Texans Find Their Groove! Rockets Preseason Opener Tonight

Texans Find Their Groove! Rockets Preseason Opener Tonight

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Channel one, an
ah Town. Good morning, and welcome to a Monday edition
of the Matt Thomas Show at ROSS that Sports Talk seven.
I e oh, do we call it a street Rossie?

(00:28):
Your Texas? Okay, what do you call it? I call
it a dub. Granted, it was probably the worst Baltimore
team they've ever assembled. See, I knew I was gonna
be the first thing you said. Well, you know what,
it's still counts. I'm not a blind homer. You want that,
go to your YouTube channels. I picked it on the

(00:48):
one by the dust and that's exactly what they did.
Another one bit the dust. You're getting me all started. Well,
I saw people going after you on Twitter about it,
so I one person went after me on Twitter one.
Well that guy was right. You gotta stop hating Maddie.
Forty four to ten in the NFL is a huge
victory you don't even believe. And in the Houston Texas

(01:09):
pulling off you don't even believe. They were two and
a half favorite playing up there Vegas Timore Ravens. They
played a CFL team CJ. Stroud looked great. Okay, well
they were thirty four point favorites against the CFL team,
so they still took care of business and they got
a ninety points. And I understand you're gonna be Texans hater.
Matt U was a huge homer. You are a blind number.

(01:31):
You give it you two page pillions of big win,
a big win. I'm excited. I played the song c J.
Stroud four touchdowns. Nick Chubb actually looking like he's got
some juice in his legs.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
What happened?

Speaker 1 (01:45):
He saw what he marks last week? He's like, oh,
I guess fine, I gotta empty the tank. I'm not
on the toy story character be RB one of my
day exactly, big freaking job. Yes he did. He saw
he's objects in the rearview mirror, maybe closer than they appear,
and then all of a sudden he's he's like busting tack.
You know what it was showing some burns. This is
a horrible analogy to it. That was the sales guy

(02:08):
who's been the really good sales guy for a long
period of time. We just got a sat back in
his chair, saw a young whipper snapper make the movie,
and he's like, I'm still the big dog in this office.
Well that kind of works, except for if the sales
guy is coming off of nee replacement surgery and he's
hobbling around or rehab set, you know, and he's in
a new place. Yeah, he's not necessarily the old dog

(02:28):
for the Texans. But the analogy is not the worst
one you've ever made. There's worst coming. Yeah. I was
even before he busted that twenty seven yard touchdown. I
was like, Nick Chubb's got a little pepp in his
stead this weekend against the Ravens. Maybe he's doing this.
You never know, what is that, Matt, what is that?
You're minded? Tvv' not special enough? Yeah? CJ. Stroud making plays,

(02:50):
Xavier Hutchinson getting touchdowns, Christian Kirk with big catches over
thirty six and a half yards on Christian Kirk was nice.
Is I don't know who's w R two. Is it
Hutchison or is it Kirk? It doesn't matter, or is
it Schultz catches? Like said, he's been targeting more than

(03:11):
anybody else. It feels like I looked at the water,
I looked at the game charge like, yeah, Dalton Schultz,
I mean, Dalton Schultz goes to and this is what
the Dalton Scholtz was supposed to do. I mean last
year took a little regression, but he's playing much better.
He's become the number two target for him. And yes,
absolutely you can say you you can take everything with
a grain of salt. In the last two weeks, Titans
one of the worst teams in football. I mean, that

(03:32):
was the gift of the gift of the gift of
wins that they got against the Cardinals yesterday. They still
should be over this season. They're not a very good team,
but you still pounded them twenty six to nothing. And
yes it was the walking wounded in the Baltimore Ravens,
but you were still on the road, and according to
Vegas it was a tight spread and you took care
of business. So absolutely, in the back of your mind
and me like, okay, these aren't the two biggest wins ever.

(03:54):
But at the end of the day, the Texans have
taken care of business for two straight weeks, and that's
a lot better than what we saw from them the
first couple of weeks of the season. We see large
point spreads differentials in college football all the time. I
want to and we can look this up between now
and two o'clock. But I don't know. In the history
of me doing this, I can remember seventeen and a

(04:16):
half eighteen point spread in the NFL. I don't ever
remember a team being favored by more than that. It's
I think twenty or something is like run. The historical
high might have been like the Cowboys against Washo. Who
do they slam in a Super Bowl? Was it the Chargers?
I mean there could have been. You know, there was
a year of the Lions did and win a game
and I'm guessing, but I mean we're talking. I mean

(04:39):
I remember when it gets to ten or eleven, people
kind of do a double take. But here is what
I do take from this, and this is what you cannot.
You must, even if you are a little hesitant to
bragg on the local football team. CJ. Stroud looked very crisp,
the best game of the season. I mean looked decisive,

(05:00):
It looked confident. The throws were there, there were very
few miscues on that getting Nick chubbed back a little
bit of his mojo. You can't argue that, and I
honestly you can't argue the Texans defense. They don't get
an A for the season, but they don't get a C.
They're a solid B B plus could be at potential

(05:20):
A minus defense when Asaul said and done, that has
been consistent. Kimi Fairbarn's been good. Tommy Townsend's been a
little mid, but you didn't have to use him yesterday.
Yesterday for me was about c J. Stroud getting some
of the back of the mojo that I think he's
frankly lost the last few weeks. Yeah, that's the headlining story,
absolutely is that c J. Stroud. I mean I literally

(05:41):
put up I wonder what would happened if I did
it this week. I put up the Twitter poll a
couple of weeks ago. Is c J Stroud a franchise quarterback?
And the results were fifty to fifty. If I put
it up this week, it would look a lot better,
because well, he looked a lot better. Yeah, as you said, confident,
throwing in rhythm, finding his guys. It did take a
couple of sacks, but it wasn't that bad. And also

(06:02):
the protection was holding up. There was a number of
times where he had some clean pockets, someone was able
to find some guys down the field. It was great, No,
you the best thing that came out of this for
me watching the game yesterday, was you had a wounded
Baltimore team that you never let them get in the game.
You right, Cooper Rush numbers got a little bit better

(06:23):
later in the game, but it wasn't They weren't great
at any point.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
You know what, one of the Derrick Henry who is
in the Texans Hall of Fame or will be in
the Hall of Fame, I'll ultimately later them up. I
mean not a non issue in the game. Uh. You
a defense that was beat up and had many States starters.
You didn't let other guys become heroes, making them quote
unquote most of their opportunity. Kind of Fairbairn look good

(06:51):
knocking in fifty seven yeards. Yeah, I mean, honestly, Baltimore,
I don't even know if they can come back from this.
They have. I mean, even when if Lamar's come back
in two weeks, you're gonna be staring at about a
one in five, one and six. You're gonna have to
go basically not you got to win Interne and Row
to get back this AFC. I don't if you noticed
this yesterday now again, Washington beating the Chargers helped, but

(07:13):
this AFC is gonna be very, very congested. Yeah, they're
home for it might take ten to get in the
wild card. Just think about that. Yeah, the Rams are
They played on Thursday, right, so they got a little
bit of extra rest, right, Yeah, home for the Rams.
Next for the Baltimore Ravens. They could be one and
five easily. And here's the thing. Kansas City plays at

(07:37):
Jacksonville today. You got a roof of the Chiefs. Let's
go Chiefs because you don't need two teams to climb
over in the AFC South. And by the way, the Colts,
my god, I mean they are I don't know, it's
funny there. There is a storyline for me in college
football this year and in pro football this year. And
I'm amongst many the Daniel Jones Indianapolis Colts. Whatever they're

(08:05):
doing this year in renaissance, Yeah, is I think stunning
the NFL world? Would you would that be fair? And
saying I would say so four and one? Where they
are now, the teams they've beaten have been They're all
not going to the playoffs. Right, It's been the Dolphins. Okay,
the Broncos, but as we have pointed out, they should
have lost that game. They should have lost that game.

(08:26):
And then it's the Titans and the Raiders. And by
the way, speaking of the Denver Broncos, I talked about
how congested ross it is. They went and beat Philadelphia yesterday.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
M hm.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
So you have very little slip ups coming up. It's
gonna take probably ten, it might even take eleven to
get in the playoffs. We could have I mean, it's
been three must win games in a row. We could
have six more must win games in a row. Well,
must win games Helby Truth coming up today. Well, they're
not to must win love it all right? So the
Startling College the Pro football storyline of the year, all right,

(08:56):
hold on, the Indianapolis Colts. The Startling College is unfortunately
your beloved squad to go from preseason number one. Now again,
it's just a poll in these ap people, don't I mean,
they're just doing it just to fill out. Yeah. I
didn't vote them number one. I'm not saying you, but

(09:18):
a lot of people did. I know, and they are
out of the top twenty five after losing to Florida.
Now I cannot speak too much to the game because
I was getting I was at Rockets practice justifiably so.
And I did see a little bit when I when
I got to TDCU on on Saturday before the Texas
Tech game in Houston game, it felt like looking at
the timeline that there are some serious protection issues. Would

(09:42):
that or is it more on we can talk about
all right, Well, you know only got their ass beat
on both lines offensive and defensive. That's no way to
win a football game. But that isn't even really the
biggest choke job in college football Penn State three touchdown
plus favorite UCLA. At least they're not Penn State, I guess.
And I had all these Texa Tech fans coming at me, oh,

(10:03):
who clearly don't know the show, and I had to
point it out to somebody. It's like I had Enough's enough,
good for you, Matt. Matt's getting in Twitter fights. Find
him at sports Inte. And by the way, I'll say
this real quick shout out Cougar fans. I was definitely
afraid it was gonna be a fifty to fifty crowd.
It felt seventy to thirty to me. Now, you Text
Tech fans were there. I get you, and you want
and you congratulates you kick the Cougar's ass and everyone,

(10:24):
even fans or buts about it. But I was really
afraid that the Texas Tech fans would overhaul the Houston crowd.
And I took a photo beforehand. You could tell because
if you're a Texas Tech fan, you're not wearing the
blue shirts. They were blue shirts all over the place.
So I was if there was a saving grace to me,
it was a U of h fans showed up. Now

(10:45):
when we got there, we weren't particularly pleased. What happened
was the final score? I don't know, thirty five eleven,
something stupid like that. I don't know, it's bad. I
think we had a score of gami. Have you ever
been to a twenty five eleven half time score?

Speaker 4 (10:58):
No?

Speaker 1 (10:59):
I don't think so. Think it was twenty five. I
don't know. I kind of lost track in Los Angeles,
thirty five to eleven. Ah, I didn't see the final there. Yeah,
not good and text tech is really good. I got
news for you. And then there was tortillos all over
the place. And you know, why does some of them
have holes in the middle? I asked, the aerodynamics it
helped fly further, fly further. Well, there's not a hole
in the middle of a frisbee you're asking the wrong person,

(11:22):
but there were a lot of them that had the
holes in them. Okay, it's weird. I don't disagree. Ten fourteen.
It's a Matt Thomas show. Ross. You guys want to
chime in. Your Texans have won two in a row.
Will seattle'll be a must win? We'll find out today
until the tree at eleven thirty. And also we got
to get to Mark Sanchez. What in the world are

(11:42):
you doing? Mark Sanchez? Ten fourteen up Sports Talk seven
ninety Do you ever find yourself working with someone who
throws these haymakers at you before you go on the air? Jonathan,
you and I have had nice, simple conversations in our
time together. Yeah, you don't throw the I can't possibly
respond because the bump music is coming back equips back

(12:05):
at me. Do you never did that? Uh? I can't
remember what you said. I can actually comment on in
a few minutes. I do this on purpose, folks, And
you know what, maybe I'm a bad person. I'll say
something crazy or way off the wall to Matt right
as we're coming back, just so I can see how
long it takes ritten to compose himself. It takes a while.

(12:27):
It is some topic. Show Ross. We are largely open line. Today.
We do have the Uh, we've got to tell the truth.
At eleven thirty we got the news. At noon we
believe it or not. Today at one fifty, uh, we
have your phone calls. Let me give you the phone numbers.
And look, you know it was the ten o'clock hours
a little slow for some reason. I don't know why
that is. Maybe all are just like getting if had

(12:49):
your coffee for a while, you are on Facebook for
a while, getting into work and then settle. They have
to pretend to work till about noon, right, and then
that's when you really check out for the day. So
you ten o'clockers are more than walking to jump in early.
If you're listening for that, we thank you. Yeah. Uh
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero. The
Texans look, yeah, I want to hear the people with

(13:12):
how they feel. Is this? Are these two really by
the If you look at the box scores, these are
two really impressive wins. But if you contextualize them, there's
a way you can say, wake me up. When they
beat a really says this. I think you can there's
a happy medium to this. Again, to me, you watched
Baltimore yesterday, and you know that was a team that

(13:32):
was not That was not an NFL defense out there yesterday.
It is one. But upsets happen, teams overcome obstacles, played
higher than they're worth overall ability or are you just
or you insert your will and you do things. And
the thing that cracks me up is that. And when
so impressed with Nick Kayley, you guys were ready to

(13:53):
throw Nick Kayley to the curb two weeks ago. So
let's hold I would just say this. The hyperbole of
we back is a little thick right now. But take
it for what it is. And that's what I want.
I want this audience to do this. I want you'll
be a smart audience. You had a terrible Tennessee team.
You dispose of them. You never let them in the game. Frankly,

(14:16):
it might have been a different game if the field
goals were made, but it wasn't, so they didn't. Your
defense didn't didn't allow Tennessee to hit the end zone.
And then you had a very very poor backup quarterback.
You took me, you made sure, Travis Henry wasn't a
part of the offense. Derek, Derek or Travis for that matter,
the great Buffaloville running back Uh say Flowers was just okay,

(14:36):
I mean, which now that one big catch? Yeah, but
that had a big catch for you. Yeah, he needed
to get to the end zone, if you know what
I'm saying. But he didn't. He didn't and the defense
was again that defense doesn't play for any other team
in the NFL. If I'm Baltimore, I'm really wigging out
because again, if if I'm digging a huge hole, how

(14:57):
much can I overcome this? Now, I'll say this. Kay
Adams just tweeted out the Baltimore Ravens are still the
favorites to win the division via Vegas. I don't know
where she got it from, but she put the four
teams up there. They are slight favorites to win it.
And I guess what they're saying is the Steelers will
regress and the Baltimore Ravens wants Lamar Tez and some

(15:20):
of the defensive starts will come back. Yeah, the Browns
are terrible. The Mingles have Joe Burrow hurt, Bengals are toast,
they can't score. I mean, they scored some lates scores
against Detroit, but generally speaking, they've been in the field
goal range for about three weeks. To conscion you, there
are three and one, but they're like we always count
them out and then they're just in the playoff picture.
I mean, and everybody in the Steelers fans hate Mike
Tomlin and he's the worst. And it's like whether it's

(15:42):
tiny handed Kenny Pickett or Mitch Trubisky or Russell Wilson
and dais, they just end up. I mean, they play
hard and they end up winning games. Yeah, but at
this point, again, Vegas not to be all indoll, but
Vegas does still have the Baltimore Ravens not being done correct,
And I wonder if their schedules sow ends up back
half year because they have it has to because it's
been it's pretty total. Yeah, for sure, Bill's Lines and Chiefs.

(16:05):
They've already played. They got the Rams coming up. Yeah,
it's softens up, it's softens up. Oh the oh yeah,
here's here's their run after the Rams next week. Bears, Dolphins, Vikings, Browns, Jets, Bengals, Steelers, Bengals,
Patriots although it's all winnable. Although New England goes to

(16:26):
Buffalo last night and beats the Bills, that's true. Bill's
finally lost a game. Yeah, we are done with undefeated teams.
It ain't never happening again. I don't think so, not
with the parody. And didn't down Shula picked their schedule
that year? It was a bunch of cupcakes. What do
you mean by picking like the coach? Somehow the coaches
picked the schedules or something like that. I can't That

(16:47):
was nineteen seventy two, But then if everybody coached, everybody's
if every coach is picking the schedule, I don't remember. Yeah, okay,
maybe I'm making that up. How about this, Will we
ever see an undefeated college football team ever? Again, that's
a good one. There's a lot of parody at the top,
and you have to win how many play however many
playoff games now three to four? Well, you can, you

(17:08):
can cherry pick your first two or three, but if
you're playing nine league games now, that makes it much
more difficult to be able to get that fourth scrub
in there, maybe like an AC seed, like if Clemson
had a powerhouse team or Florida State or maybe a
Boise State something. I think an SEC or a Big
ten teams doing it. Yeah, Big twelve, there's six, there's
sixteen teams. You're telling me you can run through the

(17:30):
whole top to bottom on that, Well, I'm gonna try it.
I don't think any Texas Tech could do it. I
guess if they spend enough money. By the way, I
saw Cody Campbell the game on Saturday, you did. He
walks around like he's a rock star. You have a
platinum grill. I'm gonna tell you something right now. If
you're a Texa Tech fan, you should go find him
and bow down to him. Yes, you should. They are

(17:52):
spending ungodly amount of money and it's working. It's a
good football team. I don't know if they're national good, Rossie,
but they won't make the playoffs. Seems like right, I think.
I mean, they may be so good they may make
it as an at large. They don't necessarily have to
win the Big twelve to make that happen. So all right,
So back to the text and seven one three, two,

(18:13):
one two, five, seven ninety what are your thoughts? Rosses?
Later it out it's very simply, are you buying in.
Do you need them to beat Seattle? Seattle lost yesterday
Tampa Bay that Yeah, that was a back and forth game.
That was a highest scoring game. By the way, we
should we be sleep on the Buccaneers. I told what
The Buccaneers loss wasn't embarrassing. No, they're four and one now,

(18:36):
I think, yeah, first in the AFC South. I'm gonna
sat NFC South South. Yeah, that division is a hot mess. Falcons, Panthers, Saints.
Yeah they should. They should be rapped up by like
late November. Is uh, Mike McDaniel going to be on
the way out already? They might be back to number
one in the rotten five. You're up seventeen nothing on
the Panthers. Yeah, Now, the game was in Charlotte. The

(18:58):
shouldn't make a huge difference. I don't think so, but
you wouldn't think, you know. And Tyreek Hills, Uh, I
mean yea, his head's leg is gone. You didn't have him,
but they should have been better. Yeah, and the great
running back I had him on benches. You put him
on the bench. No, no, h And I started on
talking about Carolina's running back. Oh, oh, Reco Reco Dawn.
He had a big, big avery go Dawdle now man. Yeah,

(19:19):
he's thirty one points in on my bench, just two
hundred and six yards and he was cramping up in
the fourth quarter. Otherwise he could uh, he'd been coming
after Adrian petersoner. So you get that right, all right?
Seven one three, two one two five, seven? Honey, are
you buying on the Texans? Are you on the fence?
They're really? Honestly, there's no wrong answer, because again, it's
an easier answer if you had beaten say, Kansas City

(19:40):
and a healthy Baltimore and back to back weeks, or
you had beaten I don't know, if you'd beaten Tampa
Bay like yesterday and you'd beaten you know, somebody, Indianapolis.
You you had beaten up a forty percent healthy Baltimore
team and a Tennessee team that might go two and fifteen.
They shouldn't. Tennessee should not have won the game yesterday.

(20:02):
That was And I'm a little either and I'm gonna
applaud a former Texans head coaching candidate for the way
he handled the situation yesterday. And we'll tell a little
bit about that as well. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety to tell the Truth at eleven thirty,
the News at noon, Believe it or Not at one fifty,
and you and me and Ross the rest of the
way at seven one three, two, one two five seven

(20:22):
nine zero. Man, we have a lot of topics to
get to today, so we're just gonna rotate from throughout
the course of the show.

Speaker 5 (20:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
We have obviously a busy week of NFL football, the
Texans doing their thing. You gotta get to this Arizona
Cardinals Jonathan Gannon situation. That was interesting. We had sure
guy Amuri Demrcado, we're talking about him with Roto. That
was isn't it funny? We were just talking about de Mercado, Yes,
and Jonathan Gannon for those of you that don't know, rip,

(20:52):
he did the obligatory I'm gonna be short of the
end zone and drop the ball and get a touch back.
And Jonathan Gannon, you know, De Marcatta was being consoled
by a bunch of different players, and Jonathan Gannon went
over there and told him exactly how he felt about him,
and I was like, good for him. Ross, I don't

(21:12):
know when is this ever going to stop? How many
times is an NFL team and I guarantee you every
one of these thirty two NFL teams are telling these
guys don't be flipping with the football. Run to the
end of the end zone. Then you can throw it
in the high in the stands if you want. This
is what I said. I said this last week when
Ady Mitchell did it. Everybody, coach should just sit everybody

(21:33):
down and make a rule. And I know it's old school,
but you should just do it. Tell everyone to hand
the ball to the referee, and then you can do
whatever you want. Yeah, something cartwheels, you can do the
electric slide, you can do the chat Chat slide, you
can do the the the Ravens dance. Nah, you do
whatever you want. Just hand the ball to the referee
and then do whatever you want. And that's that's problem solved.

(21:58):
I don't believe in choking people. But okay, if I
was young again, I would have choked the guy. Demurcatto
would have choked. He would have broken my I'd have
gone from the throat. Does that does that seem better?
I'm just telling you you probably didn't want that smoke.
I don't have a dog in that fight between Tennessee
and Arizona. But I saw and I was like, when

(22:21):
is this going to stop? I mean, you want to
talk about any given Sunday that felt like a one
in a million game? They get the de Mercado drop,
then they get a touchdown, and then they get the
uh the was it a fumble in? It was an
interception fumble bled into the end zone. It fell forward
into the end zone touchdown. That was insane. Vince Murata,

(22:42):
who's the PA announcer for the Sons, who is a
talk shost in Phoenix, he says, that's the worst loss
he has ever seen in person for a Cardinals game.
That's got to be up there. I mean, that was insane.
They the Titans had zero chance winning that game, but
now they're one and four. You want to talk a
That's the most any given Sunday of any loss I've
seen that I can recall. The Reality is the NFC

(23:04):
South is going to be very competitive if the Cardinals
don't make the playoffs. That's true. They're gonna be sitting
back that one going we literally gave that one away.
Yeah all right. Also, Rockets preseason opener tonight, the Kevin
Durant era begins any word on how much everybody's playing.
Everybody is suiting up. That's all I was told. Okay,
now it's preseason. It's just the pre season five minutes.

(23:27):
So you would think, yeah, I don't know what they
been the last couple of years. You've honestly been there
for more preseason basketball than I have. I don't normally
pay attention to Curner back really quickly. You can have
his you can have like seventeen or eighteen players per team.
It's a play by play nightmare for basketball, because I mean,
Nefali Dante is a backup for the for the Hawks.

(23:51):
He was where he was. I was gonna bring his
name up, and like now he's off the ross. Jacob
Toppin is there. That's Obie's brother. You've always he's got
some player's cousin or son like Keaton Wallace.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Ellie en Jai is a real Madrid Spain player. Now
on the back of the bench. Of course, of course
you have Mohammed gay Uh and then you've got Nicola.
You're a chicch for the Hawks as well. Sure why not?
And I read somewhere Jamari Smith junior UH coach you
Doka announcing he's in the starting five, right, Yeah, it's good.
It's gonna be a men Jabbari Durant shngoon and to

(24:28):
be determined. That's a lengthy lineup to me, tell me,
just me, okay, it's read Shepherd's job to lose NBA starter.
Read Shepherd just saying throwing it out there? Is that?

Speaker 6 (24:44):
What the is that?

Speaker 1 (24:44):
What the Matt Thomas whispers he's hearing, well, I think
I don't. I don't even even if you weren't in
the building, you kind of deduct that. Who would you
like to see? You want to see a men playing point?
I guess would it be a men playing point with?
And you're gonna throw who are the candidates? Tarry Easton
is a candidate you could do. You could move him

(25:06):
in Thompson to the point, but then you who you
would not have a traditional two guard because Tar would
be there. Yeah, you basically don't have traditional two guard.
You could go Aaron Holliday if you wanted to. He's
not gonna start. I don't think how is Tarry Easton's
leg You practiced, I was a practice. He was there yesterday,

(25:27):
So he's doing that. He's not gonna he may did
say that Tari and Steven Adams are not gonna play
Wednesday into Utah. So I mean tell me, I mean
you you you're a Rocket fan. I don't know. I'll
throw a dart and say, Tarry Easton, who's your main
go to threat off the bench? Then read Shepard. No,

(25:50):
I'm gonna I must stand by my my my thought.
If it's reads, unless Red play so poorly that yeah,
he's he's he. I don't think he comes, I don't
think he starts and it contributes or ac back into
the bench. I will say, I don't know how much
Reed has grown as a player in the offseason. If
we're getting Reed Shepherd from basically what I saw out
of him last year, I don't think he's an NBA starter.

(26:11):
There's one guy, JD. Davidson a cup of coffee in
the NBA, was the G League MVP last year, really
keeping an eye on him. Not how much he's gonna
play tonight, but he's number four for the Rockets. Okay,
So just throwing out out being valedictorian of the remedial school,
I don't know, I mean media school. I mean maybe
maybe a four point one in junior college. Okay, I

(26:33):
like mine. Now, I never get that I went one
hundred and seventy five. Now I know it's terrible. Seven
on three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero. Start talking
to some folks and we will begin with CJ on
the south side. Hey, CJ, are you on the fence

(26:55):
or off the fence about the Texans after the two
straight wins?

Speaker 7 (27:00):
On the fence because of the circumstances of the two wins,
I will be off that fence. If they don't have
they don't have to dominate Seattle. If they win that game,
even if it's a close, man, then I'll be off
the fence. But we we definitely we took advantage of
the situation. The plus for me is that they beat

(27:20):
bossmore in the way that they should have. The minusul
me is that it took all the way into the
fourth quarter to get going against Tennessee. But yeah, I'm
still on I'm sorry that I'm still on the fence
about them. I need to see it happen against the
forty nine ers in the Seahawks and the last two
things I say, Yeah, it's definitely read Shepherd's job to lose. Uh,

(27:41):
I don't choke the players. Man, don't don't influence the.

Speaker 8 (27:45):
Man.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Did you did you see Jeff? Did you see the play?
I mean, I mean you. I don't know how many
more times these NFL players, who are insanely talented in
terms of athletic ability, are so mind numbingly dead when
it comes to dropping the ball before it reaches the
end zone. I once or twice I get it. Bit.

(28:08):
I don't know what it is, but it's it's It
makes me mad and I don't even care about either
one of those teams. It is dumbfounding that it continues
to happen.

Speaker 6 (28:20):
Again.

Speaker 7 (28:21):
I think it's arrogance, because you you have to be
arrogant to think what you're gonna do before you even
do it, you know what I mean? Like you, you're
acting like you've already scored, and you haven't. You already
think about the celebration. You haven't achieved the points. Yeah,
I think it's I think it's crazy. I think it's tragic,
and I think people players like that they need to
be sat down for a while, you know, and understand
the consequences.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
I actually and I agree with that rule.

Speaker 7 (28:43):
I thought It was kind of crazy the one you
said you would make them handing the ball the reff.
But like, if that player, I would make him from
now on when you score, if you score, you hand
the ball to the reff.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
You know what I would do. I'd run to the
wall CJ And say you cannot come back until that
ball is in your hand at the walls, but touch
the wall in the back of the end zone with
the folk call. I mean that, seriously, some any kind
of rule, any rule, Hand it to the rev, hand
it to somebody, hand it to your mama. I don't know.
Go throw in the stands. I mean, hey, no, not
throw it. Go jump in the stands with the ball
in hand at somebody, to somebody. Yes, just you don't

(29:14):
want them loading up at the two because you know,
ross every single team when they're in the film room,
they all the guys together. You, hey, receivers, you don't
do this. You got a full montage play at the
beginning of every team meeting. Yeah, you know what I mean.
NFL Film's got a whole DVD of the best heidplate.
They don't do DVDs anymore, I don't think so. Okay, sorry, sorry,
you know I'm sorry, but all right. Ten forty three, Well,

(29:37):
geezer disc leiser, you know, just go to go to
the iPad. iPads can get highlights there, you go. All right,
we got to get to James and Klin and we
got to get to Mark Sanchez. Holy smokes, the heck's
going on over there. So let me ask you this question.
And I'm sure many of you know by now, don't
give an answer yet. Okay, does Fox keep Mark Sanchez

(29:59):
after this? Ten forty three on Sports Talk seven, nul
blackhas said, we got so much to get to today.
We have not gotten in the deep dive on the
long Horns, which we'll do at eleven o'clock. Went to
the Cougars too, we sucked, Yet we absolutely kind of
deep dive you're looking for. I don't know, just I
want to. I want you to pour your soul off
to the audience. Why, because your team is massively I

(30:21):
think I'm shocked they lost. Oh come on, I think
it's a little easier to say that, not that the
line moved from six and a half to four and
a half. The line Texas, I'm telling you, I'm telling
you what the line was. I don't care about. I
know you don't care what Long gone to Florida. I'm
telling you what a logical person will look at. If
you look at the line and see that it went
from six and a half to four and a half,
you understand that the Long Horns could very well lose

(30:42):
that game. My line, they didn't. We don't live on
the line, Okay, on the Doors should have been a
better team. Line. Yes, they should have been a better team,
but they're not that good. Well, I just do you
should be good? Okay? Are you a team? I'm okay,
I'm just gonna give a sames to you. I am
very surprised if a team is a four and a
half point favorite and they lose, is that the shell
most shocking thing you ever heard? The shocking fam Okay,
but I don't know. I'm not shocked, but I'm not looking.

(31:03):
I say, the Florida Florida Gators are about to fire
their coach. Okay, Well, I wasn't sitting there with pom
poms and saying, yeah, Texas Longhorse number one, crappy. I'll
see how you thought that your team could have lost.
You're talking about a quarterback who has not shown anything
all season long, going on the road in the swamp
and getting beat on both lines. And I'm supposed to
be shocked that they lost. Art sucks there. It is okay,

(31:27):
we got a lot of resistance. We're good to go.
He's pretty bad, Guys, I can't believe how Betty is.
I'm shocked. Oh, but I'm supposed to be surprised. I am.
I want you to be surprised, Belly. I want you
to be mad with Belly. The team's not good. You
lost to Florida. Who loves about Okay? I I also
watched them play their other games. I didn't sit there

(31:48):
saying this was a world benimated Sam Houston State. You
don exactly UTSA. They struggled against UTEP, they quite frankly.
Art looked terrible for a while against San Jose State,
and he got progressively worse than those couple of weeks.
And I'm supposed to say I'm shocked they lost to Florida.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Will you be shocked if he gets bitched?

Speaker 4 (32:08):
Now?

Speaker 1 (32:08):
I would be surprised if he got bitched, Yes, yeah,
because the backup is Matthew Caled. Well, he's not getting bitch.
I want Quinny yours back. Let's go Quinn viewers, was
I mean above replacement level but not great. Arch Manning
is looking like just a guy, That's what he looked like.
He made some good throws over the weekend. Oh you
said we'll get to it eleven, Yeah, eleven o'clock, old
Dezzld's that's right there, ridiculous. I just don't let Vegas

(32:32):
tell me. I let Texas again. I bought in the headlines,
I bought it exactly. I bought in. And I'm and
I'm I'm a fool. All right. Now, let's get two
other things real quick. So Mark Sanchez for those, and
eybody knows where it happened by now right, and you
would think, uh, well the details came out. Let's yeah,
let's go back. So Saturday morning, we all woke up

(32:54):
to Fox Sports analyst Mark Sanchez, yes, was stabbed in Indianapolis.
First initial reaction was, oh my god, is he gonna
make it? Thoughts and prayers out to Mark Sanchez. This
is unbelievable. He's such a nice guy, such a good
family man. Okay, Then it became he got into a
fight with a door dash person, which is incorrect. That

(33:17):
was strike two and the inaccurate SYS and then politicians
are coming out, Oh, we have to we have to
curb this inner city violence. Mark Sanchez is a victim
of this inner city violence. This is unbelievable. And by
the way, inner city violence is happening in every city
in the country since inner cities have existed. It's unfortunately.
You'd like to curb it, but I don't think. You
know what, Yeah, there's crime where people actually live in cities.

(33:39):
This is shocking, Okay, So that's strike two. The strike
three was the fact that it wasn't a door dash guy.
It was a sixty nine year old man in an
alleyway that worked for a grease trapping company. Yes, okay,
collecting cooking oil. So he's doing his job late at night.
I don't think the six and nine year old thought

(34:00):
that former NFL quarterbacks would be doing sprints in the
middle of this alleyway after having I don't know, nine
or ten or eleven cocktails. M So, now, again summarizing
his very briefly, Sanchez wanted the grease truck guy and
his truck to move so he could run his sprints,
because that's what people do in the middle of the night.

(34:21):
I didn't see this. He's running sprints, yeah, okay, I
missed that part. Yeah, he's running sprints in an alleyway
in downtown Annapolis late at night.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Apparently Sanchez goes after the guy, the guy who didn't
have his hearing aid on. Hearing aids on was like,
who is this psychotic coming after me? He tasers him
pepper spray right, oh you know, yeah, maybe maybe peppers.
It doesn't want pepper spray. They then go after each
other and he pleas like, this guy's gonna kill me.

(34:56):
So the guy in self defense takes a knife and
stabs Mark Sanchez moultiple times. That's apparently the most accurate
of all the stories. Okay, now there are Apparently Sanchez
had his phone on. Apparently the grease trap guy had
his phone on, so there is lots of video on this,

(35:17):
and the family of the sixty nine year old grease
trap truck driver has took some pictures of the said
man in the hospital yesterday. He got his ass, I mean,
brutally beaten by Mark Sanchez. Brutally beaten. Matter of fact,
I would not suggest any of you looking at the
find trying to find the photos of the guy in

(35:37):
the hospital because I can't believe he's alive. He's beaten
to a pulp. So fast forwarding this even a few
minutes ago, Indianapolis Police having now announced that Mark Sanchez
now faces a Level five felony battery charge, which carries
a one to six year sentence. So that's the very

(35:58):
latest as of about thirty five minutes ago. So you're
saying to yourself, well, how did Fox handle it? I
want you to listen to these things without comment. Okay,
this is Carissa Thompson on the Fox Early pregame show.

Speaker 4 (36:13):
All Right, Friday night in Indianapolis, one of our team members,
Mark Sanchez, was involved in an incident that we are
still trying to wrap our heads around, and at this time,
our thoughts and prayers are with Mark, his family and
all of those involved.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Okay, perfect, right, Yeah, we have no details, no details.
They don't want to say too much. They don't know
what's going on. Here's Kurt Menafie moments later. All right,
thank you very much. Jay.

Speaker 9 (36:40):
Well, Friday night in Indianapolis, one of our team members,
Mark Sanchez, was involved in an incident that, to be honest,
we're all still trying to wrap our heads around at
this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with Mark, his
family and all those involved. Will be right back with
more football right after this.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
Okay, Fox, Fox, could you not have written two different things?
They said the exact same thing. I mean, come on,
that's a goodument. That's terrible. Pr span baby, we're wrapping up.
They couldn't even come up a different vernacular for wrapping
our heads around. This sounds like Chad DVT did a

(37:16):
I write that for them. Perhaps that's nuts, that's absolutely crazy. Yeah,
maybe they're behind the scenes like, yeah, my Mark's a
live wire. We don't know what happened here. Let's just
go ahead and put something to generic out. So what
has happened is you Unfortunately what Ross said is accurate.
You had everybody crapping on in downtown Indianapolis. Yes, because, uh,

(37:36):
Vanessa Richard who works our sideline, she's from Minneapolis, and
she says that people are always talking about the downtown
Innapolis scene. And Vanessa and were talking about that we
were rockets. Was like every city's worried about inner city crime.
We're all worried about inner city crime in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit.
I mean, everybody's worried about inner city crime, and so
is Indianapolis. So this was a another indictment against Indianapolis

(37:59):
when in if you would have waited just a little
bit of time, you would have figured out it was
Mark Sanchez's fault. Now again, there could be more to it,
because it feels like things are moving along here and
can still come out. We haven't heard his side of
the story, have we No. All we're hearing is that
they arrested him on three misdemeanors and now they have

(38:19):
changed one of those to a felony charge. Yeah, this
is bizarre. I think he's done at Fox. I think
you're right, unless his story comes out and there's video
to corroborate it. That is sixty nine year old man
was trying to do his job and started messing with him,
which I don't think is likely. Let me soft pedal
a little bit. If he had gotten into a fight,

(38:41):
uh huh, okay, And people get drunk, people make mistakes.
I'm all for second chances, But when you when you
are pepper sprayed and the guy is fearful for his
life and you go look at the photos of the
guy in the hospital. You're one hundred, right, Matt, No,

(39:02):
you cannot. You saw it. You I told you look here,
you know. Yeah, that's bad. I don't think ROSSI comes
back from it. I don't think so either. He's a
good analyst too. I think buddy Adam, I mean, that's
his partner and I I'm not going to reach out
to Adam because he's probably in a very uncomfortable position,

(39:24):
but that he was doing good games. He wasn't doing
like Miami Carolina. Yeah, I think he does a good job.
But honestly, again, I'm wondering, if he's on something sprints
in the middle of the night, what does that even mean?
And pepper spray's not slowing you down. I mean, pepper
spray can be irritant, but you can still kind of
I don't think it doesn't paralyz. No, it's no if
you get jepper sprayed, unless you're on something or inebriated

(39:47):
like he was, that should slow you straight down? Should you?
I mean to show you down for hours hours? If
he got him in the face and he's saying he
just wiped it off his face like he's Michael my
Ers or something, all right, go look at the photos
I talk about Berkeley. You're gonna want to look mas Well,
I don't know. I'm good you really earlier. I saw

(40:14):
it before you gave your warning. So thanks for nothing.
All right, let's uh talk some more college football about
my Cougar's not showing up and turning the ball over
over and over again. And is Ain and M the
best football team in the state right now? They even
played Texas Tech right now? Who would wins? The Matt
Thomas Show with ross I have been obsessed with the

(40:39):
and I know this just I don't I don't mean
to poke the bear, Rossie, but I've been obsessed with
how many people loved arch Manning coming out of high school.
And I have been as I spent a lot of
time Saturday, as I got to the TD earlier the
Cougar Stadium before very early before the game, because those
were aboutraffick and whatnot, I was like, do I think

(40:59):
we needed to away from private school quarterbacks? I just
I don't know why I shouldn't paint with that broad
brush shit. I'm sure we can find some somebody. I'm
sure there are plenty. I mean the nephew, I mean
the uncles are great examples of that being good NFL quarterbacks.
But there are so many bright football minds that have

(41:20):
missed on him. I can't find anybody that's like he's
gonna I hear. I mean, I'm hearing all the things.
I was listening to this serious on Sunday morning, driving
around going the rockets practice. He doesn't work through his progressions,
his arms drength is mid, he has mechanical I mean,
all these things ross that I don't understand the number

(41:40):
one high school quarterback in the country would have. If
you're the number twenty three quarterback, you got some issues.
He was the consensus number one high school quarterback in
the country. Yes, he was so helped me through this.
And the number two quarterback, I will go back to this.
The number two quarterback was Nico Yami Liava. Yeah, very good.
Dante Moore, uh, which who Dante Moore is actually being

(42:05):
is pretty good, but with Oregon. But he was with UCLA, yes,
and didn't do much. Jackson Arnold Malachai Nelson like there
was like a bunch of five star quarterbacks that year.
Five stars don't always hit. Is this anvitment against Sark
you tell me. I don't think so. There is always
the line of how much do you blame the player

(42:27):
and how much do you blame the coaching? Right, everybody's
got an opinion about it. Everybody's about developing, and it's like, Okay,
the offensive line is bad, Well they got to develop
the players. Well they had to. Both of their tackles
were in the NFL draft last year, Texas Longhorn. So
they seem to be developing tackles or you say, is
that just the player? I don't know. So the offensive line,
they're not getting help anywhere. It's almost like what we

(42:48):
were talking about CJ. Shaud a couple of weeks ago.
Arch Manning has a bad offensive line in front of him.
He's getting pressured like crazy that the run game is
basically non existent, and then he's he's basically he on
on Saturday. He was their leading rusher, in their their
leading passer. Of course I didn't see the two picks.
Were they his fault? Yes? The last one was an

(43:12):
unbelievable catch by the Florida dB whose name I don't remember.
But it was a bad throw. And that's another thing.
He was trying to drive the ball downfield. He also
made a couple of great throws, especially that second touchdown.
It was an unbelievable throw. But those are the ones
he's bombing it deep. And I talked about this last
year in this offseason, to where he's not taking the
throws in front of him. He's he's just trying to

(43:34):
get the chunk plays. He's trying to make the highlight plays.
And he was doing that against Florida, and granted they
were down and I hadn't seen as much of that
from him, but uh, there's there's problems with inaccuracies. There's
problem with that, as you said, reading past his going
past his first read, and he's also running for once
he hits his first raid, he's running for his life.
So everything is going wrong with the Texas offense. The

(43:59):
offensive line is bad, the running game is bad, honestly,
the wide receivers aren't special, and and the quarterback's not good.
There you go, that's your problem. Everything. So that everybody
in this country, from college coaches to media who who
have AP votes that you would think would have a response.

(44:19):
I mean, yeah, they brought into the hype. Texas Longhorns
were hype preseason. All stop me if you've heard. Let's
end this hype. We're done. We're done. No, you're the
one tell me they're back. Who told you they weren't back?
I told you they were. I don't care. I'm indifferent
than the kids say it all off season they're not back.
But I'm telling what a champions need this more playing

(44:42):
in the Music City Bowl. I have been hurt too
much and I can clearly I'm going to continue to
get hurt. And somehow their favorites again this weekend against
sou Is that because the quarterback situe situation? Perhaps yeah,
the favorite against oh you yes, oh, come on, we'll
use quarterback situations up in the EU. It because an injury, okay,
and you're not going Are you going here? I don't

(45:02):
know yet. Double the prices are going down now. See
this is this is how sad my life as a
Longhorn fan is. I I the silver lining is like,
oh okay, I'm talking to my brother as the game
is on. Well, at least so oh you, tickets will
be cheaper now, maybe we'll go because last week get
in price is four fifty like top of the top
of the Cotton Bowl, which is in a bad seat

(45:24):
it's high, pretty high. Yeah, but two people spending nine
hundred dollars to go, Yeah, and it's not usually the
weather's fine. Put on a little sunscreen.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Mat.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
It's okay. People at every stadium across the country, but
in college football mat they sit outside. But I love
the club seats. Oh my god, fancy Matt, Go get
some fresh air, Matt. I love getting fresh air. I
walked from around the stadium gonna use it. But I mean, well,
don't stab anybody. I do like get stabbed. Don't be

(45:55):
worn in spring. You know what are all these years
I've been traveling Ross, I don't run sprints in the
middle of downtown hotel Alley's. Uh here, here's the run game.
Arch Manning had fifteen carries for thirty seven yards and
he was running, you know, of course in college yards
for sacks. Out of that it was contraviant.

Speaker 6 (46:13):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
Quinn Travion Wisner, who I think is just a replacement
level for for Texas, replacement level running back who has
had great running backs like Pajean Robinson and Roshawn Johnson
recently and Jaden Blue and whoever else. We can go
through the list. Eight carries for eleven yards two carries
for four yards for Ryan Nibblett, and that that's basically

(46:34):
been your running game. It's it's nothing, no running game,
and you're asking Arch is not good. Arch could thrive
in a situation where he doesn't have to be the
one that wins you games because he's just he's not
shown that he can he can do anything else. He's
not carrying a team. He made some good throws overall,

(46:55):
his numbers weren't terrible, but he makes bad decisions and
he doesn't have a great arm and he doesn't read
defense as well. So it's so hard to to douce.
Is it he just didn't mature to the spot. Is
it because the pressure is too much? Is it his
offensive coaching? Because I do believe at the collegiate level,
ross you still. I mean, look, you get coaching at

(47:17):
all levels, but you going from a private high school
to playing major college SEC football, you're gonna need coaching. Yeah,
but it's also his third year. I think was there
some people like, oh, you know, he's only started a
few games. He's in his third year. He should be
better than where he is. He should I don't think
anybody would dispute that at all, yah, well, some people are.

(47:38):
But that's the Longhorn Homers is that? How is?

Speaker 8 (47:41):
How is?

Speaker 3 (47:42):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (47:42):
What's the what's what your guy's name? There's Jeff Ketch him,
it's a big ut honk. I don't what's the other
guy's name? That was Mac Brown's best friend, Chip Brown,
Chip Brown? Yeah, I don't know. I hope Chip's okay.
I don't know what they're saying. What has Billy Lucci
chimed in on the Texas setbacks? I'm sure he has.

(48:04):
Ain't him undefeated? Still? Then they got Flora coming into
their building. I'm sad. It's looking like eight and four
at best type of season right now. I don't know
who's feeling worse today, Texas fan, well the clearly it's
Penn Stately, you lose the Oregon game at home, and

(48:27):
then you go across the country to UCLA where you
were what I thought it was a twenty four and
a half point deficit. I mean that that that Vegas
means everything. No, but but no, you can't mention it.
It doesn't matter. Nobody said that. I don't let Vegas aside.
It's ridiculous. No, it doesn't matter. You know what the
scene anything the Seeing Eye tests as UCLA sucked and

(48:49):
Rick Neuheisel's sun. What kind of hair does that dude have?
Have you seen that? The big old floppy Harry's got
floppy blonde hair. Didn't see his hair now? And he
of his mountain. His girlfriend on the field after they won, Yes,
really really yeah she was. She jumped into his arms
and they were like it was an it felt like it.
Where were his hands above the waist? Are below? I

(49:10):
believe on her buttocks? That's a blow. We're always watching
these everybody's hands, aren't we just asking? And then my
Cougars just kept turning the ball over? How many turnovers?

Speaker 9 (49:23):
I have?

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Three? I didn't catch that game? Why I was on ESPN?
Was the game of the week? Oh, by the way,
Longhorns were on ESPN? Yeah, you said ABC? I thought
it was Yeah, I was all wrong. It's funny. They
had Vanderburt Alabama on one is on once on ABC,
and they had Texas floor on the ESPN. Yespin's like,
we don't care what we're paying all this money, We'll

(49:45):
put the games on we damn well please Thankfully. The
Cougars are a double digit favorites. At Oklahoma State Seeing
Eye test says they should win by twenty one points. Okay,
Oklahoma State seeing all that they called mister seeing Eye
and I'm going I'm going to steal water for my
first ever game of tea. Big always quintin, I hope
not all right? To tell the truth is coming up
at the bottom of the ear if you want to

(50:06):
chime in right now. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven ninety more on the Textans would come back and
to tell the truth is gonna involve a couple of
Texans nuggets, So be listening for that. I'm intrigued. You
should be seven one three two one two five seven
ninety six eleven nineteen on Matt Thomas showed Ross seven

(50:30):
one three two one two five seven ninety Now do
you have it? Is a group text Monday, by the way,
and I don't have anything really juicy. Uh. I mean,
if I would, I probably not mention it because it
probably hurt some feelings. We didn't make fun of some
people that have YouTube shows, but that's a different issue
for a different time. That's also a day that ends

(50:52):
of why it feels fair Uh, Where's I going with this?

Speaker 5 (51:00):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (51:00):
So in your group chats mm hmm. So what you
got to do? You got to take away the Texans darlenes.
And I don't consider you a battle You're a battle
red ross, damn. But but you're a little let's go.
They want to know this week. That's all that matters.
So I want to know from those of you that
went to your office today. M hm. And do people

(51:22):
even water cooler anymore? Uh? What you can call it
water cooler, but maybe a kitchen. It's around the coffee machine, yeah,
and the and the ice and water machine. We chat
around the kitchen. We do we actually do do that
here at this at the station. What's it the what's
the the what's in the kitchen today? The kitchen to me,
and if I'm wrong, please tell me. The kitchen to

(51:45):
me is you gotta go beat somebody first. That thank
god they got thank god they beat Baltimore. The Ravens
were awful and the Texans made them look even worse
than maybe they really were. But they were terrible and
CJ was very effective. He had great accuracy. He looked
like a little little bit of mojo back. That's how
I would describe how the Texans offense looked yesterday. Yes,

(52:10):
the swagger levels were up. Yeah, but you need to
go do it against a team that's a full full
comment of players. I mean, the injury list for Baltimore
before the game was terrible. No IBVI was sly Lamar
Jackson's a huge loss for them. And the fact is
the Texans have not won in Baltimore whatever ever, that
was their first win at Baltimore. It just just shows
you what it took. I'm not discounting it. I'm just

(52:35):
saying that you've got two feet off of it. You
got to take the positive mojo that you got from
that game and you're feeling better about yourself because look
the NFL world when you're in the bubble and Demiko
Ryan's game plan this week like he was facing the
seventy two Dolphins or facing the eighty five Bear defense. Okay,

(52:56):
in reality, we knew, all of us that watch football
knew that the Ravens weren't showing. The real Ravens didn't
show up. Yes they didn't, and it was almost like
a like a dress rehearsal preseason game in a way
with that, but you still you checked all the boxes
you wanted to check because it could have gone not
your way. It could have gone against you. You could

(53:17):
have had you won the turnover battle three to nothing,
you didn't have a lot of penalties. You basically doubled
them up in yards gain. It could have gone ten
different ways, and if they played that game ten times,
it comes out of ten different ways. But this was
the one where you really wanted to see this team
bounce back and flex their muscles on a weaker opponent,
and they did it. Because still the NFL, they still

(53:39):
are guys that made a roster. Yes, but the depth charge,
it's like going against you know, for instance, the game
would have been a little more I mean, how do
you think the Ravens would have failed if it are
going against David Mills is compared to going against c. J. Stroud.
I mean, there is such a dramatic drop off between
A and B that we don't focus a lot of

(54:00):
times in that when it comes to people in the secondary,
we don't focus on defensive tackles. But we noticed when
quarterbacks change. Cooper Rush looked like a backup quarterback in
what he was He played like a backup quarterback. He
made some throws. He also was ill timed. He was
also pressured. He doesn't he's not elusive, he doesn't the
running ability. There's a sizeable difference between the number one

(54:20):
guy the number two guy, and thankful the Texans didn't
make the number two guy come across as a hero
for one week. And they bottled up Derrick Henry very
well as well, where he's had some issues this year anyways,
yards per the yards per carry has been good, but
that's because he's busting the random explosive fifty to sixty
yard carry. Outside of that, he's been bottled up and
the Texans didn't allow that big carry. YEP. Penalties were

(54:44):
still a little bit of an issue. There were some
tiny holding calls and whatnot that he took teams back,
but generally speaking, yeah, it wasn't that. It was I'll
tell you what I got one four for twenty six.
You're gonna want to look at that Wensie offensive line
breakdown from PFS. Oh could they be marching to number
twenty five. Let me tell you those poon Hounds arena
are gonna be. I've been they're gonna do. They're gonna

(55:05):
do some very good work for the Texans. If you
don't know what we're talking about. He was a great
moment of the show last week. The Pro Football Focus guys, Yeah,
Matt always says they're not having sex. Well, I sind
you call them poonhounds. I'm going to change it herplatly.
They're not the PFF guys. They're the Poonhounds. That's what

(55:28):
the p and PFF stands for, Poonhound Football Focus. When
you like to just what are they based out of?
I don't because you didn't didn't count Chris Collins with
By as share of them, unless he did. Now he
lives in Cincinnati, But I don't believe the PFF guys
live in Cincinnati. No, I don't think so either. I

(55:49):
know the guy, I think the guy that founded just
from like scotland Ers. Yeah, we've had him on the
show before, real thick accent. Yeah yeah, Neil Neil Holdensby
speaking of that. I don't know where their offices are.
And if you think I'm that guy, I want you
to I want quarters in Cincinnati. Actually, oh is that really?
He must he must have moved all the bros there.
He's like coming to my house. You know what they're

(56:10):
in Chris collins Worth spare bedroom probably and in the
basement of the basements is in the natty Yeah, yeah, okay.
So I go to Rockets practice yesterday, but I wanted
to hear the Minnesota Cleveland game. Okay, And there is
a national broadcasting group called Westwood one that does all
the national guests. Westwood one.

Speaker 6 (56:31):
Do it.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
I don't abi to call it Rockets game tonight because
stop it stopping. Okay, that's what the Westwood one guy started.
Jonathan's confused. Yeah, he is listening to Westwood One. That's
what the guy sounds like. Yeah, okay, So Westwood One,
if there's a national broadcast, they get the call of that. Well,

(56:51):
Minnesota and Minnesota Cleveland was a national They had a
guy that lived in London calling the game.

Speaker 4 (57:01):
It was.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
Difficult to sa to the very least. And I want
to put this in context. Okay, if you gave me
an assignment, said Matt, do call a soccer game, I
could get the lingo down. I could get, but it
would sound very technical. Does that make sense to flow?
It wouldn't be a it wouldn't be a I. I'd

(57:26):
have a bunch of listing points of what to say
on the pitch and you know this offside. Well no, no, no,
that's a call I'm talking about. Okay, just like he
would say first and ten for the Cleveland Browns against
the Minnesota Vikings of the Vikings seventeen yard line in
this National Football League contest. It was very mechanical. It
was mechanical. It was almost like a I helped him

(57:48):
call the game. H I couldn't listen to it very long.
I had to go on my serious xm app and
listen to the Cleveland and Minnesota broadcast because the guy,
First of all, I don't I'm not a big fan
of listening to Britain voices unless it's in the building
for it. Yeah, they're very soothing, I think you really Yeah, Okay,
to teach his own, but he was trying to call

(58:08):
the game, and it was so hard to listen to
because he was so mechanical. And I wish I could
better pinpoll when I'm trying to explain here, but it
was it's just, you know, you don't want a free
flowing game. When you hear a guy that's done two
hundred games in his life, it sounds like Vin Scully, Yeah, effortless. Yeah,
when Mike Breen calls the game. He's calling an iron
Eagle call the game on TV yesterday, because a maestro

(58:30):
like Kevin Harlan on football is beautiful. Yeah, it's like
it's like a soothing wave. It was very chopping. Huh Okay,
here we are at the Tottenham Stadium on the grass.
You know. It just it was it was like it
was like he was narrating his compared to calling the player.
That's how I'm gonna go with. He was narrating two
tight ends to the left and one to the right.

(58:50):
And that's kind of like how the they call soccer
games though it's very poetic and flowery. Well, it's funny
because you know, Gus Johnson many years ago tried calling
soccer and and everybody hated him because he didn't sound
like he was a soccer guy. And that was just difficult. Yeah.
So I don't know, I mean, the sports are so different. Yeah.
Now I've done soccer before, so I have Oh, that's

(59:11):
what your hot shots. The voice was the voice of
the Houston hot Shots. That's right, and they folded for
ten thousand dollars. I ask you this every single time.
I always forget the mascot's name was shot Ere Heat Torpedo.
I don't know, Pikoto goalie. That's right, Pikota goalie. I

(59:31):
just liked it. Yes, I know you love it. Time
we had good friend of mine. Matter of fact, it
was the best man at my wedding. And you guys
don't know this. I think I mentioned maybe once or twice.
Glenn Davis was my partner on these games, and the
folks of the hot Shots would serve us a hot
dogs before the game, okay, raims Roddy Ryland. Yes, and

(59:54):
I had three dogs before the game one time. That's
a hefty meal. So we're called on the game. I'm
not feeling well. I put the headset down. I said, Glenn,
you're about to make your play by play debut.

Speaker 6 (01:00:08):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
And he did, How long were you gone? About fifteen
twenty minutes? Twenty came back in halftime, he goes, Okay.
I said, yeah, I got a little, I got a
little sweats gone, but I think I can make it.
So I started calling the third quarter. There were quarters.
They did quarters in the same game. I looked, I said,
did they do four downs too? I said, Glinton, you're
about to finish this broadcast. Oh my gosh, yeah, three

(01:00:33):
chili cheese dogs onions. Remember how port I was back
in the day too. Yeah, three seems like a light
snack for you. Back then, that was part of the problem.
Maybe it wasn't nourished. You're still ungry. You can now nourish.
I love and thirty. We're gonna play they tell the
truth next, gentlemen, I have four sports takes. Are you
ready for this? I only believe one of them? Okay,

(01:00:57):
you only believe one? Only believe one? Okay? Seven? One? Three, two, one,
two five seven? I need to tell the truth? Is next?

Speaker 8 (01:01:11):
You tell me?

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
I never know why you don't know. So the great
thing about me is I do know how to tell
the truth. Now I will lie to you and have
zero problem with it. It's gonna say some of the time. Yeah,

(01:01:33):
all right, here we go. I got four sports takes,
Jonathan and Ross. You are to believe only one of them.
Three of these I don't believe, hm hmm. Okay, up
to you to determine which one of the four I
do believe. Wonderful number one right out of the get go. Wait,

(01:01:54):
how many you believe? One? Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:01:56):
Three?

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
Knots three knots. If you want the Texans to be
a serious playoff team, they gotta beat a serious opponent.
I think next a week ago, a week from Monday. No,
it's actually two weeks from Monday. Is there all next week? Yes,
it's must win against Seahawks. If you really want to

(01:02:17):
get this people in the city engaged, you have to
beat the Seahawks. Tennessee and Baltimore doesn't do enough for me.
You gotta beat the Seahawks, all right, Okay, that's number one.
I must win games, by the way, three in a row,
must win games. Ouars I said the Jaguars game was
must win number two. If the Ravens continue to slide,

(01:02:45):
the Texans should make a phone call at the trade deadline,
Lamar Jackson, come on down and go try to trade
it for Derrick Henry. Okay, h all right. Number three,
I think in order for Aaron Boone to keep his
job with the New York Yankees, they gotta come back

(01:03:07):
and beat the Blue Jays. These two ass kickings they
have had in the first two games, coupled with always
the hesitation about whether or not he's the long term
solution for the Yankees, adds up. I think embarrassing losses
to a divisional opponentkay is bad. I think the Yankees
have to come back to beat the Blue Jays in
order for Aaron Boone to keep his job. Wow, Okay,

(01:03:31):
and number before. I have been wavering about this for
quite some time, and right now as we speak at
eleven thirty seven on Monday, October the sixth, I'm not
sure about the future Danion Brown and Joe Espada. I
thought I was, but I'm not. I think something's still
going to maybe happen. It's going to rock our world.

(01:03:55):
So I would say, again, in my mind, is just
opinion only that Joe Spotta and Dana Brown are still
up for consideration of potential moves, both of them, both
of them now, maybe neither one of them get it.
But if I was to dial up Jim Crane, I
don't think Jim Crane would say, Matt, they're locked and
loaded for next year. Okay. I think there's some a

(01:04:18):
little bit of wiggling in those streets. You know how
we like to wiggle here. I like wiggles. I know
you which one was your favorite? Wiggle? Tommy Kim Basinger
and Wayne's World two oh that's fair, all right, So
here are my four takes. If you want to be
a serious playoff team, you must it's a must win
to beat the Seahawks. Okay, two weeks from today, wonderful.
I think the Yankees have to come back to beat

(01:04:39):
the Blue Jays, and in order for the Aaron Boone
to keep his job if the Ravens continue to slide,
the Texans should call the Ravens about trading for Derrick Henry. Okay,
And I am wavering about whether or not Joe A.
Spotta and or Dana Brown returned for twenty twenty six.
Which one of those four am I telling the truth? Gentlemen,

(01:05:02):
you may discuss, all right, what do you think? And
you know I'll go to you first, number two, Derrick Henry.
We don't have the offensive line for that, so I
don't even I think there would be other priorities, especially hmm, okay,
we have the defense, right, but what do we're gonna
get Dereck Henry? Spell that money? And then what are
we gonna do in the front? I don't I don't
really like that. I'm not too sure about that. Yeah,

(01:05:24):
I don't know about the cap space fit. But not
that Matt Thomas is paying attention to that, so he
still could believe it. All right, Just to let you know,
I was not worried about cap space. I know you're
not Sea. I told you I'm the anti worry about capspace.
Uh okay, what else, Jonathan? Okay, Aaron Boone, I mean,

(01:05:48):
what is the can you? Can you repeat number one?
It's a must win game? Yeah? I think I think
the Seahawks is a must win game. Okay, there's no
way he would do that to me. I gotta throw
that one out. You got the hell things to you, Ross,
I would excuse me, what pause? Okay, I would do
a lot of sports running content to you. Ross. I'm

(01:06:11):
throwing that one out. What else, Johnathan? What do you
think No? Four is? Really? It's it's it's like the
bait right now. I don't know, because I mean, I
think he thinks Dana Brown's pretty safe. He should. I
don't know if he does, but would be on the
play for me. I don't think he believes number three either,
because Aaron Boone did go to the World Series last year,
they made the DS, they beat the Red Sox. He'd

(01:06:32):
probably be back next year. I mean, the blue. Jayson
just beat them up. It's not like he's making any mistakes.
And like, who else would they hire for the and
I don't think I think they have a good time.
I'm going number two because you got to remember Matt
hates Joe Mixon and thinks he's out for the season.
He is the Texans insider. Have I not given you
nothing but gospel text? Should try He's not saying they're

(01:06:54):
going to trade for him, And that's what they're slipping.
That's if they're slipping, right, if Raven start losing, like okay, okay, okay, yeah,
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with the obvious win.
I'm just obviously. I think he was see how you
gotta win this game if you want this momentum keep
going on, like you have to win the Seahawks. So
you said it's a must win. I'm saying it's a
must win. Okay. I don't think Aaron Boone's gonna lose

(01:07:17):
his job. They won America League Pennant last year. I
mean that be awfully short sighted. I have been a
huge Derrick Henry fan for a long time, but I
think there is slippage for the first time, and I
do think that's a lot of money. I do believe
that Nick, you're considering the salary cap. I do believe

(01:07:37):
Nick Casseiro loves his draft stock. Okay, I don't know
if that all of a sudden makes it. I think
they're gonna try to make it work with Woody Marx
and or Nick Chubbs. So I would not think the
Texans would call on Derrick Henry. And as much as
I do believe in the must wins in the world,
oh way, we both lost. Frankly the Seahawks. To me,

(01:07:59):
it's an NFC game. It wouldn't kill you in the
tire breaker at all. You gotta win your AFC games
more than you win you're an FC game. They gonna
win a lot of games, period. But that Seattle game
is gonna be a tough game, long trip West coast.
It's not a muscle. I'm okay with b If you
believe that one, we're gonna have some issues. There's something
something in the air, something in the air. I don't

(01:08:21):
I don't think Dana's way safe, way safe, Joe, I
could hear your argument. I love be here three years.
He just finished his second year I don't see I'm
the opposite. I think are disappointment. I think there's more
on Dana than I would think on Joe. Really why
because uh Dana's trades did not pan out. Uh Dana

(01:08:44):
Kyle Tucker trade was great. It's been good. What trade
didn't pan out? Well, the Ureus and the Hazer Sanchez ones,
those ones hurt, okay, while the Seattle it was great.
Got you've got Korea for nothing, and he was good
when he came here, and he's gonna be your third base.
But if you're in Jim Crane, if you're in Jim

(01:09:04):
Crane's mind, you're thinking I'm the one that brought Korea back.
You think so just just throwing it. I'm just conngenal.
He might be that's Jim, Does I mean I justin Verlander.
I'm not saying it's I just I was not ready
to waiver on that four five days ago. I'm I'm
now wavering. So that was my truth. I'm wavering on
the future. Both those guys. I canna respect it, though

(01:09:27):
I can respect all right, So no, this is not
these You've done worse. I think, thank you significantly. Okay,
are you going to arguing for me for me today,
Thank you, Ross. That means a lot. Usually you annihilate
me on these things. We'll see I will there be
heat on Aaron Boone at the Yes, they got to

(01:09:47):
manufactured topics on MLB network. I mean I think I
think national programming just has to manufacture topic. That's true.
I mean there, it's twenty four We're in the day
of the days of the twenty four hour sports cycle
and new cycle. But we're on the air live on
this day for thirteen hours. Hey, we don't manufacture stuff,
do we.

Speaker 4 (01:10:03):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
You look at me like we do. No, we don't.
You and I don't. Oh others maybe, okay name the
show seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five. I was checking
the for u tab Rossi, which is usually a mistake
on my part, but I just do it. Got a game, Oh,

(01:10:23):
by the way, I got a game time for the
Houston Arizona game Saturday, October eighth at tv ECU Stadium,
eleven o'clock in the morning. It's not the big it's
not the big noon kickoff. It's the big noon kickoff.
Step brother, Yeah, how was the stadium? By the way.
I was curious about the Oh, I forgot to mention
it real quickly, so I was scared as we fifty fifty. Yes,

(01:10:45):
I think it was seventy thirty. That's right, you did.
I think you did. Yeah, and somebody else but also
was a Cougar fan told me seventy thirty. I'm curious
a Red Raiders fan perspective. Let the breakdown fourth quarter
is about ninety two man tweet. That's sports RV. I'd
appreciate it. And after you do that, follow me from
an unbiased source. Follow me on Instagram at sports MT

(01:11:05):
Why what do you post them?

Speaker 5 (01:11:06):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:11:07):
Would you like to know what did I just post?
Let me see what I did? I posted most recently
a king with volleyball content. Uh me, you and James
and Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant. Okay, I'm seventy one away
from three thousand, big party. At three thousand. I was
getting called an idiot all weekend from my oilers video.
Still yeah, I mean, I'd call you an idiot, but
I would catch it down my Instagram. That's sports IRV.

(01:11:28):
If you want to call me an idiot, well if
I just call you right to your face. Yes, you
follow you though, you're one of my people I follow,
so it's good. All right? Oh so here's why I
was just checking in. We gotta get to the rockets work.
But I want to bring this up. Okay, something called
those Poulos TV Los boyos. He's got four or and

(01:11:49):
twenty six thousand followers. What and my son Cameron and
doctor roto following?

Speaker 4 (01:11:53):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
Is he a streamer or something? You know? Does this
look familiar to you? That guys I don't know that guy.
I guess he's I'm gonna guess he's a streamer. He's
got something called polos p O l O s dot TV,
mat hoyos chickens LO the chickens TV. Yes, okay, here's

(01:12:13):
what he tweeted at four thirty yesterday, not even joking
at MLB. Please investigate the at the Blue Jays origination.
This is another Astros incident written all over it. This
doesn't even make sense. This is fishy. They're more than
likely cheating. Well, bro, it's organization, not origination. You lost

(01:12:35):
me there. Uh yeah, I'm not a lot of Rhodes
scholars professional streamers just saying, well, why is my son
fount I gotta find out why my son's following him.
Let's I don't know. I'm gonna go text him so disappointed.
I am disappointed. This guy is saying the basically, the
Blue Jays are cheating, like the Astros cheated. I mean,

(01:12:56):
what a week take. Yeah, I guess he's Yeah, I
guess he's a big stream and Rono follows him to
twitch or kick gross. It's just terrible, all right. I
said to bring that up that you know, if you're
gonna go, if you're gonna go on there, proofread your
tweets because if you're gonna give out with something that

(01:13:17):
hot taky, you better not have any flaws in that tweet.
Oh there's a picture of him with Drake on his Instagram.
You know, I know your son is a huge Drake fan.
He is a Drake guy.

Speaker 3 (01:13:29):
That's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
Drake Drake makes it. But he's not as good as Kendrick.
You're thinking it though. He's a better pop artist. He's
more popular Drake is. But what did you see bad
Bunny on SNL this weekend? I didn't catch you. I
didn't either. Oh well you're mister SNL. I am I
got it on the DVR. No, I actually want to.
I'll go look at the clips. You didn't, well, so
you don't DVR right now, although he says a Puerto

(01:13:52):
Rican hosting now and you can't watch it. No, I
don't ever d V. I I used to follow. Oh okay,
you don't anymore. No, I used to need to follow.
I follow SNL's Twitter account. That helps me just get
the clips. Yeah. Yeah, they usually post the funnier stuff
in theory. Yeah, so basically anything after about eleven thirty that.
Don't put anything on there exactly. Hey, I got my

(01:14:13):
skin on us. And now what time you're air there?
It's eleven forty seven, may be watching it. We're good,
all right. Rockets to night against the Atlanta Hawks will
have the pregame show with Adam Wexser at six thirty
and a tip time at seven o'clock. No postgame Rockets
trap after Thank god, you get to be a Joe
fandomer tonight if you want to. Yeah, I'll be watching
Monday night football. Okay, so tell me the three things

(01:14:35):
you are most curious about for Monday night football. No,
for the Rocket No, I don't care. Cannes, Jake like
I need Patrick Mahomes points I need. I need Patrick
Mahomes to get hurt and Travis Kelsey to a big game. Whoa,
Matthew just said it. Sorry, I'm not talking like a
serious uh well maybe a broken arm or something. Just

(01:14:57):
arm is kind of serious for a quarterbacks for one,
I would say just for one week, that's fine. I'm
already lost. I'm done. Okay to me, I want to
see how Reed Shepherd works when if you want to
see the starting lineup, I don't know that that has
not been confirmed yet, so don't know that's gonna work.
But I'm going to presume he's gonna get major time
with the one. Mean this is Duran doesn't need these games. No,

(01:15:20):
a man doesn't need these games. Maybe running point Tari,
we'll get some good run tonight. Okay, Adams, we'll go
some run. Curious about Can I give you a storyline
for this year? Yes, I think you're going to be
amazed at the amount of double bigs the as the
Rockets can put out there. Now they got Clint Capella.
I could put triple bigs, but quadruple bigs. So on

(01:15:42):
nights that Adams doesn't play, you can use Capella. You
can also go with a second tier big big lineup
out there too, if you want to Jabari and Alpi
and play zone and have them with the with their
long arms covering the entire court. So that's Shepherd to me.
The amount of double bigs and Kevin Durant seven foot
and Durance just being on the floor does he allow

(01:16:04):
does he? Does he by just being on the floor
give some more free space to the rockets off. You're
talking about one of the greatest three point shooters of
all time, arguably arguably the second greatest shooter of all time.
Steph is one. So let me just get what I
wrote down from my pregame hype on him. Two time

(01:16:26):
Golden State Warterer chain. Where you go to college? I
believe he went to Fayetteville Community that's incorrect, fifteen time
All Star and the University of Texas at Austin. Yeah,
but you guys have about the long horn legend got
about same amount of hour. I got more hours than
he did. Come on, okay, I got sixty ish career

(01:16:47):
averages of twenty five, seven and four. He's averaged twenty
five points or more in the last sixteen seasons. I
would say that's a record, but I think Lebron has
the record. Now there's yeah, Run's done it for like
eleven time All Star, played sixty two games this year.
Eleven time All Star. Actually that seems low. Actually yeah,

(01:17:08):
so there you have it. So yeah, I again just
seeing him and I watched practice the last couple of days.
Haven't seen him wearing Rockets gear. Rossie, it's gonna be
he's I have fifteen time All Star on bas Basketball Reference,
uh the NBA. Yeah, yeah, fifteen time all Star, eleven
time all NBA. That's right. He's pretty good and he's

(01:17:30):
wearing Rockets gear. And I got news for you too.
You don't look slow, He's looking cool. We're looking at
athletes that are playing in their forties now. Now will
Kevin Durant at twenty seven be the same as thirty seven?
No chance. So if you get Alpie, Adams, Durant and Jabbari,
I mean that's basically for seven ish footers on the

(01:17:53):
floor at once and then like a men toom said
at six seven, al my hoss him in Thomson six. Yeah, okay,
got a long wingspan too, though. Mm hm, that's lockdown.
Can I give you a very super early candidate for
most improved Player from year to year. Yes, Jabari Smith,
I like that. He was looking jat at media Day.

(01:18:16):
You want to he he bench pressed me during commercial?

Speaker 7 (01:18:19):
True.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
Actually he broke your back like like Baine did Batman.
He broke a Batman. Yeah, but he picked me up,
dusted me off. It's good. All right, let's celebrate. He
held you like a nursing. He was nursing a baby. Yeah. Yeah,
he burnt me like Jabar knows all this yet, but

(01:18:40):
we'll tell when I get to the arena. All right.
The news at noon, and another one bites the dust
in Baltimore. That's eleven fifty eight on Sports Talk seven
natty's The Matt Thomas Show with Ross oh I, Ain

(01:19:07):
Eagle and JJ Watt discussing a complete annihilation in Baltimore.
You know what, I can't feel bad for Baltimore. They've
had nothing, but you shouldn't. Great run. No, they've not
raised some pinnacle in a while. They got a Super Bowl.
Joe Flacco got him one. Lamar Jackson not so much.

(01:19:30):
John Harbaugh, how are you feeling uh grumpy even about
him as a coach? Is his job online? This season?
How did you do. Last year, they Mark Andrews lost
that Buffalo game, dropped the touch to the two point conversion.
The division around you. They were trying to come back.

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Lamar Jackson turned the ball over a couple times early.
Mark Andrews had that big fumble that cost him, and
then he had the drop two point conversion that cost them,
and otherwise that game would have been going on overtime.
I think I will say he's safe. I think you're right.
I don't know how many how much your Ravens fans
agree with you. If you're a Raven fan, except forget it.

(01:20:14):
If you're a Texans van, you're walcome to call yes
because your squad has won two straight games. Now, Indianapolis
did win Jacksonville tonight.

Speaker 8 (01:20:22):
We rout.

Speaker 1 (01:20:23):
We're gonna say, go Chiefs, Go Chiefs, Go Chiefs. It
for me, that's right, go chiefs whatever. Yeah, and if
the referees want to give some fifteen yard penalties to
uh Patrick Mahomes, that's fine. Go Taylor's fiance.

Speaker 7 (01:20:37):
That.

Speaker 1 (01:20:37):
Yeah, he's he's stuck with that, right she he Yeah,
he's getting comfortable with it too. He's one of the
most five most famous people on the planet. M more
famous than the Pope. Yes or no, I would say no,
I would agree, but not my clothes. It's Pope one,
and you got the Pope out of minus one thirty five. Okay,

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so we got Pope. I can't believe got the news.
You need to get to Hope. Yes, Taylor, who's the
third most famous Vladimir Putin? No, I don't think. I mean,
I don't know worldwide? Where's Trump? Trump? He's on He's
up there. Yeah, I think Donny T's in there. Okay,
so Trump Taylor the pulpe Leo Messi, I'll stop, Yes,

(01:21:25):
Leo Messi. Okay, Leo Messi, Oh my god. Alright, move on.
Let's go to the news and news and it's a
good segue. We'll think about this out Rossie would have
gotten to big headline. Well, we do lead with your
Houston Texas destroying the Baltimore Ravens forty four to ten,

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now two and three on the season. Back to back wins,
back to back blowout wins for the Texans. A couple
of key numbers here, including C. J. Stroud's A Wonderful
Sunday twenty three of twenty seven, two and forty four yards,
four touchdowns, no picks. Also important, he was only sacked

(01:22:05):
a couple of times for seventeen yards total QBR. I
believe he was on a zero to one hundred scale.
He was a ninety nine point three, so much improved
for him. Also, Nick Chubb showing some juice eleven carries
for sixty one yards with along of twenty seven. He
was breaking tackles and making some moves. Woody Mark's only
seven carries for twenty four yards also go ahead. I

(01:22:27):
was just gonna say, I brought to tell the truth
about Derrick Henry. Do you think they should kick the
tars on a running back? Do you are you think
they do?

Speaker 8 (01:22:34):
Didn't? Now?

Speaker 1 (01:22:35):
I said, Derrick Henry, Okay, do you think you should
go kick tarrars on a running I think maybe they're
gonna feel set with Nick Chubb kind up, maybe more
weeks removed from his bad injury. He honestly, as I said,
before even that twenty seven yard run, I was like,
he looking like he's running with a little more juice.
It's because Woody Marx is trying to take his job too.
That'll help you motivate you. And did you hear that?
What I an Eagle said on the call, Woody Marx

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might get an eight plus for his blocking ability. Yes
he did. He's been doing a very good job. As
far as the third down back, you're not seeing dary
Ogoomba wal much after the first couple of weeks. I
don't even know if he got on the field.

Speaker 8 (01:23:10):
So uh.

Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
The Texans dispatching the Baltimore Ravens four hundred and seventeen
yards to two O seven twenty seven first downs to
twelve has a beatdown. That has a beatdown. There's what
was the most discouraging thing? Did you? Were you mad man?
I don't know. It was a complete You're gonna give

(01:23:33):
up sacks, that's just part of it. You're gonna commit penalties.
You'd like to be Townsend had a close quiet day.
He's always having a quiet exactly. Only one punt for
fifty nine yards. Is there something that's aggravating you when
when you know you're kicker, whether it's college or pro,
when the side judge is walking down the sideline and
the guys going, he keeps going going. It's so annoying.
It's like the Cliffhangers guy. You're right, YOA we didn't

(01:23:58):
ask for that sound effect. But thank you anyway that
I brought man, you did bring it all right well
elsewhere in NFL news, Unfortunately, Mark Sanchez charged with battery
the Fox Sports analyst as he has had his charges
upgraded to a felony over the weekend in a role
for his role in a weekend fight that ended up

(01:24:19):
with him being stabbed by a sixty nine year old
man fighting over a parking spot. According to Marion County
Prosecutor Ryan Meres during a news count conference announcing the
more serious charge right with additional information about the victim's
current medical condition, additional charges needed to be filed. And again,

(01:24:41):
if you do not like graphic photos, do not look
at the guy that was attacked by Mark Sanchez. It
was a drunken fight where Sanchez was also sent to
this to the hospital with stab wounds. I thought for
a while he wasn't going to make it because they
kept saying critical condition. You know, don't know the details,
and there was I'm sure it was such and go

(01:25:03):
for a while, as most stab wounds would be. Officials
are investigating evidence, including information on Sanchez's toxicology and blood
alcohol content levels as well. Apparently there was a dispute
as there was a man who was parking his work
box truck at a loading dock he used to collect
used cooking oil Friday night thing. Yo, Yeah, I'm reading

(01:25:27):
the Indie Star report, so I didn't see about the winds.
Apparently Mark Sanchez is running wind spray. I think he
was doing something and he was pepper sprayed by the man,
but just wiped it away. The man thought that Sanchez
was trying to kill him, pulled out his knife and
struck Sanchez two or three times with his knife. I
would still say this because again it's innocent into a

(01:25:48):
proven guilty. Yeah, we need more details. We will this
probably from what I've been reading about this the last air,
so ross this is gonna be. There'll be a little
room for guessing, guessing on things. The video. Well, we'll
set the truth free. Yes, but of course, if you're
a politician, you completely immediately jump to conclusion and use
it for a political pulpit. Yes, yes, of course. Elsewhere,

(01:26:10):
Just one quick NFL thing before we get out. A
horrible collapse by the Arizona Cardinals allowing the Tennessee Titans
to win their first game twenty two to twenty one,
the Titans win, and Kyler Murray saying after the game,
I don't even know. I really don't even know. That's
how to lose a game one, Oh, no one, I

(01:26:31):
don't know. It was crazy. There was a fumble out
of the end zone from Amari de Mercado on an
easy touchdown, and then there also was an interception fumbled
by the Arizona Cardinals into the end zone that was
recovered by the Titans for a touchdown in one of
the craziest losses you will ever see. Never show Arizona Cardinals. Yep,

(01:26:51):
real quick. U of H Connor Wegman held out of
practice today in concussion protocol, but Willie Fritz said it
is press conference today that he is trending the right
direction and could be available Saturday at Oklahoma State. Thank you, Matt.
You know it's the big matchup Texas versus Oklahoma. Of course,
U of H representing the lone star state, Oklahoma State

(01:27:12):
representing No. I don't think anybodys and so the kids
call it bedlam. Now we check the ratings, Yeah, but
we're on uh, we're on TN T TN T. Yeah.
They have college football this year. Okay, so it's an
episode of Bones and it's you guys charmed yeh. Then
then the game that's cool? What is it? No Shawshank redemption? Yes,

(01:27:35):
this was always on. Yes, all right, we're gonna play
a little game we don't do very often on the show.
We come back. It's called rate the announcer and rate rate.
What did I say? Rate? Oh? You said? Okay, rate
r A t E Rate the announcer, and I will
not be involved in such event. I don't want to

(01:27:57):
give a bias one way. They want to hear you.
But you're the expert. Okay, Well you gotta give you
got a way in with the expert opinion. Okay. Oh
does this sounds like somebody you don't want to crush. Well,
I don't know this person. Okay, I know of him,
I don't know. I don't know him personally. Fine, he's
not gonna find the video or the audio. All right,
we'll just play rate because this guy is getting a

(01:28:18):
lot of national run. Okay, and I want to know
if it's the way we're going in sports broadcasting or
Oh no more, I think I know where we're going. Okay,
we present great quality here, all right, We've had piping
hot calls all day on the Texans. Once some more
of them come on in. Right about your squad. You

(01:28:38):
did not allow a subpar team to make it a
competitive football game. Who first Baltimore win ever for the
in Baltimore, for the Texans, that should be celebrated. I
am celebrating, Okay, if you want to celebrate, come just
come in, yell and go oh hell yeah on the
Texans seven one three two two seven seven one three
two two five seven. Ninety Fox had the Miami Carolina
game on you on Sunday. It was seen by like

(01:29:01):
Miami and Charlotte folks. Yeah, you had on the red zone.
It's not a lot of it on the red zone.
Not gonna move to you don't want to, Okay, So
this is where we're going. Yeah. Good. Eric Collins was
filling in for someone. Okay, they have you know, two
of their NFL guys were doing baseball, Adam Aman and
Joe Davis. Okay, so they brought in some other guys

(01:29:23):
to fill in and Joe and uh uh. And Eric
Collins was filling in on the game. And he is
a Charlotte Hornets broadcaster. I've talked to him a couple
of times. Nice enough guy. Matter of fact, he does
some FS one games with Spencer Tubman front of the
show the College Games. So they said, hey, you're in Charlotte,
I don't have to travel. You can say a little
bit of money, ready to do your first time? A

(01:29:44):
little bit of money. Yeah, make it a little bit
of money. So he did the game, and he was
the I would say needless is a was the social
media celebrity of the night before. I saw people talking
about him on social media. I noticed the calls, Okay,
so play them, and then there is ah, there is

(01:30:05):
a webs somebody did it on Twitter that took all
of the touchdown calls in Miami Carolina game, okay and
put them all together. It wouldn't be three and a
half hours of this, but here is every big call
that was made by Eric Collins of Fox, and I
want you to listen to it and kind of just
give me your general thoughts about the tenor of two.

(01:30:27):
I mean, let's face it, this was the least attractive
game on paper the weekend turning to be a very
good game, but it wasn't going to be with anybody
that would be considered serious super Bowl contenders. So here
is Eric on the call on Fox, the highlights of
the Dolphins and the Panthers tongue dune and look.

Speaker 5 (01:30:52):
Young man.

Speaker 1 (01:30:54):
To the end zone. Hey chance, diddy be dad, look.

Speaker 10 (01:31:00):
At this.

Speaker 4 (01:31:02):
On his seat, talk at the end.

Speaker 10 (01:31:07):
Exactly, come by law, touch down, young call hard bright young,
kind of fat touch down, third.

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
Time down tongue.

Speaker 1 (01:31:31):
So now people were like, why are you putting a
Panthers uh, a Hornets guy in a Panthers game. Again,
he doesn't have a dog in the fight, and he did.
He did call the excitement level yet. Yeah, and it
does happen a lot when you have guys that are
in that area that can broadcast the game. If you're
gonna looking for backups, you'd look for maybe a guy
that would save you a little bit on travel cost.

(01:31:53):
So your thoughts, any thoughts. I loved it, I really did.
I know. Noticed it during the game. I was like, Wow,
this dude is calling it like he's in the middle
of the friggin' Super Bowl. Then that was that was
the Overarnie sentment was he was calling a mundane who
gives two blank's game like it was the Super Bowl.

(01:32:15):
But a lot of those but it was a crazy game.
It was he had to because he lent to how
crazy some of those touchdowns were. Miami gets up seventeen
to nothing and then Carolina starts fighting back, and then
I want to say Carolina took the There was like
three lead changes in the fourth quarter. So yeah, le me,

(01:32:35):
I'm pulling up the play by play. Yes, a touchdown
by Carolina makes it twenty to seventeen, then another touchdown
by the Dolphins, and then another touchdown by the by
the Panthers. That was three touchdowns on three successive drives
where the lead did change. So I thought, that's another thing.

(01:32:56):
We have to contextualize those calls. Right, It's not how
I would do that because he just turn to midgemal
we have. Those were fourth quarter touchdowns where the lead
changed changed and so I noticed. I was watching on
red zone and I was like, oh my gosh, this
guy's called. But this was a crazy game and I
loved it. It was fun. It didn't feel forced, it
didn't feel like we're sometimes Gus Johnson is doing that
when it's like forty four to zero or something like that.

(01:33:18):
I liked it. I thought it was cool. It is
it's it's you know again, it's to each his own.
It's hard to again, we we smashed him together. It
sounds like he is having fun. Is what where I'm
gonna put it. He's he's calling the game like he's like,
oh my god, this is insane. It feels genuine to me. Yeah, again,
I wish I knew him better. Yeah, to give you

(01:33:38):
a sense, Uh, we've been watching Gus for twenty five
thirty years, so we know exactly what Gus brings. That's
you know how I'm broadcasting school man. They tell you
they call it with a smile on your face, Do
something with a smile on your face, right, because it
can come through. It sounds like he's calling it with
NFL game. Yeah, and it was a crazy It was
a seventeen to nothing and then touchdown, lead change, touch down,

(01:34:00):
lead change, touchdown lead change. It was crazy. But it's
I would say this, would you you would agree that's
not the normal you would hear in an NFL game?
Not the norm? No, because think about it. You've got
Kevin Burkhar, who's the number one guy on Fox, very
smooth and even keeled. Jim Nance created even keeled, right,
I thought thought it was a breath of fresh air

(01:34:21):
to me. Yeah, I liked. Yeah, I'll say this, it
got more attention to Miami Carolina game than normally Miami
Carolina games would. True. But yeah, if he was doing
this and it feel like to me, the overall sentiment
was mostly positive, mostly nice, breath of fresh air, breath
of fresh air. Some people are saying, you're just trying
to be a gus John. This is your one chance.
You want to make it. You wanted to make it

(01:34:42):
up about you. Yeah, maybe he was excited. Maybe he
did get over excited. I let me tell you something,
if I got to call an NFL game, I'd be
losing my blank quick. And it was a game like that.
It's seventeen to nothing and then boom boom, boom boom, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown,
lead change in the fourth quarter. It's a crazy game. Yeah.
So I just thought I wanted to see what you
thought in what you listened to. It's like, yeah, could
that could that great on you? After a while? I mean,

(01:35:03):
did you do you want seventeen weeks of that or exactly?
I was watching on catching it on red zone, So
on red zone, I thought it was great if he
was yelling it was like four yard day, Oh my god,
first ten hand off to the nineteen of the twenty. Exactly.
I don't have that context, like, for instance, as I
call my play by play, I can't call sixteen fourteen

(01:35:26):
like I'm calling one fifteen one fourteen with thirty seconds left, right,
you know what I mean? And you know you know,
so this so exactly for me only catching the highlights
really for the well, I mean, plus whatever else in
the game of the red zone. I didn't notice that
he was over selling every single play. Yeah, but he's
definitely qualified. So that's that's not the issue because it's
done years and years of college.

Speaker 8 (01:35:46):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:35:46):
For those of you that may this is really in
the weeds.

Speaker 3 (01:35:49):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:35:51):
SFA beat Duke years ago in a game at Cameron
Indoor and I think he called the game on Fox.
So he's been around a long time. It's been a
long time Hornets announcer two. So I just I just
wanted to see what you thought about it, whether it
was is this charging guy just trying to be the
next Guess Johnson? What are the kid? But I mean
he's he You know how some days you can go

(01:36:13):
to social media and feel pretty good about what you
said and done. Yeah, he can do that. It seemed
like he also wanted to make sure everyone knew he
practices pronunciations.

Speaker 8 (01:36:20):
He was like.

Speaker 1 (01:36:22):
Like, yeah, we got it. Let me tell you what
you get an NFL game, Like get you get an
NFL game, you better get it right. I checked the
pronunciation guide. It was cool. You should have heard the
guy on Westwood won the British announced that being there
they are playing in a grassy football in the field
of one hundred y'alls and you know, ten foot a

(01:36:42):
first down and he got eleven, you know, like he
was reading the rule book. It was it was like
it was listening to an AI broadcast technically correct. I
don't think you can't. You can't AI that, can you.
I'm not yet coming for you. Don't remind me. Seven
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three two one two five seven nine zero. It is

(01:37:04):
an open line. Monder. We've gone through a little bit
of everything. We give you a little bit of rockets,
a little bit Sanchez. We'd try to mix it as
much Texans as we can. Uh to be brutally honest,
people don't necessarily to call in when things are going good. Yeah,
that's true. I'll tell you this. They'd lost the game,
it would have been Dimiko needs to be on the

(01:37:24):
hot seat. Yes, Cereal definitely fired. Nick Keley, definitely fired. Yeah,
Nick Kaylee's all of a sudden. Oh he's a genius.
Now they're scoring points when you win, the lines are open. Yes,
So I'm gonna challenge you right now. Can we get
I'd like to get two Texan people to call on
and be happy that you won. All right, I'm gonna
go grab my phone. You can't count, Johnny, you can't
count either. I need two people that are not employed
by our Chargers fan go charges? God got the Yeah

(01:37:50):
that was not good. Let's let's go back that. Yeah.
I can't believe you're the second Charger fan.

Speaker 4 (01:37:54):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:37:55):
One of my best friends of my entire life is
a Charger fan, but he lives in southern California. His
family he's born there. My fail's my family's right outside
of the self. I fit them actually too, right, Oh
are you an Aintlewood? Yeah? Well that's what my friendly like.
That's really what my my mom's side of the family grim.
Really all right, I can drop your name when I
go to the casino over there, it's a kind of
a I don't know, not a big family. Can you win?
Yeah you Can's not. It's just not the they have

(01:38:17):
with the strange California games. It strange Jamies and stuff,
not the commerce. What is the Hollywood No, it's Hollywood Park.
Hollywood Park. They call it a risino. All right, So
I'm I'm going to call out. I'm putting on the
APB for two Texans fans, okay, calling brag about high
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Speaker 6 (01:40:01):
Well Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:40:02):
We've asked for two Texans fans to call in happy
about their team. The results are in Okay, zero people
already to talk about the Texans. That's disappointing. You know
what else is disappointing. Derek Stingley's Pro Football Focus grade.

(01:40:23):
Make you happy, Matt. It's funny because guess what happened
in the Cowboys game with the Jets. What I want
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Speaker 3 (01:40:56):
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Speaker 1 (01:40:56):
I don't think the new grades are out just yet,
but I'll wear we saw before that Sauce was number
one the first few weeks. I don't know where he's
gonna be now, we'll check the grades. But I was
just kind of pulling it up, trying to see some things.
Tim Settle as one of the best defensive tackles in
football along with Sheldon Rankin, so that offensive line for
the Houston Texans, like I was, I was seriously defensive line.
When when the Cowboys scored the touchdown the fourth quarter

(01:41:18):
to get to thirty. I was like, oh, who's in
the second all sauce, gar and Ross. It gonna be
texting we want every No, I didn't. Sauce is very good.
I don't hate sauce. I like sauce. I love sauce, undergraded,
underrated sauce, brown, gravy, mushroom. Okay, all right for what sauce? Yeah,

(01:41:38):
but what are you putting it on? Meat loaf? And
meat loaf was the first thing I thought of, too,
but on a chicken breast.

Speaker 10 (01:41:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:41:45):
I like tomato sauce on the meat loaft too, though,
can't go wrong. Okay with a ketchup crust. Clearly this
is a lunchtime show. It is all right. So Ross
zero Texans A happy people called it. Maybe people aren't happy.
Maybe we're over selling it. About the cleanest pockets that
c J. Stroud. And now, of course you had some
defensive linemen out for the Ravens as well. No Humphrey

(01:42:06):
for them, No Marlon Humphrey, so it was gonna be
easier no de Kwon Smith. But still it was. You're
implied total in the game was like twenty points. You
scored forty four. You look good. Time out you're implied points. Yeah,
by the Vegas total, I love two and a half total,
forty one and a half. Go around going and implied.

Speaker 7 (01:42:29):
Who's the bar?

Speaker 1 (01:42:30):
Y'all with the sports par eleven fifteen? Y'all talk about
implied points? Okay, Well we can be smart. We can
be smarter than the average smart. If you want to
be they have to be implied. If you want to
be average guy, that's fine. I'm everyone to bring people
are the show the average people? You want to bring
a little thoughtful analysis to the table, you can located. Well,
then why are people coming here? Why are people listening?
Because we're entertaining people. Okay, we're going to entertain and inform, right,

(01:42:52):
inform is we can do this sometimes. Okay, all right,
so there we go. Well, I don't want to hurt
your brain. I'm just in applied points.

Speaker 4 (01:43:00):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:43:01):
Yes, it's very simple. When the Vegas total is like
forty one and a half and you're supposed to win
by two and a half, IMPLI totals like twenty one,
so they a minus B. Look at wow, you see
saw for X. It's very simple. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm
gonna give you the implied points of the Carolina Kansas
City Jacksonville game. Go ahead and do it. I bet

(01:43:22):
you can do it. Mattie. I believe in you give me,
give me some really pretentious music. I was gonna say,
give him the Jeopardy gets the Jeopardy theme. Here we
go implied points in Kansas City and Jacksonville. Good afternoon,
and welcome to applied points. About is an eighty one
percent pick percentage on the pigskin pick'm challenge. Matt wants

(01:43:43):
some music. Yeah, I'm still killing time here. What is pretentious?
Just some just some symphony, some symphony. You go and
drink some utua gray poupone. The implied points the chiefs
of minus two and a half, the over unders forty
five and a half. The applying points for the game.
The deduce would be a twenty something. Does your employed Wow?

(01:44:07):
Is your implied points? So? And our attempts to get
music quickly was unsuccessful? All right, let's talk to Dave
odd seven. Natty, All right, let's uh, let's fix this here.
A computer not working? You want to try day for us?
There we go, There we go. That's a good right here,
implied points. I'd like to know the implied points. Please,

(01:44:31):
would you like to know the game tonight of the
National League playoff series? The implied points for the twenty
four and a half for the Chiefs, twenty one for
the Jaguars. That's the implied total. There it is. There's
an other station Towns gave you implied I actually works
it will give you implied points. He would definitely be it.
He's an employed points guy. Ross. My computer is not working.

(01:44:51):
I'm sorry. I hurt yourself. I'm trying. Dave. On seven
naty and twelve forty day, thank you for holding a
good afternoon.

Speaker 7 (01:44:58):
Hello Mt.

Speaker 3 (01:45:00):
Beautiful bald head person and ros, how was your weekend?

Speaker 1 (01:45:04):
It was great? Thank you, Dave. He doesn't think you're
beautiful for them, that's okay. Get a good head of
hair though, that's right. I'm confident in my looks, Dave,
what's on your bike? Go ahead?

Speaker 3 (01:45:14):
I would like to talk about the Texans because in
the show today you had no Texans phone calls.

Speaker 1 (01:45:22):
We had like two early on, but we've been we've
been struggling for the Texans fevers ever since then. But yes,
go ahead, yeah, Well.

Speaker 3 (01:45:31):
The Texans are on their way back, on their way back,
up to the top because you know c J. Stout
is being cday c J Stout throwing touchdown passes down
the field.

Speaker 1 (01:45:46):
M It was nice to see him bounce back. The
accuracy was there and he had some time to throw
as well. Wasn't under duress as much as far as
the pressure rate and sacks giving up and all that
type of stuff. It was good to see the old
c J. Stroud that we knew we knew in love
from a couple of years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
Yes, and also seeing the defense control of the game.
They only allowed one touchdown to Baltimore yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:46:13):
That was impressive, very impressive. Yeah, I mean, you can't
that that Baltimore. That was a game. And Dave, thank
you for the phone call and appreciate you calling me
a beautiful ball man, which is fine. I appreciate that. Uh,
they didn't, they didn't never never was a game. I mean,
I know Baltimore came back, you got the field goal
to get it close, but there was never a point

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in time and I thought, this is getting scary close.
The Dalton Schultz connection was working well. The running game
was giving you just enough. CJ. Strode for the most part,
had plenty of time. He was insanely accurate. It's perfect.
It was a beautiful football game. Yeah, and you need
how many morning? Nine of those nine and more of

(01:46:56):
those m Yeah, I think eleven. Do you need eleven
wins to win the division? I think eleven gets a
division because the Colts aren't the Colts due for some
kind of letdown. You're saying the four and one now
they again, we will say they beat the bad Raiders team,
but they destroyed them. Same thing for the Titans and

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the Dolphins. So three of their wins have been huge
and without that eight Mitchell drop, who knows what happened
in that Rams game? Right, So, yeah, the Colts are
looking pretty legit and they they're gonna have it. They
have an easier schedule. Let me give you the next
five weeks, so you okay with that? Yes, home for
Arizona this week, win at the LA Chargers, coin flip,

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we'll call that a loss. Okay, home for Tennessee win,
Yes at Pittsburgh. That's that could that's almost I'm gonna
call it a coin flip. I'm gonna give a slight
edge of the Colts, but they could lose that game
and then they go to Berlin to play the Falcons.
Bro anything can happen in Berlin, Matt, Now, after Berlin,
this is this is Thanksgiving week at the Chiefs home

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for the Texans, at the Jaguars at the Colts, home
for the Niners at the Colts week number eighteen of
the season in RG Stadium, maybe for the AFC sounds
the division crown on the line. Now, we got to
get the pesky Jaguars all of the way. That's gonn
happen because they're gonna be plentybody's gonna beat each other up.

(01:48:28):
So let's go Chiefs. All right, twelve forty four the
Matt Thomas shoe ross. What's believing or not? Today? What?
So it's an hour and six we're doing that? Well
we are today? All right, fine, I'll do it tomorrow,
by the way. What Yeah, because you got NFL we
wanted to get to I like this. We're gon we're
gonna do a live or Dead tomorrow. It's been a while,
it's been a while. Yeah. I got crushed on the

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last one. Yeah, you you were bat like you're implied.
Percentage of accuracy was about eighty seventy five, yes, and
you went down about three fifty last week or bounce
back We're due yep, all right. One three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety twelve forty five. It is the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross with a word right now for
the Shell Federal Credit Union.

Speaker 3 (01:49:13):
Matter.

Speaker 1 (01:49:13):
Ross with you on this Monday. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety If you want to join
our conversation seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero. If you want to follow us on Twitter,
you may do that as well at Sports MT and
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Speaker 3 (01:49:30):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:49:33):
Boy, do you know who's been all over this Mark Sancheze?
It has been TMZ. That's not shocking. I suppose TMZ
has obtained an image of Mark Sanchez being placed in
an ambulance after Saturday stabbing, showing him shirtless and wounded
on a gurney as he received medical attention. Happened around
twelve thirty in the morning, with showing a large police
presence in the area. Wow, you can at the video

(01:50:00):
the photos. Uh, just just him and a in the
in the on the gurney. Yeah, says we broke the story. Okay,
at least your braggadozah, Yeah, hey, yeah, yay yeah. Both
men were in bad shape following the incident. Monday morning,
a trail of blood was still visible on the sidewalk.

(01:50:23):
I'd my dude to going to Napolis for a while.
You mean you don't mean to go to the scene,
do you are you going to? I mean I can
if you want me to. Well, somebody would have to
have died for you to go, right, because you went
to the didn't you get Simpson? That's not that's not
a brain shining moment. For it's so weird I expect
from Adam Clinton, who has been there. I think he's
also been to where Tupac has been shot. He went

(01:50:44):
to where Prince died. I think, well, there's uh. I
won't mention who it is, but there's some in our
traveling crew that likes to go to Jeffrey Dahmer's house
when uh and do what see that's where he was
Jeffrey Dahmer, where he was dommering. Is that a verb?

Speaker 10 (01:50:59):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:51:00):
Hope? Not all right, Let's go to the phones. Get
out of this horrific conversation. That's my fault. Steph, you're
on seventy Steph thanks for waiting. A good afternoon to you.

Speaker 4 (01:51:10):
Hi.

Speaker 6 (01:51:10):
Are you doing guys?

Speaker 1 (01:51:11):
We're amazing you say again?

Speaker 2 (01:51:15):
This is this is the stuff that you know is.

Speaker 1 (01:51:21):
All right? Come on, now, you are the you are
the official barometer of the Texan fan base. How is
the collective Texans fan base feeling right this second?

Speaker 6 (01:51:30):
I am not going to speak for the collective Textans.
I will just tell you that I am having absolute
fun back from acl set. I hung out Texan fans.
They were like Golden Acres for a watch party, which

(01:51:51):
was super fun, you know, beating the crowd.

Speaker 1 (01:51:55):
Yeah, all right, martially, Steph, hold on number two. It
is always take a deep breath, Matt, take any breath.
It's all good. Okay. Tom's backs this week, so he's
would you go get him? He's he's actually in the office.
I mean, I think it's just the internet. It's just today.
He knows, he knows. Okay, he already does. We're having

(01:52:18):
we're having phone issues, Steph. I love you, Thank you
so much for calling. You can try a different line
or can we block out line too? Or is that
just not gonna happen? It always I don't think I
don't know why it seemed one too, seems to have gremlins.
Try try line one right now with Steven. See it
says phone line buggy. All right, he's got a buggy
phone line, you know, they say with the buggy phone lines. Hi, Steven,

(01:52:44):
the hope you can hear me?

Speaker 7 (01:52:47):
Go ahead, I I just wanted to talk about if
I'm spotty, just let me know.

Speaker 8 (01:52:57):
You know, uh, good thing yesterday one of.

Speaker 1 (01:53:02):
The UHL put them on old all right, everybody call
back in ten minutes. Maybe the uh maybe the internet
will be doing better. I know, I know, Matt, I'm sorry,
it's not fun. One more time? Was stuff one more
time once? Are you sure you're just gonna make Matt matter?

Speaker 8 (01:53:22):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:53:23):
Because we need to. We need to figure this out
so we can what are we figure it out? Phones sucks?
If we're all for two in this segment to right
with that line to well, it could be. I think
it's the phones. Yeah, I mean all right, last chance, Steph,
go ahead, Steph.

Speaker 6 (01:53:37):
Hello, can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (01:53:40):
Kind of?

Speaker 5 (01:53:42):
I'm in lagrange now?

Speaker 1 (01:53:44):
Oh okay, that's good. Lagrange is good. People there, Yeah,
that's pretty now.

Speaker 6 (01:53:50):
I'm really awesome Texas. Actually, I really have to say
that some people are kind of pratty him about the
NFL football. Oh my gosh, you like get out like
different than college ball, and some of the young people
don't know the difference is bad bad football, and just.

Speaker 1 (01:54:11):
You know, I want to We're gonna kind of right
there step be thank you so much. We get there
in essence of what you said. I'm gonna go take
a walk. Okay, deep breaths. Back in four minutes when
the start of the final hour of the show. We're
gonna be great. It's gonna be good. We're gonna have
him trying gonna stabilize. I've been having Wi Fi issues too,
so okay, I'm gonna go for a walk. Yes, I
will not say any inflmentar. I'm so proud of you.

Speaker 3 (01:54:33):
Matt.

Speaker 1 (01:54:34):
Count to ten deep breaths. I'll be thinking about it though. Okay.
We are talks, we take calls. We would like to
talk to the people of Houston. Yes, want to make
sure we're very clear and abundant on that. We don't
want to hear ourselves think for talk for four hours
seven one three, two, one two five seven on I
suggested Mark Sanchez believe or not, Ross does not want
to do that. Oh okay, famous Indianapolis hospital trips, what

(01:55:00):
you could do? Famous stabbings. All right, we're moving on.
See that's what happens. We'd have been taking phone calls.
This wouldn't have happened. Full fifty seven seven's The Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. Sorry, Ross, I went for a walk.
Feel great. We had an hour left to go The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We have the greatest jobs

(01:55:23):
in the world. We get a chance to visit with you,
hopefully on the phone lines this hour, hopefully through the
social media streets known as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, uh, and
just y'all be with this. We're one big happy family. Now.
We sometimes are in our squabbles and whatnot, and sometimes,
you know, the phone lines don't work, which is daily,

(01:55:44):
But that's it. That's why. That's why I'm okay, it's
three times a week. I feel that feels over overestimated
as well. Okay, minimal, minimal issues with our phone lines, yeah,
very rare. Yes. And then right, Jonathan, Yeah, we're all good.
You know what, give me some you know what, give

(01:56:05):
me some cooler game, some celebration. Really, we got the
Texans win into in a row. That's right, we got
Let me tell you what we got news for y'all.
Your team Houston that actually plays games. I mean, look,
Ross and I love the Astros, but it's gonna be
a while. We got a root for Detroit. By the way,
I do not want that Seattle ask going to the
American League Championship Series. Sorry, I'm rooting for Toronto. Is

(01:56:27):
going well so far nationally, I don't really care.

Speaker 8 (01:56:32):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:56:33):
I would want to root against the Dodgers, but they
won last year. It's over whatever. They're playing a different
ballgame than everyone else. I am kind of rooting for
cleating Australian dollars deferred. Uh what does he hitting? I
think one fight in the playoffs, every single gig slugging
the exact same that his batting averages. Not a good sign.

Speaker 6 (01:56:53):
I bought.

Speaker 1 (01:56:53):
She's still in them playing. I've already saved the money.
But for every out he gets, I feel like a
little more glimmer of hope. Okay, you're so confident, we'll
see what happens. You're smug. You're confident it happened. By
the way, smug is different from any the other day.
Speaking speaking of that, do you see that the Bregmann

(01:57:16):
stuff out there about the Red Sox are like you
going to your thing. We're not giving you extension you can,
We're going to offer you. He's gonna opt out right,
I mean, well, yeah, but I don't think he's looking
He was looking at particularly stand out and extend, and
I don't think the Red Sox may want to do that.
They're worried about his injury history and being on the
wrong side of thirty. I've done enough about them. Sell right,

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the Texans. I'm just gonna be you all some numbers
to make you make you want to smile. Poor Steph
driving back from Lagrange's trying to call the show. She
had a good time. I hope she's stopped by Hruska's Bakery.
Now that's the one that you what's the one I
like to go to? He should be called Yeah, Well
I was a Michael's guy back in the day. But
I mean call opportunity Klachi Huska is better get bring

(01:58:04):
me some Ranger cookies. Chef Shipley's Okay, Shipley's Yeah, Shipley,
I think, oh yeah, Shipley. You know in Houston, you
say Shipley's like you say water Burger. That's true. All right,
let me just say things wrong. Thirty three carries with
the Texans rushing. Keep the music up, one sixty seven,
Go ahead. C J Stroud only four incomplete passes twenty

(01:58:26):
three of twenty seven two hundred and forty four yards.
You got Davis Mills action in there. Davis Money Mills
two of four for twenty three yards. Baller Dalton Schultz
targeted six times and got five catches. Christian Kirk four
for four on targets and receptions. Nico Collins still underwhelming,
but he did reach the in zone. Xavier Hutcheson in

(01:58:47):
his first two career touchdowns ends at Houston, Texan in
one game beautiful Jalen Petrie with a with a interception,
actually had two of them. Ymri Lassiter, you only had
to watch Taylor Townshend punted the ball one time. Temmy
as well. His brother what I call him, Tayltaylor terror

(01:59:08):
fixated on yeah Taylor. Well, oh, I'll go check on
Taylor's picture. I'll give you all what she tells me
a minute. She's a big Cubs fan. I don't mean big,
really voluminous. She she may be a busty Cubs fan
but aren't we all seven one three two one two?
How Tucker, what do you mean three for four with

(01:59:31):
a double and a jack. Let's go about over four
three strikeouts. We'll see six lobs. Look, this meal is
gonna cost one of us a lot of bunny. It's
actually two meals. It's two you wanted to add. You
wanted to add the drive through?

Speaker 8 (01:59:47):
That was me.

Speaker 1 (01:59:47):
Yeah, all right, let's try. We're bringing back the phones.
We've given it a nice little ten minute break. We're
gonna try, father son, Holy Spirit. Amen, Here we go
on the dreaded line number two on the Matt Thomas
should rocks.

Speaker 10 (02:00:04):
Hey you hear me?

Speaker 6 (02:00:05):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:00:06):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 11 (02:00:07):
Yes, go go, you go, yes, I think doing his job, sir, yes, quickly,
by the way, celebrating the teking wind. They're gonna be
far in between this year. I'm gonna take this fan
die hard. Another question for you guys, who has the
easier job the backup quarterback, the long snapper or the punter?
And I'll hang up the list.

Speaker 1 (02:00:27):
Ooh, good question. Easiest joy with your backup quarterback. I'm
gonna agree with that for two reasons. One, you don't
play unless the game's blowout or your guy gets hurt.
And these expectations are minimal. Long snapper, you mess up,
you do your job right one hundred times, nobody says
a word. You sail one. You're the worst long snapper
in history. Yep, and you get your pop. You can

(02:00:49):
get your uh blunt, your bunt punt blocked. And you're
really in a bad spot. You had one jobs. They
would say you had one job. You had one job,
well something. If you don't do that one job, people
get upset. Oh shoot, I went to AI? What's wrong?
What are you doing the Kyle Tucker predictions?

Speaker 4 (02:01:06):
What?

Speaker 10 (02:01:06):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:01:07):
What did they?

Speaker 3 (02:01:07):
I have?

Speaker 1 (02:01:07):
What is chet gpt se Are you you doing this
in the middle of a segment? Right?

Speaker 5 (02:01:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:01:15):
Between four hundred and six hundred million dollars. No way,
that's bad money spent, bad money spend. Who did you ask? Gemini?
Chet GPT rock? This is bing bing AI? What is
being used usually has those AI images? That's true, okay,

(02:01:35):
Google Gemini says, twelve years, four hundred million, would you
do forget about the bet? Would you do that? I
wouldn't do it. Uh, I don't think you would. In Houston,
I'm not asking Houston I'm talking about anywhere that's thirty
three million a year. And who's who is in that race?

(02:01:56):
Is that Chicago, New York LA? I mean, tell me
about New York LA. Chicago. I don't think that's the thing.
If you get them to bow out Matt that's when
your odds become greater. There's two different markets every free
agent off season. It's the Dodgers, Mets, Yankees and maybe
you know the stray Phillies are Cubs if they feel
like ponying up, and then it's everybody else. Would the

(02:02:16):
Mariners want to do it? They don't spend usually big
money in Freedom. Now they've spent a lot of money
getting these train acquisitions coming in. Yeah, they're not usually
big spenders. Which, by the way, tip of the captain,
Jerry Depoto. Everybody in Seattle wanted them fired for years
and years and years. Sometimes you got to trust the process. Yep,
all right, we're mixing football and baseball. Go that's what

(02:02:37):
the show does it. Yes, nobody else can do football
looking good. We can cuss on the professional side, colleague side.
Both you and I are very upset. You know, honestly,
I people, I didn't I don't think I have a
predicted doing this to win. I always wanted us to win.
You predicted a cover on gut feelings, I did. We

(02:02:58):
kept that tomorrow. I think I said first quarter cover.
I also said the long words would not cover on
gut feelings. So you're realist, then I can be what's
the most unrealistic thing you think about? Unrealistic? I think
I'm realistic, But I can be optimistic. When you don't
know the outcome, you can choose to be positive. Well,

(02:03:20):
I guess I was that was pessimism, but I think
I was realistic. Okay, So I'm gonna put the cart
well before the horse here. Okay, you don't make the playoffs, no,
I don't think so. Okay, So if you don't make it,
what does what does Sark do in terms of staff changes?
Because you're gonna fire himself. He's not gonna fire himself, Pete,

(02:03:40):
I always get this wrong. Kwatowski. Okay, the defensive coordinator. Oh,
last year he was a genius and one of the
best in football. And the defense has been good before
this last weekend? Can we really dumb it down to
the quarterback just not very good? I mean, is that
what we want to do. I don't think it's no

(02:04:01):
as I said it was its early season Texans no
run game, no offensive line, quarterback underperforming, and the pass
catchers haven't been good and uh trading. Weisner came back
off an injury, but C. J. Baxter is a better
back and he was hurt. You're telling me that four
different key positions on the on the on the football
side of things are not performing expectations. Uh well, arch

(02:04:27):
Manning's favorite, uh target, Parker Livingstone got hurt in the game.
Ryan Wing goes good, but and DeAndre Moore is good.
But they're they're not like they're not to the level
of what guy's been in the past, the Matthew Goldens
and and Adie Mitchell's and whoever else of the world.
I don't you just poach players like you normally do. Well,

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they poached some guys and something they're not working out.
They've had some injuries too. Step up the NL game,
n AL games about as high as spending as anybody
in football I know? Is it? What is it? A
and M Texas and tech bas Abel is a distant forced.
I don't know States. I'm sure how states up there?
Oregon every year. Phil Knight's shelling out cash. What he said,

(02:05:10):
I'll keep writing checks and tell him alive. I want
to go to I want them to win a championship
for he's got a chance of doing it. I'm rooting
against them hard against Oregon. Yes, really, I don't know why.
I do know why. It's just because I don't want
Phil Knight to win just because he spends money. I
don't know. That's that it all.

Speaker 8 (02:05:32):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:05:32):
The number one thing that came across is I was
living in the stadium. Internet was we gotta spend some
more money. That's that's what fixes it. Generally speaking. Now again,
Florida state guy there asked me Miami, Miami over the weekend.
They've spent a lot of money and they got to
a great start, but they have been a little sluggish
the last couple of weeks. All these programs are spending
money and money everybody. We're all gonna be let down.

(02:05:53):
Mm hmm except texta tick. Cody Campbell walking around like
he owned CDC Stadium. Probably good buye it. And I
think he'll be fine with this year. He'll be fine
with him making the playoff and not winning at all.
Mm hm and how much is he gonna keep shelling out?
There's been a bukous of money on two quarterbacks. That's

(02:06:13):
the thing is you have to if you're going you know,
I don't even know what our nil situation is, but
I guarantee you Webman did okay for himself. I get
the number one high school quarterback coming here next year.
If you of aged, come on, you gotta get that
fun fun back up many, come on, let's go. I'm
not I'm not touching it.

Speaker 2 (02:06:26):
No, let's go.

Speaker 5 (02:06:27):
No, I I do.

Speaker 1 (02:06:29):
I do a lot of terrible things. Color Wegman for
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross brought you by mm
you oh bought it by me. I want done. I
want to buy a sports now. I want a billboard
by the stadium. And if I get that seven one
three two one two five seven on a Larry, Nigel
and James, we'll get to all of you coming back
in a few minutes. Seven yeah, I mean Lord Willing.

(02:06:51):
Although we got we got two straight calls in it
are okay because you know.

Speaker 5 (02:06:53):
What I did.

Speaker 1 (02:06:53):
I did a little walk. See it worked. It's compared
to just ranting and raving. I just walked. It was
a thing. I'm start doing that with everything. There's some
people that ritake me in this warm because go for
a walk. There you go and get your steps in.
That's true. I gotta take my phone. Give me a
step credit though. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seventy.

(02:07:15):
Believe it or not, it's coming up in thirty five
short minutes. Okay, and you're doing it. You're not doing
Oh what Mark? Mark Sanche'll figure it out, you do.
Brady Quinn the guy filled in for him. That'd be
kind of nice. He's the backup. He was the backup.
It's like those uh one of one of those insurance
commercials bringing in the backup. He did already, Quinn, Brady
Kim was going to rock yeah. Seven one three two

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one two five seven ninety All right, Lord Willing, our
phones are working. We got a lot of folks that
want to talk, so we're gonna get out of the way. ROSSI.
We'renna let those great people to Houston have what they
want to say. Let's go to uh stunna, stunna. What
do you got today? At one twenty?

Speaker 8 (02:07:55):
Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 11 (02:07:56):
Man?

Speaker 1 (02:07:57):
Ro we're doing good.

Speaker 6 (02:07:58):
I just want to get a shut up.

Speaker 4 (02:08:00):
Man.

Speaker 12 (02:08:01):
You look pretty good over there on TV doing the volleyball.

Speaker 1 (02:08:03):
Well, thank you very much. I do clean up very well.
I appreciate you saying that.

Speaker 8 (02:08:08):
Who is that I can't?

Speaker 4 (02:08:09):
He wa.

Speaker 8 (02:08:11):
Me me, Yeah, that's I can't And that was working
alongside you.

Speaker 1 (02:08:16):
That is a That is Shelby Coppet choose, my analyst
for the game.

Speaker 11 (02:08:22):
Oh my god, I.

Speaker 8 (02:08:26):
Gotta get you.

Speaker 11 (02:08:26):
I gotta get you.

Speaker 8 (02:08:27):
I gotta get your hand.

Speaker 1 (02:08:28):
That you know how to pick him, man, I did
not pick them. Shelby and I have been friends for
a long time. But she's a beautiful young lady.

Speaker 5 (02:08:35):
Yes, man, I just want to I just wanted to
come in and say I heard you boys, said, he
his voice cracking.

Speaker 1 (02:08:45):
Did I haven't done? Did I meet to what's going
or something?

Speaker 3 (02:08:48):
Or what?

Speaker 6 (02:08:49):
Man?

Speaker 11 (02:08:50):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (02:08:50):
I gotta say, hey, that would have been a slop bust.

Speaker 1 (02:08:55):
That's no better than a slop buster. It's a slotbuster.
I'll be honest with you. I don't I don't think
that my definition of busters and yours may be two
different things. My friend, we'll see you later. Start trying
to get me in trouble. Matt, you're red. No, I
just was like Shelby and I have been a long

(02:09:18):
friend the Sundays weekend. Yeah, that was out there working
on the lawn and stuff. Yeah. Let's uh to uh
Larry and Galveston out of Matt Thomas old Ross, Larry,
good afternoon. How are you amazing?

Speaker 6 (02:09:36):
I tell you what, man, I'm doing just fine.

Speaker 8 (02:09:38):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:09:39):
I want to I want to talk a little bit astros.
First of all, I think Daniel Brown needs to step
up and he needs to find somebody did want das
while we can still get a little bit for him. Okay,

(02:10:00):
Unfortunately his arm could not throw a one legged grandma
out at second base trying to steal and in any game.
The next thing, he needs to step up and sign

(02:10:21):
Victor Kartini, who's the switch hitter and not not a
bad catcher, but it prehid him decent catcher. And the
third thing, and you're probably not going to agree with
me on this, but that's okay, we all stand the
capability to agree and disagree is pick up Martine Maldonado

(02:10:47):
for a little bit next to nothing and let him
be the backup to maybe the backup catcher and let
him be the catching instruct you're for our catchers so
that they will know how to build a game plan
like he did for Justin Burlander all the years that

(02:11:12):
he was with us. And that is the reason why
Dusty stayed with Martin matched up with Justin the whole
time while he was pitching for.

Speaker 3 (02:11:22):
Us, and.

Speaker 6 (02:11:25):
I just I'm strongly convinced that that would be the
right thing to do. And as far as Jim Crane
is concern, it's not going to cost him a whole
heck of a lot of money, and the Astros would
be a better team defensively for that reason. Yeah, Martin

(02:11:46):
doesn't bat to sixty two seventy eighty, he probably that's
two ten more.

Speaker 1 (02:11:53):
Larry, Larry, and thank you, thank you all, my friend.
I appreciate Martin Maldonald is never going to play Major
League baseball again. He may coach, he may be a
field manager someday, but he's never playing again. I mean, yeah,
it's just stuck. This is even a conversation piece. Would
you look at me and put your hand down. It's

(02:12:15):
wrong with you? Yeah, I mean, I he I'm sure
if he I don't, I don't know if Marte wants that,
but most catchers have been have typically lead themselves towards
careers and actually bounce back season offensively five seventy two
ops last year he was four oh three one hundred

(02:12:36):
and forty seven. Is this real? He played one hundred
and forty seven games last year he had a four
oh three OPS. That's the white crew stop, dude, one
hundred and thirty five starts, one hundred and forty seven games,
four oh three ops one nineteen did not. You're making
that up. You're making stats up. I was blown away too.

(02:12:57):
What was your adjusted number that you were talking about? Oh?
I lied a one hundred and four seven played appearances.
You're right, I was wrong. Yeah, okay, that didn't seem crazy.
This didn't seem real to me either. I wasn't playing
one hundred and forty seven games again, entertaining provent information,
you get bad information. I fixed it. I would. We
were both like, there's no way chance. Oh man, that

(02:13:18):
was hilarious. All right, let's go to forty seven played appearance. Nigel,
how are you, sir?

Speaker 2 (02:13:24):
I'm excellent.

Speaker 1 (02:13:26):
I'm like most Nigel.

Speaker 2 (02:13:29):
Yes, I wasn't gonna correct you this.

Speaker 1 (02:13:31):
I got to Nigel. Very simple, this one for Vancouver's
Nigel Nigel. Let me take every time I make the mistake.
You must correct me every single time, and this will
not be the last time.

Speaker 2 (02:13:41):
Nigel noted noted, Like all Texans fans, I'm celebrating the win.
I'm really excited for the week off and then of
course the game in Seattle. If you recall the last
time the Texans played in Seattle, it was a forty
one thirty eight loss, but it was a very, very
very entertaining game. I believe Deshaun Watson threw for over

(02:14:03):
four hundred yards in that game. And you will be there, correct,
I will absolutely be there one percent. I didn't pay
for the club seats, but we, my wife and I,
we've got decent seats.

Speaker 1 (02:14:14):
Where we're really excited. Good.

Speaker 2 (02:14:15):
Yes, I haven't seen the Texans since the last game
in Seattle, so yeah, I'm very, very very excited. I
have a question for you. Do you think that the
Texans would be willing to trade a blue chip piece
Kamari Lassiter even comes to mind if they were able
to pick up a stud on the offensive line. I'm

(02:14:40):
that's my question, and because the division is a lot
better than most, if not everybody expected. Is this a
season where they should, you know, try to go all in.
I'm not I'm not entirely sure, but I'm certainly encouraged
about the game. Yesterday. I wish I was celebrating at
Big City Wings.

Speaker 1 (02:14:59):
The deals I know ten burgers today, I'm not kidding around.
They're delicious too. It takes two people to leave him.

Speaker 2 (02:15:06):
Last time I was there, we went to this place
called Twin Peaks, which is also a good bar. I'm
not sure if that's one of your affiliates, but it was.
It was a great time, a great show today. Guys
enjoyed the week off and I'll call you after the
game in Seattle.

Speaker 1 (02:15:19):
Nigel. I look forward and see I got that right, Nigel.
I look forward to the Monday, the Tuesday post game calling.
That's a Monday night gives. The game is so big.
It's an ESPN Plus love it huge. You know they
put the they put the main talent. You are coming,
mister ESPN plus good. It's very popular streaming service. You

(02:15:42):
know what it is. It does help because my daughter
plays will be playing volleyball Rhoe Island. All their games
are on ESPN. I would normally be able to see
her play. You're welcome. What did you do? I'm executive Disney,
but you're gonna saying charge of emotional support. Haven't got
the ear of Mickey Mouse? Do you? Yes? I have
a couple of dollars, executive, I could I could use

(02:16:02):
something to carry you when I can. I'm just saying
I think he's gonna buy your burger on Wednesday. Well
I thought you were, oh man, Okay, right? Can you
keep flaking them? You're mega flake Thomas over here, mega flight.
I'm so waiting for whatever excuse you come up with.
You know what, you know where I'm gonna be Wednesday night.
I get rocket stunt, so I gotta I gotta be
in the city. I'll go with handiburger with y'all, okay,

(02:16:23):
and take a nap after those Oh guys, got a
doctor's appointment? You do? That's you, not me? All right?
A pair of James are up next to what Oh James,
I thought you said, Jans, and I was like, that
was have been shocking. Well, we've had James called the
show before.

Speaker 3 (02:16:37):
Two.

Speaker 1 (02:16:37):
That's true. It'd be hard to have to get two
Janes on a one show. Uh, seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven nine if you want to join us,
uh I got great news of phones. We we've been
taking phones for forty five straight minutes. Things are going well.
Oh yeah, Tom came back. Let me tell you. He
came back. He heard it was got a hold of it,
with it and everything. So they should be over to

(02:16:58):
fix it here. So God bless him. You know what,
I'm in a better frame of mind. All I want
is equipment to work. That's it, and give me easy
piece working. It is working. You're good, We're good, doing great,
you know. He set the router seven one three two
one two five, seven hundred thirty five Sports Talk seven

(02:17:18):
ninety If you've not heard about Mark Sanchez, the charge
of an upgraded to a felony. Uh, I don't know
what that's gonna do again innocent who proven guilty. But
apparently there's lots of videos and lots of photos that
are not going to necessarily make Mark Sanchez' life any easier. Fox,
Brady Quinn, you're gonna do some games now, So one

(02:17:42):
man's fighting, there's another man's opportunity to work some games. Crazy,
just a wild story. Alcohols can do crazy things, and
I will just say it sounds to me like other
stuff is in if he's randomly running sprints and all,

(02:18:04):
you don't get drunk and normally say it's time for
some sprints. He wearing dressed, so maybe okay, maybe you're
a track athlete. Yeah, hold on, track athlete. Maybe you tickets? Okay, okay, right,
you know what drunking races. But you just decided to
run by yourself and you get pepper sprayed and you
just wipe it out of your eyes and you're all

(02:18:25):
good and still charging forward. That sounds like Papa, I
ate a spinach, is what it sounds like to me.
Like when I drink too much, I dance. That's fine.
I'm not going on a marathon run. I don't skinny
dip in the pool at the hotel. Well, people will
do that, I know, but I don't. I want to
keep my job too. Hey guys, I'm hammered drunk. It's
time for to running. I need some more details on this.

(02:18:48):
He's running sprints in the alley, or he's running from
the police. It could be a riot again. Yeah, there's
a lot of stuff to be more details on this
because I have questions, more questions than answers. Britney Spears
wants too much. He's skinned dips, that's true, and I
got there a zero issue with that. Okay, thank you man?

(02:19:09):
Was that? Have you seen her now? She's kind of
kind of what, okay, crazy looking? I think he's always
been crazy looking. I mean I don't like it. Moving on, Uh, yeah,
that's fine. Let's go to the phone. We got Hey
know the phones are working. We're happy. Let's talk to
so so good to have Tom, our engineer back helping
us out. James on seven on A Hello, James, Hello, gentlemen, thank.

Speaker 8 (02:19:30):
You for accepting my call.

Speaker 1 (02:19:32):
Oh James, where are you being?

Speaker 7 (02:19:34):
Man?

Speaker 1 (02:19:34):
We've been missing on you. You need newitty coach, you
need new hitting coaches, James side pitch Well.

Speaker 12 (02:19:41):
You know, I've been frustrated with the Astros front office
because Jim Crane, I don't know who he listened to. Uh,
Reggie Jackson, Jeff Bagwell, Daniel Brown.

Speaker 8 (02:19:56):
You know the whole thing about what the Astros just did.

Speaker 12 (02:20:02):
I think the team did as great as they did
considering all the adversities that they went through.

Speaker 5 (02:20:10):
How you gonna make the playoffs. If you let your
all star third baseman gold glove walk, you trade your
all star right fielder slugger, trade him for a prospect. Now,

(02:20:30):
if the Astro was in the business of winning, I
wouldn't have done that out of sign Tucker.

Speaker 12 (02:20:40):
Regardless, Jim Crane went through nine.

Speaker 8 (02:20:44):
Consecutive years of bonus money.

Speaker 1 (02:20:49):
Forty percent of.

Speaker 12 (02:20:50):
Guaranteed games, one hundred percent.

Speaker 7 (02:20:55):
Every game after.

Speaker 5 (02:20:58):
Jim Crane mad over probably close to eighty.

Speaker 1 (02:21:01):
Nine million dollars over the nine.

Speaker 12 (02:21:03):
Years that he has, the Astros have performed and putting
money in his pocket.

Speaker 5 (02:21:10):
You mean to tell me he can't sign he couldn't
keep Kyle Tucker, or he couldn't find a way so
he could have backlog? Uh, Alex Brickman like the Astro backlog.
Jeff Bagwell, he could have done as a hope. That's
why I give the front office.

Speaker 1 (02:21:29):
If I damn tough, we're just following instructions. If the
boss man says we're not going to sign Kyle Tucker,
see what you can get for him, then you do it.

Speaker 7 (02:21:42):
Well, okay, did you did he? Did he collect any
bonus money this year?

Speaker 11 (02:21:49):
Who?

Speaker 4 (02:21:49):
What?

Speaker 3 (02:21:50):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (02:21:51):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (02:21:52):
If it's a business.

Speaker 12 (02:21:53):
You and the business are making money. Yes, everybody say,
everybody say, this is a business.

Speaker 5 (02:22:00):
You can't pay him there, But Jim Crane is the
envy of the whole need because he went nine consecutive
years play out bonus money.

Speaker 1 (02:22:10):
Jim Crane made money. It ain't like all right, James,
Papa James, and we're gonna let you run on that note,
Thank you, James. You just you can't pay everybody. You
just can't pay everybody what they want to get paid.
You have to draw a line in the same Jim
Crane didn't buy the Astros to lose money or even
break even. So and you're not in New York, You're
not in LA and you got it. If you want

(02:22:34):
to remain profitable, you can't pay everyone in Houston, Texas.
You just can't. They always have a top seven payrol, yes, always. Yeah,
they're not driving Bentley's and Rolls Royces. They got high
endy s Ubs. They got a nice they got a
nice Mercedes. They got a wrestler, a wrestler. Yeah, okay,

(02:22:57):
I thought those were affordable ones. Aren't. Okay, of course
you got to buy the battery charger and all that
kind of stuff. And that can get up there. Okay, James,
You're you are painting with an externarly broad brush and
sometimes you can make pacastles out of it. And guess
what if he wants to pocket his look, I mean,
it just is what it is. Jim Crane can pocket

(02:23:19):
as much as he wants his tea. Let's deal with
a couple of reunities. Kyle Tucker did not want to
stay here under any circumstance. No way, no how, no chance,
not gonna listen off. Jim Crane has drawn lines in
the sand. He doesn't want to pay long term, huge contracts.
He's stuck to that. Kyle Tucker is going to command
win this off season, much to the chagrin of some
and much to the light of Ho ho about you

(02:23:39):
workers everywhere, And as far as Bragmant's concerned, there was
a dollar amount they were comfortable with, and at some
point you're not comfortable with a dollar amount, right, And
a lot of these long term albatross contracts don't work
out over time. But I understand the flip side is, well,
then why do you pay for the prime and then
you take it on the back, And well they've taken

(02:24:00):
it on the back end with Josea. Bray You and
Christian Walker, and I still believe the more teams backlog
their contracts, the more they're going to hurt them in
the future. At some point, it's going to put a
ding in the Dodgers for the money they gave Choyo Tony.
It just is I don't know what it's going to be.
Maybe not in our lifetime, Rossie, but it's going to
be at some they deferred, that's gonna be fine. And
they also have more economic means. They're television dollars that

(02:24:23):
go to their team are significantly more than anybody else
in baseball. It's the Yankees and the Mets, and the
Yankees and the Dodgers and uh and that's it and
else distant third and Mets are spending obviously because Steve
Cohens a billionaire and he loves the Mets and he
doesn't care if he's losing money. Yeah, and he's worth
billions and billions more than Jim Crane is. Yes, I
want to say Jim's probably if you take the thirty owners,

(02:24:44):
probably twenty eighth or twenty ninth in wealth.

Speaker 6 (02:24:47):
Jim.

Speaker 1 (02:24:47):
Jim's here to win. They turn a profit. Can he
do them both? Yeah? All right? Lastly, James with his
son seven on. Hey, let's see if this James goes
as well as the last James. Hello James.

Speaker 8 (02:24:59):
Yeah, Matt it was a disappointing Saturday, no doubt. I mean,
you h they were outclassed. I mean there's no question
about that.

Speaker 5 (02:25:06):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (02:25:07):
As far as u t Ut, I felt bad for
it because whatever foreverever reason, I watched that UT all
the time and I wanted them to win. So I
was pretty disappointed with that as well. But in UT's defense,
they lost a heck of a tight end last year.
That tight end they had last year was all world
and they lost Matthew Gold and they lost Marfa's Alarma.

(02:25:27):
So you can kind of see why they're not winning
right now. I mean, I know, arts miss the targets,
but they had it. They had an Austin tried end
last year.

Speaker 1 (02:25:34):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (02:25:35):
And as far as the Cougar's, well, you know they
weren't the better team. I mean I kind of knew
that going in yard and watch the smack, which y'all
didn't give me good credit for. It was at least
a five. Y'all get four one five. I thought it
was a decent five at least, But nevertheless, Charles's voting
not mine. The one thing I want to ask you
about is Shuston's identity. Do you think they have an

(02:25:57):
identity problem? Why would you wear blue? Why do you
keep wearing that oiler stuff? What's wrong with red and white,
isn't it?

Speaker 1 (02:26:03):
They'd wear red white? They wear this state. That was
the third time they've won the city blue. If they
like it, people like it, people like you know.

Speaker 8 (02:26:10):
You know how, you know how you city connect, city
connect by winning games. You win games, the city is
gonna be interested. You go out and you lose the
big games, not so much. No matter what you're wearing.

Speaker 1 (02:26:19):
We could have been wearing orange. You wouldn't mattered it
and we weren't going to be Texas tech.

Speaker 8 (02:26:22):
Well that's true, that's true, that's true.

Speaker 1 (02:26:23):
We had a good time. People are being a good crowd.
I mean, you know, what did you buy? Then we
make you buy any of that? No, So don't worry
about it. Let us let us enjoy our blue.

Speaker 8 (02:26:34):
But one thing, that one thing about the Texans that
I'm loving this year is not wearing those he town uniforms.
Oh god, those seams are ugly. Please keep those in
the closet.

Speaker 1 (02:26:43):
Town, thank you for the call. What's what's the age? Town?
Blue with the blue h oh yeah, like old English.
I don't know if they're wearing those this year. I
don't know. I know we need more clay Walker games.
You sing the national anthem or the second time this year?
We need it en to update the fight song because
it was so catch it the first time around. I

(02:27:06):
think she had a win games, Yeah, win games again.
You can worry. That's another thing. We were talking about
the oilers and how people hang on to them. One
of the reasons they still do that is the textans
haven't given you a reason to hang on to them. Yeah,
give the AFT championship and people will get Well, we
burning those uniforms. They not burning them, but you know
what I mean, donate them? Okay, all right, believe it
or not much too Ross's chagrin. It's on Mark Sanchez.

(02:27:27):
We're honoring a guy who just kind of lickered up
and stabbed and arrested and forgot finale facing fellony charges.
We celebrate birthdays, we celebrate desks. We should toleberate phony charges,
all things. Mark Sanchez next one here on sports talks ever,
anyone I think majorly baseball is goofing up here. I
know they are worried about audiences, but the baseball games

(02:27:51):
today one starts at five, one starts at eight. I
mean that's nine o'clock in the East. That's wrong. I
just what are you trying to do? Do you want
to make people watching as possible? What should they do?
I serious? What direction? Okay, you want them three and
four and whatever? Yeah, three and seven? Yeah, I mean,
I just, I just I just don't think it's smart.

(02:28:13):
Is there a West Coast game? Is the one at
the eight o'clock one? No, it's fun flip them. Five
o'clock is Dodger in the technically in Cubs Brewers in
the Midwest. In Central yeah, o eight is late. I
mean it's even late for the for the for the
Central time. You have that, you have Rockets preseason. You
got Monday night football. Nice, that's the next day Mariners,

(02:28:36):
Tigers play at three, Blue Jays Yankees at seven. Then
Thursday and Wednesday, there's a chance of having four games
in one day. Oh yeah, tomorrow they're doing three and seven.

Speaker 2 (02:28:46):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (02:28:48):
Yeah, today, Yeah, oh you know, why why are they
staying away from my night football? I don't know? Starting
in an hour later. Yeah, so you can get the
exciting conclusion. Yes, yeah, maybe so all right seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven eighty five minutes left to
go in the show, what should we Do? Wait? Should play?

(02:29:10):
America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply called
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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 all things about Mark Sanchez.
I'll read your statement about Mark statements completely and utterly act.
You'll say this, believe it, saman Tironi is full of
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(02:29:31):
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(02:29:51):
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I don't none on my list, but that's fine. Let's

(02:30:13):
play Believe it or not. We'll start with a line
number we can go with here. Let's go in line
number two. Ken on seven nine, Ken, You're ready to
play Believe it or not? Believe it? Mark Sanchez Major
one he was at USC was quote American Studies Believe
it or not? Believe it No? Communications by see you two,

(02:30:40):
Neigel Shoo. Are you ready to play Believe it or not? Yes, sir?
Mark Sanchez third all time in Jets passing yards, behind
Joe Namath and Chad Pennington. Believe it or not?

Speaker 6 (02:30:56):
Believe it?

Speaker 4 (02:30:57):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:30:57):
He was six behind Bennie Tester Ernie. Let's go to
uh Matt and Katie. Matt was your favorite part of
today's tend the two radio show.

Speaker 8 (02:31:09):
A Little Baseball Talk.

Speaker 1 (02:31:11):
Mark Sanchez played for five NFL teams, the last of
which was the Dallas Cowboys Believe It or Not, That's not.
He played for six and his last team was the
Redskins Statement number two for the Way. Mark Sanchez appeared
in season number four of The Mass Singer as the
Baby Alien Believe It or Not? Believe it Yeah, Mass? Congratulations?

(02:31:35):
Now Jay, are you calling us from Lubbock right now?

Speaker 4 (02:31:40):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:31:40):
I'm in Houston. All right, Thank goodness, here we go.
Mark Sanchez is an avid fan of musical theater and
is even presented at the Tony Awards Believe It or
Not Believe it that's right, Statement number two for the Way.
In twenty ten, Mark Sanchez sued sports memorabilia company Heritage
Auctions for selling items with his forged signature Believe it

(02:32:00):
or Not? That is also I'm not correct. Congratulation Felipe
on seven, Annie, Felipe was your favorite part of today?
You send it to radio show. You're going for a walk, man,
I show your paint, Mark Felippe, God bless you. Mark
Sanchez has an older brother, Nick, who played quarterback. At
Yale Believe it or not not? That's I believe it. Sorry,

(02:32:25):
thank you though, thank you for listening. Sometimes the walks
do hell Michael on seven Auntie Michael, you ready to
play Believe it or not? Mark Sanchez is married to
former Victorious Secret Angel Aaron Heatherton. The couple has two children.
Believe it or not. Believe it No. Mean he's good

(02:32:46):
looking and everything, but I think google Aaron Heatherton. How
was she like? She's married to some actress. I can't
remember her. Okay, she hopefully can pay some bills for
probably too. Yeah, uh, speaking of them, And check on
Taylor's picks and look forward to talk picks or picks
picks p I c k s MM Blizzards video with

(02:33:07):
those picks. Maybe I just had to go for a walk.
I walking's good for you, Taylor Walks, I walk up
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seven on seven ninety