Texans Take Down Chiefs! CFB Results Cause Chaos?!

Texans Take Down Chiefs! CFB Results Cause Chaos?!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten on
one of AH Town. Good morning, and welcome to a
Monday edition the Mount Thomas Showing. Ross. This is Sports
Talk seven ninety. They are the third hottest team in

(00:29):
the a f C. Yeah, Denver and tenth street, but
from the worst, from zero to three to congratulations, the
Texans are going. Yes the postseason. There were people who

(00:52):
doubted him, who said they weren't going to the playoffs.
There were two of us in this room, and then
you're wrong. I didn't say that. I think you a
low key did not check Tate. Pull it up. I
can't go check the table. It's a month ago. Plus
our audioism is terrible. In no way you can check.
It only goes back thirty days these day. Yeah, that's right,
kick it back to September is what it is. What

(01:15):
a I mean, what a peculiar night? Rewarding explain what
was so peculiar variety of things And this is in
no particular order. I we've all been watching the Chiefs
for basically eight or nine years. Own this league. Make

(01:35):
every fourth down conversion, make every incredible play, come up
with a big defensive standley necessary, but Basically, the Kansasy
Chiefs have become a magical team because of you know,
a future Hall of Fame quarterback who, by the way,
played really well yesterday. His receivers letting down would be
an understatement, maybe m hm. I mean it was atrocious,

(02:00):
how bad they were, big drops and handing the ball
to the competition. Yes, that's number one, number two, and
Andy Reid, to his credit, fest up after the game
in a minute as much. But that was a fireable offense.
Trying to go for fourth down at the thirty one
yard line. Your team, your defense was giving the Texans

(02:23):
fits to the tune of minus two yards. Kick the
ball and make c J. Strago eighty five yards. You
gift them at worst a field goal at worst, and
you eventually gave him a touchdown on the Goomawalle touchdown,
which all of us had on our fantasy board, which
is really nice. I pluat gooble lineman, my starting fantasy lineup,

(02:45):
and look at he got from me a touchdown. No,
you didn't. You're right, nobody would have thought of that.
That's you're at a twenty five team league. It's true,
that's number two, number three. As bad as a Texans
offense was for seventy percent of the game, the good
thirty percent. There were some incredible throws that c. J.

(03:07):
Stroud made, and some incredible catches and some stuff that frankly,
Pat Mahomes probably was jealous of. Number four. Chris Jones
wanted to win that game more than anybody else in
that stadium yesterday, and he couldn't do it by himself.
He almost did. He tried his best. He tried his best,
and number five, you finally slayed the dragon. Not only

(03:31):
did you beat a team that you've had no success
against literally in that stadium over the years, but you
knock them deep down the playoff ladder. You have them
questioning themselves, you have them questioning their coaches. Two of
their key players decided not even to stick around and
talk to the media after the game, which is a
BS move. You had to talk to the media when

(03:53):
you're in good and you certainly gotta talk to him
in bad. We're finding too many athletes in twenty twenty
five that are only doing it when things are good.
And number six and I think I went six defense
or why not?

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Your Texans are going to the postseason, especially after what
happened to Daniel Jones and his achilles into fourteen pieces yesterday? Hmm.
You don't want to root for injuries, Matt, even though
you had, I think you have to the time. I'm
rooting for Oklahoma City vendor injuries. Call me a horrible person,
but I mean to me, that game yesterday played the
expectation just about. I mean, it was dominant Texans performance

(04:28):
and the offense giving you just enough. That's basically what
we've been seeing them from them on this five game
winning streak. This defense is I've been saying it for
a couple of weeks now and I'll keep saying it's
super Bowl winning caliber defense. Yeah, this is the best
defense the Texans have ever had. But the Nick Keley
offense came back to play yesterday, and if not for
c jayas escapability and a couple of I mean, they're

(04:50):
the best plays in the game yesterday were not designed
by Nick Kelee.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
It was c. J.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Stroud on his own, avoiding pass rush, scrambling, making tough. Frankly,
a lot of throws that you would think would be
probably interception worthy they were not. They were caught. That's
what it takes to win and you have to have
things happen for you off schedule. That's everybody, and I
mean Nick Kayley, Yeah, he's not a football genius. He's

(05:15):
just not. He'd also doesn't have a whole lot of
work with I mean, whatdy Marks is a decent running back,
but he's not great. The offensive line was having some issues.
You mentioned Chris Jones was I mean as about as
game wrecking one man performance as I can remember in
a while. I mean, we've seen some others JJ Watt
or Miles Garrett whoever do that all into that level,
but basically, I mean behind the velvet rope of game

(05:37):
wrecking performances on a Sunday night, that was. That was
excellent from him, and it played out about how we felt.
I mean you you said twenty to sixteeneh yeh yeah,
twenty sixteen something like. To him, I said, I think
twenty three to eighteen. Like we all thought it was
gonna be. The Vegas total was low. We thought it
was gonna be a knack knockdown drag out. We would
presumed a one score game, and it was. It was

(06:00):
somewhat close to a one score game for the most
the majority of it that's Texans football. What I saw
last night. I wasn't surprised by much of any of it. No,
the whole scoring was on a surprise. The consecutive number
of incomplete passes that Pat Mahomes threw, which probably whether
what nine in a row at some point. Think when
you included interceptions, it was like something like that plus

(06:21):
his plus the interceptions, it was like the longest streak
of his career. So of those, I mean the lass
a iron t that was basically a punt. I mean
that was forty three yards in the air. So that's
the same thing. So I don't mean you can count that.
You can't if you want to. Eighty percent of those
with a receiver's fault drop I mean drops Kelsey not
only drops a ball, but it hits the ball, hits

(06:42):
his helmet, and heyone's up being an interception. That doesn't
happen to the Kansas City Chiefs, you know, Dawber down
is a term you would use sometimes. They didn't look
like they wanted to win that game yesterday, and if
Chris Jones willed them, they blitzed the hell out of
the Texans in the third quarter and there was nothing
the Texans could do except for that occasional play that CJ.

(07:03):
Strau made running for his life. It was vintage Steve
Spagnola versus the Houston Texans. You you get like seven
seven eight guys at the line of scrimmage. They can't
figure out who's coming. It's loud and arrowhead, and then
you end up with two free runners over and over
and over again. It was a tough to work with.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
C J.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Straud did miss some easy throws, but he was under
a lot of duress. As way, Rice dropped Brown Kelsey
the unbelievably dumb fourth and one at the thirty one
yard line. I mean, you have to take advantage of
those breaks and give them credit. You had you the

(07:41):
Texans did well depending on what models you look at.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Matt.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's funny because it was unbelievable dumb and I know
you know it's coming, it's coming, but the metrics don't
tell you everything. The vibe and I'm telling you Ross,
I apologize, but I will follow my sword on this.
The vibet Night was kicked the ball fifty yards and
force a team that hadn't done Jack squat to go
eighty yards. Yeah, that was completely and again I'm not

(08:08):
and I like going for fourth down. I'm actually not
against it, and I'm not against the metric of it.
But as soon as that happened, I was sitting in
my office with my son watching the game, my oldest one,
and I said, if they don't convert this, the Texans
are going to score. And the juju of the game
completely flipped the second going forward and fourth down. I
get it, because you're down a touchdown and you're running

(08:29):
out of time, so to speak. That early fourth down
call was criminal. And that's Andy Reid. That's a Super
Bowl winning quarterback, a coach. Let's see, it was ten,
they went up scoring a touchdown, making it seventeen ten.
That's the subsequent drive ten minutes. Yeah, thirty one. Well

(08:52):
the number sego for it. The numbers are stupid in
that one, and absolutely well, it's just the counter argument
is if you can't get two yards, and how are
you going to score on this defense anyways, So you
have to you're kicking the ball to stop them, to
get the ball back to be basically where you are.
I take my chance, I have moment, And did you

(09:14):
not sense it? I mean, you did this the entire
momentum shift of the game. You're giving the detections at
worst case of fifty yard field goal, now grants outside.
It's cold but fair. Barans is one of the top
ten kickers in the NFL. It's gonna make some of
those worst case they score a field goal, it takes
one play to get them in the red zone where

(09:36):
it makes it an absolute chip shot and scoring a
touchdown with their third string running back. It was preposterous.
It wasn't preposterous, No, it was. It was completely properly.
It's not dumbsterous in this particular case. I think that's
where Okay, I mean, I'm you're using hindsight. No, I'm not.

(09:56):
Immediately you got to come to my house. You live
in South Nacadotians. Yeah, but it's only an hour.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
It's not.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
No, it was a terrible, terrible and Andy Reid completely
admitted it after the game. I would like to read
you the quote. You have time, promote your Twitter account
or Instagram. You can follow me at sports r V
and Instagram. That's it, Ingo Mornett, I got good pictures,
all right. I put the guys offensively in a tough

(10:24):
position with that fourth down. I was trying to stay
aggressive with it. I take full responsibility for that. I
thought we could get it. It's important that you take
advantage of opportunities. In hindsight, yeah, it was wrong. I
messed that one up. That's a coach, that's an NFL
head coach. Yeah, that's who made the decision to go
for it and it didn't work. I'm started video calling
you and saying, I can't it wrong. You're going to
be wrong more than you're gonna be right this time.

(10:45):
I'm right, ros I'm sometimes.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
I at you.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
No, you're right. You had the vibe everybody. You guys
watched the game. It was ten to ten in the
fourth corner. It's a close game, and he said he
wanted to be aggressive. But that's fine at the midfield
at the thirty one yard line, when you're basically guarantee
the Texans points. That was not smart in a low
scoring game. That's even another point in a low scoring
game where a field goal could make a difference. I
think you don't do that. It's it was stupid, and

(11:08):
he admitted it, and everybody, I mean, he con who
loves can see more than life, just was ripping the
crap out of the colcause the terrible's what the announcers do.
And that's okay. I'm okay with the tall and it's
all right because this was happened. I don't know how
many years ago was it when Bill Belichick went for
a fourth down and everybody was crushing him. And it's

(11:30):
it's been trending in the right direction. It has, and
I know America is not ready for this. I'm okay
because I watched the Detroit Lions, Ryans whatever the other day.
Detroit Lions are getting crushed by Dan Campbell, are getting
crushed because they they're missing fourth downs and people are
calling them calling the games, and that's okay. History will
prove me right on this, and I'm okay with that.
It's moving forward. We're not gonna go to more punts.

(11:52):
We're gonna punt the ball when you can't when the
Texans offense can't move it, You're gonna punt the ball.
In that particular case, if it's the forty five fifty,
I probably can give you on that one, but in
this particular case, I can't. I just can that one.
All right. We got a lot to get to today.
Texans be the chiefs a lot of listing on that
college football playoff. Boy, that was it was a really

(12:14):
weird eighteen hours. Would you agree about what people thought
about the poll going in after the games were compluted
on Saturday and how people felt at about eleven fifteen
on Sunday, Actually more like eleven thirty because he spink
of dragging, and on and on and on. We'll talk
about that winter meetings underway. We have to tell the truth.
Coming up at eleven thirty today, and my cougars are
going to knock off LSU in the Texas Bowl. I

(12:37):
wonder what that, Oh wonder about that stadium is gonna
look like? Oh, it's gonna be eighty twenty LSU. Why
because LSU fans travel big. Where's the game in Houston?

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Who's playing there? Houston? Okay? I mean I would like
big twelve football, let's go. I'd like it at your stadium.
I like twenty. I like it to be fifty. Come on,
that's embarrassing. I speak the truth on the show about
four downs and crowd size ted sixty to the bat
Tabas showould all seven one three, two one two five
seven ninety. We would love for you guys that join

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us today, and ladies for that matter, seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety A lot to get to today,
A lot of the Texans, a lot on now what
is a not nearly as congested AFC wild Card race,
and for that matter, the division. How the Texans could
win the AFC South, although I think Jacksonville schedule is

(13:37):
significantly easier than the Texans, although Texas isn't hardy either.
The difficult part of Jacksonville schedule, if I recall correctly,
was playing the Colts twice and well, yeah, well they've
got them, and Daniel Jones has has died. I think
they've got one Denver game and then the other three
are a piece of cakes, is what I get. And
the Texans are frankly now. The only game that's left
on their schedule that's of challenge is the game at

(13:58):
the Chargers. But that's it. I mean, well, justin Herbert
being uniformed. By that point, I mean, he's questionable going
into tonight's game against Philadelphia, like the Chargers are. I mean,
sofi stady. Hell, if you're a Texan fan, go there
Christmas week, you can get a ticket for me. You
could be among thousand of your favorite fans there. I
mean you mean probably sixty Texans fans. Yeah, the Texans

(14:22):
like to be in a one score game no matter
who they're playing, So any of these games I will
say any well, maybe the Raiders are the least losable,
the least losible. That's a guy I like that term.
What is the least losible of the group? Arizona's mailed
it in the Raiders suck Indianapolis. I mean the backup quarterback.
I honestly ross and I'm not I give myself a

(14:43):
B minus on backup quarterbacks. The guy that was throwing
yesterday for the Colts, I had no idea who it was,
Uh Leonard or Leonard? Yeah? From is it Leonard Skinner?
Jud Jonathan's Is that who it is? Leonard?

Speaker 5 (14:58):
You know? What?

Speaker 1 (14:59):
What do you got going on? Back the what's the
music going on? Back there? We we normally can see you,
but right in Leonard, right in audio plan back here
on my lots up. That's fine. I don't know what
you'll get you on some snapchats going on a little
at you're working on your TikTok's back there by the way.
By the way, I am so proud of you. Wen,
We're twenty three minutes into the show, and on the

(15:19):
previous to tell the truth, I said the text, the
Chiefs got a legitimate shot of run into the AFC Championship.
How did you go twenty four minutes in the show
without razing me about what happened last night compared to
where they are right now? So this is the game plan.
She's hater one. He's slow playing the game plan. I
was like, exactly, Russ, I'm slow playing. I was like,
you know what, I'm gonna wait to tell the truth
and then I'm gonna do it. Then I'm gonna get

(15:41):
he's letting. He's let a slow boil, by the way,
all for I to tell the truth or college related
because I did him yesterday. So I didn't I didn't
have the Texans game in mind there. But yeah, uh
so uh yeah uh it was. And I want to
go to I want to go to something. And look,

(16:02):
everybody has an opinion about everything, and if you don't
have an opinion, but I think it's not really worth
having a conversation with you about it. I mean So
the Collinsworth there are a lot of people that don't
like him because he's not rooting for your team. It's
very Joe buck esque. If he's talking good about your team,
you like him. But if he's not talking about your
team endlessly, you think he hates your team, and thus

(16:25):
you hate him. The reality is this, Chris Collinsworth in
the last ten years has done more Chiefs games than
anybody else out there. Okay, and by the way, when
he does Chiefs games ROSSI, they win typically. Yes, they've
been very good. So when Chris Collinsworth does the best
game of the week, usually against they don't put Kansasity

(16:46):
on against Miami on Sunday Night football. They don't put
Kansas City on against the Raiders. They put him against
the Buffalos, the Cincinnatis, the Houston's for that matter. So
you're going great team versus pretty good team, and Kansas
City has want a boatload of games with Pat Mahomes
with a Hall of Fame career. My guess is, if
Pat wanted to quit tomorrow, he's in the Hall of Fame.

(17:06):
He right the time Super Bowl champion three times, Sam three.
I mean, that's how many straight AFC championship games? Are
they going to I don't remember, or something like that.
So folks just logically think, for a second, he's going
to be braggadocious about Pat Mahomes because he's seen Pat
at his greatest. And I thought yesterday and again, I

(17:28):
don't have an opinion about Chris one way or the other.
I think he's okay. I think he's fine. He's not offensive.
I'm not offended by him. But when you watched as
much goodness as he has, he's naturally going to signe
with man, what a throw or what a play? But
I thought yesterday he was exemplary of the Texans defense
a lot. He was exemplary of some of the catches

(17:49):
that were made. He was foaming at the mouth over
Jalen Petrie and not only the deflection but the interception.
He talked about how Andy reachul have gone for that
fourth down? He talked about, I mean, there was a
lot of things. Is it a pro in some respects?
Cannady broadcast yes, because human nature says so, because he's
only seen the amazingness that is Cancy Chiefs football, and

(18:11):
that's irritating. I get it to people. I understand what's irritating.
I was not offended by it, but remember again, there
are things that I hear on television radio that offend
me that may not offend you. So it's to each
his own. Yeah, I was watching at a sports bar,
so I didn't really catch a whole lot of it.
It didn't seem like he was out of line. People
like to crush Chris Collinsworth, and I think the detractors

(18:31):
are just louder than the most. I think it's one
of those scenarios where it's a loud minority that hate
Chris Collinsworth until he's the worst. I think, well, it's
like what I mean, we have. There are the Lightning
Rods of sports. There's the stephen A. Smith that people hate.
There's the Skip Bayless when he used to do his show.
I mean, when you are on a platform as high
as it is, you're going to have the fans and detractors.

(18:54):
But I don't think, yeah, Chris collins Worth is not
like some hot take machine though. I think he just
didn't talk about He talked about how much he appreciated
Pat Mahomes, probably more than a Texan fan wanted to hear.
During the course of the broadcast. Yeah, I think people
were upset. Did he sound like he was loving on
Pat Mahomes for getting a face his face mask pulled?
Which that was a very like tug by the way.

(19:15):
But anyways, and you know, and he called out the
Texans offensive line who was the guy? Which somebody was bad.
He had a horrible night by the way. Yeah, Daniel oh,
Daniel Hunter was non existent last night against the third
game against the third team offensive lineman. I mean, there

(19:36):
was a few things like that, But to me, he
doesn't bother me like I mean, I just I it
was instead of spending time focusing on how much this
Texas team was going to Kansas City and playing Mono
mona with the defending AFC champions, it was let's his
bag on Chris collinsil for three hours? It was Yeah,
couldn't hear? I saw a lot of it on the

(19:58):
Twitter verse.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
It is what it is.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
I mean, I think he does a good job. I
don't think he's terrible. I don't think he's amazing. Like
who's your and you've you've never had an opinion and
that's I'm wrong on this. You've never had like, man,
you've never come to me and said, hey man, that
person who do the color analysis was amazing. I don't
know who is the best, right Treegman probably pound for
pound is as good as it gets. And he was good,

(20:23):
and he was Kirk and Troy was considered a guy
that was very early in his broadcast crew whenever critical
of athletes, because he was fresh off the football fish.
JJ Watt's goods early Tony Romo. I will say early
Tony Romo. I probably would say I would, I would
talk about how great he was. Yeah, I'm just there
isn't anybody calling a game now. There's a couple of
guys in the lower tier games that I just don't

(20:45):
find very interesting. But that's in general audience wouldn't care
who those people are. I'm trying to think of who
else he's Charles Davis has been decent. Yeah, yeah, I
mean it's fine. I mean they're fine. Yeah, they're they're
Johnson right. Let me tell you something. They get cute.

(21:07):
They get tested by networks all the time, and if
the networks people people follow they don't like them, they
take them off the games. I think I think J. J.
Watt might be my favorite right now. He's putting the
work in, like Tony Roman was putting the work in.
Then he got a big eighteen million dollars deal. He's like, hey,
we're good. He's good. I tell you of courses in
the area. I like Tom Brady.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
I do.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Tom Brady's getting better. I do. He was awful at first,
way too stiff, but he but he's loosened up. He's
loosened up his stiffness. So you're saying it's stiff for
a while, then eventually loosens up. Yes, well he was.
Tom Brady was okay, thank you. Ten thirty on Sports
Talk seven, Let's get to the what had America and

(21:47):
a tizzy the college football playoff would come back. Well,
if you're a Texan fan, we're here five in a row, baby,
let's en five a row. Let's go seven one three, two,
one two, five seven nine has predicted by both of us. Yeah,
and I was I was so hesitant to make a prediction.
Mm hmm, because I'm so bad at you. I think
you were trying to reverse jinks. I got my eye

(22:08):
on you. You're trying to reverse Jinkes. But it's okay,
And you don't know the NXU works. You don't know
that prediction works. I was on the record as I
back to back on the road upsets that I've called
because I'm the Texans insider. Seven one three two one
two five is seven ninety two. All right. I'd rather
hick Chris's music goodness or read this song and don't

(22:32):
sing it. Here comes three to two one. Just do it,
Just do it. And there's already arguing about Andy Reid's
fourth down calling now or you're gonna play sing this?
The show couldn't go any worse? Can Please? Can I
please talk to a Texan fan? I mean, I beg.
I shouldn't say beg. We'd love to mean. Your squad's
won five in a row. They're going to the playoffs.

(22:53):
Indianapolis is Gonzo done? They got beat up badly by
the Jacksonville Jaguars yesterday. The Chiefs you put them out
to pasture. Probably it's the rest of their schedule, Arizona Raiders.
Oh no, some of the Chiefs. Oh, I can look
it up. I was gonna say, man, you know the
rest of the Chiefs scheduled, But no, No. I thought

(23:14):
the Chiefs were good. I think they were that good.
Home for the Chargers at the Titans home for the
Broncos at the Raiders. Two and two with the worst
three and one puts them, what at nine and eight?
That's not enough. No, they're they're just not good enough. No,

(23:36):
not three and one puts them at Yeah, nine and eight,
not good enough, not good enough. You did it, Houston,
You guys did it. Not you in theory, but in
your spirits.

Speaker 6 (23:47):
We did it.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
I mean, they just weren't the chiefs of old. They
just aren't the chiefs of all? Is there a lot
of dust in the control room? The chiefs. They're looking
pretty fraudulent right now. And Chiefs hater number one, Jonathan Allen,

(24:12):
you have been crazy. They're on a two game losing streak,
right Yeah, they've lost four of the last five. That
ladies and gentlemen, we eye witnessed. I'm television. That's it
for them. I mean, they're not technically done. It would
have to take a lot of working with the teams
in front. And they're losing tab breakers now on this.

(24:36):
But you tell me that that Rashid Rice wanted to
win that game yesterday. I think he did. I mean, yeah,
I guess he did. But it's about the way they
got a little they got Texans got a little bit
lucky with all the drops and with Travis Kelsey handing
them the ball, yeah, and them not being able to
convert any of their fourth downs. But they also went

(24:58):
out there, and partly I also did the credit of
the defense. I mean, when you have a tough defense,
you tend to make some mistakes. But when there was
one catch, help me out and who I forgot who
it was over the middle of the field. That was
just a flat out drop. I mean there were several drops,
help me out who it was it and again it
was a Hollywood Brown had one I can't remember, definitely

(25:20):
dropped the couple. Kelsey literally handed the ball to Aziz
al Shah ear But that was a nice play. I mean,
Jalen Pecher earned that pick that he got. Can I
tell you when I brought this up on Twitter, I'm
obsessed with Jalen Petrie's helmet. Oh the Guardian cap. Why
it's big and fluffy. Yeah, he got a concussion and
now he's been wearing the Guardian cap. I mean robyo

(25:42):
Dabs has been wearing it. Steve Young used to wear
it a long time ago. It's it well it's a
it's different. It's a cap over the helmet. But I
but I love it. Would you get that from me
for Christmas? You want a guardian cap?

Speaker 4 (25:54):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Okay. It makes the helmet look twice as big. Yes.
And it made it look like the Great Kazoo from
the fund Stone. And there are some people who disagree
on whether or not has any impact as how helpful
it is. But yeah, he came back from his concussion.
He's wearing a guarding cap. Good for him. It just
looks fantastic. I want him to make more players. The

(26:17):
tip drill then followed up with an interception on the
same play. I mean, look, Jalen Peatrie's never gonna make
get known as a great in coverage guy. He can
hit hard, but he's not known as a coverage guy.
That was one hell of a catch up, was a
great play. He's been one of the best safeties in football.
And then that Rashi Rice hit where he knocked him.
I think somebody said he knocked the sonic rings out

(26:40):
of him. That's what he did to Rashi Rice. I
mean he sent him flying, clean, legal hit, flying, all
hits on both sides. Swarm. That is Texans football last night.
That is the defense that can win you a Super
Bowl if you get enough from your offense. I'm worried
about wood he marks he's just doesn't look like he's

(27:02):
running that well. And unless Lessen with the rib injury,
what he markus lesson three yards to carry. I mean,
that's that's tough. You have to get something out of
your running game, and you're not getting it. He had
some nice runs, but I mean it's like dariyu oh,
Dario gunbawalle. How long is Chubb gonna be out? I'm
worried about the run game big time. I Mean, the

(27:24):
reality is this the defense. Tell me if this is
too hottyh hot of a take. The defense cannot surrender
more than twenty one points per game at any point
between now and in the year. They're gonna give up points.
Defense is due, it's human, it's you got to hold them.
I mean, the Texans point totals the last several weeks

(27:46):
twenty twenty, twenty three, sixteen, and then thirty six against
the Jaguars with Davis Mills. That was an aberration, But
that's that's my You know, as wide open as the
AFC playoffs are, you your defense. Look, I'm giving you
no great breaking news in this. The defense is gonna
have to carry you, but it's gonna have to be

(28:07):
carried to the level that I even think the two
thousand Baltimore Ravens would be jealous of. I don't The
Texans offense can't put up twenty four points in a game,
and if they do, it's probably because of either a
special teams or a defensive touchdown. They're gonna have to
get it together for sure. I mean that we've seen
we've seen flashes, we've seen them look good, we've seen

(28:27):
them make some plays, but it's it's just not enough.
And we're really only asking for like I mean, if
you go from twenty points a game to twenty seven
points per game, that's huge, right, but it's one score.
We're asking for, like one more touchdown a game. Well,
we're asking for some red zone efficiency, yes, and it's
getting over but it's still too many little aggressiveness from

(28:49):
your coach. Oh, how do you want to explain that
first half again? At the end, I mean, just uh,
I don't know. I mean, I just felt like it
was an uber conservative way to in the first half. Again,
I mean but that's who he is, That's who Demiko is.
He's not going to and you know, yeah, the the

(29:11):
offense to me, I mean if and when they lose,
if they do, it's we're going to come back on
the Monday after and go, Hey, the Texans just could
never get anything mustered offensively. And this is even with c. J.
Stroud making some incredible, hard to believe passes and catches.
He makes insane throws four or five times a game,
Like you say, this is a guy to build a

(29:31):
franchise around. And then he misses a couple of throws. Yep.
The one to Christian Kirk that was like a hot
flight of shadow center field was on a great throw,
even along one a Nico Collins was slightly underthrown, but
I mean it was I mean a fifty three yards,
so I mean undrow. Reality is the yard down the field.
It's a really good it's a really exemplary defense that

(29:54):
might have a chance to be just good enough to
get all the way because of the fact that the
AFC is so up for grabs. The AFC is a
I'm not scared of anybody in the AFC. I'm not
even the way Jacksonville disposed of the Colt yesterday.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
They don't.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Does a full Jacksonville stadium make you worry about going
to Jacksonville beating the Jaguars, No, I'm not. Yeah, I'm
not saying that the Broncos, the Broncos and the Chiefs
would be favored against the Texans. But I don't think
he would be huge and it's not gonna be ten
points or even seven points. The reality is this Juss
can hang with anybody. You played in twenty degree weather
yesterday in Kansas City. So the guys can go to
New England and in Denver and win in playing cold weather. Now,

(30:30):
are their defenses of those two teams better than what
the Chiefs are? Absolutely? Play the under in both of
those games. I mean Broncos Texans was eighteen to fifteen.
That's what it's gonna be. I think. So you have
we're gonna have to hold on for dear life and
hope that's something from the off and again, or maybe
just pray for a defensive or a special team touchdown.
I think I'm most scared of the Patriots because of
their defense, and then Drake May's running ability could possibly

(30:54):
put some problems for the tech. The reality is, I
don't know how much of that since any Buffalo game
you saw yesterday snow and in Buffalo not pretty nuch.
Buffalo is gonna be the wild Cards, so that's you're
gonna have to see some things who arounds yeah on
the on the playoff ladder. But the reality is Buffalo's
really good at home. They just are. And Josh Allen
was fantastic yesterday. Their defense not great, and that's Joe

(31:16):
Barrow got to pick six gifted do them. I mean that, man,
the Biggles cough that game up too. I mean, Josh
Allen was great and he made plays, but the Bengals
also choked hard. Yeah all right, uh okay, CFP, let's
get to what the drama that was yesterday in a
moment ten forty four on Sports Talk seven on East.
All right, so I was in Dallas and Rockets lost

(31:40):
the Mavericks and that wasn't fun. But I got in
the in the bus and watched the overtime of the
Duke versus Virginia a CC game, which was very very
good and Duke wanted and if congratulations they're the a
SEC champions and for that they get a ball game
out of it. Not a good one, but they did one.
Man's just dust their record. Good job champions. So then
everybody is arguing about there are three teams for two spots, Alabama,

(32:05):
Notre Dame in Miami. Alabama looked terrible in their SEC
championship game. By the way, the Big twelve championship game
was Losyton. There was it was that Duke Virginia game one,
and I didn't watch in the Indiana Ohio state game
because I can only watch one thing at a time,
but that came down missal Yeah, it was gonna have
a little scoring game. So the argument was, okay, so
did Alabama do an do so poorly that they may

(32:28):
get bumped out? So the three schools went to bed.
Alabama's going where the mighty SEC we were in because
that's who we are. Notre Dame's gonna be thinking, well,
we're good because we were higher ranked than Miami in
the last CFP ranking last Tuesday, and Miami's gotta be like,
uh oh, we're screwed. Is that would that? Would that

(32:49):
be the general consensus? How you thought you saw it
going in? Uh? No, because the they they gave a
hint I was actually talking about this this weekend with
some people. They in their little press release or after
whatever interview, they said, head to head could come to
endto play if teams are back to back, if they're
closer together, And that's okay. That was the foreshadowing, the

(33:10):
foreshadowing that Miami would would pass Notre Dame if they
were next to each other, which is exactly what happened.
So I guess the question that I would ask is
why didn't they think about that last Tuesday? Because they
weren't back to back. There was a BYU is in
betwidged in between them. My okay, I don't know. My
thought is if I'm on Notre Dame site and I

(33:30):
see that I'm above Miami, I didn't do anything. I
didn't play a game. Miami didn't play a game. Nobody
could have affected their resume since last Tuesday, but it did,
and Miami jump Notre Dame. Notre Dame is out, and
Notre Dame said, not only are we not going to
We're happy. I'mhappy about this. We're calling this a joke
of a system. We're not going to play in a

(33:51):
bowl game. Yes, Men's like, fine, do what you want.
Mess several million dollars you're missing out on because you
don't split it with anybody when you get the bowl money. Yeah,
everybody when you're in a conference used put the ball
money up, and plus you get all the extra practices,
which people talk about that being a big benefit of you.
Ross that used me a big deal until kids just paying.

(34:11):
Nobody's practicing. Everybody's in the portal anyway, so you don't
have anybody to practice with. So let me give you
a variety of things to think about here just for
a second. Before we get to the tap, I will
have to tell the truth coming up at eleven thirty,
So I don't want to give away too much because
there's gonna be a lie amongst my four truths. My
fourth takes Okay, why don't we get rid of the

(34:31):
every Tuesday get together and just like the Incibelly tournament,
we have to kind of guess and have bracketology. Why
why do we need to do the hour shows? You
think it's money on TV TV, get its sponsored, but
why does it build interest? But why doesn't basketball do that?
Though they probably I bet you not not gonna say
I bet you, but I would I wouldn't be surprised

(34:52):
they did at some point because we've gone for decades
and decades and decade. Make a show about it. You
can get it sponsored, you can up interest because then oh,
team fourteen has a chance to be to upset teen
ten this week, and it drums up a little bit
of interest in your sport. I think it's a good
idea overall. I mean, I don't sit there and watch it.
I would say, no, wait till they come out. If

(35:13):
the College Football Committee wants mental health, they get rid
of the show. But the ESPN's like, wait a minute,
when we're paying for this, shut up mental health. They
don't care about that. In America, well, I'm just saying
that you would not have to worry about Notre Dame
going what the hell are you doing? You had us
ranked above Miami just a handful of days ago, and
then they jumped us for poor CUIs right. That's what

(35:36):
I'm saying is that if you don't give us a
little tease, we don't know what to expect. So that,
I mean, that's the first thing I'm thinking about is
get rid of the Tuesday shows, which even Kirk Kerbstrey
on Game Day said Saturday It's like, maybe we should
stop doing those because I were doing this pissing people
off and getting people to talk about college football.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Number two, do we start putting more computers into this thing? Yes, yes, yes, yes,
I know we hate I know we had it. The
computers are unbiased, the computers are uncaring. But I'm curious
if we went back and looked at the BCS when
it was computer driven, did we complain Well, I know
for a fact we complain about human element. I know
we did. But yes, maybe you just can't have the

(36:14):
best of both worlds that if you go strictly computers,
you're worried about the human element. If you go about computers,
if you go human element, you go, well, you don't
you've got human element involved. So it feels like to me,
we're going to get the computers, probably more involved than
maybe ever before. I think you should. They should get
a vote. So let me just tell you as I
saw it, Yester. And again I don't have a dog

(36:35):
in this fight. I thought it probably gathered too much
national attention because look, we're gonna be pissed off for
two days, Rossie, and then we're gonna think about the games, right,
mm hmm. All my aggie buddies are thinking about how
they're gonna get tickets and how they're gonna spend money.
They're the biggest conundrum is for people that are that
are fans of these schools, is do you skip the
first round games? Do you skip the second round games?

(36:56):
Because you want to play? You want to go to
the national semi final if your team think you get
a legitimate chance. If you're Indiana and you think you
got a shot to win the national championship, do you
skip going to the second round game to save yourself
some money? These are all issues coming up. But to me,
if the schedules were even and the strength of schedule
was even, don't you want to put the head to

(37:18):
head as meaning something even though the game was in
early September. Shouldn't head to head matter? And if you
get a head to head, guess what Miami beating Notre Dame.
There's your head to head? Very simple. If you want
so many, so many like tiebreakers. If there isn't a
just if there isn't a significant advantage, unless the computer

(37:38):
saw otherwise, unless the computers can tell me there is
a significant reason why Miami is better than Notre Dame.
Then if we're gonna go off of what we've seen
and done in the competition's about the same. Then went
and out, go to the fifth time breaker and the
fifth tipe breakers head to head. Miami's in, Notre Dame's out. Yeah,
it's it's no great tragedy that Notre Dame is out

(37:59):
or Texas or vanders build. I know they're upset. B
Yu' is not overly pleased. I'm sorry, b b Y.
You shut your bumb asses. That was such a lousy
game too. Yeah, I just thought the whole Oh another thing.
Let me see if that's something to tell the truth.
I don't want I don't want to give this up
because I don't want to do a take and not
to see if you can get this take a break. Well,

(38:19):
I want to make sure I don't. I did tell
the truth here. Oh yeah, I can't say what I
want to second done that before revealing about an hour
ago you said no, no, no no, think you can
catch me in a lie? Uh seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninety On the radio program Today Texans

(38:40):
Beat the Chiefs did just slid the dragon. That's what
I want to know. Number two, it's college football playoffs?
Were you as mad as hell? Not gonna take anymore?
And number three a former astro is going into the
Hall of Fame and I don't care. Ooh that's on
a great tease, is it? And we can probably figure
it out. I think you probably can too. Ten fifty

(39:02):
eight seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven ninety is
The mac Thomas Show with Rosst eleven oh one Sports
Talk seven ninety high. How are you? We're here, everybody? Hey,

(39:23):
we started an hour ago.

Speaker 5 (39:24):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Seven one hello, Hello, Hello, seven one three two one
two five seven eighty ross. How was your weekend? Weekend
was great? Started off on a Friday, kicked it off
with a nice Rockets win, the airport, went to hot pot.
Yeah we did. Spicy was too spicy, but the other
broth was fantastic.

Speaker 7 (39:46):
It was good.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
I knew it was too spicy when you guys were like, damn,
this is spicy. No, I accidentally got some and I
got some broth in your nose, in my throat, oh
and down your throat. Oh got you all right. I
always do that. I'm always drinking and I just start
coughing and it's people are like, are you okay, Yes,
I'm okay. I'm just saying the idiot I just finished
when it happens to like one on the Rockets place.
Rockets got a good win, had a good weekend, Texans

(40:09):
had a good win. I got an I just don't
get it from the sports be show is at on Sunday.
You guys have it all the way to Thursday. Yeah,
he writes you write it down. I'm writing it down
right now on my on my show document. We have
a show doc. No, it's my own personal I like
the dumb things Matt said. Yet, No, not that one
the nose your wrongest file. We haven't dusted that one

(40:31):
off in a while. But it's coming up. It's coming
up when we hear from Kyle Tucker. Although you know,
the longer this drag's on, the better it is for you. No,
don't even set me up that way. Don't even do it.
Winter meetings, by the way, this week going on, which
is weird because we're not even technically in a winter yet,
are we not for a couple of weeks. But it's
it's baseball winner. It is true, it is true. And

(40:54):
what have we got? Let's see college football? Oh, Hall
of fam I'll mention it real quick. A lot of
folks really wanted Dale Murphy and Don Manningly to get
in the Veterans Committee introduction to that, to the Hall
of Fame, and they did not get in. Jeff Kenton did.
We were talking about this recently. I think Hall of

(41:15):
very Good or Hall of Fame, Hall of very Good,
hall of an a hole though just one time MVP,
five time All Star, four time Silver Slugger very good,
never finished top five MVP a very good other time
and just not a very nice person. I'm sure maybe

(41:36):
he's older, he's nicer, but as a young sportscaster, is
he ever? Was he in the gott in a fight
with Barry Bonds game? Respect for that? Through hands with Barry?
He did it with the Giants together? Yeah? Were they
in a fistfight? Yeah? And the Barry would break him
in half, especially what Barry was doing. Jeff Kent's pretty strong. Well,
what was Jeff kid doing? Jeff Kent was counter strong? Okay,

(41:59):
would went and doubt his saying somebody country is strong.

Speaker 5 (42:03):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Yeah, it's a young sports cast. Though he was as
intimidating and as un friendly and borderline rude to people. Jackie,
he was a jackass. He unfortunately impressions everything and sometimes,
you know, you hear about how players take longer to
get in the Hall of Fame because the way they
treat the media, and I know that's not supposed to
be that way. It's supposed to be. But the numbers
and the facts, but you know what, we're our humans.

(42:25):
Career ops eight fifty five in the steroid are career
ops plus of one twenty. Sorry, Jeff, you don't deserve
a sorry. Rkman was like a nine to thirty six
career serves being before Jeff Camp and by the way,
five thousand times a better person. Yeah that's fine, gratu

(42:46):
to the entire Camp filmly, but by the way Kent's
son plays it, did play it. I think at A
and M. I think he was on the baseball team
he got didn't get picked off at first or something,
and his dad was pointing to his head. Yeah, that's
what I'm saying, Why would you do that? Do you
think Jeff Kant's son needed to see that from dad?
Of course. Not that's dad to son stuff though, that's
that was fair play to me. Oh on in front
of a national television audience. That's hey, do that in

(43:08):
the car. You get your head in the game, son,
get your head in the game.

Speaker 6 (43:12):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
No, that's a jerk move. No, well you don't. Do
you think when Cardi makes a mistake in volleyball? Do
you think I call her on front of her teammates? Oh,
shut Carley, let's go. That's terrible. Come on, big Red,
you are the worst. Just regularition, not big right. Oh sorry,
lean a Red. Actually girls working out shall Yeah, but
she's man, I'm so pressed. She's she has all the

(43:33):
things that you want from me.

Speaker 7 (43:35):
What that work?

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Work, ethic, determination, you work hard, matt, ethics. You got
some other flaws, my big ones? Damn calling me out
like I don't think I would ever question your work ethic.
All right, thank you very much. I appreciate that. All right.
Seven one three two one two five seven seven one
three two one two five seven. And we get some
folks that want to say hello, and we want to

(43:56):
uh welcome those of you that are listening to this program,
and start with Adam and Tumbull five on seventy Adam,
thank you for holding in. Good morning to you, Good.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Morning Matt, Good morning Ross.

Speaker 8 (44:06):
How y'all doing today?

Speaker 1 (44:07):
We're good. Thank you for dolling in.

Speaker 6 (44:10):
Last night, Matt was a tank Deal revenge game.

Speaker 8 (44:16):
Tank Dell revenge game.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
That's what it was to me.

Speaker 7 (44:20):
That's what it was.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
The guys that was barbecuing with last night.

Speaker 7 (44:24):
It was great.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
It was awesome.

Speaker 8 (44:26):
They went to Kansas City, took care of business.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Now, can we had a crushed city?

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Can we get a swarm city? Can we get a
swarm city started?

Speaker 6 (44:35):
Because I mean they were plastering everybody. I mean, Travis
Kelty was laid out, he was laid out, and it
was just great.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
It was great to take down the Kingdom.

Speaker 6 (44:48):
Okay, we're building something here, We're building something special. We
got a super Bowl caliber defense, we got a quarterback
that's getting some confidence.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
And I mean we need to sign Will Anderson, a
s A P. We need to sign the.

Speaker 6 (45:02):
New Hunter again. I mean Z's these last night was
just awesome. That was disease that that we wanted to see.
We didn't want to see, you know, assault, you know,
these we wanted to see good.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Play disease but disease.

Speaker 7 (45:16):
But man, it was just great.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
I love it.

Speaker 6 (45:19):
I love y'all's energy, and I love the show. I
just want to say, you know, to me, last night
was a Tangedell revenge game, and that's all I want
to say.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
You know, I have a good day. Thank you. Sm City,
swarm City. Yeah, they were not thinking about Tank Dell.
I don't know if Tank Dale's name was brought up
at any on the plane. Yeah, I mean, I don't no,
I don't like but that was that was zero motivation
to us super Bowl caliber winning defense. Absolutely, c this

(45:52):
shroud needs to play a little bit better. But he
wasn't terrible. It didn't cost him the game, didn't have
to returnovers. Little blaming on CJ. Strode if any Honestly,
I mean, there were some throws he could have made,
but that's all throws he could have made. But a
couple of throws he did make. I mean he is
still like falling away, rolling to his right, falling away.
He makes the craziest, most accurate throws. Those are throws that, honestly,

(46:13):
and I hit me for even bringing this name up.
Those are throws of Davis Mills can't make He just
can't make those throws's. And that's one of about five
million reasons why c. J. Stroud should be the starting
quarterback over Davis Mills. And I can't believe I'm having
to bring I forgot to put my same tweet that
I put the week before Davis Mills would have won
this game with three hundred and seventy five and four touchdowns.

(46:35):
Do you want that, Hayes? Do you want that? Heyny
to me, I like rooting out the idiots. It's like
mute farming speaking of idiot on tweets. Man, bring this up,
go ahead. So uh, I put the tweet out yesterday
that I'm low key in factory with Jalen Petrie's helmet, okay,

(46:55):
And I was like, yeah, that thing is funny. And
there's pictures of the Great Kazoo and there's other helmets
of other players, and some random guy says, would you
please stop calling the back part of the back the
backboard of the heel when a shot goes off the heel,
it's not a term. Stop using it what So of
course I questioned myself to say there is a heel.

(47:16):
I've grown up on the hill By the way, when
you are a broadcaster, you think of different ways of
calling the same thing different names because you just don't
want to say the same thing every single time. So
that when googled it heel the backboard, and there is
definitely a heel to the backboard. It's not it's not
a definitive terminology, but as a slang slash secondary term
for the part of the back part of the rim,
it's the heel. Listen to more basketball, dude. So I

(47:40):
respond to him, that guy, I responded back to him,
I said, not only am I going to continue to
use it, but I'm going to use it more just
to irritate you. Yeah, the heel, uh with the heel
of the the heel of the backboard, like the bottom,
what are you talking about? The heel the heel of
the back of the rim, in the back of the
rim that connects to the backboard, is that heel? Okay, yes,

(48:00):
before Yeah, that's very cod but but it made me
sad because I'm sitting here. I'm like, I've called also,
I don't know twos and an eagle says it. Everybody
I can think of says heel, yes, and he's like
there's no such thing. I'm like, there is no You
cannot go to a definition, say you can look it up.
Everybody calls it a heel. There's that, you know what
I'm talking about. The ball comes off the back of

(48:22):
the iron towards the backboard. That's that little space there
that will whatever, that little how many inches that is,
that's a heel. Yeah. But I was like, damn, I
just put a nice jail and Peatrie. I'm infatuating with
your helmet and it's very easy. It's mute, mutable, I know,
but it was like, that's it. Can can we not
just enjoy what we're watching in front of me? You're

(48:42):
in a in a sea of negativity and stupidity. We
have to be on social media because of our jobs.
And I do enjoy social media.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
I do.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
I do for the most part.

Speaker 6 (48:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
I like making jokes and having fun. And ninety seven
percent of the people who respond, like tweet or see
our stuff. It's fine, yes, but there's that miserable human
beings Brian on seven and he's on a miserable human
being Hi, Brian, Well, it.

Speaker 9 (49:08):
Depends on the day, it depends on how you ask.
But you know, sometimes hey, real quick. I think one
of the biggest plays that was actually missed that actually
turned out to be huge in the long run, was
on the questionable fourth down called by the Chiefs. These
all shy here, actually missed the tackle on Patrick Mahomes.
You try to tackle him up hie, and if he

(49:29):
makes that, it winds up being like fourth and five
from their own twenty six and they probably punt. So
him actually missing that puts them in that fourth and
one and allows them to go for it, and then
obviously you get the stop. So if there's ever a
case where it's like, man, you didn't wrap up and
tackle there, what are you doing? You gave them extra

(49:50):
yard by him actually missing that. I think actually hoped
that happen.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
So you know, sometimes in a way of not making.

Speaker 9 (49:58):
A player missing a tackle actually winds up being a
little bit better. Now, obviously you don't want to miss
too many of those. But I don't know if y'all
remember seeing that play, but I mean the play before
that led up to that fourth down, but he actually
missed that tackle and he tried to tackle him up high,
and Mahomes got away. But that was a hell of
a game last night. Especially the defense. I mean, that's

(50:18):
that's pretty salty stuff. But Jalen Petrie's helmet reminds me
one of those you can get from one of the
team stores. Of like the oversized hat you see fans
wearing around the stadium, but don't I could think of
when I see that night. You know, there's like three
you know the ball cap that are like four times
too big and people wear them around. That's what I
was thinking he was wearing most of the time. But

(50:39):
that was really good. Matt congrets on the should be
a good matchup against l Issues. Yeah, we're gonna go
into the Texas Bowl. Yeah, yeah, should there's no reason
why you shouldn't.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
And Notre Dame.

Speaker 9 (50:51):
I give them automatic birth to being d of the
Year not going to a bowl game just because you
didn't make it in like you're robbing your senior and
those guys one last chance to play. And it sounds
like the players in that mush but it sounds like
it was an administration.

Speaker 7 (51:08):
But don't.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
All Brian has got a bad connection. Yeah, what was
it going with on hard to tell? Yeah, it was
gonna be Notre Dame about the it's oh, not Dame Okay,
let me see it. Make sure it's something one like
to tell the truth. I'm sorry, Ross, and you and
I have not even talked about this. It's a bitch move.
Turned the ball games down. I just think it's terrible.

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Kurpavaqua was the IDA at Notre Dame and he's like,
we're not playing. I guess I just need to know more.
What why are they doing this? What are the long
term implications? How much? What are the financial implications? Well,
we'll read Notre Dame football team will come back. Okay,
by the way, did you see the Iowa State in
Kansas State have do coaches and they are also saying thanks.
But it makes some more sense if you're trying to

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get a new coach integrated. So here's the difference, really quick.
When you don't take a bawl, you cut into the
Big twelve proceeds because you don't have a Big twelve,
and they split the balls equitably, They sp them all,
split them all even though. So guess what Brett Normark
just did, the commissioner of the Big twelve. You find
them five hundred thousand dollars each, So we're getting our money.

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Don't worry and I don't blame him for doing that.
You tell them you if we have slots and you
can't fill them because you don't want to play, gonna
cost you. Yeah, So instead of going to the bowl game,
probably taking a loss, cause you're probably gonna have to
have on that many fans, you know, only are you
not gonna have the extra practice, You're not gonna have
a chance to have one they have an experience with

(52:44):
the kids. You're gonna you just cost your school a
half million dollars. I hope this stops. I don't think
it's going to, but I hope it does. We'll reading
Notre Dame statement and you tell me if it's genu
one or full of bs okay seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninety It is the Matt Thomas Show

(53:05):
with Ross. We look forward to having you all the
way with us till two o'clock the SA afternoon. We
have to tell the truth coming up today at E
eleven thirty right here on Sports Talk seven ninety eleven nineteen,
Matt and Ross seven ninety is your station. So Notre
Dame yesterday at two forty eight, So that was what

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the announcement was about. Eleven thirty Ish giver or Take
sent out this following tweet. It says, as a team,
we've decided to withdraw our name from consideration for a
bowl game following the twenty twenty five season. We appreciate
all the support from our families and fans, and we
were hoping to bring the twelfth national title to South Bend.
In twenty twenty six, Dash signed the twenty twenty five

(53:47):
Notre Dame football team. I gotta be honest with you,
Notre Dame is their elitist and that mayn't be breaking
news anybody. My god, they're elitist already dropping a twelfth
national championship forecast in there's a sentence by the way,

(54:08):
I saw this on Twitter and I believe it to
be accurate. Krip Vlockwa said that they have a new
agreement as part of this CFP that if they're in
the top twelve. If they are in the top twelve
and the CFP rankings, they are the first team they
are guaranteed a spot in the playoff, so they would
be the first at large team. Okay, which is again

(54:32):
going to along the lines of man the Notre Dame, whoever,
whoever Tooe negotiates for them. It's pretty good. So there
was some sort of well they were eleventh, right, so
there was some sort of contractual obligation next year, starting
next next year. Yeah, yeah, next year. So if there

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are wild cards, they're the first wild card. If they're
in the top twelve. What yeah, h okay, let me
do this. Let me do some more fact checking on
that to give you the go They would push out Tulane, No,
because they were a conference James Madden Madison. Nope, they
were a conference champion. Okay, talking about walka Okay, So

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then they would push out they would push out Miami correct.
Oh my god, So they would be ranked if that
happened this year, they would be ranked behind Miami, yet
push them out via their rule. This is chaos.

Speaker 4 (55:29):
Here.

Speaker 5 (55:30):
It is.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
As part of the new CFP contract starting in twenty
twenty six, Notre Dame secured unique provisions. The contract includes
language that guarantees a top twelve ranked Notre Dame team
a spot in the twelve team playoff field. So if
Notre Dame finishes in the top twelve, which includes conference

(55:54):
champions in the top at large teams. They will be
in the playoff regardless of conference championship outcomes for others.
So if they're in the top twelve, they would leap
frog an at large team. I guess they would not
necessarily leapfrogging, but they would be guaranteed a spot in it. Yeah,
they would take out number ten, right, I mean they

(56:16):
would be in Miami. Yes, oh man, I mean that's
probably not gonna happen year to year. You're taking out
a team that you put right behind that beat you
had to head. I wish that would happen this year.
Maximum chaos. The rule would be, it's a Notre Dame rule. Sorry,
it's us.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
Let me ask you this because I was just listened
to a Paul fine Bomb tweet as I was searching
for that. What is in your mind? What is Notre
Dame's cachet? To me, it has its own TV network
and it has a natural following, but it's not what
it was ten or fifteen years ago. The question is
has I think it's not an indictment against Notre Dame.
I think it's a push that the SEC is just

(56:58):
so much more powerful and everybody else. That's part of it.
Because their matchups week to week aren't going to be great.
But the list, did you see the they on three
had put out a list of most watched teams. It's
basically the whole sec. This is by millions of viewers
via Nilsen know week to week Bama, Texas, Georgia, Ohio State, Oklahoma, LSU, Tennessee, Auburn, Michigan,

(57:22):
A and M. So so Notre Name is not in
that ga. Notre Dame's not there. So A and M
is a better national television viewing audience than Notre Dame. Well,
because if A and M is playing the teams that
are above the right weeks, they're going to get more viewers.
If it's Notre Name Boston College, well, I'll tell you
what that's that's just one measure. Well, by these eyeballs,
they're not in the top ten. You know, Notre Dame

(57:43):
has to play four ACC teams. I mean that they
played this year North Carolina State nobody cares, Pittsburgh nobody cares. No,
the Miami game was super sexy, and the fourth was
Boston College, who won one game this year. To tell
the truth, bottom of the arm Oh, the foreshadowing, what

(58:06):
do we call a foreshadow. You know, you're such a
radio profession I'm trying, Ross, I'm trying. Let's talk to
Alan on seven ninety eleven, twenty four. Alan, good morning
to you. Good morning man, y'all doing this morning fantastic?

Speaker 5 (58:21):
What's up with you?

Speaker 2 (58:23):
Man?

Speaker 8 (58:24):
I just I'm very disappointed in Notre Dame because Marcus
Freeman's are a terrific coach, and I just I'm not
on You're you're taking away an opportunity from a lot
of seniors. Also not to mention the other seniors that
you would be playing in the bowl game. So I mean,

(58:46):
it's it's just it's just a woozy way of not
getting your way in my in my opinion, Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
I'm never really yeah, Alan, I'm never a fan of
take my ball and going home under any circumstance, especially
for this. This was Notre Dame would have played on
a huge bowl game. Notre Dame would have drawn got
a lot of money towards their school. Not that worried
about people in the checkbooks, but it would have given
some kids some more games. And and here's the thing
out and maybe we're just stupid to this, but there

(59:14):
are still kids that don't make millions of dollars in
nil that just go to enjoy and play college football,
that will end their careers playing college football. That when
you get to go to Orlando or Tampa or Miami
or Pasadena or Tucson or Phoenix for five or six
days and get loved on and play football and have
a nice bowl game down your career, I think there's

(59:35):
some value in that. And Notre Dame just said no,
there's not, and I disagree with that.

Speaker 8 (59:39):
Yeah, that's that's I mean, they just screwed those kids.
They really just screwed them out. And I mean, I'm
one with what you're saying. I'm one hundred percent of board.
And it's really a sad thing because I like watching
Notre Dame football, you know, I like watching Notre Dame football.
But I mean, beef up your schedule. Stop crying. Beat

(01:00:02):
up your schedule.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Yeah yeah, thanks, yeah, thank you Allen for the phone call.
They do control their own schedule, no one. The only
thing they have to do is they've got to play
four acc Now how they do that, I don't know.
I don't think they randomly call them. I know there's
a rotation or whatever the case may be. It's tough
because you schedule years in advance. I'm trying to pull
up their schedule. I mean a m and Miami are

(01:00:24):
a good schedule. Generally, you would think USC is a
good USC was its top twenty five. Here's what they
normally play every year. They always play USC, which I
think is in doub at this point for the guild.
They always stop playing. I think it's old school rivalry.
Come on, now, they play Navy every year. Yeah, I mean,
which maybe now it was a joke thirty years ago,
but that's not a joke anymore. But still, I mean,

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and they always wound up having they played Boise State
this year, which was no, that's no good. That's no good. Arkansas,
you would figure it would at least be decent year
by year, right, I mean they crushed Arkansas fifty six
to thirteen. Good guys in uh in Fai Bill too,
I think so, yes, that was on the road. I mean,
if you've got about five games, and you would think

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Pitt was top twenty five. When they played Pitt and
you beat them like a drum in their building, Boston
College did nothing for you, Sarah Houston, Nothing has had
some good years. It honestly doesn't look like the weakest
schedule ever. Well, I mean I think in theory, just
by when you make these years in advance. Well, the
reality is this isn't Miami in Notre Dame schedule just

(01:01:30):
about the same because they're playing a SEC teams. Yeah,
and if anything, maybe even Notre Dame had a slightly
difficult schedule because you know MIAI doesn't Miami play like
Bathune Cookman or somebody they like something, you know, South
Florida or something. Yeah, they played South Florida this year.
Was trying to be better than they were supposed to be. Yes, Florida,
Florida state. I mean they play all the Florida teams,

(01:01:52):
lost to Louisville, lost to smu oh no in Miami
year round they lost to louill and smuh. I'll get
out to hear. But you did beat Notre Dame. They
beat Notre Dame. And if there's tiebreakers, we got to
use it as some tiebreaker, do we not? Texas is
better than this, just saying I never know why. Eleven

(01:02:32):
thirty four, Rossie and Jonathan I have four takes. I
believe three of them Jonathan, how many lies am I
going to tell you? Then? One ross of these four
one is a lie? How many are truths?

Speaker 3 (01:02:50):
Two?

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
Three, three? That's right, Gentlemens, for you to decide which
one I'm telling the truth? One line, one lie, one lie,
three truths. Number one. I know people are backing on
conference championship games, Okay, I like them. I don't want
nine way ties to determine a championship. I think when
you have these mega conferences which we have, you have
to have a championship game. You can't have a five
way tie with one loss. So for conference championship guys,

(01:03:13):
get rid of the championship games. Screw you. They make
a lot of money for the league. Television buys them up.
Keep them as number one. Number two, eliminate weekly CFP rankings.
All it does gang is create angst. College hoops doesn't
do it, so why should football. I get rid of
the weekly CFP rankings. Now that's number two. Number three.

(01:03:39):
I know that Notre Dame plays in the ACC with
these four opponents, every common opponents they have to play
every year, right, and there's part of their schedule. Notre Dame.
This is the nine millionth time this should explain why
you should join a conference, but you should not be
joining the ACC. Go to the Big Ten conference because

(01:04:01):
the Big Ten frankly needs you sec supremacy on television
sets and viewership. Notre Dame. You need to decide for
yourself what you want to be the Big mighty independent,
or join a conference and give your shot a legitimate
chance of being in the tournament every single year by
winning a conference. Notre Dame go join the Big Ten conference.

(01:04:23):
And number four. Either you eliminate rossy the automatic qualifiers,
which we had the five highest conferences, two of which
were non Power four schools, or you go to sixteen teams.
We can't have this happen again. There are people annihilating
the fact that James Madison and Tulane are in the
College Football Playoff as they should, or for Notre Dame

(01:04:48):
and others, either eliminate the AQ or go to sixteen teams.
We cannot have history repeat itself again. Which one of
those four lying about Number one? I like conference championship games.
Keep them. Number two, eliminate weekly college football rankings. Number
three Notre Dames should join the Big Ten. Number four

(01:05:10):
eliminate the automatic qualifier or go to sixteen teams one
or the other. Which one of those four? Am I
lying about? These actually aren't crazy takes for one job
very much. I'm actually locked. You're being reasonable and there's
only one line here. This seems like an easy week here.
Oh you think so? I think so? Okay, I kind

(01:05:31):
of gave you one already.

Speaker 5 (01:05:33):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
I think he thinks Notre Dame should join the Big ten.
That makes sense. That sounds like Matt Thomas brain to me. Yeah,
that seems reasonable. They're complaining in as we join the conference.
I just coined a new term today. By the way,
Matt Thomas brain. You're gonna study it for generations here
that Joan, you donated to science? What mean that's not?

(01:06:01):
How does that mean? Matt Thomas brain wasn't It wasn't
a complementary phrase? Okay, I guess thank you, You're welcome
all uh. I think he was kind of saying eliminate
the ranking weekly rankings earlier?

Speaker 5 (01:06:14):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:06:14):
Is that the one that he's talking about that he
said earlier, Jonathan. I think that's that's why I'm having
trouble with him. And he was kind of like going
to it that he didn't want to you know, lead.
What was the number one? You like conference champions you
want to keep them? Hmmm, good for TV. I mean yeah,
I'll go with four. What was number two? Number two

(01:06:35):
was you eliminate the weekly college football rankings because they
don't do in basketball? Why do it in football? You
know what I'm gonna go to. You think I'm lying
about that? Yeah, Jonason, I just brought this up an
hour ago. I said, eliminate these things. You don't listen

(01:06:55):
to the show. You're too busy listening to it on
your computer. I'm just you know what, every time I
think you're doing it, though, I think you're right. I
was trying to psyche you. I I like that bad loss.
I think I'm saying I don't care as much as

(01:07:16):
I don't mind automatic qualifiers. I'm afraid that James Madison
untiland are going to get annihilated, which is going to
basically say, how do you you're gonna if you're gonna
put a QS in conference champions you can have to
go to sixteen teams. We can't have this. So you
do believe that, I do believe. I'm sorry, Yeah, I'm stupid. Yeah,
I do believe. So I'm sorry. You were supposed to

(01:07:38):
detect the lie she went over. I know its words.
I went for the robs just completely messed up. No,
I think you believe that. I don't know why. I'm
I'm an idiot, I believe that. Yeah, So it comes
down to I like conference championship games or Notre Dame
should go the big ten.

Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
I like conference championship games.

Speaker 9 (01:07:59):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
Duke, Virginia would have given us a very mid ACC champion.
We had a dramatic, awesome finale in Charlotte over the weekend.
Plus again, when you have a five way tie, you're
gonna go to six different tiebreakers determined who's a conference champion.
I like conference championship games. Notre Dame is so arrogant.
They're never gonna join a conference. Yeah, but you were

(01:08:22):
saying they should. I'm not saying they should. Why would they.
NBC's running a check for being mid I'm Notre Dame.
I'm gonna keep that money coming. I think you're stupid
for turning the Bowl game down because that's collecting all
the money themselves instead of sharing it. Yeah, why would
Notre Dame want to share anything when they can make
all the money. And oh, by the way, they're in
a conference with everything else. It's pretty good. ACC basketball

(01:08:43):
is excellent. How long is this this, NBC? It feels
like it's been forever. Yeah. They renew it all the time.
Yeah in Notre Dame and NBC's like, yeah, we either
get you get to play on our network and we
get the fourth best Big Ten game Notre Dame. You
stay right where you are. So the lie was Not
Dame shoul joined the Big Ten Conference. Okay, good job, man.
I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at you, gentlemen.

(01:09:06):
I just brought this up an hour. That doesn't mean
that you believe that though you get what I'm saying,
like said some stuff. No, no, no, no, I mean
that says a lot of crazy stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:09:24):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
I'm sorry, you know what I'd like, You've gotta goze.
That's terrible. All right, So that was tell the truth,
Thank you, Matt. I am, yeah, I I would if
I'm the CFP. I know that's again it's brought to
you by the Rome. We row. I think getting sponsors.

(01:09:45):
They're gonna keep doing it. You get chatter, you get week,
you get midweek chatter about Okay, that's the perfect That's
why they're doing it on Tuesday. Yeah, because games happen
on Saturday. You get a couple of days, you get
into the middle of the week, and then you you
do it on Tuesday night. Then it's talked about on
the shows on it's they're smart, but they're not going
to keep it. But they're not doing themselves any favors.
They're being ridiculed. That's how it's going to be, no

(01:10:07):
matter how, no matter what when we I mean, it
feels like there's controversy every year, no matter what, whether
it's two teams, four teams, twelve teams, nobody's happy. I'll
say this, Ross and you have been the leader of
the do not let the automate conference champions top five
get in which would be which this year's James Madison
and Tulane. If you're those schools and you are the

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non power five, the Group of six whatever it's called.
If you're in one of those schools, which is about
seventy five schools, right, it's the MAC, it's the Mount West,
it's the New Pac twelve, it's Conference USA, it's American.
You are rooting like hell, they're competitive because if these
are If these are blowouts, We've already seen it ross
these colleg football playoffs will alter things in a heartbeat.

(01:10:53):
And apparently they needed votes. There was like ten conferences
and then they needed some kind of vote to get
the to the twelve teams. So that's why the automatic
qualifier exists in the first place. So I don't know
what kind of voting they need for me. Now I
think I've really to shut them out. I'm going to
go right now with this official stance, and I don't
think I'm gonna I like twelve as it is. Yes,
but I'm gonna deal in realities. Let's go to sixteen.

(01:11:16):
Let's let's have the two automatic, Let's have the automatic qualifiers.
The bet the five best get in. So when you
have a James Madison and you have a Tulane in
the same year, it doesn't hurt nearly as much. I'm
I still want and again, maybe I'm not man, Maybe
I'm just for the underdog once in a while. But
give me, give me something. If you are Colorado State,

(01:11:39):
if you are James Madison, if you're Coastal Carolina, if
you're Navy, give me something to play for. Give me
at least a shot. At least invite me the dance.
I'm annabel stay out there very long, but give me
a shot. They get the top twelve in there. If
you're in the top twelve, you make the dance. Boise
State would have made it last year, they were good enough.
In the years past, Central Florida whoever would have made
it because they were top twelve. You make the top twelve,

(01:12:00):
you're in. That's it. That's what I would do. Yeah,
but no, I don't run college football. But you know
they're going to sixteen. This this feels like this is
going to this is the next step. Ye uh, because
it's more money. Yeah, but if there's blowouts, oh my god,
you I mean every college class fund that's going to
go with this happened.

Speaker 4 (01:12:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
Let me look, I have having on the lines. One
is I believe eight Ole misses an eighteen and a
half point favorite against Tulane, and I want to say
that James Madison is a three touchdown dog to Oregon.
Am I right on those? I can't. Let's go to
the phones. Next eleven forty four on Sports Talk seven
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two five seven ninety. Let's go to the phones and

(01:13:02):
talk to Matt on seven hoety. Matt, thank you for
holding in. Good morning to you, Good morning, love the show.
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (01:13:09):
I wanted to comment on the Notre Dame thing. Yeah,
I went there decades ago, and none of my alumni
group seems to be all a flutter about it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:19):
And have you discussed to opt out?

Speaker 10 (01:13:21):
How many guys sit out because they don't want to
risk injury in these types of games?

Speaker 1 (01:13:25):
Oh, it's crazy. And the amount of schools that are
doing it. I'm not of schools, but I mean amount
of players on every school is doing it for sure,
and it sounds like and again Willie Fritz, the U
of H coaches, using one examples, asked if he is
all the players are participating playing and he said yes,
but that could be that could change by the day.
But yeah, it all depends on what your draft status
is and whether or not you're going to head to
the portal or not.

Speaker 5 (01:13:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:13:46):
I mean, like Jeremy I love, There's no chance in
hell he plays. Probably some of the ife many of
the linemen are going pro, they're going to sit out,
So I think that kind of lessens some of the.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
The jazz of it.

Speaker 10 (01:13:58):
On the other hand, the only if Texas and Notre
Dame went and played in like South Florida or you know,
the Bahamas or something, I think the alums would would
get a kick out of that. But other than that,
I think the Bowl games are losing irrelevance, you know
by the year yep. And also if they go on,
if you're in the CFP, can the alums afford to
go to three games? I mean, if you keep going on,

(01:14:22):
they're going to just keep milking you. You know, the
upricing for flights and hotels and everything.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
I mean, you got them.

Speaker 10 (01:14:27):
I would imagine that's talking to some main m friends
and they're like, well, I'm you go to the quarterfinal
and then that's about it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
Well, that's what we were talking about just earlier. Is that, Yeah,
is that you're asking there are a lot of people, frankly,
Matt that are skipping the first round matchups because of
the fact that they want to save their money, especially
they think they got a chance to play for the
whole thing. I mean, even though Indiana is widely respected
and beat Ohio State, I think, frankly, perhaps more people
are nervous about facing Ohio State for the championship than

(01:14:55):
they would in the end, that maybe Indiana isn't this knockdown,
drag out defending number one t So if you have
a hope that you can get there, why not save
your money for a semi final game around Christmas time
as compared to trying to spend money here in the
next ten days. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 10 (01:15:11):
And lastly about Notre Dame schedule, I mean, then these
things are made years and years out, and when I
was there in the eighties, you know, we played Michigan.
Michigan was the first game of the year, and that
almost to find your season. So I don't know who
caved first, us or them, But then they put in
an appellation State or maybe we played Central Michigan or
whatever to kind of get you a tune up game.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
But I don't know.

Speaker 10 (01:15:32):
I think our aut of Coron Conference could be better.
As far as joining the Big Ten back in the
day boat, Shambeckler and the people at Michigan didn't want
us in the Big Ten. They actually blocked those initial
movements and discussions. So and now that the Big Ten
is coast to coast, I don't really want to be
in the Big Ten. For frankly, I'd rather be in
the SEC.

Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
Yeah, yeah, that's what that was a lot. I again,
if Notre Dame, I mean I Notre Dame has no interest,
why would you thank you for the phone call? I
wouldn't share the money. Now. Will Notre Dame be up
their schedule? Well, I don't know how. You know what
they can do with but the acc Look, the acc
rossy is what Miami usually it's Clemson, Florida State is down,

(01:16:14):
Syracuse down, Boston College down. I mean, you had Duke
in Virginia playing for the championship. That's not necessarily carrying
the flag for the for the conference. You know what
I mean? I maybe have a basketball that sounds pretty good. Yeah,
football not so much. But you don't mean I mean
it's not overly sexy. No, so it means you gotta
if you're gonna now has brought up before. If you're

(01:16:35):
in the top twelve next year, Notre Dame, you're getting in.
There is a new caveat that allows you in that
there will not be a debate next year. You're getting in.
So maybe you schedule kind of as you are play
your for ACC say, hey, that's the rules we signed
up with. Do you do you reinvest in the Notre
Dame the USC game? Do you always play Navy? I

(01:16:56):
mean look A and M and Notre Dame played, So
that's good, right, Yes, nothing wrong with the home and homes. Yeah,
big series. Yeah, but I yeah the bulls, by the way, yeah,
they're not very sexy. In fact, they're getting what is
what's when something is getting sexier? What it's getting anti sexier?

(01:17:17):
I guess that. Yeah, fatter. Here's our schools that are
not playing in bowl games this year, Notre Dame, k State, Kansas,
Iowa State, Florida State, Auburn, U c F, Baylor, Rutgers,
Temple in the roadcast. So who's left going to play
in these games? You got Rice is playing in a five,
five and seven. They're going to a bowl game. Oh
really yeah, playing in Texas Bowl. Wait playing what in

(01:17:41):
the Texas excuse me, the Armed Forces Bowl? Okay against
Texas State. That's a huge one. Son, So let me
get this straight. If you're telling me that Baylor's not playing,
UCF's not playing Iowa State, Kansas and Kansas. That's five
from the big twelve that are not playing, they're gonna
get Are they all getting? They would? Why would you

(01:18:01):
find two and not the other ones?

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
Oh, you know what though, Baylor was five and seven,
so they so they probably you know what, they were
eligible because there were not enough teams, and they said,
we're not gonna do it. This is a mess. It's good.
There's been too many Bowl games as it is. I'm
sorry the system has been broken. I like I like this.
This is chaos from a system that was already way
too broken, and we're uncovering the warts. We're turning over

(01:18:29):
this rotten log and we're seeing a munch of termites
and bugs. Let's go. So do we just tell bulls
by because the ESPN funds them ESPN but see ESPN
funds of ross because they want programming to put their
ads on somehow they still get ready, xyz uh Grocery
store yes, spends twenty million dollars on a package of games. Right,

(01:18:53):
we gotta have games to be able to put those
commercials in.

Speaker 11 (01:18:56):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:18:56):
Am I watching the book over tom Bowl? No? No, oh,
but they're looking for eyes. Uh yeah, I'm trying to
see Cricket Celebration Bowl. You know, the Bahamas balls gone,
the bucked up LA Bowl? Is this real? Am I

(01:19:17):
being trolled? Did I not go to ESPN dot Town?

Speaker 5 (01:19:19):
You know it?

Speaker 1 (01:19:19):
You know it used to be the Jimmy Kimmel Ball.
He took the name off of that. Not that crazy.
The Myrtle Beach Bowl. I never heard of this. You know,
the met the Matt Thomas Las Vegas balls coming up?
Was that right? Yeah? Was it? I don't know. I'm
just saying that with you versus the craps, if you
versus dice me, versus matchup me versus seventy five year
old blue hairs. Oh my gosh, that was in. That

(01:19:42):
was in the Lake Church. I'll put a Lake Charles
Bowl together. That'd be awesome. Hi Jim, you're on seven ninety.
Good morning, Hi guys.

Speaker 11 (01:19:49):
I'm a little depressed about what happened yesterday. Okay, I
congratulate all the teams that got in, uh, Notre Dame.
First of all, they don't join a conference and that
goes way back to you know, the Irish Catholic thing
when they you know, when Irish Catholic was discriminated against.
And another thing maybe you didn't know is Notre Dame

(01:20:12):
didn't start accepting bull bids till like the seventies because
if it wasn't for the national championship, they didn't accept it.
So you can look that up. Another thing is, you
know they say they haven't done anything. Well, I mean,
they beat Georgia last year, they went to the championship game.
Another thing is they voted on this to not play

(01:20:35):
in a ball and they decided not to. And I
think the recruiting class is pretty good this year. I'm
just I'm disappointed that they were ranked ninth, ninth, ninth, ninth,
ninth and then they're out.

Speaker 7 (01:20:49):
I'm okay with that.

Speaker 11 (01:20:50):
I think Alabama got screwed last year. I'm just I
don't know. I just am disappointed. And I'm not saying
it's right. You love them or you hate them, but
Notre Dame can draw and they were favored. Vegas had
him favored five and a half against Miami, three points
against Alabama, and I forget the other team nine against Oklahoma.

(01:21:15):
If they would have played Vegas had it that way,
and you can look it up. You don't have to
trust what I say. So they were a decent team.
They were a good football team. And I'm a Texas guy,
so I just grew up my dad. He went to
UT but he was a Notre Dame guy. We're just
you know, we like Notre Dame. But just disappointing. But

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that's the way it goes. And I wish I'm happy
about you of H this season. Always loved U of H,
Dandy Davis, Billy Yeoman, always love, always loved falling you
of H. I liked Texas and I root for Texas teams.
I'm just disappointed in the way it went down. And

(01:21:56):
you're who was the head guy. I think we beat
Arkansas team fifty six to thirteen at third place. I
know they're not that good, but you know, come on, all.

Speaker 1 (01:22:06):
Right, thank you, thank you for the phone call. Appreciate
it very much. All the good comments there. Uh yeah,
that's if you were to pull I have got a
few Notre Dame friends on Facebook and they're And the
number one argument was you had us in front of Miami.
You can't flip flop it. We didn't do anything to
play a game. Miami didn't play any huh. And whether

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we're tiebreakers or not, you still had one over the other.
And if one has to be better than the other,
it's Underdame. Yeah, but you're I mean the counter argument
of courses, I mean, how can you how can you
be mad to be put behind the team you lost too? Yeah,
that's I mean scoreboard literally so the board. So then
the argument that would be what then you should have

(01:22:50):
had Miami in front of under Dame so you didn't
get notre Dame fan mad at you? I know, well,
Texas behind Oklahoma, Texas behind A and m they beat them.
How you feel about Michigan is you're ready for Texas Michigan.
I mean, I guess you're gonna go. I'm not gonna
go to Orlando the Citrus Bowl, lovely in December. I'm good, right,

(01:23:10):
I'll watch it on TV. Listen here on seven ninety.
I will Craig Way on the call. Do a great job. Yep,
say good night to this one. Give you every high
school player for Michigan Grand Rapids, Dearborn Detroit, maybe uh, Lavonia.
I'm be having more Michigan Warren, you know, more than
nice Jarling Heights where I'm from. You spend some time

(01:23:31):
up there or something. I was born there. Yeah, okay,
another one bites the dust said five weeks in a row.
Sports Rvy York Texans are going to the playoffs. Not guaranteed,
but pretty much unless it would be a depressing collapse. Yes,

(01:23:53):
it's not gonna happen though, because they have the best
defense in football, the best defense in Texan's history, and
I will go ahead and say it the best defense
in Houston professional football history, unless those Thunderbears teams are
really shutting them down. Maddie. You know some Cougar football
teams back in the ear ladies there, what they are

(01:24:15):
you sure?

Speaker 6 (01:24:16):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:24:17):
Okay? That sounded good and came down by Cougars are
gonna beat LSU in the in the Texas bull looking
forward to that, okay, and we'll have it for you
on December the twenty seventh, Big Sports Day the Rock.
A good environment in Houston. It's fine, just filed you
know by bike tickets. Just go Cougar fans just go
because look LSU fans, I mean they and Nelson do.

(01:24:40):
There's a lot of there's a big base here in Houston. Yeah,
we work with eighty percent of them. As matter of fact,
we're gonna have the building ourselves of iHeart employees. That's true,
all right, that it's you know what's twelve nine. We
got some phone calls to get to you, but first
we must present to you. Yes, use a dude, I
like you, Matt. Yes, we do lead with your Houston
Texan defeating the Kansas City Chiefs twenty to ten last

(01:25:03):
night in Arrowhead on the road five straight, slaying the
proverbial Kansas City Chiefs dragon, knocking their playoff odds all
the way down to sixteen percent. Now by yards gained,
Texans actually lost their two seventy four to two sixty eight.

(01:25:25):
Also didn't have as many first downs, but they won
the turnover battle three to zero. You also had a
dink from Harrison Butker to the right that helped out
Pat Mahomes with his worst game as a professional, just
fourteen of thirty three with no touchdowns and three picks.
Texans doing just enough on the backs of a dominant

(01:25:50):
defensive performance to get the job done. Where if we
heard that before? Great interception by Jalen Petrie with an
amazing helmet also sent Rashi Rice flying into the shadow realm. Yes,
Travis Kelsey bouncing one off his noggin. Yes, Rashet Rice,
by the way, left before media availability was available to
the media in Kansas City, and Travis Kelsey was asked
two different times speak to the media, and he said, no,

(01:26:11):
I'm getting ready for my wedding.

Speaker 2 (01:26:13):
Mmmm.

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
He didn't say that. No, he didn't speak. I didn't
say I'm stamping invitations. He's getting married about twenty minutes
from where Carter's gonna go to school, and Carlin wants
me to get an invite for the wedding. I'm like,
I don't. I've got connections. I don't have great connections. Like,
come on, Matt, you're gonna talk to you people at
UMG or something. I could try. Yeah, don't you know
people who know people. I'm trying, all right, continue one,

(01:26:35):
all right. Elsewhere on the news at noon, you had
other big NFL action as the Buffalo Bills came storming back.
I mean really did literally a storm.

Speaker 12 (01:26:45):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 1 (01:26:46):
It was snowing. It was only twenty nine degrees, but
it looked like it was snowing hard like effect. I
don't know what the feelds like temperature was. Snow angels.
They kept trying to clear the eye of the snow,
but it kept snowing. That lake effects now snow so
fast you can't you can't clear it in time. Thirty
nine thirty four of the Bills get the victory over
the Bengals. Elsewhere in the AFC, A big one, Matthew
with AFC South implications. A thirty six to nineteen victory

(01:27:09):
for the Jacksonville Jaguars. How are the Jaguars nine to four? Frankly,
it's their defense and Travis Antienne and of course Daniel
Jones going down with an achilles injury. Riley Leonard your
favorite Notre Dame quarterback, Matt Rods. Leonard is a guy
that your daughter went out on a first date with Leonard.

(01:27:33):
It's an enterprising young man. As an enterprising young man,
what isn't enterprise and enough? As the Jaguars stomp the Colts,
they are a game up on the Texans. Matt. Here's
their remaining schedule home for the Jets, yep at the
Broncos YEP. Could be a loss at the Colts and

(01:27:56):
then home for the Titans. Three and one probably sounds
about right. So that means that Texans would have to
win out in order to tie the Jaguars, and then
it would come down to conference record record within the
AMC South. I'm sorry AFC South record, that's my divisional
record as of right now. Both teams only have one
divisional loss, and it would go to conference record right

(01:28:18):
after that. I think so Texans do have a leg up.
They are seven and two in conference, Jaguars are six
and two and Texans only have one NFC game left,
but the Jaguars have none, so that could end up
tied as well. By the way, this is a non
sizzle game coming up with Arizona was horrendous yesterday against
the Los Angeles Rams. They allowed pooking the Coogan to

(01:28:41):
the end zone twice. Matthew Stafford, you happy about that.
I'm very happy about I figured you were. It was
first time he caught two touchdown passes this season. That's
strange for him and Jackson Smith and Jake my Belly.
DeVante Adams got like fifteen touchdowns that's true. That is true.
It's ridiculous all right, making me upset. Jeff Can't is
in the Baseball Hall of Fame. L Murphy is not.
Don Mantley is not. Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds gets

(01:29:05):
sent to the Veterans Committee now because they have such
a low vote. That's a shame. How the Vet's gonna
feel about these users at getting in? Probably not. I
think I think Clemens and Bonds should be in, and
the Sports are v Hall of Fame they are in.
Jeff Kent is out. Jeff Kent is out in the
nice Person's Hall of Fame, yes, and in Baseball Hall
of Fame, the Hall of very good for me, there's

(01:29:27):
rong with that. Yeah, one time MVP, four time All
Star finally did very well for himself. Sure, a great mustache,
not a good person. But in the mustache Hall of Fame,
for sure. It's frothy, Yes, got layers to it. Sure,
why not not in the mustache Hall of Fame? Read Shepherd.
I think he's cutting he cut it off, Yeah, he's done.
He had a nice right hand. Of course, the Rockets lost,

(01:29:49):
but that's a different nusue of a different time. Yes,
Rockets will play until Thursday. The la Clips will be
in town minus Chris Ball. They got three days to
lick their wounds. Mavericks have been actually playing decent ball. Yeah,
they won four to five. I think Cooper flag Anthony Davis.
Maybe that team's not so bad. Ad was good, Yes,
he was good? All right? Uh Kurt Pavaqua, No, that's

(01:30:10):
not Kurpavaqua. That's not I'm gonna get wrong. The ad
at Ulavaqua Pavokua was a former Pete Pavoqua. Sure, why not?
Is the a d at Notre Dame? He has some
We've got some quotes for him about who he's mad at.
Let's look at the mirror note. Do you want to
take a guess who he's mad at? Everyone else? Yes,

(01:30:31):
but one group of people in particular. We'll tell you
about that next. Plus we're gonna talk to Dave about
the Texans, Uh Scott about Notre Dame and Yankees. Keith
has an RB steak review on these steak nuggets. That's
what the Matt Thomas show and was Ross's ball about
right there? Food Reviews and Sports Topics seven one three,
two one two five seven ninety. That's seven one three

(01:30:51):
two one two five seven ninety two. All right, I
got a lot of folks that are patially wedding really quick.
I want to run this fight because I think it's
good information. So the athletic director if Notre Dame is
making the national media tour because he's got to explain
why squad is not going to the Bowl and how
mad he is. I'm going to paraphrase some quotes that
were taking off of the ESPN story. This is Pete Beverlockwall,

(01:31:13):
who's the athletic director at Notre Dame. ROSSI I asked
you before the break who he's mad at. He is
really mad at, of all people, the Atlantic Coast Conference
really why he is upset with how the ACC pushed
for Miami over Notre Dame leading up to the selections quote.

(01:31:35):
We were mystify by the actions of the conference to
attack their biggest really partner in football and not a
member and a member of their conference in twenty four
of the other sports except the big one. So we
have some audio if you want me to just play
that please. They have certainly done permanent damage to the

(01:32:02):
relationship between the conference and Notre Dame. Last month, the
ACC's official x account posted a side by side comparison
of Miami and Notre Dame. Oh my god. He may
have a point on this. In the receipts he says,
it says no hypotheticals, just facts. Is Miami beating Notre
Dame twenty seven to twenty four. The ACC Network also

(01:32:28):
played the game on a loop twelve times between Thursday
and Friday. O my god, that's great. So nobody's watching
the ACC network?

Speaker 5 (01:32:36):
That is?

Speaker 1 (01:32:36):
That is true? We didn't this is more bebeloqwa here.
We didn't appreciate the fact that we were singled out
repeatedly and compared to Miami, not by Miami. Miami. Is
they were right to do that, but it raised a
lot of eyebrows here that the conference was taking shots
at us. MMMM asked about the relationship between the Conference
and Notre Dame right now quote, I would just say

(01:32:59):
it's been strained. You never say irreputable. But it's opened
our eyes and it's caught our attention. We're confused, we're sad,
and we're frustrated and confused. What are you confused about?
I don't know. The committee had to take one and
not on the other. They don't get any of your
money from football? What is confusing? They beat you head

(01:33:21):
to head? What is confusing? All this whining? It's seriously,
this is epically this is epic whining.

Speaker 4 (01:33:31):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
And maybe.

Speaker 1 (01:33:34):
What if we did it? What if we were we're
notre day lums? Would I be spending four hours a
day on this?

Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:33:40):
I mean, I'm not crying. I know there's a lot
of Longhorn fans crying and whining, but it is what
it is ended up behind BYU Man who they're mad
and then said no. So that what they did is
they said no to the bowl game. Was they're thinking, well,
most bowl games aren't as PN that we're that we're

(01:34:01):
gonna take away television ratings.

Speaker 8 (01:34:03):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:34:03):
ESPN said we're fine, They're gonna be all right. They're
gonna make it the wrong repo. They'll make some more
cuts so they can pay Steven A. Smith and Pat McAfee. Yeah,
all right, that's all I want to give you on that.
I just want to tell you that that there is
a lot of a little bunch of wine. He is pissed.
Is it the whiniest sport college football on their fan bases.

(01:34:26):
Everybody's got whiny fans. Everybody does. But college football seems
like another level. Like in basketball, if our school doesn't
make the tournament, we're mad for a day. Yeah, but this,
this feels like this is gonna go for a while.

Speaker 2 (01:34:37):
Do you guys?

Speaker 1 (01:34:37):
They're literally declining bowl games in the eighties on a
on a press tour. He literally is on a press tour.
It's crazy. Let's go to Dave on seven ninety Dave,
thank you for holding in. Good afternoon to you.

Speaker 12 (01:34:55):
Good afternoon, Matt, and good afternoon Rothe Hello h Hello. Well,
let me tell you a little bit about the college
football system. It is totally broken U I L. And
players getting getting paid millions of dollars. The whole system

(01:35:16):
is broken. It's broken. And that means and that leads
me to to my Texans comments. Uh, well, I have
I have a question and then a comment. My question
is to both of you guys, is the Houston Texans

(01:35:36):
defense a super Bowl caliber defense?

Speaker 11 (01:35:39):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:35:40):
Yes, yes, yes, because they're number one in points and
their number one in yards. You forced three interceptions yesterday.

Speaker 12 (01:35:51):
They forced three interceptions. That's awesome. Three interceptions. And in
my comment about the Texans. I just believe that when
they get into the postseason. I don't think New England
or Denver is gonna want to be able to face

(01:36:13):
them because of c J. Stout and that Texans defense.

Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
Yeah, all right, thanks David, Thank you, Dave. Yeah, I
think the Texans are going to be dangerous in the playoffs.
I'm next to Like I said, I'm not saying their favorites,
but is there anybody that's really scaring you? Like they
don't have a shot. No, because of this defense. I
think New England and Never will get the most run
because they've got these hillasis and long winning streaks and
they're going to crush their division. They should be but
they and they and they deserve those props. But Ravens lost.

(01:36:44):
If the technic are gonna be a problem, this is
a scary part. Is I brought this up again. You're
putting so much pressure you can't allow Look, for instance,
if you give up twenty one points in the game,
that's not a terrible defensive performance.

Speaker 5 (01:37:00):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:37:02):
I don't know if the Texans can put up twenty
one points unless they get incredibly short field or they
get a defensive turnover or a special teams touchdown. Now,
they did put up thirty six against the Jaguars. They did,
but look at trying to remember if there was there
was a punt return score there or something like that.
I can't remember. Well, there was a touchdown late that
was interception that remember that tick that? That was that

(01:37:23):
when at the final play the game or was that
another game? Yeah, that's right. It was a pick six
at the end that was six points on top. So
it was thirty to twenty six, okay, And so they
scored thirty points in that game with Davy Mills. Davy
we're calling him Davy Mills. Yeah, why not? Davy? Does
he know this yet? Davy Millsy, No, you just cut Mills.
It would have been better. Davy's the heart is the one.

(01:37:43):
All right. Let's take a look at the last eight weeks. Okay, okay,
twenty six against the Titans. That doesn't count. Why not?
Although the Titans beat the Browns yesterday see should wear sanders,
Texans had put forty four up against the Ravens. With
the Ravens at a CFL defense. Oh see, now see,
you're just not forty favorite. Maybe twenty seven nineteen of

(01:38:05):
the Seahawks lost, seas are good twenty six against the Niners,
eighteen fifteen, lost to Denver at home, score thirty six
against the Jags, one at Tennessee with sixteen, one at
home against Tennessee with built Buffalo by with twenty three,
one with twenty points in Indianapolis, one with twenty points

(01:38:28):
at the Chiefs. It's gonna be like twenty twenty to sixteen.
That's Texans football. How they play. Would just win, That's
how they coach. If I were the Texans, I would
feed like for instance, you know there's like different classes
of food and hotels and airfare. Give them the first
class airfare, give them the better meals, give them bigger beds,
give them better you know, like sweets. They need to

(01:38:48):
rest because they got a lot of heavy lifting to
do between now and the end of the Texans are
gonna really go to the super Bowl. A lot of
heavy lifting they I think we know that that's gonna recipe.
Every team's got like a recipe for success, things that
we want, the way that we want this to go.
The script, if you will, that's Demiko Ryan's script. We're

(01:39:09):
gonna play conservative, We're gonna kick the ball on four downs.
We're not gonna get aggressive. We're gonna try to win
with our defense. But that offense we saw yesterday with
two to three incredible c J. Straw throws, Yes, Chris
Jones running amok, a lot of three and outs in
three yards of carry. There's your offense. That's that's not changing.
It's got to be better. Yes, the offensive line is

(01:39:31):
getting a lot better now. They're probably gonna slip in
the rankings. This way, you're pff Gray, pff Gray. Going
back to the twenties, collins Worth owns it, so maybe
it's true. He'll keep it up because he was there
on the phones next Keith Scott Scott and just Way
is a guy's name, Way w a y. Maybe is
way Linn could be jamous. No, he wouldn't be calling.

(01:39:52):
If he did, we'd have a really freaky show. Twelve
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(01:40:12):
all Right We're going to the phone. It's got lots
of nice people that want to talk to us, and
we appreciate you all spending some time with us. Here
on Sports Talk seventy man Ross here on the program
Ross has Believed It or Not? Coming up in an
hour in fifteen minutes, all things about Notre Dame football.
How whiny they are Notre Dame football. By the way,
Notre Dame is gonna have a press conference tomorrow at
eleven o'clock. What a they gonna do?

Speaker 9 (01:40:32):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:40:32):
They're having a press or too? Yeah, so they win,
We're not playing football? Goodbye? Are they gonna try to
get out of their ACC deal? Think?

Speaker 5 (01:40:43):
So?

Speaker 1 (01:40:44):
I'm sure there's outs. Gosh, they are throwing the biggest
hissy fit. So what would make make you Morse mad?
The ACC tweet or the endless running in the Notre
Dame Miami game on ACC network? I mean, I mean
they did. I mean nobody watching I have no clue
they did poke a little bit pretty funny. Well that's

(01:41:10):
like Texas USC on the Longhorn Network. Yeah, I missed
the Longhorn Network. Let's uh, they ran an add actually
the game a dk R Friday Long Horn network's not dead.
They still have the app and you can check scores
and you know, get moundies or whatever. Scott on seven Scott,
good afternoon to.

Speaker 5 (01:41:25):
You, afternoon, gentlemen. He uh, I just wanted to touch
base with Notre Dame. And you know, the crying meme
is is perfect for this. But you know, if you
look back, I think it was twenty twenty three, Georgia
was ranked number one in the nation. You know, the
question is do do do do the championships or the

(01:41:49):
conference championships mean anything right or should you be penalized,
you know for losing? Well, george was number one, goes
In loses Alabama by three, kicked out of the college
football playoffs. Doesn't bitch too much. Excuse me, it doesn't
complain too much. And then FSU going f SU beat

(01:42:10):
them sixty three to three. So my question to you
is does the conference championship in your opinion, does it
mean something? If it does, you know, the question is
why wouldn't Duke get in? You know, I get it
eight and five or whatever, but they won their conference championship,
So just well, I'm just a serious about that.

Speaker 1 (01:42:30):
Good Scott, Scott, thank you. The Scott, they could have
gotten in the But the current twelve team tournament says
the five highest ranked conferences conference champions, jay conference champions.
So if Duke was a very highly ranked they could
have gotten in. They were only held back because of
their losses in their ranking. Was it because somebody screwed

(01:42:51):
them over? No, they somebody. I mean you have a
Sum Belt, you have an ACC, You've got an SEC,
You've got min American, you've got conference you. I mean
you have all these conferences. The CFP format says the
five best, and this particular year, the American had a
higher ranking and the Sun Belt had had a higher
ranking over a SEC. And that's why I want to

(01:43:13):
go ahead and guess that. I want to say that
there's gonna be a secession. No, you can't, no name
Kansas seed from there's too many Olympic sports going on
in the SEC level. They can't they depend on them.
They need thats like you were saying that you didn't
believe they can go to the Big ten.

Speaker 4 (01:43:30):
You can't.

Speaker 1 (01:43:31):
I can't imagine a Big Ten's like we'll take care
of you. Will they do that? Why not? You get
that big fan base, you get that cash but I
don't think Notre Dame would because you can't have that money.
But you can't have that conversation so fast. Batock would
not call the Big ten moments after this happens and hey,
we'll take you. We'll go in now. There's no way.
It was like the I mean, it feels like the
PAC ten PAC twelve fell apart in like three days. Okay,

(01:43:53):
so if so, you guess, can you even guess?

Speaker 6 (01:43:56):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:43:56):
What the what are they gonna do? Just gonna bitch
and moments I'm going to cry and wine some more. Wow,
that is incredible state their position. I don't know if
the if there's I don't know if there's gonna be
any earth shattering news. We are we messed up, guys,
and we'll go ahead and accept bull bids are bad. No,
doesn't NBC want them to have a ball game. Nope,

(01:44:17):
doesn't care because they don't care, gets them right. I
think CBS carries one Bowl game, and I think a
bayls is on ABC, ESPN, tn T carries some of
the first round games. Okay, would you see how that
that lined out? What is Charles Barkley on the call?
So they're Ernie Georgia is terrible. There are four CFP
quarterfinal games, you know, the five, seven, eight. The first

(01:44:42):
two games are the best two. The last two games
are the are one involving Janis James Madison, one involving
two lane. You're saying, well, why would they do that
when you want to build a crescendo The same day,
there are a pair of NFL games. They do not
want to lose that television battle. They were already gonna

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lose it with James Madison and Chulane playing. So those
of you that are going to see A and M
play in Miami, and those of you that are going
to see Clemson versus Oklahoma, those are the first two
games because they are not going to be opposite an
NFL game. So Alabama Oklahoma, Alabama Ocama. That's right. So

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savvy television partner tn T saying, we ain't taking the
loss of the old Fox Fox on college on NFL
football because the NFL football just said we'll put on anything.
We don't care we'll beat you. By the way, how
is Bama in Texas is out because they lost to Florida.

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Losing to Florida State as early ross very early and
losing to Oklahoma and then losing by twenty one to Georgia.
I guess by playing the conference championship game, do they
have three top ten wins? Think so, oh, here it comes.
I'm just asking that's a good question. I'm just happy.

(01:46:09):
I'm waiting for this all day. I'm asking questions. That's
all Scott on seven on a high, Scott.

Speaker 4 (01:46:15):
What's going on, Matt Ross so I could talk about
the college football stuff all day long. I'm very excited
for you of H to help me gain early revenge
on my now hated LSU Tigers. Since I'm a half
u of H half well miss fan, I'm super excited.

Speaker 2 (01:46:32):
We're here.

Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
We are here for you. I am going to be greeting.

Speaker 4 (01:46:36):
LSU at the airport. Maybe we'll see with a sweater
that I just purchased that says you can't turn a
hoe into a housewife. So I'm very excited. It's very
excited to welcome them to town. But I wanted to
talk about the game last night and give credit to
uh Tony Dungee. I will listened to like a Sunday
night football podcast that they did or during the week,

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and he predicted the Texans would win, and he predicted
the exact scene that would be the ended up being
the difference in the game. And why he said that
they would do it, He said, Andy Reid, you know,
as much credit as he has built up in Kansas
City to last three lifetimes, last three lifetimes of coaching.
So I don't know if they're killing him today, but
he said that they really should try and run the

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ball and play conservative, but it's just not in his nature.
And eventually he's going to try to win the game
passing the ball, and that's exactly what that predicated, going
for it on fourth down from the thirty yard line.

Speaker 11 (01:47:29):
I mean it.

Speaker 4 (01:47:30):
You know, you have a hard time blasting him because
he's Andy Reid, but that was, I mean, just a
horrible decision, absolutely horrible if you look at it from
the Chiefs perspective. I mean that our offense was doing
absolutely nothing. You know, it felt like the next field
goal was going to win the game.

Speaker 1 (01:47:46):
Mm you give them at least a field goal by
the field position. I mean, so yeah, Rols. I had
a good debate about it earlier, and we're never going
to change other's minds. It was I'm right with your
with you, Scott. It was horrific, game changing, momentum shifting
and again I wish I could have called ROSSI when
it happened, because I'm not doing this after the play.

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I thought it was a terrible play call to beginning with, way, way,
way too risky to do it, especially because the Texans offense,
especially in that third quarter, had done nothing and to
pin them back. I will take Chris Jones trying to
go eighty yards try with Blitzen left and right as
compared to giving them a short field where they were
gifted a field goal and they went up scoring a touchdown.

Speaker 4 (01:48:29):
Yeah, and to the Texans fans listening, which I am
as well too, that's not taking away credit for us too.
If the Chiefs make that decision against over seventy five
percent of the teams in the league, I believe they
probably do pick up the first down on that play
first off, that doesn't guarantee them points anyways, They're only
at the thirty yard lives, so it wasn't the right decision.
But you do still give immense credit to our defense,

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which I mean, you just can't say enough good things
about for completely dominating not only that play, but the
entire game.

Speaker 1 (01:48:55):
Thanks Scott for the focal. And that's another thing Ross
that you and I did not talk about a couple
hours ago, is that if you want to the metrics
of it, that's great, But that was also the Texans defense.
It was a good defense. That was a team that
that you and maybe not try that because you're not
going against a plane Jane Buffalo Bills defense. Yeah, but
the Chiefs are supposed to be able to get no
matter who, and they were. They averaged more than two
yards per play last night. I mean, they just did.

(01:49:17):
So what I was kind of confused is Kareem Hunt
was doing very well in those short yard situations. I
don't know why they didn't run Kareem Hunt in that
situation to where the Texans were having some trouble stopping
him because he's such a strong, hard runner. It's like
the you know the old cliche, you need you need
one yard to get you three yards, you need five
yards to get three yards. That's that's Kareem Hunt. You

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get you three yards every time, no matter what. He's
just not gonna get you much more. Frankly, Mahomes was
having success to running the football. You could have put
an RPO or something and got him the first down. Generally,
why the analytics say go for the most part is
because you when you have the ball. I mean, it's
very simple. Computers are very simple. You can't score unless
you have the ball. Keeping possession is very important. And

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if you can get two yards, which generally they're gonna
be able to do, you go for it. He wasn't
able to do it. They weren't able to do it,
and then Texans won. You gotta live by these decisions.
You gotta die by these decisions. Dan Campbell's been doing it.
And it's also very marginal, like thin margin. To call
it like greed just one way or the other is
just I think is not accurate. You go from like
fifty percent to fifty one percent and then the other

(01:50:23):
like they like say go because we're gonna get one
extra percent and yeah, if Andy Reid doesn't think they
can get it and it's not worth the percentage one
percentage point, then he don't do it. I just think
it completely shifted the momentum of the game. I know,
I think we're not talking about it nearly as much
as they get two yards. It's one of those things

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and I know you said ed in the moment you
say to do it. That happens every week. I hear
Tony romo like I don't know, I don't know. And
then they get the touchdown and they don't say anything
brilliant call great a great aggressiveness, like, oh no, they
can scored a touchdown. Let's you and I watch the
game together soon. Absolutely, no, rip my hair out, I'll
come down to the city. Oh really, yeah, we get it.

(01:51:03):
Get in the loop, let's go, I'll do it. I'll
do it all right back with a Rby's Steak review.
And that's a tease, okay, And way w a y
wants to ask a question about ut should get? Should get?
What we're playing? Are we playing match game over here?
Twelve forty six on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

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one three two one two five seven ninety house. I
just promised we had Yankees ke Uh. We gave him
a job assignment. We did not get any money to do,
so I feel kind of bad about that man. Rossell.
Get Keith vanmo account so you can pay him some
money back for his Arby's Nuggets. He can afford it,
all right, Keith, give us a rundown of the Rby's

(01:51:46):
steak nuggets please.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
First, I want to congratulate uh Ross on Helsa in America,
get rid of the Kelseys, Sam Bama and Taylor's. Well
for a long time. What we're tick and tired of
the chiefs. Okay, So I did go to Army's on Friday.

(01:52:13):
We went me and my wife and went inside. Wow,
I'm advising you to go inside as opposed to going
to the drive three. But those taking others were actually
I want to give them a bee or bee puffs.
They were actually really good.

Speaker 1 (01:52:31):
What did they come with horseradish holidays? You probably asked
for your sauce of choice? Right a one?

Speaker 2 (01:52:36):
They coming a little they coming a little tub. You
get either five or nine pieces, and then they also
have a choice to get a sandwich or they got
a choice to get a bowl. And they were there
relatively cheap, and they raised were smoky, they were moist.
They were really good. They're really good. But let me
tell you what else happened. And I want to kick myself.

(01:53:00):
Were in a ass. I ordered the spicy chicken sandwich
and that had to be like all my list of
things they eat that has to be in the rotten too,
next to when my mama used to cook pigs feet.
It was nasty and I've been sick ever since Friday.

(01:53:22):
Do not get the spicy chicken sandwich from Arbis, But
the nuggets are pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:53:31):
Okay? Do you know it wasn't the nuggets that tore
you up? Yeah, you don't know that.

Speaker 2 (01:53:35):
No, I know, we ate. We ate a nugget.

Speaker 1 (01:53:40):
Was it the Buffalo crispy chicken sandwich?

Speaker 2 (01:53:45):
Whatever the hell they call it? Spicy chicken sandwich? It
was nasty as hell and I've been sick every Wait.

Speaker 1 (01:53:51):
A minute, it's a piece of chicken. How could they?
How could it get you sick? Was there a sauce
on top of it? Buffalo sauce?

Speaker 2 (01:53:58):
It's the sauce. Was the sauce?

Speaker 1 (01:54:03):
S We're done? We're done? Thank you?

Speaker 5 (01:54:10):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:54:12):
How many locations of Darby's are there in Houston? There's
one in Porter that's the closest to us, and there's
one in Spring like by Luetta and forty five. I
don't think there's any in the metro area by the
rank of America, Like, you can't get any Readies in
central Houston either. What Ready Ready Steak Burgers. Oh yeah,

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you can't winning one in the city. Oh, I mean, well,
you know forty five in Cyprus Wood's pretty close. It's
not the city. You know better than that. I know
it's not, but people try to say it is. That's
metro Houston. It's pretty close. You can't get a Readyes.
You can't get a Robbie's. You can't get I mean,
you get a murder ming all over the place. You

(01:54:54):
can't get a renting route in the in the city.
By the way, somebody told me that going to get
the Cajun turkey from Raw Rise super expensive? Really yeah,
I heard they were good, man. I can't imagine you
would screw that up.

Speaker 3 (01:55:09):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:55:10):
Just take the turkey deep fry and call to Day
and we get the one from Majoring Beijing. Major Their
food is terrible and mid, but their turkeys are good.
How about the turn ducking. I don't know if they
have I've never had a turn duckan it's still I'd
give it a shot. You get the best of both worlds.
You got turkey duck and uh chicken, and you get
like rice peel off in the middle of it's very good,

(01:55:32):
Okay at the raging region. Yeah, uh way way is
that a short for something else or just your name.

Speaker 4 (01:55:40):
W A Y.

Speaker 2 (01:55:42):
Yeah, it's a w A I.

Speaker 1 (01:55:44):
But I just tell people w A Y. That's very
smart on you, very smart you to do that.

Speaker 7 (01:55:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:55:51):
So uh, hey, guys, enjoy listening to you when I
have the opportunity.

Speaker 11 (01:55:57):
Uh, Matt and Ross there and uh but yeah, I
don't want to be a whiner.

Speaker 3 (01:56:01):
Full disclosure.

Speaker 2 (01:56:03):
I'm biased.

Speaker 3 (01:56:04):
Uh all three of my children are or three of
the first are our U T. Austin students or have
graduated from there. My wife ut Longhorn, and you know,
uh hey Arch and Steve Startizi and they you know,
they they lost to number two ranked Ohio state number

(01:56:26):
three ranked Georgia, and and we're, uh, we're being penalized
for for basically that loss. They shouldn't they put it
on themselves. They lost to Florida. But you know, if
I'm on the committee, I'm putting them in the playoffs.
I'm biased, full disclosure, but uh, don't don't want to
be sour grapes. But just any comments on that whole system. Uh,

(01:56:49):
you know, they beat a and m they beat uh
who else did they they beat? In the you know, Oklahoma,
right and and and anyway, any comments you have, I
don't want to be whining and all that, but that's
I'd be putting them in there.

Speaker 8 (01:57:04):
I'm biased, But all right.

Speaker 1 (01:57:06):
We understand. Thank you, Wave, We understand your biasness. We
have very intelligent children and very intelligent wife. Let me
tell you. You get three kids into UT, you're doing
something right way, shout out to you. Hope they're not
arrogant though, I mean, I hope your kids are normal,
but you know, going to Texas, baby, because Texas has
an arrogance. It got a little Notre Dame. And I
don't think so. I think there's a lot of it. Actually,
I don't think you even talked to any UT people general.

(01:57:30):
I'm not a UT group. Chat. No, you're not. You
don't know that, Yes, I do, all right, so kick
you out, explained to uh our friend way. Oh yeah,
you can argue them, and you could argue for Texas
and well, the simple argument is they beat three top
ten teams. Nobody else in the country did that. B Yu, no,
Notre Dame, no, Miami, no, Alabama no, and Alabama has

(01:57:54):
a bad loss to Florida State, Texas has a bad
loss to Florida. Tell me what the difference is there
they be and then A and M seven beat him
had to head, Oklahoma's eight beat him head to head. Yeah,
there's an argument, but it's that third loss. And I
think the the playoff Committee did a good job of
pointing out how bad that loss was. They have never

(01:58:15):
hidden the fact how disgusted they are by the Florida loss.
The Texas Longhorns rushed for fifty two yards on twenty
six carries in that game. They they got dominated in
that game. Even the twenty nine to twenty one score
does not reflect how bad and hopeless of a game
that was. They got al gain I'm pulling it up

(01:58:37):
right now. They got got out game four fifty seven
to three forty one. In that game, twenty two first
downs to sixteen, couple of interceptions, bad running game like.
It was a dominant performance by a horrible Florida team.

Speaker 3 (01:58:53):
It just was.

Speaker 1 (01:58:54):
So it is what it is. Win that game, or hey,
beat Ohio State or Georgia. You can also poke hole
in the wins quite frankly. Vanderbilt, Okay, cool, that everybody
talks about A and M. They didn't play anybody. That
wasn't the counter argument when A and M came into Texas.
They haven't played any top SEC teams. They've had a
cream puff schedule. Okay, So then you beat a team

(01:59:15):
with a cream puffs if you want to, or you
can't have it both ways. Either A and M played
a cream puff schedule and they're not that good, or
they're a top three team that you beat. You can't
have it both ways, Texas fans. You can't. So a
good winner, isn't it. We're gonna debate this every single year.

Speaker 4 (01:59:29):
We just are.

Speaker 1 (01:59:29):
It's just it's right. We have Thanksgiving, we have Tax Day,
and we argue about why my squad should have gotten
the CFP. So what sports is about? The easiest thing
you can do is win. You know, the truth will
set you free. Wins will set you for Wins will
set you free. Is the mac Thomas Show with Ross

(01:59:56):
all Right? Our time is what six? It is a
mac Thomas Show with Ross. I was talking to Miss
Morning during the break. Rossie he believes that Kurt Kurt
It's Kurt Beva Blokua. The ad at Notre Dame is
gonna announce tomorrow it is his gut feeling. Is this
gut feeling time tomorrow? Is it that they're gonna pull
out of the football side of the a SEC and
say we're not gonna play those guaranteed opponents, that we

(02:00:16):
are so scorned by this that we'll stay in your
conference for basketball and volleyball and track and fields and
stuff like that. Does the ACC just have to bend
over and take that. I guess it's got to be
a violation of some kind of agreement. You would think, oh, well,
you know what, you could be very right. I'm not
saying that's what does Gordy said. I mean, I'm saying, yeah,

(02:00:36):
Gordy could be very right, because I mean, the guy
was ripping the ACC today, right, He was going on
every show saying, our relationship is permanently damaged. Yeah, not
beyond repair, but permanently damaged, which I guess is that's
not the same thing. Is they've certainly done permanent damage
to the relationship between the conference and Notre Dame. Yeah,
maybe they're pulling out of the a SEC. Maybe your

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thing that you didn't believe is to be true. No, no, oh,
but No, I know they're gonna have to stay in
the ACEC for the basketball and the stuff they Why
can't they join the Big Ten because you can't make
that move. You're not doing this move. You're not doing
a Big Ten move the same kind of agreement, but
with a Big Ten. Why would the Big Ten want
to do that? Notre Dame's got a big cachet and

(02:01:19):
you get to a little bit of extra eyeballs. Absolutely,
why wouldn't they beending on with the revenue share? But
you're not gonna the big Ohio State and Michigan are
not gonna let Notre Dame do their own TV deal.
There's no chance of that. Okay, well they do not.
They don't get the only votes. There's like twenty teams
in the league at this point. How many teams are
in the Big Ten? Seriously? Sixteen, sixteen or eighteen? No,

(02:01:44):
it's eighteen now, is it now? Because you get to
the West schools? Nope, I think tomorrow I'm gonna go
with I'm gonna go with Shmorty on this. I'm gonna
go with that. They're gonna pull out of the football
side of it, only say the why would the AEC
agree to that. I mean they only had they they
the AEC made them agree to the four games, because
initially they didn't have to do that. Correct, correct, Yeah,

(02:02:04):
it used to be even fifteen years ago. You just
schedule who you scheduled, you did, and it has happened
to make sense because you built this relationship with the
ACC basketball that you would play some of your a
SEC opponents. I'm very you know what, we we might
be able to carry a little bit of that live.
I don't know. Again, I don't know if it's not
that even a huge Nunner name based here, but I

(02:02:24):
think it's a great debate conversation about where the who
really is in power in college sports? The SEC. Yeah,
they're the dawn. He's like, y'all just argue, I didn't
even do what you want. We got a bunch of
teams in the championship. We're collecting more money anybody else. Yeah.
How many teams did the SEC get in?

Speaker 5 (02:02:44):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:02:44):
We go in Alabama, Oklahoma, Georgia, Georgia's three A and
M four Ole miss five. That's five, that's it? Five
or twelve? Pretty good? What does that quick math tell
me about forty lordy good B SEC that's why y'all
left better better by the way, we will be called

(02:03:06):
got honest. I like the Big twelve. I'm really enjoying it,
but that was a lousy Big twelve Championship game. That
guy we're in forty seventy to change his uniform number,
why oh I thought it was the fullback was in
a QB. God well, he hurt his he hurt his
leg and he part of who that kid is that
retslof No, it's what's the guy's name, it's the BYU quarterback.

(02:03:26):
I don't remember drawing a blank. But part of his
goodness is his ability to scramble, and when he couldn't move,
it was a disase. I believe he said it was
for every child that he baptized on his mission in Guam.
Bear Bachmeier is he LDS just made that up? Did you?
Sounded good?

Speaker 5 (02:03:46):
Though?

Speaker 2 (02:03:46):
Right?

Speaker 1 (02:03:47):
It sounded somewhat offensively the LDS face?

Speaker 3 (02:03:49):
Was it?

Speaker 1 (02:03:49):
I think baptized forty seven kids in Guam. That's good.
I don't know. I wonder if he is LDS. Let's see. No,
he was raised Catholic. Oh what you had the by
you and now you had the b white Catholic that
is that what they're calling him that by first of all, again,
change your uniform number, bro, I like that. How do

(02:04:10):
you feel about the name Bear? Is a is a
real name?

Speaker 7 (02:04:13):
Well?

Speaker 1 (02:04:14):
You know you're always an opinions got him out of
here to judge, Yes, you are, you're a judging mcjudge.
It's got to be a nickname. Nope, No, there's no way. Wikipedia,
there's no way. It says that on his birth certificate. Hi,
I'm Bear Tip. His name is Bear. I don't believe.
Not Grizzly, not a gummy, not gummy Bear, not Teddy,

(02:04:37):
He's he is Bear Bear Bachmeier. I want to see
this guy's birth certificate. There's no way, you know, I'm
telling you, I wouldn't line that that name sucks to
talk to his parents. Are you sure it's not like bear?
Because is he like German? By Blackmeier? If it's a
German thing. This is his right hand raised up in
the air too. I didn't say that. What was wrong

(02:04:59):
with you? That would? Oh that was Matt technical foul.
Jimmy and Tomball. Hello Jimmy, guys.

Speaker 13 (02:05:09):
Hey, I'm enjoying the show today. Hey, so just real quick,
we got an Arby's out here in Tomball, and uh,
every since they did away with the dollar Man, you
sick to get like their version of the frosty and
curly prize or whatever on their thing. And it was
pretty good, but now their prices are worse than Chick
fil A and they nowhere near as good as Chick
fil A. And I'm not joking when I say the

(02:05:29):
only thing people there's nobody at the Army's ever. The
only thing people use it for is they go through
the Chick fil A drive too, and then you pull
into Arby's before you get on the highway to sort
out all your food for the kids and open up
their straws and dipping sauces and all that. Like that's
that's the only people that.

Speaker 2 (02:05:44):
Are ever in the Army's parking lot.

Speaker 13 (02:05:45):
That and there's a homeless guy. But uh, and not
only that, they don't even know they so they're between
like the Chick fil A, the Tonic and the tire
store and they're all mowed up real nice.

Speaker 2 (02:05:56):
Arby just gets out there and spray round up.

Speaker 4 (02:05:58):
Just we kill her.

Speaker 13 (02:05:59):
I mean that they don't even care. I don't even
know what their deal is or how they're I mean
a lot of people suspect they're selling drugs out of
the store. Nobody knows what's going on, But I mean,
I don't know how they're still opening.

Speaker 1 (02:06:13):
No, all right, I'm gonna give you a take right now.
I don't know the last time I ate there. I
love Rarby's, I just do. First, let me tell you,
first of all, curly fries exceptional. Nobody takes your food
takes seriously. Number two, the roast beef delicious. I don't
like the roast beef and cheddar. Just to plain roast beef.
How do you get a beef and cheddar without cheddar?
I get it without the cheddar. The Arby sauce. Pour

(02:06:36):
that in my veins. That Arby sauce is crack. It's fine,
It's delicious. Horsey sauce or Arbiy sau Arby Is the
red horses better?

Speaker 2 (02:06:42):
Nah?

Speaker 1 (02:06:43):
No, wait, I think you're right.

Speaker 8 (02:06:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:06:45):
Uh. They have a sandwich. Apparently you can go into
and get we can get one slice of meat of
everything they have, but you have to order it inside.
You can't get into the drive through, by the way.
Quick note, Bear Bachmeyer has a brother. Okay, yeah, Bear
is it an animal? Yes, wow, bear, what would be

(02:07:08):
indecent fur? I'm just saying, I'm just say an animal, Uh, tiger?
Tiger's correct. Yes, that's good. Their dad is Hank Bachmeier.
By the way, getting award from a friend of mine
who's LDS. Says Bear is not LDS and that forty
seven baptisms are rookie numbers. Well, I was gonna say,

(02:07:30):
I'll give a little behind the curtain. I was gonna
say forty seven something else. What were we gonna say?
Tell me? Can you tell me what thy Tebow doing
in the Philippines. M I'll just leave it at that.
Not Tim, don't you don't you besmirch his name. There's
somebody who gets that reference I know. All right, one thirteen,
believe it or not? Today all things about whiny Notre

(02:07:51):
Dame football coming up at one fifty. You can join
us next at seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
an AUTI with a.

Speaker 2 (02:08:04):
All right.

Speaker 1 (02:08:05):
As a public service, please, ladies and gentlemen, do not
do do not google Tim Tebow in the Philippines. Just don't.
Why because God just just don't. Okay, let's get back

(02:08:31):
to the Texans bobia. You're rooting tonight for Philadelphia to win.
Because of Philadelphia beats the Chargers, the Texans will bump
from the seven to the six playoff spot. Sounds good,
I guess well. I mean, as long as you're you're
not getting the home game anyways. No, you're you have
to win, you have to win the division. Well, that's
still the possibility. I mean, Jacksonville has to stumble. They

(02:08:53):
could falter. They're not very good. It's not like they're
world beaters. Yeah, they gotta be the words nine to
fourteen on the on the burly. Honest, I only watched
Red Zone yesterday. I don't have watched large chunks of
that game by itself. Nobody's going to break down that.
But tell me, I mean, Jacksonville's hot. They won four

(02:09:14):
in all. I think, Yes, Texas won five straight. Texans
are better, Texans are better than jackson Well, I mean,
I've said it before. Jacksonville's a fraud. I'm never gonna
get I'm never gonna say Jacksonville's better than Houston. I
don't care. I mean, they do have wins against but
not a lot. And Trevor Lawrence revert to who Trevor
Lawrence is an underachieving mid level quarterback at best. Yeah,

(02:09:36):
Trevor Lawrence versus this Texans defense. I ain't scared, but
they don't play each other. It would have to be
the playoffs. How's the bracket looking if the playoffs started today?
I'm glad you asked. You know I'm a bracket aholic.
I know you are. I mean I asked. I'm even
doing brackets on the Astros playoffs and they haven't even
started the season yet, which makes me just some troublesome spot.

(02:09:57):
If the playoffs are beginning, let's do this type ofThat, right? Oh,
go ahead, all right, I just saw it. Denver would
be the one seed. Uh huh? Seven v. Two would
be Houston at New England. I was there at the
last time the Texans and Patriots played a playoff game.
Go for the Tech Not well. I believe both Aaron
Ernandez and Rom Grondkowski got to the end zone. They okay? Three?

(02:10:22):
Six would be Chargers at Jacksonville, Buffalo five at Pittsburgh four.
How the hell is well? Again, Pittsburgh is barely about
five hundred, so somebody has to win the North. Yeah,
then they receed. So if the Texans as a seventh
seed one, you'd you'd be playing the Broncos.

Speaker 4 (02:10:45):
You have to be.

Speaker 1 (02:10:46):
You'd have to play the two toughest opponents left in
this league. That's okay, let's glean, let's get up from
the seventh spot. Let's go. You'd rather be at the
So if they did, let's say, like you said, the
Chargers lose today, then then Texans would be the sixth.
Then they would be the Jacks way better than being
way better. So having to play one cold weather, really

(02:11:06):
tough team, you'd be to ascue me and playing two
you don't have to play one in theory, and you'd
be playing Trevor Lawrence. Okay, let's go. Let's go Eagles,
all right, Eagles win. Oh you're saying let's go Eagles
in general. Yeah, the three teams and the outside looking
in Indianapolis, Baltimore and Kansas City. Two of those three
were legitimate AFC title contenders. By the way, Cincinnati at

(02:11:30):
four and nine, is still eligible to make the playoffs.
It would take a seismic shift of everybody losing everything
the rest of the way. No, they're out. Miami has
won four in a row. By the way, they're still
technically in they're at six and seven. I wonder if
Mike McDaniel's keeping his job after this. I still say no.
They kind of rallied. They are rallying week to week league.

(02:11:51):
It's funny how everybody says he's the worst coach. Ever,
now they won four in a row, including a beatdown
of the Bills, and you see who's not making the playoffs.
The playoffs are to end the day in the NFC. Uh,
the Detroit Lions. They are the eight seed right now
at eight and five, three games above five hundred. They

(02:12:12):
lose that the seven and the six seeds. Bless you
are nine and four. Dang God, bless it. NFC. There
must be who are the teams that are terrible? Oh, Giants,
Campus City. They have four teams with three or fewer wins.
That's what's happening. Tampa seven and six. So they lost
to the Saints at home yesterday. I surprised we didn't

(02:12:32):
have a company day off here in the Speaking of
the NFC, did you see that there's a candidate out
there for the Giants job? Apparently Steve Sarkisian NoHo Marcus
Freeman really do you think he would leave?

Speaker 12 (02:12:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:12:57):
Why not? The NFL is a better job these days.
Now higher pressure, you're gonna be well, I mean, oh,
is it higher pressure?

Speaker 5 (02:13:03):
Not?

Speaker 7 (02:13:03):
Really?

Speaker 1 (02:13:04):
Is it higher pressure than Nowaday not when you got
Alum spending millions of dollars to win. I mean, James
Franklin says Penn State was pretty high pressure. You go
to a semi final one year, then you lose three games.
The next year you're out. Yeah, So if Marcus Freeman
was too, if Lee, that would mean in the last
six years, Brian Kelly leaves your school to go to

(02:13:26):
another college, and Marcus Freeman leaves to go to a
low level NFL team. What's Brian day Bowl up to
these days? Good question? Do you like the Houston area?
It's Mike mccanniel like Houston. I don't know if he's
gonna be available Chip Kelly, yes or no? Mm hmm
passes Brian No, No, they just had bad players. But

(02:13:48):
it's like Chip Kelly's a genius when he's with Ohio
State and they have all the best players in the field,
and then you have the worst offensive line in football
and Gino Smith regressing and all of a sudden and
Ashton gent not running well and no wide receiver help.
The NFL insider told you that. Oh my god, I'm sorry,
I'm right, Ross, I apologize. No, I'll let you be right.

(02:14:10):
If you actually make an informed decision on something, you
don't make it informed.

Speaker 2 (02:14:13):
Zero for the draft.

Speaker 1 (02:14:15):
You you you watch zero tape of of like undersize
playing in a low level league. Sorry, it is what
it is. He's been alright, their offensive line gates. I
think it's like a he's a guy like minus two
yards per contact average contact. He's getting the ball handed
off to him. He's getting crunched by three defenders every
time to run eleven yards to get nine exactly, a

(02:14:37):
rare nine yard gain he's ever had. All Right, I
want to know what happened in the mystique of Notre Dame.
They're getting slided in the tournament. They had Brian Kelly
leave and now Marcus fort Now doesn't mean just because
of Marcus name, is Freeman's name is being brought up
in conversation mean he's gonna leave. But I think that's
you need to He's gonna take the phone call. I

(02:14:59):
almost guarantee it. He should go. He should go. You're
limited at Notre Dame in so many different ways. Anyways,
they haven't won a national championships nineteen eighty eight. I
don't know what you're trying to talk about like this.
There's this crazy good power that they and they should
have more money than God because they're taking acc money
when they're not in football, and they get all the
NFL TV they get their all the TV dollars from

(02:15:20):
NBC by themselves with the home games. Yeah, I don't
know about that and how that ends up with their
budgets and stuff. I mean, how much more is it
than an SEC check? I have a very let me ask.
I got a new ruling on this. Should you run
to Facebook with sports opinions? We'll discuss that next one
twenty seven on Sports Talk seventy Believe.

Speaker 2 (02:15:41):
It or Not?

Speaker 1 (02:15:41):
Today? Are we doing Notre Dame? Where you going Somewhere're
gonna go with James Madison? James Madison, maybe some Twu
Lane Tulane, maybe some Texas Bowl history. Lord, we got them.
We got some work to do. Twenty minutes for Believing
or Not? Next on seven ninety all right, two quick
things to get to before we get to believe or not,
which is it about ten minutes from now?

Speaker 2 (02:16:00):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (02:16:02):
I've told you this before a hundred times and again.
I'm not the site surveyor and editorial board leader of Facebook,
but I like Facebook for things like pictures of your kids,
nice trips you go on, wishing somebody happy birthday. Maybe
once in a rare while showing your food, like when
we went to get Hot Pop bitter day. People were

(02:16:22):
commenting on that asking where the Mike Ribs weren't in
the middle of the wet comments, you're really that's your stick?

Speaker 2 (02:16:28):
I did?

Speaker 1 (02:16:28):
That was that was funny. We had a good time.
By the way, Hot Pot's good. I wouldn't still I
would take Korean over Hot Pop. But you don't have
to choose, Maddi. No, I'm not going to choose. I
had a member of the Rockets traveling staffs that you
went to Hot Pot without me, like, we can go
back again. It's always it's always open, so lunch probably
ain't bad and one bad we ate well. I mean,
flight from to Dallas was a little iffy for me,
but that's poor crazy Fine was sitting next to me.

(02:16:50):
But that's a different issue for a different time. I
was feeling tired.

Speaker 4 (02:16:54):
Me too.

Speaker 1 (02:16:54):
I didn't get a nab, so I drew. So we
finished Hot Pop. We drove right to the to the center,
would do it before we have a game, and I
put my chair back and had a pillow on the
back seat of my car. I snoozed up until five o'clock.
I meet with Emai at five fifteen, So I mean literally,
I was like racing to get out of the car,
walk in the arena, sit down, and get ready to
talk to him. But yeah, that was that was a

(02:17:15):
tough call. So I would say, if you're gonna do
hot Pot, clear your calendar clear, do the rest today.
You liked it? I loved it. Yeah, No, it was.
That's really good. I don't know if I want it
better than I was talking about, girl. I don't know
if I like it better than the Korean barbecue. But yeah,
it was like forty degrees for value for twenty two bucks.

(02:17:35):
That's true. The value is in the hot pot, that's true. Okay,
So what I don't bone broth. I have never given
sports takes I think on a single Facebook post I've
ever had my entire life. A good friend of mine
I will not name him, put out a he's a
Notre Dame grad and loves him Notre Dame. He does
save his money to go watch his team play in

(02:17:55):
these tournaments. He wrote maybe a thousand words it's on
it that seems like that seems excessive. That's what I'm saying.
Is Facebook a spot to put thousand word essays about
anything much less Notre Dame not making the football playoffs.
I probably put sports takes back on there in like
two thousand and nine. You know, Facebook just started as

(02:18:18):
a place to get laid during college. Correct. I've watched
the movie Okay good, Yeah, one Bad. Actually that's a
great movie. It was a great movie actually, But yeah,
you were going to get laid. I mean, that's just
the reality of it. Now. It's just where Grandma complains
about fake news. Yeah, and what's AI stories and one
or not? But we are not AI here on seven guaranteed,
we are guaranteed. Humans very excited about that. But yeah,

(02:18:40):
I was like, I didn't want to mention this person
in person. Yes, what are you doing? Go Go go
hug your kids, Go take your wife out for a
nice dinner. People are angry, man. Not everybody has a
forum to spout out their sports opinions like you and
I'm blessed for this, very lucky. But if you have
aged got screwed. I mean, look, I was pissed off

(02:19:00):
with you based loss a championship, but I didn't write
a thousand words about it. I wrote like three, like damn, damn, damn.
I guess what I did exactly, Yeah, I wrote two words.
So sorry, Choke City. Oh, I'll get those kook fans
on you. Don't worry. Fine, they know it all muted,
they know where to find you. Yeah, okay, Well, what
how come there's thirty thousand coming after me and I

(02:19:22):
mentioned but there's only twenty thousand in the building Phillip,
the Texas Bowl, then Koog's fans. We're gonna start coming
after people know they're not. We're gonna have fifty fifty.
I'm already I have already got it. I got a
couple tweets ready already in the draft. Oh don't do it, Yes,
don't do it, yes, sir? Fifty all right, and then
take number two. I brought this up earlier in the

(02:19:43):
show today, worthy of repeating again. A lot of Chris
collins Worth hate on those streets last night and I
brought up the attention that look, some people that you
deal with, and this is color analysts. This is not
the guy called the play by play. This is the
color analysts. The guy described what happened and why I e. Traikeman, Uh,

(02:20:04):
Terry brad showing not Terry Brady's studio. J. J. Watt,
Tony Romo, Tom Brady. That's the analyst. Yes, there is
a separation between play by play an analyst. Chris Collinsworth
gets was getting harassed by Texans fans because he felt
like that there was too much loving for Pat Mahomes.
And my point was, and I brought this up early
in the show, is worth repeating. I think again, if

(02:20:28):
there's been any team that has been on Sunday Night Football,
it's either the Dallas Cowboys or the Kansasity Chiefs. For
good reason, Dallas draws eyeballs in Kansas City has been
one of the elite teams, the elitist of all the
NFL teams in the last seven or eight years. So
and when and when Chris Collinsworth does a game involving
Pat Mahomes, he's usually pretty good. You don't you don't

(02:20:50):
go eleven for thirty four or three picks, usually goes
twenty seven to thirty six for four touchdowns and two
eighty five and has two and three incredible plays. So
is he going to have a little bit of a
bias shorts Pat Patrick Mahomes, Of course he would ross
if you were in the role of Chris Collins worth
the exact same thing and be unbiased. I didn't hear,
like I said, I don't hear the specific things that
people were getting all upset about because I was at

(02:21:12):
a sports bar. We couldn't hear the audio that well,
So I honestly don't know. I would say, go get
a transcript of the game last night if you are
that bothered by it, and I promise you you're gonna
hear great things about Will Anderson. Yes, you're gonna hear
great things about Jalen Petrie and the deflection and the interception.
You're gonna hear about who I was. You gonna hear

(02:21:33):
about You're gonna hear about Tamari Lassiter, who played it
even though it was game time decision. Nico Collins. You're
gonna about Nico Collins. You're gonna hear about a Goombwallee,
who scored after basically he said, I did let me
guess that a Goombawallee did not get very many carries
in the red zone during practice this week. As soon
as he says that, which was accurate, he scores a touchdown. Beautiful.

(02:21:56):
So y'all relax on the Chris Collinsworth hate again. I
don't want to. I've never met the guy before. He's
obviously doing it. He's done five hundred and two games
in his life. All of them have been big. Well,
there's probably people in Kansas City saying that they were
loving on the Texans too much. I mean, that's just
how it goes. You hear ten nice things about your team,
who cares one nice thing about Patrick Mahomes. They're biased,

(02:22:19):
that's I mean, we've been dealing with this for how long.
I would say this. If you're going to critique media,
and that includes us, everybody's a critic, everybody. There's no
qualifications about whether or not you are a good critic
or a bad critic. But if you're going to critique,
just take a look at the hot takes. Who has
hot takes, Who says stuff just to gather attention, or

(02:22:41):
who does stuff and says things based off of homework,
preparation knowledge, and it kind of a little bit of
a been there, done that, And Chris collins Ord checks
all those boxes. Steven A. Smith does not check those boxes.
Steven A. Smith walks into his studio at eight thirty
whatever it is local time and says, what am I

(02:23:01):
going to do to fire people up? Even though I
really don't believe what I say. Skip Bayless lived off
of that. Nick Wright lived off of that. I saw
that firsthand. Mm hmm. The reality is that's how they've
got to where they are based off of their careers.
Chris Collinsworth just analyzes things. And Chris Collinsworth has seen

(02:23:22):
Pat Mahomes perform in his finest but he was He
was critical the fourth down call, he was critical of
the drop passes. He was critical of Travis Kelce. So
just anybody that would take unnecessary jabs, I won't mention names.
Chris Collinsworth is fine. He's not more biased or less
biased towards your football team. And that's all I would say. Okay,

(02:23:45):
I can't like I said, I didn't hear the broadcast,
so I don't have a I don't have a strong opinion.
Straw takes so we are here three to six, Sports
Talk seven ninety two to six. Yeah, oh, what do you?
You were in a c J stround Jersey planton is Yeah,
why not? Let's go Texas? They won five in a row,
eight and five going to the planet. He didn't wear
that when they were going three? Hey he did? No,

(02:24:07):
I didn't. I got proof. I got back the video
probably hour charting his outfits. It's a little obsessive. Hello, Ray, Ray,
you're on, sweet baby, Ray? Hello, Ray Miami. Hello, may
get that?

Speaker 5 (02:24:24):
Or no?

Speaker 1 (02:24:24):
That too old? I don't know what is that? Don Imus?
That was Larry King? Okay, I was kind of close.
Ray Miami, you're on. Hello. I get it now that
you're saying it. Thank you all right, Ray, thank you
Ray for collings, nice good talk, good time. What else
you got nothing? Football? How'd you believe in? Not coming along?

(02:24:48):
It's going a little worried about you. You should be. Actually,
you know what gives me an opportunity to remind me
a lot of simple believe it's today, folks. It reminds
me to give you an opportunity to uh follow my
Instagram again. I go alad and follow that at sports
is not the greatest, but at least it's something. Follow it. Hey,
sports empty. I let me tell you what I've got
going here? What do you got going on? I am
at three thoy seventy one. I need twenty nine wonderful, smart,

(02:25:12):
beautiful people to follow me on Instagram at sports empt.
So if you're one of the twenty nine people out
there that are not following me, let's get the thirty
one hundred. We'll have a small celebration. Oh, we'll buy
Mi Moses for us next time we're out ton good bye. Wait,
how do you feel about the new not new? The
cranberry juice and champagne they believe they call those. I

(02:25:36):
prefer a pineapple pineapple, okay, Cranberry's good. I was offered
cranberry and of cranmosa. Now I don't know what they
call it. I'll look it up, but it was I
was offered to. It was quite refreshing. I'm a big
cranberry juice guy too, so we know if I could
dine cranberry. Work at the tables. Oh, I got a
lot of tables coming up next week, New Orleans. Oh, baby,

(02:25:59):
going Denver. Right, Uh, it's in the mountains. It's a
little further. It's a little bit of an uber ride.
I don't I don't want to do that, all right.
One on Sports Talk sevent and if you want to
play believe it or not? All things about James Madison
in Tulane seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety
cross them. I give a shout out to the brand

(02:26:19):
new Instagram followers of sports MPT. Thank you very much
to Gray Danny, Kenneth rob Ron. You guys are wonderful people.
Thank you very much, and you'll be invited to our
Mimosa celebration at thirty one hundred people on Twitter, on Instagram,
Instagram seems less us, less toxic, more photos. A couple

(02:26:42):
of jabs here and there, but everybody's pretty good. I
got somebody complain about me calling a heel off of
basketball on a basketball goal. You can't have that, ROSSI
try my best, trying to change the A Knight. I
got to learn ball. Let's go. I'm just trying to
shoot different terms. All right, we gotta believe it or
not coming up in just a minute. But We're gonna
go back to our buddy Ray and my Ray. Are
you still on your jet ski right now?

Speaker 7 (02:27:03):
Oh no, no, no, no, it's Monday. That's a set
weekend thing.

Speaker 1 (02:27:08):
Good for you.

Speaker 7 (02:27:10):
I want to say something. First of all, I stopped
at a random gas station. I got a pack of
carse for five bucks, and I pulled a I pulled
a rookie card for Hunter Brown. So I want to
know from you guys, when are the pictures and Casher's
reporting here to West Palm, and who's coming from seven
ninety and everything. I won't know all that because I'm

(02:27:31):
planning on a Hunter signing this card.

Speaker 1 (02:27:34):
You want us to help you with this, That's gonna
be difficult, but we will try. No mid February the
Worst Palm.

Speaker 7 (02:27:40):
I'll take care of the rest of myself.

Speaker 1 (02:27:41):
Oh okay, good, Yeah, we will. We haven't talked about
it yet. I mean, well, I guess I see what
we can do. I mean, you want me to go
I can you know? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:27:51):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (02:27:52):
Of course? Yeah?

Speaker 12 (02:27:53):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:27:53):
It actually works out well because the All Star break
is at the exact same time as go the West Palm.
Last time it was nice. Yeah, we're not staying in that.

Speaker 2 (02:28:04):
Can.

Speaker 1 (02:28:04):
I look, I'm gonna say this. For thirty seconds, you
were fine. You were never in any danger. Two years
ago was the most disgusting hotel I've ever lived in,
a hotel motel I've ever been in my entire life.
I mean, the floor was greasy for no reason. There
were bloodstains in our inn that was rusted. We had
a telephone that was not connected to anything that's true,

(02:28:28):
and we had a remote. I stole the batteries. The
Remoka shol didn't work, and I had the crack shivers
at the office. And when I went to check us in,
the girl was eating a cheeseburger for McDonald's. She laid
the cheeseburger on the desk while she went and got
the file, which basically was like an open invitation to
take a bite out of it. But I didn't do so.

(02:28:49):
I don't think she was offering you to bite it.

Speaker 5 (02:28:50):
No.

Speaker 1 (02:28:53):
Last year, I chose the hotel much better selection. I
didn't choose the year before. Gordi did. Gordy Travel sucks.
Gordy Travel enterprises. He stays in like these four diamond places.
We're at a half star. He's got to get in
his Orbits points. I'm sorry Borbet's he Yeah, he's two
bit too big in the borbits Orbits is not your friend. Yeah,

(02:29:15):
we gotta let Matt get the points and then we're good.
Did you sleep better? Did you have a full break? No,
the bed was better, it was it worked. Hey, we
got it to Wi Fi once. We once, we got
batteries at work. We weren't worried about prison. We rememberbout
somebody vandalizing our vehicle. Yeah, we made sure we talk.
It took everything in every night. The craziest part about

(02:29:37):
West Palm is it separated by a freeway. Once other
freeway where the stadium is sketch. That's pretty, other side beautiful.
That's Minie Towns. Austin, Texas says, Hello, Yeah, thirty five,
that's true. Five minutes left to go on the show.
What should we do? We should play Maracus fastest on

(02:30:00):
sports radio game show. We simply call it be Believe
It or Not. And here's how it works. You'll call
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety today's edition.
And Believe or Not is all things about the schools
that are in the college football playoff. Namely, it is
our friends from two Lane and James Madison. I'll read
you statement about one of those two schools. Statement completely

(02:30:22):
natterly accurate. You'll say this, believe it. Same in trone's
football and may up you'll say this not two believe
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We're playing today. Four tickets to see a Monster Energy
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Let's play. We'll start with Randy on seven aunty. Randy,
you ready to play? Believe it or not? Yes, Randy.

(02:31:05):
The official colors of Tulane Greenway Football are olive green
and sky blue. Believe it or not. Believe it, Believe it?
Statement number two for the Wain Tulane Green Wave has
one claim national championship and they won it back in
nineteen forty eight. Believe it or not? Believe it No,

(02:31:26):
no championship. Sorry, thank you for Matt on seven Nintie, Matt,
what was your favorite part of today's ten to two
radio show? Matt? All right? Mike on seven nunti, Mike,
was your fair part of today's ten to two radio show?

Speaker 2 (02:31:46):
All the taking thought?

Speaker 1 (02:31:47):
All right? And eighteen ninety six, Tulane had a forfeit
in the middle of a game against LSU after an
argument broke out over an ineligible player. Believe it or not,
go believe it? You should believe it? Statement number two
for the wind. James Madison University was founded as a
women's college back in nineteen oh eight. Believe it or not,
go believe it? You should ngratua gil on SEVENINTI you

(02:32:14):
ready to play? Believe it or not?

Speaker 7 (02:32:16):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (02:32:17):
The all time James Madison passing leader is Jeff Hostetler.
Believe it or not not? That's right, Rossman. They do not.
Statement number two for the win that j you make.
The James Madison University school newspaper is called The Daily Constitution.
Believe it or not?

Speaker 8 (02:32:35):
Believe it?

Speaker 1 (02:32:36):
No, it's called the breeze. How do you not know that?
Now we're all She had two Duke football questions here?
Why is Duke in this mix? They won? Okay, acc
chaffs all right? Mike on seven? Aint you ready to play?
Believe it or not? Mike? All right? Mike, Duke football
is all time leading passer is Thaddius Lewis. Believe it

(02:32:58):
or not.

Speaker 5 (02:33:00):
Not?

Speaker 1 (02:33:00):
Let's a believe it? How do you have Vennias Lewis
stats in front of you? Aaron on seven ninety what
was your favorite part of today's ten to two radio show?
Aaron Dog Duke football sports one Heisman winner? It was
half back Tom Harmon back in nineteen fifty six, Believe
it or not not? That is correct. Congratulations two winners today, Rossie,

(02:33:29):
not bad. You can get away some prizes, all right?
On the show tomorrow, we will find out at eleven
o'clock exactly what's going on with his notre dame dude situation.
We're gonna have to carry because we're gonna be very curious, right,
I don't want to foreshadowing. Let's do it, all right,
We got that, we got gut Feelings at eleven thirty,
the News at noon, and a complete breakdown of Philadelphia

(02:33:51):
and the Los Angeles Chargers, Go Philly. If you want
the Texans to bump up from the seventh playoff spot
in the AFC to the sixth playoff spot, which we do,
we do because it's a much easier opponent. Correct, be
Jacksonville as compared to Denver, New England. Yeah, a good
New England, and then you'd be the seventh seed. If

(02:34:12):
you win that, then it receeds and you'd have to
play Denver on the road. Ye all right, up next
to of the biggest Chris Collinsworth fans. You'll find it anywhere. Huge, huge,
it's Wexler, It's Clinton, it's day Team. We're back tomorrow
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