Twelve Ravens Thoughts following Week 3 loss to Detroit
Luke Jones offers his purple musings on a humbling loss for Baltimore on Monday night.
September 23, 2025
No. 3 TastyNes and 27th Anniversary Tour: Amicci’s Meatballs and Garlic Cheese Bread (aka “The SloppyNes”)
Everyone who has ever met Nestor knows that Amicci’s in Little Italy is his favorite restaurant on earth. And everyone knows about the world famous Pane Rotundo. But it’s time to share his favorite personal pairing – the meatball and ricotta marinara appetizer sliced and assembled across bubbling, toasty garlic cheese bread and served open faced. (This isn’t a real menu item. But if it was they’d call it “The SloppyNes” because this ain’t your father’s Sloppy Joe and it’s certainly no ordinary “meatball sub.”) Get a fork and a bib!
Fearless Lions came roaring into Ravens den and bullied the bullies
It’s not often that the Baltimore Ravens get pushed around in their house. That happened on Monday night against the Detroit Lions and Luke Jones and Nestor are picking up the pieces of an ugly Ravens loss and a short week of prep before heading to Kansas City to face a similarly scuffling Chiefs team and Patrick Mahomes.
Hollywood nights and a Monday Night Motown football motor
If you follow our social media, you probably know that Nestor went west to see the fabulous Hollywood Bowl and check it off the top of the bucket list that financial advisor Leonard Raskin always encourages him to seek, stalk and enjoy. They discuss the nightmare Ravens loss to the Lions, too, but The Who and and Aerosmith reunion in Los Angeles were more fun to discuss this week.
The big picture of NFL maze and trying to win games
It’s three weeks into the season and the Baltimore Ravens are 1-2 and the loser at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City on Sunday evening will be 1-3. Luke Jones and Nestor take a bumpy ride through the league and the fast week ahead for Ravens and Chiefs and licking wounds.
Getting the Eagles ready to fly again at Coppin State
It’s a new season and a new school year at Coppin State University where head coach Larry Stewart is getting a whole new cast of student athletes assembled to play in the MEAC. He joined Nestor at The Beaumount in Catonsville on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to talk NIL and modern college basketball recruiting realities that are different than when Fang Mitchell brought him to West Baltimore 39 years ago.
One, Two and Who? The promise of Rogers and Bradish for Orioles in ’26
There hasn’t been much to provide offseason hope for a last place baseball team but Luke Jones and Nestor agree that the emergence of Trevor Rogers and encouraging return of Kyle Bradish to the top of the Orioles rotation helps ease some pressure on a Birdland offseason of unrest for Mike Elias and a franchise in search of better pitching and awakened, youthful bats next spring.
The Ravens defense that felt defenseless to Lions attack
It’s a rare morning-after where we’re discussing the Baltimore Ravens’ defense getting pushed around at home. Luke Jones and Nestor the many discuss problems the purple men of Zach Orr had in stopping the run, rushing Lions quarterback Jared Goff or defending the pass in a bad 38-30 beat to Detroit on Monday Night Football.
Heeding the roar of Detroit Lions in sound Ravens defeat
It was a bad night at the stadium. The Baltimore Ravens were mostly manhandled by the Detroit Lions. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the roar of Jared Goff and Aidan Hutchinson after a demoralizing 38-30 loss and a short week of prep for Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.
Ravens humbled by Detroit at line of scrimmage in 38-30 defeat on Monday night
The Lions rushed for 224 yards and four touchdowns and sacked Lamar Jackson seven times in a convincing performance.
