The Josh Innes Show - Why Is QB Play In The NFL So Bad?

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

It's crazy that there are only 32 starting quarterback jobs in the NFL and somehow half of those jobs are filled by dopes. It's actually maddening. How does Justin Fields have a job? How does Cam Ward have a job? How does Joe Flacco have a job? It's truly mind blowing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm doing the podcast if I were just rolling out of bed at 5 515 that wouldn't be all that bad you know as I've told you before that's kind of how I did it in Nashville like because I had to drive my drive in was like 25 minutes to get to work in Nashville like I was getting up at like 5.30. So life was, you know, a lot easier. Getting up at 3.45 is some kind of fucking nuts. Holy shit. But here I am. Up at 345 to make sure I get the podcast in before the show and ready to go. Let me put in a few of these commercials here and then we will continue. So I got, so as far as the NFL Sunday goes, we'll get into a bunch of stuff. But one of my biggest takeaways from the NFL on Sunday

and a lot of my takeaways have to do with gambling because that's kind of how I view these games. I view it through a gambling lens and sometimes I regret that that I'm not more in the moment watching these games but I just, that's how I view them. I view them as hey, what live bet am I going to put in whatever? Maybe that's not

the best way to do it, but that's how I do it. And my rage or happiness, a lot of it stems from how a team or how a player does in terms of gambling. So yesterday morning, I'm out walking Ross and I'm listening to the Jets and Broncos game

and I'm putting in some live bets and when I tell you that I lost every single one of them not one of them actually I take that back one of them hit I took a Cortland Sutton to catch a pass on this drive play that hit outside of that everything was a failure because at some point I thought that the Broncos would eventually be able to move the ball a little bit and some of their receivers would make plays

I thought that Mason Taylor would catch a couple of balls. None of this happened. It was atrocious. And there comes a point where it's just mind-blowing that there are people getting paid money to play a sport professionally that are as bad as they are. And the people I'm talking about are people like the freaking dopey quarterback of the Jets. Justin Fields.

Justin Fields is atrocious at football. Justin Fields sucks. It's not who he plays for. It's not who his teammates are. It's not who his coach is. Justin Fields blows. But Justin Fields is one of these guys that there's a group of people on the internet who still believe is somehow getting done dirty. And it's somehow somebody else's fault in some alternate universe.

He's actually really fucking good at football, but it's everybody else's fault. This dude sucks. And I'm watching this and I'm like, how is it possible that somebody is paid to play professional? professional football and is this bad at professional football? Like there are some guys that aren't very good, but they're at least competent and they'll throw for a buck 50, 200 every week, 210, 220, 21, whatever it takes. And you're like, you know, that guy's not very good, but he's fine, he's serviceable, whatever. But then you watch guys like Justin Fields and you're like, this dude blows.

And it enraged me listening to this that somebody could be this bad. every play the dude was seemingly getting sacked the offense is just completely inept and it just amazes me that there are 32 NFL teams which means there are 32 starting quarterbacks on a given weekend there are 32 guys that are going to start a football game how all 32 of them are not at least pretty good is mind-blowing but if you go around the NFL and just look at some of these guys, they have some quarterback play in this league that are just, the quarterback play is monumentally terrible. Justin Fields is monumentally terrible. The Cam Ward, you got, I mean, look, maybe we're cutting the cord too early on Cam Ward, and every now and then he'll make

one throw and people are like, that's why they took him number one. Yeah, what about the other 5,000 throws that are terrible? What about the dumb sacks the guy takes? What about the interceptions that are thrown in positions where you can't throw that interception and he does it anyway? I won't completely write him off because he's played like six games in his career. But I've seen nothing in Cam Ward that makes me go, you know, like Cam Ward's going to be pretty good. He doesn't show me a fucking thing. And I'm watching this guy and I'm like, what the fuck are we doing? This is the NFL.

There are 32 jobs. There's two guys I've lives, two of the 32 that are dead dreadful. Dylan fucking Gabriel. That offense is inept. I mean, at least they had a couple of moments when Joe Flacco was running that thing where you go, okay, look, they can move the ball a little bit. They are terrible. And again, it's five games and you don't ride off a quarterback, blah, blah, blah. What do we see out of Dillon Gabriel where we go, oh, this guy's got a future?

You know, where's that one or two throws where you're like, holy shit. Like, I'd rather watch Shadur play. Look, he might go out and suck, and his group of weird swift-type people will go psycho. And no matter what, no matter how he fails or succeeds, it's all going to be somebody else's fault if he fails. But I'd rather watch him. At least there'd be something exciting going. I'd get his ass sacked 400 times, and he'd suck.

And then the whole world would say it's somebody else's fault that he sucked. But at least it'd be something exciting. But, man, you go around the league and watch some of the quarterback play. There's like five good quarterbacks. Competent good quarterbacks. My boy, Flacco, bless his heart. You were able to sling it around a little bit in the second half once they were pretty much out of the game, right?

They were able to sling the ball around the yard a little bit. But my God, first half of the game, Joe Flacco sucks. And he really wasn't all that good with Cleveland either. And then there are guys who wins some games, but also suck. See, Hertz, comma, Jalen, who fucking sucks? You can tell me all this stuff you want about Jalen Hurts. And you can tell me that Jalen Hurts, it's a system. And Jailen Hurts is,

Hurts blows. But congrats, they run some weird hairy high school system for you so you look like you're, and you've been to the Super Bowl twice. Look, it works for you, it works for you. Jalen Hertz sucks. There's five guys I've listed for you. That's five out of 32 NFL quarterbacks

that I'm just like, whatever. I don't think DAC is particularly good, but DAC is a competent NFL quarterback. I think that I have hope and I believe that Jackson Dart is going to be really good. I think Jaden Daniels is pretty good I'm trying to think of divisions now who are the quarterbacks in the divisions

the NFC East I just listed for you you know they're got old school guys but the thing is like a Matt Stafford Matt Stafford's an old school guy what's happening is a lot of these guys are playing in college and they're running these just Jumokass offenses in college these foolproof offenses in college then these guys get to the pros

and they can't play because they're used to hey here's five wide and here's like quick pass here quick like none of it is reading this doing this it's just bang snap throw bang snap throw seven on seven type shit like it enrages me that out of 32 starting quarterbacks in the NFL that you can have quarterback play that is bad that is as bad as what we see some days you know what screw it let me go let's look at the standings in the NFL right now and let's just take a look at the quarterbacks that play for these teams AFC East, Josh Allen's good.

I think that Homeboy and what's his name, Drake May, is pretty good. Two is fine. Jets quarterback play is dreadful. So there's one quarterback that's just absolute trash. Aaron can play. Whoever is playing quarterback for the Bengals that's not Joe Burrow is dog shit. There's another one that's trash. Whoever is playing quarterback for the Ravens, absolute dog shit.

whoever's playing quarterback for the Browns. Absolute dog shit. What is that four now that I've listed? Titans, Cam Moore, dog shit. There's five. I'm leaning towards Bo Nicks sucks. Raiders quarterback play. Awful.

They're six. I'm not going to say Bo Nix sucks, but I'm leaning in that direction. Gino Smith does suck. There's six. I won't say that it, well, Jalen, hurts sucks they're seven he'll be the great the most appearances for a shitty quarterback ever in a super bowl he's still a shitty quarterback he's a nice running back there's a reason why the team's blowing up from the inside they fucking hate the quarterback because he sucks there's seven

vikings whoever's playing quarterback for the vikings sucks there's eight i'm not going to say that my man caleb sucks just yet packers and lions are fine my man baker but then there's people like Baker that come in and save the day because Baker's just a grown-ass man doing grown-ass-man shit, finding ways to win games. That's a man that's got, he's got balls on him. Panthers suck. Falcons, I won't say suck yet, but pretty close. Saints. I don't know that Spencer Rattler sucks. At least he's competent enough to move the ball up and down the field. Some of these guys cannot even move the ball up and down the field. They are losers. Cardinals. Hey, look, give Jacobi Brissette credit.

That dude, hey, normally it's homeboy, and he's not very good. But he's fine. Give credit to Jacoby Brissette, though. Dude goes out there and throws for like $3.50 yesterday. Professional backup quarterback man, Jacoby Brisset. So I've listed nine quarterbacks that just suck. That is almost a third of the league can flat out go into a category that is just they suck. How does that happen?

There are 32 spots. These should be the 32 best players at this position on the planet. How is it possible that this many of them are that bad? Like, I'm enraged watching this on Sundays. I'm enraged by it. And then I ask myself why and how. How is it that we get to this point that quarterback play is, this terrible. And the only thing I can come up with is that these guys are playing a

college game that in no way is teaching dudes how to be pros. Like, how often do you turn on a college football game and see a guy under center? Never. You know, there would be a day back, not that long ago, 10 years ago, maybe even less. There'd be teams that would be lining up under center. It wouldn't just be, here's 11 dudes wide. And let's just throw it out. Snap, one second throw. But I don't think that's the case anymore. So we end up getting what we get, which is just dreadful quarterback play.

It is unfathomable to me that we're in a world where a quarterback can be inept in the NFL. There is only 32 people. Only 32 dudes have these jobs. And somehow a third of the league isn't just bad, Fucking terrible. There's got to be, like, it is wild to me. Is it the coaching?

Is it just the game changing? It ain't because the defenses are spectacular. It is just mind-blowing. I love watching football on Sundays. I dig it. I love it. I love watching football on Saturdays. I dig it.

I love it. I'm all about it. But, man, some quarterback play, bad quarterback play, just bad overall game as a whole. Some of this shit is just. dreadful. It's like, whoa, whoa. And just like, we're a decade removed from like, I mean, you had a top 10 in the league that was, like, you had a clear cut, like top five, six guys in the league who were Hall of Famers, who were ballers, Breeze, Brainy, Manning, like, you would look at these guys, you go, these guys are just studs. And it wasn't like, you know, the whole league wasn't

studs, but like you had dudes who were legit studs. And now you look at some of these guys and you're like, oh dear. Like, what are we seeing? What are we watching? Woof. And you can say, well, some organizations are just bad like the Jets. Okay, fine. But look at some of the other ones. They're not terrible organizations. They've just got loser quarterbacks. Anyway, more to come.