After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 1

I think every time we have NFL talk about when you make predictions in the NFL last in your faith, not just that but when you think you know you find out very quickly. You don't know Jack. These kind of games and these kinds of scripts getting flipped I love. I absolutely love this and the NFL seems to have more of these moments and these nights in these games than any other sport.

I'm not telling you we don't get shocked and awed by other sports but it happens on a daily basis in the NFL and there are so many questions, at least for me, I am left with so many questions about what happens in the second half and euro to get the answers directly from Denver head coach Nathaniel Hackett that he may be a rookie head coach.

But he is a longtime offense of coordinator. Not only that, but he is the son of a legendary coach even if he never called place before in his life he schooled on the opposite side of the ball. He worked with Aaron in Green Bay Matt Lafleur in Green Bay and for some reason the decision-making in the second half was counterproductive to say the least. We've got the audio from Nathaniel Hackett from Russell Wilson on his return to Seattle where he got Florida to start the game.

That's another segment but yes I would tee off on Seattle fans because I have no idea how you brew a guy that helped you what is Super Bowl helped you go to another Super Bowl that you didn't win, but you are NFC champs spent 10 years of his life giving you heart and soul, not to mention was a great addition to the community. The work that is done in Seattle now Denver with children's hospitals and for kiddos. Are you kidding me to support them.

But both Peyton Manning getting booed when he went back to Indianapolis. I understand that Tom Brady getting booed when he went back to New England. This will even Russell Wilson's choice to leave now.

There was chatter about it a year ago he demanded a trade crazy, but I will do this about the Seahawks fans once they got done brewing their former Pro bowl QB performer Super Bowl winning QB. The intensity and the electricity in the stadium were contagious.

They were contagious on the field so don't tell the Seahawks or their fans there supposed to stink and finish last in the AFC West because they're not here, and it there not have it. They think you guys are the ones who are crazy. One week in the books, one full week what it felt like I missed this, even though the NFL never really goes away. Thanks for hanging out with us on this Monday night after hours with Amy from CBS were live from the rocket mortgage Studios when you need cash out of your home in a simple way to get it rocket can coming up in 30 minutes. We will greets welcome and greet our old friend Brandon Crist all who was actually an employee of CBS sports radio for the first year that we were on the air and then his career at his life took a bit of a turn, so he returned to Denver, but even Seattle for this game he works with Broncos radio and and the team and so he was there at the press conferences and will get his reaction to everything that happened in Seattle, including the atmosphere from where he was on the field. It's clear that the Broncos were not ready for this game and I'm not suggesting that they didn't care. We know they did. I'm not suggesting that it's all on the coach for not having them prepared to go but they were an undisciplined mess from the beginning. The Broncos going into hostile territory in Nathaniel Hackett's first game couldn't stop collecting penalty flag. Apparently they really like yellow laundry.

They couldn't stop the fall starts that the credit to the to the fans into the atmosphere, but it's not just that these are professional football players.

No doubt they were practicing a silent count this week that it do so well executing it. But it wasn't just that the number of big defense of penalties in the red zone woes brutal so whatever expectations the Broncos have for themselves in 2022.

In a challenging and stacked AFC West division thereafter get their act together because this is not a fly. You don't think that in Kansas City at arrowhead Stadium.

The cheese fans are to make like just as miserable to know about LA or the Chargers blade so by stadium, but you go to Kansas City or any of the other places where there are really good crowds and packed houses and they take pride in their team and creating a hostile atmosphere while you're in a have these challenges and the Broncos fell flat on their faces. If what they wanted to do was represent the Russell Wilson it didn't go according to plan to start at the end and work our way backwards. Fantastic game Bertino Smith good for him.

I do love a good redemption story and I will say this to. We always knew Pete Carroll could coach.

This should come as no surprise. Pete Carroll can take a bottle water and a few pairs of socks and figure out how to coach him up.

That's what he does.

He did that USC that was after he was in New England, where they hated him, but he cut his teeth in the NFL. Everything he's been in Seattle this team is been relevant in the last year they lost Russell Wilson for a time and so that always hurts and it was it was a mess.

They were rebuilding yada yada yada.

But he made a really impressive trader. He and the general manager made an impressive trade when they shipped Russell Wilson to Denver. They got them from starters back, and in addition to that a bunch of draft picks. If nothing else, you should know these guys are ready to go. He takes pride in that. And so I'm not surprised even though the Seahawks offense. It fizzled through the second half as well. They did what they had to do to win, and the way that Gino and the offense played in the first half the way to defense played in the red zone. Very impressive so that does not surprise me about a Pete Carroll coached team. What we do here from that the oxbows game though.

You'll recognize a theme you'll be able to pick it out. They don't want to hear about Russell Wilson anymore. That was supposed to be a joke right. It's after hours with a below you can find me on twitter a lot radio and in the Facebook realm in the metaphase realm. You can easily search for our page by the way. Apparently I said AFC West and met NFC West. According to Brandon, who is listening and is going to send me a tweet when I screw up so I apologize for that. Yes Brandon there goes the perfect show AFC West NFC West just testing you. Both of the divisions were on display in the way that the dichotomy but really the contract with these two teams were held up preseason the Broncos supposed to be competing for division title for playoffs even in a very competitive AFC while the Seahawks were just left for dead in the NFC West. All of that cracks me up as is yet another reason why we don't make Super Bowl predictions in September. After all, the Broncos red zone woes. They get the ball with 402 left on the clock, trailing by a .17 to 16. I told her to start at the end they struggled to move the ball. They really did in the second half, but they get to the Denver 45s of their own 45 just shy of midfield with a minute 11 left on the clock and they come up short, the pick up a few yards but I think it was third in 14. At that point and something in a few yards but they fall five shy of getting the first out so sensible for them. Five and at this point they still have all three timeouts remaining. And instead of getting the plan quickly instead of calling a timeout. Use them. There's a minute to go. At this point, not even a minute left in the game. What are you saving your three timeouts for I have no idea. But instead of either calling a play or calling a timeout to make sure you have the plate you're looking for our you knew you were going to kick the ball. The entire time. Why not get your field goal team your field-goal unit out there quickly, just in case it goes horribly wrong. Maybe you can preserve sometime in the clock. None of that happened. The clock kept ticking and taking and taking and taking and at this point everybody was watching and listening to be listening to Westwood One with Kurt Warner and Kevin Harlan even paid in Eli on the Monday night meetings screaming about the fact that there's no timeout what it what you doing why is there so much time being so much time allowed to come off the clock before you make a decision before you make a move. They get down to 20 seconds before they call their first timeout.

Oh, good, good idea. Save all three timeouts of the final 20 seconds of the game 41 seconds go off the clock before they stop it before they figure out what they want to do and so that was one of the first questions from sorry don't have the numbers of base jays are and have to give to me. That was the first question for head coach Nathaniel Hackett why it allows so much time to go off the clock. Why not call a timeout right away. We have no chooses that's what we preach. We'll be sure that we you'll get the gift planning and get a call to get those guys rolling home. I know it was it was definitely loud but give us no excuse for you and so is explanation essentially is.

We screwed up we weren't organized.

We were ready. Well, is that why you call a timeout.

Call me crazy, but is not what you have timeouts for it so that you can take time out to stop the clock and get organized with this like the blind leading the blind. Nobody has any idea of what I want to do it all the wealth in the lead 11 years and I watched that clock ticking down, ticking down, ticking out Michael timeout myself what you really need a head coach to tell you when to call timeout, hell no. I only played college basketball. But if something was horribly wrong of the court and we could get the ball or we were ready to go. We call timeout from the floor he could call the wealthy go to: timeout conversion: timeout no. It's more fun to watch the clock and slowly away. Alright, so that the answer to the first question. Why not call the timeout initially and spare all that time coming up the clock second question is why KK 64 yard field goal when Brandon McManus has never made a kick from beyond 62.

He started six times and is over six from 62+ yards. So why kick a field goal.

Instead of leaving the ball in the hands of your highly paid veteran experienced Pro bowl quarterback why kick. Instead of going for it on fourth and five. Brenda did his best shot is alone for use. Can we be capable of output said I wish we would've gotten a lot closer to put us in that weird spot there because we were in the fugal Range Rover on the fourth-down situation didn't think we would get that many yards without a budget want to decision logic or shut there on the I didn't think we were going to get that many yards didn't think we would get that many yards what really then why did you trade all those pics and players for Russell Wilson and give them a massive contract keep him in Denver for the rest of his career. Why, WTF, as NY you didn't think you were going to get that many yards. Producer J how many yards and they need 30, 42, 40, 2005, fourth, and I and he didn't think they were going to get that many yards. That's why Nathaniel Hackett took the ball out of Russell Wilson's hands on fourth and five, and opted to kick a 64 yarder which would've been the second longest field-goal in NFL history.

And yes that is a direct quote. I put it up on twitter didn't think were going to get that many yards, I gotta hand it to Russell Wilson. He backed his head coach. Note the head coach walked in the locker room and said you know what I really didn't feel God is on fourth and five, I think our offense was capable of getting 5 yards. We should know working bigger from the use of force a club – 40 Sutra for cyclic shells before the drive got got there.

Unfortunately, to going to just like forfeiture notice were little left, I believe, go check out we what we doing you don't believe in everything you know. Anytime you can try to find a way to make a plan for the father. That's great too but also to other articles, wrong decision that you can make it. Obviously you hindsight you know we did make it.

But in that situation again. I would doubt whatever he decided. At least Russell was going to support his head coach that something I didn't think we were going to get that many yards five whole yards.

Now I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt a little bit. Maybe he was basing it on what he saw in the second half because they were stopped multiple times inside the red zone on the 1 yard line.

So maybe Nathaniel Hackett is referring to the fact that the offense was relatively anemic, even from up close in the second half but still, the odds are in favor of converting 1/4 and five more than they are in kicking a 64 yard field goal.

Waiting to hear. Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner's reaction along with Kevin Harlan on Westwood One. There's more. You'll get to hear from P Carolyn Gino Smith, who had a near-perfect night while near perfect first half and then they were able to ride that to the end.

This was, I want to go ahead and call it impressive, almost brilliant performance by the Seahawks in light of what most people expected would happen to good for you Gino Smith.

Good for you Shelby Harris who got traded to Seattle by Denver in exchange for Russell Wilson part of the defensive line that stuffed the Broncos multiple times in the red zone. Wow. But I can't help it I love it I love it when nothing goes according to plan. You can find me on Twitter a lot radio or on our Facebook page. Our phone number 855-2124 CBS. It's after hours with Amy that we are just getting started here in CBSSports radio you are listening to the after-hours podcast 64 and 20 something three minutes for the 45 51. This is the right call for your own regular visit. This is a huge way. You know will 60 all you all the more the after-hours time to talk football with the Lord's that the reaction from a Hall of Fame quarterback. Could you imagine being indignation of some QB if you actually took the ball out of their hands on the fourth. Tom Brady 90 Russell Wilson not Tom Brady. I get that. I'm just saying there are some quarterbacks who you would have to pry the ball out of their cold clammy hands before they would allow you to go for a 64 yard field goal instead of 1/4 and five I'm I'm still blown away by it and I'm glad I'm not the only one who who was stunned. It's after hours with Amy something you will get the reaction from the Denver locker room coming up in 15 minutes.

Following the update, but Pete Carroll were you apprised by the decision to light up for a 54 yard kick was not far off for you will surprise.

I wasn't sick and that we will in the 24th of we were already in full force and five knowing Russell. What if this is still the Russell Wilson quarterbacks for Seattle P Carol going for it.

Of course Russell Wilson would be going for the wood, still wearing the neon green high letter uniforms of Seattle, which by the way I dig.

I've always love those uniforms. I'm on the record every time they wear them as tweeting or door texting friends of mine to say how much I love those bright lime green uniforms their fantastic know me, my bright colors, so P Carol was surprised everybody else was surprised just I guess not Nathaniel Hackett or Russell Wilson or Brenda McManus. By the way, McManus missed the first attempts and when Seattle called a timeout because you know some people actually use their timeout to Seattle called a timeout braided McManus missed it so he was asked whether or not he considered reversing course, when McManus missed on the first one I was happy got that one out away. So not want to just do not compensate him if we are to put in that situation again. I figure we would make it where you kidding me to do this again your really you can learn your lesson. The first oy just a way that after hours on CBSSports radio P Carol instead of Russell Wilson now has Gino Smith as his quarterback and he got done talking about Rod. He's onto Gino Gen. just 17 preaching in the first half was discussed. Does that number is just 12 or something like that.

So generally tonight like P Carol try to tell us right. He's been telling us for months now that Gino's looks really good and that Gino was outright. Winning this QB competition was relocked now. At times he did say Gino had a head start because he was already in the Seahawks system. Andrew is trying to catch up, but he's been very consistent in saying that Gino was leaving the QB competition. So what about Gino he finishes up 23 of 28 for 195 yards and two touchdowns both in the first half, including one on the opening drive sacked a couple of times but doesn't turn the ball over, and he said really coming out in front of the huge crowd and performing as well as they did on the first possession was critical, so important, so important you feel you never know when to shift the tundra home know anytime you want to start out at first, I want to go down and score and specific to the ball first because you know statistics say that if you don't you know in your favor. So all just going on there and in the crowd excited the devil he did that and I was really impressed.

The Broncos defense and play well I can have a little bit better but you got to give Gino the credit for what he did in that first half and then the book of the game, but he was 17 and 18 before the break, he was accurate. He was on point. I'm sure Ty Rickett would call most accurate quarterback in the sofa. If you play there and how about this, even though it's not Russell Wilson anymore they still want to spread the ball around different players caught a ball from Gino in the first half of them and then restart. Betty had 53 yards on the ground until they were keeping the Denver defense off-balance, meanwhile, was nothing but red zone woes for the Broncos, especially in the second half, but they were over four and they finished up with a dozen penalties from hundred 6 yards. It is really difficult to do when you waste time off really difficult to win. I should say when you waste time off the clock like it doesn't matter like those seconds are precious when you give back 100+ yards in penalties and you do not capitalize on multiple snaps from inside the five so the reaction in the locker room in Seattle. The visitors locker room will get that with Brandon Crist all who typically resides in Denver and and works with the Broncos Broncos radio, but is in Seattle tonight. Maybe he wasn't surprised that Russell was in got booed when he came out of the tunnel actually saw on Twitter that he had objects thrown at him by the fans, which is always about as classless as you can get. I don't know that's true but I didn't see it. I just happen to read a couple of tweets didn't think we can get that many yards did you hear that marketable Eddie on make sure you have that audio available for your updates, the new head coach of the Denver Broncos and I quote said I didn't think we could get that many yards you know what fold up fold up shop as well since overcome didn't think we would get that many yards. I'm also I got I got to be fair with the ideas like this where exactly where we want to get you and this will: BS on that from the start. You guys were all looking at each other with no idea what you want to do your delighted guys to get lined up properly.

Russell Wilson's look at the side it was another one you've been through this for how long do you honestly that no idea what they wanted to be more than one screws they called a timeout to play clock was at one not because it was pointed out. Good boy. And you know what she would go for the electric field but none of the coaches the players, nobody knew what they wanted to do that and I'm sorry if I was the owner I be taught the new owners.

I would have competitors. We will be having them see they don't know little of it. They don't know.

So the idea from the top down you have to you have to sit me in the room explained to me what exactly let out they can't. Well we got there a nation. It's it falls woefully short. All right, you had to Seattle and will see what the Broncos had to say in their own locker room. It's after hours with Amy. You are listening to the after-hours podcast. You hold the more the after-hours time to talk the Lord's call from the old Hawks radio and Steve Grable as Brenda McManus. This is what would have been a game winner wide left from 64 yards with but his career long and the second longest made field-goal in NFL history sides.

It was wide left instead of going forward on more than five the Broncos opt for an uber long kick we want to get the reaction from the Broncos locker room.

The Broncos press conferences, I as we've heard from P Carol from Nathaniel Hackett but it's still a one of those topics. That's got to have legs to be sure that after hours with Amy were pleased to welcome Brandon Crist all the Broncos inside her and with KOA Colorado as a reporter joins us from Seattle will bring in before I get your reaction. I just want to know what the reaction to the game.

The loss how it finished.

What did you hear from the Broncos themselves.

I don't know let it be what they think. You look away and maybe the most division in the NFL. You saw the truckers and raters." One you saw that the Jews are still the clap of the division of what we think. After one week you can afford to let go if you want to have a shot to win the division and get into the cleft competitive, just inquiring if you especially you and that includes seven spots so I think that if the Broncos in Guelph and I know we can be prone to overreaction hyperbole after just one week back at this game and say that the one getting wing that were we call personal and a winnable game will be troubled twice on the goal line and were able to function in the courtyard of Hertfordshire but they blood they let an opportunity to give women the vote is not easy to do against the likely better than people to hear it change you could play this because I know Brandon was there at the press conference with Nathaniel Hackett but for people who haven't heard it yet. He was asked the question of why he opted to kick from 64 yards. Instead of going forward on fourth and five.

Brenda did his best shot won't be able to hit use of the cave wall that said, I wish we would've gotten a lot closer to put us in that weird spot there because we were in the field-goal range that we are on the fourth-down situation didn't think we would get that many yards I thought it was a great job budget want to know. We just made the decision want to shut their on them. What's your reaction when you hear that you quote Daniel acted somewhere down in the product number were you convicted and in the thing. There was some thought, but when you're a player coach and I think you will over time really show you that is Artie off of that reputation you want to give your brain has one of the biggest life in football.large chart out there. You want to perfect the art. Brandon pulled up last week that inside of 40 yards you will most accurate records of all you want to start work, but he has a huge what you waiting for to make one of the 5264, the 70 are the dreaded love for Denver so I would love to see that I want to read your God.

You also did a little from $250 million of which have the lead, and just got left through the upright look like a genius because he took the bottle rocket will yes impossible. But you don't make magic on that you'll here in Seattle until they were a few more game they lack an era that I think is justified and the other question could locker Brenda coach that he'll think that many of the you want to read.

Joseph didn't and not on on the sidelines before he said I love you but make what student does he have to say you're in the Broncos have disabled the fact that they were getting so close but could not get into the into the end zone.

The two fumbles of course that multiple times when they were taking snaps from the water from inside the file either over for the red zone on play caller that you wonder though.

Waiting for a minute I would like a you think he took the ball out and did not have rough you have the chance to throw an interception.

Something that obviously is not the magnitude of durable 49 hear back. And one way or blog like that or whatever that I got a beer will then Russia Elizabeth Robert you expect your running back fumble, let alone both of your running back bubble in that situation and Melvin lost the ball out cropping the claim basically and then divorce William Greg left him not to laugh corrective action of the backup guard you got your own player falling you when you try to make a move towards a goal is nonetheless terrible in the red zone. In recent years of internal office that you have a Hall of Fame quarterback is okay.

You never out of your lesson 22.422 point getting retired on average. And so you thought okay, 23, 24 point been there to have to get these things corrected the players suck it up and the one getting law blaming the amount of the breakers dollars with us from Seattle. Following his coverage of Monday night football Broncos lose to the Seahawks in a one-point game and there are a lot of ways that you can pick this apart in a negative light for the Broncos another one. Brenda being the 12 penalties for 160 yards. What the heck happened one word being a player coach and boy penalized matzoh some of the reactionary right of all starter or offside is a correctable thing, but when you make the big play, getting off the field you get called for quality graphics you a check for everyone you know that called every time you you don't feel you in your past Rotary. There you got 15 extra yards there will know things are on the coach and the players like you got your big factor in really nice start word you Denver or somewhere else you could make a mistake like that and so I think the effort out to get the battle ready and one thing about this staff is dump run as an advisor and Bill Kohler long, but other than the wider body as well as your five or six leading leading an NFL room and and about Christian parkers in year two coach every other coach 2011 coordinator for one year every role that all been elevated and I think the wrong things there as well. Broncos players have to suffer through the coaches figure out exactly how push right but they're all knowing you and new job hereunder after hours here on CBS for was Brandon Kristoff from Seattle works for KOA Colorado and I know a lot of what we heard from the Broncos over preseason training camp has been raving and glowing and just thrilled with that. The change that's, because Russell Wilson is now the quarterback how is it appeared to you will you years ago you work here is radio back Michael Schachter just got my and in the book. What was you and your team to win every day manning the tire will now you have a guy well stated in years gone denied parole for seven years no quarterback never done that complete a lot more than one grounder or don't get gravity doesn't throw interceptions you broke a lot of concern about rocking the night but I will this week like rough run the ball for a nice gain on the house and pick up the first out anything to be turning that down buildup will be towards the goal and goal to go situation yards on the ground and so I don't do something going on with the conscious effort he got the money know that what were you Randall for just about 60 seconds.

Are you surprised, actually, let me rephrase. What did sound like to you when Russ came out of the tunnel was a predominantly Buddhist one predominantly ran out with the entirety how you parse out being or will you like you being gigantic, but you will when Russ may never play right your fun night. Not one of your Broncos, you certainly are, but times of year yet. There are certainly growing great amazing Mr. there in Seattle, though they did themselves proud and you can tell them they're supposed to finish last of the West well nonetheless it was a fun night out all right. You can follow Brandon on Twitter at BK Denver sport.

These are former colleague at CBS sports radio but now anchor reporter for KOA Colorado and on the road with the Broncos in Seattle. We present a couple minutes.

You are the best. Brandon always good to talk to you and remain interesting.

Sure I save travel.

We appreciate that was Brandon yeah is a lot to look at investigate. There's a lot to fix if you're the Broncos allowed to correct a man think about this from Seattle's perspective and how cool it is for them to get this first win when that really wasn't the expectation it's after hours with a meal are in PBS for