The Josh Innes Show - NFL Week 2 Madness

Episode Date: September 15, 2025

We had an epic Sunday of football in the NFL. Let's look at all the games and say the first thing that comes to mind. Also, how bad was Sunday Night Football? Woof Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's about 4.15 here at the radio station. I would only know this because my clock in front of me has a 15, but the date or the time, rather, is incorrect. It says 1115. It is not 1115. It is 415. So I have to have somebody come in and fix my clock. But other than that, we are a okay and ready to go. Just like on Friday when we went through all of the games and I gave you my first thought about those games going into the weekend. Let's kick off the pod today with looking at the games that happened over the weekend, pro football-wise, and give you the first thing that comes to mind after watching the game. games. So Friday, we previewed the games by going, all right, first thought, boom, let's go. Now we're going to go, hey, first thought about the games that we just watched. Let's do that after these words.

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Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. Are those from winners? Ooh, are those beautiful gold earrings? Did she pay full price? or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those knee-high boots that dress that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full price for anything stop wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less all righty let's see here we start with the jaguars and the bangles first thought there is no joe actually that means to be the first thing that comes to mind after that game because joe burrow being out and who knows how long it's going to be From everything I saw last night, it was a debate about whether or not they want to have him get a surgery now and be out three months or if they want to try to manage it and play through the pain. Apparently, he's got turf toe.

The other thought is I have a bunch of futures bets, futures parlays that involve Joe Burrow to throw it for 4,000 yards or a certain number of touchdowns. That's a fucking disaster. What a nightmare. You know, good for Jake Browning, who, like, I wasn't overly concerned when Browning came into the game because, he's played before, and he's put up numbers before. And Jamar Chase steps up and has 165 receiving yards and all that. I also look at it from the Jaguar standpoint and go, like, what the fuck, guys? Trevor Lawrence bawled out.

They played very well. They should have won that game, and they didn't offensively. Defensively, like, if you're the Jaguars, and we can say that Jake Browning has played before for the Bengals, so he's been there before. Maybe he's one of the better backup quarterbacks in the league. Maybe that's true. but what the fuck are you doing if you're the Jaguars? You're on the road.

You're facing Jake Browning. You could be 2 and O. You're looking like you're, you know, the best team in the, or certainly one of the best teams in the AFC through two weeks for what it's worth. And then you blow that game and you allow Jake Browning to put together a long-ass drive and beat you. Like, if I'm the Jaguars after that one, like Jesus, dude, like, I still think they can ball.

Their offense is good. Look, the AFC South has good offenses, man. If you look at the Colts who seem to be legit, the Jaguars offensively are pretty good. I don't know about the Texans. Maybe tonight they'll show up and show out. I don't know. But the Texans, I think, are concerning offensively because C.J. Stroud has been concerning.

And the offensive line play has also been concerning. And then there's the Titans who are not good offensively. So really half of the AFC South is clearly good offensively. And we're up in the air on the Texans. But if the Texans come out and ball tonight, You're talking about three of the four teams in the AFC South are competitive and can sling it around a little bit. But we'll see on Joe. That completely changes the AFC as well, even though, what a world, though.

Out of all those years that Joe Burrow can come out and throw it for 400 yards a game and the Bengals still find a way to lose, they're 2-0. One game, he was terrible. This game, he's hurt early, and they're 2-0 are the Bengals, so we'll see. Giants and the Cowboys. That was the biggest dick punch of it. a game ever for me. So let me give you the situation. So with about 20-something seconds to go, the Giants have the ball at midfield. This is, you know, in regulation. And it's plus 600 for the

giants to win the game. And I'm like, oh, fuck it. I'm bored. Let me throw in. So I throw in 50 bucks on the Giants to win the game. Now, mind you, they're still down at this point by, what, four points. So they're at midfield. And I'm like, well, let's just see for the fun. And of it. It's plus 600. 50 bucks would win 300 bucks. The very next play, Rusty throws a 50-yard touchdown pass to Malik neighbors, and there's like 20 seconds to go. And I'm like, fucking A right, let's go. Then, of course, the Cowboys get into field goal range for this asshole kicker who can drill a 64-yarder. He does drill it. It goes to overtime. At one point, I could have cashed out. They offered me a cash out of like 280 bucks, and I should have taken it. But for whatever reason, my mind,

operates in this weird world where I'm like, nope, I just want the victory, even though it was a difference of like $40. It would have paid out like $3.50 or something like that. The payout or the cash out was like $3.10. And I'm like, nope, no, sir, I'm going to ride this thing out. And of course, the ups and downs of the overtime and Rusty, for all that he did well in that game. And Rusty was fantastic.

Maybe the best game he's ever played. At the end of it, he still made horrific decisions that ultimately cost them the game. notably just throwing up this pass late in overtime to nobody and it's intercepted and they eventually go on to lose that game. That one sucked for me. Cowboys, I don't know what this says about the Cowboys. I expected them to win. Really, to me, I'd be more concerned with the fact that Rusty, who a week ago was the guy

that everybody was going to dump, you gave up 37 points and a billion yards to Rusty Wilson, who seemingly was going to get benched last week and was on his last legs as an NFL starter and he comes in gives up or puts up 450 yards on you and look I don't think the Cowboys are any good I don't think anybody's arguing that they are but that at least was the most entertaining game of the day so at least there's that but

nothing really to write home about for the Cowboys you faced a bad Giants team and that bad Giants team had you beat and you came back good for you you won it 64 yard field goal at the horn to go to overtime fine I don't think this is a situation where we're like you know the Giants are better than we thought. They're not. They're 0-and-2. And Rusty had a baller-ass game against the shitty cowboys. And the cowboys were able to come out on top, good for them. Bears and lions, I told you that was going to happen. I didn't tell you it was going to be 52 to 21, but I

told you that the lions would beat the shit out of the bears. They did beat the shit out of the bears. I told you that the whole world had prematurely written the obituary for the lion's offense and said, oh, they're done. And oh, they don't have their offensive coordinator, Ben Johnson's in Chicago and they just don't have it anymore. And then all they do is come out and just torch absolutely smoke the bears. And it was impressive the way they did

things. I mean, there's not a whole bunch to say about it other than golf was great. Jamir Gibbs was great. I told you, what did I tell you on the podcast on Friday? I told you that I would take the over five and a half catches for Amman Ross St. Brown. He had that in the first half. I said I would

take the Swift. DeAndre Swift catches. He had three catches in the game. I told you that I would take David Montgomery to score a touchdown. He scored a touchdown in the first half. So it was a throttling. And the other thing that stood out was I told you after the Packers game, after they opened the season against the Packers and got whipped, people were concerned. After the Packers really just drubbed the commander skins on Thursday night football, you had to acknowledge that maybe the Packers are just really good defensively. And bounce back game against the Bears.

The Lions put up 52 points after getting stymied, only scoring a garbage-type touchdown against the Packers in that game. So I think the Lions are still here. They announced that they are still here. Rams and Titans, one of my biggest letdowns of the day was that Cam Ward didn't play well. I would have hit a parlay if the asshole threw for 196 fucking yards. He threw for like 175. He is bad. Doesn't mean he's always going to be bad, but he is not good.

The second half was atrocious for the Titans. They couldn't do anything. They couldn't do diddly poo. I don't care about the Rams. I don't care about that win. It didn't say anything about the Rams that they won that game. Stafford threw for 300. Devante Adams had 106 receiving yards.

Cool. Nothing about that means anything to me about the Rams. Good for them. They won. Lottie Da. Titans suck. And screw you, Cam Ward. The Dolphins, they're 0.2.

At least they showed some life. Because early in that game, they could have just been dunzo. It was 12-0 after the first quarter. and you could have thought, hey, this might be the end of the road for Mike McDaniel. It probably still is the end of the road. I don't think he's getting fired today, but he's going to be fired. They were flying planes over top of the stadium with banners to fire the GM and fire the coach. You know, the Patriots are okay.

They're fine. They're nothing to write home about. But if I look at the Dolphins, you know, Tua was better. Tyreek made more plays. Waddle made more plays. They at least looked like the Dolphins team. team that could make, you know, a little bit of a run. They are 0-2, but I'm not writing them off yet. They're not going to fire the coach yet. So I'm not writing them off yet. The 49ers and the

Saints, the Saints' second straight home game in which, even though they're outmanned, even, I mean, I say they're outmaned. I mean, you're facing a team of the backup quarterback, Mack Jones. But the Saints are the underdog. The Saints are probably going to lose 14 games this year. But back-to-back weeks, they're at home with the ball at the end of the game with an opportunity to win it. And they didn't come through again. This time it wasn't a drop in the end zone. This time they just couldn't get a drive going at the end of the game. But I mean, I guess I give the Saints some credit for being competitive, considering that Spencer Rattler is their quarterback. And last time I checked, he has not won a game ever. Spencer Rattler has never

won an NFL game. Nobody on the Saints quarterback roster has won an NFL game. So I guess you give the Saints some credit. There's nothing really to say about the 49ers. So I'll give the Saints a little bit of credit. I've kind of checked out on them as we've discussed. So give them a little bit of credit for what they did, but I mean, they're still going to lose 14 games. Bills and Jets, I did not watch one second of this game, but here's why this game stands out to me, and here's why I hate myself. Before the game started, I took every team to score a touchdown in the games, in all the games yesterday, outside of the night game. And everybody had scored a touchdown in the first wave of games other than the Jets. And the Jets had about 10,

minutes to go in the game. And I'm like, they're not going to score a touchdown. And I looked at my fan duel app and it said I can cash out for the money that I put in. So basically just break even. And I'm like, fuck this. I'm not taking the Jets to score a touchdown. It's not going to happen. So I cash out, which I never do, but I cashed out. Then about 10 minutes later, I look up and the Jets are at like the five yard line. I'm like, you motherfucker. And of course, they go in and they score and every team eventually did score a touchdown. So that would have won like, you know, three, 400 bucks. Instead, I just cashed out. I didn't lose anything. I didn't lose anything. but I didn't win anything. Yesterday was a day of absolute ball busters. Just kicks in the balls

yesterday. Seahawks and Steelers. Admittedly, I didn't get a chance to see a ton of this game either. It's just one of those games I didn't really fall on a lot, even though it was competitive. A-Rodge, not as good as he was last week, obviously. Sam Darnold, you know, we'd written off Sam Darnold and said, okay, it was kind of a flash in the pan thing in Minnesota. And now, look, he's still playing well in Seattle. So good for him. I mean, compare that. to what they're getting in quarterback play in Minnesota right now, which I get there playing a young dude, but my God, McCarthy

sucked, and Sam Darnel can still sling it, so good for him. Browns and Ravens did not watch one second of that game. The biggest thing that stood out to me is they had multiple chances to give the ball to Derek Henry at the goal line for a touchdown and didn't do it, and it screwed jillies parlays. Colts and

Broncos may have been my biggest gut punch of the day. So here's how this played out for me. I needed 550 passing yards combined between the two quarterbacks. I needed 50 yards with like 10 minutes to go. And if the Broncos would have made the field goal that would have put them up

five, I have no doubt that I would have hit it. But once they missed the field goal and we're only up to the Colts just start to go to work on the clock, work on the clock. By the way, Shane Stuyken, and I say this only half seriously, Shane Stuyken should be fired because there's no way that you should be playing for a 60-yard field goal when you have timeouts, when you have the opportunity to move the ball and get closer.

The way they handled the last possession of the game, basically settling, but not only settling, but seemingly being content with taking a 60-yard field goal. Like, I know that Aubrey hit one with ease in Dallas, and I get the dudes hit 55, 60-yard, seemingly with ease now. But the fact that they just sat on the ball and settled for a 60-yard field goal at the end of the game

and then got bailed out. by a shitty leverage call, they did not deserve to win that game. And I think the play of Daniel Jones deserved to win that game. I think that the team deserved to win it. The coach did not deserve to win it because of the way they handled that last possession. It was a gutless pussy-ass possession, settling for like a 60-yard field goal that wasn't even close. And I don't think the leverage or anything had anything to do with it. They bailed Shane Steichen out of that one.

Screw him and screw the Colts and screw those two quarterbacks for not getting to 550. yards go fuck yourselves panthers and cardinals came in it being interesting but i mean what is there to say about it the panthers are o and two the world thought they'd be o and two brys young threw it 55 times at 328 passing yards but mind you they were down like 27 to what was it 27 to 3 at one point or 20 to 3 or whatever the score was so it got competitive at the end but that's a lot of garbage yards my guy tett mcmillan though had 100 yards i loved him at arizona there's a lot of good young receivers in the league that put up numbers in college that are putting up numbers now. Eagles and Chiefs, this is one of those games where I look at Jalen Hertz, and I get it when

people shit on Jalen Hertz. Like, it's almost annoying that the Eagles won this game, right? Like, you look at the Eagles and you're like, screw you assholes. Like, there's not, like defensively, yes, like they shut Mahomes out. Like defensively, they deserve to win the game and good for them. I mean, they made Mahomes life miserable and, hey, rock on. But then you look at the Eagles offensively. And it's almost gross that you've got the weapons they have on offense.

And look, I guess you could give the Chief's defense some credit, cool, give them some. These are the days when you look at Jalen Hertz and you're like, how the fuck did this guy win this game? How did they win this? Because they're not good offensively some days. And a lot of it has to do it the fact that their quarterback is not very good. Like, I'm never going to shit on Jalen Hertz for being a winner. And I think the shitty hosts in Philadelphia shit on him too much. But like yesterday is the ultimate example of when you talk about Jail.

and talk about how he's not one of the elite quarterbacks in the league. Like, this is why. Like, you would take 10 or 11 or 12 other dudes in the league. If it just came down to pure talent, you would take Jalen Hertz well below those guys. But he finds ways to win. And then that game, when they needed yards at the end of the game and they needed first downs to ice the game, what did they do? They got Jalen Hertz and Jalen Hertz did it.

But the first two weeks of the season, Jalen Hertz, has not been very impressive. He's going to go down as the winningness. like the best quarterback in terms of winning with the least talent. So when people shit on him, they're not wrong to say that he's not the most skilled, but he just finds ways to win. If Jalen Hertz were the quarterback of the Panthers, the Panthers would still be 0 and 2. There's nothing about Jalen Hertz.

Like when you say, oh, Jalen Hertz is just a winner and he would, he's not making teams better. If you threw him on the Vikings, the Vikings are not exponentially better offensively than they were with J.J. McCarthy. But he just fits with. what they do and they do what they need to do and they win games and they ride the defense and the defense was nasty against

the chiefs. The chiefs are 0 and 2 for the first time and over a decade. I love it because I predicted that their demise was coming good. But yeah, you look at the birds. That's just what they do. They're going to win ugly, unwatchable football games like we had yesterday. Speaking of unwatchable football, though, the

Falcons and Vikings may take the cake. We didn't get a touchdown until about three minutes to go. J.J. McCarthy, who everyone was blowing because he had a good fourth quarter against the shitty bears, comes out and just sucks for the entire four quarters. He sucked for three quarters against the bears and had one good quarter. This game, he sucked for all four quarters and was terrible and threw two picks. And you might say, well, Josh, he's basically a rookie.

What does it matter? I've never understood the hype on this guy. I don't get it. I don't understand it. I didn't understand it in college when he was just handing the ball off to players at Michigan. And I don't understand it now. But hey, good for you, pal. you sucked. The Falcons are now one-on-one. My man Pennix didn't play a great game, but he didn't

really have to play a great game for them to win it. It was just a field goal fest. They had some opportunities off of turnovers. And there you go. I think the Falcons are an okay team. I think the Falcons should have won. They definitely should have at least gone to overtime against Tampa in week one. They didn't do it. Speaking of Tampa, we get them against the Texans tonight. That should be a fun game. Texans really need to win. And Chargers and Raiders should have a plethora, just a ton of passing yards in that game. And we'll move on and we'll do some other stuff.