After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 4

Good morning to you.

It is a Wednesday. It's our hump show. Glad to have you with us here on CBS Sports Radio. Amy Lawrence, producer J, thank you for your questions for Ask Amy Anything. We just finished that. We didn't do it last week because it was Super Bowl week and because we had put out a video version of Ask Amy on our YouTube channel. So if you missed that one, it was decidedly Super Bowl themed, not all specifically about the game, but all around the Super Bowl and everything that we love about that event each year.

And so that one's on our YouTube channel. Lots of you have checked it out already. But we got back to the radio version and thank you for all of your questions. There's still so many that producer J didn't have a chance to get to or maybe that he decided he didn't want to ask on both Twitter and Facebook. But I always go back.

Now I'm not going to do it this morning. I'll get to some of them maybe. But for the most part, I will take about 30 minutes when I wake up on Wednesday afternoon and I will go back and I'll answer as many as I can get to.

That's always my promise to you. I know not everybody's questions get posed and not everybody can listen live. Now you can go back and you can find the podcast and you can get your questions answered there.

But if I can do it without writing a novel or a blog post, I will go back and I will respond to as many as I possibly can with a few words. So thank you for all of your questions as part of our hump show. Also, because it was Valentine's Day when we began this show, it's not anymore.

But there are still people who are feeling the love from Valentine's Day. We have put this post up with I mean, it features the peanuts. I don't know what more you could ask for.

How about this? Find someone who loves you as much as Lucy loves Charlie Brown. Oh, no, wait. No, not Lucy. Lucy doesn't love Charlie Brown, right? She's the one that like pulls the football. Not Lucy. Who's the one that loves Charlie Brown?

Is it? Why am I? Why am I forgetting this now? As much as Woodstock loves Snoopy. How about that?

We could go that way. Would that be Peppermint Patty? Peppermint Patty loves Charlie Brown. Yeah, Lucy is his little sister, right?

But she's always pulling the football out from underneath him. Or Marcy. Marcy?

I don't remember much of Marcy. I found a good one on our Facebook page, though. So, yeah, find us on Twitter or Facebook because we're asking you to fill in the blank.

Find someone who loves you as much as for me it was I Love Coffee. We got a great answer on Twitter. Andy Reid loves cheeseburgers, which he tells us about all the time. He adores cheeseburgers. He's got his cheeseburgers ranked, actually. I grew up on In-N-Out. See what I mean?

But I've had a few Five Guys. And the Shake Shack, you know, I don't turn any of them away. Exactly. See, Andy Reid adores cheeseburgers. I personally, if we're going sports world, think we should find someone who loves us as much as Kyrie Irving loves Dallas.

It's clear that that's all he's ever wanted to do in his life is play for the Dallas Mavericks. It's obvious that his heart is now home with him. Or I guess we could say find someone who loves you as much as Aaron Rodgers loves Green Bay. Eighteen years, man.

That's always going to be home. See? He loves you in Green Bay. Although, according to my guests from earlier in the show, Green Bay doesn't really love Aaron Rodgers much anymore, but we'll get to that.

So yes, I go back and I answer your questions and I'm perusing your answers for our love question, even as I do it. A couple of other ones that I've seen on Facebook, which I think are very clever. And now I feel dumb because I messed up the peanuts.

But anyway, I would say this one from Mark is brilliant if you are a certain age. I don't know how much Jay knows about Garfield. Garfield loved pounding on Odie, so that was one thing. But do you know the food that Garfield loved more than anything else? Lasagna. Lasagna.

Find someone. I'm so impressed with you right now, Jay. I mean, you didn't bring me any candy for Valentine's Day, but okay. There's a little bit of a redeeming quality there, you know, about Garfield.

Unless you happen to look at Facebook and saw it there. No, I do know that one. Yeah.

I couldn't name you like specific Garfield like, you know, lines or... What? Yippee. Haha.

Weee. I'm familiar with the story and the owner and Odie and the lasagna. Yeah, Jim the owner. When I was a kid, my brother and I, that's all we ever wanted. So for special occasions like a Valentine's Day, my mom would give us the latest Garfield cartoon book. We lived for those.

I think we have 15 of them or something along those lines. No, they were awesome. They were short. They were maybe only five or six inches tall.

And so they were oblong shape, like a rectangle. And they were amazing and we loved them and we would fight over who got the Garfield book first. So yes, thank you, Mark.

On Facebook, he says, find someone who loves you as much as Garfield loves lasagna. So good. Clint says as much as Penny loves her naps. Oh, she definitely loves that. Mike, Daryl Waltrip loves saying boogity boogity boogity. Patty is going to go first person here. As much as I love the Patriots.

Are you ready for this one from Jose? Find someone who loves you as much as NBA superstars love joining other superstars to win championships. Yes, it is the NBA where everyone plays with his BFF. That's what real men do. Absolutely.

Let's see another one. As much as Aaron Rodgers loves the darkness. Now, we don't actually know if Aaron Rodgers loves the darkness because he's not there yet. You want to know why he's not there yet? Because this trip was planned for four months. Do you want to know why I know this? Because I spent an hour listening to Aaron Rodgers on Pat McAfee on Tuesday. He was fired up. Now, don't let him fool you when he says, I'm not mad. I'm not upset. I know how this happens. I want to know. 15 minutes he spent talking about how football insiders don't know him.

No one speaks to anyone from his inner circle. And if you don't hear from me that it's not true and it's fake news, I mean, 15 minutes. And here's the setup to it. Apparently, Jay and I agree with this because we both listened. I told Jay and he started listening too. We're pretty sure that Pat McAfee was mortified by the fact that on Monday, he had Ian Rappaport on the show indicating that Rodgers was already in his darkness retreat.

And then Rodgers pops up on Tuesday and does the show. I mean, at least he seemed mortified to me for sure. Yeah, he did. McAfee apologized to him up one side and down another. And I don't know that it was directed specifically at Pat.

I just think that Pat walked unsuspectingly into Aaron's trap and Aaron was not going to let it go. Listen, I'm not in my darkness retreat yet. What? Oh, yesterday. What? Nope. This thing has been planned for about four months and it was always the same date.

Always the end of this week. So anybody with knowledge of the opposite of that, it's fake news. So let me just reiterate one more time. There's an inner circle, right? And in my inner circle, nobody talks to Ian Rappaport, to Adam Schefter, or to any of those people. So if you're one of those people who's talking to those people, it's a great reminder for you. You're not in the inner circle.

That was hanging on somebody there. And if anybody else is out there saying stuff, or if they're just making it up, which is also, those are both likely, to stop with the fake news. I speak for myself and I will continue to do that. I'm not upset about it. Like it's the classic media, you know, trying to be first, not trying to be right.

And the problem is there's a slippery slope. I'm offended. I'm telling you, it was 15 minutes of that. They went around and around and around because Pat kept trying to apologize and Aaron kept jumping in and pointing out that it's my inner circle. They would never talk. My inner circle would never do that. And just as a side note, you hear Pat's voice, but the guy that you also hear who's dropping in the really, or wow, or take that Rob, that's AJ Hawk who played with Aaron.

They're tight. They're actually former teammates and friends. And so AJ gives him crap all the time because he can.

He can get away with it. But yeah, I kind of got the sense that Pat was embarrassed because he did apologize. But I'm telling you, Rogers wasn't going to let it go. And honestly, Pat kind of contributed to it. And I only say this because this is how it gets out of hand.

This is kind of what blew me away. The fact that we did hear this for the last three days, right? Maybe it started with the insider who thought that Rogers was heading into the darkness retreat right after the Super Bowl. I heard people say it on different radio stations, on various news reports. So we did hear that from multiple people.

During Super Bowl weekend, we heard that Rogers would be ducking into the darkness come Monday. But then what happened after that is the question, and Jade, I know this because we work in the New York City market. I mean, we're not in New York. Well, we are in New York, but we're not on in New York. So we have to drive into Lower Manhattan and do our show from these studios.

And one of our affiliates, our New York affiliate, WFAN, they've been talking about it for days. Are the Jets going to wait? Can the Jets afford to wait until he gets out of his darkness retreat? What happens when he comes out of his darkness retreat and he doesn't know whether or not he... I mean, that's what happens. It's like it spirals.

These teams aren't going to wait. It gets really crazy. He's going into the darkness retreat so that he can decide what he wants to do.

And again, Rogers just takes aim at all of it. We did the show last week. I said, you know, after the Super Bowl, I'm going to go on my darkness retreat.

And then I'm probably going to have a better sense about where I'm at in my life. I didn't say I'm going to my darkness retreat just to figure out if I'm going to play next year or retire. So then that narrative got out there. So how many fucking narratives can come from one show where they didn't even actually listen to what I said or the intent or the tone? And again, nothing against Rapper for it.

But he doesn't have anybody in my inner circle who knows legitimately what's going on in my life. Well, we apologize. We apologize. Monday through Thursday, I'm supposed to be in there. That was never the plan.

It has been the plan for four months. So don't make shit up. OK? Like, I don't have your number. You're not going to have my number. You do a great job, but not when it comes to my life.

So stop talking about it. I'm telling you, he was on a bender. Aaron Rodgers was on a bender to let everybody know that they had no idea what was going on with his life.

And I come back to he says he doesn't pay attention, but it's clear he pays attention. I made Jay listen. But now, to be fair, Jay, I told you to listen to the first couple of minutes so you would understand what a tear he was on. You ended up listening to the whole hour as well.

The whole thing. I warned you they talked about pooping in the darkness. I warned you about that. And I said it's gross. It's boys talking about pooping. And you went ahead and listened to it anyway. So I did warn you. It was definitely gross. There is no doubt about that. Maybe it was funny for a second, but they did it for like five to eight minutes.

Yeah, no, I eventually had to skip through that part because I'm not a boy and I didn't care. Anyway, Rogers wanted to one more time underscore the fact that people do not know what they're talking about. We're correcting a flaw in the system that is let's be first instead of be right. When it comes to me, the majority of these people have not been right. They've tried to be first. So you paint a picture of a person in a certain way.

And I hate to have to do this over and over and over again to correct things. But when they say things like some athletes first said this about where he's going, not true. You know, I just talked to Dave for the first time last week. My source says he's going to darkness Monday through Thursday.

Not true. I'm sitting here today. It's Tuesday. Like, come on. Just stop with the reporting on me because you don't have the right sources and you don't have the truth. I'm telling you, when he says he's sorry for doing it over and over again, he's not sorry.

It's a sorry, not sorry. Also McAfee, well, Rogers was sitting in front of a white wall and it was very bright where he was. And so you could clearly tell he was not in the darkness. Although originally McAfee thought that he had already come out of it.

He just tanked it after 24 hours and was done. So, yeah, it was it was interesting. I mean, Rogers was he was clearly angry about the whole thing. And even if so, here's the thing, Jay, I believe him that he's had a plan for four months. But even if he hadn't, I'm pretty sure that he would have changed his plans because he wanted to spite all those people who knew what they who said they knew what Rogers was doing. I would not be surprised in the slightest if that's what he did.

I wouldn't put it past. I mean, this is the guy who tweets out cryptic things and says cryptic messages all the time, nonstop, trying to figure out what he's supposed to do. And then when you get it wrong, it's like, I don't know. It's like he wants you to speculate. He wants you to go both ways.

He wants to keep you on the hook. But I would agree with him, though, speculating and guessing is not the same thing as saying we know what Rogers is doing. Now, this is what happens when you're a public figure. It's certainly what happens when you're an athlete. And it's not like he remains private. He puts all of his.

Poop out there. I mean, he does he he he does this hour long interview every week, and I think they're done for now, but he he does it. And so he gives people plenty of material. That's the thing. Like, we're not talking about a guy who plays his cards really close to the best.

No, he just wants to control the narrative. And he gets upset when he doesn't or when he can't. But that's part of putting yourself out there the way that you are. We don't have these same conversations about, oh, my gosh, Joe Burrow, for instance, right? Because Joe Burrow doesn't really put all his stuff out there.

He's just a different cat. And so that's kind of the deal is, Rogers, you you have to take the good with you bad because you're the one who does an hour long interview on a national platform every single week. How many fucking narratives can come from one? Right. Exactly. If you missed it, I think that one of the funniest exchanges and we just played it last hour, so we won't play it again. But I guess we could actually was kind of funny when McAfee, who was actually hysterical in this particular interview, when he and his guys decide that they need a baseline for Aaron Rodgers to know how much he changes with the darkness retreat. And so McAfee had done all of his research about the darkness retreat. He's asking all these crazy questions.

They want to ask him his favorite things before he goes into the darkness and Pat's actually writing them down just so they have the baseline. Favorite band. Yeah. Barbra Streisand. OK, Barbra Streisand. Favorite food.

They're waiting, waiting. It got awkward. Cauliflower. Are you vegan? No. What if he comes out?

What if you come out of your vegan? Have you thought about that? Not going to happen.

I think there's a chance. Isn't that what we're going in there for? Like to have deep change? No. To be a vegan? No. No, not to be a vegan, but to have like super deep thoughts, right? Isn't that what you're going to go in there for? Do you think you're going to have any? I like to eat animals that are taken care of very nicely and kindly. Live a long life.

Yes. I mean, Pat's like writing this all down as he's saying it, too. Honestly, I don't listen every week to the whole hour, but I was I was catching up on e-mails and text messages. And so I was sitting in my computer. I'm like, why don't I just go ahead and see, you know, what Aaron's pulse is today? And I will admit, I laughed out loud in my kitchen a bunch, mostly because a lot of it's so asinine.

But he would not let it go. My inner circle. My inner circle. I like to eat animals. OK, enough. Don't. All right. I'm not laugh.

I'm sorry. That sounded you know me. I laugh when I'm nervous. I laugh when I'm happy.

I laugh when I am embarrassed. So, Jay, stop playing that. We're not using that as a drop. OK, stop it.

Animals. OK, knock it off. I'd rather hear the I'm offended. That's probably my favorite one.

Well, that and when he says he's not upset, but then he drops like three or four F bombs. All right. No.

Me thinks he doth protest it too much. So earlier in the show, we had a chance to talk with Steve Pfeiffer, who is with our Milwaukee affiliate. Twelve fifty a.m. I promise you, we started out talking about the Bucks. But when I said to him, what's the bigger story right now? Milwaukee Bucks 11 game win streak. They're almost at snipping. They are nipping at the heels. They're probably snipping to at the heels of the Celtics in the Eastern Conference, top two teams in the NBA or Aaron Rodgers. And he's like, oh, no one in Milwaukee is talking about the Bucks.

I mean, who can say that they won MVP of COVID? You're you're going to keep this up, aren't you, Jay? We find that he gives us much material, much material taken out of context. It's even funnier. I like to eat animals.

I like to eat animals. I blame Jay for this. Jay is already shaking in the other room. OK, can we talk about something serious for once? Dang it, Aaron Rodgers, stop it. It's just not going to happen.

It's just not going to happen, man. I know. I know.

All right. A little bit about the Bucks, but I also want you to hear what Steve had to say about the Packers and Packers fans and Jordan Love. He pulls no punches.

I don't know if he speaks for every Packers fan, but I know he speaks for a bunch of them. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Good morning to you. CBS Sports Radio.

You are listening to the After Hours podcast. On the baseline, feeds out, Holliday, catch and shoot. Yes, sir. Drew Holliday delivers again. His seventh three pointer of the night draws the time out from the Celtics. Hauser steps to his right, launches a crazy three. He got it.

He got it. Sam Hauser couldn't see the rim, but somehow he knocks down a fallaway three moving to his right. And the Boston Celtics are down four starters.

But with three seconds left, they've tied the game. Steal from Holliday. He's running the other way. And he'll flush it through. Drew Holliday, a little leather larceny, pulls his team back to within a point.

1.31 to go. Coniton passes to Holliday, squeezes off a three for the lead. And he buries it from straight on.

Mr. Clutch. Drew Holliday delivers again. Two point lead for the Bucks. Ingles will inbound. He's got Robert Williams jumping up and down, feeds it into Giannis.

And there's your exclamation as he stuffs it down with a jackhammer jam. And Milwaukee now leads 1.31 to 1.25. And that is your ballgame.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Bucks Radio. Celtics Radio.

Back to Bucks Radio. This was a Celtics team without four of its starters, including Jason Tatum who was sick. And yet they were able to push the Bucks into overtime in Milwaukee courtesy of Sam Houser, the Wisconsin native who buried a three just before the fourth quarter buzzer in front of 40 family and friends.

What a cool moment for him. He sends the game into overtime. And actually the Celtics scored the first five of OT, I believe, only to see Drew Holliday lead the comeback. Drew with a career high eight three pointers of his 12 attempts. He also beat the third quarter buzzer from half court.

So pretty amazing. But had the go ahead three, his last one in OT. And he tied his career high with 40 points.

Also had seven assists. And this is a team that has different guys who can beat you. They're still waiting for Chris Middleton to come back and be his unrestricted self right now.

He's on a minutes restriction. But yeah, with Drew Holliday as your leader, certainly in a good position with good hands. I think Wehanger had some defense and I mean, give it up to them. They played hard. They played great. But I just think down the stretch and made more plays on both ends. We went down and he just he made a few big time plays that just are very Drew like.

So special performance by him. Just a little bit there on the Bucks as they've won 11 in a row and now are tied with the Celtics with the loss column. They're both sitting at 17. Celtics have one more win. So even as we hit the All-Star break here this weekend, those are the two best teams in terms of winning percentage in the entire NBA, just a tick above the Denver Nuggets. And yet, according to Steve Pfeiffer, who joined us from 1250 a.m. in Milwaukee, the Bucks are not the top story even in their home city.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. He says, by far, Aaron Rodgers, Packers. That's what the buzz is still about as we're in the middle of February and the Packers don't have any decisions made yet about their quarterback.

I asked Steve from what we've seen and heard about Jordan Love, is he ready if that's the direction the Packers choose? He looks a hell of a lot better now than he did prior to the year starting. And I think a lot of credit has to go to Tom Clements, who the quarterbacks coach that they brought out of retirement. The guy that Aaron Rodgers loved to death under Mike McCarthy and praised nonstop about his development and how good he became.

And then remember when that whole thing fell apart where he was going to call plays, McCarthy gave it up, and then after about three, four games or whatever, McCarthy changed his mind and pulled it back away from him. And then after that, Clements was out of there after that year. He went and coached Kyler Murray, Rookie of the Year Kyler Murray, that year. And then he retired and walked away and Kyler Murray probably hasn't been the same since. So then they convinced him to come out of retirement to help Aaron Rodgers.

And Jordan Love is the benefactor and improved dramatically from last year to this year. And now I think a lot of people in that organization think he's ready. And just look at some of the interviews on Radio Road and the Super Bowl.

Aaron Jones, I think, talked to almost everybody in the country. The Packers running back and pretty much told everybody that he thinks he's ready to go at this point. So we'll see. Can this Packers team, as it's currently constituted, regardless of quarterbacks, can the rest of the team or the team that's put together now with Brian Gutenkunst, can they compete for a title? Because this year was not what you expect from the Packers. So Rodgers didn't play at an MVP level.

Fine. I think we all understand that. But they also were beset by injuries. The offensive line was a mess. David Bakhtiari was in and out of the lineup.

They're all pro-left tackle. They had injuries along the front, left and right, where they had to keep playing this rookie Zach Tom, who played really well. And he was playing guard tackle all over the place. Then the rookie wide receivers, Christian Watson, was heard. Romeo Dobbs was heard once Watson came back. Dobbs got hurt and he was out. Robert Tutting, coming off the ACL injury, took him almost to the end of the year before he started looking like who he was prior to the injury. There was a lot of stuff going wrong offensively. Defensively, they were a train wreck all year until the last few weeks when they made some adjustments. Packer fans wanted Joe Berry, the defensive coordinator, fired.

He was capped. Packer fans still complaining about that as they're seeing all these other defensive coordinators who, in their minds, is far better than Joe Berry, yet Joe Berry has a job and they didn't get one of these guys to upgrade the position. I think if Aaron Rodgers comes back looking at the NFC, I think the Packers would have every opportunity to compete for an NFC title as much as anybody else because the NFC really doesn't have a lot. The Niners don't have a quarterback. The whole NFC South doesn't have a quarterback. If you look at Philadelphia, they're going to be the team still probably, but they've got free agents.

So what are they going to do in the free agency market? Does anybody trust Dak Prescott and Mike McCarthy? Packer fans don't.

Well, that's not fair. Well, it's Mike McCarthy. I'm just telling you, being honest, they don't trust Mike McCarthy. So they're not worried about the Cowboys. I just think you look at it and the Vikings, they're going to probably lose half of their defense to free agency. I think if Rodgers comes back, I think they have every opportunity to compete for an NFC title. It's going to be a heck of a lot easier in the NFC for Aaron Rodgers than it would be going to any team in the AFC at this point.

Including the Raiders, where obviously Devante Adams is now and they just cut Derek Carr. All right, Steve, so let me ask you this question. Certainly an opinion question, but I know you have them.

Do fans want him back? No, absolutely not. Wow.

It's funny, I was on 6.70 to score in Chicago earlier today on their afternoon show with Dan Bernstein and Lawrence Holmes. And they pretty much, we were talking about that same thing. I was just saying, on Twitter, yes, the majority of fans do not want him back.

And you can say, okay, well, that's a vocal minority. Okay, fine, maybe it is. But in my day-to-day life, whether it's people coming up to me when I'm at the grocery store or whatever, family, friends of mine, it's a struggle to find anybody that wants that guy back right now. It is a true struggle to find anybody that wants him back. Okay, why?

What happened? I think they're just sick of all the BS every offseason of show me how much you love me, tell me how much you love me, and not letting it go. And the whole Pat McAfee thing, I think, has once been on a lot of Packer fans and having to deal with that drama every single week, all season long of what is he going to say now to create drama.

I think people are just sick of it and just want to move on. Like, if Jordan Love is great, fine. If Jordan Love is not, then I guess they're going to rebuild and figure it out.

But they just are pretty much done with 12 at this point. Me personally, I want them back one more year to see what they can do with Aaron Rodgers in a second year with this wide receiving corps because I think this wide receiving corps can be pretty good. I think Watson has a chance to be pretty special. Romeo Dobbs in preseason and training camp to begin the season looked like he was going to be really good. Give him a second year, see what happens, and then the issue becomes Jordan Love, right?

So what do you do? He has a fifth year option, and my suggestion has been the whole time of just give him a three-year extension. Pay him for the fifth year, sixth year, seventh year, middle of starting quarterback money, so $15 million a year, whatever it is.

Assure him years five, six, and seven. Tell him, you're my guy after Aaron Rodgers, we're going to do this one more time with Aaron Rodgers, and then it's going to be your show. And make sure Aaron understands the same thing, that this is it.

One more run at this, and then if you want to be traded, then we'll move on from you. Well, I should have apologized to Steve for using a bunch of the Aaron Rodgers reaction on Pat McAfee, but he's very professional. So he believes that Jordan Love is closer to being ready, and maybe they do one more year with Aaron Rodgers, but he believes the majority of Packers fans are, they're done with it. I just think it's so unbelievably ironic that after Rodgers always said that he didn't want his tenure to end the way that Brett Favre's did, or that they were two different quarterbacks, remember, for the longest time, they weren't friends.

I don't know if they're friends right now, but they're at least friendly. If, if, Rodgers leaves the Packers and goes to the Jets, he'd be following the same path three years after his replacement is drafted, he leaves, goes to the Jets potentially, although it seems like the more likely destination is the Raiders, that is where a lot of the chatter is, but Rodgers has yet to make up his mind. And so we'll see what happens, whether Darkness Retreat has anything to do with it, or it doesn't. At this point, Packer Nation is starting to turn against him, but turn their faces to a new era. That whole conversation with Steve, which includes a little more about the Packers, but also we talk about the Bucks, of course, because that's where I started with their 11-game win streak, will be on our podcast, After Hours, AmyLawrence.com, or we post the link every weekday morning on both Twitter and Facebook. You are listening to the After Hours Podcast.

One iconic Laker to another, the king, LeBron James has passed the captain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and LeBron now stands alone as the NBA's all-time leading scorer. I had a moment there, but I don't think it's really hit me on what just transpired. As much as I tried to live in the moment, it was kind of a blur.

But looking back there and seeing my guys back there, being out there on the floor with my kids and my wife and my mom, it's a really cool feeling. This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Has he played since he set the record? He didn't play the Thursday after the Tuesday, so it was actually just over a week ago that LeBron James set the NBA's all-time scoring record, John Ireland with the call on Lakers radio. I know he went to the Super Bowl over the weekend, and he did not play in their game, was it Monday or Tuesday? I think it was Monday. He didn't play in their game on Monday. So I'm not sure we've seen him since then, so he's getting a bit of a rest now before the All-Star break.

The reason we play that highlight here on After Hours on CBS Sports Radio is because, as we heard from Tiger Woods for the first time in a long time, he's getting set to tee off in the Genesis Invitational this week. He did, in fact, talk about LeBron James and that incredible milestone. What he accomplished is absolutely incredible, just the durability, the consistency, and the longevity. I grew up watching Kareem here. I never saw him play at Milwaukee, but he was the cap.

That's all I remember, the Showtime Lakers and watching Cap run down there with the goggles and hitting the skyhook. That record we never thought would be surpassed. But what LeBron is doing, but also the amount of minutes he's playing, no one's ever done at that age.

He'll be able to play all five positions. That's never been done before and at this level for this long. Tiger Woods is getting set to tee off in his first official PGA Tour event since he missed the cut at St. Andrews. That was the open championship going back to July. So not a full year or anything, but still it's been a long time since he has been out there in competitive golf.

He was scheduled to play in the Hero World Challenge. That's his event that takes place in the Bahamas in December, but he had plantar fasciitis. And now, even though his right foot is a little better, that's adding to what is the recovery time whenever he plays golf.

Still, though, his ankle is the issue. That's what gives him the most pain and that goes back to his car accident. It will be nearly three years now. Oh no, it is three years because it's February. I keep thinking we're in January. It's been three years now since he had that devastating car accident that crushed a good portion of his lower leg.

And it's given him problems since. But honestly, how many people even expected him to ever play golf again? The recovery is more on my ankle, whether I can recover from day to day. The leg is better than it was last year, but it's my ankle.

Being able to have it recover from day to day and meanwhile still stress it, but have the recovery and also have the strength development at the same time. It's been an interesting little balance that we've had to dance, but it's gotten so much better the last couple months. And I'm excited to go out there and compete and play with these guys.

And I would not have put myself out here if I didn't think I could beat these guys and win the event. My faux pas. It feels like three years. It was actually two years.

I just looked it up to be sure. So of course he's still having trouble. And right, there were a lot of people that didn't expect him to ever play golf again, including a good portion of his peers on the PGA Tour. By the way, here's one that I thought of earlier, Jay, before we get back to Tiger. Find someone who loves you as much as Rory McIlroy loves the PGA. Excellent. That's our big fun exercise for tonight in honor of Valentine's Day.

We put a post up on our Twitter after our CBS and our Facebook page inviting you to fill in the blank, finish the sentence, find someone who loves you as much as. And we've got some real good ones that we'll get to before the top of the hour. But of course here, welcome to weigh in. So Tiger continues to say the leg is better than it was a year ago, but it's really the ankle that continues to give him trouble. Yeah, two years now that Tiger Woods was injured and it was a sight not far from where they're playing at this Riviera Country Club. And so he is there and he plans to play and do not tell Tiger that he cannot win. If I'm playing, I'm playing to win. OK, I know that players have played and they are ambassadors of the game and tried to grow the game.

I can't have my mind. I can't wrap my mind around that as a competitor. If I'm playing in the event, I'm going to try and beat you. I'm there to get a W. OK, so I don't understand that making a cut's a great thing. If I enter the event, it's always to get a W and there will come a point in time when my body will not allow me to do that anymore.

And it's probably sooner than later. But wrapping my head around that transition and being an ambassador role and just playing and just trying to be out here with the guys. No, that's not in my DNA. Ambassador role and hosting events like this and hosting the Genesis Invitational or Hero and doing those type of things. I totally get it. But as a player, you know, I flip the hat around and become a player from a player standpoint. I'm here to get that W. So in other words, Tiger Woods is in the same situation as Ryan Taino when he said it wasn't his job to be a mentor to Malik Willis. I understand it. You are that competitive for so long.

It's really hard to step back and take a different role. And yes, these are his tournaments. They do benefit his foundation. And so he's got this ambassador role to play. But even in these situations, he turns that knob and he becomes a player and a competitor when it's time to tee off, which will be on Thursday.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. So a little bit with Tiger Woods. Just say again, he nearly had his leg amputated. He's told us that the doctors nearly had to take the leg and he had surgeries, multiple surgeries on his right leg and his foot. His ankle still bothers him. We saw him limp through the tournaments last year, some worse than others.

Remember the Masters. So great to see him at the Masters. But it's such a hilly course and you have to walk that really by the end of the first round and on through the second round. And he'd made the cut before.

That was the problem is that it was so hilly that he had a hard time getting through it. I'm grateful that he's still playing because I know it gives the PGA a huge lift. Certainly gives his peers a huge lift. And also, let's be fair, in a competition now against Liv to retain the best golfers in the world where some of them have departed, the more Tiger Woods is playing, the more high profile the PGA becomes and the more that players are apt to remain associated with the PGA. So that was why he flew in for that meeting in North Carolina. Was it last year?

Right, Liv was just last year. Oh my gosh. Phil Mickelson, by the way, has lost a bunch of weight. I know he goes through these cycles in his career. He's apparently very fit and he is ready to tear it up on the lid this year. Let it go, dude.

Let it go, dude. Okay, so we'll get to see Tiger this weekend. But yeah, it's been nearly seven months. And other than a couple of different charitable events, she said, like the match. Remember he was teamed with Rory, of course, because Rory is like his little bro. So he will be back and we'll get to see him and see how his physical body, his ankle holds up.

His physical body and his ankle hold up. All right, so a few of your responses. And Jay, would you like to weigh in with some of your witty responses, your witty fill in the blanks to our Valentine's Day question or Galentine's Day question? Find someone who loves you as much as? I had the James Harden one, but that had involved hate. So I guess he didn't like that one. Well, it's just it's not love.

We're talking about love. So why would you talk about hate? Because I think he, like, loves to hate them.

Like, I think he hates them so much, meaning Kyrie and Katie, that, like, he loves it. Because I'm just basing this off of his comments from the other day where he said, I'm not the crazy one. So I don't know. All right.

Okay, that's the best you got? Right now, read some other ones. It's been four hours and I told you about the topic before.

Okay, I told you about the topic hours before we started the show, Jay. Don't act like I just sprung it on you. That's not fair.

It's inaccurate. Steven on Twitter. Find someone who loves you as much as Trevor Lawrence loves Waffle House. Boom! Or as much as Leroy Butler loves leaping into the stands.

That's a good one, too, because Leroy did actually create the Lambo leap. This one's a little convoluted, but follow me through it, please. Buddy says, find someone who loves you as much as Cowboys fans loved watching the Eagles lose after they booed Dak during the Walter Payton award ceremony. Oh, yeah. The Eagles fans, according to the Cowboys fans, got what they deserved because it was karma, you see. They booed Dak Prescott during a Walter Payton award ceremony, and then they lost to the Chiefs.

So, yeah, I mean, you could make a case for that. Another tweet, and we've gotten variations of this on both of our social media sites. Find someone who loves you as much as my dog loves her snacks. Robert says, as much as Al Davis loved the vertical passing game. Alfredo, as much as Marshawn Lynch loves Skittles. Oh, yeah, we had to have one like that, too. Many of you are saying, as much as you love After Hours and love listening to the show. So that's a good one. Rob says, as much as Greg Norman loves taking golfers from the PGA. And then someone says, as much as you love Steph Curry. I mean, I'll own that. Have a great Wednesday. It's After Hours on CBS Sports Radio. Boom!