Former Ravens center Mike Flynn discusses the Super Bowl expectations of Lamar Jackson and the big Baltimore football fans he’s raising and coaching as a dad of boys in the heart of Patriots kingdom, where they’re not playing January football these days.
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Nestor J. Aparicio, Mike Flynn
Nestor J. Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home we are wn S T am 5070 TAs and Baltimore. And of course, Baltimore positive.com. That’s where to find us. These days, we have so many new people. So shout out to everybody following us on YouTube, who remembers when I was young and sexy. Remembers Purple Rain one, let alone Purple Rain to and maybe Purple Rain three. And, you know, I tried to this is gonna be an amazing time because when the Ravens have a chance to host an AFC Championship Game and go to another Super Bowl, we all believe it’s going to happen, at least until it doesn’t, or told we’re there that week. I’m gonna go around and try to find some folks. So our friends at the Maryland lottery win donation as well as Jiffy Lube. We’re gonna be putting on the Maryland crabcake row, the week of February 5, I’ll be giving some details out about that. There’ll be a lot of charitable causes and a lot of ways to be involved. And we certainly hope you have a purple pep rally. I don’t know the time I met this guy, but I feel like I’ve known him my whole life. So it’s been 25 years or a little bit more than that. He could probably tell you more. He was up he trapped in believing he was going to do sports radio after he went back to his homeland in the New England. Boston area as a decorated Super Bowl 35 champion. We’re getting up on the anniversary on sec. Oh 124 23rd anniversary. Oh, January the 28th. We welcome back the Main Event Center at one time on the hub on radio. Parenting is the way through Broadway and now back to the roots. You know, Deion went back and coach ball right? Why can’t Mike Flynn go back and coach a whole group of young boys Mary says Flacco has got all these kids. Dude, I put you in Flacco one on one a when it comes to parenting, and his kid, maybe his kid would go to Broadway or do something but man, you and Mary have had it as as parents and now you’re like a football dad. It’s kind of cool.
Mike Flynn 01:52
Yeah, I mean, like, I mean, Joe has a better day job than I do. But I mean, for now. Anyway. Right. So yeah, you know, I mean, listen, when you’re when you play football, and all the x guys will tell you go from being a, you know, I think I got in the league at 22. And for 11 years, I was 22 years old. You know what I mean? Then you get out of football, you’re like, Oh man, I’m 33 and I got two kids. So you know it kind of hits you fast but yeah, it’s been great. You know, don’t let a lot of different things that radio TV jumped into people with people like you and your elk now I’m just coaching coach at a prep school appear when a lot of lineman clinics and stuff like that I enjoy it. And the biggest part is I’m coaching my son’s you know, different sports and following Jake around and that kind of stuff. So, you know, for me, thank god playing football gave me some flexibility to do some things that I wanted to at this point in my life and yeah, Joy man, it’s like, second chapter, but it’s it’s been fantastic. Now
Nestor J. Aparicio 02:46
I was at a birthday party for guy named Gus choleric shout out to Axios wines. His vineyard local guy had a bad birthday party, New Year’s Eve weekend, and I’m there and I turn. And there’s Kyle Richardson. And Kyle married a childhood friend of mine, a girl I’ve known since we were kids. And so we you know, we had a night we bumped into each other sort of serendipity took over other people I knew were there that night. But I really think about sort of the long tentacles always. And I can go deep dive into family and your parents and all these memories and all this stuff. People can go back and Google it. And the Baltimore bullies and the death of goose now where we are a quarter of a century later and, and the legacy of that defense versus what all of this is, but you watch on TV with your kids. I’ve met your kids, they’re getting a little bigger. Your one son’s maybe more famous than you being an actor on Broadway before the plague and leading in sort of a normal life at this point. But like you sit there and you watch football, what do you make of all this before because you you glide in as an alum from time to time once or twice a year. You don’t live here. You’ve made a life in Boston, but you love it when you when you come here, you’re hitting me for crabcakes. And once or twice a year you do that. But you’re off living a normal life. What’s the Lamar and the legacy? And what are you seeing because I you don’t do sports radio anymore? I don’t see your tweets about every little thing that’s going on. I thought, man, you’re a real football mind. I wanted to pick your brain. I mean, you expect him to win the Super Bowl.
Mike Flynn 04:15
Yeah, I mean, I listen, I think San Francisco to me is was at the time the best team in football, you know, and they went out there did a pretty good number on them. You know, I think they’re a good football team. Certainly. You added a couple pieces offensively. I mean, the loss of market you heard says he’s a pretty unique player. But yeah, they’re playing really good, really good defense. So they have an opportunity. But for me personally, like it’s the first time I mean, I love doing the sports radio in the talk, but it is It was exhausting the fact that like, well, you know, when you’re in that business, right, it’s, it’s a lot of games. You’re not going in, it’s like you’re watching basketball games about football games and hockey games, you know, so now, you know for me, I watched football as a fan. You know, it’s funny how I grew up as an Eagles fan, just because of where I live and we moved up here the Patriots weren’t very good, but my kids are Ravens fans. So to me when I watched the Ravens now it’s through the lens of a face you know, I go back we were gonna go to the AFC Championship Game a couple years ago when they when they lost the divisional game we were all gonna
Nestor J. Aparicio 05:14
go to the AFC yes game yeah, we’re
Mike Flynn 05:16
flying the G had to go out into the west coast were flying back and me and my son were watching the game that he was like, you know, he’s an eighth grade now he’s a lot younger. And he was all fired up to go to the game and a lot of the times we don’t know that story and he started crying. You don’t I mean? That’s like that. How could they lose their 14 to whatever wasn’t gonna son something you gotta learn with being a sports fan? Themes will disappoint you more than
Nestor J. Aparicio 05:40
they will make you he was nine years old. He was 990 Yeah, crime Yeah, cry about that. Yeah. You know, I think of all the disappointments you know, there’s gonna
Mike Flynn 05:49
be a lot of those. I lived a lot of them you don’t I mean, I disappointed
Nestor J. Aparicio 05:53
born in 68 so I missed 69 Disappointment 7071 The My dad loved the bullets, the Colts obviously. So I come along like my first memories are 73 four and five. My first memories of like playoff baseball was losing to the A’s losing to the A’s again, losing all of our players to California and the Yankees and Reggie Jackson was here for five minutes and we’re afraid we’re gonna lose Palmer and Brooks is old and like, and then Bert Jones was good. And we got our ass kicked every we almost goes to the post, but 75 Gatorade, do fluid to the upper deck with a plane and crashed the plane. So like this is my childhood. I didn’t know from Britain that 79 Orioles were up three one loose did pirates Bert Blyleven still twist in his ring being a jerk? But in 83 the Orioles win and I get that feeling. And then a four we lose the Colts, right? Like I’m 15 We lost our football team. So I guess maybe this is the point where I get all misty and weepy with you and say, you know, your first Super Bowl, you and I wrote on a float together sort of famously shot this video. That’s how much it meant to me to win as a fan. And I, I don’t know that I cried when I was 11. And the Orioles lost. I don’t I think I was past the crying in sports because I had one and I had lost and I played little league. And you know, I didn’t think about it like, ready Patek crying still moves me all these, you know, 30 years, 40 years later seeing players cry in the dugout and that sort of thing. But, but I think about the joy for anybody who wasn’t around when you and I have a ride on the float getting wet that day having a good time. And, but for younger people, and for people that haven’t experienced it, I do see it through their eyes through the eyes of in many cases, friends of mine, grandchildren, you know, literally because their children saw they were of the age, you know, 10 years ago, whatever. But like through the eyes of kids that are 15 to 20 like that 25 This is their run. This is the fun we were having 23 years ago, Flynn. Well, pretty
Mike Flynn 07:54
unique, right? Like 2012. And now you have this other big space in between where there’s a lot of people that became fans that could experience a good run to a Super Bowl, right? But it’s close enough. 23 years, he said, right, where there’s a lot of overlap, right? There’s you there’s people, you know, your generation, our generation, right, that we’re around that we’re facing. So it’s pretty unique. You know what I mean? Like, it’s not like Philly, right? Where are they? Where do they go to the Super Bowl in AD? And then, you know, they didn’t win one till I forget what year they won. 1770 Yeah, you know, like, at that point, things have gone first full circle numerous times here. It’s still close enough where everybody can remember the 2000 team, right. But, you know, you have different coaches and certainly have different personnel and all that kind of stuff. So it’s pretty unique. But yeah, I enjoy it. You know, now I watch I mean, I love football. I love college football, high school football, professional football sets, I watch, you know, I watch and I coach, and you know, I enjoy I enjoy the game and certainly for me, the game has been pretty good to me. So, you know, to be the opportunity to coach kids has been really great. But yeah, it’s been a good season. I mean, I love watching the ravens and it helps the hell that you know, being into Wigan, excuse me. You know, when you win what six Super Bowls and Boston forts sports fans right around here most people cheer for the Patriots but it’s unique to my kids are Ravens fans so I got to get the Sunday Ticket we watch them every Sunday and we you know me and my father talk about it that kind of stuff so it’s pretty good and it’s good I love being far not being in it like to just watch the games and enjoy him but it’s been a good run a really good football team and like anything my biggest concern and having been a part of it is now is you don’t play guys that last game right now you got to break you know to your next game and you see it every year good teams lose the divisional weekend. That’s the frustrating part of it because there’s this lapse of time where like look at a team like The bills, right, they basically have been in playoff mode for the last four or five weeks, right. So there’s a sense of urgency that they’re playing with now. I don’t think they’ll match up with the bills. But if they get a team that’s playing well, and they kind of on the sideline for a couple weeks, you get behind earlier at home, everybody gets nervous, and, you know, bad things happened Tennessee’s perfect example. You know, you, you could go through that years after years, right, there’s always that, you know, higher rank divisional team that loses in that first round, because, you know, they just time off, they didn’t prepare, right, or they just got off to a slow start.
Nestor J. Aparicio 10:34
What’s preparing, right, Mike? I mean, you know, I guess that would be the issue here to say, you’ve got the time off. Like, if you wanted to go play everybody last weekend to play him you had the chance to do that a lot of guys had to play. Like if you were a player you would have been playing unless you’re really banged up because yeah,
Mike Flynn 10:50
some guys gotta play right? There’s only so many guys that are roster so, you know, maybe that isn’t as big a deal. I don’t know. I mean, there’s always you know, do you practice fogo? Are you heavy pads that off week full days? You know, we had a coach, but I believe that let us have days off. You know, he gets his really right answer to your win. Right? You didn’t earn
Nestor J. Aparicio 11:11
buys you only by was the sixth year, right? I mean, literally, yeah. Yeah.
Mike Flynn 11:15
And then he, you know, he gave us the week off that by week off, you know, and of course we lost so that everybody’s second guess them. If we would have won, they would have second guessed them. So, you know, like it to me, it’s not so much. You got to stay mentally engaged. But when you take a couple of weeks off, and you go from practice pace, to days off, and boom, you’re at the you know, elite level football, right where any little difference makes, you know, you can win or lose that football game. Like if you get off slow and you don’t play well. And you’re a little off. You’re a little rusty, you know, I don’t know what the right form is, I guess would be more tea based. But yeah, it’s it’s something that difficult. It’s something a little bit difficult. I mean, listen, I enjoyed the bye week gave me a chance to rest, you know, in season where you have a week of, you know, no stress. You know, it was good. But yeah, you know that adrenaline, right? You breathe a little bit heavier, early, just make sure you get your legs and your pretty quick. But there’s really no right answer, right? I mean, there are coaches that have grinded those guys during the bye week, and next week, they’ve won and they’ve lost and in our case, we got weak off and we’ve lost but that, you know, they’ve done that and other times, you know what I mean? So just how they adjust and I hope they come out better. You know, they’ll tell us he was a good team, but hopefully they came out better play better than he did a couple years ago.
Nestor J. Aparicio 12:37
You and I both know a lot of guys with chips on our shoulders. We’ve been them at various points in our careers as underdogs and undrafted free agents out of the main event and all you know this, anything Lamar wears that in such a different way. And I think from the night he was drafted and I can probably go back and find back 1819 You were doing a lot of radio. You were talking about it. You came on the program a little more often and I was doing a lot more sports so you’re probably on the air with me three four times a year of a couple months talking about Lamar 2018 Lamar 2019 Then there was a plague and like all of us that’s happened, injuries the contract last year. The criticism not that he’s a running back or any just a criticism that he wasn’t as accurate as other quarterbacks that his arm might not have been as strong that he might not have been in the pocket as much. We’re whittling away at that five years into this that if you brought those things up or the fact that he ran in the linebackers that was a bad idea. And the running the ball 21 times was not sustainable, which got me thrown out amongst many other things asking questions like that just simply basic football things where were you full honesty 1819 20 And where are you now on The Laura Lamar ometer of what he’s done because it’s not the same game he’s the same guy but he’s a different player.
Mike Flynn 14:00
Yeah. Well I think last time we talked or at least about this I thought it was insane that people wanted to get rid of them and they didn’t want to pay him because he I thought he was a good football player certainly certainly had weaknesses but my thought process was Where do you go from here? Okay, clearly you can win with him now can you reach a certain level well there’s some maturity to that and development his game but where do you go if you let Lamar walk? Because it is the most important position in football so I clearly was the mindset like you resign them, you build around him and try to win now with you though I thought running 23 times a game was not sustainable. It’s just hard. I mean, you look at running backs in this league receivers. Injury, there’s a high risk and the difference between running back and receiver and lineman when you lose your quarterback everything changes right everything is built around this guy He’s the face of your franchise, so not running as much probably made sense which he doesn’t I you know, I don’t know. have the numbers but anecdotally when I watched the games he doesn’t want as much as he did make it a concerted effort from the pocket but you bring it back and JR writes a flowers who’s a fantastic player? I remember he was up here at BC used to watch them a lot and the PC games you had Mark edge there you had some weapons around him you had a new offensive coordinator that probably helped him look at things in a different way. You know, new voice looking at through his eyes he’s had success smokin where he’s been so those changes have helped them but he’s certainly he’s right there, you know, MVP of the league, and it would be well deserved now. You know, we’ll see how it goes. It’s always a premium to pass, you know, in the playoffs. But he’s been great this year. He’s played great. And how he’s played he’s earned that MVP and you know to me it doesn’t change my mind it was decision to keep him and pay him was the decision to make not that I was proved the white by his record, because, you know, unfortunately for quarterbacks they get gauged on what they do the PLAs or if they win a Super Bowl which it’s tough, right because some of the greatest quarterbacks of all time didn’t win a Super Bowl. Right and there are quarterbacks that were very average that won Super Bowls. But today with so much wrapped around the quarterback that’s kind of part of to complete your resume do what a quarterback so hope he does. But yeah, I think it was a great player and back then I said it would be ridiculous to let a block so you know what he’s pretty unique. Right? Is what to us. I mean, smaller college, and they he was out there about pretty play quarterback at a professional level that he got here. A lot of doubters here, but you know, financially in his resume, like to have a chip on his shoulder, you’re like, wait a minute, you’re making a lot of money. You won an MVP. And yeah, too. So I mean, why do you have a chip on your shoulder, but the great ones, right? It’s there. And that’s what motivates them. And I could see that right? With, you know, for me, I think of when I played and I was just aligned, and it was easy for me, you know what they say crap rolls downhill, right. And that’s usually alive and down at the bottom. And when we would struggle, the linemen for Baltimore would get hammered. And I would be one of the guys the undrafted guy that was easy. And this was Jamal
Nestor J. Aparicio 17:10
runs for 2000 yards. It was Jamal was a hell of a runner. Yes. Oh, man.
Mike Flynn 17:16
But in my ear, right, it was the newspaper and radio. Okay. And if you really wanted to insulate yourself from that, you could. But now, there’s so many different platforms that you can get hammered. You can’t pick up your phone. And if you you know, all these different social media things, right? For an athlete, you should do it right, because it’s a platform for you to get your voice out. But you can make money doing this stuff, right, whatever it may be, you know, and people can hammer you on that. So I’m sure you know, that is what motivates
Nestor J. Aparicio 17:49
Aaron Rodgers as an example.
Mike Flynn 17:51
Yeah, I mean, there’s a lot of guys and I don’t blame them. But there’s consequences that right you’re gonna be you’re gonna get a lot of the filth of the buck when people want to hear you, you know, because you put yourself out there but yeah, I have to believe right, that chip on the shoulder has benefited him. When people doubt you you can’t do this. You can’t do that. Like if you’re a competitive individual, which he is. I would imagine that is a motivating force, but he’s got a hell of a season. If he wins the MVP. I wouldn’t be surprised and I would like him to finish here you know to finish and win a couple games get to a Super Bowl. You know, and certainly he’s a good football player. It doesn’t diminish in my eyes what he is but you know you need to win. You need to win the Super Bowl for some reason for quarterbacks to get validation. I mean look at Marino, right number one one. He’s one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But he takes a hit consistently, right like, well, he never won a quarterback. You know. And then you got guys like Mark Ripon and Trent Dilfer and my guy, you know, on and on and on. Brad Johnson with Tampa Bay. That what a Super Bowl right?
Nestor J. Aparicio 18:59
About the great Nick Foles? Yeah. Nick Foles. Who else? Hostetler Sure yeah we can go long
19:05
you know you go through them
Nestor J. Aparicio 19:06
all but that’s not give us a one one scrap you know, your dad was watching him up there in New England for 50 years and scrapped to win I mean, and and by
Mike Flynn 19:14
the way better than people give them credit for me personally, while we’re
Nestor J. Aparicio 19:18
at it Mike Flynn is here super 35 champion father to the stars and living the good life up there in New England for you with Flacco as this thing goes full circle and this just dates me okay because I came off the boat I you know, it’s all five minutes ago it’s all 100 years ago, depending on where I am in my mind but you’ve never played with Flacco right. So like it feels Do you know Joe at all other than getting an autograph for your kids or a high five like it is?
Mike Flynn 19:53
I don’t know. Let me I knew it because if you recall once I got down there I did a lot of the Ravens TV shows after so We’re all interacting with the Ravens wired and the Ravens report and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, he’s a nice guy. I mean, really what you see is what you get. I mean, you know, you just the quiet just kind of laid back you know?
Nestor J. Aparicio 20:11
Well what do you make of that? I mean that this is amazing, right? I mean, and you saw Dion come back here and you’re a part of that I mean, yeah, this is different than that because we were talking Hall of Fame quarterbacks and did you just went through ordinary quarterbacks you know, like my guy trend I think it was win Super Bowls that have rings and that’s Bradshaw still won a bunch of it’s still trying to speak you know, name if one goes into several through more picks than he through touching. So I guess we all get measured differently. But Joe was counting his money his blessings kids loves his kids like you love your kids loves being a dad, all of that, you know, has hobbies, he’s, you know, a big family a lot, a lot of love all that good stuff. And watch the comeback because he can come back tells her buddy can come back and now like, dude, might be him next week here might be
Mike Flynn 21:03
Well, a couple things right? This as a sports fan. To me, I always love like when you grew up, right you teams that you cheered for right? When you have that old guy and I put that in quotation mark because there were none of the football players bats are old for the sport there but that’ll, and they have that game or they have that run. Right. I’ll give you an example. Right? One great in 2001 Terry Allen, he was broken down play for the Minnesota Vikings for us. Okay. And at the end of the year, he had two big games in the year that he ran for like you know, we ran for 280 yards against Miami won a playoff game he ran 180 yards right the old man we call them right you know what Larry Bird when he was in his last year scored 49 against Portland right?
Nestor J. Aparicio 21:50
Ray Bork you want to get Come on give me a little bit give me a right for like, but
Mike Flynn 21:54
but just Ray bork, you know when he’s old at his last thing. He goes to the avalanche wins a cup. Right? He has that last one. So when these old guys pull out these vintage performances, right are these old guys in these great stores like Terry Allen wasn’t a Hall of Famer. But it’s like this vintage performance like to me, I just love it. It’s like the best thing for me to sit, you know. So now Joe Flacco is a guy who’s played a long time. He’s he’s had a great run, but he’s been knocked over the head consistently. You’re not good. And you got to get him out here about he goes to Cleveland, he has this run. And like to me, I watch it and it’s enjoyable to watch. Right? You’re like, cheering for that guy. You know, and as much as like, for me not cheering for Cleveland Browns,
Nestor J. Aparicio 22:38
we all but that’s the hard part of this. We’re all supposed
Mike Flynn 22:43
to watch him. You’re kind of like, Dude, this is great. Like, here’s a guy like, and the thing with with Joe and a lot of these older guys that had that little run. It just ends like he may go out there Saturday. I don’t know. I think they’re played Saturday, he may throw five pets, you know? And you’re like, okay, but for that little run that one game or that stretch. He’s what he was. And I love that with these with older players. I think it’s one of the greatest things in sports where you just like all those people that you connect that you just have that twinkle in your eye and I saw it a lot here with different athletes, you know, certainly with the ear of the Celtics, you know, McHale had a couple playoff game when he was about to retire and all that kind of stuff. So I me personally, I love those storylines when the old guys come back and they just, they’re just playing he’s just slinging it. So you know, and for me, I know a lot of people from Cleveland you know, Dave’s asked little who played for the Ravens he lives back there now and I’ve got friendly with a lot of his friends and I constantly text him about this so they’re they’re all fired up about him, you know, and then to Cleveland fans, right? Any hole? Anything to grab onto there? All right, there’s no like with you. And I like from Boston. You mentioned your failures. As a Baltimore sports fan. Your teams were always will go in but we dip our toe in right because we want to protect ourselves like Boston fans need to protect it. But Cleveland, any glimmer of hope they’re all they just jump into the pool. They don’t even care they don’t check the temperature. They just go right in. So they’re pretty fired up there. But I’m excited for that game, actually. And I’m certainly I’m cheering for him in the browns. It’s
Nestor J. Aparicio 24:19
the game of the weekend. And I think it’s a it’s a heck of a story amongst stories. Mike Flynn is here. So what are your your Broadway child Jacob give me a little update? Is he going back and doing anything? Can I come see him perform at some point? Maybe? No.
Mike Flynn 24:33
Right now he’s actually the first year it’s gone and build the real school. So that’s been a pretty big adjustment from tests. You know, homework has to get up at the same time every day. So it’s been pretty good adjustment. Yeah, he’s doing some auditions and stuff and hopefully, you know, that type of business is tough and he’s a little bit of an awkward age. Right? You know, he’s not a young boy, but he’s not a man. So like for the you know, people
Nestor J. Aparicio 24:59
that know on stage and a Brady Bunch Exactly yeah.
Mike Flynn 25:03
So anybody who’s listening you know that have been through that like he’s in a unique spot but yeah he’s he’s enjoying like a regular social life you know what I mean? That he committed you know dealing with the we all love high school right? Like, Hey Jake you know you just half the time you’re like I’m gonna roll you into the to the world of like you know insecurity and bullying and questioning here where do you fit in the world here have fun in high school but you don’t have
Nestor J. Aparicio 25:31
anybody do but you walk through Manhattan the Time Square every day your life for two years. So like, you know, got out in front of people and met people I you know,
Mike Flynn 25:39
but that’s nothing compared to high school. You know? It’s a brutal I mean, you’d rather like you know, just hanging out in New York and just meet people in high school is a different world, you know that so
Nestor J. Aparicio 25:51
All right. Well, listen, we’re all going to school here, you know, for and I guess the thing for you being a football tactician, speak to this team and the things that they’re doing and doing well, in regard to Monken on in this offense, that you said, watch the games, this looks a lot different, feels a lot different, better players, you know, all of that. But also the offensive line to your point. Morgan, Moses, Ronnie Stanley trying to he’s at that point where he’s breaking down on the way you saw Jao break. You know, there’s only so much of you, that you have when you have that body on the offensive line. Not everybody can be Bruce Matthews and do it for you, Matt Burke doing it for 1518 years, right. But where they are with how this thing was put together. And then the fencing, Kyle van Noy and Davian clowny. And Justin Mata BK, who you would have had a nose on after practicing against the Sam Adams and the Tony Sarah gooses every day. This is a very, very formidable balanced team. But also balanced with to your point you mentioned Beckham before you mentioned anybody I would mentioned row Quan Smith before I’d mentioned anybody there that dude’s been here 15 months came in in the middle of all of it. Um, it’s not Ray Lewis, it’s different than Ray Lewis, but it’s pretty similar. Yeah,
Mike Flynn 27:05
well, the the personnel moves they have made and made a big difference, right. New coach voice and offense. But you mentioned Smith, great move that was right and hit the ground running and clowny. Right, nine and a half sacks, a guy who’s, you know, always doesn’t seem to hit a ceiling. Right. But he’s played well.
Nestor J. Aparicio 27:24
One when you’re a one, one what is your ceiling? Like your Jim Plunkett ceiling took 15 years to win a server literally. Right. I mean, it’s really hard when your expectations, which is what we’re talking about here right now to begin with expectations are on your
Mike Flynn 27:37
right. To your point, if he was a fourth round pick, right, he’d probably be resigned to a multi year deal. But and then, you know, to me, offensively, bringing in a couple of receivers that are explosive, right. So yeah, I mean, to me, Well, you know, I like what they’re doing defensively but watching them against the Niners how they played defensively there I think, like Omar one thing I like he’s he’s more comfortable in the pocket. He’s making good throws, it seems like he’s making good reads, you know, it’s hard sometimes when you watch the TV version, it’s funny, you know, when plays break down, or they’re not two of my sons always yelling, why don’t we run a more debt? Why are they running more of like, son just relax, like, you know, it’s a little bit change of philosophy, right? They, you know, him staying in the pocket says he can’t run, right, and he will, but to me his ability to run into big plays like that, like, you have to kind of spy on him. Right? How they rush right? It helps the linemen out because they can’t over pursue and gaps and stuff like that. But, you know, to me, like those additions, you know, veteran guys that are played really well. You know, it’s been a big boost home. To me, I think, you know, as of the end of the season, they were the best team in football, you know, and we’ll say I mean, the Niners are good I think the bills are played well the bills are teed to be that if Josh Allen gets his head on straight for a game for for court, even if he’s on straight for three quarters, like the tough team to beat I think they’re pretty good the chiefs will say, but like the Niners are good. You know, the Cowboys I think are better than people think. I don’t know they seem to fold or to matters, but I think the Ravens have a legit legit chance this year.
Nestor J. Aparicio 29:16
Well, here we are Mike Flynn’s watching from up in New England. Hope you get back down here for crab cake or a some crab soup sometime soon. It’s fun watching your life on fold, especially on various holidays. I mean, you know, I don’t have a family, much to speak of are a big family. So all of you become sort of extended families and whatnot and attended your wedding. So I’m seeing all these children grow. I tell you, man from from Halloween outfits to doing song and dance routines on Tiktok to you know, various holiday meals to seeing your parents. It is always fun to it’s fun to have lifelong friends Flint really appreciate
Mike Flynn 29:53
that. Thanks for having me on. I’ll talk to you soon. If I get down into the AFC Championship. I’ll give you a tap I want to go so well. Well come wide ticket I had tickets years ago and you know I don’t want to jinx it just yet so get
Nestor J. Aparicio 30:07
an extra one I’ll go with you How about that you know, you know it would be it would be an honor to attend another the last time you and I attended an AFC Championship game thanks good things happened as I remembered in Oakland i i remember bawling crying with your mother in the in the area were the people in the black hole on the way out of there at the end. It was that was the day right there. January 14 2001. We’re all getting older Flinter you’ll always be a champion to me There he goes. Mike Flynn, the main event I just tweet about the Ravens a little bit there and this time of the year so we can get some insights. Oh yeah, can you get online man free game for three hours away from winning the Super Bowl makes it sound really easy, doesn’t it? Look is out in Owings Mills for all things sort of by week or whatever we’re gonna call this sort of rest up week get right week all that stuff. We’re gonna be rolling American Maryland crabcake tour back out on the road as crabcake row that’s going to be happening beginning on February 5. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. I’ll have some ravens scratch offs to give away five days in row I gotta get Ross to stack me up with those. I have some leftover holiday scratch offs in the sniffy kinds. Also our friends at window nation 866 90 nation and Jiffy Lube MultiCare we telling you more about all of them. I am Nestor. We are wn st am 1570, Towson Baltimore. We never stop talking Baltimore. Positive
