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I hope it wasn't too jarring for you. Good morning to you. Happy Monday. We are cruising toward a holiday weekend. I can imagine many of you have plans. I generally work holidays, but not this one. I've got some plans.

I'm milking every last ounce of some some summertime that I possibly can. So I will not be here on Thursday night into Friday morning and I'll be out until Tuesday evening after Labor Day. But just in time for the NFL season to kick off on Thursday. You guys were days away, just days away from the actual NFL season.

As I've been saying on this edition of the show, only one more empty, using my air quotations, one more empty, lonely Sunday. But honestly, because it's Labor Day weekend, it doesn't have to be that way, right? We can revel in the last of summer, go kayaking, go to the beach, go to a concert, go play golf, whatever it is that you want to do. Do it now, because summer is nearly over. Actually, I prefer fall, but summer has been fun. Four different kayaking trips, three different concerts, a couple of road trips, a trip to Houston. I've had a really good time this summer. I've worn myself out. I've talked on the phone more than I ever thought was possible for one human. But it's all for good reason, and soon I will be unavailable.

So I better talk and travel and enjoy myself until football gets here. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. If you missed the story of how I welcomed a new dog into my home on Sunday, please check out the first segment of the podcast. Because, right, it didn't quite go the way that I expected.

So that was how I started the show. We're starting this hour with something we haven't covered to this point. If you didn't see it, it was dramatic at its finest. It was one of those moments that we remember why we love sports. From the category of, you can't make this stuff up, final game of the Little League World Series.

Challenging, and this game is over! Lewis Laffey does it again! California, your Little League World Series champs on a walk-off home run. And a backflip for the ages.

Forever it was up there. What a weapon Lewis Laffey proved to be at this World Series. Five home runs.

That's the call on ABC. Congratulations to the team from California winning the Little League World Series for the first time since 2011. But, it's five consecutive titles now for the United States at the Little League World Series and what a moment. Isn't that what little kids dream of?

If they play baseball or softball. Isn't that the moment that you dream of? A walk-off home run for a championship and that is Lewis Laffey. And it will always be the answer to a trivia question.

Unbelievable. So beating Curacao, six to five in the final of that World Series on Sunday. And he does the bat flip and he's got his arms in the air and he's trotting around the bases. And it could not have been more perfect. A more perfect way to end was what is an iconic event.

So congratulations to California, congratulations to Lewis Laffey and his teammates. From the very base level where it starts to the big leagues where, oh yeah, they hit home runs. Here's the pitch to Julio. Swing and a drive. Deep into the gap. In left center field.

Going and going. Goodbye baseball. Into the Mariners bullpen.

Julio Rodriguez with a wide shot. Two run home run with two outs. It's now the Mariners three and the Royals nothing. And it has been a Royal slugfest for a home run. Seven yesterday and two this afternoon.

Three nothing. The Mariners lead Julio Rodriguez with his 51st career home run in only two years of the big leagues. He's gotten a 50 faster than anybody in the history of the franchise.

Quicker than A-Rod and there is number 23 on the year for Julio Rodriguez. That was a tee shot. We just gotta keep on going. It's not over here.

It's not over yet. We're gonna need your energy. Keep bringing the energy to this ballpark and let's keep on riding this. I'm gonna keep it right there. I'm gonna keep it right there. I'm gonna keep it right there.

His megawatts mile, his energy, the electricity of the crowds. It has spurred on the Mariners. So here are the dirty deets for the Mariners and of course for the Texas Rangers. Seattle now has 11 wins in its last 12 games.

You hear the call there on Mariners radio. With Texas backpedaling actually plummeting through the month of August. The Rangers who have lost 9 of 10 have coughed up a seven and a half game lead over Seattle in not even two weeks. As we sit here on the morning of August 28th, the Mariners needed all of 13 days to erase a seven and a half game deficit.

That's how quickly it can happen. They caught lightning in a bottle. The Rangers can't buy a win to save their lives. In fact, last night or yesterday in the 13th inning, the Twins draw a bases loaded walk in the bottom of the 13th off Jonathan Hernandez. As the Rangers go 2 for 17 with runners in scoring position and squander yet another opportunity, they leave the door wide open.

Now they are in second place tied with the Houston Astros and the Mariners have erased a seven and a half game deficit in 13 days. Seals rise. Let's get it.

Seals rise. Let's get it. A power surge to be sure. They're smacking the ball out of the park. Here's my favorite baseball nerd alert as we launch forward into a Monday. We're not quite to the stretch run yet, but we're getting there. September is on the horizon. It's been exactly 20 years since Seattle sat in first place all by itself this late in a season. 20 years.

Take that for data. Now remember last season last summer. The Mariners finally made the playoffs erasing what was the longest drought in pro sports. Now it's not just about making the postseason, it's about winning the division.

It's about having everything they want dangling in front of them. Maybe potentially challenging for a World Series, though it's kind of crazy because they started out with a thud. It's funny because you wouldn't call it a World Series hangover because they didn't get to the World Series, but it certainly felt like a hangover. It took them a while to find their footing and to get comfortable and that goes for Julio Rodriguez. And so here they are, Seattle Mariners in first freaking place.

Wow. It's after hours here on CBS Sports Radio. As I mentioned, the Rangers and the Astros are tied a game back. So Rangers, they keep losing. The Astros, they're not on a streak right now like they were earlier in the season, but they do have Justin Verlander back to the point where he is comfortable. He's now four and one since he rejoined the Astros.

That's his comfort zone right there. That's his happy place, his pitching in the Houston rotation. Last night, iconic moment against his former team, the Detroit Tigers, where he won an MVP. He won, was it two Cy Youngs? Two Cy Youngs.

He also, of course, guided the team to a World Series, though they did not win. And one of his longtime teammates, Miguel Cabrera, was put in the lineup late in yesterday's game. Well, here's the matchup that everybody wanted to see today. How about this? Oh yeah, the fans are getting there on their feet now.

Here they come. Two future Hall of Famers, both Tigers, teammates for nine years. Miguel digs in and Justin Verlander to the back of the mound, a little tip of the cap. Yep, Miggie gave it right back to him. Mutual respect.

Pretty cool. Well, the fans were great, which I've always appreciated. And getting a second to tip my cap to Miggie before we go at it was pretty cool. We've had a lot of great memories together on and off the field. And I love that guy and just have so much respect for him. I'm glad AJ put him in the lineup, and I'm glad we had that moment.

You like to see matchups like that, especially when guys were teammates or friends. I'm just glad that he didn't hurt us. I'm glad he got his. He's not against our guy necessarily, but that's a lot of home runs, a lot of RBIs. Verlander went through five scoreless, picked up his 10th win on the season. As I say, he's four and one since he was traded back to the Astros. Cabrera had a home run late in this game, but it wasn't off Verlander. So he actually prevented what would have been a pretty extensive and lopsided shutout as it is. It's a runaway win for the Astros, but Miggie goes one for four with three RBI.

And there you go, two 40-year-olds, a pair of 40-year-old former teammates facing each other. We know that Cabrera is retiring at the end of the season. We don't know about Justin Verlander. Now that he's back in Houston and he's pitching like vintage Justin, why would you bother?

Also interesting because AJ Hinch, the manager who guided the Astros to the 2017 World Series with trash cans, though he says he didn't know anything about it, he is now the manager of the Tigers and he knows Justin Verlander pretty well. You can see him sort of reach back and dial up extra velo, better slider. You know, he mixed in the slow curveball today a little bit.

So he made the adjustments when it mattered the most, which is what elite guys do. It's a total blast from the past, right? Not only did you have Miggie and Verlander facing each other, but then AJ Hinch is in the other dugout.

It's just odd. And also thinking back now, I know it's still a big deal. People will never consider that 2017 World Series title to be legit outside of, say, Texas. But AJ Hinch was part of that. And then he was banned from baseball. He's banished from the game for a year. And when he returned, he went to Detroit and they've been really bad for the most part since he's been there.

And you may even forget that he still has the job. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. Of course, Alex Cora, he was banished as well. He's back managing the Boston Red Sox, and they got a chance to see an old friend.

Look at this, reunions all over the place. This time, it's Muggie with the Dodgers back in Boston. Here comes a 1-1 pitch from Chris Murphy to Muggie Betts.

Muggie swings. It's a high drive to left. This ball is back.

It is gone. A home run over the monster. Muggie Betts, a two-run shot, and the Dodgers lead 4-0. That's what they came to see. Muggie Betts ties his career high in home runs with 35 set last year as his MVP campaign continues.

Oh, an absolute no-doubter to the back of the last roll of the monster seats to the right of the light standard over the green monster. He's a good player, you know, and there's a few things he's doing differently now. I think a little more aggressive, it seems like. Obviously, you know, the versatility he's playing, you know, they're moving around. The play he made in right field, that was great. He got a good pitch to hit, and he didn't miss it. I don't know, Jay, as much as Freddie Freeman, to me, felt like the MVP of the Dodgers until, say, three, four weeks ago. And let's take nothing away from Freddie.

He's phenomenal. In my opinion, Muggie has now grabbed the lead in the clubhouse for NLMVP, and I don't just mean over Freddie Freeman. I feel like he's also grabbed the lead over whatever Atlanta candidates might be out there, though at this point, Atlanta still has a better overall record. So they've got 84 wins.

They did lose on Sunday to the Giants. The Dodgers have 80. It's getting tight, and I might go Muggie for all the reasons. The home runs, the RBI, he leads the Dodgers in both of those categories. His on-base presence, what he does when he gets on-base, he's a thorn in the side of a lot of pitchers. His defense, the fact that he can play almost any position in the field, and he leads off.

For all of those reasons, I might go Muggie for MVP again. When did he win? 18? 18, 19? 19, maybe, or 20.

Okay, something like that. He won, but he won, but I might go Muggie now in 23 for MVP. I agree with you, and all the statute is routed off. I mean, you're looking at the RBIs, the OBP, and he spat the lead off. The OBP. I mean, to set the table and knock the runners in at the same time, he does it all. Freeman's incredible, don't get me wrong. And Freeman's batting 340.

He's awesome. I mean, it's a good problem to have when you got two guys and you're not sure which one's the MVP. But yeah, just the fact that he hits the home runs, he gets the RBIs, and he also scores the runs. I mean, like you said, he plays every position. He plays second base when they need him to, shortstop when they need him to.

God does it all. Let me see if I can quick look at Muggie's batting average, only because we can see how different he would be or how much separates. There's not a lot of separation between him and Freeman. Freeman's second in the in the major is behind Louis Arise, and so we know Arise was at one point batting over 400. So Freddie Freeman is at 341. What's Muggie?

315. Oh, now see, that's a really small gap. Again, top of the lineup, top of the lineup, leads the team in both home runs and RBI. He's tied his career high in home runs, the defense, the base running, and from lead off.

I might go Muggie MVP. I don't think that's crazy at all. 407 OBP is getting on 410 times. It's just for me, it's the OBP and the average plus the RBIs from that lead off spot. I mean, how do you have almost 100 RBIs at this point in the season from the lead off spot is just incredible. Yeah, and a testament that he's setting the tone for the Dodgers when they have so many other bats, so many guys who can really hurt you in the lineup, and yet Muggie, Muggie, Muggie. He has three hits for a second straight game. He had five hits in a game last week, and he actually says that there were some nerves as he returned to Boston, but he cites one athlete who helps him to keep his cool. I've learned from a couple of people, especially Kobe.

Kobe, when I got to talk to him right before he kind of explained that to me and then just kind of put it into my repertoire. Also a big NBA fan, right, because LeBron James was in the house at Dodger Stadium last week, and they were exchanging pleasantries, and then Kobe, and so Muggie is living the LA life, but he fits. He's cool. He's calm. He's collected. He's always got that big smile on his face.

We're pretty good. He's relatively easy going, and yet, so he makes it look easy, and yet he's crushing it in every baseball category you could right now. If I was a Red Sox fan, it would have killed me to see him back in that stadium last night.

It should. It should still be a major source of consternation for not just the fans. They didn't have anything to do with it, but the fact that Muggie has played better since he left Boston, if that was possible. He was so good in Boston. He was really the catalyst for them too, but he was early in his career. Now he's even better. He's more experienced, and with the Dodgers, he has flourished. I mean, he's bloomed into a superstar, which is awesome. He's one of my favorite players in the majors. There isn't anything that I won't watch Muggie Betts do on a baseball diamond. Alright, coming up, we've got, oh my goodness, we've got a news dump from Friday where the Niners end up trading Trey Lance to the Dallas Cowboys, Brock Purdy's reaction, and how did that Trey Lance experiment, when they moved up to get him in the draft in 21, in fact traded Capitol away to choose Trey Lance at number three overall.

How did that go so horribly wrong? And then an update on the dolphin who was taken off the field on a stretcher on Saturday and now is out of the hospital, but another scary moment for NFL teams, even as we ramp up toward the season opener. On Twitter, ALawRadio, some photos from kayaking, because I can't help it, clouds, are my favorite subjects. Also on our Facebook page, good morning to you.

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I bring you the people who bring you the game. Listen on the Odyssey app, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. I was sad to see the news over the weekend that Bob Barker passed away, the iconic TV host. The price is right. He was one of the voices of my childhood, because my grandmother always watched it.

My mom would allow my brother and I to watch it when we were home, and we're looking for something on TV. He passed away at the age of 99 over the weekend, and he died of natural causes. What a rich life.

A life that touched a lot of people. 35 years as the host and MC of The Price is Right, and the only real change that he ever made. He was the same guy year after year after year, and I didn't notice then, but he apparently stopped dyeing his hair at some point, and then decided he would go all natural.

But yeah, 35 years. I'm sure many of you can think back to your own childhood or your youth where there's a voice that is so prominent, and his, Bob Barker's voice, is one that I will never forget. So that's the, I forgot that's the, that's not Bob Barker. That's the, the voice god of The Price is Right.

But Bob Barker would do it too. You're the next contestant on The Price is Right, and he was a guy that was always tanned, and of course always had the gorgeous women who were unveiling the prizes. He was just, he was such a great personality, and always flashed the pearly rights. And so yeah, he, he was 35 years, and he won 18 Daytime Emmys, and all kinds of other awards, and then ultimately replaced by Drew Carey. Yeah, that was a, gosh, that was a voice that I'll never forget. He always had the quick and easy joke and easy manner.

You're the next contestant on The Price is Right, and he would just pick it up and run with it. So I know many of you understand, but Jay just said to me, I never saw him on The Price is Right, which is, I understand. See, I know him more from Happy Gilmore from that one cameo, see when they fight. It's a generation, a generational thing, but yes, he was one of the voices that I remember so vividly from when I was growing up. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS Sports Radio.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us. A couple of scary moments in sports over the weekend. One of those coming from the NASCAR world. Now, we won't belabor the point except to tell you that it was at Daytona, and it was a car going airborne, and it was a collision between teammates. Chase Briscoe wrecked with, well, he didn't wreck him. Ryan Priest kind of turned and maybe got pushed from behind or got loose and cut across the front of Chase's bumper. And so they are teammates, and it was a really scary moment for Chase to have a front row seat to. And as they collide, then Ryan's car gets air underneath it and starts to roll. I mean, side over side over side over side, almost barrel rolling down the infield and the grass and pieces are coming off and the dirt is flying up and it's very scary, really scary. Thankfully, he's okay.

And because the cages of these cars protect these drivers, not to mention the head and the neck restraints that keep them strapped in so that they can't go flying all around in the cage of the car, he's all right. But yeah, a scary moment for Chase just because he knows Ryan personally and because they're teammates. I thought I made an okay move there at the end to get to the top lane and everybody kind of shuffled me.

And from there, just trying to make something out of it and try to be aggressive. And then obviously Ryan got turned or something and came across my nose and then we obviously all started wrecking. So just thinking about him, his family, that's teammate there, super unfortunate to see it happen to anybody, let alone teammates. So hopefully he's okay just thinking about him and praying for him right now. And every time we see one of these wrecks that puts a man in the hospital, now Ryan Preece is out of the hospital, even after his car rolled, they counted a dozen times.

I didn't count, but they counted a dozen times. It really was terrifying to see, but 12 hours later he was discharged from a hospital and was on his way home from Daytona. So that's the good news is the safety measures do work, but Chase goes on to say, hey, the safety measures inside the car work great, but the problem is we shouldn't keep having accidents like this. We can't wreck cars like that. You know, every time we come to a super speedway, you know, last year, this exact race, I came off a turn four, got spun out and I was airborne. I just was fortunate enough not to flip. So these cars with how the whole bottom is, I mean, as soon as they get any air, just, I mean, it flips them right over. So whenever you're running 190 mile an hour and you go airborne, it's not good, especially when there's grass and stuff involved. So yeah, definitely need to do something.

I don't know what it is that we can do, but need to do something for sure. Yeah. If you haven't seen the video, you can check it out. It's on NASCAR, Twitter, it's everywhere. And the driver was able to climb out of the car that was smashed to bits essentially. But then he was taken on a gurney to an ambulance and then to the hospital.

Thankfully, after overnight observation, he was on his way home. And a lot of times, and a lot of times these wrecks look worse than they are, again, because of the cage that these drivers are riding in and the fact that they are strapped in pretty tightly. And so they don't, their body parts are not flying all over the place.

They're not rattling around inside the cage. But still, you never know what might happen when you have a car at that speed that's airborne and then is rolling down the track. I mean, there's, there are obviously safety measures put in place, but what Briscoe is saying is at the super speedways, this type of thing happens more often than it needs to. And they've got to figure out how to maybe cut down on it. They've tried to use restrictor plates, but they've also changed cars now and changed equipment. And so a lot of things are different as guys are, what is it, year two of the cars, year three, maybe of the cars. Anyway, so it's just a, it's a lot of changes and they are continually looking at safety measures and how they can improve the driver experience.

It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence, CBS Sports Radio. Okay, so we'll get to our break here and then we'll talk about the Dolphins and their teammate who was also taken to the hospital. And yet great news again, because think of the safety measures in football too, and the helmets and the fact that they continually work on improving that piece of equipment.

Even though concussions are always a danger, the NFL feels like not just its rule changes, but the new and improved helmets have also prevented more serious head injuries. And then Trey Lance, no longer a Niner. Wow. Talk about that was quick. Life comes at you fast.

It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence. I think it would have been extremely hard for the guys to, to have gone out and continued to play kind of person that they would is, I mean, a lot of guys respect them. He's very well respected in the locker room. He's a great player. He's a great teammate. He's a great person. It just would have been hard to have gone back out after seeing something like that.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. The voice of Tua Tungivaloa, a quarterback for the Miami Dolphins after seeing his teammate lie prone on the ground with a helmet to helmet collision. And so as they had to get him off the field, even if you didn't see it, you can picture what is happening. Guys are standing around Daywood as the medical teams are working. And there's, they're getting ready to cart him off the field on a spinal board. And the various members of the Dolphins and the Jaguars are together in groups. They're praying. They're watching. They're nervous.

They're anxious. Thankfully, he was conscious and he was able to move all of his extremities. This is a rookie wide receiver for the Dolphins trying to make the team right and, and start the season in a few days. And yet instead he had to go to the hospital there in Jacksonville. Now, thankfully he's out of the hospital, though he is now in concussion protocol. And once again, for the second time in the preseason, we see a game that was into the fourth quarter, get called off and they tabled the rest of it so that they wouldn't have to put these guys back out there when they were shaken and rattled over what happened on the field. Yeah, smart move by the Dolphins and the Jaguars.

And of course all the players are on board. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. Mike McDaniel actually trying to talk about the moment after the game. And you could tell he's also shaken. He's a great, he's a great spirit first and foremost. You know, he had a rookie show or not a rookie show in one of the offensive meetings early on in camp. He did, you know, a rookie event and you could see the rest of the, you kind of sing a little song and then told the story. And you could see the rest of the offense from that point on. Really, you know, he's magnetic.

He's got a cool personality to him. I think there were a lot of things that happened out there on the field tonight that were, you know, that weren't expected. You know, for Daywood, you know, I don't think he woke up this morning understanding, you know, that there are repercussions playing this sport that, you know, this was going to happen. You know, I don't think anyone wakes up thinking things like that's going to happen. There are a lot of things that happen out there on the field, you know, for not just Daywood, but there were other guys as well.

But, you know, our prayers, our thoughts are with a lot of those guys that sacrifice a lot day in and day out. And it was just tough to see. Of course, for Tua, it's a lot tougher to see because he has, I'm sure, seen the videos, even if he doesn't remember the hits against Buffalo, or I guess by Buffalo, right?

It was Matt Milano. And then, is it two weeks later or the very next week when he got hit on national TV, a Thursday night football against Cincinnati? Early in the season, right?

First month, weeks four and five, I think, don't quote me on that. But then coming back later on and only surviving a couple more games before, he's once again into concussion protocol. And he's spent months now bulking up, learning how to avoid hits to the head, training in a way that he believes will make him a smarter football player, but also a tougher football player. And I don't mean tough as in, oh, you shouldn't get a concussion or have a head injury if you're tough.

No, that's a misnomer. I remember people said the same thing about Carson Wentz when he got knocked out of a playoff game via concussion, and the chorus started right away. Oh, he's injury prone.

You can't count on this guy. No, these are hits to the head, right? They are absorbed at every position, but with the improved helmets and some of the other safety measures, and also the rules changes that are in place now, the NFL continues to try to cut down on concussions. In the case of Tua, in the case of Tua, somehow regrettably he slipped through the protocol, and so they have since changed the rules about, I forgot the terminology for it, but essentially it's a no-go. Like it's a zero-go zone or something like that, a no-go zone. If you have any type of the shaky hands or the hands that were locked into place, remember how his fingers, they couldn't, he couldn't uncurl his fingers. It was very scary to see when he was lying on the turf there in Cincinnati or against Cincinnati, and his fingers were locked in a curled position, and so if there's any type of scene in which, you know, a player can't use his hands or can't open up his fingers, then it's an automatic no-go where he's instantly put into concussion protocol and is not allowed to return to the game.

Thank you, producer Jay confirms that it's called a no-go. So if anyone can speak to the fear, the anxiety, the trepidation, just the moments of the emotions that happen when you see something like that to a teammate, it's Tua, and I appreciate his thoughtful response and his leadership, of course, with the Dolphins. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. You can find us on Twitter, After Hours CBS. We do like to share a lot of videos there, and then personal videos on our YouTube channel named after the show, our Facebook page too. We obviously love to connect with you on social media, and it's been a lot of fun over the summer, but we're now about to get serious.

I don't even know what to make of this Trailheads experiment, if you will, in San Francisco. If you missed my conversation with Jennifer Lee Chan, that was second hour of the show. She joined us from the Bay Area, NBC Sports Bay Area, longtime Niners Insider, and we asked her how this went horribly wrong for John Lynch, Kyle Shanahan, and of course, Trey Lance. But get this, according to John Lynch, it was actually Trey who apologized when he found out that he did not win the backup QB job. Typical Trey, he apologized to us, and there was nothing for him to apologize for, and we're happy that he's got a spot, and the Cowboys came up big, and I think that's an indication that they're excited to have him, and we're excited for Trey's new opportunity. I always feel like I let Trey down. I mean, I wanted him to come here.

I believe in Trey. I believed in him before we took him, and I'm responsible for that. I didn't want to throw him into the heat of battle right away, but I thought he needed to play, so we tried to figure out every way to do that.

I mean, if I can look back in hindsight, he broke that finger on a helmet on that fourth preseason game versus the Raiders. I wish I didn't put him in a play that had him break his finger because I think that really hurt him in his first year, and not only did it hurt him not getting able to mix in much, but it hurt him in the practice time because he had to adjust how he threw and things like that, which I think set him back for a second year. When we went into the second year, we gave him every chance to do it. We were going to make an offense that, to me, gave him the best chance to be successful at that time, which we did do. When you do that, you hope a guy can stay healthy so he can stay out there long enough, but that didn't last long.

It was the first game, and after that, I mean, I always felt for him, and we continue to work with him, but sometimes things just don't work out. Yeah, and one of those things that did not work out, of course, has brought Purdy being as good as he was and as steady and solid as he was when he took over last year, and he didn't take over for Trey Lance. He took over for Jimmy Garoppolo, who took over for Trey Lance, and so Brock Purdy gets all the credit in the world for being ready and prepared to take the job, but yeah, that means that others lose their jobs. Now, Trey had every opportunity to win the backup gig instead of Sam Darnold, so definitely listen to my conversation with Jennifer Lee Chan. She explains why Sam Darnold instead of Trey Lance, and what happened that made this possible. Brock did talk to Trey after the trade was announced. I saw him out by the weight room for the game and stuff. He was out there talking to some guys, and I was able to go over and just tell him that I love him, and like I said, how appreciative that I am of him, everything that he's done for, obviously, myself and the team, so told him that I'm really happy for him and excited to see what he does, man, with his opportunity and his career in the NFL, so excited for him. Brock Purdy, really generous, even said that Trey Lance was a major help to him when he first got to the Bay Area because it helped to show him the ropes and just kind of walk through him in this process of going from college to pro.

It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS Sports Radio. As for the Dallas Cowboys, they bring on Trey Lance to the tune of a fourth round pick, and apparently Jerry Jones made an executive decision, and neither Mike McCarthy nor Dak Prescott knew ahead of time. Didn't cross my mind, period, about an impact here regarding Dak. I know that Dak wants to do anything we can do to improve this team, and we're going to do it. The facts are that the decision to bring in as high a quality of talent as we could that's evolving, or a young talent that is basically gaining, improving, getting better that you would be as a young talent, that's something that we've been trying to do, but it's just never the opportunity seems to be there so often.

But we've been trying to do what we did with this trade almost every draft since I've been drafting. I can't say that I necessarily expected it, no. I understand that it's business.

I understand that they're probably on a timeline. They need to get something done, and as I said, he felt like that strengthened his team. To be honest with you, I'm not surprised by anything anymore. You've been in this league eight years, been on this team.

It's hard to say that I was surprised, to be honest with you. I don't think Dak Prescott can be upset about it. It's not like his job is being challenged, and I'm not always on board or really ever on board much with players demanding some type of say or input. This is what the NBA does, not what happens in the NFL, right? Demanding some type of say over personnel moves. You're still employees, and while it's a courtesy every now and then for a guy who's been with an organization for a really long time, isn't that what got Aaron Rogers' panties all bunched into a wad, is that he was upset? Same thing with Deshaun Watson, actually, in Houston. Upset that the team wasn't consulting him before it was making moves.

Hey, let's go back, shall we? For the last, oh, eight years, just to run through the quarterbacks that 49ers have used, and this is going to cover the entire tenure of John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan. So they took over before the 2016 season, right? Because Shanahan left Atlanta after they collapsed in the Super Bowl, which was 2015 season, but early in 2016. Colin Kaepernick, that was his last year with San Francisco. Kaepernick and Blaine Gabbard split the starts that year.

That's two. In 17, they started fresh. Brian Hoyer, CJ Beathard, and then that's when they brought in Jimmy Garoppolo via trade from New England, if you remember before the trade deadline. There's five quarterbacks since Kyle and John took over. The next year they added Nick Mullins in the mix, so that's six. They also had a few more starts for Jimmy and for CJ. If I remember correctly, didn't Jimmy tear his ACL in game number three? Yeah, so he was supposed to be their starter, but he tore his ACL in game three, trying to get an extra half yard out of bounds.

Remember on the sidelines? So that takes them into 2018. 19, Garoppolo started every game of the season. 2020, more Nick Mullins, more Jimmy Garoppolo, more CJ Beathard. 21, Trey Lance in the mix.

22, Brock Purdy. 10 quarterbacks, and that doesn't even include Josh Johnson, who didn't start but played in the NFC Championship. I don't like playing this game.

I don't either. Get a starting quarterback. Don't Brock goes all the way through. 10 quarterbacks. How about just one for this season? We'll talk to you tonight. It's after hours, CBS Sports Radio.

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