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Shop in store or visit Ashley.com today. As we head into a Thursday morning for many of you, look it's a throwback Thursday. The Bucks winning the Super Bowl with Tom Brady who refuses to answer the question of whether or not the Jets have reached out to him. Next question he said, asked and answered. He almost got a little salty when Jim Gray posed that question on the Let's Go Podcast.

Jim does love to incite a riot when it comes to Tom Brady. What 0-2 teams should hold out hope because they're still playoff bound and which ones are sunk? They stink and they're stunk and they're sunk. A lot of you are weighing in with the Chicago Bears as an 0-2 team that is sunk.

You can find us on Twitter after our CBS. Someone yelled at me for not calling it by its new name. Whatevs. I don't care. Next question. Retrain myself when it comes to social media. I suppose if he wants to send me a bill or a strongly worded complaint, Elon Musk can do so. So yes, either on Twitter after our CBS or on our Facebook page.

Phone number 855-212-4227, 855-212-4CBS. Heading into week three already. That's pretty exciting. Except for the Chicago Bears and the other eight teams that are 0-2, the sense of urgency is definitely ratcheted up. And there is that feeling as well for the Cleveland Browns. Because of the loss of Nick Chubb, they now bring back Kareem Hunt. A lot of injuries that will affect teams moving forward into week number three. On Wednesday afternoon, had a chance to catch up with Charles Davis, who is part of the NFL and CBS. He works with Ian Eagle and Evan Washburn. Saw Bengals and Browns in week one. Coming up in week number three has Panthers and Seahawks and he is one of our favorites here on the show.

With the loss of Nick Chubb, Charles, can you even summarize what that means for the Cleveland Browns? It's hard to do it, Amy. It really is because all the buzz words that we use all the time, and you know, we're all part of the same establishment, right? And I don't know about you, but there's times when I'm watching games, listening games, whatever, and I'm thinking to myself, I don't want to say those things. And my game pops up and I'm saying those exact things.

Oh, who am I kidding, right? We're all immersed in it. We all speak that language, that lingo.

So when I say all of those things, here it comes. He is their identity. He is their tone setter. He is the guy that makes things right when you need to calm things down out there.

He's all of those things for that ball club and allows others to shine brighter because of what he carries on his shoulders right between the two and the four. Now, does that mean that they are totally done? No, absolutely not. Will there be backups that jump up? Well, they had one that jumped up the other night and ran for over 100 yards including a 69 yard touchdown spread. All those things kick in. But the biggest thing is that Nick Chubb was going to hold things down for them, Amy, until Deshaun Watson got right.

Okay? Look, you give up three first round picks for a guy. You're not giving them up for a guy to be just a starter for you. You give them up for a guy to be an All-Pro, to be a Pro Bowl quarterback.

He's not playing to that level yet. And they need that to happen soon. And he's going to have to jump it up now without the help of Nick Chubb. And that's going to be even tougher for Cleveland. We saw this in Week 1 with the loss of Aaron Rodgers.

Now a significant impact with Nick Chubb being out. What needs to happen in the locker room, Charles, for these teams to move forward as best they can? It's the hardest thing, Amy, because the empathetic side of you is, ah, man. You know you want to be there for your brother that's down.

You want to make sure that he knows you care. The flip side is, if you're spending all your time doing that, you're not prepping for the next ball game. Right?

You have to change it and move on. I had a coach tell me when I was playing in college, and you know, sometimes out of context, people look at you like, what the heck were you guys doing out there? He said, football's Darwinian, man.

It's survival of the fittest. And if that person isn't there for that Sunday or that Saturday or whatever day your game is, guess what? You can't worry about it.

It has to keep moving. I remember this like it was yesterday. I played in the Japan Bowl. Do you remember the Japan Bowl? It was the Hula Bowl, the East, West, right? Remember all the blue-gray games, all those great senior All-Star games? A lot was gone by the wayside for the reasons we know.

I'm in Japan, and we're on a bullet train. A bunch of these great All-Star players, a few of them that became Pro Bowl All-Pro players in the NFL the whole deal. We were just talking about our various programs, things that happened. You know what the one universal was?

The universal? I said, okay, quick question everybody. There must have been 30 of us sitting there in this section. Somebody goes down the practice field. What do you guys do when that person goes down?

It was almost, I mean, it was like unconscious. Know what they all said? Move the ball. You move the ball 20 yards, keep going. And then my next question was, all right, does your head coach check on the person?

Is he a starter? You see where I'm going? Yes.

And I don't mean to be callous, and I know out of context, people are looking at it like, what's wrong with you people? You have to go play. The game's going to come the next week. It has to happen that way. To me, this is a microcosm, and it doesn't really fit perfectly because Tamar Hamlin is so far of an outlier. But Buffalo, unfortunately, got jammed up in terms of they needed to move forward, but how can you when something like that, that traumatic happens? Because when you and I went to the locker room to interview him from that day forward, every question we asked the Buffalo player had a Tamar Hamlin tint to it, every single one of them. And you saw the emotional exhaustion as that season went on. And you never heard Buffalo complain.

You never heard them make an excuse. But I don't think there's any denying that as that season went on, it was harder and harder for that team to go do it. We saw him exhausted at the end of the year. They outlasted Miami and then Cincinnati came in and whacked him. I'm not taking any credit from Cincinnati, but that Buffalo team was mentally exhausted. I guess the only benefit would be then that it happens early in the season where a lot of teams are still attempting to find their footing, but it's still heartbreaking for Aaron and for Nick specifically.

It's heartbreaking. And the biggest thing, Amy, is who's the replacement? Football may be Darwinian and you have to go on, but are you going on with a player of the same caliber, the same milk? A number of times we've seen guys jump in and play and play at a great level that maybe wasn't expected and the team can still function.

And sometimes you just can't replace that guy. We're excited to spend a few minutes with Charles Davis from the NFL and CBS, his partner Ian Eagle, and also Evan Washburn on the sidelines. And you just got done with Chiefs and Jaguars, Charles. And when you see the Chiefs turn the ball over three times in the first half and barely manage to outscore the Jags, and it's really about the defense.

What tells you that that team can still be world class and maintain or get back to that level where they have been for the past five years? Because they said number 15 playing quarterback and he took on the challenge last year of no Tyreek, right? We're going to play really small ball. You know, last year I think he had like one touchdown pass with a ball travel 20 yards or more in the air. What? And you think about his arm. But you know how people started playing. I mean, you remember he was such a bomber there by start saying, OK, let's see if you can be patient. And he struggled with that for a little while. And then all of a sudden patients took root and he won an MVP last year without being the bomber. He figured it out. How do we have people going to play me?

How are they going to do it? And he made this adjustment accordingly with his receivers. He's taking on the same challenge again this year because, again, it's a kind of a new crop of receivers. And opening night without Travis Kelce, we saw what happened.

But guess what? There was never doubt in his mind. He was coming back to them. There's never doubt in his mind that we're going to go back and do it again. Andy Reid set the tone. He was like, we got to put him back on the horse because we can't cut seven guys. And all of a sudden, here we go again. We just have to help them get better.

And I'll be darned. He did. He did on Sunday. He kept going.

The guys could there is Tony got involved. Sky more caught a touchdown pass and got involved. And you remember they had key drops in the game against Detroit. Justin Watson had a great catch and then a fumble. He came back and kept kept throwing him the football.

The kid is undaunted in terms of that. And he understands it's going to be a 17 game season and I'm going to need these guys if we're going to have any chance of being the Kansas City Chiefs that we want to be. And oh, by the way, 87 showed up again and he was a little bit rusty. You know, he wasn't quite himself. He dropped. There was one in the end zone. He catches all day. He didn't catch that one. I think that he was a little frustrated because he didn't play the opener. And, you know, I saw Andy Reid's comment this week.

He said he had Travis was fighting Travis out there because he was trying to do too much. I think he'll settle in and be fine now. So I don't worry about it.

15. He makes things work. If you are willing to work with him. Gosh, he's so smart. I'm always struck by that every time I watch them play is how smart he is and how quickly he can process, which, of course, are tools that high profile quarterbacks need. Well, what about the Bengals? You saw them in week number one.

We know Joe Burrow still kind of dealing with the calf. They only have one offensive touchdown in eight quarters. Yeah. And, you know, their thing is that the explosion just isn't there.

Tamar Chase talked about it this week. Hey, we got throw the ball down field. We got to go make some plays.

Well, people are going to play them. You know what we call on defense top down defense. All right. We won't make you throw it short rally up, try and make the tackle in the whole deal. But I think the Cincinnati at times is going to try and force the issue, try and get some favorable matchups, try and get some people in some one on one and put it up there anyway because Joe Burrow doesn't mind throwing the go ball.

All right. And he's going to throw it to chase. He's going to throw it to T Higgins.

He wrote that's not going to bother him at all because he figures his guys are going to come down with it or no one is. But they are very static on offense, Amy. When you watch them play and you've seen them a bunch of times. Right. Right.

Zach Taylor comes out of the Sean McVeigh tree. A lot of movement. Right. Every lot of guys, a lot of motion, jet sweeps. You don't see any of that with Cincinnati. And a lot of that is because they the their quarterback, Joe Burrow, processes to use the word you used on my home so well that they don't worry about all that other stuff.

They just let Joe kind of win pre and post snap. I'm interested to see if they come up with a few things moving forward. Maybe a few more bunch formations to try and get guys off the line of scrimmage.

Some isolation stuff to get Jamar Chase going. Zach Taylor is very smart. Very, very good offensive mind.

I just I like his old demeanor. They have a chance to change history. And I know it sounds really, really hyperbolic. Right.

But here's what I'm saying. Last year, they were owing to the start of the season. They went to the championship game, made the playoffs, obviously.

Never in NFL history has a team gone back to back years owing to starts and made the playoffs the second year. Cincinnati trying to change that history. Yeah.

All right. You have a background in scouting. You work with the Senior Bowl. I know you do a lot of draft coverage. You have Bryce Young this weekend with the Panthers. But thinking about those rookie quarterbacks, Anthony Richardson and concussion protocol, we know that CJ Stroud still working it out. What stands out about what you've seen from these guys so far?

Well, I'll start with Stroud. He's playing to his strengths. He's another guy very smart about what he was doing with the football. He took great care of it at Ohio State. Very accurate thrower of the ball.

I think we've seen that. And Amy, he's doing it without his offensive line. Right. He didn't have either of his starting tackles last week. He didn't have Kenyon Green, who was the first round picket guard last year. Two Scruggs who was drafted to be the starting center. None of them played.

Didn't see the kid ruffled. He dealt with it. Threw the ball accurately when he had the opportunity the whole deal.

OK. He's got some stuff to work on, but don't they all. Anthony Richardson. I think Shane Steichen, the head coach and his staff have done a masterful job of emphasizing what he does best early. But here's the issue. Two games now.

He's been knocked out of the ballgame from hits. Yeah. In college, you're indestructible. All right.

In college, he's Robocop to date myself. Right. In the NFL, those guys hit you.

All right. And so two ball games he doesn't finish because he's a heavy part of the run game. I don't think you go away from that because that's what he does best now. But he's got to continue to work on accuracy, footwork, being able to get rid of the football.

So he's not taking hit after hit after hit, despite the fact his running ability is really good for them. For Bryce Young, it's twofold to me. One, I think he needs some receivers who can uncover and get a little separation downfield. And two, they've got to start throwing the ball downfield. I mean, his average throw downfield right now is like four yards.

Well, that's not very far. So they've got to work on that. It's not all him playing check down Charlie. It's a lot of it is he looks downfield and there is no one open guys who he needs.

He needs DJ Charkat full health, right? He needs Terrace Marshall to uncover downfield. You know, those guys have to be able to make some plays for him. Adam Thielen, Hayden Hurst, they're probably his best targets right now.

And so he'll work underneath until that happens. But his yardage, way down, all those things. And don't be surprised if you see Caroline was starting to run the ball a little bit more. I heard he had a little bit of an ankle thing. We'll see if he's able to go this weekend.

But poise, all those things that we liked about him coming out of school, Amy. Yes. Still fully in evidence with this young kid.

I believe in Bryce Young. Yeah. Charles Davis, NFL and CBS has the game between the Panthers and the Seahawks coming up on Sunday, week three already.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. We talk so much about the Bill Belichick legacy for good reason. I'm not saying we shouldn't. But there are a couple of other coaches that have long tenures in the NFL. John Harbaugh in Baltimore and Pete Carroll in Seattle. Do we not give this man enough credit for the fact that he can coach a water bottle and a pair of socks?

No, he you know, you know how it works, right? Because Coach Belichick, and rightfully so, gets most of it because he had that run of going to what, 10 AFC championship games, going to, you know, six or seven Super Bowls when you get the whole idea, right? So that kind of run puts you right at the top of the mountain. But then you look at the consistency, you look at teams getting to the playoffs, being factors. Pete Carroll won one, arguably one play call away from another one. Right.

Or one execution away from another one, however you want to look at it. You know, all those things. And by the way, people forget. He went to the playoffs twice with New England when he was the head coach there. He only got the one year in New York when Leon Hess owned the team and I think he went 8-8 or something and he fired him.

And Mr. Hess said, you know, I'm old, I don't have time to wait. And he hired Richie Kotite and that didn't go so well. So it's not like Pete Carroll, you know, was a failure before. People tried to point it that way. That's really not true if you check the record.

It's really, it's really a misnomer on what was going on. But boy, after USC, he has, he's had this thing figured out and yeah, big time deal. How about John Harbaugh? Five starters missing last week. Five key starters. And they find a way to win the ball game. Don't tell me that man can't coach.

Oh, he definitely can. And he still loves it too. That's what makes me smile. Totally, totally all in on it.

And that's the thing about the best ones. Andy Reid, you know, Mike Tomlin. These guys are all in and they love what they are doing. Feel like a commercial now.

They love what they're doing and it shows. Charles Davis with a great sense of humor. The NFL on CBS along with Iron Eagle and Evan Washburn. And we know Charles going way back from when he was with Fox and he was a lot more in college football. Now it's cool to have him as part of our team. So we still have a couple more minutes with Charles because of course everybody else is talking about Deion Sanders. So we're going to do it too. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio.

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This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Everyone is talking about Dion Sanders. That's Kyle Shanahan talking about watching Colorado under Dion Sanders.

It's happening. Dion is taking over the football world again. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio.

Charles Davis along with Ian Eagle and Evan Washburn will be on the call on the NFL on CBS as the Panthers battle the Seahawks in week three this Sunday. And Charles, got to ask you about the buzz coming out of Boulder, as I call it. What's your reaction to what Dion is doing with the Buffaloes and to all of college football watching him now? Yeah, I'm pulling up a chair with my popcorn. I'm enjoying the show.

I'm enjoying watching it. But I go back to something that I said right in the beginning when he took the Jackson State job. Do you remember all the consternation that was kicked up then? Oh, he hasn't coached, he hasn't done this. I've known Dion Sanders for a long time now.

Would I sit here and say that Dion Sanders would call me a bosom buddy? I doubt that because we got together that way, but I worked with him at NFL Network. I observed what he was doing. Every offseason he was coaching kids and being involved in the whole thing. Then he coached in high school. He did a lot of things that prepared him for this job that he never got credit for. I said, he's not just rolling out of an office and say, yeah, what the heck, I'll coach now. He had been preparing for it the entire time anyway. He had a plan and now he's executed it along the way, continues to do it, and he connects with these kids like nobody's business.

He absolutely connects with them and his staff connects with them. They're well coached, they're well organized. Look, he's won two tight ballgames now.

Everything isn't just flash and dash. They go to TCU and win a tight ballgame where they execute late and get it done. Colorado State, they were supposed to blow them out.

They didn't. They made the big plays late to bring themselves back and give themselves a chance and then find a way to win it. When you win those kind of games, Amy, that tells me something about a program.

It tells me something about a group. You don't just do that by jumping around and playing music, hit my team music and all that. No, that team has some grit and some toughness to it that's been infused by him and his coaching staff and the type of kid that they brought into the program. So it's a lot of fun to watch as far as I'm concerned. And my goodness, we're talking about Deion Sanders on Saturdays. We're talking about Deion Sanders on Sundays where people are like, you know, what if he wants to coach in the NFL now? That's what he has done with it. That comes up all the time.

He says no at this moment, but people are talking about it. He is the marvel of college football right now. I would say, Amy, he's the marvel of football period right now. Oh, so much fun.

And somehow there's always a camera. Anytime he goes off on one of his epic rants. Let's be honest about it. Deion is knowing how to promote since he came, you know, since he popped up and said, hello, my name's Deion for the first time. I remember reading an article about him and Gabrielle Reese back when they were at Florida State and he was teaching her about branding and they were at Florida State. So this is not anything unusual or anything new. And Amy, if you just permit me one second here, we lost Buddy Stevens, the head coach at Dartmouth yesterday.

Yes. And I got no Buddy over the years and he took me in as a person and part of his inner circle. Incredible family, incredible coach, incredible innovator. You saw what he's done with these remote control dummies for tackling instead of them tackling each other trying to help save the game. What he's done about inclusion with women on his coaching staff with real responsibility and a good number of them have gone on to the NFL and other college programs. He didn't just bring them in and say, hey, guess what, I've got a woman on my staff. She had real responsibility. She coached, you know.

She did all the things that you were supposed to do and you can see them out there. We lost Buddy and it's going to hurt. It's going to hurt a long time. It's going to hurt me forever. But, boy, I'm so thankful I got to know him, got to meet him, got to be around him, got to be a part of it. And the world of football, it's a big, big loss losing Buddy Stevens and it fell from the commissioner's office in the NFL all the way through college football and all through the rest of the ranks. Thank you for sharing your heart with us and a few words about Buddy, you're right, an indelible impact. Thank you for that time, Amy. Absolutely.

I really appreciate it. Part of the NFL on CBS, Charles Davis, Ein Eagle, Evan Washburn. Man, it's off to its best start in over a decade, nearly 20 million viewers. What a shock.

The NFL is a juggernaut. It's great to catch up with you, Charles. Thank you so much. We'll do it again soon. I look forward to it, Amy.

Thank you so much. You take care of continued success. Love Charles. Love who he is and love how much joy he finds in football when he played obviously at the highest level in college, but now into the NFL and the analysis and the scouting and everything else. So he's a great listen along with, I mean, Ein Eagle is entertaining in and of itself.

And then to add Charles Davis and his humor and his perspective into the mix is pretty cool. I did see that the numbers from the NFL and CBS put it in this rarefied air already. Best start for the network in 13 years with its football coverage, averaging nearly 19 million viewers so far on CBS broadcast. We talked about Jets and Cowboys.

That's the one that's driving the bus. Most watched show on any TV network since the Super Bowl. Encroaching on 26 million people for Jets and Cowboys without Aaron Rodgers. So give credit to the Cowboys. It's partly Dallas, but it's also the Jets and wondering what was going to happen. Zach Wilson. They were turning in to watch you. And then the second most watched week two game in 10 years.

Let me try that again. The second most watched week two game in 10 years. Meaning all the games, the two games that it had, which also included Chiefs and Jaguars.

So that's the game that Charles was on. So with Jets and Cowboys, Chiefs and Jaguars, second most watched week two window in 10 years. Last year was a little bit higher. Sunday's coverage averaged 21.15 million viewers. Most watched NFL on CBS week two doubleheader since 1998. So it's a lot of numbers because it's a lot of viewers. Paramount Plus growing by leaps and bounds in large part because of the NFL. It's a juggernaut. It's a cash cow. It's the league every other sports league wants to be when it grows up. It only gets bigger from here. This is week two, for heaven's sakes. So when I throw a show question out there. And I ask you about 0-2 teams, no doubt. I know we're going to get answers from all over the country.

John replies on Twitter, ALOL radio. I believe the Vikings can make the playoffs at 0-2. Kirk Cousins, Justin Jefferson, some other offensive weapons. And then he says the Chargers have the talent to rebound.

Herbert is one of the elite quarterbacks. So Vikings and Chargers. Renee says Chargers, Bengals, Patriots, Vikings are still in the running. Still in the race for the playoffs. Many of you though are saying that the Patriots and the Bears are the ones that are toast.

We're going to talk Bears coming up because Justin Fields, here to walk back some strong comments, maybe emotional comments he made about the robotic nature of the Bears offense. Jamie on Facebook says the Patriots ate toast. I think that's an autocorrect and what he meant to say is the Patriots are toast. Sounds delicious.

I'd like some toast. Tom on Facebook, the Bears are going into hibernation. The Chargers aren't going to fulfill their promise as long as Staley is coach. Blaming Brandon.

Bengals and Vikings will make the playoffs. Noreen right in the middle of this post about 0-2 teams. I just love the video. I'm assuming she means the gift that you put up.

I saw that. But maybe she means our latest YouTube video where we talk about the seven new teams to make the playoffs. Maybe not. Maybe she's referring to the video that we will be sharing by week three, Sunday week three.

We'll be sharing it. Ask Amy walks down the aisle. I don't know. Maybe she just likes videos. I just love videos.

She's a TikToker. Oh, no. All right. Coming up, we'll dive into some QB news. And as I say, we'll talk Justin Fields and the Bears first because, yeah, they're on the cusp of some major shakeups. If you believe the rumors and the speculation out there.

There's not a lot of patience in Chicago for what's happening, not if it continues on the trajectory that it's on right now. You are listening to the. You need to know what's happening. It's time to get in the huddle.

Nobody's picking the coast to win the Super Bowl. So let's just go learn. Right. Well, this is always going to happen.

Jim Mercedes calling all the shots and the honky tonk man didn't draft this kid where they drafted this kid to have him look great in practice and look awesome running the scout team. You know what I mean? But yeah, let's play this Minshew cat or whatever on Sunday. But no way.

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Here's Amy Lawrence. Pete McCarthy talked about the mess that we are sensing in Chicago. And Justin Fields, whether he intentionally stirred the pot or whether he really did not mean to say what he did or didn't mean it to come across the way that it did. Well, it's gotten a little bit worse in the last 24 hours.

A little bit more of a storm, a little bit more speculation, a little bit more of the rumors about how this relationship in Chicago between coaching staff and a quarterback may not be long for this world. Justin Fields was asked why he is playing robotically. Now, that's a word that he used, right? That's a word that he used in talking about the way that he has started out the season.

And we can give you the numbers, but this is from Justin himself. Felt like I was kind of robotic and not just not not not playing like myself. So, you know, my goal this week is just to, you know, say F and just go out there and play football how I know how to play football.

And that's not that includes thinking less and just going out there and, you know, playing off of instincts rather than just, you know, so much, so to say, info in my head, data in my head and literally just going out there playing football. Remember last year, it wasn't until the coaching staff essentially set him free. If you love something, set it free.

If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. Remember when they kind of let him loose, let him play instinctually. That was when his numbers and his production shot through the roof. Now, it didn't help the Bears win a whole lot more games and he eventually got hurt. There may be some reason why they want him to be thinking more than just playing on instinct. But he's the one who said his play against the Buccaneers was robotic and that he doesn't feel as though he's playing like himself. And I could have sworn he dropped an F right in the middle of that, didn't he?

Yeah, he certainly did. So then why? Why, Justin, is your play robotic? Could be, you know, coaching, I think. But, you know, at the end of the day, they're doing their job when they're giving me, you know, what to look at, stuff like that. But at the end of the day, I can't be thinking about that when the game comes.

I prepare myself throughout the week and then when the game comes, it's time to play free at that point. So thinking less and, you know, playing more. Why are you robotic? Well, could be coaching. Coaching. Man, that wasn't robotic. Maybe if you were a little more robotic with your answers in front of the media, that wouldn't have come out. You know, it could be coaching. Don't. Say I wouldn't give that answer. Hey, I would have skipped that section entirely.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence. Well, coaching. What do you mean by that, Justin? When, you know, you're fed a lot of information at a point in time and trying to think about that info, like when you're playing, it's like it doesn't let you play like yourself. You're trying to process so much information to where it's like, you know, if I just simplified in my mind, I would have did this. Like I saw a few plays on Sunday to where I was playing like my old self, like we would have had a positive play. Like there would have been, you know, a few more third down conversions. So I think that's the biggest thing for me is just, you know, playing the game.

How I know how to play it, how I've been playing in my whole life. Now, if you think about the Bears-Bucks game, I just mentioned that he was sacked six times and he was hit another 10 times. Part of that, it's not just how great the Bucks defense is playing. Quarterbacks have the option of getting rid of the football. You don't want to get hit. You don't want to get sacked and take a major loss of yardage. Well, then get rid of the damn ball. One thing that happens with young quarterbacks, and he's still a relatively young quarterback. One thing that happens when he's 24, they believe that by holding on to it, something will develop.

Oh, just if I can, if I can wait one more second, one more second, one more second. And Justin certainly is an extremely, extremely good athlete. So he can extend plays. We know what he can do with his legs and his feet.

But part of the reason for taking that many sacks is because he's not getting rid of the football. Live to fight another day. Live to stay upright.

Live to keep your uniform clean. That way you don't turn the ball over as much, right, and you don't get hit nearly as much. Okay, so he's talking about information overload, saying that it's leading to robotic play. I'm overthinking it. Any chance you want to amend your comments about how this might be on the coaching staff?

My organization, my teammates, never will you hear that. So I just want to clear that out and just know that I need to play better. That's it.

Point blank. That's what I should have said in the first place. That's what I should have said in the first place.

Okay, I could be wrong, but I don't know how that's taken out of context. It could be coaching. Now, it doesn't mean that he and the coaches are at odds. Maybe the coaches agree that they're giving him too much information. And that's also part of it.

You have to process so much at the line. Mentally, physically, playing that quarterback position, there's a lot required of you. The best quarterbacks can process quickly, can see what the defenses are doing and can process quickly. And there are many quarterbacks who try and fail or try and don't stick because they can't process what's coming at them as quickly before they get hit. Anyway, I don't know. Do we have the Matt Eberfluss reaction?

Maybe that comes up on Thursday. But there are some quotes from Eberfluss in which he says that he didn't feel like the Bears were over coaching him. He didn't feel like the staff was over coaching fields. And that having him be free is what we want. Quote, he respects that partnership and so do we. We want him to play free. I think it's very important that as we work through this, making sure that he does play free, that we coach him that way. A lot of times he wants to be perfect. He wants to do it the right way.

And there's a balance there, right? So, yeah, this is again, you're getting a young quarterback prepared, maybe giving him some more freedom, but not until he's ready for it. It's a dance.

It's a delicate dance. If you love something, set him free. You want him to be using his noggin. You want him to be using his instincts.

You want him to be using his internal clock. At the same time, if you don't prepare him for what he's going to see, if you don't prepare him for the possibilities and fill his head with the knowledge that he needs, well, then you're not doing your job. The more experience, the more wisdom, the more reps, the more time, the more young quarterbacks are able to read the defenses and see what's coming. I say this a lot about many different walks of life, but certainly about sports and quarterbacking.

There's no shortcut to experience. A lot of times, former quarterbacks in the NFL will tell me that it takes probably three years to really get acclimated to the speed and to the defensive schemes. And don't forget, the defensive coordinators, it's their jobs to confuse quarterbacks. It's their jobs to make it really difficult for the QBs to know what's coming. I mean, they're working hard to disguise coverages.

It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence. We're asking you which 0-2 teams can still go to the playoffs. Remember, it's about one team a year. Nine teams have started out 0-2. As we heard Charles Davis say, no team has ever done it in back-to-back seasons. That would mean the Bengals don't make the playoffs if history holds true. No team has ever started out back-to-back years 0-2 and made the playoffs both times. So Cincinnati Bengals, come on down. You ready to make some history? On Twitter, ALawRadio, also on our Facebook page, After Hours with Amy Lawrence, we gave you our seven new NFL teams in our latest YouTube video, Stairway to Seven. But speaking of YouTube, we have in fact recorded the Ask Amy Walks Down the Aisle wedding edition of Ask Amy Anything. We'll have it up for you in a few days, so thank you for your concern. And if some of you are concerned that it hasn't been posted yet, we are doing our best to navigate football and everything else.

Also, I need some advice. It has nothing to do with the wedding. I never knew Twitter was so full of wedding and relationship experts. Every expert on everything is on Twitter. Shay, just wait until you get married.

It's amazing the wealth of knowledge that comes to you from social media. I don't think I'll post it. Okay, well then you have to tell me to keep it a secret. You know that coming up on Saturday, I'm supposed to run my seventh half marathon. Really looking forward to it. I'm fully trained. I'm ready to go. I feel good.

This is probably the best I've ever felt in training for a half marathon. In good shape, only to see a weather forecast that has tropical rain in it. And winds that could gust over 40 miles per hour. You got weather.

Thanks, Peyton, for the empathy. I'm nervous. I'm nervous because I've never run a half marathon in pouring down rain. And I'm looking at the forecast and it looks as though it's going to be driving wind and pouring down rain. Even my brand new A6 gel sneaks are not going to help me because it'll be slippery on the concrete and the pavement.

And as I say, it's right along the river where it's exposed and where there could be even gustier winds and extra water. And I'm nervous. I paid for it. I won't get a refund unless the team that organized the half marathon actually cancels it or postpones it, which is unlikely.

They just want to take your money and not have the event. But what should I do? Jay, help.

What should I do? It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence, CBS Sports Radio.