After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 2

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It really is. Even Monday, trying to recover from the NFL Sunday and the college football Saturday, just a football weekend and boom. Not even two hours after I wake up and I had to get up earlier today but it's right back into games that require attention and require watching, taking notes, following what's happening and then to go through Monday Night Football and a game seven.

Again, this was me for three hours. I am watching football. When it gets to a break, I flip over to baseball. I rewind it back to the last point at which I saw. Watch it through until it catches up, until I catch up on the DVR and then go back to football.

Rewind from the point at which I had flipped over. I mean that's what happens. It really requires all your attention and so and I only say that to say that October is so busy because of that. There really isn't much of a break between football and baseball. A friend of mine asked me recently when do you get a day off and I said after October is over and baseball is done.

However, it's also great for business. We love the fact that there's so much traffic on our social media. There's so many people that are checking in. It's busy because the NHL and the NBA are also back because MLS is taking place and we had the Ryder Cup earlier this month. There's always something going on in the month of October, thus the fulcrum and we have still so much to do but back to my point about liking to name and label different elements of the show, I thought we might call this Loser's Hour which we could except that coming up in 15 minutes we'll have a guest from Arlington, no not from Arlington, sorry from Houston about the Rangers. They will be heading back to Arlington as they prepare for a world series that will begin on Friday but from Houston, a member of our Dallas affiliate 105.3, the fan who is on the field and in the clubhouse, he will join us to set the stage, the atmosphere really to make sure that we get the full story on these Rangers, the intel. Oh producer Jay just said in my ear because he's a live guest, it might be later in the hour so at some point this hour, some point this hour, it's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. You can find me on Twitter, ALawRadio, love to connect with you always.

We still hear from people routinely every week who are finding the show for the first time and that's awesome. We've also got a Monday MVP poll that still goes for another couple hours, that's an NFL specific poll but many of you are writing in Adolis Garcia or writing in other members of the NFL and then we have just kind of a poll to gauge your reaction. Which team is more worthy of worry right now? Which team is in more of a pickle? Is it the San Francisco 49ers who've dropped back-to-back games and Brock Purdy has not played well for stretches in each of these losses plus they're without Deebo Samuel, right?

They're missing pieces or is it the Buffalo Bills who, speaking of missing pieces, they are as well and their offense hasn't looked comfortable for the majority of the first seven weeks. So that poll is also up but the reason we're going to talk about the losers is because we have yet to hear from the Houston Astros. Did you see the report about Dusty Baker? According to The Athletic, Dusty has told members of the Astros front office that this is his last year as manager and he did not want to make it public because he didn't want to take away from what the Astros were attempting to do which was to ultimately win back-to-back World Series for the first time since the turn of the century to have a team do that. And still he's reluctant to talk about it but you'll hear from Dusty directly. Again, the report from The Athletic is that he has told people inside the organization as well as his own family and friends that he is not managing past this season, that this will be his last season as a manager in Major League Baseball. He is 74 years old, although my mom's birthday is Tuesday and she's still teaching almost full-time and she's older than Dusty. He's not like my mother. So yeah, he's 74, turned 74 this summer and this is a grind.

It's a grind to be on the road as much as they are to travel as much as they do. 162 regular season games and since he took over as the manager of the Astros, they've gone as deep as the World Series or at the very least the ALCS. He's the oldest active manager in baseball, although Bochi now is into his 70s. No, let's see.

No, no, no. Bochi is 68 so there's a few years between them but Bochi same place but it's amazing how much winning can give you a lift and Bochi talked about how he was sitting on his couch for three years before the Rangers brought him out of retirement and gosh what a fresh challenge and a new energy he seems to have or you know he's kind of approaching it that way. So we'll hear from the Astros including Dusty Baker and then also we have to give you the Niners perspective because they just dropped back-to-back games.

So Kyle Shanahan, Brock Purdy, Christian McCaffrey. Again, it's After Hours with Amy Lawrence. You can find us on Facebook or on our YouTube channel as well as on Twitter. 855-212-4227.

That's 855-212-4CBS. We'll try to work in some calls as well but there was another baseball game that was taking place in Philadelphia. Gosh, now almost 12 hours old from first pitch and it didn't take long beyond that first pitch for the Diamondbacks to get busy. Into the full wind-up and the pitch and a drive to left and the Diamondbacks break on top on a home run by Tommy Pham. Here's the next one from Nolan and a shot to left and it's going to be two nothing Diamondbacks.

Back-to-back Pham and Gurriel for the Diamondbacks here in the second inning. That was almost a golf shot. This was a sinker. It was not the curveball.

He went down and got it and still elevated that ball and just crushed that ball over the wall. The call on Diamondbacks radio, Greg Schulte being the main play-by-play and they gave some support to Merrill Kelly pretty quickly. Now Kelly got into his own trouble in the first inning. He actually had to leave two Phillies straight. We have to get out of a jam in that first inning and remember the Phillies, they have ignited the crowd there at the bank, Citizens Bank Park, by some of their early home runs. Kyle Schwarber, Bryce Harper. We've seen the top of that lineup, Trey Turner get those solo shots, those big home runs right away. But after Kelly manages to get out of a jam there in the first inning, the Diamondbacks played three runs in the second. So gosh, talk about a turnaround.

That itself might have been the turning point of this game six. And Tommy Pham, he'd kind of been scuffling along as the DH. But he gets the solo home run off Aaron Nola.

Now Nola's start had been pushed back and then Lourdes Gurriel, he did the same thing not long after. You can imagine what a lift it was for Pham, what a lift it was for the Diamondbacks to be able to to strike first. Because once the Phillies get rolling, their hitting is contagious.

But also that crowd there in Philadelphia, you know, that stadium, it can be full throat when they are playing well. And so this was such a huge deal for the Diamondbacks to get the first three runs across. The pitch, swing, and that's a line drive down the right field line. Fair ball into the corner. Carroll powering towards third.

It gets away from Castellanos. Carroll's going to score easily. Marte on his way to third, and it's an RBI triple. Diamondbacks extend their lead.

It's now 4-1. Once again the call on Diamondbacks radio. So two RBI hits for Cattell Marte, and for the Phillies it was a story that we haven't told about them recently, but they go one for seven with runners in scoring position. Unable to extend or to expand their scoring opportunities.

They couldn't get a rally together, and you got to give credit to Merrill Kelly. Now he was taken out after five innings, though he'd given up just a run on three hits. He struck out eight, but ultimately it was about the win, and so he was trusting Torrey Lovello. In that situation, obviously in LCS game six, I want to be out there. I want to help my team win, and that's kind of my mentality, but we had a conversation after that inning. He kind of broke down why it was that he took me out and the reason behind it, and at the end of the day, I trust my bullpen. It's not about me not trusting who's coming in behind me. It's just me trusting myself, I think, but at the end of the day, the guys behind me came in and did a great job, and at the end of the day, if we win, then that's what matters.

All hands on deck, anything is possible. Game sevens are game sevens for a reason, so we earned the right to play in that game, and I'm proud of the guys for that, so I want them to enjoy it. They're excited, but at some point tonight, we're going to probably turn the page and set our sights on their starting pitcher, set our sights on what our job is, and make sure we get a good night's rest, so I'm really proud of the boys, but I want them to celebrate. They're in a very good mood in that clubhouse right now. I can imagine Torrey Lovello doing his press conference as his Diamondbacks were not only feeling the joy of forcing a game seven, but also probably some relief. It's after hours here on CBS Sports Radio, similar to what I said about the Texas Rangers and their backs being against the wall. Really, any team that gets to this point has to be fairly comfortable facing adversity and facing the prospect of elimination, but for the Diamondbacks, they needed to fight Scratch and Claw just to get into the postseason, right? They were not sniffing the NL West title. That was long gone to the Dodgers, and now the Dodgers are long gone, but the Diamondbacks were on the edge for quite a while. They were competing with teams, not so much the Phillies, because the Phillies had a fairly sizable lead atop the NL wildcard, but they were competing with other teams to try to make or to earn a wildcard, like the Cubs, for instance, and some of the other teams that were really, you know, pushing the pedal to the metal down the end of the season. So for them, you know, they've kind of been in this space where if we don't win, we're done.

So this is not foreign to them at all, and in fact, Tommy Pham says it's good for them. You can say when our backs are against the wall, it brings the best out of us. Guys tend to or tend to turn up the focus and, you know, gives us a little edge.

So maybe that's what we needed. I do like the edge. The edge is significant this time of the year.

Anything that can give you an edge or a leg up. As for the Phillies, you don't need to worry about the Phillies. They're also real comfortable when it comes to these types of situations, meaning the pressure cooker, but I am blown away hearing this. The Phillies, when they step on the field for game seven at their own stadium on Tuesday night, will play in the first ever game seven in franchise history. The Phillies have never played in a game seven before.

How about that? Now they played in winner take all games, game fives, but not in a game seven. And you've got to be impressed with the fact that the Diamondbacks even forced one considering how dominant the Phillies were in the first two games of this NLCS. But yeah, they weren't unable to extend a rally, to put together enough hits that they really could ever feel like they had some momentum. First thing comes out and he really executed everything and even in the fourth thing, I thought it was a good inning. The second thing, he just didn't execute some pitches and and he paid for it, but you know we didn't score any runs. So yeah, partly the offense, but also Aaron Nola. He was all right, but he was spotty. And the fourth innings, where he was able to settle down a little bit, that second inning was the one in which he gave up the three runs and just couldn't sustain. Again, same thing for the offense, couldn't sustain what it was he was trying to do. So he allows four runs on six hits, has a couple of walks in there, but ultimately the Phil's go one for seven with runners in scoring position.

So it's both. Credit the Diamondbacks, credit Merrill Kelly. Gosh, could you imagine, and I'm just throwing this out there, I'm not saying it's going to happen, I have no idea. In a game seven, anything can happen, but could you imagine if the Phillies lost after, first of all on their own field, but also after everything that we've seen from them so far in October?

Big, bad, bold, brash, loud. The onslaught from the hitters, the Bryce Harper, the Trey Turner, as I say, the Kyle Schwarmer and how he's tattooing balls. My goodness, I can't even imagine if they fall short. People had them heading to the world series after game two, no doubt. People were talking about sweeps.

I mean, it's, yeah, it's a completely different world now. And credit the Diamondbacks, that tenacity, that refusal that refusal to give up and go away. And the Phillies have got their hands full now. It doesn't matter if the game is at their home ballpark, though they certainly should have the benefit of a crowd that's lost its mind.

And I mean, it's comforting, but the Diamondbacks are no longer intimidated, just like the Rangers were not. Okay, on Twitter, ALawRadio, Jay, what's the call? We're going to wait until after the update at the bottom of the hour to welcome our guest. Again, covers the Rangers, part of their broadcast from our Dallas affiliate, 105.3 The Fan. So, next, we will hear from some of the losers.

We'll go Niners, we'll also work in some Astros. Thanks for hanging out with us, our second show of the workweek, but maybe you're first. If you don't join us on Sunday nights, well, here you are on a Monday. The Monday hit me in the face.

It's all right, though, because I got a lot of yard work done. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence, CBS Sports Radio. You are listening to the After Hours Podcast. With Kirk ready now, one, two pitch, ground ball, second base, Simeon's got it. On to first to Nate Lowe and a hello World Series. The Rangers have won their third American League pennant.

They stream out of the dugout and are jumping up and down between the mound and first base. For the first time since 2011, the Rangers are going to the World Series after having six consecutive losing seasons. What an amazing year this has been and there's more baseball to be played.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. On the official Texas Rangers radio network, Eric Nadal with the final call as they return to the World Series and they do it in a game seven on the road in Houston. They've not yet lost on the road in this postseason run.

Bruce Bochy never got in a team to a loss in a winner take all game and now he's headed back to the World Series. It's unreal. I mean, I've fixed myself. It's hard to believe that this has really happened.

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There's no words. Congratulations to him on Bally Sports Southwest and to the Rangers. It's been a really neat story. Six consecutive years with losing seasons but some of those were 100 plus losing seasons and then to cough up that AL West title on the final day in a tie break to their hated interstate rivals, the Houston Astros. Man, they've been living in their shadow for a while.

This is how you get the last laugh. But as for the Astros themselves, seven consecutive ALCS appearances, multiple World Series, Dusty Baker, no way that you can minimize what they've accomplished. We've been spoiled around here as far as just winning and winning and winning and you know heck I've been here four years and we've been the two World Series and two championship season I mean series. I mean you know we have nothing to be ashamed of or nothing to hold our head down about. I mean we're down you know but we're not out and every team damn near in baseball would trade you know to have the last four years that we've had.

It's tough. I mean you're in this game to win and we weren't able to do that but I mean the Rangers played a really good series. They had a really good ball ball club so um wishing all the best in the World Series and I mean we had a good year a lot of ups and downs throughout the season but you know we were able to make things work and you know at least have the opportunity to get there so um you know it's a little tough.

Look I mean I'm not somebody to dwell on negatives. Obviously we would have liked to have been able to get it done here and there's no simple answer as to why we didn't play great at home. You know it just stinks. Obviously would have liked to had it gone different. The voice of Justin Verlander after Kyle Tucker. So yeah you're gonna hear that type of sentiment coming from a clubhouse where they're used to winning right. This is not what they anticipated. They were planning on winning back-to-back World Series for the first time you know since the turn of the century and the Yankees or at least getting back there but I think the worst is the fact that after taking the lead in the ALCS they then drop back-to-back games at home. I mean that's stunning for a team like the Astros.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence, CBS Sports Radio. We had talked about this all throughout their run just four guys remaining from that 2017 championship but two of them Jose Altuve, Alex Bregman both with big time postseason moments championship type moments. Altuve had another home run in this game but obviously too little too late. Why did the Astros fall short though? How did they end up going two for 14 with runners in scoring position? Baseball you know sometimes you're gonna win sometimes not I think that's what happened they play better than us.

That's a good point. The Rangers did in fact play better than the Astros in both games six and seven. On Twitter after our CBS on our Facebook page we're looking forward to a conversation with Jared Sandler from our Dallas affiliate 105.3 the fan part of the Rangers radio network as they're back in the World Series and I think a really cool story. They've been building toward this why was this the breakthrough season?

We will ask Jared and also how did they turn into road warriors? So when the plane lands and when he is available he will join us here after hours. Paul is listening in Westfield Massachusetts. Paul welcome to after hours. Amy I miss you it's been months and since you make up words croptober baby and I just literally picked and peeled and cooked my fresh tomatoes while my croptober bud is hanging dry and it's the aroma and the flavor and the leaves are changing color. I literally am in heaven up here you know.

Yeah we've got great fall colors in my neighborhood too. Yes you know Josh and hey Amy this is a what I would consider a significantly historic match-up. You've got the Astros basically was King Kong and then Godzilla except this time the Astros just couldn't outbat Texas like you mentioned the RBI record. I don't think that was a narrative that many people expected and then of course the first time I saw Altuve and imagine seven in a row now I remember laughing thinking there's me you know the funny guy in every Spanish movie jumping for joy it's Jose Altuve he's still full of joy and watching what they did was awesome and to think he's five foot six in an age of giants but in terms of physics for him to be able to smoke the ball at his height is very not probable against people like Aaron Judge but it shows you like with John Stockton in basketball people like me you know Altuve is probably a once in a generation player his RBIs in that series at his age what he's done at his height he's in a whole category when you put in the physics which is important and it gives people a generation wanting to be like him you know it's just a great story and good for baseball and then the other side there with game seven never at home and then big mouth motor heads running it and slapping it you know like Rick Flair said you want to walk the walk you better talk the talk and hopefully they're not running the mouse with the checks and they can't cash are you sure it's the it's not the opposite when you want to talk the talk you better walk the walk well I said it backwards it's 3 30 in the morning I'm in a hot tub for an hour it's amazing I'm awake but yeah you're right and Amy that's amazing okay came back from the resurrection of the dead big Benny White up here at WCRN the tall me we're walking the plank they want to get rid of Belichick and Mack and this brought back the reality that they're dumb coach and Mack if he has protection and receivers that actually catch the ball he can actually play like he did his first year a lot going on it's too hot we're dropping it like it's hot and cropped over this is going to be great and the Celtics and the hockey and Boston is awesome Boston led up seven goals in five games them two goalies are wicked and although uh they retired Bergeron that 19 year old's doing a great job that new front line is doing good and our defense is awesome I can't wait to see what happens this winter all right sounds like you're really excited thanks for sharing your enthusiasm thank you all right Paul I can't compete with that not on a Monday night so whether or not you can match his enthusiasm if you want to answer our question of who incites more worry at this point is it Niners or is it Bills neither team has played the way that it's capable of in the last few weeks the Bills seem to be scuffling I would say their issues run a little deeper though the San Francisco 49ers have now had back-to-back games in which their quarterback has scuffled so Brock Purdy throwing a pair of interceptions as in two on each of their last two possessions they're only losing by five right I mean they've got a quick strike offense they've got some big-time playmakers we know that and yet he throws the ball away twice and gets picked off so how come or you know what what went wrong I suppose would be the question for Brock Purdy just bad ball uh JJ did a good job on his route and um D line got a good push on us and I sort of just was trying to anticipate the throw um at the end of the day it was a bad ball and um obviously I threw it too far ahead of them so yeah so that's about the game ceiling interception both of them with Cam Bynum for the Minnesota Vikings but Christian McCaffrey says actually it's my fault that we lost this game anytime you lose it's a bad feeling um I think we have a team that's hyper critical of each individual and you know we can't just let it trickle down and um gotta take a good hard look in the mirror I know I'll do that I made a bad mistake today that I believe cost us the game if I don't fumble that ball and uh come put it on me and uh go from there yeah I mean there's multiple moments that you could look at for the Niners and you got to give the Vikings credit right so Jordan Addison wrestles the ball away from Chavarius Ward turns it into a 60 yard touchdown right before half to me that was a massive shift but also they have to take advantage of the turnover from Christian McCaffrey early though they did jump on top of the Niners right away because when McCaffrey fumbles the Vikings are able to go the distance and and get Addison's first TD but it is never on one guy so it's never just on the quarterback or just on Christian McCaffrey the defense has to bear some responsibility as well because think about the number of yards that the Vikings racked up in this game Kirk Cousins had nearly 400 yards passing this without Justin Jefferson but yeah the the Vikings they were able to do a lot of damage on defense they were eight of 13 I'm sorry against the Niners defense they were eight of 13 on third down they only had five penalties each team only had five penalties so relatively clean but dominating time of possession the Niners couldn't get the Vikings off the field they had extended possessions 10 plus minutes with the football so a lot of ways that the Vikings were able to take advantage of the Niners tee neither team rushed particularly well but we know that Kirk Cousins can throw the ball like it or not now I don't know if I'd agree with Troy Eggman that Kirk Cousins is did he say a top five quarterback 10 oh a top 10 quarterback huh maybe in a vacuum maybe in a vacuum maybe if all you're doing is chucking the ball I mean he's real smart though um I think he has a lower ceiling than some of the other dynamic quarterbacks in the NFL but that's just my opinion I'd have to go look through it uh unfortunately there's a lot of bad quarterback play so maybe true maybe this year he's definitely top 15 simply because there are that many bad quarterbacks he's a quarterback I've always said this and this is this is a barometer for me you can win with Kirk Cousins you don't win because of Kirk Cousins that to me is the difference between the quarterbacks that are the Patrick Mahomes the Josh Allen you win because you have those guys are the Bills winning right now because of Josh Allen uh they have a chance every game that they play because of Josh Allen that to me is the barometer of you talk about a franchise Joe Burrow those are guys that you win because they're there you can win with Kirk Cousins but you got to put a lot of pieces around him in the right spots which you don't have and you're not going to win because of him and there's not a lot of guys that could do that they elevate he's not the guy that elevates not in my mind all right I like that analysis I am not of the opinion that one guy could ever win you a football game but I understand what you're saying the quarterback has the ball in his hands more than any other Kirk Cousins can do some damage with the ball in his hands and he's I mean he's not got Adam Thielen anymore he doesn't have Justin Jefferson they've got new guys look how quickly he's developed a rapport with Jordan Addison and also you know pivoting to Alexander Madison too with the run game no more Dalvin Cook so they've changed a lot of pieces around him and he's still he hit nine different targets in this game I understand which is why he's a good not great quarterback that that again there's got you it's not a knock like there's not a lot of guys that are next level you win because they're there as soon as they put the uniform on you have a different chance you have a better chance than most of your opponents there's not a lot of guys like that those are the guys that to me are the true franchise the true when you save top five top ten like that's where I'm looking at everything below that you start to look in different levels guys that have the ability to possibly get the potential is there if everything's right around them like and then you go through all the different steps if he could just be better at this or if he could not if he could take away the turnover Kirk Cousins is just a good solid quarterback he's not great he's not bad he's good and solid now if you have a really good team around him you can win a Super Bowl with him if you don't you won't all right so just out of curiosity and then we have to take a break because because I've got some stuff to do but uh does Brock Purdy fall in that same category uh to me the the jury's still out because it's only year two I would say if Brock Purdy can get to the point of really good and can win with him then the 49ers will win a Super Bowl he's striving to get to that level I'll put it this way if you put Kirk Cousins on the 49ers do I think we win the Super Bowl yes I do yes I do because he's good enough with the rest of that talent that's around him absolutely you put Kirk Cousins on the Chiefs do I think they win no they don't but Holmes elevates that club they're better because he makes them better on Twitter after hours CBS on our Facebook page too which team is in more of a pickle is it the Niners or is it the Bills we've had to push our guest it's fine he's live we're not doing anything uh well I think it's all or shattering but you may not so we will wait for him at the top of the hour but coming up next well there's good news and there's bad news but we've got the coolest surprise for you it was actually a surprise for me and now I'm going to share it with you here's our latest sports update oh it's such a cool surprise you are listening to the after hours podcast it's a touchdown tuesday on after hours firing for the end zone touchdown touchdown to cast your vote for the td of the week head to at after hours cbs on twitter or give us a call at eight five five two one two four two two seven the Minnesota Vikings Cousins on third and six big blitz like Pete said so Cousins fires over the middle and it is that time Jordan Addison stole it from Tarvarious Ward and it's a 60-yard touchdown and the Vikings strike in the shadow of halftime and they lead 16-7 the new england patriots gets sippy into the huddle Douglas departs for new england a line to the right inside of Devante Parker and meanwhile Henry born and Stevenson flexed left before Jones summons Stevenson to the quarterbacks right hip a second of goal to go from the left hash one Andrews over the football to snap it back Jones has it looks to his wife throws it to the right got it he touched down he's got it patriots there he is Mike Kisecki off the side of a milk carton catching the game winner the Pittsburgh Steelers the Steelers in a tie game line up with everything in tight picket communicating the play the lone setback is Najee Harris picket steps in hands it off Najee into the end zone Pittsburgh Steelers go ahead touchdown the iron horse Najee goes into the end zone the Cleveland Browns here we go Hudson and Harris Browns from the one this is the game out of the eye they need the touchdown hunt and Harris Walker gives to Kareem Hunt pushing pushing touchdown Kareem Hunt got it across the goal line Kareem Hunt are the cardiac kids back Kareem Hunt getting it over the goal line the huge touchdown on fourth down you knew you could run you could run it at that point it didn't matter that was the last play I feel like if you score a game-winning touchdown in the final 30 seconds you automatically qualify for TD of the week even if it wasn't some impressive acrobatic individual feat of strength and we've got a few game-winning touchdowns which is pretty incredible so we give you the one from Monday Night Football that wasn't a game winner but it was a 60-yarder for Jordan Addison who wrestles it away from Shavarius Ward gosh right before half is able to go the distance Paul Allen on Vikings radio and what a big moment that was heading into the halftime locker room for both teams actually completely turned the tenor and the tone of that first half the New England Patriots they desperately needed a win the Buffalo Bills had come all the way back to grab the lead at Gillette Stadium in the fourth quarter but Mac Jones who said he never lost faith in himself he throws the game-winning touchdown to Mike Jasticki with 12 seconds to go Bob Sosie and Scott Zolack on Patriots radio Bill Hillgrove on Steelers radio Najee Harris gets into the end zone and like I talked about on our Sunday night show I felt like the two touchdown drives orchestrated by Kenny Pickett in the fourth quarter the Steelers against the Rams really showed maturity and that the offense is growing up because as the quarterback goes a lot of times that's how the offense goes so definitely a big a big step forward for Kenny Pickett and a huge win for Mike Tomlin and the Steelers and then Kareem Hunt 39-38 the final score are you kidding me 39 to 38 but the Browns my radio network Kareem Hunt with 15 seconds to go finds pay dirt and the Browns rally past the Colts although in that game there were eight lead changes eight lead changes was it about who had the ball last not something you generally say about either the Colts or the Browns so you can vote for TD of the week we now have count them one two three three polls running all at the same time from different stretches over the last 24 hours so we still have our Monday MVP poll for those of you who are angry at us that we did not select Myles Garrett well the Browns defense gave up 38 points but now you have a chance to vote for TD of the week because that does feature a Cleveland Brown so whether it's TD of the week whether it's Monday MVP and you're late to the party or if you just want to tell us which team is in a bigger pickle is it the Niners who I don't know maybe need to start looking for kickers the rookie Jake Moody it's one they drafted but he's going through his own adversity they're missing Deebo Samuel he could be out a couple weeks Brock Purdy has scuffled along these last couple days or last couple games the defense at times Kirk Cousins and the Vikings offense made that defense look middling modeling and middling so are the Niners in dire straits are they in a pickle or is it the Buffalo Bills who just lost in New England as we talked about and even though they were able to come all the way back their defense couldn't hold off the Patriots either Ramondre Stevenson he was really the key on that last drive before Jasecki gets the touchdown and they've also had a turnover issue in a bunch of these games by the way Dawson Knox is out now for i'm not sure how long but he's having surgery so he's going to miss some time as well again you can vote on our show twitter after hours cbs or on my twitter a law radio plus on our facebook page now i mentioned we have a surprise for you it's actually a surprise for me warriors pr reached out to producer j with an email today and this was the link that was attached to the email this is clay thompson four-time champion with the golden state warriors you're listening to one of the best shows in america after hours with amy lawrence on cbs sports radio how about 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