Rockets Season Opener vs OKC Tonight! Texans Were Just Bad & GEORGE SPRINGER

Rockets Season Opener vs OKC Tonight! Texans Were Just Bad & GEORGE SPRINGER

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten oh.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
One an Ah Town. Good morning. It's a Matt Thomas
Show with Ross Today from Oklahoma City. This is Sports
Talk seven ninety oh Today. I'm a be a weepit,

(00:35):
weary eyed, emotional. It's the start of the twenty twenty
five twenty six NBA season. Round Ball Rock is back.
John Tesh seventy two, seventy three years old doing the
Today Show live and I gotta be honest with you, Jonathan,

(00:58):
I almost teared up here that song live in front
of us.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
They had a real orchestra. He played it live.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh what a great song.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
You know this whole time I thought it was I
didn't know an individual artist had made this theme song. Intel. Yeah,
and so you sent it me, Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
John Tesh is a composer. He's a sportscaster. He used
to host entertainment Tonight. He did a long I don't
know if he still does his radio show or not,
but he does like a nighttime radio show of playing music.
It's national. He married a really hot woman named Connie
Selica way back in the day. Okay, But and he

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created this song when he was working for NBC and
they said, hey, can you create a song for us?
And he did and so come to find out, ladies
and gentlemen, that when the NBA went back to NBC,
which of course Tonight's Rockets Thunder Game is going to
be on, he went back into the quote unquote laboratory
to the studio and try to update the version of

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round Ball rock kind of make it for twenty twenty five,
twenty twenty six, and NBC heard it, and John Tesh
heard it, and they said, no, we're going back to
the OG. So that's the that's the song that was
played in the nineties and the two thousands before NBC
lost the games. It is back and tonight here in
Oklahoma City, we are going to have the start of

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the twoenty twenty five Houston Rocket Season with Kevin Durant.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
So much to get to today.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
The first question I have for you, and obviously we're
gonna spend a lot of time talking about the Rocket
season and a couple of guests will join us along
the way to back that up, But how many have
you stayed up all the way to I think it
was about twelve twenty five in the morning, I think
is what the game ended. If you're a Texans fan,

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your squad's in major trouble, made your major trouble. Your
defense is really good. Will Anderson is elite. Derek Stingley
junior with an I int yesterday, Okay, we's he got
the fifteen yard penalty for taking the mask off, but
the helmet off, but that's neither here nor there. And

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there were some couple of penalties here and there. But
your defense is playing to win football games. Your offense sucks.
Your general manager right now sucks. And you're a head
coach right now sucks too. And he would be the

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first one to say it. I don't know. Demiko Ryans.
I have tremendous respect for Demiko Ryans. I think he
was the right choice. I think he's gonna be a
very good NFL head coach. But this team is not
playing like a team that's gonna go to the playoffs
this year. And Nick Hayley, I don't know. I don't

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think i'll ever get to know, because that can't quote
call plays. The run game non existent last night. Some
of the play calling was atrocious. The back to back
second half, third quarter, third and one fourth and one

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over left guard that got you nothing two different times.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
That was pathetic.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
The Texans offensive line again, CJ did not play a
perfect game. CJ takes those sacks again and he takes
them for massive yards and he had the interception, but damn,
the guy got sacked eight times, excuse me three times.
He had seven quarterback hits. The Seattle defense is really good,

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and oh, by the way, the Seattle offense Jackson Smith
and Jig was pretty good. Sam Donald's pretty good quarterback
as well, and doing it in Seattle. But they gave
you a boltload of opportunities to get back in that
football game. And a lot of that was because the
Texans defense forcing turnovers. And obviously Sam Donald doesn't know
how to hold a football in the end zone, take
the safety and get out of there. Instead he's just

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trying to play with it with the ball in his midsection,
and that just was a disaster. So the Texans had
their chances. Then they score the late touchdown to get
it within eight. And all Kimi fairbarants got to do
in order to help you stake stick around at least
give you a chance because you don't. You have the

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two minute warning and you have one timeout is kick
the ball out of bounds so you don't lose any
clock time. Instead, he kicks it to the end zone
where Seattle returns it back takes off. What's I think
it was eight seconds, six seconds, whatever it was, you
lost a two minute warning for the free timeout. Brain dead.
This team is not being coached properly, or either that

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or the execution is not going from the headset to
the coaches mouths of the players. The offensive line is
a tragedy and Dann Matthews just played this a minute
ago with Titus Howard had to say, I'm gonna play
it for y'all in a little bit. If I'm if
I hear this and I let y'all hear this, y'all

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gonna abandon hip because what he said about what he
thought his team looked like yesterday. Very small comment, but
definitely worth of a play. They don't have any idea
what they are. They must just thing they get to
play Tennessee and Baltimore on the regular I know, by

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the way, the another first place NFC West team will
be taking on the Texans this Sunday, this time in Houston.
It's let me tell y'all, and I've said this before.
I know it's tough to be a Houston Texans fan.
I get it.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
I have you know, I don't have any emotional.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Attachment to them. I would kind of like to I've
gone twenty plus years a lot having a football team,
and I'm not signing to bandwag because I mean, we
talk about them all the time. But it's gotta be
hard to be a Texans fan, does it not. I mean,
first of all, staying up that late last night to
see that, to see the offensive line not be addressed,

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to see the running game non existent. I mean, God Almighty,
in your three and a half games out of first place,
three and a half, it will take a minor miracle
for the Texans doing the AFC South that might be
just in the be We need to end that out
of the get that out of our conversation. They're gonna

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be staring at some tie breakers down the road that
may not be very good. And again, if the Denvers
of the world will keep winning, the Chargers of the
world keep winning, if Jacksonville keeps winning, you're gonna be
in The Texans are gonna be in a very difficult position.
And it's the same problem of a year ago. It

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is not addressing the Joe Mixing situation when they probably
should have gone after a better running back than Nick
Chubb or drafted one for that matter. I don't know
what he marks was okay, but I mean it wasn't
like you were expecting a fourteen hundred.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yard It wasn't Ashton genty walking through.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Gang. What are y'all thinking? I mean, come on, is
this just gonna be the same? Are we gonna do
as the same old Texans line year after year after year?
And what is? What is Hannah gonna wake up to this?
Cal doesn't care. He just he's he's jetlag from the
long flight home. He's napping right now. He ain't worried
about this. He went to the he went to the

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fish market Seattle, had a great meal. He's fine. But
damn offensive line yet again, not giving your good quarterback
not elite good See Jay's good, not elite. If I
was a Texans fan, I would be really pissed. Chances

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them going to Seattle winning the game not great, but
they had their spots defense. The defense is giving them
a chance. Will Anderson wants to win in the worst way,
but this mixture of Lincoln, Tomlinson and Juice Scrugs. This
horrendous play calling at times, and the fact now that

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Nico Collins was in a concussion protocol that's not great.
You what did you have? I mean you had some
young guys. I did four rookies on the field at
one time, trying to win a football game in Seattle,
m And then you have George Springer. God bless you,
George Springer. Houston still loved you, George Springer, poor Seattle fan.

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I say to all of you that are listening to
me in Seattle, which probably is no nobody, I say
sorry for your loss. Seven one three, two, one two five,
seven ninety one of those are the digits. Ross is
back with me tomorrow, looking forward to getting him back.
Guest list today will feature Ryan Hollands at eleven o'clock.

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We'll have Gut Feelings at eleven thirty today where Jonathan
and I will make some predictions and we'll get you
guys involved in that is what we want you to
be involved. The news at noon, we'll have Vanessa Rich
and our friend from Space City, both he and Ryan.
They're unfortunately not working tonight because it's an NBC game
it's the first game of the season. So Vanessa's going
to join us at one twenty and we have, believe
it or not, today at one point fifty. But it's

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a lot of time for you and me to get
through a variety of things. One Rockets Thunder opener tonight,
and the return of the NBC Folks, which is obviously
a huge component of this because it'll be on TV tonight.
It'll be the first game of the season. Kevin Durant
makes his Rocket debut. Should be fired up about that.
We have the Texans. It wasn't embarrassing. It was just

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amazingly disappointing. Yet again, you have to go beat some
teams that you're not supposed to beat. If you're gonna
let Jacksonville, that sucky Jaguar team beat you, you gotta
go win. You gotta go win somewhere you're not supposed
to win. And yesterday was a place you should have
gone and won because Sam Darnold kept throwing them. I
mean they turned the ball over over and over and
over again. You got nothing out of it. May have

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one late touchdown, but you know what I'm saying. Seven
one three, two, one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven Annie phone lines are
available for you if you want to chime in, want
to hear from you George Springer, Mariner's sadness, and for
you Texas tech fans, the Tortillas are gone. Seven one
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Old Ross here in Oklahoma City Sports Talk seven ninety,
Matt Thomas Show and Rosskin ten years Sports Talk seven ninety.
Our time is ten nineteen. If you want to chime
in on the conversation, come on and be with me.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Again. Ryan
Holland's going to join us in about forty minutes for

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his take on things. We'll get my friend of Vanessa
Richson in as well later on this afternoon on the
show Gut Feelings at eleven.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Thirty and Titus Howard, one.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Of the elder statesmen of the Texans offensive line. Now
that Laramy Tunsel has gone, you know what, I appreciate honesty.
He was pretty honest. And this is from DJB enemy
of ESPN dot com, his video from the locker room
last night here's Titus Howard on what he saw last night.

Speaker 5 (12:52):
He was complacent. The day we didn't We didn't even
come out with enough energy to start a game instead,
So I'm honing on to the holiday.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
You know, I have my guy ready in the next week.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
So we just gotta be better.

Speaker 5 (13:05):
We let the defense down, with the team down to
the offense, and you know we got we gotta step
it up man the rest of the season.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
We want to do anything.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
Anybody I think we can't score, we can't win.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, pretty much complacent, Jonathan, How can you be complacent?
You were two and three going to the game with
your wins against horrific Tennessee and now pretty bad Baltimore.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
This is why I ran track. I couldn't. I would
be female Right now.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Let me tell you something. If anybody is complacent in life,
first of all, you gotta look at yourself in the mirror.
That's first and foremost. But it also goes to who's
in charge of leading the troops? Correct? Yeah, that's an
indictment on Demico. It just is.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
Is he too much of a players coach at this point?

Speaker 2 (14:03):
That's a great question. That's a great question. I don't
think answer for y'all on that one. You know, again,
I'm not in that locker room, and I'm not talking
about when they have Mediavila, but I'm talking about when
that room is closed. He's got his guys back. He
just does. And I think that's probably the reason why

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he is so respected by so many people on the league.
But how in the world could anybody be c now
his it was tightest words, not anybody else's. But my
guess is is that Demika will be asked about that
today when he meets with the media via zoom about
two thirty this afternoon. How in the world can you

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be complacent? You beat a Tennessee team who's gonna probably
have the number one pick in the draft for number
two depending on the Jets, and he beat a Baltimore
team in the morning, no Lamar Jackson and all their
defensive starters out. Does going off on and off week

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make you complacent going to see Attle, of all places,
a team that, as you saw in the graphic last line,
if you watch the game that has the best record
of Monday night football, how can you now that nobody
cares about what they did twenty years ago? But point
being is a tough place to go. How can you
be complacent complace in our teams that you know, are

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five and two and have an off week and take
an opponent lightly a basketball team who is fifty to
twenty two that loses to you know, a thirteen win team,
that's complaintent. That's you know what, I don't care. We'll see,
we'll do the best we can. You were the Indianapolis
Colts are six and freaking one. How is there any

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thought of complacency anywhere? Hear that organization at this point?
You know what, Nick ca Sera was complacent with the
with the offensive lines. Why didn't improve it well or
or improved it to the level needed to be not
drafting a high end first round guy on that is,

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or going or you know, complacent about figuring out what
the what the running back room is going to look like?
I mean, the CJ was the leading ball carrier twenty
five yards.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
You can't have that.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
This isn't enough. This is not one one double a football.
This is the National Football League. You can't have twenty five.
You can't what he marks did? Okay, towards the end,
obviously he was a used as a pass catcher, but
Nick Chubb was nowhere to be found.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
Goma Wale was out there.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
I mean, God bless it. And the play calling, I mean,
such a head scratcher, Such a head scratcher. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety Brent Beaumont, Texas
on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Brent.

Speaker 6 (17:12):
Good morning, Good morning, Matt, love the show. If that
be all and tonight. Uh, one thing real quick. I'd
like to laugh at the arrogance of the Mariners for
continuing to pitch George Springer when he's up three to
zero with the bum n and they could have put
him on first.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Hilarious.

Speaker 6 (17:28):
But Matt, I would love to hear what you think
about the guard situation. Uh for this year, you think
it's going to be a time share? Uh what do
you want to happen? And what do you think is
gonna happen? You'll have a good show.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 7 (17:40):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
Here's what I want. I want Reed Shepherd to be
worthy the number three pick in the in the in
the draft of a year ago. I'm not asking him
to play thirty five minutes a game. And you know,
and here at the role that Fred van Vliet had,
But if Reid can give you twelve points a game,
can create an outside threat, he does a good job
on passing lanes, I'd be happy with that. And frankly,

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if the Rockets are going to mix the lineups tonight
or over the course of the year and use the
double bigs, what they're going to use tonight, They're going
to the jumbo lineup. They're going to go with Jabbari,
a Men, Adams, Shangoon and Durant. That's the Jumbo lineup
or the Skyway lineup, whatever you want to call it.
It depends on, you know, how they want to go

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against the other team or what the other team presents
back at them. But yeah, I want Read to be
a rotational player that can score double figures, that can
handle assists, not turn the ball over, play competent defense,
and hit the outside shot. Not looking for him to
be all NBA, not looking for him to be the
leading scorer, but picking pops run the offense. Let a

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man Thompson get to that dunker spot where he's almost
automatic every single time. That's what I'm looking for from
the guard spot. And I'm not trying to put it
all on Read, but you know, I know who am
n is. I know who Aaron Holiday is. At this point,
I don't think J. D. Davis is going to have
a huge role, but you know who knows. But you

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also have guys that can bring up, bring up the
court to all the guys in the lineup, with exception
of Adams that I can bring the ball up the floor.

Speaker 8 (19:20):
Dad.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Thirty two Sports Talk seven ages of at Thomas Show
with Ross Here from Oklahoma City. I did send a
sorry for your lost two a holes on Twitter.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
I was so proud of you for this.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
I figured you'd be happy with me. I didn't do
it to everybody because some people were like somewhat respectful.
Some people were like I mean, they were somewhat rude,
but not super rude. But when I was called a
tampon and I was an fing C and a B
and a P, I was like, yeah, you kind of
need it back. And then this other woman who's got

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you know, she's got an a on emoji's got eleven followers,
I was just yeah, I just had to conclude her too.
She's like, we lose a class.

Speaker 7 (20:03):
Now.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
You don't guess what, Mariner fan, you got no class.
You got your ass handed to you. Thanks George Springer,
Thank you George Springer. That's all I want to say
today is thank you George Springer. And how about George
Kirby only going four innings last night? Who comes in
there gives up the two runs? No Mariners World Series again,

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they were up to nothing and going home where they
kick acid at home. We know this firsthand. They lost
four of the next five games. Dramatic seventh inning home run.

(20:50):
Good for Toronto. It's gonna be weird because next week
I'm gonna be in Toronto. Now, the series will be
in Los Angeles at the time, but I will be
in Toronto at the same exact time. The Blue Jays

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are playing the Dodgers in the middle round three games
of the World Series. I may be partying with Blue
Jays for a night. Blue Jay fan, I'm gonna tell
you all this before. I've told you this before many times.
I love Toronto. I'm not a big fan of the
East Coast cities, but Toronto, if you ever get a
chance to go, is a beautiful city, nice people, good

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exchange rate, cling you feel relatively safe, not that any
metro city is ever one hundred percent safe. And I've
never been to a Rogers Center for a ballgame, but
that place looked like it was about to blow the
top off the building last night. Go Blue Jays, I
mean really, go Blue Jays against Dodgers. Dodgers are heavy

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favorites to know, so no surprise seven Sevenati, Brian, you
were at the game last night. Give us the details.

Speaker 9 (22:08):
What's up, MT.

Speaker 10 (22:09):
I just got back early this morning, so I'm still
a little jet lagged. I'm wearing that red eye.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Uh very well.

Speaker 10 (22:18):
But it was it was deflating because you had a
bye week and that was the turn sandwich that your
offense gave us coming off of.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
A bye week.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
You gave us that.

Speaker 11 (22:32):
I mean, that was the rough part.

Speaker 10 (22:35):
The fans towards the Texans fans couldn't be nice and Matt,
there were probably a couple of thousand Texans fans there.

Speaker 12 (22:42):
They were everywhere.

Speaker 10 (22:43):
I mean there were people in their battle red jerseys
or they're white Texans jerseys or whatever Texas gear they had.

Speaker 12 (22:50):
They showed up.

Speaker 10 (22:51):
So I give Texans fans credit. I feel bad for
all of us who traveled to watch that garbage.

Speaker 12 (22:56):
On the field. At least offensively.

Speaker 10 (23:00):
The defense obviously played their butt off, but they.

Speaker 12 (23:03):
Had the games on there.

Speaker 10 (23:04):
Matt and then my buddies and I we'd gone to
a bar and watch Game six, and it was already
kind of subdued after that first inning by the by
the Blue Jays, so they never really could get into
Game six. But they had every concession stand had that
TV had the Mariners game on before the for the

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Seahawks contest last night. When Kyle Rally hit that solo
shot to put him up three to one, that place exploded.
And when George Springer absolutely unloaded on that baseball, you could.

Speaker 11 (23:37):
Hear a pin drop in there.

Speaker 10 (23:39):
And when Rodriguez struck out for the final one, a
lot of people had on their phones, the people sitting
around is and it was just.

Speaker 13 (23:46):
A bunch of growth.

Speaker 12 (23:47):
I was like just sitting there clapping.

Speaker 10 (23:49):
Like it couldn't have happened to a better group of
fans when you scumbags and cheer when a guy gets
gets hurt. And that is why you are still the
only team in Major League Baseball who had never even
sniffed the World Series, even maybe to play it to
say you've been there, and you know.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Ower Seahawks fans, Brian.

Speaker 10 (24:15):
They were overall, they're really they're very, very generous. I mean,
most of them were good. There was one old bag
that we'd gone to a bar right outside of Looming Field,
and they were getting ready to get up to leave,
and I was like, oh, do you mind if me
and my buddies had the same one.

Speaker 12 (24:33):
She's like, no, not with what you're wearing. I was like,
so we come here and we're.

Speaker 10 (24:37):
Spending money in your city. She's like, I don't care,
We'll give it to other Seahawks fans.

Speaker 9 (24:41):
I was like, Okay, that's fine, go ahead and back
like that.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Uh.

Speaker 14 (24:45):
But all in all, they were really nice.

Speaker 10 (24:47):
So if Autumn were found of cool that, you know,
some of Texans fans traveled all the way up there,
especially from Monday night. They were they were really.

Speaker 15 (24:53):
Nice to us.

Speaker 9 (24:54):
But you know, I think.

Speaker 10 (24:56):
After Springer hits to add a lot of the Texans
fans I talked to, we all looked and most of
them were probably Astros fans, and I said I had
not been George one, and then everybody was like, damn right,
you couldn't.

Speaker 9 (25:07):
It couldn't have been.

Speaker 10 (25:08):
A better blue Jay to do it to the Mariners.
And once an Astro always an astro, Matt, that was
an absolutely beautiful, shoddy hit, and you it was a
funeral going on in there when that third strike was made.

Speaker 9 (25:22):
They I was hoping.

Speaker 11 (25:25):
The trifecta would happened yesterday.

Speaker 10 (25:26):
Unfortunately the Seahawks didn't win the crack and loss the
Mariners loss. I was like, come on, give me the
Seattle trifecta.

Speaker 12 (25:33):
Of l's in the day.

Speaker 10 (25:35):
But unfortunately the Texans.

Speaker 12 (25:37):
Couldn't do their part. But it was a fun trip.

Speaker 10 (25:39):
Matt and the Seahawks fans were nice, so you can
tell Softy Hey, at least his fans were nice to
Texas fans all throughout the game. But you can tell
them when it comes to the Mariners.

Speaker 12 (25:50):
So sorry, so.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Sorry my phone call. I'm glad you got back and
go get home, get some rest. Let me tell you
all something. Red eyes suck. I mean, I know you
have to take them sometimes because you got to get
back to a city or whatever the case may be.
And it's always nice to have that default of a flight.
But I mean, I've taken I don't know twenty five

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red eyes in my fly in my life, and probably
twenty four of them I've come back and felt like
dog crap. The next day. There's you try to you know,
you try to get something accomplished by getting back to
your city quick enough. Like in my case, the last
time I was on a red eye, I uh was coming.
Was going from San Francisco to Houston to go to

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San Antonio to see the final four champions of the
Championship game with the Cougars, And man, I don't think
I I you know, I don't. I got sick after.
I'm not saying, you know, you get on a red
eye you're gonna get sick, but I was just they
beat you up. And it's not like you're flying the plane.
It's not like I're asking you to walk up and
down the island and serve coach to people. But it's

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just you can't get any sleep you're having. You know,
the red eyes are typically with time zone changes. So really,
when you're trying to catch a midnight flight out of
Seattle or out of Los Angeles or Vegas, it's two
am and you're into Houston at six or seven o'clock
in the morning, it's not preferred. But sometimes you got
to get back for that reason. And sometimes a lot

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of times actually those flights are cheaper, so they do
have some benefit. Seven one three two one two five
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Show with Ross Stunna. Good morning to you.

Speaker 12 (27:35):
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Man? What you got today?

Speaker 12 (27:38):
Man?

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Welcome bay Man.

Speaker 10 (27:40):
I was just trying to see what what what?

Speaker 2 (27:45):
What fan based words right now?

Speaker 11 (27:47):
The the the lines on the Mariness because both of
them was on.

Speaker 16 (27:54):
The verge to get into the title game and needle
one on Mati and I was mad at my so, man,
what did feel right.

Speaker 7 (28:01):
To be one of them?

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Fan base? Oh? I mean the Lions am not going
to Super Bowl either. I mean, you're right. I would
say probably Lion fan is because that's been a franchise
been around a lot longer than the Mariners. I mean,
the Mariners have been around what since the mid seventies. Now,
that's still a long time, trust me. Yeah, I mean

(28:23):
I think it's probably too. It's probably equal, depending on
you know how big. I mean, look, Lions fans, they
you know, they they have only been good the last
three or four years. But if you think, if you
think about the Lions of the last thirty or forty years,
they're usually around five or six wins. I mean, they
don't even they don't even taste the playoffs except for
this last, this last little run they've gone through.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
Yeah, but I've just felt worse for them than I
did for the Mariners.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Oh, I'm not feeling bad for the Mariners.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
No, No, not though, No, not how they how they
think they own major League Baseball and son of thanks
for a phone call. No, I ain't feeling bad for him.
I thought I'll give myself a little bit of props.
And I thought I was pretty diplomatic with Softy yesterday.
I didn't wish I'm good. I didn't. I wasn't false.
I wasn't like, hey, good luck, we're rooting for you.
I didn't say that. But I also didn't say hope

(29:15):
you lose, hope your crappy fans get you know, uh,
experienced pain. Again.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
I didn't do that, So I thought I handled it
pretty well yesterday.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Did I want to say those things? Maybe? Did I
want to call it? And I don't want to call
out some of those nasty people on Twitter? Yeah, but
you know what, we just we got nasty fans of her.
My guest is we got some nasty Houston fans too.
You know, I'm come to realize that everybody on the
social media streets are they're they're every fan base is
gonna have that collection. Let me tell you all, Astros

(29:47):
Twitter can get nasty too, it can. I think Rockets
Twitter just is always chasing recognition. Texans Twitter just takes
photos of themselves wearing Texans gear and stra to places. Yeah,
everybody's got everybody's got a little bit bit of a

(30:07):
goofy group of people that you don't want to associate with.
That that just comes with the territory of being a
fan of a sports team in a major city. But
I ain't feeling at all from Arion a fan. I
do not feel bad for them at all. I don't
want to call anybody. I don't want to call Softy
and text them. I don't want to No, no, it
ain't appening. See you next year. Good luck in the

(30:29):
American League West. But I will say this, the Mariners
did something that the Astros just couldn't pull off. They
went and got two major pieces to their puzzle to
help them get over the top, win the division and
get to the American League Championship Series. But even that
doesn't guarantee on automatic trip of the Fall Classic. They

(30:51):
were up to nothing going home. See Gang Gang. It
happens to every sports team, every sports fan base has
to hear about it. If you think we've been long
suffering on a variety of things, imagine if you are
a Mariner fan today and you've been a fan of
them since nineteen seventy six or whatever the franchise was created,

(31:16):
You're sitting there at almost fifty years of not even
knowing what late October baseball is all about. So sorry,
ten forty four is the time. It is the Matt
Thomas Show and Ross. Come on in and join the conversation.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. If
you want to chime in seven to one three two

(31:38):
one two five seven ninety Rockets opener with Ryan Hollins's
conversation in fifteen minutes here on seven ninety Matt Thomas
showing Ross here from Oklahoma City tonight thunder and Rockets.
We'll talk to our buddy Ryan Hollins about that coming

(31:58):
up at about ten minutes tonight from now. I'm gonna work,
I believe it or not today. We'll do all things
about George Springer. We got to honor the man who
hit the home run in the seventh thing to help
the Blue Jays overcome the three to one deficit and
win the American League. Pennant, Man, I've never taken so
much to light in a other team winning, but man,

(32:20):
I just did all right. More on the Texans. I
want to hear from you guys and ladies too. Did
y'all stay up? Jonathan? You said the whole time for
the no.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
I fell asleep halfway through. I'm like, a lie, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
You know what I did do? I went and had
a big dinner downtown last night, and then I went
I had two cups of coffee at dinner, and I
was like, I can stay up now O two cups. Oh,
I'm a night coffee drinker, which is not really good.
Makes my sleep habits throw at the night terrible. But
I had to stay up. What in the world was

(32:57):
that last night? Nick Man, you know what it is.
It's it's frankly franchise arrogance, is what it is. Nick Keeley, Well,
Nick Cassio, I got a gut feeling a eleven thirty
I'm gonna go with it. It may not be, it
may not hit on it, but man, if you're a

(33:19):
hand on that plane right home, aren't you Steamen? I mean,
you handed the keys over to these two guys to
say you run our football team. You've got play calling,
you got the staff underneath Demko, the offensive line coach.
I don't know why Cole Popovich, why he got to
get the job after he was the assistant offensive line

(33:40):
coach for an offensive line that sucked last year. Why
did the Texans draft greater reinforcements. I mean, look, I
was never a Laramie Tunseel fan, but Laramie Tunseel at
least was a gave you professional effort most times when
he wasn't committing false starts. The play calling CJ. Strouds

(34:01):
still takes way too many sacks of huge distances when
they're won for like fifteen or sixteen yards in the
game early on. I mean, God bless it. And I
got news for y'all. Here's the conundrum that you're about
to face in the next year to two years. You
gotta start figuring a way to make sure that CJ

(34:23):
gets the compensation he thinks he deserves. I mean that
super ridiculous, big fat contract money the quarterbacks get. And
if you don't win when your quarterbacks are on rookie contracts,
something else is gonna have to suffer. And oh, by
the way, Nico Collins on a short week has got
in concussion protocol. Christian Kirk didn't play again yesterday. You

(34:47):
were relying on rookies and Dalton Schultz. By the way,
Dalton Schultz hell of a game last night. He kept
getting a hit over and over again. I mean he
had something with his left eye or something, but every
time he get on the field, he get into a
pass route and he catches the good job by Dalton Schultz.
He's having a nice bounce back year. He has become
perhaps more of a guaranteed target. And then even Nico

(35:10):
has this year. It's crazy, It's absolutely crazy. And the
running game non existent. I mean, can't Cassara on the
phone to get somebody because you cannot continue to be
as feeble as the Texans are of the run game.
I don't know if it's because of the running backs

(35:31):
aren't good enough, or it's the offensive line, or it's
a combination of both, but you're getting you can't completing
a third and one on multiple occasions, third and shorts,
constantly finding yourself behind the chains on early running play,
setting up seconds and twelves third and elevens. You're asking

(35:52):
for CJ to get smushed and he's getting pretty close.
Scott is with It's at ten point fifty four on
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Scott, good.

Speaker 12 (36:02):
Morning, How you doing good.

Speaker 17 (36:06):
Going forward?

Speaker 18 (36:09):
I think they really need.

Speaker 17 (36:10):
To consider the Texans really need to consider giving up
future draft picks and getting this offensive line, getting trades
or whatever for these offensive lives. We don't need to
draft other players and position players like we are. We
have some really good position players. We don't need anybody
on defense. The rest of the season needs effort put

(36:33):
in to line up what trades we're gonna make and
get an offensive line that can give CJ time to
look downfield and time for the receivers to get open
and let the plays develop. Our offensive line is atrocious,
and that's the only way I can see fixing it.
Because you don't have the money to go out and

(36:57):
get these people, we need to start trading off our
future draft picks.

Speaker 4 (37:01):
What do you think on that? And I'll listen, I'll
get off the air.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Well, I wouldn't. I Look, it's not going to take
You can't get this done at the trade deadline. And look,
I don't know who would be available. Obviously reinforcement wouldn't
be terrible. But this is this offensive line. The heavy

(37:25):
lifting of this preparation for the future of this line
has to be done in the off season. It has
to be the focus of the first round pick. It
has to be the focus of free agent money being spent.
I mean, you're chasing after CJ. Garner Johnson, and you're
chasing after Stefan Diggs, and you're trying to get these

(37:47):
veteran guys that are the culture guys, the guys that
get you over the top. When you have a significant
part of your team that hasn't been addressed properly. I
mean edingerm I guess has been okay, so it says
pro football focus. But Arianta Erseri is going through rookie

(38:12):
growing pains. Juice Scrugs and Lincoln Tomlinson are mid at best,
probably below. I mean, this was the twenty ninth ranked
offensive line coming into the season. To the game the
other night, it was thirty first when the season began.
So they're not making seismic improvements. It's establishing no ground game.

(38:36):
I mean Dan Rolofsky numerous times throughout the broadcast. By
the way, I love that broadcast last night. I thought
him and Lewis Redick were really good. Chris Fowlers okay
as the play about play guy, but I thought Dani
Roloski was a star, really a step ahead of stuff,
explaining things, talking about more passing, getting rid of the run,

(38:57):
third and shorts, getting around the goal line. I think
it was excellent. I enjoyed listened to him last night.
But when you can't trust your offensive line, it limits
what you can do downfield. It limits the opportunities for
CJ to look go through his progressions, It limits any

(39:19):
sort of real diversity and your play calling. But the
trust your left side of the offensive line on two
consecutive plays in the third quarter eating a yard and
you can't get it because that Seattle push was good
and against Seattle defense is really really good. But you
know what, you're typically running into pretty good defenses. You
play a first place schedule, and you play against teams

(39:41):
that are you know, have been the playoffs before or
you know, have shown signs of it. You're gonna mean,
you know it's you're not playing again. You can't. There
was a false sense of security somewhere, whether it was
on call on Fannin or not, that thought that everything
was fixed after beating Tennessee in Baltimore, and it could

(40:01):
have been further from the truth. Brandon before the top
of the hour on seven ninety Brandon, good morning.

Speaker 12 (40:07):
Good morning, How you doing good.

Speaker 19 (40:11):
Yeah, there's just a couple of moments in that game
where it just looked like Collie was just out of
his depth. It cuts to him twice, I think after
the two fourth down runs and then he's just sitting
next to STJ. Stroud, not knowing what he's doing, not
even communicating with him. And then another time after a
three an hour or something, he's talking with the third

(40:32):
string quarterback. He just looks out of his depth. And
then CD Shroud. You can't blame him. I mean, he's
under pressure every drawback, but he had a couple open throws,
he missed the Higgins, he just kept overthrowing everything. So
I mean they're just a mess right now.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
That's what I would say. Thanks Brandon for the phone call.
They're a mess, and Bobby Slowick is laughing his ass off.
If I was Bobby Slowick, I'd be saying, scoreboard, bitch.
Now he's in trouble too, because that Miami team's a
hot mess. But that's not even really as a responsibility.

(41:11):
That's McDaniel's offense more than anything else. Let's talk to
Ryan Holland start the second hour. We'll get a little
NBA chatter going here on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Ninety is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
NBA basketball. The Rockets make their debut with Kevin Durant
this evening here in Oklahoma City. The Matt Thomas Show
with Ross continues here on seven ninety. A man I
miss who you will be seeing a lot on Space
City Home Network, but tonight's game as an NBC is
a man who's company resting in his Houston area home.
Ryan Holland, you missed a great habachi girl last night here.

Speaker 12 (41:50):
In no case, there's no way you did about you
audition in there's a trouble the way, Matt Thomas.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Here's no way. You're right. I was just teasing you. Hey,
you are missed up here. The energy of an opening
night You have been through ten of eleven of them
in your career as a player, Tell me what that's
like for guys, even the salty veterans like yourself.

Speaker 12 (42:17):
It's always different, you know, first day of training camp,
first day in the preseason, but the first regular season
game is always special. You got the energy in the building,
You're excited to be playing against somebody in the game
that counts, and you know, you get to see what
your stars are made up. So the guys are going
to leave it out there on the floor. And here's
the thing that's scary about playing Oklahoma City and the

(42:39):
teams that I've been on that have made late runs
and they're a championship, they're the champions, is you still
have a little bit of those juices left over. So
Oklahoma City is going to be a fine run machine
tonight and it's going to be a great test for
Houston to go out and see what our group is
made up, see what the big lineup looks like, see defensively,
how you go at it. And Matt, I think the

(43:00):
biggest question tonight is how the rotation is going to look.
You know, with Fred in the lineup, you knew what
you were going to get you knew, you know fifteen
picking roll up top with Alp, some Durant iso, some
probably one thirty five action with Durant popping and shin
Guon rolling or on the weak side. But I think

(43:20):
the big challenge is tonight and Email is going to
have and there's going to be broke through the season.
Is you know who rolls out there, who plays well
together and how do you get efficient offensively because it
may come down to execution and it's a real question
of who do you go through down the stretch. Clearly
Kevin Durant, but how do you think make things easy
for him and play off him and get the most
out of what our group brings to the table.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Ryan, Tonight, we're going to see the jumbo lineup with
all the bigs. If your emai at Dooka, when do
you want to use that? And when do you want
to go with the slightly small one that maybe inserting
Shepherd in the starting lineup and moving Adams out. When
should Rocket fans see that and not see it?

Speaker 12 (43:59):
Do you think, well, will it go to the create
hell for opposing teams? And the one thing that you
know is Oklahoma City goes Essentially, it will call che
Hongren a guard. They'll go five out when Harden Steinn's
off the floor, play dribble drive offense, and they really
swarm you. They truly swarm you defensively, which is hard,
and you can do that when you're young. So I
think what Mays saying is go small. We're gonna press you,

(44:22):
and we're gonna press you to stay big. And I'll
be honest, I don't think that's Oklahoma City's best offense
because Hartenstein's great down low, but you put in them
in situations where you get the ball out of Shay's
hands and you got Hartenstein shooting floaters, which he's really
good at. But it's picked your poison, and now their
spacing goes away a little bit. And if they're gonna
throw Caruso at the five something they were great at. Uh,

(44:44):
you know when he played against your kitchen pressured him
and did a lot of those things. You know, you
got to punish him inside. So I'm pretty sure that's
the message is gonna be sent home and the pressure
gets put on the opposing team.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Matt.

Speaker 12 (44:55):
To answer your question of do we match up big
with them? Do we go small? And I've been enough
the side you get extremely uncomfortable. I remember playing the
Golden State Warriors.

Speaker 6 (45:03):
They roll up the.

Speaker 12 (45:03):
Small lineup and all of a sudden, we'd be playing
lineups that we've never played the entire season, didn't know
how to work with. So I love what i May
does and I think he's gonna mix in back and forth.
Shoot the last three season game, I thought Reed Shepherd
looked the best with the five out offense and all
Smalls on the floor, he was excellent. So you're getting
a sample size of what our guys can look like.
And I think it differs from game to game.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
Visiting with our friend Ryan Hollins of SPA City Home Network,
and you will be catching him Friday when the Rockets
take on the Pistons inside Tota Center. So we we
all talked about before Fred's injury, right about Reed Shepherd's
increased role. Now, obviously Fred has done for the year.
How much did Reed's life change when he found out

(45:45):
that the ACL was gonna coll Fred the season?

Speaker 12 (45:50):
I think for Reed obviously a lot more pressure. We're
not gonna hide it, and there's a reason he was
drafted third. And I think you're gonna he's gonna get
his number, Paul because of it. And I think the
best thing that we saw in that last Prison game,
preseason game he could argue could have been the most
impactful of the season, is because we just got confidence
the guy knows how to play. Matt When we've talked,

(46:12):
none of us are off you two. None of us
have questioned if if he can play. But it's more
a question of Hey, him being confident, him taking those shots,
him defending, and honestly, man, he brought a lot of
toughness to the table in that Atlanta game. You know,
Chrey Young is not mentioning that's one of the best
guards we have to offer in the league, and he
out played him. Granted it's preseason, but he brought it

(46:35):
to the table. So hopefully that confidence can shine through
and he's going to be thrown in the fire man.
He's gonna be tested. That's that's what he came to
the NBA for, all right.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
So a couple of things. Big picture, it feels like
the national folks have obviously dropped the rockets down a
few slots because of Fred's injury. If everything goes right
this year, and let's say the Rockets are even better
than their fifty two win team of a year ago.
In your mind, what has gone right? And I'm gonna say,
if things haven't gone right for the Rockets, my guess

(47:06):
is larger because of the more of the injury bug
than anything else. Correct.

Speaker 12 (47:12):
I think that's going right is the opportunity to step
in and play big like I've never seen anything like it, Matt.
The size and the depth that Houston has, the way
they can beat you in different waves, it's truly intimidating.
And you're going to have a player on opposing team
in a mismatcher, uncomfortable with mismatches all across the floor.

(47:35):
I think everything goes right. We'd be saying championship like
Kevin Durant's too great, too late in his career and
too good to say that he'd be on a group
this talented that wouldn't have an opportunity. So everything clicks,
that's where you go. And I think the challenge now
more so than it was, and we just talked about it,
is just putting it together. But I do think that
this is a group that just looks special, Matt. You

(47:56):
know when you see special teams, we saw that ninety
five Rockets team like they look special, they have weapons.
You're going like this, this group has enough. And you
know as a player, when you got enough and when
you don't, and this group has it.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
Couple more minutes here with Ryan Hollins, a SPA City
Home network. I have been asked who is the not
necessarily breakout, but maybe most improved. I'm going with Jabari
Smith on that particular category. Is that a good selection
or is there somebody else that you think could even
make even bigger strides from year to year?

Speaker 12 (48:28):
Come on, Mattie stopped playing with me. That's unanimous. He's
just as tall as I am, if not taller, which
is freakish. He's put on at least five pounds of muscle,
five to ten pounds of muscle. Mad that we can
see and forget all of that, like his confidence, and
he's in the most ideal situation you could be in.
You know, he can look over at his childhood idle
Kevin Durant and say I want to do everything you do.

(48:49):
You know, and when Durant is going to be able
to speak a confidence into Jabbari that nobody else can
and you've seen it already, he knows the shots he's
supposed to take. He's holding himself to a different bar
and standard, and he can watch KD and say, Okay,
this is what it should look like. You know, you're
watching those guys in pregame warm ups and workouts mirror
each other and work out. So I think I'm astatic

(49:12):
for Jabari. We've seen it already. I think there's even
more to come because he's already a confident guy.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
He already believes.

Speaker 12 (49:18):
But it's different when you have someone to show it.
Kevin Garnett did it for me, so I can speak
to that firsthand, and even more exciting for what Jabbari
is going to be able to learn. And clearly he was.
I mean he was heading shoulders the best rocket in
the preseason. For whatever that means, I think it meant
a lot.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
All right, let me let you go on this. Give
me one or two teams. The West is so ridiculously loaded.
Who are you going to pay attention to more than
anybody else this year? If I said, hey, keep your
eyes on teams that might be a threat of the rockets,
who would you go with? Are the one or two
teams that would be in the way of a potential
West championship.

Speaker 12 (49:54):
I think Denver got a perfect hitting Cam Johnson. That's
that's crazy because he moves off to basketball, he's healthy.
That's a role that in the spacer and cut her
off the ball. That's made perfect for him, and he
can defend and he brings a lot of size to
the to the table. I think that's a huge fit.
I'll be honest, man, I'm intriguing with Wimby. He's kind

(50:16):
of doing some things where you know, you like to
rule out San Antonio. But we've seen this with Oklahoma City.
We've seen this with Cleveland. When those young players get
good out of nowhere, when they have one of those
mega summers and they get better, your force has an
organization to make a move to put pieces around them.
They got Darren Bopps. We'll see how that plays out.

Speaker 6 (50:37):
When he's fully healthy.

Speaker 12 (50:39):
But Wimby's doing some things that you know, I think
we all have to keep our eye on. And you know,
I can't wait to see Winby with his hot size
well against the biggest team in basketball in the Houston Rockets.
So that's something I got my eye on.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Ryan. Thank you for the time. As always, my friend,
we'll see you Friday. Hope you're Chipper in a good
move because hopefully we're gonna be celebrating one to zero
star for this season.

Speaker 12 (51:02):
Anytime, brother, I bout you coming soon, and don't play
with my emotions again.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
I would never have bought you Oklahombas City. You know
better than that. Friend. Talk to you soon. Thank you
very much, Ryan Hollins, with this Space City Home Network,
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(51:28):
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(52:10):
as well. Ema Doki will make his weekly appearance debut
tomorrow at eleven o'clock here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Let's go to kJ in Cyprus. Kju stay up for
that whole game last night.

Speaker 7 (52:24):
After the consolutely Man, I was at work, so I
didn't have much of a listening rather, but I want
to I'm gonna address something real quick, Matt to combat
with me man going into the season, mm hmm. Obviously
they knew the opposive line quarter that couldn't mouth, and

(52:49):
they knew that with Tagdale's injury and with them either
they either h had already they already knew they weren't
going to be back Step one d last night an offseason.
He's an offensive line help and you needed another wide
receiver behind theo colle Your best option in the offense

(53:09):
season for offensive line was Cam Robinson, a guy who
had got bent at his previous team, a guy who
paid twelve plus million two and you brought in Christian Kirk.
I can get out I can get out there and
give you more games for a season than Christmas Church.

Speaker 4 (53:23):
And I'm fifty.

Speaker 7 (53:24):
I'm saying I lets.

Speaker 4 (53:24):
To say this.

Speaker 7 (53:26):
The approach that they have in regards to upgrading what
you already established two years ago with CJ's ricky seasons
has been poor.

Speaker 6 (53:35):
Rooms.

Speaker 7 (53:36):
You don't bring in people who help that positions. It's
like the emphasis is so much on one side of
the football that you it's like you completely and I
don't understand how faith professionals don't see this. You know,
you do absolutely nothing for your offense. You bring in
no offensive lineman, your best bet, excuse me, and wide

(53:56):
receivers the hope that the Rickets roster. Now that may
ultimately prove out to be the case, but you get
nothing to take advantage of this window. Now we're at
the front rows because we genuinely have we're in a
quagmire in the sense that we have CJ, who was
due to get paid in the offseason, and you still
don't know what you have. You don't know if he's
closer to its rookie season or if he's closer to

(54:18):
what we're seeing right now. And if he's right in
the middle of that is even of itself as bad
because you're still gonna have to reset the market for
a quarterback that you don't have, that you don't fully
have an understanding of. I'm just I'm upset with the team.
I'm upset with the organization, and to me, it comes
from the top down to Miko with his passive aggressive

(54:39):
lack of days, are gonna approach the coaching our She's
should have been pulled out that game last night. There's
no way he should have been enough for the remainder
of that game. And if you got to set a standard,
if you've got to set the tone and let them
know that there will be accountability. I've seen I saw
last night, and I've seen in other games this season
where you routinely have three off in devenment blacking one

(55:01):
player and guys are just running free. And this is
what you come into the game with after a two
plus week time or two plus weeks oult this was
your game plan. You put back to Burials who just
jumped on the team or activised this game, and you
make him you appointment turn over a guy who's shown
you he has that ability. The coaching moves, the decision

(55:23):
making in this scene is ridiculous, and I genuinely wonder
as a fan, what do we can expect moving forward?

Speaker 2 (55:34):
I don't know, Okayjay, I mean, you let it out.
There are some myth ten statements. If Stefan Diggs stays
healthy for a full season, does he stay in Houston
this year? If Tank Dell is healthy, you're not worrying

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about going to draft Jayden Higgins or Jaylen Noel. You're
just not. I mean, we can make some easy assumptions
on that. Maybe the focus would have been on the
offensive line a greater than beyond just drafting Arianta Rasory.
But you knew that going in. You knew when stuff

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When you reduced the contract for Stefan Diggs to a
single year, you knew he was playing for a contract.
He didn't owe it to the city Houston to be
the good soldier and stick around here for a long
period of time. He was gonna go get his big
contract wherever it was in Houston or somewhere else, and
you gave it but draft pick for that. I told y'all,

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and I don't mean look, I don't want to be
I told you guy. It isn't a funny how people
say I don't want to be I told you so, guy,
But I told you so, so I'm gonna do it.
I apologize. I sincerely apologize. I told you that was
a bad deal. If you wanted to bring Steffan Diggs
here and pay him out for the remainder of his contract,
which I think was three years, then that to me
makes sense, so he can at least you can least

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lay the groundwork for him being here for a while.
But when you cut the deal immediately and you still
give the pay the bills the second round pick, that
was asking to lose the trade, you know, and Tank
Dell hurt himself the year before, you knew there was
going to be some issues with him being durable because
of his frame. So I understand going after wide receivers

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in the draft. But Christian Kirk was lightning in a bottle.
And the problem is Christian Kirk had a history of
being hurt. Braxon Burials just a guy in Kansas City,
and he's just a guy here.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
Xavier Hutchinson has been okay.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
But maybe they were just so wigged out about the
fact that receiving receivers room was so depth challenged that
they had to go address it so early on. But
they forgot about the most important thing, and that was
protecting the quarterback. And what kJ said made a lot
of sense. Think about this. If you have a franchise quarterback,

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you are proud to give him as much money as possible,
because that's what franchise quarterbacks do. They gather the huge
contracts after their rookie deal, these obscene amounts of money,
fifty fifty five, sixty million dollars a year. It's whack
how these quarterbacks are getting it, but that's what quarterbacks
typically get if they're elite. If they're pretty good, you

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almost have to pay him the exact same as you
would the elites. So if you were to get the
crystal ball out right now and tell me where the
Houston Texans are three years from now, when CJ. Stroud
is underneath and out of his rookie contract, you don't
know they knew. Kansas City knew what they had with

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Pat Mahomes. They did this guy is an elite player.
We're gonna lock him up, give him a half a
billion dollars, and he's gonna be our guy. They absolutely
knew it. I don't think we know it here, and
that's pretty scary.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
Because if you were to give.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
You know, uh CJ all these first round picks or
high draft picks on offensive line, it's gonna take time
to gel. I mean, Arie on Terroristory may be a
very fine offensive line in the NFL, but right now
he's in the midst of a bunch of average guys.
Juice Gruggs has not panned out and split in time.
Titus Howard has been okay, but it's been like we

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haven't had consistent Titus Howard throughout his NFL.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
Career, largely because of injury.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
This is I don't want to call him a mess
because the defense is elite. Even despite the fact that
the points I gave up yesterday, I still think it's
an elite defense. So obviously one side of the ball
is handled, but this other side is putrid from its administration,

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from its lack of detail from the general manager, and frankly,
the decision to bring in Nick Cayley, who's never run
an offense by himself. It was Sean mcvagh running the
things in Los Angeles. Don't kid yourself. You are right
where you are, and in some cases you're worse because
you are running up against the clock for CJ's contract
and you don't have extra draft picks to go make

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that big deal, and you I don't know what your
cap situation is, but it's about to be severely impaired
once you start to pay CJ in a couple of
years down the road. I get it. There's been malpractice
on one side of the football, on the administrative side
of this. And if I'm on the defensive side, if
I'm Stingley, if I'm a Toetoa, no how saaher has

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continues to get these penalties, which is ridiculous. But if
I'm Danial Hunter, if I'm Will Anderson, if I'm Stingley,
if I'm peaching, I'm starting to get pissed. We can
only do so much. They got to be thinking and purty.
Maybe back this week for the Niners schedule as not

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getting easier, and oh, by what you get two Colts
games coming up to I said If this team does
not go three and one in this four game stretch
with the one road game yesterday in the three straight
home games, and they don't go three and one, they're
not making the playoffs. Now again, things could obviously change
depending on what's in front of you, but how many

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two and four teams make the playoffs? How many? With
the two wins being against basically the second worst NFL
team in the league in Tennessee and maybe the fifth
or sixth worst now at Baltimore because of Nolamar Jackson,
by the way, is not practicing still yet. This is
it's it's unfortant, it's it's it's it's either turning a

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blind eye or talent evaluation or just failure to meet
a crucial need is worthy of why this team is
continuing to have issues on the offensive side of the football.
Time now for some gut feelings. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety. If you want to join

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the conversation seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero seven one three two one two five seven ninety,
it's a Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you want
to get in with your sports predictions, let me hear
from you right now seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. Listen it up, God, listen to Toma Yo.

Speaker 20 (01:02:45):
They got a gut dealer.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas Show.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, uh, we are transparent here
on the Matt Thomas Show. Ross Ross Beck with us tomorrow.
The only color I have on the line right now
is Brad. And the rule is very simple. If you
call seven one three two one two five seven ninety

(01:03:08):
with your gut feelings, you will go on the air
before Brad does. If you do not call before in
the next handful of minutes, Bride will go first on
gut feelings. That's your decision. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. If you call in with any sort
of gut feelings, you get to get in before Brad. Jhonathan,

(01:03:32):
I need you to write these down because I'm fifteen
things at once.

Speaker 4 (01:03:36):
I got two.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
You're only doing twelve things at once. I'm by default
I'm giving you a shot. All right, Let's talk about
what we said last week on gut feelings. I had
the rockets beating the Pelicans ding. I had Texas beating
Kentucky by fourteen though, yeah, as hard as Beantings fault

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Bengals upsetting the Steelers. That's a win for me. I
got Aaron Glenn out at the end of this season,
to be determined. I got Mike Elko staying at Texas
A and M to be determined. And I have a
non sexy hire at Penn State to be determined. All right, Ross,

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Blue Jays aren't coming back. Loss. Dodgers Mariners World Series
obviously a loss. Texans lose by the Seahawks twenty four
to seventeen. That's pretty close. I think I had twenty
seven to twenty one. It turn up being twenty seven
to nineteen.

Speaker 4 (01:04:41):
Yeah, pretty close.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
He has Aaron Glenn back next year for the Jets,
all right, John Harbaugh, you say out in Baltimore if
they lose two more games, yeah, to stick with that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
I will stick with that out sixteen. And this is
what's happening right now. Okay, Just you have Lamar Jackson,
two time MVP, and you can't turn it over.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
I don't know, all right, all right, I'm gonna just
stick with it too that. So if you got any
gut feelings. Let us know it's seven one three two
one two five seven nine. You remember again, if you
get in, you're getting in before brand does seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero. I'm gonna
type these up because Jonathan is answering phone calls right now.
We're kind of a small ship here today. I'm going

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to give you two predictions off of one statement. Two
predictions off of one statement, off one statement. Oka, if
the Texans don't make the playoffs, you're writing this down, Jonathan, Yeah.
Nick Cassario stays, Nick, Kayley goes.

Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
It, Texans don't make the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
If the Texans don't make the playoffs, and if the
Texans don't make the playoffs, then they have to go
look for a new offensive lineman, offensive coordinator. I think
they can go get Mike McDaniel, who will be fired
in Miami for OC yep.

Speaker 4 (01:06:17):
Okay, so you got you played it one more time.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
Here we go. Casario stays, Kaylee out McDaniel Lynn Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:06:29):
So I'll say, okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
And the reason why the reason I'm doing this is
because I think the text the next Texans offensive coordinator
has to be somebody with significant playing experience and being
successful at it. That's my gut on that. M all right,
this is me being totally Homer. Rockets beat the Thunder tonight, Sir,

(01:06:58):
that's me. It's a completleet Homer. I'll stay with those two, Jathan,
what you got.

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
I'll step it a little bit further with the Rockets.
I think next time we come back to this segment,
they'll be owen they w three oh three and oh.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Three and oh all right, that's next Tuesday.

Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
Next Tuesday, we're gonna be sitting here with the grin
on my face.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
So they have tonight they've got the Thunder Brooklyn, I
mean on Detroit on Friday and Brooklyn on Monday. M
I see it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:34):
I see it. I like how you think I feel it.
I feel it, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
Let's go seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety
Brent is with usprint. What's in your gut this week?

Speaker 6 (01:07:50):
Well, I have a long term gut. I have a
gut feeling that the Astros are gonna package some youngsters
and we're gonna be looking for some back end starters
for the rotation and the gut is also telling me
we're going to resign Kyla Tucker for a right field duties.

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
No chance.

Speaker 6 (01:08:10):
Well, that's what my gut saying, Mike.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
All right, Matt, how big is your gut? That's what
I want to know. What's your waist size this week?
You want to tell me I love you Brent like
a like a second cousin, but you can come back
happening you don't think so. No chance, I don't know,
no chance, no way, no how, never gonna happen. I

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mean your right fielders, Cam Smith. That's true, honestly. Seven
one three two one two five seven Nini, Ray, What
is in your gut this week?

Speaker 6 (01:08:48):
Carry got a good that.

Speaker 16 (01:08:50):
First of all, it's it's too many people, in fact,
including the two morning guys, it is too many. I
have a gut that it is too many people infatuated
with former Astro players.

Speaker 21 (01:09:00):
Let it go.

Speaker 16 (01:09:01):
Bregman is not coming back, and King Tuk I need him,
but he's not coming back. The infatuation needs to stop.
And my other gut is Matt Thomas will call Game
one in the Western.

Speaker 21 (01:09:12):
Conference Finals live from the Toyota Center.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
That's not talking about Thank you, Ray, I love that idea,
Thank you, Ray, that makes it gets too fired up.
You know what, we are blind homers on the Rockets, right,
I mean, I guarantee you Jonathan Denver Radio is like, man,
the Nuggets are gonna win this thing. Minneapolis Radio, Oh,
the Wolves are going to do this. Dallas is like
Cooper Flags, our hero. He's gonna he's he's gonna be there.

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Kyrie's going to come back and play. Anthony David's gonna
be all right. Oklahoma City's like, hold my beer. We
just won sixty five games last year, won the championship.
We're the champs. We're the same roster. Just saying Renfro
eleven forty, what's in your gut? Renfrod?

Speaker 12 (01:09:57):
I'll tell you this way.

Speaker 18 (01:09:59):
The Texas, they don't slip back almost another year with
these offensive coordinators. And I definitely agree with you one.
And I thought that was the problem. They might well
have kept by destroyed for what they got going now.
Because if you cannot get an offensive coach that can
call offensive player and that no and get in tune

(01:10:21):
with the quarterback, well me and you know you're gonna
have problems and everything else. Look what the the Detroit
offensive coach left Detroit and went to uh went to Chicago.
Look what he's doing. He's turning that quarterback around. So
you've got to have a quarterback coach that knows offensive scheme,

(01:10:43):
not a skined to attack an offensive a defensive team
and move the pocket when you don't have an offensive line.
So my good feeling. Until we get that offensive situation
straighten up, we definitely gott to be dealing with trying
to catch up.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
All right, get all that around, all that down. Thank
you for inpropriate shit that seven one three two one
two five seven. I ain't remember you get in before
Brad does seven one three two one two five seven.

Speaker 3 (01:11:08):
Hine, Let's go to a biscuit, biskey, whatch in your
gut this week?

Speaker 11 (01:11:12):
Cowhi back cooh man.

Speaker 22 (01:11:14):
I think I must have jumped a gun yesterday. With
my gun on the rocket side. I'm gonna wait to
ross comebacks. You know you always criticize me, but my
gut is going to the World Series. Man, the Dodgers
and four maybe five. But this is this is where
I'm going with it, Matt. I think everybody pretty much
seemed Dodgers on take care of business. But I think

(01:11:36):
it's gonna be a historic in the run differentiip I
think it's gonna be a bunch of blowouts.

Speaker 1 (01:11:43):
Man, what.

Speaker 12 (01:11:46):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
So you think the Dodgers are gonna win the series?
But would you say by more than ten runs?

Speaker 12 (01:11:54):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:11:55):
Double that properly?

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
He it doubles that.

Speaker 12 (01:11:59):
They have a bunch of you over there.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
I don't know. They got Shane Bieber going, they had
have you him ready for the for the series.

Speaker 22 (01:12:08):
Yeah, no left handed pitching.

Speaker 6 (01:12:13):
Uh.

Speaker 22 (01:12:14):
They had to expand a lot just to get to
the World Series. And the Dodgers the rolling and they stack.
I think it's gonna be at least five runs each day.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
All right, Well, I hope you're wrong. I don't want
I don't want four blowouts or five blowouts. I want it.
I want a close series and I want O Canada
to win. I'm saying it right now. Thank you Biscuit
for the phone call. I want the Dodgers, I mean,
I want the Dodgers to lose. Let's go Blue Jays.
Let's go seven one three, two, one two, five, seven.
Honety of those of you on hole, We'll get to

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you in a matter of moments. A matter of fact,
only one person stands in the way of Brad. So
the more you call with your gut feelings, the better
chance you have to hear Brad. Not until the very
last part of the gut feeling segment seven one three,
two one two five seven ninety all right, final call

(01:13:06):
aid for gun feelings at seven one three two one
two five sevening, can you get the priority over briand
who's standing by seven to one three two one two
five seven in James, what is it you've got at
eleven fifty.

Speaker 21 (01:13:22):
James.

Speaker 11 (01:13:24):
Yeah, they're gonna figure out the running game. Jamiko Ryans
is gonna figure out some way to get that running
game going, and they're gonna beat San Francisco. They're gonna
one hundred Dard Russurant on next Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Are you sniff and Blue again?

Speaker 7 (01:13:38):
No, I'm not.

Speaker 11 (01:13:39):
I'm telling you they're gonna fix that running game. They're
gonna figure out somewhere that's bringing the extra tight end
fullback or an extra Lindum. They're gonna fix that running
game because if they don't, it's gonna be a long season.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
It is or is a long season. You know, they
haven't had a one hundred yard running game yet this year.

Speaker 11 (01:13:54):
Right, well, this is my gut prediction. You watch and
see on Sunday, they're gonna have a one hundred rush
on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
All right, you know what, James, you're right. It's called
gut feelings. So you don't have to apologize if you're wrong,
but you're allowed to brag if you're right. I don't
think you're gonna be right, but you know what, teach
his own right, all right, thanks later.

Speaker 3 (01:14:18):
The Texans running game is hot garbage.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
Remember I said up to tell the truth yesterday, Jonathan,
I wanted them to go get a running back. They're
gonna have to.

Speaker 3 (01:14:29):
I mean, I like what he marks, but Woody Marx
can't carry the ball.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
Twenty five times or twenty two times. It's not gonna happen.
He doesn't, he doesn't have again, I don't know he'll
ever be that guy. He's a serviceable guy. I mean,
it's done a nice job for a rookie campaign. Not
a battle receiver out of the backfield. But I mean, did.

Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
Y'all watch it that Tampa Bay Detroit game yesterday?

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
You had Montgomery second and you had Jimmy uh Jamir
Gibbs first.

Speaker 7 (01:14:57):
That.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
I mean IDs who if I get one of those
guys run game matters and if they were given bad
information about Joe Mixon or they were hiding stuff about
Joe Mixon or Joe Mixon's recuperation process will slowed for

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some reason without us knowing about it. Malpractice because they
knew about Joe Mixon for months, and how they have
not addressed the situation going with Nick Chubb.

Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
Nice guy, but well pass this prime.

Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
I'm still surprised how accurate you were in the summer
saying he's not coming back.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
You know why because the Texans Insider. That's exactly the
reason why mister Texas is the Texans Insider. I don't
know much, Jonathan, but I know these things. I can
smell these things for a mile away. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Brad, what is it
your gut this week? Brad Well.

Speaker 23 (01:15:58):
I think that they have to find a way to
keep Bruce, Bryce Matthews and Zach Cole on the team.
So therefore they're gonna have to get rid of a
middle endfield. They're like ramon your as, that's the number
one guy that's got gonna go, and they got to
pick up at least one to two starting pitchers and

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at least two relief pitchers. When I watched that Detroit game,
that last game Detroit and what was at Seattle, I
mean I couldn't. I was made an amazement of at
the relief pitchers. I've never seen our pitchers do as
good as those guys. Those guys were unbelievable. So they're
gonna have to address those two, the starting pitcher and

(01:16:39):
the relief pitcher. As far as football, the quarterback CJ. Shroun,
he's not gonna get an extension. To me, he ain't
proven nothing now.

Speaker 12 (01:16:50):
Caserio.

Speaker 23 (01:16:52):
I don't know if he's on the chopping block now,
but if he don't have a good draft, because they
got like five to six pieces, and if he hits,
they're gonna help CJ.

Speaker 12 (01:17:03):
Strout.

Speaker 23 (01:17:03):
But if he doesn't, I think Nick is gone after
next year. I'm trying to think if there's anything else
like that, that's that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
Matt, all right, thanks thanks very much for that. Under
Jonathany wrote all that down, but it's kind of confusing,
but it's fine. I don't think I'm make sure I'm
very clear when I take this. I don't think a
Saria loses his job this year, even if they don't
make the playoffs. But I think he'll be on finner ice.

(01:17:36):
I mean the seat will be significantly warmer than it
is right now. Hannah ain't putting up with this. Cal
I don't think particularly cares, but Hannah ain't putting up
with this. Hannah wants a refurbished energy stadium or a
new stadium, and she can't have That's happening when the
Texans don't make the playoffs and still not making the
Super Bowl yet, or still not making the AFC Championship

(01:17:57):
game yet, just saying, Hannah, she'll come after you. She'll
just she's coming out. She's not letting old sweater vest
or vest guy have free reign if you can't get
this offensive line fixed and making these veteran acquisitions that

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don't pan out. Christian Kirk has not panned out. CJ.
Garnold Johnson did not pan out. Stefan Diggs did not
pan out. Cam Robinson did not pan out. And I
ain't paying for this. She got that black car balance
to pay for Chris Jersey Village eleven fifty six on

(01:18:40):
The Matt Thomas Show. With Ross. Chris, what's on your gut?
It's in your gut this week.

Speaker 15 (01:18:45):
Yeah, Hey, Matt, I am so proud of George Springer
and all the good work that he did advance to
the World Series. They said last time he's in the
top five all time for the posteason home runs. I mean,
that's that's a great stat So my gut's telling me, Matt,
George Springer is gonna hit so many dingers in the

(01:19:07):
World Series. He's gonna be the MVP, and Toronto's gonna win. Baby,
let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
Let's go Blue Jays.

Speaker 3 (01:19:14):
Oh Canada, Baby, thank you, Chris.

Speaker 4 (01:19:15):
I wanna say, Oh Canada, but you go Blue Jays.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
Yeah, you're gonna hear Oh Canada at least twice. Are
you ready to hear that.

Speaker 4 (01:19:25):
I'm just I'm dechange it real quick. You know, no,
you know it's not horrible, So let me do That's good.

Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
You get a chance to reflect on what I said
about God bless America.

Speaker 4 (01:19:34):
There was no time to reflect. I don't reflect. It's
not better than the start. I'm not doing this.

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
I'm just teasing you. I do like look, I do
like the starspecka banner, But I love, God, bless America.
I'll tell you what, America The beautiful's pretty good too.
Don't kid yourself about that. But let me tell you.
The Rockets play in Toronto a week from Wednesday. Should
I get my Here's the thing. If I shoot video

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of myself sing no Canada, I.

Speaker 4 (01:20:09):
Will be that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
Oh I will. I will face the wrath I'm not
facing quite some time.

Speaker 4 (01:20:16):
Yeah, no, even don't even think about that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
Don't even you know. I'm not em gonna turn my
phone on.

Speaker 4 (01:20:23):
Just sing it as your heart desires, and hope no
one records.

Speaker 2 (01:20:25):
And no one hope, no one records. It Just me
and Craig, Me and Craig. All right, that was got
feelings for today? Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
ninety Let's get some round ball rock to get ready
for the third hour The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Here from Oklahoma City. This is Sports Talk. Seven ninety is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:47):
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
Before you joined us, Jonathan Ross and I had a
fantasy five of sports theme songs on television.

Speaker 4 (01:21:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
Ross won, and he deserves too. Because I ran out
of ideas. I went with Wimbledon theme, which sucked, but
he took this as number one and it He's right,
it's the number one.

Speaker 4 (01:21:20):
It's so nostalgic. I f like a little kid and
like turng on TV again.

Speaker 2 (01:21:24):
Well, you're gonna be able to hear it tonight because
the rockets are taken on the Thunder six thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
The game will be here on seven.

Speaker 2 (01:21:30):
Aintiy I suggest you watch the open on TV, watch
the game on TV, turn the sound down and listen
to me right here on seven Ainty. That's just my advice.
You know, you do what you need to do, but
if you are unable to get to a television tonight,
I'll have the game for you right here from Oklahoma City,
beginning at six thirty twelve o four on Sports Talk
seven ninety. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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We take this program until two o'clock today, believe it
or not. Today all things about George Springer and now,
for the first time ever, we bring you the news
at noon through the sounds of last night's games.

Speaker 7 (01:22:11):
We.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
Rove Field Horazi, what is it gone? The pails in
the first time in thirty two years. The blow says blow.

Speaker 12 (01:22:35):
The panel.

Speaker 24 (01:22:41):
Six offensive linemen in this person's goal. Charbonnat is the back.
The middle was clawed, stutterstap, and now he tries to
drive his way into the end.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
Zone with some help. Tug said the single.

Speaker 24 (01:22:54):
Now they have to recover from the penalty. You get
on two scores. The way the offense is playing in
this environment could be trouble and right for the end
zone and scoring and.

Speaker 2 (01:23:02):
Dunking the Texans.

Speaker 9 (01:23:04):
Smith and Jigbu got to find a way to get
off the field.

Speaker 24 (01:23:07):
It's been hard for this pass rush to get at Darnold.
This time, he's got plenty of time, runs out of it,
loses the balls to scrabble, and it's recovering the end zone.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
Touchdown Texans.

Speaker 7 (01:23:17):
On the takeaway, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
Will Anderson.

Speaker 24 (01:23:23):
Running behind that heavy formation and just walking into the
end zone and seattle. Then we go again, third and goal.
Crowd has plenty of time, hesitates, We'll try to find somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
Back pedals, the Labors all over the throw.

Speaker 24 (01:23:42):
It is caught touchdown for they bought time. Believe all
of the pain Mariners fans feel about blowing that three
to one lead in the game seven.

Speaker 2 (01:23:58):
There it is your Texans, massively disappointed you, and I'm
curious and I have not asked this yet today on
the show. It's twelve oh seven here, and that was
the news of noon seven one three two one two
five seven. Hoe ey? Did everybody stay up late for
that one? Now, Jonathan, you said you fell asleep. Did

(01:24:18):
you fall asleep because you were mad they were losing?
Or you just fell asleep because you were asleep?

Speaker 4 (01:24:22):
It was like a mix of both, like you know,
and I'm just dozing off and the next thing I'll
wake up and it's the fourth courtlin I got Tennis off?

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
Mm hmmm. So what I did? I went and had
dinner last night in town here in Oklahoma City, and
then double cups of coffee that kept me awake, and
I watched every painful minute of it. Now, some of
it was not so painful, But I want to know
from y'all, what are you doing, Houston Texans fans right now?
This was not a must win last night, but it

(01:24:51):
would have been a really good one to get. And
now you are staring at three and a half games
out of first place in the AFC South three and
a half and you still have to face the Indianapolis
Colts twice tell me, tell me, tell me what you're thinking.

(01:25:11):
Let me give you my random thoughts on the game,
in no particular order, because I was jotting some notes
down during the game last night, and so uh again,
it was eleven thirty twelve o'clock, so it's not the
best thing in the world. Twenty seven nineteen. The final score.
The left guard combination of Lincoln Tomlinson and Juice Scruggs sucked.

(01:25:36):
The play calling sucked. C J. Stroud takes huge sacks
for big time losses, too many of them. No rush
game to speak up. Between Marks and Chubb.

Speaker 7 (01:25:48):
C J.

Speaker 3 (01:25:48):
Stroud had twenty five rush yards.

Speaker 2 (01:25:50):
Listen, listen to this list I'm giving you, man, if
I was a Texans fan, I would be pissed. You
guys gotta call and tell me how mad jar or
if you already checked out, because if I told you
in the NFL a team was three and a half
games out of first place after six weeks, maybe I'd
be checked out too. This stuff it is terrible. Let

(01:26:15):
me continue. The run calls in the second half on
the third and one and fourth and one running left
both sides stuffed twice. The fact that Seattle had so
many mistakes yesterday, and the Texans took advantage of some
of them, but not all of them. How the Texans
were down only eight points at halftime, as I put

(01:26:36):
on Twitter, yesterday was a minor miracle. He was eleven
until Seattle did a terrible job to cont minute to eight.
Seahawk defense last night made the Texans offense miserable. Three sacks,
eight TfL, seven quarterback hits. Tim Settle jumping on a
pile to end the game, now that was a little

(01:26:56):
bit of a I didn't love the call on that one.
I don't think Tim Settle did it intentionally as a
sign of aggravation. But you got to be careful that
if you do anything like that late in games, when
you jump on a pile, they're looking for the fifteen
yard penalty. That sucked. Timey Fairbairn, who I believe should
be in the Texans Ring of Honor because he's bailed

(01:27:18):
out the Texans bacon so many times over the last
two or three years. Especially, all you had to do
to give your team a little bit of a glimmer.
Was it two fifty two to four left to go
in the game, You had one timeout, you had the
two minute warning.

Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
You kick the ball out of bounds.

Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
Or you kick it like you've never kicked it before
to go, so it's a guaranteed touchback. The same thing
would have been to kick it out of bounds so
they couldn't return it. Seattle returned it burned six seconds
off the clock. You then lost the two minute warning,
and the extra chance is to call the game. Then
you get the fifteen yard penalty and the game is over.
That was brain dead win in the world. Is Demiko

(01:28:01):
Ryan's gonna out coach somebody too? Can I get that
from somebody? What am I gonna hear about? Man? That
play call or that or that situation coach A which
is Demko out coached coach b because Sam Donald tried
to give it to you. That Cooper Cup little.

Speaker 3 (01:28:23):
Wide receiver pass.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
That was horrific. That was that that that smelled like
interception for the time the Cooper Cup put the ball
in his hands, couldn't stop jack and Jackson Smith jigba.
But you know what, nobody can do that? Then then
Donald is losing the ball left and right in the
end zone. Will Anderson gave it, I mean puts tremendous pressure.

(01:28:47):
Donald did a terrible job of holding on to it
er trying to the Seahawks gave you chances. I'm gonna
ask you again, and I feel like I'm stopping on
a table. When are the Texans gonna out coach somebody?
When is Nick Caley gonna draw up plays and go?

Speaker 7 (01:29:04):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:29:05):
That was spectacular, That was fun. The best thing the
Texans did all night last night was throw to Dalton
Schultz over and over and over again. That was working.
But that can't get you down the field. That's gonna
eventually be stopped. Nico Collins in concussion protocol. That's not great.

(01:29:28):
Christian Kirk didn't suit up yesterday. That's not great. Braxon
Barrio is playing a lot that's not great. Squads two
and four, silly penalties, bad sacks, bad offensive line, can't

(01:29:50):
execute a special teams playing the crucial moment of the
game twenty seven to nineteen, And as much as I
could say, the game didn't indicate how bad the Texans played.
They had their chance. Now if if Fairbearan kicks the
ball out of bounds like he was supposed to, first down,

(01:30:12):
run timeout version, the first play that Sandle runs two
minute timeout two minute warning the second play you call
the time out. You were gonna have a lot of time.
You'd had maybe I don't know, thirty forty five to
fifty seconds, maybe had something better than what you did
and said you had to burn six and you lost
the opportunity to use the two minute timeout two minute

(01:30:33):
warnings to help you control the clock. They're getting out coached.
Their roster is being outperformed by evaluation and depth and
decision making. CJ was good, not great through the interception,

(01:30:54):
but was harassed all night long defense for giving up
twenty seven points. And some low number did everything they could,
did everything they could. I'd be pissed. So Texans, fans
of your pissed, let me know. I don't bite. I'll
let you listen. I'll listen, man, I'm just listen to y'all.
Let y'all do your thing. Seven one three two one

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two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety We have the Rockets opener tonight here
in Oklahoma City, and we have the Blue Jays representing
the American League. So sorry, Seattle Mariner fan, or as
you would say, sorry, not sorry. Seven one three two

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one two five seven ninety if you want to jump
in seven one three, two one two five, seven ninety
back on the phones when we come back. It is
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross here from Oklahoma City
on Sports Talk seven ninety. All right, thank you, gotta
be aggravated. It's just it's a team that is underperforming.

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The Colts play better, and you've got a serious problem
with that offensive line that's giving you twenty five rushing
yards and your quarterback as you're leading rusher. And if
you don't win these next three home games, like if
they go two and one, that's still gonna put them significantly.

(01:32:23):
I mean, I'm looking at the you know me, I'm
standings guy, and I apologize for many reasons for that.
I can't. I can't. I keep apologizing to y'all, but
it's just the truth of who I am. You go
two and one, that will put you at four and five.
I don't know, you got your four division winners, your

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three walled cards right now. If the season were to
end today, would be Buffalo who's four and two, the
Chargers at four and three, Jacksonville four and three, and
then Kansas City would not even be in the playoffs.
They've been the outset looking at four and three, so
you're gonna have to climb at least to teams. Actually
that's not I'm true because Cincinnati has played one more game.
They're three and four. My gut feeling was from last hour.

(01:33:13):
I think Asia gets another year to fix this, but
you got to go get an experienced play caller. You
just can't let that futility of a Nick Kelly offense continue.
Let's go the phones, talk to some people. Let's say
hello to us Scott and river Oaks. At twelve twenty
one on the Matt Thomas Show. Ross Scott, A good
afternoon to you.

Speaker 13 (01:33:32):
Oh, Matt, I am very tired and I'm very grumpy today.
I'm in a very bad mood. I did not get
enough sleep and that was just the most aggravating football
game I got in my car. When you were kind
of talking about, you know, Nko out coaches the other coach,
I agree with you. I don't even think necessarily though,

(01:33:54):
it's in game decisions that you have to look at
and say he's getting out coached. To me take away
watching the game last night is they didn't look prepared
going into the game. I mean, I could probably list
off seven to ten examples. We'd start in the first quarter.
The Shai Yar penalty. That's a team that's not focused.
Nico Collins dropping that ball, I mean, I know what

(01:34:16):
drops happen. That's a critical play. If you're taking winning
the game seriously, that can't happen. And then you see
penalties with this team that I've never seen before. I've
never when they called the PI that would have gone
in our favor with Nico Collins, but arionte Erstrie was
downfield on a dapping play like I've never seen that before.

(01:34:38):
Or the in the fourth quarter when we have the
off the penalty on the offensive linemen blocking when Stroud
got blasted to I've never seen a personal foul penalty
against an offensive lineman in a drop back pass situation
like that. I mean, they're not They're not prepared or
focus going into the game, and coming off of a
bye week too. It's just really really aggravating. And then

(01:35:01):
another thing I've called in before and said we need
to be a conservative football team, and I looked wrong
after the Ravens game.

Speaker 7 (01:35:08):
But they don't.

Speaker 13 (01:35:09):
They think that they need to prove that they're good
at throwing the ball downfield. And I really think we
learned a lot last night. Granted we didn't know if
it was fools gold but we saw with the Ravens
and the Titans. But they have to accept, in my opinion,
that that's not what they do. So, you know, Stroud
trying to make something happen on the first drive, and

(01:35:30):
I mean, that's horrible, no matter if you're a good
offense or bad offense. But we have to be okay
playing field position and punting the football. I know we
can't run the ball to save our lives anyway, so
it really doesn't matter. But we are just shooting ourselves
in the foot. And it's honestly astonishing how many chances
our defense gave us. I don't know. The whole thing
was frustrating. The last thing I'll say is thank goodness

(01:35:53):
the Rockets play at six point thirty the night. If
they would have put us in Golden State or in
Los Angeles and we had to stay up till o'clock
the night, I would have lost by freaking mind. But
thanks thanks for the time that I appreciate.

Speaker 7 (01:36:05):
God.

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
It's got good to hear from me. My buddy Pollard's
vision on Twitter. He gave me a list. The entire
coaching staff was as bad as the players. GM piece
meals a shot line. The on line coach was the
assistant of the coach from last year who got fired.
The OC doesn't have a clue. Two weeks of prepare
and they play like that Shaemun coaches and players defense fanilla. Yeah,

(01:36:26):
fit's pretty right, fits right, guys. I mean, T why
I couldn't do it? T why I couldn't be better? Red, Matt,
I couldn't be a deep still Matt, I can't do it.
I for got enough to spare in my life. This
organization continues to repeat itself, doesn't show up in big games,

(01:36:47):
getting out coached more times than not. And I'm not
talking about just about Demko, and I do want to
make sure I'm very careful and says I do believe
Demko is going to be a good NFL coach. But
yesterday and so many times, the un disciplined, the penalties,
the lack of execution. You have to if you're Demko,
Ryans or Frank Rosser, whoever the hell, you have to

(01:37:09):
make sure Kimie fairparent if you don't kick this ball
out of bounds. You're not coming home with us.

Speaker 3 (01:37:15):
You can take the greyhound back from Seattle.

Speaker 2 (01:37:17):
You know how long that would take? Like three days?
Just the little things, the attention to detail, the use
of timeouts and clock management. Not not just not just
Amiko's problem, that's everybody's problem. They just don't do good
teams don't have coaches to do it. That's a big problem.
And then moving a Bobby Slowick play caller to a

(01:37:41):
guy who's never done it on his own is another thing.
We were you thinking, Nikki se What were you thinking?
I'm getting mad.

Speaker 3 (01:37:49):
I don't even a dog in a fight.

Speaker 2 (01:37:52):
Eh, Mark on seven nine of your twelve twenty six
I Mark, Hey, what's going on? Hi? Hear me?

Speaker 7 (01:38:05):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:38:06):
Yeah, go ahead, you're on? Go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:38:08):
Uh.

Speaker 21 (01:38:09):
I just wanted to point out a couple of things.

Speaker 6 (01:38:11):
Uh, I mean yeah, I was.

Speaker 18 (01:38:12):
I was like you, I took a.

Speaker 8 (01:38:14):
Four hour NAPF gotta watch the Texans. No meritors was
happy with that. Uh, And I yeah, I hope they
win the World Series. I hate the Dodgers, but if
you look at the parallels between the Longhorns and the Texans,
it's crazy. It's like somehow they're connected. Terrible offenses, great defenses,

(01:38:37):
terrible play calling, terrible offensive lines.

Speaker 2 (01:38:42):
I just wanted to get your take on that.

Speaker 7 (01:38:43):
I know you're not a big longhorn guy, but.

Speaker 2 (01:38:45):
Uh, I mean I know who they are. I mean,
how about anti them? I just they you know what
they've done is they've kind of I mean, you you
beat up on you know what, the parallel is actually
pretty good, Mark, you beat up on subpar competition, and
you know you barely be Kentucky over the weekend, but
you've you've fallen in the big games. I I kind
of get it, although Oklahoma was a good win. Frankly,

(01:39:07):
I feel I'm a little more bullish on Texas than
I'm on the Texans.

Speaker 3 (01:39:10):
Would you agree to or disagree with that?

Speaker 6 (01:39:13):
No, you're you are.

Speaker 8 (01:39:14):
I mean, you're always a fair take on everything.

Speaker 2 (01:39:17):
So well, you're the best. Thank you. I you know, again,
I don't know if it's the complete same parallel. Thank
you for the call. But but Texas underwhelmed. But the
Oklahoma game was a huge win for them, and you
snuck by Kentucky. I mean you're still in the race.

(01:39:37):
But yeah, I don't think anybody that's a Texas fan
today is going, man, this has been a satisfying season.
I'm beating up on San Jose State and Sam Houston
or whoever else. That doesn't inspire anybody. I get that,
and you're not if you're a Texans fan, you're not
inspired by beating Tennessee in Baltimore. That wasn't the when

(01:40:00):
that Baltimore game took place, and y'all known as well
as I do, that wasn't the real Baltimore Ravens. That
was like the G League Ravens. Beating Cooper Rush is
no great accomplishment. Half the defensive starters were not available
in the game. You just if I would have to

(01:40:26):
think those of you that are bumping around listening to
the show right now that are Texans, meaning you just
have to get kind of fatigued by the consistency of
the losses. You're not inventing new ways to lose. You're
just kind of doing the same thing. Being out coached,
critical errors, drop passes, and the number one fundamental thing,

(01:40:48):
two issues you've had since the start of the season
remained two issues. You have no running game to speak
of now. Granted, Joe Mixon being gone hurts, but that
could have been addressed somehow, some way, a lot sooner
than the middle of this season. Either that or again
Joe Mixon's lying, the Texans are lying, or somebody's getting

(01:41:08):
bad information. But to go into this season thinking that
Damian Pierce, a goomba, walle Nick Chubb, God love him
for trying, and a rookie was gonna be able to
satisfy and be a competent running back group, It just wasn't.
Twelve twenty nine of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross,
we are with you for the next ninety minutes seven

(01:41:30):
one three two, one two five seven ninety seven one three, two,
one two five seven ninety today's edition to Believe It
or Not is all things about? George Springer had that
big home run last night to help the Blue Jays
win the American League Pennant. Can you believe the Mariners
were up to nothing in that series?

Speaker 7 (01:41:50):
Hmmm?

Speaker 2 (01:41:53):
So sorry? Do you hear the warmth of my heart?
Those two arrogant Seattle fans that called me names? Do
you understand how sad I am for you today? I
feel bad for my buddy Softy. I do a little
bit because we've been there and done that We've have
a lot of Agony's Houston fans, but don't forget that's
the city that hasn't gone to a World Series yet

(01:42:13):
and they've been arounds for almost fifty years. Our friend,
But as the Richardson's gonna stop by for a few
minutes at one twenty, she is back Houston because again,
tonight's game is on NBC. So look, I know there's
gonna be a lot of anticipation with the game being
on NBC, and I understand that makes perfect sense. But
we ask you to watch the game on Channel two

(01:42:36):
and then listen to me or at the same.

Speaker 3 (01:42:38):
Time, sink up your televisions.

Speaker 2 (01:42:39):
I promise I'll do a good job Rockets and Thunder
tonight from okay, see, we'll have the Rockets launch pad
at five thirty, will have the tip shortly past six thirty.
That's a little bit earlier tonight. Here on Sports Talk
seven ninety, Mark is with us at twelve thirty five
of the Matt Thomas showld Ross, Mark, thank you for
holding a good afternoon.

Speaker 25 (01:43:00):
Hey, hey y'all, knowing man my timesreo man to get
us offensive coordinator with experience, I say, like a Lincoln
Rody or somebody like that, because the Miko been getting
our coach from day one ever since the Rams game,
when like Zane he's going to get those West Coast

(01:43:22):
kams and it's just a total miss back and ask
for CJ with that with defensive alignment just coming right
up tonother on him and stuff. He's not an athlete
like Deshaun Washington. Seem like he knows his confidence. I
think it might time for David Neill to.

Speaker 7 (01:43:39):
Get a shot also.

Speaker 25 (01:43:42):
And the last coment, man is that the defense is
doing a good job. I love what well doing.

Speaker 11 (01:43:49):
This stuff, man, but we need some help.

Speaker 25 (01:43:52):
But tonight with the Rockets KD, we got our new
Texas saying, man, the time for the league takes some
dirt naps.

Speaker 12 (01:44:00):
I take that out there, bow.

Speaker 2 (01:44:03):
Thanks Mark. I think I think I didn't mean to
tune out Mark. But when he said the Texans need
to go get an offensive coordinator, like he wasn't suggesting
getting Lincoln Rollie was he was suggesting like a Lincoln
Raleigh type. Girls, Yeah, who that would crack me up. Hey, Lincoln,

(01:44:25):
I know you're running USC and you're making over ten
million dollars a year, but you want to come to
the offensive coordinator of the Houston Texans, I mean Lincoln.
If he doesn't survive at US, he long term maybe
looking for a spot, but I don't know if that's
going to be it. That's funny. And then I don't know.
Stuff he was saying about Kevin Durant was funny. I
don't I remember what exactly the choice of wards were,

(01:44:46):
but it was good stuff. By the way, congratulations we
mentioned to Kevin Durancan's extension. Tari Easton did not agree
to an extension with the Rockets, which makes him a
restricted free agent at the end of the season.

Speaker 3 (01:45:01):
You can think of this in a variety of ways.

Speaker 2 (01:45:04):
One, you know, Tari's got a value, Rockets have a value,
and if you can't merge those values together or get
close to it, you then have to bet on yourself.
Tari will be what they call a restricted free agent
at the end of the season, and he can then
see what other teams think of him, and the Rockets
will have the opportunity to match anything that another team

(01:45:28):
gets gives him, so kind of betting on himself. There
was gonna be money there for Tari, but the decision
was made by Tari's camp and by Tar obviously that
he was going to try to get as much money
as it can. It may still be with the Rockets,
but it will not be under the current term. So
at the end of the season, Tar agent Will Tari

(01:45:50):
East will be a restricted free agent and we'll have
a chance to listen to other teams offers. Let's go
to line number one and say how to Roger at
twelve thirty nine on Matt Thomas Show with Ross Roger,
thank you for holding a good.

Speaker 14 (01:46:02):
Afternoon, good afternoon time on that Uh so, you know,
I haven't kind of number the fact that the Technic
is going to lose that game. It's simple way that
we are. You didn't really expect to win. Just so
many ways in which can we lose. It's just so bearable.
It's just it's just so many things, so many variables drout,

(01:46:23):
who I get it, somebody somebody steps on your foot,
but you just go down like a sack of brick,
Like its just total Matt Jobs just now. I thought
you were just a little bit more athletic than that
he was. There's something, Matt. I think there's something going
on with Straw that we don't know about I have
no idea what it is. The first year, this cat

(01:46:43):
was like and you couldn't you couldn't fade him, and
you couldn't. This guy was you know, it was a
profitable He was the guy and for whatever reason, and
I had the offensive line might have a lot to
do with it. Injuries might have another part to do
with it. I don't understand how this guy lost his

(01:47:04):
way because he's just not the same guy I had.

Speaker 20 (01:47:07):
You know what, I spent most of my morning.

Speaker 14 (01:47:10):
Just by the source of comfort, listened to Seattle Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:47:15):
Oh oh my god, what were they doing?

Speaker 14 (01:47:20):
Has a source of comfort that it was just a
bunch of you know, this kid is gonna.

Speaker 20 (01:47:25):
Be here for the long haul. You know, we got
most of the guns coming back, you know. Uh, just
had to be the guy that gets the three run
over was George Bringer of all people.

Speaker 14 (01:47:38):
Just solazy because it was just awesome. You know that
that helped out a lot. Uh, you know, but they
they before they started going back to their football.

Speaker 10 (01:47:48):
Uh.

Speaker 14 (01:47:49):
Portion of the of the program I left. But yeah,
it was a lot of uh, a lot of slow
swinging and flower brings those mas.

Speaker 9 (01:47:59):
Uh.

Speaker 14 (01:47:59):
But but yeah, they're really just the park that George
Springer did that is it's just killing him and it's
even making it even worse for them, and it's just
it couldn't happen. It couldn't happen to a better group
of people that you know, first of all, they're bull
Springer when they hit them, and then you're just a
holes to begin with. So yeah, that's what you get.

(01:48:20):
That's what you get. Maybe not be such a you know,
full of yourself next time. You might go somewhere who
knows the pharma the real thing.

Speaker 2 (01:48:28):
Man, If you can't get it, thanks Roger for the
phone call. You can't get it after up to nothing
on Toronto's Home Turf Baby. Because it's hard to win
on the road. I thought it was until Torontald did
it two times. Then it's hard and all you need

(01:48:50):
is and then Seattle wins Game five.

Speaker 3 (01:48:52):
You need one more on two shots.

Speaker 2 (01:48:55):
And you can't do it. I mean, I'm trying, I'm
trying desperately to be empathetic to the Seattle cause because
at least we've tasted World Series. At least we've enjoyed
two World Series wins. I mean, we kind of know

(01:49:19):
what they're going through because the Texans have never gone
to the super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (01:49:22):
The order has never went to the super Bowl.

Speaker 7 (01:49:27):
We know.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
So I ask you, Houston, Texas, from the bottom of
my heart, be understanding of Seattle. Be understanding of Mariner,
long suffering Mariner fan. Nah bunch a holes twelve forty
two on the Matt Thomas Show at ross seven one three, two,
one two five seven hinety They weren't They weren't aff

(01:49:52):
of a bunch. I would feel bad for them. But man,
Twitter world got nasty, didn't it. We have focused really
on about three things today on the show, and I
want to throw a fourth one in there, especially for
my Texas tech fans out there. I close my son
who's probably on the way to the airport right now.

(01:50:13):
He's got a business trip. He's got a brand new
job and he's going on his first business trip today.
Kind of excited about it. It's the travels going to
the exciting city of Odessa, Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:50:24):
You know, I'm mister Texas Jonathan, but I've never been
to Midland o Odessa.

Speaker 4 (01:50:28):
It just smells like oil and all you see is
pain and instruction over there.

Speaker 2 (01:50:31):
You've been there before?

Speaker 4 (01:50:32):
Yeah, My older brother goes went to soul Ross and
how they Okay, and this is it's all through your
car like everybody's been. They know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 7 (01:50:42):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:50:43):
I heard that Midlands like the nicer of the two cities.

Speaker 2 (01:50:46):
Is that fair to say?

Speaker 4 (01:50:47):
Yeah, it's the nice got I think you have like
one little skyscape over there.

Speaker 2 (01:50:50):
Okay, So Cam, if you're listening, shot out to you
save travels. My friend and I hope that you enjoyed
the new job. All right, So what's going on Texttech
really quick before we go to the phones. Texas Tech
Ethotic director yesterday Kirby hol Cut announcing that Texas Tech

(01:51:11):
will no longer quote encourage or permit tortillas to be
thrown in opening kickoffs of home games. You're saying, what happened, Well,
the Big twelve is not pleased with it. The Big
twelve is going to start giving a warning and then
start finding school's one hundred thousand dollars these school, I

(01:51:31):
should say, and giving a fifteen yard penalty if it
happens again. So Kirby hol Cut is getting out in
front of it and saying, you know what, We're not
going to worry about the warning we're just gonna just
not asking to do it. So I don't know if
they're going to be checking people as they come into
a Jones stadium or not. I don't know if they're

(01:51:51):
going to have to worry about there's not a I
know there's metal detectors, but is there tortilla detectors. It's
not going to be done overnight, and I know that
Texas Tech fans are upset, but eventually it's going to
dissipate to the point where it will no longer be
a thing. In my people that I deal with, friends, family,

(01:52:19):
there's basically a mixed reaction on this. Half of them
are why did take them so long to do this?
It was stupid. It was fun for a couple of years,
but now it's just a waste of time. And then
the other faction of my fan of people that I
deal with, say, well, now that Texas Tech is good,
they're always trying to figure out ways to rock the

(01:52:41):
boat a little bit and taking something that was something
we enjoyed and it was fun doing you can't do
anymore because now Texas Tech's a much better football program.
Texas Tech is home this week for Oklahoma State. They
are a thirty eight and a half point favorite. My
guess is will be a thirty five nothing in the
second quarter. You can leave the stadium and go throw

(01:53:02):
tortillas outside. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:53:06):
Look, if I was a Texas Tech alum, I.

Speaker 2 (01:53:10):
Guess I'd be like, why did y'all finally come after
us after all these years of less us doing it?
Is it because we're good now?

Speaker 3 (01:53:17):
But there's also a part.

Speaker 2 (01:53:18):
Of me that kind of thinks and says, all right,
the bits kind of run its course. So if you're
a Texas Tech fan and want to give me your
two cents of what side you see this, there's also
some of you that could say this is the complete travesty.
I can't believe our athletic director cow tun to what
the commissioner said, and the commissioners like, because think about this,

(01:53:38):
if you kept doing a Texas Tech fan, the five
would only get higher. He's going to make sure, Brent
Yormark is the commission of the Big Twelve. It's going
to make sure that will eventually pay a supreme price.
And Kirby Hok athletic director of Texa Tech, don't want
to pay that. He wants all that Cody Campbell money
to stay in Lubbock. You don't want it to go
to the league office. So if you're a tech tech fan,

(01:54:00):
I have a reaction like, hey, you know what it
was about time or b this is an outrage because
they're finally coming after us because we're good. I certainly
would entertained that conversation with you at seven one three
two one two five seven Ie me. Horrain is with
us at twelve fifty four on The Matt Thomas Show
with Ross Horrain, thank you for wedding in good afternoon.

Speaker 6 (01:54:22):
Hello, hello.

Speaker 26 (01:54:26):
Talking to me?

Speaker 2 (01:54:28):
Yeah, what's your name?

Speaker 12 (01:54:32):
Ernan Harnan?

Speaker 3 (01:54:34):
I'm sorry, that was Horrain. I'm sorry Horn. How are you, sir?

Speaker 21 (01:54:38):
I'm fine.

Speaker 26 (01:54:41):
I mean, I just want to say thank you for
taking my call.

Speaker 21 (01:54:46):
And uh, I was.

Speaker 26 (01:54:48):
I was very frustrated yesterday and you because the internet
went out?

Speaker 21 (01:54:53):
Will watch the game?

Speaker 11 (01:54:56):
I was watching the game and the.

Speaker 26 (01:54:58):
Point need is that uh I found I found are
you ready the first time? Last night? And uh going
to the point where do they get a play color
like the one they have remember the game against the Rams,

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the same play until they lost the ball. The defenses
is waiting for something like that to happen so to
nowhere at the end of the game in La because
he did the same play over and over, same thing

(01:55:40):
yesterday for the third teun one and four than one.

Speaker 2 (01:55:44):
Tell me, I know, I've been talking about it all.
I talked about how mad that play call was.

Speaker 26 (01:55:51):
Absolutely maybe I can get higher over there?

Speaker 3 (01:55:56):
You why are you qualified? What makes you all fight?

Speaker 2 (01:56:00):
Haraan?

Speaker 26 (01:56:02):
I mean that because I love football. I mean, I mean,
may don't know, uh probably, I don't know a lot
of other things about football, but I love football indeed. Okay,
eight is when the oilers were here and I live
I live in Houston for a long time already.

Speaker 3 (01:56:27):
Yeah, well great, I'm glad you found our radio show.

Speaker 2 (01:56:30):
My name is Matt. I do a show every day
with my partner Ross is off today, be back tomorrow.
We're on ten o'clock until too. So if you listen
every day, your blood pressure will go down and your
four o one K will go up, so you're gonna
be in a good position.

Speaker 11 (01:56:42):
Okay, I don't even have one K.

Speaker 26 (01:56:45):
Well, okay, then, but you know what, I don't have
blood pressure.

Speaker 2 (01:56:50):
Okay, well, your blood pressure will go down and cute
girls are going on talk to you. How about that?
Does that make sense?

Speaker 20 (01:56:56):
Thank you?

Speaker 26 (01:56:56):
Yes, sir, see you later, all.

Speaker 3 (01:56:58):
Right, Haran, I got I got a new listener today.

Speaker 2 (01:57:00):
That's good. I'm I'm happy with that. By the wait
Hourraan can get.

Speaker 4 (01:57:04):
You a four one man, I get you a four
a one K man, gotta get.

Speaker 2 (01:57:07):
You a four oh one k. And if you work
for somebody doesn't offer four on one k, shame on them.
I do check my four one k too much. You
know how much you know, Jonathan. I'm a standings watcher.
I'm also a four to one K watcher.

Speaker 4 (01:57:22):
That can't be good for your blood pressure met it's
not see. We gotta we gonna work on these things.
We got everybody on the show. You gotta tell Matt
sweet on him that he needs to meditate a night
and breathe.

Speaker 2 (01:57:32):
Yeah, but I was. I had double coffee last night
and watched the game until twelve twenty five. I can't
meditate to that. Yeah, you're right, and kindly, fair band,
get the damn ball out of bounds. Give your team
a chance. Seriously. M mm hmmm, y'all. Look, I can't

(01:58:04):
do this. I'm just one man here, y'all, gotta be
frustrated too, right if you just want to call the
show and say, Man, I'm mad as hell and I
can't take it anymore. Where's that?

Speaker 3 (01:58:16):
Larry and Stafford's he hollering?

Speaker 2 (01:58:21):
Come on, Larry and Stafford. My team's gonna go up
to Seattle and show him who Sam, Darnold and Jack
and Smith and Jamas gonna cat Larry? Where the hell
are you?

Speaker 3 (01:58:33):
Where the hell is better?

Speaker 2 (01:58:35):
Red? Bob and Deep Steal Dan and Texans Darlene y'all
are no where to but where they're traveling. Texans y'all
can't be happy, can you?

Speaker 6 (01:58:47):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:58:49):
My Thomas Show with Ross Sports Talk seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero.

Speaker 3 (01:59:00):
Lots of folks that want to get in. I asked
this question about.

Speaker 2 (01:59:03):
An hour and a half ago. I'm gonna ask it again.
When are the Texans gonna out coach somebody one? Are
the Texans going to not commit the silly penalties that
cost him in games that eventually are one score games?
When are the Texans going to address something that has

(01:59:27):
been a problem now for now two plus seasons. When
are the Texans going to go somewhere and win somewhere.
They're not supposed to win. Now that clearly has happened.
But I'm talking about this. I mean, you have to
do something now to get back in the race in

(01:59:47):
this division. If you even think you can get to
the division, you gotta go win somewhere you're not supposed
to win. Beating Baltimore and beating Tennessee aren't the types
of games that are going to make you beat your
chest about a playoff run two with Indian Apple. Still
you still got Sam. Just go to play. You still

(02:00:10):
have Denver to play now. Fortunately those games are home.
It was frustrating, and look, I know many of you
listen to this show, our fans and I and so

(02:00:30):
I'm with you in that regard. I don't want the
local team to be sucky. It's not fun, but it's aggravating,
and I don't want to I don't want to treat
every time a team a Texas loss is aggravating in
the end of the world. Because sometimes you just lose
on final plays or something happens, or an interceptionist made,
or maybe this other team makes the play. But the

(02:00:51):
Nick Cayley strategy especially in the third quarter, was deplorable
when those two run plays, the overall lack of diversity,
the fact that CJ continues to take sacks, not the
five or six yard sacks, but the twelve or thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,
eighteen yard lost sacks. How the late game management with

(02:01:14):
Kymie Fairburn, who has been wonderful for this team. How
in the world do you let that ball? You don't
kick that ball at a bounds? That was a no
freaking and dan Orlowski, God loved him, was screaming at
the television. You gotta kick this out of bounds. You
got to make sure they don't giving yourself a chance.
It wouldn't have been a great chance, but you, Liz,
would have given yourself a chance. And then silly penalties

(02:01:37):
as theseus are year, you know, the fourth quarter jumping
on the on the pile late in the game as well,
that didn't help either. That was the Fada company and
you're two and four and you're three and a half out.

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I mean, Tim Settle really kind of a chintzy call,
but you can't leave yourself even closer to that, especially
when you are not getting the benefit of some calls
and look, Sam Donald, Look, I thought the Seahawks played
a very poor fourth quarter interceptions. Their strategy in terms
of running up the clock I didn't think was great.

(02:02:22):
Sam Donald did a terrible job holding out of the
football trying to avoid the pass Rushal granted that's because
the password is good. Look, if I'm Will Anderson, I
know he didn't sleep all this. He's probably sleeping right
now as we speak. I know he didn't sleep all
on the plane.

Speaker 3 (02:02:35):
He's frustrated. He's doing what he can.

Speaker 2 (02:02:40):
Sting I mean even the Stingley iron t where he
takes the helmet off of Jackson Smith and Jigman that's
a fifteen yard penalty. I mean, nothing just came easy
last night for the team. And everybody's allowed to in
the NFL to have one of those duds per year.
But man, it feels like the types of losses, the

(02:03:02):
offensive line, the lack of imagination, the CJ. Stroud. Look,
CJ's gonna throw interceptions, you can't. He's not gonna be perfect.
But I still chalk this up to CJ is a
really good quarterback who needs a line because he's getting
beaten up and he's probably throwing the ball away or

(02:03:23):
trying to keep plays alive, or trying to thread the
needle on some things because he knows he can't trust
his line and at this point this season, this late
in the season, even with Joe mixing out, he can't
trust his running game. To the phones, we go at
seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety Jonathan
with us on the Matt Thomas Show. Ross Jonathan, thank

(02:03:44):
you for waiting. A good afternoon.

Speaker 9 (02:03:46):
What's up, my man? How's it going good? I see
you're without your noble Steed.

Speaker 2 (02:03:53):
He's back tomorrow.

Speaker 9 (02:03:53):
I've been missing him. I know I've been missing him.
I'm ready for him to come back. I like last
night it was funny because it was like, all right,
I'm more of a baseball guy, but you've got Texans
Seattle like they're playing Monday night.

Speaker 2 (02:04:13):
I was glued.

Speaker 9 (02:04:15):
I mean, I think all of us in Houston, we
were all like Blue Jays fans, like I feel like
they like they have they have a second fan base,
and it's us here in Houston. I love that entire team.
You saw Vladdie Guerrero Junior. I hope he gives that

(02:04:35):
trophies to his dad because it was cool. Telling my son,
who's eleven, who didn't get to see the original Laddie
literally golf ball, you know, fastballs and take him out.
You know, I was showing him highlights. I was like,
you got to watch what his dad did for like

(02:04:58):
all the old timers that were like Guerrero Junior is amazing,
but you should have saw what his dad did. And
I know he said he's gonna he's gonna win the ring.
He wants to give it to his dad. He should
give that World Series or that the ALCS trophy to
his dad. It was super cool to see and I

(02:05:20):
felt like, man, Houston, that we had our fingerprints all
over that that win. Obviously, with Springer, you know, it
begs the question. It's like, you know, did Toronto overpay
for Springer? But then you see they hit him in
his knee, They tried to drill him in his head.

(02:05:42):
I know they were unintentional, but it's like that he
is your mister October and to see what he did,
it was the most amazing Game seven I've watched, probably
since the Astro's Game seven. But it was just funny.
I mean, it's like the Houston Texans were such an

(02:06:03):
afterthought and I would like to bring up the point.
It's like, you know, I'm not a huge Texans fan,
and honestly, if I were to buy a jersey, and
I know you're not a jersey guy, if I were
to buy a jersey in years past, it would be
Shane Leckler right, just year and last year, it would
be a freaking Kimi Fairbaron, Like he's your leading scorer.

(02:06:27):
And that's so sad because we have a good quarterback.
But it's like, if I'm gonna go out and buy
a jersey, I'm buying a kiny Fairbaron jersey.

Speaker 2 (02:06:37):
And well, you know what he's gotta do. Then's got
to kick that ball. Thanks Jonathan for the phone call, Jonathan.
I would I would buy the Kimi Fairbaron jersey too,
if it had kicked the ball the bounds. Give ben
a lastest team a chance, Just give them a chance.
Broderick on seven ninty, Hello, Roderick.

Speaker 7 (02:06:59):
Or Maddie.

Speaker 27 (02:07:00):
How's it going, Broski? So look, fir I got one
question before I go in my little die Trump, do
you know what the starting lineup is for the game tonight?

Speaker 7 (02:07:09):
Already?

Speaker 2 (02:07:11):
Well for the Rockets, Yeah, they're gonna go with the
jumbo line. They're gonna go with Steven Adams Thompson and
Jabari Smith.

Speaker 7 (02:07:19):
Nice, nice, nice.

Speaker 27 (02:07:20):
Okay, So a little about the Texans, man, I agree
with almost everything that's been being being said. It's too vanilla,
is too blaying. Like at the end of the day,
we you're right about the Miko, like the Migo. You
gotta show that you're a great thinker of the extras
and the o's. Are you a great motivator?

Speaker 7 (02:07:43):
Absolutely?

Speaker 27 (02:07:44):
Are the players willing to rent a brick wall for you? Absolutely?
But the standard needs to be the standard. That's why
I have never been a Texan fan ever. I'm a
die hard Rocket. I'm a diehard Astro. If that would
have been the NBA and I would start playing with

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a deal with us out here and did he might want.

Speaker 7 (02:08:07):
To set him down.

Speaker 27 (02:08:08):
He don't care you're not playing.

Speaker 7 (02:08:12):
After so many.

Speaker 27 (02:08:12):
Times of condoning the behavior, it makes it seem like
you're fine with the behavior. And then they give the script,
they give the shot at you on the sideline, and
you're standing there looking lost and confused, like you really
want to go all the way off, but you've had
several opportunities to do that. Man, there is no consistency,
like y'all keep saying, we're not the Patriot south Man,

(02:08:37):
we have no offensive innovation at all. If you haven't it,
If the quarterback has the most rushing yards for the game,
what makes you think you're gonna get thirty one? How
about you try to at least do a screen game
or matter yet, how about you just at least try
one quarterbacks meet you like, nothing that's being done is

(02:08:57):
indicative of a winning team or with your franchise as
it comes to putball. So maybe the Coacht actually being
five and two is a good thing because by default
it's always been the Texas of division. But we know
they're gonna go to the playoffs and they're gonna lose
the first game. So yeah, it's always better when our

(02:09:19):
cities better. But I'm a rocket, I'm an astro. Until
we can get accountability in that building on Kirby, they're
gonna mean who they are, they are who they thought
we thought they were. That's what it bolves down to.
And I'll let y'all go.

Speaker 2 (02:09:35):
Thanks for the phone call, brother, quick time out. We're
gonna talk to our friend Vanessa Richardson, Little Rocket Chatter
up next, Doug and Salt Patter. You're a front of
the show. Hang Tight, will get to you after that.
Seven one three two one two five, seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Space Cities
Vanessa Richardson next year on seven ninety what twenty one

(02:09:58):
on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross here from Oklahoma City.
The only sad thing about tonight is the fact that
our TV family will not be here to broadcast the game.
And game is on NBC, which means Craig, Ryan and
Vanessa will make their debuts Friday when the Rockets take
on the Detroit Pistons. Vanessa is going to join us

(02:10:18):
for a couple of minutes here on the show back
in Age Town. By the way, Vanessa is now a
national star after a busy ESPN summer. How are you,
Union lady. I'm good.

Speaker 28 (02:10:27):
I hate not being there in Oklahoma City, but I
will say I've got my iPad out, I am by
the pool and I am about to send out some
fire Rockets content from Space City Home Network. So you know,
life is good, but I definitely wish that I was
there with you guys. No question.

Speaker 2 (02:10:43):
Yeah, we'll look forward to seeing you on Friday. Hey,
you have had a chance to be at about ninety
nine percent of the practices and media availabilities and kind
of behind the scenes. Give us a thought or two
for the audience about your interactions with KD. Mine has
been limited, and that's okay, and I'm okay with that.
But everything I've been with him has been it's about basketball,
it's about professionalism. It's not about being a cheerleader or

(02:11:04):
raw rock guy. It's just I've known what I can
do for this team to help out, and I think
so far he's done everything as advertised.

Speaker 28 (02:11:11):
Yeah, I had spoken to him before and interviewed him
before over the years, but this is obviously the most
like up close I've ever been with him. And you know,
a plus person, very nice, very understanding of what the
media does, and has been supportive.

Speaker 12 (02:11:30):
You know.

Speaker 28 (02:11:30):
He was great with you and Ross on media day.
He was great with us Space City Home Network on
media day as well. So nothing but good things to say.

Speaker 9 (02:11:39):
You know.

Speaker 28 (02:11:39):
I think when you really take inventory of his career,
he has never been known to be the guy that
is super loud and voisterous and giving the raw Roth
speeches like that is just not his thing. But he
leads by example and that is in my opinion, even
more important than having allowed raw Raw Guy to make speeches,

(02:12:02):
because the coaching staff can do that. So, you know,
I think Kevin has been an excellent edition so far,
and I know that particularly the young guys have soaked
up every single thing that he has said and have
you know, really been learning from him.

Speaker 2 (02:12:17):
So I asked this to Ryan earlier on the show today.
My pick for like not and I'm going to rephrase
it again not like most improved, but man not on
the radar last year that maybe could be an on
radar guy this year was for me, Jabari Smith. Are
you with that or is there even somebody beyond that?

Speaker 28 (02:12:37):
Oh my gosh, I'm so with it. And I've been
in on him since the Rockets drafted him, I think,
and I never try to tell people how to be fans, right,
but like people just are not patient, right. So he
comes into a situation he and you know, Tari are
drafted during you know, the last of some some lean
years for the Rockets, which was planned right like that's

(02:13:00):
it went the way it was supposed to go. But
he he has an unbelievable attitude and in addition to
just all the talent and physical gifts. I mean, he
used to think about the fact that last year he
was a starter and then got injured and was replaced
in the starting lineup with the men, and had a

(02:13:20):
completely good attitude said email, whatever you need for me,
I will do whatever for the team. And Matt, you
and I both know that would be a problem with
like ninety percent of the guys in the NBA, but
not Jabari. And so not only does he have that
like intangible attitude, but he's gotten a lot stronger. You
can physically see when he is out there. He's gotten

(02:13:43):
a lot stronger. And you know, he's definitely I think
going to be learning and be you know, hands on
learning from from Kevin because when Jabbari was being drafted
or being scouted out of Auburn, but was one of
the number one things is like you've got the same
builds as Kevin Durant. So it's a great opportunity for him,

(02:14:04):
and I absolutely think that this is going to be
a career year for him, Probably the best year of
his career so far is what I think.

Speaker 2 (02:14:11):
A few more minutes here with Vanessa richardson Space City,
Home Network and ESPN. You worked the NBA Finals, so
you spent a lot of time in this city. I
don't know if you went to Toby Keys at all.
We did not go there last night, so you'd be
pleased with that. You know, it's gone down hill, Daniel.
You we know ri Ip. You were able to get

(02:14:32):
into the huddles a little bit on occasion with Mark Dagnall,
tell tell the audience about Oklahoma City a little bit,
because you know, look, Jalen Williams is not going to
play tonight. That's number eight he's heard. But that's a
lot of a lot of returning guys from a year ago,
and just kind of the culture around that team that
you saw for the limited time during the finals in
the Western Finals last year.

Speaker 28 (02:14:52):
Yeah, I would love to say that there's like something
artificial or overrated about it, but their chemistry is very real.
You know, they all really like each other, all get along.
They've got you know, honestly, it was kind of similar
to the Rockets in years past when everybody was really
young and they all just had this like exciting, like
boyish charm of guys that were living their dream in

(02:15:13):
the league and we're in their early mid twenties and
all of that. But you know, they've got a great
defensive thing going. They've got their own version of double
Big that you saw them running last year. And so
it's a great team. I mean, they're a great team.
And there is a reason that the league is opening
on NBC with these two teams. And it's not just

(02:15:36):
because that's where Kevin played. These are two very exciting
teams and you know, the Thunder are the real deal.
What I don't like, Matt, because you know me, I'm
not a fan of this. I don't like when we
start talking about dynasties after one championship, like you got
to get another, you got to get another championship appear.
So I know if I'm like all in on talking

(02:15:58):
about them being a dynasty.

Speaker 2 (02:15:59):
But yeah, the seven different yeah, seven different championships in
seven years.

Speaker 3 (02:16:04):
So there there is there's no room for dynasty at
this point.

Speaker 28 (02:16:07):
So I agree, I agree.

Speaker 2 (02:16:09):
Uh, Okay, I'm trying to think. So I as sister Ryan,
I'll ask you who besides Oklahoma City gives you the
hebgb's about who could be the Rockets? Uh? Teams that
will perhaps give the biggest threat to the new supremacy
in the West.

Speaker 28 (02:16:24):
Yeah, in the Western Conference specifically, I think if the
Clippers stay healthy, you know, and there's a lot of like,
they have a lot of depth, They have a lot
of depth Jeff van Gundy has you know, Tyler has
given Jeff van Gundy the keys to that defense, and
Jeff van Gundy is crushing it and is meticulous. And

(02:16:45):
so I think if the Clippers stay if the clip
the big is if, right, the big if if they
stay healthy. Yeah, Like I think the Nuggets are awesome,
but I'm just a big believer. And if the Clippers
stay healthy, you know, now what would that look like
in the playoffs With James Harden's history in the playoffs,
I don't know. But the Clippers, the Clippers are the

(02:17:07):
other than the thunder, the team that if they stay healthy,
I think could be dangerous for everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:17:13):
You're Are you watching this starting five doc on Netflix?
By the way, I forgot to ask her write about this.
I have not, but we were at dinner last night
and everyone's talking about this, and I gotta I think
I gotta watch because you're a big documentary fan like
I am. And we've seeing sides of Kadi. We were
seeing side of James Harden we never thought we'd ever.

Speaker 28 (02:17:34):
See, right, I mean, it's it's unprecedented access. Right, Like
the season last year was really good. But you know,
you have to think about it, Like, You've got James
Harden talking about his son, which is you know, definitely new.
And you've got Tyrese Halliburton, you know, footage of him
in the most probably the most devastating moment of his

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life when he tears his achilles in the finals. You've
got Kevin Durant opening up about sourced subject. I mean
it is. It is unbelievable access. And so for that
reason alone, I encourage people to watch it because again,
last year was I liked last season too, particularly I
love the side of Dylan books that they showed. But

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this this year, this year has been really good. I've
not seen all of it, but what I've seen has
been really great.

Speaker 2 (02:18:24):
All Right, young lady, have a RESTful day. We're going
to put you to work on Friday against the Detroit Piston,
so it would be good to get you guys back.
It's gonna be so weird. I'll be honest with you,
and I know the national exposure is cool, but I
mean there's gonna be a lot of new things about
These TV deals are gonna be good. But I'm kind
of sad y'all are not gonna be going with this
as much because it always is much fun coming up
with y'all before and after games that it is during

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the game. So look forward to seeing you Friday.

Speaker 28 (02:18:48):
We're gonna yeah, we're going to try to make up
for some of that. You know, we're going to have
some some behind the scenes coverage rolling out soon and
you know, try to make the most of it. But yes,
definitely a lot more national games this year with that
guy named Kevin Durant being on the rosters.

Speaker 2 (02:19:04):
Yeah, I think everybody's got like more national games. It's
like two hundred and something national TV games this year.
It's crazy, this new television deal. But so get your
get your streaming services ready. Vanessa, thanks for the time.
As always, We'll talk with you soon. Friend.

Speaker 12 (02:19:17):
Thanks Maddy, We'll see that's.

Speaker 2 (02:19:18):
Vanessa Richson, our friend from Space City Home Network. One
thirty is our time. It is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross Ross by the way back with me tomorrow.
Looking forward to hanging out with him and hanging out
with all of you every day between ten o'clock until
two here on Sports Talk seven ninety. If you want
to chime in on the conversation, we just had seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one

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three two one two five seven ninety's still Texans. A
lot of angry folks out there, if you're angry about that.
If you want to celebrate all things George Springer, We're
gonna do that today and believe it or not, and
then it's coming up in about twenty minutes from now right.
Nothing to stop me. I'm all the way up, got
a couple of folks out on the line. Let's get
to you in and you in before get to believe

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it or not. Eight team coming up at two o'clock
Rockets launch pad five thirty. I'll have to call at
six thirty here from Oklahoma City on Sports Talk seven ninety. Doug,
thanks for waiting here on seven ninety, and good afternoon
to you friend.

Speaker 7 (02:20:14):
Hey, Matt, good show as always. Hey.

Speaker 29 (02:20:16):
You know, when football season started this year, I was
hoping their beloved Cougars could at least get the six
wins and hoping they could maybe get to a bowl
game finally. But I was expecting the Texans to not
only win their division, but hoping they would get to
at least a championship game or possibly the Super Bowl.
And yeah, those scripts have have flipped one hundred percent.

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The Texans don't play like the Cougars. The Cougars play
air free, smart football. And when you think about it,
you know, the Cougars went and hired Willie Fritz. He's
a proven winner. Every place he's gone has been a winner.
The Texans coaching staff, Demiko's basically a rookie, as OC
and his DC are basically rookies. I'm not advocating that
the Texans fire Demiko, nor am I advocating that you

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go out and hire Whillie s.

Speaker 4 (02:21:00):
Fritz.

Speaker 29 (02:21:01):
But you know, success and failure in any business or
team that kind of starts at the top. And I'm
just wondering, I mean, you look at what the Koogs
are doing from nothing to this, and how the Texans
have stumbled it. I don't know, it's just food for thought. This,
you know, it's kind of what's going on? I mean,
is it's just confusing as hell?

Speaker 2 (02:21:21):
And I wonder how.

Speaker 6 (02:21:21):
Much of that goes back to the head coach.

Speaker 2 (02:21:24):
I thank you, Doug, I appreciate it. Go ahead, Yeah,
I was just going to say thank you for listening.
I don't know if I'm going to, uh, well, yeah,
when you're two and four, the coach is going to
get some blame. And that's not out of the question.
It's not irresponsible for us to do that. I don't
think it's his own doing all of it. He does

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bear responsibility, whether you know. We we played a quote
earlier in the show today that the Texans lineman and
johna blankm. I'm thinking if it was uh Jonathan helped
me out here? Who was the lineman that we played
the comment from Titus Titus Howard. Titus Howard said that

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they were complacent, And I.

Speaker 4 (02:22:13):
Keep thinking about that, just like and like listening to it.
It really boils my blood because I can't imagine someone
you're we were getting probably millions of dollars to compete
bust my butt. Yeah, you know, potentially injure myself in
the rest of my life, and you're saying you're complacent?

Speaker 2 (02:22:30):
Really, why don't you play it again? Can you? Can
you pull it up real quick.

Speaker 4 (02:22:33):
Yeah's game one second.

Speaker 2 (02:22:35):
Yeah. When Titus Howard said, complacency kicked in, how are
you complacent? You have two wins against bottom seven teams,
I mean the second worst team, maybe the six or
seventh worst.

Speaker 4 (02:22:44):
Yeah, here it's right here.

Speaker 2 (02:22:45):
Here, here's here's Titus after last night in Seattle.

Speaker 5 (02:22:49):
We didn't we didn't come out with enough energy to
start a game instead, So I'm onto all that.

Speaker 2 (02:22:55):
You know, I have my guy for a week.

Speaker 7 (02:22:58):
So it was just gotta be better.

Speaker 5 (02:23:00):
We let the defense down, with the team down to offense,
you know, we got we gotta stepped up. My versus season,
we want to do anything. If we can't score, we
can't win.

Speaker 4 (02:23:11):
You've already played six games plus play preseason.

Speaker 2 (02:23:14):
What are you?

Speaker 4 (02:23:14):
What are we talking about?

Speaker 2 (02:23:17):
And you're far behind the Colts. You need everyone to
get You need as many as you can. Complacency. That's
an indictment towards that, towards the team and the leadership.
Roster construction, that's Nick Cassario. This roster has has massive
flaws construction wise. It's got no running game to speak of.

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It's got very inexperienced wide receiving corps and it's got
a bottom three offensive line. They were twenty ninth going in.
My guess is they'll drop to thirty or thirty one
after when the PFF grades come out tomorrow. And as
I said, I want to Miko to win the coaching battle,

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and I don't know how often he's doing that. Defensively,
He's got the talent, will Andersond'il, Hunter Stingley. I mean,
there's I mean there these guys are some dogs on
that side. You know, they're not perfect, but they do.
But again, twenty seven points not really indicative of what

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they could have done.

Speaker 4 (02:24:28):
It's almost like Joe Mixon got hurt and the entire
offense just lost their motivation for the season.

Speaker 2 (02:24:34):
Then it doesn't you know, and that doesn't make any sense.
There shouldn't be the case. What they did. What they
didn't do is they didn't address the Joe mane. I
want to know what they could have done to fix
the Joe Mixon situation where the timeline is askew, because
at this point I don't know what it is. And
I want to know what were they thinking about the

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offensive line even though they were not the biggest larming
Tunsil fans and the guy, I mean, the guy meant
have been the He was a terrible culture guy. I
could say that see that from a mile away. But
if you're gonna make that move, you're gonna have to
have a plan be in place, and they didn't have
a plan. B Let's go to h James and Alvin

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at one seven Hoty High.

Speaker 30 (02:25:16):
James, thank you, gentlemen for accepting macall awesome show. I
want to let you guys know, y'all got some of
the most knowledgeable listeners in radio land, in sports talk land.

Speaker 12 (02:25:30):
Uh.

Speaker 30 (02:25:31):
My question, if you was to choose between the two
between the faux outfielders that's going to play in the
World Series, that was farmer.

Speaker 12 (02:25:41):
Uh.

Speaker 30 (02:25:42):
Former astros came up through the astro system, the Hernandez brothers,
which they are not biologically keen, but the last name
of Honandez. Okay, would you take Miles Straw and George Springer.
Now you know George Springle came under the Towe Tiles
Smith regime. The rest of them boys come under Jeff

(02:26:06):
not tal Smith, not tal Smith. George Springer came under
Town Smith.

Speaker 7 (02:26:15):
Yes he did.

Speaker 2 (02:26:16):
He was he was a team president, but he was
not the general manager. The team, the general manager at
the time when he was drafted, what it could have been?
Ed Wade, I have to look that up.

Speaker 30 (02:26:25):
But edwait EdWay, I thought, thank you for facts kicking me.

Speaker 7 (02:26:35):
Okay, you you're good, You're good.

Speaker 31 (02:26:37):
But between the two and compared to salary, which other two?
If the now the Astros outfielder is a con total
uh catastrophe.

Speaker 2 (02:26:51):
Uh and you got you got.

Speaker 30 (02:26:54):
You got full outfielders on two different teams playing in
the World Sea Reach. That was former Astros. And my
question is if you had the opportunity, just say, uh,
which of the two? Oh, just say which other o
the pole would you select?

Speaker 2 (02:27:13):
I mean, it's it's a mood conversation. Thank you James
with the phone call. I am Miles Straw is a
fourth outfielder. I mean that's just the truth. I mean,
Miles Straw is a great defensive player, but the bat's
never really been there.

Speaker 7 (02:27:30):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (02:27:34):
He's he bettered two twenty two in the you know
he was he didn't even start, he was a he
was a not even regular starter for them.

Speaker 3 (02:27:40):
Low Perfido got added because of an injury.

Speaker 2 (02:27:45):
It's George Springer, I mean and and and the second
guy doesn't make any sense, So yeah, I am. It's
kind of a time of a conversation born. Honestly, there's
nobody not named George Springer that I would replace from
the Blue Jays outfield that would be an astro at
least at this point among the guys that had been

(02:28:06):
an astro in the past. Our south side really quick
before he played, believe it or not, Al what do
you got today?

Speaker 21 (02:28:12):
Yeah, man, Grace show great car. Listen, man, let me
say this real quick. And I didn't understand Noel did
not start off the game being the return guy. I said,
right then and there, when that other dude was in there,
they hadn't practice and playing games, and they didn't start
nor I wonder was there trying to put him in

(02:28:33):
a dog house because what he had done to the
Baltimore Ravens. And then you didn't see him in the
game a lot, and he didn't get no targets. This
team doesn't play. There's no way that guy shouldn't have
been starting on the return. We put ourselves in a
hole right from the jump. And I knew then I
seen the whole writing on the water, and I'm gonna
say this, and I hain't up to Miko Ryan and

(02:28:55):
this ship is ship. Give him a DC job. Yeah,
he can do some good things, but the way he
got in the offensive coordinated to Nick Kay or whoever
whatever the Miko Lion CJ. Straub doesn't have with these
quarterbacks player Matt Jonesel Daniel, the guy over there in Indianapolis.
They came from bad situations. Look at him now, said J.

(02:29:18):
Straub doesn't have that. He has a defensive coordinator for
a head coach, and he have a non play collar.
What can he learn and who can elevate him at
that positions and learn him? The new office of the
games now one of them. That stuff is a bus
and they need to change the coaching staff all the
way from Demico Long down. He cannot elevate that position.

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No one on that team can name me. A guy
on the coaching staff can elevate that position.

Speaker 2 (02:29:46):
And I hang up and listen, Deck, thank you, and
I got to get to a break. But the coach
except the week, it just is you replace now if
you were if you were against SLOWG I get it,
but go get somebody with experience. Stop picking think picking
people at branches off the tree. Go get the tree.
My guess is, if this continues the way that is,

(02:30:08):
they're gonna have to that Hannah's gonna force them to
go get an experienced offensive coordinator, meaning probably a former
head coach who gets fired. And if Mike McDaniel gets
fired in Miami, I would take Mike McDaniel to run
this offense. I just would. Thanks to the phone call,
let's play Believe It or Not? It's all things. George
Springer's five minutes up to go on the show. What
should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports

(02:30:35):
radio game show. We simply call it be Believe It
or Not. And here's how it works. You call seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninety today's edition to
Believe or Not. There's all things about George Springer. I'll
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see this believe it. Yeah, the stamem as RONI is
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(02:30:57):
Believe it or not's in a roll on about George Springer.
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(02:31:18):
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Mike on seven ninety Mike, You're ready to play Believe
it or not? Believe it Mike after last night. George
Springer now has fourteen home runs in his postseason career.

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Believe it or not?

Speaker 3 (02:31:43):
Believe it Now he's got twenty three.

Speaker 2 (02:31:50):
Laura on seven ninety Laura, what was your favorite part
of today He's ten to two radio show.

Speaker 28 (02:31:56):
Well, I listened with my fiance and so I don't
know much, but I just like hearing you guys talk
because you fel like he has so much fun.

Speaker 2 (02:32:05):
Thank you, Laura. As a kid, George spent two seasons
as a ball boy for the Boston Celtics. Believe It
or Not?

Speaker 28 (02:32:16):
Believe it.

Speaker 2 (02:32:17):
No, I made that up. I'm sorry. Tell your Fanci
seven one three two one two five seven Nintie Pete
on seven ninety Pete, You're ready to play. Believe it
or not? Believe it? Pete. When George was called up
by the Astros, he went from double A Corpus Christie
straight to Houston. Believe it or not?

Speaker 7 (02:32:37):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:32:38):
No, he had spent parts of two seasons to doing
pretty good right now the time?

Speaker 7 (02:32:43):
Good?

Speaker 2 (02:32:43):
What's that do?

Speaker 4 (02:32:44):
Pretty good? Good?

Speaker 21 (02:32:45):
Ting?

Speaker 3 (02:32:45):
I know I'm three for three. Kind of proud of myself.

Speaker 31 (02:32:48):
Leon, Leon, You're.

Speaker 2 (02:32:49):
Ready to play.

Speaker 29 (02:32:50):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 21 (02:32:52):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:32:54):
Leon. George Springer is left handed, playing baseball and golf
are the only things he does right handed. It or not,
belave it, believe it correct? Name of number two for
the way. George Springer is the most active Canadian athlete
on Twitter, with more than fourteen thousand tweets. Believe it
or not?

Speaker 7 (02:33:14):
I believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:33:16):
No, he's only twel long single time and his tweet
was hashtag tweet. Okay, that was in twenty seventeen. Jason
on seven on A Jason, what was your favorite part
of today? You send it to radio show.

Speaker 7 (02:33:31):
Biscuits.

Speaker 6 (02:33:31):
Phone call and your man is losing talking.

Speaker 2 (02:33:34):
All right, Very nicely done, my friend. I'm proud of
you for that. Let us continue here. I lost my questions. Oh,
here we go.

Speaker 4 (02:33:41):
Let me say this.

Speaker 2 (02:33:42):
I found it. George is a family name. He is
George the third. His son is George the fourth. Believe
it or not? Not?

Speaker 3 (02:33:55):
Believe it is sorry on seven nine events. You're ready
to play.

Speaker 2 (02:34:02):
Believe it or not Believe it. When George made appearances
on my radio show when he was an astro, he
admitted to me that his wife, sharifs Charley's, kept an
eye on George's diet and cooked many of his meals.
Believe it or not Believe it, Believe it statement number
two for the wind. George's wife, Charlie is a rising

(02:34:24):
television star in Canada. She hosts a seasonal show on
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation called Quote Spring Cooking with the Springers.
Believe it or not not congratulate. I thought he's gonna
get it. All right. That's it for today. I will
talk to y'all in four and a half hours For

(02:34:45):
the Rockets and the Oklahoma City Thunder the next two
gentlemen are going to entertain the hell out of you
between now and five thirty. It's Clinton, It's Wexler, it's
Fay Team talk to y'all tonight at six thirty for
the Rockets, and thundered right here on seven Nats