Dennis Koulatsos and Nestor discuss the Ravens’ path to playoffs after winning ugly in Pittsburgh and trying to solve Cleveland and Atlanta without Lamar Jackson.
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game, ravens, pittsburgh, locker room, week, steelers, year, run, people, thought, luke, ronnie stanley, baltimore, walked, ball, lamar, nestor, play, question, dennis
SPEAKERS
Dennis Koulatsos, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome back wn S T, Towson Baltimore and Baltimore. positive.com still broadcasting in High Definition mono sound and am 1570 on your radio dial make sure you’re if you’re out at coons Baltimore Ford buying a car first thing you do Dennis when they drive off the lot is what set number one to 51 What you need to change 70
Dennis Koulatsos 00:22
am absolutely that’s the first thing everybody does around here. That’s glasshouses
Nestor Aparicio 00:26
here on Thursday we’re going to be celebrating 31 years on the radio Tuesday is my 31st anniversary. It’s December 13 And I walked into wi th am 1570 down at five Lake Street with Kenny Albert. On Thursday we’re gonna be celebrating 31 years with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer genius shot from the Go Go’s, as well as a whole bunch of rock and roll friends all the Amberjacks friends, old bands like milkshake and beyond words and friends of ours. I’ll be giving away some rabid scratch offs as well as the new holiday cast drop scratches. That Ross dropped off at fade these on Friday had an unbelievable conversation with Dan Rodricks. It’s been a very momentous week, Dennis I am i i was a real media member on Sunday in Pittsburgh past they gave me parking. I eat Mr. Rooney’s cookies with Charlie batch and Rod Woodson Hey Mr. Rooney’s cookies with a Hall of Famer with a raven Super Bowl ring and not a Steelers ring. I you know, I had an interesting experience after 27 years of doing this, and they take away my license to practice and then all of a sudden, I’m in the press box there. Because of my komlin my Tomlins the only reason I was at the game on Sunday, I found that interesting that Harbaugh came in and welcomed me into a room that he’s been a tremendous part of banning me from and lying about it, which is even worse. So horrible. I did not ask John a question I didn’t. The questions I had had already been asked the biggest question in the in the postgame. And I know you can appreciate this is whether Tyler Huntley can play on Saturday because of the short week and that the head trauma. And that was more of our question is geared to play with a third string quarterback for four quarters against Cleveland although the kid look, boy. Yeah,
Dennis Koulatsos 02:10
yeah, I don’t think you’re gonna get I think it’s a fruitless question. I know that someone had to ask it, but you’re not going to get any, any real clarity on anyone’s injury, particularly right right after the game. Last year, we heard Coach Harbaugh say that the Lamar Jackson was weak week with the ankle, right. So he never played again. So I don’t know how much confidence I have and what comes out of the Ravens machine there in terms of Player Health and whatnot. But hey, I want to hear about your I saw you tweeting at the game. I saw your pictures. You’re in the press box, you’re eating the cookies. It’s really odd that you’re walking at a opposing team’s stadium, particularly the Pittsburgh Steelers. And you can’t even attend a game as a journalist that you are at m&t Bank Stadium.
Nestor Aparicio 02:54
I went with Luke we met him Breezewood jumped in the car. Now the interesting thing is I knew I was getting in because I had been on the phone with the Steelers, PR people and the Steelers. PR man the lead guy I want to give a little love to him. His daughter was involved in a really really horrific hit and run a week and a half ago. She’s in a coma fighting for her life. That this is the Kevin Byrne or the Chad steel of the Steelers that the Vice President seems Bert lot and he’s a wonderful human being. He was not at the game on Sunday. You know all of us lump in our throats like I it’s hard for me to talk about it because I know Bert well. But his team took care of me and they reached me on Thursday and Friday and said coach wants you in the press box coach wants you doing your job. You know do you need a parking pass and like Now Luke already has a parking pass. So we parked right by the Taco Bell right up the hill Wiggins not Allegheny avenue by the Confluence and the new name all the ketchup bottles are gone and the monster bottles are gone. You know. So um, the interesting part for me is and this is a human issue right? When the when the Orioles did what they did to me and oh six every Oriole person I knew longtime front office people. They all unfriended me on Facebook. They all unlinked me in none of them are allowed to know me in the Angelo’s family, like literally anything good that they would ever say about me would get them fired, right or get them in trouble or their perception is they cannot afford to be even remotely aligned in any way with me. Ravens I’ve been at this 26 years. I know everyone and there was one dude with Eric the costume that I didn’t recognize. I’d look at his badge and say Who’s that guy? And I thought I can look his picture up on the website or whatever. I didn’t know who he was. I still know who he is. But there were one each 25 non uniformed personnel that worked for the right Even with the ravens, not one of them, looked at me. Not one of them came up and said how are you How’s your wife? What the team’s doing is wrong or like, even out of the side of their like, and for the team refuse to look at me or speak to
Dennis Koulatsos 05:21
me. These are people you know, you’ve spoken to before.
Nestor Aparicio 05:23
Oh my God, these are people that are going to football games with for 2025 years. I mean, I’m lying. I’m lying. I’m lying. I’m lying. Let me say this. Because I am I’m, I would be remiss in saying this. I pay a lot during the game and I got a bad back and I move around. During timeouts. I like to stand up, move around. I went back to the bathroom and like the third quarter during maybe the end of the third quarter, and I went back to pee. And Ozzie Newsome and I were the only two people in the bathroom. And Ozzy said, Hi Nestor. So I am wrong. I said that earlier that nobody said hello. I had to think about it. Ozzie Newsome said hello to me. i He acknowledged that I exist in my name and who I am no one else in the entire franchise. And when we parked the car, and we’re walking down by the Taco Bell, down Allegheny, it’s two blocks. And there’s always fans everywhere. And it was jailbird, goofy outfits they have and all that. And I thought a Stedman for a minute. But what I really thought was David Modell, I thought, What would David Modell make of the Pittsburgh Steelers welcoming me into their stadium. And I can’t be welcomed in the facility of a team that I’ve supported for three decades. Like it, none of it makes any sense. It’s juvenile. It’s immature. It’s all of the above. I went and did my job. I wasn’t there to create a storm. I could ask John. Hey, what’s it like the bad guys press? I mean, I could have done anything to make a fool of myself, and have you leave your sponsorship with me and everybody abandoned me. I just did my job. And I just did my job like I always do. But it shouldn’t be this hard to do my job. Now to say that straight out. And I’ve had a lot of people in the legal community telling me that it should, it should not be this hard to do what I have done for a living, that they’re taking that away from me. I spent a day in that. But that being said, I wrote my column, they want a game. They want a third string quarterback. It was a great game to be a part of. I mean, Luke and I were watching the game and we talked about on the way home or like, it was an exciting football game for what it was given the stakes with the Ravens. And given the history of the rivalry.
Dennis Koulatsos 07:36
No, I read your column was quite interesting. Nestor. One thing I picked up early. In your column was you mentioned that empty seats on television, it looked like the lower bowl was completely sold out. Everybody was you know, elbow to elbow and the upper deck was about three quarters full. And the club level as usual. With many stadiums half empty against half those fans are inside drinking and watching the game on TV. But how many empty seats were there?
Nestor Aparicio 08:02
They nest credit 66,000 I would say there were six to 8000 empty seats most of the day. You might be you know, I mean? 10% 15% mean? They’re so yellow. The seats are so yellow. There’s so bright, you know, they that but you know, I would say this, then that’s not unusual to Pittsburgh, even in the years that they’re good. They they have more. No Show MTC it’s never a tough ticket. I did go online at 1230 to see what it cost here. The tickets have been 1015 bucks to get in. There were 30 there to get in. Well, 30 if you I thought you actually I thought well, if Denison’s buddies drove up here, they could get in for 30 bucks. It was a it was a $30 kind of ticket to get in. And there were a significant amount of the empty seats really was the end of the game. People left early like
Dennis Koulatsos 08:58
they left. Same thing at the m&t Bank the week before. And so two of my guys that I work with, they actually drove up Saturday night stay there. They weren’t the game. They sat in the first row right behind the Ravens his bench. And they just came in today just just gushing about what they saw. They love the atmosphere and to hear the players talking and dropping F bombs and they were amazed how animated Ronnie Stanley was, for instance, but I got good feedback from my guys.
Nestor Aparicio 09:26
Well, the Ravens players were dancing to Renegade. Yes. And then went out went 99 yards. So it really was a monumental effort for what it was and then to speak to the team and I’ll talk to you more on Thursday. That is Colossus here Koontz Baltimore Ford he’ll be here on Thursday from three to five getting you ready for the game and then Sunday. We play on Saturday. You’ll be back on Sunday morning. I would say for me with the game itself. very memorable. I mean, just having a third string quarterback come in Trubisky he will break your heart won’t he mean he does ever Anything he runs, he throws he recognizes defense. And then we made a great play. What he threw passes that you cannot throw in this league. If you want to be a winning football coach, you want to be a winning quarterback. I mean, but he has all the skill set. And really, he was the best quarterback in the stadium on Sunday not named Lamar, right?
Dennis Koulatsos 10:20
He was but he right here reminded me a cow bowler at times right big arm, but just threw the ball at the wrong place at the wrong time. So that’s what I saw at a Trubisky. In fact, when picking one out, I tweeted out, I’d rather see picket I think than Trubisky because Trubisky is a veteran, accomplished NFL quarterback were picket. He still had some things to learn. He looked like he was out of his element. He looked a bit shell shocked. And I thought the Ravens would it would pick him off a couple of times. But then again, they were all over Trubisky in a red zone. I thought the Ravens would win if they would limit or turnovers and run the ball effectively. And if they just sat and they still almost lost.
Nestor Aparicio 10:57
Well running effectively. Let’s talk about that. Because after I left the press conference with hardball and Ro Quan Smith came on and I’m like, I’m going to lock and talk some other guys because I even had to say to Sandusky as I walked out, I’m like the locker room open. I’ve been in a locker room and three years, like literally since before the plague because they shut the locker room and then they threw people like me out. I went in the locker room and I talked to five or six players. And I introduced myself to Calais as Campbell. He’s like, I know you are I did your show with the Super Bowl 10 years ago and I’m like nice thanks.
Dennis Koulatsos 11:30
What a great guy. Clay’s Campbell is right. And they don’t win without him blocking that field. Well yesterday, too. Let’s not overlook that fact.
Nestor Aparicio 11:37
But running the football I was in there with Ronnie Stanley and obviously seeing JK Dobbins even admit that he doesn’t have he got caught in a way that he would never win. He can be I mean, it’s crazy. Is gimpy. He will
Dennis Koulatsos 11:51
never burner he’s the kind of guy that rip off 3040 50 yard runs but he was never true burners I don’t know. Even at 100% I don’t know if he would have still got to the end zone but never nevermind that he looked very very good though. The touchdown run was the was excellent. That second effort he made
Nestor Aparicio 12:05
well and having Gus Edwards back having him back. But Ronnie Stanley, just a difference maker and getting guys healthier. So all the guys that went to in the locker room, right. Linda bomb. Heil Hamilton, Ronnie Stanley, all of these guys have have missed and I’ve been in the locker room every week. They wouldn’t have been there a lot of the weeks right? Like the notion that they are getting healthier now Lamar is question mark with a you know, a giant red question mark for them for whether he’s week the week is Coach Harbaugh would say last year or whether it’s a PCL, and we might not see him to Cincinnati, or we might see him here on New Year’s Day Against Pittsburgh. But the notion that they’re getting healthier all the way around, and that they ran the ball the way they did, and that the defense you see marques Williams out there running around Hamilton’s out there, it looks healthy. I don’t know about Peters and Humphrey had a horrible day on the backside as well. But getting the full complement of all of their players the way as I said all last year, the way Eric de Costa dreamed it up. The way you dream it up in April in May and June and free agency and how you’re gonna spend your money and who your rookies are and how they’re going to get on the field. They are sort of rounding into form in that way in that way of having their best players potentially be ready for Pittsburgh on the first Cincinnati on the eighth. And then assuming they win this week beat Atlanta. I mean, once they start getting up to 11 wins, they’re making the playoffs, then it’s about are we going to get a home game the first week, and that’s going to be about beaten Cincinnati on the eighth. But I am getting more bullish on the fact that they can give themselves a representative fight to go beat Cincinnati buffalo Kansas City, which they’re going to have to do in some sort of order there in January, that they could have that at least they’re not going to go out there and lose because they don’t have their players. And you could say Bateman in the passing game. And Luke will talk to he’s blue in the face about that, that that that’s the part of beaten buffalo in Kansas City, that you can’t throw the ball that they’re they’re not going to throw the ball well. They don’t need to if they’re running the ball as well as they did it points on Sunday.
Dennis Koulatsos 14:18
I also think that the another big point is they ran the ball effectively with that Lamar Jackson being in there, he makes that running game go with RPO is that what that’s when you can when you can sit there with a third string quarterback, a rookie and the other team that was Steeler knew that ravens were not going to pass the ball. Everybody in the stadium knew everybody watching you. They’re gonna run the ball, and they still couldn’t stop it. That was the scariest element about this ravens rushing offense because the Steelers me didn’t play good defense. They’ve got some they’ve got some really really good talented players on the defensive side of the ball.
Nestor Aparicio 14:52
That is go out so she’s here. He will be here on Thursday getting you ready for a Saturday afternoon kickoff. So, the game on Sunday it’s the first Stay that I only watched the Ravens I spent nine hours driving up to Pittsburgh through Breezewood. And back you know when the day my back’s holding up nicely, but I didn’t get to watch a lot of football. I watch the end of the night I watched Herbert do his thing. And he again there’s another guy didn’t look healthy a month ago, looks healthy. Now. I know I’m wearing the chargers, Coons, Ford, you know, powder blues, the lance all worse. But when you’re talking about teams being a factor in January, I mean, Josh Allen gets hurt. The pills aren’t winning anything, right? I mean, if Lamar Jackson can’t post up, the Ravens aren’t winning anything. So having your best players be ready. Oh, December 11 1213 1415. I start to feel better about the ravens, especially walking around the locker room realizing they’re getting healthier at a time in the year when they need to. And they want a game. I mean, anyone in Pittsburgh, I mean, Justin Tucker’s given that pregame speech about you’re not really a rave until you beat the Steelers and Pittsburgh and whatnot. I I felt that in the locker room amongst the young guys. I certainly felt that with Patrick queen, you know, a guy who’s had beaten them, and has been here a couple of years that this was, I hate that monkey on the back type of thing because this was a diminished version of the Steelers obviously look at their record. But there is something about that stripe, and this and these AFC North games being what they are. And this gauntlet of four and five were the teams that want to wreck your season. Cleveland, Pittsburgh are in a position to do it.
Dennis Koulatsos 16:27
What about ro Quan Smith Nestor, how does this team I mean, three or four games into his career as a raven. How do they not sign him? How do you not extend a row Quan Smith? I mean, the guy is a monster he’s elevated that defense had a pic again against the Steelers when he hits, ball carries that tend to go backwards. sealers held to believe 48 yards rushing and they were rushing for well over 100 yards, the last four or five games? What a difference maker ro Quan Smith has been.
Nestor Aparicio 16:53
Absolutely and again, that speaks to the cost of making a deal that, you know, as he never made those kinds of deals, nobody in football made those kinds of deals, and to say, well, he’s a rental and we gave up some draft picks. And if we get rid, you know, if we lose him, we will recoup that pick in the 24 supplemental we’ll get a sandwich third, fourth round pick whatever it’s going to be for him. They have a lot off see. I mean, it’s too early for this for me that it’s I mean, I started this with Luke this one already. He’s like, hey, you know, Marcus Peters free pending free agent and JK Dobbins. And they have guys playing for money. I don’t think there’s any doubt about that. But they really have guys now playing for a Super Bowl because they’re in this smell it period. It’s late in the year, half the guys on this team were either too hurt to be on the field this time last year, or to hurt at some point in the last 12 weeks. It’s to get on the field. I mean, this has been a tough year I think tough two years for the infirmary part of when we get this guy back when we lost that guy. We’re getting this guy back and we lost that guy. The only guy to me they can’t lose beyond Lamar is Ronnie Stanley because they’re not driving 99 yards out of that hellhole at the confluence after Renegade. If Ronnie Stanley’s not on the field I and then there’s like more Sunday either so you know there are some other pieces but I start to envision what this will look like January 8, if they have a healthy contingent of players. Williams Hamilton more bodies on the back end to JPPs in Houston’s in the Oh was getting an Bowser getting some sort of pass rush together. So the only one that I’ve written off Spaceman right? He’s not playing. But I’m at a various points I wrote off Gus Edwards, we all wrote off Ronnie Stanley twice, three times four times, like these people that we have written off or thought like with Williams, he’s not coming back. I thought when Dobbins got scoped in October, you would have told me he’d be playing it playing winning football on December 11th. If you would have told me that a month ago I would have said I’ll believe it when I see it because that’s why I’m with all these injuries. But seeing being in that locker room and seeing the guys that had been on the injury report be there in December, and they’re nine and four and they’re winning games they easily could have lost with glass Campbell’s fingers Mitch Trubisky not being you know Mitch Trubisky they’ve they’ve had some good fortune your last couple of weeks things are the sun shining on John Harbaugh a little bit right now.
Dennis Koulatsos 19:23
Well as you look at the NFL scores every week Nestor you realize it’s a week a week league anything can happen anything less than your A game exposes you to a loss and even when you execute when you run the ball for over 200 yards and you limit your turnovers and you still are right there on the brink of disaster right so ravens a two and a half point underdog to the Browns certainly not a scary trip defense and running game. Those two elements travel very well Nesta
Nestor Aparicio 19:47
two point dog in Pittsburgh won the game, right like
Dennis Koulatsos 19:50
I like it. I like it. I like it. They can run the ball, and they can play defense and special teams. All these things go together hand in hand and I’m just opponent Lamar won’t be able to play up against the Shawn Watson. I know he was looking forward to that matchup.
Nestor Aparicio 20:04
Well, he’ll have more chances to do that if he signs a a longer term deal here. I think Deshaun Watson is going to be there no matter what. Great Books, I was gonna bring this up with you about Deshaun. Watson, you and I spent a lot of breath in the offseason talking about that criminal and, and the league and teams wanting him and guaranteed money. And Jimmy has limit what it means the Ashanti and Lamar is money. You know, addition by subtraction, subtraction by addition, right? Like they were probably better serve which Kobe percent is their quarterback right? I mean, as opposed to this transplant guy, that every guy in that locker room has had to go home to their mother, their wife, sister, their girlfriend, and they’re like, oh, that’s your guy. Is that your guy? That’s, that’s your quarterback? Oh, okay. You’re that you know. So I think that that’s a different thing. And clearly the Browns are making the playoffs this year. So all they have there is let’s wreck the Ravens this week and the short rest. It’s going to create longer rest for Atlanta this week. But the biggest question in the locker room is hardball was coming in and he said to me, hardball acknowledged me he looked at me. He said, welcome. Well, that’s what he said to me. And I said to him, yeah, yeah.
Dennis Koulatsos 21:22
Yeah. Was it the ghosts of Nestor J Aparicio. Was he there in the flesh? Right. That’s what they were all asking themselves. How did you get in? How did you get there?
Nestor Aparicio 21:29
I don’t know if they even know. I don’t know if Chad Steele call the Steelers, PR people when i i honestly I gathered this from the Pittsburgh media that I talked to. And I gathered this from the Steelers people that I talked to the organization don’t like each other. You know, like I like beyond hardball V. Tomlin and whatever. Yeah. And the organization’s are not sort of kind of friendly here. And again, I just think I showed up with a press pass. And there’s the Ravens people will find out how I got in when they listened to the show, because I don’t think chats deal really knew I how I got it. I mean, I don’t know. Obviously he knows the Steelers Davis pass. But I think they think my relationship with Mike Tomlin is not real. You know what I mean? Like that he and I don’t text each other once a month all the time, because we do. I mean, I and we always have from the time we met each other. I don’t think a month has gone by where Mike Tomlin and I have not exchanged pleasantries of some kind. And don’t try to get together. Like when there’s a concert in Pittsburgh. Sometimes he’ll text me and say, Hey, we might go to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. You want to come up? Like literally, these kinds of things have happened over the course of time. He was gonna go to the stone show with me last year. Oh, my back blew out. So I, I don’t know the relationship was weird. But I don’t. Tom was not using me to get even with hardball. He didn’t expect them to throw me out. And when they threw me out, he said, Well, you’re coming to Pittsburgh, you want to come to the game. I’m like, All right. You know where we are. So that’s how
Dennis Koulatsos 22:57
I went. Perhaps you can get a press pass to the Browns into the Bengals. That’d be great.
Nestor Aparicio 23:02
I know people who know Kevin Stefanski, but I don’t have a flight to Cleveland this week. I got you. I think the Cincinnati games. I mean, I want to go right. So I I’m going to book a flight. And if the Bengals turned me down to there. I mean, maybe Marvin still has friends there with the Brown family. I don’t know. But I mean, I’ll say this. And I’ll say this just from the heart. I mean, you’ve known me a long time. I love you. You love me. You support my station, spiritually, financially, with great conversation, all that stuff. I should be at the game to do my job. And it was never ever number three or to manifest. I’m sitting at the game on Sunday feeling unwelcomed by every person who’s asked I ever kissed, whose things I ever did, and talking about football. I am. I’m appalled at the people who work in the building, because it would be very easy to whisper out of the side of your mouth to me. Hey, dude, what’s been done to us wrong? And I know what’s wrong and but no, Chad steel must own the building. I mean, just honestly, because for people who’ve known me 25 years to not even come over and throw an elbow of sort of some sort of mind word, support. I mean, I’m avoiding hold by Eric d’acosta. I am a Paul by Pat Moriarty. And but he did say hello to me. So I’m gonna let you off the hook.
Dennis Koulatsos 24:27
There you go. Well, you can maybe you caught him off guard right to given the circumstances where you were but as he has always been the classy guy, but it doesn’t speak well for the organization. You can’t censor it. You can’t eliminate people for whatever reason. You’re there to do a job and you’re there to ask the tough questions. Sometimes it comes with the territory.
Nestor Aparicio 24:45
They all love me when I was selling tickets for him right? They’ll love me when I’m when I’m selling enthusiasm and creating fan base and like they all love me and now all of a sudden it’s like, because Chad doesn’t like me. They don’t they’ll speak to me. That was the really disheartening thing. I thought If somebody in Harbaugh was disingenuous, right, if Harbaugh wants to be genuine, he’s got my number. You know, you want to say hello, I’m like Peter Angel. I’m a very available individual, you want to speak to me, I’m available anytime I got plenty of time for everyone. That is Culatta series got time for everybody to give me a little lowdown on what’s going on at your place. Because the end the year, I had let Raskin on earlier, we’re talking about money and big checks coming in, or checks going out or purchases that need to be made. And like all that, I mean, there might even be a case for me here at NSD from a corporate standpoint, to get into a vehicle before the end of the year while the getting’s good and all that, but you sell a lot of cars this time of year based on that, I would believe, right?
Dennis Koulatsos 25:40
We do a lot of businesses needs, needs, the tax breaks, you can you can depreciate things you can write off up to million dollars worth of vehicles if you have a company so you want to check with your accountant, of course, of course, but it’s a wonderful time of the year Nestor, we’re blessed because we have 200 plus new vehicles in stock more than anybody else in the region, over 200 Pre Owned and of course, the the new ones, generate wonderful trades for us and our customers, Ford Motor Credit supporting us with 2.9% for 72 months for most most models, and it’s just a fantastic time of the year to visit Cummins for the Baltimore.
Nestor Aparicio 26:13
Alright, so listen, I was driving up to Pittsburgh, and I it was raining in the Moors a little hazy. And I got out by turf Valley. And I don’t know I’m just listening to Led Zeppelin at seven in the morning. It’s raining and I get gassed up at the ROFO up in Frederick. And a for profit went behind me it was a really pretty color. I looked at it and it wasn’t like oil or blue. And it certainly wasn’t like Royals blue or cowboys blue. It was a blue I had never seen like, I don’t know what to call it. It was sort of like Oilers blue, sort of like Columbia blue, but a little deeper than that. And I thought to myself, I don’t know what color we’re gonna get. My wife’s probably going to pick that one. But I thought if I walked out to Dennis’s lodge saw that Blue Rock, that’s the one I would want. I think this Do you know the name is? Does it have some Cayman blues and have some name like that?
Dennis Koulatsos 27:03
I’m thinking it’s called area 51. Yeah, they have some unique if
Nestor Aparicio 27:10
they just googled it, this is the area 5151. So
Dennis Koulatsos 27:15
you know, for those UFO believers and unbelievers. It’s a cool, it’s a really cool color. It’s one of my favorites.
Nestor Aparicio 27:21
Do you have that one?
Dennis Koulatsos 27:22
I have that one in stock.
Nestor Aparicio 27:24
Really? I do. All right. All right. Well, she wants to Bronco sport. I mean, she wants to still drive for the first snowstorm. So we’re gonna talk about it. I’ll save you lots of money when I talk to you about it, because like I saw the color. Now all I got to do so my wife on it, she might want the fuchsia winner. So I
Dennis Koulatsos 27:40
don’t know which whatever, whatever she wants, whatever Jen wants Jen gets,
Nestor Aparicio 27:44
let me tell you this. And this is just let’s have a little family talk here since you know, you have wives relationships. You know what this is like. The other day we redid our place when we moved in January, and we got a new kitchen the whole deal. And we built a relatively cheap kitchen. We just bought what we bought, when it came time to get the stone and the granite we went out and we’re like how much I’m gonna need to $7,000 Let’s go with $2,300 and whatever, right? So we go out and pick this stuff out me. And we agreed on, you know, colors and stuff. And she said to me, this new top we had it hide dirt. And I’m like, Yeah, isn’t it great? She’s like, No, it makes a mess. Like you can’t see the dirt. You can’t see the mess. So now I’m thinking like, this area 51 Blue. The only thing she’s gonna say is does it show the dirt?
Dennis Koulatsos 28:32
Right was probably it’s more forgiving than if you had a white car black car will tell you that much. That’s that’s a fact.
Nestor Aparicio 28:37
All right. Well, we’re gonna get out and see Dennis. He’s over Coons, Baltimore fort security Boulevard, they of course sponsor our wn St. tech service. So Dennis I stopped them Breezewood I let Luke out because Luke and I mean breeze what because he comes over from Shrewsbury. So and we both decided we had to run an EP because it was like that we’re driving down the mountain. I had a coffee. So it was awakened two in the morning, right and columnists? So I go into the men’s room there and it’s typical Breezewood right. Everybody stops in Breezewood to go to the bathroom everybody because it’s what you do. And it’s a lot of rave insurance is way more ravens and Steelers on the way home. So it’s I don’t know it was probably eight o’clock at the time. We got the Breezewood and I go into the bathroom. Do my business. I’m rinsing my hands and a guy in ravens churches. Nasty nasty. I got to talk to you. And I’m like, here I am doing I’m rinse my answer. How are you man? I’m a little Hurry. Get out here but how are you? He’s like I’m pretty sick. I gotta tell you I’m on the wn S T tech service. And it’s the greatest thing you do. And and Luke was washing his hands at the other basin. And Luke walked out and didn’t even hear this guy compliment Luke. So I said oh my god, you’re a compliment. Don’t compliment me compliment Luke. Luke just left the bathroom. He’s outside. So I made him go outside Chase loop down, you know, buying a coffee and a doughnut and said, Look, you got fans. So there you have it good. Coons, Baltimore, St. Tech servers. So I got a little bit of love even in Breezewood on the way home. The last time I was in Breezewood, we had a bus trip. This is 3456 years ago. And I swear to God, I had someone come up to me I had a ball cap on. And he was convinced I was John horrible. I don’t know, at some period of time, I must have looked like John before the ponytail or something. Because I did get a little bit of that. Are you John’s brother? I’ve heard that before. And this guy was took a picture with me and was convinced that was done. He wasn’t even drunk. And I’m like, and my wife’s like, don’t tell my wife started calling me John in line. Hopefully bought your beer. I don’t know. We were AB reasonable. And it was it was more like coffee or a Dairy Queen or something like that. Eric. Dennis, you’re here on Thursday. I know you have Luke had some great guests as well. We’ll we’ll be listening three to five. Do you believe? Do you think they can win a Super Bowl? I want to I want to ask people that because that’s really the question watching this. They’re gonna make the playoffs. They’re gonna play like they are. Can they win? Do you believe in them?
Dennis Koulatsos 30:58
Well, Lamar was healthy. They were you know, they were they had the six best best chances to winning. And I think if he comes back and won the Stanley Cup, right, and they have no more significant injuries, then yeah, I think they have a puncher’s chance to win a Super Bowl.
Nestor Aparicio 31:10
We want to believe right when you’re nine and for that, but they have to
Dennis Koulatsos 31:13
play perfect games, right. But then again, it’s sort of the 2000 squad Sunday, the 2012 squad so they’re getting healthy at the right time of the year. Lamar is Lamar, the 2019 MVP. They can certainly take anybody down.
Nestor Aparicio 31:27
I think one of the things Luke and I talked about five weeks ago when the schedule softened up at this point, right, which is they can’t they can’t win any points here. I mean, they want another ugly game, barely with a third string quarterback fine. They’ll probably be Cleveland this week. Fine. Atlanta, they stink. So now they’re 11 and four. And you’re still like, are they the Vikings? Are they just, you know, I mean, the Vikings lost it alive. Or like the dolphins who lost it lost two in a row. Now you’re like, yeah, they’re good team, but they’re not beating Patrick mahomes doing all this, you know? And that’s, I’m trying to get across the river of denial here and say, All right, and in the locker room, I felt it a little bit in Pittsburgh on Sunday, because I looked and saw Ronnie Stanley upright JK doll. You know, I’ve looked around the end row Quan Smith guys that weren’t even in the locker room five weeks ago. I see that they are. They have potential to be a better team. And they haven’t and all these guys said is our defense hasn’t played to its potential yet. Okay, maybe they do round in the form. And Luke is always the first one to say, hey, this time 10 years ago they were firing cam Cameron and Flacco was planking and eight weeks later we’re having a parade here so things are possible. You never know. I believe Do you believe that is Colossus here he’ll be believer three to five on Thursday, doing the Sunday Sports force and driving you home. Your am 1570 area 51 Is the color. I don’t know why I asked that question. But now I know the answer. On this we are wn SDA a 1570 and we never stop talking Baltimore positive
