The Josh Innes Show - Tush Push Conspiracy Theory

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

Is it possible that the Eagles run the Tush Push more than anyone because they actually want Jalen Hurts to get hurt? Also, I'm really bored with the subject. Chiefs fans are the new worst as it relates to Tush Push whining. Also, Jason Kelce retweets some random person about the Tush Push..he clearly just searched for it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I wish I could spend all day with you instead. Uh, Dave, you're off mute. Hey, happens to the best of us. Enjoy some goldfish cheddar crackers. Goldfish have short memories. Be like goldfish. So the worst most annoying group of people, whether they're in the media, whether they are fans of actual teams, whether they're just people yelling at clouds on the internet, the worst sports fans on the planet are those who shit on the tush push on a regular basis. They're right up there with the people that want to call the Astros cheaters constantly.

They're right up there with all of the annoying people you can think. think of. But the anti-tush push people are tiresome. You're not going to win the fight. It's been voted on by the NFL, by the owners. They've said we want to keep the tush push. It's not going anywhere. The fact that this fucking thing is a constant story. The story about the tush push is annoying. Is it a sexy thing to watch? No. But if you can't stop it, why should people be banned from doing it? Like the chiefs, for instance. The chiefs, have the whiniest, cuntiest fans I've ever seen, right? Like, they're not interesting.

They're new money people. They're not used to losing now, so they bitch more than they've ever bitched, and they believe that the refs are out to get them, and the world is out to get the chiefs. And it's like, guys, you have Patrick Mahomes. He gets every fucking call. Shut your pie hole. Like, you're just, you're not interesting people. And obviously losing has done, has really, like, put them in a tailspin.

Like, going 0 and 2 has these people losing their minds. Losing the Super Bowl last year has these people losing their minds, and they don't know how to handle it. Because much like Astros fans in Houston, there's a bunch of new ones because they're good. And the Astros got good in 2016, 2017, and made a lot of new fans, and they've been good ever since. There's a lot of people who didn't live Biggio Bagwell, didn't live Lance Berkman or Bell or any of these guys. They didn't experience that. So this is their baseball. They are new money fans, and I think the Chiefs have a bunch of those.

The Chiefs have always been a high-profile NFL fan base, but they had never won anything. Hey, we won 13 regular season games and lost 9 to 7 in the playoffs. That's who the Chiefs were. Until Mahomes, until Andy Reid, until they started winning championships, and there are a bunch of new money, super vocal Chiefs fans who've never had to experience being bad. Not that this team is bad. They're 0 and 2, and they'll probably bounce back. but being a team that's questioned about whether or not they're good.

And not just made up in your mind whether or not you think people are saying this. Like legitimately, you watch the Chiefs now and you're like, is Kelsey washed? Who are their playmakers at receiver? They're 0 and 2. They don't look very good. Their offense has been inept. Like, what's the deal? Like, the questions about the Chiefs currently are legit.

Not like two years ago or a year ago where Chiefs fans make up this. idea that the world's out to get them and then everybody says they're washed and that they have no chance. I mean, they won like 14 games last year. Nobody was saying the chiefs are fucking washed. You just made that up in your mind. But now they look like they, like Mahomes doesn't look cooked, but like that roster of dudes looks cooked.

It's just not a good roster of dudes at this point, right? When your centerpiece is still Kelsey and he's more worried about, you know, who's planning the engagement dinner than playing football, you got yourself an issue there. So Chiefs fans are the worst. They're just, their new money, they're not used to losing, so this is tough for them. So they lash out on social media about everything. Like, imagine the balls on a group of people who have Patrick Mahomes bitching about calls going against them. Like, shut up.

Oh, the league is rigged because of the tush push and oh, did you see that they were offside? Shut up. But as far as the tush push goes, like, goddamn, I saw a, like, I love that Jason Kelsey likes to interject himself into these things, right? Like the other day he retweeted somebody who was talking shit about the tush push. It wasn't even at Jason Kelsey. He just magically found a tweet about the tush push and retweeted it from somebody who had like a hundred followers, some chiefs fan with a hundred followers. And it was a girl. And her bio just said, Travis and Taylor Forever or some shit like that.

Like that was it. And I'm like, so Jason Kelsey went out, clearly just searched tush push, found a tweet about the tush push from somebody from Kansas. City and then retweets this Kansas City fan tweet about the tush push, and it's from a person with 100 followers that's a stand for Travis and Taylor may not even like football outside of Travis and Taylor. I have a hunch. If your bio just says something about Travis and Taylor, you probably never watched a football game prior to Travis and Taylor becoming a thing.

Yet here's Jason Kelsey somehow finding this tweet and retweeting it so he can ride in on his white horse and defend the tush push. to someone who's probably never watched a fucking game before Taylor Swift started going to them. What are we doing? That said, the people who bitch and whine and complain about the tush push. Oh, it's not a football play. Tough shit. Stop it.

It is a football play that you can't stop. And I'm sure at some point like in the 1940s, when everybody was running 9,000 times a game, there was someone who came out and was throwing bombs. And I'm sure some of their coach was like, wait a minute, what the fuck? Can he do that? Hey, how did he do that? It's an innovation that you can't figure out how to stop. Therefore, you whine about it.

It's just a tiring argument. Like, I don't, like, you know it's coming now. You watch the Eagles. If it's third and one, fourth and one, you know they're going to run it. And you know, they're probably not going to get stopped. They have found an unstoppable play that they run better than anyone. Everybody can run it. The fact that everybody isn't running it is.

baffling. The Texans were at the half yard line. And I understand that, like, honestly, I just don't think the Eagles give a shit about getting Jalen Hertz hurt. Like, there's like the deep underbelly. They're like, oh, fuck it. If he gets hurt, we'll just get someone that can actually throw. Like, I don't think they give a shit. Like, the Chargers don't want to get, they don't want to get Herbert killed. You know, the Cincinnati doesn't want to get Joe Burrow killed. The Texans don't want to get C.J. Stroud. killed, right? Like, they want to be very careful about these guys. The fact that the Eagles continue to run this kind of confirms that they just don't give a fuck if Jalen Hertz goes down.

They're like, oh, look, who's their backup? Now, I forgot who they have is their backup. But, like, they're sitting there like, ah, fuck it. You know, if he gets hurt, we'll just bring in someone that can actually throw the ball down the field. We've got A.J. Brown and no one to fucking throw in the ball. We've got DeVante Smith, and we've got no one to throw in the ball. We've got Dallas Goddard and no one to throw in the ball. Our quarterback's going to go out there. He's like an option quarterback. He throws for 76 yards a game. We got all these weapons and none of them can make plays because our quarterback cannot get them the ball. I think that's the reason they still run the play. I just don't think they give a shit. I

think they think they can win with whoever they bring in at quarterback. I truly believe that. I think the Eagles believe that, hey, if Jalen Hertz gets hurt, fuck it, we'll figure it out. We got fucking Hallie Roseman. If we can go, they'll pull off some train somehow get Justin Herbert. There's just what they do. Howie Roseman is a god. He'll figure it out. So they're like, listen, we're going to ride Jalen Hertz just ramming a skull into 20 dudes as long as we can until he gets hurt.

The difference being that, like, most teams do not want to put their starting quarterback in a position to get mauled in the middle of a group of people who are clearly going to try to hurt him because they're pissed that they can't stop it. But Jalen Hertz is like, I fucking Yolo, let's do it. because everybody could run it. And most teams still run some form of a quarterback sneak. Like, Josh Allen will still do that. Like, Josh Allen might be one of the rare occasions.

But part of Josh Allen's game is that he runs. There are a lot of guys who can run. Then there are guys like Lamar and Josh Allen and Jalen Hertz who a huge part of their game is running. Like Baker Mayfield had a gigantic scramble at the end of the Texans game on that final drive. Fourth and 10 got out of a sack, picked up 12 yards for a first down. Baker Mayfield can run. Baker Mayfield is mobile, but Baker Mayfield's ambition is not to run for all those yards. Same with Patrick Mahomes.

Herbert can get out of the pocket a little bit as well. Joe was deceptively quick in that way, too. Like, there are guys who can run, but their first thought is not to run. Whereas Jalen hurts, the second time anything breaks down, it's like, see you later, here's 20 yards. But like, tell me this, if you're a Texans fan and you're watching that Monday night game, and they're at the one yard line, and they have three cracks at it from the one yard line, Are you not yelling at the TV? Tush push!

Just fucking push him into the end zone. The Eagles do it all the time. It's easy. And then you watch other teams not run that. And you're like, what the fuck are we doing here? What are we doing? It's obviously a pretty easy play to run because the Eagles have mastered it. Now, the argument would be that other teams haven't figured it out yet and the Eagles

just run it better than everybody else. And while that's probably true, like, I'm sure, like, you're professional football players. You can figure out how to pick up half a yard with the tush push. But instead, the Texans throw it twice and end up not scoring in that situation in a game they lose by a fucking point. So I don't sit here and get all worked up over the tush push. Like there are people who's just adamant that it's the worst thing to ever happen to football. I don't give a shit. I'm fine with it.

Like I heard one of Jason Kelsey's points when he tweeted this random person with 100 followers who, account is Travis and Taylor forever. It's like, well, it's more exciting than a punt. Actually, I disagree. If you punt it right and you get a return, a punt is a fun fucking play. Like, watching a guy have to try to, like, that's

got to be the most frightening thing to do in sports is catch a punt, especially a punt in which you don't call for a fair catch. And even if you call for a fair catch, you still have to catch it. And your livelihood is based on whether or not, whether or not you're going to keep making money or not, is whether you catch this ball that's essentially falling from

the sky where there's 12 dudes bearing down on you and 100,000 people watching you in the stadium. That's scary as shit. That's a fun play to watch. Watching a bunch of dudes push a small quarterback forward two yards is not a fun play to watch. I disagree with him 100%. It is not a fun play to watch. I'm not against it.

And I would never say outlawed because that's fucking stupid. But the idea that it's like, that's an exceptional. Fighting play. It is not. Anywho, the people that sit there and bitch about this thing are the worst. More to come.