9-9-22 After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 4

Here Friday. I'm excited. I know the game itself wasn't super competitive in the second half, but that's credited to the bills they dominated on both sides of the ball in Los Angeles last night despite seeing the Rams bid for Barty trophy with Andrew Wentworth and this surprised cameo by Odell Beckham Junior despite the fact that it was tied at halftime. Underneath that Super Bowl championship banner. They did have 10,000 of their closest friends there as members of Bill's Mafia. They made a ton of noise and the way the bill started each half that to me was the loudest statement they could make, how they started each half to brilliant drives to convincing offense of drives in the third quarter when the game still hung in the balance in the third quarter, which was the turning point, the bills offense was creative and relentless, efficient, certainly productive and in the defense gave the ball right back to the offense and Josh Allen over and over to very short drives for the Buffalo perfect excuse before the Los Angeles Rams in the third quarter only 24 total yards. That's when the game got away from the champs despite four turnovers. The Buffalo Bills rack up more than 400 yards of total offense hundred 20 of them on the ground 90% on third down and Josh Allen near perfect separate couple of pics one that went through the hands of his receiver it on baby.

It is on but for the love of all that is football season. Can we please, please tap the brakes on Super Bowl preview. That's all I ask is that too much to ask. I know I can be a demanding girl every now and then I got high standards stopped stop right. Don't be that guy order or that girl is after hours with Amy Lawrence on CB radio exactly thank you big Carol. We are live from the rocket mortgage Studios you need to know what it takes for a home to fit your budget and your family. Rocket can. I've had so much fun breaking down this one game I've had so much fun thinking about the infinite possibilities of the season that start with Sunday week one. To that end, we've got our very first game of the week. Paul 2022. Bring it. Let's go time to vote for the after-hours game of the week and thankfully we don't have to include bills Rams because that certainly would have been one of the candidates. But since it's already in the books and again that will talk about here momentarily. We were able to come up with four other candidates couple revenge games in their bronco Seahawks Brown's Panthers and then the return we can't miss you if you're only going for 40 days.

The return of Tom Brady.

The Dallas Cowboys, the return of Dan Quinn. Oh my gosh the storylines around the Cowboys this off-season to have been goofy but actually it's 1/4 candidate, a divisional matchup that right now is got the majority of your votes.

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Our phone number 855-212-4227 and were live from the rocket mortgage Studios you need to know what it takes for a home to fit your budget and your family. Rocket can Artie do that. I did twice this hour and last, our right. I forgot to do it. I don't happens I get so wrapped up in football but the thing is I'm not in midseason form yet either.

So I do believe it's a little bit like riding a bike, but I wouldn't say that these are my comfy slippers just yet. All of that better make sense to you, Firman Miller, it was deputy like riding a bike.

It did not take vaudeville along to impact the game in a powerful way that the leadership the experience that he brings. I heard a pregame interview with him he was talking to Rich Eisen on Westwood One and they taped it earlier in the week and this inside this one particular quote jumped out at me so much that I had to put it out there on twitter Super Bowl teams are always play your lead there.GM led they're not coaching led no Super Bowl teams are led from the inside out there led from the locker room there led from the guys who are actually in the trenches and that includes Von Miller and what he brings to the table and he raved about Josh Allen as a leader as well.

He talked about different guys in the field and he also raved about Buffalo Bills fans about Bill's Mafia. He said whatever you might say about Buffalo is a place to live these fans.

The people in Western New York.

They make up for it is my view was good vaudeville or is just as thrilled to be with the bills and to be in Buffalo as they are to have them Enright away right away.

Not only does he have a sack in the first quarter is a second later in the game and as they pointed out as Chris Collins reported out on the NBC broadcast when you have to pay so much attention upon Miller. Other guys are getting one on ones.

Other guys are seeing open lanes to the quarterback on the defenses side of the ball because we always start with offense will start would depend on the deeper the side of the ball.

This was his domination. It was overwhelming the way the defensive line was able to create opportunities and run roughshod over the Rams align.

I know Andrew Whitworth is in his 40s, and probably not ready to play, but is a little bit ironic that he was stated out there with the Vince Lombardi trophy and the offense of line for the Rams look like a weak point maybe won't be that way all the way through the season, but the bills that had their way seven sacks, seven sacks of Matthew Stafford 15 additional quarterback hit meeting that got to him and he also picked him all three times. So when your defense is forcing the opposing office to give up the ball that often is limiting drives is limiting possession time and then you've got Josh Allen and a plethora of weapons on the offense. It certainly does look good. Remember we talked to Stalcup RTO. The bill sideline reporter was working the game last night. He joined us Wednesday live from Los Angeles after big Bill's Mafia event and asked him okay we all know the strengths of this team. What are the weaknesses are the potential weaknesses.

If you need to hear it. Here's what he came up with Ken Dorsey. Now he didn't say it, as in Ken Dorsey doesn't know what he's doing. He's the Achilles' heel, only that Ken Dorsey has never called place before Ken Dorsey is never been in a situation where the game plan is on his shoulders. He's implemented it. He's never called it that was the best thing that Sal could come up with while Ken Dorsey was in the ear of Josh Allen last night for the first time and they jumped on the board immediately and they were able to score often play action pass amazing job. Davis's job is school going into the midsection of the 7 yard strike that was the caliber with Kevin Harlan on Westwood One before the John Murphy on bills, radio it was early fourth quarter. After the bills dominate every way you can in the third quarter, Matthew Stafford finally gets the ball back. He throws his second interception three plays 59 yards later Stefon Diggs is falling on his backside into the end zone with a 53 yard catch. So yes, it was far from perfect.

There were four turnovers for Buffalo, but 90% on third down and yes part of that is on the bills, but part of that is also on the Rams and their inability to come up with any ways to complicate what the bills were trying to do instead of dictating they were reacting right there just to hang on for dear life in some of those junctures there against Josh Allen with her stiff arms.

He was running for first downs.

I don't love that he still there leading rusher.

I said that so many times about the bills when John Challenger leading rusher. That's not a formula for success. I don't think that's the best game plan long-term, but he's a load he's absolutely a load.

He's got options and he knows how to use them, and he looked like he was already locked in, even with a brand-new offense of coordinator we heard ourselves a lot in the first up there's a lot to learn from you, and over that second half that's that's we want to be going out there and execute the way know we we expect ourselves to execute on what the cause, Dorsey called hook up again.

It's his first live no action, so I'm proud of him for for handling the situation so we did we would 90% of their down like that's that's a recipe for success and again four turnovers with way too many so we got a lot of cleanup but will celebrate this one is hard when Wesley especially gives good teams. That's really good to be displayed desist.when one game and notice what was we came came together in the second half play good company football start with an opening kickoff of the second half.

So some things with the work on terms of taking care of the football 26 and 31 for Josh Allen nearly 300 yards, three touchdowns or rushing TD. He does throw a couple of interception to get back to couple of times but that's the worst that you can say right is that the turnovers were there and three of them came in the first half. They deftly change that in the second half. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio course everybody's gonna raved about that defensive line that was dominating upfront assault of the line. You could feel make an impact factor in the game.

You can do that, it's auction the backend as well, so I thought again within within the defense.

The rush was up in the coverage and the coverage was open. The Russian and a timed up well in we get those Buffalo fans in the stadium behind a slow but that help to when you look at a lot of the ways that this game unfolded feel a huge sense of responsibility. This team were ready to go. I take a lot of pride in that.

And that's on me. I can do better. There was a lot of decisions that I made that I felt like didn't put our players in good enough spots is a humbling experience for to stay connected. I have total belief and confidence in what we can do moving forward. Whether we want tonight or whether we had a humbling experience like this. We got 16 games guarantee left work to dust ourselves off on a look ourselves in the mirror were to be accountable to the things that we can all do better within the framework of our roles were to move for the right way and that's all I know how to do this has been the first setback that I've that we've experienced and work and respond the right way.

I do trust that and are not to do is look at this film corrected put together a good week of preparation and be ready to go against the Falcons next week but there's that there's no way to put it other than what you didn't do a good enough job. It starts with me and then we can overall execute better in a lot of areas shall McVeigh getting his assessment. But if you miss my conversation with Michael Duarte from her second hour of NBC LA he was in the press room when McVeigh was lighting up his locker room that he did take responsibility but according to Duarte and the others are in the press room because it was easy to hear. It shares a wall.

Apparently McVeigh used a bunch of choice words that cannot be repeated in polite company that was how he greeted the players when they got back into the locker room. Following this loss. First is season-opening loss under shall McVeigh and Matthew Stafford not a game that he wants to watch on tape. I'm sure he had a lot of pressure there were advice shall pass as they were passes that were rushed out. He had a few where he connected and he still Matthew Stafford knee still. As I have always called a poor man's Brett Favre though. Now he has a Super Bowl ring so there's that there's that credibility. He's a great quarterback but this was not his best performance, and a lot of these guys on Twitter after the fact. This is not something that they want to. To get there use to settling on their own fields, but the idea that they could to step on the field and not really have any time in preseason. Well, sometimes that means you can look rusty. Sometimes that means your little look like he who still need a few more these at your belt before you can find a rhythm to play a lot better now. I know that knowing it was disappointing as the night is everyone to start the season with the way it really does matter is first and last name. Whatever it is normal difficult struggle to live simply will not do it. One thing that gives me a good feeling is knowing the guys in the locker room and no one homework in all been together look at each other looking at first, enjoy what I do to be better for the guy next to me on the social head coaches is always present Dawson and it's real stuff process players was how we react and you know we believe not in the locker really good was we didn't play with the rams. We were about to run rampant and play with us and we focus on what we gotta do better to do better.

This was our one saved cool Jason Ramsey Delorenzi he had a busy night.

He and Stefon Diggs. They were matched up for a good portion of this game and there's no way to sugarcoat it.

Stefon got the best of Delorenzi, another a couple spots were baby Jaelyn body and help, and help wasn't there.

It's all on him.

The deep at the secondary got picked apart by Josh Allen and the receivers but Stefon Diggs got the better of that matchup. Jaelyn so I think it's pretty obvious so that little incentive for Jaelyn moving forward seven sacks 15 quarterback hits and three takeaways for the bills defense 400+ yards of offense for touchdowns for Josh Allen. Oh yeah I can hear it now Super Bowl free to stop by the way, Odell Beckham Junior just magically appeared very so by stadium is boy Von Miller, their tight what is that me will hear from Vaughn coming up and you know the whole slate of games on Sunday in the NFL is our first football Friday take our poll on Twitter after hours. CBS or on Facebook. What is the after hours game of the week because you're listening to after hours case you didn't know with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio you are listening to the after-hours podcast section just so you use these after-hours with Amy Lawrence well he used to be the job of Steve Grable and Seahawks radio to describe everything and anything that Russell Wilson did on the football field but now that falls to the Denver Broncos though.

In week one, Steve Grable and the rest of the Seahawks nation. The 12th man.

All of his former teammates and coaches they needed taste of Russell Wilson as well that it is one of the options for the after-hours game of the week. You can check about.

We had to narrow it down to four for the purposes of a twitter pole and it was not easy.

A lot radio or on our Facebook page after hours with Amy Lawrence is been a lot of chatter about the Seahawks trading rise and how wasn't the first time and if they had their way they would have tried. They wouldn't trade them after 2018 able to trade them going back to not this past off-season, but the one before. Remember they were at least in conversations with some teams like the Cleveland Browns. There was also conversation with think who was it was offered or they wanted for first round picks are all exactly what it was but the Seahawks wanted part with him after considering the operator was the Bears so it's been kind of this storyline.

It's been recirculating for the past several years and the closer we get to this rematch.

This kind of revenge game with Russ against Seattle, the more it comes up. And so now Roth is actually talking about the fact that the Seahawks did try to ship him out of Seattle. More than once tried to couple times and try to see what was out there export business as part of of your professional everything else and upset for the wrong word you and I believe my town.

William will want the best in the world were advising also not so we know the Broncos were the one that ended up landing him even though the Broncos were trying for Aaron Rodgers actually simultaneously five draft picks including two first rounders into second rounders. In addition to three players they believe Russell Wilson is finally the quote unquote substitution for Peyton Manning. Their next great franchise quarterback and will see how that plays not just in a stacked division like the AFC West. But a week number one against the Seattle Seahawks again. Wilson confirming on Thursday before he went out to practice with the Broncos of the Seahawks and try to trade him more than once in his decade in Seattle. Despite all the pro bowls. The two Super Bowl starts the one Super Bowl ring I and the one team that I heard from 2018 and when that Wilson actually said he he heard this, too, that it was it was pretty serious with the Browns in 2018 that this was an act of an active conversation. It just didn't pan out that way. So think about the last few years that quarterback and Baker Mayfield who courses no longer with the Browns and how that storyline would've been nonexistent. Just the best reality show on TV. So what do you expect when you are in Seattle back in Seattle on Monday. My experience in Seattle was one-of-a-kind, 1010 years. I could imagine those those years not be in my life and how special they were and how many games we one homey amazing thrillers just Super Bowl.

We want everything else. So I think all those memories anything else in the joy of that with a lot of preparation in that regard. So will the child is going to take to the game and that all shows up for it, but you will Russ will and and nobody could know better than we do. That's been part of the preparation and it's been exciting to me to try to convey to make it clear when this would happen when this happened and why will it come stuff and so it's a fun part of the preparation. Hopefully it will work upwards. Many people have suggested that I should pick the Broncos in the survivor pool in the first week how I feel about that. I don't know. I'd I don't know how to pick any of these games I suck at this.

I just. Every year when it comes to survivor pools. I'm I'm already feeling the tension in my gut Pete Carroll on Sirius XM NFL radio and he makes a good point. There's a reason why Pete Carroll is been a tenured in Seattle for so long. He's the one who handpicked Russ as a rookie after preseason training camp that he would get the start and be would be there starter as a rookie I instead of the veterans they had.

Course now he's got Gino and now he's got Drew Locke and, much to the chagrin of the Seahawks fans did not make a trade for say a Baker Mayfield course that would have room wind, the NFL scheduling right because it's not. It's not the Seahawks and the Panthers in week in our Seahawks and Browns, and we can never wanted the Panthers and Brown to remember what flexion week one, taking away the Russell component right that we I just, I guess by virtue of the process of elimination, since they wanted Russell Wilson to face his former team in week one on Monday night in a marquee game while they were left hoping that Baker Mayfield got traded to Carolina so that's why they put the Browns in the Panthers together in Charlotte on week number will I think it's fairly obvious that most people believe the Seahawks will end up in the basement of the NFC West yet again. But I still think this division is intriguing.

Think about what the Cardinals did to start last season, going eight no and yes they made the playoffs but my goodness from scrubbing a social media to trades being made. They brought in weapons around Kyler Murray that given him a fat fat fat contract.

I mean it. It's about keeping up with the Joneses because the Super Bowl champion is there in the NFC West, not to mention another team from the NFC West was in the championship game before the rams move on the Super Bowl so the debate itself is delicious and delightful and we've got not one but two quarterback changes in this division right because we've got a brand-new QB in Seattle Gino or Drew may be Gino, Andrew, that together form one average quarterback, but we also got a new starter in San Francisco and that's Trey Lance some chatter about why Trey wasn't named team captain and it went by the way, these are voted on by teammates. This is because those that involve situations and started using one is just so as long as you will one moving forward looking to them, but she was seventh voted to put several other people was a distant wanted to go sick so don't allow you to the coin toss believe that Salzman's first year starter for us and I think goes to the others on the rookies who end up being the captain's analysis is a second year but is rookie for us in terms of its first starting quarterback the last time you called someone, or referred to someone of the bozo outdated word not for Trey, Lance, he's bringing bozo back baby back toward about the cloud. I just think calling someone a bozo I think about how nuts it was the famous quote from Irene are clowns famous I know is what McDonald is. He considered famous clown. I would think. But as he gets in the clown's cloud is difficult do you think that's what Trey Lance was talking about bozo the clown's specific bozo the clown, but in reference to what can we hear it again you cut off after we here use the word bozo is regulated continues to use words like that in his press conferences where a Jesus actually saying the top six that were voted on by teammates. You can't look at those guys and call them both you give a smile on his face that which I love Erica earthquakes good morning to you happy football Friday about Friday when well last time you use the word bozo I actually do use the my kids are being don't think anything to bozo the knucklehead is another guideline without between bozo and knucklehead I would have lean to would've laughed even more. If you'd said you can't look at those guys and call the knucklehead noodle those words I well nothing I know idea was that cool. Now you're just assuming that when I say cool I am not look like tablets cool. We know that to be sure yeah not left out knuckle if you knucklehead I will put it past them to use knucklehead. He comes up with all kinds of things like the quarterbacks moved their units just cute, nice way of calling somebody in any way bozo. It's a little sugar coated knucklehead like me being able to say what I want to say with a smile and joking. They veiling it. Same is Trey Lance that he might be 22 years old to look at that you are super cool, you're still Erica. I'm not happy get so upset at me when I say things like hip onto Amy. Do not ever say that they like glitter fire is something that we are not cool, but definitely not were French. That's what we are that after hours with Amy Lawrence. You are listening to the after-hours podcast so as we come to verse way down the list highlights Sawyer goal will be 2022 NFL season definitely is a boom moment and it comes on the opening drive for the Buffalo Bills in Los Angeles 10,000 bills not be as strong be there pretty loud as the Michael Duarte told us earlier. He was at the game covering it for NBC LA because everybody was dressed in blue. It was really hard to tell where the bills fans were in many cases, but toward the end of the game, specifically the third quarter on well you could hear them and Rams fan started to leave and so became obvious where the bills fans were posted up John Murphy on the opening drive of the NFL season on bills radio five minute chunk the results in Gabe Davis picking up where he left off in the playoffs.

Just a few short know that were very long months ago.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio. They say the bills had seven sacks 15 quarterback hits three takeaways by virtue of the interception Von Miller in the middle of it with a couple of sacks himself. Everybody the bills that locker room raving about the defensive line, and we got the first victorious locker room speech of the season glory to God's know what you guys work that your will probably about other work for an ethical way to go, man. First victorious locker room of the entire season, and according to Michael he was live with us in our second hour. We would not be allowed to play the locker room speech from Sean McVeigh because use choice words backed according to Mike, there were didn't even know existed or not. Not that many swearwords in his vernacular football. It's just different. So were not like that one. However, it's just one day when there's a long way to go, even though it feels like a sprint. It definitely is a marathon, so the Sean and the bills mopping at the rams house and all of that. You gotta catch that interview got to get that interview with Michael on her podcast after hours Amy Lawrence.com's a really intriguing stuff like how he was eavesdropping on the rams locker room and also what is the prospectus for Odo Beckham Junior is something else that Mike told us he has a stocked OBJ, nobody knew well. Very few people knew he'd pick up very few people knew he was going to be there but when he walked out of court. The media thronged and was try to get video of OBJ hugging Matthew Stafford and blah blah blah. Von Miller is tight with Odell so is there a chance that he is going to go to the bills. Or maybe the rest comes as we go drawing nostrums behind every joke is a huge part of our success list or whatever you do, so I'm sure is a lot of things that will go away and see where I think we did everything possible to know where to just tell him all the grades gone over to so just know with managers in the legato that we could get the ball to right no matter what Greg Guzman and Ozzie Mackenzie Joe Davis home does not seduce man all running backs went crazy today off his brother will got a great team and keep going whenever you deserve mention that I love von Miller is all about the weeds already, even though it's a brand-new team is no confusion about which we he belongs to. He is definitely making a difference.

The season if week one is any indication, I hope he stays healthy all the way through. It's after hours on CBS sports radio. Speaking of staying healthy, Jack Prescott wasn't a full participant in practice on Thursday there was some concern over his ankle, which he described as uncomfortable because of a new set of cleats. As you know this is a legion of feudal report of a male yoga suspended you a defined excuse me so so great still feel the bus that a form of a very long time comparable to where I was Lasher going to the skin. So she was excited ready us on Sunday night football Cowboys hosting the Buccaneers and Tom Brady still answering questions about whether or not this will be his final season be partially a product of his age is partially a product of the fact that he did retire and then un-retire so I don't know.

We can blame the media for harping on that one as much did you guys see the Michael Jordan promo that happened during the game last night. It was pretty sweet it was that couple highlights of Jordan and then him saying I was away from the game for two years. He didn't even last Brady last tube and I got Michael Jordan to do the promo for Sunday night football, which I think is awesome star power flocking to the NFL. Every which way. So that's one of our candidates for game of the week, but we got others right now leaving the field is a divisional matchup. I'm not can tell you which one maybe it's Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.

Mitch Stravinsky is the starting quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, but for how long that is the question surrounding the Steelers. Also, their defense better show some teeth because there my starting defense of my fantasy league. Not that anyone cares. Joe Burroughs got a rebuilt offense of line in front of them. What kind of pressure can the Steelers get on Joe Borough. This has nothing to do with the game on Sunday, but we think it's interesting might be too vague of a word, but the idea that Mason Rudolph who's got the tenure there in Pittsburgh is now relegated to third on the QB depth chart and the idea that was floated around that they might trade him. The Steelers might trade him somewhere else.

Knowing that Kenny Pickett would be the backup to Mitch Stravinsky, all of that is not sitting well with Mason. Trust me when I say you can read his facial expression by hearing what he has to say no more from officer about those guys is now prayer middle stab you right in the heart, and I feel for him.

I do. He probably thought this was his opportunity.

Finally once been Raab is burger retired. Then they trade for Mitch Stravinsky. Then they draft Kenny Pickett and truly I hope Mitch turn this opportunity into something special because I'm not sure he got a fair shake there in Chicago devil. He didn't develop the way that he showed a barcode of its on him some. It's also on the bears in their coaching and how they used him and just everything else to do with that offense. I'm hoping that he turns a second chance into a little bit of redemption but it's truly the case in Pittsburgh that the most popular player on the team is the backup quarterback the fans so desperately want to see Kenny Pickett on the field.

I have seen that so so so many times on my social media and I do think it will happen. It's inevitable that it's going to happen.

I just don't know when nor do you but that there's that old adage actually, it's a joke. It didn't von Miller just tell is there's truth in every joke, it's a joke right that that you trot out there about football. The most popular guy on the on the roster is the backup QB whenever fans are dissatisfied with the quarterback. While there is deftly some truth to job what you think you can see from Baker, will you have an extra edge on Sunday so meant that the wake of the cross we all know Baker so I have no idea what to say. I've no idea what to expect.

That is a slight over five touchdowns or five Baker normally would do. I just saw this post forgot her Facebook page. He said that he's taking Panthers that browses the game of the week because either Baker get his revenge or miles.

Garrett ruins his day. Those are the only two options.

Krista McCaffrey could run for 200 yards that will I don't enjoy the weekend after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio