After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 4

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Happy Thursday. Here's what I know. Mike McCarthy staying. There's no news on Nick Sirianni. Gerard Mayo's been introduced to New England.

And theoretically, Mike Vrabel, Bill Belichick, Jim Harbaugh, Pete Carroll, all free agents. Okay. That pretty much sums it up. Day by day. Just want to make sure you're up to date the second that you wake up.

It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS Sports Radio. Oh, I don't know why I hiccuped. I'm so sorry. Forgive me.

That's, it's a pretty awkward and inappropriate time. On Twitter, A Law Radio. On our Facebook page too. Glad to hear from you always, whether you're new, whether you're a P1, which is what we call longtime loyal listeners.

We are thankful for P1s in radio. I did go back and answer a bunch of your questions from Ask Amy Anything. And now you've got more questions. All right.

I see how you are. You're never satisfied. However, I aim to please. And so you've been clamoring for a photo of the new hubs. I finally put one up.

So you check it out on either Twitter or Facebook. And then don't tell me that I never shared a photo of him because there he is. It was one month yesterday. In some ways, it feels like one minute. In some ways, it feels like one year. But I think that's good. That's real life.

Is it not? We survived one month. Someone said to me, a friend of mine said, congratulations, you've survived a full month. Like, oh, OK. Was it ever in doubt?

Yeah. So yesterday morning or yesterday on the show, when I said here to you all that it was nothing like what I thought. And it was way harder than I thought to be married.

And it's mostly because of the blending of households and stuff. I wasn't I just thought it was going to be sunshine and roses and it would be easy, but nope, not easy. Anyway, I felt bad because when I woke up on Wednesday afternoon. The hubs was he was a little sad because I said it was harder than I thought it was. I heard, of course, you know, he listens to the show.

Maybe he missed that podcast after the fact. Right. Well, I had to explain that I of course, I wouldn't trade it. But yes, I was expecting it to be.

Not so much fairy tale because that's not even real, but I was expecting it to be nothing but wedded bliss. And it's it's just it's been hard. We're blending households and blending pets and moving. And the house looks like a bomb went off and schedules and NFL playoffs and everything all the time. And yeah, so it just it's been a month of a lot of real life. So I was I was having to explain that to him that it wasn't a negative. It just wasn't what I expected. But yes, he came to me with a sad, sad puppy dog face. Wow, that's cold. I know.

I felt really terrible. That's what I get for talking about things on the air. That's it.

That's just from now on. No, no personal stories on the air. I feel like then he that's almost insulting to that.

He's like, oh, well, my stories aren't good enough to make the airtime. Oh, great. Now you're going to make me second guess.

It wasn't meant to be a sad thing, in fact, or a bad thing. In fact, I even said to him, did you not hear me say I wouldn't trade it no matter what? Mentioned what your mom said. You can have peace and a clean. Well, you can have peace in your house and a clean house and no, Bob.

Or you can have chaos and Bob. And I was like, well, there's yeah. Thank you for pointing that out. Selective on that one. There's no choice. Maybe he didn't hear that part.

Right. So I got to I got to make sure that I clarify, because usually he laughs at the things I say on the radio. He finds them amusing, but no, not so much that. It was a very sad face.

On our one month anniversary, I heard his feelings and then I felt terrible and had to see what I mean. It's not as easy as I thought it was going to be. Was it like a sad mood like already? No, no.

I thank you for trying to bail me out. But no, it was. It was me saying that it wasn't what I expected and it was harder than I thought. That was the phrase that that I guess resonated with him down to the phrase he did harder than I thought.

That's not great. He probably spent all afternoon while I was. Oh, he went to the gym and everything else.

He probably spent all afternoon while I was sleeping, thinking about it, stewing over it. Probably a little bit like Baker Mayfield with CJ Gardner Johnson, though he manages to be, I would say, not very aggressive. It was a little more passive aggressive than what we're used to from Baker Mayfield. Just, you know, maybe brush up on some film. Maybe I should have said that. Maybe just go back and listen to the tapes.

Maybe maybe go back and go back and brush up on the tape. See what worked. All right.

Now I'm going to be in trouble again. Great. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS Sports Radio. Yes, we still have seven openings. Seven. What is happening right now?

There's a decided lack of movement. And if it happens again, where we get off the air on a Friday morning and there's all of a sudden this flurry of hiring and firing activity, I guess there still could be firings. It will not be Mike McCarthy, though. That's not happening. So raise your hand if you are angry this morning as a Cowboys fan. Not only did your team get bounced from the playoffs unceremoniously dumped by the Packers of all teams. But Mike McCarthy is not getting fired.

He's not paying for his crimes. How dare they? I just had to do that. Although it was because of a hiccup and I don't really know where that came from.

You're so mean. Just to clarify, that was not from yesterday or the day before. That was from months ago. Or was it from even last year? Could have been years at this point.

I think it was last year. Jerry Jones released a statement saying, in part, that he believes the team is very close, still capable of achieving the goal of winning a Super Bowl. And that, and I'm quoting, the best step forward for us will be with Mike McCarthy as our head coach.

There is great benefit to continuing the team's progress under Mike's leadership as our head coach. And he did admit that it was painful. He was floored by the loss of the Packers. I'm sure by now you've seen the video. It really is just a quick snippet of Jerry's behavior in which he turns his back on the field. That's been replayed over and over from Sunday. Oh, and you know 40 million people watch the game, so there's a lot of people to see that over and over.

So maybe that's why he turned around because he was worried about the cameras capturing his facial expressions. Our guy, Bryant McFadden, who's a former NFL DB, he actually thinks this is a really smart move for Jerry Jones and the Cowboys for one reason in particular. He has a nice relationship with his quarterback in Dak Prescott. Yes, Dak Prescott didn't have his best performance in the playoff wildcard game against the Green Bay Packers, but in totality throughout the year, he played outstanding. The offense scored points. We saw C.D. Lamb develop to be a proven wide receiver, one of the best wide receivers in the National Football League this year. Hopefully they can kind of get the ground and pound attack going more so than what they were not able to do in 2023, but in totality, as I mentioned, the offense did their thing. I mean, kind of.

I do agree with Bryant's point about Dak and Mike McCarthy, and that's one of the points that I made. Let's not sneeze or slough off or ignore the fact. Let's not sneeze at, I guess I should have said. I mean, you could sneeze if you really need to. Don't run around saying that the national radio host told me I couldn't sneeze. Let's not start that rumor.

It is dangerous. Also, do you believe the rumor or the I guess the old wives tale? Would you call it that? Do you believe the claim that if you sneeze with your eyes open, your eyeballs come flying out of your head? I am a very firm believer in that. Yes. Have you ever tried it? Of course.

Of course. The second my sister told me that years ago. How old were you? Oh, years ago.

Probably about 12, 10. She was like, if you sneeze with your eyes open, they'll pop out. I was like, no way. It wasn't even your parents? I'll never forget it.

Since she told me that, I've never forgotten that. I've just been fascinated with that fact. It's impossible, apparently, they say. Who's they? Scientists. People in the labs. Oh, we know to beware of the science. So anyway, people in the labs say that if, I'm not going to ask you what lab, they sit there and they try to sneeze with their eyes open.

Can't do it. I don't know if it's possible or not, but the whole thing about the eyeballs is what I'm wondering. Aren't they connected in there?

Yeah, but it's like, so if you, like all the pressure just pops and then it just got to come out somewhere, right? So you believe it then? Oh, 100%. You believe it?

I believe it. So what happens if, all right, so you've ever seen those, and they happen in cartoons like Ben and Jerry or whatever, where people try to keep their eyeballs open or keep their eyes open, I should say, with toothpicks or some other way that holds them together. Another way that holds their eyelids up so they can't blink. What if we did that? Should we try this for a YouTube experience?

Um, it's not a bad video. We could try. It depends on whose eyeballs are flying out of their head. I don't think it's possible. Like we could try and we could, I don't know, we would use duct tape or. Could you imagine?

I think the tape. How much would I have to pay you? Well, I wouldn't do it.

Because I would be worried that your eyeballs would fly out of your head. Yeah, if it works. Right, and then what would I do about a producer? You've got to borrow a radio. Okay, but what would I do about a producer then?

Yeah, something else. I mean, it is radio, so I suppose theoretically you could be a blind producer, except that, or you could just have the eyeballs like hanging down. Oh my gosh, you'd be such a great haunted house exhibit. I would. I could have a new career. I wonder how much they'd pay for that.

Probably more. So anyway, if we did the YouTube video and we duct taped your eyes open and it actually happened, your family would never forgive me. You'd have to sign a waiver. Well, if it's like for science, in the name of science, if we do this. I get fired in the name of science. So it's different in that case. Somehow the company would blame me for this. We had to like sign a waiver maybe or something like that.

Just at first. Would you be willing to sign a waiver? If you believe it's true, you'd be left with no eyeballs. Is it in the name of science? If it is, then like we could do this. Oh yes, because we're both scientists. We get paid to be scientists.

Is there any way we can do it? What if we volunteer? You volunteer to be a science experiment, but you take money for it. You know how sometimes there are different experiments or they need control groups, right? They need guinea pigs, as you say, to just be the first ones to try it. We can't possibly be the first ones to try it. No, this has got to have been done before. That's how we know it's not possible, right?

Do we? That's the point. I don't think it's true. Did they myth bust this? Myth bust? I don't know.

You look. What's that old website where you could go? Remember it had a weird name? You could go and you could determine whether or not something was made up. It was fabricated. What was that website? Oh man. Shoot, do you remember that website?

I feel like I know what you're talking about. Yeah, it was one where you could fact check something that you would see on the internet. No, but why would we trust that website?

Yeah, and that's just going to be awful for us. Shoot, what was the name of it? It had a really weird name. Somebody find us on Twitter, ALawRadio or AfterHourCBS, and let us know what the name is. Shoot, it had an odd name that you would never know was about debunking and fact checking the internet.

We need that back. Again, I feel like that's a lost cause now. I already don't believe it. I googled, can you sneeze your eyes out?

You googled that? Yeah, can you sneeze your eyes out? And it says, the answer says yes. You can sneeze with your eyes open, meaning no, I guess you can't sneeze your eyes out. And it says, the school yard legend, if you sneeze with your eyes open, your eyes will pop out of your mouth. Open your eyeballs will pop out of your head. Isn't true, but I don't believe it.

Like, why is that right? I've heard all my life that it can happen. That's the thing is if it comes from the internet, why would we believe it anyway? So if we're fact checking the internet from the internet, that that just seems like a really bad idea.

It says you can just sneeze too hard at any time and like pull a muscle in like your back or something. So, okay, but at least you still be able to see. Yeah.

All right. Back pain's not funny though. No, just wait till you get old.

Don't have back pain now. Apparently they did do it on Mythbusters and they said you can sneeze with your eyes open. That's what it says.

But not lose your eyeballs. It is. It really is possible to sneeze with your eyes open and that nothing terrible will happen. It's possible. Okay. Let's do this. So now, now that you've seen it on Mythbusters, are you willing to duct tape your eyes open? But what do I do? Get like a duster, a little feather duster underneath your nose until you sneeze?

Yeah. I'll give like a lamp. I'll look into the light cause that helps. And like a duster.

True, but if you don't actually have to sneeze, looking at the light doesn't help you do anything. Well, we'll get the duster, get a little dust in there. We'll get all the catalyst. For the sake of YouTube. Oh, you love YouTube. Yeah. I would do it. Huh.

What do I get out of it? I mean potentially you're flying eyeballs. Potentially you'd get to drive me to the ER. Well, that sounds fun. As fun as that sounds.

By the way, you ready? The website was Snopes. Thank you. Thank you internet. Thank you Melanie. Thank you Jeff.

And thank you Stan. So yes, that that's right. It was Snopes and it was a weird name. It still exists. But I wonder again, if you're fact checking the internet on the internet, isn't that a little bit counterproductive? Hmm.

Well, good thing we debunked that myth though. I'm still, jury's still out for me. What do you think people would rather see? You with duct tape holding your eyes open, sneezing because I have a feather duster under your nose. Or more questions about my wedding.

I feel like it's absolutely the eyeballs flying out of your head. We get a ton of wedding questions regularly. Yeah, but now we've found something that people care about more than me getting married. We found it. This is it.

This is it. We will distract people with a feather duster and your eyelids taped open. Now are people curious to see if it's a myth or not? Yeah, no, I think they need to see it demonstrated in the name of science.

If you say it's in the name of science, I can't say no. Okay, so if I'm the one who's putting the feather duster under your nose, am I also the one who's filming? I must be.

Here's the problem though. If I have a feather duster in one hand and a phone in the other hand, what if the eyeballs come flying at me? How am I going to catch them? Are you going to catch my eyeballs? Somebody's got to catch the eyeballs. We've got to get you to the emergency room and put your eyeballs back in your head. They're going right on the carpet into the dirt. Thank you for catching my eyeballs.

No! If your eyeballs hit the ground, something terrible will happen. It's like mission impossible. You can't let those eyeballs hit the ground.

That's how you get cataracts. But that's the problem. What would I do if I have a duster in one hand and a cell phone in the other? I can't drop the cell phone because we need the evidence. Shoot, we're going to need a third party here.

I don't want to split the money. In a corner. And just have that third view. We'll use the same tape that we're going to use to tape your eyeballs open to tape the phone in the corner. There we go.

Same material. What is wrong with us? No seriously, there's something wrong with us. It's inappropriate. I don't want to rope you into there. There's something wrong with me. I'm willing to tape my eyeballs for this.

That's true. I don't know if I'm all there. Also, there are a lot of people listening to this ridiculous conversation because my Twitter's now been flooded with the word Snopes. Snopes is about to start trending on Twitter. I didn't know you were still so popular. You didn't know I was still so popular? Ouch.

The website. I thought you said that. I didn't know you were still so popular. Nope. That was about to be the last thing you ever said to me.

That would have been fair. Also, do you think we should check Snopes to find out if our boss really is leaving? He's not going to lie to us, right? I mean, I don't know, Jay. We found out.

We found out that our boss was leaving via the internet. So maybe this is a way to fact check it. I dare you.

Just do it. I don't see it. You don't see it. There's no myth buster about our boss leaving? No. Right. We finally, Jay and I just want you to know, from now on, whenever an athlete reveals that he found out he was getting traded, or a coach was getting fired, or a teammate was getting traded, he found out that information on the internet. And it's hard.

It feels icky. Well, we now understand. Just a small element of how that feels, because we both found out that our boss was leaving from the internet. And I don't mean email.

I mean, we had no personal, first-hand, heads-up. Nope. Found it out on Twitter. You better stay on Twitter. Yeah.

Well, if we stay off Twitter, we wouldn't know our boss was leaving. So that's, yeah. Anyway, the best of luck. Congratulations, Jay. Yes?

It's wrong. We shouldn't wake up and find out our boss is leaving on the internet. I was looking for Mike McCarthy news.

You're looking for a different boss to be leaving on the internet? I was checking to see if anything had been there. Tell me your reaction. So you're looking for Mike McCarthy got fired news.

Any kind of Mike McCarthy news. You're a little bit nervous, you still have that pit in your stomach, and you come across what? Just a post. Things that affected me that I didn't know about.

Right. Well, I mean, you can reveal now. People know. So you read from Twitter that our boss is leaving, that he's departing the premises, and I can't even imagine your reaction. Actually, I know your reaction because you texted me. Wait, let me tell you the reaction.

Why is your text changed? I was up for about 37 seconds at that point. 37 seconds. So the response is, wait, hold on.

I'm looking. Wait, wait, keep going back. Wow. Holy cow. Yeah, here we go.

Oh, and then you sent me Twitter threads. Right. This was the reaction. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Wow. And then it was big work news. Did you see?

I love that you actually didn't tell me what it was. So that's the part that's just wrong. You see the big work news. I couldn't break that.

You have to see that for yourself. Oh, you can't break it to be on text message? Oh, all right. I just had to see if you knew what I was talking about. You see it on the internet, but you declined to tell your work partner that our boss is leaving. I told you that there was work news.

Then did you see? Well, you're just lucky I already did because that's... You went on. It just dawned on me that you didn't even tell me.

What do you mean? Wow. Of all people that I work with, wouldn't you be the one who would share such news? I texted you 37 seconds after I woke up. I know, but you didn't tell me what it was.

That was the first thing I did. But you didn't tell me what it was. I didn't even wake up. You didn't tell me what it was.

No wonder there were typos. You didn't tell me what it was. You just said, did you see? Yeah. Well, I gotta be a little, like, mysterious there. Like a tease. Oh, for heaven's sakes.

Nevermind. I thought we were friends. No, that's a normal thing.

Oh, it's normal? I thought you'd either be like, OMG, or wait, what? Or call me. And then I could be like, okay. Oh, so you wanted to break the news, but you found out that I knew already. Well, I didn't know that you knew already. But I just knew that no one had told me.

So, I didn't know if it was a bit out there. I would have told you. I would have told you. But you were sleeping. But you were before me.

And you didn't text me. I found out because... I found out while you were sleeping.

I wake up at some point and see it. You know what? Good point. You got me there. My fault.

So, you're right. I take it back. You didn't tell me and I didn't tell you. And we're the worst friends ever. We kept each other in the dark. I'd rather see your eyeballs pop out of your head.

We might. Wow. I apologize profusely. That was wrong of me. Thank you.

Thank you. But I assumed that you already knew since I found out on the internet. I assumed that you did too. You'd think, but no.

I didn't. Well, you did find out on the internet. Oh, on the internet, yeah. Yes. Right.

On the internet. I'm very sorry. Wow.

That was like, hello kettle, you're black. It was bothering me, but... No. All right. This is really good radio. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS4tradio.

You are listening to the After Hours Podcast. Brock that dude. Probably the nicest guy in the locker room. Shitless guy. He just go out there and throw that ball.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Chase Young among the Brock Purdy believers. Brock's believers. You know how much I love alliteration.

Oh yeah. They're raving about Brock as the Niners finally get back to the party. We haven't seen either Brock or Lamar Jackson since week 17.

So as we head into divisional weekend routinely, my favorite weekend of the entire NFL season. Well, Brock's about to get busy and well, so is Lamar Jackson. So it's gonna be fun to see these top seeds and these quarterbacks who are both in the MVP conversation. Jay, who do you think won the MVP?

Because the voting's done. Lamar Jackson. You think Lamar did?

I do. Based on the strength of the last like month or whatever. I mean, think about who the Ravens beat in the last, what is it, month or so? I think that last month or so solidified it, yeah. It catapulted him to MVP?

I think that's a close second, but I think Lamar edges him, yeah. Okay, so Brock Purdy, this time last year, it's just interesting to think about. He had taken over the team. The Niners hadn't lost with him as their starting quarterback until they got to the NFC championship. But if you remember last year, the way that people were talking about Brock, it was this incredible story. He was Mr. Irrelevant.

Look at this. The team hasn't lost. Well, it's a completely different experience going into the playoffs now because now he's got a full year of starting under his belt. Last year, still trying to find my way in a sense. I got thrown in towards the end of the year and so every single week I was still trying to play good and learn who I was as a quarterback.

And obviously get more familiar with playing within the system. So those are all things that were sort of on my plate last year and then obviously trying to win every single week and get this team to the end. And so now, I guess this year, just being more familiar with the offense, who I am and all that, it's a little different. But it's good to sort of watch the games from last year and sort of remember just the feeling and the emotions of playing in a playoff game. It's good.

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Financing subject to credit approval. One who's been the same guy since the day I met him. Competitive as ever.

Willing to learn all the time. Great leader. And one of the best players in the NFL.

So it's just been cool to see how he's kind of taken all of the doubts and criticisms that have gone his way and proved every single person wrong each and every week out. So, lucky he's on our team. Christian McCaffrey, among those who are having a purty party. Not a pity party. Not a pretty party.

But a purty party. Doesn't it sound like that? They're all raving about him. Now maybe they were getting questions specifically about their quarterback.

Probably were. But the fact that to a man, even when they had those three consecutive losses and he didn't play great, maybe had kind of his first blips on the radar, they all backed him. And it's kind of fun too because some of the older players look at him like a little brother of sorts.

It's definitely impressive. I don't even think, I mean if he stopped everything today and you look at his body of work, it's still impressive to see where Mr. irrelevant has come in just 24 months. He's a lifesaver.

Like I said, we hit the lottery. He's as good a player as he is. He's an even better dude. He's an even better person to be around. Even better teammate. So, you know, super proud. Super proud of him. And I just hope he's continued to blaze trails and just show people that, man, draft status is just what happens on draft day. What happens after that is up to you.

Wow. We're talking about high praise from the likes of Fred Warner. So it's just interesting to hear them all gush about purty. And at the beginning of this year, one of the things I said to you is we're talking about storylines or whatever we're looking forward to or arcs that we want to follow during the season. What I said about the Niners was I just want them to go through the entire year with one quarterback. Can you just get through the whole year with one quarterback? That's it.

Just one. That in and of itself is going to make your team that much better. You're going to be that much closer to a Super Bowl. And I know last year they got to the NFC Championship, but the problem was they yet again had injured quarterbacks.

And it's happened. And they're the top seed. And they went through some adversity this season and he went through some adversity, which is never a bad thing. And I'm not going to tell you that it's better for a team to lose because I don't necessarily believe that. But I do believe that the Niners are a little more battle tested because they went through that three game losing skid.

Browns, Vikings, Bengals. At the time, they were kind of stuck offensively. So there were mistakes. There were turnovers. They couldn't score more than 17 points.

And they went through a stretch there where they had to kind of figure it out. But then they came back and they beat three playoff teams in four weeks in the Jaguars and the Buccaneers and the Eagles. They beat the Seahawks twice. Toward the end of the season then, they lost to the Ravens.

And so that's what Jay is saying. In this last month, Lamar Jackson and the Ravens have had some pretty big wins and one of them was against San Francisco. Could you imagine if we end up getting a repeat of the 2013 Super Bowl matchup? Not the same people, obviously. Though same coach in John Harbaugh if it gets to that.

It's both the top seeds. But yeah, they're raving about Brock and another year under his belt. The way he's grown up.

And they all rave about him as a person. But in terms of his quarterback growth, I mean this is best case scenario for San Francisco because he's been out there starting the entire year other than the Week 18. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS Sports Radio. Not sure if you all heard this.

We played it earlier on the show and we'll bring it back before we hit the top of the hour. But a former Niners tight end. Former Packers tight end. He is advocating for, well, I guess you could say he was advocating for it. He made some major waves.

Suggesting maybe? Right. Suggesting that one way to get Brock Purdy out of rhythm and knock him off his game would be to hit him hard enough and illegally enough to draw a penalty. So that's gone viral. I saw it hit the internet.

I listened to it and I was like, oh man, that's going to get quite a reaction. So you'll hear that coming up. Can't believe it's Thursday morning.

Pretty excited about that actually. We're heading downhill toward divisional weekend and waiting. But we know Mike McCarthy will not be fired and I don't believe Nick Sirianni will either. Sorry NFC East fans. It's been a sad day. Both your teams have lost and now they're not firing the head coaches. Just go home and rest.

I'm still waiting for Micah Parsons podcast. No, seriously, if you're one of those fans who wanted your head coach to get fired, not only did they lose and get dumped out of the playoffs in the wildcard round, but then the coaches are not getting fired. Does it feel like it's the worst week of your life if that's the case? It's almost like it was all for nothing, right? If you wanted the coach to get fired, you think nothing's going to change and that's what you're clamoring about and they don't, then this whole season's been for nothing. This is a big waste of time. Big waste of time. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence.

You are listening to the After Hours podcast. He hasn't been on a bye week. We pushed the heck out of Brock.

Meetings, practice. Brock got a good weekend. We just don't want to put him out there in the first half of that game. He's been here. He's worked on his days off.

We got two bigger practices last week than we do in a normal week, so in terms of time off, he did have two quarters off to what we could have done with him, but we definitely think that was worth it and I don't worry about that affecting Brock at all for Saturday. This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Babysitter paid. Pizza ordered. Flowers delivered. You can do a lot of things with your phone and with Blue Link Plus you can even access your Hyundai Tucson Limited remotely. Doors unlocked.

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And I don't think these two things are connected. I'm sure it's just the fact that Purdy's a big conversation because he's an MVP candidate. Because this time last year he was a newbie, right? And so he's leading the Niners into the playoffs. But he was more known for being Mr. Irrelevant than he was for being the Niners QB. So I'm sure that's really more the narrative. And this has nothing to do with the fact that former Packers tight end.

Sorry, I know I said last segment. I just want to clarify. Former Niners tight end, but I did correct myself.

They're playing each other. He didn't play for both teams. Former Packers tight end Mark Chamura, who you may remember.

He won a Super Bowl with Green Bay, so it goes back a few years. But he was on ESPN Milwaukee, or he is on ESPN Milwaukee. And he made this comment about how to defend Brock Purdy. And I saw it on the internet, which is already an indication that it's gone viral. If you Google his name right now, what pops up are a bunch of links to San Francisco 49ers news outlets in the Bay Area.

There's, I don't know, several dozen of them that will pop up right away because they are furious about what he said on his radio show about defending Brock. I go back and it's little things like this. And the reason we won in 95 when no one gave us a chance in San Francisco is because we intimidated them. I mean, I always revert to Wayne Simmons. Wayne Simmons kicked the crap out of Brent Jones.

And then it got contagious, and then it carried over. That's why you guys are going to think I'm crazy. Well, we already thought that, so go ahead. A 15-yard penalty, and I don't condone this, but I kind of do in the playoffs. A 15-yard penalty for a late hit on Brock Purdy is not a bad thing as long as it's worth it. I'm just saying, this is the mindset you go into when it's battle, and it's kind of like the reverse of hockey. What don't they do in hockey in the playoffs, Joshy? Shave their beards? That and one other thing. They don't fight.

They don't fight, right? This is kind of like, sometimes a 15-yard penalty is worth it early in the game if you knock the living crap out of the guy. And then he, kind of like sticking your helmet in the ribs of Nick Bosa is like, I'm hearing ghosts.

So as you can imagine, that made some waves in San Francisco. I have not heard any reaction from inside the Niners locker room yet, so I don't know that they've gotten to him or it hadn't come out before then. But the fact that it's a former member of their fraternity, a former tight end, a tight end! Who's on the offensive side of the ball, and you're advocating for this quarterback to get hit hard enough to essentially rattle his cage. I know that's an old phrase, but that's what he's talking about. Hit him hard enough, take the 15-yard penalty, send a message so that maybe he starts... Now it's a reference to the Sam Darnold seeing ghosts muddy-eyed football thing from a few years ago.

Gosh, what was that, four or five years ago? But you make him think twice. So now maybe he's a little jittery, he's a little nervous, he's hearing footsteps come after him. And when the pass rush is getting close, maybe he makes a poor throw because he's trying to get rid of the ball quickly. You remember toward the end of Eli Manning's career. Well, it's not a problem, I guess not as much a problem anymore, but for a long time the Giants had no offensive line to speak of. And Manning, what people would say about Manning is that he was jittery, he was skittish back there.

Happy feet. Right, and he would get a little bit too happy with his feet, he'd get a little bit too anxious. He'd just be a little bit too trigger-happy and he'd be throwing the football before he was ready and before he was set because he was worried about getting hit. So that's what this former NFL tight end is advocating. And you can kind of hear his co-host react to it, but I haven't heard anything from the Niners locker room yet. So it's circulated with San Francisco Bay Area media even getting to Richard Sherman, who himself was a defensive player and hit pretty hard and yet called it disgusting and gross and la la la la. So yeah, I wonder if he feels a bit like that Detroit, no not Detroit, sorry, Tampa reporter who asked Todd Bowles about the weather in Detroit.

Just hoping that a hole would open up and swallow her and now Mark Trimmer same thing. I don't know, see in this case I don't think you can take it out of context. I mean he is actually saying this is battle, which of course is not, but this is battle, this is how you do it in the playoffs, this is what you do so you send a message.

But Jay and I both have the same thought. This is what we call the bounty hunting, I call it bounty hunting because of Star Wars, but this is what we remember about the New Orleans Saints. Remember Sean Payton got suspended for an entire year, got banned, and Greg Williams got kicked out of the league for a time.

And this is because there was evidence, so the NFL says, that guys were targeting Brett Favre and were attempting to deliver hits that would actually knock him out of the game. And that there was a system in place where they would get rewarded for knocking him out of the game. So that's what we thought of first, he called it bounty game, but bounty hunting is what we thought of right away. It's not the same thing, but it's essentially the same idea. But the idea is that you hit him hard enough so he thinks about it the next time.

You send a message. Yeah, it's essentially the same idea. Even though you know it's illegal, right, because he's saying take the flag. Early in the game, who cares, take the 15 yards.

Huh. Your reward is winning the game instead of a cash prize in this case. Right, your reward is sending a message to the quarterback that you're coming after him. I can understand if the Niners are PO'd. In fact, I'm thinking that he may not want, well, not that he's going to be on the field. So it's easy to say, right, when you're not going to be on the field. But he may want to not set foot there in Levi Stadium because could you imagine, these guys love Brock Purdy. You go after their quarterback and they might have a little something something for you. Well, I know, I know Mark Tamura isn't, you know, he's not on the Packers coaching staff.

He has nothing to do with the team anymore. But every hit now that does happen to Brock Purdy, are we going to look at it and say, oh, was that late? Because it's going to get back to the 49ers locker room, right?

Oh, of course. So they'll look at it and they'll, every single hit time Brock Purdy is under pressure, he gets touched now. Are they going to think, was that a little late? Are they doing this?

You've got to ask him now. I wonder if inadvertently he actually causes the officials. No, see, that's the thing. He's not speaking for the Packers. That's what I'm saying. Right, so I don't think so. I don't think the officials are going to be more on the lookout because it's just some idea.

And as much as I appreciate that he played in the NFL and he's a Super Bowl champion and the Packers love their people, right? There's no way that anybody there supports this. No, I don't think they support it, but I think now it's on our minds.

Our minds, meaning... Meaning anyone watching the game, yeah. Okay, I get what you're saying, but not the officials' minds. I'll bet that Matt Lefleur and others come out and maybe Joe Berry, they come out and they say, hey, this is not... Well, they should and I think they will too, but I still think it'll be on our minds.

Alright. I bet that it'll get mentioned on the broadcast. What do you think? More people for Packers Cowboys or more people for Packers Niners, considering that it's a week later? What do you think? I would say this weekend gets more.

You think? So starting at 40 million, starting at 40 million viewers, dollars would be nice. Starting at 40 million viewers and we're going to be atop that. More than that for a divisional round. What does that mean for Championships Sunday? Bigger than that. Holy crap. 60 million?

75 million? The NFL's a behemoth. It's a bully. Pushes you out on the playground. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence, CBS Sports Radio.

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