Bye and bye, figuring out five losses for the Ravens paving a road for January

College players fighting on stadiums fields all over America, Justin Tucker missing field goals and the Ravens taking on a fifth loss amidst a wave of cheesesteak eaters in green Eagles jerseys in downtown Baltimore. Leonard Raskin and Nestor discuss the leftover turkey, football passion and quieting the mind as bye week concerns for the NFL locals add up to difficult decisions for management.

Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed the Baltimore Ravens’ disappointing loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, highlighting issues with special teams, particularly Justin Tucker’s missed extra point and field goals. They debated the impact of fan pressure on coaches, referencing Michigan-Ohio State rivalry. Leonard emphasized the importance of confidence in performance, comparing it to Michael Phelps’ coaching. They also touched on the lack of sportsmanship in college football and the potential need for a confidence coach for Tucker. Despite the setbacks, they remain hopeful for the Ravens’ playoff chances, acknowledging strong competition from teams like Kansas City and Buffalo.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Ravens bye week, financial advisor, Michigan-Ohio State, college football brawls, Justin Tucker struggles, special teams issues, Eagles domination, confidence coach, peak performance, sportsmanship, playoff hopes, crab cake tour, Maryland lottery, American dream

SPEAKERS

Leonard Raskin, Nestor Aparicio

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Nestor Aparicio  00:01

Welcome home. We are W, N, S T, am 1570 Towson, Baltimore and Baltimore. Positive.com. Hope you’re setting a spot out on your dial for us. Hope you’re planning to join us on the Maryland crab cake tour stop later on this month, we’re going to begin the tour on Wednesday at Coco’s pub. On Thursday, we’re going to be at the BMA Gertrude all are brought to you by friends at the Maryland lottery. Ever even scratch offs to give away, hopefully luckier than the Ravens were themselves on Sunday. Uh, certainly for the touchdown contest. We need more touchdowns, more touchdowns for winners, also our friends at Jiffy new MultiCare, powering Luke back and forth to Owings Mills, but not this week, because they’re a by weeking and taking the week off. And this guy is is taking the week on. It’s a it’s a bye week around here, which means we get to concentrate and focus a little bit on other things. He manages money for lots and lots folks. He is our financial advisor around here, in our money guy. And following the American dream, you can follow him out at Raskin global com. He’s also got his mug on the front of Baltimore positive.com if you’re seeing our work out there, read my column. Nestor off the game, or read any of Luke’s work. Leonard Raskin joins us here after a deflating, disappointing weekend. And I don’t mean the turkey and the the apple pie, in your case, or in my case, my wife made that sweet potato pie we talked about last Yeah, yeah. Outrageously delicious. I bet you go back to pumpkin.

Leonard Raskin  01:22

Oh boy, there you go. Well, I had it and oh for two weekend. We had the buckeyes to start Saturday. I’ll get to that with a with a dreadful loss to the non Jim Harbaugh team up north, the the city, the state, is calling for the head of the coach to be terminated, and then a Sunday game.

Nestor Aparicio  01:51

Why do fans do that? Can I ask you that because, oh, because, because there’s days when, like, I’ve talked to you and I’m like, You’re acting like an idiot. You know some, some of the coach that, because the kicker, like my timeline, reminds me of people that are drinking too much eggnog,

Leonard Raskin  02:10

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because there’s one team in that, in that school that you have to beat, you could go, he’s gone undefeated year after year after year, and you lose to Michigan, they want your head. I am. It’s really people are nuts. No, of course,

Nestor Aparicio  02:27

people are nuts. At least I agree that that’s not rational, right? But the only other time they lost you to handle my money, because I can’t have you,

Leonard Raskin  02:35

the only other time they lost four in a row was was back in the, I think, late 80s, or whatever. And they fired that guy, and they they preach, they have so was it Urban Meyer? Think it was Urban Meyer put clocks on the wall, timers that are set the minute the game’s over. It’s set for 365 days to the next Michigan game, and it counts down the the days, weeks, minutes every day, and it’s in front of the coach’s workout room, and they’re all over the

Nestor Aparicio  03:13

I don’t believe that that’s No it’s not. That’s not. It’s not.

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Leonard Raskin  03:17

And the thing is, Ryan day has got to beat Michigan, and he’s over the last four, so that’s the only game that matters to these people. And they’re nuts and they want his head anyway, I don’t feel sorry for him. Whatever happens will happen. The man makes ten million a year. He’ll be okay. And then we come

Nestor Aparicio  03:36

portion of that donated by the Raskin family. Oh, for four

Leonard Raskin  03:39

youngers, we donated a little piece of that. Oh, and then, let’s just for a moment, and then we’ll get off of this. What

Nestor Aparicio  03:44

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if your kid had gone to all but what was your kid’s second choice? Second

Leonard Raskin  03:48

choice was Harrisburg. There was, there’s nothing there. Harrisburg. He went

Nestor Aparicio  03:53

real. Know that

Leonard Raskin  03:54

melon of this too enormous, small, too enormous. You

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Nestor Aparicio  03:58

had more fun with your kid in Columbus than he had we

Leonard Raskin  04:00

had a ball. We had a ball. So. So here’s the other thing,

Nestor Aparicio  04:05

I go Iowa State. Nothing for you. Sound like you went there.

Leonard Raskin  04:08

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Allegiance had to go with the tuition. Allegiance had to go with the tuition. But here’s the thing, end of the game,

Nestor Aparicio  04:14

she can be root for Maryland.

Leonard Raskin  04:16

We can talk. That’s right. End of the game. Michigan players tried to plant the flag, right? There was a big fight. Both teams brawled, and Sunday, the Big 10 came down with the big, big fine, $100,000 each, which was a little bit of tuition from one out of state kid. So what a joke the Big 10 is,

Nestor Aparicio  04:41

anyway, storming the field thing. We got into that last month. Maryland, no, this was just the teams. This was no storming the field thing. Yeah, yeah. Is one aspect of college, college and whatever that is, but the fighting on the field. Well, that game was not the only place. This happened four different

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Leonard Raskin  05:02

times, four games this past weekend, these Carolina, NC State, oh yeah, they get vicious. They get vicious.

Nestor Aparicio  05:11

And this speaks to, and I don’t want to get political with you, especially with us on different sides. Sure, this is what happens when you vilify the other side. You know what I mean, absolutely, when you make it very football, bad people, this

Leonard Raskin  05:24

is, this is the same as when, when your kid is playing Little League and you’re screaming at the umpire when you’re 50 or 40, like, what’s the matter with you? Get over it. It’s baseball. It’s football.

Nestor Aparicio  05:37

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I mean, it’s what’s happened to sportsmanship. It’s crazy. It’s crazy. And, you know, we, when I think of Trump in a voting standpoint, it’s, it’s professional wrestling, yeah, well, we

Leonard Raskin  05:50

don’t need to go. There was everybody calling him a Nazi for four years and trying

Nestor Aparicio  05:54

to kill the man. It’s, it’s the signs, it’s the professional wrestling. It’s the making your way to it’s, it’s the booing and the cheering, it’s all of that. Yeah, sports, yeah. Professional wrestling, brings this on. And the MMA is violent from its very absolutely and absolutely violence that absolutely these kids lose a game and go crazy. Respect is at the heart of all of it, yes, and you’re going to put your flag. That is the,

Leonard Raskin  06:23

well, that started with, I think Baker Mayfield started that.

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Nestor Aparicio  06:26

That probably started him before. Well, it might have happened before that probably right,

Leonard Raskin  06:30

but he’s, he’s one of the first ones that the current, the current

Nestor Aparicio  06:34

standing at the star, and dad, they knocked him out saying, is the, notion that I’m going to win the football game and shake your hand in a line like and walk away and say we both gave it our all. Hey, man, I’m going to beat you. I’m going to wag my finger in your face. I’m going to disrespect. Crazy, crazy, right? Like

Leonard Raskin  06:53

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the NHL, we’ve talked about it so many times. The NHL, you play, you fight, you beat the end of the series, you line up, you shake hands, like we used to in Little League. After the game, we used to walk down the line and shake hands. And that’s what needs

Nestor Aparicio  07:11

to happen in Ohio State. Have never shaking hands at the 50 yard, right? Well, that’s what needs to

Leonard Raskin  07:15

happen. Somebody needs to set this up and say, and say, This ain’t the way this is supposed to be. We’re we have kids watching this, and we got to teach them so they don’t do this stupid stuff, so the next generation of college players isn’t this stupid. See,

Nestor Aparicio  07:28

now down the dial on the Barstool Sports, the young, yeah, yeah. I think this is like, let’s have more of it, right? They love it. They love it. You know, the same people that thought it was okay to storm the field because you beat a team by a point have one in six weeks because it’s fun, and we’re 18 and we get to do it well, right then to storm the field every week. It would be fun. Well, there’s lots of Leonard, because I thought about this with ice skating the other day. Yeah, for some reason, I think I might have had a hockey dream for some but I remembered, and maybe it had to do with even this topic of storming the field, yeah, is that when we were young and went to clippers games, or games, you could go on the ice after

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Leonard Raskin  08:08

the game and skate? Yeah, absolutely, that was part of like, that was like, running the bases. If that was the greatest, that was the best I did. It. Did it so many times, like, so

Nestor Aparicio  08:17

there is a point where, like, you want to feel like you’re down there and you’re part of the action, part of the game, on it, or whatever part of the game. But when you’re kids at Michigan or Ohio State, and you are a part of this, part of dude, this

Leonard Raskin  08:30

isn’t kid. This is, this is over the last Thanksgiving week, when kids are born at the hospital in Ohio, in Columbus, they put the babies in red baby onesies that says, beat the team up north. And when you’re born in Michigan, this is, this is this is bred in by no by crazy people. So anyway, enough of that. Let’s get back to, as you said. Someone said last week, less chicken, more kicking. What the heck is going on with my good friend, my colleague, my buddy, Justin Tucker, about the game, and the first one was the Extra Point. It’s like you don’t even watch the extra point doink, and that set a precedent for a horrible game. Special teams was abysmal. We couldn’t punt, we couldn’t catch a punt, we couldn’t kick a field goal that game. And I Okay, so I got home Sunday night from the game, and I’m watching the the late night, because that’s what I do, because I’m crazy. I watched the Sunday game, which was an awesome snow globe. I love watching football in the snow. It brings back memories of neighborhood football as a kid out there playing in the snow and just loving it. So I loved it. I watched it, and then I. Watching the post game on whatever, different networks, channels, whatever, and they’re talking about how the Eagles dominated the Ravens. And I’m thinking, you must have seen a different game than I did, because what I saw was two missed field goals, two short fields, and subsequent Eagle touchdowns.

Nestor Aparicio  10:19

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Was 1412, game. So I don’t know if any domination. I don’t even

Leonard Raskin  10:22

know that it, yeah, it’s not even that at that point, but it’s not even that. I mean, two field goals made you get to kick off. They don’t get the ball at the 40 or the 42 with short fields to go down and score, and by the fourth quarter. I mean, the defense had to be, I mean, they’ve played their best couple games, totally deflated. And saquon is a superstar because he had 50 yards on one drive. I mean, come on. Guy had 100 yards for the game. When

Nestor Aparicio  10:52

they needed to run in the fourth quarter, they did they did it. No, absolutely, they did it. And when the Ravens needed to make kicks, they missed them. I wrote this in my column, this in the aftermath at eight o’clock while the snow globe was going on, and watching Sunday night football and thinking, How did Colin’s worth kids get that gig?

Leonard Raskin  11:11

Hard to figure out,

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Nestor Aparicio  11:12

Is it okay? Fair enough? So I wrote about this, and I said, it’s not a stretch to say, if this were a Super Bowl, this would be a good fight. Yeah, style fights, I thought both teams with the running game, both teams defensive issues. Eagle stepped up defensively in the game, the kicking game in the operation. Special teams haven’t been good enough for the Ravens about that, but just in a general sense, and I felt this way even more so than like the Steelers or whatever. I felt like this is a fair fight Absolutely, because most weeks good match, the Ravens go on the road to to LA and they’re a favorite on the road, which tells you, right away, they don’t think much of that team, whatever the team is, and I’m just being Vegas or winning and losing, because the Ravens lost to the browns, ravens lost to the Raiders. I hear all that, but it’s it’s unique to me when the game starts, and the chin straps are recently in the Lamar era, where I’m like, that team, is it first off they put their pants on, because all these NFC teams. They they motorboated the 40 Niners and the lions. Destroyed them last year. Destroyed them, destroyed the bills here 10 weeks ago, right? So, like they they

Leonard Raskin  12:31

have beat something. Something was amiss. Good

Nestor Aparicio  12:34

teams that now the chiefs are different for them. When they play the chiefs, I feel that way. They don’t play them all that often, but I felt like, in this game, especially at halftime, I felt like it’s a good football game, is these are two really good teams, yeah? And you know, there’s going to be a big play, there’s going to be a strip, there’s going to be a sack, there’s going to be an interception, there’s going to be field goals made or missed, right? That are going to define the game? Yeah? And in the end, for me, I’m worried about the Ravens in a lot of ways at this point, and I’m worried about them because of how many losses they’ve added up. The uncertainty now of the offensive line, the uncertainty the defense in a general sense, yeah, and the kicking game and Justin Tucker. Now, you have already said you’re friends with Justin, well, not friends,

Leonard Raskin  13:19

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but I know. I mean, I know him. I’ve met him. I’ve talked to him a lot. And over the years, it’s amazing. The Cathy said after the game, you know, the the accolades that you get, and all the the the the propped up, you know, the the goat, and the everything and and how people love you, and you’re the automatic. And then you come in now and it’s like, oh my God, is he going to make this kick and an extra point doinks And a 50 yarder goes through, and you go, okay, maybe he’s maybe he’s good and, well, when the extra points are an adventure, yeah, that’s not a good day.

Nestor Aparicio  13:54

You can’t have the extra points be an adventure. I mean, again, I’m

Leonard Raskin  13:58

watching college football, uh, Sunday, pregame, Saturday, sorry, Saturday pregame. And they’re talking about the Texas, Texas A and M game, because this is the big rivalry on their side. And they show Tucker in overtime. I saw beaten a and m, and the record was he never missed a kick in the fourth quarter or overtime in his college career, and, and then he came here, and nobody knew who he was, and he was magic, undrafted, magical, making kicks everywhere, and, and you go, Wait a minute. Is is the holder not holding the ball? Right? Because you can’t, you can’t blame the kicker. It’s got to be the holder. Lost

Nestor Aparicio  14:41

strength in that way. So what is it like? He won’t be hitting 66 yard field goals again. And I’m like, if they had to to win a game in Detroit, they try it inside. They do it, you know? I mean, he can make that kind of kick because he still has the leg. Something’s up this. Says in the head, and yes, I

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Leonard Raskin  15:01

agree. I agree.

Nestor Aparicio  15:03

This is why I think it’s about him in regards, obviously, I’m Royal farm sponsored. The ads all that I’ve seen him drinking. He

Leonard Raskin  15:13

ain’t taking time out of the practice to make these commercials. That’s causing this. I’m

Nestor Aparicio  15:18

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not. This is ridiculous.

Leonard Raskin  15:19

What fans? Oh, fans are going crazy.

Nestor Aparicio  15:24

I know Justin Tucker. I’ve known him since he’s Yeah, yeah, he’s done my show. He’s not done my show, right? He’s welcomed me to leave the locker room back in the day when I used to, like, look at him on the way out of the locker room and say, okay, dude, you know, whatever. But this is what I would say about Justin Tucker, and this has nothing to do with my personal feelings with him that came out in Luke’s thing. But it is what it is. He is, in my experience of only 40 years of being in locker rooms around nothing but athletes in their mains and 30s, right? Yeah, all men, mainly, they cover sports. But of course, he is, as put the word synonym you like cocky, arrogant, sure, confident, self assured, whatever, whatever,

Leonard Raskin  16:09

the spectrum. No doubt, no doubt. I

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Nestor Aparicio  16:11

think I’m good. I know I’m good. Sure I’m humble, but I’m not really, because great I am. Look at so that’s Justin Tucker in the real world. Yes, that’s who he’s been. It really rubbed a lot of guys the wrong way, until he started taking kicks. He was the young kid. A lot of the veteran guys were like, Who’s this kid? Who’s Who’s the skinny kid playing, playing, you know, kicker? No, he’s playing the corn cornhole, sure, sure. Cook and the wolf pack and and Justin is a eccentric cat. I don’t know what else to say. Like, yeah, I it’s not a liking and dislike whatever. No different bird, right? As far as somebody that’s singing in the locker room and job for doing, in a general sense, he is not like a normal kicker. And the royal farms commercials would be a testament to that. There’s nobody else in the league that’s had a 10 year endorsement contract with local anything anywhere for be, not even Adam Vin Terry for being a kicker, right? Other than the loud mouth that’s making a billion dollars doing the ESPN thing with the punter, right? Sure, so. But in Tucker’s case, I only know of one. Justin Tucker, yeah, and that’s for better or worse, like him or hate him, whether he made the kick or made the kick as he made all the kicks, right? Right? Was that level of confidence, absolutely, that you can portray whatever praising, right? You can like it or not like it. You could say, Whoa, he’s really humble for being great. I spent a lot of time around him. I would never describe Justin Tucker example.

Leonard Raskin  17:41

So, but confident is a great word. Is

Nestor Aparicio  17:45

it arrogant? If you say, Give me the ball at 66 yards and you’re making and you do it, I don’t think that’s, I don’t think that’s arrogant one bit. So, so I would just say, I only know him to be very, very assured that he’s gonna do what he can do. That feels like it’s gone. And that, as Bruce Springsteen would say, that might be the magic trick. The magic trick might be the confidence that there are 50 guys that can hit 60 yard field goals. There’s just a handful of them that can, that do it because of the level of shutting out the world

Leonard Raskin  18:16

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and shutting up there and doing it because he’s, he’s capable

Nestor Aparicio  18:20

Absolutely, of doing it. You actually not right now. So

Leonard Raskin  18:25

and if you watch Saturday morning

Nestor Aparicio  18:27

man’s confidence that’s capable of greatness, you may take everything. And I know on my worst days when my confidence is gone, I’m a really, really shitty radio host.

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Leonard Raskin  18:37

Hey, look, I know darn well I’m with you 100% and I know darn well when I speak what I speak to clients, when we’re talking their money, if I’m not on my game, I need to cancel meetings if I’m handling your dollars and helping you figure out what you’re supposed to do. And your mother got sick this morning and you’re not there then, then my day of helping you, when I’m not at my best, you don’t get your best, because it has to come, has to come as a package. And I think you’re absolutely right. I think something got in there. I don’t know what it is, but it missed here, Miss there, and then suddenly brain starts playing with you. And I listened to a guy Nestor, like two weeks ago, I subscribed to a service of a gentleman who’s a personal coach. I don’t like that term, because there’s a million of them these days. It’s like a cottage industry. But this guy is really good. He coaches top performers like, like Tony Robbins,

Nestor Aparicio  19:44

he’s, I mean, he’s that kind of guy. I’m a Tony Robbins, yeah, and I like, with him divorce. Karen Faulkner last week up in Green Mountain station, just about confidence and about how all of this people see the documentary we. Well, I mean, part of it is just foundational, getting out of bed in the morning and believing you can do it and then

Leonard Raskin  20:05

doing it capable of doing it capable of, that’s right. So, so this guy, I subscribe to a service that he puts on, which is every other week, he has a top business, executive, business consultant, whatever personal on, on a zoom for an hour, and it’s open Q A with these amazing people, amazing people, Tony, all these people. Anyway, he had a guy on, I do not remember his name. I could look it up in a in a minute a couple weeks ago. This guy is a sports psychologist, exclusively for golf. That’s what he does, peak performance, peak performance for golfers. And his goal is to shave a stroke the difference in a winning tournament and losing tournament, I believe, like number one to number 200 in the world is a half a stroke around, if that, if you look it up, it’s super small. And this guy coaches golfers in how to get into the mindset that it takes to play the game at the pro level, and talks about multiple, multiple PGA Tour players that he has coached to massive wins. Well,

Nestor Aparicio  21:29

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you know, when I ran into Tony Robbins, it was in the capital’s locker room. There you go. He has a ring. And the reason he was there, yep, is he was coaching the European kids. Yeah, he was with Ovechkin, yep, Kuznetsov. And who was the other one? It wasn’t, oh, I

Leonard Raskin  21:49

don’t know. I don’t know could be anybody, because that’s

Nestor Aparicio  21:51

no that was the year they won. The cop. They young Russian kids, okay, yeah, but either way, it is there too. It is peak performance coach. It’s

Leonard Raskin  22:02

between the ears. It’s not in the leg. It’s between the ears. And for the best of the best look, as I said, I as a business owner, financial advisor, helping people create their American dream. If I don’t say it right, if I don’t act it right. If I don’t discuss it, it doesn’t happen. And that pains me for the people that could have what they could have relative to their money. And so I have coaches that help me be better. Do better. Say it better. Act better. Think it better for people to get that. And I don’t know what Justin Scott I don’t know, but it seems that you don’t need a

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Nestor Aparicio  22:48

kicking coach, confidence coach for 15 that’s what I’m saying. That’s right. But something, Tony Robbins, something is that. But to one

Leonard Raskin  22:57

of my least favorite, one of my least favorite, commercials, series of commercials currently on TV is Allstate and this idiot who’s making a fortune as this mayhem, you know what I’m talking about? Yeah? Chaos guy, yeah, yeah, making a fortune. And there’s a new one that’s out just recently. I’ve seen called the yips. Have you seen it. He walks. He walks by a golfer and they shank a shake a shot. He walks by a soccer kicker in a game, and they kick the ball instead of towards the net, like 90 degrees in the wrong direction. It hits a car. The car has an accident, and without good insurance, you’d have to pay for that. I think they’re the dumbest thing in the world, but my point is they’ve now created a commercial about the yips and who was the baseball player couldn’t throw from second to first. Remember that? Steve sacks. Steve sacks, right? We

Nestor Aparicio  23:53

go through all by the way. In college, in my senior paper, I wrote a piece about hypnosis in sports. This, there you go, Dude, this is in 1990 91 sure, looking at the paper, sure, right? I mean, I’m a professional writer, and I was looking for a piece to do. It was in a logic class, I believe, yeah. And I wrote this piece, and there was a San Diego State Center. I don’t remember the kid’s name. It was like a fourth or fifth round draft pick. He never made it. I think he was right by was right by the chiefs. But I actually sought him out because I had seen and then those days, just magazine stories, yeah, written or whatever. But I’m going back 40 years ago, right? That sort of science, when I found Tony Robbins in 1993 94 and believing in all of that, I know way too much about sports, having done this on the inside, where I’ve been on airplanes next to people who were literally taking the needles to Cleveland to inject folks with the the fluids and do all of the stuff that Derek Henry talks about his nutrition, but the actual um. Mind coaching, and that, that part of it, I don’t know what the Ravens employee these days, which doc, no idea, Joe boos rum and yeah, whatever it is. But with Justin Tucker, I can tell you, I’ve never met anyone more confident, absolutely I agree. And I that is, I agree I’m seeing in body language, right? That’s not what I’m seeing in the locker room. After it, I asked Luke about it looking I did an hour Justin Tucker this week. Please listen to it. Yeah, yeah. But I don’t this is nothing to with fried chicken or, of course not, him yelling free to get out of the locker room years ago, right? This, this is just like the Ravens have a hell of a thing here now with not just cap position deciding, but in the case of Luke and I talking about it for an hour and still not having an outcome, which is, you really going to get a better kicker than him the next month, because if you cut him, he’s another team in a minute, and probably on a playoff team, because he the team He’s going to go try that. I

Leonard Raskin  26:02

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think that’s a bad call, and people are crazy. Okay, so you’re not cutting him, then what are you doing? You’re going to help him any way you can, whatever that it is, you got to get it back. But he’s the guys never needed help before that. That’s the hardest one to get to, isn’t it? The hardest one

Nestor Aparicio  26:20

to get how to run a baseball team like he’s a billionaire. He knows, no, that’s

Leonard Raskin  26:24

different. That’s just, that’s just arrogance of a billionaire. This is a guy.

Nestor Aparicio  26:28

You’ve done it you I didn’t need that before, and still, that’s why it’s the hardest. That’s why it’s the hardest one to get out my head. This is about where my foot is, maybe right. Well, then guess

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Leonard Raskin  26:39

what? You got two weeks now to fix your foot. You got two weeks to you got a week I give them a week to figure it out, and then I give them a week that we help them look, here’s the here’s the bottom line, if I’m doing a bad job, if I’m not hitting my my gig, if I’m not on my game, hopefully, I’ll give you another example. Let’s talk about this is real simple. Okay, I saw now you may know him. I don’t know him. I’ve met him a few times. Michael Phelps,

Nestor Aparicio  27:10

I do not know Michael Phelps at all.

Leonard Raskin  27:12

I spoke to him. I watched him do a presentation, not a keynote, but a Q A, I don’t think he could do a keynote. He’s not that guy, but he could do a Q A, and he talked about that his coach saw something in him as a kid, and he spent every day hours in the pool, and his coach would watch him and tell him when his stroke was off that much to be better and when his turn was just not perfect. Bowman. Bowman would would look at his turn and when it wasn’t exact. And he said they practiced everything over and over. I remember him saying they practiced when Michael was in the pool, and what would happen if you were in the Olympics and your goggles came off? How would you keep going? How would you swim? How do you reach the wall for that out last by a fingernail the other guy in the pool. He he said, I would have never achieved what I did without my coach. That the job of a great coach is to get the best out of you when you’re doing your best, and to get the best out of you when you’re not. And that’s not, I don’t think it’s horrible. I mean, he’s the head coach. He’s obviously look, he walked over to him and gave him a hug after he missed the kick. So you gotta be there, but you gotta be there when the guys off and say, we gotta figure this out together. We’re gonna figure out what’s going on. There’s

Nestor Aparicio  28:58

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a priest or a rabbi or Tony Robbins to come in and sit down with Justin Tucker, like, I don’t, I don’t even know where they would begin with this, because in a lot of cases you you see in baseball specifically, yeah, sure. You know you just can’t at the Fed. You can’t You’re the bat slows down, right? Things slow down, I don’t know, with Tucker, like when I’m watching him hit or miss these kicks, this is literally about where the

Leonard Raskin  29:27

I don’t know what is right. I don’t know what it’s about. I’m not that specific into kicking to know whether he’s planting the same. But here’s the thing, someone another great example. I mean, we had a golf tournament. Years ago, we hosted a golf tournament. We had a guy, he’s a pro golfer. He came, He set up a camera behind the tee, and he videoed every player hitting off the tee. And was really cool. He sent a. Every player that that teed off a pro golfer that most closely matched their swing and why they were off by that much, and the Pro was right here down the middle and critiqued their swing and said, This is what you need to do. There’s obviously Video, Video of every kick he’s ever kicked. There’s got to be somebody that can say your plant foot is two inches too far. You’re You’re whatever. Haven’t spent

Nestor Aparicio  30:33

a lot of time around Matt Stover, who is my friend and continues to be my friend, and Matt and I bonded over him being a nerd, like, yeah, about all of this, and me being a reporter trying to learn things, right? Yeah, sure, sure. The we’re being foolish even talking about this, yeah, we don’t know, man, I don’t know of science,

Leonard Raskin  30:52

which is amazing. Somebody knows, my point is, somebody

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Nestor Aparicio  30:56

knows air, you know, video,

Leonard Raskin  30:59

somebody knows that’s all I’m saying, all of

Nestor Aparicio  31:01

that, and I I’m promising you, it’s mechanical at this point. It very well may be approach it that way,

Leonard Raskin  31:06

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maybe, whether it’s mechanical or mental, you got two weeks to get on board. You have four games left in the playoffs. I

Nestor Aparicio  31:15

just don’t think it’s pragmatic to think about we’re bringing other kickers. Of course not. That’s ridiculous.

Leonard Raskin  31:19

And the people that are screaming that are the same ones that want to plant a flag in the middle of the, oh, or the middle of the and what is it? I don’t know what it is in Carolina, the NC, whatever’s on the field, the Tar Heel head, all the Tar Heel, right? Yeah, because NC State beat them and went nuts. And then there was an there were three of them, or four of them. This, this past, you know, this weekend of crazy people in college planting their flag and and going nuts. So what are you going to do college kids going nuts? Go figure that. Huh,

Nestor Aparicio  31:52

how many Eagles fans were at the game? So a lot, a lot more than you’ve ever seen, or no more than is

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Leonard Raskin  31:59

typical. Yeah. Yeah, you could they weren’t singing loud enough the eagle, yeah, a lot, I would say that’s

Nestor Aparicio  32:09

the part that bothers me. For the 20% I went headlong with Luke into this. And just that, above and beyond everything in my personal situation and all that, somebody was probably a bill Burgie a jersey and, you know, in my seat up in Section 513, sure. But just, it’s disappointing to me. Lots and lots of Eagles fans agree. Buffalo that doesn’t happen in Kansas City. Lots

Leonard Raskin  32:32

of green in the crowd all around us. It’s kind of crazy. You got these, these guys and gals sitting right next to me, the guys, all ravens, the girls, all eagles. I’m thinking, what are you bringing her for?

Nestor Aparicio  32:46

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They met Elton. They

Leonard Raskin  32:47

met Elton. So they met, they met in Elkton, that’s right, they met at the border. Anytime

Nestor Aparicio  32:52

I see Steelers and raves like you from Hagerstown,

Leonard Raskin  32:55

what’s up with that? What’s up with that? Right?

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Nestor Aparicio  32:58

He’s asking you allow people in acres down or Elton or Baltimore, Annapolis or even Philadelphia with their money absolutely anywhere across the country. And look, I know if your fondness for Justin Tucker, yeah, good man. Good man. Like I. I like confidence straightened out, but I like this weird thing where I look at him and see him looking not like that. Do this and do this. I think it’s hard to kick it that way, and I don’t think it is knows how to I don’t know that he’s had to deal with this before, right?

Leonard Raskin  33:30

I would imagine not. That’s my point. That’s why it’s the hardest to get to when Bon Jovi can’t

Nestor Aparicio  33:35

sing anymore. I mean, there’s a whole story been made about that, but it becomes very difficult. It’s kind of like what I lost it doing radio. When I stopped being good at this, it was 10 it was terrible, especially getting

Leonard Raskin  33:44

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back. You got to get it back. I’m for the people that matter. It’s for the people that matter. It’s not for yourself, it’s for the team. You got to get it back. So

Nestor Aparicio  33:53

let’s hope he gets it back, up down, trying to get that feeling again. We have a week off. Okay, yes, yeah, Orioles might do something this week, Army, Navy, we got all sorts of things going on around here. Looks at Owings, mills. All are brought to you by our friends at Jiffy. Lou multi care, who’s putting us out on the road with the crab cake tour. Crab Cakes galore. Between now and Christmas time, through the holiday, we encourage everyone to ship through the holidays, whether it’s New Year’s Eve, Christmas Eve, anything you’re celebrating, Hanukkah Kwanzaa or just like, Hey, I like you. It’s Tuesday crab cake. Tuesday. For Wednesday, by the way, is a cocoa crab cake Thursday. By the way, we’re going to be a Gertrude at the BMA. There you go. My cousin John shields and Dan Rodricks, who I’m not related to, but I’ve known him longer than I’ve known most relatives. We’re getting ready for the holidays next week, on Wednesday, we will be back down at fade leagues, at likes in the market. Then on the 17th, we’re going to a non crab cake location. It’ll be controversial until you eat the food. We’re going to be in a meches. I’m going to substitute for crab cakes on the 70s it gets well and that potty rotunda, forget about it. And then we’re going to be doing a legitimate crab cake and legitimate homecoming at Costas in Dundalk. On the 18th, I think Gina shock is going to be coming down trying to get John Allen, but his band’s out on the road. He was out through Thanksgiving, and so nurses are out there rocking it all through the Midwest on a big, big tour. So I don’t think my boy, John’s going to be with me, so I have to drag him out. We’re going to Belair at libs grill in early January. We’re getting to some new locations. So if you have a good crab cake location, throw me a note. Nasty at W nst.net, or nest at Baltimore, positive.com, both ways. Find me Leonard. Towel off, relax. It’s all good. Lose this weekend.

Leonard Raskin  35:29

No, can’t lose. Can’t Lose. Do

Nestor Aparicio  35:33

you think they can still win the Super Bowl

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Leonard Raskin  35:36

less than I did? Why? Just lack of ex Well, the the execution is getting a little better, little better, not as many penalties. Defense looks stronger. I like what I’m hearing from them. There’s a chance just a lot of good teams ahead of them. Lot of good teams ahead of them. Kansas City, buffalo, tough, tough,

Nestor Aparicio  36:00

with five losses at this point. The thing I spoke to Luke about was,

Leonard Raskin  36:04

you beat yourself in three of them. You beat yourself in three of them? Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  36:07

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I don’t think that. I mean, they still add up, and the bill it might that’s my point. Like, if they are playing on Christmas Day and fighting to get into the playoffs somehow, and that’s almost impossible, because nobody’s coming and catching them right like if they start taking on a sixth or a seventh loss, and this whole nonsense where they’re playing the giants, and then they have to go play in six days, and then in four days, yeah, like, this is crazy for them around not in their favor. I thought they would have three losses. Now, not five.

Leonard Raskin  36:36

I thought two, well, and they, they blew it. So that’s five and you you are what your record says you are. And

Nestor Aparicio  36:45

I was impressed by the Eagles too. So I want to say that, yeah, they played the game analysis. I’ll continue to do analysis here this week. He is letter Raskin. I am Nestor. Please find him at a Rasc global and handling the American dream and money towards the American dream. I think of Dusty Rhodes with you. I want to do my I’m gonna work on my dusty impersonation. I’m Nestor. We are wnsta, 1570 Towson, Baltimore, hang in there. The sky’s not falling. That’s right, hang it’s.