It’s the time of the year for mock drafts and dirty NFL rumors and Gary Davenport of Bleacher Report returns to give his thoughts on the draft and an AFC primer as the Baltimore Ravens have the 14th pick on the board and many directions for a future with new head coach Jesse Minter and Lamar Jackson in the prime of his career.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Host and attend the Maryland crab cake tour stops at Fadley’s on the 16th, Koco’s on the 23rd (draft day), and Pizza John’s and Essex on May 1 as part of WNST’s Baltimore Positive programming.
• [ ] Write a new mock draft today for Bleacher Report, highlighting player risers and fallers based on internal scouting rankings, and publish it live tomorrow.

NFL Draft Preview and Ravens’ Offseason Changes

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the show, mentioning the NFL Draft and the Baltimore Ravens’ 14th pick.
• Nestor discusses the tumultuous offseason, including the Max Crosby and Trey Hendrickson sweepstakes.
• Gary Davenport, an NFL insider from Bleacher Report, joins the discussion to provide insights on the AFC and the NFL Draft.
• Nestor and Gary discuss the changes in the AFC North, including the departure of long-tenured coaches and the hiring of new coaches like Jesse Minter in Baltimore.

AFC North Teams’ Needs and Coaching Changes

• Gary Davenport highlights the significant changes in the AFC North, including the Browns’ defensive needs, the Bengals’ atrocious defense, and the Steelers’ quarterback situation.
• Nestor and Gary discuss the Ravens’ offensive line issues and the need to address their bottom-three pass defense.
• Gary mentions the Browns’ two first-round picks and the potential draft strategies they might employ, including trading up for a quarterback.
• Nestor and Gary discuss the impact of coaching changes in the division, including the hiring of Jesse Minter in Baltimore and the challenges he faces.

Ravens’ Offensive Line and Passing Game Concerns

• Nestor and Gary delve into the Ravens’ offensive line issues, emphasizing the need to improve the passing game and provide weapons for Lamar Jackson.
• Gary discusses the aging of key players like Mark Andrews and Derek Henry, and the potential decline in their performance.
• Nestor and Gary talk about the importance of running the ball effectively and the challenges the Ravens face in maintaining their offensive line.
• Gary mentions the potential draft picks for the Ravens, including offensive linemen and wide receivers, and the possibility of trading back to acquire more picks.

Browns’ Quarterback Situation and Draft Strategy

• Gary Davenport discusses the Browns’ quarterback situation, questioning the long-term viability of Deshaun Watson and the potential draft strategy for the Browns.
• Nestor and Gary talk about the Browns’ two first-round picks and the potential combinations of players they might draft, including wide receivers and offensive tackles.
• Gary mentions the pressure on general managers in the AFC North, including Andrew Berry and Eric DeCosta, to make impactful draft picks.
• Nestor and Gary discuss the importance of nailing the first-round pick and the potential consequences of missing out on key players.

Steelers’ Coaching Change and Quarterback Dilemma

• Nestor and Gary discuss the Steelers’ hiring of Mike Tomlin and the challenges they face with their quarterback situation, including the potential return of Aaron Rodgers.
• Gary explains the Steelers’ decision to hire a more experienced coach like Mike Tomlin to address their long-term mediocrity.
• Nestor and Gary talk about the challenges of finding a franchise quarterback late in the draft and the impact of consistently picking in the late rounds.
• Gary mentions the potential impact of Mike Tomlin’s experience and leadership on the Steelers’ performance and the expectations for the team in 2026.

Ravens’ Draft Strategy and Potential Picks

• Nestor and Gary discuss the Ravens’ potential draft strategy, including the possibility of trading back to acquire more picks.
• Gary mentions the various positions the Ravens might target, including offensive linemen, wide receivers, and defensive players.
• Nestor and Gary talk about the importance of selecting the best player available rather than focusing solely on need.
• Gary highlights the potential draft picks for the Ravens, including offensive linemen like Spencer Fano and tackle Evan Neal, and the potential impact of these players on the team.

Ethics in NFL Draft and Free Agency

• Nestor and Gary discuss the ethics of NFL teams in the draft and free agency, including the Ravens’ deal with Max Crosby and the potential impact on their reputation.
• Gary explains the process of legal tampering and the importance of official contracts in the NFL.
• Nestor and Gary talk about the potential consequences of unethical behavior in the NFL and the short memories of NFL teams.
• Gary mentions the importance of maintaining integrity in the draft and free agency to build long-term trust with other teams.

Bleacher Report’s Draft Coverage and Fantasy Football

• Gary Davenport provides an overview of Bleacher Report’s draft coverage, including mock drafts and player rankings.
• Gary mentions the upcoming fantasy football coverage and the importance of the NFL Draft in shaping fantasy football strategies.
• Nestor and Gary discuss the excitement of the last few days before the draft and the deluge of reports and rumors.
• Gary highlights the importance of staying informed and making informed decisions during the draft and fantasy football season.

Ravens’ Offseason Moves and Future Outlook

• Nestor and Gary discuss the Ravens’ offseason moves, including the signing of Trey Hendrickson and the potential impact on the team.
• Gary explains the decision to pass on Max Crosby and the potential reasons behind it, including the availability of Trey Hendrickson.
• Nestor and Gary talk about the importance of addressing the Ravens’ defensive needs and the potential impact of these moves on the team’s performance.
• Gary highlights the potential draft picks for the Ravens and the importance of making the right decisions to improve the team.

Final Thoughts and Upcoming Events

• Nestor and Gary wrap up the discussion, emphasizing the importance of the NFL Draft and the potential impact on the AFC North teams.
• Nestor mentions the upcoming events, including the Maryland Crab Cake Tour and the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh.
• Gary provides information on Bleacher Report’s draft coverage and the upcoming fantasy football season.
• Nestor thanks Gary for his insights and encourages listeners to stay tuned for more updates on the NFL Draft and the Ravens.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

NFL Draft, Baltimore Ravens, AFC North, offensive line, Lamar Jackson, Max Crosby, Trey Hendrickson, Aaron Rodgers, Mike Tomlin, Deshaun Watson, draft strategy, quarterback, defensive needs, fantasy football.

SPEAKERS

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Nestor Aparicio, Gary Davenport

Nestor Aparicio  00:01

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T am 1570 tacit Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive you’re out on the YouTubes or the video. Subscribe, Like us. Do all that. Share, yell, criticize, get yourself thrown off my Facebook if you want. If you’re you’re out there talking nonsense about Trump. I have friends all over the United States of America in advance of this beautiful NFL draft, where the Baltimore Ravens will be selecting 14th after a tumultuous offseason and the max Crosby sweepstakes and the Hendrickson sweepstakes and all the things that are going on around here, Luke will keep you abreast of all that as we get up on the draft. If there’s any breaking news, you’ll get it first on the wnst tech service all brought to you by Cole roofing and Gordian energy. And of course, we’re out doing the Maryland crab cake tour here the next couple of weeks, leading up to the draft, and including on draft day, we’re going to be at Koco’s That afternoon, hanging out and talking to some fun folks. Gary Davenport is I’ve collected people around this country. He is out in the great state of Ohio. Don’t hold that against him on the north side or the south side of Ohio in our division. But he’s a draft Nick as well as an NFL insider bleach report and football guys. He also has his own fantasy team, which I’ve been subjected to with the the sharks and all that stuff going on. It’s always good to visit with you. You know, I didn’t have you on during the season last year in the browns and the Bengals and all this other nonsense. But when I think of draft time, and I think, let’s sort of helicopter in and see what Davenport’s got up his sleeve here, and thinking about this NFL draft, but the Browns always wind up picking ahead of the ravens, though, right? Unfortunately, well, monkey went your way. We finally got rid of hardball here, right? Tomlin’s gone in Pittsburgh now, and they got McCarthy, and we’re trying to figure out. Jesse Minter, it really has been a tumultuous off season in lots of ways, in the division around the league, hiring a bunch of white coaches, overlooking all the black coaches, just sort of all sorts of things that have happened here. But as we helicopter in and get ready for this draft in Pittsburgh, we go back to All right, who’s my coach, who’s my quarterback, what are the team needs? And this is really, I think, now that baseball started, this is when it gets a little fun to talk about the NFL and how we’re going to create rosters here, especially as the Ravens look for sort of offensive line help all around. Lamar Jackson,

Gary Davenport  02:15

Oh, absolutely. And, I mean, you look like you said, there’s so much has changed in the AFC North since the end of the season. I mean, we saw two incredibly long tenured Super Bowl winning head coaches like, well, one stepped away, the other was let go. And it’s going to be really interesting, because there’s not a team in the division that doesn’t have, you know, this massive question mark around it. I mean, obviously the Browns have all kinds of work, all kinds of work to do on both sides of the ball. The Bengals. I mean, their defense was positively atrocious last year. You know the Steelers. What are they going to do at quarterback? You know, what’s going to happen with Aaron Rodgers? How long is he going to keep them waiting before he makes his decision on playing in 2026 and then you got

Nestor Aparicio  03:03

to do, right? Like, what’s he going to do? They get the chance to run the Steelers with McCarthy. Why wouldn’t he come back and run it back? Because they’re not going to find better than him, even though it might not be good enough. But, you know, I’ve seen the alternatives, you know,

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Gary Davenport  03:15

oh, I think he’ll be back. And then in Baltimore, you’ve got, you know, what did the Ravens do? The offensive line isn’t the only problem the Ravens have. They got to do something about that defense. I mean, I think that’s been a bottom three pass defense each of the last two years. Now, last year, part of that problem was that they couldn’t get after opposing quarterbacks, so they went out and traded for Max Crosby and then un traded for Max Crosby and then signed Trey Hendrickson. So it’s going to be interesting to see. You know, are they done at edge Russia, or is that potentially a position that they could look at and, you know, in the first couple rounds of the draft this year? So a lot of change in the AFC north, I am, it’s an awfully difficult division to handicap right now, with the exception of the fact that I, I think I can say with a fair amount of certainty, the Browns will not be winning the AFC north in 2026 outside that I don’t know what to tell you.

Nestor Aparicio  04:10

Well, I mean, the thing of the Ravens always had this air about them, and har ball and Lamar and to Costa and all that, they’re coming off eight, nine missing kicks, you know, not being really well coached at the end from a lot of eyeballs, including some Hall of Fame eyeballs that watch them around here and now, Harbaugh sneaks out the side door, and they wind up hiring a hardball acolyte, you know, guy that worked for both of them. So Steve must have not wanted that much change. Neither did Eric di Costa. But it’s going to be interesting philosophically to see what a defensive minded guy is going to do here and how they’re going to hatch together an offensive line that’s going to allow an aging Lamar Jackson who does not want to run 1215, times a game anymore, and they don’t want him to run like that. You know, Jury’s out on the rave. With a new coach and with aging players, and trying to run it back with Ronnie Stanley and roquan Smith and Mark Andrews and on and on, and Marlon Humphrey, all of these names of guys that have never won the big game, and Lamar sits in the middle of it like this. Better be the prime of his career, and you better do something above and beyond. Zay flowers and and Derek Henry, who’s aging out at this point too, because that offensive line will be in focus until it’s not in focus until we see it function.

Gary Davenport  05:29

Oh, absolutely. They’ve got to improve the passing game. Weapons for Lamar, I mean, you can’t count on zay flowers. You know, Mark Andrews isn’t getting any younger either. And like you said, Derek Henry, I mean in running back years, he’s old, and while he hasn’t shown any signs of decline yet, Father times undefeated, sooner or later, running backs drop off, and sometimes they just go off a cliff. Now I don’t know that that

Nestor Aparicio  05:56

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happens very quickly when the offensive line

Gary Davenport  05:58

sucks too. I don’t know that that will happen with Henry in 2022 but if the Ravens can’t run the ball, they’re going to have problems. They don’t want to be, you know, a grip it and rip it, dropping back and throwing it 45 times a game. Team, that’s just not their philosophy, mentality, whatever.

Nestor Aparicio  06:17

Well, and we’ll find out if the philosophy and the mentalities change because, to your point, coaching changes in three of the four locations in the division, Cleveland, trying to figure out it again with monk. And I found it fascinating that how Schwartz, how that ended there for them, when he was available, that they saw monk and as the guy, they’re not well run obviously, they’re trying to build that new stadium Out at the airport. They have all sorts of structural issues there in Cleveland that go above and beyond whatever money is still owed to Sean Watson, right? Yeah, and

Gary Davenport  06:54

the quarterback is the $64 question in Cleveland. You know is Cher Sanders, the guy I don’t necessarily believe that he is, in which case, you know, you’re back to square one at that position again. And you know, this year the Browns go into the draft, they’re sitting on two first round picks. In theory, it would be the kind of draft where, okay, we package 24, and six and move up into the top five and get our guy under center. Problem is there is no guy under center really. I mean, it’s not going

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Nestor Aparicio  07:28

to Vegas at this point,

Gary Davenport  07:29

right, right. There’s Fernando Mendoza going first overall, and then, I mean, Dan or lov can try to talk himself into believing that Ty Simpson is the number one quarterback in this class until the cows come home. But I don’t know that the Browns should be going out and spending a high pick on a guy who’s only got 15 collegiate start. So it’s going to be interesting to see what the Browns do at six and 24 I mean, everyone seems to think it’s going to be some combination of a wide receiver and an offensive tackle, whether it’s, you know, Cardinal Tate at six and a tackle at 24 or one of the high end tackles, like maligoa at six. And then you wait and see if maybe you can get a Casey conception only in round one, but it’s a draft the Browns have to hit. There are, there are quite a few general managers in the AFC North right now that are feeling the heat a little bit. I know Andrew Berry is, I believe Eric da Costa is. I mean, when you see John Harbaugh get showing the door, I think that sent a message to Eric, to Costa, the same way that a message was sent to Brandon bean up in Buffalo when Sean McDermott was showing the door that, you know, hey, obviously eight, nine is not good enough in Baltimore and buffalo said, you know, just making it to the playoffs is no longer acceptable. We want to make it to the playoffs, make a run, and, you know, we want to be playing in so far stadium next February. So there are a lot of guys, a lot of teams, who are used to success, who are going into this draft like, we need to nail this pick. You got to get that first rounder right.

Nestor Aparicio  09:01

Always appreciate time with Gary Davenport a Bleacher Report and football guys, and you’ll give him a chance to tell you about all the stuff he’s doing out there and producing in the NFL world, but it’s always a fun conversation staying in the division. He’s out in Ohio, but covers the entire National Football League off season for you, um, you know, har ball going to the Giants, kind of an interesting, you know, side move there 10 coaches, a lot of them in the usual suspects of Arizona, Cleveland, these places where you feel like they can’t improve. The Pittsburgh thing is really curious to me as to where that team is, the quicksand that Tomlin was running him without the quarterback and on the front end of it, the fan base saying, well, McCarthy’s, he’s not young, he’s washed up. He’s this, he’s that and and I always think of my conversations of with Brian Billick and Marvin Lewis and the old guard around here, even the Rex Ryans to say we’re coaches. We actually get smarter as this goes on. I don’t think the MC. Carthy thing is so strange in Pittsburgh, but I do think they’re in a strange time there with the quarterback thing in this division to try to one up Joe burrow or Lamar Jackson at this point with a 43 year old quarterback.

Gary Davenport  10:14

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I don’t dislike the McCarthy hire. I mean, it runs contrary kind of to what the Steelers have done in the past. You know, when they hired Mike Tomlin, you know, he was a young, first time head coach up and comer Bill Cowher was the same way that it’s even going back to chuck no that had seemed to been kind of their MO You know, they keep the same head coach forever, and then when they do finally turn over, they go for a younger guy and in it for the long haul. And I think this time, they just figured, you know, we need a quicker fix. We need a guy who can, you know, Steelers haven’t been bad, but they haven’t been good for how many years? You know, every year seemed to be the same thing. You win eight, 910, games, maybe you make the playoffs, maybe don’t, you don’t have a losing season. But when’s the last time we really considered the Steelers a Super Bowl contender? And I think with it finally reached kind of a boiling point there where they decided, and maybe it’s a good thing, because I think the worst place an NFL team can be is kind of mired in mediocrity. I used to call it the Jeff Fisher zone, where you’re winning eight, nine games every year, but you’re not really getting any closer to a Super Bowl. But Pittsburgh’s got to figure out quarterback Aaron Rodgers, obviously, if you get one more year out of him, it’s going to be they’re essentially rolling back 2025 you’re going to win 910, games. Maybe you’ll get into the playoffs, but you’re not getting past Denver or New England, you know, the the AFCS elite teams and making it to the Super Bowl. But the problem is, when you keep winning eight, 910, games, you keep picking 17, 19/20, and it’s hard to get that franchise quarterback that late in the draft. I mean, yeah, they were able to do that with Ben Roethlisberger years ago. But guys like that just don’t come along every year.

Nestor Aparicio  12:07

I think about McCarthy being from Pittsburgh and having survived Dallas and Green Bay that they got a grown up there. They got a guy who knows how to run a building, knows how to run a fan base, and ran the biggest ran the star and had a quarterback. There had a star quarterback. There had a star quarterback. Had two different star quarterbacks. For me, I’m I’m good with the qualification of that. And the same way that the Giants think they’ve got some hardball fairy dust that’s coming up to New York, and instead, they have a power broker. I mean, I’ve called him a fraud, but it is what it is. We’ll see how it works out. Sexy Dexy is first off the boat there with hardball wanting to find a new place. So I do think these guys get reputations over 20 years. And I find it interesting that Tomlin sitting it out gonna do TV, do what he’s gonna do, and Rex is on TV now, and different coaches, whether it was Tony dungeon Jason Garrett, who almost became the coach here 20 years ago when bashati hired Harbaugh instead of him that, you know, shelf life on all these coaches, but when they want to do it and they have the qualifications to do it, I think you get a different thing than whatever fire hose Jesse Minter or any of these rookie coaches are drinking from right now. Where the jobs real big early on?

Gary Davenport  13:16

Oh, absolutely. And anytime you’re hiring that first time head coach. I mean, sure we’ve seen some work out, but it’s also there’s a risk involved. You know some guys, you find out fairly quickly, okay, maybe this guy’s really not cut out to be a head coach in the National Football League, because there have been plenty of brilliant young coordinators. And Jesse Menard was an excellent defensive coordinator for the Los Angeles chargers last year, but he doesn’t have a ton of NFL experience, and it’s a big job. I mean, it’s, never mind the X’s and O’s, you’re the kind of the CEO of the team, so you’re running so many different things and managing all these different personalities. And it’s,

Nestor Aparicio  14:01

it’s tough. Well, first things first, he got Lamar in the building this week, so at least we got that going. Gary Davenport is here. He’s covering the NFL. Jeff, all right, so we’ve mentioned draft, and you’ve mentioned Browns picks and ravens picks ravens at 14, and you mentioned the big tackle as to what the Ravens could get. I mean, I’ve seen him mock to the Ravens at 14. I’ve seen him mocked at four or five, and that’s part of the beauty of the draft and how things fall. The cost has been a guy that would have no problem dealing back if he felt like there was a tackle or a lineman or a wide receiver or rush edge that he could get into the 20s if he could find a willing dance partner. But at 14, with your mock draft and what you’re doing, I’ll give you an opportunity to promote your draft cover. Your draft coverage. Gary, where are the Ravens for you? Because to me, that offensive line, especially with Linder mom, getting all that money out in Vegas, they’ve got just a massive it was already bad enough last year, but a massive question mark across the offensive line. To me, all. Just in every position other than right tackle, and I’ll let Rosengarten slide at this point and the investment they made in him, but that is going to be the story leading up to whatever their first game is in Brazil or wherever it’s going to be that who’s going to be in front of Lamar Jackson? What does this offensive line look like? And I know it’s the biggest story in Baltimore, above and beyond the new head coach,

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Gary Davenport  15:19

that lender bomb contract was, Oh, my goodness. Well, I mean, the good news is, I believe last time the Ravens drafted 14th, they took Kyle Hamilton, so that pick seems to have worked out well. So maybe it’s a lucky spot for them. The majority of mock drafts have them going offensive line, whether it’s Spencer Fano, the tackle from Utah, who some people think he projects better as a guard of the NFL. There’s the kid from Penn, state. I own, I own a who might be the most NFL ready lineman, regardless of position in the draft class. So there are going to be options available to them at 14 on the offensive line, like you said, they could move back and target a tackle a little later. I guess it’s possible they could go wide receiver at 14. I’ve seen a tight end mock

Nestor Aparicio  16:10

to them, and I’m like, I don’t believe that.

Gary Davenport  16:13

I mean, I don’t know. I’ve seen a couple with Kenyan Sadiq moxo, too. And I don’t you know they just resigned. Andrews, granted, Isaiah likely walked, but I would be surprised if they went tight end in that spot. But you know, Makai lemon and Jordan Tyson could be there at 14. Tyson is sliding in a lot of draft boards because of the hamstring injury. They might be able to have their pick of the drafts of the quarterbacks in the draft at that 14th spot too, whether it’s Vance or delaying out of LSU or jermad McCoy out of Tennessee. You know, maybe you look to the interior the defensive line with Peter Woods out of Clemson. The Ravens have multiple needs. But the good news about picking in that 14th spot is, I think there are probably half a dozen players the Ravens can select from in that spot who they can reasonably expect to contribute to the team right away. It’s just a matter of, how do they prior to prioritize need versus, you know, who’s the best player available on the board, which that that’s the way I intend to am inclined to lean having a great time talking today, if were I a general manager. I mean, yes, need is important, but if I’ve got a guy who’s Head and Shoulders better than everyone else on the board, I’m just going to take that guy. And I think that’s what successful NFL teams do, is they draft more best player available than trying to bang square pegs in round holes. Because, you know, oh, my God, we need an offensive tackle. So we have to take a tackle in this spot, even if three or four have already coming off the board, and then you wind up reaching

Nestor Aparicio  17:58

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for a guy. Well, you mentioned D line and the Matta BK mystery that sits there with the money they’ve given him, roquan’s over his skis financially, it’s a $32 million cap number right now. So you know, when we talked about that the day they signed him, as to whether he was going to be an incline, you know, a player on the decline, or a player that was ascending. And Hamilton obviously was the best player available at that point, and is their best football player right now. The Lamar Jackson notwithstanding, on the other side of the ball, the fact that they have the pick at 14 is its own story with the max Crosby thing, because as we sit here, are they going to take this guy, that guy, a rush, edge, a corner, whatever it’s going to be at one point, it was Max Crosby. You sit in the middle of America on all of this. What did you make of that whole mess?

Gary Davenport  18:51

I think Eric Koco’s got cold feet. Honestly. I think here’s what I think happened, okay, the Raiders, I mean, the Ravens decide, okay, we love Max Crosby. We’re willing to make this deal. He’s going to make our team better, which, of course, he is. He’s a absolutely beast off the edge. They make the trade. Free agency gets rolling. We get a few days in Trey. Hendrickson’s still sitting there. I don’t think the Costa expected that to be the case. I don’t think he thought Hendrickson was going to be available that far in a free agency. So he kind of decided he was gonna head it off, to pass and pivot to Crosby. So he’s looking at, okay, I can have Trey Hendrickson for 28 million a season. What is what they wound up signing him for and keep my picks. And granted, hendrickson’s not the player that Crosby is, and he’s a few years older, but you’re spending, you know, 12, $13 million less a season, and you’re keeping those two first round picks. So I think he decided, okay, I kind of wish I hadn’t made that trade. But the thing is, they really hadn’t made that trade yet, because the league year hadn’t started until Wednesday of. 4pm so Crosby failed the physical.

Nestor Aparicio  20:05

Not a lot of ethics going on there for Eric right in the future and dealing with people.

Gary Davenport  20:10

And you know what, I don’t a lot of people were like, wow, he’s burned a lot of bridges with a lot of teams. I think NFL teams will have fairly short memories about it, if only because there’s 31 other NFL teams that probably would have done the exact same thing. I mean, it’s not like unethical behavior is just confined to one team in the NFL. They’re all doing it. So I it wasn’t that big a deal to me. And again, you know, you can make a handshake agreement on Monday or the legal tampering period and sign all the guys you want, but until the league year starts Wednesday at 4pm Eastern and Penn hits paper, none of those deals are official.

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Nestor Aparicio  20:54

So, ah, Caveat emptor is absolutely tell everybody what you do at a bleach report, what you’re getting ready for here with the draft. For here with

Gary Davenport  21:03

the draft and your coverage. Oh, a ton of draft coverage. I’ll actually be writing up a mock draft today and highlighting some risers and followers relative to where our scouting department has the players ranked. That’ll be live tomorrow. There’ll be a ton of draft stuff. You know, the fantasy side football guys. I’m doing a little bit of work, but once we get past the draft in Pittsburgh, you know, that’s when fantasy football really starts ramping up, because we know who’s going to land where. So, you know, things are about to get interesting. These, these last 1011, days before the draft is always kind of fascinating, because you see, you know, just a deluge of reports that, Oh, this guy might have an injury that we didn’t know about, and, Oh, this guy’s got character red flags and this and teams and agents and everyone all across the NFL are just lying themselves silly because they’re either trying to get a guy to drop to where they can get him or, you know, maybe trying to negotiate and make a few extra bucks on the contract. They don’t call it silly season for nothing.

Nestor Aparicio  22:14

Well, I think you made a great point when you’re like, the Ravens aren’t the only unethical organization, so I’ll take that under advisement, because it does say the NFL, not for long and all that stuff, and it is run by Roger Goodell. So who knows, Gary Davenport is out there doing the good work in the great state of Ohio. You know the Ohio and the Ohio State thing behind you? I didn’t even talk any junk about har ball or call Jesse Minter a cheater, or any of that Michigan nonce. I left, I left all that alone for you, but, but I know you would, you wouldn’t mind talking about that right here. Oh, hey,

Gary Davenport  22:44

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you know what? I was surprised that Jesse mentor had the success he had in Los Angeles last year, you know, because he didn’t know what play was going to be run against his defense, and that was a change for him from his time with Jim Harbaugh in Ann Arbor.

Nestor Aparicio  22:59

But that’s good, but the navy seals out there, you know, I said about mentor. I don’t know him at all, and he seems like, you know, whatever, and I know his predecessors, but I’m like, we don’t have to wonder whether he would cheat. The NCAA already, you know, caught him cheating. So you know, we, we know he might be cheating because he’s trying, and they’re all trying, right? So absolutely, all right. Gary Davenport, you can find him out and anywhere the the internet served with the Bleacher Report and getting ready for the NFL Draft. And by the way, I had the Clemente museum curator on Dwayne reader this week. In case anybody’s going up to Pittsburgh for the draft, they’re expecting 1 million NFL fans on the riverfront of the confluence two weeks from now, as the NFL Draft gets going, and the Ravens select 14th, Luke’s going to be up and on to all of that. Any breaking news happen first round here on the wnst tech service, a legendary now 20 years into it, it’s all brought to you by friends at cole roofing and Gordon energy. I’m out doing the Maryland crab cake tour. Fadleys This week cost us on the 16th, Koco’s on the 23rd which is draft day, and then on the first of May, we will be at Pizza, John’s and Essex, that’s Luke’s favorite place. It’s all brought to you by friends at the Maryland lottery. I will have new Maryland treasures scratch offs to give away, as well as our friends at GBMC and Farnan and Dermer. They are the comfort guys. They kept me comfortable last week when I had a flat in my base because I had a broken pipe. They do plumbing as well as h back and AC. Big thanks to the comfort guys and Zach Dermer and the Durham family for making that happen. I am Nestor. We are wnsd. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stop talking Baltimore positive. Stay with us. You.