After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 2

All right, we survived the first hour. Everything appears to be in working order on your end and on our end.

So I can take a deep breath. This always happens every time I do a show out of studio, whether I'm on the road and there will be some shows that we'll be taking out of studio come later in the playoff, well later in the football season, later into the playoff run. We have got some big plans by the way, have not yet got to, haven't yet got to the point where they're finalized. Though we'll start to drop some teases here coming up as we head toward the holidays about what we've got in store for not just the Christmas season, which I won't be working a lot then because I'm also getting married, but on into the playoffs and how we're taking after hours on the road. We're really excited. Trust me when I say it is something we've never done before. It's big and it's bold and it's going to be a blowout. It's also something I'm really proud of. So it's not just about sports. It's not just about the show.

There is an underlying but really important reason and motivation behind what we're doing. So if that's not enough of a tease, I guess you'll just have to wait and we'll offer some more details as we head through football season. Because you guys week six is in the books.

Week six, how is that possible? And we are now closer to Halloween. For those of you who celebrate dramatically, then we are to the beginning of October. I just I know that I'm in the minority here because it does feel like time is dragging because I have some big events that I'm waiting for. But it but the other half of my brain, the half of my brain that I share with producer J for sports calendar and football season.

It's definitely flying even though the other half of my brain feels like it's true. I can't even explain it other than to say it's such a weird dichotomy in my brain in my heart where part of me recognizes that time is flying by in a blur and the other part of me feels as though it's dragging. But honestly, Jay, didn't we say that during 2020 as well? We felt like Yeah, time is is marching on. It's going quickly because here we are. It's a month down the road.

It's two months working from home. Now we're into the summertime. We're still home. I can't believe that this is you know, this is going the way that it is. And yet because of the dramatic circumstances, it felt like we were stuck in place kind of it just it Yeah, it was weird. It was weird in 2020.

It's weird now. Coming up in 15 minutes, we will welcome Fernando Ramirez who covers the Chargers and I'll ask him questions about this team and where they are and why they can't seem to break through. And even if they do break through in the regular season, it's a little bit like the Dallas Cowboys you can break through and get some big wins. But if you fail to replicate or capitalize come playoffs it kind of it's one of those monopoly deals where you go to jail go directly to jail don't pass go don't collect your $200. And no matter how far along you feel like you are, you just you go back and you start from the beginning. Or did you guys ever play chutes and ladders?

I mean, I did when I was a kid, but also played it with my nieces when they were little. And you can climb all the way up to the top of the board, if you will, but then you hit one of those really long slides and back down to the beginning you go. That's kind of how I feel about the Chargers. Sometimes they do a lot of work, they put effort into it, they build, they show potential, they show flashes, but they end up running into this moment where they crash and burn, or they run into a glass ceiling and they just can't seem to bust through any farther than that. Sometimes we say about athletes, and we could use even quarterbacks as an example, that there's a lower ceiling, if you will, right, like higher risk, higher reward, maybe for a really athletic young quarterback who's coming in raw, but has all the potential in the world versus say, a quarterback who's maybe a steady Eddie isn't going to make a lot of crazy decisions.

Chuck and Duck fly by the seat of his pants, he's not a gunslinger, he's got a lower ceiling, so it's lower risk, lower reward. And that's how I feel about the Cowboys versus the Chargers. And I kind of wonder, do the Chargers even have the potential? They've got so many superstars, it seems like they've got pieces in place, and yet for whatever reason, those pieces never really form up into a team that makes a lot of noise. And part of it is that they're in the AFC West where, at least for now, and for the last seven years, every team has settled for being an also ran to the Kansas City Chiefs. But week six is in the books, we'll look at some of the trends and also some of the injuries from Monday announcements, because there are plenty that will affect teams moving forward. But yeah, six weeks in the book. So officially we're past the one third mark of that sounded so awkward. We're we're more than a third of the way through the season.

How about that? Think Amy think it's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. You can find me on Twitter a law radio if you haven't yet voted for Monday MVP. That poll is still ongoing for a little while longer on both Twitter and Facebook.

You are amusing me with your guesses as to why I'm working from home on Twitter. Tommy says turf toe. Jay, would you stay home if you had turf toe?

I don't know. I've never had it, but I've heard it's pretty painful. I've never had that either. Actually, never.

I've heard people say that it's really awful, but haven't. Let's see. Curtis believes it might be cupcake overload. You know what?

That is a distinct possibility. It really is because I did travel home with cupcakes, but they are safely in the freezer. I have not eaten them, so so they are. Yeah, I'm assuming that a lot of the cupcake coma, the cupcake residue from Saturday has worn off. I think I maybe have to work off a few extra pounds from Saturday's cupcake tasting, but I don't believe that I'm still dealing with the same sugar. I think I'm OK. I'm balanced again in my metabolism and in my in my systems, my organs. But that is a good guess.

And then on our Facebook page after hours with Amy Lawrence and our phone number 855-212-4227. I'd love to know if you believe in the Dallas Cowboys. I think a lot of you will be cynical and no matter what they do until they show you a little something something in the postseason, you won't believe. So maybe there is that. But do you believe in what you're seeing that they've made any changes? They made me progress that Dak is any different.

I don't know. It's hard when they're inconsistent and it's up and down, up and down. We're going to talk a little baseball here for the next few minutes before we welcome our guest.

We kind of pivot back to the Chargers. But I said this to start the show and I believe it and I can relate. By the way, the cat is meowing sugar. Oh, did you hear that, Jay? I heard that sugar. Come here.

Do you guys remember? For those of you who listen during the pandemic, when Sugar made her debut on the radio, she might be willing to do it again. Come here, Sugar. Come here, Sugar. I can hear very, very clearly actually. Really? Yeah.

This is one powerful microphone. Come here, Sugar. Come here. I'm here live. I'm not a cat.

Oh, it's definitely a cat and a loud cat at that. Come here, Sugar. Come here. Come on. I know, but come here, dummy. OK, so every other time I don't want her to sit on the the armrest of the chair, she does like every single time I'm trying to take notes.

I'm trying to do work Sundays. I need to move the mouse around on my laptop. No, doesn't care. She has to sit exactly where my arm needs to rest and and just thinks that's the best thing ever. But now that I want her to get up there so that you can hear her more clearly, she won't sugar. OK, we'll just wait until she decides she doesn't like she doesn't like being ignored. It doesn't take long before the cat decides she needs to be the center of attention. Sugar.

Sugar, come here. Never mind, because you know what's going to happen, I'll reach out to get her. I'll knock over my coffee, then I'll knock over my water. Then the dog will freak out. Yeah. So I'm just going to let the cat do what this is what you supposed to do with cats, right?

Just let them do what they're going to do. But like you're saying, now that you're going to try to ignore her, she's going to be right behind you. Oh, she is. She's going to be right here.

And I'm sure you can hear her in the background because she is meowing away. It's just that I want her to get a little closer to the microphone so everybody can hear. But for now, she's being semi bashful.

It's not even sugar, so I'm not sure why. It's only because I want her to. If I didn't want her to, she would be right up in my grill.

You know, you know, sugar, sugar. Oh, yeah, just her again. She's like wandering around behind the chair. Okay, we'll leave the cat for now.

But don't you worry, she'll make a cameo. That's why I hate working from home. Taking your pets to work day is not it's no, I used to think it would be the greatest thing ever. But having worked at home with the pets for three and a half months or for three months, never again ever. I don't know what would Moose do? Jay, if you put him on if you work from home, put him on the radio. Probably just make a couple like grunting noises or like gurgling sounds.

Snoring, snoring. He would look very confused. I thought that's just how bulldogs looked. Yeah, generally he's confused. But if we tried to if I put him in front of microphone and wanted him to like act like he would like, Hey, do something he would probably not do much he would know what to do. It's like when you try to take a photo of your pet, and they know somehow they know that you're pointing a camera lens at them and they look every other way.

But every other way. It's crazy, right? Because we're on our phones all the time. So it's not like the pets don't see us on our phones.

But somehow they know that when you put the phone at a particular angle, you're trying to take their photo. It's like defiance. Such stubbornness.

It's unbelievable. Okay, resetting. Forget you sugar.

All right, got no response. But she's she's lurking though. Yeah, she's just lurking. She's gonna pop out when we expect it. Like a tiger on the prowl.

Like a cat Halloween that was to cross your path. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS Sports Radio. So on not unlike the cat, who is very vocal, not unlike me, because I can relate. The Phillies are loud. They're loud. Their stadium is loud. It's electric.

The atmosphere is incredible. And they were locked in. And the bank was shaking for the start of the National League Championship Series with the Phillies and the Diamondbacks. But honestly, the Phillies decided that they would be extremely aggressive from the start. And at least on this night, the Diamondbacks, they didn't.

Well, the Diamondbacks got hit with the Phillies and their fans before they even got comfortable. Zach gallon, this being his former home. He grew up in New Jersey and the first pitch is blasted deep to right and Kyle Schwab has arrived. A lead off home run on the first pitch from Zach gallon. His first homer of the postseason. It's one to nothing Phillies is Bryce Harper, the birthday boy and he swings and lifts it high and deep and happy birthday pal. Harper. Oh, they monster drive deep in the right center. It's to nothing Phillies. Harper's fourth of the playoffs. Everything's about this time of year, you know, and these Arizona's really good at creating momentum and then keeping it.

So that's one of the things we need to do is get momentum. Keep it. Don't let them back in the game.

Okay. I somehow missed what Rob Thompson was saying at the beginning. Jay, do you mind firing that again? Only because the idea that the Phillies jump on you and hit you hard before the announcer on the radio and Phillies radio is even done uttering his little spiel about Zach gallon who's from New Jersey. Oh, first pitch and boom, it's gone. And that really does underscore the aggressiveness and the attack mentality. And like I said, loud bats, loud moments, loud fans, loud locker room, loud, dugout, loud, everything with the Phillies. And that was the case with the loud bats of Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper initially. But yeah, they they jumped on the Diamondback so quickly that they weren't really sure what hit them.

It was like a TKO in the first round. And that's what Rob Thompson is referring to. Everything's about momentum this time of year, you know, and and these Arizona's really good at creating momentum and then keeping it. So that's one of the things we need to do is get momentum. Keep it.

Don't let them back in the game. Hmm. And for Bryce Harper, you hear the call on Phillies radio that it was in fact his birthday, his 31st birthday. It was kind of funny because on the TV broadcast on Fox initially, because that was his fourth home run of the playoffs, one of the announcers indicated, oh, four for four home runs. And then you hear the other jump in and say, actually, that might be 31 because he turns 31 today.

He was blowing out his candle. So, yeah, Bryce Harper with a special celebration. It's crazy. I just sometimes I just do stuff. And that felt that felt right. So I'd step on home plate and do that. I just thought about it as I was running around third base. I do. Oh, that's what that was.

I was like, I thought it was hot. I mean, he's in the ball. So, uh, that is.

Yeah, no, I didn't put that together. He's got four homers. I thought he's just I don't know.

He's got four almost as postseason. But yeah, the guys the guys on fire. The same for his teammate, Trey Turner, not recognizing or understanding exactly what Bryce was doing.

But how funny. Bryce says as he's running the bases, he's thinking about it, right? I always wonder, wait, don't we always hear that question, Jay? What were you thinking about as you were rounding the bases? What were you thinking about in that moment? And sometimes athletes will say, I wasn't thinking about anything. I was.

Well, some guys will say I almost passed out. The whole world went dark. I couldn't see anything. I couldn't hear anything. But now you get Bryce Harper admitting that that's what he was thinking about as he was rounding the bases.

That's pretty funny. So it was, again, a powerful display, a loud display for the Phillies. And while the Diamondbacks were able to mount, you know, a small charge, I suppose it never really felt like they were going to be able to come up with that same offense or generate that same offense, especially not when you had Wheeler on the mound. So for the Phillies to be able to win the series opener, that's been their M.O., right? This is now, if I remember correctly, eight series openers in a row in the postseason in which they have won the opener.

And that is huge. And while Zach Galin was able to settle down a little bit, I mean, you know, once you you get a taste of the aggressiveness and the loud bats, you have to adjust quickly or you're already sunk. I think they were just ultra aggressive, really, is what it seemed to be. You know, I'm just trying to get ahead. And I mean, it's an aggressive lineup. You know what I mean? You know, I think it's no secret.

They try to get the crowd into as early as possible. And that plays in the aggression. Yeah, it's never a good thing when you have four strikeouts, but three home runs. And they did leave him out there for quite a while. Five innings pitch for Galin. He gives up the five runs on eight hits. The bullpen only give up one hit the rest of the way.

But of course, the damage had been done. We saw another home run from Nick Castellanos and Liam with his crazy faces and his jaw dropping reactions. So, yeah, the Diamondbacks were able to come up with, let's see, a couple runs in the sixth and a run in the seventh. But ultimately, because of the way the Phillies started out with four runs right away, they were able to control not just the crowd and keep the crowd into it, but also control the narrative around this opener. And that is what they want to do.

So they're already ahead. One nothing in the NLCS. And we'll get to the ALCS Game 2 in Houston coming up. But we got to pivot back to football because our Chargers guest is going to join us live from Los Angeles, where it actually felt like a Cowboys home game on Monday Night Football. Glad to have you with us on Twitter, a law radio or after our CBS and also on our Facebook page from the super secret home base. It's after hours on CBS Sports Radio.

You are listening to the After Hours podcast. Herbert on a third and ten. Shotgun snap. Sets his feet. Throws intercepted.

From bad to worse. Game over. Intended for Quinton Johnston.

And picked off. I thought defensively we played on the phone. We were really good all night on power. I think he had two yards per carry.

Without Dax, you know, scramble yards, we're talking about a high level performance. I thought we rushed well. I thought we were contested the entire night. And I thought we played well in the red zone. So we just got to put this home behind us because it was a tough game.

Got to get moving to Kansas City. This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. The Chargers fall short against the visiting Dallas Cowboys, but gosh, it had to feel like they were on the road in this game, considering the noise for the Cowboys at SoFi Stadium. Did you all see that one female fan not only getting a ton of TV time, but also taking over social media with the crazy memes?

If you haven't seen it, maybe Jay at some point, you can share a couple of the memes. She was a petite lady, very tightly wound, very intense and extremely engaged in what was happening. And while it seemed like the majority of the fans at SoFi were on board with the Cowboys, she was very obviously sucked in by the Chargers and living and dying with pretty much every snap of the football.

Her reaction when they scored the touchdown in the fourth quarter to tie the game. Oh my gosh, I don't know her name. I have no idea who she is. I've never seen her before, but she got a whole lot of air time. And I, I think that when I close my eyes in the morning, I might actually see this lady because she was everywhere.

She went viral. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio. If you look at the standings now in the AFC West, this is not so I'm not sure we've said this for quite a while, but it's the Raiders who are in second place behind the Kansas city chiefs, who of course started out with the loss against the Cowboys on that Thursday night football game. Wait, no, no, that was, I don't remember if there was Thursday night.

I think it was actually a C it's been six weeks and it starts to blend together. Anyway, the chief start out with that loss to the lions, but they've won five in a row since then a Raiders three and three chargers now fall below 500 there at two and three. And then the Broncos, well, they are in fact bringing up the rear. One of the worst records in football as for the NFC East, the Cowboys, as we talked about, they pulled within a game of the Eagles because the Eagles loss on Sunday commanders are there at three and three and then the giants also in the basement. So it is interesting to think about, uh, going back six weeks ago, producer Jay and I did a video that's on our YouTube channel in which we selected the seven teams that we thought, uh, would, would make a new entry into the post season, meaning they boot out seven other teams, half the playoff field turns over every year.

That's, that's roughly the average in the NFL. And if you think about it now, now Jay, you're going to have to help me cause sometimes I will forget every team that made it into the playoffs. But of course last year we had three teams from what we were calling the NFC beast Eagles and Cowboys. They're still on top of that division like they were last year. Commanders though, were the team that was on the outside looking in where it was the giants that made the playoffs. So let's just say for the sake of argument, the giants are a team that drop out. We know in the NFC North, the Vikings won that division going away last year, double digit wins the lions and the Packers.

They were on the outside looking in. Remember the lions beat the Packers to eliminate them in the final game of the season because the lions got flexed. Uh, let's see in the South. It was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who won the division and made the playoffs, but with a losing record. And then the West, we had the Niners and the Seahawks right now, both those teams sitting in the same position essentially that they were when last year ended. So I guess if you're thinking about turnover in the NFC, maybe it's not the giants. Maybe it's not the Vikings who right now are sitting at two and four Packers are below 500, but the lions are there at five and one, one of the best records in the NFL. You wonder what might change in the South.

I don't know. We have a long way to go, but it's hard to think about any of those teams busting out enough that you're going to have, um, well that you're not going to have a fight to the finish in the season, but also that you might have a second team come from the South in the West. I could certainly see Niners and Seahawks. So not a ton has changed in the NFC, at least to this point, one or two teams, the lions being the biggest change in the NFC. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS sports radio in the AFC. Well, we just talked about the West and so the chiefs are doing what the chiefs have done now for the past, gosh, six years, seven years.

Um, well I guess however long Patrick Holmes has been the starter there for the Kansas city chiefs. Uh, the Raiders though, are they going to make some noise here with Josh McDaniel's with Jimmy Garoppolo? There was good news about Jimmy Garoppolo.

If you are a Jimmy Garoppolo fan, which I know some of you are, some of you are a little bit cynical and almost afraid to root for Garoppolo. Uh, but the news that we got from Josh McDaniel's on, is it Monday? It was Monday is that the prognosis is good and that he did dodge a bullet essentially that it could have been a lot worse. So there were still testing that was taking place on Monday, but he was no longer at the hospital.

Uh, the scans on his back seemed to indicate that it was more of a temporary issue. Um, and so Josh McDaniel said, we don't want to put him at risk. And so for now we're kind of following doctor's orders, but that he could end up playing next Sunday in week number seven.

So then back to your standings, right? Can the Raiders kind of take this, I don't know. It seems like a hodgepodge to me, new quarterback.

I know Josh Jacobs. He's not been the same there. Uh, can they, can they come together under McDaniels?

There's a lot of people who question his leadership and make something of this season. Well, they could. I mean, they really could.

They look hideous and stretches, but you know what? A lot of teams do. There are plenty of teams that still have not found that consistency. So Raiders at three and three, could they potentially be a new entrant into the playoffs?

Maybe replacing the chargers Jaguars. They found some consistency now, three wins in a row. Um, and the Colton Texans are right on their heels in the AFC South, which is interesting. The North goodness, no teams below 500 in the AFC North. Now with the Bengals having found enough offense that they've won back-to-back games, they still haven't played a good 60 minutes of football, but when it's not the offense, it's the defense and vice versa for the bangle. So at least they're fighting, scratching, clawing as bangles can do for reals and they're above or they're not with a losing record anymore. They're not above 500, but they're three and three, but yeah, every team in that division, I could see that one having multiple playoff teams.

And then that brings us to the East where it's the dolphins and the bills, but do not count out the jets because surprise, they're also sitting at 500 and three and three. So yeah, it's kind of fun to think about. Again, we're a third of the way through the season and there are a lot of possibilities, but still a long way to go on Twitter, a law radio, some of you guessing the reason why I am working from the super secret home base.

I think so far the turf toe might be my favorite. And then on our Facebook page, gosh, some of you, I know you're being outrageous just for fun. Uh, you are making me smile.

So thank you for that. Uh, let's see. Mike says jet lagged like the bills were last week and the Falcons the week before that a bunch of you believing that it's because it's taco Tuesday. So I still feel like it's Monday.

I haven't gone to bed yet, but yes, I guess for a lot of the United States it is now officially taco Tuesday. So yeah, that would make me laugh out loud. Brian wants to know if penny hid my car keys. It actually would be the cat who would do that. Uh, not the dog. The cat plays with, let's see when I leave a hair tie out. Uh, sometimes I've left earrings on a table in my living room and, and one of them has disappeared cause she plays with them. Oh, don't leave a pen or a marker on the, on the table that I use in the living room to do work because she'll play with that puppy till it's under the chair or it's under the couch and we'll ever see it again. Oh, and twist ties. Heavens. The cat loves twist ties.

It might be her favorite toy. So yeah, be more likely sugar who would hide the car keys. Uh, Mark gives me a Seinfeld meme or GIF and it's, he says you're in a really serious game of risk. Newman and Kramer. Uh, let's see what else? Oh, Dan believes I was watching charmed on cable TV and decided to do some magic at home for radio and here might be my favorite. Jay, you ready for this?

Ready? Princess Leia was injured fighting the Republic except that she doesn't fight the Republic. You goofball.

She fights for the Republic. Jeff believes, I don't know why this would mean that I can't work from the studio. Jeff believes I'm selling my house and so for that reason I'm working from a home.

Uh, yeah, I don't know about that one. Oh, Thomas, because, and I'm going to read it how he writes it. Your beloved Patriots are one in five and you can't show your face at the office. Oh, you're a Patriots fan.

Well, my beloved Patriots. Yeah. More people guessing that I'm moving, but why would that mean I'm working from home?

Just trying to get those last couple of minutes in. I guess, I guess Marco Belletti, have you ever not shown your face at work because your sports team performed poorly? Uh, no, I guess that's something a fan might do, but here in the business, obviously we work in the business. Eventually we're going to have to talk about our teams when they suck.

So no, that's never not kept me. In fact, I think I'd rather talk about my team when it sucks and just get it out of my system. I did miss an entire day's worth of classes in college after after the giants also Superbowl to the Ravens in 2000.

That makes sense to me. Now, see, I could see college students deciding that they can't possibly deal with classes or real life after their team suffers a painful loss. But as adults, is that an acceptable reason to skip work or to work from home? Uh, skip work? No, not really. To be fair, I probably shouldn't have done it when I was in college either.

I mean, didn't really matter, but I would. I commuted. I worked through college so I was only there like twice a week. So I missed like a full five classes or I was like, you know, I was there from like eight o'clock in the morning till eight o'clock at night. The two days a week that I would go to school and I was like, the hell with this. I'm not doing it today.

I just had no interest in it at all. Let's see. Um, someone else guessing I'm pregnant. Did, did your, I'm assuming your wife worked through her pregnancies? Oh yeah. Um, up until this one, not as much.

The first two, she worked the Friday and my son was born Saturday night. Right. Exactly. I don't, which is not good. You shouldn't be working the day before. Okay. But a lot of pregnant moms, they work right up until they're about to give birth.

So that's kind of an interesting guess. I don't know why in the world I would be working from home if I were pregnant. No, I'm not pregnant. Can I, I was going to say I could throw it out cause you could be sick and just not feel morning sickness. You mean just, yeah.

And in general you just don't feel well the first couple of months. Gotcha. Uh, let's see. Too many snowflakes outside running around. Nope, no snowflakes in New Jersey yet.

Though the temps are in the forties and I know that's not what he meant. Uh, there was another one that was really funny here. Hold on. People are guessing why I'm working from home and Oh, Ken says you're playing hide and seek and nobody's found you yet.

Am I the only one that thought that was funny? Okay. What would you like to rant about today?

Marco go. You know, see that's not, that's not how I do. I know that I do is manufactured.

None of it's coming from the snow. I don't know, no, no, no, no, but it's not. Look, I admit that I rant and rave and I'm a lunatic, but it's all genuine. It's all pure.

It's all in the moment. I get when you get what I'm thinking. I'm raw. I'm, I wear it on my sleeve. You get what I'm thinking and I, and I throw it out there, but I don't just rant and rave just for the hell of it.

That just to make people what? Listen to me yell. That's not, that's not my stuff. Let's not, you know, make it seem like I'm just like the crazy guy in the corner that say, go yell and he starts doing that. That's exactly what I'm doing.

I didn't say that. I just wanted to see if you had something that was on your chest that you would like to get off your chest. Um, I, I'm in a decent mood today. I would like to, if it's possible, again, you go into my personal life, I don't understand why my kids are still sick for the last like two weeks and none of us can kick whatever this stupid congestion, whatever the hell is going on through the household. I'd like to know why that's not working, but I can't really, uh, I'm going to probably have to bring the little one, not even five months back to the doctor. Cause now it's like, oh, I thought you were going to say to work and I was going to get all excited.

No, you don't want that. You definitely don't know he's between the whatever's going on now in his chest and he's like coughing and he's teething. Oh man, he's not sleeping at all. I've been texting with my wife all night. Um, cause she's constantly yelling at me every five minutes cause I'm not there to help out. It's, it's not been a good scene.

Maybe you should be working from home. Uh, then nothing would get done and you wouldn't be able to hear me cause he doesn't, yeah, he hasn't stopped last night cause I was home last night so I'm with him. He doesn't stop. You can't even settle him down for five seconds. It's not about putting him down. It's about getting him to stop crying.

He's just so uncomfortable and it's making it impossible for anyone to sleep. Oh, that's tough. Yeah, no, I can.

I am sure every parent out there can relate. I'm sure. Uh, okay. So a couple more guesses as to why I'm working from home. These are funny. On Twitter, a law radio, something happened while in the ATL. You're wearing an ankle monitor.

They let me out of state with an ankle monitor. Uh, my best friend and I got into some cupcake mischief and then let's see, um, one more from Robert. Did you eat another goldfish off the floor? That would keep you at home. That would if I got sick over that. Again, let's keep that. Let's stay away from the hairy goldfish.

Stick to what's in the bag. It was so gross. I mean, you don't understand how much hair was on that goldfish, but it was dark and I couldn't see it and I was like, oh, there's my goldfish. Popped it in my mouth. It was like, and for like the next five minutes I was getting hair out of my mouth.

It was, it was disgusting. Sorry about that. Okay, well I will share the reason and there's a story of course coming up, but um, Marco needs to go home because his wife is yelling at him. So we're going to make sure that he gets the job done on Twitter or Facebook. We're glad to connect with you. I apologize for our guests. Apparently he's still working, unable to join us.

Uh, we haven't been able to get ahold of him, but it's all right. You've got us. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence. You are listening to the after hours podcast. It's a touchdown Tuesday on after hours.

To cast your vote for the TV of the week, head to an after hours, CBS on Twitter, or give us a call at eight five five two one two four two two seven. The Detroit lions. Lions send two receivers, right? Two left golf works out of the gun on third and 13 from the Tampa Bay 27 play clock at four golf's got it back looking throws, middle, complete almond rod, the 20 cutting across, looking for a block gets one inside the 15, a big block to the 10, to the five, to the touchdown Detroit lions. Oh baby.

You want to talk about teamwork? I'm in Rob with a catch. Craig Reynolds with a big block to help spring them. And the lions fired the end zone, the New York jets first and goal at the eight.

Three saw the eye back and off home up the middle. They're going to let him score and he's into the end zone for a jet touchdown. The Eagles left the jet score. Rather than letting the clock lined all the way down and breeze hall took it into the end zone for a jet touchdown.

One 46 to go. The jets now have a four point lead. The Minnesota Vikings play action out of the shotgun. Harrison Phillips trying to give him Josh Mattel is forced to fumble. It's bouncing about picked up by Jordan Hicks, 40, 30, and he's loose. Touchdown. Jordan Hicks with the second touchdown of his career has run the Minnesota Vikings to an 18-6 lead. The Miami Dolphins. Third down and six for Miami at the two minute mark of the second quarterback. He looked at off came right back.

So no help with the safety. Those are down the sideline separation again, and you got another touchdown. I do not understand that song. I'm not a Dolphins fan, so maybe somebody can explain where the song came from. I don't feel like Googling it, so somebody else can tell me, but it is. Yeah, it's maybe from the same era as San Diego Superchargers.

Actually, it's kind of sad they can't use it anymore. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence, CBS Sports Radio. You can now vote for TD of the Week, and we did have to eliminate some worthy candidates, so I suppose you can yell at us if you don't hear yours. But the Lions with Dan Miller on the radio call. That Amenra same round touchdown made possible by the Josh Reynolds block.

Pretty impressive teamwork there. And yes, the Lions are sporting one of the best records in the NFL now at five and one in that same division. The Vikings Jordan Hicks. What a game for him as the Vikings pick up their second win. Paul Allen with the call on Vikings radio. The New York Jets kind of a funny candidate for TD of the week, considering that the Eagles allowed Breeze Hall to get into the end zone.

However, as Bob was shoes and points out on Jets radio, it was the go-ahead touchdown. So I don't know. I think it's a strategy that I'm not sure I'd buy into. You allow your opponent to score, knowing that that puts them in the lead because you want to go ahead and get the ball back. But what if your defense stops them? What if they don't score?

But I don't know. It just to me, I would rather not give up points anytime, but that was the strategy. And so Breeze Hall gets into the end zone and they take the lead. And then the other, the dolphins Tyreek Hill, 41 yard as they have to come out of a 14 nothing hole to the Carolina Panthers.

And then at the end, grabs a cell phone, does a back flip, takes a video, you know, is willing to pay the fine. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio. Glad to have you with us. Uh, thanks for all of your guesses as to why I am working from the super secret home base. Yeah. Woke up on what day was it Monday and recognize that a penny, my dog has not just a small hotspot for those of you who have pets, but an enormous hotspot. I, she had been licking and biting it.

She doesn't really get hotspot. She does have some allergies, but this one's really bad. It's gosh, it's about the size of two quarters now put together.

It's just, it's big and it's bloody and it's raw. And because I don't have a collar or a cone, the cone of shame, anything to put on her. And I could not get her into the vet on Monday or Tuesday. I had to order a collar.

It'll be here at some point, believe it or not before I get off the air, that's Amazon prime for you. And so I couldn't leave her because I didn't have any way to keep her from making that hotspot worse. So yeah, she's in a lot of pain. Poor thing.

She's a disaster. She really won't let me touch it. Get near it though. I've tried to put some medicine on it. I'm not sure exactly what happened. Only that penny is a disaster and it adds to her medical maladies. And so people tell me that having a dog is good practice for having kids.

So I'll keep that in mind. Yes, we are halfway through. We're glad to connect with you. Thank you so much for hanging out with us on Twitter, A Law Radio. Also on our Facebook page, we found out what happened to our guest. We'll explain coming up. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence, CBS Sports Radio.