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For important information, visit Principle dot com slash disclosures. You got to admit, it was a little bit glorious to see football that counts back on the TV tonight, back on the field tonight. And for all of you who believe the Lions could use 2023 to not only ride the hype train, but guide the hype train, dominate the hype train, maybe even drive the hype train.

This is the fuel that you need. Detroit Lions just handed the Super Bowl champions a loss on their own field to start the season. This is not something that happens to Patrick Mahomes. This is not something that happens to Andy Reid in the Patrick Mahomes era. Nah, these are the Chiefs. These are the big bads, except we start fresh in 2023.

Hope springs eternal. Every team is on the same footing. Now, not every team's fan bases may have the same expectations, but one of the things I love about pro sports, and while we're talking about football, the NFL specifically, you are what your record says you are.

There are no committees, there are no power rankings, there are no underrated, overrated opinions about who should and who could and who might and who might not. Nah, in the NFL, you are what your record says you are. Regardless of expectations, regardless of rosters, regardless of past, regardless of experience, and certainly regardless of how much money your quarterback makes. And actually, Patrick Mahomes is now underpaid by NFL standards.

We'll get to that coming up. The Lions are who Dan Campbell thinks they are. He didn't learn anything about his team tonight, nope.

Because he already knew exactly who they were. Even now, as I look up to the TV in my screen, the fake punt in the first quarter to set up the Lions and the NFL's first touchdown of the season. Well, that was fun.

Dan Campbell got a little bit of a gambler in him, as much as the NFL doesn't want to hear that about its own coaches and players. Oh, my goodness, so glorious to have football back, the sounds, the sights, the emotions, the energy, the excitement, the thrill where every game counts. Good stuff. That old familiar feeling, and yet it never does get old.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. Can't wait to talk about this game with you. Really excited to dive into week number one and some of the matchups, which off the top are doozies. Yes, we got the Lions, one of the up and comers, one of the teams that you made a very popular pick. To make the playoffs after the 23 season, even though they were not in the playoffs a year ago, and if you missed it, that's the subject of our latest YouTube video and also the subject of last night's show.

And we got tons of your tweets and your Facebook posts. Many of you agree the Lions are a prime candidate. You actually think the Lions may have turned a corner. This may be not just the new look Lions, but a new era of Lions football.

So you can check out our responses, the teams that make the playoffs, the new teams that make the playoffs in 23 on YouTube. I enjoyed hearing from so many of you and the Lions, at least in week number one, have lived up to the hype train. Not just that, but they now have a mini bye. This is the benefit of playing on Thursday to start the season. Not only are you not coming off a short week because you didn't have a game last weekend, but you now have an extra couple days to be ready for week number two. And maybe you don't need it, but maybe you do in the case of the Chiefs, and we'll talk about their perspective. But in the case of the Chiefs, they did not have Travis Kelce. They do believe that Kelce could be available for week number two, but certainly the extra couple days help. Or maybe you're the Lions and you think, oh, come on, we want to get right back on the field because that was fun.

You can find me on Twitter, ALawRadio, as well as our Facebook page After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Something else before we dive into this first game of the year. We discovered, thanks to your responses, so we didn't know this, I didn't know this, but we discovered that the two islands we had set up for you to join us this season, essentially survivor pools, but we know them as survivor islands. We've added a third island to our archipelago because you told us that island number two was full. That's never happened before. In the history of After Hours, that's never happened before.

So we opened up a third island, we purchased a third island, and we are now populating that island. The link is there, here I'll retweet, but it's pinned to the top of our show Twitter After Hours CBS. But I'll put it right now in your newsfeed because we know there are a bunch of you who still want to join us.

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It's my understanding that as long as you have your pick in by, I think it's one o'clock Eastern time, so the time the games kick off Sunday, you obviously can't pick either Lions or Chiefs, not that you'd want to pick the Chiefs, but you can still pick another game. That's easy to do. Just don't wait.

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That's 855-212-4CBS. The Lions are not going to sneak up on anyone. I think that's significant. After winning eight of their last 10 to end the 22 season, after beating the Packers at Lambeau Field on Sunday Night Football to end the regular season, kind of cool, right? The Lions were playing in the final game of the 22 season, and now they are playing in the first game of the 23 season. Although you can say the same thing about the Chiefs if you include the playoffs.

They were playing in the very last game on February 12th, and now they're playing in the first game to start the 23 season. But the Lions aren't going to take anyone by surprise. Everything from hard knocks last season to Aiden Hutchinson to, as I mentioned, their hot streak in the second half of the year, actually the final two-thirds of last season, to the way they did get flexed and were able to end Aaron Rodgers' tenure in Green Bay, to all of the chatter about them in the offseason, to Jameer Gibbs, for heaven's sakes, taking him early in the draft in a bit of a surprise.

And what do people say? Some people, not all people, but the line, the rhetoric from some, oh it's just the Lions being the Lions, this is what they do. People can see the Lions coming. The intensity of Dan Campbell, the fact that their offensive coordinator, do you remember this? Their offensive coordinator Ben Johnson decided to stay in Detroit. He had head coaching interviews, and in fact he turned down another interview. He ended his candidacy before he ever spoke to the Carolina Panthers. I don't know if they would have picked him over Frank Reich, but he had a job interview with the Panthers and chose to put the kibosh on it. He decided he wanted to stay in Detroit.

He wanted the chance to work with the group that he had gotten comfortable with in the Motor City, and he wanted the chance to finish what they started. That's the belief. That's the belief about the Lions. And so we're not talking about a team flying under the radar, we're talking about a team that is, as Dan Campbell says, the subject of the hype train and he doesn't like it. But it's a good problem to have, right?

It's a good problem to have. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. The Lions were a fourth down fake punt away from starting the game with a pair of three and outs.

That's where they were. If you miss the first minute of the game, oh, maybe you were like me, you watched the pregame on NFL Network and it carried some of its own, but then also switched over to the NBC pregame show. So if you were watching NFL Network, your TV was on NFL Network, maybe you didn't realize the game had started somewhere else. So maybe you tuned in a minute late to the broadcast on NBC, so warm up for Sunday Night Football, if you will, and you missed the first minute. Well, then you missed the Lions initial offensive series. They went three and out. The crowd there in Kansas City at Arrowhead Stadium fired up. This is the defense of their title, after all, and it's been 20 years since a team went back to back in the Super Bowl, won two championships in a row.

The Patriots, of course, 20 years ago. So there were the Lions on the verge of a second consecutive three and out to start their season. A second consecutive three and out with all of the hype, the promise, the attention, the chatter. Oh well, I suppose we can just get the ball back the next series and try, try again.

Or you can go big early in the game. Jack Fox to punt. Richie James back. Did they fake it? Lions try to keep it. I don't know if they got it.

They did. Oh my goodness, the Lions fake it. They snapped it to the up man and they get the first down. Jalen Reeves may have been in there behind that line.

The surge was just enough to get him out to the 20-yard line. It's a gain of three and a first down for Detroit. How about Dan Campbell and Dave Phipp rolling the dice early? There you go. First quarter of your very first game on the road at Arrowhead Stadium.

Whatever. Let's go for it. National TV. It's going to be chaotic. Their heads are going to be spinning.

Guys are going to be, their head's going to be spinning. It was a special second drive to remind people these Lions, they're different. Instead of going three and out, the fake punt from the 17-yard line.

We're not talking about middle of the field where it's a little less risky. Nah, we're talking about from the 17-yard line. A direct snap for a three-yard rush and Detroit turns its second chance into its first touchdown.

The NFL's first touchdown of the 23 season. Gough steps up to his line, checks his protection. He's going to work out of the gun with Montgomery to his right. Clay Clock at five.

Gough leans in. There's the snap. Jared back. Looking, looking, throwing, middle.

Caught. First down. Touchdown Detroit Lions. Oh baby!

Ahmed Raas. St. Brown. That's Dan Miller on Lions Radio. Do you remember his, one of his signature calls when Matthew Stafford was the quarterback?

Oh baby! What a throw by Stafford! But he is going to have to redevelop that for Jared Gough, I suppose. So Detroit turns its second chance into a touchdown to Ahmed Raas.

St. Brown. And he is the top target for the Lions for Jared Gough. They've definitely developed a connection.

The nine-yard score puts them on the board first at Arrowhead Stadium. And we also got to see the first action for Jameer Gibbs. Man, the speed, the acceleration, the versatility.

It's both. He'll be able to find a seam, find a second gear, certainly once he gets out in open space. But he can also take a pass from the backfield and turn that into a significant gain. And we saw both of those things for the rookie. Actually, I think his very first carry was a one-yard rush.

But it gets better from there. And man, you can see all the possibilities with Jameer Gibbs even in this very first quarter of the 23 season. Now, Kansas City answers because that's what Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs do when they're down. They have zero fear of trailing in a game.

They have zero fear of being behind even on their own field. And so we see their typical flair despite having no Travis Kelce. I'm not sure if you heard the report from Melissa Stark. It was in the first half, I believe.

Maybe early second half. But she said that they put him in the pool early on Thursday morning and he could not push off. He had no power on that knee that he hyperextended.

And so for that reason, they decided that they would declare him out. They're holding out hope because they've got the longer stretch until game two that he can be available for their second week. But he wasn't out there against the Lions. But Mahomes is spreading the ball around eight different targets in the first half alone. And he's no longer battling a bulky ankle. Instead, Mahomes is running for first downs including a 16-yard scamper in which the Lions lost track of him.

And he's got some new receivers, some new targets on his roster as well. Chiefs 3 of 4 on third down. They have third down in goal here at the one yard line.

Mahomes throws a left court. Touchdown! Kansas City Rashi Rice with the touchdown. And the Chiefs have their first TD of the year. Mahomes with a pocket patient and finds the SMU rookie. Yeah, first year player. And we got a bunch of rookie moments in this game.

Congratulations to Rashi Rice out of SMU. He catches the first touchdown pass of the season from Patrick Mahomes. The Chiefs are able to limit the Lions because they recover a fumble. So they punch it away and recover a fumble in the red zone but aren't able to do anything with it. However, Patrick Mahomes doesn't need a whole lot of time to be able to make the magic happen. And right before half, there's another scoring drive that does feature.

Now this was an interesting choice by Dean Campbell. On a third down, accepting a penalty that forced the Chiefs back to third and 17. But they convert with a deep shot to Marquez Valdes-Scantling. And then because they've got new life, Mahomes knows what to do with it. First down in goal to go at the four. Chiefs have one timeout left.

37 seconds. Game tied at seven. Mahomes takes the snap.

Side on to new side. Touchdown Kansas City, Wichita, Kansas. Taste the sweet nectar of the end zone. Blake Bell only his second career touchdown. And the Chiefs take the lead at 13 to 7. Do you think there were prop bets out there regarding Blake Bell scoring at touchdown in the season opener? Good stuff. Travis Kelce really appreciated it. And yes, the Chiefs were up 14-7 at the half at Arrowhead Stadium.

But that's where it all changed. And we'll get to that coming up. You can find me on Twitter ALawRadio. Also on our Facebook page After Hours with Amy Lawrence.

Which new teams do we think will make the playoffs in 23? Well you got to check out our YouTube video. Thank you for all of the new subscribers to our YouTube channel. Lots of likes as well.

Producer Jay Giddy about that. Happy almost Friday. This will be our first football Friday officially of the 2023 season. And I would think with the Lions scoring the first touchdown of the year, it's a sign to buckle up for what will be a wild ride.

Right, so Twitter, Facebook, YouTube. We're happy to connect with you. We're off and running. And this feels good.

It feels good to stretch these muscles again. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence CBS Sports Radio. You are listening to the After Hours Podcast. Mahomes out of the gun. He's got it. Wants to throw. Mahomes back. Throws. It is incomplete pick off. Pick off by the Lions. Brian Branch with it left side. He's gone baby.

He's going to the house. Touchdown Detroit Lions. Deflected in the air. Branch ran under it and he took it all the way back. The Lions are an extra point away from tying this game.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. In the third quarter that's exactly what the Lions did. Season opener at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.

Dan Miller with the call on Lions Radio. Brian Branch is the rookie from Alabama. Second round pick and he goes 50 yards.

You saw his speed and acceleration as well. And this is maybe a precursor of things to come in this game. I wonder if they'd say precursor of things to come this season for the Kansas City Chiefs receiving corps. Or maybe it's just Kaderia's Tony.

I would say that Giants fans were probably having a little bit of a flashback there. The pick six is off the hands of Tony. Now it was a bullet but it did hit him in the hands. As my high school basketball coach used to say when one of us would drop a pass that was directly to our hands or our gut. Oh I'm so sorry that pass hit you in the hands.

Right Kaderia's Tony. It was a ball that was coming with pace but he's an NFL wide receiver and he's familiar with Patrick Mahomes. But the ball bounces off of him and then as they highlighted on the broadcast on NBC. Brian Branch was actually breaking to the left and kind of twisted and and contorts his body backwards so he can grab the ball that's going to his right off the hands of Tony. 50 yard touchdown makes it 14 all.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS Sports Radio. Now the second half only featured a pair of field goals for Kansas City. Back-to-back drives but they could not capitalize. Once again you could see the drops. They were becoming an all too familiar theme and while Patrick Mahomes has a very high standard for himself and he speaks highly of his teammates and he's never worried about who's in who's out who's there who's not who's gone like Tyreek Hill last year who's new he'll make it work with anyone.

You could see the frustration a couple of times when the balls of the passes that he threw were dropped. So early in the fourth quarter is Detroit actually taking charge? Not what you would expect for the season opener at the home of the Super Bowl champions in the fourth quarter. No this is supposed to be the time when we see Mahomes magic where they lock in where they flip the proverbial switch instead it was Jared Goff and the Lions.

Goff is going to work empty out of the gun. Lions from their own 23. Goff takes the shotgun snap he's back sets in the pocket looks hit as he throws over the middle it is caught. Reynolds first down across the 40 at the 41. Josh Reynolds that ball was behind him but he adjusted his body and made the grab and the Lions come up big on third and 12th they pick up 18. Goff play action fake got time in the pocket looking looking throws it is caught inside the 35 he's free at the 25. It is down the right sideline Josh Reynolds inside the 15 and Reynolds to the 14 yard line where it'll be first and 10 for the Lions. That was a nice run after the catch that time by Josh Reynolds for 33 yards. Montgomery the lone back behind Goff Lions scrimmage from the Kansas City 8. Goff gives to Montgomery again he's got room inside the five fighting to the end zone touchdown Detroit Lions. David Montgomery to the house and the Lions are an extra point away from taking the lead. That is just big time running big time blocking and big time production. Did you hear the clapping in the background this is not something they're used to I know Dan Miller he's been a professional as long as I've been listening to him he's one of our favorites but obviously there's a ton of excitement and buzz around the Lions so yeah Detroit takes charge with that nine play 75 yard march consumes five minutes which is what you want right take time off the clock stay calm cool collected in hostile territory but a couple of humongous plays from Jared Goff to Josh Reynolds a third and 12 goes to Josh and then a 33 yard catch and run by Reynolds that sets up the rushing TD for David Montgomery and he was in fact bull rushing people just a strong powerful run that got him into the end zone so yeah there are the Lions sitting on a one point advantage with seven minutes to go okay right now Marco Balletti you can raise your hand too raise your hand if you thought the Lions were actually going to protect that win in Kansas City no because this is what the Chiefs do they thrive when the stakes are higher they thrive when the adversity and the the pressure the intensity are ratcheted up except they weren't able to they just didn't look in sync offensively and I'm not sure if you saw the stat but 0 for 7 on third down in the second half that was the Chiefs 0 for 7 on third down after halftime now they did come up with a big stop on defense to get the ball back to their quarterback Patrick Mahomes but it was either one step forward two steps back or just really kind of you've ridden or driven an old clunker of a car or maybe it's someone who doesn't know how to drive a stick and so they're trying to take their foot off the clutch and step on the gas and the car kind of jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk and and you're you're slamming it out of your seat yeah that's kind of what the offense felt like in those late stages for the Chiefs they really could never find their gear and could never get the offense moving forward at the pace that we're used to here we go Lions leading by one 209 to play fourth and 25 Kansas City from their own 30-yard line there's the snap to Mahomes he's back Mahomes stepping up being chased rolling to his left looking looking lobs it downfield it is incomplete Lions will take over on downs no flags with two minutes to go in the game they got him off his mark that time they forced him out of the pocket he rolled to his left he was running out of room and he just had to throw it back the other way so with two minutes to play in this game the Lions lead it by one and they've got the football at the Kansas City 30. The Lions were able to put pressure on Patrick Mahomes every now and then and more often than not it was Aiden Hutchinson impressive to see him to start out his second season I thought it was interesting that his parents were mic'd up and yet uh his his mom kept asking what happened what just happened his dad was obviously following along but every time his dad would break out into big applause or start yelling for hutch his mom would ask wait what what just happened so she was busy with her binoculars too two things that impressed me and then we'll get to our break we'll hear from the Chiefs and the Lions following the update not only did Detroit stand tall and stand firm and protect that one point lead for half of a quarter and that's significant at Arrowhead Stadium they forced the turnover on downs with two minutes to go but then instead of getting nervous instead of trying to go too quick feeling the pressure they don't go three and out in fact they never give the ball back to the Chiefs they managed to stretch it out they go six plays of course they're able to kneel it out at the end but they were able to pick up a first down and protect this win in hostile territory so Dan Campbell what did you learn about your Lions in week number one I didn't learn anything I got verification on what I already knew and this is a resilient team it already was a resilient team and we added pieces to that resilient team so we're built to handle some some stuff and and we did that today against a very good opponent a lot more from Dan Campbell he sounds tired doesn't he like he put everything he had into this game good thing they have the mini bye he doesn't do anything halfway I know he doesn't Dan Campbell nothing 110 miles per hour is him and I love it he's he's fantastic for the league so congratulations to Detroit first win in a season opener since 2017 could this be a new era for the Lions and maybe just maybe the hype train should be running through Detroit enjoy the sunlight even though it's a night game if you will I know it's at night one of our favorites the Lions eclipse the Chiefs there by one point all right on Twitter ALawRadio we're just getting started we're heading into a football Friday we're going to usher in the first huge football weekend of the season of course there's also tennis Coco Goff fantastic opportunity for her on Thursday night at the US open and then two money money money money money money for joe burrow right before the season kicks off I like how they did a Thursday night news dump the bangles it's after hours with Amy Lawrence you are listening to the after hours podcast jack fox to punt richie james back deeper case did they fake it lions try to keep it I don't know if they got it they did oh my goodness the lions fake it they snapped it to the up man and they get the first down Jaylen Reeves may be in there behind that line the surge was just enough to get him out to the 20-yard line it's a gain of three and a first down for Detroit how about Dan Campbell and Dave Phipp rolling the dice early look that's something that Phipp and I had talked about and we knew there was going to be a right time to do it and I felt like that was the right time to do it this is after hours with Amy Lawrence a big moment for Dan Campbell and the lions very early in the season it sparked a long touchdown drive and the very first score of the NFL season and man it was a tale of two halves for the Chiefs offense and we know that one of the drops by the Chiefs led to a pick six a 50-yard pick six do you know that was just the third pick six of Patrick's career wow pretty impressive right but the receivers have to bear some responsibility I know the stat ends up next to the name of Patrick Mahomes but they need to bear some responsibility for not taking care of their business it's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio in the first half the Chiefs were five for seven on third down in the second half they did not convert a third down and here are the lions who whether or not they were trying to make a statement whether or not that was even part of the motivation no I doubt it is what they're trying to do is win games and we hear all the time from players and coaches how difficult it is to win one game much less week to week and then end up in the playoffs retired players will tell you especially those that didn't see a lot of postseason action you get there you think oh man especially early in your career oh man this is pretty easy let's do this again and then sometimes it never happens again and so for the lions to start out this way to now know that they could have confidence in their system in the people in the play calling certainly in their ability to go into hostile territory last two games have been on the road in some of the toughest places to play think about it they wrap up 22 at lambo and they win on sunday night football on national tv and then they start out 23 with a victory one of the loudest most raucous stadiums in the nfl this is a big deal so maybe dan campbell wouldn't identify it as a statement but it did make a statement to not just fans but also to the rest of the league i hit some tough spots in this game against a really good opponent and and that happened and nobody got down nobody got frazzled and we just hung in there and uh it's it told the team they're built for this and uh it's why we play with uh three phases so you know if one at any given time is struggling a little bit the other two will bail them out and then that happened today all the units stepped up when when we needed them most and uh i'm proud of those guys i'm proud of the staff you know i thought our defense really showed up today and and what's encouraging is in all three phases we got so much to clean up you know that we'll only be better from but this was step one this is game one so i'm proud of them a lot of work's been put in this off season and you want to start off winning the first one we did today we didn't play our best ball today certainly on offense i thought the defense kept us in the game for the most part but when we had to be great we were and found a way the defense definitely was the dominant force in the second half there in kc jared golf though efficient he he can dazzle i mean there isn't a throw that golf can't make however that's not the system they do want to run the ball and they believe what jamir gibbs they have a tandem now that can run the ball with david montgomery who had a touchdown and then jamir gibbs who had the first seven carries of his nfl career they ended up with 118 rushing yards in this game that's a big deal in the nfc north often you can tell a lot about a team and where it's headed in a specific game but also over the course of a season by whether or not they've got a run game when the temperatures drop especially in some of these tougher places to play but the lions the vikings certainly the packers even the bears as much as it's different it's skewed because of justin fields these are teams that need to run the ball and for years i don't know if you would say going all the way back to barry sanders but they i mean he's he's a special case but they haven't had a consistent run game for more than say a season here a season there and now potentially this one-two punch with montgomery and gibbs it's after hours here on cbs sports radio so yeah golf throws for 250 he has a touchdown but he did oh as mike tomo would say move their units he did move the units he got them up and down the field and he says this is how it's supposed to be we're to the point now where we're built for environments like this to go on the road to anywhere and go pull out a win and even if it's ugly it's a win and we're happy about it we expected to win this game you know we came in here and we knew what we needed to do and and we knew it wasn't going to be easy and we did that and really what it means is that's one that's one that's one so we got to be we got to clean up our issues that hurt us on some stuff today and be ready for seattle in 10 days um and that's what it is hey lions fan base y'all showed out today man y'all showed out today uh it was a great game great win great way to start off the season man oh we got some of our let's go let's go oh let's go we got some of our loyal fans right up here big dub big win see you next week the voice of aden hutchinson man was he in patrick mahomes grill a bunch i check all the boxes he definitely was forcing mahomes to get rid of the ball quicker than he wanted to in many cases three different times he hit patrick mahomes that's a big deal as well and it was funny because you heard a lot of the chatter around the lions defense going into this game is that outside of aden hutchinson yeah it's not all that good except we saw some big time plays brian branch of course with the dazzling catch in the 50-yard run for the pick six cj gardiner johnson defensed a couple of passes he's he's one of those guys who is either up up up or down down down but he made some big plays in this one i like what i saw from the lions team and it's not as though they started out with an easy opponent now nothing tougher than being at the home of the super bowl champions as for andy reid of course he's going to hone in on the passes that were dropped the opportunities that were missed for the offense it's unusual for us to drop that many passes anywhere anytime so um we'll go back and work on that um but you got you know you got to take care of business and these guys know that and so we've got to fix that six dropped passes it was something that the chiefs play-by-play team and their pre and post game group was highlighting six dropped passes by wide receivers in this game and in the second half you could see the drop-off the connection between mahomes and his receivers that yeah wasn't effective in fact he was just 10 of 22 which is below 500 throwing to his wide receivers kadari is tony notable he had a couple of drops that couldn't have come at at worse times and so patrick mahomes was asked about tony specifically after the game i have trust in kt um he missed a lot of training camp um obviously he wanted to play and thought rehab hard so he could play um and and stuff's not always going to go your way obviously um he wouldn't want to catch a few of those in the game but i've trusted he's going to be that guy that i go to in those crucial moments and he's going to make the catch and and and win us some seasons like he did last year so we're going to continue to work him in get him more and more reps um and i'm sure that those drops will kind of disappear yes having travis kelsey changes the offense thought it was kind of funny to hear chris collinsworth on the broadcast my mom's favorite uh nfl broadcaster wonder out loud how many plays they actually have that don't include travis kelsey but patrick mahomes says he warned the guys this is part of being in the nfl you're losing um one of the best i think the best tight end of all time um but guys other guys got to step up i mean it's going to have an impact on the game but other guys got to step up and they're gonna have to step up and and moments because i'm sure there'll be times he gets doubled um and so uh just gonna have to rely on these other guys that are young and talented to step up and make plays and i believe that they will so we think travis kelsey could be available for week number two but week number one results in the l for the kansas city chiefs are the lions actually who people think they could be it's kind of fun to see them tonight and think about the possibilities a one point win at arrowhead we are off and running and you guys were encroaching on a football friday now coming up roger gadell spoke in kansas city and also joe burrow gets paid it's after hours cbs porch radio guys it's no secret that classic dress shirts suck that's why our friends 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