The Josh Innes Show - Monday Night Meltdown and Kelce Overload

Episode Date: September 17, 2024

We just watched the Eagles meltdown on Monday Night Football. The good news? Barkley dropping that pass gave me the chance to hit 3 passing yard over bets. The bad news? The poor guy wearing that Falcons crown is going to get his ass kicked in the parking lot. Did the Eagles make the right call throwing on 3rd and 3? Jilly is sick of seeing Jason Kelce. Bryce Young got benched. Texans fans continue to count their blessings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Josh and Jilly just finished watching Monday Night Football where the Eagles, the ultimate bed-shitting situation that we saw, everything about this was terrible from the way they look first of all let's just start here all right we're going to jump off with the decision to go for the the pass on third and three I'm okay with that decision to throw it because the ball was there and look I put the blame on Barkley on that one this by the way this guy right here that's the this fella and the this foul oh god before we get into breaking down the game there is a very um flamboyant gentleman rooting for the falcons that they keep showing on tv he's wearing like a feather boa and a crown and a falcons cape brother i fear for your life tonight.

This is not a good night to be a very flamboyant, dressed like Liberace Falcons fan after the Eagles really delivered the greatest bed shitting you're going to see. There's a lot of bad losses. This is a terrible loss. And these people are going to be angry remember that time when we were there and that uh giants fan got his ass kicked in the train station it was a big story yeah yep yep all right this guy may want to put himself in like a fucking popemobile to get

out of there because this is brother you're in a whole lot of shit. Because that dude is going to get stumped. This guy's going to do it. This guy right here. We got Santa. We got the guy with the mullet and the Eagles headband on. He's like, basically, he's Jim McMahon. He's Eagles-era Jim McMahon. Kirk Hobang's doing the damn thing.

There's a lot of shit to get into on this game. The fact that you ended up hitting both of these passing overs is actually remarkable. Let me tell you what. Okay, we can start there. So you and I traveled over to Illinois to make a live bet because it looked like my bet was not going to hit for Kirko's yards. I took that before the game started. Oh, baby McDougal's crying.

He's got his hoodie on. He's got his jersey. And he's sad. But so because of the fact that I didn't think I was going to hit my initial one, I went back over to Illinois and played two live bets, one for Kirk's passing a yardage over and one for Jalen Hurts. If they pick up that first down and don't score a touchdown, none of them hit. As it turns out, not only did Kirk hit, not only did the Jalen live bed hit the first bed of the day with Kirk hit as well. So really a miraculous day for me, but I know if

there's McDougals listening, you don't give two shits about the fact that I had a miraculous last two minutes of that game. Totally get it. We will start with how that gentleman's going to die tonight in the parking lot. That's obviously going to happen. I feel like he will not be making it home with that crown and with that cape. It's not going to go well for that dude at all. Death is in his future. An ass-kicking's in his future. He might want to do what he might want to do.

They showed another morbidly obese gentleman wearing falcons gear nice a portly black he looked like sherman clump he may want to walk with him now i'm not saying that guy is going to be able to fight anybody off because he doesn't look like he can move very well but he provides a little beef to help him out because i think our boy with the crown and the cape and the falcons cape tonight might be your last night on earth brother uh rest in power assuming that does happen um I'm praying for I'm not even religious but I'm gonna say a prayer for you right now now this is not gonna drop until tomorrow morning so we might find out that this man's dead by the time this

airs and this will be totally dated but i'm shooting up a prayer to the man upstairs because he helped me out tonight with three fucking hits in the last two minutes of this game that had no business being hits so maybe there is a god after all and i will say that um lord uh there's a very flamboyant gentleman at the Eagles game tonight rooting for the Falcons. Has a Lil Nas X vibe about him. And, well, McDougal's not going to be happy tonight. No, see, if the Eagles would have won, I think he would have survived. They would have given him shit.

But I think he would have survived. Now I don't know. Look, Lord, so, look, I don't know that gentleman, and he didn't know me. He may not give a shit if I live or die, but I'm going to send up a prayer tonight that Lil Nas X Falcon's edition with his cape and his crown and his feather boa, let him live tonight. You don't want to be your last night on Earth being the parking lot of The Link. You don't want to be your last night on earth, be in the parking lot of the link. You don't want that. So Lord, I'm looking at, look, I think this is going to help me down the road, looking out for somebody else, saying a prayer

for somebody else. I think that's going to give me, I'm trying to curry favor with the Lord. Cause I need some shit to work out for me in life too. So maybe this will help. It's called karma. I don't know if the Lord gives a shit or not about karma, but I think it's good karma. Cause usually when I'm angry, I just hope people die, which I do like three or four times a day, which is not good to say.

So stop. Yeah. You're on the right track here. This is good. Look, this is, this is where the healing begins. Um,

a lot of times I'll get angry. I hope they all die. Cause I'll get mad. This man, I hope he lives because it's a nice night for him. Now, now that I've spoken to Lord, amen, through him, in him, with him, glory to God in the highest, peace to his people on earth, the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, all that shit.

What a terrible loss for the Eagles. And I guess where you got to start it I mean it's hard to even find where you start because one Jalen Hurts once again making terrible decisions in games now that one there at the end of the game which by the way had you taken an interception live in the game for him it was like plus 250 or something so the pick really the shocker of the year is that Kirk didn't throw the big pick Kirk has exercised someay night football demons i think earlier today kirk was like minus 170 to throw a pick and jaylen was like plus 110 yeah so that means they're thinking he ain't throwing a pick now that's an really i can't even call that a desperation situation

though you weren't desperate look what where was that play run from like the their own 35 something like that you were not in desperation mode you had plenty of time you had a timeout to work with there was no reason to just heave a ball 35 yards down the field unless you're just trying to be a hero take what's there dump it off dump it off you're fast you're used to working fast anyway why why would you ponder that now I sound like the announcers from the vikings when farv threw the pick against the saints that sent the saints into the super bowl like how would you even ponder passing why would you throw that pass there you don't need to pick up 40 yards you need to

have two or three plays that each pick up 10 to 12 you got a big legged kicker who's hit many giant kicks in his career. You're at home. Why would you throw that fucking pass? There is no reason to do that. But he did it. But then again, I would have said that about Kirk too, but Kirk had to move the ball down the field because they had no timeouts, and they had to go. They had to motor.

So I get why he was doing it, but brother, what are you doing, Jalen? Now, let's start here, though. So you look at the decision to throw it on third and three. I'm not going to rip the coach for that. And the reason I'm not going to rip him for that is because the play was there. If it's caught, it's at least a first down. And you should see Twitter now how quickly they have turned on Saquon. Look, he dropped the ball.

Like if he catches that, it is a 100% first down. And the game's over. So the decision was there. There is no reason to shit on Sirianni for that decision. It was the right decision, and it worked. Like he just dropped the ball. So really, Saquon deserves the shit although sirianni i think did a terrible job for most of the game handling what they did in the red zone

like they would go away from saquon they would go away from the run like there were a lot of bad decisions that they made in play calling but that play with the game on the line if he converts that worst case scenario he goes out of bounds but it's a first down and the game's over anyway. Okay, so I'm watching the replay now. The ball was snapped from like their own 40-yard line with 20 seconds to go and a timeout. You need a field goal to win the game. Like that's where guys like Drew Brees were so good. I remember one, like many games, I should say, where Drew Brees is in a position where you dump, you dump, you dump, you take what they give you and you get your ass into field goal range. That was a dreadful situation. Now, I guess another argument that could be made, again, I'm all over the place,

but as I'm just watching highlights, there is an argument to be made that they could have taken the unsportsmanlike penalty on the kickoff and had great field position to start as well. I think they made the right decision, though, to make him kick a longer extra point, although Young-Hae Koo is one of the better kickers in the league, and he just constantly drills kicks like that, so it was going to happen anyway.

But the play was right. It was the right decision. Sometimes you can make the right call call and it doesn't work out. Now, if they were to run that play and Saquon is checked and he's not open, if he catches that, they're picking up eight yards and the game's over. He dropped the ball, but it was the right call. There's no disputing that it was the right call. It hit him in the fucking hands at the 10-yard line.

I mean, it hit him in the hands. How do you drop that? Like, he deserves the shit. Like, he's played extremely well for the Birds in the first two games. You could argue he's their MVP the first two games. He's been fucking great. But you've got to make that play. Oh, that's an interesting stat.

Barkley has 16 drops since the start of 2021 the most by any running back so number 16 was a massive one I guess when you play for the Giants your drops aren't really elevated or like highlighted because you're never in anything anyway you're not a contender when you're playing in Philadelphia and you're trying to go 2-0, and every year is a Super Bowl year, and you're expected to go and at least be a contender for it, to drop that ball is inexcusable. So, boy, they're going to have to deal with a lot of shit. That city's going to melt down over that, and rightfully so. And the worst part is you let Kirk fucking Cousins.

Look, I like Kirk, especially after watching the QB show. Seems like a likable guy, affable guy. I like him a lot. That guy is known as prime time choker, prime time interception thrower, melts down in these key games. You've beaten him many times soundly in games just like this when he was with Minnesota and you let Kirk cousin like that should be there here's the two people that the two things that should really draw the ire of the fans this just off the top of my head after watching this game instant reaction your first thought should be Saquon what the fuck you catch that ball it's the game you win it it was a great a great call. It worked. You fucked up. Two, you have to look at the fact that the defense put up zero resistance.

Keep this in mind. Kirk's a statue. Like, it's believed that he's still not 100% from his Achilles. So he's a statue back there. He's not mobile. You let him sit there and pick you apart at the end of the game. Unbelievable. First road win in Philadelphia since 2012 for Atlanta.

I don't know how many road games they've played in Philly since then. Probably a handful, maybe. But it feels like they're always playing a primetime game in Philadelphia against Kirk Cousins, for what it's worth. But boy, that's brutal, man. Just bad decisions were made uh bad how do you let that happen defensively now i guess the argument is the only thing you couldn't let happen was them score a touchdown so i guess you could play somewhat safe to me i'm going after the

motherfucker like go back to the texans game last night you know what the texans did so well and granted it's different when you're facing a guy that's 12 13 years in versus a guy that's in his second start ever but late in the game the Texans actually dialed up the pressure on Caleb Williams and said you go try to beat us and they kicked his ass go back and watch that last drive that was pathetic defensively bang bang bang touchdown like I mean just picked you apart, man. So, McDougal ain't going to be, it's not going to be a pleasant time in McDougalville tonight. And you were telling me that the Twits is already just destroying Saquon. They've turned, they have turned, the tides have turned.

Three touchdowns last week mean nothing because you dropped the ball today and you cost them the game. Yeah, that's not right. And then Jalen Hurts, of course. I'm not a Hurts believer. I don't think he's good. He's fine. I don't believe that he's really any good, though. He's whatever.

But to go in there and lose that game is pathetic. Now you've got to go to New Orleans, as we've discussed, probably an NFC Championship game preview. Dome's going to be rocking rocking Derek Carr's got it and look I don't know how he figured it out but look he's look he's he's he's maybe the goat I think this hurts the Saints though now the Eagles are really gonna be fired up needing the win well of course but just because you're there's a lot of teams that are fired up and need to win and don't get it I mean the Bengals were fired up and needed to beat the Chiefs and still didn't.

Yes, but to lose it like this, they're going to come out. That's what I'm saying. They may. They very well may. But maybe the Saints at home in the toughest atmosphere you're ever going to face, the dome when the Saints are good, that should be where we're going to be at that game too. I'm sure we talked about that on the Drunken podcast yesterday,

but my dad says we got tickets to that game. So we're going to go. That's going to be electric. Going to see the boy in LSU Saints weekend. I texted Tank last night after you went to sleep. I was talking with Tank. So Tank is doing one of those Philly trips where they, you know, they take all the fans down to wherever the game is. And this week it's New Orleans.

So I think Angelo is going to be there, your hero. Tank. And I was texting with him. He's like, big dog. dog just i'll get you the details but i'll get you into my tailgate i'm like fucking right we'll tailgate with tank yes and the eagles fans who will be the little nas x fella getting our asses kicked wearing saints gear at the eagles tailgate see but i think it's different because it's not like we're going to philadelphia and being obnoxious we're at our home stadium so we're not no one's kicking our ass okay we're going to philadelphia and being obnoxious we're at our home stadium so we're not no one's kicking our ass okay we're going to their tailgate okay then i won't go then i'm gonna say

tank i'm gonna bail out because i don't want angelo to punch me in the dick you're such a dick like everything i say you take so fucking seriously it's so annoying so i make a joke and you're like fine we're not like you're laughing now but that's how it works in real life. That's life with you. I'm joking. I'm not like, I'm fine. No, but that's how you are in real life. I say something and I make one comment, then we're not going to do it. So that's why.

Look, I'm an ornery person. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I think that was a joke for me because you were like, fine, we're not going to go. That's what you do. Okay. I'm sorry. I take it back.

That's what you do. I get that. I don't mean to be that way. Look, I'm broken. What take it back. That's what you do. I get that. I don't mean to be that way. Look, I'm broken. What do you want me to tell you? I'm not a perfect person. I'm a broken individual. I'm working on it, trying to be better.

I'm trying to have a free spirit like that owl that was apparently in the tree yesterday that I remember vaguely being obnoxious. I got a lot of... I was going to ask you if you actually could hear it in the podcast or not. Well, somebody can send a message and let us know if you can actually hear. I would doubt, but this mic's pretty powerful. You held up the mic to the owl. Oh.

Well, I mean, I get that, but I should have climbed the tree and looked for him. Like, hello, Mr. Owl. Show me how many licks it takes to get to the center of the Tootsie Pop, brother. But, hey, if you guys actually heard the owl on the Drunken Podcast, send me a message and let me know that you heard the owl. That's all I need from you. Let me know if you heard the owl. Dude, people love this Drunken Podcast, too. Like, Allie Palladino, she loved it. I got more tweets and messages from people that were just

enjoying and that's what we were saying is it sucks because we're gonna be out of town sunday like we finally found something that people like like we should keep doing this and now it's like nope we're taking it away next week we'll bring it back the next week it's fine um we'll be drunk next sunday when we're back home you know but um, yeah, and the things people were quoting from this, I was like, it's so random. But I appreciate you guys. I really do. That's awesome. Now we have two days with no football.

But pretty soon we're going to get to that point in the year where the Mac starts playing on Tuesday. Like, I'm fairly certain there are going to be stretches where there's a football game every night. I never thought I'd be one of these people that's like, God, I miss football when it's not on. But when your baseball team, at least here locally, sucks and baseball's boring largely anyway, except for I'm looking forward to the Astros playoffs will be good. Just to make it more fun, I may jump in on the Astros to win the World Series when the playoffs start. Now, they're still what, four and a half up? They're losing as we speak tonight I don't know what the I don't think the Mariners played tonight but uh and you know it's also shaping up possibly okay so Detroit is now only a game and a half out of the wild card if the Astros were to make it they'd win the division that's how they're going to get in the playoffs so they'd be the division

winner they would be the third best record wise division winner and they would be the third best record-wise division winner, and they would have to play the third wildcard team, I believe is how it would work, right? And that means they would have to play Detroit, which means they'd play a three-game series all at home versus A.J. Hinch. And that would be exciting. I hate A.J. Hinch. I know that some Astros people don't, and they think he got screwed, whatever. I think AJ Hinch is a puss that had a chance to stop the cheating and didn't do it. I feel no remorse for the guy. Congratulations on being buried in Detroit. I do not like AJ Hinch. I don't believe managers matter anyway. So it would be fun though, because it would add a little element of drama.

We get a little drama in there, a little side story. It wouldn't be your typical, like, oh, we're playing Minnesota in the first round again, or one of those. You'd at least get a little bit of a back story, a little bit of drama there. That'd be fun. I'd enjoy that. But we'll see. I guess the Astros are still, what, are they four, four and a half, three and a half up? Like, they're not going to blow it.

They're going to get in. They may lose tonight. Padres are a pretty solid team. Well, there's another baseball thing I want to have happen, and that's my man Mike Schilt win the World Series with the Padres by some miracle because he got screwed here in St. Louis, and the Cardinals have sucked ever since he got fired. Again, I don't believe the manager matters that much at all,

but I'm all about him. Look, he got fired. Nobody knows why he got fired. The guy was manager of the year. They fired him for no reason, so they could hire their little dopey yes-man manager here. And I want him to go to the World Series and win the damn thing. They won't, but I'd like it.

It'd be fun. What are the Astros currently? What's their? They're four and a half. You're right, but they're still losing two-nothing currently. Tomorrow morning, we'll know more. Correct. But so they'll be, if they rally, they'll be five up.

If they lose, they'll be four back, because I don't up if they lose they'll be four backs I don't think the Mariners play tonight so five or four either way I don't think it makes that much of a difference they're not going to lose it the Mariners are still the Mariners and I've said that's really my only baseball take I've had for the last two months is I'm not going to bet against the Astros once they get in I believe in their rotation I think there's a lot of good shit about it and the mariners are still the mariners so no matter what happens they're gonna find a way to bottom out and they do they they fall apart they have no offense so uh there you go oh what's tank got oh look at boy

that pizza looks good i bet he ate that whole fucking box of pizza too i bet he did even Hollis Thomas loves the Victor Emmanuel Beneficial Society pizza well it looks good look at the shoes he's wearing they're those kind of shoes that are your are toes like the whatever tank tank's a good fucking time like he was telling me that like he's like the face of some the spokesperson for some alcohol I I'm like that, that tracks. I get that. I respect that. That makes a lot of sense. So I look forward to seeing Tank.

When's the last time we saw him? I couldn't tell you. It's been forever. There were multiple times we were supposed to see him and meet up with him. We never did. Cause either he had something or we had something. Yeah. So this should be the first time we've seen Tank in a hundred years.

So that'll be fun in new orleans he got us tickets for that eagles texans game we're supposed to meet up with him and then we he was doing some tailgate oh god that was forever ago too right yeah we went to that game that was before the rona so that's been because damn that's been forever so i don't know when we've seen tank last i talked to him on the phone a lot of people ask me that they go hey do you still talk with tank i'm like yeah i mean i tagged the text with forever. So I don't know when we've seen Tank last night. I talked to him on the phone. A lot of people ask me that. They go, hey, do you still talk with Tank? I'm like, yeah. I mean, I texted with him last night.

We don't talk every day or anything like that. But I text with him pretty – we text and talk and he'll call. He'll tell me how his mom's doing and everything. His mom still lives here in St. Louis. So there you go. So, boy, it's going to be Meltdown City on WIP, man. WIP, and I don't think anybody listens to 97.5, but they'll melt down on there too. But no one's going to hear it.

It's like, you know, it's going to, might as well, you know, tree fall in the woods thing. But, boy, but I think you're right, though, that there's an element of, like, now you get pissed off, Eagles. I was kind of hoping to have, I think you're right there. I was kind of hoping to have more of a more of a kind of comfortable cocky Eagles, but that's why I was kind of hoping they'd drive down there, kick a field goal, and you know, hey, so I, because I do

believe there's an element of, you know, like, I guarantee the Saints are an underdog in this game. They already were. They were, but I mean, I don't think it's going to shift that much. So what are they, like a field goal underdog? I think that's what they were yesterday. Okay, so. Look, and they may lose.

I don't think the Saints are actually good. I mean, maybe they are, but we'll see. I see a lot of people are kind of worked up about how the Texans didn't dominate the Bears. The Saints are actually now a one-point favorite. Boy, that swung. Well, I think you could play a big role in that too, is that today we found out that A.J. Brown's out for a couple weeks.

So I do think that plays a factor. Speaking of receivers, that number 18 looks like a guy that Philly people would just love. Little white dude catching two-yard passes. That's their kind of guy. But I saw that people were pissed about the texans not beating the shit out of the bears and look offensively they weren't great in the second half i don't think they needed to be uh they dominated caleb now i don't know that caleb sucks he's not like bryce young who probably does suck i was watching um a twitter discussion between some people fighting over the fact that

Bryce Young got benched. And the argument was, well, CJ Stroud is obviously much better than Bryce Young, and he is. But these Carolina people's argument was, well, if he had the weapons that CJ Stroud has, then it'd be different. Let us not forget that last year where C.J. Stroud was a baller as a rookie. Let's see. You lost Tank Dell for the last five games of the year. You didn't have Joe Mixon back then. You didn't have Stefan Diggs back then. And Nico Collins, everybody talks now about Nico Collins like he's a beast

because he is. He wasn't a beast before C.J. Stroud got there. C.J. Stroud's helped make that's a beast because he is. He wasn't a beast before CJ Stroud got there. CJ Stroud's helped make that dude a beast. So like the idea that, that CJ Stroud is just some sort of, uh, you know, product of having great people around him. Like, I'm not going to dismiss the fact that Carolina is a clusterfuck and like, it's, it's probably tough for anybody to go win there right now. So maybe Bryce young, isn't as shitty as he looks. And now he's getting benched for Andy Dalton. Maybe he's not as shitty as he looks,

but I don't think he's close to CJ Stroud. Like, do I think CJ Stroud would go into Carolina today and, and, you know, throw for 300 a game and win games? They're probably not, but I think he's better than Bryce Young. Like Young is not good. And people are all, I see people bitching about him getting benched. And how does this help the young man? Well, play better and you don't get fucking benched. At the end of the day, coaches and other players are trying to win fucking football games. And if Bryce Young doesn't give you a chance to win games, then put somebody else in. But the idea that, like, C.J. Stroud is only good because of where he plays let us not forget the

texans two years ago were the biggest disgrace of an organization there was the reason they got him is because they were terrible and a miracle you want to start looking back at like you know unanswered prayers everybody was pissed when they missed out on the number one pick because lovey said hey watch this and decided to win that game and everybody's like oh my god we've lost the number one pick and whatever. It's like that Garth Brooks, little unanswered prayers, baby. Now you got the number two pick. You got C.J. Stroud and assuming health.

Lord, another prayer. We're sending one up. If C.J. Stroud stays healthy, I mean, sky's the limit, man. Like, if you look at the young quarterbacks, I'm not talking about the Mahomes, as you know, the guys that have been there and done that you know but in that young crop of dudes that are like next level 23 24 year old dudes like which one of those younger quarterbacks would you rather have than CJ Stroud like like would you rather have Bryce Young obviously not would you rather have if you want to put Justin Herbert in there I'd rather have CJ Str. Would you rather have, if you want to put Justin Herbert in there,

I'd rather have C.J. Stroud. Would you rather have Caleb Williams or C.J. Stroud? I'd rather have C.J. Stroud. And go down the list of these guys. I don't put Kyler Murray in that group anymore, but I'd certainly rather have him over Kyler Murray. It's a weird place to be right now in the Texans. And how about the, dude, I loved all the shots of Houston last night too. It looked great. People were saying it was a lot of Bears fans in there. So that was kind of your typical dopey radio topic of all the Bears took over and people sold their tickets. Who gives a shit? A lot of Chicago people that have moved to Houston, though.

Well, there's a lot of people from a lot of those type of places where they hate the government there. They hate the Rona pissed off a lot of people. I was actually looking at some data of where people have been moving from because I was looking at market sizes, right? Because we're currently in what's technically like the 24th or 25th largest metro population of the country in St. Louis. And I was looking at some of the other ones, like Chicago, negative in terms of population, LA, a big drop, San Francisco, a big drop drop, New York a big drop. The places that are seeing the greatest influx of people coming, basically every city in Texas. Austin, obviously, the Joe Rogan boom there. San Antonio has seen a giant pop of like, I think, four or five or six

percent population growth in the last couple years. Houston, dude, Houston doesn't even feel like Houston anymore. Like, Houston kind of felt like kind of an unknown treasure. Now it's like you're in L.A. You can't get anywhere fast anymore. The traffic's terrible. But that's where people are moving. They're moving to these cities in Florida and Texas, and they're getting the fuck out of Midwest. No offense, but based on the people that run these cities, Midwest shitholes like Chicago or West Coast shitholes like LA and San Francisco or East Coast shitholes like New York. People are getting the

fuck out of there because they're tired of being run by fucking tyrants and they're coming down. And I don't care what your political beliefs are. You might live in Houston and hate right-wing politicians, whatever. I don't care. But what I'm saying is you'd much rather be down in Houston or Tennessee, like Nashville has seen a huge boom. That city's growing in a massive way Chattanooga Knoxville like towns like that are seeing a huge population uh growth because people are sick of the shit and um and Houston's kind of like that I think I honestly there's too many goddamn people in Houston like it's a different place than it was even four years ago when we left like it's very popular overpopulated and the traffic's fucking terrible but you know what we got cj stroud we got the astros

fucking a so there you go all right so uh i'm going to go watch more of the lsu nil documentary there's one more thing that we need to touch on though yeah this jason kelsey shit oh my god okay well i'm glad you brought that up here's where i get into a tough spot here's where my issues come with kelsey if i am critical of any jason kelsey coverage publicly then it becomes oh you're just mad because you got fired because you called the guy the thing. So no matter what, my opinion on Jason Kelsey will always be viewed as tainted, right? I will give you mine. And I have a friend who lives in Harrisburg now. She's from Philly, diehard Eagles fan. She loves Jason Kelsey. She even sent me a text tonight during this game that

said, this has got to stop. They're making me hate Jason Kelsey. He's in the soup commercial. He's in the cereal commercial. He's in the Sunday ticket commercial. He's in the booth. He's in the booth. I think he might like the attention more than Travis. I don't know. I honestly don't view Travis as an

attention whore. When he's on the field, he's cocky. When he's at the stupid parades and shit he is. Like I'm trying to break Jason Kelsey down and again if you're a Philly person

listening to this you're probably saying oh because like I don't actually hate the guy. I never hated the guy. Right? So like he's annoying.

I don't think again based on my friend who was the number one Jason Kelsey fan even she's getting sick of him. Yeah it's overkill. I got a text from a buddy of mine. Well, I got a text from Meltzer, and he's like, what the fuck's up with all this Jason

Kelsey? Like, here's the thing, man. What annoys me about Kelsey is that simpletons view him as like this guy that's just this good old boy that always just kind of finds himself on camera. Well, you find yourself on camera because you've spent five minutes not getting attention so you take off your shirt at the buffalo bills game and start chugging beers in the crowd like he is like people view me as someone who's desperate for attention and shit like that's how people always viewed me and it's always been the case he is a dude that is 100 desperate for attention and he starved for it and he has to have it.

And I think Philly people are probably getting burned on it too. I mean, he's on WIP like twice a week or something like that. I think at some point people just get burned out on it. I think it's the Kelsey cereal for me. I think that's the point where we've gone too far. Now, do they have an actual cereal? Like, I know they're doing Cheerios commercials. They do Honey Nut.

The Kelsey. I think it's like Cheerios commercials. They do Honey Nut. The Kelsey. I think it's like the Kelsey something. Kelsey Flakes or something? Oh, well, either way. I tell you. Like, again, I understand where some... The Travis and Jason Kelsey Kelsey mix. It's a mix of Reese's Puffs, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and Lucky Charms.

That's a real thing. Also, that sounds fucking gross. Look, let cereals be. And I think like Mama Kelsey's getting like a cooking show or some such shit now on reality TV. Yeah, like, and again, they wouldn't be where they are. Like, I think Kelsey would be a popular guy. I think both of them would be without Taylor. But Taylor and the attention they get from Swifties has elevated their stock. They ain't getting 100 mil for their podcast without Taylor. But Taylor and the attention they get from Swifties has elevated their stock.

They ain't getting 100 mil for their podcast without Taylor. No, no, they're not, obviously. But the podcast was still successful before Taylor, but it takes it to a different stratosphere. Like, no one gives a shit about listening to these two brothers talk about football to the tune of $100 million if one of them's not fucking Taylor Swift. Presumably.

I'm assuming they are. Who knows? Could just be all for show. But that's my problem with Kelsey. It's the same thing that happened to me with Adam Wainwright. It's kind of similar. Now, Wainwright was never an obnoxious guy. He's always been a very laid back, kind of chill dude. And then I started getting pissed when Adam Wainwright was openly just saying he was still playing to try to win 200 games and didn't really give a shit about the outcome of games the team was terrible and he'd go out and throw batting practice and basically get lit up every game and that's when I started to dislike him and I know like you would listen to this and you go well it's obvious why you hate Jason Kelsey look I said I made a dumb joke about Jason Kelsey that

got my ass in trouble do I think people overreacted to it? Yes. Do I think Jason Kelsey made things worse by the way he reacted to it? 100%. But I'm the one that fucking said it. And by the way, I continue to own that because I made the joke. I knew what I meant by it. And that's fine.

To me, if I say something and I know what I meant just because you don't fucking get what I meant and you're whatever then that's you but I can sleep at night knowing what I said knowing how I meant it he reacted to it in a weird way that made him a real super victim and also made me look like I said something worse than I actually said fine that is what it is but they're annoying and really it isn't Travis though you're right like Travis like you see him at the fucking tennis match with Taylor and they're obnoxious singing the killers and okay. It's annoying, but it's, it's Jason that's fucking everywhere. And it would be one thing if I felt like he was truly an unassuming guy that like didn't understand why he was getting

all this attention. He seeks it. Like it's almost like it's like his drug like getting attention from people and being the center of attention is a drug for this guy like every day like today he's on the pregame show then he's just randomly at tailgates dancing with people it's like it's kind of like Bill Murray right like I feel the same way like when there was that stretch where Bill Murray like everybody was like wow he's so quirky and he just like he's so odd and he shows up at people's weddings but when you do it all the fucking time you're not being unassuming like you know what you're doing and that's how i feel about jason kelsey like i find him to be annoying maybe he's a good analyst i don't i didn't hear him but we were watching the manning cast which is far more entertaining

than listening to joe buck and troy aikeman uh especially when it's a game that the only interest you have is betting so i don't need to hear you know joe buck and fucking jason kelsey um that's what's funny no one seems to hate jason kelsey they all fucking hate pat mcafee and mcafee like is actually if you want to talk about earning your stripes in the media world, dude was a podcaster, went out and did stand-up comedy on the road doing stand-up comedy, and has built a whole empire. What has Jason Kelsey done? He talks with his brother once a week, and that's become this whole thing. Pat McAfee is day in, day out, program, makes college game day more bearable.

Because, oh, by the way, college game day, if they were just relying on Lee Corso, my Christ, that's elder abuse. Love the guy. Elder abuse. The fact that he's still on TV, it's sad. They've got now 11 people on the panel every day on this damn show. Pat makes the show, but he gets so much shit. But then people look at Jason Kelsey and think, boy, he's just a good old unassuming dude. No, he's not. He knows exactly what he's doing. He's obnoxious. And I think even Philly people are getting sick of it. So

good call on that one, Jelly. Thank you. All right. So now we'll get out of here and go watch some stories. Go watch the LSU NIL thing on Amazon, which is a joy to watch. We're about an episode and a half into it. I think there's four of them. And we love you guys. Tell your friends about the pod. We'll see you.