The Josh Innes Show - Sean Payton Cannot Go To The Super Bowl...

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

I'm a Saints fan. I think Sean Payton taking Jarett Stidham to the Super Bowl would be the worst pain I've felt in my sports life... Why? I'll explain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Visit medcan.com slash moments to get started. So, you know that I hate Sean Payton. I'm a Saints fan. You know, I'm a Saints fan. And, you know, I watched the Saints lose a lot of playoff games. They had no business losing. We listed them yesterday, but again, you've got playoff loss to go down the list. The seven-win Seattle team. You lost to Alex Smith.

You allowed yourself to get out-duled by Alex Smith in San Francisco. You lost to Case Keenham on a miracle play. You lost to Kirk Cousins at home in the playoffs. You lost to Jared fucking Goff in the playoffs. You almost lost to Nick Foles at home in the playoffs. And I'd argue you should have if Alshan Jeffrey doesn't drop a pass. So I've lived that life. I've experienced the life of a Saints fan getting crushed, having your heartbroken.

Like I'm talking heartbreaking playoff losses under Sean Payton. Now, granted, they've won the Super Bowl, and they also were kind of gifted the Super Bowl by a really dumb decision by Brett Farr. But fine, we'll take it. You don't feel bad for people. You won the Super Bowl. You earned it. Fine. But after that Super Bowl, what was Sean Payton's playoff record after the Super Bowl year?

Because they went to the playoffs in 11 and 12, right? He was suspended in 13, right? Or was it 12 or 13? I think he was suspended in 13. They didn't make the playoffs in 14, 15, 16. They then started making the playoffs against 17, 18, 19, 20. That was like the next golden era. How many playoff games did Sean Payton win after they won the Super Bowl?

If I'm doing the math on this, let's see, I think they won a playoff game in 11. They did not want a playoff game in 12. They won a playoff game in 13, I think. and then I think they won one in each of the years they were good again in 17, 18, 19. So I want to say he's probably slightly under 500 in that stretch, right? I would say that they've won, my guess would be five. Five playoff wins against like seven losses might be the number. Point being is this.

I enjoy Sean Payton and I enjoy the Super Bowl that he brought to New Orleans and I acknowledge that he's a wonderful coach. Because he is. And he's done a great job with Denver. But I would like it to this. And this is why I really want them to lose. And I'm actually excited that their bum-ass quarterback is hurt. So they have to replace them with another bum-ass quarterback. I don't want to sit back and watch someone move on to something else and experience the things that I should have experienced.

It's like when you're a child of someone, like a family that gets divorced and then dad moves on to another family. And like that new family gets all the good shit. And like you're the adult son now. Again, this is not something I actually know about, just to be very clear. But like, you are a, you're the adult son of someone. You had to live in the early days when things were a little bit more difficult, right? And you have to experience that whole situation. And then you get to see dad move on to a new family and those new kids get to go to fucking Disney World.

And they get to go to Universal Studios. And when they turn 16, dad buys them a car. And they sort of just ignore you, right? You know what it's like, it's like the movie Parenthood. Remember the Joaquin Phoenix? character, totally random example. But the Joaquin Phoenix character who lives with Diane Weist and like

the dad is like, left him and apparently he's like a doctor somewhere. And like his whole new family gets all the good shit that they didn't get. And like he basically ignores his current kid who's named like Randy or some shit because everybody in the early 90s had a kid named Randy. And and like he gets to like just watch from afar

as like his dad lives this new life with his new wife and new family and it's fucking bullshit. And then eventually he kind of lashes out, and I think he breaks into his dad's office and just smashes up all of his shit. That's me. I'm Joaquin Phoenix watching Sean Payton possibly win a Super Bowl with Denver. Because as a fan of the Saints, one of those Super Bowls should have been mine. And I don't want it to happen. I don't want him to have that kind of joy. I don't want to watch that shit happen.

I watched Kirk Cousins in the Dome march down the field and score. I've watched Jared Gough go. Now granted, that was a unique situation, but I watched Jared Gough go into the dome. And whether you like it or not, Jared Gough won the fucking game. I watched Case Keenham throw a Hail Mary that beat you.

I've watched Aaron or Alex Smith out duel. Drew Brees. And I don't want someone else to have the joy I should have had at least at some point. So I very much want them to lose. And I'm glad. Look, I feel like that. Somehow some sort of karma has found their way. Look, I'm not rooting for some guy to be injured.

That's a dick move on my part. So it's unfortunate for Bo Nix, who has a really annoying haircut and a bad complexion. I don't like Bo Nix either. I think he sucks. I think he's on a long list of dudes who are not very good at playing quarterback in the current NFL because we're in an era where there's a lot of shitty quarterback play. Even the guys who are considered the good ones, many of them suck too. Jackson, comma, Lamar.

I would question whether or not Herbert, comma, Justin is all that good. either. But those are like the elite dudes. So we have to blow them and say they're the good ones. So I don't like Bonex. I really hate Sean Payton. I'm here for the losses. I want those law like I want I want Sean Payton to get his dick knocked off. Now granted, he's got a built an excuse. But you know what would really suck. What would just destroy my soul. It would lead me to drinking Drana or throwing the toaster in the bathtub is if out of all those years with Drew Breeze, Sean Peyton found a way to lose playoff games. Again, we listed them.

The playoff game against the Vikings twice, the Rams, go down the list of the Seahawks, 49ers. All those years that Sean Peyton had Drew Breeze and they never made it back to the Super Bowl, if somehow Sean Peyton takes Jared Stiddem to the Super Bowl, I will throw a toaster in the bathtub. Because you might as well just use my balls as a speed bag. Because that will be the worst experience I have ever had as a sports fan. And that would include watching Sean Payton Saints lose in the dome when it was set up.

We were going to the Super Bowl. Watching them lose that game to the Rams because they had it stolen from them. That was the worst sports pain I've ever felt. Like, I don't even know that there's a Mount Rushmore sports pain that I I felt. It's like that and then everything else is like 1,000 down. I've watched the Cardinals lose games in the World Series that I've attended. I've watched like LSU lose games that were heartbreakers. Like I watched them lose. The T.J. Yeldon game at home when it looked like they were going to upset Alabama. Like I've been to these games. I have dealt with legitimate sports heartbreak. We all have.

This would actually be the worst sports heartbreak I've ever felt if Sean Payton takes his new shitty family to the Super Bowl with Jared fucking Stidham as the quarterback. knowing that Drew Bree's one of the handful of the greatest quarterbacks of the last quarter century, one of the greatest ever play the game, couldn't get back to another one. And given the guys that they've lost to, this would be the worst. This would go down as my worst sports pain ever. Hogbone says Vrable's got this. I would think he'd have to.

Because if Mike Vrable loses this game, like he's not going to get fired in Boston. if Mike Vrable defensive guru loses a home playoff game, actually I guess that wouldn't be a home playoff game, or would it, no. If they go on the road and lose a playoff game to Jared Stidham, you could actually make an argument that Mike Vrable should not only be fired, he should be beheaded in the town square if they lose to Jared Stidham. Because given what they did to C.J. Stroud, who is a better player than Jared Stidham,

obviously, given what we saw there, If he goes into that game and loses a... I mean, this guy, Mike Vrable took Ryan Tannihill to the brink of going to the Super Bowl. If Mike Vrable, as the coach of the Patriots, finds a way to lose to Jared Stidham, I think he should be putting the Iron Maid. Let's see, Vrable should be the coach of the Eagles. Well, he's not, and he won't be. But there are some guys that just makes sense in certain places. Tell me that Mike Vrable doesn't make sense in New England, right?

Miko Ryans makes sense in Houston, right? And there are very few examples of that where a guy plays for a team coach. They like Ditka makes sense in Chicago. There aren't a ton of those. But that's an example. Like Vrabel just makes sense in New England. Like so I'm cool with that. Like Vrable, New England, rock on.

But Vrable, probably going to be coach of the year. There's a great case for Vrable to be coach of the year. Although, I mean, probably also look at Ben Johnson. Vrable's not going to win coach of the year. But the shit that he inherited from Gerard Mayo and now he's going to have them in the Super Bowl, pretty fucking strong. What he's done with Drake Megan? How much of that is him who knows? But like, he's got him back.

So he's someone that should at least get attention for that. Not that I give a shit about who wins postseason awards, but you get the point. But if we run into a situation where Sean Payton goes to the Super Bowl with Jared Stidham, I may actually cry. That is the worst. I would just, it would be like, it would be the most crushing thing that's ever happened to me as a sports fan. I told you, I went to, I've gone to Cardinals World Series games, but like, I can't even think, like, it's sad that that's the case. Like, obviously, number one on the list is Saints losing to the Rams and I'm sitting there in the stadium, punching the ticket for the Super Bowl. I'm going to the city, I guess would it have been, was that Atlanta that year?

No, it was Minneapolis. What year was that with the Super Bowl? What year was that? The game was in 2019. So I guess that would have been the year it was in Atlanta. Right? So we would have been going to Atlanta and I was going to Atlanta anyway and I would have found my way into that game. And like I would have been there and it would have been awesome.

And I was planning it and it was great. And then it all went to hell. That was the worst pain I've ever felt as a sports fan. Bar none. Nothing's even close. But watching Sean Payne. Peyton take some loser like Jared Stiddam to the Super Bowl when Drew Breeze was left out year after year. Let us not forget the last Drew Breeze image we have is that asshole.

Who am I thinking of the tight end? Jared Cook that dropped the pass from Drew. And then it ended up being a turnover in a tight game. And then Tampa ends up winning and advancing in the postseason in an empty Superdome. And that's the last thing we ever saw of Drew Breeze. And that four-year run there where they were great and Drew never got back to the Super Bowl again. And he takes us new family to the Super Bowl with Jared fucking Stidham. No, sir.

I can't have that. That will hurt too bad. So. But anyway.