The Josh Innes Show - Dan Orlovsky Is A Dope

Episode Date: January 23, 2026

Why is Dan Orlovsky apologizing for what he said about CJ Stroud? Let's listen to what he said and then the apology. This is truly sad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Apparently said that CJ Stroud stunk basically in the game. Obviously, anybody that watched the game knows he stunk. And that 31 other quarterbacks would have won that game. And I mean, look, the way the defense played for the Texans, that's not something that could really be argued at this point. Like, if you tried to argue it, how many of the other 31 quarterbacks in the league turned the ball over? Four, five, six times it did the shit he was doing. That's not a bigger picture, CJ thing.

Like, I'm not sitting here telling you the guy should be dismissed or that he'll never be good again or anything like that. But, like, the argument is fine. I don't see an issue with saying, again, I haven't heard the audio and I'll get the audio. But I haven't heard the audio of him saying it. But from what I gather, he just said 31 other quarterbacks could win that game and then that's that. And I don't even know that it became a federal case. Like, I don't know that anybody gave a shit. I don't know that it had like a big impact on anybody.

but then my man apologized for it. Let's play a couple commercials and we'll play as apology. Let's work backwards. And then we'll go from there. Packages by Expedia. You were made to occasionally take the hard route to the top of the Eiffel Tower. We were made to easily bundle your trip. Expedia made to travel.

So what I love about this is the tweet from Dan Orlovsky that includes the video says, I should have been better. Okay, what a wonderful start. Like, my God, I should have been better is like, you know, the guy that's yelling the N-word at the security guard or whatever in that video a couple days ago. That's a guy who's, hey, I should have been better. Not a, hey, I think 31 other quarterbacks could have won that game and offering a sports opinion. There is not a sports opinion out there that should require someone to say, I should have been better. Anyway, let's play the apology first.

Before I do that, you know, I want to go back to Monday morning because on Monday morning after the Patriot Texans game, I went on and said, Houston wins that game with 30 and one other quarterbacks. I want to publicly apologize to C.J. Stroud. I cross the line. I don't ever want to do that in this role. When I started eight years ago, it was making the commitment, never go on TV and say, well, they won because the quarterback played good or they lost because the quarterback played bad. And so I've been called out on it. Accountability, full stop, shouldn't have done it. Okay. First off, my gosh. God, this guy should be off TV. Apologizing for this shit should be the end of Dan Orlovsky. Dan Orlovsky should not be on television.

And I don't apologize for saying that. Apologizing over a fucking opinion about sports, it should never be the case. There should never be a world where a guy is apologizing for a sports opinion in this groveling, pathetic manner. What a cunty human this guy is. Get him off a TV. Get him the fuck out. Get Dan Rolofsky off TV. You are a sad, pathetic person, brother.

Like, if you, like, you are a, it is your job to be an analyst. And what you're doing, apologizing for offering opinions makes you super duper see you next Tuesday-ish. What I just heard was fucking disgusting. Awful. Awful. What are we doing? Why does sports comment? There's a lot of dumb shit, these people say.

and a lot of it's usually racially driven. It's usually like Ryan Clark, dumb shit. Like, I get that. Apologizing because you think a guy, you said that a guy with the 31 of the quarterbacks could have been there? What the fuck are you doing? Fire this guy. He fucking sucks.

There's ways for me to say that in regards to C.J. Straught did the one thing he couldn't do, and that's why they lose the game. I don't want to take away from New England's defense as well. So full stop, that wasn't cool of me. and that was wrong of me different way for me to communicate that. On to New England. Okay, dude, take, I would have,

I would have, if I were the, the management at ESPN, I would have walked in. And I would have, I grabbed one of those little fucking little hooks that they used to take people off, like in a Mary Melodies cartoon. And I would have taken this pud off of the screen.

That was a, that is pathetic. That is pathetic. And it really just makes C.J. Stroud look worse. And I don't think that C.J. Stroud was on the phone, like, hey, bro, what the fuck? I don't know if it was an agent thing, that that could be. I don't know if he's got a relationship with Stroud's agent. Maybe I should know that or I shouldn't.

I don't know that. But Dan Orlovsky may have some sort of relationship and they know that Stroud's got a contract coming up and it doesn't help that, you know, the guys on TV saying that 31 other quarterbacks could have done it. You know what my answer would be? Play a better fucking game and not turn the ball over five times and then maybe people on TV won't say that.

Dan Orlovsky should not be on television because that kind of reaction really leads to me to believe that that guy is bought and paid for. And if he's not bought and paid for, he's just a cunt and he shouldn't be on TV. That is pathetic. Like, it is sports, bro. It is sports. That's not life.

The number of dumb shit that the view people say that they don't apologize for. The dumb people on all the cable news outlets say, they're not apologizing for. But your dumb ass is out here apologizing over saying that C.J. Stroud socked in the 31 other quarterbacks could have won. Bro, I have no respect for you at all. Now I've got to find the damn audio that this guy is, now I've got to find the audio that actually, the Dan Orlovsky, let's see, let me see,

31 other quarterbacks. I need the root audio that brought this on. This is so pathetic. This is, like, I don't, like, it's sort of like how I played the audio of the lady that called the station the other day to complain about me, and then I played the actual audio of what I said, and it was nothing like what I said.

But this apology to C.J. Stroud is truly one of the more pathetic things. I crossed a line. He said, what line did you cross? What line was crossed? What was said? Like, what did you say? Okay, here's the audio of this. Now, I'm looking at some of the comments that people made. I know C.J. played a terrible game, but this was an ass-night thing to say. They wouldn't have won with Dan Orlovsky. These fools act like we didn't see them play. Well, first of all, that's just a tweet from someone. Dan Orlovsky didn't say that they would have won with Dan Orlovsky. I don't think I'll play the audio. But like here, again, what it probably comes down to if I had to guess, let me try to connect the dots here.

I'm going to guess that because C.J. Stroud is black and white dudes are on TV saying he should have been benched. All of a sudden, people want to cape for C.J. Stroud. And now he's got to apologize because he's probably getting a lot of heat from black people on social media, basically saying he's racist or a piece of shit. and then he has to apologize for it. And if that's the case, we're super fucked anyway. That's racist as fuck. All right, let's see here. So this is the audio, I believe, of the initial conversation. If you're Houston, you win that game with 31 other quarterbacks.

That's, and it's unfortunate. With Jared Stittem? And any other quarterback. I mean, it's unfortunate that we don't get this defense, not only an AFC title game, but then more than likely in the Super Bowl if they win that game yesterday. Bad quarterback play wins that game. bad quarterback play. The pick six and the fumble,

that's 10 points right there. Again, you could say it's hyperbole to say that Jared Stidham would win the game. Okay, fine. But to have to apologize for saying that 31 other quarterbacks are going to win the game, brother, we're fucked as, like, this guy should not be on television. You lose credibility apologizing for a sports opinion. When we're apologized, we want to do that played the game is apologizing for a sports opinion.

Bro, like, I got nothing. for you. New England. New England made some crucial plays and crucial moments. Drake May's touchdown to the fourth down to Douglas, the touchdown to Steph with the ball placement, the booty play, no question. But if you're Houston, I think Houston and Buffalo walk away from

this weekend sick to their stomach because they look at all the self-inflicted wounds. Houston is just going to sit there and go if 10 turnovers by CJ are five picks, five bumbles and two games in the playoffs? Yes. And I think now

if you're Houston, you're going to sit there and go, what do we do with the quarterback position in the future? And I don't think anything he said was unfair. Anything. It's an opinion. And when you're apologizing for sports opinions, bro, get lost. Just get the fuck off the TV.

What was the boost? Get the fuck out the pool, man. Get the fuck out the pool, man. See you late. I used to have a boss that said you never apologize. And maybe that's not true, you know. but apologizing in this instance over a sports take, brother, like, I know I sound like the Seattle lady now, but like I find that to be appalling.

It was the most insanely thing I've ever heard in my life. So the only reason I can assume that Dan Orloskey is apologizing for this. There are two options, right? number one is somehow like the agent of C.J. Stroud, like he knows him. Maybe he's repped by the same people. I don't know. And they got in touch with him and said, bro, like, you're hurting my guy. By the way, that's happening more and more. We're getting more collusion type of shit with people who are repped by the same people. We saw it with the Lane Kiffin's shit. We're seeing more and more of that. So that's number one, which whatever. And that one

doesn't even bother me as much. If you're like, hey, protect our guy. And to a degree, I'm like, I don't give a fuck. I'm a media guy. I'm more appalled by what the alternative is. And to me, the alternative in this is that he just went to social media, took a lot of shit from people, like that tweet I just read you, and it became a racial thing, if I had to guess. And the second it becomes a racial thing with old white boys,

and they get all worried about it, now they have to apologize. I guarantee all those black dudes that were being, I guarantee you. The criticism of C.J. Straub was coming from black people, white people, Asian people. The guy got shit on by everybody. But Dan Orlovsky says 31 other quarterbacks would have won that game. And that would be my guess. Those are my two things. I've given you two options.

He's also just Cunty. But my two options in this are he apologized because, A, he knows the agent, the agent reached out, same agency, whatever. And they're like, this guy is about to make hundreds of millions of dollars. And your kind of commentary is really hurting our case, which is. is very possible. That's what happens when you get more and more of these fucking former players on TV that have these kind of relationships. That's why you're not really getting anything credible.

Or he felt the heat because it was a black quarterback. He was criticizing. And he probably got a lot of racial shit on Twitter. And he's like, shit, I don't want anybody to think I'm racist. How dare anybody think I'm racist? So let me apologize. That's racist as fuck. But to say that you crossed the line, like what line did you cross?

what line to say the 31 other questions that's an opinion you can argue whether it's a dumb opinion or not but to say that you crossed a line it's pathetic what a pathetic fucking loser this guy is like get off tv bro like go why should anybody listen to your opinion on anything I can even live with like hey the NFL's in bed with ESPN so they'll cover up stories like I've accepted a lot of this stuff but I look at people on an individual basis and I say all right, let's look at this as an individual. Do I believe that this person possesses credibility? And when you're apologizing for an opinion you had about a guy's play on the field,

you have no credibility to me. So Dan Orlovsky has none. Zippo, Zilch, Dunzo. I don't give a fuck about anything this man has to say anymore. And someone should have gone to him and said, bro, do not apologize for that. if like you apologize for saying something that was racially insensitive, maybe you have to do that. You know, that kind of shit or sexually or dante trans or whatever the fuck it is. But to apologize for that has ruined your credibility.

And now I will never listen to anything Dan Orlovsky says with any sort of open-mindedness. I just feel that he is a bought and paid for shill of something. I don't know what it is. And I don't believe he has any credibility. when I listen to that man speak from here on out, I will have no interest in what he has to say. So someone should have stopped him. Somebody should have said,

do not apologize for this. Do not grovel on television. Do not say shit like I should have been better. Like you're doing like crisis control. Like this is a political campaign and somebody just found out that you were fucking the nanny. What are you doing? Like I do not. Dan Orlovsky should.

never be on television again, ever, period. Thank you.