One week ago, at Talladega, Joey Logano made headlines, not for a win, but for a meltdown. As Stage 2 neared its close, Logano had a shot to overtake Bubba Wallace. He wanted a push from teammate Austin Cindric. He didn’t get it. Wallace held him off, and the No. 22 driver erupted. On live team radio, Logano snapped. “Way to go, Austin. Way to go. You dumb [expletive]. Way to [expletive] go. What a stupid [expletive]. He just gave [the stage win] to [Bubba Wallace]. Gave a Toyota a Stage win. Nice job. Way to go. What a dumb [expletive]. Put that in the book again,” he vented.

What makes that outburst more frustrating is what followed. Cindric didn’t retaliate. Instead, many respected voices, Kevin Harvick among them, defended Cindric’s decision. Harvick explained that Cindric was simply avoiding a massive wreck. Logano didn’t care. He doubled down, refused to apologize, and even got disqualified later for an illegal spoiler. His rant, once merely cringeworthy, began to look worse by the minute. And yet, the reigning champion still chose not to accept responsibility.

Fast-forward one week, and it’s deja vu. At Texas Motor Speedway, we got the “Big One” Talladega never delivered. And once again, Joey Logano found himself at the center, spinning blame instead of owning up. This time, it wasn’t just a teammate. It was Bubba Wallace and a handful of other drivers who felt the brunt of Logano’s aggressive racing. And just like before, he pinned it on everyone else.

Texas delivers the Big One involving Joey Logano!

Lap 172 of the Wurth 400 at Texas Motor Speedway was chaos. The race had just gone green after a restart. Bubba Wallace was in seventh, and Joey Logano was right behind him. The 23XI Racing driver brushed the wall on the backstretch. Moments later, Wallace spun across the track. A multi-car wreck broke out. Wallace, Logano, Alex Bowman, AJ Allmendinger, Chad Finchum, and Noah Gragson were all caught in the crash.

Logano was quick to shift blame again. On team radio, he said, “What did you see there, Coleman? I felt like I was trying to get in there and I was there, but he came down. I think?” Spotter Coleman Pressley replied, “He bounced off the wall.” Crew chief Paul Wolfe added, “Yeah, he got into you after he bounced off the wall.” But that version isn’t clean. Logano wanted his team to validate his innocence. He didn’t say he might’ve caused it. He didn’t ask if he had touched Wallace.

Instead, he shaped the narrative. The same narrative style he used a week earlier with Cindric. Just enough doubt. Just enough deflection. But NASCAR insider Jeff Gluck wasn’t buying it. He rewatched Logano’s in-car footage and gave a different story. “No contact. But he was hanging on Wallace’s left rear. Maybe an aero thing that got Wallace loose into the wall?” Gluck wrote. That “maybe” makes all the difference. Logano didn’t physically bump Wallace, but he got close enough to destabilize the air. Close enough to cause problems. Just close enough to start “The Big One.”

What followed was a disaster. Wallace spun into Noah Gragson, then hit the inside wall. The force pushed Gragson’s No. 4 back into traffic. AJ Allmendinger’s No. 16 went airborne, then slammed hard onto the track. Chad Finchum, trying to squeeze through the wreck, slammed into Bowman, who had nowhere to go. Bowman’s car suffered major front-end damage. Allmendinger’s car looked like it had been launched by a catapult.

However, that wasn’t the only drama at Texas Motor Speedway. Earlier in the day, pit road was a danger zone of its own. Just before the restart for the final stage of the race, William Byron exited his pit stall and clipped Cole Custer, spinning him into his own box. The hit cost Custer valuable time. But Byron wasn’t done. He stormed ahead, only to find himself in the lead just before that backstretch disaster.

Meanwhile, Denny Hamlin’s day ended in smoke. Literally. Just 75 laps in, his engine gave out. A cloud of smoke filled his cockpit, followed by flames. Hamlin veered to safety and climbed out unharmed. But the frustration was loud and clear. “Well, that was fun, fellas,” he said on the radio, voice dripping with sarcasm. A miscommunication on pit codes had already cost him time.

Then his car caught fire. Everything that could go wrong, did. Back to Logano. Two weeks in a row. Two major controversies and as many excuses. After calling out his teammate last week, and before shifting blame to Wallace this week, he had another target, Major League Baseball Legend Chipper Jones.

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Logano blasts MLB star after he supports Cindric!

Joey Logano’s meltdown from Talladega didn’t end at the track. When former MLB star Chipper Jones publicly criticized Logano’s outburst at teammate Austin Cindric, the NASCAR driver fired off a personal attack. Jones had tweeted after the race, “Good teammates are hard to come by, Boss! Remember that one of urs MFed u on national TV, when in all actuality, u did everything possible to keep from wrecking him.” It was a clear nod to how Cindric handled the final moments of Stage 2, with caution and class.

But Logano didn’t appreciate it. During a media day ahead of the Texas race, Logano clapped back. “I’m surprised that a professional athlete would act in that manner, because he’s been through it,” he said. Then he added, “I say it all the time, I’m very careful to form an opinion on an athlete by their emotions or the way they play the game because I know from being in that position, when there’s that much on the line in a competitive environment, you act a certain way because you’re out there to win and you have to be able to shut that off.”

That wasn’t all. Logano then questioned Jones’ motives, suggesting it was a cry for attention. “All I can think is he’s just trying to be relevant still or something like that. I don’t really know exactly why. I’ve never met him. I don’t have a reason not to dislike him, outside of now.” Yet Logano’s defense didn’t stick. He never addressed why he couldn’t even congratulate Cindric for winning. Jones pointed that out, too, saying, “Couldn’t even congratulate @AustinCindric in the post race! #teamplayer.”

In the end, karma played its card, Logano was disqualified for an illegal spoiler, while Cindric’s win locked him into the playoffs. However, at the end in Texas, he made a move and won his first race of the season. Before that, he was in trouble. No wins. Just one top-10 finish. And two weeks of throwing everyone else under the bus. Whether it’s teammates or legends, Logano keeps burning bridges, and fans are starting to notice.