Colts Crushed, Matt's A Pessimist But The Texans Own AFC South For the Next Decade

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Lunch Timers, Matt Thomas, Thomas, Ross Vielia is the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well oh one in h Town.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
What's happened in lunch timer is Good afternoon to you
and welcome to a Monday edition The Matt Thomas Show
with Ross coming to you today from not only our
Houston studios, but San Antonio, Texas, where tonight the Houston
Rockets will finish off their two game road trip with
another matchup against Victor Winbin Yama and the rest of

(00:47):
the San Antonio Spurs.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
That probably will not leave the show.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
We may get in a little chit chat on it,
but today it's about what happened yesterday at NRG Stadium
as Veneral at Ross celebrates yet another victory, another win
over the Colts, a two game leading the AFC South,
you have the tiebreaker. The Titans get destroyed yesterday, the
Packers win a game winner against the Jaguars. Battle right,

(01:15):
you got your playoff tickets locked up for that first
playoff game?

Speaker 5 (01:18):
Absolutely, Matt. I'm ready. I'm ready to go six and two.
As you mentioned, you have swept the Colts. The Jaguars
are two and six, the Titans are one and six,
so we can go ahead and start stitching up that
banner for another AFC South championship. And if I'm gonna
go glass half full with you, which I will since
I'm battlered, Ross, the Texans haven't played anywhere close to

(01:39):
their best football and they're.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Six and two.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
All right, I'm going to give you the because you
know what, there's too many fanboys in this marketplace. I'm
gonna be the realist of the group. Okay, good is
what they call me, Texans hater Matt, I believe not true,
not true at all. Ross, your favorite qu quarterback is
going to get killed this year.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
He got killed last year at MetLife Stadium, so maybe
it'll happen again this year.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
I am a huge CJ. Stroud fan, I mean big time.
The guy has got a great arm, he's got great leadership,
He eludes tackles, he's a really smart decision maker. He's
doing a lot of good things and doing it with
a uh you know, receiving corp that obviously an equal.

(02:30):
Collins got hurt a few weeks ago. It looks like
the situation with Stefan Digs is not going to be great.
Today we'll find out more coming up in an hour
from now. He's got a running back, he's got plenty
of threats. Rossie, seriously, do we need to put the
favorite quarterback of this town in bubble rap because there's
no way this sad sack of offensive lineman going to

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keep him up right the rest of the season. It's
just not going to happen.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Uh. The pressure, what do they say?

Speaker 5 (02:56):
At some point in the third quarters, pressure rate over
seventy percent. Not good, not ideal, not what you want
to see. And they tried to fix it. They took
out Kenyon Green, who I mean, he has just been
starting off the season actually pretty strong, and then since
then he has just been horrible. He's been getting pushed around,
he's been missing assignments, and then he's been giving up

(03:16):
too many pressures. They replaced them with Jarrett Patterson, immediately
goes down with a concussion, and then you're back to
Kenyon Green season not great with the outfensive line.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, I'll say this. You know, I don't know what
you can do by the trade deadline to make something happen.
I don't know, ross If the guys that are currently
in uniform and you mentioned Patterson was out there a
pretty decent job before he got hurt. Can step in
and help the cause. I don't know how much shifting
you can do with this group because you don't have
a deep group as it is, because you're holding onto

(03:47):
every roster spot and for depth purposes. But I can
see it in the demeanor of CJ. He is winning
and making completions and finding people downfield with the great
fear that something's going to happen. And again, I don't want,
I don't want to have this fear tactic. But we're
gonna just deal in the reality of this. The defensive

(04:09):
line played really good yesterday. Another bomb for Richardson yesterday
was part of the loss. And we will get to
that disaster of a football team shortly coming up here.
But I'm I'm thinking big picture on this because this
is what this team has been this entire season. This
isn't about winning another AFC South championship. This is probably
the worst division in the NFL, if not the worst

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or second worst. This is more about this team getting
past the division around, playing for an AFC championship and
going all in. You went, you got. We're very aggressive
in free agency. You've made some smart savvy moves in
the draft. Kenya Green excluded obviously on that. Uh, this
is more than just winning by the skin of your teeth.

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This is more about getting in the Kansas City Baltimore world.
Now Baltimore yesterday did lose to Cleveland. Uh so there's
people can be vulnerable every single week, and that can
certainly happen in January come playoff time. But I kept
watching that game yesterday and I listened to the first
half of the car getting back to Houston and then
watching the second half over at the Fartida Center thinking,

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I generally speaking, ROSSI feel terrible for the quarterback who
I don't think if you were to inject him with
some truth, Sara and would say I can trust this
offensive line to get me to where I need to
get this team between now and the end of the season.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
Yeah, I would say that's the number one concern with
the team right now. And I don't know, as you
mentioned you mentioned the trade deadline, I don't know. I mean,
Kenyon Green needs to get better if he's going to play,
and if Jared Patterson's going to continue to miss time,
he needs to get better at the protections and all
that type of as far as communication with the offensive line,
but the bottom line is too he's just getting moved

(05:52):
around too much by anybody. And that's in past blocking
and in run blocking. And he can show flashes and
he can be good, but if it's not going to
change to where he stops immediately getting pushed around by
the bigger, better defensive tackles in the NFL. So I
don't know exactly what the solution is going to be,
Dimiko Rans, like you said, we'll hear from him on that,
but something needs to be done, and something needs to

(06:15):
be improved because the state of this team right now
where it is. Yes, they can beat the Colts, Yes
they can beat I don't know the Jacksonville Jaguars and
teams like that. But as you mentioned, I mean, if
you're going up against some of the better defensive tackles
like they did and gets the Colts with who got
DeForest Buckner back, you're gonna see what you saw on Sunday.
You're gonna see those guys getting moved in the middle.

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And that goes for Juice Scruggs and Jack Mason as well,
to where those guys are decent and thankfully Kitton Green
is getting a lot of blame, but it's not like
those guys have been playing at all pro level either.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, it was good to see Larmie tunslget back in
the obligatory fall start campaign from yesterday as well.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
He's back on track. Maybe let's go.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
He's fine, he's fine. He's he was pacing behind his
weekly one to two fall starts per week and now
he's back.

Speaker 6 (07:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
He saw that he was going to lose the NFL
lead in penalties and then he said he needs that back.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah, yeah, exactly right, all right. Seven one three two
one two five seven nine. He is how you reach
the show today? Seven one three two one two five
seven nine zero. U. Joe Mixon is a grown ass man.
He was absolutely incredible yesterday. Tank Dale coming through and
helping the cause is ROSSI tank Dell your w R

(07:25):
one going into the Thursday game in uh Mett Life
stating him against Jets coming up this Thursday.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
Uh either that or you going with Xavier Hutchinson. Of
course it's Takdell. What Oh I'm sorry, Tagdell. He had
a touchdown. You got four catches, sell it, you could
sell it. University fast, quick, good route runner.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
He can get open. He can get open on anybody.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
I'm not I'm not worried about that. But give him
the ball ten twelve fifteen times a game, then he's
gonna take ten twelve to fifteen hits.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
And that's what I'm worried about.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Who would have ever.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Thought Rossie to say the word John Mechi season.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
Hey, it was a nice catch that John Mechi madeo.
Was a beautiful throw. Started the fourth quarter from C. J.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Stroud. Yeah, yeah, all right, So we got a lot
to get to today seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven ninety When we come back in segment two, we're
gonna destroy the Indianapolis Colts. We're gonna destroy their quarterback
who apparently Rossi had to tap out because he was
so exhausted yesterday from actually I don't know playing in

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the game.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
If I'm Colts fan, which I don't know.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
There's any Colts fans in Houston except for my friend
over here, Vanessa Richardson from Space City.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
Uh, it's got to be Joe Flacco.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Pretty soon, I mean what And we'll get more on
in this in the next thingment, But what a disaster
he is? What I just I mean, he's got all
these deep balls he throws against Texas, which is kind
of a separate issue for a separate time, But everything
else he does sucks. He's terrible. He's terrible. And how
the Colts didn't fire their entire offensive staff after the

(09:12):
way they performed that final sixty seconds in the second
quarter of yesterday's game. That was criminal what they did
and how they play called and look Bobby slow. It
gets a lot of criticism and deep Comiko has taken
his his uh lumps hits on lumps hits, scab pushes kicks, whatever,
to what he has done in late game situations. I

(09:35):
got a general statement for your Rossie. You know how
football coaches think they're the most You're the smartest guy
in the room. That you haven't played football. You don't
know what it takes the grind of the time. I
feel like the dumbest people on earth are football coaches.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
I don't mean to pay with a broad brush here,
but you are.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
But that was is stupid of a segue of a
sequence that I've ever and I shouldn't say ever, that
I have seen since the next time, we'll see a
stupid sequence of plays.

Speaker 5 (10:09):
Yeah, Richardson's staying in bounds and then the checkdown as well.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
I don't even know. Can we talk about didn't that
clockhead zero?

Speaker 7 (10:16):
Like?

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Am I crazy at the ball?

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Zero?

Speaker 3 (10:20):
How lucky was that that was? Like that was zero
point negative one, negative two, negative three. There was no
way they should have had a final play on that one.
That was terrible. So yeah, and by the way, I'm
going back to this football coaches thing. Football coaches think
of the smartest guys in a room. And I'm not
talking about you go high school or coaches that are
run around town. Listen to show today you are smart people,
You are good kids. Your father figures. I'm talking about

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arrogant college coaches, and I'm certainly talking about the arrogant
NFL coaches. You can't manage a two minutes drill your
challenge systems, you can't ever get challenges right, You burn
time out stupidly and you drop stupid ass plays.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
NFL coaches, you suck.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Give me ROSSI right now, in the twelve seconds left,
we have in this segment, who is the best coach
in the NFL. Because if you're gonna say Andy Reid,
that might be right. But guess one, Andy Reid screws
up the two.

Speaker 5 (11:08):
Minute drill occasionally, Yes he does, I will say probably
Andy Reid, John Harbaugh, Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
Uh, not gonna go on, Doug Peterson, not gonna go
Sean McDermott. You can't go something, Mikelin, Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Okay, Mike Tomlin, you went sixty out of thirty two
human beings. Yes. NFL coaches, y'all are vastly overrated. You
think you know more than everybody else. And Bill Belichick,
you're the king of that.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
Well, he was pretty good.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
He was good, but he just treated us like not us.
But you know, media media type men, there are some
there are some media skum out there.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
Well, he loves the media now that they cut the
check in ESPN.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Imagine that. So does Nick Saban. By the way, do
you notice that on college game day he's certainly four
very forth coming out this commentary? All right, we got
a lot to get to today. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety. I'm here in San Antonio.
Ross is back in Houston. Seven one three two one
two five, seven ninety. Dimiico will speak at one o'clock.
We have to tell the truth at one thirty and
we have believe it or not today at two fifty more.

Speaker 8 (12:18):
Matt Thomas now on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
The reality is twelve twenty that your Texans sports are
vy are going to win the AFC South for the
foreseeable future.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
I'm thinking seven to nine years in a row here
coming up.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
Uh. Tennessee needs a new quarterback. Richardson ain't the answer
in Indianapolis. Uh. And the money that is spent on
Trevor Laws and Jacksonville is just gonna be wasted because
they can't do anything else and he's just been average.
You gotta be above and better than what the AFC
South has given you. And that's what I think everybody
that's a Texans fan is thinking about. It's not about

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winning the AFC South, it's going deeper. The Colts game yesterday,
Ross Anthony Richardson is terrible. He can't make intermediate throws.
He takes sacks now growing a good pressure by the
Texans defensive line. But the fact that the coaching staff,
Jim Bob Hooter, Cooter, whatever, the hell, his name is,
I don't know what it is. I don't particularly care

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would allow them to throw that interception by Pete and
that Patrick got late in the game and score the
touchdown in the second quarter. You should have fired everybody
on that staff, and Shane Stiken should be embarrassing the
way his team coached that last two minutes in second
quarter on Sunday.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
Well, now, Matt, they were a team with a four
and three record coming into yesterday. It was for the
first place, for first place in the AFC South, and
as you pointed out, the Baltimore Ravens lost to the
Jamis Winston led Cleveland Browns. They've also lost to the

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Gardner Minshoe Las Vegas Raiders. So I'm gonna choose to say, hey,
you are what your record says. You are six and two.
It hasn't been pretty, I think still. I mean, some
of the problems are fixable, some of them aren't.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
You can't.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
I don't know how they're gonna fix Kenyon Green if
we're this far into his NFL career in this season
and then he already got replaced, if that's gonna get
any better, and that is going to be problematic going forward,
but you're still winning these games. But how you feeling
I'm feeling good, not great?

Speaker 3 (14:30):
Okay, well then don't you want to feel great? And
I guess we can't.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
Control he was feeling great right now. In the NFL,
Chiefs fans and who else maybe Commanders fans just because
it's found money. But I mean they've had some struggles
that took a hell mary for them to win yesterday,
and it's they weren't expected to do anything. So they're
six and two as well. H Lions fans are crushing everyone,
but they also lost Aiden Hutchinson, but they I mean,

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what was that score? Was that final score yesterday? Like
fifty two to fourteen or whatever?

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, it was seventy eight to six. I think it
was an eventual final score on that.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
So Lions fans feeling good, Cheese fans feeling good. Outside
of that, I mean, is that the list? Uh yeah,
Baltimore's feeling kind of.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
I mean beyond would say severely disappointed the way they
played against the I mean, you got some teams you mentioned, Washington,
Pittsburgh probably feels better than the we thought that they
were going to feel this year. Atlanta probably feels better
than the way they are going to feel. But you know, again,
I think that this season was about not about just
reaching what you've done in the past. It's about reaching
the future. And I'm just and maybe I'm overthinking this

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a little bit, but this offensive line is so porous
that even when you scramble and put CJ in play action,
you're limiting yourself with the amount of plays you can
go with. It's going to become very predictable. I just
don't know. I personally myself don't have an answer to
why or how you can fix this when you're in
the middle of the season unless you do something that

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the Texans have never had a history of. And that's
no matter who the general manager has been, and that's
going after somebody before the trade deadline. Let's go to
Brian and Friendswood on seven ninety Hi Brian, Hi, how's
it going good.

Speaker 9 (16:20):
I just came on to give my two cents. I
just we've watched this team for so long, and they
obviously came into this season with some confidence about this
offensive line, and I just do I do not see
how they can solve it in the middle of the
year that they can't trade for someone.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Well, actually they can. I mean I don't. I don't
know how many offensive line are available before the deadline,
but there is a deadline coming up in a couple
of weeks. They can improve themselves. I don't know how
long it would take to make adjustments. But you tell me, Houston,
Texas can the five guys or the six guys if
you're including Patterson in rotation it comes off the concussion.

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Is that enough to keep your up quarterback upright the
rest of the way for a deep playoff run? You know,
here's the guy. I think we're losing there a little
bit there. Ross How do they How does Mixon get
his holes and yet Stroud has to run for his life?

Speaker 5 (17:26):
I mean just I mean pass pro and run blocking
two different things. And some guy, For example, one of
the best pass blockers in the NFL the last several
years has been Laramie Tunzel.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
He hasn't been as good in the run game.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
But I would say also it hasn't just been we
Look what happened when Joe Mixon went out. It was
Dario Gumbowalle and in cam Akers and k Makers literally
got traded away. It's not like ky Akers was ripping
off six seven yards to carry a lot of is
Joe Mixon? I mean he's he's making spin moves, he's
got good vision, he's finding the correct lanes. He's getting fit, physical,

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like that touchdown run that he had where he's running
people over. Joe Mixon is a special running back. And
if you do want me to get down and out
about the Texans prospects of going on a deep playoff run,
that would be an injury to Joe Mixon. I think
an injury to C. J. Stroud or Joe Mixon would
be devastating to this team's hopes of I'm not gonna
say Super Bowl, I'll say AFC Championship game. Like if

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Joe Mixon's not there, Texans aren't making an AFC Championship game.

Speaker 4 (18:24):
There's no doubt in my mind.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Yeah, no question seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero. We take you to three o'clock. We'll hear
from the head football coach, Tamiko Ryan's at one o'clock.
We have to tell the truth. At one thirty seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero. Is uh?

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I mean think you know you are what you are,
what your record is, that's no doubt about it. And
the fact of the matter is they're they're winning these
games with so many flaws. They might just find themselves
with the number two seed in the playoffs, which will
be they'll take on the weakest wild card opponent in
the first round, which would be a good sign. And
it gets a one step closer to hopeful that AFC
Championship game seven one three, two, one two five seven.

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Nini Ross is gonna try to make you feel a
little stronger, a little better about yourself here in the
next sixty second or Matt Thomas now on.

Speaker 8 (19:19):
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Kartt San Antonio for the Rockets and the San Antonio
Spurs very quickly. Ross Victor Webbin Yama is a pretty
damn good basketball player. I mean he.

Speaker 10 (19:40):
Can can can?

Speaker 4 (19:43):
Can we be honest people, rather than putting on our
Rockets gear?

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Well, how about this? How about the fact that I
have already petitioned the Rockets to move the Eastern Conference
so don't have to face him four times in a year.

Speaker 5 (19:56):
He if if and this has always been the big if,
if he stays healthy. Yep, He's going to dominate the
league for the next ten years. He's in absolute freak
of nature. And on the other if, of course, is
knocking down three point shots consistently, he is un freaking stoppable.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
I've never seen anything like it.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
I wouldn't say unstoppable, but I'm fearful of him. Uh.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
The three point shots gotta get better. That's where he
becomes unstoppable.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
I would say the more the perimeter game is good,
the scarier he will get. He can rim protect ummm
he can.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
The opposing team is scared to shoot at the rim
against him.

Speaker 5 (20:40):
He did nobody even Sniff's Sniff's the restricted area when
he's in, they just dribble around it.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah, but you know what, what does he listened at
two twenty five?

Speaker 6 (20:50):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Am I making that up?

Speaker 5 (20:52):
Do you believe the story he added twenty five pounds
of muscle?

Speaker 4 (20:55):
I don't see that.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
No chance he still is. But he's really good, and
I don't like it, and I don't know it makes
me at all.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
It makes me agree.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yeah. When when Tuman was praying for Victor, I was
praying as well, and then I had to pray for
him to go anywhere outside of the Southwest Division, preferably
out of the Western Conference, and it was none of
my prayers were answered.

Speaker 5 (21:21):
Yeah, the story is that he's listed at two thirty
five and that he added twenty five pounds of muscle.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
I don't know where that is.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
I guess twenty five pounds on somebody who's five to
ten looks a little different than somebody who's seven foot
three or whatever, but he looks relatively the same. I
guess I need to see some side by side pictures.
But that's the story they're going with, is that he
added twenty five pounds of muscle in the off season.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
To me, I think he if you're going to try
to create who what he can be, he can be
a better Yiannis. Maybe, but Giannis is so fluid and
can dribble and can take off at the top of
the three point line line and just glide to the
air and take over. I mean that's to me, if

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I'm san Antonio, give me at least Jannis and then
give me better than Yannis, which I don't know if
that's gonna happen, but that would be what I would
want if I was a Spurs fan, which I'm not
a Spurs fan.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
So I mean, how many mvpces Yannis won better than
a guy with a multi time MV people is pretty good.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, but I'm saying, and bare minimum you get to
Yanni's level, that's when san Antonio wins.

Speaker 10 (22:29):
Yeah, he lose.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
I'm happy.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
Yeah, Janis has been a defensive Player of the Year.
He can't shoot threes either, he can't shoot free throws.
But he's he's the greatest downhill force, I would say
in the NBA right now. And he's not as strong
as Giannis is. But if he gets there then then yeah,

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this is just gonna be a problem for us here
in Houston for for basically the next decade plus.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
I can't wait. Let's talk to Ken and Numbele on
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross at twelve thirty four. Ken,
thanks for holding. Good afternoon. Hey, gentlemen.

Speaker 7 (23:08):
I'll call a little bit about pass protection. You know,
I've coached a little bit of football on my day
for thirty years, and all I can say pass protection
is it's like I used to tell my guys, you
got it.

Speaker 10 (23:19):
It's like a dog in a fight.

Speaker 7 (23:20):
And if these guys, if you watch them, their effort
is what the problem that their effort. They don't they
don't realize how lucky they are to have that guy
taking snabs rom overplay. And if that's the effort, they're.

Speaker 10 (23:35):
Going to give.

Speaker 7 (23:37):
Things. Bad things are gonna happen.

Speaker 10 (23:39):
And they're run blocking.

Speaker 7 (23:40):
There's three levels in run and we we don't have
enough time to talk about all of it because we
get We sit and take and drink beers all day.
They're run blocking. There's three levels to run blocking. There's
level one, two, and three. Level one is a defensive line.
Level two is the linebackers. Level three is the secondary.
They're never gonna worry about the secondary. You're not gonna
get there. That's a blessing. If you get one, you
get to pick one off. But we turn the front

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loose so much, we slip up so fast, the guard
will slip off to go to the linebacker before the
sinners ever were there. And we wonder why people are
in the backfield. We got to yes, yeah, were talking
a minute ago. You guys doing a great job talking
about the running back. He does a great job finding scenes.
But there's not a giant holes, but he does. And

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that's just a tribute to a really good running back.
You guys know that, but we could talk all day.
It's just real disappointing to realize the kind of quarterback
we got. And you know, God bless that kid. I
just pray to God he doesn't get hurt. But those
guys up front, they need to be taken over to
the other field in full gear when everybody's out there
in shorts and T shirts, and say this is good

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and we need to strap it on to day because
we got to get better. That's how football used to be.
I know they don't do that anymore, especially in the NFL,
but guys, those guys up front, they turn their shoulders
in pass protection and they pass it. They don't know
the past protection.

Speaker 10 (25:03):
Is a fight.

Speaker 7 (25:04):
And if those guys aren't gonna fight, it's gonna be
a law.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (25:08):
I don't know what the future holds for the Texans,
but i'll tell you what they've done now. Awesome job
being six and two. That defense, That defense gets after you.
But anyway, that's what I'm calling about, and I'll let
you guys talk about it because I know everybody's gonna
call it about the old line. My thing about the
line it's just disappointed to watch the effort they put
out with the people, and especially that young kid at

(25:30):
quarterback they have. They don't do better God resty and
he's gonna get hurt and I just don't want to
see that.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Thanks Ken for the phone call. It's interesting, Ken, it
sounds like it's a football coach ross. He says, he
believes it's effort that I can't judge. That's not my responsibility. Uh,
you know, now if guys just give up on plays
or you can tell their tell they're mailing it in.
That's one thing I don't know. I can't say that.
That's not fair for me to do that. But when
my Joe Mixon's cutback ability to be able to find

(26:01):
those creases after he makes that initial look inside the
lane and then go to the outside or cut inside
is special. And that's the reason why the Texans and
maybe one of the best free agent moves in the
NFL this season. I don't know the answer. I'm not
an O line specialist. I can't tell you this, but
it's it's not just as simplicitic. Give let's put him
in play action all the time. Let's not roll him

(26:22):
out because that again, just narrows your looks down the
field if you're always going on a controlled scramble, and
Cij doesn't want to do that. CJ. Stroud is built
to be a pocket quarterback, and not saying he can't run,
not saying he's not elusive, but his best opportunities to
be a successful franchise leading quarterback is taking a five

(26:42):
and seven step drop, looking downfield, looking through his progressions
and finding those receivers who have a really good ability
to get past defenders and get open.

Speaker 4 (26:51):
Yeahs, and he can't.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
You don't want to be in a situation where he's
starting to expect pressure every single snap. That's when things
are really gonna start to get bad. If it starts
to get in his head, he's gonna have to keep
his eyes downfield. He's gonna have to, unfortunately, trust his
offensive line because when they do pass protect, that's gonna
give you your best chance for chunk and explosive play. So
it's gonna be interesting to see what happens going forward,

(27:17):
because this is something we've basically been talking about this
all every week since the Minnesota Viking games where they
just got completely thrashed up front. So it's not going away.

Speaker 4 (27:27):
It hasn't gone away, and I'm curious to see how
this continues to go unfold going forward.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
And ros's thinking about this for a second, it might
not be. I mean, look, CJ's a quarterback. He knows
pressure's coming. That's not gonna be foreign to him. Every
quarterback has her reason pressures. What I'm thinking about is
how are his feet. Is he able to step into
the throws? Is he being able to still have the
good mechanics. That's where I think the biggest issue is

(27:54):
is that if he's having to throw off his back
foot or he can't plant because there's no time and
he's got no space, that's where I think the overthrows
and the interceptions and the underthrows come to the plane.
Not necessarily the fact that he's going to have to
scoot to his left to his right, because every NFL
quarterback does it. Nobody stands back there, has a lunch
and can throw the ball at nausea and where he
wants to with no pressure. That's that's not that's not

(28:17):
reasonably to ask any offensive line to do that.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yeah, I mean, but thankfully c J. Shroud is good
throwing on the run and good.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
Throwing in dirty pockets and kind of contorting his body
and he makes magic back there sometimes when he's thrown
off of his back foot or throwing on the run.
So he does have that capability, but that's not what
you want to ask him to have to do all game.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yep. Joe Northwest Houston on The Matt Thomas Show with
Ross Joe, thanks for holding good afternoon.

Speaker 11 (28:45):
Oh yeah, hey guys, real quick though. Run blocking requires
effort also, and I like to point out the mix
and is having a fantastic year and he's not doing
that alone.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
I mean, the.

Speaker 11 (28:57):
Offensive line is putting forth some effort there. But anyhow,
what I wanted to talk about is thank goodness for
battle red loss because we need.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
Some Texans optimism on this channel.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (29:10):
I mean, Matt, I love you, but you're starting to
sound like, you know, get off my long guy, Like,
I mean, what.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Are you talking about? Joe? I'm sorry, Joe, I'll go
get get to it. Get to it. What do you
get off my lan? What do you watching? You watching
the same game I'm watching Because I don't think you are.
I don't think you are.

Speaker 10 (29:27):
Joe.

Speaker 11 (29:29):
Hey, Matt, we're six and two. Okay, let's let's let's
accreplate that out. Let's say we're twelve and four or
twelve and five, end of the season. Are you still
sit there and say, I mean, what's what's what are
you gonna be saying?

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Then get them I'm gonna.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Say, what's the end You don't want to say, Joe
is what's the end game? Joe? What's what's the endgame? Joe?
Do you want to You want another AFC South banner
in the building? Guess what you're gonna get one? Congratulations
you excited about that?

Speaker 11 (29:58):
Hey, that's already flying in the wind. Man, that's slap
and we're looking for AFC championship there.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
That will Guess why.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
You're not playing You're not playing like an AFC championship
team right now. Your offensive line is holding you back
from that? And why can't I say that without you
getting all buttered?

Speaker 11 (30:13):
And the Chief the Chief Stars, the Chief Stars.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Yeah, they as they absolutely are playing like that. Absolutely
they are. They dispose of Vegas, they beat Sa Francisco,
They're undefeated and all by the way, they got the
skins on the wall. The Texans don't have. Sorry, but
they're different.

Speaker 11 (30:30):
Matt I wish he showed the kind of optimism that
he showed. Uh for the Astros.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
With the Texans, you're like, what.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
Do you mean optimist? What do you mean optimism? They
you lost the Detroit Tiger's two straight games. I wasn't
overly optimistic on the Astros. We talked about the fact
the Astros lineup has been struggling for most of the season.
We worried about the back end of the bullpen. What
are you talking about? Your nuts? I don't know what
you're talking about.

Speaker 11 (31:00):
Okay, mad, all right, man, just just the glass is
half full. Okay, that's all I'm trying to say.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
Okay, good, guess what and mow your grass is what
they're gonna do. That's what you want.

Speaker 12 (31:12):
Okay, Hey, everybody, everything's good. I'm I'm Texans mad, and
everything's good. Your team is six and two, it's what
the scoreboard says. We're gonna win in their AFC Stup championship.
If that's what you want, I'll do with the rest
of the show.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
Ross I'm in.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
That's why you know what I'm with Joe. Yeah, Matt,
you're just a hater. I stayed with Jry. He's making
a lot of good points. I think he's making some
good observations as well. And I just ten of ten
no notes for Joe.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
You know what, why don't you go to YouTube and
find some failed radio hosts'll do some shows for you.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
The WHOA, that's not necessary?

Speaker 3 (31:48):
What do you mean it's not necessary?

Speaker 13 (31:49):
It's what you'll find it.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
It's there for you.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
They have some issues they have to shore up. But
as I said, if I want to be glass half full,
which I do, want to beat, you are six and
two and you have not played your best football.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
You are six and two. You have not played your
best football. And guess what. You can do some things
and Nick Asara can go get some offensive line help
hopefully in the trade deadline, and maybe a receiver if
Stefan Diggs is gonna be gone for the rest of
the year, and go get yourself in a position to
win the whole damn AFC. That's all I'm saying. That's

(32:24):
all I'm saying. You're you're just and you're gonna what
you're gonna do. Joe, You're gonna get your quarterback killed.
Who is the best thing the city has had in
a long time when it comes to football. You're gonna
get him killed. So I'm sorry for pointing that out.
Sorry for for for telling y'all something that you guys
already know. Seven one, three, two, one two five seven ninety.

(32:50):
Who's six and two? Don another road of the offensive line?
Everything's good, everybody, where's it to do? Look at the scoreboard? Okay?

Speaker 4 (32:58):
Are you having a stroke?

Speaker 3 (32:59):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
What's the Sweetish chef doing over there?

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Cook the fir? I love the Swedish chef? What are
you doing making me do a Swedish chef in person?

Speaker 4 (33:09):
Did you drink some of that riverwalk water?

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Geez? I have't been the riverwalking years.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
Oh you guys don't. I thought you guys used to stay.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
There on the river walking.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
Not anymore?

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Uh, sort of? It's okay, it's far rip it h
tale like by slam a gem, Yo?

Speaker 10 (33:28):
What's up?

Speaker 14 (33:29):
Does your boy bum beat a trilog with the whitest
man in America, Matt Thomas?

Speaker 10 (33:33):
You and now tune in his sports talk seven to ninety.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Maine, your boy? Thank god you have a Texans realist
on the radio. Thank god. Poor Joe. All he wants
to hear is that he's the stuff.

Speaker 10 (33:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Me, he was a realist. No, you're the hater.

Speaker 10 (33:55):
No I'm not.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
I'm just look, I'm one. My man Tank dal catch everything.
I'm watching c J. Stroud. Thank God for him as
compared to the awfulness that was Deshaun Watson towards the
stretch and anything Davis Mills related.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
Money Mills. Baby, remember money.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
Sees though we are no, no, no, no, we are
not money Mills. My son is money Mills. No, we
don't want any of that. Okay, money mixing, money mixing,
I'll accept. And the good move to get Will Anderson
Junior is a ferocious I mean just hurting. People love
all this. There's too much good going on, but there's

(34:38):
one bad. Help me, Ross, I need an analogy on this.
All this good stuff going on, but you are one
massive hit away from an underperforming group of people not
doing their jobs. And this ends.

Speaker 5 (34:52):
It's finto Every NFL team is one hit away from
their quarterback getting out. And I mean that the Chiefs
are one hit away on Patrick Mahomes, who scrambles a
lot from not doing much. Same thing for the Buffalo
Bills and Josh Allen, I mean, I mean any of
the we.

Speaker 4 (35:07):
Can go to the goats up the list. What's up?

Speaker 5 (35:09):
The Steelers? They're okay because Justin Fields is winning games
with them too. But the Ravens and Lamar Jackson, Joe
Burrow and the Bengals, et cetera.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
All right, So all right, I'll just say this. Can
we say this being fair? Are the Texans playing with
fire right now and not getting burned?

Speaker 5 (35:26):
Playing with fire to me means that they are doing
something on purpose.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
They're not doing that on that purpose. So that's what
I'm saying. We can't use this analogy. That's what we
can have. You you're mister analogy.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
Oh okay, I am hmm.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Well I would call myself mister analogy if I had
a good analogy. This there's just and you can feel it.
You can feel it with the fan base. You I
know you can't except for Darling. She doesn't care because
she's all she's going to going to the game to
get on television. She don't care about the result. The
even the diehards that are spending the money and going

(35:57):
and cheering and putting the uniform on it, going to
the bars and hang out, y'all, are like there is
a lot of components of this team it's very special,
but I'm scared that CJ is gonna run into some trouble.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
And again is Ross said, you can run that with it.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
Every NFL team, Mahomes is one hit away from ending
Kansas City's dreams Lamar Jackson is one hit away from
being destroyed by the Baltimore Ravens dreams. So that's not
out of the ordinary for any NFL team to say
you're gonna go as far as your starting quarterback is.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
But those teams also have better offensive lines than you have.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. Seven one three two, one
two five seven ninety seven to one three two one
two five seven nine zero. Patrick west Ju on The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross Patrick, thank you for holding
good afternoon.

Speaker 10 (36:47):
Hey Matt, good.

Speaker 15 (36:50):
Cool because I was listening to Joe get on you
about oh they're six and two everything rainbows and butterflies.
But I'm with you on this money Now, there's a
lot of stuff and that we know the top the
bottom half of the.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
Schedule is overloaded.

Speaker 15 (37:04):
We about to play much better competition and running up
the Dolphins line every single Sunday is gonna be a
huge in turn. And at this point I mean, I'm
not a coach, I'm not a general manager of everything
to be one, but I don't know what you do
to fix the ofphensive line like that in the middle
of the beat.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
And so there is a little bit of patimism, my.

Speaker 15 (37:23):
Greed, I think, and I think there needs to be
some of those discussions. It's not all rainbows and butterflies.
Thanks guys, I unjudged you all this.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Thank you Patrick. It's not and it's not even really pessimism.
It's rossie to me. It's just extreme concern. Pessimism is
you guys won six out of me and like like
a basketball team, a college basketball team, or a football team,
it's out to a six and two start and you
play nothing but like you know, you Elman Roe or

(37:51):
you played, can't stay in football and you're bragging up
at a six and two record. The NFL is generally
speaking fairly even week after week, and the Texans do
have some quality wins. Beat the Colts twice, as you mentioned,
a five hundred team or above coming into those games.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
You beat Buffalo at home.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
I mean, there are some impressive wins in this group,
but this has never been this season for me. And
I know for the majority of people that consider themselves
Texans fans, it's never been about just doing what they
did last year. It was about being better and how
do you get to the next level. And the next
level is making sure every one of your positions is

(38:27):
as good as humanly possible. And right now I think
Nick Assio and Dimiko Ryans are in a room door close,
going how are we going to withstand this? If Kenyan Green,
our first round pick, is a mess. Our offensive line
and Juice Scrugs and Laramie Tunsel are all not performing
up to expectations, And I got a quarterback who's feeling it.
You can sense the body language on C. Dreystraw unless

(38:48):
I'm making that up. Do you think there, I think
there's frustration from him.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
I mean, I guess, yeah, I'm sure he's frustrated. I
don't know.

Speaker 5 (38:57):
There are moments where you feel like you've seen visible
frustration that he's he's upset.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
Yeah, two weeks ago through the helmet.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
Yeah, when I remember him throw it was that after
he threw a bad pick or what happened there?

Speaker 4 (39:13):
Well, I think it was after an interception he threw
when what was the situation.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Uh, I don't remember when it was, but it was
definitely a time where this not now this week, I
didn't see that because but last week there was a
time where he threw it with threw his helmet down
and it may himself. Yeah, I mean, he could be
just as mad as himself as he could be anything else.

Speaker 5 (39:30):
So yeah, yeah, the bottom line is they are going
to have if they're facing well. For example, you're playing
the Jets this week and Quinn Quinn Williams had a
field day with the Texans in the interior of their
line last year, and I expect, unless something changes in
the next couple of days, for him to be somebody
that's gonna be a problem for the Houston Texans. And

(39:51):
then we were talking about the uh, the Kansas City
Chiefs and of course how they're the favorites if you
get Steve Spagnolo and that and the Texans who have
struggled with fronts who move a lot of moving parts
and late movement and late pressure and show and try
to confuse in disguise, which Deeve Spagnol and the Chiefs do.
And oh, by the way, you got Chris Jones in
the middle. I think that is gonna be a huge problem. So, yeah,

(40:13):
we were talking about them and them making that next level.
They are going to run into some issues with teams
who have either a good pass rushes or definitely to
me in the good opposing interior defenses give the Texans problems.
We saw that with the Forest Buckner and the Colts
this past weekend.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. We're
gonna check in with Dimiko Ryans coming up in a
couple of minutes as he will be speaking over at
Energy Stadium. We'll go see his thoughts on the offensive line.
Will also probably my guess, is not going to a
big update on Stefan Dig's scheduled of an MRI today.
But it looked like to me that was not gonna
be a situation that I think we're gonna be getting
any good news on. But hopefully, uh for you Texans

(40:53):
fans that is not the case. But uh, we'll get
an update hopefully from him on something on Stefan in
just a matter moment.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
Is the Matt Thomas Show with.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Ross one on one on Sports Talk seven ninety. It
is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross here from San Antonio.
We've got the conference coming up with Jamiico ryans A.
Just a matter of moments. We'll have to tell the
truth at bottom of the hour. Ross, I'm gonna help
you out here. I'm only gonna give you one take.
I don't believe three. I believe one. I will not.

Speaker 4 (41:30):
Oh interesting, So we're finding out the one you don't believe.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Yep, okay, real quick. Uh let me know if Demico speaks.
I was driving I made a day trip back to
Houston to call the University of Houston basketball game against
A and M. And by the way, our cougars look amazing.
So does A and M for that matter. But uh
so I went to I was in sageen. I went
to Rick ronalds Oh, we'll tell you the story a
little bit right now, here's Demiko.

Speaker 10 (41:57):
And Verdi and Cuff.

Speaker 16 (41:58):
For days were Steale evaluated to see where he is.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Is there anything good about or any advantage about playing
on Thursday. I've never really heard coaches and players speak
glowingly about it.

Speaker 8 (42:13):
Is there any advantage or positive to it?

Speaker 10 (42:16):
I think the positive with playing on Thursday is.

Speaker 16 (42:20):
A short week, so you get to flush whatever happened
you flush it out even quicker than the previous week,
and then the I think the best part about Thursday
is getting the extended weekend off, so that'll be you know,
everybody is looking forward to a little off time, so
that'll be the best part about it.

Speaker 14 (42:38):
Watching the tape, what was some of the things that
you often fixed on the office inside of the ball
in the second.

Speaker 16 (42:42):
Half for our offense, I thought, you know, overall and
we ran the ball well.

Speaker 10 (42:48):
Joe at over one hundred yards rushing.

Speaker 16 (42:50):
He's continues to shows up show a big time for
us in the run game, the way our guys blocked
up front and the run game and the way they
not only the front, but our tight ends, our.

Speaker 10 (43:02):
Receivers, everybody involved.

Speaker 16 (43:04):
Guys did a really good job of working to stay
attached and finished there. In our passing game though we
had a lot of really good reps.

Speaker 10 (43:12):
In the passing game.

Speaker 16 (43:13):
CJ was able to make a lot of plays and
go through his progression, I mean go in.

Speaker 10 (43:18):
Full field read so he's only able to do that
with good protection.

Speaker 16 (43:23):
So we had a lot of great reps from all
of our guys.

Speaker 11 (43:27):
For any time, how important will it be for selves
continue to improve and do things for your team.

Speaker 16 (43:33):
What I love about our game last week is you know,
what you saw is multiple guys stepping up making plays.
That's what excites me the most about our team is
different guys, whether it's Hutch, Mitch, Dalton, everybody, Rob. It's
just a lot of different guys stepping up and making plays.
And that's what we'll continue to see.

Speaker 17 (43:52):
What goes into the decision to reinsert Kenyon when Jarrett
gets hurt and what part of the evaluation of that
just decision was Kendrick agreed.

Speaker 16 (44:02):
Yeah, what Yeah, Jared did a really nice job when
he went in and had some good plays. Unfortunately he
was out. Uh, the Kenyan was back in. There was
no overthinking that. Kenyan got a lot of reps throughout
the week and he was the guy to go in
and he asked a lot.

Speaker 10 (44:17):
Of good reps as well.

Speaker 16 (44:18):
You know a lot of people want to, you know,
focus on the bad everybody can everybody has bad reps
here there. We can all focus on that or we
can look at the positive everything. He has some really
good plays as well. So, uh, did you feel like
you me strives in the pass in the past protection
or what did you support?

Speaker 10 (44:36):
What are you staying on on that.

Speaker 16 (44:37):
What CJ is able to throw for as much as
he threw for and make the plays he's able to make.
Of course, guys did a good job in the passing game.
And look, everybody wants to talk about the past blocking
all this that our guys did a good job, you know,
and overall we've had a lot of good reps.

Speaker 10 (44:54):
In the passing game. So let's talk about those good
reps that we've had.

Speaker 3 (44:59):
Is Jared and the Good Country Protocol.

Speaker 10 (45:01):
Jared is in the concussion protocol. What are some of
the Jeffs present?

Speaker 16 (45:07):
Well, one thing about the justice They have playmakers all
across the field, right, a lot of a lot of playmakers,
a lot of veteran guys who have been successful in
his league for a while. So you look at their offense,
just the receiver position with Wilson, with Adams like they
it's a tough match for us, right, So we have

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to be on our guys.

Speaker 10 (45:29):
You gotta play sticky and coverage versus guys.

Speaker 16 (45:31):
And also the running back position, they got two backs
young Back and Allen and also Breis Hall.

Speaker 10 (45:37):
Explosive players a right, explosive, physical.

Speaker 16 (45:39):
Backs that can make plays all across in their defenses.
You know, they've been a top ten defense for a while,
so it's tough matchup and uh one, we're really excited
about looking forward to.

Speaker 18 (45:50):
You have beside a lot to be a great view
of Danil and Will went down the field together.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
What do you see from them? Just you know, them
two being so destructive.

Speaker 16 (45:58):
What I see from both of those guys just man,
Reckon have it right. They can have constant pressure h
on whoever we play, it doesn't matter. They're able to
generate pressure. It doesn't always results in sacks, but it
results in incomplete passes. It results in you know, inaccurate
passes that our dbs are able to you know, force

(46:20):
PBUs and make interceptions on the ball because of how
those guys are rushing, how they're speeding the quarterback up.

Speaker 10 (46:27):
Like, to have a great defense, you have to have
really good, really good front.

Speaker 16 (46:31):
And our guys have gotten better each week and I'm
very pleased with where they are and they've been the
reason of why we're playing really good.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
Defense yesterday to get today.

Speaker 19 (46:41):
Defensive players credit the coaching staff to for.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
To creativity and basically the play called on the hell
Mary you kind of have a philosophy of whatever you
can do to prevent the pass even being made.

Speaker 16 (46:53):
Yeah, my philosophy is put our players in positions so
they can it'll make plays.

Speaker 10 (46:58):
It's not about It's not about me.

Speaker 16 (47:00):
Is about those guys and they're in that last play.
It's about Will Daniel and their effort and how they
you know, got after the quarterback to force them to not.

Speaker 10 (47:10):
Even be able to throw the football.

Speaker 16 (47:11):
Like, it's about those guys and you know just who
they are, and not only as players, but as people,
like they represent all the right things.

Speaker 10 (47:20):
They're all about the right stuff, the effort, right.

Speaker 16 (47:22):
The strain, the relentlessness that they show each and every snap.
Like that's why they make a lot of plays for us.

Speaker 10 (47:30):
See from Jalen Petrie as far as coverage, and.

Speaker 16 (47:33):
Jalen has continued to do really good things for us,
and in the coverage he's he's been locked in the
past couple of weeks really on the details and fundamentals
of his job and what we're asking him to do.
And you know, it's no play better than the play
that he made for the interception there before the end
of half.

Speaker 10 (47:51):
He's just in his.

Speaker 16 (47:52):
Technique, odds in the right spot, playing the right technique,
and big plays happen when you just lock in on
the small details. And that's what the small detail. I
know we mentioned it a lot and talk about it
a lot, but guess what it looks like. And it's
maybe boring to some people, but to me, that's how
you make the plays.

Speaker 10 (48:09):
It's not the wild plays.

Speaker 16 (48:10):
It's just being consistent and who you are, consistent in
your play and you make the big plays when that happens,
that's what.

Speaker 6 (48:19):
Next.

Speaker 18 (48:19):
You're we're not his days.

Speaker 20 (48:20):
What have you seen from m since he's been in
a Jets jersey versus maybe in Eustatus.

Speaker 16 (48:24):
No, I haven't spent much time going back thinking about,
you know, the forty nine days with Aaron Rodgers will
get into more of that, you know, after see where
they are right now is offense and what he's been
doing with the Jets.

Speaker 14 (48:39):
With a young talentend player like him, a green Obviously,
you guys pulled him, put him.

Speaker 10 (48:43):
Back in the game.

Speaker 14 (48:44):
It's kind of the process of where you're coaching him,
not beating him down too much to where he can compete.
Was the confidence and he was the confidence complete player,
but coach him in the way to where he can
still have that confidence to mentionally get up that what's
kind of that balance where now you're not over coaching
them versus trying to get them on track.

Speaker 16 (49:03):
To play to the capable ability that he doesn't have
to And for all of our players when it comes
to coaching, and it's all about, you know, just being
positive and uplifting guys and trying to help them as
best we can with techniques fundamentals, try to help our
guys to go out and play their best. And it's
always encouragement from everyone.

Speaker 10 (49:22):
Right as we all know, we are all still in
the bus. We have to get our job done.

Speaker 16 (49:27):
And no matter what position you play, no matter you
know what's your role like, you have to go out
and get your job done and you have to play
to the best of your ability. So we'll keep encouraging,
We'll keep uplifting our guys. Everything about hearing what we
do is about positive energy and that's what so that's
who I am, that's what I represent, and that that
won't change.

Speaker 7 (49:47):
That's the one where you decided to receive the ball
to start the game versus.

Speaker 16 (49:55):
Yeah, for this one, it's just it's just a decision
I made to get us, get us started right. I
want to feel like our offense, you know, I wanted
those guys to go out, wanted CJ to touch the
ball first and get us started, move down the field
and get us some points. And you know, Damien started
us off right with the explosive kick return. That was
one of our keys, the victory of getting an explosive

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in the return game. So Damien starting the game off
that way in their offense, being in control, being able
to drive down to get points. That was what I
envisioned on when I took the football.

Speaker 21 (50:26):
Was positive things with pressure and protection. C J didn't
have his best game against the Packers, but then improved
against a lot of you know, a lot of pressure yesterday.
Just where did you see him improve when he was
facing a lot of pressure?

Speaker 16 (50:42):
I thought CJ did a really good job of just
having command in the pocket, having command of the entire offense.
Like when again, you know, we talk about the pressure.
Those guys make plays too. Some good designs by their defense.
Coach Bradley did a good job of some designers some
Russians that were effective, But we also did a good

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job of handling it. CJ did an awesome job of
commanding the pocket, stepping up in the pocket, two hands
on the ball, going through all of his progressions, taking
the check down when the checkdown was there, hitting his
hot answers when his hot answers were there. He was
just in complete control the entire game. And you know
he didn't get flustered at all. He led in a

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positive way. He had great spears upbeat the entire game.
And when CJ is playing that way, our team is
in a really good spot.

Speaker 10 (51:30):
All right, thank you guys.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Very much. Jamiko, Ryan's visiting again. No surprise there that
no definitive word on us, Stefan Diggs and is m alright,
we come back. We have to tell the truth at
the bottom of they are we have you guys next
if you want to come in and jump into the
conversation about anything that Jamiko had to say seven to
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Speaker 4 (51:56):
Ninety other things. To get to Texas.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
With their impressive win at Vanderbilt, Aggie's super impressive.

Speaker 4 (52:07):
You beat a ranked team on the road, Matt, Let's go.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
It's true.

Speaker 4 (52:11):
Aggie's were really good. Against LSU on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
My Cougar's pulling off as a nice surprise win against
Utah on Saturday night as well called that I believe
I did.

Speaker 4 (52:21):
I mebody. Yeah, you called them to win every week,
But you know what, I'm still gonna give you credit.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
You know what they called me, and they called me,
Uh what are they asked?

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (52:30):
Cougar's optimistic matters.

Speaker 4 (52:32):
Yeah, we'd like to show you. You to show that
on the Texans.

Speaker 3 (52:34):
Come on, Matte, all right, I will I'll be I'll
be fully optimistic. Everything they do is right between now.

Speaker 5 (52:39):
Did you hear Dimiko talking to you? He said, why
don't we focus on the good reps? It's like, did
he head to Kenyon Green have any good reps?

Speaker 13 (52:45):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
Yeah, I was gonna say, why don't you Why don't
you port those on on film for us? Their coach,
we'd love to see those.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
Matt Thomas returns on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
That's not right now, we'll do to tell the truth
at the bottom of the are.

Speaker 4 (53:04):
It's a good catchy tune.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
Yeah it is. You still play it. It's fine, we
just won't do it to the bottom of the aren.

Speaker 5 (53:11):
Yeah, people look at me weird when I'm in the hallways,
going it's a lie, lie, and I'm telling a lie?

Speaker 4 (53:16):
What excuse me?

Speaker 3 (53:17):
No, They're just they're looking at you for many other
odd reasons besides that.

Speaker 4 (53:21):
Oh, okay, and my stunning good looks? Is that what
it is? I don't think how to put the word
stunning in front of it. Awkward looks, we're disturbing.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
Those are better adjectives.

Speaker 4 (53:35):
Hey, anything to get noticed. That That's what I'm all
on board for.

Speaker 5 (53:37):
By the way, Matthew, are good friends at Pro Football
Focus have released the grades of.

Speaker 4 (53:42):
From this past week.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (53:44):
There are seventy seven guards they have qualified for enough
snaps to rate. Do you want to guess where our
good friend Kenyon Green rates out of seventy seven?

Speaker 3 (53:56):
You know what? It seems to be The easy answer
would be seventy seven. So I'm going to say seventy six.

Speaker 4 (54:01):
Seventy seven is correct. Matt, You should have stuck with
your gun.

Speaker 20 (54:06):
Man.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
Oh man, I know, so I don't want to see
this either. No, of course, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
What I took out of Damienico was that he's like
we threw for two eighty five, Bro what do you want?

Speaker 5 (54:20):
That's you know what, That's actually the testament to how
great c J. Stroud is. They were getting pressure. You
get a seventy something percent pressure rate and your QB
throws for two eighty five a touchdown and no picks.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
That dude is a wizard and c J. Stroud is
a wizard. Yeah, I'm going to tell you this.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
We spent how many months the signing between Bryce Young
and c J. Stroud and I don't even think, dude,
did you and I even even come to a conclusion.

Speaker 4 (54:47):
I mean, Bryce Strong was the consensus number one the
tag Nick Cassario and the Texans tried to.

Speaker 5 (54:52):
Trade up and get Bryce Young number one. The Panthers
did trade up and take him number one. Everybody was
on team Bryce Young. Who was bad for the Panthers
this weekend.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
Yeah, Panthers are just bad. But my point is this, everybody,
I wonder if there was somebody out there that can
claim they knew how good CJ was going to be
and have the knock on was the big numbers were
coming against the woll be gone back half of the
Big Ten. He did have the one good National semifinal.

Speaker 5 (55:24):
Game against Georgia, that's what everybody said. If he can
play like he did against Georgia, he's the best quarterback
in the in the in the draft as well. I
guess he can play like he did against Georgia.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
I I am not pleasantly surprised, because thankfully that's the
guy that we get to watch every week. But it is.

Speaker 4 (55:42):
Even I'm even a little beyond uh impressed.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
Well what I thought he was going to be Now
again this year he hasn't been as good as he
was last year, but the drop is so minuscule. I
don't know if I would say noticeable, but it is
a little bit. There's and again to me ross and again,
you know me being the offensive line expert that I am. Yes,
it feels like if we watched his feet we would

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see more than any of the inaccurate than just overthrowing
guys or not having a proper touch. I think the
pressures in the hurries are affecting his legs and his
placement and setting his feet and getting off the throw
that he wants to go.

Speaker 4 (56:23):
Yeah, I would say the majority.

Speaker 5 (56:25):
I mean, if he's in a clean pocket, which unfortunately
has been rarer this year than maybe it was last year.

Speaker 4 (56:30):
He's totally fine.

Speaker 5 (56:32):
His mechanics and footwork are like tape worthy, as in,
you show this tape to all the young kids around
the NFL. He's very good with his feet and scanning
the field and throwing the ball and putting the proper
touch and ball placement always has been really his hallmark.
And maybe it has taken a tick been a tick
down this year, I would say, but he's still special

(56:55):
and he's still a quarterback. And we talked about this
actually preseasons and about sometimes quarterbacks hit the ground running
and then you don't know where their ceiling was, And
how how much more ceiling does CJ. Stroud have relative
to how good he was in his first year, that
that remains to be seen.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
Well, I'll put it this way. If is like this
for the next eight years, I don't think anybody that
would be a Texan fan would be disappointed. No, Like,
where would be the ultimate room to grow?

Speaker 4 (57:31):
Yeah, I would say.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
Not as an end of it, not as a team,
but as an individual. What is there something that you
watch when you watch him play that goes man?

Speaker 4 (57:42):
I need CJ to be better at that for the
most part.

Speaker 5 (57:45):
No, unless you're just quibbling with the bad Paul placement
here and there, But that's every quarterback. Nobody completes one
hundred percent of their passes. He did miss digs on
a wide open throw at one point, uh lists past week,
but he doesn't normally miss throws at all. He has
such a good command of the offense and knowing what
the defense is doing to know who is going to

(58:06):
be open. That's something that he's really really good at.
He just doesn't get it right one hundred percent of
the time, but no quarterback does.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
Yeah. I just again slight tinge down overall accuracy ball
placement from a year ago. But I wouldn't say it's
so much that it's how you would say, overly noticeable. Yeah,
A lot of that has to do with the fact
that he's just not able to have the kind of
protection that he had a year ago.

Speaker 5 (58:33):
Yeah, just raw numbers from last year. TD percentage is
slightly down, interception percentage is slightly up, yards per attempt
slightly down. So in those three things, he is worse
than he was last year, although the completion percentage is up. Yeah,
but you've said on the three of the four things
you just mentioned that you used the term slightly solving. Again,
if it was dramatic or massive, I think it'd be

(58:55):
a greater cause of concern.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
All right, ROSSI, we're gonna put you in tray on
the test here. I have four sports takes coming up,
and to tell the truth, three of the four I.

Speaker 4 (59:05):
Believe interesting I do not.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
Okay, so let me get to figure that out. We're
doing a little reversal this okay. Good.

Speaker 5 (59:15):
Last week you said I said you were crazy for
saying Dodgers and five and so far, are you looking
pretty good?

Speaker 3 (59:20):
Yeah? By the way, was that Freddy Freeman blast one
for the ages?

Speaker 5 (59:26):
It was and it made Brian Crashman Cashman cry, and
I'm happy.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
Yeah, I've never just we were on the plane going
to sant to Houston when that happened, or to San Antonio.
And I don't think I've ever openly rooted for anything
other than the Astros or the rockets of my entire
life on a plane or a cougar's. But I openly
was cheering when Freddy Freeman hit that grand slam go

(59:50):
Dodge Aaron Judge. By the way, for the Dodgers.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
I'm doll man. This is great. I love watching him out.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Did you see the fake Twitter report out there today
by the way on him?

Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
No, I did not. Was it balls as sports?

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
I don't want even want to say it because it's mean.
Yeah right, somebody, Yeah, it's it's there's no there's no
foundation to it. But if you want to go look
during the brig you can know exactly what I'm talking about.
There's a there's a faux report about Aaron Judge. I
believe it is out there all right, to tell the
truth is up next? Seven one three two one two
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seven ninti.

Speaker 8 (01:00:30):
More Matt Thomas now on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 22 (01:00:44):
I never know why I didn't know, but actually I hear, and.

Speaker 4 (01:00:58):
I know now I do right to your face. It
was like a zerotion with that totally.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
You remember, the average person doesn't mind when you lie,
because if you tell the truth every single time ross
in life, it's going to hurt a lot of people's feelings.
What does that even mean? You know you've lied again?
The average person lies four times per day.

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
I think I'm on under I think I'm under you
said average. That means people are under the average.

Speaker 4 (01:01:21):
Yes, so I'm going under.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
Like when you say, when you see somebody in the
hall as you go, how are you? You don't particularly
care how the house?

Speaker 4 (01:01:28):
That's not a lie, though, Yeah it is.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
You're not in your mind. You don't think how are
you don't really care what.

Speaker 4 (01:01:35):
Salesperson A, B or c is the day is going, unless.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
You really do.

Speaker 5 (01:01:39):
But I don't say I really care how your day's going,
So tell me how it's going.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
That's a lie. Now you say you say how are you?
You don't care? What you can say? Hello?

Speaker 4 (01:01:47):
That's polite? What if you just say what up with it?

Speaker 3 (01:01:50):
I don't think you say what up with it?

Speaker 4 (01:01:52):
Yeah, that's what you always say to the bosses.

Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
Oh, I see Okay, all right, Ross, I got four
sports to you and Trey have to decide which one
of the four I do not believe the rest of Okay,
I do believe.

Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
Help me write down.

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
I'm telling the truth. The Chicago Washington game was very
interesting yesterday, and man, the Chicago Bears are a different
football team than what we saw earlier in the year
when they the Texans beat them in Houston.

Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
When Caleb Williams is that Caleb Williams right?

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
I get these mixing us.

Speaker 4 (01:02:27):
Yeah, number one versus number two.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
It was good yesterday, Hail Mary great. There was one
great call on Jim Nance's call was great. The radio
calls were terrible. They're all screaming and yelling. And I
know that's hard because I'd probably do the same thing.
But if one person screams, it's okay. When you have
multiple people in the booth that scream, it's not good
because you have no idea what happened. But after seeing

(01:02:51):
that yesterday, ROSSI all four of the NFC North teams
are going to make the playoffs this year, Detroit, Green Bay, Minnesota,
and the Chicago Bears.

Speaker 4 (01:03:03):
And I don't believe it's ever.

Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
Has that ever happened in the NFL playoffs.

Speaker 5 (01:03:06):
I believe it did sometime within the last ten years.

Speaker 4 (01:03:11):
I'm trying to remember. And it's a little easier now.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
Because you have six cards. Okay, just we'll look at
it later. But my point is, ladies and gentlemen, I'm
telling you, all four of the NFC North teams are
making the playoffs. Number two, Jerry Jones does not have
a history of doing this sports Harvy and Trey, but
he's gonna fire Mark McCarthy before the end of the season.

(01:03:38):
It's gonna get so bad in Dallas that you're he's
gonna face feel the pressure of letting him go with
two or three weeks left to go in the season.
When you know when he eventually fired Jason Gary, he
let them finish out the year. Okay, So I'm gonna
go with Jerry Jones is going to fire Mike McCarthy
before the end of the season. They lost yesterday to
the Niners. Gave one, I think third quarter points in

(01:04:01):
that game. Now, the Cowboys put together some late run,
but it was too little, too late. Number three Ross
marked this down. Okay. The winner of the Aggies Horns
game is no doubt playing in the SEC Championship Game.
That's how big that game is gonna be. One of

(01:04:23):
those two teams is playing in the SEC Championship Game,
and it's gonna be the winner of the Aggies and
the Horns.

Speaker 10 (01:04:29):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
A Number four sad to say that yesterday was the
last time we saw Stefon Diggs in a Houston Texans uniform.
It won't be, however, because he hates it here. I
think he likes it here. But my feeling is It

(01:04:51):
was always gonna be a one and done because Casario
renegotiated the contract for one season. It was kind of
an all in, let's get it, take a t ants
on this guy who has been disgruntled not one place,
but two places. Maybe he gets into our culture and
he likes the team and they like him, and which
has been the case. But I don't think Isiah's gonna

(01:05:12):
take a guy and give a guy a long term
extension coming off of what should maybe be a severe
injury for a guy that he already could have had
under contract for multiple years but decided to only go
for one when he traded for him from Buffalo. So
yesterday sad to say, for all of Stefon Diggs fans,
that's probably the last time you saw him playing for

(01:05:33):
the Houston Texans.

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
So which one of the four takes?

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
Do? I not believe all four of the NFC teams
NFC North teams are making the playoffs. Jerry Jones will
fire Mike McCarthy before the end of the season. The
winner of the Aggies Horns game is no doubt playing
in the championship game of the SEC or. Yesterday was
the last time we saw Stefan Digs play for the Texans.

Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
Which one of those four? Am I not telling the
truth your thoughts, Trey.

Speaker 19 (01:06:06):
I think it's actually kind of a tough list because
I said, this is a this is a pretty good one.
At first, I thought it was flipped the other way.
I thought it was only one that he did believe,
and I thought that that's how we used to do it.

Speaker 10 (01:06:17):
That was a lie.

Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
That okay, not how we used to do it. Sometimes
sometimes it's that way. Sometimes Matt wants to flip it
around for whatever reason. He only believes one of these takes.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
No, no, no, no, only I'm.

Speaker 5 (01:06:29):
Sorry, only not believe one of these takes. Yeah, well
I have a favorite. I do think, first of all,
Matt hates Stephan Diggs and the Texans, So I do
believe that he believes number four.

Speaker 10 (01:06:41):
You're that was my thought process.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
So terrible.

Speaker 5 (01:06:45):
Number three seems extremely logical. Number two seems extremely logical.
And if Matt Matt could believe number one, Now, this
is the thing, Tray. You have to remember, it's not
whether or not this is gonna happen, it's whether or not.

Speaker 4 (01:06:58):
It's a take. He believes.

Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
There's just no way everybody from the NFC North can
make the playoffs, because that would mean there's no other
wild card team from anywhere else, and that would mean
the Green Bay Packers the Vikings would miss the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
So no, no, no, no, those are an NFC no our teams.

Speaker 5 (01:07:17):
Yeah, I'm sorry not, I'm sorry, not the Packers of
the VIC Excuse me, I'm sorry. The Eagles, the Eagles,
the Commanders, the Buccaneers, the Niners, the Seahawks, Cardinals.

Speaker 4 (01:07:29):
There's just no way.

Speaker 19 (01:07:30):
Well, well, hold on, hold on, because upon further inspection,
now I could like those those don't jump out to
me as Okay, well, if that's his.

Speaker 4 (01:07:39):
Take, it's a bad take. I'm going with. I'm going
with number one.

Speaker 19 (01:07:44):
I think, honestly this and this this might be kind
of my fight on it is because I don't know
if I believe it, but I think it might be
number two. Jerry Jones firing McCarthy before the seasons.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
Okay, all right, here we go. You Ross, you say,
I don't think all four of the NFC nor teams
are making it, and you don't think that I think
trade that Jerry Jones is gonna fire Mike McCarthy. Correct,
all right, here we go. I do believe that was
that Stefan Diggs is the last time we saw him
in a Texans uniform yesterday. And again I do believe.

(01:08:22):
I think Cassaria went all in for this season, because
why would you take a guy that had a manageable
contract and cut his contract the way that you did
unless you were going all in for this one son.

Speaker 4 (01:08:33):
So yeah, he's gonna be out sad.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
Yeah. Number two, even though Tennessee is playing good football,
I think Georgia is gonna represent the SEC in the
championship game. Uh. And again it's you know, when you
have so many teams in one conference, it's gonna be
very hard to declare that one game could make a difference.
But the act, the schedule the rest of the way,

(01:08:56):
at least conference wise, is not very difficult. They have
to go to South Carolin, they got to go to Auburn.
They can win both of those games. I think Texas
is better than LSU. I will take the winner of
that Texas Orangs A and M game in Texas game
to represent the SEC. So I believe that as well.
Now the last two, I think Detroit's a legitimate Super

(01:09:22):
Bowl contender. I think Minnesota is a legitimate playoff team.
I think Green Bay is going to be a playoff team,
even though Jordan Love got hurt yesterday. I think Chicago
is going to fall back a little bit. So you
are right, Ross, I do not believe that all four

(01:09:42):
of the NFC North teams are going to make the
playoffs because I think Philadelphia is going to make that
wildcard spot. I think the NFC West is only going
to have one playoff team because the number one team
in the division right now is Arizona at four and four.
So yeah, I like the fact that you're gonna get
Philadelphie and probably three of the fourteen teams in the
NFC North, But I think the Chicago Bears will be
the odd team out. So I do believe Jerry Jones

(01:10:05):
is going to eventually fire because if things do continue
to go south for the Cowboys and they continue to
lose more football games, you've got to show some signs
of as semblance that you actually give a damn bunch
of football team, and you're gonna have to relieve Mike
MacArthur's filanda the year.

Speaker 19 (01:10:17):
Well, do you get that, Like, do you have to
show that because I feel like that's all Jerry Jones
does is show that he cares and maybe and I
feel like that's the main part of his criticism a
lot of times is you show it too much, like
show it from the owner's box, but not on the mic,
not on the field.

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
Yeah, but he's a general manager, so he's not just
an owner, he said. I mean, think about what they've
got coming up.

Speaker 4 (01:10:39):
He's not gonna blame signs.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
Yeah, they're at last week. Who do you like? Dallas
Atlanta right this second? If you were to judge it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
In Atlanta, I'll go with Atlanta.

Speaker 10 (01:10:50):
Okay, even Jerry's.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
PHILODOLFI still might take Atlanta. You got Philadelphia at Dallas,
toss up. I'll go Philly Philly, Texans at Cowboys since
we'll be a favor. So you're looking at you're looking
at one and two at that point, which would then
put them at what four and six?

Speaker 4 (01:11:08):
Yeah, he might fire him in the next three weeks. Yeah,
So that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
I think I think you have to kind of keep
that as an option out there. But again, not not
Niggi's in then a lot. Remember Jason Garrett was supposed
to be fired multiple different times and never did so
until the very very end.

Speaker 4 (01:11:24):
So ros congratulations, What do I win?

Speaker 3 (01:11:26):
Figure out which one I was telling the truth?

Speaker 4 (01:11:28):
Thought, thank you, Matt. What do I get?

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:11:31):
What do I win? What's my parting gift?

Speaker 3 (01:11:34):
I'm gonna buy you a quarter pounder with cheese.

Speaker 4 (01:11:36):
Oh oh, so far Texas has been okay?

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
Right, well, real quick, and I got five seconds this.
I was in Sacgeen yesterday going to rick Ronolds m hm,
and I was gonna get a burger. And you know
they have like an automated little electronic menu board. Yes,
all the quarter pounder with cheeses were scratched off the list.

Speaker 4 (01:11:56):
Oh my god.

Speaker 5 (01:11:57):
Yeah, and said, well, just stay away from the restaurant
for a while, Matt, you know you can't.

Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
And it said hopefully coming back soon. Oh that was
really weird. But then I turned the news on today
and apparently the quarter pounders were back in play.

Speaker 5 (01:12:10):
So I'm gonna stay away for a little bit. I
think I can manage. I can go with the other
seven thousand options for dinner.

Speaker 3 (01:12:18):
So why do the little patties and the burger are
okay but the quarter pounder burgers are not?

Speaker 10 (01:12:23):
Good.

Speaker 4 (01:12:23):
That's a question for Ronald.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
I don't know, all right, it's Matt Thomas shil Ross
is today's edition. To believe it or not?

Speaker 4 (01:12:30):
I don't know. You tell me singing Texas, Yes we could.

Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
How about how many times the Cougars will win lose
a game this year in basketball? I'll say zero. Believe it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:40):
I'll go over. Okay, let's make a bet.

Speaker 3 (01:12:43):
No, I'm making bets. Why was the thing a bet
to you? My man?

Speaker 5 (01:12:45):
I mean you just said you said zero and I
said over ride.

Speaker 1 (01:12:51):
Half the work day is done. Celebrate with mint, by
the son of it. Some of you start the party
at breakfast. Matt Thomas on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:13:06):
And I'm with Ross at one fifty one.

Speaker 4 (01:13:09):
So we carried.

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
The press availability with Demiko Ryans a few minutes ago,
and he was talking about, you know, the positives are
that CJ through for two eighty five Ross again, if
we were to inject truth serum into Dimico, does he,
as a coach legitimately believe that maybe this offensive line
criticism is maybe a little unwarranted or is he trying

(01:13:34):
to mask up something that is an issue that he
doesn't want the general public to see that he's sweating
about a little bit right now.

Speaker 5 (01:13:40):
I think it would be more towards the ladder. All right, man,
let's let's role play as you love to do. I
will be honest, Dimiko, and you can you can be a.

Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
Reporter, Jamiko. The last few weeks, in particular, your team
has had a difficult time protecting your quarterback. His hurries
are a lot more abundant. He's getting hit on a
lot more plays, he's taking more sacks. Are you concerned
that against even better defensive fronts in which you saw

(01:14:12):
against the Colts yesterday, that CJ is gonna be in
trouble and it's gonna, you know, stop you guys from
really moving the ball down the field.

Speaker 4 (01:14:19):
Have you seen Kenyon Green out there? He's getting steamrolled
like a tortilla. We have to keep putting him out
there because Nick Cassario took him in the first round. Yeah,
I'm worried about our pass protection. Yeah, I'm worried about
number seven. If we lose him, I'm gonna lose my job. Wow,
I didn't realize you're gonna be that honest.

Speaker 3 (01:14:36):
Thanks thanks, Tomiko. U. Yeah, that's a fine line. I mean,
do you think Nick is even going damn, I screwed
up him.

Speaker 5 (01:14:48):
He's like, yeah, that's an l give him some we
gotta give him more shot. Well, they tried to replace
them with Jared Patterson. They tried to do something. They
tried to fix it. Kenyan Green, like I said he was,
he was at least looking earlier on in the season,
but back to back games, he has just been, I
mean one of the worst.

Speaker 4 (01:15:07):
Like we said, pro football focused does it mean everything
but pro?

Speaker 5 (01:15:10):
They have him seventy seven out of seventy seven, doesn't
mean he should be on the All Pro team. So
he has not been good. They tried to fix and
correct things with putting Jared Patterson in there, and then
he goes down immediately with a concussion.

Speaker 4 (01:15:21):
That's some bad luck.

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
And here's the thing, so he's in a concussion protocol,
which means he's definitely going to be out for this
Thursday's game. I mean, can you bounce back? Can you
fix this? Is this something to be geting done in
a handful of days? I mean, think about this. Who
is Eric Murray, I mean famous? You know a guy

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that gets criticized all the time for his lackluster play. RUSSI.
His name was called ten times all for the good
reasons yesterday in the game against the Colts.

Speaker 4 (01:15:52):
He's really really good. I mean, guys can bounce back.

Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
I'm just wondering if it's technique, if it's athleticism, if
it's not knowing, if it's if it's bad habits that
I don't know. I mean, physically, there's no reason why
he shouldn't be able to withstand the pressure. I mean,
he's not like he's thirty seven years old on his
last days.

Speaker 4 (01:16:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:16:16):
I think I think he's just been he's just been
getting undressed too easily by swim moves. I think maybe
there has been some miscommunication where he's missed his men,
and you can maybe chalk some of that up to coaching.
But I think far too often he just gets pushed around,
he gets bullied.

Speaker 4 (01:16:30):
He's not strong enough.

Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
So what you just describe, ladies and gentlemen, what Ross
just described means it's not gonna be fixed in time
for Thursday's game.

Speaker 4 (01:16:40):
Now, granted the Jets are so bad. I will also
say this is like my untrained eye, am not you know,
I don't break down offensive line for NFL dot com
or anything like that.

Speaker 10 (01:16:49):
Yeah, you do.

Speaker 5 (01:16:50):
I just want it's just one person's opinion, so I
could be wrong, but just from what I see, he's
just getting bullied.

Speaker 2 (01:16:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:16:59):
I mean none of I would say, ninety nine point
nine percent of us that watch a game don't sit
there and study offensive line work.

Speaker 5 (01:17:06):
But when you see something bad, when he's letting his
man into the to the backfield untouched, over and over.

Speaker 4 (01:17:14):
I'm no coach, but that doesn't seem like it's a
good idea.

Speaker 10 (01:17:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
Yeah, The insant replays are cruel, aren't they. I mean
they're the ones that say, oh look dad, Oh wow
he was swung and mist on that. Oh how did
he get around that guy? Oh, rather easily he did.

Speaker 4 (01:17:33):
This was a question.

Speaker 5 (01:17:33):
This is a pick that was questioned when it was made.
This was a lot of draft people around the NFL,
and people reached that there was a reach that why
I don't see not me, but people these draftnicks saying
they don't see first round ability from Kenyon Green, and
that there was a reach pick and that if you
take a guard that high in the what is it,

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fifteen or sixteen overall, whatever it was, you need a
you need to have a can't miss guard. You can
miss on a tackle there, you cannot miss on a
guard that high with that high draft capital.

Speaker 3 (01:18:05):
All right, let's get to the final hour of the show.
What do you guys think? I mean, your untrained die
against our untrained eye.

Speaker 4 (01:18:14):
Can CJ survive this?

Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
Is there enough good things from the quarterback's arm and
his escapability that makes you feel okay?

Speaker 12 (01:18:21):
Does?

Speaker 3 (01:18:22):
Joe Mixon said the team's bacon. We just hand the
ball to him thirty times and take your chances on that.
It is a short week, So these new problems, these
problems that have been recurring, I don't think can be
fixed in just basically a day and a half of practice.
Seven one three two, one two five seven ninety seven
one three two, one two five seven nine zero. You

(01:18:43):
Aggie fans, have we finally seen the changing of the
guard at quarterback this week? After what the Aggies in
the second half yesterday? Texas fans, were you worried about
Vanderbilt stealing their goal post? Again? As that game was
a lot close to people thought it was going to
be my cougar's taking care of Utah. We have rockets

(01:19:06):
and spurs tonight, so We've got a lot of different
things to get to and we want to get you
guys involved and ladies at seven one three, two, one
two five seven ninety seven to one three two, one two,
five seven nine zero. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:19:25):
Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 3 (01:19:31):
All Right, this is the final hour of The Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. I'm here in San Antonio or
tonight the Rockets will take on the Spurs. The Texans,
UH will be having practice today, they'll practice a little
bit tomorrow and then Wednesday they go to New York. Ross,
I gotta be honest with you, I really and it'll
be interesting because the Texans will be on this week.

(01:19:52):
But I I I'm not gravitating towards Thursday Night football much.
I don't know if it's because it's on Amazon and
I had the channel, but I'm I don't get it's
too soon, too soon stupid for me. I know, I
think I sound stupid. I'm saying I'm sorry I sound stupid, but.

Speaker 5 (01:20:08):
It isn't what's wrong with it? What else are you
doing on Thursday? Well, I guess you got NBA on TNT.
Now you knew both.

Speaker 3 (01:20:15):
Yeah, but I you know, sometimes you got to just
get away from sports for twenty four because I feel
like Saturday and Sunday are so ingrained in college football
and pregame shows and watching that, and then you watch
even You'll watch a Boise State Hawaii game at eleven
thirty at night because you're coming back from going out
or your friends or whatever, and you're watching that, and
then Sunday you gotta get up and you're watching NFL

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from noon to eleven.

Speaker 4 (01:20:40):
This sounds great.

Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
I got a game, Yeah, I know, I don't know.
I just I know I sound stupid.

Speaker 5 (01:20:46):
But Thursday you're heading the game, Maddy, come on, baby.
Vikings Rams was good this past week. Before that, it
was bo Nicks versus Spencer Ratlow, who wasn't exactly a.

Speaker 4 (01:20:57):
Barn by the Broncos going to make the playoffs in
the AFC Uh, it's kind of looking that way.

Speaker 5 (01:21:04):
Let's see Texans Jets, Oh Bengals. You're not getting up
for Bengals Ravens on a Thursday night next week?

Speaker 4 (01:21:11):
That sounds good, Commanders Eagle.

Speaker 3 (01:21:14):
I don't think it's very fair. I mean, I thought
when the NFL was going to these Thursday night games,
they would try to regionalize them a little bit. So
the team that had to travel doesn't have to don't
have to go very far. Minnesota and Houston. New York's
solid three. Not granted they're on a very nice plane
in one up. It's still getting up there. Minnesota had
to go to LA. That's that's not right around the corner. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
Oh, it shouldn't happen.

Speaker 5 (01:21:41):
It shouldn't be happening because I mean, for for player
safety and all that, it's not a great idea.

Speaker 4 (01:21:45):
But they're gonna put it. I'm gonna watch it, and
that's why they do.

Speaker 3 (01:21:48):
It, honestly, and this may be super taboo. I don'd
rather see games on Friday.

Speaker 4 (01:21:57):
Yeah, I don't know how.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
Well I know how Texas would feel about it.

Speaker 4 (01:22:02):
Texas exactly. Texas is gonna feel about that.

Speaker 3 (01:22:06):
But how does New Hampshire feel about it?

Speaker 4 (01:22:08):
And they probably don't care. They're probably not doing too much.

Speaker 3 (01:22:10):
If it's Wisconsin's gonna be really upset if they had
a Green Bay Packer Friday game on probably not.

Speaker 5 (01:22:14):
By the way, six and two Houston Texans versus the
two and six New York Jets, and the Jets are
a one point favorite.

Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
Yeah, and that's because I'm guessing they're receiving corps down
plus the travel. And let me ask you this conveys
do a the Jets are due kind of point spread.

Speaker 5 (01:22:32):
I don't think they normally do that. God, they lost
the Patriots.

Speaker 3 (01:22:41):
They lost to the Patriots. Texans aren't great on the road,
short week core, long travel, injuries. It feels about right.

Speaker 5 (01:22:52):
Quinn Williams looking at Kenyon Green like a like a
steak dinner and.

Speaker 3 (01:22:59):
Let me Thomas Sports Enterprises has not had a great
run as of late.

Speaker 4 (01:23:03):
What happened now?

Speaker 3 (01:23:05):
Well, I mean, weill levis it is what it is.

Speaker 4 (01:23:07):
Oh, he's been hurt. He did didn't Mason Rudolph start
this weekend?

Speaker 6 (01:23:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:23:13):
He threw for a bunch of yards. They lost about
like six touchdowns.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
And it was a John Ross, a receiver for the
Bengals before that.

Speaker 4 (01:23:21):
Yes, well, I'm glad you're bringing all this up so
I don't have to.

Speaker 3 (01:23:24):
Well, but there was one that I'm still right about
and we'll see him on Thursday.

Speaker 4 (01:23:30):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:23:32):
Oh, Sauce Gardner. Oh, I thought you're gonna say, Dak
Prescott that was your other win. I don't know if
that's the big it was? How big of a boy
that's looking like right now.

Speaker 3 (01:23:40):
No, it was a nice one when he got that
big cattra as it was three and four. Now, let's
talk to David Spring at two o six on The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross Dave Good.

Speaker 4 (01:23:50):
Afternoon, Hey Matt, Hey Ross.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
I want to talk about Kenyan Green real briefly, but
I got to set it up a little bit. I
listened to a lot of talking between noon and three.
I'm always with you guys, but in the morning a
lot of times i'm, you know, with some other guys,
and I'll use your method of kind of rhyming. It's
a show called The Stench and there's a guy on
that show and he goes by the name of Vance

(01:24:14):
Surline and Van Surloin was really really big on Kenyan Green.
I remember you guys say it was a reach, but
I remember when that draft pick happened because I was
listening to Lance or pardon me, Vance talk about it afterwards,
and he said, yeah, that's right, that's right where I
had Kenyan Green slotted right in there. I predicted that
Texans would take him. I think it was an excellent pick,
and I liked Vance. I think he's pretty good at

(01:24:36):
his job. And so I guess my point is he
fooled a lot of people. You know, I mean Kenyan Green.
Everyone thought he was going to be good. It's a
shock that he's as bad as he is. And I
just thought i'd throw that out there.

Speaker 3 (01:24:48):
Yeah, thank you for the phone call. Then we appreciate
listening noon to three. And I do know Dvance very well.
I've worked with Vance on his ross and Vance is
a good guy. Matter of fact, I saw Advance of
the Rockets game. Just see O today. Keith Vance liked Kenyon,
But I don't know. I still believe ROSSI The consensus
was from everybody, and again everybody's gonna have an opinion
on this, but the Castilla consensus around the NFL drafters

(01:25:12):
of the people that consider themselves the experts that he
was still taking probably five to six spots higher than
he would have been elsewhere, that he was more trending
to be a late first round pick as compared to
the middle of the road first round pick.

Speaker 5 (01:25:25):
Well, I'm doing trying to find some searching here. He
does say he from to April twenty eight, twenty twenty two,
from Schmann Schmerlin. No wait, Look, he's not gonna get
one hundred percent of his picks right, so I'm not
trying to No, nobody is ass kicking interior blocker who
can move people around.

Speaker 4 (01:25:43):
Okay, so there you go, hoping he's the pick here.
Time to get tough up front and crank up the
ground game.

Speaker 3 (01:25:51):
Well it's it's being cranked.

Speaker 4 (01:25:55):
It's early. Give him some time.

Speaker 13 (01:25:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:26:00):
Can I tell you one more thing? This is non
a related to the offensive line. I still hate the
kickoff rules. I'm ross. I'm trying. I like it.

Speaker 5 (01:26:07):
Actually, I got u. I got used to what's wrong
with it? I can't What do you want?

Speaker 3 (01:26:12):
Everything from the kicking to a certain level to not
anybody moving around, It's it feels pinball, video game, gimmicky.
It doesn't feel like authentic football.

Speaker 5 (01:26:22):
They have to do something they can. They they wanted
the happy medium of the not guys having running forty
yards down the field and crashing into each other and
causing injuries.

Speaker 4 (01:26:31):
And and still allowing there to be a return game.

Speaker 5 (01:26:34):
So I think it's it's they're working with what they
had to as far as trying to be concerned about
player safety, and you can still get a big run
every now and then.

Speaker 10 (01:26:44):
I'm against the on side rules personally.

Speaker 3 (01:26:48):
Well, you know, you don't you have to when you
on side, you have to tell them, which.

Speaker 4 (01:26:51):
Yeah, which is a bit right.

Speaker 3 (01:26:53):
Yeah, but how many?

Speaker 10 (01:26:54):
How many?

Speaker 5 (01:26:55):
Okay, we can always point to the Saints and Colt
Super Bowl, but that was like in two thousand and nine.
So outside of that, how often does it happen? Did
it even happen?

Speaker 3 (01:27:05):
Does Andy Reid do it once in a while too,
or at least he did, didn't he do in a
playoff game one time?

Speaker 10 (01:27:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 19 (01:27:12):
Maybe you have to declare it. It can only be
in the fourth quarter, and I think you have to
be losing to do it. Yeah, yeah, I'm not a fan.

Speaker 3 (01:27:22):
Yeah, it's just Rossie. You just feel like we're adding
a new layer of rules. I mean, if you're if
you think that kickoff returns or the reason why there's
injuries are so prevalent in the NFL, I mean, are
we seeing significant drop off and penalties because of the
new kickoff rule? I would say no, No.

Speaker 4 (01:27:41):
I don't know, you know, have the door seeing injuries?

Speaker 3 (01:27:43):
It's because the damn sports brutal. There's nothing hard turf,
hard grass, big physical men destroying each other.

Speaker 4 (01:27:54):
That's how you get rid of the sport. You bet
just you just put on guys.

Speaker 3 (01:27:58):
You put a weight limit, you can't wait any more
than a forty eight pounds and play football.

Speaker 4 (01:28:01):
That's how you get rid of like a heavyweight limit
like in boxing or or UFC.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
Yeah, if you have nothing but bandon weights on the field,
you'll be just fine.

Speaker 5 (01:28:10):
Yeah, there's no heavyweight limit in boxing, but in UFC,
I think it's like two sixty or two sixty five.

Speaker 4 (01:28:14):
Or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:28:16):
Yeah, we're gonna have a UFC fighter on Wednesday. As
a matter of fact, we are.

Speaker 4 (01:28:19):
Yeah, okay, great, there's.

Speaker 3 (01:28:21):
A big event coming to Edmonton, Alberta, Cana, which I've
never been to before. But Houston guy is gonna be
in that and we're gonna talk to him on Wednesday.
Let's talk to d Man in Shiner at two eleven
on seveny High. D Man, Hi, I, Hey.

Speaker 20 (01:28:36):
You know one thing about on the turst and that
in Europe. I lived a lot of time in Italy,
and what they do is they had like these grow
lights and like right now, that stadium, those those those
windows could be all open sunlight. Those guys are just
they're greedy. They want to put that plastic stuff out
to that plastic grass, the astroal trip.

Speaker 3 (01:28:57):
Whatever you call it.

Speaker 6 (01:28:58):
And that's just.

Speaker 10 (01:28:59):
That that stuff is horrible.

Speaker 20 (01:29:00):
But the reason I'm calling is did you got to
see the Seattle the two Seattle teammates grab each other's
face masks on Sunday?

Speaker 5 (01:29:10):
Yes, they were getting upset with each other on the sideline.
I think was it a defender in alignment? I can't remember.

Speaker 20 (01:29:15):
Yeah, that linebacker and the defensive and I think I
think it was the linebacker that just pushed, you know,
after he threw the pass.

Speaker 10 (01:29:22):
Was it buffalo? Wasn't it you buffalo?

Speaker 20 (01:29:24):
And threw his ass on the ground and they got
to penalty out of YadA YadA.

Speaker 10 (01:29:28):
But I'll be real quick.

Speaker 20 (01:29:30):
I know you'll pressed on time. I was playing rugby
up in Boston and and and like when you get
I mean, if you already think about how stupid is
he grab each other's face?

Speaker 10 (01:29:39):
Man, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 20 (01:29:40):
Now We're gonna You're gonna hit the side.

Speaker 6 (01:29:41):
Of his helmet grit.

Speaker 10 (01:29:42):
That's stupid.

Speaker 20 (01:29:43):
But then like in hockey, they try to grab the
back of their their jerseys and pull it over their
heads so you can start wailing in rugby. You grabbed
the guys collars because you got like three buttons, so
it's easy to grab.

Speaker 10 (01:29:56):
And those things don't tear.

Speaker 20 (01:29:58):
And so we're like in this now Nationals, the Easterns
and this.

Speaker 10 (01:30:02):
One dude, this is what see. You can't leave the field.

Speaker 20 (01:30:07):
You can't leave the field because you got eighty minutes
and there's only two substitutions, so you got to stay
out in the middle field.

Speaker 10 (01:30:12):
So he got a p you just knee.

Speaker 3 (01:30:16):
Okay, and the man, I think you've been hit with
a rugby ball too many times in your head or
let's get to the point.

Speaker 4 (01:30:22):
Please.

Speaker 3 (01:30:23):
It was a fight.

Speaker 20 (01:30:24):
It was a fight that that was just amazing. But anyway,
I was going to send it over to you, but
why would these guys do that? So anyway, I'm sorry
to bother you.

Speaker 3 (01:30:32):
Bye bye. That's all right, you're o kaid of others.

Speaker 4 (01:30:35):
It just yeah, we got to get to break and
you know we didn't need the three buttons and just
guys got the fight.

Speaker 3 (01:30:41):
Let's go. It was fine. I mean, d man, we
love you again. I think you've been hit one what
is that called the weed? You're asking the wrong person.
When I think of the weed, I think of seventies hairstyles.

Speaker 4 (01:30:55):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (01:30:56):
Okay, all right, if you guys want to follow up
whatever d Man was talking about, let us know seven
one five, seven ninety Ross famous rugby players of the
seventies on today's edition.

Speaker 4 (01:31:12):
To believe it or not, I don't think so, but
thank you de Man for calling it.

Speaker 3 (01:31:17):
Get to be a stranger. Yeah, we're fine. We'll let
you come back any time you want to. Just gotta
just gotta narrow the conversation down little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:31:25):
This is the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk seven
ninety You know, sometimes you gotta be good and sometimes
you gotta be lucky.

Speaker 3 (01:31:36):
That's what the show is. I'm good and Ross's lucky
two twenty on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven nine zero Ross.

Speaker 4 (01:31:45):
Can we talk about Jim Bob Cooter?

Speaker 13 (01:31:48):
Excuse me?

Speaker 4 (01:31:50):
Jim Bob Cooter? Okay, he played banjo for who?

Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:31:54):
He was on the cast of e He Haw in
the mid seventies. Or is he the all offensive coordinator
for the Indianapolis Colts.

Speaker 5 (01:32:02):
I'm gonna sco with the ladder. What's your problem with
Jim Bob Cooter.

Speaker 3 (01:32:07):
He's an idiot. What did he do? How about the
last seventy five seconds of offense with the Colts in
the second quarter.

Speaker 4 (01:32:15):
Mmmm, he's trying to score some points, Matt.

Speaker 3 (01:32:22):
Yeah, he has an insanely inaccurate quarterback deep in his
own territory, throwing two passes in the final drive for them.
The first pass should have been intercepted, the second one
was and the Texans score a touchdown, which ultimately was
that that was the difference maker. Can you say that
or is that little too hindsight?

Speaker 6 (01:32:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:32:43):
You could.

Speaker 4 (01:32:44):
They won by three.

Speaker 3 (01:32:50):
I was in the car listening to Texans radio when
this was going on, and I was like, y're they're
gonna give the ball the back to the Texans. Have
the Texans caught some breaks with.

Speaker 4 (01:33:02):
End of half mismanagement by variety.

Speaker 3 (01:33:04):
Of teams in the last year or so, It feels
like the Texans have taken advantage of every opportunity that's
been given to them.

Speaker 5 (01:33:09):
Well, the Bills did mismanage the last drive. The Colts,
of course, mismanaged their the last drive of the second
quarter and the last drive of the fourth quarter. Texans
themselves mismanaged their one of their last drives against the
Was it the Packers?

Speaker 3 (01:33:26):
Yep, that's what I'm saying. These these NFL coaches think
they're smarter than you are. They're not. Either that or
we have tremendous hindsight that they don't have.

Speaker 5 (01:33:36):
I well, I thought in the moment of going running
for first and second on second down talking about the
the Texans against the Green Bay Packers.

Speaker 4 (01:33:45):
In the moment, I was puzzled by that one.

Speaker 3 (01:33:48):
Well, at least Bobby Slogan admitted late last week that
he goofed. I mean that's to say something because usually
coaches will never tell you they've done anything wrong. But
I'm listening in the car, going, how in the world
do they get away with this? Oh, by the way,
they don't get away with it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:34:05):
I thought Anthony Richson had the tools to, like, you
know what, put him in a pro style offense, get
him some good direction. He's frequishly athletic. Remember the big
thing about him at Florida was heck of an athlete.
Big freaking arm, terrible accuracy issues. Guess what he is
in the NFL. Yes, can run, big arm, terribly inaccurate. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:34:28):
The hope was they could coach coach him into being
a more accurate passer and better decision maker, and so
far that has not happened. Because if you could could
be if he could be accurate and make good decisions,
he would be completely unstoppable.

Speaker 3 (01:34:43):
Yeah, I mean, the problem is he also runs himself
into some injuries too, because he won't take hit. You know,
he won't go out of bounds.

Speaker 4 (01:34:49):
He didn't go out of bounds in the fourth quarter
there for I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (01:34:53):
Yeah, I'm just so unimpro rest with his development and
it can't be the only thing is was that listening
to Stan this morning, he's got like six touchdowns against
the Texans or something all together.

Speaker 4 (01:35:10):
I mean, he's had his biggest games against the Texans.

Speaker 10 (01:35:12):
Yeah, why is that?

Speaker 3 (01:35:14):
I mean, do we just we just give the Texans
to give up on him? I don't know what it is,
but every time I watch a Colts game not involved
in the Texans, I'm like, man, there's a nice seven
yard pass. Oh, he threw a twelve yards, or he
threw out a bounds, or he took the dirt in
the dirt, or he you know, or he has to
tap himself out, Rossie, we hadn't talked about that much.
He tapped out of a series of plays yesterday. And then,

(01:35:38):
you know, when I tell you it, sometimes it's better
to lie. Yes, he told the truth yesterday, and guess
what it did. He's getting crushed for it.

Speaker 4 (01:35:46):
He scrambled two plays in a row he needed.

Speaker 5 (01:35:48):
You know, hey, hey, if a running back runs for
two plays in a row for forty yards, they they
came out for a play.

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
Why can't Anthony.

Speaker 4 (01:35:54):
Richardson get a playoff?

Speaker 3 (01:36:00):
How do you go back to the huddle and say,
what's up? Man? Hey, we got a fifteen drive ahead
of us here, let's go.

Speaker 6 (01:36:05):
Hey.

Speaker 5 (01:36:05):
I was tired. They should have just handed off roll.
I don't remember what exactly the situation was when as
far as on the clock.

Speaker 3 (01:36:11):
I couldn't throw a past it because I was getting
ready for the game of my game. But I don't
think he threw a past during that time, DIDDI, No, No,
I'm telling you, ross this division is gift wrap for
the Texans for the foreseeable future. It really is.

Speaker 6 (01:36:27):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:36:27):
Trevor Lawrence is playing better, but the Jaguars aren't a
threat right now.

Speaker 3 (01:36:30):
Jaguars aren't a threat. The Titans need a complete overhaul
move fo whether they're having a tough time getting financing
for a new stadium. Imagine that. Really Amy Crunk's trunks
getting net her head kicked.

Speaker 5 (01:36:44):
In on that that does make me happy. Knowing that
the Titans losing makes her sad makes me happy?

Speaker 3 (01:36:51):
Is that wrong?

Speaker 4 (01:36:52):
Just like Yankees fans watching Aaron Judge there their lord
and savior. Aaron Judge the greatest hitter on the planet.

Speaker 5 (01:36:59):
Why seeing him just strike out over it, over it,
over it over again the playoffs, that really makes me happy.

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
But that's how he spent As great as he is
as an offensive player, his strikeout numbers are astronomically high.
But you know, granted, if you're an Yankee fan, you
knew that going in because Reggie Jackson is one of
the greatest hitters of all time, and Reggie Jackson struck
out all the time.

Speaker 5 (01:37:20):
Yeah, I'm curious his numbers against I mean, look, everybody
suffers a good good pitching, and especially in the playoffs.
We saw that with Craig Bigio and Jeff Bagwell here
in Houston. But I'm it just seems like such a
stark difference when he faces good, But the Astros have
consistently in the playoffs gotten him to strike out a ton,
and then, I mean his whole career in the playoffs,

(01:37:41):
it seems like his strikeout numbers have have skyrocketed.

Speaker 4 (01:37:45):
Now, I did pick the Dodgers to win in five.

Speaker 3 (01:37:48):
If it happens in five, I'm gonna be basically unintolerable
to you.

Speaker 4 (01:37:53):
Intolerable, okay, I mean you tolerate me most days.

Speaker 3 (01:37:58):
Correct. I was gonna say, okay, Now, as much as
I think the Dodgers are gonna win this series, I
was kind of doing the Dodgers in five bit, just
just kind of say something, Well, I hope it's Dodgers
in four. You can be wrong. They we're all gonna scream,

(01:38:19):
let's go Dodgers.

Speaker 5 (01:38:20):
But max pain for the Yankees would be is losing
in seven. So I don't know what the roo you look.
I guess it doesn't matter what I root for. I'm
that I'll be sitting on my couch. I can't affect
the game. Not gonna be throwing for anybody. So we'll
see what happens. But whatever is, whatever's gonna as long
as Yankees fans are crying by the end of this,
I'll be happier, even though that means Dodgers fans will
be happy.

Speaker 10 (01:38:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:38:40):
What does it mean if the Dodgers have a rally
of a part celebration. I mean there's gonna be massive
violence in downtown Los Angeles. When you think the violence,
why because they're they get into trouble. They'd like to
cause crime.

Speaker 5 (01:38:55):
I don't I think they'd be happy, Matt their team
won the World Series rather than stabbing each other.

Speaker 3 (01:38:59):
It's cities that have won championships before and they caused
and they caused damage and rolled through and stuff. I
guess yeah. The only city in America that can handle
their business when we win championships is ours, Houston, Texas.

Speaker 5 (01:39:12):
That's why I love our city so well. I wish
they would test that theory little more often than they have.
In the last fifty.

Speaker 3 (01:39:19):
Years, we've had four championships.

Speaker 4 (01:39:23):
Don't slight the dynamo now, Maddie oh diamald started the
playoffs were the Comets.

Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
I never went to a you know what, that's not true.
I went to one Comets parade.

Speaker 4 (01:39:33):
You did you know how many? And you and six
other people or what was it like?

Speaker 3 (01:39:38):
That's not nice. There were probably thousands there.

Speaker 4 (01:39:41):
The comments are actually big. Weren't by the end of
that run, I thought they were had good attendance.

Speaker 3 (01:39:45):
What happened?

Speaker 4 (01:39:46):
How do they fold?

Speaker 3 (01:39:48):
I don't know. I left town when that happened.

Speaker 4 (01:39:49):
Okay, well that had you killed the common fielded?

Speaker 3 (01:39:53):
One time Maria Todd, who was a disc jockey at
over at one o four was a beat was a
p and bouncer for the team, and I filled in
for her one game and it was like, I was,
I hurt their feelings?

Speaker 13 (01:40:05):
Where's Maria?

Speaker 3 (01:40:06):
Why are you doing the game?

Speaker 4 (01:40:08):
Really?

Speaker 3 (01:40:09):
Why do the Rockets? I don't care?

Speaker 10 (01:40:10):
Where's Maria?

Speaker 3 (01:40:13):
Sorry, Matt Commet fans didn't link me.

Speaker 4 (01:40:17):
It happens, Yeah, all right?

Speaker 3 (01:40:19):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety We take
this program till three o'clock today. Ross would just today's edition,
I believe or not, which is coming up in just
twenty minutes. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:40:31):
Jim Bob Cooter Famous Couters, how about that? Uh, we're
not doing Famous Cooters.

Speaker 10 (01:40:39):
At all?

Speaker 3 (01:40:44):
Hey have we done any well? I don't want to
say speaking of Uh no, I won't see Please stop.
Let me okay, let me give you two seconds a
pause and zero no nothing on the air seven one three, two,
one two, five seventy come in and join us, so

(01:41:04):
the Matt Tamas Show, The Ross gets use till three o'clock.
Here on seven ninety more.

Speaker 8 (01:41:10):
Matt Thomas now on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:41:19):
Two thirty three on seven ninety Matt Ross with you.
I'm here in San Antonio. Rockets are gonna take on
the San Antonio Spurs for the second time. Uh Ross,
Rockets got to not turn the ball over as much
as they did and fall behind by twenty two points
in the first half, because the second half was a
different basketball games. That was nice to.

Speaker 5 (01:41:38):
See them come back and unfortunately fall short. And funny
you mentioned turnovers. That turnover from Jalen Green on the
streaking Cam Whitmore to tie the game with what like
forty seconds left and the ball behind him threw the
ball a little behind him, Cam Whitmore couldn't wrangle it.
They went on to lose the game. Jalen Green also
missed a three at the end of the game, and

(01:41:58):
you lost to the Spurs and now you're.

Speaker 3 (01:42:00):
One too far. I had a couple of looks too,
So yeah, he didn't knock down shirt a little bit.
It was interesting. Alpi did not play much in that
second half of that.

Speaker 13 (01:42:09):
He did not.

Speaker 5 (01:42:10):
We've seen a friend of the show. He may Doka
go with the hot hand. If if there's a unit
that brings the team back, he can stick with that unit.
And he he he did that on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:42:22):
He may Doka will start joining us Wednesdays at one
o'clock starting this Wednesday.

Speaker 4 (01:42:25):
Oh, let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:42:27):
Yeah, so got that Rockets will be uh playing tonight
and then we come home, hang out for a couple
of days, go up to Dallas and put the Mavericks
on Thursday seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven to one three two one two five seven Nini.
Let's go to Kelsey at two thirty five on the
Match on the Show with Ross Kelsey, thank you for
holding good afternoon.

Speaker 23 (01:42:48):
Yes, at the beginning of the basketball season, and minds
me a question I've.

Speaker 10 (01:42:54):
Had a long time.

Speaker 24 (01:42:55):
We have a baseball team that plays with a retractable
roof that never opens it. A football team that has
a retractable roof and it's closed ninety nine percent of
the time. And yet we have a basketball team. Was
Toyota Center ever considered to have a retractable roof?

Speaker 3 (01:43:11):
Because because what? Hell?

Speaker 4 (01:43:21):
Because?

Speaker 12 (01:43:21):
What?

Speaker 3 (01:43:21):
Because? What? Because?

Speaker 24 (01:43:23):
Well, because it would there's a lot of ideal nights
that it would.

Speaker 3 (01:43:27):
They could have it open. It'd be a beautiful time.

Speaker 23 (01:43:30):
To play, and it would give a unique venue compared
to any other basketball courts.

Speaker 3 (01:43:37):
I think it'd be a cool idea.

Speaker 24 (01:43:39):
To have that to be like most kids play or
most most basketball games are played outside, going to pick
up courts and things like that.

Speaker 4 (01:43:48):
Hmmm.

Speaker 23 (01:43:52):
I figured you would know if they they even thought
about it or not. M hm, hey, you open to

(01:44:16):
me the reasons they wouldn't want to do.

Speaker 13 (01:44:24):
No, mm hmmm, h mh you okay over there, man,
I'm fine.

Speaker 5 (01:44:44):
I think he's making a lot of good points. I
think you get you you laid down some asphalt in
the Toyota Center. Now hopefully you go open the roof
first so the fumes don't get in there, and then
you go with the and then you open up the
roof of the Toyota Center and you get blacktop game,
you get hockey and all over the place and outside

(01:45:05):
football's played outside. Let's get some blacktop games going in
the NBA. You got Field of Dreams baseball. They go
to the Field of Dreams and do whatever stuff that
they're doing. They've played college basketball and on an aircraft carrier,
didn't they?

Speaker 3 (01:45:20):
Right, I'm with it.

Speaker 4 (01:45:23):
This guy's making a lot of good points.

Speaker 3 (01:45:25):
All right? How do I how do I digest this
whole conversation?

Speaker 6 (01:45:29):
Here?

Speaker 3 (01:45:31):
I am an arena geek ross and sadly I have
some information for you that's gonna startle you. Okay, there
was once a city that had a major downtown sports
arena with a rootractical roof. Okay, And I'm not kidding

(01:45:52):
you about this. This is I'm telling you the God's
honest truth.

Speaker 4 (01:45:55):
Okay, who was it?

Speaker 3 (01:45:57):
I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you a chance
to guess. You get five guests is the NBA. No,
this isn't a The only hit you get will be
it's a major city that has sports teams but does
not have an NBA franchise. Okay, Okay, And after you
name a city, then I'll tell you which direction you
need to go from there. At that point, uh, Toronto.

(01:46:19):
I would go south and probably a Scotch west, but
not much uh Chicago. I would go due east.

Speaker 4 (01:46:30):
Uh Cincinnati, just to say it. I gotta get out
a map of US in the United States. Pittsburgh, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:46:38):
Pittsburgh had an arena called the Pittsburgh Civic Arena. Okay,
and it had a roof.

Speaker 4 (01:46:45):
And I'm not making this up. And God knows the history.

Speaker 3 (01:46:48):
This show we had today was really good until we
had a couple of screeching halt things happened the last hour,
which is fine, it is what it is. But the
nickname of the Pittsburgh Civic Arena was the igloo.

Speaker 4 (01:47:02):
The igloo.

Speaker 3 (01:47:03):
The igloo. I like that because you could open the
top and close it. See what I did there? Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:47:10):
Do igloos have retractable roofs.

Speaker 3 (01:47:13):
Yes, the igloo is a roof. Retractable roof?

Speaker 8 (01:47:16):
Oh is it?

Speaker 4 (01:47:17):
What do you do to an igloo? I've never been
in an igloo.

Speaker 3 (01:47:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:47:21):
Now I'm talking about the damn things you put cold
beers in.

Speaker 13 (01:47:23):
Oh, like the igle.

Speaker 4 (01:47:25):
I thought it was something like actual igloos that like
Inuit people's level. The kid know you were talking about
a cooler.

Speaker 3 (01:47:32):
At market with the hot girls on San Phillipaying six ten. Okay, please,
I almost thought we're gonna win a Marconi today, but
that's not gonna happen. They coil have to go ahead. Yeah,
pass on this one. We might not send this tape
in We're not got send the two o'clock hour, and
for sure that's the case.

Speaker 4 (01:47:52):
Oh it's also known as the house that Lem you built.

Speaker 3 (01:47:55):
Yeah, you know what, believe it or not, Pittsburgh cific Arena. No,
can't do that. We my kid, Mike and cypress at
two forty one. Mike, how the hell are you?

Speaker 17 (01:48:07):
Man?

Speaker 18 (01:48:07):
I am, I was fantastic up until that Jackwagon that
just called. And I just I just I'm sorry early
candidate that cannot wait till Wednesday.

Speaker 6 (01:48:18):
Shut your bumb ass up about retractable roof basketball stadiums.
I mean, we would rather have retractable roof anything, but
in basketball. Let's do this under all the elements in Houston, Texas. Yeah,
prey going guy whatever his name was, I did not
catch it, but just shut your bum ass up early

(01:48:41):
in the week. Sorry, you gotta do it all.

Speaker 3 (01:48:42):
Right, Thank you, Mike, appreciating the fulle call. You know what, Ross,
I'm gonna be honest with you people, have questions about
a lot of things, and I feel like this is
the place you can ask them.

Speaker 4 (01:48:56):
Yes, you can ask HIMT. You can always ask him T.

Speaker 3 (01:48:59):
But you may not get the much as you want,
but you want. I want you to feel like you
can always at least ask.

Speaker 4 (01:49:04):
That's good someone someone to talk to. We appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (01:49:08):
By the way, Shane Steichen and his Monday press conference,
that's a cold tead. Coach just said moments ago that
whether or not Anthony Richardson starts this next week coming
up and they're playing, by the way, in Minnesota against
the Vikings. Quote, we're evaluating everything an I e. Jim,
Bob Cooter sucks and b Richardson sucks.

Speaker 4 (01:49:29):
He didn't say that.

Speaker 3 (01:49:31):
Okay, he didn't say that, but mm hmmmm, Anthony Ross,
say it with me. Anthony Richardson sucks.

Speaker 4 (01:49:44):
Anthony Richardson has a lot of room from improvement.

Speaker 3 (01:49:48):
You don't want to say sucks. No, okay. Thamas Sports
Enterprises would never be bullish on Anthony Richardson. It's all
I can tell you, all right, Anthony, and Deer Park
wants talks of Texans. We got to believe it or not.
After that seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.

(01:50:11):
Is there another arena in sports you'd like to see
the roof open for? No, don't don't call about that.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Ross
is here and then we'll come back to you here
on Sports Talk seven ninety more.

Speaker 8 (01:50:24):
Matt Thomas Now on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:50:32):
Two forty seven Matt Thomas Show and Ross with you
will have Rockets Launch Pad the night at six o'clock,
hosted by.

Speaker 4 (01:50:41):
Dan Matthews.

Speaker 3 (01:50:43):
Okay, uh so that we'll get a much better production
out of that tonight than we normally would. True's thirty
the Rockets pregame Show, and then I'll have to call
at seven o'clock from the A. T and T Center
Rockets and the San Antonio Spurs, and then we're done
with going to San Antonio. It's kind of weird. The
two games will Santurin and then we're not coming back
here at all until maybe the NBA Western Conference Finals.

Speaker 4 (01:51:04):
Ross you think right, I don't think either of those
teams are going to be in that running.

Speaker 3 (01:51:10):
Come on, now, what give everybody a chance?

Speaker 5 (01:51:14):
You never know they've lost two to their first three.
Let's get a win tonight and we can talk maybe.

Speaker 3 (01:51:18):
There you go, five out, baby Anthony, and dear park
On seven out of Anthony, thank you for holding.

Speaker 10 (01:51:23):
Good afternoon, Hey, good afternoon, guys.

Speaker 17 (01:51:26):
So I want to start by saying that no matter
which way we slice and dice this, the Texans are
six and two. With that being said, I am of
the belief that a and I use the term mediocre
here loosely because I don't think there's a such thing
as a mediocre professional athlete. But I am of the

(01:51:46):
belief that a mediocre NFL quarterback is going to have
a better chance of success at success behind an elite
offensive line than an elite quarterback will have behind a
mediocre offensive line. And yesterday we see CD Strout visibly frustrated,
and this is the second week in a row that
I can recall that he's visibly frustrated, and yet again

(01:52:09):
he completes almost seventy percent of his passes and throws
a touchdown and doesn't turn the ball over. But I
don't think that success can be sustained this way. This
is CJ simply being elite and bailing your ass out
every single play. So I am I would like to
hear you all thoughts, but I think that the very

(01:52:30):
first concern at this trade deadline next week has to
be the offensive line.

Speaker 3 (01:52:36):
Yeah, you know that has been the theme of our
show today and Ross, we can't we need to stop
and smell the roses a little bit here. It is
six and two. It's a you couldn't ask really for
any better of a first half starter, except with you know,
the Minnesota game hurt. Green Bay was a toss up,
and the injuries are starting to pile up a little bit,
especially in the receiving cores. We have obvious said the

(01:52:57):
defensive starters out two weeks before that. It all depends
on what the end game is. Ross. We talked about
this the beginning of the show. Is the endgame just
hoping to get to the playoffs and catching lightning in
a bottle? Or is it you want to be a
dominant team that's going to legitimately challenge Kansas City and
or Baltimore for the AFC championship. And you can say

(01:53:19):
what we can say, you're rooting for all that, but
the reality is, is there a roadblock that's in the
way of you. I think dominating and trying to win
this whole thing. And I think right now that blow
roadblock is at some point this offensive line, unless it
gets dramatically better, is going to cost CJ either on interception,
a tip throw, or god forbid an injury. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:53:41):
I mean to answer your first question. Of course they
are in that building. Now, we could talk about it
outside that building how we feel. But in that building,
they're pushing for a super Bowl. That's why they signed
a Neil Hunter, That's why they traded for Stefan Diggs,
That's why they made all the moves. Joe Mixon is
here as well. That's them going all in to try
to push for a super Bowl, especially while c J.

Speaker 4 (01:54:01):
Stroud is on a rookie deal. That's what they're trying
to do. That's the goal.

Speaker 3 (01:54:04):
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Speaker 3 (01:55:26):
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Speaker 4 (01:56:47):
See you only went once? Ever, thirty days.

Speaker 3 (01:56:50):
I know Bill, thirty day's apart, all right, whatever. Jameis
Winston is very superstitious about his headband. If the team
begins losing, he'll switch head bands. Believe it or not.
Come on, man, believe it, believe it? Number two for
the Wind. Jameis Winston has always worn the jersey number

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five in the NFL in honor of his favorite quarterback
growing up, and then, of course is Donovan McNabb. Believe
it or not, it's unbelievable, but believe it. It's not.

Speaker 4 (01:57:21):
Bye Felipe on seven nine.

Speaker 3 (01:57:28):
You ready to play? Believe it or not? I believe it.
Jameis Winston has stated that his favorite artist of all
time is James Brown, and he dressed up the artist.
Dressed up the artist at a Halloween party with the
Saints teammates. Believe it or not, dressed up as believe it, No,
you would dress up? How do you dress up as

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James Brown? Ross? I don't even know how you do that.

Speaker 5 (01:57:50):
You got an open shirt and a James Brown wig,
and you're good and you get in the hot tel
and go oh hot, sure, why not?

Speaker 3 (01:57:58):
All right? And that's it for today's edition. To believe
or not, nobody won today. Up next, it's our buddies
Adam Adam Wexer. They will be hosting the A Team.
I'll talk to you tonight at seven for Rockets and
Spurs right here on Sports Talk seven ninety