The Josh Innes Show - Big Week For Nick Sirianni

Episode Date: May 19, 2025

This is a big week for Eagles coach Nick Sirianni. He just signed a multi year extension and the league will vote on banning the tush push. You gotta give Sirianni some love...this dude was seemingly cooked in Philly...then he rose like the Fenix. The league will also vote on changes to the kickoff rule. I watched the Savannah Bananas the other day and they do a few things MLB should consider implementing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Register today at sunrisechallenge.ca. That's sunrisechallenge.ca. It's really crazy what a difference like seven or eight months can make. Not even that, I guess. We're in May still, right? So like what a difference six months can make. Six or seven months.

Because six or seven months ago would have been what? Like November, maybe maybe October November. Let's just go back to October of last year and the Philadelphia Eagles didn't look like a team that would win the Super Bowl and Nick Sirianni didn't look like a coach that was going to coach a team to a Super Bowl and people were ready to fire the guy and Sirianni's fighting with guys in the stands and he's a dipshit and all this stuff and he's everybody's making fun of it and it looked like a

foregone conclusion that homeboy was going to be out like it seemed like an obvious no doubter see you later goodbye right that was the obvious thing that was going to happen then the Eagles turned around then the Eagles go on to win the Super Bowl and Nick Sirianni like they the the character they have in player Super Bowl and Nick Sirianni, like the character they have in play or they play a Nick Sirianni character on the Pat McAvee show that always says, oh, but I'm just a big dumb dipshit that can't coach, right? Well, the big dumb dipshit went out and got

himself paid today. It is amazing the difference that seven months can make. In a matter of seven months, you're on the hot seat, people are mocking you, you're yelling at the fans, the fans hate you. Now you've won a Super Bowl and now you're getting an extension, a multi-year extension. This is from Jeff Lurie. As an organization, we have always strived to create a championship culture of sustained success. Nothing is more important to fostering such an environment than having tremendous leadership. Nick has embodied everything we're looking for in a head coach since we hired him four years ago. His authentic style of leadership, football intelligence, passion for the game, and growth mindset have helped to bring the best in our team. I am excited for what the future holds for the Philadelphia Eagles."

So, an extension, a long-term extension for a guy that seven months ago Philadelphia was ready to run the fuck out of town. I don't know man feel like So first of all, let's play a couple commercials and we'll get into this Spring is here and you can now get almost anything you need delivered with ubereats. What do we mean by almost? You can't get a well-groomed lawn delivered, but you can get chicken parmesan delivered. Sunshine? No. Some wine? Yes. Get almost almost anything delivered with Uber Eats. Order now. Alcohol in select markets. See app for details. See, that's the interesting thing about Philadelphia though. Because Philadelphia hates you one week and loves you the next. And I know that that's the case everywhere, but Philly is a special breed of it.

And that's why I thought that they had really, really turned on Sirianni to a point that they had a point of no return like everybody was piling on Sirianni and Sirianni's going at the fans the media was going at Sirianni it had that vibe that this thing was not gonna end well and that there was no coming back but then they started winning again and then they ultimately won the Super Bowl, and you're not obviously not going to fire some guy after winning the Super Bowl, and they give him an extension. But Philly, more so than any other place I've ever seen,

is bipolar and will turn on you and love you. Like, it is truly a lifetime movie relationship. It is a toxic relationship with how people in Philly love athletes and coaches, then hate them. hate them like it goes like not just week to week or day to day. It goes game to game quarter to quarter. It is a weird bipolar universe that these people live in and he was able to turn the corner like you could argue that this is the greatest accomplishment in the history of Philadelphia

sports Nick Sirianni not only surviving in Philadelphia but thriving in Philadelphia and getting an extension. You have to acknowledge how big of a deal this is because he was dead man walking. They were 500. They were struggling with the Browns. He's yelling at the fans, and now he's got an extension and he's a pillar of leadership. Like there was the idea that Lurie was just like what the fuck are you doing bro? That like Lurie was tired of him and now he's got an extension. Talk about a glow up. I mean this is your true glow up. You could argue like because most of the time when people decide they hate you in Philadelphia, it's forever,

right? They're just people. Now after time, they'll sort of have a little bit of revisionist history and tell people how much they loved you. Like Andy Reid is the greatest example. When I got to Philadelphia, the rule was you had to hate Andy Reid and think he was a terrible coach because they had just fired Reid. Chip Kelly had come in, taken them to the playoffs. When I got there, the Eagles were in the playoffs against the Saints. Chip Kelly had taken them in his first

year. They had all these epic games like the snow game against the Lions and all that. And you had to hate and root against and want bad things for Andy Reid. Like you could not say a good thing. You couldn't say, I kind of hope Andy Reid beats the Colts in the playoffs. You could not think that way. You had to want failure and you had to look at everything that Andy Reid had accomplished and viewed it as a gigantic failure. If you didn't view it as a gigantic failure, then you were an asshole on the radio and you just didn't get it. I'd be on there going, you know, Andy Reid had the most success for any fucking coach you guys have ever had. He took a team as far as

anybody ever has. He won more games than anybody ever had. He won more division titles than anybody ever had. Yet you fucking hate him. But it's interesting because like in that situation, it made sense for that run to be over. You know, you would have hoped that Andy Reid could have stayed there and had the last 15 years he's had in Kansas City or 12 years he's had in Kansas City for the Eagles. He didn't. Shit happens. But like you had to feel that way. Now after

time people look back on it since the Eagles have won a couple Super Bowls and they go, you know we miss Andy Reid. He's a good guy. We're going to welcome him back one day. Problem is Andy Reid, the more he keeps winning with the Chiefs, people are going to totally forget about him and the success he had with the Eagles. It's going to be totally forgotten. And it's just kind of funny. But anyway, so what an upset. Not only did Nick Sirianni survive in Philadelphia, Sirianni has thrived in Philadelphia, and that's fucking bonkers. That truly is a great

upset. So good for that dude. I don't like him. I think he seems like a dope and I disagree with the idea that he's authentic. Like I keep seeing that in that post. Well, he's certainly authentic. I don't know, man. He feels like a jock sniffing type that, you know, a guy that tries to pander to these people by wearing all the different like eagle shirts and shit. Like he tried really hard to pander. I found that to be annoying about him in the same way that I find Bryce Harper's pandering to be annoying but more power to you. Dude's got an extension and good for him and speaking of the Eagles another story NFL

owners to vote on banning infamous tush push play later this week the day of reckoning for the Eagles' infamous tush push play approaches, NFL team owners table to vote on the Green Bay Packers' proposed rule change to ban the Brotherly Shove early this spring at the annual league meeting in Florida. Multiple outlets have reported that the group of 32 team owners is now ready for the vote and will meet in Minneapolis on Tuesday and Wednesday to make a final decision. The team owners also will vote on the Detroit Lions' proposal to reseed playoff teams based on record after the first round on tweaks to the kickoff rule and allowing players to participate in flag football events at the 2028 Olympics. Gotta fight for the

important shit, I guess. Let's see, discussion surrounding the ban. Okay, so we know the story and the Packers are the team that said we don't want this. Look, stop the play. Everybody can run this play. It is a virtually impossible play to stop, therefore why doesn't everybody run the play? It's a quarterback sneak in which you push the quarterback forward, which in the past you weren't allowed to do. Now you can't do it. This play should not be banned. I am against it in the sense that I don't believe it is a football play. But at some point in time, there was probably someone who

looked at the vertical pass and said this isn't a football play. So fuck them. Go out. Stop it. I know that it's a virtually unstoppable play, although I did see it stopped in New Orleans when the Saints were playing the Eagles.. I know that it's a virtually unstoppable play, although I did see it stopped in New Orleans when the Saints were playing the Eagles, and I think that was one of the weeks where they lined up for the tush push and tried to lateral it out and the Saints stopped it. I believe that happened in that game. And so it happens. They've been stopped

before, but just not that often. Like I don't like when someone's figured you out and figured out a way to thrive and have an unstoppable play and because the other one 31 Jamokes can't stop it. It's something that has to go away that is dumb. That is bogus figure out a way to stop it. Well, there is no way to stop it then tough shit. Don't let him get to fourth and one that'll be the next play keep them at fourth and three fourth and four third and five instead of fourth and one. They have a

fourth and one. You know what they're going to do. That play is unstoppable. We should not punish a team because they have figured out a cheat code. The Eagles figured out a cheat code. You can't stop them. Now, you come up with a defensive cheat code to stop it. Then, what you end up with is you end up with like that Eagles Redskins or commanders game this year. I think it was the commanders where old buddy just kept jumping offside, kept jumping offside, kept jumping offside

to try to beat it, which got old after a while, but initially it was kind of fun to watch. What a week for Nick Sirianni. They're taking his play and they're going to decide if it can still exist and old buddies got an extension. What are some of these other ones they said that let's see making some changes to the kickoff rule. Let's read what the tweaks to the kickoff rule would be. Let us see here NFL competition committee considering tweaking new kickoff rule. According to reports the NFL competition committee is likely to propose a small tweak to the new kickoff rule that the league implemented one year ago at the annual league meetings. The new addendum would move the ball to the 35-yard line on touchbacks during a kickoff, five

yards closer to the kicking team's end zone after it was moved to the 30-yard line last year. Really? I would say move it up to the 40. Make them have to kick the ball off. I am all for this new kickoff because I think if you force them to kick it off by making it a gigantic gaffe if they don't, then you'll get more kickoffs and you have the possibility for more explosive kickoff returns. Like I know that Trump has been bitching about the kickoff, and let's go back to the old, let's get back to the old kickoff.

Well, you know what? Let's not. Let's do this and let's say, alright, you want to kick a fucking touch back? Well, watch this. You have to give them the ball at the 40 yard line, not the 35. Make it the fucking 40. And it's the same way like I think they've gone in and kind of changed the onside kick. I am all for getting rid of the onside kick and allowing you to have one play to pick up 20 yards or something like that. Whatever, I

forgot the numbers been thrown out. But if instead of an onside kick, which is almost impossible to recover, you get one play to pick up 20 yards. And if you pick up that 20 yards, it's a first down, you have the ball. I'd be totally down for that. Give me that and make it where the kickoff if you kick off out of bounds or a touch back, they get the ball at the 40 yard line. You bet your dick they'd be trying to kick it in bounds into the landing zone and make you return

and you'll have more of a chance. Like I see people shitting on this kickoff rule and I don't get it. Like I like the idea of it. It is a very good idea but you have to make the you have to make the punishment for kicking out of bounds greater. Of course, 30 yard line, five yards ain't going to make that much of a difference from the 25 to the 30. Imagine old school touchbacks going to the 25 and now going to the 40. You're talking about 15 yards. You're

talking damn near a fifth of the field that you're picking up just by kicking the ball out of bounds. That's fun. That is not a bad kickoff rule. That is entertaining and it's great. But as we talk about all the time, there has to be a greater punishment if you don't do it. And that's kind of what we have to deal with in sports is there has to be a greater punishment. You have to be in a situation where, okay, great, we lose five yards. Big fucking deal. What if you lose 15 yards on a touchback? I am also, and you

know if you've listened to this show for any period of time, I am a gigantic proponent of allowing teams to use a tee to kick a field goal once a game. And it has to be at a certain distance too. Like if you're at like the 40 yard line, you can't use that because that's kicking. But if there's two seconds left on the clock and you're down by two points and you're at your own 25 yard line, you know you can't throw a Hail Mary. I would say move the

tee back to like the I don't know the the 20 and you have one shot to kick a field goal off a tee. Now there could be an argument to be made also that the ball still has to be snapped, the guy still has to catch it, and has to be able to put it on that tee in that time. See that would be drama! That'd be incredible drama! But off the tee, I mean you see it, dudes kick the ball 90 yards off a tee, and you get one shot to kick like, let's say you kick it from the 20 yard line. That becomes like a 90 yard field goal. That's fun! That's drama more so than, all right, we got two seconds left, here comes 14 laterals, dude's going to throw it backwards, it's eventually going to end up being a safety and nothing

happens. The one side of every billion times that someone converts some epic lateral play. No! Give me the opportunity to watch a kicker kick the ball off a tee from 90 yards. Tell me that's not a fun time! That's good shit! I'll be real with you. I was watching a Savannah Bananas game the other day. It's one that was played in, where the hell was the game played? That's why I turned, oh, Nashville.

It was at the football stadium in Nashville. Some of the shit they do should be implemented into baseball. I'm not about finishing the game fast. Like those games all try to finish in under like two hours. I don't really care about game time. But I like the approach to scoring. Like I don't think you have to do a situation where

everybody has to touch the ball when somebody walks or something like that. You can keep some level of normal, but I'm kind of into how they handle the scoring, which is each inning is its own score. Whoever wins that inning gets a point and that's how you get points and the points are what determines the end of the game. Like I and that's how you get points and the points are what determines the end of the game. Like I know that's never going to happen in baseball and you can say that's hacky and wacky and goofy totally.

But I kind of dig it like instead of like hey, you gave up five runs in the first inning. Now the game is over. No, as it turns out. You gave up five runs in the first inning. You lost five to one, you're down a point. There's eight innings to go and you can make those points up. Like I think it's kind of fucking cool. They'll never do it, but it's cool. Like the idea of having like fans catching foul balls and that's an out. Okay, that's goofy, whatever. But I think

I'm really into the way they handle the scoring in this. Never going to change in Major League Baseball. I'm aware it's never going to change in Major League Baseball. But I think it would be fun and I know a lot of people won't and a lot of people will scoff and this is just stupid bullshit and it's just yeah, but there's also something to be said about the fact that an entire football stadium fills up to watch that. Now, would it happen 80 times a year in every town?

No, obviously, it's a gimmick and people are into it. And who knows how long that gimmick will last, they'll ride the wave. But it is pretty fucking cool. And then like they had, I think they use the golden batter in that as well. So you can have anybody come up to bat in the ninth inning or throughout the game for a big hit. The fact that baseball won't implement this is preposterous. The golden at bat is beautiful. It is perfect. Ninth inning you can guarantee your best player to be up in a big spot. That's what people want. Everybody bitches when a guy fouls out, a

star player fouls out of a basketball game. Yet nobody bitches or you know and people do bitch but nobody ever does anything about it when the best player in the game recorded the last out of the eighth inning and now you're never gonna see him in the crunch time moment and the big moment in the ninth. I'm all for the golden batter, I'm all for wacky shit in baseball but baseball will never allow wacky shit and that is what it is but I'm here for it. Anywho, more to come.