The Josh Innes Show - NFL Week 15 Recap

Episode Date: December 16, 2024

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All righty, let's take a look at the, oh, sorry, did I take your, oh, I was, I'm sorry. Sorry. So here we are Sunday night and we just talked about our new puppy, Mr. Ross, Mr. Ross, who's a sweet boy who's just snuggled up in his new giant bed and he seems to like it. And again, you say puppy to be clear he's like two three so he's he's a good age he is honestly i don't know that we could handle a puppy probably not but here he is he's a good boy and i give him all the sugars but anyway let's take a look at some of the games tonight and then uh you know later on we can look

at some of the matchups for there's two games on Monday. Then the Texans are going to play again here pretty soon. We'll do a whole podcast on the Texans on their own. But let's look at some of these games. Just start telling me about the games that have happened, and let's break them down. Oh, I thought we were just jumping. Okay, hold on. Okay, let's not jump ahead. I thought you said we're going to look at the games that are coming up.

No, let's look at the games that happened today, and let's break them down and what they mean to the bigger picture. Let's do that. Well, that poor fella in the Texans game who plays for the Dolphins, I don't think you can blame the Texans for that one. That was on Tua. He got that man killed. Yeah, and I haven't heard the latest on him,

but it sounded like they damn near killed this man. I've never seen that. And I guess they're being super cautious, but they hooked up an EKG and they had oxygen. Crazy stuff. Yeah, it didn't look particularly good. Last I heard, he was in stable condition. He's going to stay at Memorial Hermann, I think. Well, look, if there's a place where you want to end up having to go to the hospital,

as someone who's been to the hospital multiple times in Houston, I can tell you that Houston is a wonderful place to have to go to the hospital because Houston is a fucking amazing medical center and you have to go somewhere during a football game, Houston is a solid place for that. That's all. That being said, the Texans tried their damnedest to lose this game. They did. And again, the Texans are not good. They're fine, but they're not particularly good. They're fine. If Tua was Tua today today they would have lost probably tua

could not get shit done hey look give this give the texans defense credit they made a lot of plays but like the the texans are just they're they're they're not very good the offense is a problem oh it's been a problem and they're not going to beat anybody of consequence in the playoffs so we know they're not going to beat anybody playoffs consequence in the playoffs. We know they're not going to beat anybody of consequence in the playoffs. But now they may luck out because Mahomes has a high ankle sprain and the Chiefs are in the same situation as the Texans where they've got the three games here in 11 days. So if I'm the Chiefs, you've got the playoff clinched.

Okay, you're not the number one seed, but you're probably the number one seed. I just rest Mahomes for the Texans game and let them go on christmas but the texans here's the thing that we've talked about for weeks it's been so effed up but it's true that the texans if they win this game against the chiefs it doesn't matter and if they lose the games against the chiefs that matter to me the only way this game tells us anything is if they play Patrick Mahomes and the Texans or the Chiefs and they and we see what they are if they beat uh Carson Wentz who gives a fuck and the point is there's nothing they can do that you would go oh boy the Texans have improved or like this proves something there's there's literally nothing the Texans can do in the last three weeks of the season that

proves anything about them. So great. They get to like, it'd be one thing if they were facing the Chiefs, they had to beat the Chiefs. And oh, wow, we get to face them without Patrick Mahomes. And you go, great, because we need, we're desperate to win this game. They're not desperate to win this game. They won the division and they're not going to move up any higher

more than likely than the four seed. I mean, unless Pittsburgh really falls off a cliff. Which I don't think they will. They sucked it. Look, Pittsburgh is what Pittsburgh is. By the way, I've never seen anything like we saw with Philadelphia running off like the last 12 minutes of the game up by two scores. It was bonkers the way they ended that game.

But, yeah, like I don't see a scenario where I'm like, oh, boy. So, like. That's what's funny. Again, as we said, like Texans, the Chiefs, ooh, that's a big, big name. It's actually obsolete. But nobody cares. Again, the Chiefs technically have not clinched the number one seed. Buffalo is still in it.

But they're two games up, so they're going to. Yeah, that's what I mean. And if I'm the Chiefs, I would rest my homes, wouldn't you? Yes. So I'd rest my homes, and the game means absolutely nothing to the Texans. And great. Let's say the Texans go out and they beat Carson Wentz. Who gives a fuck if you beat Carson Wentz?

It's Carson fucking Wentz. So, like, this win would tell us, like, what sucks is this game. Like, I was hoping that we would learn something about the Texans in these weeks coming up against, you know, the Chiefs and against the Ravens. We're not going to learn shit. So, whatever. It is what it is. I love the Texans, but this is not great. And they're winning.

Yay. Cool. They beat the Dolphins. But CJ wasn't great. The offense wasn't great. The offense has not been great. How many yards did Nico have? Like 27?

Nothing. Two touchdowns. Nothing. They stink offensively. They are what they are. I hope they go out and beat some teams in the playoffs. But I was hoping we would see them play the Chiefs and the Ravens back-to-back, and it would be like, oh boy, let's see what they are heading into the playoffs.

How they beat the Bills is fascinating. No, good for them. I mean, they did. The Bills look really good. They do. Obviously, the Bills lost last week, but they came out this week and won. All right, so let's look at some of those games then. So obviously the Texans did what the Texans did today. Hey, they won. week but they they came out this week and won all right so let's look at some of those games then so

um obviously the texans did what the texans did today hey they won they won the division it's great i just i don't buy them as any sort of team that's going to beat anybody of consequence in the postseason all right what else we got we talked about the chiefs and they won like that what you talk about a snooze of a fucking game my boy my boy jabu wins what the fuck uh like oh my god like i'm watching the this like the saints today and i saw some guy that's a saints media guy posting about how like well the only reason the saints didn't keep uh uh didn't keep um who the fuck are we talking about hainer no uh what's his name? Jabuans. Oh. I'm hammered.

I was going to say, why they didn't keep Hayner in. No, but why they didn't keep... Holy shit. Jameis. So the... Because I'm like super hammered. So the reason they didn't keep Jameis, this guy's belief, is they didn't keep Jameis because they didn't want to hurt the feelings of Derek Carr

and mess with his ego well to be fair Jameis fucking sucks too uh he's awful but um so the so that game was a waste of everybody's time so let's just acknowledge what that was it was a waste of everybody's time it was terrible but it got me four touchdowns and I took the over and the total touchdowns on DraftKings today, and I hit that easily. So thank you. What else we got? There were a lot of games that are a waste of people's times, like the Cowboys and Panthers who gives a shit.

Yep. Not even worth talking about. The Jets and Jaguars who gives a shit. The only thing that mattered for me in that game was that Brian Thomas thomas jr got his yards and for the third consecutive week i have hit an l an nflsu parlay uh and uh three weeks in a row members of the nflsu family have hit for me so thank you very much but other than that that game is absolutely obsolete ravens and giants who gives a fuck i mean there's not even anything remotely interesting in that mar through five touchdown passes that's it against the giants but that's tommy cutlets who gives a shit commanders and I mean, there's not even anything remotely interesting in that. Mar through five touchdown passes.

That's it. Against the Giants. But that's Tommy Cutlets who gives a shit. Commanders and Saints really who gives a shit. Maybe you. Well, here's the thing. So I really hope like today should be the day that they have decided there's no reason to even consider hiring this fucking Rizzy to be the head coach of the Saints. Because, like, if you're just looking for any reason, look at the fact that this asshole decided to start Jake Hainer. And he thought, hey, because keep in mind, Rizzi's trying to coach for his job.

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There was the Bengals and the Titans. Will Levis got benched. He's terrible. He's awful. And then you look at the Bengals and they need like a bunch of miracles to get in, but they're fun to bet on because, you know, yards. Poor Joe. Well, Joe would be the MVP of the league, probably, if not for the fact that they're

god-awful. It's not his fault they're god-awful. They're just god-awful. But, yeah. So that's kind of where we stand right now on that but uh and the titans are away it's like it's the end of the road for will levis like if you this i believe the second time he's been benched this year the first time was because he was injured well he got injured and then they just left mason rudolph in and kept him in so i think this is the end of the road for your boy. So he gone. And yeah, so Bengals good for you,

but you've blown too many games early in the season. Then we had the Patriots and Cardinals. Cardinals should win. They did. Yes. Are they back in first in that division? No, no. The Cardinals are not.

The Cardinals, I think, are seven and seven. And so I believe that the Rams and the Seahawks are both 8-6. The Seahawks might actually still be winning that division, despite the fact they lost. You want to talk about heartbreak, by the way? I had a bunch of parlays that involved this goddamn Geno Smith and like 500 combined. Apparently the Rams are winning now.

The Rams and the Seahawks are both 8-6, with the Rams, I guess, a tiebreaker i hope the rams get in but like i although i'm a big jackson smith and jigba guy he gets my yards for me but you're talking about a punch to the fucking dick god damn watching gino get hurt and that hurt my chances of getting the combination of a 500 passing yards between the two quarterbacks that cost me probably six or seven hundred dollars in parlays just because that son of a bitch got hurt fuck you Gino fuck you raw I hate you but um yeah so that one kind of busted my balls but um overall like I prefer the Rams although and I'm a big Nakua guy, a big Puka guy,

I love Jackson, Smith, and Jigma. And every week. And I know I didn't do a prop to you drop this week. I'll be honest with you. I didn't do a prop to you drop, and it wasn't because of the fact that we adopted old Ross down here. It's because I was slightly hungover after Thursday where I decided to drink a whole fucking Boda box with Jillian. I don't know why I did it.

That was a bad idea. We don't do that on Thursdays because some of us work on Fridays and I will tell you work was hard on Friday. Yeah and I'm like I'm going to drive over to the mall and do my prop bets and I couldn't. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to Maybe Lesbian Rachel. I'm sorry to the people who messaged me and said where were the prop bets. I'm sorry. I had every intention of doing the prop bets and I felt like shit on Friday And then Saturday we decided to adopt this little guy And you never feel like shit So that's how you know it was like a legit hangover Oh dude I mean we drank

Again a Boda box is four bottles of fucking wine But it was also like we didn't start drinking that Because you went and live bet that Thursday night game So we didn't start drinking the wine until you got back So that means you probably We probably didn't start drinking until like nine something I know I got fucked up And then like all I know until like nine something. I know, I got fucked up. And then like all I know is like 12, 20,

I'm like, I need to go to bed. And then like, you're like, hold on, let me fill up your wine. And like when you say fill up your wine, like it was to the tippy top. Yeah, and what we'll do in another pod here is we'll talk about the movie we watched that night, which was very good.

We watched 700 things that night. I know, but we'll get into it. But what else we got? Where were we, what game were we just on? We just talked about the Cardinals. Oh, the Cardinals. And then we had the Colts choking it away to the Broncos. We say choking away, but yeah.

I really do not want the Broncos to win shit because I hate Sean Payton, and I don't think they're any good. But whatever. They're going to get into the playoffs because it is what it is. Shout out to Bo Nix for getting my two passing tuds. He and Baker and who was my other guy? Josh Allen. They all came through.

Good parlay. Good job. Then we had the Eagles and the Steelers. Hey, credit to the Eagles, though. First of all, I took a bet on A.J. Brown to have a catch in the first drive of the game, which he did. Oh, I knew A.J. would have,

like everybody knew A.J. would have a big game. And he did. But, dude, george pickens and look i'm a big rusty guy i like what rusty's been doing and i'm happy that he's had this resurgence despite the fact the world thinks he sucks but let's be real about rusty without george pickens he's fucking terrible. Now, it's important to note that the Eagles are quite good defensively against the pass. All that said, without George Pickens, they are a mess. They are trying to stretch the ball down the field of the Pittsburgh Steelers. I think Najee fumbled a pass in the end zone, I think.

It was close to a touchdown, but I didn't see it. But you might understand, based on Twitter, Najee kind of fucked up there because they threw it to him. And that's fine, but they need George Pickens. So who wins that division? What is it? It's Pittsburgh, Baltimore. Well, it's either Pittsburgh or Baltimore.

Yeah, so who wins? What's the records? Pittsburgh is 10-4. Baltimore is 9-5. Pittsburgh will win. Well, what's Pittsburgh's schedule? Let's see. I think they're done playing each other, but I may be wrong.

I have no knowledge on that, actually. No, the Steelers play the Ravens next week, so that's huge. Well, then whoever wins that game is going to win the division. The Steelers have the Ravens, the Chiefs on Christmas, and the Bengals to end the year. Shit. Dude, they might lose the next three. That's tough.

Yeah. And the Ravens have, well, obviously, they have the Steelers. The Steelers, the Texans on Christmas, and then the Browns to end the year. Okay, so the Ravens are going to win that division. I hate to say it. I have nothing against the Raven, so the Ravens are going to win that division. I hate to say it. I have nothing against the Ravens, but I want Rusty to win that division.

I want Tomlin to win that division because Tomlin's my fucking dude. But yeah, I think I'm going to go with the Ravens are going to end up winning that division. That's my play. Ravens for the dub. So it's very possible we see the Steelers play the Texans. Yes.

And if George Pickens is healthy, I could see Rusty picking the Texans apart and winning that game. But then again, you've got to be impressed by what the Texans did today. Stingley was awesome. Stingley was great. That's NFLSU. Thank you very much. And they forced a lot of turnovers, so you've got to give them credit.

And they will play at home in that game. Not that the Texans have a great home field field advantage it's not a great home field advantage it was a much better home field advantage back when it was the jj watt era this this you said it again today we were watching the game and like the dolphins had the ball the game was not over it was a seven it was an eight point game it was 20 to 12 with about three and a half minutes to go and they had the ball and they were showing shots at the crowd and there were empty seats and i'm like what the fuck are we doing you fucking losers do fucking better like jesus fucking christ you want respect as a sports city put your head out of your fucking assholes and stay at the goddamn game until it's over you fucking putzes all right

what else we got then the big one today was the bills and the lions that was fun that was fun um i hope like i like the lions but I hate the Lions, and I just straight up hate the Bills. I fucking hate Josh Allen. I hate hearing about how good Josh Allen is, because you know what's going to happen? Josh Allen's going to get to the playoffs, and Patrick Mahomes is going to beat Josh Allen, because that's how the shit works. There is not a chance in hell

that Josh Allen is beating Patrick Mahomes if they face each other in the playoffs. It's not going to happen, because it doesn't happen. Thank you. No, I agree, but he has been really good he thinks he's gonna win MVP he is he's a to win MVP but he shouldn't it's Saquon I think Saquon only rushed for like 60 yards today but like some days you don't need to run for a ton but that's the the bad part about being a running back trying to win the MVP Saquon is not going to win the MVP but for the most part this whole goddamn year he's been the best like to me I like people debate what the MVP

is I like well what like is the MVP the best player on the best team is it whatever if you wanted to give the the most valuable player in the league every year the most valuable fucking player in the NFL is Patrick Mahomes every year if you wanted to give that that way to me I look at it in a year-in-year-out base and see who is the best player for the best team to me i'd still give it to saquon barkley but after today where barkley only had 60 yards and you throw in the fact that homeboy threw for 400 plus today it's probably josh allen he's going to win he's going to win it easily but um i would prefer saquon barkley because i hate Josh Allen. So whatever. Okay.

We talked about the Buccaneers and the Chargers. The Bucs just dismantled these guys. They did. That game was competitive for a lot of it. And then, boom, it wasn't competitive. And so the Bucs are going to run away with that division now, right? What's their record? I don't know if they'll run away with it. Oh, no.

It's over. It depends what Atlanta does tomorrow. They're going to lose tomorrow. Atlanta's lost six of seven or whatever. Atlanta's over. It depends what Atlanta does tomorrow. They're going to lose tomorrow. Atlanta's lost six of seven or whatever. Atlanta's done. So the Buccaneers have won that division. And Kirk is dead. They might bench Kirk in the middle of that game tomorrow

and start playing Desmond Ritter. It is over. So if you look at that division, Tampa's... Tampa's eight and six now. And then the Falcons are six and seven. So they could be seven and seven tomorrow. Yeah, but if they lose, they're six and eight. eight so there's a two game difference with two games to go so it is ova so no wait eight and so three games because there's 17 games but um still they're done like

tampa's winning that division which makes it sickening that the saints the saints blew multiple games in this i mean what the fuck Saints the Saints blew two games to Atlanta they should have beaten uh the Eagles back when we were still good when we were 2-0 at home uh should have beaten them there even if you win the two games against Atlanta who sucks we split one of the Atlanta you should have beat the Panthers and you should have probably beat the Commanders today well I wouldn't say we should have because we were getting our asses kicked until they benched the quarterback. Rattler, maybe.

Well, maybe. But I think part of the reason why Rattler was able to move the ball is because they weren't expecting Rattler. So that plays into it. But fuck, I hate the NFC South. What a fucking joke. But yeah, so there you go. Is there anything else left in those games? Did we miss it?

Well, we had the game tonight, but I actually love the Packers, and I think the Packers could upset some people. I'm a big Jordan Love guy. Jordan Love is my guy. I love him. So I'm on his side. I'm Team Jordan Love. So I enjoyed watching Jordan Love sling it,

although if Gino wouldn't have gotten hurt, I would have probably cashed out about $600 more in bets. But what are you going to do? I did get all the teams to score a touchdown today. If I give you any piece of advice, take all the teams to score touchdowns in the NFL every week because it's fun. Although it doesn't always hit. And then I would take the over and the total touchdowns in the NFL, which I did today, which hit easily. I took the over touchdowns in the afternoon games, which hit easily. I took all the hockey goals today, which hit easily. So look, I'm not trying to tell you how to live your life, but just make decisions that make sense. And we will talk again soon.