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That's betterhelp.com slash positive. Ah, Mike Tomlin. The dulcet tones of Mike Tomlin. What more could we possibly ask for as we get closer and closer to the start of the NFL season? Wowsers, it's coming quick, you know. So, on September 7th, Thursday, September 7th, we will have the season opener between the Lions and the defending world champion Kansas City Chiefs. I wonder if anyone's willing to go out on the limb this year and say that the Chiefs, they're going to stink. In fact, they're not even going to win the AFC West. Any takers?

Any takers anywhere? Jay told us last year that, in fact, the Chiefs were not to be slighted. They were not to be overlooked. Do it at your own peril and boy did they stick it to the rest of the AFC.

Not just their own division but the actual conference as well. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. You can find us on Twitter After Hours, CBS or on our Facebook page. Now, we have some business to attend to and I'm going to let producer Jay explain because I have no idea what's going on or why or when or how.

Something to do with Survivor Island and how it's not yet up and running. Jay, it's all yours. Take it away. I just have to, I think, change my password because I got out of my account. So, the one that I'm in now on my CBS page. Why did you get out of your account? I don't know. It's just been about a year since we've done it. So, I haven't looked at it and I went to go activate it and put the post up and the page that I'm logged in now only had this one version of our island which wasn't our main version of our island but people are in it and pics have been made.

So, I'm not sure where this one came from. So, I just have to find the right one and if not, if I can, then I have to just post a new one and then I'll post that link and everyone just sign up and we'll have a new island. But I'm hoping just to reactivate that older one.

By resetting your password? Yeah. So, I'm using old producer Dave's account which is where like, so there's never like mine to start with. I never created it. I just took it over.

So, that's why it's a little fishy. All right. Something to do with resetting a password. All I heard was wah wah wah wah wah excuses. You promised. You promised and why didn't you try resetting the password? I did. I tried it and I didn't get my thing in time.

So, I don't know. I had to come into work. Wait until the last second I see. I got it. Okay. Well, we'll give producer Jay another chance even though he did promise and I promised too. So, now I look like an idiot but it's totally fine.

It's going to be totally fine. We will attempt to have that done for you in the next 12 hours I guess. I don't know. How long do you need to reset the password? I'm not sure. I'll figure out when I get home. You're gonna wait until the last second again?

Probably not. Okay, good. All right. No coming into work until that's done unless you're gonna do it here and then in which case that'd be okay. Yeah, no, I dare you.

Please feel free to stay home from work just on on a rando reason. So, producer Jay is going to take care of that and we'll get you up and running in Survivor Island even if we have to reset and start over again or just reset a password, you know. So, you want to check that link on our show Twitter after our CBS or at least prepare also on our Facebook page by Labor Day which will just be a couple days from the start of the NFL season. We hope to have a brand new video for you on our YouTube channel and that would be our stairway to seven teams that will make the playoffs this year that did not make the playoffs last year because half the playoff field, roughly half the playoff field turns over every season and so if that's the case then we're expecting seven new teams out of the 14 or somewhere.

Maybe it's six, maybe it's eight, but it's real competitive in the NFL and there's no guarantee that you're going to see the same teams in and you may see a team like Philadelphia go from being a surprise wild card in 21 to being a division champion of one of the toughest divisions in football in 22 all the way to the Super Bowl, right. So, just to jog your memory, I don't know why you jog it. I was doing some jogging on Monday. I don't know why you jog it, but you do.

We're going to jog it. Your Buffalo Bills and your Miami Dolphins made the playoffs last year out of the AFC East. In the North, it was the Bengals and it was the Ravens. In the South, the Jaguars overtook the Titans who finished up the season with seven straight losses. Oh, and actually this is how bad the AFC South was. It was the Jags who won five in a row. The Colts and the Titans both wrapped up the season on seven straight losses.

That's just brutal. So, the Titans no longer have a grip, a death grip on the AFC South. Now, the Jaguars are the team to be and then in the West, Chiefs and Chargers both made the playoffs. So, there are your seven teams out of the AFC.

Half of those are likely to turn over. Who will they be? In the NFC, we had three teams from the NFC Beast get into the postseason. So, the Giants for the first time in a long time, the Cowboys and then the Eagles who went to the Super Bowl against the Chiefs. The Vikings won the North and they won it handily by four games. The NFC South was won by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who had a record below 500. In fact, every team in the NFC South was below 500. Eight and nine won the division last year. Panthers, Saints, Falcons all seven and ten. I suppose you can call it competitive. I think it was until week 16 that all three, well, all four of the teams were still alive, but all three of the teams that finished tied for second.

That's a nice way of saying it. A polite way of saying it that the whole division stunk when the three of them are tied for second behind the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Yeah, the entire division was still alive for the title in the NFC South in week 16. And then we had two playoff teams out of the West. The Niners who used four quarterbacks won for each of the losses that they accumulated last year.

That's nuts, right? No team should ever use four quarterbacks and only have four losses. That defies the logic. And then the Seahawks, Geno Smith's year of redemption comeback player of the year Geno Smith. Okay, so if those are your teams, then seven of them roughly will not make the playoffs coming up this year. A lot of it depends on injuries, of course. We've got some really stiff schedules, especially in the stacked AFC.

And so we'll do that question as we get closer to the start of the year, but that'll be our YouTube video. Our stairway to seven will count down the seven teams that we think will be new into the playoffs this year, whether we believe it or not. Here's what I'm wondering, though, even as I look at the standings from last year and I think about the Arizona Cardinals who are starting Josh Dobbs, we think, in week number one. Who will be the last team in the NFL to win the team in the NFL to get a win? Which team will be the last one in the NFL to get its first win? I actually don't remember who it was last year. I know the Chicago Bears wrapped up the season with 10 straight losses. They couldn't buy a win.

They obviously ended up with the overall number one pick, though they traded it away to Carolina. We also had six straight losses for the Jets to wrap the season. Not likely to happen with Aaron Rodgers on the field, though, again, there's no guarantees. Which NFL team will be the last, or if you want to give me a couple, which NFL teams will be the last to pick up wins this season?

I'm trying to think if there's another direction I would go besides Arizona, because I do not think highly of Arizona. They're in a definite rebuild. I'd have to go and look at all the schedules for week number one. I would think the Colts will struggle, too. We'll see what happens with Jonathan Taylor, but I would think that the Colts, with a brand new quarterback who's really raw, and the questions on the offensive line.

Now, they think they've rebuilt it. They think it'll be better this season, but there's no guarantee. So I think the Colts might also be one of the last teams to get a win. I don't know if I believe in the Raiders, but I do like Jimmy Garoppolo, and I know he's familiar with Josh McDaniels, and so that's helpful. Not to mention they do have Josh Jacobs back in camp, so he has signed a reworked deal for one year.

It's funny how deadlines are not really deadlines in pro sports. He signed a one-year reworked deal, and I think that's why he signed a one-year reworked deal in which he can make up to 13 million dollars. This is the franchise tag deal, but the Raiders have made some provisions and added some options for him to make up to 13 million dollars with incentives.

So not that dissimilar from what Saquon Barkley did with to finally get into camp. So Josh Jacobs is back. Jimmy Garoppolo's healthy.

I don't know that I'm, it's not really about Jimmy Garoppolo. I'm just not sure I'm a big believer in the rest of the weapons that they, Devante Adams is certainly a number one. Can Jacoby Myers attract attention away from Devante Adams so he isn't constantly seeing double teams?

Austin Hooper? Can he be a viable option at tight end where Darren Waller was traded? So I have question marks about the Raiders. Definitely have question marks about the Broncos, not just because of Russell Wilson in the Sean Payton system for the first time. So this will be his third different offensive system, his third different adjustment in three years. Right, so he went from Pete Carroll, the only system he'd known in Seattle, to then a Nathaniel Hackett led Denver Broncos squad, to now Sean Payton. That's a lot of adjusting. And remember, the Broncos have been hit severely with injuries at wide receiver.

Big time. Jerry Judy is out for at least a week, but he's not the only one. They've lost guys for the season. They've lost guys for a few games at least.

They are very thin at receiver. So the Broncos might be one of the last teams in the NFL to get a win. I actually think Houston could steal a couple.

I really am high on D'Amico Ryans. It doesn't mean they have it all put together. They start out on the road at Baltimore, then they play Colts at home, then on the road at the Jaguars, Steelers at the Falcons, the Saints, and then at the Panthers. So they've not only got their own weak AFC South, but they've also got games against the NFC South, which is helpful. So I think I'm going Arizona. Ooh, I might go Atlanta too. Arizona, Atlanta, Denver, and Indy as being among those last teams to earn a win this season. What do you think? You can find me on Twitter, ALawRadio, and then also on our Facebook page.

Which team will be the last to get a win in 2023? Jay just put up a spot on our show Twitter after our CBS. I retweeted, so it's out there now. We'll get it up on Facebook as well.

Facebook after hours with Amy Lawrence. I don't know if I'm high on the Rams either. See, these are all question marks, and when I say I don't know, it's because I could guess. Like, I just guessed which teams will come out of the gate slowly. You know when you watch a horse race and a horse gets either kind of twisted up in the starting gate, or when he comes out of the starting gate, he stumbles? That always scares me to death. I'm worried about the horse and his health. Or he just doesn't break quickly and is rapidly left in the dust, which is tough, right?

Because then you're trying to make up ground. You've already got horses that are at full speed or close to it. So if you're using that horse race analogy, which are the few teams that are going to stumble out of the gate and then struggle to find their footing? Which NFL team will be the last to get a win in 2023?

That's what we're asking. Not going to be the case for Dan Campbell and the Detroit Lions. We were high on them last year. They did not let us down after, what was it, five straight losses. Then they ended up with a surge through the second half. I could be wrong about the five straight losses, though. Just know they played their best football at the end, and that's the foundation, the springboard for 2023. But don't tell Dan Campbell that they're the team to beat because he'll respond with hype train.

The hype train. Also, he's an emotional man. He's not a lunatic. He tries to tell us that. But he's very emotional. He wears his heart on his sleeve, and he doesn't like having to deliver bad news to players who did not make the 53-man roster. There's nothing worse than watching guys just give everything they've got, bust the rear, the blood, the sweat, all of it, the angst, the good, the bad. And that's hard.

It's hard to look them in the eye and tell them that, hey, this is as far as it goes for now. But there'll be a number of guys, too, that you didn't make it on this, maybe the 53, but we want you back here. And if it doesn't work out somewhere else or somebody's not willing to claim you, there's a reason why we want you back because we feel like you can help us. And our practice squad players play.

They play during the year, whether it's injury or special teams. There's a good chance you're going to end up playing at some point this year at some point this year if you're with us. But it's tough.

There's nothing fun about this. See what I mean? He's invested. His heart is in it.

It's not just about his mind or about the job or the paycheck. Nah, he actually cares, which is one of the reasons that I really like Dan Campbell as an addition in Detroit. And it's clear that the players themselves follow him. They follow his coaching staff. We know Pete Carroll is a guy who is always rah-rah and pretty emotional, but underneath that exterior, he's my way or the highway. He's tough on his players. He has high expectations, and he can coach up a water bottle and a pair of socks. Sometimes what you see is not what you get. And with Dan Campbell, I think that we're getting more and more into the layers of the coach, right?

So initially, he just came across like a goofball because of the whole bite their kneecaps thing. But now, not only can we see that he's intense, he's tough, he's supportive of his players to be sure, he cares about them individually, but he's also got a plan. He's a man with a plan. So don't even try to give me that Detroit is one of the last teams to win a game in 2023 because I will not believe it.

I feel win underneath my freaking wings, man. Yeah, he's all about it. He's all about being the most unique character this side of Mike Tomlin.

And it's neck and neck, I'm telling you. And Mike McDaniel, too. Who are the last teams to post wins in 2023?

You can find the post either on Twitter, ALaw Radio, After Hours, CBS, or on our Facebook page. Coming up a little bit with Kirby Smart as his team attempts a three-peat. Yeah, it's hard to do. It's hard to do in any sport, but in college football, it's never been done. Did someone say Mike Tomlin? Oh, we're gonna have a little bit from Mike Tomlin later on in the show.

Coco Gough has a three-set match to survive the first round in New York, but it came on a very special occasion. We're mixing and matching here on After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. You are listening to the After Hours Podcast.

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This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Well, there are certainly plenty of teams, schools that are joining the SEC, not necessarily on Kirby Smart's invite. It's not a cakewalk. I mean, it may not have had the year that you're used to or that we're used to in 2022 with the same depth from top to bottom, but you give it 12 months and the SEC can once again be the toughest in college football, though we'll see. Is it the Big Ten? Is it the SEC? Maybe this year the Big 12, although still in this stage where it's reforming like an amoeba, right?

It's taking a new shape. We'll see who has the dominant or the title of best conference in college football, but regardless of where the conference is and where the conference dominance lies, Georgia is the two-time defending national champion and could be the first team going back 90 years. Completely different landscape in college football then, right? So modern day college football, we've never had a three-peat.

You have to go back nearly 90 years for a school that won three titles in a row, but Kirby Smart does not want to talk about that, doesn't want to consider it. In fact, he says we can't focus on it, and I certainly understand that, right? Because if that's your goal, you're looking so far in the future that you're not focused on what's happening right in front of you and you're liable to trip. A little bit like, at least this is my philosophy, my grandfather always taught me to look at the sidewalk, to keep your eyes on the ground where you're walking. Now it doesn't mean right below your feet and looking out in front of you, maybe six feet or so, because if you aren't paying attention to what's on the ground, you're liable to trip.

Maybe I took it after him, right? Because I definitely am one of those who can trip if I'm not paying attention. Actually, when I was running on Monday afternoon, I saw the branch. I thought I ducked under it far enough and yet still did not. I guess I'm taller than I thought, but I got too high up near the branch and the branch knocked my hat off my head. That was fun.

I'm sure anyone driving by thought, you idiot. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. So Kirby Smart, tight-lipped, not allowing the conversation about a three-peat in the locker room. I just don't think you can make it about that because the minute you do that, you open yourself to distractions, added pressure. What if it doesn't happen?

What do you plan for? I mean, there's just so many things that I just don't believe philosophically in doing that because what the previous two teams did has no bearing on this team, has no bearing. Our focus is UT Martin and really us, and that's going to be true whoever we play. We have to remain focused on us and we have to, like I said, set a standard of the way this team's going to practice in a game week. That's kind of like being where your feet are because you don't inherit practice habits. You don't inherit standards. You set them and they change year to year and you got to kind of acknowledge them. So that's where our focus is.

Heavens, that was some rough audio. Okay, but hopefully you heard Kirby Smart there saying you obviously can't focus on what's to come. You can't look so far ahead that you miss what's in front of you, and he says I don't believe philosophically in playing for the three-peat because what those two teams did has nothing to do with 2023 and the squad we've got right now. Though if we're talking streaks, George has got 17 wins in a row and 33 of 34 with the Saturday opener of the 23 season. All right, you have to go back to the 30s for a team to win three national championships in a row, but such a different landscape and obviously multiple iterations of the system. Now they didn't play for the championships then.

It was more about rankings. You've had multiple teams attempt to win three national titles consecutively, including Alabama in the last decade, but it has not happened. Let's talk to Jim who's in Georgia.

Welcome to After Hours CBS Sports Radio. Well when Georgia won, we were sitting there and there was a guy Ohio State fan and his brother Ohio State fan, Michigan guy with him. There was a Golden Gopher guy and that Golden Gopher guy when one of the pundits said something about Georgia's talent and three-peat possibly this year.

He let us know, us dog fans real quick, we did three. I said I don't know how long ago it's been but I guess you did. So that was way back when Minnesota did it sometimes. Really in the 1930s? I'm not sure when it was but I just said it was in the 1930s. Then I've heard it since then about Georgia chasing Minnesota.

No, it's a completely different system. First of all, there weren't nearly as many schools back then that fielded college football teams. Second of all, they didn't have a playoff or the BCS or even a system that would crown a champion. They used to vote. I don't know how they did it in the 30s, but in the 30s you're not talking about having these games on TV all the time.

You're essentially talking about whatever's in the newspaper or whatever comes word of mouth. So it's not modern day college football and certainly not modern day system. Yeah. Okay. That's when Princeton was good, huh?

Oh gosh, I have no idea. I wasn't around in the 30s nor did I study college football history. All right, I didn't study college football in the 30s. I love that you call it back in the day. Were you around in the 30s, Jim? I'm 60, but no, I wasn't around then. I mean, I do know a pretty good bit about football.

Oh, yeah, me too, but not about the 30s. I'm more of a Bear Bryant guy than a Nick Saban if I have to root for Alabama because a friend of mine in high school was in Bear Bryant slash recruiting class. I mean, I read one of the books my buddy had and he said about a player on the team or anything, the distraction is like a cancer.

You have to cut it out. I like it. I would say you don't have to pick between Bear and Coach Saban. You can be a fan of both.

If both men were equal and about the same age nowadays, I think I'd rather with the standards of Bear Bryant, my kid play for Bryant. Well, I appreciate you sharing that. Enjoy the start of the season, sir. Okie doke. Okie doke. Have a good one. You too. Can you hear myself in the background? That's always fun. Just in case you ever plan on calling a radio station or radio network like CBS Sports Radio, we are on a delay, which means that what you're listening to in the background is 30 seconds after it's actually been said.

So it makes for some awkward audio if you don't turn that radio down. All right. You're already answering. This is NFL now. Which team will be the last to get a win in 2023? Let's run through some of your answers here.

First on Facebook after hours with Amy Lawrence. Daryl goes with the Chicago Bears. Kurt says the Rams. Rick, I got to go with the Patriots.

First four weeks are brutal. Let's see. Michael says the Seahawks. Oh, that's interesting. Elmer goes with the Jets. Also interesting though.

Their first four weeks are tough too. And then Demo goes with either Arizona or Houston. So those are your answers on Facebook. Let me see if I can find some answers on our Twitter page real quick. A few of you weighing in.

So yeah, after hours, CBS is our show Twitter. CJ says it won't be the Falcons. Panthers should be on the list. Poor Bryce Young. The O line is terrible. Dave goes with the Packers.

And then some, not just snarky, but I would suggest envious language here from another tweet. If there's any justice in this world, the Jets and Aaron Rogers will be the last to get a win in 2023. All right. We'll do a little, did someone say Aaron Rogers? We'll do a little QB news coming up next. Thanks for hanging out with us. Always on Twitter and Facebook. We look forward to you participating.

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Contact Wesley Financial Group now and get a free timeshare exit information kit at WesleyFinancialGroup.com. Who is the last team in the NFL to get a win this year? We'll take your suggestions. Find our post on our show Twitter, After Hours, CBS or on our Facebook page or phone number 855-212-4227 but not right now because you may not like all the chatter about Aaron Rodgers to the Jets but there is certainly a ton of buzz in New York for a good young solid team, right? So both the offensive and defensive rookies of the year were on the Jets last year. They've got a great defense, a real solid defensive line. Aaron Rodgers, could he be the missing piece for the Jets? Robert Sala.

The guy glows in the dark. No, he doesn't. So Rodgers though played in the preseason for the first time in five years and he is all smiles as the opener approaches. I think we're ready.

I think we are. Next week will be an important week. It'll obviously be some tough decisions with the roster but just to work in some other things as we transition now to the final 53 that we're going to be doing every single week. We've held back a few things that we've been taking notes on kind of in the quarterback room stuff we want to put in this week coming up so we'll put the kind of final touches on the offense but I feel good about where we're at. Next week being this week as cuts are being made today, tomorrow, they're getting down to not just the 53-man rosters but then figuring out practice squads as well and that's where you'll see guys move from team to team and they get claimed by a different club and be put on a practice squad and those squads are very important because a lot of those guys will end up on the active rosters as injuries mount but certainly that's how you play your way onto a roster as well.

It's a paycheck too. Garrett Wilson, he's the reigning offensive rookie of the year that I mentioned just seconds ago and he can already tell you how Aaron Rodgers is helping him get better as a receiver. He sees the game through a whole different lens and that comes with the experience and just how smart he is on and off the field so for me it's been most of the ways that he's helped me. I sit next to him in the film room and I'm able to hear how he sees the game and what he kind of tells me, the little things he wants me to see so that I can just be more open for him but as far as out on the field, it's just precision when he's throwing the ball.

When it's in the meeting room, it's super detailed which helps me be able to put it from the meeting room and take it out to the field and execute and just having someone like that, a future Hall of Famer that also is so willing to latch on to the young guys like he has with us, it's been awesome for me to you know have him around it and be able to learn from him. I don't think the Jets will be the last in the NFL to get a win but I do know their first four games, actually six out of their first seven are extremely tough. Listen to this, they opened with the Bills on 9-11. That's a Monday night game. Then they're on the road at the Dallas Cowboys playoff team last year, double figure wins. Home to the Patriots and you know how the Patriots Bill Belichick has the Jets number. Then they host the Super Bowl Champion Chiefs. On the road in Denver, I'm not telling you the Broncos are good, only that it's a tough place to play in the Mile High City. Then back home against the Eagles, followed by a game at the Giants and by at the Giants we mean MetLife but the Giants will be the home team. Oh that is rough. Only the Broncos and the Patriots in that stretch were not playoff teams but if you consider the challenge with those two games, you know this is running the gauntlet early on.

It's totally fine. The Pittsburgh Steelers want to return to the playoffs this year. They're hoping that Kenny Pickett, a smarter, wiser Kenny Pickett in year two will be the ticket.

Pickett is the ticket. Mike Tomlin loves the fact that he had so many reps as a rookie and that he's carrying that forward into year two. Experience has taught me to to anticipate it and better than that to cultivate it and so you know we talk openly about it during the course of team development. He and I met every morning to start a day.

We talked about a variety of things, leadership, things that come with being him. I want to be a part of his growth and development. I'm just going I'm not going to sit on the side and hope that it happens. It happens in the ways that we needed or wanted to and so we're intentionally constructing it. We're not just watching it. We're cultivating it. We're not just monitoring it.

We're actively growing it. I love Mike Tomlin. Welcome back NFL. Mike Tomlin the best quote in the game in the AFC North. It's the Bengals division right but the Ravens with their quarterback now inked and maybe a new commitment to spreading out the offense. The Steelers who were 500 last year and have a better quarterback, a better leader. So it's going to be interesting to see what the Browns do too with Deshaun Watson as their starter in week number one. All right turning our attention to the NFC West, Kelly Stafford. She's got her own podcast and I'm assuming that her husband has given her permission to talk about whatever it is that he's going through.

She does that frequently. As he enters his 15th season, his third with the Rams, apparently it's almost like being in a foreign country with a young group of teammates. He's like the difference in the locker room has changed so significantly and they have a lot of rookies on their team this year.

They're very young so this will be a very interesting season. You know they're young, they're learning but he's like I feel like I can't connect because in the old days you would come out of practice, you'd shower. This is during training camp. Shower, people would be playing cards, people would be interacting. Who knows what they're doing you know but they're doing something together.

They're playing ping pong. They have a tournament going on doing something you know like they're at least talking. He said now they get done with practice or get done with meetings during training camp and they go straight to their phones.

Cliff Kingsbury, he's the man for the job. Remember how when he took over the Cardinals his first year he talked about giving his guys phone breaks every hour, 10 minutes to be on their phone every hour. Kelly Stafford goes on to say that her husband is struggling to make a connection with the rookies to the point where he's even carrying around a cheat sheet if you will. So Matthew was like I don't even know how to like am I the dad?

Do I take the phones? Like what do I do here? I mean there and he's like I want them to see me as like not as like a I don't know he's like as the a coach you know he feels like they say like sir to him and she's like no no we're on the same level here we're both playing in this league like let me get to know you. But he said it's so different and so hard to get to know these guys.

He had a book printed out. He asked his equipment or I think it was his equipment guys I mean do you have a book printed of all the guys faces and their names because he's like I don't I need to know their names. I feel like we don't ever talk so now I'm gonna find their names and I'm gonna know and I'm like hey so and so how was your weekend? Like I'm gonna so that they know that I know them and maybe we should get to know each other like so there's some chemistry on the field. I highly recommend that Matthew Stafford asked Tom Brady how to do it because Brady was into his 40s and a lot of guys that were younger would say to him oh I watched you growing up you know I watched you win Super Bowls. I mean it's tough to connect not just because you're in different stages of your career but because you're an old dude in sports when you're into your mid 30s and on into your 40s but Aaron Rodgers is figuring it out so maybe he and Stafford can compare notes. It's after hours CBS sports radio Jonathan Gannon rookie head coach in Arizona could be a struggle especially since they don't have Kyler Murray and they don't have Colt McCoy anymore. Just like with every decision we look at you know the full body of work evaluate our guys production goes into that and felt like it was the best decision for the team to move forward with the guys that we have in the room to help us win a football game. Okay so in other words we're not telling you why ultimately we cut Colt McCoy but instead they're either going to start Josh Dobbs or Clayton Toon.

Yeah Arizona could be the last team to get a win in the NFL this season my goodness. Anybody want to raise their hand for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers it is Baker Mayfield who beat out Kyle Trask for the starting job. Yeah replacing Tom Brady but how many times did Baker Mayfield tell us he's not going to beat Tom Brady.

Oh you suck. Okay Baker but what about Kyle what have you seen with him as you went through what was a pretty stiff competition? I'll speak from my perspective but I think Kyle would agree the growth he's had since OTAs is tremendous I think he's truly grasped this offense and found how to really run it and so I think you saw the fun part about when you understand the offense the passion and the energy all that comes out so you saw Kyle excited a couple times tonight and that's always good to see that that means that he's playing free he knows exactly what he's doing and he's able to execute. I know it's weird I never thought I'd say it out loud I'm rooting for Baker Mayfield this year in fact well I don't root against teams I don't root for teams or against teams but I do root for individual players sometimes and in the case of James Harden I actually root against it's very rare I didn't like Johnny Manziel at all and I'm not a huge fan of James Harden I just I can't stand the antics I can't stand the entitlement but anyway Baker Mayfield I didn't ever root against him but I just always kind of took him with a grain of salt no I'm all in on Baker Baker's back baby let's go oh no stop it then you're creepy just be a leader use your wisdom your experience be humble because you were humbled after the situation in Cleveland went horribly wrong I mean think about the last year of his career he sat around he waited he was silent actually he figured out how to stay off social media he was silent for a long time Cleveland finally sent him to Carolina he started the season opener for the panthers last year it did not last he got replaced by Sam Darnold and I don't know whoever else PJ Tucker then he ends up in LA now he's starting for the Bucks this is it this is Baker's second ride it's after hours CBS Sports Radio