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Right. And then you lose half your weekend because now while our weekend, I guess, technically begins at six o'clock Eastern Time on Friday morning, by the time we wake up, if we sleep at all, right, it's it's mid-afternoon. So you essentially have not even 48 hours before if you consider college football to before you have to get back into work and get back to work. So it kind of cuts into your weekends. I say we work six and a half days a week during football season. But yeah, it's the evenings.

It's hard because all of a sudden you're planning everything else. Workouts, yard work, housework, social plans, dinner, everything is now revolving around the football games. We're not complaining. It's great for business. We've seen such an uptick in our social media and the interaction in the last week that it's it's palpable. It's once again the power of football. And so we're OK with that. But it does require a commitment. We're here for you.

We are here for you. So we want you to get involved in various ways. If we're going to be involved, you might as well get into the mud with us until we ask you to vote for the after hours game of the week. So you can do that by going to our show Twitter after hours. And if you're going to be involved, you might as well get into the mud with us until we ask you to vote for the after hours game of the week.

So you can get involved in various ways. After week one, is it Brock Purdy with an Iowa Hawkeye head or is it Joe Burrow with the haircut? By the way, have you seen his commercial for Bose headphones?

I'm pretty sure they used it on Amazon Prime on Thursday night. He's dancing all around. Yeah, no, look it up.

I think it's Bose headphones because this is those are the ones that most of the athletes will hawk. Speaking of Hawkeye and he's dancing all over the place. He's a total goofball. I love it. I love his personality. We don't see it a ton, of course, because most of what we get from him is on the football field.

But every now and then we get snippets. Remember last year when he wore the wrong uniform into the press room and he didn't even realize until somebody pointed out that he was wearing the wrong number? I guess I put the wrong one on. And then now with the haircut, he was asked this week, when is the right time to get a haircut like that? And he said, well, after you lose the way that you did.

So he's a jokester. And remember, Jamar Chase told us he's kind of goofy. He gets into every huddle and goes, hey, guys, that's it. Hey, guys, that's how he walks into the huddle.

Hey, guys, all the time or just all the time. Hey, guys, I do like his personality. It's just a little bit different.

It's more muted. You have to really dig into it to kind of get to know him a little bit. Whereas a guy like, say, Patrick Mahomes, you get more of his personality. He's a little more extroverted. Trying to think who else among quarterbacks that we really get the personality right away. I mean, Jalen Hurts doesn't have the same personality, but he doesn't hide his personality. You know pretty much who he is.

But who else is like a total who's like out there? And we don't have Cam Newton anymore, though I did see his name floated around to take over with the Jets. If you can believe that.

I'm not 32. Baker Mayfield doesn't. He certainly wears his emotions on his sleeve. Right. He does. But he's not the same in press conferences anymore as he used to be.

You're right. He's he's dialed it back a bunch, though. What did Todd Bowles tell us this week? That he's a it wasn't bulldog.

It was more here. Oh, my gosh. He's a warrior. Is that because he bashes his head against the helmets of his offensive linemen?

I think it is another word for that. Not warrior, but so we're talking football makes it a little baseball. Also some college because Dion is making friends and enemies everywhere he goes, although he swears it's not his fault. It's kind of funny how every single day there's a new opponent or coach or media member who is somehow doubting Dion.

And there's one thing you do not do in this world. You do not doubt Dion. Not even Santa Claus has time to consider his success. He has to give out the gifts.

He can't eat the cookies. So Dion is focused. But when it comes to Dion's focus, he also knows everything that's said about him. How is it that Dion Sanders knows everything that's said, slight or perceived, real or fake? He knows everything that's said about him or his program. Do you think he's got people on this?

I absolutely I do. I think he's got eyes and ears all over the place. They're scraping the bottom of the barrel for any type of material because he wants to use this as locker room fodder. He wants to get his team fired up. And so the latest way to walk right into this, the Colorado State head coach is Jay Norville. And he has a coach's show and he takes a shot at Dion. Why would you do this?

Why would you take a shot at Dion? You know, we had to do a bunch of ESPN videos and it's great. I loved it. And but our kids came out of those videos really with a chip on their shoulder. They're tired of all that stuff.

They really are tired of it. And I sat down with ESPN today and I don't care if they hear it's bolder. I told them I took my hat off and I took my glasses off and I said, when I talk to grown ups, I take my hat and my glasses off. That's what my mother taught. So, you know, they're not going to like us no matter what we say or do. It doesn't matter. OK, that's just how I feel about it. It's your show. I'm just tired of I mean, I'm tired of all that stuff. It's just it's it's and I know everybody else is, too. So. I feel like that was dumb. Why? Just tell me, why would you do that?

Why? Dion Sanders, of course, got wind of it, and he responds to Jay Norville. I'm minding my own business, watching some film, trying to get ready, trying to get out here and be the best coach I could be. And I look up and I read some bull junk the band said about us. Talk to us once again.

Why would you want to talk about us when we don't talk about nobody? All we do is go out and work our butts up and do our job on set. But when they give us ammunition, they done messed around and made it. It was just going to be a good game. They done messed around and made it.

It was going to be a great test, a battle of Colorado, but they done messed around and made it. Listen to him. He's got the entire team that responds with a chant in unison because this is what they're after this. He says, I'm just minding my own business. I'm watching film. I'm getting ready for a game against CSU and they got to mess around and make it personal. Jason, they're mouthing it behind the double pane glass.

They got to mess around and make it. Jay. Oh, Jay, a little slow on the uptake.

We might need to try that again. Apparently, your your ESP is not working so well right now. You're not as clairvoyant as you think you are. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no.

Do you believe that? No, seriously. Let's hear Dion again.

I'm telling you, he is. He's got people on this looking for anything that might be perceived as a slight and anything that he might get his locker room to consider as a shot, a personal shot. Minding my own business, watching some film, trying to get ready, trying to get out here and be the best coach I could be. And I look up and I read some bull junk the damn same. Once again, why would you want to talk about us when we don't talk about nobody?

All we do is go out here, work our butts up and do our job on set. But when they give us ammunition, they done messed around and made it. It was just going to be a good game. They done messed around and made it personal.

It was going to be a great test, a battle of Colorado, but they done messed around and made it personal. He is brilliant. He's brilliant. And he's a showman. And we talked about it with Chris Venini of The Athletic, who joined us on our last show. Everything's about the entertainment value.

And because there's so much buzz out of Colorado, because there's so much buzz out of Boulder, that sounds better. Because there's so much attention on the Buffaloes, potential recruits are watching and listening. You hear his locker room start to catch on personal.

They done messed around and made it personal. I mean, he actually pauses for them to say that. He's trained them. It's a call and respond, wasn't it? Yeah. Like they do when you've got boot camp situations, right?

And the drill instructor is yelling one thing and then you have to yell back to him. Yeah. Oh, you're right. It's something.

Something for it. It's like in a song, when you're writing a song and the singer, the queen will do it. Like Freddie Mercury. An echo?

Yeah, it's like a call and response or something like that. So anyway, Deion's got them trained. Even Shiloh Sanders, who went and did an appearance on the Pat McAfee show, which is now on ESPN. Even he is calling this personal. I don't get why. We was actually just talking about that. Some of the receivers and my dad was over there and I overheard them talking about that. And I was like, what did he say?

And they told me, I was like, bro, why do they do this to themselves every week? Coach Brown's a cool guy. You don't have to be like that. He's a cool guy. You don't have to be like that. They all messed around and made it personal.

He pauses for them to say personal. They've practiced this. How much you want to bet they practiced it? Oh, no doubt they practiced it. They might've.

Oh yeah, they might've. He knows what's happening. They are looking, they're looking for ways to use this as locker room material. Yeah, it's actually really funny. I'm not at all surprised.

Anyway, the Colorado storyline is good for college football. It's something new. It's something fresh. It's something different.

I like it. And as we go into week number three, we'll see what else pops up. But if you missed that conversation with Chris Venini, we also talked about the Michigan State situation, Texas, Alabama. I think I told you in the past that Bob, do I need to identify him now? My fiance, Bob. Oh, I just like saying it.

The future hubs, Bob. Anyway, I asked him because he's a big college football fan. I asked him if he listened to the conversation with Chris and he said, oh yeah, he said positive things about Texas. So I kept listening. Oh, so that's how you decide what to listen to on my show?

Santa don't have time. If it's something that you agree with and he says something positive about your team, then you keep listening? Okay, well that's pretty much like every other sports fan on the planet.

So does that mean you tune out when you don't think it's positive about your team? I didn't actually ask him that question because I didn't want to put him on the spot. Then I'd have him. Yeah. I'd have him backed into a corner. Hook line.

Yeah, hook line. Personal. Speaking of that, you know what is so funny? Some guy writes to me on Facebook on Thursday and says, you must be short because only short people snort when they laugh.

What? Is that scientific? I've never heard that before. That's a thing? According to Don on Facebook it is, but Don is wrong because I'm 5'10", so I wouldn't consider that short for a female. Maybe it's short in the WNBA, but it's not short for a female.

So yeah, that was kind of funny that he's assuming that I'm short. That's not a thing. Of course it's not a thing. No one's ever said that in the history of the world, that only short people snort when they laugh.

That's so, I'm trying to even define any sort of- It's ridiculous. It's biological. You breathe out through your mouth. Ha ha ha ha ha.

You breathe in through your nose. I mean, it just, it happens. Did I ever tell you? This is a good Ask Amy Anything question.

My record for number of snorts in a row in one laugh. What is it? No, it's an Ask Amy Anything question. Yeah, I won't reveal it until someone asks. All right, on Twitter, afters, it's just afters. It's personal.

Dion's got me all flustered. Still mess around and made it. Personal.

Personal. Hey, I have to tell you guys why Penny had a really horrible day. Aw, poor thing. I feel so bad.

But she's all fluffy and she smells good. And then the project in my backyard, Jay's been waiting to hear about this. I almost cried. I'm not kidding. I almost cried. I'm slightly devastated. But there is hope, Jay. There's hope.

Are you ready? We'll get to that coming up. So, Twitter, Facebook, vote for the After Hours Game of the Week. We've got a lot of QB news coming. And we do it under the guise of preview, right? So, it's just kind of our unique after hours way of presenting week two in the NFL. I can't believe we're already into the third hour. Where did the first two hours go? What happened?

I've barely done any preview yet. Well, I don't want to stay on the air any longer than we're required to, of course. But anyway, anyways, it's personal. Do you believe? I do. I do believe that you have a camera everywhere you go. Okay. It's after hours.

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This is after hours with Amy Lawrence. It wasn't just a four game sweep of the Rangers over the Blue Jays, as both are fighting for playoff spots. It was a four game sweep in Toronto.

Ouch. And you hear Bruce Bochy reference it. It's good to come in here and get four games.

We're going to get back to football pretty quickly. But on the Rangers radio network, yeah, this was a blow to the Blue Jays. But the Rangers, they look like a completely different team than the one that seemingly couldn't pitch about, well, against Houston not that long ago, right? The Rangers are now within a half game of the top of the American League West. What do we say about the Major League Baseball season? 162 games, which means anything can happen and will happen probably more than once. And so the Rangers and the Mariners and the Astros have all kind of gone through multiple iterations, multiple identities, multiple personalities this season.

And they're locked in a very tight battle. The three teams are separated by just a game and a half atop the division, all fighting for not just the AOS title, but also wildcard spots. And the Rangers have caught fire now with six consecutive wins. So right on the heels of the Astros, no doubt they can smell their raunchy breath. And in addition, the Mariners and the Rangers at this point are the other two wildcard teams. So either the Orioles or Rays will win the AL East. The other one will end up as the top wildcard. That's how big the gap is between the AL East, the top of the AL East and the rest of the American League. But it's likely, at least right now, it looks more likely that two teams from the AL West could end up as the other wildcards. Speaking of the AL East, did you see the change in Boston? The Red Sox and the Yankees now have the exact same record.

Who knows if there are changes in New York? It's a lot of speculation about whether or not Aaron Boone survives this debacle of a season. But the Red Sox have lost seven of their last 10 and have now fired Haim Bloom. And he was what, their sixth seasons? Four seasons.

Okay. So it didn't even last five. But yeah, it's been another year in which they are without a playoff berth. And in the four years, almost four years that he's been in charge of player personnel, he's been in charge of putting the roster together. They've had a pair of last place finishes in the AL East, which is unacceptable. So here they are in the span of five years.

Well, they're going to have a third different GM. So Bloom replaced Dave Dombroski, who was hired in 2019. And that was, of course, right after they won the World Series, right?

So it was a year after they won it. But the way that this roster has been pared down, stripped down, so many star players traded away are allowed to walk. I can understand why they don't want Bloom anymore. Not that he makes these decisions autonomously. He has a front office.

No doubt they have to go through ownership. But think about the stars that they have allowed to go elsewhere or that they've traded away. You don't have to look any farther than Mookie Betts. But their entire outfield that was so dynamic ends up in other places. Everything was, Xander Bogarts was the big one last offseason, right? And I know Andrew Benintendi hasn't done a whole lot since he left there, but he was great in Boston. And so, yeah, the choices in their pitching rotation have also been a mess for the most part. They've had guys that, you know, they can't stand healthy. So they're kind of taking flyers on guys like Chris Sale, for instance.

He's had some really great moments, but it's not been consistent. So, yeah, they wanted financial flexibility. They wanted to try to get under the luxury tax threshold. But it's resulted in them losing a lot. So change is in the works there in Boston.

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But both those teams are headed to the playoffs. All right. So I've been holding out on producer Jay. I would not tell him the story. I just want you to know it was a traumatic day at the Lawrence household for two reasons. Number one, it's weird when your dog isn't home. When you're home and the dog's not home, it's very strange. It's different when I leave and she's at home. I do miss her, but it's far stranger when she's not there because she's always there.

If I'm there, she's there, right? Something's missing. Yes.

Something's definitely missing. Yes. Well, and you know, because your family goes away, oftentimes they'll board the dog.

Not all the time, but oftentimes because of your schedule. And then isn't it weird not to have moose in the house? Yeah. And, you know, I'd go to make food and there's no one slobbering next to me.

It's like, what's going on here? Right. Well, in the case of Penny, she had to get groomed. So I put her in the car.

Oh, poor thing. Put her in the car, got her up to the groomer and she hates the groomer. Well, she just really hates anything that isn't with me or in the car or in the house.

Right. She loves walks, of course, but she doesn't like to go other places. She gets real nervous. So I drop her off at the groomer and the groomer has a tile floor. Oh, older dogs don't do well with tile floors. They slip, they slip, they slide. Yeah.

It's really hard for them to stand up. So I drop her off around three thirty in the afternoon. And she when I left, she was ready to go. Diana was going to take care of her. Said she would bring her home because Diana lives in my town.

So that way I wouldn't have to go get her twice. Great. OK. She said it takes a little longer sometimes to close up the shop. But, you know, I'll be home whenever. Six thirty rolls around.

No, Diana, no text. I'm like, all right, well, maybe she was busy with other dogs to still close up the shop. Seven thirty rolls around. No dog. But now at this point, Penny's got to be starving because her dinner time's four o'clock in the afternoon.

And I didn't want to feed her right before she went and want to feed her early. So anyway, then I call twice day. It doesn't answer.

I'm starting to get nervous now. I text. No response.

It's eight o'clock. Nothing. I would be nervous. I was nervous. I felt like either my dog got kidnapped or Diana. Something happened to Diana because I hadn't heard a word.

Finally, eight fifteen. Diana sends me a text. Poor Penny had a hard time standing up today. She had to sit down a bunch. I had to give her breaks. So that's why the grooming took longer. So she had a bath and then she had to have a break. And then she started to get groomed and had to have a break. I felt so bad.

Poor thing. So she was working with Penny that whole time. Most of the time.

Yeah. I mean, she she was giving her breaks and doing other things. But yeah, a lot of the time she just had to wait on Penn because poor Penn couldn't stand up the whole time. Anyway, she gets her home. Penny's all excited to be home. But yeah, her back legs were were really troublesome on Thursday afternoon. But the dog manages to go right to her room and I'm thinking she wants water because Penn loves her water.

Oh, no. The dog wanted to eat. I put the water bowl down. She just looked at me. That's not my food.

Mom, you're supposed to know me. And so I give her the food and she just she housed it. The bowl was gone and she's starving. Oh, she was. She was starving.

Look. Oh, she smells so pretty. Even before I opened the screen door, I could smell her. I could smell her outside. She smelled like lavender pampered. She's all puffy and feathery and soft. And so, yes, with family coming this weekend, Penny will be the star of the show.

So poor Penn, she's snoring within like half an hour. That's a tough day. Yeah, it's a very tough day. So then as far as my tough day, other than the fact that I miss Penny, for those of you who have lilacs or any other kind of flower bush in your yard, you know that the weather often affects how they grow and whether or not they thrive over a particular season. My hydrangeas this year, for instance, did not flower at all.

Neither one of them. And I've been reading up and it sounds like they actually had too much water. We've had so much rain, they just have stayed too wet. So that's on me.

I'm going to start over next year. The plants are enormous, but there have been no flowers, which is really weird. I thought hydrangeas liked water, but I was wrong. There can be such a thing as overwatering the hydrangea. But the worst thing in the backyard is that my lilac plant, remember, I transplanted it from New Hampshire.

My friend that I've known since high school named her Lila. You remember Jamie telling you the story. I brought her home. I dug, well, two holes. The first one was in the wrong spot. And I realized I hit some concrete underneath, which is where the old oil tank area was buried anyway or sealed. So I had to move. I had to dig a second hole. The first hole has now been filled and grass is grown over it.

Everything's fine. But Lila was thriving last summer. She was green. She was full. Now they say it's one to two years before the plant will bloom.

So I'm all excited this spring. She comes back, you know, obviously during the winter, she lost all her leaves and she was just a stick out there in the backyard. She was hibernating. But in the spring, she got covered with green flower or green leaves.

Excuse me. She was so full. She was growing. She was taller. I took photos.

She was photogenic. And then about a month ago, everything started to go horribly wrong. Her leaves started falling off. And they were curling up and getting brown. And so I'm thinking, oh, does she not have enough water?

How can you? I mean, we've had nothing but rain. And then it gets worse from about a foot down. All the leaves have shriveled up and fallen off. They're all over the yard.

I'm so distressed. I think, shoot, again, I start to water her more thinking something's wrong. And then Bob to the rescue. Bob starts doing research.

Bob's big on research. Apparently poor Lila had a fungus. A fungus and it killed her? Don't say that. Don't know.

Don't speak that into existence. Yes, it infected her. So he found some photos on a, actually, I think it was on the University of New Mexico or University of Vermont.

I know those are very different. But one of those universities that has a whole botany section on their website. And you can go and you can research different plant problems.

It's kind of fascinating, actually. No. So anyway, he finds a photo that's exactly the same as what's happening to Lila. So now she only has a few leaves left on the top of her, but they're turning brown and they're shriveling up and they're falling off. And sadly, I had to go out there and prune her.

Aggressively, that's the word. I essentially cut her down to a couple of sticks. To try to like get rid of the infected stuff? Yes, because you have to really, you have to get rid. And there's no guarantee she's going to come back. But if you fertilize, you aggressively prune, you fertilize and you water, she is likely to come back. The good news is one of the sticks, at the very end of the stick, had a green growth, like a bright green, almost like a bud. And so she had a couple of sticks that have little buds on the very end of them.

But Jay, I'm not kidding. All that's left out of the ground right now, three sticks. I cut it all the way.

She was a foot and a half tall, but she had very few leaves left and they were shriveled up a foot and a half and I chopped it. I feel like... You had to. Yeah, I know, but it was traumatic. Oh, I'm sure. I nearly cried. You don't want us to do that.

No. But you're doing, you're going to help. She's going to rise like a phoenix. Oh, she's going to rise like Aaron Rogers? I shall yet rise again. He's not going to be ready to walk, but... She's going to rise like a phoenix. Isn't phoenix fire?

I don't need any fire out of my backyard. They like die, then like they grow, they ascend out of the ground. They ascend. Okay. Well, who rises first, Lila or Aaron Rogers? Oh, probably Lila. Please pray for Lila.

Thoughts and prayers for Lila. Do you believe? I do believe. Thank you. I do believe. All right. I feel better now. Maybe.

Okay. That was all traumatic. Even voicing it was traumatic. When you need to know what's happening, it's time to get hit in the huddle. Nobody's picking the Colts to win the Super Bowl, so let's just go learn, right? Well, this is always going to happen.

Jim Irsay is calling all the shots there and the hunky top 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. No way.

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All right. Back to throw. And it is.

Is it lost? Oh, my goodness. DeAndre Hopkins called it. Back from under center. Steps back. Throws the fade. Cooper cuts guy. Touchdown L.A. Burrow back to throw.

Looking. Firing deep for Chase in the end zone. He's got it. Touchdown. Joe Burrow in the bagels. The Holmes fires for the end zone. Taught. Touchdown.

Kansas City. And off the back door again. No, Herbert keeps it in. Touchdown. Herbert with his second of the day.

Here's the snap. Josh going to keep it himself and run it again inside the five into the end zone. Touchdown Buffalo. Josh Allen, nine yard touchdown run. The Bills respond and then some. It's time for QB News on After Hours.

Happy Friday. Jay and I just had a revelation, an epiphany, if you will. We just remembered it's payday. Oh, there's a party in the After Hours studio right now that we're going to get serious again or something to go along with QB News. Zach Wilson is in fact QB one and he's got no time to figure it out. He's got to go. He's got to go. He's got to go.

He's got no time to figure it out. He's got to go one step at a time, one play at a time. And I think it's trusting the guys around me. I think they've shown this past week, you know, how explosive, how dynamic guys are relying on this good defense that we have.

And I think it's going out there taking it. Like I said, one play at a time, trusting in my footwork, trusting in, you know, what the coach has been talking about and, you know, we'll go from there. No, it can be tough playing playing ball in this state, especially playing quarterback in this in this part of the world. And, you know, because of that and all the other things, you know, we always want to make sure we got our brothers back. And, you know, if he doesn't know that and I'm doing my job wrong, you know, I want to make sure I get them all the empowerment in the world.

And I know all the other guys feel the same about it. I like how Garrett Wilson says it can be tough to play football in this part of the world referring to the New York area and no doubt the New York media. It's a big challenge Jets on the road at the Dallas Cowboys. That is a nationally televised game, of course, because the Jets were going to be the number one, the most intriguing story of the season, but we'll see if they beat the Cowboys on Sunday.

That's a huge deal. All right, staying inside the AFC East Josh Allen and the Bills would not like to have a repeat performance of Monday Night Football. Not only the loss, but the four turnovers time to move on. It's never as bad as you think it's never as good as you think, you know, if you have a great win and you go back in, it's never as good as you think, either. So obviously got to play smarter football. I thought our team did a lot of good things.

Don't want to take away from that, you know, the grand scheme of thing. It's one game and we're not going to let it turn into two. The AFC East. I still say is one of the toughest divisions in football. We need to see what the Jets are going to do all we need to see what the Jets do without Aaron Rodgers, but the Bills. We know are extremely tough. We know the Dolphins are a force to be reckoned with and to the AFC offensive player of the year with 466 yards passing last week. We've given you Dolphins at Patriots from Sunday Night Football is one of the after-hours game of the week options.

You can take that poll on our show Twitter or on our facebook page. So yeah to He's feel a lot better about getting out there, getting hit feeling like he can withstand the rigors of the season, but apparently he's not the best teammate. Did you hear the story about how he failed to help a teammate in distress this week? I don't know if anyone was driving here early in the morning, but Tehran, Tehran had his car broken down and I think I'm a bad teammate because I passed them and I didn't come back. Yeah, I did. Like I wasn't going to pull off to the shoulder and just reverse and now you hope to run.

I'm coming to get you. But but yeah, I you know, I seen them but it was like one of those things I seen him, but I wasn't sure if it was him and then I didn't know what he drove to. So it it was one of those things where I was just like, hey Drew, I think that was Tehran on the side. Yeah, that was him. I was like, well, I'm here already.

I can't go back. So apparently to work is the most accurate quarterback in the NFL, but he doesn't stop to help his teammates in distress. I love it was him the whole time.

I love how he tells stories that one about Tehran, Armstead really funny. All right, so Bill's, I'm sorry, Dolphins Patriots on Sunday Night Football as for the AFC North to real good matchups, the Baltimore Ravens are trying to go to it. Oh, and we'll do so against the Bengals, but that's in Cincinnati Lamar Jackson. They're trying to step up, but I mean step up to the podium.

The Mars kicked me off the stand side. I love being underdog. I really don't care to be hyped up, or, you know, they people just saying displaying like we on top of the league or anything like that, you know, I'd rather be the underdogs because we all got something to prove. We always got a chip on our shoulder to go out there and win a game. I'm interested to see more of what the Ravens can do with the new offensive system.

Obviously, the crazy weather last week. It played against Houston. They had a bunch of turnovers, but they were better than Bengals who didn't even have a hundred yards passing and forced Joe burrow to get a crazy haircut. So yeah, it's Ravens and Bengals. Also an option for the after-hours game of the week as for the Steelers.

They take on the Browns. That's a Monday Night Football game and Kenny Pickett says, oh, yeah, look for us to be a better version of ourselves on Monday. Confident to myself, the team, the guys around me, you know, I know everyone's gonna answer the bell. We're gonna come out and play on Monday. So love the energy we have around here. Love the practice that we had today. Everyone's put their best foot forward this week. So just about, you know, going out there Monday night competing and winning.

Meanwhile, you have a third option for after-hours game of the week. The Jaguars, they know, they've got to match up against teams like the Chiefs. If they want to be considered a Super Bowl contender. When you're playing a team like the Chiefs, that is that good. That's been there before that executes and critical moments, and especially with Patrick on the other side in that offense. You got to take advantage of your opportunities. So there's that there's, you know, that and I think we have learned that the hard way now and you got to take advantage of opportunities. When you have them, you got to make the plays. You got to be great in critical situations. And I think those are all things that we've gotten better at, but we just got to keep keep getting better because that's what they're going to do on the other side.

So, you know who you're playing and you really got to execute. Chargers also made the playoffs last year and Austin Eckler, a big reason why he had a great start to the year, a really long touchdown run. Justin Herbert and the Chargers fell to the Dolphins in what was a shootout, but Justin likes what he saw from the run game in the opener. I thought there's some really good things that we did offensively, still room for improvement, still think things to correct. But I thought running the ball. I thought we did a great job moving the ball down the field. So it's great to see and looking forward to building on that momentum.

Yeah. Also in the AFC West, the Chargers could fall into an O2 hole. Yeah, so could the Denver Broncos after a tough battle against the Raiders.

Russell Wilson. He's trying to put the best foot forward and also be a leader in that locker room. There's always a sense of urgency. I think every every matchup you play in the National Football League, you want to be able to win them. We got to treat every game as a championship game. That's because what it is, you know, it's we play in a great division, you know, and we're looking forward to just winning one game at a time, you know, the sense of urgency with coach, Peyton's always high with all of us players is always high.

We want to be great and we have the town to do it and we got to we got to make little things matter. You know, we got to make those little moments when you know, it's I always call them, you know, gap plays game altering plays. There's there's some plays in there every once in a while. What if it's a penalty or that doesn't go against us that does go against us, whatever it may be. It may be a catch. It may be a block. It may be a throw.

Maybe whatever it is. Let's find in those throughout a game. Those are the ones that usually two to three in a game offensively and defense and special teams that that change the game.

And so let's find those and let's go. Let's go win those moments game altering plays gap plays. Not that gap doesn't have another meaning when it comes to football, but you know, whatever's gap plays. All right, the Denver Broncos host the Washington commandos. I did not get booted off Survivor Island by picking the commandos in week number one, though.

I got pretty close. So it's the Broncos hosting the commanders and then for the Chargers, they're on the road at the Titans. So both of those teams feeling the sense of urgency because they're both staring at an O2 deficit. We see teams every year go from 0 and 2 to the playoffs.

So it's not a nail in the coffin, but it's a little precarious. It's after It's after hours with Amy Lauren CBS Sports Radio.