The Josh Innes Show - Good For Russ Wilson

Episode Date: October 21, 2024

For whatever reason, I've really enjoyed watching the Aaron Rodgers let Jets suck. It brings me great pleasure. Anywho, the real story isn't what Aaron didn't do. The story is what Russ Wilson did. This man deserves a shit load of credit for ballin'. The whole world was seemingly against him. It may not last. But, this is a possible redemption story. Oh...and the Steelers may actually be good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Howdy friends, welcome in. Josh Ennis show, fresh off the NFL weekend, the college weekend. It's Monday morning. I decided not to record anything last night after the Sunday night football game, which was successful for me because I took the 500 combined passing yards for Rusty and Aaron Rogers and they crushed that. Good job, Rusty, huh? Boy, and they crushed that. Good job, Rusty, huh? Boy, what a... And look, I got to get to the Texan stuff and some other stuff, but that game last night, first of all,

it's hysterical to watch Aaron Rodgers continue to lose. They're now 2-5. Congrats to Devontae Adams for leaving a 2-5 team to come play for another 2-5 team, but he gets to hang out with his buddy and ride tandem bicycles and apparently share a house together. Apparently Devontae's got an apartment, but he just chooses to live with Aaron Rodgers for whatever reason.

But, boy, Rusty. Look, I'm going to give this dude credit because if you think of all the shit this dude's dealt with, and let's start here. Dude's a well-known cornball. Like, we all know this. Dude's a doofus. A lot of his shit seems fake.

A lot of his former teammates talk mad shit about him. He was treated like dog shit by Sean Payton in Denver. Like, Payton could not wait to get rid of this dude. I mean, he was treated like garbage. Let us not forget that this man was in two Super Bowls, and if not for not giving the ball to beast mode, he would have won two Super Bowls in Seattle. Yes, the defense was the biggest part of that, not the offense,

but Russell Wilson, by and large, has been a well, well, well above average NFL quarterback for most of his career, and he stunk in Denver and towards the end in Seattle. But he comes out, and this story is so fascinating too, because Justin Fields has played fine. He had some good games, some mediocre. He's fine. But they brought in Rusty because they felt Rusty could win games for him,

and he couldn't play due to his injury. But what Mike Tomlin said about why he chose to do this was, look, I got both of these guys here. I got to see which one gives us the better opportunity to win a Super Bowl. Now, in fairness, none of us believe that either one of those guys is winning them a Super Bowl. However, one has been to multiple Super Bowls and one is already on his second NFL team after being a very high draft pick. So, you know, I can see where you at least want to give Rusty a shot.

But what's interesting is Tomlin was talking about this, and he's like, listen, most of the guys want me to stick with Justin Fields. I'm on an island, I think was his exact quote. I think it was something along those lines of, I'm on an island here. I'm the only dude that wants Russ to play I'm the only guy and we're gonna find out if I'm right or I'm wrong but I gotta see what I got in this guy and early on it didn't look great first drive was okay got a little play action boot action short pass okay next handful of drives not good and they're booing and it's like holy shit I'm

worried that my play is not going to hit something and they're going to go back to Justin Fields but then my man just starts connecting on some deep balls and George Pickens is making plays and before you know it dude has not only outplayed Aaron Rodgers they dismantled Aaron Rodgers in the second half so good for him. Look, I'm not the biggest Russ guy. I don't really care about Russ. I'm not some diehard fan of the guy, and I have no dog in the fight. But last night, the whole world is looking at Aaron Rodgers

and his boy, Toy Devontae Adams, and what they're going to do and how they're going to change the world. And oh boy, look out. Aaron Rodgers has all of his dudes dudes and he's ready to go. And the story of the game was a dude that's been left for dead for like three or four years. A two time super bowl participant. One time winner should have been two time winner is left for dead, treated like garbage by Sean Payton, uh, left out in the cold with Seattle they don't want him anymore part of what's considered the biggest trade bust ever other than you know Sean Watson Sean Watson said hold my beer I'll fix that don't worry but the guy comes out nobody wants him to

play like imagine being in that spot that's not an enviable spot to be in knowing that virtually everybody thinks you suck even the fans that are cheering for you think you suck the team you took to the Super Bowl most of those teammates seem to think you sucked all the analysts think you're a lame cornball and everybody all week is saying that they're making a mistake putting you back in. Dude comes out and throws for 260-plus. His over-under in the pregame was 175. He had damn near 100 more yards. That would have won you a shit ton of money had you just taken him to throw for 250.

It probably was plus 300 or 400. Rusty, left for dead, comes back from the grave. Maybe next week he sucks. Maybe it was a one-off. But I'll tell you this, Pittsburgh hasn't been able to move the ball like that in years, whether it's Kenny Pickett, whether it's Justin Fields, whether it's Mason Rudolph.

That's the best that offense in Pittsburgh has looked. Because last year, I was a big bettor on Kenny Pickett because his totals were low, and he'd usually pick up a lot of garbage yards. Most games with Kenny Pickett last year when he was the starting quarterback, your boy Kenny would go out there and throw for like 42 yards and an interception in the first half, and then I'd live bet him at like 130 yards, and he'd throw for 90 in the second half, and he'd cover.

But they offensively have been inept. I'm not telling you anything you don't know. It's well documented. They've been searching for someone really ever since Roethlisberger was gone trying to fill that void. Is it Russ Wilson? I don't know. I know this dude's got a shit ton more skins on the wall than Justin Fields,

and I know that's the best Green Bay or rather Pittsburgh has looked in years once they finally got it going. So amazing to watch that art go from entire stadium jacked up for the game. Makes a couple plays early. They're jacked up. Sucks for three or four drives. They're booing mercilessly. Then the man comes out.

You make one big throw and it just kind of gets it all going. I think it was that Pickens throw that got that drive going. And after that, the dude couldn't miss. So that game was fun for him last night I'm enjoying watching Rodgers bottom out and uh and that team stink they're just a disaster keep firing people and bringing in Rodgers buddies and all you're doing is continuing to lose and not only did you lose last night you were skunked in the second half and you sucked like it was fitting that it ended with Aaron throwing a ball that basically hit a dude in the face on the defensive line on fourth down.

He's pissed off. Then the Steelers march down the field and kill seven and a half minutes off the clock and end the game. That game was good. I enjoyed watching that last night. I don't know why I've grown to dislike Aaron Rodgers. I don't disagree with some of his stances. Like some people, when I make fun of Aaron Rodgers on social media, they'll say, oh oh but guess who was right about the COVIDs I'm like fine I that's not what this is about I just find myself annoyed by him there are certain people that we as individuals find

ourselves annoyed by and sometimes there is no reason like we just dislike them we're annoyed by the coverage of them we're annoyed annoyed of hearing about them. We're tired of them. Aaron Rodgers is someone I'm tired of. He seems like a pompous ass, which is fine. We all have an element of pompous ass in us, but I find him to be very self-important. I find him to be a guy that clearly has a lot of control over what happens with the Jets, but loves to pretend that he has no control over it. Like, oh, me? Little old me? No, no, no. I'm just sick of hearing about Aaron Rodgers, and I enjoy that he's 2-5. I enjoy that his butt buddy that he brought to town

to be the savior of the offense had three catches early. Zip in the second half. Garrett Wilson, who has potential to be a superstar, this poor bastard looks kind of lost out there too, has a ball hit him in the chest, pops in the air for an interception. I enjoyed that game thoroughly last night. For a beat-down blowout game like that, of lost out there too has a ball hit him in the chest pops in the air for an interception um i enjoyed that game thoroughly last night for a beat down blowout game like that my man nause was

toting the rock i enjoyed that game it's i enjoy when people overcome adversity that's legit adversity like sometimes people create their own adversity. You know, it's kind of like a quarterback who throws like three picks in the first half and they're down by 20 and then they rally to win and it's like, wow, he overcame so much. Well, he overcame the fact that he put them in the hole to begin with, right? There's real adversity and there's like made for tv fake adversity i think what what you got out of russ wilson is legit adversity because this guy was at the highest of the highs and it seems like it's been forever since anybody viewed him as anything other than corny doofus lame catchphrase guy that a lot of people take a shit on for what happened in Seattle.

And then Denver was obviously just a mess, even though if you go back and watch the last handful of games he played, he didn't play bad ball. But considering what they traded to get him, he and Sean Payton apparently didn't get along and all that. It was a disaster. That's legit adversity. Now, it's not like, oh, I had to have three toes removed and I still came back and was a great soccer player adversity or something like that, but it is legit sports adversity. The whole world is against you, and it's not really a mess that you created.

I mean, yes, I guess your poor play did it to an extent, but with everybody up against you, even the people who are supposed to be rooting for you are up against you. The Pittsburgh people within a handful of drives are booing and want you out of the game. They want Justin Fields back in. The television broadcast keeps showing shots of Justin Fields saying, oh, well, they put him back in. Who's the guy that makes them a better team? Your own teammates on this current team were one saying they shouldn't have dumped the quarterback. The coach is saying, I'm on an Island. I'm the only one that wants to do

this because I want to see what we got. I think it's only fair that now that he's healthy, we do it. And then he goes out and is spectacular. And then after the game, he's being interviewed. And look, if that shit were me and all those people booed me like my first instinct to be like how do you like me now bitches you steel town hillbilly yinzers come at me now i bet you're glad i was in there after you just dominated aaron rogers and we shut him out in the second half tell me more about aaron rogers tell me more about davante adams tell me more about garrett wilson tell me more about how justin me more about how Justin Fields is the savior of this football team and they made a mistake put me in I would have said all that shit but that's

just how I am guy put on the fake modesty of course but he goes out there and he's like hey I also just want to say thanks to Justin for holding it down basically saying hey thanks for keeping my seat warm chief but uh Rusty's back and I'm ready to do some slanging again i don't know who they play next week whoever it is might beat the shit out of them but i think you also have to look around the afc and start looking at who's real contenders obviously you got the chiefs chiefs beat san francisco san francisco seems to be a mess anyway at this point players are hurt like their kicking game sucks like there are legit issues with San Francisco now granted they're not an AFC team but just looking at it from the standpoint of the Chiefs

beating them I don't know how impressive the Chiefs beating them was I get that it was on the road and I get they've played in the Super Bowl like I get all that but the Chiefs continue to win despite the fact they keep losing players despite the fact that yesterday was one of those Kelsey games where he just seemed checked out. Maybe he was upset that he didn't get to party at the Arrows Tour with the fam over the weekend. I don't know what the issue was. But there are some days where you look at Kelsey,

and I could be totally off on this, but there are days that you look at Kelsey and you go, this ain't going to be one of those days for him. Like early on in the game, if he gets a couple of catches early, you're like, all right, I think he's going to go for 80 today. I took him to have 62 yards because it seemed like they had finally started getting him the ball. You know who was getting the ball in this game?

Noah Gray. Once Noah Gray makes a couple of big catches early in a game, you're like, yeah, I don't think this is going to be a day for old Travi. And he has a look on his face a lot of the time. Like he just looks either tired or just kind of like blah. Yesterday was one of those tired blah days when I looked at him. He just felt checked out of that game for whatever reason. I never felt like he was going to be a big impact in that.

So the Chiefs are undefeated. They're the class, I guess, of the AFC you know they're not doing things overly impressive but they're getting the job done they still have Mahomes they still have Andy Reid they're still having dudes that you've never heard of making big plays for them or dudes that you know you know guys that should matter like Xavier Worthy making big plays, and Kareem Hunt being resurrected, but they're able to figure it out. Even with Mahomes throwing a pick in every game and not being particularly great yesterday, they were able to get it done. And I think a lot of that had to do with just the ineptitude of San Francisco yesterday,

but they got it done. So you look around the AFC. Chiefs are undefeated, Ravens tonight in a game that I would think is going to be a shootout. I would hope is going to be a shootout because quietly Lamar is out here having games where he's throwing for three hundo. Now, you know that Tampa, all they like to do is throw. And I don't think they're going to be able to run the ball against Baltimore. So they're probably gonna have to throw a lot. This has potential to be an over. This has potential to be a shootout.

And I think Baltimore is going to win this thing. So you're going to have Baltimore right there with Kansas city. And I don't know if it's a huge drop off once you get past those two teams. Because again, Baltimore very well could have beaten Kansas city. They're about two inches from beating them in that opener. And then we might be talking about things differently too. Because Kansas City is not undefeated at that point. But you start looking around the AFC.

And you're like who's a contender?