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They wouldn't believe what was written. And yet that's the NFL. From the category of you can't make this stuff up, there are some movie scripts in the making in the NFL this season.

It's an Italian thing, you know. What is your favorite movie script in the making from the NFL so far this season? And there are a lot of candidates.

I don't want to give any of my faves because I want to hear from you. And you all are weighing in on both Twitter, After Hours, CBS, as well as our Facebook page. We've even seen some of your GIFs.

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She is a hoot. Now there's a countdown. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. Good morning to you. It is Tuesday, December 12th. Do you know what that means? Are you ready? Are you ready?

First of all, it means Jay has to eat broccoli within 24 hours. But much more importantly, we're exactly two months to the morning of the Super Bowl. Two months, babes. What's up, babes? Two months until Vegas is all the rage.

Well, more than usual. Two months until, oh my gosh, we've had two weeks. In exactly two months time, we'll have gone through two weeks of Super Bowl preview and most of us will be ready to stick a fork in our eyes. That's how I feel about two weeks of Super Bowl run up. Stop it. Make it stop. Can we just kick off the game already?

What's up, babes? Now this year, we will be on Radio Row in Las Vegas with After Hours. We got a special corporate partner that is helping us to get to Vegas. Pretty excited about that.

We'll give you more details. Once we get to January, once we get into the tournament, maybe you've heard, there's actually one team that's clinched its playoff spot. Two teams eliminated officially. That would be the Patriots and the Panthers.

Right now, it's not a category you want to be in. But it's the San Francisco 49ers who punched their ticket to the playoffs first by virtue of what happened on Monday Night Football. So, are you ready to dive in? Because if you went to bed early, which you probably did go to bed earlier if you have to wake up at this hour. If you're already percolating, maybe you definitely need that coffee to be percolating. If you crashed out because you thought, oh, yeah, I mean, the Dolphins are up by 14 points with five minutes to go.

What could possibly happen? Yeah, these were some good finishes. Week 14 gave us a whole lot of drama, a whole lot of movie script material. So, again, what's your favorite movie script in the making from the NFL so far this season? On Twitter, on Facebook, and right here on CBS Sports Radio.

Because I know it's an Italian thing. After the Tennessee Titans committed a pair of fumbles, well, a pair of turnovers, shall we say. One was a muffed one. But after the Titans had a pair of turnovers midway through the fourth quarter and Raheem Mostert and the Dolphins turned them both into touchdowns, the Dolphins were sitting pretty. They had 14 points off turnovers in fewer than 90 seconds. Yeah, that's not a recipe for winning if you're the Titans. It was like they handed the ball to a Dolphins offense that was scuffling without Tyree kill. He takes the top off the defense. It's one of my favorite phrases in the NFL. Your analysts say it every now and then. He takes the top off the defense.

I sound so cool when I say it. I don't use the word Luke, but I do take the top off the defense. So without an able-bodied Tyree kill, he was on the field there in the fourth quarter, but he was dealing with an ankle injury. Without him and with a pair of offensive linemen missing from the Dolphins, the Titans had put a ton of pressure on Tua and it really limited that potent offense for the Dolphins. But after all the work they'd done on defense, what do they do? 14 points off turnovers in the fourth quarter.

Oh, that's tough. Except that was not even remotely the end of the story. Four and a half minutes to go and all of a sudden it was the Titans. It was Will Leviss who looks like they had switched.

It was an out of body experience. They'd switched bodies with the Dolphins. First and goal at the two.

Leviss looks, looks, looks, pumps, steps up, looks, throws. Caught! Touchdown!

Titans! DeAndre Hopkins! Oh, remember that guy? Mike Heath on the Titans radio network.

You know the guy that you probably haven't heard a whole lot about or maybe you don't really pay a lot of attention to? The running back Ty Spears is out there catching a few passes, moving the chains. All right, Spears is your number one option on a fourth quarter drive that results with dehop into the end zone.

Okay, so making it interesting. They get the two point conversion. Now they're within a score, except they're giving the ball back to the Dolphins. They're running out of time. You know what happens? The Dolphins go three and out in 25 seconds. That's it.

25 seconds. I mean, heck, a lot of teams in the NFL can do that. That's just not what we've seen from the Dolphins so far this season. But Tua was under siege in that fourth quarter. And other than Raheem Mostert and Devon Achan, I mean, they had some room to run, but that's all the Titans defense would give them. It was the D line that was controlling that line of scrimmage for Tennessee, and that defense gives the ball right back to Will Leviss and the Titans.

Now, see, here's the thing. I do think the Titans looked real good offensively last night, but I also don't think it's rocket science. Well, they looked good offensively late. They had three turnovers themselves, but they looked in sync.

They looked fluid. And you know why? You know what?

They went back to the bread and butter, which is give the ball to Derrick Henry. It's not that hard. It's not that complicated. Use your weapons.

Use your words. So on the final possession for the Titans, they go back to DeAndre Hopkins, a 36-yard connection between Leviss and DeHop, and then just hand the ball to your bell cow. This is second down. Give Henry, turning the left side, diving. Touchdown, Titans! Derrick Henry has nodded the count with 1.49 to go on a three-yard run.

Yeah, it's not complicated. When you have a guy like Derrick Henry, just give him the ball. Two touchdowns for Derrick in their comeback, but the go-ahead score. And because they'd had the two-point conversion on the previous drive, they only needed the kick to break that tie. They made a short field because the Dolphins had gone three and out and gained almost no yardage.

It really works so perfectly when everything falls into place. The defense is making quick work, handing the ball right back to the quarterback and the offense. You use the run game.

You use your weapons. You have a short field because the defense has done its job. Yeah, it was a thing of beauty. I know the Titans aren't going anywhere this season, but those last five minutes, everything falling into place for Tennessee, for Will Levis, for Mike Vrabel. Now, the Dolphins did still have 90 seconds left on the clock.

But as I say, this was the night in which Tua had very little time to do any work. From just outside the 45-yard line, excuse me, fourth down, less than three. Talk about Loa looking to throw. He stumbles. He's wrapped up by Harold Landry.

Taken down. The Titans' defense stops them. On fourth down and three, Harold Landry and the rest of the Titans' defense smothers Tungabailoa. We've got some great leaders that have been around and helped us win some really tough, close games.

And, you know, you just got to remember that when you come on a road and you're, you know, whatever situation you're in, it's about giving yourself a chance. And we did that and make it a game and find a way to win it late. And I guess it was disappointing because we were doing that. And then, you know, the mistakes that put us down and then to the players' credit, they responded. I don't know if Mike Vrabel keeps his job past this year. It's been kind of tough there the last couple seasons. I know they've had some quarterback changes.

Will Levis appears to be a guy that they want to ride with moving forward. Ryan Tano probably done there. But you still have Derrick Henry in what I would say is the prime of his career. Late stages of the prime of his career, but he can still, guys, he can still move the ball effectively. Whether you're Wildcat direct snapping or you're handing off to him, he gets stuff done. And when a defense has to try to stuff the box or put, I don't know, 9, 10 guys on the line, I mean, that would be ludicrous.

But if they want to go crazy to try to stop him, well, Levis can throw the ball. 327 yards for him, a couple of late touchdown drives for the rookie QB. And yeah, when you think about the Titans and how much they've suffered, especially away from home, this is their first road win of the year. Man, a victory like this over a division leader, when you rally from 14 points down in the final five minutes, oh, it can mean everything. This is a big confidence booster for us, for sure. This is not the record we would hope to have at this point in the season.

Not the position we'd hope to be in in the playoff race and all that, but all we can do is just keep pushing. And we talked about that all week, and we had an opportunity to come and spoil their party and be a really good football team and build confidence going forward, and I'm so glad we were able to do that. It's the NFL, anything can happen. We got to do a better job finishing the game with the time that we had while we had the ball, not allowing their opposing team's offense to get that opportunity to go down and potentially score.

It's a team sport. Can't blame one side, but I would say from an offensive standpoint, there's things that we could have done a lot better to not have gone through what we've gone through tonight. Yeah, Tua mentioned the fact that they lost a couple offensive linemen, and so the pressure was there. He's not generally been hit a lot this year.

In fact, there are entire games where a defensive player never touches him. That's how good the Dolphins' O-line has been. But last night, seven QB hits, five sacks, under siege, and again, without Tyreek Hill out there on the field, the issue was that you didn't have a guy who could take a ball and make plays, and without Tyreek Hill, well then the defense can collapse on a Jalen Waddle and some of the other options. Though, again, they're up by 14 with five minutes to go. That is the type of collapse that makes people question whether or not the Dolphins are ready to be a Super Bowl contender.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. Dolphins do still lead the AFC East, but one of six division leaders to lose in a single NFL weekend. It's only ever happened one other time in the Super Bowl era, and the Baltimore Ravens nearly made it seven had they not pulled out that overtime victory against the Rams. Green Bay, New York, Giants-Packers at MetLife Stadium, another game of Monday Night Football.

They're running concurrently. Neither one of these teams is above.500, though the Packers had played better of a late. Giants just wanted to play that same roll of spoiler that the Titans did. So, again, the twists and turns at the end of this game. Saquon Barkley fumbles with four minutes to go and gives the ball back to the Packers as they're trying to rally after they had been real sloppy turnovers themselves in the early stages of this game. Love waiting for the snap from Myers. Taylor moves to the quarterback's right. Here's the snap.

Rush on. Throw to the left side of the end zone. He's caught with the pylon, and the officials are...is it a touchdown or not? It is a touchdown! It is a touchdown! It is a touchdown! Malik Peeth on the reception. Wow!

Hm. Wayne Larovey on Packers Radio. So, yeah, the Packers are able to...well, they feel like they're snatching victory from the jaws of defeat after how poorly they played, and yet there they are, gifted a turnover by Saquon Barkley and the Giants, and they're able to get down the field, shorter field, of course, and Malik Peeth catches the go-ahead score from Jordan Love. So it's 22-21. Ah, there's 90 seconds left on the clock.

I mean, what's the worst that can happen? It's Tommy DeVito, right? Except don't tell Tommy DeVito.

He's just Tommy DeVito. DeVito's in the gun, his own 46th second down and one shotgun snap, pocket crumbles, one pass, far side, caught over the shoulder. It's at the 35 and down the sideline, the 30. Robinson running down that far sideline, caught the ball in stride, gets to the Green Bay 23. 32-yard catch and run. What a throw by DeVito!

Snap is good. Kick on its way. End over end, and it is good! And the Giants have beaten the Packers 24-22. Tommy DeVito does it! And Bullock finishes it off. What a win by the Giants, the DeVito family going crazy.

Kansas City may have Taylor Swift, but Jersey and New York will take the Devitos any day. You enjoy it when it's an outcome like this, right? I mean, I enjoy being on the field any play, no matter what play it is.

So I'm just trying to enjoy it. There is no doubt. You can see it all over his face, Munja. It's an Italian thing. If you don't know what that means, you can find the GIF. I mean, it's so authentic.

It's unbelievable. It's not like he honestly, I don't think this is a guy who ever thought he'd be in this position. So it's not like he found himself some touchdown celebration. Nah, he's just doing what comes naturally to DeVito.

He is unabashedly Tommy DeVito. That's who he is. And he's made four straight starts now. He's having the time of his life. He means it.

Even if he's out there and he throws a pick, I'm still out here on an NFL field. On national TV, guiding his Giants. His Giants now. Are these now Tommy DeVito's Giants?

I think they are. Wow. Movie script in the making, you guys. And yes, he does have a cousin named Danny. So Tommy DeVito with his Italian agent who's dressed in all black with a silver chain around his neck.

He looks like something out of a mob movie. And yet he and his dad or he and Tommy DeVito's dad are exchanging big old smooches on the cheek every time the son does something incredible. It's so Italian. It's so authentic. Hey, we do the whole Italian thing in my family.

So does Jay. We've been flashing the Italian thing all night long here in our studios. It's kind of funny. So check it out on our show.

Twitter after hours. CBS. This was a blow for the Packers. I mean, they're still right there in the mix, but they took a step back, especially with the Vikings winning three nothing over the Raiders. So all right. Niners are in.

Everything else is a crapshoot. On Twitter, on Facebook. Where is the best movie script in the making from the NFL through week 14?

Straight ahead. David Sampson hates, hates the Shohei Ohtani contract and he will tell us why. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence, CBS Sports Radio. You are listening to the After Hours podcast. I'm Snoop Dogg and I'm giving up smoke.

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Showtime stays on the West Coast, which I actually think is good for baseball, stays in the same market, but definitely changes uniforms and changes colors. As you know, no athlete in any sport in any country has ever received a contract quite like this one. $700 million over 10 years and yet what we found out on Monday, shocking.

Even more shocking than the total value of the contract is how much of it he will not earn anytime soon. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence, CBS Sports Radio, Terry Smith on Angels Radio. Without further ado, we are pleased to welcome our friend David Sampson, longtime Marlins president.

Now nothing personal podcast with David Sampson and he never holds back. So should I just say ready, set, go to you up? Just let's go.

What do you think? I think that there are about 27 teams who are very, very unhappy. I think that Shohei did something here that really shows what he thought about the Los Angeles Angels. That's for sure, because he asked for a contract and took a contract that the Angels never could have offered. And why is that?

Why is that? Because Artie Moreno is looking to sell the team. And if you've got that much money deferred out, that becomes a big negotiating point when you are selling your team. Because a new owner, let's say a new owner comes in in six years. They only have to pay Otani $2 million a year for four years.

That's fantastic. But then for 10 years after that, when this new owner owns the team, he's paying $68 million per year to a player who's not playing for the team. I want to make sure that everybody understands that when Otani gets that $68 million each year for 10 years, he's not going to be playing for the team. Right. And if someone is buying, owns that team who's a new owner, they don't want that responsibility. So they're going to have the old owner pay for that. I'm going to explain this in more detail in this segment on this morning.

Nothing personal. But the main point to you is that the structure of this deal is legal. No question about it. It doesn't violate the CBA. It doesn't violate tax law. It doesn't violate anything other than financial fair play as defined by 30 owners. So the biggest issue for baseball is that you will have owners angry with each other. And that's not good for bargaining.

OK, well, let me ask you this, David. The Angels are selling, so it makes sense that they wouldn't be able to do a contract like this. But it actually feels to me like other teams could do a contract like this, if not the Dodgers, because Otani is going to make money for the club wherever he goes. So why are so many other teams angry about a contract structure like this one?

Because you have to be in a situation where you can guarantee two things when you defer money like this. Don't forget who the owners of the Dodgers are. They're an insurance company, Guggenheim Partners. They own insurance. They are they are venture capitalists. They're owned by conglomerate of people. OK, I would like to point out that our owner, Jeffrey Luria, if he deferred 68 million dollars per year, there are rules that show you have to segregate those funds. That's a rule in the collective bargaining agreement.

The Dodgers have to find a way to find a fund, find cash where they take all the money that is owed to Shohei Otani. And they put it in a separate account. Most people can't do that.

Gotcha. Most individual owners cannot have that money and then not touch it. That's the actual rule. It's not often said by commissioner.

I want to see like the Washington Nationals who have a lot of players for contracts. He doesn't go to the learner family who owns the Nationals and say, hey, show me an account. That has all the money you deferred to Max Scherzer and Steven Strasburg and keep that account in place. Don't touch it. Don't invest it. Don't move it. Show it to me.

That's the real. They don't enforce it that way. But still, you have to show the commissioner once a year that you have every dollar that you are deferring somewhere. Not all owners have that.

Interesting. Difficult to get that amount of money in cash and just showing as existing. You can't show a Picasso. You can't show a building that you own or a yacht that you own. It has to be cash in an account. Very few owners have six hundred and eighty million dollars in cash in an account.

Very few. OK, that makes sense because you so it's not like you can rob Peter to pay Paul. It can't be a pyramid scheme here. You actually have to have the money and you have to be able to show it to the commissioner that you have it at least once a year. OK, so that makes more sense. David Sampson, longtime Marlins president, is with us here after hours.

CBS Sports Radio. But you do mention a couple of guys who have a lot of deferred money. We also know, for instance, Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts Dodgers roster also have deferred contracts.

How common is at least the deferred money portion, if not the total amount? It's an incredibly irresponsible thing to do. What we would do is backload contracts. Backloading a contract is when you sign a guy to a thirty million dollar deal over three years. And instead of paying him 10, 10, 10, you pay him two, five and then twenty three in the last year because you say to yourself, hey, three years from now, either our attendance will be so much better because we will have won that we'll be able to afford a twenty three million dollar player or we'll just trade them.

And so we have that issue with many players from Carlos Delgado to I can name plenty who we have to trade who were backloaded. However, if you're asking me what the advantages for the Dodgers when what the disadvantages for the other teams, the disadvantage is that the Dodgers get to pay him two million dollars cash. And from a CBT standpoint, which is the number that everybody looks at inside baseball, they don't look at any of the other analytic numbers. If you're an owner, but CBT, what is the actual competitive balance tax payroll of a team? The Dodgers are paying him forty six million dollars next year. That's the way that every team inside baseball looks at it. Forty six million is the amount that will count toward how much luxury tax the Dodgers pay. OK, well, considering what Shohei brings to the table, is that reasonable? That is the highest number. So the highest player for that was Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander.

And what the 40 point at forty three. And Shohei wanted to get above that number. It was not all about winning.

This was not all about location. This contract was all about money. And I love Shohei.

I have great respect for Shohei's ability. But let's be clear. He found a team to give him forty six million dollars a year for 10 years when there's no guarantee that he will ever be a top line starter again. He had two Tommy John surgeries.

Only Nathan Avaldi and very few others have come back from two. So it's not a guarantee. He doesn't play a position. You are taking up your designated hitter slot for a decade at forty six million dollars a year. This is a contract that not every team could do. And if the Dodgers get it wrong, you know what?

They can cover their mistake because of their revenue, their ability to spend and they can find someone else. You think that the Royals, the Guardians, the Marlins. Twenty seven teams could do that deal. But isn't that the case, though, with the majority of these 10 to 13 year deals that are now three hundred four hundred million dollars? I mean, I know it's different with Shohei and it's historic, but aren't we generally talking about the same five or six teams in Major League Baseball who can afford these high priced players? And that's the problem why I worry about owner the owner of fighting come next collective bargaining agreement.

You're exactly correct. This Shohei deal is just everyone is reacting to it because it looks so extreme. Personally, I don't think baseball should have approved this contract because it is so extreme.

It looks bad. There's something that tastes wrong about this contract. It feels more unfair than it is. And by the way, financially, the Dodgers are in a position that my owner never was in. The Dodgers can take all six hundred and eighty million dollars that they owe him. And they can take that money today as part of the assets of the underlying company of the owners of that team. And they can invest it and lock in treasury bill rates right now, lock in interest rates over that for the next 20 years.

And they make a huge profit. Huge profit on the money they owe Shohei. So that's a great business deal that Shohei Ohtani allowed them to pay him later because they can be disciplined and actually make money on it. Amy, I'm sorry, this is becoming finance at this early in the morning. The difference with Bobby Bonilla is how much interest they paid to Bobby Bonilla. If Shohei Ohtani took interest on the money he was deferring, that Shohei Ohtani giving the owners of the Dodgers his money to invest and then they would pay him back over time. I guess there's no interest on this money. So if you invest it and get interest, you make money. In fact, they're using Shohei's money to make money. Well, and he is going to make the money too, to be sure. David Sampson is with us here after our CBS Sports Radio.

Let me ask you this. If you're still running a team, what would you have offered or what do you think would have been a competitive offer? If not this one, what was he worth then? I've said from the beginning that as a middle of the order hitter, he is one of the best hitters in the game and what the hitters are getting are between thirty five and forty million dollars. So there is a world where he gets a 10 year, four hundred million dollar contract as a pitcher before the injury, the top of the rotation pitcher. There is a world where I see him as a 30 to 40 million dollar pitcher, but only for five years, not 10 years. So I could understand someone going to 50 million dollars per year.

I can see it. But then when he got hurt, I really discounted the fact that he was going to pitch again and I would have offered him a deal 30 to 35 million as a hitter. And then I would have offered him two or three million dollars per start as a starter. And that sounds like a crazy amount, but that's how sure I am that he wasn't going to start 30 games a year for me for nine years. And I say nine because we already know he's not going to pitch next year. Right. So that leaves nine years left. And the only team that can do that is a team that has huge payrolls. So you're only talking about the top five teams because you can't have one player making that much money.

Now, you say he's only making two million, but that's a very dangerous way to look at it. Right. Agreed. All right, David. So about 90 seconds to go. What do you think generally will be the impact?

Is this an aberration? For instance, I'll use the Deshaun Watson contract in the NFL. It's not going to change the NFL. There was talk of that at the time. But now looking at the fact that he's made only a handful of starts, the Browns just look like idiots. Right. And this is why NFL teams don't do it.

How will this impact baseball, if at all? See, that's funny. I thought the Browns looked like idiots before he even took the field. Well, of course. But now we know for sure. So now we know exactly. Now we know that they're idiots on and off the field, which is even more insulting to them, I'm sure.

Yeah. I said the same thing on nothing personal, Andy, which you are sleeping when it goes on. But I can tell you that I said the exact same, which is everyone who thought this would impact all the free agents who were waiting to sign until Otani so they could snuggle in right under Otani to all the teams that they're negotiating with. The other teams looked at this and said, get out of here.

I'm not doing it. What do you think, Blake Snell? You're going to get six hundred and twenty six million or Scott Boris said, hey, you want Bellinger, Toronto? You can have them for six hundred ninety nine million.

Congratulations. Toronto would tell them to pound sand. And I hope they do tell them that. So I think it's exactly like the Watson contract.

This is sort of the high of the high and everything else doesn't come close. There is never a moment where we are bored when we talk to our friend David Sampson, longtime Marlins president. He's going to have a whole lot more to say.

And actually, since I have an accounting degree, I followed all of those finances. That was fascinating to me. You can find the Nothing Personal podcast and David on Twitter at David P Sampson. I don't think I'll talk to you again before the holidays. So happy holidays to you. And thank you, as always, for choosing our show where you can unload.

I love it. And I was talking discount rate. All right. We'll save that scintillating topic for next time, my friend. I'm sorry. That was pretty technical. I loved it.

Talk to you soon. Thank you. Bye bye. Do you think that the noise that we heard around the United States of America is people either rolling their eyes out back in their heads for all the financial talk this early or the fact that I'm all giddy. And so the accounting talk just it appeals to my my right hand brain. Wait, is right hand creative or left hand creative? Which one's the creative side? Because I got both.

I got both working. I've got the analytical perfectionist accounting brain, but also got the goofy radio host stream of consciousness spaghetti plate brain working. My guest is my guest. Your guest is? Your guest is? Do we have a guest? We had one.

All right. Coming up. Your candidates for TD of the week. And oh, guess what? We've got a sad sap of the week. Well, we've actually got two.

Two sad saps of the week. It's that time of the year. Creative is right. Creative is right. That's what I thought. Left is analytical. Right is creative.

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The Cleveland Browns. Flacco on fourth down and three. Play clock is at five. I don't know if they're going to snap it. Play clock is at two.

They do. He rolls right. He throws the middle. It's wide open.

Down at the 25, at the 20, 15, 10, 5. Touchdown. It's David Bell.

Oh, my goodness. They forgot to cover David Bell. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It's second down and six from the 11 yard line. Good snap. Mayfield looking.

Those are all left. There's a hot ball, hot ball. Touchdown. Tampa Bay. Kate Otten makes it over the shoulder catch in the box. We take the lead.

Yeah. One on one coverage. You could tell by the body language of Mayfield. He was going to in the whole way before it gets number 20 holding defense number 27. Tremendous throw by Mayfield to put it in a perfect spot. It's a big play.

The Tennessee Titans. This is second down. Give Henry turning the left side diving. Touchdown tight though.

Derek Henry has nodded the count with 149 to go. On a three yard run. The Baltimore Ravens. Wallace in the 40. Still in the 30, 20, 10. Celebration time.

No flags. Wallace in the end zone. Hayes in the barn. And the Ravens win it in overtime. What a weekend if not for the Ravens snatching victory from the jaws of defeat against the Rams in OT courtesy of that touchdown and Jerry Sandusky on Ravens radio they would have been the seventh division leader to lose in a single weekend but that did not happen.

So that's a candidate for TD of the week as is Derek Henry's go ahead score as the Titans rally from 14 points down against the Dolphins in the final five minutes. 31 seconds to go is when Baker Mayfield finds Kate Otten for a game winning touchdown and first place in the NFC South. Gene Deckerhoff on Bucks radio and sorry Mike Keith on Titans radio and then Joe Flacco rides again.

He says he feels like a 10 year old. He's actually 38 but whatever if Brady can do it so can Flacco and it's still weird to see him in brown and orange. Jim Donovan on Browns radio is Flacco has three long touchdown passes to lead the Browns to another victory there now eight and five so you can vote on Twitter a law radio. Also on our Facebook page.

After hours with Amy Lawrence we're asking you about movie scripts in the making. I love your answers the NFL certainly provided plenty of great material that you almost wouldn't believe if you saw it on a movie screen. Brock Purdy Mr. Irrelevant Tommy DeVito undrafted rookie it's an Italian thing Tyson Bajent from a division two school Josh Dobbs on the shines kind of come off of that one. Now see these are amazing stories.

But we also have the other side of the spectrum from the world of sports. Having a bad week. Bad decisions. I immediately regret this decision. Bad calls.

You called me I was illusion though. Bad bounces. Bad luck. It definitely could be worse. Laugh it off with us.

And the after hours, sad sap of the week. Twenty two seconds remaining so hand comes the other way his reverse layup was blocked by Jabari Smith and Fred Van Fleet is going to be able to dribble it out rockets in this ballgame in a twelve to five run. It's a franchise record now for the Spurs seventeen losses in a row. As the Houston Rockets defeat the Spurs the Spurs only shoot thirty six percent from the floor in this ballgame the final score from the Toyota center rockets ninety three Spurs eighty two. You got to make a shot in the NBA. You can't shoot five for forty one from three.

That's not going to happen. What's really amazing about it is if you go five for forty one it's a lot of transition defense. You're going to be in and they got ten fast break points. So they did a hell of a job defensively in that regard. Really proud of them but just feel badly that we you know it's hard to know what to do when you're missing that many shots.

It just makes it very very difficult. Greg Popovich and the Spurs they are definitely the sad sap so he claims that the Spurs played their ass off. They played a great game. They just couldn't hit the broadside of a barn.

And if you thought that was bad courtesy of Spurs radio. How about the Detroit Pistons twenty straight losses. If you're Monty Williams all you can do is point to any shred of hope. As much as this losing hurts all of us and it's it hurts like you can't believe. I still see a lot of growth and I'm encouraged by some of the things I saw tonight.

Now we've got to try to build on it and get to a place where we you know have the lead keep the lead and close. Are you kidding me. One team with 17 straight losses the other team with 20 straight losses. Do you know Detroit is actually setting a new league mark in a single season. No team has ever dropped 20 games in a row in a single season.

OK so that the Rockets did it between 20 and 21. But here are the Pistons and they can't seem to find a bright light anywhere. Oh yeah losing sucks. So just in case you think your week is tough or you're scuffling you're struggling. It could be worse.

You could be the Spurs or the Pistons. It's after hours here on CBS Sports Radio. We're going to get to your movie scripts in the making when we reconvene for the hump show which is actually my last show before I skip out. See ya. Maybe Jay what do you think open phone lines for our next show considering that you'll be eating broccoli and I'll be on cloud nine trying to keep my feet on the ground.

That could be fun. All right. Last show coming up tonight. Don't miss it.

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