The Josh Innes Show - TNF Winners and Losers!!!!

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

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All right. As you know, it's one of my favorite times. It is time to look at the winners and the losers of Thursday night football. You know who the losers were? Every last one of us sons of bitches that watch that terrible football game because it sucked. Look, I will always watch a crappy football game over a good basketball or baseball game, generally speaking. I'll bet on it more so. Like, I like that kind of stuff. All that's well and good. But I hate the Denver Broncos with a passion. I'm sick of seeing them. I'm sick of seeing them on TV. I'm sick of seeing Bo Nix. I'm sick of seeing Sean Peyton with his readers on. I'm sick of watching the shitty, awful, fake, good football team that is 8 and 2. They are an 8 and 2 football team, and they very well can be 2 and 8.

That is how big the swing is between those two teams. Like, if you look at it and you look at who they are, you go, well, the Broncos are 8 and 2. Cool, the Broncos are 8 and 2. Like the swing from where they are to what they could be is ginormous. Like some teams are like five and four, but you know they very well could be, you know, three and six. Like this team is eight and two and could be like a four-win football team. A couple of ball bounces here and there and they are very well a four-win football team.

Now, they've won those games. You can't take them away. However, they are unwatchable. They are unbetable, they are unwatchable, they are terrible. Then you throw in the fact that the Raiders who have one good thing about them, and that's Brock Bowers. You bet on Brock Bowers last night. Guy doesn't do a goddamn thing. Everything's terrible.

Maybe the worst football game you're ever going to watch. It is quite possible that it's the worst. Let's play a couple commercials. Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. What? Ojo time. Play Ojo? Great idea. Feel the fun with all the latest slots in live casino games and with no wagering

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Broncos defeat Raiders in brutal Thursday night football slog. Well, we can agree on that point, Nate. It was a terrible, dreadful, unwatchable, bad football game. And they've had to deal with that in the NFL this year. Some games in prime time, the big games that are just awful. And that may have been the worst. And there have been some really bad games, but they weren't prime time that the whole world was watching. Like the Broncos have played in five of them. If you look at the games the Broncos have played this year, they have played in arguably three or four abysmal games. They played a game against the Jets that was 13 to 11. That was a London game, I think. That was one of the worst. I thought that was the worst game. That game at least had 24 points. This was a 17 point

awful, dreadful, unwatchable football game. But let's see. Who does Nate Davis think are the winners and losers of this game? Let's see. Well, we'd like to take our guesses. Well, you know, the winner is going, the loser's going to be everybody, of course. We're all losers because we had to watch it. The winner is going to be, there's some like, hell, I don't even know.

Nate, enlighten me here. Let's see what we got. Winners. The Broncos playoff hopes. No way. You mean to tell me that when a team won a game, the playoff hopes went up? No way, Nate. Way to start off with a bang.

I don't know if it's possible for the leadoff man to hit a grand slam in a game. But if it were, you've just done it, Nate. The AFC West leaders were already in good shape entering this evening, and their situation has improved, ugly wins, counting the same as pretty ones. Now, eight and two, Denver is slotted as the AFC's projected number one playoff seat, a half game ahead of Indianapolis and the Patriots. Boy, what a world. And you know, it's going to be so great because it's going to be a Sean Payton special, baby.

Sean P is going to get that by. He's going to get a home playoff game. And if they don't lose the first home playoff game, they're going to lose the second one because that's what Sean Payton does. Stop blowing Sean Payton. Look, I love the guy. And in five years, ten years when he's no longer coaching, I'll love him even more. But that's a guy that abandoned the Saints. And now we're a one and eight shitty football team with nowhere to go.

We are the absolute worst and I hate it. And Sean abandoned them and left them there to die. And now he wants to go screw around. Denver, Denver, you'll get to experience it. The difference is you're not going to get the Super Bowl win, though. We at least got the Super Bowl win in New Orleans with Sean Payton. What you're going to have to deal with is all the playoff heartbreak and none of the Super Bowl wins. And that will bring me joy because your quarterback is Bo Knicks and not Drew Breeze.

Therefore, you're not going to get that one. And you're not going to face Brett Farve who's going to throw a mindless interception to set the Saints up to go to overtime in the NFC championship game. What you will get is Minnesota Miracle. What you will get is home playoff game against Kirk Cousins and lose. What you're going to get is the ref screwing you out of a trip to the Super Bowl. You're going to get that kind of stuff. You're going to get, oh, you're lined up to make a deep playoff run. Oh, sorry, you got outplayed by Alex Smith in San Francisco.

Oh, you think you're going to go places? You get to go to Seattle and lose to a seven-win football team. That's the Sean Payton. You're going to get you puds without any of the Super Bowl victories. So I hope you're happy, Broncos, and I hope you enjoy yourselves. and I hope you think that things are great right now because Sean Payton is your coach you ain't going to win shit

and I can't wait to watch you get into the playoffs and lose the teams like Kansas City who have legit quarterbacks and the bills who have legit quarterbacks the Bills, the Chiefs, the Bills, I don't know about the Colts, I don't know if I buy the Colts, I certainly don't buy the Broncos.

Here's what I'm waiting for. And look, I hate the Chiefs, despise the Chiefs. I would much rather watch the Chiefs pecker slap Sean Payton in the playoffs than the alternative. I would love it. It would bring me so much joy to watch the fucking smug look knocked off of his face with his stupid readers on. I hope you get your dicks knocked in the dirt, Broncos.

I despise you. All right, let's see. Other winners and losers. The Certanless secondary, Denver improved a two and oh without injured. Patrick Certain. They played the Raiders, bro. And I get that the Raiders can throw a little bit. The Raiders literally just gave up a receiver.

They don't give a shit. Boy, other winners. The Orange Crush uniforms. Boy, this story is hot today. This game was such a waste of everyone's time that three winners in were talking about the uniforms. Let's go. The Prime Video set.

I appreciate the crew of Carissa Thompson, Tony Gonzalez, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Andrew Whitworth, and Richard Sherman that doesn't take himself too seriously, especially when saddled with a game like this. Cool. Punters were the winners. Losers, Raiders, punter and kicker, Gino Smith, no shit, the guy got hurt and he was terrible. Bo Nix.

The Kansas City Chiefs were a loser last night as well, they say. My goodness. Look, I understand that people have a job to do. I understand that people are, you know, like their bosses go to them and say, write something for us. You're paid to write. Now, God damn it, right. But if this is what we got, the winners and losers of this game, like, oof. Oof. I am a loser for having read this. This is the reality of my life now. I am a loser because I've taken the time to read this. Now, the point is fair that those uniforms are sick. Like, I understand why teams change their uniforms at some point in the 90s because all these 70s and 80s uniforms looked old and dated. But when you think about what's classic, it's kind of like classic rock, right? Like there are certain classic rock artists and bands that will be timeless, right? Like the stones may sound.

sound old. You know, like you might hear paint it black or something and go, well, that sounds old. But it's still a timeless song that will hold up. The doors will hold up, even though it's a very dated late 60 sound with like the organ thing or whatever they use, all that shit. But like it holds up. Then there are songs and bands that were very popular for a moment in time. And that's going to be a moment in time that we look back on and go, yeah, there's still a lot of people that like it, but it's not timeless. Like I love hair metal. There's nothing timeless about heaven by warrant or by Alice Cooper Poisoner. There's nothing timeless about those. They're good and I like them. Those are like the 1990s uniforms and not the really cool ones like the Grizzlies or the Toronto

ones that are totally unique. I'm talking about like the Broncos who tried to modernize their uniforms in the 1990s a little bit and you look back on them now and you're like, oh, these things just look kind of shitty. But there's nothing shitty about the 70s and 80s orange crush, like those are timeless. Those will always be sexy. There will never be a time that you will look at those. Outside of like the mid-90s, when everybody decided that these uniforms were dated, that the Oilers uniforms were outdated, where the Kelly Green Eagles were outdated, and we had to darken things up. And I guess that was kind of the trend, wasn't it? Like all the logos got a little bit darker. Eagles went from Kelly Green to midnight green. The Broncos went a little bit

deeper with the orange and blue on their uniforms. I mean, you saw it everywhere. And, and And that's kind of how it went. There is nothing that's not beautiful about those uniforms. I will agree with Nate Davis on one thing, that a winner is that uniform. They should wear it all the time. I just go back to that shit. The Eagles should always wear the Kelly Green. That's who the Philadelphia Eagles are.

The Eagles are not, oh, by the way, while we're talking about old school stuff, the current Eagles font is so fucking tacky and terrible. Not to say that the 90s' Eagles font is amazing, but I would take the Eagles 90s font 20 times. This garbage font they use now. Why did you even need to change it? Oh, I know, because you need to sell merch. That's all this is. It's merch.

You got to sell merch. That's why players change jersey numbers every two years or whatever it is. That's why LeBron's been three different numbers. And Kobe was multiple numbers. And even players that you don't even know anything about. Like Jaron Jackson Jr. in Memphis was number whatever he was. And now he's a different number because people want to sell more jerseys. And that's how that shit goes.

But anyway, those uniforms are sick. And, like, it's kind of like the Astros, right? That, you know, back in 2012 or 13, whatever year it was, that they decided to go back to the classic, like a reimagining of the classic colors. Like, nobody misses the brick and sand uniforms of the early 2000s. And if you do, you must be colorblind because those are the ugliest uniforms, maybe the ugliest color scheme. Like, it's a very southwestern color scheme. It's a very, like, Arizona color scheme. It's just ugly.

It's not a good-looking uniform and the colors are terrible. Although I was a big fan of like the blue and gold of the 90s Astros, for what it's worth. Anyway, winners and losers from last night's game, as it turns out, we are all the losers.