After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 4

Good morning to you. It is a Tuesday. Do you know a week from today, most schools will be in session, even if it's day number one. Now a lot of schools are already in session. In fact, in some parts of the south, schools have been in session for almost a month by the time they get to Labor Day. They start until after Labor Day. Oh, it's coming. Can you imagine? In homes all over the United States a week from today.

Painful waking up in the morning early when you haven't been awake early all summer. So my next door neighbors, they're great. They're from Poland. And they have two kiddos that I love. They're awesome.

They're so much fun. And one of them is going into high school and then the daughter is going into junior high school. Her name is Barbara and she does not like waking up early in the morning. So I saw them on Monday evening. Penny and I were outside watering flowers.

Yes, Penny was watering flowers. And I stopped to talk to Barbara and her mom. And I said, when do you start school? She said Tuesday, meaning next Tuesday.

And I said, are you excited? Oh, her face. It fell. She just shook her head. What time do you have to wake up?

6.30. It was like painful for her to admit that. So yes, it's coming. Actually, this is funny.

Maybe some of you feel this way or you have friends who feel this way. A lot of my friends who have kids are psyched that school is back in session because they're tired of having the kids hang around the house and tired of having to like deal with them all day every day through the course of the summer. So funny. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. I just know I've got vacation in 24 hours. Well, 25 hours if we're going to be technical.

25 hours from now, baby. I will finally be on summer vacation. Keep an eye on producer Jay, by the way.

He tends to get sickly when I'm not here. So if something goes horribly wrong, well, then you know. It's your fault. Someone let me know because I'm checking out. Someone, no, I guess you can't send me a tweet because I'm checking out. Find out like a week later. That you're in the hospital? Yeah. Oh, huh. Maybe if you didn't eat McDonald's and Wendy's every day, that wouldn't happen.

I don't think that correlates at all. It's After Hours on CBS Sports Radio and we are inside the Rocket Mortgage Studios. When you need cash out of your home and a simple way to get it, Rocket can even with the dwindling days of summer.

And they are dwindling. I still know that the weather is hot and it doesn't seem like it's breaking anytime soon. I'm desperate for some rain in my neighborhood, but it just hasn't happened. Watch it happen when I'm trying to fly to Houston on Wednesday.

Could you imagine? Yes, I'm just a huge monsoon like as you're sitting in the plane. Thunder and lightning. We've had almost zero rain. Negligible rain in two months. I have not mowed my lawn in eight weeks.

That's never happened to me. Except for when I didn't have a lawn. And there's nothing to mow. It's not like it's growing. It's dry and brown and crusty. There's nothing to mow.

Anyway, so it's very strange. We haven't had any rain. It's a crazy drought. But watch it pour just when I need my plane to take off. As if the airline industry needs any other excuses for not taking off on time.

Yeah, don't give them any sort of opportunity there. Don't speak it into existence. I was just going to say you're speaking it into existence, but I know you don't like that.

I don't. I mean, I do speak many. I have to speak. I'm on the radio. I can't really not speak things into existence. Well, now it's out in the universe, so that's on you.

Oh, I'll take the rain. How about that? It's a little bit of reverse psychology. It's a good effort. What did you call it? Reverse jinx? Is that what you call it?

Yeah, that's about what it is, right? Even as the summer is coming to an end, I'm not ready to stop taking pictures of clouds. If you haven't seen my latest photo with some gorgeous clouds on display, they're even better at the ballpark, but they're my favorite subject this summer.

So you can check them out on Twitter, A Law Radio, or on our Facebook page, After Hours with Amy Lawrence. We talked about Aaron Judge, home run number 50. We talked about Shohei Ohtani, the go-ahead home run for the Angels in beating the Yankees, but the loudest and most significant home run came in Cincinnati at the Great American Ballpark, where there were almost no people to see it. And the next pitch to Albert is hit high and deep to right field.

Backing up to the track, looking up, and it's gone! Home run Albert Pujols, number 694. And he took it the other way, and he's now had more home runs off of more different pitchers than anybody who's ever played this game.

And the Cardinals add two more runs. Albert Pujols does it again. We're having a blast watching him do what he's doing. He swung the bat well, came out tonight again, and got the base hit. And then the homer, backside, but he didn't hit that hard. He's putting together a nice season.

It's fun to watch. Oliver Marmel, who's younger. Not quite ten years younger. He's eight, seven or eight years younger than Albert Pujols, but he's along for the ride as well. Number 694 for Albert, off 450 different pitchers, which is now a record.

He broke the tie with Barry Bonds. It's only his 15th home run this season, but get this, he only needs six more. Six more in a month.

What did I count before? 33 games left for the Cardinals? I think 33 games left, roughly.

And so he is right there on the cusp. Two to tie Alex Rodriguez, which would tie him for fourth place all the time. Six to get to baseball immortality and become just the fourth in baseball history ever to club 700 home runs. Meanwhile, the Cardinals are crushing it, and I'm stunned that this first place team, who's won 13 of its last 16, only drew 11,000 fans in Cincinnati. Now I get it, they're rivals, but this is Albert Pujols in a chase for history.

It's, yeah, it's stunning to me. 11,000 fans. I know it doesn't matter where he hits 700 when he gets to that point.

I hope that he does it at home, of course, because there will be no shortage of standing ovations and curtain calls and that type of a feat, this feat should be celebrated and the march to history should be celebrated as well. So he's getting a lot of support from his teammates, from the fans in St. Louis, from around Major League Baseball, and right now you can see it all over his face, the smiles that he wears. It's pretty special, you know, I think, you know, I appreciate, you know, the history and what I've done for this game. I mean, at the same time, it fits on you, you know, the energy of me last night, you know, the illustration and our fans, you know, the way that they're being going up every time I get to the play. I mean, it's pretty special and that fits you, you know, with the energy and what you need. So obviously, you know, sometimes you're going to come through and last night, you know, I didn't come through for the team, but we ended up having a win, you know, came back and fought and we won the game. But it's really special, you know, it means a lot to me and right now I'm enjoying it and that's what I'm going to continue to do, you know, the rest of the year. It's really crazy, honestly, you know, the guy's a walking legend, living Hall of Famer, you know, he broke another record tonight, you know, it seems like every time he's hitting a homer right now, he's breaking records and he's pretty close to a big one too.

So, you know, hopefully you can keep getting these ABs and get to 700, that'd be pretty cool. That's Tyler O'Neill on Valley Sports Midwest. He had two more home runs last night, actually, and three RBIs. So the Cardinals are in a great spot right now. I know the Brewers walked off, so they didn't pick up any ground in the NL Central last night. But just overall, the way they've played coming out of the All-Star break and the fact that they've been so consistent, both the pitching and the hitting, that winning, I'm telling you, it's heady, it's contagious and you get addicted to it when you're in a good spot.

So both the Cardinals and Brewers have won three consecutive games, which means the spread in the NL Central remains the same at six games. It's after hours here on CBS Sports Radio. Let's see, I'm trying to think of what else I want to talk about from Major League Baseball.

You know what, we'll save that until a little bit later. The biggest stories from the sports world on Monday came from football and from tennis. So we'll get to the football coming up because Jimmy Garoppolo will be staying with the San Francisco 49ers. And while I do recognize why the Niners took this step, I also wonder about the implications for Trey Lance, for the Niners' locker room, for the Niners' season and the expectations that they have on the season. And I had a chance to catch up with Sean King, the former NFL QB and Super Bowl winning quarterback. He's a Super Bowl champion going back to his days with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I asked him about Trey Lance and what this means for him as a guy who is supposed to be the undisputed QB one. But it's really interesting the way that the Niners and Garoppolo compromised and met in the middle.

So we'll get to that in 10 minutes here on CBS Sports Radio. But Serena Williams, holding court. You want to talk about the love, the adoration, the appreciation from a fan base.

New York, where it's at. Yes, she's beloved in Paris, at Wimbledon, in London, but nothing like New York. And I am so, so happy for her that if nothing else, she got one victory on these U.S. Open hard courts so that fans weren't saying goodbye to her in a way that was sad or bittersweet. And at some point she will lose unless she wins the U.S. Open title and earns major number 24, major win number 24, which would be, could you imagine, phenomenal. You want to talk about a swan song? It's like Peyton Manning, a member of Super Bowl 50 and then retiring. Maybe that could happen. Hey guys, check it out.

Just made my first TikTok. Yes, and you still will never go away. Serena is likely not to go away either.

She hesitates to use the R word, even though she's put it out there in the stratosphere that this is probably her last appearance or her last year on the tour. I prefer the word evolution because I feel like I'm at a stage in my life where I'm not necessarily retiring, I'm just evolving from tennis. And I do feel different. I think I was really emotional in Toronto and Cincinnati and it was just, it was very difficult. I'm not saying it's not difficult now. It's extremely difficult still because I absolutely love being out there and the more tournaments I play, I feel like the more I can belong out there. And that's a tough feeling to have and to leave knowing that the more you do it, the more you can shine. But it's time for me to evolve to the next thing. I think it's important because there's so many other things that I want to do and etc.

Etc. She's been pretty vague about whether or not the US Open is her final tournament. Yeah, I've been pretty vague about it, right?

I'm going to stay vague because you never know. But she does get that first round victory and the crowds were amazing there at the US Open. Center court, Arthur Ashe Stadium, roof was open. Beautiful scene. I've covered a bunch of US Opens there and even Saturday actually there was a major buzz around the US Open site.

It's directly across a boardwalk from Citi Field, which is where producer Jay and I were for a baseball game and the old timers day and they were just wrapping up Kids Day at the US Open and it was unbelievable. The number of people, just the excitement coming out of there. Yeah, there's a lot of big names missing. But Serena is the Queen. She has changed tennis forever.

And in a win last night, she got everything she could have asked for and more. I think when I walked out, the reception was really overwhelming. It was loud and I could feel it in my chest. It was a really good feeling. It's a feeling I'll never forget. And so I really, yeah, that meant a lot to me. I was just thinking like, is this for real?

Really? And at the same time, I'm also thinking, you know, I still have a match to play and I want to be able to play up to this reception almost. And it was so loud and I just was overwhelmed in a good way. And yeah, but at the same time, it's like you have to be focused and you have to be laser focused. And that's what I needed to do.

And that's what I tried to do. I think that her legacy is really wide to the point where you can't even describe it in words. Like she changed the sport so much. She's introduced people that have never heard of tennis into the sport. And I think I'm a product of what she's done. I wouldn't be here without Serena Venus, you know, her whole family. And I'm like very thankful to her. And I was like trying to figure out how to sum it into words, but I honestly think that she's like the biggest force in the sport.

And that's not like intentionally trying to like make Federer and Nadal smaller. I just think like she's the biggest thing that will ever be in the sport. Naomi Osaka, who has indicated, as have many other young tennis players, that Serena is her idol. Serena is the reason that she plays tennis. She changed the look of the sport. She changed the feel of the sport. She changed the way that many people play the sport. Her power, her explosiveness, the athleticism that she and Venus displayed when they first came on the scene and really all the way through. She's 40 years old and she's still winning matches at the major level. Now, though, comes a pretty steep challenge.

She will face the number two ranked woman in the world, Annette Conovet. Con-to-vet. Con-to-vay.

Con-to-vet. I don't exactly know how to say it. Either way, that's not important. Well, I mean, it's important to her family. But what's mostly important is that she will face Serena in, again, a match in which the US Open crowd will be all for Serena Williams. I'm really looking forward to it. And, you know, I think it's going to be one of those matches this year that I haven't had too many where I just have, you know, no pressure on me. And I'll just get to enjoy and play as good as I can on the day.

I mean, I'm going to fight as hard as I can for every point and I'm really going to enjoy the atmosphere being out there against the greatest player of all time. And I think it's such a great opportunity and I'm I'm really excited and we're looking forward to it. She says no pressure. I don't know about that, but certainly she's secondary. She's a minor piece of what will be this unbelievable, almost Broadway experience. An emotional performance for Serena Williams as they will be until she's done, whether it's in the championship at the end of the fortnight or whether it ends on Wednesday. Fans obviously taking every opportunity to let her know how much they care about her and appreciate her. And she and her sister are playing in the doubles draw as well. I've seen them play doubles before at the US Open in person. It's awesome. I mean, they do definitely have the sister sister connection that makes them so good and so much fun. You can find me on Twitter a law radio coming up at about face from the San Francisco 49ers and Jimmy Garoppolo.

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This is after hours with Amy Lawrence. On Niners radio, Greg Papa with a play by play, and he will potentially have more Jimmy Garoppolo touchdowns to call this season because at about face, the Niners and Garoppolo agreed to restructure his contract instead of trade him. This has been the biggest story. One of them going back to really the end of last regular season. Forget that it's been the biggest story since Trey Lance was drafted by the Niners in spring of twenty one.

That ultimately he was dead man walking or if you will, he was the incumbent. And then this year, even with a year left on his deal. He would not be a Niner. He essentially said goodbye to the Niners. The Niners said goodbye to him. And now what?

As in wait, what? The sides agree to a restructured deal that actually will put him right back on the practice field. He hasn't practiced. He's been cleared since that shoulder surgery, but he's not been going through drills or practicing because they didn't want to get hurt since they were waiting for a trade partner. But now Jimmy Garoppolo will serve as the backup to Trey Lance. In exchange for taking less money, he gets a no trade clause, meaning the Niners can't flip him to any team that they want. And he also has a no tag clause. They can't franchise tag him next year. Now, that would pay him a lot of money, but it would keep him from going someplace that he wanted to. So theoretically, he'll be a free agent who will be courted in this offseason next offseason.

I'm sorry. And we'll have finally control over where he goes. Remember, he was drafted by the Patriots. Then he got traded by the Pats to the Niners. He did sign a big contract with them, but they've moved on and now he wants to have some control. So they give him control in exchange for him taking less money.

And who knows, he could end up starting again. The fact is, no one has anything bad to say about him in the locker room. And so this is not a it's not the optimal situation for the Niners. They probably would have liked to get something for him, but it's also not going to destroy their locker room. It's after hours here on CBS Sports Radio had a chance to catch up with former NFL QB and Super Bowl champion Sean King. He joined us from the Visa Network in Vegas a couple hours ago, and I asked him his reaction to Jimmy Garoppolo sticking around.

I actually think this is the absolute 100 percent right move. You know, let me give you a comparable statistic. Jimmy Garoppolo threw for thirty eight hundred yards in last year alone. Since 2018, Trey Lantz has thrown for a total of about thirty five hundred yards. So you're talking about a young player that doesn't have a lot of experience playing the quarterback position. You know, I remember two years ago when they when I looked at what they gave up to trade up to take him. I just didn't think that his maturation and growth process would fit with the rest of their roster makeup because they have a Super Bowl caliber roster.

But I also knew that John Lynch didn't want to extend Jimmy Garoppolo for two hundred plus million dollars because of his injury history. So I think this is the absolute right move. If Trey Lantz is ready, then it's his job.

If he isn't, no harm, no foul. Garoppolo gives us the best chance in that scenario to still compete at the level the rest of our roster says. And next year it'll be Trey Lantz's job unquestioned and we'll just have to ride with the results.

Well, let's start with the Garoppolo piece. Are you then investing in this young QB because you want him to get better or is this still a competition in your eyes? Well, it's always a competition, but I think the great thing about this situation that I don't think has been a part of the national conversation is Jimmy and Trey are both great guys. You know, they're in a situation like Cleveland where you have people in the locker room saying, you know, Baker's worn out his welcome. You know, it's not a situation like Carolina last year where Bobby Anderson comes out and says he doesn't think Sam Donald can do it.

He hasn't heard any internal issues. So I think that helps the situation. And, you know, Trey is kind of in the same position that Jimmy was in last year. You know, here was Jimmy coming off of leading the team to a Super Bowl berth two years prior and they trade up to take a quarterback in the first round.

And Jimmy went out and did his job. So I think that was a great example for Trey about how to handle and balance the fact that I'm competing for the job, but also both of us are what's best for the team. Having two really good quarterbacks is better than having one. I think we've seen that in the NFL. I'm so glad you said that because I have compared the situation in Cleveland Baker's exit with the way that Jimmy Garoppolo has handled his business in San Francisco. But also the fact that you do not hear one bad word about Jimmy G from his teammates or about Trey Lance. It seems like their teammates are real comfortable with the situation, too, which obviously helps inside the locker room.

Absolutely. And I mean, the difference in this situation, if I was managing Trey Lance, I was agent. I said, Trey, listen, this is the best, best situation for us. It's your team.

You get to go out. And if you're ready for this responsibility, then it's yours. But, Trey, if you're not and you just need more time, then Garoppolo still allows the team to reach their full potential this year. And in a situation where they're ever going to consider giving Garoppolo what the starting quarterback market says he would get. So it's going to be your team. And what I think is really smart, so much of being a successful young quarterback is confidence. This protects Trey if he gets off to a bad start from being ruined.

Interesting. Sean King is a former NFL QB and a Super Bowl champion with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It's after hours here on CBS Sports Radio. So, Sean, if you are Kyle Shanahan, what signs are you looking for that you need to make a change? Well, I don't think you're going to it with that approach. I think you're going to it thinking Trey is ready. We're going to expose him, you know, to what we would normally expose our quarterback to from a scheme standpoint, from a game plan standpoint. We're not going to put speedometer on him. You know, we're going to let him go out and play. And one, last year he started two games, got injured in the second game.

Right. If that were to happen this year, we're protected because we have Jimmy. But if it seems like it's too much too soon, he's getting overwhelmed because of his inexperience. We can tell him, listen, we're going to play Jimmy.

We'll have a few packages for you and still gain experience, but also not compromise. What's the ultimate objective of every organization, which is to win games. Sean King, former NFL QB, Super Bowl champion. We also had a chance to ask him about Tom Brady being number one on the NFL Top 100, voted by his peers.

I get it. Tom Brady's amazing. But the number one player in the NFL with Aaron Donald being number two, with Aaron Rodgers being number three, with Patrick Mahomes dropping to number eight?

What? And then more with Sean King about the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback competition. Does Mike Tomlin actually know? We'll find out here coming up. And two teams that he has picked as teams to watch.

He's got one dark horse making it to the Super Bowl. I'm not going to tell you anything else. You have to listen to the podcast. Sean was great.

After hours, AmyLawrence.com. And Sean King is with Visa Network. Yeah, his Super Bowl prediction is one you will not hear anywhere else. Just trust me. Coming up, a prank that scared the crap out of a Kansas City Chiefs rookie. It's just mean.

It's hazing that could hit you where it really hurts. Oh, my goodness. And Tom Brady addressing those reports that he was maybe going to the Raiders or the Niners or a myriad of other teams not named the Buccaneers. You are listening to the After Hours podcast.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Oh, that gets me jazzed up for actual touchdowns that count soon. Soon.

Very soon. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. Wayne Larrabee, the play-by-play voice of Packers radio. But of course, Marquess Valdes-Scantling, MVS, is now a member of the Kansas City Chiefs. Now, he's new to the Chiefs, but he's not a rookie. Pranks, the kind that cost you and embarrass you, those are saved and reserved for actual rookies. The Chiefs, their prank apparently came from the mind of MVS because of what happened to him when he was with the Packers. Now, if you haven't seen the tweet, Sky Moore is a rookie wide receiver with the Chiefs.

And he put out a tweet from his account with this caption, when the waitress hands you the bill for rookie dinner, the total is exorbitant. And Marquess Valdes-Scantling picks it up from there and tells the story. So it actually happened to be when I was in Green Bay.

Devante and Rando did it to me. So I feel like I just had to pass the tradition down. And, you know, it was fun.

I enjoyed it. How much was your tab on Unibrow? I didn't have to pay anything. So that was the whole prank is that they bring out a fake bill, say your car gets declined. And then you got to call your bank and call your financial advisor.

Then everyone's just laughing at you. And then whoever the vet is in the room, he takes you at the tab. But initially, yes, embarrassing for Sky Moore because the total of this fake tab, $22,730. It's arranged beforehand with the restaurant, a phony bill, $18,000 for food, $2,000 for wine. And the waitress delivers it to Sky Moore at the end of the night.

And so nobody told him ahead of time. And here he is scrambling, trying to pay this bill. Your card gets declined. You got to call your bank.

You got to call people. So apparently in the case of Sky Moore, Marquess says they brought the bill out. They ran his card twice.

It got declined. He called his financial advisor, got on the phone with the bank, and then we let him know it was just a prank and a joke. So MBS says that Sky Moore was sweating for a good five minutes.

Poor guy. That is cruel and unusual punishment. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. Tom Brady, he's no doubt been a part of many pranks on younger players, players that are half his age, for heaven's sakes. But different rules apply to different peeps, like he gets to go away for 11 days in the middle of training camp. Better than him retiring, right? And now he's the number one player on the NFL's top 100. So it shows you the respect that fellow players and athletes have for him.

I'm 45 years old, man. There's a lot of s*** going on. Yeah. Is some of that bleep regarding the reports that he was nearly a Raider? And by reports, I mean Dana White telling the Gronk show, the Gronk cast, that he had worked it out for Brady to join the Raiders when he had indicated he was exiting New England and was looking for a new home. And Dana White, with the validation of Gronk, says both Brady and Gronk were headed to Las Vegas to be Raiders. So now that the media has access to Brady again, they want to know about all these rumors. He was going to be a Niner, he was going to be this, he was going to be that, he was going to go to the Dolphins.

What about those? Since I came to this organization, it's been an amazing experience for me to come to this place and be as supportive as I had over a long period of time. I read all these stories about all these different places I was supposed to go or could have gone and I'm like, I only was going to go to one place which was here. And I think this whole organization knows that and all the conversations that we've had over a period of time, I chose the right place for me. And I'm very proud of the effort that everyone's put in to make the relationship work and Joel's been amazing. Jason's a great friend of mine, Bruce, Todd, all the coaches, it's been an amazing relationship and I'm very grateful to everybody for allowing me to come down here and experience this part of my football life.

Which, you know, I look back and would probably be incomplete had I not had it, so I'm happy I've had it. I believe him when he says I'm happy here, this was the right place for me, I'm glad I didn't go anywhere else, this is an incredible now three years of my football experience, my football life, I believe all of that. Gronk said the same thing, he wouldn't change because they won a Super Bowl. But who's lying then? If he was only ever going to go to Tampa Bay, then Dana White and Gronk are not telling the truth? I get it, this is what Brady has to say, but I, please forgive me for this, call me cynical, but if Gronk is indicating that Dana White's version of the Raiders connection with Brady is true and accurate.

I mean, maybe he only ever signed on the dotted line in one place, but there were other options. I have no knowledge of anything. I don't know things.

I don't know things! It's still funny, no joke, that was an SNL skit from Saturday Night Live during Deflategate and it's still funny. I wasn't even aware that footballs could be inflated or deflated.

I hated Deflategate so much, every damn second of it, but at least we got that skit. I'm not worried about the air pressure in the ball, that's nerd stuff. There's one more, I'm not a science computer. I'm not a science computer! Well, we all knew this had happened because it had made the rounds on social media and the web, but Isaac, our former technical director, who of course predated producer Jay and many others, he loved that skit so much that I couldn't go two shows without him dropping those in and he knew how much I would laugh every single time we heard fake Tom Brady for months, months, whenever he wanted to derail me or make me laugh, he would drop those in. That is my absolute favorite and producer Jay knows that.

In fact, sometimes I do that in my personal life and I'm the only one who laughs because I'm the only one who knows where it comes from, but somebody will say something crazy or off the wall and I'll go, what? Yes, and good morning to you too on a Tuesday. Oh my gosh, we don't have time to do an extensive QB news, but do you believe that Mike Tomlin already knows who the Steelers starting quarterback will be? I might, but you guys not going to have it today. Again, like I told you guys the other week, man, we're not going to make knee jerk reactions and statements following the performance. We'll go through our proper professional procedure, we'll evaluate the game, we'll meet with our front office people, we'll have discussions, we'll talk internally, we'll talk external possibilities.

We'll go through our normal procedure this time of year and we'll disclose it to you at our leisure to be quite honest with you. Oh, I love Mike Tomlin. Why can't we have 30 other coaches like Mike Tomlin? He is so unique.

There was no one in the world like Mike Tomlin. People ask me all the time, who's an interview that you would love to do that you never have? And generally I go with some of my sports icons from when I was growing up. Larry Bird, always an interview that I coveted, though now I think he really shies away from all of them. I never had the chance to interview Steffi Graf. Of course, she was playing back before I was really in the sports industry, that was her heyday, but she's my favorite female athlete of all time. Never had the chance to talk to John Elway, though he's still very much involved in football.

But these are all from my childhood and then when I was growing up, high school, college. Right now, the answer is Mike Tomlin. Can I just have one sit-down interview with Mike Tomlin and my career would be complete?

That's it, I would retire. It gives you that tingle. It definitely does. And in fact, I nearly retired from Twitter when Star Wars retweeted me.

And Cirque du Soleil too, that was also amazing. Once that happened, I really didn't need to do anything else on Twitter again. Wanted you to hear really quickly before we went up to the top, Terry McLaurin, scary Terry, of the Washington commanders, I'm practicing, in the wake of teammate Brian Robinson shot in what was an attempted robbery and carjacking in D.C. over the weekend. You can't really predict this. It seems like situations like this are some of the things that we've been through as a team over the last couple of years, just kind of been out of nowhere.

And so it's hard to just predict stuff like that that's happening. But when it does happen, we try to come together. We try to reach out to the people who are affected. I'm a big believer in prayer, so I'm a big prayer person.

So I'm going to continue to pray for those people in the situations. And, you know, life is hard. It really is. And it is, I think, you know, in our position where we're kind of at a higher standard and we play a kid's game, but get paid a lot of money, a lot of eyes and attention on us. You know, people kind of forget that we are still human sometimes and things do affect us on and off the field. So we just try to support each other and be be a unit as much as we can. And I think we have a great support system from our coaching staff and the other guys in this locker room. Just you got a lot of guys and resources you can lean on. I think that's really important. We're going through a lot of adversity and, you know, just as a leader, I try to put myself in a position to make myself available to help in any way that I can. I appreciate that candor and honesty from Terry McLaurin.

He's right. Life is hard and they are human beings. And very often we forget that, whether it's in the media, whether it's as fans. But this is a real life situation that Brian Robinson and his family have to deal with. And think about the fear. Think about the trauma of what he's been through. Forget trying to play football again, though the commanders haven't ruled him out as returning this season, but shot twice in his lower body on Sunday. The physical, emotional pain.

A real life situation. So good for Terry for being frank and honest about it. Our Defensive Player of the Week, sponsored by the Navy Federal Credit Union, who proudly serves the Armed Forces, DoD, veterans and their families. Their members are the mission. Learn more at NavyFederal.org. Congratulations to Chris Martin, comes in with the bases loaded, bottom of the 10th in Miami to preserve the Dodgers win and his first save. It's after hours on CBS Sports Radio. Boom!