The Josh Innes Show - FS1 Bone Fest

Episode Date: January 7, 2025

I start by responding to some tweets from a person who felt I was being unfair to Mike Evans. I stand by what I said. The Saints were full on cowards for letting him catch the last pass. Speaking of the Saints, Derek Carr, noted mediocre QB, said something really stupid. A listener requested that I discuss the nefarious goings on at FS1. My biggest take away is that all this is going down at a network that no one actually watches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I got a tweet, a string of tweets last night from a guy who wasn't happy with my breakdown of my disdain for Mike Evans and understand that my disdain for Mike Evans comes from being a Saints fan and they go back and forth and back when the Saints were good and they were fighting for playoff spots they were going at it it was a fun rivalry and I fucking hate Mike Evans but the guy seemed to be kind of put off by the idea that I was upset that Mike Evans was celebrating this thousand yards bro if you think Mike Evans was celebrating a thousand yards for 11 years in a row or whatever it was that dude was celebrating because he got three million dollars like that celebration wouldn't have been the same had three million dollars not been involved in it let's be real my there are two big issues that I take with this all right And I said this when I was hammered on Sunday, and I will say it again to be clear how I feel about this.

One, my biggest level of contempt goes towards the Saints because the Saints did nothing to stop that. The game was over. In any other universe, you're going to take a knee and the game's over. I understand why Tampa didn't. I respect the fact that Todd Bowles and Baker Mayfield and everybody else were all on board with getting Mike his numbers so he could have a thousand yard season and he

could get his three million dollars. I respect that and I know why they did it. It happens all over the league. What I don't respect is the fact that the Saints didn't put four fucking dudes on Mike Evans. I would have held him every single time. I would have let them matriculate the ball up the field five-yard increments at a time based on five-yard defensive holding penalties until they got down to half the distance to the goal from the five-yard line. So they're at the two-yard line,

and he couldn't get that fucking number. That's what I would have done. Now, apparently, Rizzi, who's not going to be the coach, but he's the interim coach, said they wanted to double-team him there, and they didn't. You should have triple-teamed him. You should have put everybody on Mike Evans because they went and showed your ass up.

And for the most part, you did well against him for most of the game. You shut him down pretty good. Yes, he ended up with almost 90 yards, but for the most part, you shut him down pretty good. He didn't really do anything super explosive. You were pretty good. But when they lined up to run a play, and and trust me the coaches of New Orleans know that the players for the Saints know that they know why they were lining up they knew what they were going to do and I don't care what defense they called force Baker

to throw it either into an interception or force him to throw it out of bounds or force him to throw it to someone else but do not let Mike Evans be wide open five or six yards off the line of scrimmage that's what upset me and also Mike Evans celebrating that play as if it wasn't given to him by the mediocrity of the Saints by the Saints not calling a defense that put five guys on him he celebrated like he just set some all-time record when in reality he tied a record for a thousand yard season consecutively. That was my big issue with that. As a Saints fan, my opinion is not going to change of that. My opinion stands that the Saints did themselves and the fans and everybody else a disservice by not putting five guys, put the whole goddamn team on Mike Evans. You say, you know what? You want to go out and get your record? Where are you going

to have to earn it, chief? You want to make us look like stooges? Fine. It is what it is, but you're going to have to really earn it to do that. But they didn't do that. Hell, Marshawn Lattimore would have done it. Shit. If that team still had Marshawn Lattimore and CJGJ, who I think's a total fucking putz, but those guys wouldn't allow themselves to get shown up by Mike Evans. They would have done something. And by the way, Mike Evans is a schmuck anyway and a dirty player anyway, and fuck Mike Evans. But the point that those guys, like I'm not as pissed off at Mike Evans because I get why he wants $3 million and I get why the B want him to get three million dollars I'm pissed off at the saints and their coaches for fucking that up that's what pissed me off

so to answer your question you were coming at me like the guy goes well I know you don't really know x's and o's and all that I'm like I don't it ain't about x's and o's it's about fucking pride I don't claim to be some x's and o's expert it's about having some level of pride and letting some dudes just show your ass up and you just stand there and's about having some level of pride and letting some dudes just show your ass up and you just stand there and take it like a bunch of pudds. That bothers me. The fact that you didn't have eight dudes, my number keeps going up before you know it, I'll ask for 30 dudes. I want the whole goddamn roster on Mike Evans and not letting him show you up. But you couldn't do that. That alone should be why the dude doesn't get the job other than the fact that he was three and five in the eight games he coached but aside from that he shouldn't get the job based solely

on the fact that he let Mike Evans stooge you you got stooged by these guys you look like putzes with Mike Evans out there speaking of the Saints and putzes, fabulous quote, fabulous quote from Derek Carr about whether or not he'd be willing to take a pay cut. Keep in mind, the Saints are like a billion dollars over the salary cap limit, but it really doesn't matter because the salary cap's bullshit anyway. All these teams magically always find a way to make it work, so I don't really give a shit about the salary cap. But he says, quote, I wouldn't take a pay cut said Saints quarterback Derek Carr yeah I wouldn't do that especially with what I put on tape would I restructure absolutely I'll always help the team that way but there are some things that you put out there that you earned even in some cases it could have been worse but I felt confident when

I signed that this would give me the best flexibility at the time. But there's always a kind of respect as a quarterback. You're like, well, still we're in that respectful lane. We're good. Build the team. But, yeah, I wouldn't take anything less to do this. It's hard enough putting our bodies through it. And you're trying to get everything you can for your family for it. Trust me, bro, your family's fine.

You've made like $100 million as a quarterback in the NFL. Unless you're a degenerate gambler like me, I think you're going to be fine financially. So spare me the bullshit of I need to have enough money for my family. If losing $10 million on your $40 million salary means your family's going to go hungry tonight, then fuck you. But I just love the idea with what I put on tape. Derek Carr says, in the first two weeks of the year,

I really stunted and did a Michael Jackson dance and grabbed my dick. Then after that, things went wrong. See, what you learn here is, yes, the quarterback is important. And in some cases, the quarterback is good enough to overcome all of the issues that you have, right? So, you know, Patrick Mahomes can overcome a lot of bad shit because he's Patrick Mahomes. Tom Brady can overcome a lot of bad shit.

Drew Brees was able to overcome a lot of bad shit. You know, guys like that. You ain't those dudes, dude. That ain't who you are. You're not a dude that goes out there and is good enough to help overcome the inadequacies of the team. Those are the true stars and legends. The first, and by the way, first two weeks of

the year, you were fantastic. Why? Offensive line was intact. Receivers were intact. And that's part of it, right? It makes sense that you play better football when you've got better pieces around you. Makes total sense. Second, Eric McCoy goes out. You ain't the same dude anymore. You scored 90 points the first two weeks. You scored like 10 against the Eagles in week three. I was there. I watched it. Offense was shit without Eric McCoy when he got hurt early in that game. And the offense never did a damn thing with you again when you started having the offensive line issues or having the receiver issues, which, again, makes sense.

But you're talking like you're some sort of G out here and like we're doing this. No, you were great when everybody else was great. When those guys got hurt, you turn back into a pumpkin, dude. So spare me, Derek Carr, you pud. I don't know why I feel like calling people pud lately so much. Like, it's just like, like, I just keep referencing, like, you're a pud. Like, why? Like, when did I ever use the term pud ever and now everybody's a pud I'll watch the thing of the Mike Evans this fucking pud like what what is a like I know what a pud is but why why do I keep referring to people as puds I don't know uh but anyway let's play a

couple commercials and we will talk people want me to talk about this uhanky-panky going on with the boy, hanky-panky, Jesus Christ, Grandpa, at FS1. So you mean to tell me that Joy Taylor didn't earn her job? Well, I mean, to tell you, the two dudes she fucked allegedly, I think she earned it, but we'll talk about it. All right, if you're ready to win some real cash during the basketball playoffs, you got to check out Pick 6 from DraftKings. When it comes to basketball payouts, DraftKings Pick 6 posterizes the competition, including prize picks. It's a very simple concept. Hit all your picks and score higher minimum payouts

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Nick Wright and Nick Wright's buddy from Chicago that's on TV, and they don't watch Craig fucking Carton. They don't watch all these fucking radio dudes you're throwing on TV and these second rate former players that aren't good enough for ESPN. Like no one watches Fox Sports 1. Like when you look at their numbers, they'll be like, well, ESPN had a couple million viewers today and Fox Sports 1 had the 3,000. That's an exaggeration. But like 300,000, right? Now, they might get some views on their clickbaity trash they put on the internet, because that's what the world is now. You go put your clickbaity videos out there, and people watch your YouTube clips,

and ah, that's great. But you think anybody's sitting around watching fucking Colin Cowherd? Which really hurts me, because I think Cowherd used to be fantastic. When I was a kid in my teens, I worked in a building with my dad, but I worked at the sports station and the talk station and I ran the boards and shit. And Tony Kornheiser retired and they brought in Cowherd. And I thought Cowherd was spectacular. I was like, wow, I've never heard. Because the guy had an edge. He was miserable living up in the fucking snow.

It is impossible. Like sitting in snow right now, do I sound edgier today than I normally sound? You know why? Because I'm sitting in fucking snow. It is impossible to not have more of an edge when you're buried in snow like you are up in Connecticut at ESPN.

So you got cowherd, he's angry, he's on edge, he's talking shit, it's kind of funny. Dude moves to California, dyed his hair the first time over there and now everything he does is just recycled shit that he does every day and it's boring but it used to be really fucking good like i thought he was spectacular and now he isn't but do you think people are just sitting around watching Fox Sports 1 all day? Like nobody watches this stuff, right? Which makes all like this drama and this boning and all this shit that's going on behind the scenes even fucking better. Because it's not like, like if you ever read a book, I think it's called These Guys Have All the Fun or something like that.

And it was about the heyday of ESPN and how like all the shit that was going on behind the scenes. And like Mike Tirico, this guy that seems like this nice jovial person when you see him on Sunday Night Football. He was apparently like a horn dog in the building. And like it was like wild. But you're like these are dudes doing wild fun shit in the heyday of ESPN when everyone who loves sports watched ESPN. When SportsCenter was at its zenith, all that. It was badass. This is all happening behind the scenes at Fox Sports 1, which is a throwaway. No one gives a shit. No one's watching it. I got to find the actual numbers, but if you compare

FS1, I was listening to Jason Whitlock. Funniest shit you're ever going to listening to Jason Whitlock funniest shit you're ever gonna hear is Jason Whitlock explaining why he stayed away from Joy Taylor and it was because basically she always had her tits flopping out and he was like listen guys I know what I'm capable of so I had to stay away listen Jason I understand that she fucked that weird Jay Leno looking guy to get a job he's far more powerful than you. I feel pretty confident that there was nothing you could offer Joy Taylor that she would take. I also feel pretty confident as a fellow fat guy

that you haven't seen your dick in 30 years. There's no way. So the idea that you're capable of whatever you're capable of, yes, you're gonna take Joy Taylor and you're gonna give her something she's not gonna get from Emmanuel Acho. Who, by the way, may be the worst.

Like, I don't know if there's a more unlikable douchebag character out there than Emmanuel Acho. And come to think of it, he played for the Eagles, right? I want to say Emmanuel Acho may have been at one of these Chickies and Pete's or some remotes I was doing once. So I might have met him. I'm going to guess he wasn't always a douchebag but like the character he plays on television is such an unlikable horrible trolling self-important cunty douchebag that I I can't like I can't take him serious and he always does like the the wannabe smart guy thing by putting his finger up by his mouth like well and I'm thinking about this and then he puts his finger up on his mouth around his nose and he's like like because i'm thinking about something really important i'm

gonna say something so fucking profound no dipshit you're just a sports guy that found a niche and you say trolling dipshitty things that no one truly gives a shit about thank you but i am truly fascinated by the idea that this network that no one watches is where like all the weird like frivolity happens let's see this fs1 ratings let's google that and just it versus espn let's do that so august 29th um well this is a story that just says the ESPN people don't view FS1 as a, um, as a competitor and they're not, uh, like this story, FS1 surpasses ESPN2 in primetime viewership. Congrats. You beat the secondary ESPN channel that during bowl games puts fucking Pat McAfee and his goons on TV to say, uh, to speak in the Pittsburgh accent for four hours during the game.

And I say that as someone who respects and likes the shit out of Pat McAfee and I love his show, to speak in the Pittsburgh accent for four hours during a game. And I say that as someone who respects and likes the shit out of Pat McAfee, and I love his show. I'll put on the secondary broadcast of the college football playoff, and these dudes are goddamn insufferable on it. Because all they do is just repeat everything he says and they all like speak in unison and like uh like when one of the games it was a blowout every three minutes you'd get it collectively they'd all go this game is a shite and i'm like my fucking god dude like

i understand like i feel bad for you because they're plopping you in here for four hours watching a shitty game and you're supposed to entertain people, so more power to you. And I like it. I do not say this as someone who dislikes Pat McAfee. I think he does great on wrestling. I think his show is fun. But holy shit, it is so bad when he does those things. But anyway, so back to the hanky-panky at the loser network of Fox Sports 1. So apparently this Joy Taylor has worked her way up the ladder by fucking Emmanuel Acho and some dude that's in charge there.

Not an appealing looking dude at all. But she had to get her way to the top and that's how they got her. Apparently they forced her onto the Skip and Shannon show and Skip didn't want her on the show. But he's like, like fine I'll give her a chance and then like she I mean because she was banging this dude and the guy basically forced him to put her on there like there's nothing special about this Joy Taylor she's got big

tits like I don't see her as some super talent I would say that about dudes too by the way like there's a lot of dudes on TV who are not super talented or interesting people they're just good looking or they know somebody and they're on TV. So it's not just women. I'm trying to be very equal opportunity here.

But the other part of this story that's interesting is that apparently Skip Bayless offered some hairdresser $1.5 million to bang. And she even went so far as to claim she had ovarian cancer and couldn't bang. And he still didn't stop. He's like, I don't believe you because I think you're fucking Shannon Sharp. So I'm going to give you $1.5 million. Now, I don't know how true that is or not. Those are her words.

She claims it. So I don't know. I wasn't there. The first thing that came to mind when I thought of that is that if you offer somebody 1.5 million dollars and they turn down your advances you are truly a troll of a human like I don't know what it's like to be a woman and have someone make a pass at me and want to bang but I'm a dude so let's say some unappealing like lady like by the way these things do happen not to me but they happen some unappealing lady in upper management's like hey why, these things do happen. Not to me, but they happen. Some unappealing lady and upper management's like, Hey, why don't we hook up and I'll give you a job

or I'll pay a million bucks. I'd suck it on up and I'm going to town. I'm like, thank you very much. How hideous and terrible must skip Bayless be that like that's if I were skip Bayless, that would be my first thought is holy shit. I'm offering this woman a million and a half dollars and she doesn't want to bang I must be really ugly that's not I'm just self-conscious so I would just think that the whole fucking time if I were Skip Bayless now I don't think he thinks in those ways because I don't I think he's a broken person I think he's a legitimately weird fucking dude but I'm just amused by the depravity that was going on at Fox Sports 1, given that it's such a dumpy network, such an awful network. If you haven't read the ESPN book, and I think it's called Those Guys Have All the Fun or These Guys Have All the Fun. Interesting book that talks about all the backstage shit that was going on with them and how terrible Olbermann was and how terrible Tirico was.

That's an interesting book. because that's at the height, like that's bad shit happening at the height of something. FS1 is barely a blip. It just happens to be on TV. Have you ever, answer this, other than for like a baseball game or something where you're forced to do it. Have you ever been sitting on your couch and you're like, you know what? I'm going to flip on FS1 to see what's shaken. My guess is no. The only time you see FS1 is if someone's got it on at a barbershop or an airport or somewhere in the background of someone's house. Like you've never sat down and gone, you know what? I'm going to watch Fox. I'm going to watch Speak for Yourself. Click. No one fucking does that because no one gives a fuck. The whole debate show on TV thing is oversaturated and no one gives a, like, the bubble has burst.

It is over. No one gives a shit about that stuff anymore. And also, it is fairly commonplace for people to sleep their way or, you know, work the boss's way up through the the ladder I will not tell you who this person was but I do know that somebody got a job in media in Philadelphia that had no experience whatsoever doing media in Philadelphia and they got it because of someone they were hooking up with I know this so like I mean just connect the fucking dots but I saw some of this stuff with my own fucking eyes. So it happens. I'm not going to go deep into it because that's not my place to tell you who it was.

So I'm kind of being an asshole. I'm being the kind of guy I hate, which is, I know something, but I'll never tell. But I do. And I know it was happening. And it's someone who had no business being in the media, but got into the media because of someone they were banging. I'll leave it at that. And it did happen.

You can message me and try to guess who the fuck it is all day if you're in Philadelphia. If you really pay attention to media in Philadelphia, it's really fucking obvious who it was. But like, just, that's out there. Just let that be known. And no one, what I love is the crossing broads, nobody ever brought this shit up. Though they want to speculate about me and how terrible I am and how terrible Howard Eskin is. Oh, but when this random person got a media job that no one had ever heard of no one tried to connect the dots on it and go huh this is interesting that's fucking intriguing no one did

that but if anything happened with me it was oh he's a liar he's a cocksucker Howard Eskin's a liar and a cocksucker oh we know for a fact they're liars. But they didn't want to bury this person because they're fucking frauds. So what a day. We find out that Joy Taylor was the village bicycle. And it's not like she was in one of those spots where like, you know, the people were evil and approaching her.

She's just, in a way, you kind of respect it. You're like, fuck her. She said, I want to be a star and this is what I'm going to fucking do. She didn't sit back and have to get approached by these guys. She went out and said, I am hell-bent on being a star on FS1, so I'm going to go out, and I'm going to fuck my way to the top. Emmanuel Acho, let's go.

Random weird ogre man that runs the company, let's fuck. And I kind of respect that about her. She said, you know what? I'm not getting anywhere, anywhere else. So I'm going to use what I have. I'm going to use my assets. I'm going to work my way to the top. I also love it when people work their way to the top that way. There's always a tell. And the tell is when they're very defiant about how they earn their job. They probably did something that we would all look at and go, yeah, I don't know that you did. like she's one of those people that's like i'm a woman in media and i earned this job well i guess to fuck that white dude that you fucked you did kind of earn it so i can't dismiss

that but like everybody i earned this i'm a i'm a sports person i know sports and i'm on tv now i earned this if people say that kind of shit, like that video that was posted from Acho that he's now deleted, where he's explaining how like Joy Taylor is a black woman. She is a woman. She is a smart woman. Like, was that part of the deal? She's like, listen, I'll fuck you, but you got to go on the internet and tell people how smart I am. I'm smart. I don't know if those are the rules of your, I don't know if that was your fucking contract or not. I do not know. But these things do happen. And to a degree, I respect her because she said, you know what? I'm driven. She's driven friends. She was driven to go to the top.

And she, I think she's earned our respect a little bit i thought maybe some guy approached her no she went after some ugly dudes she held her nose and fucked what um someone said i forgot what i read on the internet they described the white dude she was fucking it's like a special jay leno and i'm like ah i see it well played sir dude the fucking comments people are making about this are top fucking notch but anyway all right we will talk again