9-9-22 After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 3

Major league baseball get those to the side when the NFL shows that you notice how thin the schedule was on Thursday nights baseball that was now generally Thursday is or can be, I should say a lighter day because it's a getaway day and not every series either extends into Thursday or start on Thursday to go into the weekend so I get it it's it's a like her day, but trust to be what I say.

Major league baseball also knew that the NFL was kicking off its first game of the 2022 season on this Thursday night is after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio or live from the rocket mortgage Studios you need to know what it takes for a home to fit your budget and your family rocket you can find our first our very first game of the week poll on twitter a lot radio or on our Facebook page after hours with Amy Lawrence and if you haven't yet, join us on survivors Archipelago.

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You pick one team to win each week and if you nail it even if it's only by point by half a point, I would explain that just by saying that I am on a one man wow Imo I'm a one-man sound to you how it is that I am a one a one-man crew when it comes to starting a petition for half the strokes in golf when your pot is left a rotation from the whole.

You should only be charged 1/2 stroke. So to that end, I don't care of your football team wins by half a point.

Cracks me up when Vegas does that I don't get take care of your team wins by half a point. The fact is, you just have to survive and advance and you are all set to the next week, but it's stressful. I've actually bow that is much as I love survivor pools. They they change my Sunday viewing experience because I can't put the stress aside until my team has safely hid so for that reason alone I don't think I want to pick a Monday night game because I do feel that tension in my gut all the way through the weekend so Joan is on survivor Island because it sounds like so much fun doesn't it on Twitter or Facebook and then our game of the week poll is up. We know there are other games that you're excited about. People can't wait to dive into the AFC North matchups the AFC West Matt jobs. Of course, we've got some reunions with a side of revenge like browns and panthers like Broncos Seahawks. I mean heck you could say ravens and Jets to all the distilled wacko feel that much emotion where he's interested in revenge. The man's a lot of money that courtesy of the ravens and want to Super Bowl with them so I don't know if there's revenge there is funding is not really played up much with Joe Flack oh, but week one is on the horizon.

So we want you to vote for the after-hours game of the week. Did you guys catch the Michael Jordan appearance on Thursday night football. This was awesome. In fact asked producer J to pull it because I loved it. So this is Michael Jordan.

The goats and they use this as a promo to come out of a commercial during Thursday night football once Susan Michael Jordan said I was out of the game for two years.

He didn't even last two months referring to Tom Brady. But man think about that season.

23 and still the buccaneers are considered a Super Bowl contender because of Hitler. They got a bunch of roster changes to the bad Julio Jones who I'll be rooting for like nobody's business.

To win comeback player of the hear Chris Godwin as well who is coming off of a torn ACL and has shed the brace want to be back on the field soon. Whenever I got there is because of well met in my life to be able to take whatever it was a violent game you can protect yourself everything so as I was out of the confidence in myself no doubts. In addition to answering questions about the roster changes the team is going to face questions about Tom Brady and whether or not it's his last year in yada yada. Yada yada. The fact that you got all of these rumors and and I want to call the reports because I don't know that that Tom Brady's marriage is under duress because he's returning to play football.

Just there's so much so much that always swirls around Brady so much drama around Brady, especially now that he retired and came back and that the idea that he was the one who got Bruce Arians removed his coach as opposed to what Bruce and Todd Bowles said, which is that Bruce wanted to leave the team in good hands with Todd Bowles. He felt like with Brady coming back. This was the right time to do it it seemingly doesn't matter what they say in Tampa, people are going to write and believe what they want, so let's focus on the dates and let's focus on what's actually gonna be on the field or what may not be in the field. Chris Godwin is a gametime decision for this opener at the Dallas Cowboys and Tom Brady is not thinking about the future right now even though reporters continue to poke and prod your 45 not on the contract for next year.

Thoughts of recruitment, this might be my last time around the world.

One day older at a time so no were all not sure whether to be.

You're not sure or not this a reality for every player, every coach, parent on just never know. So should all take it that is ultimately how was he should just memorize that and regurgitate it every time and I've no doubt that that is how he feels. You can't possibly be present in the moment when you are thinking about the future house divided against itself cannot stand. And Tom Brady has been the master at this game at his craft at winning. He's redefined what it means to be a winning quarterback because he is able to stay in the moment because he is able to focus on the task at hand and not worry about everything else that's swirling around him. He's a human obviously has a lot of emotions. He has the challenges of being 45 years old now and all a lot of that going on, and so yet he's got a wife he's got kids, just that the fact that he over Labor Day flu to buy think it was messaging. Maybe it was New York flew to the Northeast to see his son in football scrimmage that was somehow twisted into. He and his wife spent Labor Day part because there are problems inside their marriage is either house and she's a celebrity too and so corsairs added pressure.

They are an added eyeballs.

There, but I wouldn't relish being his position ever really but certainly not now because of the 40 days of retirement and the fact that working to hear these questions about him until he actually is gone, but that all the personal stuff. Now that's wrapped up in it. You can imagine the football field is a refuge so it's the buccaneers and it's the Cowboys cut of the home and home via last year's season opener when it was cowboys in Tampa and it was Jack Prescott's return.

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Rocket can maybe just maybe you saw that Jack Prescott was limited in practice on Thursday because of I don't know a tweaked ankle something. His cleats got stuck something along those lines. Jack is good. As you know this is a legion of feudal report of a male yoga suspended.

Are you will get five issues me. So the muscle group still feel the bus that a form of a very long time comparable to what I was Lasher going to the game, so she was excited ready also to if you have a hangnail and you don't report it. You can find in this league. My gosh, I love that. That's why the NFL.

Sometimes I is allegedly an acronym for the no fun league. It was a new pair of cleats and they just didn't feel right, and his ankle didn't feel right. In fact he said his ankle felt uncomfortable after he played a little bit in the shoes.

I think that's fairly standard for anyone who try to break in a new parachute whose it just seems to happen. I promise you I'm great. He said just being very very precocious just being very very precocious or cautious that I know I can't decide if that sounds odd or not Brandon is losing a Dallas Brandon welcome to after hours CBS sports radio Brandon. Brandon wanted to talk about the Cowboys. Brady will not have the opportunity to talk about the Cowboys. We did put Cowboys and buccaneers into the after-hours game of the week pole and this is so on Facebook you get the chance to vote for whichever game you want. Really though we like it when you stick to the options I am pleasantly surprised at this point that Obama Cowboys and buccaneers above Panthers and Browns, which I honestly thought was good be the runaway here over and above the Broncos and Seahawks right now. Your top choice for after-hours game of the week comes from the AFC West.

The Raiders and the Chargers seriously. When was the last time that you picked a game from the AFC West as the game of the week that did not include the Chiefs well in the last time you picked any game with the Chargers as a game of the week.

I was actually desperate to get Justin Herbert as my starting quarterback in my fantasy team but it did not happen. Raiders Chargers is right now outpacing the field. I love it and I love that we've got new relationships and we've got a new look at defense for the Chargers, Justin Herbert, lots of people believe this could be his year for MVP mean what abs that's as bad as talking to Super Bowl preview and we can number one but MVP for Justin Herbert, along with the Josh Allen say but the fact that there is this division that has become so much more competitive is a testament to the Chiefs. It's because of Andy Reid.

It's because of Patrick Holmes. It's because of the fact that they have been so good and they can't read to find that AFC West that every other team in the division had no choice. You want to be competitive while, then you're gonna have to up your game that the chief of raise the bar so you need to figure out a way to try to match it. The cheese have a head start.

Of course they're dealing for a position of strength and their little different this year to spend so much transition so much turnover in that division that it's really fascinating that your member, you may remember when to remind you that the Chargers go into this game against the Raiders. Having seen them most recently in week 18 of last year with that overtime loss 35, 32, and because they lost the Chargers workout of the playoffs and the Raiders were in. Now this game is not the same. This game does not make up for losing that game but I saw this quote from Justin Herbert that I thought was fantastic. Personally, I've been thinking about this one for the past six or seven months however long it's been.

I know that everyone else has as well for everyone to show up during OTA's.

I thought that was huge growth for our team. We believe in each other, just like the front office believes in us gangster quarterback. Both these teams have made a lot of roster changes a lot of roster adjustments since that Daniel Carlson field goal as time expired zeros on the clock put the Raiders into the postseason and kept the Chargers out and your member the whole conversation about the tie. Blah blah blah. Now the Raiders have a new GM. They have a new coach and Josh McDaniels they got get this 24 new players on the roster.

The rosters are 53+ practice squad 24. Not quite happen pretty darn close 24 new players on the roster, but just behind them. The Chargers had 22 new players on the roster and six brand-new starters on defense. You have to have a defense to compete in that division right because the quarterbacks are so good I know who's the worst quarterback in that division that actually be kind of a debate and not really what the were to have you on the show we don't generally do stuff like that thought by JM but the worst quarterback in that division is still above average. We know what Patrick Holmes is we know the potential for Justin Herbert. We see it already in two seasons dear car is a gunslinger, you may not think he's reliable, you may look at the team's track record.

This is not its volunteer car dear car in the Raiders offense, but specifically cars but a bright light for that team.

It's everything else around.

It's been a mess and yet they still made the playoffs last year and think about Russell Wilson 10 years in a Super Bowl winner. I do know this is the year that he finally gets a vote for him, VP narrative, but were talking about for very very quality quarterbacks and some of them flat-out dynamic and it got weapons around them so you can play defense in this division actually let me stop right there. If you can play defense in this division will then use that as of a part because they've all got offenses. They've all got quarterbacks but kickers actually defense in the AFC West. Maybe, just maybe, you're ahead of the game. Six. New start is on defense 22 new players for the Chargers 20 new players on the roster for the Raiders while in right now that's a leader in the clubhouse for your after-hours game of the week it interesting that in this division, Patrick Holmes and the cheese are almost an afterthought.

Even though they got a bunch of change to, but why is it that this off-season Patrick Holmes, but everyone else's punching bag. I'm not your punching bag baby I cannot wait to see Holmes back on the field. Love love love what were to get from the AFC West with Amazon prime actually feel like half their games on Thursday nights and they take over next week come from the AFC West.

What is the after-hours game of the week I know is that of the talk about baseball. I didn't really so we will coming up here. I just had to prohibit their account. It baseball to back CSR talk about football. I didn't pay that I did and I pivoted pivoted but I did append it right back may not be able to pivot sidestep multiple times. I'm not sure what my funnier pop culture moment ever that seen with Ross John Maggs in money but when he loses his mom.

He just loses his mind. Thanks J great on Twitter after-hours CBS for our Facebook page. What is your after-hours game of the weekend.

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855-212-4237 and I will about baseball. I will I will will just not for the after hours on to be a sports radio you are listening to the after-hours podcast set 941 blindside set all the laws 9 yards on that set after-hours Lawrence by the Buffalo Bills. Already in the form certainly look like it against the Los Angeles Rams both sides of the ball. We had a Josh Allen with board touchdown three through the air and one on the ground and then man, they win in spite of the fact that they have for turnovers, but you also have the defense seven sacks of Matthew Stafford +15 other quarterback it don't underestimate that number as well and and what that means they get seven times and actually end the play with a sack, but more times there pressuring him there getting a hand on him they're getting a spacer up in his grill or in his jock if you will, and there either forcing him to get rid of the ball quickly over there forcing him to pivot there, forcing him to create on-the-fly, which is something that Matthew Stafford can't do without what he wants to do what was that right shall pass these got through in the direction of Tyler Higbee.

He was, not even waste high and Higbee was not to be able to catch it. There are a few positive that he threw high as well. Ease off a little bit, but just as much. You're getting the bills putting pressure on him to get rid of the ball before he's ready. That was so evident.

Not to mention he also threw three interceptions is a brutal game for Matthew Stafford and Von Miller hello to sacks in his first game at the Buffalo Bill, John Murphy, with the call on the bills radio network lot being made of the fact that he won a Super Bowl with the rams it is now try to win a Super Bowl with the bills always devolves in here so far this is the best stadium in art and art and art in our league to come and have success.

Phil wrote the lid has a special place in my heart all suitable for this is always a special place in my heart I know my team is over there and all the coaches in the infrastructure team are always so special? If you like on euros point against my brothers over. I love Von Miller him.

I mentioned that I know bills they had already loved Von Miller as well. If you miss my conversation with Michael Duarte from NBC LA earlier was at the game is time talking about the Von Miller piece of the SN decision that he made to go to Buffalo and he wants to win 1/3 ring with 1/3 different team.

It's never been done before by a player who was active all the times of Matt Millan. He won three rings with three different teams, but in the third the third ring he wasn't playing, so he wasn't on the field. Von Miller is in the middle of everything all the time. He wreaks havoc and it's so much fun to watch him, as well as Aaron Dahl, who also had a sack in the very first quarter of this game but it was the bills that dominated in the trenches, especially that defensive line. Dean is listening in Texas. Dean, welcome to after-hours CBS sports radio meteor number one fair hi back back. I miss your voice. Oh, thank you sir. How was your vacation. It was awesome. It was so unbelievably boring by most standards. And yet it was exactly what I needed related old all all, I'm not going to my mom that you said that a sweet lady. My grandmother was 100 and she was what I would classify as older, my mother is not old okay okay.

I hope our pool fire that would be amazing blow right past that 700 plateau it to you more when Dr. hundred game bend and always been done plenty. Yes I do by the Dodgers, but it's been done plenty all Moran law, but I still play ball anyway so what I don't think the bills of that great I will go there.

Oh heavens what about the bills is not that great Dean but not now. You just drop it out there. Buffalo's not that great. How can you say that while the real thing that I heard about that great what you back to Stafford what was jobless. He was on the field but he was on the field with the defense of line not with the offense of line so I don't know that Aaron Dahl can play both offense and defense that will be tough to fast for anyone you think you're talking That you might talking cat. A talking cat. No pennies. The dog sugars the talking cat.

Well, maybe it's a weird dollar notes. She cracks me up to. That's one way to put it all right there will did you enjoy the game. Despite the loss broadcast and capital and we didn't broadcast the game today what IR heard it that they lost 35 to 30 related to gay law 3110 when they didn't broadcast game in Texas but not yet known. They played at our gift will be broadcasted by The Barry 00 hard… Right to be a little bit better but the garden but works Dean perfect for football Friday, my friend. I hope you enjoy the weekend. I did not know that laughter your are presented, will I really appreciate your phone call to the side creates a blasphemy. Thank you Dean, but I'm he like my love. So I just over seven. Was there anything in the phone call was actually accurate. Other than my name my name right. He called my mother.

He said she looks like a sweet what happened.

If I said that my mother, I don't but I NBC it was very much broadcast in Texas. I'm sorry the demons the day was on NBC and my mom's husband when he was waiting for kickoff to change the channels on mom watches the news at 7 o'clock central time so you better not try to change the channel when mom is watching the news. I need to wait till her news was dull and it will.

I can watch the Serena Williams matches last week and she she is committed to this one out is that she wants the sheet she watches every week right so might change the channel puts on football and I knew it was good happen within five minutes that I was going to get a text or my mom about their favorite Luther Weber broadcaster yes see that no joke within five kickoff you really need to pursue an interview with Chris, it will be more accurate we are to be accurate.

We actually worked with NBC to get Michelle to FOIA last year end and we had to pick one of the other.

So is much as I would've love for my mom to hear me talk to Chris Collinsworth and we will try to get Chris on this year. The fact is, it was Michelle to FOIA and she was leaving and that was a huge score for us on our YouTube channel. By the way that over a thousand of you have with the interview post so we had an option and we went with the Michelle to FOIA option so I did. I did tell my mom that I promised her that we would try to get Chris on the ship anything was actually very accommodating with us last year, partially because it was an NBC Super Bowl I knew was good happen, not even one drive into the game.

She's sending me a text message about Chris that I didn't get to see the call the Collinsworth slide to remove yes I actually am really relieved that he did not change to Amazon because I don't know what my mom would have done without her Sunday night football. That's what she's got one. In fact, I used hers for about three years before I got my own. Don't tell anyone. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence, what is the game of the week we gave you four options on Twitter a little radio on Facebook right now it's Raiders and Chargers in the lead. I love it I love that you're outside the box. Baby you are listening to the after-hours podcast they want to swing in over 20 rights with Raleigh will use these after-hours glory on twins radio radio Rocco Bali Rocco Baldelli Tele earlier in the week that he was tired of doing press conferences and talking about how good the Yankees are that he wanted to be talking about big win for the Minnesota Twins back to producer J saved it so we can hear it again for this particular occasion, I want to beat those teams. I don't want to be sitting here talking about how good the Yankees are anymore or the Astros or the Dodgers or any of those things I want to talk about our guys and how we find ways to win ball games any which way is fine with me but that's what I'd like to do so. That was Rocco Baldelli earlier in the series with the Yankees and a different tune after last nights win and they were able to not only put the offense on the board calls Caray has that eighth-inning homerun and they get the offense, but they also get the defense in the eighth inning.

The Yankees scored a single ride with it and the ninth-inning had the bases loaded and could not get the tying run across and so the twins can take the Yankees best shot, whatever that looks like in the month of September and now it's Rocco Baldelli talking about building on this victory. The series as a whole and get like this I think is really nice for us to get on a plane to go home. We have another big series coming up so will take this as a finale yesterday.

Here's the deal. That was a game outside of the division, but the Minnesota Twins coming up. Have a series with the guardians and right now they are looking up at the guardians again when a halfback in the AL Central which is still very much a three horse race because the White Sox won seven of their last 10 and there also a game and a halfback. Yet, as much as we want to focus on football and I would definitely want to focus on football. Fact is, there's still a lot, what pretty much everything to be decided in major league baseball. So coming up this weekend. You've got a series like that target couple of theories like that are really compelling in division match ups.

The fact that Cleveland and Minnesota are duking it out for first place is awesome.

Early in September, but we also got the Yankees who still of the 4 1/2 game lead in the AL East hosting the team that is closest to them. The Tampa Bay rays are within 4 1/2 games. They won eight of their last nine and so is huge for them as well. This weekend to be at Yankee Stadium in this there is going to continue to be fewer and fewer pages for Aaron judge to hit me start to see that more and more now until he gets protection in the lineup until he got guys around him are hitting opposing teams don't have to pitch to him because I don't worry about the guy behind him and so we know what he can do with his bat, get a couple hits I think last night, but the idea that he's a one-man band or alone on his island of offense for the Yankees is becoming more and more prominent if you struggle when it's not Aaron judge who else is it a need to get bigger hits from guys like Isaac Hunter, Filippo, who had the grand slam in the second half of the doubleheader on Wednesday. They got have more protection for Aaron judge was going to see fewer and fewer quality pitches as we get closer to the end of the season and potentially as the race get closer so that series is coming up at Yankee Stadium this weekend. You've also got the Dodgers and the Padres.

Now this was not huge in terms of the division but LA's magic number is down to six, so he actually could. I don't think a clinch this weekend, but they could get a hell of a lot closer to doing that Atlanta and Seattle. The World Series champions.

Of course try to track down the New York Mets in the NL East and the Seattle Mariners are very much involved in the wildcard race there's second-team. Last I checked in the AL wildcard standing, something to be a lot of fun this weekend and through the rest the regular-season but football is after hours you're on CBS sports radio would got our game of the week poll. The very first one of the 2022 campaign. It is up eight is working. It is available through the weekend until we kick off on Sunday. So either find it on Twitter or Facebook and then also join us on survivor islands is because there's multiple islands you haven't done that already. To be fair there's more news in major league baseball not this is so want want want it. If that makes any sense or it's like the teacher in in the Peanuts comic Charlie Brown, the peanuts cartoons want want want want. That's what's happening right now in major league baseball very talking and honestly it's so much easier to ignore them.

Now I some of the roles that they're getting ready to to vote on Friday would actually take place next season they would kick in next season. The pitch clock. The elimination of the shift. Okay, those are two that I think fans if they actually invest or pay any attention to what's happening would tell you that they'd like to see the shift maybe more than the pitch clock are still some purists who don't want to see major league baseball with a timing element but you know Rob Manford is gonna die on this hell of of pace of play that is that is his mantra is speed up a supply into this point, no matter what he's tried it has not worked.

It doesn't work but the elimination of the shift.

I think a lot of people would like to see just the optics of it are ugly gross. It's just I hate it always reminds me of a bunch of little leaguers you don't know where they're supposed to be on the field.

That's life that I think of every time I see it is just a bunch of kids are out there in any second now there and plopped on the grass and start picking blades of grass because they just don't know what they're supposed to be doing or where they're supposed to be. I understand the science behind it. I totally get it. It's it's the analytics and all that jazz, but it's ugly looking and it just it goes against everything that I love about baseball.

Also, can we please get rid of that stupid fake runner on second base in extra innings. It still still part of the game today and it's so gimmicky and I can't stand it but unfortunately right now that's not one of the rule changes that they want to do away with bigger bases.

Why why. Who cares about bigger bases.

Honestly, I'm asking a serious question. Why are they changing the size of the bases really only first base. I think would be in play in that want to avoid close bang bang plague started and stepped on her ankle getting turned… I think that's really what would be the reason behind it but to make a bigger base or just advocacy to the idea that baseball players are soft. Come on now the bases have been the same size for how long is over hundred years is just it's rude don't kill us, so the goals with some of the other rules changes are to increase the action on the field right increase, the action is dumb because the thing is if you if you have to implement new rules to increase the action on the field but something is horribly wrong, although I get it because were seeing that in football we see it in basketball where the.

The latest round of rules over the last 10 years or so have been to increase offense they been to facilitate offense facilitate scoring give the offense of players. What deepened the players will call a tilted field, meaning they have an advantage is created by the rules and not a level playing field for defenses anymore because of holding because a pass interference because of the way that you can't even blow it dandelion on the quarterback without getting a roughing the passer penalty so and in the NBA. What we know now that every time you can check an opponent you could call for a file James Harden anyway so that the rules of definitely in the last couple of years in sports or last 10 years in sports been about increasing scoring. These legs think that that's all fans care about right.

That's true producer data set in my ear hockey to absolutely to spread the mall into try to increase the number of goals because that's what were drawn to the bright shiny object as sports fans we can't possibly enjoy a game that doesn't feature 12 goals.

We can't possibly enjoy again that the pictures drool and the one nothing finish. We can't pot we get bored. ;-) I mean it is true that Americans and and probably most of Western culture is immediate gratification. So we don't tend to invest very often, if were not entertainment just so true though. We need to be entertained all the time.

At least that's what these leagues are banking on. They believe that the era of cell phones and smart phones and everything being available online. The second you want it that we will not sit through a game where defense is the driving force.

That's the mindset I mean, are we really were like Pavlov's dogs were really that predictable people who came in watchful damage on the phone I'll tell you on your phone you want to limit the number of pickoff attempts per plate appearance. Why because fans blew over that I so the rule changes could be coming on Friday but if a tree falls in the woods and there's no one there to hear it actually happened. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio