey would have kept Max free to the ball game, Morty. He's unbelievable. The guy's hot. You got to let him get the number eight and the number nine it out. We got no Mets.

Yankees's going to lose today. It's terrible. We got the Knicks are going to not win the east. This city sucks. I think they should trade Aaron, Judge. James and God knows you're on the fan. Fellis, man. Thank you, man, for taking my call, Governor Thomas.

Look, I don't know where you got that boy, man. That guy, Colt, what you call him? Colt Thompson, that young cat, I don't know if he's a true Houstonian, but it don't really matter. I mean, first of all, he's down in the dumps just like a lot of you guys because Astros couldn't pull it out. I feel bad for my wife because my wife is a true Estonian, and she's a die-hard Astro fan.

And I used to root for Jose Cruz when I was a kid growing up all the way over there in New York. So my point is that dude, he needs to get more new material instead of trying to troll the Yankees. Because you can't troll the Yankees. Nobody could troll. Not that dude over there in the afternoon show, not even this clown here, that pineapple dude. He ought to shut his bum ass up. And then the last time I'm going to talk about it, last time I'm going to talk about it, those dumbasses over there in that box sports, with the exception of one or two people, all those people.

West Coast Apologist and that dumb Jason Smith dude that he's a big-ass meth fan, always trying to outrank the Yankees and everything. Man, how does it feel to be a Met fan? Because they're not even there either. So he ought to shut his bum ass up and stop talking about Aaron Judge. Because if there's any truth be told, he should still be MVP because he just didn't get more home runs than him in a few token RBI. Every other category, he rocked, man, Judge.

But that's all I got, man. Thank you for taking my call, Governor Thomas. Peace. Appreciate you, James. Up next, Islander's coach, butch, goring. Goring. Set your bum ass up, man. I think it's Butch goring.

For real? I can make in the 70s. Oh, in the 70s. I think. That's my... Oh, wow. Patrick Wa is the coach now. Is it really? Yeah. R-O-Y, by the way. Yeah, of course. Good for him. Paul on 7. Paul. What's the matter with you?

and I think it's safer. Well, it looks like you're trying to park the car while you're talking to us. Oh, yeah. Call us back. By the way, multiple people have set with you on Twitter, Matt. Let's take a look. Kyle says, shut your bum ass up.

I agree with sports RV. I have a truck and several parking lots. You can't even back out unless you back in. But I can actually do it in one try every time. It's people in cars that can't back in. Matt, I... Shut your bum ass up, man. Kenny says, Matt, I 100% agree regarding people backing in.

Every few years there is something. something people start doing they normally do not. A lot of the people start backing in, just started doing it because they see other people doing it. Those people are sheep, sheep, sheeple, great point. And then H-Town dad says this is a 37-year-old driver for UPS. They teach to back in everywhere. Statistically speaking, 50% of accidents come from backing up. Shut your bum ass up, man.

Shit your bum-ass up. Hey, with the hashtag. That's okay. He hashtaged it. I appreciate the hashtag. I try to use the first letters, and it was actually not a good thing to do. Why? S-Y-B-A-U.

It has another connotation to it. Yeah, with a different B. Yeah, but I was told it wasn't a good thing to two, so I didn't do it. It's fine. Who told you that? Your daughter? No, people on Twitter, because they're all chasing after my hashtags. Am I slow?

I can't get the freight. Oh, okay, okay. Do you know what it? You know what it means? I got it, I got it. Okay. tell me all fair because I don't think I know. Is this Andreas or Andrea or Andrea?

Andres. Andres. There you go. Yeah, can you all hear me? Yes, sir. Andres. Andres. Yeah, sorry, I'm seeing that.

I had one more person, but shut your bum ass up on us reverse parking people. Listen, the reason I do this, the reason I do this is because unfortunately, speeding through a parking lot is not a federal crime. So when these mofos stops driving 45 miles down on the parking lot, I will stop reversing my car. But until that day comes, people need to slow down the parking lot. So I'll reverse it so that I could see them zooming right past me. Did it, Anders. First of all, nobody's going 45.

People do drive crazy parking lot. Have you ever been to H.E.B. on a Sunday? It was like a NASCAR racing there. Oh, I guess you're... Every parkland in Houston is like 30 minutes. thousand hours. Yeah, you know what, I say incorrect you. It's parking. It's parking garages. Parking lots, yeah, they're going 45. I get you on that, for sure. Andreas, with all their respect, let me tell you some. I want you to videotape the next time you'd

back up. And if you, if you back up on the first try, then we're always forgiven. I'm not, shut your bum ass up. Okay, I'll buy the argument. If it takes you four tries, then you don't know how to drive. At the most, I'll give you two. But one should be fine enough. That's what I'm saying. I don't have an issue, Andres. As long as it's done in the first. I'll buy you. first and maybe a second if it's a tight spot like our our garage here is criminally small the lot the slot space thanks for the phone call i can understand trying a second time

i like i like the mexican but flame for this this is nice what do you mean flamed i just read you two tweets in my support what you're that's the minority just because you're you bet two 50 when it comes to parking on the first time what call me you know what i'm gonna start filming your I'm going to do tomorrow. I'm not going to go in the office building tomorrow until I see you park. And I'm going to out you for the fraud that you are. Meet me on the fifth floor. I'll meet you on the fifth floor.

I'm going to watch you. You know what, Ross knows where I parked. People will just drive in and try to have to do it like three times. That's the same people that are backing in and have to do it like three times. Well, that's stupid too. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. I'm saying the chance of you doing it three times is more prevalent when you're trying to back.

I don't know. It's kind of tight. in that parking garage. I know ours. We need more space. I'm team, do what you please. I back in sometimes, and it depends.

Okay, tomorrow I'm filming him. We're going to see Mr. One for One can do it over here. Well, most everybody has backup cameras these days. I don't even use the backup camera. Oh! Now he's an arrogant backlog driver. I actually don't use it either.

I put the window down and look out. I got two arrogant people doing it. No, I put the window down and I look back. I do it old school. No one of It's kind of a tough one. No one of there's such delays. Don't trust your cameras.

Willie on 790. Willie, what's the matter with you? My pet peeve is going to a game, whether it's at Petita Center or at the football field, watching the football team. This has happened to us a couple of times. It doesn't happen frequently.

But somebody who decides to stand up, the whole game, practically. And I did say something to somebody one time. He turned around and gave me a go to hell look. Like he was going to continue, like he was going to continue to do it. I paid for my ticket, and I have a right to stand up in front of you so you can't see the game. Now, that, that time it happened was at Fratida Center. The couple behind them wouldn't say anything. I know they didn't appreciate that either. I almost said something. But then I thought, well, what does it matter?

He's probably one of these personalities that's going to tell me I'm going to hell and I'm going to do what I want to do. That's, you know, that's my pet peeve. You know what? I usually like to have strong opinions about these things, but Ross, you and I have wavered on this one. When you're at, it depends on the game and the scenario. Also, if you're blocking kids' views, I like to stay in the majority of games. Like when I was at school at UT, we stood the whole game. And if you didn't, like, you were going to get yelled at in the student section.

It was, you had to. You feel the same way about concerts. See, that's another thing. There's a slippery slope on this game. I think especially if you're on the floor, like, we were on the floor at the weekend. We stood the whole concert. And if you want to sit, that's fine. You're just not going to be able to see.

Which are pretty tall, though. I know. I know. And I try to be cognizant of that. I try to, let's say if there's somebody like tall, behind me, I will look, I'll look around and I'll try to, like, not block people's view. But also, I paid money for this seat. This, I am entitled to my space and I want to stand. This is a good argument, yeah. I can see both sides.

I do not have a strong enough opinion on this, and I call me weak. I can fully accept it because there's sometimes on the moment presents third down and six. You go, yeah, exactly. Stand up, rude. And then you got a great song at the concert. I mean, but it's some people want to stand the whole time. And if you want to stand the whole time, that's, I think that's your right. And people will get yelled at, like, and it can get crazy. It got crazy the sticks concert I went to. People yelling at each other. Sit down, stand up.

Standing up at sticks? You can sit down to sticks. Wait, wait, wait. Lady comes on, you can definitely get crazy. I thought they didn't play that. One of a lady. It was Renegade. Renegade's a jam.

Renegade is a jam. Sailway you can sit down for. It rains up. A day a runoff. Yeah, you got to stand up for Renegade, right? Steve, one of you can stand up, but... Yeah, but you wait three and a half hours for good songs that come on. 1159.

The final two hours of the Matt Tobas show, Ross is coming here. I just sold that one in there and everything like that. Excuse me? Eddie Nudiaz, athletic director of University of Houston, going to join us in a half an hour here on 790. For Sports Talk, 790, it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross, 713, 212-790. Ross is a poll question out.

We'll tell you more about that after we give you first as we present to you every day at this time. The news at noon. And I know that Ross has been busily preparing the news at noon. Yes, Matthew, I've been on top of the news at noon here on the matthalbill show with Ross. Okay, I'll get right into it since you asked. Playoff action is in full swing in Major League Baseball. Tigers defeating the Target, the Guardians 2 to 1.

You also had the Cubs over the Padres. How about those red socks? Yankees get the basis loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning. Zero out against the roll as Chapman. He gets three straight outs without surrendering or surrendering a run. They get the victory. Notably Matthew, Alex Bregman with an insurance run batted in in the ninth inning. He was two for four as he continues the tradition of crushing the Yankees in the postseason,

carrying the torch for the Astros who did not make it. Are we rooting for the Red Sox at all because of Breggs at all? You can say no. I'm kind of indifferent towards Bregg. Is that wrong? No, I have, look, I personally like Alex Breggman. But as a sports hero and whatever, he's still a Boston Red Sox. I mean, I just, I just can't fathom going, let's go Sox.

I just can't. Dodgers smashed the Reds 5 to 10. What? Five to ten. I'm sorry, 10 to five. I was like, what? I'm sorry, whatever. I'm new here.

Blake Snell was very good, gave up only a couple of runs. That Dodgers bullpen is something to keep an eye on, but five home runs for the LA Dodgers, two of them off the bat of Show Eotani, the greatest show on earth, performing in the playoffs, both of those teams, all of those games, going in the game number two today,

starting now with the Tigers versus the Guardians on ESPN. And we will give you frequent updates as to how that game is going along. Okay. Will A.J. Hinch move on. Back-to-back wild card champions. Could be.

All right. Well, elsewhere in some Major League Baseball news, Braves manager, Troy Snick, excuse me, Brian Snicker, who was there in World Series Champion in 2021. It will not be back as the manager for the Atlanta Braves.

will he be on a fishing trip with his son who won't have a job coming up here for the Houston Astros? We will find out. Excuse me, Brian, yeah, I said Brian Snicker, right? What did I say? Yeah. Brian Snicker, yes. 2021 World Series champion.

Out for the Atlanta Bridge. He's saying resigned. My guess is like, we'd like you to resign. I want to stay. No, we'd like you to resign. 69 years old will move into an advisory rule. That means going to play 18 holes every Thursday. All right, couple.

Early, he's got to get the dinner at 4.30. Couple of NFL notes, including Jane Daniels, medically cleared for the Washington commanders as they take on, I believe, the Chargers this weekend. And Joe Flacco has been benched for the Cleveland Browns. The new starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns is Dylan Gabriel. Flacco will serve as the backup.

Shador Sanders will remain the third string of quarterback, according to Brown's coach Kevin Stefansky. Shador didn't even move up on the pecking order. They beat the Packers. I don't know how they did. They're going to maybe win. Miles Garrett was going off that game.

Can Miles Garrett get you four wins by himself? I guess the answer is yes. Just about. He's insane. He's the best on the planet, I think, as far as defensive players go. Ravens, by the way, just checked. Still remain. Texans, a one and a half point favorite ad, Baltimore.

Yes. It was two and a half yesterday. Down to one and a half today. He got up to that high. That's crazy. I'm just going to tell you if we were in the Lake Charles, that might be money. I decked the Baltimore Ravens on a money line.

But is it on a recorded line? That's a great question. Elsewhere, Matt, NBA news. LeBron James with a glute-teal injury. By the way, the game opened up for a very, very short period of time. Ravens minus three and a half. We have a five-point shift. Yeah, was that with, I mean, I figure with, is that five points for Lamar Jackson?

Well, I mean, you helped me out. It was three and a half, literally when the first line out, then they took it off the board, and then they re-put it back up at minus one and a half. Probably about right. Yeah. Well, we'll see what happens. A must-win game for the Texans this weekend. Help me out with this.

ESPN does not, the match of predictor does not believe what Las Vegas believes. the computer modules have these two teams playing a hundred times. Baltimore's favored to win 56 of those 100 times. Yeah, how many of those simulations are they taking out Lamar Jackson? I mean, probably a lot of the stats that's going on are with Lamar Jackson playing. I'd imagine I don't know how that ESPN matchup predictor goes. Okay. But if you like, if you want to use the predictor, I don't think it's very good against the lines.

Just saying there's studies have been done. LeBron James, sideline open training camp with the Los Angeles Lakers. as coach J.J. Reddick saying, quote, a little bit of a nerve irritation in the glute. Matt, have you ever had a nerve irritation in the glute? I've had a pain in the ass, but never a nerve irritation. Why are you looking straight at me when you say that? No, you're nothing. You're a piece of cake.

You're easy. Excuse me? You know what I mean? Easy. I know I don't. You know, I mean, you're easy going. You don't make me mad. I'm easy like Sunday morning?

You're easy like bad heartburn after a bowl of chili with beans. Terrible. They're going to kick you out of Texas. They're going to, they're going to absolutely kick you out of Texas. We had a deep, deep conversation about chili with beans over the weekend. You did? Yes. Who's we? I don't remember who it was with.

I'm just going to tell you, you eat your chili however you want. If you enter a chili competition and it has beans, they are throwing you out. You will be disqualified. But I don't go to the chili competition. That's what I'm saying. If you want real Texas chili, it doesn't have beans. If you want to put beans in it and call it whatever you want, that's fine. it's like if you want to put A1 on your steak, you're doing it wrong, but you can still do it?

Only time I put A1 on a steak now. Oh, Jonathan's got issues. Well, let me tell you something. If there's anybody that reeks of A1, it's going to be Jonathan. Jonathan, you like your meat well done, correct? What? I'm medium rare. Oh, okay, good.

Thank God. Look at you, Matt. I was little nervous. Stereotyping. I was stereotyping. No, you know what's funny? That's such a bad, but true stereotype and I hate it so much. Jonathan, I don't mean to stereotype.

We don't do stereotype. I have dinner companions on the road with me for the Rockets that are African-American, and they both order their steak well done, and I just tear up. It's so sad. I'm culture, Doug. Don't worry. Thank you. But you do put A-1 on it, don't do you?

I'll put A-1 sauce on it. I'm occasional sauce, but the only way I put A-1 on is if it's well-done because it's been, like, recooked the microwave. Early in the show, I shamed you out of the A-1 sauce. You did. I do put a baron-a-one-on-a-one, because it really adds terrific flavor to it. But that go on. Okay, see, I disagree with that. But if you want to do it, it's fine.

If you want to put beans in your chili, it's fine. You're just going against the rules. You can break the rules. I'm a rule breaker. There's no real rules. Do you ever ask for Big Mac sauce in your quarter pounder? What was the consistent? Who are you discussing this with?

I need to tell you who it is, but I'm just forgetting at this point. But the rule was we don't know why anti-bean people go crazy over beans in it. It's like there are a certain arguments you want to have in life. Adding beans your chili is not one. of the big arguments in life. Yeah, it's do whatever you want. Okay. But it's not real Texas.

It's always a pregnant pause followed by something. And that's your news. Thank you very much. Eddie Nunez coming up in about 18 minutes here on the show. We've got a high sun today in Cleveland. A pop fly in center field was dropped. The Tigers have runners at first and second with nobody out. Ooh.

Did that guy just get hurt trying to get that ball? guys, it's just second base. Did he get pulled out the field? Yeah. Yeah, so they've had a drop pie pop fly and I think a maybe an elbow extension of some sort by the second baseman.

That's not good. Cleveland's just messing things up. And by the way, there are plenty of empty seats at Cleveland. So it's not just Houston that has the empty seats for the 12 o'clock first pitch. What are they doing?

Come on. It's the Guardian. They're on a historic run. Oh, yeah, there is a lot of empty seats. Yep. Oh, man, there's a ton. Right behind home play too. Maybe they're settling in traffic.

It's the top of the first. We'll reevaluate in three innings. Okay. So every time Houston gets ripped on for not filling a building up for noon games, Atlanta did it for a long time and Cleveland does it now. 1213. It's a Matt Thomas show. Ross.

This is Sports Talk 790. 1220 on Sports Talk 790. We'll talk to Eddie Nuneas. I wonder if we'll get off this chilly thing, I swear. Is there a part of the country that the beans are prevalent to the chili? I mean, if we went to New Mexico, would they do their chili differently? Yeah, probably, it's probably like New York City style, extra beans. New York City.

I don't ever had chili in New York City. Now, I've had chili dogs. My mom, when I was a kid, made chili with beans, and I eat it up. I mean, don't get me wrong. It's filler, to be brutally honest. Yeah. You're just adding to it. I'm kind of hungry.

We went to go see. You go with the kidney beans or the pento? For chill, it's got to... Or both. I don't think I can necessarily have an argument either way. Okay. But Ross has made chili for me several times before over the years, and every time it doesn't have any beans, and I've enjoyed it just as much. Okay.

Yeah, I've made a... I think I'm... Normally, I try to at least twice a winter make a big old batch. Biggle. I love... When you use the word batch in life, it always should have the word big old in front of it. Oh, yeah. Then I eat it for like four days.

Yeah. And then, well, you probably don't want to sit next to me on the couch during that time. Hmm. Okay, putting that into the head and trying to figure that out now. Okay. Keep your distance during those days. That feels like the right thing to do. Seven one, can we have a call?

I mean, I don't know I'm begging for a call, but I'd like to have one to break up our conversation. I mean, I don't really care what you call me about. If you want to tell me what you're having, how your cholesterol level is, I just talk to anybody at this point. Talk about the Tigers. I thought of the guy that called us yesterday. Tanner Bybee, out of the jam, folks. Shutting down the Tigers.

Two on. They had two on no out. No out. Nobody advanced. No, they stuck it first and second. Nice. Playoff baseball, man. I miss it. And there's 33,000 there.

Actually, I don't think even progressive field seats 40. Friend of the show, Randy McAvoy said there was 26,000 a game one. By the way, can I shout out Randy McAvoy for a second? Sure, why not? Does he listen? You think about this exact same? might be he texted a few minutes ago okay um and you're not going to believe this but you i'm going to tell you the god's honest truth okay i have brought up the fact that carlie has played volleyball right

yes a few times and i told you that i'm the announcer yes two different people randy being one of them okay at channel two okay jason bristol over channel 11 uh-huh have texted me in the last two weeks and say, hey, we want to come to do a story about you and Carly. Wonderful. So they came to Carly's match last night. Yeah, it's a light time of year for sports. Sorry, go ahead. No, it's a great story, Matt.

You and your daughter, it's amazing. I want you to remember this. I want you all remember this. You hear this, Houston? You hear how mean he is? I'm joking, of course. You know I'm joking. I know you're joking.

So they both did a story, and I don't know when they're going to be on there working on it, but it's going to be a nice little feature story about it. the two of us. I don't know when it. Okay. But Randy did his live sports update at 6 o'clock from Kingwood High School yesterday. Really? And mentioned her name. Oh, awesome. Yeah. So... Did you guys record it?

Well, no, we... He just did a quick tease, but the story has not been put out of it. Tell them to send you the link. Yeah, we'll put it out there. Let's go. Let's go. We're in the drop box. It's fine. Cool. So thank you to Randy and thank you to Jason for coming out

to seeing her play, and they got me announcing the game. And so it was just kind of nice. It was nice. That is the all-time assist leader, correct? In Kingwood High School, all-time assist leader. That's great. They both asked me about senior night next Tuesday, and it's like, how are you going to be? And I'm like, a hot mess.

Oh, are you going to be a blubbering mess? Blubbering mess. I'll give you a hook, Maddie. I don't want either one you touching me. Oh, that's adorable. You throw up his head for good. Matt, you have many faults. I mean, pages and pages of faults.

But you are a great loving father to your children. It's going to be sad. It's her last home game. She's got other home games, but I've got rock. I know where you're crying because you're going to have to get those flights to Rhode Island. That's why you're really crying. I'll be taking you shmited gift cards if you all want to send something to me. We'll start getting them points going.

You know the reason why? I'll be missing her last two. The Rockets have start preseason games next week. Yeah, next Monday they play the Atlanta Hawks in the first preseason game. Man, that's already here. Yeah. Well, I'm not mad Did I have any post games for about three weeks?

I imagine I'm on game one. Don't you? I mean, I can't understate this. I'm beyond excited. I can't guarantee a championship. I'm wishing for one. And really, if you do a lot of that, well, we're going to be there talk in early October.

You're probably ruining the karma of the season coming up. Because I think Oklahoma City knew they would be good. But nobody thought they would be good. be as good as they were last year. I mean, they were, they were thoroughbreds in the jump and didn't let anybody in. Now, granted, Indiana did take him to a game seven and that was great, but Oklahoma City just was impossible to beat. I mean, you had all the good Minnesota teams, you had the Golden State team, you had the Denver's, you've got the rockets, you had all, I mean, they, they survived at all, but it feels a little more wide open that maybe everybody else around Oklahoma

the city got just a little closer. But my guess is SGA is probably thinking, you know what, I'm the MVP from last year. I've got a great center. I got great guards. We're only getting better and more mature. We should be on top of the world again. Yeah, they're championship favorites, rightfully so. And I will tell you this already.

Whoever wins is coming out of the West. No question of my mind about that. No question. All right, Annie Nunea is going to join us in a couple minutes. We asked for a phone call, literally about anything so Ross could stop insulting me. So we're going to go to Kendall and Santa Fe on 790. Hello, Kendall. Hey, guys.

Love the show. So you want to talk about chili with beans in it? Go to a whiteout at Penn State. Central PA, they love their chili with beans, and I can't stand it. My wife and I went up there. She's a Penn State alum. We have season tickets. We went to the Whiteout.

And you want to talk about HGB parking lots on a Sunday afternoon being a racetrack? That's nothing compared to the 300,000 people that, tailgate out there. We telegated Thursday through Sunday morning. It is a madhouse. You will get run over if you're not paying attention. It's insane. But they absolutely love their beans and their chili

and I can't stand it. I want to do a chili cookoff up there one year just so I could win it in embarrass all of them. Can I ask you this question because you brought this up and I forgot to bring this up the last two days. I have no dog in the fight in Penn State Athletics. I don't have a friend. I don't have

an enemy. I have, I just watch them on TV. Kendall, is James Franklin ever going to win a big game at Penn State? I mean, they lost again at home in front of all those people. Why don't they ever win big games? I'll tell you why,

because James Franklin is the Steve Sarkesian of the Big Ten. He just can't have a He handstreased the office every single time. He turned over play calling to Enneco Mickey, and it's the same thing. Nothing ever changed. I mean, until they get rid of him, which I doubt

They will because their alumni associations too cheap. They're not going to pay the buyout the way AMM's money bags will. But, I mean, it is what it is with him. They understand that. I don't know why they keep going back to him every year, but they do. Thanks for the phone call. Do you ever notice that? I mean, I don't know if you even.

I can't remember watching a James Franklin really big. I mean, I think, I know what Eagle brought it up. I think against top 10, he might be. Over, it's a bad record. It's like 422, I think, against top 10s. it's not great they won the first round of the playoffs so that's a big game

relatively speaking in the second round yeah they got into the final four but weren't they play didn't they play like Boise State or something they had a easy path I mean you had Oregon traveling all the way across the country

now grand Oregon's excellent too but I'm not saying that but my point is that it's yeah they beat SMU and then Boise State eh not a murder's right away to get to the semi-finals Eddie Nunez is going to help Our Cougars get to the final four in the college football playoff.

And later on in the show, we have the new offensive line rankings from PFF. Does they be same as the old? Do the Texans get out of the 30-second spot even after playing Tennessee? Are they charging up the rankings, maybe? Ross, believe it or not, it's coming up in an hour. You're not on this next interview. On this show? Maybe you could do it now.

What's today? Just throwing it out. 1228 on Sports Talk 790. 1232, it is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. we take this program until 2 o'clock. Coming up Saturday night, 6 o'clock, T-D-E-CU Stadium, our Cougars, your Cougars,

America's Cougars, are going to take on the Texas Tech Red Raiders and for a few minutes on the hopefully exciting celebration that will happen on the campus. Eddie Nunez, Athletic Director of University of Houston joining us here on the show. Eddie, good afternoon.

Just how we wanted it. 4-0 versus 4-0. ESPN 6 o'clock. Good national stage for two pretty good college football teams. That's a great opportunity that's in front of us right now for us to continue to show America who the coogs are. And so, no, you couldn't ask for anymore. This is a great setup for a great weekend.

Do you ever get any editorial say-so in times of starts? I know when games are not on linear, when they're on the Plus app, you get a little bit of an opportunity to kind of pick and choose. but does the league basically say we'll give you the time and you'll be ready to play it? Only chance we ever have is typically before the season, if it's one of the networks reached out saying, hey, listen, we like to put you on this time. Would you be interested or would you want to stay where we have you? And so some of that plays out.

This time of year, no. When it comes to ESPN and Fox, we don't is whatever we are given that time slot. TNT is a little bit different when we're on TBS, TNT with that new partnership, we have a little bit of flexibility but it's still not perfectly in our hands. You know what, though? I'll take this 6 o'clock kickoff for sure.

And look, we're hopefully have a lot of Houston fans there, Texas Tech fans, aren't high in the fact they're going to be at this game. What's it been like talking with the athletic officials about all the Red Raiders that may be in the building on Saturday night? We anticipate it. We know that they have a strong following here in Houston.

And some of our fans are our dual fans. We know that. And so we're going to see probably more Texas Tech fans than what typically travel for them here at our place. It's just a fact. And it's not because of any other reason, just because there's a strong fan base of theirs here. So we anticipate having more than a usual visiting team fan base that attends our games.

But we're doing our part. This is all about what we can do for our experience, for our fans. they'll be there and we look forward to having them be in the venue but we're looking at a sellout right now everything is is trending hopefully by today if not first in the morning everything we'll get to that point so everything is moving in the right direction I can't thank our fans enough with their commitment to going out getting tickets our students are coming in droves which has been phenomenal to see over the last several weeks at our home game so right now now. We're excited where it's going. And we're just trying to alleviate all the concerns and the

congestions now before the weekend. You had an opportunity to have Colorado in a few weeks ago, and look, the school is going through some construction things. So as people approach this game, what are some bits of advice you would give to anybody beyond the obligatory get there as early as you can? Yeah, I would tell you, we've been working with the, So what people need to understand is as much as it is our event, we work with a lot of different agencies when it comes to traffic, when it comes to parking, when it comes to security. A lot of that falls within the purview of universities, police department. We work with them, and that's part of this for the last couple weeks. We've been working with them, working with the city, with Metro, trying to make sure we do everything we can to help the situation.

The fact goes back to our infrastructure is what it is. we're not adding an express lane all the way to the interstate if we could heck and we would have done that by now so the couple things that i'll tell our fans is in any fan buy your ticket for parking pass your parking pass tickets or your parking passes excuse me buy them today buy them tomorrow try to get them beforehand on game day most of our lots if not every one of them will be just passes only so we are trending right now to have every one of our typical parking lots that people would have the ability to buy game day parking to be sold out from a from a so we have other lots so we urge everybody right now to buy those parking passes today try to get them in advance understand the

ins and outs of how to get to those lots if it's a different lot than you've been used to and then the second part is simple we always say come early you're right come early but just like anything else when you go to the airport you know you got to come two hours before that's the kind of people always tell you. But what does that mean for us? I tell my wife, I tell our fans, what would that mean? Well, come earlier than what you would typically would come. Why? Because traffic's going to be a lot more challenging. We're going to expect the sold-out crowd. Everybody wants to get here at the last minute and want them to get in the stadium at the last minute. So, you know, if you can get here a couple hours in advance, do so. Come tailgate. Come enjoy the experience

because we're going to have a lot of things happening in and around the stadium so people can have a great time. So again, don't come 30 minutes in advance because you usually come 10 minutes and thinking 30 minutes will be better. Understand, give yourself as much time as possible. We are going to be doing everything. We can't help you get in the stadium. But it will be a challenging day just because this is a lot of people in a confined space. But we're going to make it work and we're going to make it the best experience we can. A few more minutes here with Eddie Nunez, a athletic director at the University of Houston.

So the SEC recently, Eddie, went to the... this annual opponents thing for a three or four year stretch. Look, selfishly, and I have been a Cougar student, alum for a long time. I didn't like Conference USA because Southern Mist didn't bring people. East Carolina didn't bring people when they were in the American. I don't mind better in Texas Tech and TCU and all the regionals coming in. So the more the merrier for me at TDCU Stadium.

But let me ask you about, is there been any conversation about the Big 12 going to this annual opponent format? Yeah, I think we're still all trying to figure out what those annual opponents would be, who best fits us. We're looking at it all sports. As we look at maximizing schedules for basketball and football, really, those two are the ones that people see them the most. We have to find some of those common opponents, as people like to call them. And, you know, just to say we're going to be playing everybody that's going to be around Rob. And there's some good to that.

But there's also, we want our fan base to expect to see some teams, consistent. And the other side of it is I don't want to go play some team and then never never have the opportunity to come host them here. So I was in the SECC when the first conversation started years ago when Texas A&M and Missouri came in the league and everybody started figuring out, okay, we got to have some opponents. Those conversations have been continual, they've been having them for years and they've changed and they've adapted a little bit. So there's there's a good reason for doing it. Does it change some of the dynamics of your fan base and seeing who comes in? Absolutely. We're having them in the Big 12.

I would tell you today there's no end in sight as far as like we're going to have something done by next month or something. I think it's just conversation that we need to have so that if and when the time comes, we're better informed and better able to make decisions that are necessary. Farlett, you run. Let's go back to last week, Oregon State. Did you find a different spot to stand or sit, maybe like mid-fourth quarter? Because that was, I'll be honest with you, Eddie, and I wanted to make the trip, but I had family obligations, and I fell asleep. And when I woke up, I was so happy because I had DVR it.

But my gosh, the team coming back the way that it did. And then I got to ask you, too, on top of it, how was it landing at Hobby Airport 815 the following morning? So a couple things. First of all, I'm not going to give you as much leeway. then our fan base fall asleep. Come on now. You've got to stay awake and watch it through and through. I'm a fraud.

I fly out admitted. That's why I'm so excited. I'm going to Oklahoma State next week. The game's at 11 o'clock. I'll be in bed by 8.30. I'll be just fine. But that's... Yeah, you're going to be...

Come on now. No, we had... I did find a spot, and it started... It came the fourth quarter. Like, people know me. Sometimes I find a spot, and that spot worked. Dave, my senior deputy,

walked up to me at the end of the end of the game and said, overtime was moving to the other side. out of the field, he goes, hey, let's walk down to the other side. I said, not a chance. See you later. I'm staying right here. So needless to say, I'm not saying I had anything to do with it, but I liked where all standing. It worked. I didn't move. And then coming home, God, it was such a hard flight. It was great that we won, but to know that you're basically landing at 8.30 in the morning, and then by the time everybody gets home, it's going to be 9 a.m. 9.15 in the morning.

nobody really sleeps great on a plane. So the four and a half hour flight back felt like an eternity. I might have slept maybe 45 minutes to an hour somehow on that plane, right? But it was a tough Saturday. My daughter's had homecoming dances. And so I didn't have the chance to just plop down and say, I'm going to take a power nap. It was, oh, we got to keep going.

I got events to go with them. So it didn't stop. It was great. But you and I will hopefully get to enjoy. enjoy a better time next week when we come back from Oklahoma State and it's not, you know, the next morning. Yeah, I don't, I don't mind these 11 o'clock kicks. I'll be brutally honest with you. But yeah, I can't, I can certainly imagine, Andy, you go into your wife and saying, hey, I need to sleep all day. And she says, here, take this violin with us as we go to our daughters as my guess, right? Well, the best part was, she's like, well, I'm going to go with one of my daughters. You're going to go with the other. And I'll see you later on tonight. I'm thinking, well, what time is this thing over? that's 10 o'clock 11.

I'm thinking, wow, I've been, I need to show. Needless, when I went to bed, I was out. I conced out. It was a long, but it was a great day. Hey, to come back from the way we did and to win on the road, it's never easy to win the road. You know this. So any W you could get, especially on the road, is a great one.

Well, my family is divided. I've got a Texas Tech son. Myself is a University of Houston grad. My wife is a University of Houston grad. So I'll just say you selfishly. I know the regional scheduling is not always in play, but if I can play Texas Tech every year, whether it's in Lubbock or in Houston,

I think it's going to be a great atmosphere on Saturday. I hope a lot of folks get out there and, like I said, get there early because you don't want to be stuck kickoff, still trying to find your parking spot. It's going to be electric. But that's what makes the Big 12 so great if we have these opportunities to play at the Baylor, the TCUs, the Texas Tech.

Why? Because we're all in the same state, we're all fighting for the same kids. And the reality is this is where you're going to get the best football in this state. And so why not? Why not have these electric games that people can see? And our fan base is going to get energized. So, again, I look forward to see everybody there.

Come early. Enjoy yourselves. Let's have a great time. Understand it. Please be patient with us. There's going to be a lot of people out there. We're going to do everything we can to get you in and get you out of the stadium. Hopefully after a great win.

Any thanks for the visit. We'll see you on Saturday and best of luck this week. Sounds great. Have a great one. You got Eddie Nunez, Vice President Intercollegiate Athletics, aka the athletic director, University of Houston with us here. At 1243, it is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. We've got coming up at 150 today, believe it or not. But right now we got me and you,

and we have a past U.S. Chile champion, Ross, on the hold. Two-time, I think. A two-time chili champion. Now, is that like you're going against nine people is going against like a thousand people. That's what I really want to know these things. 1244. It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross.

This is Sports Talk 790. Yeah. You know what? You're ready to fill a building up or help us out? Come on, let's go. We'll throw hands. I don't throw hands. I like Texas Tech.

I told you that. You know what? Because I'm Mr. Texas. I love all the parks of the state. Oh, dear we go. I love it. You hear me? Ain't scared.

I love it. I want to be scared. this week, but I'm just telling you, you want to go to Lubbock for two, three days, get away a little bit? I'll go with you. I'm going to fly, though. We're not driving. That's too damn far.

That's the biggest negative. Oh, Mr. Texas can't go on a road, Texas road trip? I prefer to fly over the state. What's the far as you've driven in Texas? Lovick. You drove there? Twice. All those to move your son, though, right?

Yes. That was out of necessity. Oh, you mean like driven just to go somewhere? Well, when I was a kid, I didn't drive myself. Does that count? No. Mm. The furthest I've driven in Denton.

Okay. North of Dallas. That was to go to college, wasn't it? Or you went there to visit? Visit, but I did go to college here for a year. Okay. I did go visit there one year. That's true.

Yeah, you're Mr. North Texas. Yeah. Furthest west I've ever driven would be probably... San Antonio? San Antonio. Furthest northwest, I mean, beyond Austin, like Round Rock. But I've done the Victoria. I've done the college station, the Waco.

Corpus? Corpus. You have? Yes. I didn't drive to Corpus. I didn't drive to Corpus and drove back. We bought a car down there. Oh, yeah.

Must have been a... Oh, I remember that ordeal. Like, I found a car. So let's go get it. She's going to buy tickets and go to Corpus. To do what? That's an extra payment.

Don't remind me. All right. You do what she says, Matthew. Damn straight. 713, 212, 5, 790. 713, 2125-790. Greg is with us on the Matt Thomas Show.

Ross, Greg, thank you for holding in good afternoon. Hey, guys, how are you all the day? We're amazing. Thank you for asking. We know you're amazing. That's why we listen to you guys. Thank you. So there was some debate about Chile, right?

And I've got a little credibility. You know, a second place in the world championships, back-to-back third places, a U.S. Open Championship, over 100 awards. Wow. U.S. Open Chili? How many competitors are in the U.S. Open Chili competition? This year was 174.

And you got what? I have a first place. And that was in 2024. 2025, I actually hosted the cook-off in Jamaica Beach. You hear that, Matt? U.S. National Open Chili Champion. Let me ask you this. Do you put beans in it?

No. In competition, we are not allowed to use beans. Let me ask you, Greg. If I'm a judge for this, I'm going to take 173 spoonfuls of chili to determine who the best of the chili is going to be. Is that really what I'm going to do? No. What you're going to do is we'll divide that up into 10 to 15 chilies per table, right? So you're going to have four to five judges on each of those tables, and you may have 10 or 15 tables.

So you take half and ties. They're going to score those from 1 to 10. So you take the top five, if there's 10 Chili's an example, you're going to take the top five plus any that tie, and they're going to move on to another round. So you might have six or seven rounds to get down to a final 20, between 18 and 21, and then they're going to determine the winners from those that got cut down, you know, for to get that moved on to the next round.

But again, I'm not. not going to have any more than, say, a single bike, because I'm going to be pretty full. I've been trying all these chilies, right? You know, people think, oh, it's just a little white spoon of chili, yeah. Well, after you've had 10 or 15 of them, it's like eating a bowl, you're full. Mm-hmm. You know, it's hard. It's a very difficult competition. These aren't, these are, these are, wallie world powders. These are bought from very reputable spice companies. Oh, yeah. It's not cheap. I would love to bring you guys some and have you try it. Okay. Well, you know what?

We will take that under advisement. We will make sure we get clear with the FCC, the legal team. The legal team. And thank you, Greg, for the phone call. Good information. Let me tell you, that's a man who's passionate about his chili. Did he have a point? No, I just like, you're just telling us.

It's like, hey, trust me on these things. He's hanging up. But he said no beans are a lot. And that's, we weren't surprised by that. Nope. Greg, we'll take you chili. I'm going to kick you out. I'm going to kick you out, you and your beans.

Beans Thomas. How many times I made chili in my life? Zero. Maybe two or three. Oh, okay. Well, you use the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, yeah, you use the packet. Yeah. Because I'm not a magician in the, in the, in the kitchen.

That's fine. I'm a magician other places in the house, but not, not there. Where? Living room? You're a living room magician. Yes, I hear. I am. Okay.

They don't call me. I'm not a home hanging emails. Let's put it that way. All right. We've got, I don't know if it's breaking news, but intriguing news. Do we need a sounder? No. Oh, because it's not a news item.

Okay. But we've got intriguing news coming out of Baltimore. Okay. And we also owe you offensive line rankings. Let's do that right now, right now, right? So for those of you that don't know, every Wednesday on this show, I have asked Ross to give us the pro football focus. Now, this is just one group of people. Correct.

Largely dorks that don't have sex are evaluating offensive line work. You don't know that. Feel pretty good. Why can't they be having sex? Why do they have to be dork? What? What? Because they are staring at numbers and stats and watching game film.

They don't have time to have relations. They don't have friends. They don't date. No, they don't. They don't. They're in their parents, either basements or. spare bedrooms. These are done by Zoltan Boudet. My point

exactly. What does that even mean? So here we go. Every week the Texans have been number... Oh, look, he's happily married. No, he's not. He's got 17 kids. He does not. Those are all lies. They don't have Facebook friends. They're not on Instagram. Wow. They're not sliding into DMs. None of that stuff. They're just focused on football. Every week so far, the Texans

have been number 32. Their name is pro football focus. Every week they've been last. I'm going to predict here in the one minute we have remaining in the show that they are out of the 30 second spot. You are correct. Yes. All year in the preseason, they've been 32nd. They're charging up the rankings, folks, to number 31.

Okay. So can I say the bingles are the worst offensive line? The bingles are the worst offensive line? Yes. Bingles are now worse. Texans are 31st. Okay. Ersery is struggling, they say, as a run blocker.

A negative grade on 26% of run plays, the worst rate among all roofy. offensive tackles. Ed Ingram has been good in the run game. Not so much in the past game. Their best player last week was Titus Howard, but he did have two holdings. Yes, he did. Okay, so even though they have no friends and they don't have relations, I like these people. Because they're focusing on things while you and I have relations and have friends.

They're going to heavy lifting for us. Not together. No, we're separate on that. All right. Final hour of the show We're going to play some audio You're so weird No, just telling you who these people are

Some people can have fun and relax And can't we just say the good folks over at Pro Football Focus and leave it at that here on out Why you got to call them out for not having sex And you don't even know that The great people at Pro Football Focus I mean maybe they're slaying You don't even believe that

You just don't Maybe they call PFF offices the Poon house That got that's laugh real That's a genuine laugh. I wish y'all can see that's face right now. I'm a general. Stop. From 8 to 5, we study football after 6, we slaying.

Yeah, you don't know that. Okay. Some audio from Baltimore and your phone calls. The Poon now. 713, 212.570. 713212.579. Matt and Ross with you on the final hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Sometimes things just make you laugh.

Ross did that one time in 15 years and it just happened here live on the show. Maybe you said a few other funnier things, but I just never. That really struck you funny. Pro football focus and Poon House really got me going. That was a, that was a belly laugh for sure. One nothing, Cleveland leads Detroit in the top of the fourth in Cleveland. And so really they had 26,000 people at the game yesterday, huh? Yes.

They only seat, I want to say progressive field, only seats about 35. Okay. Well, let's just be it. You can get 30 in there, I guess. Guarantee it. The Browns were playing at 1 o'clock on a local time. There'd be 75,000 people in there. Yes. They're getting a new stadium, by the way. They're going to the Burbs. You hear that history? Yeah, static. It's static or something, right?

Yeah. You hearing that, Jonathan? It just recently started happening. I don't know why. We'll get it fixed. I'm sure. RIT department and engineering right on it. Okay, so what I want to tell you right now. So yesterday we found out that Lamar Jackson was going to be out for Sunday's game.

There may be a little wiggle room to that. Excuse me? Ian Rapyport, tell us what you heard. We'll start in that same division. Lamar Jackson dealing with a hamstring injury. My understanding is his status for this Sunday's game is in doubt. Now, he had some tests on his hamstring. Obviously, was not able to finish the game last week.

I see it right there, say could miss two or three. I'm not sure where that comes from. I would say it's more week to week now for Lamar Jackson. He's going to try to play this week. We'll see if he's able to go, but certainly a possibility that Cooper Rush could be the starter for the Baltimore Ravens. Okay, that to me, that's actually getting worse. That to me sounds like he's not playing.

I would agree with that. Yeah, he's trying to play, but I don't know why is Ian Rappaport reporting this, that he try to give him to go? The Ravens putting this out there to put doubt in the mind. of the Texans. You know what? Maybe I'll say this and this is media bitterness, but there was some dude, that guy that a weird last name, was the one that said, Sucker. Wasn't his name Sucker? I don't think it was. Mark Sucker, whatever.

I'm staying, I'm staying on. He was the guy that announced it yesterday, maybe because Rapporting it at first, he's trying to say, well, I've got on good authority. Yeah, literally the tweet says not two to three weeks. Like, it's It's basically a straight up refutation. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know what that is all about, but that to me, the headline did not match the audio.

Right. Is this the Ravens trying to put this out, basically, to me, that's what it feels like, is that they want to keep that for gamesmanship purposes. Well, they also want the Texans to work on offensive plays that Lamar Jackson would be running. Right. Add extra work to their defensive play. Uh-huh. I don't know anything, but I just doesn't seem like it's likely he plays. Okay, so let's get brutally honest here.

If they don't beat Cooper Rush, then you're never going to win in Baltimore ever again. Because Cooper Rush, look, very smart quarterback. Well, no, Cooper Rush backed up Dallas okay. I mean, he's, he, you, nobody's ever going, man, I am so enviable. of our backup quarterback. I think Cooper Rush is a adequate backup quarterback. But the drop-off from Lamar Jackson to Cooper Rush is significant.

First of all, he doesn't run nearly as much. Then you've got a situation where he doesn't throw the ball nearly as far. He doesn't have the elusiveness. He's going to be a straight drop-back passer, five, seven steps. He's going to throw the football and we're going to go. And if I'm Baltimore, I want Travis Henry

to hold on to the football better than he has. so far this year and win some football games during the ground. Yeah. I would say it feels like an under game coming up. I don't know how much of the Texans are going to score. Texans have a great defense. Raven's likely going to try to establish to run a bunch. Right.

That's what I would do. Historically, Derek Henry is given the Texans fits. And Baltimore apparently has got, and we'll get the injury report today, at least four or five players that were missing key moments of that Kansas City game last Sunday. Yes. So they're defensively, they're beat up as well. All right. So there you have it.

That's the little bit from Rapid Port. Again, that felt like to me that was more, I want to sound like I'm breaking a story, but really somebody else did. The guy with a weird last name. Or the Ravens are mad this got put out by this guy. Baltimore Sun reporter. It was a reputable source.

Yeah, I'm not saying, maybe that came from, who knows, Laura Jackson's side, agent side, or something like that. like, hey, we're trying to win a ballgame here. We need Houston thinking that Lamar Jackson could play. So we need to put this back out to Ian Rappaport that maybe Lamar is going to play. Yeah, I wonder if somebody whispered something to that beat reporter that he wasn't supposed to say. And the guy's like, I got a story here.

That's what, I hate that we have to even talk about this and speculate about this, because this is just the way reporting is in 2025. And by the way, I'm looking at the 4U tab on Lamar Jackson. Everybody's giving Rapidport credit for this. and that's exactly what he tried to do. He's trying to get his bosses and say, yeah, I got this story first when he really didn't. I'm trying to find out the guy's name

that got it from the Baltimore son. Okay. You keep talking. Sure. Hey, why don't you follow me on Instagram at SportsRV. I'm two away from 1,200. Trying to build up the account. That's really nice.

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You can see what I'm thinking. This is so cool. This is amazing. Trying to find out like dude's name was. Okay. You still can't find it? Give me another minute. I'm going to talk to Biscuit first.

Biscuit at 7901.10. Hi, Biscuit. Brian Wacker. What's up? What's up my brothers? You tell us. Hey, man. Hey, man.

Let me say this first of all. if driving the state of Texas is the qualifier for being missed to Texas, then I'm Mr. Texas, man. One year I drove my mom from Portland, Oregon to move to Houston, and I think it was like 48 hours or something like that. And the crazy thing about it is when we got to Texas, me and my brother-in-law, we're like, oh, well, we're almost there. Man, from El Paso to Houston, man, I think it was at least 12 to 15. hours, man. It was ridiculous. Well, Biscuit, I'm going to tell you really right now. I respect you,

appreciate you, thank you for always listening to being a contributor to the show, but there's only one Mr. Texas and it's me. No, it's not. No, it's not. It's not you. It's anybody but you. And, hey, let me ask you this, though, Matt, before I get to my W, uh, I was watching

the game last night. Is my girl, or my home girl still? I think they had Holly Roe on there or whatever. Is she, it's her stint with the ESPN on WM? games, is it over with her? Vanessa? Yeah.

Yeah, she's done. I think they needed her just for the first round of the playoffs, but yeah, she's they... Oh, okay. Yeah, but she'll be on Space City starting next week with the Rockets games. She did a good job, man. I can see them, you know, picking her back up. Well, she did, yeah, she had a good option. She worked the NBA finals. She did

for ESPN Radio. She also did WMBA. She also hosted that NBA countdown, not a countdown, but that, like that NBA Today show that's like a 2 o'clock. I mean, I listen to A team, but you know, it's one. It's good for her. It's really good for her, actually. Yeah, good for a good job.

Man, I don't know if wrongs, you can pull up that audio, but last, I don't know if you, the game last night, where Indiana, right, you'd already had Clark and. Okay. Biscuit, biscuit, biscuit. And then they start. I'm telling you, Matt, that, the, what the coach was saying, man, because they, basically, the fever lost their whole starting five, right? And they're down eight on the road.

and they came back and pushed the game in overtime, man. It was an entertaining game, man. I'm telling you. But pull up that clip of the coach trying to rally the truth. It's kind of remind you of a Rudy type of situation. I know it's not, you know, you guys not in the WMBA, but I'm telling you, man, it was entertaining. Ross might like it.

I've watched it a little bit. I had it on. There was nothing else on last night. Right, exactly. You know, Dodgers were blowing the redouts or wasn't that enough on. But yeah, check it out. I'm sorry, man. Okay, I'll see what I can.

Yeah, check it out, Ross. Yeah, I'll give you a full WNB. You want playoff reports day by day, Matt? No, I mean, like I said, if we get a franchise here, we'll be interested, obviously. Get your season tickets. Well, I mean, I know, I'm low people. I don't think I've been necessarily-ed to buy them. Oh, you comment, Thomas.

I used to the comments games. I know. And then they folded. I got 40 games under my belt, WMBA games. You did full seasons? No. Oh. I was part-time for like six or seven.

Oh, okay. But am I to do them? It's fun. Who was the main play-by-play? Well, it was Jeff Haggadorn, then Jim Cozumor. And then I think I left town, and then Craig kind of took over the spot from me when I left. Oh, okay. I didn't know that.

No. But I would do maybe six or seven games a year. It was fine. Yeah. I remember the craziest. Well, let me tell you something. I have crazy, and I mean crazy W&B&B stories. crazy ones.

But a funny, what I can mention on air, is we were in Phoenix, and the Comets beat the Phoenix Mercury. Crowd, maybe 12, 13,000 people. That was a big crowd. I mean, we beat them. And Cheryl Miller was the coach of the Phoenix Mercury at the time. And as soon as the game was over with, what do you normally do if you're the losing coach?

You just go in the locker room, shake hands. She did that. Comets go back to the locker room. she gets on the court and gets the microphone, the PA mic, and says, when the comments come back here, we're going to beat him next time. And the crowd lost their mind. What?

Meanwhile, I'm looking around and Cheryl Swoops and Cynthia Cooper around. Like, what the hell is she? We just beat you. And you would come back and say that? She grabbed the mic. She grabbed the PA mic. That's crazy. She out of yelling at the comments.

I have several comments rings. I want to say I have at least two. Where are they? The safety deposit box. Oh, that they were a cash America pawn. They would not know. I'm not getting rid of those. No chance.

I got my two rocket championship rings too. I'm looking for a third. Smaller size ring size, thankfully. It'll be bigger. Oh, okay. For the ring size. Yeah. I mean, hopefully there's more diamonds because I got cubics the first time.

Not that I'm complaining, but. It feels like you are because you always bring it up. I do bring up the Cubics a lot, don't I? Yeah. All right. 114. It is the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Want to tell you about what's happening with Uptown Appliance Repair. 121, Matt and Ross, with you here. Sports Talk 790. 7-1-3-212-5-79 if you want to join us. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7.7.7.7.7. We were going to talk about something else besides the pro football grades. Was there anything else we wanted to get to?

I don't know, match you. How's what is we're not today? 31st offensive line. Bruce Bochy. Really? Okay. I'm glad. We'll segue into baseball for a second. Congratulations to him on his historic career.

Is it done? As a manager, I think so. Oh, I don't know. Do you want a couple gimmies? Or one? Let's, okay, let's do one game, but you don't think that the Giants will not kick me. the tires on him maybe one more time. He's 69 years old.

Yeah, but 69's the new 51 right now. I guess. It's a long grind, though. In 28 years, as a major league manager, Bruce Bochie never won 100 games in a season. That doesn't believe it. It is. Are you hear me? If you get that wrong today, you prize horrors, I'm going to be really mad at you.

Okay. And one more because it's fun. Bruce Bochy played high school baseball with former SNL cast member Darrell Hammond they're on the same high school baseball team Believe it Believe it What?

Yeah Isn't that crazy That is the most random thing I've ever heard of my life That's why I put it in there So we're giving you Now separate those by a few I did I did okay So you've

If those better be gotten those better be correct answers today. By the way, what are we doing on, I know he's eating spaghetti in there. You can't be eating pasta during the show. You can't be eating pasta during the rig. I get hungry. It's a four-hour show.

I don't know, Steve. You got to just go. Hold on. You were eating sloby joes yesterday. My brain be working back here. I understand. Hey, what do we got a lot? We got three pairs of tickets for the Cougars game.

Is that correct? Yes. We have three. Yes. Okay, so today's Wednesday. So if we don't give them away today, we'll get away tomorrow. We can't get away on Friday because the promotions people get mad at us.

So it's either today or tomorrow, for the University of Houston Cougar tickets. Okay, on to baseball. We brought this up just a little bit here and there in the last couple of days. How long, and this is just an answer, nobody knows except Jim Crane,

how long are we supposed to wait for some of any shoes to drop when it comes, is it shoes to drop? Yeah. On staff changes, whether it be the medical department, whether it be the pitching coaches, the hitting coaches, the manager, the general manager. Are we just supposed to just, I guess wait and see.

Because I guess the overriding theme was yesterday, nobody left that press conference thinking one way or the other. Like Dana was like, I am the general manager and I'm not going anywhere. Joe Espott is my guy. Joe Espott is our guy. There was none of that. There was also a lot of none of them. There was also a lot of none of. Our medical staff is screwed up.

We're going to get this thing fixed. It was a lot of little excuses. Hey, this is an epidemic around baseball. So if you were looking for definitive, we're going to make changes, you didn't get it from yesterday's press availability. I went back to last year. Astros announced their staff for 2025 on October 24th of 2024. And that was after a wild card.

So that's a few days, but that would be about... That's when they announced Tony Perez Chica being the new third base code. and Josh Miller coming back, and then Troy Snicker and Alex Entrone coming back as well. Because I'll tell you this. If you're going to make a change, you're going to want to do it in the next few weeks as teams drop out of the playoffs.

Because you're not going to call. I mean, I'm not throwing so... But let's say there's some hitting coach with the Detroit Tigers you want to come. You're not going to call him when he's in the middle of the fourth inning of a baseball game. You're going to wait to their season's over with. So, yeah.

So I guess the answer is, we're only going to have to wait about a month. I can do that. I can wait longer. What do you want to wait till spring training? I'm locked in on Texan season, Matt. Big game against the Ravens this weekend. Let's go, baby.

Can you limit Cooper Rush? If they lose to Cooper Rush, you have to know long, you have to drop yourself from being a Texans fan. No, sir. You should. Part of being a fan is disappointment, especially in Houston Texas. I was going to say that's why I'm not a fan.

I'm not disappointed when they lose. Guess what? I'm elated when they win, when they crush the Titans and send the Titans fans rushing out of NRG Stadium with their Oilers gear. I saw a lot of Cam Ward number one Warren Moon-style Oilers jerseys, and that hurt. I didn't like it at all.

That's got to be how old were these people that were doing that? I mean, most people, I don't know, 30s and 40s. Most, I mean, people who are using... Cam Ward is never going to wear an older's uniform. The Titans have said we're done wearing the gear. They said forever? I don't know they said forever. they said it for now.

Well, they're certainly selling the jerseys. Oh, yeah. You know what? I'm going to look to see if I can go to the Titan shop. I'm going to look up Google. Oh, yeah, you can do it. Cam Ward. Absolutely. Orler's jersey. You can absolutely 100% find it.

I saw a bunch of. Now, is that the NFL doing that or is that the Titans in particular? I guess it's all in one of the same. Yeah, you can buy it. Fanatics or Renatics. How much? $1.29.99 or something. Okay. I'll give you one more here. I'm going to put the word C.

J. Stroud order's jersey in there. They wouldn't do that to us, would they? Ooh, they're on sale now. They got C. Pricing cart. That means they're on sale. And Nike doesn't want them posting how much they're on sale for. No, I cannot buy a C.J. Stroud order's jersey. That's good.

I can buy a red jersey. I can buy a black jersey. I can buy a white jersey, but I cannot buy an orders jersey. Hmm. Interesting. I'm trying to put this one as Cam Ward one in my cart and see how much done a discount for. Woo! It's $40 off.

Only $90.99. Really? Instead of $1.29.99. They're like, Cam Ward said their ass. We've got to drop. We've got to drop the price on these. We haven't dropped that, use that liner yet on the show. That's true. Matt wants it.

I didn't say it that way. What do you say? No, you know how to call her. We do it. We do it. He wants the Cam Ward drop. Oh, I got it. Hold on. It's okay. Take your time. Yeah, we're no hurry. You're busy back there.

That's busy eating his, you can put some more parmesan on cheese on that. He's eating back there. Yeah. You like Parmesan's eating on the pasta? Absolutely. Have some creme bruley? Fresh parmesan? Yeah.

I'm fresh. I don't care. That craft powder? Yeah, the powder's fine too. It's not great. I mean, it's not preferred, but I'm not, you know, it's a lot cheaper than it gets the job done. Mm-hmm. You have somebody, hire somebody from the Mall of Martin to do fresh-graded?

Interception to a penalty, to an incompletion by me, a bad ball. and then once we're past 50 we just not continue with the drive. So, I mean, we're keeping a buck right now. We ask. Yeah, just the drop of that part. Yeah. And we may have to get a better, cleaner version of that.

Yeah. It sounds like it's on the internet. Yeah. That isn't saying it. You don't say that. Don't. We'll find it somewhere else. Matter of fact, I got news for a camera.

You're going to be sending a lot more often than just one week. What 20? Poor guy. Not really poor. He's getting paid 1-1-1. Yeah, he's not poor. That's true. He's got a decent running back.

Pollard's good. Pollard's good. I don't think their offensive line is good. Nope. Pass catcher. I don't even, I watched the whole game. Who's their best pass catcher right now? I mean, DeAndre Hopkins is good back there tomorrow and be just fine.

But he ain't there. Oh, yeah. Calvin Ridley's been dropping everything. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I heard that guy made one big catch. And I was like, he's been making a big catch. As a play-by-play guy, that would be terrible.

Oof. Chig Oconquo is good. He's a good backup tight-in option. Fantasy. Oh, they suck. Amy Crunk's drunk, too. So sorry for you. Gunner Hill made a big catch over the weekend.

Yeah, but I wouldn't be bragging about any of Texas receivers after what that happened in that Colts Rams game. Why? Colts Rams. The 70, the big touchdown catched the ball. Oh, A.D. Mitchell? Whatever. He's Georgia guy.

See, that's exactly what I thought you would do. Matthew Golden? Longhorn. You make catches, you're a longhorn You drop ball out of the end zone You're wherever you transferred from You know, you're unhappy money grubbing And not faithful to organization

You're a longhorn Whoa, not true We just got two examples A D. Mitchell and Matthew Golden I'm sure A.D. Mitchell was getting paid fine at Georgia He wanted opportunities You wanted easier classes 130 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross

Texas from Georgia? I don't know maybe Georgia's a harder get. I can't. I can't even if you're seriously. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say that that was wrong. There's no way. There's no way Georgia is a better institution in Texas.

Really about anything except maybe peanut farming, I guess. I think you major in cutting grass. What's that noise? Recreational Studies, 1.30 on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Don't go anywhere. All right. I'm going to give you a topic. I'm going to give you a little bit of homework tonight.

We rarely ever give you homework here in the Matt Thomas show, right? with Ross. We want you to come in, whatever you want to get to your topics, the freeformers yours, especially on Fridays. And we had a caller yesterday that gave us

really seven minutes of his life that was interesting. That was, it was like being in an almanac. That was intriguing. I learned a lot about the deep state. A lot of conspiracy theories mixed in. Someone said that he should be,

believe it or not one these days. Just like, A, believe it or not, not not, not. Yeah. Okay. Right. One of the greatest pool players of all time.

He knew who Minnesota Fats was. I do believe he got in the scrapbook of some bikers in the Milwaukee. Where do you say he was? Wisconsin or wherever. Wisconsin, I think it was. And he had a lot of ties to the O.J. Simpson situation. He knew a guy who knew Ron Goldman. Yeah.

Very bizarre call. So weird back in the day. We were not married at the time, but Kim and I were going on a trip to L.A. and we had to go by the house and we had to go by the area in the neighborhood where she was people we were weak we just did it we just looked around this is bizarre you went on a tour of the murder scene we we looked out where the address was like hey this is where that woman got her neck mangled let's go check it out not proud that's very adam clinton of you it is it feel like something adam would have done and then we went to carles junior after and i asked where the regal beagle was and they were like What are you talking about? Yeah, and then they spit your fries. I said, I said, sir, I'm in Santa Monica. That's funny.

Did you go to in and up in those days? I don't remember. Just, Jonathan, real quick, when I was younger, and I had two female roommates, and we used to go to the wriggle beagle all the time in California, and it was fun. Good bar, and they just didn't remember where it was. I was hoping them to help me find out where it was. Is that three's company? They were both your roommate?

Oh, look at this guy. You know, why I know that? Because I told Matt my professor was on it like a guest star. I know, I know. That's where your professor was. The Regal Beagle. I didn't know that. I must have been gone for that.

Yeah, you were. It was just me and mad at thing. Yeah, his, his professor at SFA was the early bartender at the Regal Beagle during the early seasons. An actor. A three's company. Yeah, a little gym and actor. Was he an acting professor?

What did you? Yeah, he was a film, uh, film professor. He was in general hospital as well. Oh, really? Really nice? Yeah. Yeah, I think a lot of acting professors and teachers have like the, like, I remember our high school drama coach he like pulled out the VHS

of some small bit role he had in some movie and made us watch it. Well it's funny I had a my electronic news professor at the University of Houston I'm like you were in the business yeah it was I did news in like Tyler and Lufkin I'm like

and that's as far as you got yeah exactly most people who make it big are going to be professors it's got a point I'm just saying as Jim Nance teaching a class at U of H? Nope Well, Matthew McConaughey teaching the class of UT now? Yeah, but is he really showing up?

Is he really doing it? Yeah, probably the TA, right? Best quick 12-second TA story, and I got to tell you about your homework. I was at North Texas in a media class. And the girl was cute. She had red hair. I forgot her name.

And we went to Deep Ellum in Dallas one time. Deep Ellum? That's an area town. That's a part of Dallas. And I went into this club, and I saw my TA there. I was kind of cool. She was dancing in a cage. Oh, yeah, I remember you tell us that.

She's got to make some cash somehow. I'm saying, I mean, you drop her a couple bucks? What would be to the proper protocol on that? At least $3. Get an aide? Yeah. You drop her a 20. You're trying to get a good grade.

Are you sure you don't like this paper? I have pictures of you in a cage. Yeah, you could have done that. Yeah. That's nothing wrong with that. But we didn't have phone cameras back in the day. Woman's got to eat too. All right.

Here's your homework. A friend of our show. show Joan was like, hey, y'all keep forgetting about Derek Henry. We have not forgotten about Derek. We've mentioned Derek Henry several times. I think we did. He runs all over them. So tomorrow on the show, we're going to add four spots to the Texans ring of honor. All right. An energy stadium. Okay? Sure. We're going to add four spots of four people not unrelated to the Texans who'd be in there. All right. Two already popped in my mind immediately. I have two. Don't even say it. This is your homework assignment.

they both happen to be people that have played in the NFC South won his entire career in the EFC South. Yes. Rises it rhyme with Rewry Rilton? It does. Or his other best friend, Beggie Bain. He was quite successful. He'd also go to Rarvin

Rarison, too, if you wanted to. That's true. So just... But I think of Rewryry Rilton. Re Rewrylton, probably. I feel like we're Scoopy and Scrappy Doe here talking about. That wasn't bad. Thank you. There isn't a national talk like Scooby-Doo Day, is there? I hope not.

Because you get yourself caught in a real dangerous spot. Who would do it for four hours? That would hear. Look, I think we could do four hours at Mac Brown talk and it would be okay. Is that what Texans linebacker say when Derek Henry is coming down the line? Runt Row. Imagine Vanderber. He's at the birdie?

At the 30? At the birdie? At the birdie? At the 30. All the legs. At the 20, at the 10, rot row. Touchdown. I mean, that'd be hard to implement a play of that.

Mark, don't do shaggy and play by play. Is he shaggy? Or Scooby? And Andre, where is Scooby? Andre's like scrappy. Ah, knock him out. That's what you always say, right? Didn't Scrappy always like always trying to throw hands?

Scrappy do? I don't really remember. Yeah, Scrappy used to, yeah. Scrappy went to throw hands. Scrappy must have been scrappy. He was. Okay, so your homework assignment and we'll break it up tomorrow on the show if we remember. Would you write it down so I don't forget this?

Just type it up a quick. You've got a laptop just like I do. Yeah, but I always lose stuff. Why don't it be your notes, bitch? He said that that me, remember? He said that not me. I may have been thinking it. Okay, what do you want?

We're going to add four members to the Texans, the Texans, and the Ring of Honor. Two are pretty easy, I think. Two we got to think about a little bit. That's what I'm giving you all some homework. Okay. Don't give me any way anything else Okay All right

713-212-5-790 We're going to play believe it or not right now And we're playing for those University Houston tickets Or what else we get something else in the prize vault today What else we got? I'm gonna look it up T-shirt

Yeah, of course the T-shirt goes out saying Ice Cube Oh, a ticket's the Ice Cube Is he the one that says a yay yay? Yay! Yay! Yeah, but he got a bunch of hits with NWA. Solo.

Actor, too, correct? Actor, yes. Friday. All those, what was that? Those movies with the, he was like in a boat and whatnot. There was a bunch of sequels. Isn't he in the, it's in the commercial right now that's talking about how he was in 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, I think. Oh, hysterical in those movies. Wasn't he that's also commercial with the car that died or something?

And they do it like pretend the car's an autopsy or something. Am I making that? Yeah, yeah, you need an alternate. They don't do it like that. Oh, yay, yay, yay! You guys don't know what I'm talking about it. You've seen a commercial. It's him and this woman.

I think she's another R&B singer. And they're doing an autopsy of the car and say, yeah, we could have saved it with... I don't recall, but maybe you're right now. I think I don't know what we're talking about. Yeah, thank you. I knew you'd have my back. All right, all things...

Of course, he was doughboy and boys in the hood. And we're doing, believe it or not today on Bruce Bochie. Yes. 713-21-2. We gave away two gimmies. Yeah, we gave you two answers. If you get the either one of them wrong, I'm going to have zero faith in our society. All right, really quick, explain it.

There's ice cube and there's ice tea? Yes. Who was in the car commercial? Apparently it's iced tea. Now it kind of, that sounds familiar. You were saying ice cube and I'm like, it wasn't picturing anything. Well, you backed me up, Jonathan. No, like that I remember what you were talking about, but I couldn't get the face to the name.

Well, who's the woman in there, too? I see. I can tell you. Vivica A. Fox. That's it. Vivica Prime Vivica A. Fox? 1992, Vivac A. Oh, 1990.

So, 1997? Have you ever seen the movie Booty Call? Who are you asking? Both of y'all? I've never seen Booty Call. Me either. You want to see Prime Vivica A. Fox? Watch Booty Call with Jamie Fox and Tommy Davidson and Vivica A. Fox?

How many Academy Awards? I think three to four. I don't believe that for a minute. No chance. I gave Vivica Academy Award for Best... Best what? Best Booty and Booty Call? That's rubbing off on you, Russ.

He's rubbing off on you. I hope he's not. I wouldn't rub anything near you. Finish the show. Good guy. I'm out of here, folks. Five minutes left to go on the show, at least for me. What should we do? We should play America's fastest-growing sports radio games.

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Two, believe it or not, in a row, and all things about Bruce Bochie will win you a chance at a fantastic prize. You will either win tickets to see the University of Houston take on Texas Tech. Go Coog. 7-13 go coogs for that or the other tickets were I think I erased the email. What do we got again, Jonathan? We got Ice Cube to the Truth to Power show on the rescheduled

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No Vaseline, one of the greatest diss songs of all time. Let's play. Leslie on 790, Leslie, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Wait a minute. Who's that voice back there with you? That's me, Matt, that's me.

Joe? Yes, yes. John's Prize Hoar Joe won recently, and he's trying to... Oh, he's trying to... This is crazy, Price Ho Joe. Prize Ho Joe? No, she's playing, Matt. She's playing.

All right, here we go, Leslie. Leslie, good luck. Bruce Bochi was actually from France as his father was in the army and his family was stationed there when he was born. Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. In 1978, Bruce Bochie made his major league debut catching for the Astros against the Mets where he went two for three in an Astros' loss. Believe it or not.

Believe it. There you go. Prysojo finally wins. Got Leslie involved. There's like three people there, I think. Yeah, what are they like a little, believe it or not, party in the background? It's a family game, Matt. You know, the kids love, believe it or not.

That's true. One of our listeners, big diehard, face kids. I'll stop saying ho and hoar. Yeah, I would hope so. Lisa on 7.90, Lisa, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? The sports talk. Okay, I mean, that's technically accurate. In 28 years as an MLB manager, Bruce Bochie never won 100 games in a season.

Believe it or not. Believe it. There you go. I leave it. Statement number two for the win. Bruce Bochie held a years-long grudge with Pete Rose after the two were in an ugly home plate collision

back in 1979. Believe it or not? No, do not believe that. You shouldn't. And she's getting instruction too, I heard back there. You know what? We're building relationships during Believe it or not.

Do you hear that? Yeah, these questions aren't great. Who wrote these? John on 790. You ready to play Believe it or not? Yes, sir. John in high school, Bruce Bochy played baseball with future SNL cast member Daryl Hammond. Believe it or not?

Believe it. Okay. We have five correct answers, by the way. I gave away two of them. Statement number two for the win. Bruce Bochie is sixth all-time and managerial wins just behind Joe Tori and just ahead of Sparky Anderson. Believe it or not? Not.

Oh, that's a believe it. Thank you for playing now. Colin on 790. You're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. In 2015, Bruce Bochie published a book about his favorite walks around Major League Baseball. It was called A Book of Walks. Believe it or not?

Not. That's a believe it. Believe it. Duh. What would be your favorite walk? I would say to walk around got to be Fenway Park, right? I'd say the underpass right by Minutemate Maid. It's always pleasant.

You're as evil in your heart. Paul on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Paul. Oh, believe it. Bruce Bochy's son, Brett, pitched for the San Francisco Giants in 2014 and 2015. Believe it or not? Believe it.

There's a believe it. You're going to the game. All right. Now, if we gave away all the ice tea, is it iced tea or ice cube? It's ice cube. Seriously, they didn't fix their lives up. One of them should call themselves Greg.

I should be Darrell or something. It's been this way for like 35 years. But I'm still butchering it. Hopefully the Cougar tickets are all gone. Hey, everybody, let's do this again tomorrow. We will have the Rotten 5 tomorrow. We'll have Willie Fritz on the show tomorrow. We'll have, I just don't get it, which many, many respects can be this entire show.

One show we do get is Adam Clanton and Adam Wexler. The A team, and they're next on 790. The A team.