The Josh Innes Show - NFL Schedule Release Videos

Episode Date: May 15, 2025

I enjoy NFL Schedule release videos. I think it's a clever way to take something mundane and make it interesting. This is why the NFL continues to win. I'm going to breakdown some schedules because I'm feeling super hackey today. Also, why are Houston teams obsessed with Bun B? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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teams to almost challenge each other by doing creative shit. And I think that's pretty fucking cool. Like I like when people are want to do creative stuff and elevate the game to another level. I think that's I think that's good. I think competition is fun. I think talking to another level. I think that's good. I think competition is fun. I think talking shit is fun. I think trying to find entertaining ways to deliver messages is fun. That's kind of what we've started to see with all these schedule releases when we start to see teams get creative with their videos, get creative with the way they disseminate all of this information

to people. So I'm actually a big fan of this. I didn't watch all of them. I will say I watched all 11 minutes of the Tampa Bay Bucks because it's John Gruden and maybe at some point the whole Gruden schtick is going to get old like this unboxing bit that he does and that was the gist of this video, but if you've ever watched for whatever reason professional teams and college teams just send gruden boxes of shit. And he unboxes it and just talks about what he's unboxed and like these teams in a very gruden way.

So like LSU sent him a box a couple weeks ago and I saw that video. And then the Cardinals gave him a box because he was in town for the Blues playoff game. It became like almost like he was a town for the Blues playoff game. It became like almost like he was a mascot for the Blues. So he starts unboxing shit and then basically the gist of it is he just starts like naming dudes that he remembers that played for these teams and says wacky shit in John Gruden style. So like he'll unbox shit and be like man look at that nice mitt from the St. Louis Cardinals man Ozzie Smith man Willie McGee and but like it's funny and maybe at some point it'll get old because there's no actual material in it but maybe it won't get old

because there's no actual material in it like I find him to be funny and charming and engaging and it's wacky and it's funny so Tampa had him do an 11 minute unboxing bit that basically just told you who the schedule was, but it was wacky because it was this weird roundabout way to get to each team. So like if they're playing the Arizona Cardinals, he's like, one of my favorite former players man was Simeon Rice and he's holding up like a Bucks Simeon Rice jersey. And Simeon Rice played for the Cardinals man and we're playing the Cardinals and the Bucks. Like whatever, but it worked. I was captivated. Like, some of these videos are kind of long

and boring and pointless. Some of them are like the Colts who apparently were offensive towards Tyree Kill in some way. It's funny to me that we were worried about offending the guy that's been arrested and been involved in fucking criminal sh- I shouldn't say arrested, but has been involved in shit multiple times, yet like we're afraid of offending that guy so they had to take down their fucking video and all that. Let me play a couple commercials and we'll continue on this. Podcasts are great because they help us make the most out of our routine. We learn about the fall of the Ottoman Empire while we drive, keep up with news while we take the dog for a walk, or turn folding laundry into a comedy show.

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New four-piece French toast sticks, bacon or sausage wrap, biscuit or English muffin sandwiches, small hot coffee, and more. Limited time only at Participating Wendy's Taxes Extra. Now, I think the Texans have done a lot of good things in the last couple of years to kind of improve their brand and improve their image because if you rewind four or five years ago pre-Rona, during

the Rona, David Cully as the coach, known as an organization that's kind of racist, I think those were unfounded bullshit claims. I think what happened is you had a lame hokey franchise and because you know the owner says you can't let the inmates run the prison, dipshits on the internet and lazy media people turn that into some sort of racist thing which wasn't a racist thing and it was absolute bullshit. In no way do I believe the Texans were ever a racist fucking organization but they had to kind of overcome all that because the perception was they were a racist organization, but they were just kind of known as this kind of hokey, dopey organization, right? And over the last handful of years, they've improved that and they hired a legit head coach, a guy that seems like he's going to be a rock star, right? D'Amico Ryan's, the original owner, the dad

owner is dead now, the young son who you think is just going to be a doofus, and maybe he still is a doofus, although I find him to be more charming now than doofus. You're talking about little Enos and his smoking hot wife. They're the owners, and she's kind of the face. I don't even know what kind of decision she makes, and I'm not saying this to demean her in any way. I don't know like what decision she makes. I think she has a lot to do with a lot of the PR type of stuff, uniform stuff.

She'll fight with Amy Adams in Tennessee, and they'll talk some shit. And it's fun, right? It's kind of made them fun. And on top of that, they're winning more football games. And on top of that, they have a guy who seems like he's the future of the franchise quarterback. And the city's kind of re-engaged with them, and it's fun, right?

There's a lot of cool shit that's going on with the Texans. The problem the Texans have is in their attempt to show that they're more like kind of cooling down with shit, they keep going back to this fucking well of using Bun B for everything. Nothing against Bun B, seems like a decent enough guy, but I feel like Houston sports teams, like this is the well they go to. They're like, well, let's use Paul Wall and Bun B for our videos and for our hype shit. And at some point it's just like, give me something else. Like get more creative. Like honestly, I'd rather see JJ Watt in more shit because JJ Watt is a legend of the franchise and one of the greatest players to ever play. I like Paul Wall. I don't give a fuck

about Paul Wall in any of your videos. I don't give a fuck about Bun B. Like I get it. Bun B sells smash burgers in your stadium and Bun B is a Houston guy. Like at some point give me something that isn't Bun B. Like every one of these teams in Houston goes back to this well. And for the Texans it just feels like that's like their go-to to make them seem like they're not a hokey. Basically it's like guys we're not racist anymore. You want to know how? Bun B is here everybody! Ha! Yeah like they bring out Clay Walker for the national anthem and everybody made fun of them and they play the Clay Walker song and everybody would make fun of them. Start making fun of them because the only

fucking thing that they can do to try to show you they're not racist is to bring out fucking bun B. I think even like bun B fans are like, hey, can we get something else? I'm kind of fucking sick of bun B and I don't really care about your overpriced fucking hamburgers or anything like that. Like what the fuck are we doing? Give me something else. The Texans video was kind of it wasn't among my favorites. Now, admittedly, I didn't watch all of the videos. It was fine. They did like a mock on the was op thing like welcome to 28 years ago, but cool. The Eagles one was it was very low key and kind of like a dick swing move. So you can

interpret it two ways. Theirs was just 2001 of Space Odyssey music and the fucking Lombardi Trophy and then the schedule at the very end. But at least it was short, sweet, whatever. Kind of a cool dick swinging move though because it's like, look, what does it fucking matter? We got the championship. I would view it as sort of lazy because I think you could have still gotten creative with it. I'm sure the fans there loved it because it's the Lombardi Trophy and it's cool. We don't have to do anything hokey gimmicky whatever. It was fine. I think they could have done better with that. That's what's interesting too is because hype video wise the Eagles are among the best teams in the NFL when it comes to making hype videos or at least they were

are among the best teams in the NFL when it comes to making hype videos, or at least they were making hype videos leading into big games. And it's usually you know Bradley Cooper narrates it. And at least the Eagles have someone like Bradley Cooper, a guy who's won an Academy Award. The whole world knows and cares about Bradley Cooper. We got fucking Bun B in Houston like hey, there's Bun B again. There's Paul Wall again. Like, can you give me fucking something else Houston? But anyway, so that was theirs and Philly was fine. The Titans always do a good job with this.

At one point in theirs they referred to the Texans as like having imposter syndrome. I like that there's a little back and forth. I like that there's some heat between the two teams. I enjoy it too because the Texans are the better team right now and the Titans don't look like they're any closer to getting any better anytime soon. Although they're gonna have this big beautiful brand new fucking stadium and a shitty football team to play in it. So ha jokes on fucking you. But there's I think the Titans one was good last year they kind of set the

bar with theirs like everybody's waiting to see what the Titans do because the Titans won last year was spectacular. I'm trying to think of some of the others. Colts obviously had a controversial one. Theirs was the that pissed off the world about Tyreke and then they had to take theirs down. I didn't see it but from everything I've heard is actually pretty fucking good but they had to take it down because it was somehow offensive to Tyreke Hill. It's a shame that we have you know you have hurt the delicate sensibilities of people who seemingly are always involved with issues with the law. Sorry that your feelings were hurt over this and sorry that we impacted you in such a negative way, Tyree Kill. Let's see, the Chiefs

The Chiefs did like a cash cab type of deal. It was fine. It was nothing overly special. But like, you know, I mean, look, I appreciate people trying. I appreciate people trying to do things that are different. I appreciate people and teams like I enjoy that this is a fun thing. This is why the NFL dominates the universe. We're in the middle of the NBA playoffs. It's arguably the best NBA playoffs we've had in forever. It's a wide open NBA playoffs. Any of the teams still in it could in theory win it. And what is the world talking about today? The world is talking about the schedule,

not games, not a draft, the schedule. And that is why the NFL dominates the fucking universe. You never hear about schedule leaks for the NBA or Major League Baseball because nobody gives a shit and there's way too many games, but the NFL dominates the universe. It is what? What is today? May 15th. It is May 15th and we are sitting here today and the vast majority of the discussions on sports radio will center around schedules

and the videos. You know people talking about what road games are going to go to and all that shit. And then they're going to talk about the fun videos that people are doing for the schedule release. Now as we talked about in an earlier pod, the Saints have no prime time games. I tried to see the Saints video. The Saints video seemed worthless too. Like I didn't even make it through it. I didn't even get the point of it. It was stupid. That one happened. Let me take a look at the Texan schedule.

The Texans get two Monday nighters, by the way, in part of two Monday night double headers. A good thing they're doing, and I don't understand why they've decided to stagger certain games on Monday night like why do we want games overlapping? It doesn't make sense to me.

Obviously there's somebody smarter than me. Somebody who's in the industry, someone who knows television. I this has to be the reason. This has to be that somebody knows something that we don't know about ratings and how to generate an audience. But I hate the idea that we do these Monday night double headers and the games start 30 minutes apart. I think that's bullshit. I don't want to do that. I want to watch two fucking full football games. The only thing I can imagine is they don't find

a benefit to having the game start at, you know, 10 o'clock East or not, you know, 10 o'clock East and end at 1 o'clock, which I would understand. I get that. But is it really beneficial to you to have one football game start at 6 and one start at 630 or one start at 6 and one start at 7 other than the fact that one game will end on its own and you'll have that maybe you hope that's the dramatic one. Like do you want people flipping back and forth? Do you want picture in picture? I just feel like people

complain about that a lot and that doesn't do anything for me. I'd rather have this game starts at 6 Central. This game starts at 9 Central. I get it. It's Monday night and a lot of people don't want to stay up till 1 in the morning on the East to watch a game. Well, I also don't want to have two games overlapping each other. I just want someone to explain it to me. That's all. Like I can get down with it if you explain to me the reasoning. That's all. I would love to talk to some network

executive or some highfalutin type, some guy that makes these decision and understands television ratings better than I do. I want to know why they feel it is more beneficial to have a game at six and seven or six and six thirty. As opposed to a game at seven and ten six and nine, whatever. I just want to know like I'm that's the kind of person I am. I'll be critical of something. But if you can explain it to me in a way where I go, okay, I get your

point. Then I'll get your fucking point and I'll be on your side on it. But you got to explain it to me, which I mean, what incentive do they have to do that? There's not some guy at ESPN that's like, hold on, let me explain to Josh on his shitty podcast about why we make the decisions we make. Texan schedule though, you got the Rams to start the season on the road and the Rams are fun. Then you get the Bucks. That's a fun one right that your home opener against the Bucks. That team is fun to watch. They're fun to bet. The Bucks are funny shit to bet because you got Baker and he throws it around.

He'll throw for 250, 300 every game. Mike Evans will have like 80 receiving, 90 receiving every game. They're a fun little team. They'll probably win that division again. I say probably, like if they don't, it's a massive failure on their part because the Saints are worthless. The Panthers are worthless. The Falcons are worthless. They should coast to their fifth division title in a row, which is sickening. Let's see at the Jaguars. There you

go. Titans at home. Let's see, Sunday the 10th of October at Baltimore at Seattle. Dude, you talking about a tough little stretch here. Eliminating the Titans, you would look at those first handful of games and you would hope you come out of that at worst two and two. It's not impossible if you think you're any sort of team that you are. You could beat Jacksonville, should beat Tennessee, should beat Jacksonville, could beat either one of the first two teams. And if you're three and one out of that, you're

feeling pretty good. Two and two, you're a little disappointed, but you can live with it. Anything less, you're like, fuck. And again, I get that this is a fucking fruitless endeavor. I get that breaking down the schedule for games that aren't going to happen for four or five months is dumb. We have no fucking clue what's going to happen, but you know what? I'm going to fucking do it anyway. But at Baltimore, then you've got a Monday night game at Seattle, which is a tough place to play, and that's going to be a late game too. That's one of those nights where there's two Monday night games, but it's going to be the

two traditional starting times. So that's going to be at 9 o'clock Central time. So you're going to be at Seattle. Let's see, then you got San Francisco at home and who knows what they're going to be? Denver, who they were good last year. I would assume they're not going to take a Seattle. Let's see, then you got San Francisco at home and who knows what they're going to be. Denver, who they were good last year, I would assume they're not going to take a huge step backwards this year. And look, I think I might have been wrong about the quarterback there, Bo Nix, and Sean Payton's got him looking good, so it's not impossible

for him to be better this year. So that's a tough one. Then you got the Jags. You talk about a stretch here though. Now, not to say that Seattle is going to be amazing. Who knows what they're going to be quarterback wise, coach wise, all that shit. So I mean there are questions. However, we know what Baltimore is every year and that's on the road and that's tough. At Baltimore, at Seattle, home San Francisco, home Denver. That's a tough stretch. Again, it's one of those stretches

where if you win the two on the road, win the two at home, lose the two on the road, you kind of live with that and you're through the first what eight weeks of the year and you're four and four and you're like, okay, we can live with that. That's doable at four and four, right? Like you don't want to be there. You'd rather be five and three in that neighborhood, but there are some tough games. Then you've got Jacksonville, Tennessee again, those should be two wins. So once you get through week 11,

if I'm doing the math correctly on this, you should be in a position where at worst you have six wins. At worst you're what six and four because you've already had a buy in that stretch. So at worst, you should have have you had a buy in that stretch? I guess they have. Where's their buy? Maybe they haven't. So let me see. Let me OK. I can't believe I'm going to fucking do this, but I'm going to go. So we're going to say at the Rams. I'm going to take Texans to win at the Rams. So want to know lose

at home to Tampa one and one beat Jacksonville beat Tennessee. You're three and one lose to Baltimore on the road. You're three and two go to Seattle and win. How about that? Go to Seattle and win, your 4-2. Home for San Francisco, lose. Although San Francisco is kind of a mess too. But let's say lose your 4-3. Beat Denver. I think you're going to split those. I think you've got, you need to split those. So 1 or 2. So let's say you're coming out of that and you're 5 to split those. I think you've got, you've need to split those. So one or two. So let's say you're coming

out of that and you're five and three. That right, that's eight games, right? So you've got eight games. You're five and three after you finish that game with Denver. Beat Jacksonville at home. Go on the road and beat Tennessee. You're seven and three at that point. You got a little wiggle room. Buffalo at home and for whatever reason, you've had a decent run against Buffalo. Maybe it's, you know what? Beat Buffalo at home and for whatever reason you've had a decent run against Buffalo, maybe it's, you know what, beat Buffalo at home. How about that? You're fucking 8 and 3. Go to Indianapolis and

who knows what the fuck Indianapolis is going to be. But let's take, let's take India as a loss. No, I can't. With a straight face, I cannot tell you they're going to go there because I have no fucking clue what Indianapolis is going to be at quarterback. There's nothing stable about them. I'm taking another Texans win there. So they're what? 8-3 through 11 games. Go to Kansas City and lose. They're 8-4. Arizona at home, they're 9-4. Look, Vegas at home, they're 10. Like these are all. Now, they, you know what? Gonna take Vegas loss. So I'm going to say they're 10 and 5 through week 16. 10 and 5.

Then at Los Angeles and then home. They say they split those next two. And what does that make you? You play 17 games. So, does that make you 11 and 6? Is that possible or what do I have the number at here? Something like that. So, they're going to win double- double digit games. Again, it's a fucking fruitless endeavor. It is stupid to do this shit. I'm aware it is stupid to do this shit, but it's whatever, right? I'm going to be that doofus today while we're talking about the schedule. Show me the Philadelphia Eagles schedule. You know what? I'll do that for my Philly people as well. Why not? Let's be a fucking dope. Let's be a fucking dope Let's be sports talk radio hack dope here. It's fun. All right. Let's see Eagles schedule Let's go through these there's the preseason preseason Let's see. They open against the Cowboys at home. They're gonna win that they're gonna be one-on-oh

Chiefs I'm gonna say they lose to the Chiefs for whatever reason Chiefs get their revenge and it's one-on-one Then we're gonna go home against the Rams. They win that. They're two and one. Go to the Bucks. I say they lose at the Bucks and they're two and two. Broncos at the Eagles. We're going to take Eagles with a home win. They're three and two. Giants are going to be dog shit. That's four and two. At the Vikings, again, I have no clue what the Vikings are going to be offensively. So at this very

moment, as we sit here today, I'm going to take Eagles in that one to be five and two beat the Giants at home. That's six and two on the road at the Packers. I think my boy Jordan Love gets the W six and three Lions and Eagles. I love the Lions. I don't know that they go on the road and beat the Eagles. So what would that make them seven and four? I got to start writing this shit now at the Cowboys. That's a win.

So let me just mark down all the games. I think are going to be a win in my head. All right, beat the Cowboys. There's one win beat the let's see beat the Rams to lose to the Bucks beat the Broncos three beat the Giants for beat the Broncos three, beat the Giants four, beat the Vikings five, beat the Giants six, lose to the Packers, beat the Lions seven, beat the Cowboys eight, beat the Bears nine. I say they go to the Chargers and lose a game like that, so they're still at nine. Home against the Raiders, win that ten. At the Commander's lose, at home, at the bills

lose, home for the commander's win. So, what is that? Like, eleven wins? Look, the Eagles schedule, again, based on what we know, again, again, it's nothing. It's a fruitless endeavor. It's stupid to do. I'm aware of it. We have no idea what's going to happen five months from now. We all may be dead in five months. But I just, the top of my head Cowboys 11 wins. Good news is nobody else in that fucking division is going to win 11 games. So you should be pretty set there. I could also look at

the Saints schedule, but that's going to be loss loss loss loss loss. Alright anyway more to come.