12-9-22 After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 1

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See fueleconomy.gov for more details. Even when it's a game that should stink, the NFL pulls magic out of thin air. Baker Mayfield or Tom Brady? What? I don't believe what I just saw.

No joke. I really don't believe what we just saw play out on Thursday Night Football. And if you haven't seen it, NFL network is diving right in with the broadcast right this second. But I think you should listen to us instead. Watch it, but listen to us. Yeah, who are you? The last game we saw before tonight, Tom Brady, three seconds left, throwing a touchdown pass to a rookie running back to stun the Saints and pull victory from the jaws of defeat.

Snatch it, snag it, grab it, save victory from the jaws of defeat. And now here we get our next primetime game, our very next NFL game. Talk about prime. Baker Mayfield gets the last laugh. Or maybe he is. Tom Brady.

Shorter, squatter, a little bulkier. And Tom Brady does not headbutt his teammates without a helmet on. Did you all see the video?

It's out there. He just, he's, he's going to welcome himself to LA. I suppose after you throw a game-winning touchdown pass and you lead a 98-yard drive with 95 seconds to go, well, maybe you can throw a little headbutt without the helmet if you want. But it certainly seems like none of his teammates, former or current, are ready for that little move of Baker's. They're going to start backing up.

He's going to find himself with no one to headbutt. Don't really care. But you know what? We'll cross that Baker bridge when we come to it.

For now, he's trending. Move over, Arson Judge. Baker Mayfield is in town. Hello.

Hello. Okay, raise your hand if you were cheering for Baker. Or even if you weren't cheering, raise your hand if you were secretly, quietly rooting for Baker Mayfield.

My hand is in the air. I wanted him to have success tonight. First of all, I don't remember the last time I said this, I actually wanted him to play. I wanted to see him play. I'm being honest.

I've not always been a huge fan of Baker's. He's got a very specific skill set. He does actually play better when his hair is on fire or when his ass is on fire.

Either one. This is who Baker is. He thrives under pressure. Now, sometimes he makes the most bonehead decisions you can imagine.

And there were a few of those tonight. But when the pressure is ratcheted up and Baker can settle in, that's where Baker has always operated at a high level. Listening to Westwood One tonight, they were called his rookie season when he came in for Tyrod Taylor in a similar situation and led a game-winning touchdown drive. Baker loves this stuff. And I know you want to hear from him. Wait until you hear the joy, but yet the humble brag in his voice. And actually, I take that back. I do feel like we're getting introduced to a humbler Baker Mayfield. Let's be fair.

Let's be fair to him, but let's also tell it like it is. Yes, this was one hell of a performance in the final four minutes of a primetime game on Prime, which is why we can call it primetime. He showed off. He showed out.

He's got people raving about him. According to the insiders who are covering this game and posting on Twitter, the locker room was lit. This is a team that just won its fourth game. You may have seen the stat during the broadcast on Prime. They have five guys from last year's Super Bowl team that have played every game this year. Five.

Four of them on the defensive side of the ball. That should tell you in a nutshell why it's been so difficult this year. In many cases, they probably just want to write this off, but they don't. They don't. They go out and they get a quarterback off waivers and decide to throw them into the fire.

Want to hear something even crazier? The Rams were the only team that put in a claim on Baker. Not one other team in the NFL did it. 31 teams said no thanks. Not one other team in the NFL did it. 31 teams said no thanks. Even teams that don't have good quarterback options right now. They decided, eh, it's not worth the trouble.

And maybe, maybe it wasn't for most of them. But the locker room was fired up, screaming. One insider tweeted bumping. The locker room is bumping right now. You'll hear it behind Sean McVay.

Two days after he's claimed off waivers, 48 hours after he lands in LA, he leads the team to a win. This wasn't all Baker. Far from it. But in hearing him following the game, yes, there's a little bit of that old Baker with the sly smile and the, hey, this is what happens when you doubt me. But there's also humility. And maybe it doesn't last.

Maybe it doesn't. But after the journey he's been through in 2022, he started the year as a member of the Cleveland Browns with a banged up shoulder, knowing he was headed for offseason surgery. But otherwise having no idea what was in store for him, just knowing the Browns were missing the playoffs as they played out the string of last season, he's still a Brown. Doesn't have a contract extension. Thought maybe that would be the case in the offseason. He goes off to have his shoulder surgery. Meanwhile, his agent finds out of the combine in February that the Browns are going to be looking at other quarterback options. Okay. It's not going to be a quarterback okay.

It's a business. What are you going to do? Except then they throw their hat in the ring in the Deshaun Watson sweepstakes. And even before Deshaun chooses Cleveland and the $8 billion guaranteed contract, Baker's already said goodbye. Remember that night he got on Instagram and issued his emotional goodbye.

It's a Dear John letter. He broke up with the Browns before they could dump him. And then he decides he's going to react in a way that is all pride. Sure.

He was embarrassed. Sure. The team just moved on from him unceremoniously, but I'm good.

I'm going to go play somewhere else. Hey Colts, I think it'd be a great fit if I come play for you. Oh wait. They went with Matt Ryan. And then he sits there and he's quiet and he's silent and maybe he stews. But honestly, more than that, I think sometimes when we're embarrassed and humiliated and we fall flat on our faces, because let's be fair, Baker had a lot to do with this himself. It wasn't all him. He got treated poorly by the Browns. It's not the first time the Browns have made poor decisions. Not the first time the Browns have not treated their coaches or players in a professional manner.

It goes from bad to worse in Charlotte. He's with the Panthers. He gets a couple of shots, then gets hurt. They fire their coach. The wheels are coming off.

Actually, better analogy. The boat is filling up with water faster than he can bail and the Panthers can bail. And so what does he do? He asks out, just let me off at the first island. I'd rather take my chances on this deserted island than stick with this sinking ship. And the Rams are the only team that claim him. The only one. And yet the NFL, well, professional sports in general, but the NFL, anything can and will happen. Anything.

Anything. I got to tell you, I wasn't expecting this, of course, because who would have? But after his first drive, and we're going to hear the various highlights from the game. After his first drive, I put up what I thought was a funny kind of sarcastic tweet, not realizing that it was maybe a bit of foreshadowing, but this is what it sounded like when Baker got back on the field.

All right. Second possession, John Wolford and the Rams after they rushed for nine. No, it's Baker Mayfield making his Rams debut. It's Baker Mayfield.

On possession number two. Well, we heard there was rumblings all morning and early in pregame that he was going to get an opportunity to get in this game and play. Maybe this is where you get that shot down the field. Former number one overall pick in 2018, 27 years of age under center and Royal and Soul wearing the number 17 brings a man in motion from his left. Cam Akers, his back play face, sets up the throw. Baker's first throw as a Ram, complete right side, 45 yard line up Las Vegas. It goes to Van Jefferson for a first down. That's the call on Rams radio. JB Long maybe doesn't recognize Baker because he's wearing number 17. So he's out there with number 17 and you hear the commentary of Maurice Jones Drew on Rams radio. There was talk all morning. He would be active, but active and coming out for a drive at the end of the first quarter, that's two entirely different things.

So I tweeted this just because I was in a bit of a goofy mood. Seems easy enough. Baker Mayfield on the sidelines after his first drive probably. I mean that was easy. He leads the Rams to a field goal and it didn't stay easy the whole time. It did not. They literally saved the best for last.

Probably not intentionally, but that's just how it works out. You ratchet up the pressure, you ratchet up the heat and there are times over the course of Baker's career, both in college where he turned out to be a Heisman Trophy winner and a number one draft pick and into the NFL, specifically his rookie season. If he's flying by the seat of his pants and his hair is on fire, sometimes he finds that rhythm and he looks damn good. And that was the Baker we got in LA. Welcome to the Rams house. Welcome back to prime time Baker.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. Oh, you can put your hands down now or you can pretend like you weren't rooting for Baker Mayfield, but I don't believe you. He's become a sympathetic figure. Jay, tell the truth. Did you want him to stick it up the Browns and the Panthers rear ends?

Stick it where the sun don't shine and come in and lead a touchdown drive a la Tom Brady? Just be honest. I don't know if I was necessarily rooting for him, but I definitely did want to see him play. I wasn't rooting for him to fail. It was kind of cool, but okay. For the first time you were running for him. I suppose it was cool. I think it's a cool story of just a short week. He was there two days ago, so that's what I like about it. Oh, amazing. We're live from the Rocket Mortgage Studios.

You need to know what it takes for a home to fit your budget and your family. Rocket can. Yes, even right now. Seeing this second half play out on NFL Network. And we'll hear from Sean McVay, from Baker himself about the process of even getting the plays out there. Even getting the plays called in the huddle was a feat that took a village. They couldn't just do it based on his knowledge of the playbook because he didn't really have any knowledge of the playbook. An interview I heard with Ben Skaronic on Westwood One after the game, and we're going to play part of it because he was fired up.

He caught that 32 yarder on the final drive. He said, we put the game plan in on Monday and Tuesday. Meaning, you know, he's already behind the eight ball when he shows up on Tuesday night. And Ben says, I couldn't have done it. I wouldn't have known the game plan by Thursday night.

This was a short work week, even shorter for their new QB. I can't wait to hear your reaction. Come on, give it to me on Twitter, A Law Radio.

I actually put up a post a little while ago because we're going to have a guest from Seattle coming up at the top of next hour because I wanted someone to react with. So yes, I am yelling on my tweet in all capitals. Isn't that what it means on social when you're yelling? But I yell a lot of the time anyway. I promise I won't yell at Mike Sandow when he joins us about 45 minutes from now.

It's my special gift. The drama of late season NFL. And just as a side note, it's week 14. What? What? So yes, on Twitter, A Law Radio. Let me hear it. And then on our Facebook page, After Hours with Amy Lawrence.

Maybe I'll put a post up there too, so you can react. We're going to get into week 14. We're going to talk about the other matchups. Man, the quarterback changes just keep coming. Another team in the NFL making a QB change, heading into week 14. I promised you that number, that total number of teams in the NFL that have used multiple quarterbacks because of injuries or ineptitude this year. Just wait. My running tally. I'm going to have to create another note on my phone.

Start fresh. Even in week 14, teams are always looking. And I know we haven't spoken much about the Raiders side of this. But just as crazy is them losing this game similar to what we saw from the Saints, right? How about the parallels between this Rams Raiders game on Thursday Night Football and the Bucs-Saints on Monday night? The fact that the Buccaneers were so awful on offense for the majority of the game. Now they didn't make a quarterback change, but we saw their glaring weaknesses over and over. Somehow the Saints leave the door wide open, as in wide open. They have a couple of three and outs late in the game.

They do nothing with the football. You give Tom Brady too many chances, eventually he's going to find some rhythm and find a groove. There's too many veterans on that offense.

The passing attack, there's too many of them for it to not work eventually if you keep giving him opportunities. I can't say that specifically applies to the Rams, but this part does. The Raiders left the door wide open.

And I said something very similar about New Orleans on Monday night. You get one first down on the drive in between the two scoring possessions by, in that case, the Bucs, in this case the Rams. If the Saints or the Raiders get one first down, one on those drives in which they went three and out, or in the case of the Saints, right, they threw the balls that have run it. How about run five more seconds off the clock and then Tom Brady's out of time?

Same thing in this case. The Raiders get one first down, the Rams never have the chance. Baker never has the opportunity.

There wouldn't have been enough time left on the clock. And so here are the Raiders. This stat is going to blow you away.

It's going to blow your mind because there are always two teams that are part of the equation. Your NFL nerd alert to kickoff week 14. The Raiders are 0-4 this season when leading by double digits at halftime. Crap.

Oh yeah. You want something to cry about, Derek Carr? Here's something to cry about. The Raiders are 0-4 this season when leading by double figures at halftime. Going back to 1930, which was when they started keeping track, the first team in nearly a hundred years to lose four times in a single season when leading by double digits at the half. This is a new low for the Raiders. The fourth quarter dominated by the Rams, dominated by really the first drive that pulled them within a score.

Two completely different drives, right? One took nine minutes, the other one took 95 seconds. We're going to go through both of them, but it's just as bad for the Raiders as it is exciting and thrilling and joyful for the Rams.

The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. And my brilliant assessment following the game, as I'm trying to process, the NFL is crazy. That was all I had for you on Twitter.

You know the NFL is crazy? Oh, thank you. Yes, it is. All right. So again, on Twitter, ALawRadio, also on our Facebook page, After Hours with Amy Lawrence. We're just getting started. Excited to talk week 14, a little bit of wrap up from the MLB winter meetings as well. My friend Mike Sando, it's been a couple years since he's joined us on the show. He's in Seattle, writes for the athletic, but we go way back to our previous network and he's going to be so good. The one-liners of this guy, the one-liners of the one-liners of the one-liners is the one-liners that this guy has. I'm sure he's going to have a few for us after Baker's amazing comeback.

Don't call it a comeback. He was already there. It's After Hours. Oh no, no, no, no.

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See fueleconomy.gov for more details. So creepy. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. You are listening to the After Hours Podcast. Second and goal from the one car under center turns hands off it's Jacobs off right guard and he bangs it in for our first points of the night. The Raiders capitalizing on the Adams one-handed gem of a catch they busted in with Jacobs and the Raiders with 9 13 left in the first take the early six nothing lead. Off the field on the money and after hours it's time to talk football with Amy Lawrence. They started out exactly the way they wanted to Raiders in search of their fourth consecutive win. Josh Jacobs he's the man right now he is not only the workhorse but the bell cow but along with Devante Adams a one-two punch for the Raiders and as much as people like to pile on quarterbacks and I know Derek Carr had a bad interception at the end of the first half. I know that he also threw the ball away at the end of the game though there were two or three seconds remaining. This is not on the offense the offense is scoring points and producer Jay just told me this crazy stack because he's a fantasy geek that's a compliment but yeah Josh Jacobs is the number one fantasy running back overall so far this season and actually I said Devante Adams is number one he's number two by two points so but still I mean that normally the number one running back and number one receiver are not on the same team. We got to see two incredible catches from Devante Adams of his three tonight two of them were one-handed with a defender draped all over him he had Jalen Ramsey all up in his grill most of the game and yet he was getting the best of Jalen when the ball was coming to him plus Josh Jacobs not that far removed from a 300 yard game and so the Raiders start out with that touchdown their very first possession Spiro Dedus on Westwood one it's after hours with Amy Lawrence CBS Sports Radio we told you Baker Mayfield enters the game in a Rams uniform number 17 a little jarring to see him in gold and blue but number 17 on the field in that first quarter his very first pass attempt is a completion though they ultimately settle for a field goal on that drive and they have a hard time generating any points uh it really was a long stretch in between scoring drives or quality drives okay so they get that field goal which takes them to the end of the first quarter it was actually a 55 yarder so it's not like they got that close a 55 yarder on their next possession there's a fumble by Cam Akers which is followed up by a Derek Carr interception okay so the the end of the first half enters or exits excuse me in train wreck fashion we come into the second half and and this is what you have punt punt punt punch miss field goal those are the first five possessions combined in the second half it it was like watching paint dry and the joke of course online is that this is the worst game ever amazon prime gets stuck with all these terrible broadcasts and blah blah blah al michaels is slap happy finally the rams are able to move the ball a little bit anyway they gain 40 yards 40 yards must have felt like they just went the length of the field for a touchdown instead they miss a field goal and we're stuck at 13 to 3 raiders are able to answer with their own 31 yard drive oh i mean we're talking incredible stuff here this is like patrick mahomes and the chiefs do you know patrick mahomes and the chiefs can go 71 yards the two drives combined in about 30 seconds flat yeah that's ridiculous and so it wasn't great offense i'm not telling you that for sure at times it was hard to watch but then and because these games sometimes save the best for last the nfl i don't know how it happens it's really uncanny the rams get the ball back early in the fourth quarter and this is when they start to settle in although this one was a slow burn what i say earlier this week death by a thousand paper cuts this was nine minutes to go 75 yards 17 plays 75 yards nine minutes but a little bit of redemption for acres mayfield ready under center opens up hands off acres finding peter pushing the pile there it is touchdown pan the ram touchdown l.a the first of the nights with 3 19 remaining and the rams are within 16 9 on a 17 play 75 yard touchdown drive but seriously nine minutes eaten off the clock two things they finally were able to settle in baker's getting more comfortable the team is getting more comfortable with him but you know what else happens on that drive the defense the raiders defense worn out gassed you're on the field for nine minutes of actual game time and you're out there for longer than that because of the downtime in between they're sucking wind they're they're exhausted and then what does the raiders offense do turns around it goes three and out and puts that defense right back on the field that is a recipe for disaster i'm telling you one domino drops in the way of the raiders they get one first down the game is over or maybe max crosby and the defense doesn't get flagged for who even knows what they got flagged for there was some odd flags in this game i'll give you that so on that last drive with the rams there's an interception negated by a defensive pass interference and then there's this empty set for mayfield shotgun snap eyes the middle crosby off the edge he gets home at the 12 max crosby for his second sack of the game and now a flag and it looks like it's going to be on the raiders a late flag baker mayfield was calling for it and this is going to be a penalty after the play so it turns out to be unsportsmanlike conduct something about getting hit blah blah blah whatever i don't know so and i i don't love the flag either but again i'll go back to what the raiders had done with the possession absolutely nothing they go three and out this is why you can't blame referees for outcomes because if the raiders get a single first down it doesn't freaking matter what the rams do because they're they could be standing up and standing on the sidelines jumping up and down and screaming for flags and it's not going to matter so the drive continues and this is the play this is the play that that gave me that feeling 16-10 raiders with the lead rams trying rams trying to grab it for the first time tonight from their 28th snapback mayfield top of his drop spins one right sideline scaronic the target did he moss him he did he brings it in at the 40 of las vegas wow 107 and rolling rams down six you got guys making plays here ben scaronic is able to go up top that is the very next drive after the flag on the defense so it was first down then it was another first down and then boom by that time all the raiders can do all we can do is stand back and watch rams have to go 98 yards without a timeout 23 remaining 15 seconds mayfield flings it left side end zone caught by van jefferson with nine seconds remaining touchdown l.a 16 up and a makay extra point can win it mayfield kama baker the touchdown maker must have extra point makay for the lead after the band jefferson touchdown reception from baker mayfield here it comes and the rams are on the high side for the first time on thursday night football jb log there on rams radio before that you heard jason horowitz on the flag so yeah there's an interception that gets overturned there's the flag now that was a first down so first down so it's not necessarily extending the drive but it gives them another first down which leads to the scaronic catch then you've got baker just moving and grooving and it's not something we've never seen from him it's just been a while skylar finds me on twitter a law radio bbb baker's back baby actually i think fans might have been more fired up than baker at least by the time he got to the microphone wait until you hear the locker room celebration sparked by sean mcveigh but then handed over to one baker mayfield good stuff plus i don't think derek carr cried tonight but it wasn't that long ago that he was crying about all the effort revealing or resulting in losses still wow if that hurt four weeks ago this has got to be far worse i'm just pissed off yes the post game reaction is coming up it's after hours with amy lawrence week 14 underway we'll have your game of the week poll before long no this wouldn't have been an option you are listening to the after hours podcast no timeouts for the rams 15 seconds second and 10 from the 22 baker throwing near side it is caught van jefferson for the touchdown and with nine seconds left were tied the rams can take the lead on the point after baker mayfield with a brilliant pass must have extra point matt gaye for the lead after the band jefferson touchdown reception from baker mayfield here it comes and the rams are on the high side for the first time on thursday night football this is after hours with amy lawrence first we get spear odedis on westwood one and then the final call the the bow tie if you will jb long on rams radio you've been waiting i know you can't wait to hear baker mayfield well before we hear him at the microphone how about listening to the post game celebration in the locker room this is for the rams fourth win of the season taylor raff closing it out so many big time stops defensively van jefferson ben scaroni making plays all right but to be able to come in here 10 minutes ago and help lead us through victory see you guys on monday how 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farther for all the all-new 2023 kia nero hybrid kia movement that inspires 2023 euro hv sx fuel economy claim based on eps made a combined fuel economy for entry cuf class actual mileage will vary with options driving conditions driving habits and your vehicle's conditions see fuel economy deck out for more details how do we measure road trips and miles traveled and memories made in scenic views and back roads that don't show up on your gps and in the wrong turns that turn out to be the right decisions it's not about how far you can go but how far you're inspired to move the 2023 kia nero hybrid goes the extra mile with class leading 53 mpg combined farther for all the all-new 2023 kia nero hybrid kia movement that inspires 2023 euro hv sx fuel economy claim based on eps made a combined fuel economy for entry cuf class actual mileage will vary with options driving conditions driving habits and your vehicles conditions if you look on the deck for more details are you kidding me did you hear the cheers we did not doctor that we did not edit that can we hear it one more time shawn mcveigh starts out but listen to the cheers when he calls baker to the middle of the locker room see you guys on monday good for you baker that's fantastic all right then he settles down a little bit he doesn't drop the f bombs instead more about the comeback win his first few hours in a ram's uniform i don't know if you can write it any better than that obviously we'd like to be a little bit more stress-free but um it's a pretty damn good story i'll be honest with you so it's uh it's special you can't say enough about baker mayfield and the leadership the resilience the competitiveness um you know and what a quick study i mean he just got here five minutes ago and and figured out a way to to be able to do some special things tonight i just can't say enough about how impressed i am with just the command the comfort even just the operation i mean being able to just call the plays within the 40 second play clock or even 25 seconds out of a clock stoppage or it it was uh i mean it's i'm still kind of like what the hell's going on right now that guy loves football i mean it just he's ball ball ball all the time and just um you can tell he's so much of relationship guy too and we talked a lot about you know my coaches in the past and what made some of those guys special and just trying to you know point out the things that make certain players and coaches great uh and just being able to you know pull the best out of each person is an extremely vital task but uh from his perspective he he knows those guys ins and outs and knows how to put them in good positions to win and have success and uh yeah we just got to know each other a little bit and just philosophy wise and on a personal level as well keeping in mind this is a four and nine team you hear the locker room celebration got that off of ram's twitter and then you hear the exuberance with shaw mcveigh raving about baker you hear baker obviously a little more quiet and confident but this does wonders you can't make this stuff up and no one can take this moment away in and of itself it would be a sweet comeback for baker but then you throw in the fact that he only got to los angeles 48 hours before this game-winning drive it's been a lot of emotions to be honest with you a lot of things that uh you know some tough decisions uh um but everything happens for a reason you know thankful that just prayed about it and it worked out i'm really really blessed and i'm really thankful right now especially just the guys here that welcome me in and uh help me you know do the crash course here obviously liam zach and sean helping me do that when i when i walked in and uh matthew helping out as well and john and bryce it's just you know thankful for that it wasn't perfect it was far from it we went over some of the gory details and the empty possessions but ultimately baker 22 of 35 230 yards a touchdown he was sacked four times and so he got a chance to get his uniform dirty haha ultimately though you could see the baker mayfield who was drafted number one overall five years ago you could see that baker the heisman trophy-winning baker the moxie you could see baker lock into the comfortable position he's comfortable being uncomfortable and i'm not telling you he always wins in these situations sometimes he throws the worst possible pass but there's a reason why he's an nfl quarterback and you can see how much he loves being out there with the pressure ratcheted up when it comes to critical situations and kind of uh you know those crucial downs when especially when the clock's rolling like that just putting the ball up for guys like that and knowing the clock mechanics you know i had brian allen screaming in my face what the cadence was for that because we didn't cover it and sean's yelling in my ear as well and uh but yeah ball is ball ball is ball that man loves ball it's ball ball ball ball time what the hell is going on what the hell's going on right now how often do you say that about the nfl in some form or another paraphrasing what the heck i don't believe what i just saw what the hell is going on what the hell's going on right now so good best reality show on tv but yes the opposite locker room well decidedly different feel for josh mctaniels and the raiders obviously disappointing but credit to credit to sean and his group um they obviously you know played they played hard and made one more than we did um thought we had opportunities obviously to to help close the game out but uh certainly didn't do enough so none of us did enough it hurts uh but we put ourselves in that position right um you know we you know we won you know however many games in a row but it doesn't mean the next one and uh you try and you know talk about it preach about it you know uh you know work so that doesn't happen uh but it happened to us today it's it's hard it's tough but we put ourselves in that position like it's nobody else's fault i agree with that same thing i said about the new orleans saints on monday night yes this is a dramatic comeback and that's what people will focus on and talk about in fact i'm i'm watching van jefferson right now go into the end zone with the one yard rush 344 left to go in the game oh actually they're on first and goal now so he'll get into the end zone quickly it's coming up i mean we're just about to go into the dramatic most dramatic portion the crescendo if you will the climax of this movie script but it doesn't happen if the raiders get a single first down it doesn't happen if the raiders somehow managed to run another 10 seconds off the clock like that's the difference the razor thin margin for error in the nfl even if you have one three in a row even if you're playing against a super bowl champion that has five guys who've played every game this year five that's it and only one on the offensive side they're missing a pro bowl quarterback one of the best receivers in the nfl they've gone through how many different uh iterations of their offensive line and somehow this can happen that's the very thin margin between winning and losing but this is a pattern for the raiders right fourth double digit lead they've had at halftime that they fail to hang on to it didn't feel that way if i'm honest um you know it didn't feel like something like oh here you know here it goes again or anything it didn't feel anything like that um you know at the end of the day it's football and you're gonna turn the film on and you're gonna see well oh that's why that happened or why that's why that happened and you know coaches will correct it and that's sucks man no margin air derek kart josh mcdaniels reflecting the other side of this sorry for being emotional the jubilation for the rams it should tell you once again how much winning matters in the nfl there's only so many opportunities this underscores one win one win after you've worked so hard one win after a streak of losses i mean this is a super bowl champion that's the first one in history ever to lose six consecutive games the following year it's been bad it's been bad it's been dark sean mcveigh said almost forgot what it felt like to win what the hell's going on right now what the hell is going on right now we are off and running in week 14 i can't wait to hear from you some of you already weighing in you've got your baker memes oh there's plenty of those out there on twitter alaw radio on our facebook page too hey coming up you get to choose game of the week but that's going to be after we welcome longtime nfl insider mike sando from seattle after hours tbs sports radio how do we measure road trips and miles traveled and memories made in scenic views and back roads that don't show up on your gps and in the wrong turns that turn out to be the right decisions it's not about how far you can go but how far you're inspired to move the 2023 kia nero hybrid 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