The Josh Innes Show - The Texans Suck

Episode Date: October 21, 2025

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have no rooting interest other than in like who I'm betting on on that particular day, right? So like the idea that I'm sitting here, like my team sucks. The Saints suck. I love watching the Lions. So if the Lions are on there, probably the team I'm going to watch because A, I'm a front runner, but B, they're just fucking fun to watch. And you saw them last night. Their offense is spectacular.

And hey, they played some defense yesterday too. And they're arguably the best team in the NFC right now. So they're fun to watch. I watch games that I bet on. I watch games that I enjoy the teams playing. I can't fathom having to watch the Texans play football on a day-in, day-out basis, a weekend, week-out basis, and then talking about it week-in, week-out. Because as it stands right now, I have next to no interest in talking about the Texans.

We talked about it yesterday. It was a must-win. If you want people to believe that you're worth a shit, if you want to truly be worth a shit, and you want to compete and still stay alive in the AFC, you needed to win that game. And we asked, was it fools gold, was the huge offensive game against the Ravens just a bullshit. Yes was the answer. And we knew it was because, again, the Ravens give up a billion yards to everybody.

You struggled for three quarters against the Titans, and then you blew out the Ravens. Oh, by the way, I'd like to find all those people who were talking shit to me on Twitter after C.J. Stroud went out and bawled against the shitty Ravens. Please, come to me. I'd like to hear from you. All those same people that were retweeting my videos of whether or not C.J. Stroud sucks. Please. We're at now. You're at home washing your tights.

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Anywho, the Texans suck. You can talk about other defenses stingy, and look, they forced a bunch of turnovers. Look, the defense kept them in the game, you know, as well as they could. You know, you're not going to stop JSN, he's a man. amazing. So he's going to get his and he had 123 yards. You know, Darnold's had this reclamation project. But your defense was decent enough to keep you in the game. And you're just not a

good football team. And you may, and the worst part is the part that hurts the worst, there's two parts that really heard about the Texans. One is a year and a half, two years ago, we sat here and thought the Texans had a franchise quarterback. It was locked and stocked. We thought, oh, my God, the Texans have actually drafted a franchise quarterback, which they did before with Deshawn Watson before Deshawn Watson, you know, became a guy that liked to get jerked off and have fingers in his asshole and became this way, really the, even without like the fingers in the asshole and the ass in the air and the jerk and off and all that stuff, even without all that, just like the fall from Grace as a football player, they're becoming a shitty football

player is truly one of the greatest falls ever. Then you throw in the, you know, diddling of the butt holes and the jerk and off and everything. Now it's a spectacular story that you already know. But the Texans have drafted a franchise quarterback before who was very good. before all of this and that's Deshawn Watson but like we got a guy that's likable a guy that we don't anticipate as you know getting his butthole dittled while getting massages we think he's a good guy we think he loves Houston we think he digs the vibes and we think he's going to be a rock star and he is a rock star the first year and then the second year rolls around he's not so much of a rock star but we'll see and then towards the end of the year it's like uh maybe not his little buddy got hurt

and then oh shit and then this year he's been shit and you can make all the excuses and you can tell me about the offensive line and yeah the offensive line sucks there are teams that have shitty offensive lines that's part of it and you're kind of running for your life the offensive line is terrible but what do you see from a c j stroud that gives you any belief that c j strout is truly going to be a guy that you're moving forward with like i'd make an argument today that you are better served trying to find a trade partner for him than signing him long term like today you ain't signing that motherfucker long term at all like c j stroud is not even someone you're considering giving a long-term deal to.

He's still got a couple of years left, so it's not something you're overly concerned with today. But if it came down to, like, what do you think is more likely to happen or what should be more likely to happen? That C.J. Stroud gets paid tons of cash and becomes the franchise quarterback for the Texans for the next 10 years, or C.J. Stroud is no longer the Texans quarterback in two years. What's more likely to happen? It's obvious C.J. Stroud being the out in two years. You can't pay this guy. And I get that the offensive line stinks. I'm well aware.

There are guys that deal with crappy offensive lines all the time and you just kind of have to make do and try to make it work. They look lost. And I think, and this is the part, that was part one that sucks. Part one that sucks is you look at CJ Stroud and you thought, hey, at least we've got a guy that's the franchise quarterback. We got a guy that gives you something to believe in. My dumb ass a couple of years ago was talking about how this guy's going to carry him for 10 years. I was wrong. He sucks. A lot of us were wrong. And maybe he can prove us wrong again. But as of right now, this dude sucks.

And we have no belief in what he's doing. That's number one. That part sucks. The part that sucks even more, though, and this one really stings because D'emiko's such a likable, charismatic, lovable guy is maybe he's just a shitty coach. And like, I think he can coach ball. Like, he can coach defense. He's a baller. Like he's a very good defensive coach. That's what he made his name on. That's how he got this job. He is a very good defensive coach.

And for the most part, the Texans defense has been pretty damn good. But as far as running the organization, looking at the way the team looks, look at their body language, look at the way they carry themselves, look at the dumb penalties that they commit. Look at the mistakes they make. Those are not the mistakes that are made by a well-coached team. Now, you see them all over the league because there are a lot of poorly coached. teams. But man, a year and a half ago, if you would have told me we'd be sitting here today on October 21st of 2025. And we'd be questioning whether or not D'Amico Ryan's is a legitimately good CEO, a guy running a franchise, and we would be debating whether or not the Texans are

better off keeping C.J. Stroud long term or just letting him walk and never paying him. You would have been nuts. But as it stands today, those are the two debates. You can have both of those. And again, the offensive line stinks. I'm aware the offensive line stinks. The worst part about the Texans, though, is the Texans are impossible to watch. It's a joyless endeavor. Back to the initial point of all this. When you watch the Texans, it feels like a job. It's not fun. Like my buddy Matt, who does the, you know, he works in Baton Rouge, right? He covers the Saints, covers LSU. Die-hard Saints fan. Probably a bigger Saints fan historically than he is LSU fan and he went to LSU.

Diehard Saints fan. Season ticket holder for a billion years. He and I went to the Nola No Call game together. And part of his job is that he has to watch the Saints, but he certainly isn't watching the Saints because he loves the Saints. He's watching the Saints because it's his job to watch the Saints. He's not watching the Saints because it's a joyful endeavor. He's watching the Saints because the Saints are part of what he talks about and he needs to know what's

going on. There's no way he watches that and enjoys it. And there's no way anybody who's covering the Texans right now is watching Texans games and saying, boy, this is a good time. Because, again, wins and losses matter, obviously. And you can win ugly and it can be boring, so you've got to win. But there's something stylistically about the product that's unwatchable. And that's how I am with baseball a lot of the time. Like, if you watch the Tigers when they blew their 15-and-a-half game lead, they were playing.

It wasn't just that they were losing. because you can lose games and play a great baseball game and one guy gets one good pitch and blast it out of the park and you lose. That's possible, right? But the way you win and the way you lose does play a factor, especially if you're losing. If you're winning, you can forgive a lot of things. Like when the Eagles early in the season were playing terribly offensive football was terrible,

yet they were still winning. It was, hey, all that matters is winning. Now they're out there slinging the ball all over the yard, and they were actually fun to watch this weekend. And you don't have to throw for 600 yards every day for it to be an enjoyable product to watch. But you can't be inept. And the Texans are inept.

It is a painful watch. It is a boring watch. It is a job watch, is what I call it. When I watch the Texans, it feels like I'm doing work. It feels like, like, I don't know what it's like to drive a dump truck or I don't know what it's like to pick up garbage every day, be a guy on the back of a garbage truck. But it feels like work. I tell you, I get up 3.45 every morning. That's work, right? That sucks. But watching the Texans feels like getting up at 345. And CJ has somehow become kind of an unlikable guy and he's got a weird vibe about him and you wonder if he likes the franchise and you wonder if he likes the city. And I'm not going to go so deep as to talk about the hats the guy wears because people make way too big of a deal about hats that people wear and what messaging that is. Why is he wearing a Seattle hat? Like all that bullshit is for the birds.

But there is something to be said about, like, look, you can look at J.J. Watt all you want, and J.J. Watt was like an all-time goat-level panderer to the tune of like he and Bryce Harper types were like super panders. But one thing J.J. Watt did. You never questioned if J.J. Watt loved being in Houston. Because J.J. Watt was Captain Houston. And not everybody's going to be Captain Houston. That's not everybody's personality. Not everybody is obsessed with being liked and being the good guy. And J.J. Watt's seemingly was, and Bryce Harper seemingly is in Philly. So, you know, I get that, right? Like, they're dudes that

just like to pander, and it's annoying and we make fun of it, and I made fun of J.J. Watt all the time when he played all-time great player, but the dude posting videos of him, like, chopping wood and shit, like, but he was Captain Houston. And even though he wasn't from Houston, you never doubted

that J.J. Watt was the age. And you never doubt, like, Bryce Harper is Philadelphia, whether it's hokey, bullshit, whatever. certain guys know that Adam Wainwright, who I despise, Adam Wainwright, Captain St. Louis. Like, they're just certain guys that know what they're doing. And I'm not going to make some big to-do over the hats that the guy fucking wears. Like, I don't believe there's like big messaging. But when things are going well and you want to be part of the community, like you almost

naturally pander like me right now. I enjoy being in Detroit. I like Detroit a lot. I got a tiger's hat. I wear some lion's hoodies. I like being part of the vibe. I'm not here to be disruptive and say fuck them. Like, I like being part of the vibe. And when you enjoy what you're doing and you're good at what you're doing and things are humming, it's very easy for you to go out there and have, you know, a rocket's hat on or whatever. When things aren't going very well and you're not happy, you don't put as much effort into the, what's the word I'm looking for, not imaging, but the optics. And when you stop caring about optics, I think you start getting to a point where you're not happy.

Because when you're happy, you do care about optics because you want people in a place that you like to like you back. And you want them to feel like you're part of their world. And I think when you stop caring about what the optics are, I think that's an admission that you find yourself in a position where you're not very happy. Again, I don't make a huge deal of it. I think a lot of people overblow this, you know, what hat C.J. Stroud is wearing type of shit.

But I think there's a piece to it that's got some form of reality. Because I guarantee if my man's out there slinging and he's happy with the team and they're four and two instead of two and four, my man would probably make a special effort to let you know how much he loves Houston. That's all. So he's probably not happy. But I wouldn't be happy either if I sucked and he sucks. He's not good. And it'd be one thing if it's just been a couple of games, but go back to last year. He wasn't good then either.

Once his buddy died out on the field, once tank died, it's like the guy, like somehow like part of this man. soul went away. It's like when he watched Tankdale just destroy his leg, like it's somehow his soul lifted from his body. And since that moment, he's basically been a zombie. He sobbed on the field. His soul left his body. And now he's just like there. He's like, there's like, there's a body, but there's no soul. There's nothing inside. And that's how I feel when I watch C.J. Stroud play. And that wasn't the case in year one. So, what happened from year one to year two? What was the drastic change?

What has had such a big impact on C.J. Stroud that we went from saying that this guy is the future. This guy is no doubt a lot to get a huge contract. This guy is going to be the guy that gets the Texans to where they want to be to, I don't give a shit if he leaves. What happened? What were the big changes? What were the things that changed? How much of it is the stuff around him and how much of it is him? How much of it is maybe C.J. Stroud just isn't good.

How much of it is, like, and I'm kind of. half joking, but when Tank Dell got hurt. It's like the guy, like his love, like the look of love and his eye for football wasn't there anymore. It's like he saw a fucking ghost. But I don't know. But all I do know is that that game was terrible. And it's unwatchable.

I don't care that they got close. Like I saw some story that was like D'Amico Ryan's epic blunder at the end of the game cost Texans. And that's because they didn't kick the ball out of bounds. and it cost them a timeout. Yes, it was stupid. But does anybody think they were going to win? Did anybody think they were going to get the ball back and put on a show?

No, I mean, they've been so bad. So, look, it's a bad job by D'Amico by not making sure the man kicked the ball out of bounds. It was stupid. But they lost the game hours before then, weeks before then. And now their season's over. They are dead. Put the headstone on the front page of the Chronicle. dead. The way the AFC is right now, a two and four football team like the Texans, who have a nasty schedule coming up, and there's no reason to believe that they're going to win those games, their season is over.

And what two years ago seemed like, you know, a team that was going to consistently be, 9, 10, 11, 12 wins, that is not them anymore. So they suck.