The Josh Innes Show - Nico To IR and More Rodgers Drama

Episode Date: October 9, 2024

The Texans will be without Nico Collins for at least 4 weeks. The good news is they are facing a rookie QB this weekend and should get a win. How do the Texans manage this? I have more conspiracy theories about Aaron Rodgers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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like you to listen. Some days it's just me. Some days Jilly is there. Some days we're hammered. Some days we're not. Some days I sound extremely angry because my bets didn't hit. Some days I sound very happy because my bets did hit. And some days I just sound like a normal human that's not drunk or gambling. So this is one of those days, I suppose. So first thing, right off the top, Nico Collins is out for four weeks for the Texans. That just came down about an hour or so ago. That is a massive, massive loss for the offense,

which you already know. Like, that's obvious. He's the guy that takes the roof off of everything. He blows the top off of the defense. It makes life a lot easier for a lot of the underneath stuff. I'm literally just giving you a breakdown of what it means to have that type of speedster on your team. Not that other guys can't make plays. Not that Stefan Diggs can't make a big play. Not that Tank can't make a big play, but that's the burner. That's the dude that

when you need to throw the bomb, it's like Rashid Shaheed for the Saints. When the Saints offense isn't going, they throw a couple of goes to him and something happens. That happened this weekend with the Saints on Monday Night Football. That's what got them going sort of offensively, although nothing gets them going because the last three weeks they haven't been a good offensive football team. I digress. But the Texans, when they needed to get going and make a big play, what do they do?

Bang, 67 yards one play touchdown Nico 14 to 3 what happened after Nico left the game with the hammy injury they scored nine points the rest of the way and at some stretches were fairly inept offensively now turnovers played a factor in that a bad fourth quarter played a factor in that there were different pieces they've been missing Joe Mixon the last couple of weeks. That matters. Hopefully they get him back. Now, am I overly concerned about the Texans who sit at four and one and two games up on the Colts with a win already at hand over the Colts? Am I overly concerned about what this means for them? Not really. I'm not doom and gloom as it relates to the Texans.

They should win this weekend. The Patriots are no good. Now, there's a wild card in this, and it's that Drake May is going to play, and nobody has seen Drake May play meaningful football in the NFL. So maybe he comes out and he's spectacular. But here's a couple of things that are helpful. One, you get a chance to scheme and game plan for him all week they could have in theory just waited until the weekend to say oh by the way Jacoby Brissett's not playing we're playing Drake May let's go instead they've let the world know that Drake May is going to play therefore you get this extended I mean a full week to prepare for this guy now you don't have a ton of video on him.

You got to see some preseason stuff. I know this because I bet on him in the preseason because I'm a degenerate. So you get very little to see of the guy, but you also had very little to see of Caleb Williams, and you pretty much shut, not pretty much, you shut Caleb Williams out. Now, the game was closer than it should have been,

but rookie quarterback, in theory, more talented and a better pro prospect than Drake May, the number one overall pick, Heisman guy, like, in theory, he's the better player than Drake May, and Drake May. No, I'm not. They should be able to shut him down. Things should be fine. That doesn't really bother me. You should win this game. So you win this game, you're five and one. Now, what it means with the IR is you're four games without Niko. Then you get the Packers at Green Bay. Packers at Green Bay. Packers, while record-wise, you'd look at them and go, eh, and obviously they miss Jordan Love a little bit, they can sling it and they can put up yards, man. They are a yards eater and they are a big play team. We talk about Jaden Reed making big plays every week. And one thing the Texans are still susceptible to, although it didn't really

rear its head against Buffalo. I mean, the one real big play was the Keon Coleman play that was really a five-yard pass. He breaks a tackle. He goes 50 yards for a touchdown. That wasn't anything. You didn't really give up a ton of stuff over the top like I thought they would, right? But the difference being is Green Bay is a team that looks for that stuff. They love the deep ball. They love throwing it deep to Jane Reed. So that game gives you more of a chance to be in a shootout, and when you're in a shootout, that's where I start to get more concerned with missing Niko,

who's your big play threat. Then you've got the big game against the Colts, and the Colts more than likely, although the Colts have been known to let down, like who knows what the Colts are, if the Colts are than likely, although the Colts have been known to let down like who knows what the Colts are. If the Colts are worth a shit at all, the Colts should win this weekend at the Titans and they should win at home against the Dolphins who are still a disaster, right? At that point, they're four and four. So let's say you get to the Colts game.

Best case scenario for the Colts, they're four and four. Best case scenario for you, you're six and one. Worst case scenario for you Colts, they're 4-4. Best case scenario for you, you're 6-1. Worst case scenario for you should be 6-2. Then you're up against the Colts, a team that showed they can throw it over the top on you three or four times in the opening week. You're in a rough spot there. Not a rough spot, but you're in a spot where it's like, okay, if they beat us here, they're 5-4, we're 6-2,

and we've now split with them. So it is imperative that the Texans, even without Nico, win this weekend, which they should. The Patriots do not scare me. The Patriots are not good. They're starting the guy for the first time freaking ever. Your defense can get nasty, especially when you're going to dial it up against some young dudes

who doesn't have a lot of playmakers around him. You've got to beat the shit out of the Patriots. Win that, and then we see what happens at Green Bay. You split these two, I can live with that, because at that point, again, you're 5-2. You're the 5-2 or 6-1 going into the game against the Colts. Colts should, I stress should, but would you be shocked if they lost to the Titans? Would you be shocked if they lost another game? Probably not. They shouldn't lose to the Dolphins, but they may. Although, man, they got Flacco thrown. They should just leave Flacco in this thing. Flacco's a beast and he's a beast. He's been a beast everywhere he's gone since he basically retired. So again, things change. This should not be a loss this weekend. There is no excuse to go to New England against a rookie quarterback and lose.

It would be a devastating loss. I do not want to overstate things, not even halfway into the season, but you're 4-1. You want to run away with this division and have a chance, outside shot, not even right now an outside shot, even though Kansas City is more than likely the team that's going to be circled at the top of this thing when it's all said and done. If you want to have a chance to get the bye, you cannot lose games like this. You cannot. Rookie, you've already crushed one rookie. Again, there was a closer game than it should have been, but you've already crushed one,

a better, in theory, better prospect in a better situation with better playmakers. Caleb Williams had much better weapons than you're going to get for Drake May. You must crush them this weekend. So I don't think missing Nico kills you there. Where missing Nico is going to hurt you is when you could get into a shootout with the Colts, which in week one was proven to be a shootout, and the Packers, who are a team that loves to sling it deep. Those could hurt you, and then who the hell knows

what the Jets are going to be four weeks from now, what they're going to look like. I also love the story, Speaking of the Jets, I love the story about how just minutes after Robert Sala told Nathaniel Hackett he was going to lose his play calling duties to Todd Downing, who what a resurrection for Todd Downing. Isn't he the guy that got the DUI after getting hammered on the Titans team playing, got a DUI and then got whacked. If I recall correctly, that was either a Monday night,

I think it was a Monday night football game. And I think, and I might be wrong on this, but I think the Titans went to Green Bay and won. It was either Green Bay or a successful team they were playing, the team with a good record at the time. They go on the road. They win. Todd Downing and the boys, they all get tanked on the plane. He gets in his car at like 3, 4 in the morning to go home and gets a DUI,

and then story breaks when I'm on the air in Nashville in the morning. Then they eventually whack him. So now he's with the Jets, and now is going to be the guy calling the plays or was going to be the guy calling the plays. I don't know if anything's changed, but they took the play-c calling duties from Nathaniel Hackett and we're going to give them to Todd Downing, who's the quarterback's coach there. And then five minutes later, Sala gets fired. You want to tell now, I don't know if somebody can get fired that fast. Like,

I don't know if Nathaniel Hackett can be told he's losing his play calling duties. He texts his boy, Aaron Rogers says, what the fuck? Aaron Rogers texts Woody, Aaron Rogers says, what the fuck? Aaron Rogers texts Woody Johnson says, what the fuck? And then like all in a matter of five minutes, there's a text message that comes into Robert Salas says, come to my office. We need to talk, bring your playbook. He gone. You know, I don't know, but if you want me to believe that Aaron Rogers doesn't have something to do with the stuff that we're seeing, if you want me to believe that Aaron Rogers, the guy they're paying $37 million to, the guy they believe to be the savior of their organization, the one missing piece,

you want me to believe that that guy has just no idea what's going on, no idea what kind of moves could be made? You want me to believe that? I don't. I'll be interested to see what he says on McAfee here later today. I'm gonna guess it's a whole bunch of bullshit and nothing

and then some shit about the Loch Ness Monster. So I don't know. Maybe some shit about Kamala, maybe some shit about the vaccines. I don't know. But I doubt we're going to get anything of any consequence out of Aaron Rodgers. And I am already skeptical of anything he's going to say anyway. That's not always the case with me. I'm not someone that's just a universal Aaron Rodgers hater based on his politics or whatever. But if you want me to believe that everything we've seen, Aaron Rodgers pushing Salah on the sideline, all the stuff we've seen, and this team being inept offensively, and his boy, the only person he speaks better of is RFK Jr. It's like his Mount Rushmore of bro crush is like Rogan, Pat, RFK Jr., and Hackett.

Those are his boys. You want me to believe that he doesn't know that his boy is getting demoted? And then when he knows his boy is getting demoted, he's pissed off about it? Because he clearly hated the head coach. So he won the power struggle. There is no way in hell you're going to convince me that there isn't a power struggle between quarterback and coach and the quarterback won it. And it's one thing when the quarterback wins it and he's still an elite level big time player. Like there was never a time that Tom Brady wasn't elite once he became Tom Brady.

Even the last couple of years in Tampa, he was still great. That ain't Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers looks like a washed has-been. So the power struggle goes to Aaron Rodgers. Congrats to Aaron Rodgers, but that team still stinks. And the only thing that was good about him was still the defense, although the defense wasn't as great as it had been. The defense was still the better part of what they had because the offense was inept. But your boy won the power struggle. But I just love the idea.

This is probably not the way it went down, and that's fine. But I love the idea that somehow in a matter of like five minutes of phone tag, what's the game you used to play phone? Like when someone would tell someone something, and by the time it got to the 10th person, it would be a totally different story. But like I'd like to believe that somehow it was a situation where in a matter of five to eight minutes, it goes from solid dumps Hackett, Hackett calls Aaron, Aaron calls the owner, owner fires the coach. Because see, people have questioned my beliefs on this because they said, well, why didn't they just just make Hackett the the coach doesn't really matter if Hackett's the head coach or not Aaron that's still Aaron's guy so like I doubt Sala had any say at all over anything Aaron Rodgers did anyway Rodgers comes in swings his dick around acts like he's the biggest shit in

town and by the way the quarterback can do that when the quarterback is the biggest shit in town. Aaron Rodgers' name far exceeds his play. Like, you could take a guy, a legitimate multiple-time champion like Pat Mahomes, and if he wanted to swing his dick around on Andy Reid, he probably could. He doesn't because they seem to have a good rapport. But Aaron Rodgers, on the other hand, like, everything about him just oozes asshole. And again, that has nothing to do with what he talks about politically. Some of the shit he says I agree with and I'm glad he has a platform to do. We all should. Everybody should have whatever platform they want to say whatever dumb shit they want to say. It's up to the people to determine whether they believe it or not or what they accept or not.

People have a hard time grasping that. Like, oh, this person shouldn't have a platform because he could influence people. Well, tell those people to do their own damn research and start using their brains, and then they can make their own decisions. But anyway, so I find that story to be interesting. Texans without Nico for four weeks. I think they're going to be okay.

They're going to win this weekend. Packers game could get... Well, honestly, the Packers game could have gotten dicey even with Nico. You watch that team team and from betting like I'll tell you this one thing about sports betting and I think probably fantasy football people experience this too one of the perks of betting especially prop bets and and uh playing fantasy football or fantasy sports in general is you get to keep close eye on what actually happens with these teams week in, week out, teams you wouldn't normally follow because they're not your teams.

One thing I see in Green Bay, particularly when Jordan Love is there, is they can fall behind in games and they will not stop throwing. They can get into a shootout with you. So whether Nico was there or not, I thought this game could be a dicey one for them anyway. It's on the road. Green Bay can put up numbers. So that's not a huge shocking thing there. Without him though, I think you lose part of what can get you in that game with them. Dude, if Nico would have been there and maybe it still will be, but if Nico is there, that game probably hits 35, 32, 38, 35 range. Like I think that game has that potential to do that without Nico I'm curious to see what they can do in terms of explosives what they can do in terms of matching it bang for bang

because I do believe I still am not a believer in the Texans secondary I still think they're a team that can give up big plays over the top despite the fact it didn't happen last week I don't know necessarily that the Bills are a team that can pull that off like they don't have a Brian Thomas Jr. like Jacksonville did to throw 80-yard passes to you know what I'm saying like they don't have that kind of over-the-top guy so it's not shocking that Buffalo didn't do that but in two weeks when Jaden Reed is there, that could very well happen. They could certainly blow the roof off of that and that could certainly change the outcome of that game. And will you be able to match on blow for blow? Without Nico, that's tougher. So we'll see. All right. Anyway, we'll get to some more stuff maybe later on today.

Maybe I'll post something else again. I don't know. We'll see. I do have some baseball thoughts. I love people that blame managers for wins and losses or blame them for losses but credit them for wins. Baseball managers are largely a waste, but I'm seeing this a lot from Philadelphia people. Philadelphia people are big time blame the coach town. It's like if the team stinks, fire the coach, fire the manager. They have no real reason for it. It's just what they do there. Fire the manager, fire the coach, fire the manager. They have no real reason for it. It's just what they do there. Fire the manager, fire the manager, fire the manager. The manager doesn't cause Bryce Harper to go up and flail at three pitches when you're down 2-0 after back-to-back walks from Sean Minaya.

He's paid, what, $40 million, whatever Bryce Harper has paid? Bryce Harper's paid to go up there and get the job done. He did get the job done in Game 2, just like Nick Castellanos got the job done in Game two. They didn't get the job done in game three. So is the manager brilliant in game two, but a dipshit in game three because the star players don't come through? Give me a fucking break. All right. Anyway, we'll do some more stuff maybe later on today. I don't know. We'll see. Thank you.