9-9-22 After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 1

One thing from you all. One night I did one right now probably be asking for something else. Soon you know me I can be a little demanding high standards but can you do me one favor please. Whoever you are you you know who you are. This was a game one of are you ready to hundred and 72. As you know that there are 272 NFL regular-season games we have played one of them can we ladies pump the brakes on the Super Bowl preview storyline please that's all I'm asking. There are so many other topics so many other angles.

There are so many other ways that we can break down the game.

The first one of the NFL season. Do we really have to jump the Super Bowl preview on the very first night I'd rather talk about the rock I'd rather talk about Michael Jordan making fun of Tom Brady's two month retirement with an even two-month, I'd rather talk about the throngs of Bill's Mafia in LA it's so by Stadium. I'd rather talk about Vaughn Miller making the rounds life miserable. I'd rather talk about the pink smoke monsters and paying them but a Super Bowl preview knocking it off its September 8 that we do not all they show talk about super radios on September a right. I got off my chest. I'm good to go now. Let's hope it is just like riding a bike.

I mean me getting annoyed at people talking about the Super Bowl in early September is definitely something that is never far from me. It's near and dear to my heart. But this is our first football show of the new season. It'll take me a bit, just like it takes the players just like it takes the officials just like it takes the game announcers probably not Kevin Harlan though because he woke up, rolled out of bed and started calling football play-by-play. It takes even broadcasters a little bit to find that rhythm and that flow just like a player coming off injury or even step curry now and then got to find that rhythm was a long off-season, so let's hope I can find my midseason form quickly. There were definitely guys on the field in Los Angeles, mere hours ago that appeared to be in midseason form.

Or maybe it was guys to give aid to the fact that their opponents were not convinced the sinful. Oh my gosh, Bill's Mafia. I'm sure you are thrilled you know who you are. Actually have friends who been longtime bills fans who are annoyed at the number of people who are jumping on the bandwagon enough. It's about to crash and collapse. That's what happened. Sports fans with no real convictions.

Sports fans with no real rooting interest. They tend to gravitate and flock toward winners and the bills have all the hallmarks of a winner every things, not welcome at all. So it's our first football show of the new season edit Kingsolver right now after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio. We got one game in the box.

One game and then our first NFL Sunday is on the horizon. We are live from the rocket mortgage Studios do need to know what it takes for a hold of it your budget and your family. Rockets can you get by me on Twitter a little radio you know you want to only control me about some stupid Super Bowl preview in early September. Spare me at all masking to spare me, spare me that if you want to talk about your team to win the Super Bowl fine because you know that I'm just gonna roll my eyes at you but here actual broadcasters calling this a potential Super Bowl preview are you kidding me, and I'm out anyone. I just feel like you guys are old enough to know that our know better. It's certainly standard that every year the defending Super Bowl champion gets will call because I respect gets respect because they are the team to beat and it super easy to look at the roster and go oh yeah, that's gotta be the favorite will. In this case it was the bills who there were the favorite in Los Angeles on Thursday night to kick off the season is a lot of people looking at the bills and all this build up unrealized potential of the last two seasons, culminating now in 2022 and boy did they show it early and did they show it often so yes find me on Twitter a little radio. If you have not yet signed up for survivor island you still have time. I want to be a nag. I really don't want to be but you're running out of time and we have tried a bazillion ways. We got guinea pigs with that lab rats at the lab rat can do it so can you.

All you have to do is find a link on my Twitter or show Twitter after hours. CBS and then find yourselves a login create a new login Jays tried seven different logins so J1J2 J3 J4 may all be eliminated in week number one Vijay 5J6 NJ seven will still be alive yes is totally cheating but you all are having so many problems. The well not all of the auction sale be some of you are having problems with finding us on either E flat new blower cocos Island or what we can name our third island.

If we need a producer J all I forgot we talked about this, I can help with something because you have a sleep that is very true. Remember, I do not but it'll come to me soon. We did have 1/3 island Alcatraz over those of you fightingon either of our previous islands we've added 1/3 island to our archipelago. It is Alcatraz, which by the way is freaking amazing. Plus it goes by the rock that's the nickname for it and rock was there in LA to start things off.

It's his thing. Now I guess to be at Rams games coming up at the top of next hour, Michael Duarte of NBC LA frequent guest here on the show all things LA for us.

He was at the game and I'll ask him whether or not this is a new thing, the rock being associated with the Rams that was just for the Super Bowl and for all the nationally televised games. He is the owner of his of the USFL the reboot of the USFL. I pretty sure that if he asked the fellow who will maybe it's the SFL crap I can't keep them all straight rock XF. L. Maybe that's what it is yet he's bringing the SFL back into our lives.

So yes, sorry. USFL not for you right we can miss you never go away. We deftly saw you go away and forgot all about you, but the rock can make anything exciting. I am an unabashed fan of Dwayne the rock Johnson just couple movie trailers during that throughout the he's so over-the-top outrageous and yet I hear everyone raves about what a good guy he is, how nice he is, how kind he is. I'm a big the rock fan. I think we should try to get him on the show as a possible amazing yes well I'm sorry who's the producer on the show. Maybe we can work on that shot through the court, the rock I feel like that's something you be really good at so the rock started things off, as did Odell Beckham Junior did you see meaningful cameo there next to Andrew Wentworth, the longtime offense of lineman who was holding the Vince Lombardi trophy aloft and so the pregame was a rock if it was a little bit crazy. It was a lot of fun just to feel the energy and electricity also have a brand-new TV, and boy does the football expect regular on my new TV so I was soaking and then we got to the actual synapse. The first snaps bills at the ball first and they wasted no time amazing 26 Davis gave David remember that David gave Davis the guy who caught four touchdowns or had four touchdowns in the divisional round. That was pretty amazing. So he picks up right where he left off and so does Josh Allen five minute opening drive for the Buffalo Bills, John Murphy, with the call on bills, radio and I hear there were prop bets about this how quickly Von Miller and Aaron Donald would have sex to start the season on second and 60 is thrown again. This time Stafford surrounded by bills and set a 49 yard line. Quan Miller, and brought him down the former ramp. The future Hall of Famer with a sponsor in the Buffalo Bills uniform.

In addition to be an unabashed and rock fan the rock fan will did you discolor rock. The rock I am also a total silver Von Miller issues. My view was good is one of my favorite professional athletes ever choose his personality is quirkiness.

His fashion whatever you would describe that as the way that he dominates her to get out when he gets out there and the fact that he's so real. He just is who he is and when you see him pregame or you see an interview with them. He's so unassuming, worthless collapses look like he can wreak havoc on a defensive line, and yet he gets out there and the man is so athletic and he can anticipate the moves of his opponent means a chess match mentally for him but he can also beat his opponents physically. It's amazing to watch Yvonne Miller first stack is a bill wouldn't even be his only sack in this opener is after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio. Strangely enough that that's total sarcasm.

It is the first game of the year which means of course were going to have turnovers. It was the bills with three turnovers in the first half. But despite that they were still sporting a 10 nothing lead until the rams found a little something solemn in the first half year. That was late second quarter, and then the rams are able to tack on a field goal after a Josh Allen interception and so we were knotted at 10 at the half.

Would you believe those 10 points in the second quarter were the only points that the rams scored in this season opener on their own field. Second half belong to the Buffalo Bills because nobody circled the wagons like the Buffalo Bills's first job in the midsection of the 7 yard strike Josh Allen you're good to hear from him coming up because he's got a brand-new offense of coordinator didn't seem to create many issues that it yes there were some turnovers those word about playcalling. Those were but a variety of things, one being a ball that slipped in the hands of a receiver. Couple of fumbles in there as well.

I expect those for every team really in the first week, first couple of weeks, especially for guys who did not play in the preseason, but what there wasn't any hint of a disconnect with Ken Dorsey who is calling plays for the Buffalo Bills for the first time new offense of coordinator why because Friday ball has moved on to the New York Giants until Josh Allen has to learn how to not only communicate with a new coordinator but also have a new voice in his head didn't call when alone made it to line of scrimmage and see some things are needed.

See you don't shout out to our office of staff are putting some plays that we saw safe from going out there trusting in executing it. But again, the first outfit lot lot to be left out there for slots to be learned from two yes the first half with the three turnovers didn't turn into a lot of points for the rams. They didn't capitalize on their opportunities but made it's a heck of a lot easier when your quarterback is getting rid of the ball quickly right so there still and Aaron Donald on the other side, but also when you're offense of line is giving you that time really the bills were able to dominate that line of scrimmage.

They dominated the ball in the third quarter. I went back and did the math exit wasn't all that difficult because there only to rams, possessions, quick possessions. 24 total yards in the third quarter. So even after the bills turned the ball over the way they did in that first half they come out and make corrections and they don't give the ball back to the rams in the third quarter was both sides of the ball and it was being played the big plays we know this Buffalo offense is capable of. Oh you know it's football season when we get intense Kevin Harlan on Westwood One. I did get Stephan Diggs digs it is almost weed. By the way, I happen to be listening when the pink smoke monsters hit the field when the protesters were setting off pink smoke bombs in the fourth quarter actually played the straightman. It was Kurt Warner who was making jokes. All my gosh it was fantastic when we do have to go back and get that exchange. At some point it was really funny because it was in Kevin. Our website wasn't. It wasn't Kevin. It was Kurt remember Kevin swore to us on this very shallow that he was never going to go off the grid again. He was never going to go crazy if he was not going to do play-by-play and turn it into a comedy hour anymore and he actually played it very straight.

It was Kurt Warner's are joking about agenda reveal and I don't know. Maybe Kevin Harlan didn't know what that was because Kurt had to assuage it was pretty funny. Josh Allen goes 26 of 31 for 297 yard three passing touchdowns one rusting touchdown and okay a couple of pics we hurt ourselves a lot in the first after lot to learn from you know that second half that's that's we want to be going out there and executing 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 the down like that's that's a recipe for success and again for turnovers with way too many so we we got a lot of cleanup but will celebrate this one is hard when Wesley especially gives good teams.

That's really good to me just put the suspect when one game and this, 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 take care of the football that the voice of one Sean McDermott, the other Sean John McVeigh sees his rams lose the season opener for the first time Matthew Stafford you will hear from him coming up and Von Miller, who has played on both sides of this we are off and running. Giddy up on twitter a lot radio on our Facebook page to pretty soon we will have the very first very first of 17, 18, 19, 20, we could probably carry it through to duration who was the very first after-hours game of the week poll is on the way to make sure you find us on social media to after hours with Amy Lawrence, the NFL is back baby here on CBS sports radio you are listening to the after-hours podcast 941 blindside set all the way back 9 yards on that set dates works once again. So it is your position. There's just one certain slip and use these after-hours Lawrence John Murphy on bills, radio so good to hear NFL play-by-play once again and for vaudeville or a pair of sacks a couple of tackles for loss. Did you know if you didn't hear about the hear it streets from your favorite host me in case you're wondering, the Buffalo Bills accumulated seven sacks to 15 more quarterback hits. That's how much they were able to get into the backfield seven sacks and 15 extra QB hit baby I haven't gone and looked at the number of snaps that were taken by Matthew Stafford, but that's 2222 times in which the bills were able to get a hand a pinky anything on Matthew Stafford and 1/3 of the time they got to them, they sacked him. They also had three takeaways, all of them via the interception the pressure on Matthew Stafford. It was evident regardless of what weapons he has. It is causally under siege or having to go through his progressions more quickly. Sure he can scramble every now and then but that's not Matthew Stafford game until resulted in him locking in all one guy or not being able to watch a play develop so that he has more options now.

Sure he can still chuck the ball. We know that Cooper cup.

He still wearing the Triple Crown. All of that is true but football becomes a heck of a lot more difficult when you are running for your life when you have to have happy feet back there in the pocket or when the pocket is completely broken down.

Von Miller setting a tone early for the bills always devolves in good days here so far this is the best stadium in art and art and art in our league, 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 and all the coaches in the infrastructure team is always so special?

Or the silicone euros point against mom and my brothers over assaulted the line you could see will make an impact factor in the game. You can do that. It's it helps you in the backend as well, so I thought again within within the defense. The rush was up in the coverage and the covers was up in the Russian and timed up well in we get those Buffalo fans in the stadium behind a slow but that help to yeah you think coming up at the top of the hour will ask our friend Michael Duarte of NBC LA what it sounded like inside the stadium in terms of the balance between RAM stands and bills Mafia because you know the hashtag on Twitter is a rams house. That's what they go with. That's what we heard the rock talk about mean that's what they were screaming over the loudspeakers is supposed to be rams house but there were a lot of bills fans. Or maybe that's the point. Maybe they're trying to plead for the fans in LA to make it more of a rams house and after hours on CBS sports radio Matthew Stafford 29 of 41, 240 yards. Very few quality yards in the second half.

A touchdown three interceptions and yes seven times that he ended up with a sack deployable a better note, I know that you knowing it was disappointing as the night is you never want to start the season with. I would 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 knowing organ in all been together look at each other looking would first enjoy what I do to be better for the guy next to me on the circular coaches is always present.

Dawson and North real stuff process players is how we react and you know we believe not in the locker. When you look at a lot of the ways that this game unfolded feel huge sense of responsibility. This team ready to go. I take a lot of pride in that. And that's on me. I gotta do better. There was a lot of decisions that I made that I felt I 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 organ to dust ourselves off from the 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 removed 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 that you didn't do a good enough job.

It starts with me and then we can overall execute better in a lot of areas.

First to season-opening loss for the Rams under Sean McVeigh to give up 413 yards to the visiting bills hundred and 20 of them on the ground and I've long said this about the bills you want to establish the run to be sure you do not want Josh Allen to be yard leading rusher. But that's yet again how it was tonight. Of course if you have Josh Allen as your starting quarterback on your fantasy team will then he wanted to be your leading rusher.

But I did hear Mike to recoat.

I guess there was a comment from Chris Collinsworth.

You don't want Josh Allen to be the middle of scrambles in week one with a budget defense of linemen and linebackers try to call him down. It's just not what you want, but he does obviously have the ability to trust people we support stiff arm by Josh Allen in picking up a first down in the third quarter, which was the turning point in this game so the builder want to know the Super Bowl champion start out. Oh and one and did. You will notice that Odell Beckham Junior was there to start the game.

Von Miller and LBJ are tight. So what does that mean Von is doing as we go through the nostrums behind every joke is a huge part of our success list or whatever just whatever he does, he'll be sure is a lot of things that you won't go away and see where I think we were bitter. They would also do.

Don't just go to just tell him all grades gone over to know so I just know with managers in the legato that we could get the ball to right no matter what Greg Guzman and Ozzie McKenzie, Joe Davis home does not seduce man all running backs went crazy today office on Broadway.

We got a great team and will keep going whenever you deserve to see what did he say the often sublime brought the will.

I like that the often sublime brought the will and the can of you know what running backs went crazy today office brother will we got a great team and was the wheel or the well I don't know today office brother will now imagine will so I heard an interview with him and Rich Eisen on Westwood One pregame because Rich does the pregame before Kevin Harlan Kurt Warner take over play-by-play and it was actually really insightful. That wasn't in it was in LA it was before they left us a few days ago because Rich wished him safe travels and have fun out there are here. Whatever he said but one line that Von Miller you is that I thought was really interesting is that Super Bowl lead team are Super Bowl teams are player led as opposed to being led by the coaches as opposed to Jerry Jones right the general manager in Dallas. He said Super Bowl teams are player led so that the leadership comes from the locker room.

It's internal so to speak, and it certainly does help when you got guys like Yvonne Miller, who have now. Two rings for two different teams. Super Bowl teams are always player led so would cause me to stop and think that insight because you can have different driving forces. You can have it owed strong personalities really everyplace I thought a little bit about the Jets even when the jets were in three consecutive AFC championships in their driving force was Rex Ryan right I may just it is interesting to think about because you need the guys in the locker room.

Ultimately coaches make the calls. But you need the guys in the locker room who can keep you steady and who can get you back on course. When you get off course and all that jazz makes total sense the good of this agreement is much as you want to say a coach is going to be the guy that's come to the forefront.

It is the feast your franchise and you need a strong leader there. Yes, I agree but what do 53 grown men and they gotta be the police themselves and take care of themselves and take care of each other because if they don't play for each other and they don't believe in each other. I don't care how good the coaches extent up there and talk to the blue in the face of night. It really doesn't matter anymore if you got guys that don't body and believe in. Also want to get it done for themselves because you as much is known. I like to think of myself as a you know I guess company guys if you will.

Another, bad term. A lot of times, but you know it all. One the part of the team. Yeah, I'll definitely do my part. I'm doing it for you. I'm doing it for me I'm doing it for us from doing for the boss about doing it for the guy in front because if you do everything for them know that it doesn't become hollow after well Von Miller chasing his third rain with his third different team and you can see why bills fans are thrilled to have him. He still got it all limits self find me on Twitter a lot radio, not before we get back there next segment we will have our game of the week.

Pull up right J and then also on her Facebook page will make sure we get to that pretty quickly because you know what were heading into our first football Friday of the season. Let that sink in for a second. It's worth celebrating. You are listening to the after-hours podcast. Josh was stopped at the end zone after-hours Lawrence John and all weapons they wrapped up more than 400 yards of offense and on the flipside, the bill defense able to dominate that line of scrimmage and Sackett Matthew Stafford seven times as well as touch him/hit him 15 more times.

It was a near-perfect performance by the offense and defense is Given the ball back here you go here you go here you go. I say that even as there were four turnovers by the bill so the Buffalo defense gets credit for limiting the damage in the wake of those turnovers. In fact, in one case the first had actually happened in the second everything to there were back to back turnovers by each teams.

The bills would turn over, but the Rams turned right around and gave it back to them.

Nine of 10 on third down that something that definitely stood out they were extremely efficient. Whether it was on the ground, whether it was through the air weather was a broken play or it was a play that was called in from the sideline, lots of creativity thought that something that The Rams off balance on defense as well. So we got one game in the books with more to come on Sunday. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio.

Judging by the first few votes in our poll at it's very very very early this is gonna be a deer. They buy what we can't agree on the after-hours game of the week. Are you ready and no we don't put Rams and bills in the poll that's the great part about it is that we we didn't have to worry about this one because there was no way we are to be able to narrow it down any further. This is really difficult to pick four games because you can only put four in a single Twitter poll. So on Twitter after hours. CBS or on my twitter. I retweeted and then our Facebook page to chase putting it up there now after-hours game of the week a little bit of vengeance little bit of revenge is best served cold. If in fact it turns into that there was no way we can leave out Brown's and Panthers absolutely no way I think the Cleveland Browns are tired of asking what they're going to see from Baker Mayfield coming up this weekend that Nick Chubb was the latest answer and did so very distinctly. So I don't know the what is that mean we all know where we all know Baker so I don't really know what to expect. I'm pretty sure he's that don't as a negative meaning. We don't know if he could throw for five touchdowns or throw three interceptions, so I don't know to expect what the court the slide slide, how are you saying that you know Baker could throw for five touchdowns and Christina worth over five instructors likely Sunnis got just how erratic is fluoride salad. There's one game that have to be in our poll Cleveland Browns at the Carolina Panthers that Baker's new team. He is the starter and backed up behind him. It's only PJ Walker. There's nothing else that the Panthers don't have a Sam Donald who can step it up. This goes horribly wrong.

I like it's going to but but they don't have anybody and their rookie Matt corral is supposed to be using this year to become a starter in the NFL is out for the season as well because of injury and so it's Baker or blast baby that it Baker bust for the Panthers as they host his former team. Whether or not you believe that he said what is Cynthia Freeland reported that he said while don't believe for a second that is going in with no edge and no chip on his shoulder and no extra motion. First of all, that's not human nature, and second of all that's not Baker. We know a little bit too much about Baker to believe that we also got Broncos at the Seahawks about some friends who are traveling all the way from New Jersey to Seattle to see 50 so Broncos at the Seahawks and Pete Carroll is hoping that the decade with Russell Wilson may actually give the Seahawks a bit of an engine without a lot of preparation against the usual preparation in that regard. So you think hopefully the challenges can you take to the game and that all shows up with.

But this excited me know when will Russ will 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 that happened and why will it come stuff and so it's a fun part of the preparation. Hopefully it will work upwards producer J did we decide whether or not this is still an option for our survivor pool pick we see a little bit. Now they all scare me. Actually, survivor pools, in general, scare me.

It does especially because it's the last Monday at more than a football know I could pick the standalone game because I know it's exaggerated over Sunday and Monday you worry about it filled constantly having locked in our project but we do that were going to the point, how many of your survivor island pics have you made so far survivor of your seven survivor Island cattlemen. I would die lives he's cheating is what he saying know what he's doing is he's being the beginning cat because you all keep telling us that you are able to get on the survivor island or its fall or your login still work or this or that yada yada yada.

Anyway, we have found for the majority of you that that you're on the islands and back. The islands are there actually stacked stocked. Yes, both of those things heavily populated, heavily populated until week one and when the jet pulled upset over the ravens and at that point. A lot of us will be walking the plank, I believe, but if you haven't yet joined us on either cocos Island or East lead new blah record Alcatraz that we have to add one go to our show Twitter after hours. CBS and you can join either use of an existing CBSSports login or create one. It takes all of those 17 seconds and then you're in. I did make my pick earlier on Thursday. I hate it, of course, just got a survive, survive and advance baby, so that's a pin to the top of our show Twitter after hours CBS. You can also find our game of the week poll and then on Facebook to pin to the top of our Facebook page after hours with Amy Lawrence when I feel like we've made this as simple and easy for you as you possibly can. We have served it up on a silver platter actually spoke to a former NFL QB who told me he doesn't have the same high hopes for Russell Wilson in Denver, as do many Denver Broncos fans.

My experience and said I was one-of-a-kind. 1010 years. I can imagine those posters not being in my life and how special they were and how many games we want. How many amazing thrillers and just the Super Bowl. We wanted everything else. So I think of all those memories and everything else in the joy of that I'm not getting me sitting there worried about what people say he actually had another quote that I saw on Thursday in which he talked about how he really believes in himself. He feels like he still one of the best to do it on your right. He didn't drop that.

But that was a sense of the point is that it doesn't matter what people say doesn't matter that I haven't played for reels with the Broncos offense yet.

Meaning he didn't take snaps in the preseason.

What matters is that he can still play this game at a very high level and so whether or not he is defending himself. I got believe is kind of irrelevant.

What matters is what he does on the field and certainly a lot of Broncos nation is thrilled because it feels like this could be the answer to the post. A patent search if you will. I watch the Broncos go through it after John Elway. It took them years to get Peyton Manning there, but it did produce two Super Bowl appearances and another Super Bowl ring is Russell Wilson.

The next iteration of a free-agent quarterback who chooses Denver and leave the Broncos back to the promised land. So that's also one of the choices in our game of the week poll find it on Twitter find it on Facebook.

Can't wait to see what you all come up with writing to LA, her friend Michael Duarte will join us to talk Rand and Bill's next CBSSports radio virtual health is here here for you and all the moments that because they all matter here to be your trusted healthcare partner from the simple to the serious reinsurer, you can feel your best, and live your life to the fullest. Find a virtual physician and virtual adapter work virtual health here for good