After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 2

It is hard to believe that we are on the eve of week six in the NFL. Yeah, we're nearly into mid-October. Hoodies, pumpkins, pumpkin everything. Hot chocolate, hayrides, Halloween decorations. Boy, my neighborhood all of a sudden exploded in Halloween decorations. The chillier, cooler temps in parts of the country. I recognize not every part of the country but I know in my neighborhood it's been in the mid-forties the last three mornings.

Penny is in heaven. This is our favorite time of year. It feels like football. It feels like chili. I love chili.

This might be a weekend, well if I wasn't going to Atlanta, it would be a weekend when I would make some chili. Haven't had a frost yet, not a hard freeze yet. Thank goodness because I still have grass seed to plant but it feels like fall. It's one of the reasons I love the Northeast, why I love growing up in New England because when it was football season, you got into it a little bit.

The temps started to match. So this is my favorite time of the year and it's starting to get serious in not just Major League Baseball of course, we're down to just one division series still ongoing. Baseball's got to be fit to be tied. Rob Manfred's got to be annoyed. Stop it. Stop doing this.

Don't you know this does not go according to the plan? Well at least you got your short games all season. I guess you can hang your hat on that. We will get back to Major League Baseball.

I'm enjoying your responses to the question of what impresses you more. Five consecutive AFC Championship games at home like we've seen from the Kansas City Chiefs or seven straight appearances in the ALCS, the Astros extend their record. That question is on both Twitter, ALawRadio and Facebook after hours with Amy Lawrence. So we'll get back to baseball. We'll hear from the Astros, oh Justin Verlander leading the celebration in the clubhouse. I don't think he cares if anyone goes and repeats it to the other clubhouse he's good. He's alright. He's back where he belongs or something like that. But we want to pivot a little bit because we're so excited to welcome back to the show one of our favorites. Haven't had him in a really long time.

Maybe you'll recognize his voice. He's a football guy. Mason is the running back. Purdy takes the snap. Toss it to Mason. Running left.

Cuts it up along the numbers. Finds a lane and he's gone to the end zone. Touchdown Jordan Mason. Touchdown 49ers. A 26 yard touchdown run.

You can turn out the lights here in Santa Clara. 41-10 49ers. Even as we march through the rest of the season, no one's likely to forget the statement by the Niners. Week 5 against the Cowboys. Your choice for game of the week.

Boy, it was gaudy but it was impressive. And so we welcome from Seattle from the Pacific Northwest Randy Mueller who's a long time NFL GM and front office executive now with the athletic has the football GM pod. We're about to kick off week 6 Randy which is kind of crazy. At this point, what type of measuring sticks or gauges might you use for a team? We've seen a ton of inconsistency.

Always do early in the year. So what are you looking for now? As a GM you're kind of looking to what identifies with your team.

What is your identity on either side of the ball? I think that's the big thing and sometimes that takes 6-7 weeks. I think it's great that a few years back the NFL moved the trade deadline back. It used to be 6 weeks forever. Now it's after week 8. I always thought I don't even know my team yet before 4-5 weeks. So they're asking us to make deals before week 6.

It's just impossible. And for that reason there's a lot more trades now and there seems like a lot more willingness to make moves to fill maybe some injury voids or really to look forward for the last half of the season. So I think moving the trade deadline back is a really good thing and that helps you when I say you identify what you have.

You know your weaknesses and strengths by the time that trade deadline comes around. We've had a bunch of teams in the last couple weeks get their first wins. Weirdly enough two weekends ago we had all four winless teams facing each other and so two of them were bound to get their wins. Finally you've been scuffling.

It's not working. Maybe you're coming up short by just a tad like the Vikings. All their losses have come by such slim margins. What does it feel like to finally get your first win to start a season? Well I'll tell you what it is hard and you work hard to get it and I think people fail to realize sometimes how good the other teams are in the league. We don't get to play a homecoming game against a team that hasn't won in years. We don't get that. In the NFL it's hard to come by.

I guess the team that jumps out to me as probably felt the best that week was the Chicago Bears because they had lost what 14 in a row something like that. That gets taxing. That is heavy on your shoulders.

I've been there. We had a long losing streak when I was in Miami as their GM my last year and it takes the toll on everybody involved. Players, coaches, families, kids, everybody sees it when you lose that many games. When you get to have double digit losses in a row that's hard.

So I was probably happiest for Chicago but it is a big relief there's no doubt no matter what they say it's a relief. In the middle of a season what would it take for you to change coaches or even get rid of coordinators and replace them? Yeah it seems like that happens more often. I mean back when I was a GM I never believed in that.

I think you have to always ask tough questions. You have to have the awkward conversations sometimes with coaches and you maybe have to be willing to tweak and just be honest about where we're at. I think you see the short leash of patience nowadays but that's society and that kind of ticked over into the NFL. Everybody wants changes. Everybody wants it to happen overnight but I do think in a lot of NFL places they don't ask the tough questions and I think it comes from ownership to start with to be honest with you. You've got to have owners that are involved that really care and I always felt like I did my best work when the owner was holding me accountable, was asking me the right questions or any questions.

I had to be prepared every day for that. So I think it's the environment, the ownership that you feed off of them and I think it makes us all better and that's the goal. But I don't think change overnight or change because the media asks for it or change because the fans are screaming at the offensive coordinator for the last month. I don't think that warrants, that doesn't warrant change necessarily.

You know internally what the issues are and if you can't get them fixed in half an amount of time then obviously change happens. We're so excited to have Randy Mueller back on the show. It's been too long gosh not sure how that happened but we always appreciate his insight. He's a long time NFL GM and front office executive now with the athletic and has the football GM pod.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. The San Francisco 49ers right now most consistent one of the undefeateds and I have been trying to get an answer to this question so I'm gonna throw it out for you Randy and you tell me what you think. How did so many teams miss on Brock Purdy and all of them did to the point where he was still there at the last pick of the NFL draft? You know if I had to explain it Amy I would say it's the hardest part of the skill set to evaluate when you're looking at quarterbacks.

It's the ability to process and what makes you tick inside. I think the reason teams didn't draft him earlier is you know he's not 6'4, he doesn't weigh 230, he doesn't run 465 and a 40. So those special physical traits aren't as evident but he has the accuracy, he has timing, he has anticipation.

The same reason that some of these great quarterbacks and we know the one in New England that played there for 20 years same thing didn't get drafted high because of the physical aspects that are easiest to judge but how players what's inside them and how they process information and how timely they process it I think that's what separates them and it's not an exact science when you evaluate players and we find it out every year with many guys who get drafted late and become stars sooner than anybody ever expected. Other than Brock what impresses you about the Niners start? Well I think their defense is dominating. We saw it against Dallas the other night. I mean they held Dallas eight first downs. Dallas had nine plays inside the 49ers side of the 50.

That's crazy. You just don't see that in the NFL and I like them on all three levels. I think the 49ers pass rush we know about it. I think their linebackers are as good as they are in football now. They just don't seem to have a weakness really on either side of the ball.

So I'm with you. I think they're the class of the NFL right now but I really like their defense and the way they can do things to affect really from a physical standpoint what offenses are trying to do to them. When you see what the Niners defense was able to do against the Cowboys kind of reminds people that Dallas has been inconsistent not just to start this year but through the tenure of Dak Prescott as a quarterback there are always high expectations at times he can look like the best of the best and then against the Niners that offense it stalled it went nowhere it seems so unproductive. What do you see with Dak Prescott and with the Cowboys even as they made some changes this year in terms of their play calling in the offense?

This has been like you said throughout his tenure maybe even a little bit before they really struggle hand in prosperity in my opinion Amy they they get on a roll they all of a sudden kind of feel themselves as being this and hear everything that's being said good about him and then there's the deflating of the balloons and they they either look really bad in a game like they did against 49ers or they lose to a team that they should be like Arizona you know or somebody like that so they just can't stand prosperity for whatever reason. I think with regarding Dak his inconsistencies have to be considered and I know they've Terry Jones has said he wants him to be his quarterback forever I get it nobody likes to forecast change especially at that position but the amount of money they're going to have to pay for an extension I think is you know almost problematic especially if you're going to get these kind of results it's been up and down. I think the biggest thing I see when I look at Dak is he's not quite as athletic as he was a couple years ago he's not extending plays when he was at the peak of his career and then he's just not seen the whole field and we had the same conversation a year and a half ago when he hurt himself when he had the leg injury he came back and he was really rusty and it looked cloudy his vision didn't seem to be right and I think we're seeing a little bit of that now especially in big games people seem to kind of throw curveballs at him and by the time he figures it out it's too late so I love Dak's intangibles I love everything about him as a person as a player it's just not you know I don't know that it's a lot above average right now and I think the Cowboys have to consider what are we going to do contract wise like I say he's obviously the fair-haired boy and somebody that Jerry loves I just don't know how they go about structuring a contract of 40 million dollars for this kind of performance. So that's the Dak question but going back to what you said about the Cowboys not being great frontrunners how do you fix that inside of a locker room? Well I think and I know Mike McCarthy well Mike was our offensive coordinator New Orleans when I was the GM there and I think his personality is such that he doesn't get satisfied easy I think it's just a mindset you have to keep grinding on guys you have to keep coaching them hard and I think sometimes you know when they can bypass the coach and go right to the GM slash owner that's not always good I don't know that that they get this and I'm not saying beat them down but you've got to coach them hard you've got to hold them accountable you've got to reel them in constantly and that's an organizational job not just the head coach so somehow that that'll change at some point I don't know it seems like it's been like you said over the last several years yeah they struggle they struggle when they win. Randy Mueller is with us from the Pacific Northwest makes his home in Seattle now spent some time with the Seahawks Saints the Dolphins former NFL executive of the year it's after hours here on CBS Sports Radio there are many sports talk radio shows debating but if you're the New York Jets do you go out and get a different quarterback the name Kirk Cousins right now is floating around Randy what would you be doing? I think they're on the right course right now and that may sound crazy I understand Jets fans and their frustrations with Zach Wilson I've thought all along if they could change the offense slightly to do some things that he does best and I think Nathaniel Hackett has finally done that the last couple weeks and I think that's why we see the progress I think they're headed in the right direction with Zach and I think doesn't mean that that they couldn't still look for a veteran that upgrades them over what they have but I think if the defense continues to play good and I think the pressure is really as much on them they've got to find ways to play better we've talked about how great the Jets defense is in the past I haven't seen it so they need to stand up and actually play good instead of just having people talk about them and you've seen some of that so I think Zach is fine for what they have right now and I like that coming out so I understood where you his skill set was but I always thought that they needed to tailor make some things to fit that skill set and I think they've done that the last couple weeks. In that same division lot of consternation around the Patriots there's rumblings of Bob Kraft finding a way to let Belichick go which would have been unheard of even three four years ago I mean that's sacrilegious right but Matt Jones has been benched two weeks in a row where do you start trying to fix that mess Randy? Well I don't know that it could be fixed this year because I see a pretty big gap with talent compared to the better teams in the league and I think that's where it starts and I get to identify that problem it's probably that said that Bill Belichick the GM might not be helping Bill Belichick the head coach as much as as we would hope and as he has as he has in the past so that's an issue I just I don't see the talent really on either side of the ball they're kind of slow on the perimeter their offensive line has been shaky I don't know that the guys they brought in there we can just say and they've drafted four young offensive line in the last couple years and their take has always been we'll get him to play better I think that's pie in the sky I just don't see them improving like that so they've got to make some changes personnel wise and as you know Amy you can't do that during the season that's an offseason task and I thought Bill said it best and it may have been an indictment of himself after the game the other day he said we need to start over well I get it and I agree it's probably a rebuild but that doesn't say well say a lot for the guys who built this team and that's the same guys that are there. Randy Mueller with us here after hours CBS Sports Radio another team that you spent time with the Dolphins they've not had a playoff win in over 20 years they've made the playoffs a couple of times but not a win since the turn of the century we've seen this team hang 70 on the Denver Broncos they can get up and down the field they seriously look like they're having a blast what do you see with the dolphins? I see a surgical execution and I know they get a lot of run because of the athleticism and speed and the explosiveness I get it but I think the thing people fail to see with them because of the bright shiny objects they have the way that they block the pad level and the execution of their running game when you run for as many yards as they have and it's a ton it's just not easy to describe what they do but I think and Mike McDaniel's was kind of labeled this when he came there as being a really a run game guru well you still see that you see simplistic type old school fullback two tight ends some power plays some you know quarterback counters and things like that it's old school but they executed at such a high level that that's to me what makes them tick and yeah it helps when you can get 80 yard touchdown from your receivers about any time you want but I think that's the unnoticed part of them is how structurally sound they are from a technique especially in the running game standpoint. Well they may be technically sound but the flashy and the gaudy and the speed and the big numbers all of that right now is capturing attention and the dolphins aren't the only team Randy that are making some noise after a long stretch where their fans have suffered we of course have to talk about the Detroit Lions but first a break hang with us Randy Mueller joining us from Seattle longtime NFL general manager and front office executive with the athletic now has the football GM pod got a few more questions so hang out it's after hours with Amy Lawrence CBS sports radio you are listening to the after hours podcast. I believe we can compete with anybody and beat anybody in this league it's the ones you don't see coming and they know exactly who's coming. This is after hours with Amy Lawrence Dan Miller on Lions radio and Dan Campbell himself the Lions have not been the same since he was made head coach of the franchise it's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio last segment Ryan Radke on Westwood want to make sure I include him calling that Niners game on Sunday night against the Cowboys we're spending a few more minutes with our favorite general manager former executive of the year in the NFL Randy Mueller who spent time with half dozen different clubs and now joins us from the Seattle area dolphins deserve a ton of credit they're out of the gate fast it's been a long time for that fan base but same thing applies to the Lions and Dan Campbell has been a catalyst he has changed things in the Motor City what about this head coach has been so good for the Lions well I think his identity clearly is how this team is built and how it plays now and the job him and Brad Holmes have done and kind of changing the whole focus on on the kind of players they're looking for hey they've let a couple good players go but maybe they just weren't their kind of players and I love that about Dan but he's only as good as assistant coaches as well and Ben Johnson's been awesome on offense we know that the part of it that that's really surprising to me is the defense because as we sit here now a year ago their defense was a mess and it was run by Aaron Glenn there was questions about the scheme there were a lot of things that nobody really knew about it's come full circle now to be one of the better defenses in the league I don't know that Aiden Hutchinson can be credited with everything but he can go a long ways toward it but they're playing good at all levels too and there's something to be said for playing hard playing sound football and that's what they're doing on defense that's been the biggest surprise to me okay you're gonna laugh at me and that is okay I welcome laughter I have thrown Jared Goff out there as an early dark horse MVP candidate I know I know Randy I know hey I'm with you I think and again it just didn't start this year he had a really good year last year so I think then you're not alone in that putting him at least in the conversation so much to the point where I think and they drafted a kid from from Tennessee this year Hendon hooker a quarterback who is only injured and won't play this year but they drafted him I believe in the third round I think office played so much that hooker might be trade bait for someplace else then and that's that's you know because I see an extension on in the her on the horizon for Jared Goff and nobody would have thought that two years ago so he's up this game again a great scheme for him the OC has made it fit and made it work and I think they've got a lot of things now if they can minimize some of that change and I changing quarterbacks now would not be recommended in any way and especially the way golf's playing I don't think your projection is outlandish at all I mean I wouldn't laugh at that I'd stick to your guns certainly helpful in the NFC North when you have a run game and they finally have got that in David Montgomery who obviously was in the North before the Lions so interesting the way that things play out sometimes all right I have to ask you this question Randy because we're seeing the NFL more and more send its product overseas it's not just about a couple of games now in London it's Germany as well there's a series the Jags actually stay over there for more than a week to play two games as an NFL GM or a front office exec when you find out that you're a team that's going to London what's your reaction I think we all thought it was awesome when it started I know we took the dolphin team over there and played the first regular season game I forget the year we played the Giants the first year they won the Super Bowl it was exciting it was really cool and I think it's still that but I think the art of travel makes all the difference in the world and you mentioned Jacksonville got to go and stay two weeks now that's the first time the league has done that guess what they won both games and I think this week against Buffalo the prime you know reason they won is because they were there they were fresh they were more energetic they were more athletic Buffalo traveled after a Thursday practice and showed up Friday morning just didn't have their legs in them so I love the idea of these games being over there I think teams are going to figure out different ways to to deal with the travel and maybe it's just me Amy but I think London eventually is going to have a team I just think it makes sense from from a revenue standpoint to take it a city really a country you can even call it all Great Britain they're going to end up really having a big slice of the NFL pie from a revenue standpoint and let's face it we all know that that's what the NFL is about it's about making money I don't know how they'll do it yet but I wouldn't be opposed to it I thought all along you can make the logistics work and so I just think this Jacksonville being there the last two weeks solved a lot of checks a lot of boxes I should say for the league in that this could happen logistically it's not far-fetched all right at some point we'll talk about that because that would be intriguing but Randy before I let you go I can think of a few surprises that jump out at me in the first five weeks what are a couple of surprises maybe you didn't see him coming in this first month I surely on the negative part didn't see the Giants struggling like they are I thought they had made pretty good good progress not only are they struggling offensively but they're struggling defensively too so that one got me a little bit and I know the Steelers are in first place but I thought they would be better than they are I thought they would be a well-oiled machine more so especially on defense so there there's a couple teams that have let me down and maybe Pittsburgh will find a way to keep it going I don't know on the other end of it I guess you just thought the Colts would be a little better they're struggling obviously with a rookie quarterback that's hard I see more surprises of letdown then hey all of a sudden this team is great this is one of the teams I thought Jacksonville would be good they're finally coming around to that so I can't say that they're surprising and I think there'll be a playoff team before said and done so maybe them now trending a little bit you know Norse I think they could end up being one of the better AFC teams by the time the season's over one how about Baker Mayfield with a resurgence in Tampa Bay and and I know it's not just him the defense is really good and the division's wide open but gosh that might be one of the funnier storylines to start the season you gotta love Baker his personality the way he comes across see the teammates like him there's no doubt about that and Todd Bowles is always gonna have a good defense to get a win like they did the other day in New Orleans is giant we'll see if it holds up over the long run I still probably see New Orleans as being the team to beat but you're right it sure is wide open good stuff we're about to kick off week six which kind of blows me away but it goes fast once you get into the season so find Randy Mueller on Twitter at Randy Mueller underscore former NFL executive of the year GM experience also in many different front offices and we love his insight you can hear it actually the football GM pie with the athletic make sure you catch the stuff that he writes to there so Randy we appreciate a couple of minutes thank you so much thanks Amy great to catch up I always love talking to Randy because he doesn't hold back and the fact that he's not working in the NFL anymore means that he can be open about things like the London trips and I'm stunned to hear him say that he believes a franchise will end up there I know that's the chatter to me though the logistics make zero sense but that's what he believes and he's still very connected the football GM pod good stuff with him and it's been way too long since we've had Randy on the show all right more to do in the baseball space and obviously yes we have to get ready for week six in the NFL raise your hand because I know there are so many of you that are geeked up about Chiefs Broncos on Amazon Prime last week my Amazon Prime was crap it kept buffering it I would especially in the second half I get a play and then a buffer and then a play and then a buffer it was really annoying maybe it was my TV but I don't think so and in between the buffering and the internet and a game between the Chiefs and Broncos no I mean I'll watch it because I have to but if I didn't get paid to watch football on Thursday night I think I might accidentally miss it whoopsie yeah I would still watch even if I didn't have to I though I will admit the old man that I am I don't like all the app stuff simply because it's too much of a pain in the ass to change off of it yes it is so you wind up sitting through the entire thing even though you want to change the channel normally for three seconds it come right back it takes too damn long to do it so you don't so you're almost angry and yelling like in your mind you're most aggravated and frustrated like nothing's gonna happen right now even though I want to change the channel that's gonna like you're just annoyed I find myself more annoyed when I watch it than I should be Jay should we tell him our secret it's a good secret it's worked for me a little better it is we decided about week three of last year same thing especially in October when we've got playoff baseball and other things to watch we can't just stay in one app so Jay and I have now started doing the well we're nerds we started doing the two screens we've got I've got my laptop he uses his laptop we watch the football game on the laptop which generally tends to be a better stream I'm not sure why but I don't get the buffering on the laptop laptop and then baseball on the TV and that way we can flip in and out of commercials pretty easily yeah there's there's two issues with that most of the time I'm here I have one TV screen I don't have the choices to be true flipping into anything you're not sitting around and really staring at the screen anyway oh no but I mean I want to try to watch the game if I am home then I've got three children around the last thing I need to show them is that there's another screen that we could watch TV off of so I can't be doing any of that no hiding in the closet I do have a laptop that's capable which is new for the bloody household that's capable of putting an app on there but I won't do that simply because I don't need my nine-year-old to realize oh man I could watch this stuff on hit like no no no you can't no I want him to stay you know dumb for a little bit longer until he figures it out on his own he'll figure down on his own faster I probably already knows and I don't realize but I don't want to do that I don't want to open up Pandora's box there's enough stuff that I'm trying to hold off as they get older I don't need to do that too I was hearing this study the results of the study that were done recently on young teenagers and social media and I know this is not social media but it is apps and it is screen time and there's a direct correlation as they're finding out with this extensive study not a surprise the more time that young kids spend on social media the more likely they are that the percentage increase in anxiety and depression and everything else from burying and social media is part of it that's an app but just in general screen time and what you come across on the internet it's it's actually kind of scary I think we'll look back on it and this gen z is much more marked by anxiety and a lot of people will trace it back to the pandemic which is is part of it but also the amount of time that young kids spend staring at social media looking at apps on their phone it's not great for the human brain it's not it's basically it took all the things that it makes us we're all we all struggle when we're growing up we all go through all the things that we go through every one of us it's not no one escapes that and social media is now put a big giant magnifying glass on that so it not allows you to not only think about the stuff that you go through and what your family and your friends go through and on a small scale now you see it all over the place and it makes you feel even more insecure even more than you're questioning yourself so all the things that we all went through they now do it and it's magnified throughout everything it seems like everything that they go through is 100 times worse than the rest of us had it when we were a little older so yeah it's going to lead to all kinds of issues how do you get around it hell if i know i wish i knew i don't have the answer to that but it's pretty obvious as to why so many kids are struggling as much as they are it's it's just it's easier it makes it it makes sense when you look at it from all the stuff that you had to go through just think back to your own childhood imagine if you saw what they're seeing on top of it i i don't know how i would have been able to get through it yeah it's tough i do know that my fourth and fifth graders that i teach in church some of them have phones already they're not allowed to use them when they bring them on sunday mornings but there are a few that don't have phones at all uh yeah i got a fourth grader talk about phones get out yeah right no he there are some of them have fourth and fifth graders who have phones and uh it's crazy it's crazy to think about what they might be doing with those phones but also what what do they need the phones for they don't some of them are latchkey kids so they maybe need to connect with their parents when they go get home in the afternoons um but yeah that seems so early to me so early to me it scares me the the amount of crap that you could encounter but also you know we're a comparison well not a generate we're we're comparison people humans tend to compare themselves and social media is it's fake right it's it's not reality but so to compare yourself to what you see on social media you you can never measure up right but think about it when you were 13 years old you're insecure out of the dumbest things oh yes and you're now seeing stuff on social media that we know is fake right but to a 13 year old mind that's insecure to everything all is that all of that is is all the things that i should be that i'm not yeah and that's what's as difficult as it is because like i said all of us went through it at that age but we didn't have all of these things on top of it that magnify it that make it more and more difficult and it's non-stop it is it's just non-stop it never stops the news feed just keeps going the other part of this study that i heard on the news driving in is that because the served services like facebook instagram twitter blah blah all the all the rest they know how to target right with their advertising they're actually collecting information from kids who are online using that to target them with ads and as you talk about kids don't have that ability to delineate between you know something that is well is good for them versus not but just the way they're being targeted like we know that these apps and these companies are sharing information they're coming at us but kids don't necessarily have the filter to be able to know that that they're being targeted and so it's it's also that too like they want to try to put restrictions on social media and what they can sell and advertise to kids it's just a it's a vast cesspool is what it is it's really hard to regulate it and i don't even know how we got on that but you know i don't either but honestly these are the things that keep me awake because i i don't know what to do and how to navigate it for any of the kids and i know i'm creeping up on it with the oldest now being nine years old we're right in that area i know he does stuff online that i probably don't like that some of it i let go some of it i don't there are certain things that i don't allow that i know he hates and it's just it's it there's a lot of it that i don't get because as much as i played video games and stuff as a kid i didn't have a video game that connected me with you know somebody from around the corner or from across the world yeah so like true you know we played the computer if nobody was around so they don't do that so that that's what's messing me up like i don't care about video games like that you know when i was a kid you yelled that that's gonna rot your brain like no it doesn't you can play video games all you want but i can't get through the fact that like and he doesn't even have a system you only has the ipad that he can play on it's the idea that he's not just playing a computer there are people on that yeah that's hard for my brain to compute because i'm like oh man i got to pay attention to who he's communicating yeah and how do they communicate to him and i'm always like you don't talk to anybody on he's like nobody wants to talk to me and i'm like i don't care you're not talking to anybody you know but this is my friend from school i don't care i don't know who he is like you know because i get freaked out because i don't know anybody is that's weird to me and we're gonna fight this battle each and every day yes of course that's a challenge for parents now on twitter a law radio our facebook page too thanks for hanging out with us let's see let's get back to baseball because the dodgers are no more you are listening to the after hours podcast high drive deep right field back at the warning track back at the wall touch them all heroldo perdomo one nothing diamondbacks here in the third there's the one hope and a high fly ball deep right field no doubt about this two nothing diamondbacks home run marte third of the postseason two nothing diamondbacks as he came set the drive to left that ball might go that ball's gone how about this city home run out home run out home run three nothing diamondbacks walkers first of the postseason counts two and two on marino on the pitch from lynn and i shot the left center field back she goes are you kidding me gabby marino hits it out anyway and it's four nothing diamondbacks and lance lynn is just kind of staring out at center field this is after hours with amy lawrence it happened so fast and the dodgers were unable to generate any type of real threat after the third inning and a postseason record four home runs by the diamondbacks in that third inning all of them solo shots as i say stunning and it happened so fast perdomo marte walker marino dodgers down diamondbacks still have not lost in this playoff run wow it's after hours with amy lawrence on cbs sports radio greg schulte on diamondbacks radio now the dodgers were able to put a couple runs on the board but they did not get the hits or the production from the top of their order so they had a couple of runs in the seventh and this was on two outs so rbi singles for a couple of guys toward the bottom of the lineup and they were feeling a little bit of life right you could you could see them in their dugout they're veterans they understand that it's not over until the absolute last strikes and outs are recorded and they had opportunities so many opportunities but mookie betts and freddy freeman mvp candidates this was astounding and the two two and a swing and a miss he's got him on the slider one down bench is over for tonight and now over 11 in this series one away jd martinez is on deck to hit next the one-two pitch on the way swing and a miss freeman chased to the fastball at 98 out over the plate he and bets have struck out two outs in the dodger eighth inning how about striking those two guys out what a clutch performance right now by ginkle yeah the combined mookie betts and freddy freeman won for 21 in this series and sure the pitching bears a ton of responsibility why well clayton kershaw got blown up before he ever recorded a second out in his start to begin the series that was in la bobby miller didn't last very long either lance linn gives up four home runs ultimately though the result is the same congratulations to the diamond backs because they advanced to the nlcs for the first time since 2007 tori lavello feeling it by the way his team a lot of his team out in the pool behind center field there at chase field it's almost indescribable um you know here we are standing on a celebratory field um and there's been so much hard work that's gone into this i you know look at i am so grateful to be a part of this organization and to celebrate with these fans to celebrate with this group this ownership i i couldn't be more thrilled and i i haven't yet grasped how i'm feeling right now i'm gonna go in there i'm gonna go on a bender i'm telling you i might disappear for 24 hours i know that that's for sure i might go underground for a little while tori lavello reminds me a little bit of mike malone and just the the way that they celebrate and just kind of hey gotta be me gotta do me so yeah his team is out there swimming in the pool after they sweep the dodgers we're gonna go in there we're gonna we're gonna feel good about ourselves and then we're gonna go in there and hopefully there's a couple lifeguards out there to keep their eye on us but i will tell you this the last time um i was uh we were here when we clinched i was in the pool till two o'clock in the morning so if you guys got these cameras got these mlb cameras you got to look out there in the middle of the night you might see half the team in there bring on either the phillies or the braves but not until they have a chance to recover from their romp in the pool and the bender that tori lavello is going we're some greedy bastard baby we're some greedy bastard mlb network with the interview and we'll hear from the dodgers a little bit later but yeah the bats completely disappeared and i was worried about the braves and the dodgers i told you this six weeks ago that it did not bode well i didn't think it was good for either of those teams to have buried their respective divisions with six weeks to go to face no more pressure no more games that matter none no more of that must win pressure cooker stretch run baseball where they're fighting for something because they weren't they could lose six games in a row it wouldn't matter well now it matters it's after hours with amy lawrence cbs sports radio you