After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 3

As other sports going on besides football fell college football had a crazy Saturday that was codified. Lastly, sometimes why don't you talk more about college football in college football Saturdays will it's really because by the time we get on the air this time of the year.

The NFL has consumed the storyline the headlines and it's all I can do to get to the NFL games.

The NFL action on Sundays, but also because there's something there, something to be said for what's timely and what's new and blessed by phrases we had breaking news coming from the NFL after Sunday night football and DAC having a fracture in his thumb and require surgery that didn't break until 1030 central time 1030 Dallas time.

It was just about no gosh, it was maybe a couple hours before we went on the air and so we were sharing it with a lot of people who hadn't heard it but also it it's nearly by the time we get on the air were talking about nearly 36 hours since a lot of the college football games are over, and in some cases in the games that played early on Saturdays. It's just it's not the same. Also, we we don't have the same ability to grab and it is because were not here when of the suitability get all the sound and all of the audio nothing as we go back we dig it up and it certainly was a big weekend for you have submitted majors and some huge upset the Notre Dame drops out of the rankings because they start out into all this stuff is a lot going on a vice.

I do sometimes miss working Saturdays when we were immersed in college football, but now it just so happens that a Bob Saturdays and so we don't end up doing as much college football but the NFL definitely drive the bus regardless of what nights of the week you work so we are now through week number one and it's officially back the after hours TD of the week we got the pole up on Twitter after hours CBS on my Twitter Ehlo radio and we've also got our Facebook page where you can.

I suppose vote for any touchdown that that you would like, but we are looking for your choice among the four options that we've given you, so that takes care of one piece of business. Another bit of business would be survivor islands, producer Jay Jaber to check any idea how many people survived of the people that we had, or how many people got a limited by, say, the Titans, losing to the Giants or the Seahawks losing to the Broncos are beating the Broncos Assisi Denver losing to Seattle cultural big one too cold for a big one and are survivor I will use.

There was a lot of people went out with the cold so the ravens were we picked was what was was a popular one will survive. There Titans.

I did see computable down the Titans I saw someone survived with Washington, which I thought was very interesting choice. Bold yeah I think I saw dolphins and thereto which is another bold choice. Bill Belichick hates going to Miami's playbook yeah the Seahawks tonight. Also not blood were hanging on for Monday night. Hope did not deny before interesting. I feel like I wouldn't have touched this game with a 10 foot pole myself just the fact that you know the Seahawks wanted to beat Russ's return with his new team and brand-new coach for for the Denver Broncos, not to mention that Pete Carroll he can coach we we've always known that, so I wasn't super confident in this game. In this matchup.

Really, there weren't many that I that I was confident in but ravens jets felt like because of Joe Flack oh, not not being Zach will say that we know the flock was more limited.

Now I this was one that turned out to be lopsided, but there weren't many of those they really weren't many people expected the Chiefs to go into the desert and free blow the doors off the Cardinals. Maybe people picking the city to win, but the way they did that was so convincing the same score 20 to 7 that what this is that the score of the dolphins over the patriots pretty similar for the ravens over the Jets are you looking at two AFC East teams there. I'm sure there are people who picked Buffalo but there probably people who picked the Rams to people actually picked on Thursday didn't see many Thursday now we will duplicate all well portal that happens every year were people just forget or they don't save but yes we went with the ravens in our office pool. Jay told me it was a lock were you joking just make me feel better know. I thought I was a lock you're pretty confident.

Out of curiosity, why did you go with the ravens in your personal survivor pool that you do with your buds because I owned by sometimes and I want to do is not an answer. I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket. That's an answer I thought it was a lock.

The basket had a lock of the ravens and want to have the ravens and another one was like like in trouble down the ravens because what if they lose. I figured are the culture to be another Lockyer some of the Colts in one yeah will too cute which Oceanside is not the way it sucks when it ties eliminates the notes terrible. That's the word down to the wire so much that entire day, my sweating, waiting for the trancelike driver to pull through the cold him back when you should know this 42 yarder and he just what I'm really glad that you didn't try to talk me into going somewhere different. For instance, going with the call because I did not feel comfortable at all that the division matchup. It was in Houston I got in feel good about that one.

You actually tried to convince you of her stubbly to go with this game tonight.

I want to go to Denver. Seattle was the worst of all the bells a lockable saloon in there and have a great game. Yeah, you chose what I know you took the thing you know were guessing especially week number one think about the number of love cortical locks out there that turned out to be completely and utterly bogus, but as I say, when you make predictions.

The NFL last email face, so if you are still alive on survivor island. Way to go. I'm proud of you. If you did well your fantasy league while you're ahead of me because I have Aaron brought my starting quarterback Jan went back and looked, not even four point not even for anything.

Sorry mom, four point not even four points. He better have seven touchdowns in week two against the Bears, probably not, but I could see that I here's here's the scary thing. I had the Seahawks defense as my starting D the Seahawks defense scored more points than any of my position players. Not a great thing.

So, no, no kill was second. He had, I think 18 or 19 points, but everything else flocked not to hear as was out early and then use him a lot anyway. Reminder Stevenson really not of the patriots performed well but remind a storm. Andre Stevenson was my second starting running back Jerry Judy actually actions that Jerry Judy had a pretty good night but it was too late by then, Evan McPherson, who had eight points, maybe six, seven or eight points. My tight end was Dallas got hurt and actually he had 9.3 was outscored by hers to a nurse.

He was on the bench there pretty close, but he was outscored.

It was yeah a disaster of a start faster now.

The Steelers defense is without TJ Watts auto I should keep them or get rid of them. I love making Fitzpatrick and he crushed it 14 tackles in the pick six in the black PAT and all that jazz, but I don't know without TJ why they're probably not the same. No, probably not Vista brother picks extractor would make it, which is always nice of you with a touchdown for the defense in any given frenzy week.

Like you said is going to be like 18 to 20 points.

That's a great week to get that just was not your highest score you are not looking for Rogers… Filing about. It's not funny thing, but you're the last thing he can't even keep due himself like in their grading and I don't not to grade the last thing I want nothing but success. Zero poker face zero poker face.

Did you say you have nothing you want nothing but success or identity team and why are you laughing at the fact that my defense was the highest score on 9 to 11 with I'm not laughing your buds to be this way.

I want my money back to her hours with Emile on CBS sports radio so as I said to start the segment.

There is something else in life that's happening beside the NFL you dig a deep breath and actually we have the very first team know we have them vent God not to get any advice from you about breathing. We have the very first team to clinch a playoff spot in major league baseball but funny is one of those will walk all major league baseball put the Dodgers in the playoffs Sunday night and it turned out that even after the Dodgers had celebrated they had postgame champagne they had WITH the playoff logo on them in their clubhouse. They also, if you didn't see it check out our friend Michael Duarte and twitter they were doing all the crazy costumes. They therefore them that were dressed up as Chippendale's rockhard abs before them dressed up as Chippendale. They had tell my gosh we're going look and see if I cannot remember some of the costumes that they had. They did all their dressing up and they all got all kinds of crazy. And as it turns out major league baseball made an error on math error and so they actually didn't make the playoffs the wrong way to go back and look at some of these are really funny. Oh yeah, mermaid maiden barnacle boy nice yeah gingerbread man that was Dustin may yet Tony gone Flynn.

He was with me. He was the mermaid mermaid man.

You know, but see the sandlot kids all that was a good one. There is a really good one yeah sandlot kid always Max monthly dressed up as a beer keg. That's got to be your favorite cost of all time. I know Mario and Luigi from Mario Brothers. The videogame that was Austin Barnes and Teresa Thompson Goossen Maverick gruesome. I thought I saw Tiger Woods and his caddie Stevie. Well, not anymore, but it was his daddy.

So anyway there were some great costumes there also for Chippendale dancers per year and have to go identify them for yourself. But I know Cody Belanger was one of them. Joey Gallo and Chip and Cody Belanger were to Chippendale do the whole we made the playoffs celebration that they dress up in all the crazy costumes and as it turns out they did not make the playoffs on Sunday night baseball did them wrong that such a pretty egregious error to make so apparently there were some tiebreak in which baseball think they forgot to account for this one potential scenario.

Instead, the Dodgers had to wait until Monday, but Mookie Betz had a three run home run in Phoenix on Monday night. Cody Belanger also chipped in two runs with a double and as the Dodgers blanked the Diamondbacks.

They did actually become the first major league team to clinch a playoff spot this season. And while you may kinda pooh-pooh it as it's no big deal to these guys because the 10th straight year.

Obviously there are members of this Dodgers roster who never been to the playoffs before I know Andrew Heaney was really excited about being in the postseason and they've only won the one World Series in 2020 member. Before that they had won a championship since 1988 and so gets older they still have bigger goals. It's a big accomplishment just for me it's just making sure guys appreciate that is not a right of passage to give the postseason every year and there's a lot of work to be done. By the way Tyler Anderson picked up his 15th win on Monday night and blanking the Diamondbacks year Dave Roberts talk about the accomplishment yes and it is 10 consecutive years for the Dodgers which is the third longest streak in major league history. But when you have the roster that they have you spent the money that the Dodgers have the expectations are much higher than just getting back to the postseason just playing in October. Let's be honest, the popular narrative will be that this season is a failure if they do not win the World Series if I'm not mistaken there now sitting on 96 Wendell me just check real quick. To be sure keeping up with the Dodgers and their crazy number of wins but think about it. We still have three weeks to go in the regular season 97, excuse me, I jilted them out of the wind 97 wins and right now there's 140 games that they still have 22 games to go. They won three Toronto seven of their last 10 if they legislate for the sake of argument, they go 500 over the rest of their games write 11 more wins babysitting on 108 wins again that if they go 500 are not a 500 team but if they go 503rd 108 victories in 2022 Florida Way will be the best record in major league baseball. Not to mention it's September 12 it was when they clenched. It's now September 13 in Los Angeles, but this team really hasn't been pushed in months and that's the part that concerns me is that they've not played the type of baseball that puts pressure on you or create a sense of urgency and I worry nothing but a bunch of veterans guys have been denied in the recent past. Can they flip that switch if they cruised to say 100 and 508 or hundred and 10 when 20 1/2 game lead in their division seen member. This division went down to the wire year ago was Giants and Dodgers until the very last day, the regular season before they knew San Francisco had won the division.

They're gonna have to be able to create their own sense of urgency. But yes, the expectations are so high that anything other than a World Series would seemingly be failure or that will be the popular narrative the other teams are still fighting scratch inclined to maintain their position. The New York Mets offense runs dry on Monday nights.

It will hear little bit from them and Chris Bassett had a blowup start, but the rays didn't pick up any ground they were actually on the road in San Francisco in the AL East. The Yankees were off but the Blue Jays and raise started a series okay that's good to be dynamic. It's after hours with Amy and something you were listening to the after-hours podcast second after-hours Lori on Blue Jays radio man a dramatic moment or bold in the Tampa Bay rays and this game all the intensity that I was just referring to with the Dodgers to get that both these teams are locked in a battle for not just wild-card spot in the American League but also trying to catch the Yankees adopt the American League East because they are now within sight.

This was an incredible moment for the Blue Jays. Obviously, the complete opposite for Jason Adams who gave up a home run was a battle about their ability actually executed the pitch I wanted to there 3214 strike. Obviously, in hindsight, probably on the right page, but he's a good hitter. He when he went down and got it and got just enough to take the lead as was a tense game in that both the pitching staff did well there were only combined 12 hits between the rays and the Blue Jays. If you look at the standings. We still have a ways to go. It's not like this is the end or were in the final week but it's been pretty tight amongst these teams, Seattle, Toronto, Tampa Bay, Baltimore, Baltimore, stated 5 1/2 back. The white doctors seven out. Now the twins are farther back than that. And so that AL Central really is the division winner was the division that you want to win the division winner is really the only one at this point that is guaranteed of going to the postseason, the Mariners hat and that Blue Jays write out the exact same record 79, 61, and the rays same number of losses but came back because they only have 78 wins. I mean, that's gonna be uber tight.

Those three teams right now separated by just 1/2 game atop the American League wild-card standings. It's after hours with Amy on CBSSports so raising Blue Jays anchors the concern we know that the rays just lost two games, two of the three to the New York Yankees and impact.

They gave up 20 runs nearly unheard of. With the race pitching staff, but 20 runs to the Yankees in their Saturday Sunday that match up to can call them battles.

So here are the rays of drop three games in a row when you really don't have that kind of margin for error so the Yankees are thrilled to see the Blue Jays and raise beating each other up patching pounding this not out of each other writing these pitching staff because their opening that wall they are battling each other.

The educable little more distance between them and their competition in the American League East Yankees did not play on Monday but they start a series in Boston coming up on Tuesday. Can the Red Sox provide any resistance to the leaders of the AL East. We shall see a lot of times, regardless of record. You Throw that out when it comes to rival the Red Sox certainly if they're not going to the playoffs would like nothing better than to make life a little more challenging for the New York Yankees and Yankees offense has been Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. That's absolutely the case and the other team in New York knows a little bit about that because it expects inexplicably, she said that it is a Monday night into Tuesday mornings he was going to have to roll with it.

Sometimes I make up words coming out of football weekend specifically. But if you're talking about the New York Mets. There have been inexplicable stretches who see nailed it where their offense is also kind of sunk back into the hedge Allah Homer Simpson Bassett pitch constricts a high fly ball deep to right center. This was going to go, Nick would watch as Aquinas call home runs to run homer that sales over the 370 side and right centerfield 02 all popular channel of settlement door goes out that's gonna fall in for a visit. Rounding third in scoring usually is Ortega spaceship five to nothing leader in the fourth of the second right of the kids. He's got it throws the first time a football game is over, the Chicago Cubs, to give a opener of this three-game series from Circuit City feel sorry I'm not laughing at Ed to Howie Rose or Wayne Randazzo was actually laughing at producer J because, well, just because he's ringing that sat in it just dawned on me right now, so some listening to them. The Mets ineptitude offense of lay in the back of their bats are silent against the Cubs. I look up and thinking that Jay might be wearing his giant fat, or even as Matt sat as he shrinks back in the hedges.

The meditate Mets fan but I can't widen that sat just but can you explain her. It's always rip or rental like you said rip that's just that's what I'm saying. So okay I don't get it no longer proud to be a Mets fan or a giant senior giant just came up with this humongous and very exciting, aggressive, extra season-opening win and you'd you wore the giant set for like three hours then the work on Ronald and I wanted molding it your head molding your head J is anal-retentive about his hat.

Don't ever let them try to convince you otherwise, but for some reason the net is the one that makes the appearance okay, back to the Mets not the Nets were not to be done for the nets anytime soon is that we will know we will not. I'm sorry who makes the choices around negative ghost writer that the negative I don't care what he has to say. I don't care about a seven burner account of social media, not right now to thank you, exactly, I don't for sure back to the Chris Bassett with his shortest outing in three months, actually 3 2/3 of he doesn't even get through the fourth inning allows five runs on five hits to the cubbies. Also, the couple walked in thereto and it just it was a night when he was locked in his entire name. It would be nice. Got a little bit of offense, but the Mets provided just to run I hear why this stands out and why it's notable because the method one each of his last eight starts. So even if he's not Jacob Grob or Max are there currently is a pitching. At least they had one they were providing him some offense, and he had just a 2.24 ERA over these last eight games in which he'd won but didn't have it tonight as he mentions and I don't have any stake all of the blame make maybe though, the offense will show up now as they they kinda move forward against the Cubs and the Cubs are right now.

One of the worst teams in major league baseball but if you look at what the Mets were unable to do. I should say with the bats they were one for nine with runners in scoring position and they left 10 guys on base, so they have opportunities they just couldn't capitalize and bring them around so maybe a little support for Chris Bassett don't know that wouldn't change anything. But they certainly had ducks in the pond. I love that phrase about baseball. I look for reasons to use that phrase or ways to use that phrase, the Braves, though the World Series champions. They actually lost a longest West Coast trip any baseball team is ever played on the West Coast for four weeks. Well, one of the last of the Braves played that drew a spark anyway at that more of a rhetorical question, I can easily look it up. Google it if I wanted to. I don't exit want to but they did not win in San Francisco on Monday night and so that the spread there is still a game and 1/2 in the National League East. I'm sorry Jay, what did you say just open of them I can say it. Let's go edit a snicker, Snickers snicker, oh I'm so hungry any sicker size telling J earlier that unfortunately Tuesday morning is my morning to stop no food in my house because I was gone my moms.

I really haven't gone the grocery store since Kevin piecing it together. I ate baked beans for dinner. Can why I took him out of the can put in a pot, but I ate baked beans for dinner on Sunday night.

Not only is there too much happening on football Sunday to be able to really make dinner, but I'd finish my leftover chili I didn't have that either I was out of stuff to make my salad and so is baked beans for dinner on Sunday night. But anyway the grocery store Tuesday morning.

My Cemex already grown and so I saying that to JM and even though he was referring to Brian snicker the manager of the Braves. I thought he was talking about Snickers. I got really excited there for a second to find it would be pretty number information that shirt right in the middle of me talking a baseball though probably not so one of those commercials where where someone is turned into major diva or Snickers I I'm angry I'm just hungry writer right so you're not you without a Snickers is that you not you really pointing out that you said snicker and my my brain immediately jumped to the candy bar no we do. I think the last time we had the vending machine you do not be monies that we had to raid my wallet for all the chain doesn't work. It has a critical machine on it.

It doesn't work it doesn't take cash did my queen of all to user won't accept it all okay. Did I not quarters, not work in the vending machine when I wanted some chips they were trying to work tremendously okay so are you going to be you using your own finances you actually be asking me for the quarters to get a Snickers that you can give it to me and be like your look with your quarters while you maybe do I get the entire Snickers and or drug to share with you have to will that you should have sees with the quarters to Brian sicker is worth listening to. At this point if I we have to now that we've done the Snickers detour, whatever you wish to fight through what was more interesting. Brian sicker or Snickers there to talk about being angry. He definitely is hungry.

Maybe now just I'm at a project on everyone because I'm about to get angry. No I'm not.

I like seven goldfish letter is I support you right snicker is on the way to go record my CBSSports minute blights on the backside of this update, QB news Chino little redemption for Gmail. I love a good redemption story some validation for Gmail on Monday night football near perfect for staff. Just wait to hear what he had to say.

It's after hours on CBSSports radio you are listening to the after-hours podcast so you words did you know that Brady is back. Let's go the one he dies on serious XM with the host him gray his BFF and then Larry Fitzgerald who I don't know if you ever officially retired but he's not coming back to play football. John Brady is practicing talking about football before he get in the box booth for the tune of one of the $375 million. Assumptions nonsense. It's after hours with a tear on CBSSports radio will QB news following week number one Tom Brady on, let's go, and his reaction to only one touchdown in the victory for the Buccaneers at Dallas. Agreed performance for defense for Burlingame world line. Look, everyone stepped up. It feels good to win. Week one. That's a tough one to lose week one and I think I watched some noodles early games yesterday and just couldn't believe the back-and-forth from the field goals in the opportunities once you try to give it to the other team out to tears trying to give it back to him. There was more back-and-forth than I'd seen in a long time, and Jim Gray. I hear the entire podcast I will hear it's actually because they air it later in the week so I am to catch it but I was busy watching Sunday night football start Monday night football so I did have a chance to listen to the whole thing but I did see a couple of quotes we have one in which there were a lot of hard hit. He said he could feel those but you know what else he said I'm feeling more emotions.

My feeling my emotions more intensely now to start this season that I have in the past and he admits course that he's close to the end that we don't know when the end will actually come Brady to admit that I feel I can hear in your 23rd fees and if you know that the end is staring you in the face will then yeah you're going to be soaking it all. It is much as possible, and maybe thinking about this to be the last. I got a little bit going on. The last time for this and the last time for that anyway Jim Gray asked in this interesting question about finding peace while he's on the field time. So, in this day and age of everything that's going on.

This is perhaps the only time you can find any peace and quiet is when some 320 pound guys are chasing on the field. I hope that's not the only place I find it that's a brutal way to go for a long further time to throughout to have that but if there is a simplicity to life when you're in football season because it's there's a rhythm to it in a report every week. It's a pretty the schedules pretty much set foot but you don't really need a 325 pound lineman to lay hands on you. It's after hours with Amy Todd Bowles, by the way loves what is God as the new head coach of the Buccaneers. Brady and Mike Evans there something special they are between those two that is rare great. I am the one in the kids of all the times you can look at all the time. He practices those things got great height is got a great feel for the game got great chemistry with Tom and make those subtle plays well that type of play is what lands them in the first TD of the week Paul, so what is the after-hours TD of the week. You can find it up on twitter a lot radio or on our Facebook page and yeah the only touchdown Sunday I football happen to be this twisting one hand grab individual feet of strength from one Mike Evans.

It was dazzling from Dallas so the other locker room with the devastating news that Jack Prescott would need surgery on his fractured.

We now know he's out roughly 6 to 8 weeks. It's emotional for the Cowboys.

So what about for my McCarthy week one will still be so it's it's it's part of the challenge. At this point the Cowboys have not made a move to come up with an addition to their quarterback room there's been speculation. We had an insider hear talk about how they should make overtures immediately. The San Francisco 49ers to try to get them to part with Tamika Rob Lowe after he just signed the renegotiated deal at this point there's been no whispers of that, but you can imagine that the Dallas front office is doing at least some research and placing some calls after hours here on CBSSports week one wrapped up with Monday Night Football in Seattle and Russell Wilson ran out of the tunnel with his new team the Denver Broncos he got would bother me. You know it was a hostile environment is over has been real plausible long, but I would say everything every day. Your everyday anybody says anything else you are completely wrong. I appreciate that Russ has nothing but positive things to say about teammates that he had in Seattle. The coaching staff's time in the city.

The fans happy in Denver so it's easy to be generous, but he's also taken the high road the whole time salesman you know amazing for me. You like us to anybody thinking of the words in a little know my heart and I don't know how much the city is meant to me because of my to build more school year to all the games were going hear all the special times forever grateful for what did Russ have to say about his coach calling for a 64 yard field goal. Instead of allowing him and the Broncos offense to go for it on fourth and fourth and five in the final minutes of last nights game, you will hear that coming up after the top of the hour, Gino Smith. He certainly outperforms Russell Wilson as he takes over and starts for the first time in a season opener since 2014 first-half 17 of 18, 164 yards and two touchdowns. He said that opening drive in which he connected with will distantly prolong TD was so because that set the tone so important, so important, so you never know when to shift know anytime you want. Start out at first, I want to go to school and especially to get the ball first because you know statistics say that if you don't you know in your favor.

So all just going on in the crowd excited of all the words I could impact I could said critical eye consent crucial impactful note I said important NGOs that importance that we want to underscore the fact that it was so important to her Pro bowl after the game on the field. He quipped about the fact that people wrote him off but he did not write them back. He elaborated postgame when people say what I think stretching 10 years so I'm going through his skull fundamental so you know, people wrote me off work remains one of the listener stuff like that. I just work as far as worried about naysayers anything that I don't get into the tub stuff, Gino Gen. just 17 preaching in the first half was scarce because this but memory did instructional 12 or something like that. So generally tonight like P Carol has been telling us all along that Gino Smith is his quarterback and that Gino won the competition over to lock heating waiver and that is that Gino looks good and it's actually a tough decision but he's really impressed NGOs, but in the systems that make sense. I don't know if he can. He keeps this up mean, chances are the odds would tell you that no quarterback is going to week in and week out in lesser drew breeze and even that it's kind of tough is going to go 23 of 28 with that kind of accuracy. Now he was under 200 yards and they did not score the second half, so I'm not telling you what perfection but they did enough to win two touchdowns, no turnovers couple of sacks in there as well. They were steady and the defense is really impressive holding the Broncos to over performance in the red zone. Over four and forcing two fumbles from the 1 yard line. The defense that just as much of a hand in it and after the top of the hour. You'll also hear from a defensive lineman who is part of that. Russell Wilson trade shall be Harris. He went the other direction right so Russell Wilson went to Denver. Shelby got shipped to Seattle along with Drew Locke and Noah Fant to was active in my Saints game as well. Shelby following the game did not hold back an interview he did with James Palmer of NFL network on the field. He was animated as you can. You can imagine, these players were probably tired of hearing about Russell Wilson and there's a little extra edge to it. For a guy who was sent out of Denver almost as though he was busy.

His career fizzle in Seattle when you make predictions when you're sure of what you know what you think you know about the NFL hang on hang on your box because the NFL last in your face and it will very rarely works out the way that anyone expects a love that about the NFL. It's after hours CBSSports