The Josh Innes Show - Random Thoughts: People With Dumb Eagles Opinions

Episode Date: December 5, 2022

A friend of mine has an absurd opinion about the Eagles/Titans game. His thought was that beating the Titans would prove the Eagles are legit. My friend didn't know that the Titans are not that good. Here's my thoughts.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'd like to offer you something that I find to be dumb, and it's a comment that I saw from a friend of mine. And so I feel fine saying that it's a dumb comment. And this comment came from my friend Adam, who used to produce the show in Philadelphia. And he tweeted something along the lines of that the Eagles, if they were to beat the Titans, this would be a true sign that they are a good team and they didn't just beat up on bad teams. And here's one thing about Philadelphia people and one thing about the media in Philly. They have no clue what's happening in other places. Everything is on the peripheral. And that's every city. I guarantee the people in Dallas don't know

everything that happens in Philly or Detroit or Boston, but they also don't pretend to be experts on everything that happens in those cities. The people in Philly all pretend to be experts on every other place, although they never watch any of these teams play or anything, right? I guarantee you, my man Adam, and I love him, I guarantee you Adam hadn't watched two minutes of the Titans play football other than what might have been on a Monday night or Sunday night football. If you'd watch the Titans play at all, the Titans are not good. They're okay defensively. They're fine, but they're a terrible offense, right? And when I see people in Philly acting like beating the Titans is what they needed to see to really believe that the Eagles are for real. That is stupid. It is stupid because the Eagles have basically gone out and beat the shit out of some size. I mean, look, their schedule stinks, right?

But is it possible that the Eagles schedule stinks because the Eagles are really good and they're making these teams look like shit? They've blown out some teams. They've had some near miss me. Look, they came close to losing that game to the Colts a few weeks ago. They did lose to the Redskins. I get it, right? They're not the most perfect team that's ever existed.

However, the idea that the Eagles needed to beat a 7-5 Titans team, a team that plays in the worst division in the NFL, a team that has one, count them, one skill player that's worth a shit, the other one that's almost kind of worth a shit got hurt in the first quarter of the damn game yesterday. So they had nothing. The idea that a team that's got a beat-up offensive line, they're missing their center. The idea that the Titans, now 7-5 team, would be the true barometer to see if Jalen Hurts has really emerged and whether this team is really good is a truly dumb opinion, and it's the opinion of people who have not actually watched the Titans and they just look at records. Because the Titans, and you can look at their defensive numbers and say,

wow, they're amazing, and they did well against Patrick Mahomes, although they gave up 500 yards in that game. They didn't give up points. But they have played some real stiffs. Now, I don't believe that you tell how good a team is. You can look at their record and say, hey, this team's record is good because they're playing crappy teams. I think you can eyeball a team and tell if they're good or not. The Eagles have obviously been a good football team for the entirety of the season.

They're solid everywhere. They're very good in a lot of places. They're loaded defensively. They've got skill players everywhere. I didn't need to see the Eagles go out and beat a lousy Titans team, a mediocre middling Titans team to go, look out, guys, we're for real. Like if you've watched the Eagles play at all, you know they're legit. You know they're for real. They're not a product of playing shitty teams.

Now, it's easy to sit back and hear me say that, and if they lose a playoff game, you say, see, they played a shitty schedule, and then they played a real team. That's not how this works. There's the playoffs, and there's the regular season. The playoffs tell you who is legit, right? Like, if you lose in the playoffs, the regular season didn't matter. But as far as things go right now as a regular season football team, I don't believe the Eagles are smoking mirrors. They're not smoking mirrors. They're going out there and they're lining up and they're beating people in multiple ways. They can obviously run with the quarterback. They can obviously run with Miles Sanders.

They've got two dynamic playmakers at receiver, probably three. They got multiple running backs that can be beasts. They're tied in game even prior to prior to injury was very good. They got players everywhere. Like if you like, that's what bothers me I guarantee you there are a bunch of dopes in Philadelphia bless their hearts that spent all last week trying to tell you that I'm worried about the Titans the Titans do blank blank and we don't do this if you watch the Titans for five minutes you know that they are not good the best they looked was against Green Bay Green Bay sucks Traylon Burks had his best. Traylon Burks got hurt in that game. Point being is that there's so many people that want to try to downplay things or they want to

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Here's his rushing totals the last three weeks. 87 yards against the Packers, 38 against the Bengals, 30 against the Eagles. So while people might want to dump on the Eagles and say, who have they beaten? I'm worried about the Titans. The Titans have not beaten one good team at all. They played the Bengals. Lost. They played the Eagles.

Lost. They played the Chiefs. Lost. They played the Bills. Lost. You know who they've beaten? The Texans. They've beaten crappy teams like that, and they've escaped.

They've narrowly beaten some crappy teams. And the Colts. So this idea that, look, listen, I wasn't sold on the Eagles before they played the Titans, then you're stupid. Then you have no idea what's going on. If you think beating that shitty football team proves anything. Now, all that to tell you this, the Eagles are the best team in the NFL, and they've been good for weeks.

Their offense at times is unstoppable. You know, somebody reposted something to mine from last December where I said that Jalen Hurts sucks. Jalen Hurts sucked last year. He looked lost. Jalen Hurts does not suck this year. Jalen Hurts is the MVP of the league. Jalen Hurts is throwing to ballers. The Eagles are really fucking good. And no, like, I don't know who would have needed to see them beat a middling Titans team to say, all right, guys, I wasn't on the bandwagon before, but holy shit, I am locked in now, baby.

We're good to go. I was worried about this team. I felt that we hadn't beaten anybody. We needed a true test, so we had to go out and beat the Titans to prove something. Think about that for a second. There are people who felt that way. I would argue, now, is the Eagles' schedule as tough so far as,

I mean, they haven't had to play, I mean, you've looked at Bengals and Chiefs and all that. We talked about that with the Eagles. But you start to look at some of these games, the Eagles have won. Vikings is a quality win. Vikings are pretty good. By the way, the Commanders, Redskins, whatever the fuck you want to call them, they're a solid team.

So explain this to me. Beating the Commanders isn't an accomplishment. They got the same damn record as the Titans, yet somehow beating the Titans matters. Beat the Cowboys. See what the Cowboys did to the Colts last night? They scored 33 points in the fourth quarter. So is their schedule a world-beating schedule?

No, but at the end of all this, the idea that the Eagles had something to prove because their schedule stunk and that beating the Titans was going to be that answer is dumb. That is a dumb opinion, and it's the opinion of people that don't actually watch. And that's where I get annoyed. People make these big, bold proclamations about shit, and they clearly don't see it.

Now, the only reason I see the Titans is because they're on TV here every week, and I follow the team a little bit. But it's Ryan Tannehill and Derrick Henry who's run poorly for the last month and no wide receivers, no tight ends. Oh, but they're defensive numbers. Yes, that's where I think you can look at what a team does and say their stats can be overblown. Like, oh, they went to overtime with Kansas City. They kept them out of the end zone. Yeah, they also gave up 500-something yards in that game. That's important

to note. When you look at bad teams, when you want to look at rankings, oh, they only give up 18 points a game. Well, how much of that had to do with the fact they have a Texans on the schedule? How much of that had to do with the fact they have a Texans on the schedule? How much of that has to do with the fact that, you know, now have they played some decent games against people? Sure. Are the, are the, the, the Titans a terrible team? They're not terrible.

They're mid lane. But Josh, do you see what their defense does? They do so many things. Well, that's going to happen when you, again, that number's inflated by playing teams like the Texans where you gave up 10 points, the Colts where you gave up 10 points, the Broncos where you gave up 10 points, the Packers. They're fine, but they're not world beaters. So winning that game means nothing. And I know I'm rambling at this point, but it annoyed me that there were people who legitimately felt

that. Look at your football team and say we're really fucking good. Who cares what you do against the Titans? Beating them means nothing. Thank you. Goodbye.