The Josh Innes Show - Rodgers To The Steelers

Episode Date: June 5, 2025

Aaron Rodgers is finally off to Pittsburgh. I am annoyed by Rodgers. It's not a political thing. He just oozes douche. Is this a good move for Pittsburgh? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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town on one of his on his whirlwind tours of Comic Cons and comic book stores everywhere. So basically, what had happened was I went to visit him because he was driving through town. And the only when he was driving through town was when I normally record the podcast. So me and Ross went over to see him in the parking lot of a Target in Bridgestone, Missouri, which is a suburb. I not even a suburb really of St. Louis. It's in St. Louis

basically. So that took up a lot of my time today. But dad, I guess was at a Comic Con up in Niagara Falls where he met like Freddy Krueger and Tommy Chong and all these people. Then after that was over, that was during the weekend, then he drove to Indianapolis to do a signing at a comic book store or some sort of collectible store. Then he ended up driving through town today. Well, actually, no, I take it back. He was in Indianapolis. Then he did another signing yesterday, I believe it was, or two days ago in Lincoln, Illinois, I

believe. Now he's on his way to Columbia, Missouri to do another signing as well. And then he's on his way to Wichita. So my dad just loads up this truck and he's got a lot of Scooby-Doo merchandise. Let me tell you, nobody hustles like Scotty Ennis. Nobody does it because my dad has really, really made being Scooby-Doo a very profitable venture even though he still doesn't do a ton of stuff. Like he'll still do occasional Scooby stuff and occasional voice stuff. But it's not like this is something he

does regularly. But one thing I learned and I didn't know this, but three of the most popular Scooby Doo movies like of the newer generation or four of them are ones that my dad did, particularly a movie called Scooby Doo on Zombie Island, which is the best of his movies. It was the first movie my dad did. He was the voice of Scooby in that one, and it was by most people's summation, the best Scooby movie ever. And it was a great one. It took place in Louisiana, and there were zombies, and it was a great one. It took place in Louisiana and there were zombies and it was a good

one and a lot of people like you forget that when that came out and people were kids, you know, say they were seven eight years old when that came out. Now they're adults. They grew up watching my dad as Scooby Doo and they want to meet the guy. So he just goes out and makes bank traveling the country. Some of these are comic cons and some of these are just, hey, I'm setting up a signing at a comic book store, come out and see me. He told me that in Lincoln, Illinois, I guess it was yesterday, four solid hours, he was at a comic book store, some sort of place, and it was nonstop people,

pictures, people driving from hours away to go see him, so more power to him, but I had the opportunity to see him as he came through town, so I went to see him and that's why I was late getting some podcasts in for you guys today, my bad, but I'm here now. Let's play some commercials and let's get down to some business. The NBA Finals are finally here and after spending the playoffs all over the pick six app from DraftKings. Well, we're ready for the championship round and this is your last shot to win some real cash before the season ends. The simplest way to get in on the action is downloading the pick six app from DraftKings and it's super simple. Just pick more

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loves being in the moment. Rogers loves being the center of attention. The thing is I don't dislike Aaron Rodgers. I think he's clearly douchey. Like it's possible to like someone and still acknowledge they're a douche, right? But with Aaron Rodgers it's a very polarizing thing. It's a very Trump-like thing, right? Like you're either supposed to really love the guy, and if you don't really love him, people just assume that you're some liberal hater and like you dislike him for the vaccine stuff or whatever. I couldn't give two shits about Aaron Rodgers' vaccine status

or how he handled his vaccine shit. I don't care. I don't care that he's a weird conspiracy theorist, whatever. He just comes across as a douchebag. I like, that's the thing though. I like him, but he comes across as a douchebag and that's fine. It's not political. It's not football. It's just there's something about him that oozes douche, but he's one of those guys, it's fascinating, he's one of those guys that if you don't like him the first thing people will do like right wing wackos will come after you and say, oh he hates him because of the vaccines or he hates him because of Trump or Joe Rogan or

he can't handle, oh Snowflake can't handle that he's not a sheep? Oh I see Snowflake can't handle that he's not a sheep? Oh, I see Snowflake can't handle it, huh? Oh, boy, why don't you go get your 13th vaccine? Why don't you go suck Fouch's hug? Like, bro, two things can be true or you can feel two things about the same person. One, I don't give a shit that the guy didn't get vaccinated. I don't give a shit about what his political beliefs are. And I also just think he's a douche and my reason for thinking he's a douche is not because of politics and it's not because of vaccines and it's not because of Trump because a lot of the shit I'd probably agree with him on but he seems like a douche. Now maybe

if I ever finish this documentary about him I will feel like he is less of a douche or I may feel that he's more of a douche. I don't know, but I've just felt this way. And he also sucks at football now. See, that's the biggest thing about this. We can talk about Aaron Rogers from the political standpoint. We can talk about Aaron Rogers from vaccine standpoints. We can talk about Aaron Rogers from, oh, he used to fuck Danica Patrick standpoints. Or, oh, remember he used to hook up with the chick from The Secret Life of the American Teenager, or we could talk about him from the standpoint

of apparently his brother and family hate him. We could talk about all these things. None of that matters. What matters is what you do on the football field. And news flash, Homeboy was terrible last year for the Jets. And you could argue, well, it's the Jets, nothing good ever comes out of the Jets, they're a worthless organization who gives a shit about the Jets, their coordinators are terrible, their coaches are terrible, their players are terrible, their offensive coordinator, their head coach, everybody's terrible, the owners terrible,

GMs terrible. All that may be true. But Aaron Rodgers is also terrible. He was not good. So you can say that it's because of the team he played for, but what about going to the Pittsburgh Steelers, a team that sucks offensively as well, what makes you think that Aaron Rodgers is going to go to that team and make them exponentially better? Now, let's look at it from the side of the Steelers. The Steelers for the most part are a worthless offensive organization that try a revolving door of dudes for the last four, five, six years. Basically ever since Aaron Rogers they haven't been able to find the dude and they're a revolving door.

Like if you look at the number of dudes who've started games for the Steelers, I'm not saying it's like early 2000s Browns but they've had a lot of dudes and they've had a lot of shitty dudes, but they've had Mason Rudolph start games and Duck Hodges start games and Justin Fields start games and Rusty Wilson start games and I know I'm missing people in there. They've had a shitload of people start games for them and they're just pretty much a middling bad offense. Does Aaron Rodgers go

in there and make them exponentially better? That I don't know but it's interesting because if you're trying to win now and you trade for DK Metcalf, which real talk, I had completely forgotten they had traded for Metcalf. You talk about out of sight, out of mind, under the radar, like totally forgotten that this went down. I forgot that they had traded for DK Metcalf but the Steelers have DK Metcalf. He's an explosive player. He's a great player. Fine. They also no longer have George Pickens as you know. They do got Pat

Firemuth though. This probably helps the chances of my boy Patty Firemuth getting more receiving yards in the betting game. So just keep that in mind. But if you're the Steelers and you've tried all these bums and you still haven't been able to be bad enough to draft the dude, which they haven't because the Steelers, the Steelers are kind of the ultimate example of the either suck or be bad model because otherwise the Steelers just kind of hover around at eight wins every year and they can

always say that you know Mike Tomlin doesn't have losing seasons. Yeah but he doesn't really have winning good seasons either right like they don't go out and win a ton of games they're never truly a threat so they never really get to go out and get a superstar quarterback or draft high enough to get one and they try with Justin Fields obviously and Justin Fields and that was like a thing obviously the Bears were Justin Fields but when they brought in Justin Fields you were like hey maybe they got a shot here maybe he'll find something in Pittsburgh obviously they never did they go out and sign Rusty Wilson who had been a has-been in Denver and was a has-been in in Pittsburgh so you look at it from the

standpoint of Aaron Rodgers it's pretty wild because Aaron Rodgers clearly was shot last year and until proven otherwise, I'm going to ride with the idea that Aaron Rodgers is cooked and he's not good. If you're Pittsburgh, if you're a fan of the Steelers today, you're going to ride with the idea that holy shit, we've got one of the best quarterbacks of all time and he sucked because he played with the Jets. Of course, that would ignore the fact that you offensively are also pretty inept and have been for years and years, but you can convince

yourself that you're a better run organization with better ownership, better general manager, consistency at head coach, that maybe Aaron Rodgers comes in and makes you explosive offensively and you guys become better. Okay, fine. Also, if you're the Steelers, you operate in this world where you tell yourself okay what's the alternative? And the alternative is like oh you have they did they drafted I think they drafted the dude from Ohio State did they draft

Will Howard late in the draft so obviously they weren't drafting for a future all-star superstar Pro Bowl quarterback. Like they pretty much knew that Aaron Rodgers was their future. But if you're the Steelers, what do you have to lose? If you're Mike Tomlin, what do you have to lose? I mean, who knows how much longer they're going to stick with Mike Tomlin winning seven, eight games every year. He doesn't lose a lot, never wins a lot, right? So how much are you going to invest in that?

You didn't draft anybody that's going to be the heir apparent, obviously. So what do you have to lose? And I guess at this point, you don't really have a ton to lose. You can see what the guys got. However, how much of what you saw last year is who Aaron Rodgers is and who Aaron Rodgers is going to be? The biggest question is, do you believe that Aaron Rodgers sucked because the Jets are just a shitty organization or do you believe that Aaron Rodgers was a big reason why the Jets sucked? And if you believe that Aaron Rodgers was a big reason why the Jets sucked, then you probably don't believe that Aaron Rodgers goes to Pittsburgh and helps them become better than the 8-9 win team they are every year. I lean towards he's not. However, if you're the Steelers right now, what the fuck do you have to lose? You don't have an heir apparent, you're not keeping the future of the franchise from getting playing time. the and you sit back and go, well, what are our options? We're running out of time for Tomlin to win. We just made a trade a couple months ago for DK Metcalf.

We're kind of a ho-hum team, yet even as a ho-hum team, we win enough games to at least be competitive. Why don't we take a shot on a guy who's one of the all-time greats? What do you have to lose? It's not like it's going to set you back 15 years, set you back a year or two. So why the fuck not? It's really a great example of a why the fuck not situation. Why not? What do you have to lose? So that's the way I'd look at it. I think Aaron Rodgers is a douche. It's not for political reasons. I agree with a lot of his political shit. I don't care that he's a conspiracy theorist. That doesn't bother me. Just comes across as a douchebag. It's football related in the sense that he sucks at

football and he's an arrogant douchebag. But if you're Pittsburgh, what do you have to lose? Kind of a simple way of putting things I know. More to come.