The Josh Innes Show - Drew Brees HOF Part 2

Episode Date: February 6, 2026

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And unless you lived it, unless you were there, it's hard to fully articulate how special all of that was and how special Drew Breeze is. Drew Breeze will always be a god in New Orleans. And I get that that happens in a lot of places. But Drew Breeze, another important thing, and I know that this is easy to say. But like Drew Breeze lived in the heart of the city. He embodied the place. He embraced it. I don't think you can fully understand what it means.

And I think Philly is a place like this where you have to really understand the people, or at least pretend to understand the people. That's why Homeboy panders all the time. Like, eventually they get sick of it. But that's why Siriani panders. Like, you have to kind of get the place. That's why they loved Buddy Ryan. Buddy Ryan didn't win dick.

You look at it now, you've got two different coaches that have now won Super Bowls here in recent history in Philadelphia. One of them got fired and one of them is going to. be fired. Buddy Ryan didn't do any of that, and Buddy Ryan is still the most beloved coach in the history of the franchise. Andy Reid was their most successful coach before that. Got fired. I mean, like, part of it is you have to learn to embrace the place.

You have to kind of become part of the culture. There are some places like that where the culture matters. Look at what Bum Phillips was in Houston. Didn't win a championship. No one's won a Super Bowl in Houston, but who is the most beloved coach in the history of professional football in the city of Houston. That is bum Phillips. Look, they really like D'Amico, but the most beloved guy is that one.

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Like they just make sense. They make sense in that place. They don't always have to be that way. People can be successful without fitting the place. I don't know that Tony Laruso was St. Louis, but he was a great manager and they built great teams and they won a lot of games. It's not always the case of, hey, you have to fully get the area. Sometimes just being a good coach.

Like, does Bill Belichick get Boston? I don't know. But Bill Belichick's the greatest coach in the history of the NFL and he won there. You know, Nick Saban wasn't a guy that, like, was a Louisiana guy. He's like an Ohioan. You know, the guy is from, I think he's from Ohio or wherever the hell he's from. Like, but he understood it enough. But his personality was surly.

Like, he was never some guy. Like, he was never going to be Coacho. Coacho! Coacho just made fucking sense and it worked. Was he a good coach? Not really. And he got the right talent and the right team and the right year and won a championship. But every time I watch that guy talk, I'm like, that guy gets it.

He is Louisiana, right? And that's Drew Breeze. Drew Breeze was never, you know, pretending to be something he wasn't. He wasn't pretending to be Coach O and he wasn't pretending to be whomever. You know, like the guy, the farmer and the water boy rubbing his nipples or the You Can Do It guy. Like he's not pretending to be any of those people. But he got it. And you never felt like Drew Breeze resented the fact that he was just in New Orleans.

You never got that vibe from him. you always felt that Drew Brees was proud to represent New Orleans and he understood that it mattered to represent New Orleans. And he loved being part of New Orleans and the history of the city and then the legacy they built. That's something. That matters. Like I saw somebody compare him to Derek Carr. And again, that's apples to a goddamn Lamborghini. I mean, it's not close. But like Derek Carr never felt that way.

Derek Carr just always kind of felt like kind of not snobby, but just whatever. Now, part of it is people weren't going to like him anyway. He's just not a very likable guy. And he's basically, you know, getting paid a shitload of money. And he was never wanted there by a lot of the fan base anyway and all that. But part of it is understanding who your audience is. And you don't want to go over the top. Drew never went over the top.

There was never a time that I felt, you know, Drew Breaves is out here faking this. Like Nick Siriani feels like he's faking it. When the guy rolls into practice and he's wearing like a Reggie White jersey or something, you're like, I bro, chill. You know, even there was one time where Chip Kelly tried it, and it worked early because he was winning games. But in his first year, when he did the, we're from Philadelphia, we fight. Like, certain things just work. But you have to win and you have to seem authentic.

And Drew Breeze won. And Drew Breeze seemed authentic. And that's why Drew Breeze is beloved. And they won the Super Bowl. And, you know, they had an amazing 16, 17 years, however long it was he played there. 14 years, I think it was. And I'm glad to see him in the Hall of Fame. And I'm glad to see him in as a first ballot guy.

I fucking love the dude. And every town's got their guys. Look, Buffalo loves Jim Kelly. Never won a Super Bowl. They love Jim Kelly. Like, there will always be guys that these towns embrace. But Drew Brees was just special. And it's one of those things that unless you lived it, you don't really know.

I bet it got tiresome for people. Like, I remember every week you turn on the game and, like, the Saints are the New America's team and people are, and I bet it got tiresome. I bet you watched it. We're like, fuck them, especially if your team was playing the Saints. If you were the Eagles or somebody playing the Saints, you're like, fuck you, America's team. We ain't rooting for these motherfuckers.

We're from Philadelphia. We want to win this shit. But, man, Drew was just, it was cool. And do you remember when Jim chased him down at Radio Row and tried to smell? He said, hey, you smell good. I said, get out of here. but it was just, I don't know, man. Like, that's cool.

Because you have to understand, we didn't have anything. Now, I didn't live through the real, real shit days in New Orleans, you know, which was most of the existence of the franchise. You know, I moved there in 1997 with my dad, or 1996, 1996, 1997. My first NFL game I attended was seeing the Kansas City Chiefs play a preseason game in the Superdome. My first NFL game I attended, I want to say, was that playoff, like regular season NFL game I attended, I think, was that playoff game against the Rams when I'm Azakeem dropped the ball in 2000 giving the Saints their first playoff whenever. And I'm embarrassed to say I was wearing a fucking Ram shirt when I went. I got the tickets from a dude that played for the Saints and I was wearing a Ram shirt.

We met up with his wife after the game. I saw his wife. And she looks at my shirt up 14 years old. And she goes, oh, tough. Tough luck, man. I was like shit. But not like I was a huge Rams fan, but in my mind, like they were from St. Louis and I was St. Louis guy and and like I had the you know I had the Super Bowl pinning on the wall from the year before

and I'm St. Louis so I root for the Cardinals. I root for the Rams. I root for the blues. And those are the teams I was into and I am St. Louis. But then over time and actually the funny thing is I was a Chiefs fan as a kid. So but I was always rooting for Missouri. I just felt this loyalty to Missouri for whatever reason. But as I stayed in Louisiana longer and really what really did it for me and I Some of you will experience this, anybody who's ever moved away from home. And you start to grow more fond of things that you took for granted or you didn't care as much about when you live there. So growing up, I paid attention to the Saints and I went to a lot of the games and I wanted them to win. But it wasn't until I moved away and I wasn't there every day and I didn't hear the people talking about it every day that I really started to get invested in it.

And it was the same for LSU. When I was on the radio in Baton Rouge, I used to shit on LSU because I was the radio guy, and I had takes. I was hot take guy, you know? But then I move away and all of a sudden I love LSU. Like I feel like it's like, you know, I'm in foreign land and LSU is my team. I don't know. I'm sure you all experienced something like this at some point in life, but watching Drew get into the Hall of Fame and seemingly a good dude and, you know, the team, you know, rebuilding New Orleans. with the team and you felt proud to be a fan of the Saints and you felt like on most nights

they had a shot to win and I don't know. It was so different. It's amazing how one or two people can completely change the fortunes of franchise. I mean, look at the Patriots. The Patriots were fine as an organization. They had a few moments and they had gone to a couple Super Bowls. But like the Patriots were not some dominant franchise. They would have fleeting moments of success, but most of the time the Patriots were just a giant waste. I mean, nobody cared about the Patriots. but then Belichick and more importantly, I guess, Brady gets there and ends up playing for Drew Bledsoe because Bledsoe gets hurt. And all of a sudden the Patriots, you wouldn't know that the Patriots 25, 30, 40 years ago where basically it also ran. Now they're one of the class organizations of the NFL.

But that's what the Saints were. The Saints were a dormant. The Saints had brief moments of success. You know, they had a couple of years in the late 80s, early 90s with the Dome Patrol defense and the Cage Cannon. And they had a couple of moments. and outside of that it was about almost 40 years of nothingness and then Drew and Sean

and Reggie and the guy that ran the whole damn thing was Drew so I don't know it's cool that's very cool to know that our dude first ballot slam dunk no doubt Hall of Famer and I like that so anyway more to come