Marvin Lewis: Maxx Crosby enhances Ravens culture and defense “ten fold” with possibilities

The Baltimore Ravens sorely lacked a pass rush last season but the addition of Maxx Crosby should solve that deficiency. No one is more bullish on the star edge rusher acquired from the Las Vegas Raiders than his former defensive coach Marvin Lewis, who joins Nestor to discuss what Ravens fans can expect before the crack of dawn in Owings Mills. “You can set your watch by Maxx.”

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Outline

Marvin Lewis Joins Nestor to Discuss Maxx Crosby and Ravens Defense

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the topic of the conversation, focusing on Maxx Crosby joining the Ravens and Marvin Lewis’s experience coaching him in Las Vegas.
• Marvin Lewis shares his current life in Arizona, mentioning his work with Sports USA Media and Broadcast Games during the NFL season.
• Nestor and Marvin discuss the importance of pass rush and defense in the NFL, referencing past conversations about the Ravens’ struggles with pass rush.
• Marvin highlights the significance of affecting the quarterback to close out games and mentions Maxx Crosby’s dedication to his craft.

Maxx Crosby’s Impact on the Ravens Defense

• Nestor and Marvin discuss Maxx Crosby’s time in Las Vegas, including his immersion in the city and his rise to stardom.
• Marvin praises Maxx Crosby’s work ethic, noting his consistent presence at the facility and his dedication to improving his game.
• The conversation touches on the impact of Maxx Crosby on the Ravens’ defense, with Marvin emphasizing the need for opposing teams to account for him.
• Marvin compares Maxx Crosby to other top players in the league, highlighting his exceptional work ethic and dedication to the game.

Lamar Jackson’s Decision to Stay with the Ravens

• Nestor and Marvin shift the conversation to Lamar Jackson, discussing his decision to stay with the Ravens despite rumors of him seeking a new team.
• Marvin reflects on Lamar Jackson’s early days with the Ravens, including his first start against the Cincinnati Bengals and his impressive performance.
• The discussion includes Marvin’s admiration for Lamar’s growth as a player and person, noting his maturity and improvement as a passer.
• Nestor and Marvin discuss the importance of Lamar Jackson to the Ravens’ success and the impact of his presence on the team’s overall performance.

Marvin Lewis’s Role in Lamar Jackson’s Development

• Marvin shares his personal connection to Lamar Jackson, including spending time with him during the draft process and getting to know him better.
• The conversation highlights the Ravens’ shrewd decision to draft Lamar Jackson and the team’s efforts to develop him into a top-tier quarterback.
• Marvin emphasizes the importance of having a strong defense to support Lamar Jackson, noting the impact of Maxx Crosby and other defensive players.
• Nestor and Marvin discuss the challenges of coaching a quarterback like Lamar Jackson and the unique skills he brings to the table.

Marvin Lewis’s Life and Future Plans

• Nestor and Marvin discuss Marvin’s current life in Arizona, including his involvement in volunteer work and his interest in staying active.
• Marvin shares his plans to get involved with a local organization called Girls with Grit, which focuses on empowering young girls through sports.
• The conversation touches on Marvin’s love for golf and his plans to continue playing the sport, despite the challenges of his age.
• Nestor and Marvin reminisce about past experiences, including Marvin’s time coaching in Cincinnati and his involvement in the Super Bowl 35 reunion.

Reflections on Coaching and the NFL

• Marvin reflects on his coaching career, including his time with the Bengals and his experiences working with various teams and players.
• The conversation includes Marvin’s thoughts on the current state of the NFL and the importance of having a strong defense to win games.
• Nestor and Marvin discuss the challenges of coaching in the modern NFL and the need for coaches to adapt to new strategies and technologies.
• The discussion concludes with Marvin expressing his gratitude for the opportunities he has had in his career and his excitement for the future.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Maxx Crosby, Baltimore Ravens, Marvin Lewis, pass rush, defense, Lamar Jackson, NFL, coaching, Super Bowl, Arizona, football, offseason, defensive players, franchise quarterback, free agency.

SPEAKERS

Marvin Lewis, Nestor Aparicio

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Nestor Aparicio  00:01

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore. Positive. It is baseball season almost. We’re going to talk football in this one. It’s all brought to you by friends at the Maryland lottery. We’ll be getting the Maryland crab cake tour back out on the road into early April. Luke’s all worked up about opening day, and we’re just getting through all of this free agency stuff, and Tyler Linder, Bob’s going here, Jordan stouts going there. And, well, who’s coming here? Maybe, maybe the best defensive player in the NFL, but certainly in the conversation of that, and I just happen to know a guy who coached him at one point. So Max Crosby headed to Baltimore, and we welcome in our defending champion, our Minister of Defense here at one point, the greatest defense to ever play the game. And we’re now 25 and a half years out on Super Bowl. 35 we welcome Marvin Lewis back in from his his ranch out somewhere in the Pacific Time Zone where there’s cactus. How are you, Marv, happy? Is it offseason? Is it you’re off the clock? Are you happy to be out of this rat races? This used to be a pretty busy week for you, as I remember. Yeah, used to be.

Marvin Lewis  01:11

It used to be well after the first couple of days. But no, I’m, I’m good. Things are good out here in in Arizona, and everything is fine. And, yeah, it’s I don’t pay much attention at this point to the NFL, because I don’t have to do anything with it. But you know, last year, I did work for a national radio company, Sports USA Media and Broadcast games and national games, two national games a week. So, so then, during the season, I was, you know, I was part of it. I was immersed in it a little bit, you know, based on the two teams I was covering that week.

Nestor Aparicio  01:52

Well, let’s talk about defense. Let’s talk about pass rush. I think the last time we talked, we talked at length about the Ravens really struggling. I think the last time I had you on, you were coming in for the reunion. It was early December. The Ravens were on the skids a little bit to begin with, Steelers were coming in. And even with Aaron Rodgers being a little bit of a statue, the pass rush thing didn’t exist for the Ravens last year. And you know, that was your game. That was your side of I remember you and I added for two cheese and you had crayons drawing up out Peter Boulware was going to create a mess with McCrary. When you don’t have that, you invite lots and lots of trouble and just lots of ways, back end, front end. And I think we saw that unlike maybe team school, maybe 96 I’ll give you 96 for a minute. But no pass rush. We haven’t had a lot of that around here in recent times. You’ve always had somebody didn’t get after the quarterback.

Marvin Lewis  02:45

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Yeah, you know, it’s the game is set up in the NFL so much you know, for for pass, for past the passing game, you know you have to run the ball to be successful and and take the pressure off your quarterback day in and day out as the jet flies over, sorry, kind of on the landing.

Nestor Aparicio  03:02

That’s all right, man. I mean, you know, listen, it is March here, and it’s today. I’m taping this at 72 degrees here, so I should be doing a show outside today. So any chance to get al fresco, I’m all for that. Marv, I’m happy. You’re happy, and you have a porch outside where there’s sunshine, because you lived in Cincinnati for 20 years. You lived here, you lived here, you lived in Pittsburgh, you lived in Idaho. So you deserve that. So nonetheless, pass rush,

Marvin Lewis  03:26

but you know you have to be able to affect the quarterback, and that’s the biggest way and and people do it with very, very good corners, and people do it with exceptional guys that can rush the passer, whether inside and outside, and it’s important you have to affect the quarterback. In order to close out games, you have to be able to get the quarterback on the ground.

Nestor Aparicio  03:51

Well, Max Crosby, a lot of folks don’t know you spent a little time in, I would say, Oakland, but I had dinner with you. It was definitely Las Vegas. They were there at that point. And the whole Vegas immersion thing, as it happened for him as a star player, and that dome going up, and the team not being very good, once, twice, three times. Your old pal, Jack Del Rio, had the thing before it went there, and then you came in by the time you got there, team wasn’t great. You beat us with Gardner Minshew here, I shouldn’t say that you beat good enough to beat the ravens, but Max Crosby was on the side of buildings when I got out there. This is an unusual escape of a premium player, prime of his career. Franchise has a lot at stake out there. And Tom Brady, I’m not of the mindset that he can’t play. I’m of the mindset that maybe this makes the Ravens a Super Bowl favorite.

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Marvin Lewis  04:44

Well, it enhances the defense tenfold. You know, even before I was in the building, back in the last half of the 23 season, when Antonio took over, Antonio Pierce took over, I couldn’t. Get there, because I still have working at ASU. I had another, some other personal things to take care of, but the immediately, they sent me a login so I could log in and watch practice. And the first thing I called, I called, AP, I didn’t even text you. I said, AP, you got a pretty good thing here, because your best two players, Max Crosby on defense and oh gosh, now his name just jumped out of my head. I can

Nestor Aparicio  05:27

tight end. I got you go ahead, running back, Josh. Jacobs was there? Yes? Jake, Josh, sure, yeah,

Marvin Lewis  05:33

Max and Josh. Practice hard. Devonte, practice hard. So your three best players practice their tails off every day, and so they set a tone. And that’s the one thing I can say about Max is, you know, I would get up at 430 whatever I did in the morning. I would get to the the facility around 515 I would go for my walk. I would come in at six from my walk outside every morning, and you could set your watch by Max sitting there and then have the place setting all set for him to have breakfast at 6am you ever want to assassinate Max Crosby? Don’t need AI to track you. You know exactly where he’s going to be from 6am to almost five to 6pm every day of the week he was in that facility, including day off. And it’s pretty remarkable. You know, he sets a great tone. He practices hard, he studies. He’s good in meetings. So he will be somewhat of an uplift. You know, they already have, you know, pretty good leaders over there in Hamilton, and Ray Kwan. So now they’ve got another guy. And I know this year I spoke to Ozzy at one point, they were missing the defensive tackle was injured, who, who has been very productive as an inside pass rusher with the ravens, and so Max will add to that and and help. You know, you don’t need quite to be as good in the secondary when you got a guy that can affect the quarterback like that, because you have to account for him. You cannot go into the game. If you go into the game and not account for him, you’re gonna get wrecked. You know, it’s like Jamar Chase. If you don’t account for Jamar Chase, it’s gonna be a long day. Well, that’s

Nestor Aparicio  07:27

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what the best players in the league are all about. And you just said something about him that. I mean, I don’t know what a young kid thinks of Ray Lewis or somebody that now is getting so old that they never saw Ray play like literally, some of these guys may have been 567, years old, but Max

Marvin Lewis  07:43

is a historian, and that’s the other part of him. He he knows football, and you know, coming from Eastern Michigan, like he did, was it the sixth round draft? I don’t know, fifth, sixth round draft pick, and he has cut his teeth with his work ethic.

Nestor Aparicio  08:04

How does that happen, that somebody winds up being that guy and then becoming a top five player? And I guess we could ask Tom Brady, you can ask him, but I’m not talking about just a really good player that gets a contractor five Mark Andrews been a great, you know, good player, third, fourth round pick. That’s nice, but somebody that’s a third day draft pick now in modern parlance, and aspire to be among the best of the it’s different from miles Garrett. I think, I think it’s different for Matthew

Marvin Lewis  08:32

staff at miles Garrett and and he’s everything Max Crosby is with 20 pounds and flexibility in the hips and so forth. Max Crosby has worked very hard to develop those things he, you know, he really does. He trained to make himself better on the football field every single day. And he’s, he’s a good person, he’s a good father, he’s a good husband. He just, he checks the boxes

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Nestor Aparicio  09:05

now, so this is a big thumbs up for the ravens, right? But when you saw that, if you’re still coaching the Bengals, or if you’re coaching the Steelers, you

Marvin Lewis  09:14

better find a left tackle. Boom. You gotta find tackle. Or you know, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta push the protection that way every single time. And if they can get a guy opposite, you know, now, now you got real problems, but they already have a good interior rusher. They already have the ability to bring Kyle Hamilton off the edge and the pressures off the edges and so forth and so now, you know, immediately you get Kyle Hamilton matched on the back or Roy matched on the back right away, because they’re gonna spend two on max. There’s no doubt about it.

Nestor Aparicio  09:51

Well, I think the other part of this is like Mike Green and what it does you said, Who are they going to have on the other side? Well, they went into the draft last year and they. Identified somebody they felt like was a first round talent brought him in. I mean, Chuck Smith was around here the last couple of years, just in a general sense, that second player. I remember you talking Boulware and McCrary, and, you know, different things you could do when you get two sides going. What does this do to green? I guess, who would be identified as the guy that they really expect to step up and be a part of that whole thing?

Marvin Lewis  10:22

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Yeah, it really does. And you know that to that end of that 23 season, he watched Malcolm Koons come into his no own there in Las Vegas with the Raiders. Unfortunately, he got hurt in practice before the 24 Season kicked off, and he went into this season, not quite, I’m sure, 100% coming back from an ACL injury, but when you can get that other guy going, now you’re pretty formidable, like the Broncos have been, like Seattle has been. You know, you’re talking about defense that way.

Nestor Aparicio  10:56

Marvin Lewis is our guest. He is our defending champion, our original defensive minister here talking all things Max Crosby, whom he coached two years ago in Las Vegas, Lamar. Where are you with Lamar? At this point, I I was interested to see that he actually wanted to stay here and we’ll get to mentor, and we’ll get to our ball and the coaching side of this, but into the mind of a quarterback that might have had three MVPs, a guy who’s got, I don’t know, $300 million collected and more to come. This isn’t about money anymore. It’s about where’s his best chance to win. Every time I see the Ravens do anything. And part of this is when you have a franchise quarterback making your team better, whether it’s we’re going to draft. Say flowers. We’re going to sign Derek Henry. We’re going to re up Ronnie Stanley. And I think anything you do to help the defense at this point helps Lamar, even though it’s the other side of the ball. But Lamar said, and whether he’s going to win a Super Bowl here and deliver that destiny, and at this point it won’t be with John Harbaugh, there’s already been a massive, massive change in this organization. I thought it was an interesting time for Lamar to say, Yeah, I’m all in not. It might be time for me to try to go to Miami or go to Las Vegas, go somewhere else. While change is happening, Lamar has got a pretty good ear, I mean, and I think when John gets to New York, he’s going to find that he had a pretty good here.

Marvin Lewis  12:20

Well, I think about Lamar, you know, Lamar has, has really I, you know, for most of the teams, obviously, because a lot of people passed on him, the Ravens stepped up and got him at the end of the first round. And you know, he has done exceptionally well. You know, I coached against Lamar when he was backing up Joe Flacco in 2018 as a rookie. And then I was actually, unfortunately, calling the defense in 2018 his first start was against the Cincinnati Bengals. And that

Nestor Aparicio  12:55

was the play that was crazy, right? The play were you on the field for that one?

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Marvin Lewis  12:59

Right? He just saw, you know, the first, I don’t know, it’s third and 6/3, and seven, probably, and they run quarterback draw and like, No, this, this, we’ve all this stuff, you know, we knew, we’ve heard Friday afternoon he was going to start. So now you’re trying to adjust some things, you know, it kind of, I probably had a vodka about this big, trying to figure out, you know, we’re going to have to add some things to spy stock, get this guy on the ground. And, like I said, the first third and seven of the game, he they run quarterback draw, and it’s like, okay, well, we’re really starting from scratch, and we gotta understand what kind of game we’re in now, he broke the pocket one time, and I remember him running towards the sideline and the cornerback having to adjust his angle, who could run because, you know, you just weren’t unsure. He was unsure about his speed at that time, even though we had already played him and and defended his package when he used to come in the game pretty well when we had beat him earlier in the season. So, you know, he has done extremely well. I think he has matured and grown as a man. I can’t remember what year it was. They were out here and they practiced over at ASU, and I went over to practice, and he comes over and and gives me a big hug to say hello. And I was so impressed with his girth now, you know, and obviously I saw him on the field two years ago when we were in Baltimore. And you know, he has improved as a passer. He’s never going to be a perfect pocket passer, but he has such other athletic skills that that doesn’t matter. You know, he can change the game all the time. He applies pressure on the defense. You have to think about, how are we defending these guys? Where you can’t do a lot of man to man coverage with the wide outs unless. You can know you can be disciplined enough to fill up and squeeze and contain those escape lanes on Lamar and his lanes can be up the middle. They can be all around the outside. So it’s an 11 man day when you go to defend Lamar Jackson.

Nestor Aparicio  15:19

You mentioned that first day you had seen everything in this sport, going back to the Steelers, and you know, three decades, two generations of football player on that particular play, you’re on the sideline. You are 25 years into this league, and you’re calling a defense there in third and seven. You sort of think he’s fast. And you’ve seen fast you’ve seen Vic you’ve seen fast quarterbacks right when he hit the edge at that point. Is there just something in your own mind that you look at and say, If I’m a defensive player, I’ve never seen a guy move that fast who wasn’t a wide receiver, literally, right, right?

Marvin Lewis  15:58

No, you hadn’t, you know, for, you know, a fast corner, which, I can’t remember which one of our guys it was, but, you know, we had first round corners, and so they could run, and he made him change the angle in order to push him out of bounds. And you didn’t see that happen very often. You know, it wasn’t like they could just go and contain him. They had to flatten and push to get him out of bounds. So, but, you know, you see that, you know, they’ve done a nice job of always keeping the tight ends in the building to keep those options open for him and and again, they because of the wide outs, and by adding zay flowers and the speed they did on the outside, you know, you just create more opportunity, you know, because they can take the top off. I mean, getting ready to play, you know, the ravens and 24 I mean, I went over to that young man and pre game, he ran by me where I said, Dude, you’re a good player. You know, I was just impressed studying him because I hadn’t been doing that for very long.

Nestor Aparicio  17:04

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Margaret Lewis is our guest. He is our Minister of Defense. Here he is out in the cactus land and cactus baseball. You anything? No, no. Baseball for you.

Marvin Lewis  17:13

No, no, no. I when’s the

Nestor Aparicio  17:15

last time you went to a spring training baseball game? You’ve never been to one. I come out. We’re going to one.

Marvin Lewis  17:21

I’ll tell you right now, I went to a reds game. Hold on, I gotta, I’m gonna turn off this, this water feature. It’s be noisy in the background.

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Nestor Aparicio  17:28

All right, that’s fine. I don’t want you being noisy in the background.

Marvin Lewis  17:32

Okay, I did go to a reds game. I think it was before we lived here full time. All right, 2017

Nestor Aparicio  17:39

Yeah, and you were coaching, and they’re on the other end of the desert. Yeah, I got where you are

Marvin Lewis  17:46

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that well, you know, the Castellini family is from Cincinnati, that owns the reds. I was good friends with the sons, well, and the father and, you know, Bob the but Junior and feel the suns. So I went to, yeah, I went to a spring training game, which it happened to be, ironically, it was, it was kind of crazy, because it was a, I don’t know what they call them, but they’re, they’re small investors in the franchise, micro investors. It was their night out here in the desert. And so there was a lot of Cincinnati people out there at the facility, and at the game, they had a big party on the deck, and then they go over to the game, and it was really weird, because I’m with the ownership, you know, and then the watch after the fourth inning or whatever, when the major leaguers go out the back end of the fence, well, I mean, on a bus and go back to the facility.

Nestor Aparicio  18:43

That’s spring training. You know what? I mean, that’s what makes it great. It’s kind of like going to Green Bay for football or whatever,

Marvin Lewis  18:49

I think. I mean, it was, it was, I’d never seen that, you know? I was not aware that. That’s how it went. And I remember them who is the pitcher that’s been on every pennant winning team, the big, tall guy, oh, gosh, he was a Yankee. He’s been a red. He was a Yankee. It’s all right. Anyway, I remember meeting him in the, in the in the weight room. Oldest Chapman, yes, there you go. Yes, yeah. Longest Chapman, I remember meeting him in the, you know, in his broken English and everything and but it was a cool experience to see how they do it, and, you know, to see their facility out there, and then they share the stadium, I think, with the Cleveland Indians.

Nestor Aparicio  19:34

Good Year, good year. Arizona out in good year. Yes, absolutely. So I just see the this time of year, for anybody that’s never been to spring training in Arizona, it’s better than spring training in Florida. No fence necessarily. It is that you just is, yeah.

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Marvin Lewis  19:49

I mean, hold on, I gotta decline this call. I lost him. Yeah. It’s incredible how different it is. And people talk I heard them talking about it because. As, I think the it’s the longest ride is like an hour, you know, across the valley from one to another,

Nestor Aparicio  20:07

you know, there’s no chance of a rain out zero. We have very

Marvin Lewis  20:11

little chance. It’s supposed to rain today’s Monday. It was supposed to rain today, but I don’t what

Nestor Aparicio  20:16

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five minutes was it gonna rain? Let’s get back to Lamar for a minute here, because the Lamar factor for this franchise and where it’s gone with the last pick of the first round, you were in the league, so you were one of the people that passed up some thoughts on that progression, versus how other teams went about it, versus how shrewd Eric is trying to be about going about Max brosby and sort of trading that out for linderbaum. And I guess they’re going to figure out the center position now. But when you’re stacking 20 and 30 and $65 million contracts, even those are $300 million cap, when you’re talking about elite players, you can only have so many of them, and you have to decide which ones they are, and then they have to play to their number without question. And when the quarterback gets a 60, $70 million number being hurt six, 810, games, not good as Lamar ages, there was a lot of question about him. I’m with you to say three MVPs this far in I want him to be our quarterback, because I’ve seen the other side of that.

Marvin Lewis  21:18

Yeah, there’s no question about it. And you’re right. You know, James urban had gone over on John’s staff, who was on my staff, to become the quarterback coach, and and then they draft Lamar and take my hat off, take three hats off, because they did an outstanding job. You know, our people love Lamar. Why we spend a lot of time with Lamar Jackson, you know, in Indianapolis, in Cincinnati, our people went to Louisville, took him to dinner, spent the night, you know, with him. You know, at Denver before his workout. And you know, in the offices, on the boards and in my office, you know, and we spent a lot of time with Lamar. So you know, in hindsight, you never know, but

Nestor Aparicio  22:07

so you would, you can admit he’s turned out better than maybe you thought he was on draft night.

Marvin Lewis  22:11

Oh, there’s no question. He’s turned out better than you know, earlier than I thought I would say you knew he had a Billy. I mean, the tape doesn’t lie.

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Nestor Aparicio  22:22

The thing about for me was the sleight of hand and handing the ball off. I thought the ball was going to hit the ground at the mesh point, too often, too often, and I thought the accuracy not good. Could he learn to play in the pocket you already started with? He’s never going to be a great pocket passer, but he can go to the Hall of Fame doing what he’s doing, and he’s in wrath to do that right now. So he does something no one’s ever done. And to your point, day one job one, three decades in, you didn’t know how to handle it, and your players didn’t know how to handle it, and I’m not even sure you know how to coach it. And if you could coach it, you didn’t have enough legs, you literally just didn’t have the body to get there, right, right?

Marvin Lewis  22:58

You would say the whole different perspective. You know, you can’t put any slugs on the field when you go to play against Lamar. Everybody’s gotta be able to run and have a role and understand what their role is. And it takes, like I said, 11 man team defense in order to help defend him. And you know, you know, obviously, that game in the open, the second game in the 24th season. I mean, we’re very fortunate to get out of there with a win. And you know where he didn’t just put on his cape and take it over, which we’ve all seen him do, all

Nestor Aparicio  23:33

right, you can admit right now that you would have loved to been the head coach of the Baltimore Ravens at one point in your life, and this opening happened 18 years into this thing. Jesse Minter steps into that position. Do you know Jesse Minter? Did you talk to him? Do you offer such advice or say he’s been here before? That is the interesting part about all of this is working for the Harbaugh brothers, being a hard part of the Harbaugh family. How they interviewed him first and then went back and hired him. It feels like he was targeted most of the way through this, and this is going to be comfortable for Steve, comfortable for Eric, comfortable for the building. They certainly didn’t go outside of their comfort zone as an organization, philosophically so far for me,

Marvin Lewis  24:20

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no, there’s no question about it. But yeah, I know Jesse. I did it. I did, I think three of the charger games this year. So I got a chance to talk to him a lot. Obviously, two years ago, we played against the chargers, so I got to visit with Jesse. Jesse coached my son in college, and obviously his father, Rick, was the head coach at University of Cincinnati when I went to Cincinnati. So I’ve known Rick for a long time and really respect him as a coach. So, you know, Jesse’s done a fantastic job. He really did a great job with the charger defense. Did a great job at Michigan. And you know, it just continues to grow. Well.

Nestor Aparicio  25:00

I guess we get change around here, and it’s it’s inevitable. How’s life for you? You hitting the golf ball. You’re doing some you got grandkids. What’s going on? You tutoring kids. You’re teaching them how

Marvin Lewis  25:11

to do things. I actually went to sign up to be in volunteer whatever the group yesterday called Girls with grit and just flag football. No, it’s volleyball, basketball. And ironically, it’s it started. The organization started in Cincinnati, which is incredible, and but one of the ladies who actually worked in the NFL office, and then she was with ASU here in the athletic administration, she reached out to say hello, and one of the other guys who knew I wasn’t doing anything, and said, Hey, sent me the flyers, and they thought they didn’t realize. She didn’t realize my my daughter and son in law had moved to Charlotte with the three grandsons. So anyway, but I went to their meeting, organizational meeting yesterday to sign up to be a volunteer. And soon as we get done, I got to go in and get my sign up, to get my ID and my background check and everything in order to do this.

Nestor Aparicio  26:12

But you asked to work, man, you got too much wisdom, too much energy, too much be hitting a golf ball and chasing it like Bill licks doing you don’t want to

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Marvin Lewis  26:21

do all that, you know, I do. I, you know, today’s Monday, so the course is closed, but,

Nestor Aparicio  26:26

you know, I’ll hit ball. That’s why you did the show today. All right, I thought he was bored. All right, yeah, I love you, Marvin, and I hope to see you soon over a drink and a cactus. And, you know, that’s, that’s it. Baseball, cactus baseball. Next March, I’m gonna, I’m gonna try to plan. They put the owners meetings in the Biltmore later in the month. It’s after opening day. Now they’ve moved opening day back to like February, and they’ve moved the owners meetings into like April. So I’m trying to get the whole new schedule together. But wouldn’t matter to me at all. Just you me and some some Tex Mex food out there and do things up. My love to Peggy and your children and Marcus everybody out there, I’m glad you’re doing well. And do you have any fun when you came in here for the Super Bowl? Thing was that,

Marvin Lewis  27:05

oh, we had a great time. It was well done. Just tremendous. Matt little did a tremendous job putting it together, and we had a lot of it was a lot of fun. A lot of laughing, seeing everybody, you know, I actually passed out on the Zoom call five years ago when we did that here in my house, laughing so hard without drinking. And I literally was laughing so hard I passed out and but we had a great time at the reunion. And hats off to everybody there. Matt little who, who organized it, and he really did an outstanding job. And everybody, all the players and coaches, just had an outstanding job or outstanding time, you know, being together again. I wish everybody could make it. It was great to see Rex. He’s able to fit us in his tight schedule. Well, they had to get

Nestor Aparicio  28:01

him a new jacket. I noticed a lot of the players, all the players that bragged to me. And I had lunch with one of the players a couple weeks after the event, and he said, man, they gave us that super 35 jacket. I actually have the raincoat from Super Bowl 35 that I wear when it rains. That’s got the logo on the back. And I bought it from the budget truck. Remember, the next year before you took the job, you were going to take the Bucks job. We played the bucks and we went down there. Guy brought a trailer, literally to whiskey. Joe’s the year after we won the Super Bowl, and he opened a trailer up for all the Ravens fans, and everything in there was 80% off. So I’ve got, I’ve got chocolate. You need any Super Bowl, 35 stuff. Marv, come see me. Come see me. I can take care of Marvin Lewis, the man, the myth, the legend, the Minister of Defense. Around here, he is a sunning himself. No, no, pickleball, right? No, yeah, afraid of my joints. All right, that’s good. Stay on the golf course. Marvin Lewis from the golf course, talking Max Crosby and football. We’re Baltimore positive. Stay with us. You.