The end of the season came with a thud in Pittsburgh as rookie kicker Tyler Loop’s 44-yard field goal sailed wide right and the Baltimore Ravens now move into an 8-9 season with a myriad of questions about the future of leadership. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the 26-24 loss to the Steelers and what comes next for John Harbaugh, Steve Biscotti and an organization that disappointed the NFL world in 2025.
Ravens’ Season-Ending Loss and Off-Season Reflections
- Nestor Aparicio introduces the topic of the Ravens’ season-ending loss in Pittsburgh, mentioning the missed field goal by the kicker and the extra point missed by the Steelers’ kicker.
- Luke Jones reflects on the Ravens’ season, comparing it to past seasons with losses in Buffalo and the AFC title game, noting the pattern of agonizing losses.
- Luke Jones discusses the performance of the Ravens’ defense, highlighting the big stop at the end of the first half and the atrocious performance in the second half.
- Luke Jones mentions the late-game heroics of Lamar Jackson and Zay Flowers, but ultimately blames the loss on the missed field goal by Tyler Locket.
Offensive and Defensive Performance
- Nestor Aparicio shares his experience of being in the stands during the game, noting the ongoing issues with the offensive line and pass rush.
- Nestor Aparicio criticizes the Ravens’ offense for not being dominant, mentioning the inconsistency in running the ball and protecting Lamar Jackson.
- Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones discuss the mystique of the Ravens’ defense and the problems with big playability and sustaining drives.
- Nestor Aparicio highlights the issues with the offensive line and the skill position players, noting the lack of consistency in the passing game.
Lamar Jackson’s Performance and Team Consistency
- Luke Jones and Nestor Aparicio debate Lamar Jackson’s performance, with Nestor Aparicio stating that Lamar wasn’t good enough this year.
- Luke Jones acknowledges Lamar’s health issues but emphasizes the need for him to be a bigger part of the run game.
- Luke Jones discusses the inconsistency of the passing game, mentioning the lack of consistent options beyond Zay Flowers.
- Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones agree that the offense was mediocre and not complete, with issues in the red zone and on third down.
Impact of Kyle Hamilton’s Injury
- Luke Jones highlights the significant impact of Kyle Hamilton’s injury on the Ravens’ defense, noting the drastic change in Pittsburgh’s offensive performance.
- Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones discuss the overall performance of the defense, mentioning the issues with third-down conversions and coverage.
- Luke Jones points out the defensive struggles in recent games, including the Thanksgiving night game against Cincinnati and the first game against Pittsburgh.
- Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones agree that the defense had not been trending in a great direction in the last five weeks of the season.
Special Teams and Kicking Game
- Luke Jones discusses the performance of the kicking game, mentioning the issues with the kickoffs and the missed field goal by Tyler Locket.
- Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones reflect on the lack of high-leverage situations for Tyler Locket during the regular season.
- Luke Jones compares the experience of Tyler Locket to that of Justin Tucker, noting the difference in opportunities and success.
- Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones agree that the kicking game was not good enough, with the missed field goal being a significant factor in the loss.
Overall Reflections and Future Outlook
- Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones discuss the overall performance of the Ravens, noting the mediocrity of the team and the lack of consistency.
- Nestor Aparicio mentions the need for changes in the coaching staff and the ownership, with the owner of the Indianapolis Colts meeting with the media the next day.
- Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones agree that the Ravens need to bring in competition for the kicking position, similar to what they did after Billy Cundiff missed a kick.
- Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones reflect on the emotional impact of the loss and the long off-season ahead, with plenty of discussions about Lamar Jackson and John Harbaugh.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Ravens loss, Pittsburgh, missed field goal, Lamar Jackson, Kyle Hamilton, offensive line, defense, Tyler Lockett, Aaron Rodgers, Derek Henry, red zone, playoffs, offseason, John Harbaugh.
SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Luke Jones
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T, AM, 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive the Ravens season is over. We’ll be doing the Maryland crab cake Tour presented by the Maryland lottery and GBMC here in 2026 but we will not be playing football in Baltimore next week, and Luke Jones joins us now. We are in Pittsburgh. We were together. We will talk about weather and credentials and seating and fans and all of that, but there is plenty football, as the kicker missed a field goal after the Steelers kicker missed an extra point, Luke, I’ll just throw the floor to you. I mean, it’s gonna be long off season. We’re gonna talk about Lamar. We’re gonna talk about Lamar. We’re going to talk about John, but in the context of the game, certainly a winnable football game. Yeah.
Luke Jones 00:48
I mean, the ravens are going to be thinking about this one all off season, just like they were thinking about the loss in Buffalo last off season, just like they were thinking about the AFC title game loss the offseason before that. I mean, you notice a pattern here, and the word that kept coming to mind for me as I’m in the post game locker room and hearing John Harbaugh and Lamar Jackson and Tyler loop who talked and held court and did everything you’d want a rookie to do in terms of being accountable, and you feel for him as a human being, and all that is just torment. I mean, if this weren’t an organization that does have two Super Bowls To its credit over the last quarter century, you it feels like they’re the Boston Red Sox at this point in time, in terms of what we used to think of the Red Sox as being in terms of just finding the most agonizing Ways to Lose football games and to come up short and to be disappointed. And there was a little bit of everything, as far as Sunday night’s game went in Pittsburgh, and you can look at the opening drive and the promise there, and then the offense kind of goes to sleep after that. And at one point, I even commented on social media, as many people were, in terms of it feeling like another one of those games where the Ravens were leaving Pittsburgh in the ball game, and then you get the big stop at the end of the first half and you’re saying, Wow, what a big, massive moment, a massive swing for the defense, and they come out in the second half. Kyle Hamilton gets hurt, and the defense was absolutely atrocious. I mean, he give up 23 points in the second half to no an offense with DK Metcalf or not that shouldn’t happen. Certainly not. You know, with DK Metcalf being suspended, and we saw what Pittsburgh’s offense looked like last year. But even so, Lamar Jackson comes to life in the fourth quarter. Zay flowers comes to life in the fourth quarter. You get this wild final five minutes or so where it’s just back and forth. And it’s a hell of a football game. It was, I mean, it was, if it weren’t a game that you weren’t so emotionally invested in, you would say, Man, what a way to end the regular season in the National Football League. But Boswell misses the kick, leaves the door open for the ravens to win it. There Isaiah likely makes the incredible catch on fourth and seven, and you’re thinking, wow, they’re going to steal this football game after everything that happened. They’re going to find a way to win here. They’re going to be playing Monday night against Houston. And then Tyler loop, who we pointed this out. He didn’t really get tested over the course of the season. Didn’t really have a moment to truly make a massive kick. I mean, the closest he had come was the fourth quarter kick in Cleveland, which wasn’t a game winner or a game Ender or anything like that, but we’d said at some point in time he was going to need to make a massive kick. And when it’s in that spot, rather than week three or week seven or week 11, that’s when you’re kind of holding your breath a little bit, and that’s where I get it. It was a longer kick. It wasn’t as bad a miss, but that’s where it felt very Billy Clint, if like and just like that, the Raven season’s over, and all these questions are going to come and are here, and we’re going to continue to talk about it, and we know there’s going to be change of some sort. I mean, that’s obvious, but how dramatic is it going to be? What exactly is it to? What extent does it go? We’re going to find out. But this is boy, I mean, just as agonizing as it gets and but like I said, it kind of falls in line with what this franchise has been in recent years, and certainly what this 2025 team was, and at the end of the day, it just wasn’t good enough. They weren’t good enough on Sunday night, even if they came close and they made you believe at a couple different points that they were going to be good enough. They weren’t.
Nestor Aparicio 04:54
Yeah, I guess the game is where I want to stay, because just in the beginning, we’re going to have plenty of time. To talk about John and Lamar and but just in a general sense to play. And again, I was in the stands. I was in the corner of the end zone where the kicker missed the kick. The Steeler kicker missed the Extra Point. So I was in the Aaron Rodgers end zone, not in the loop end zone, which is the closed end zone. And I guess my thought most of the game was that the lines got pushed around again. And this is a, you know, an ongoing problem for them was no pass rush, no offensive line, really, whether it came to running the ball or protecting Lamar, they weren’t really good at either one of them ever at any point, maybe going back to the first half of the Buffalo game. But we’re here. They’re eliminated. We’re in 2026 and we’re still talking about the first half of the Buffalo game as how they could be dominant. They were not a dominant football team in any way this year. I like everything about them that the mystique of Lamar, the mystique of the offense, the mystique of Derek, Henry, I mean, even the mystique of the defense, that that’s what the ravens are. The ravens are a defense franchise. I stand really overwhelmed by the body work, but I think the Pittsburgh games are microcosm of what the problems were, which is big playability, can Lamar throw it over your head? Yes, he can make a mistake. Zay flower is going to get and he did it twice, and shame on the Steelers for that. But just in regard to sustaining drives and finishing drives and red zone and scoring touchdowns, and I mean being dominant, just being consistent, it showed up again, right? I guess that’s my My thing is, it showed up again that we’re not only talking about them being eliminated, but we’re talking about Aaron Rodgers driving the ball down there on them after an injury. We’re talking about an offense that didn’t play well enough in this particular game. And I think that was the case all you’re waiting for the offense to turn on beyond Oh, Derek Henry’s going to run for 250 yards tonight because their defense is no good, or because you have some competitive advantage against the defense to allow to get run on. Bad run defense. That’s not Cleveland, and that’s not Pittsburgh, to me, you know, like, maybe the way it was a couple of weeks ago, or the way it’s been Pittsburgh sacked up. That’s all, you know. I mean, they deserve to win the football game, as far as I can, that I feel about it. And they had drives. I feel like the Ravens kind of got lucky for the dude, touchdowns in the foot, like they made a play. It was, you know, it’s a big play whenever, but that’s the way Lamar does things, and you’re sitting around all night waiting for that phone booth moment. And I even tweeted after it, I’m like, well, that’s Lamar. He can beat you. But the fact that I’ve witnessed this for a year and seen an operation that hasn’t been very good, based on the offensive line, but also the skill position players, I mean, I think everybody kind of we were evaluating this three four weeks ago when we were kicking dirt on them. Remember that we were kicking dirt on them last week because they were going to get eliminated, right? Four or five weeks ago, like we’ve been kicking dirt on them several times when they got beaten by the Bengals and the Steelers the first time around, we looked at it and said, you know, where’s the consistency of the offense? And it just never happened. It just never happened
Luke Jones 08:25
for me. No. I mean, it didn’t. They were a mediocre football team. I mean, we’ve talked about that a lot. The numbers bear that out. You can look at the season in segments, right? I mean, they started one in five the very beginning of that stretch. The the offense looked great the first couple weeks, right? I mean, in terms of putting up a bunch of points, but even then, there was a sense of it was dependent on big plays, right? It wasn’t necessarily putting together these long drives, you know, you think back to the Greg Roman years, you know, where this
Nestor Aparicio 08:59
feels dominant. There’s nothing about this to feel dominant. There’s nothing about anybody on the field other than maybe Kyle Hamilton that we look at and say, Well, are they going to be better next year than they were this year? And that goes for Lamar too. I have that question, and you and I will fight about that for the next couple because we really, really, we’re fighting in the car at two in the morning on the way home, because we legitimately disagree about Lamar and about where it’s going with Lamar, and what’s going to need to be put around him, and starting with the offensive line, but I Lamar wasn’t good enough this year. I mean, that’s a fact Jack. You know,
Luke Jones 09:34
I’m not going to disagree with that. And look, I think a lot of that is that he wasn’t healthy. I don’t think that necessarily means that’s what we saw of Lamar Jackson in 2025 is who he is moving forward, but yeah, you need him to be healthier. You need him to be a bigger part of your run game. The idea that, you know, I mean, Derek Henry ended up having a great finish to the year, but as you pointed out in. And I pointed it out, hearing me, you know, hearing me nerd it out, talking about success rate, right? And that their success rate running the ball was way better over the last month of the season, but we know over the body of work, it wasn’t as consistent the passing game. I mean, what, what was their passing game this year? Zay flowers, right? Zay and kind of hope that something else emerges now. I mean, they, they got a great play from likely, you know. I mean, you know, Mark Andrews here and there over the course of the season, but not consistently. I mean, Rashad Bateman was a non factor after having a really nice 2024 season. So, yeah. I mean, you kind of, you look at the operation and, you know, I don’t want to say they were lucky in the fourth quarter. There were great plays made, but you’re right. I mean, it was these quick strikes. So, I mean, look at their two touchdown drives in the fourth quarter. Means a catches, the 50 yard touchdown. It’s a four play, 71 yard drive, right? And then zay flowers wide open, 64 yard touchdown, three plays, 73 yards right? There wasn’t. How many times this year would they put together a 12 play, 85 yard drive where it was just crisp, balanced, you ran the ball, you threw the ball like they did, and I’m not saying they never did, and finish and finish right and finishing inside the red zone. We know how problematic the red zone was. It just wasn’t a smooth complete operation. And look, the offensive line was a big part, big reason why, right? I mean, their pass protection just wasn’t where it needed to be. Their run blocking, while certainly better. But even on Sunday night, look at Derek Henry’s numbers at halftime, and then look where he was at the end of the game. I mean, at halftime, he was over 100 yards and he had next to nothing in the third quarter, in the fourth quarter, I mean, third quarter, three carries, 11 yards. Fourth quarter, two carries, three yards, right? I mean,
Nestor Aparicio 11:51
and thought they were in some circumstances where they threw the ball, they decoyed him a little bit, sure. Quarter, oh, they did a better
Luke Jones 11:57
job of that the last couple of weeks. Finally, right after, after weeks and weeks of us saying that, you know, the idea that you automatically take them off the field on third down, even if it’s third and relatively short, always felt counterintuitive. It just, it just, it never felt complete. And that’s not to say the offense was horrible. I mean, we’ve seen some really bad offenses here in Baltimore over the course of the 30 years of the franchise. I wouldn’t say this was a bad offense, but it was inconsistent, and it wasn’t complete, and it had, you know, we whether we’re talking about the red zone, whether we’re talking about lack of success on third down, just the lack of crispness with with the passing attack, the lack of consistent options in the passing attack, beyond zay flowers and, yeah, the play of the quarterback. I’ll put that in there. I mean, Lamar didn’t play at an MVP level this year. Nowhere close to it. He’s still, you know, relative to a lot of quarterbacks, still really good, but not that great, incredible version of Lamar that last year we saw, week in and week out, 2000 frankly, what
Nestor Aparicio 13:06
they’re going to need. It’s sure it’s what this team is going to need to win, being built around Lamar and I mean, he doesn’t need to be dazzling, he but the first touchdown pass, breaking the tackles, feeling the pocket, throwing it over their heads. Kid next to me. I mean, obviously, I had Steelers fans all around me in the stands, and I was talking to kid next to me. He was a nice guy at A West Virginia hat on. I mean, I had mostly nice people around me in a general sense, just in the stands. People are afraid of coming to Pittsburgh, but when the ball went over, it said this kid had been cheering hard all night. He was a good guy, you know, wasn’t obnoxious or anything. He looked at me. He’s like, That’s just Lamar. I mean, they’re dancing in the end zone. He’s like, That’s just Lamar. And I’m like, Well, I mean, you’re Steelers fan, and you’ve seen this for a decade now, right? Sure.
Luke Jones 13:52
I mean, the effort in the fourth quarter was incredible, right? I mean that, but at the same time, the offense collectively, you know, they have a 10 nothing lead, and you’re hoping, I mean, that was the formula, right, to have a 10 nothing lead and then lean into the Steelers. And the way that they were able to just lean into the Packers, or how they were, I guess they were kind of sort of doing it against the Patriots, until they stopped doing it in the fourth quarter.
Nestor Aparicio 14:17
By the way, Aaron Rodgers was the better quarterback on on Sunday night for me, just in a one game, you know who’s going to win the game, who’s going to lead the offense, who’s going to make plays? He had no weapons. All you did, all everybody did last week is DK Metcalf from the death and we’re, you know who’s going to catch the ball, and he doesn’t have this. He doesn’t have that. I and I told you, man, we’re going to look up. It’s going to be 11 o’clock and there’s going to be a three point lead. I didn’t know it was going to be a two. Point gonna be a two point lead. That game had it all. I just thought it was a great, great. It was the best game of the year for me.
Luke Jones 14:49
Well, I mean in terms of entertainment value, I mean certainly not the Ravens best game.
Nestor Aparicio 14:54
No, no, no. I mean, I mean just as a all in playoff one, sure and done. It was a very, very good football game. And we could sit here and say they came close to winning and all of that, but they weren’t winning the Super Bowl, neither one of the Steelers, yeah.
Luke Jones 15:08
I mean, Piell it out, right? I think you know, in that talking about it from that aspect, I mean, to me, two mediocre teams duking it out in a not so good division, and Pittsburgh one, right? I mean, it’s, you know, it’s not, not that much more complex than that. I don’t think Pittsburgh was markedly better than the Ravens. I mean, Pittsburgh, their offense was awful in the first half, right? I mean, they ball went
Nestor Aparicio 15:34
over their head twice in the fourth quarter to lose the game, sure, right?
Luke Jones 15:36
Sure. But, and, you know, you give Aaron Rodgers credit, and I’ll give him credit, and it’s also a lot of bad defense on the Ravens part. And man, I saw the split. I think it was Warren sharp, who had the split of the Steelers offense with Kyle Hamilton on the field, and then the Steelers offense after Hamilton was injured, which, keep in mind he was injured, what a minute into the third quarter.
Nestor Aparicio 15:59
But there’s your MVP. When you take him off the field, you can’t win. That was your MVP last week. You handed him the award, right?
Luke Jones 16:07
Yeah, but, but Warren, and this is Warren Sharp’s work, so I want to give him credit on this, especially when they came in, I think right after the game was over. But Pittsburgh’s offense, when Hamilton was on the field, 3.9 yards per play, a 37% success rate on 38 plays when Hamilton, after Hamilton was injured, 6.9 yards per play. So you go from 3.9 to 6.9 and a 60% success rate. I mean, just, you know, that was massive. You know, it’s not, let me be clear, that doesn’t absolve the defense. I mean, there were times the Ravens over the years, played without Ray Lewis and Ed Reed and Terrell Suggs, and that didn’t mean that the defense just has license to completely fall apart and not cover anybody. I mean, there were some of those third down conversions. There were a couple examples where they dropped eight in the coverage and guys were still getting wide open, right? I mean, it just just not good enough, and we talked about that. I mean, I look at how the defense performed Cincinnati game aside, with the shutout and the cold there, and then they deserve credit for that. Because, I mean, we know what Joe burrow had done against them a couple of weeks before that. But beyond that, let’s face it, this, this defense hadn’t really been trending in a great direction the last five weeks of the season. I mean, going back to the Thanksgiving night game against Cincinnati, and what Pittsburgh did the first time. I mean, keep in mind, I mean, that was with DK Metcalf, and we were talking at that point about all Rogers as he washed and he’s not throwing the ball down the field at all, and Pittsburgh came out and threw it over their heads multiple times, right? And we saw what happened in the New England game. And for all the talk about Derek Henry in the Green Bay game, their defense was bad in Green Bay. I mean, they let Malik Willis look like not 2019 Lamar Jackson, right?
Nestor Aparicio 17:59
So Well, that’s in the totality of the team when we go to talk about them. Nothing about Sunday night. The kicking game wasn’t good enough Sunday night. I mean, kicker wasn’t very good at all. I mean the kickoff part, forget, forget missing the field goal.
Luke Jones 18:15
That was an issue for him all year with the kickoffs. I mean, I and look, it’s a rookie, and this was his first true opportunity at a high leverage situation. I mean, it’s funny. I was kind of going over it over in my head, because obviously you’re thinking about the memory of Justin Tucker, the kicker, the performer, the guy on the field, and how as well as Billy condolf And Matt Stover, I thought, over on Sunday, oh yeah, no, no question, yeah. But I have a lot of kickers, but that’s where I looked at this thing. And I was just, I was even talking with someone in the post game locker room, not a player, you know, someone else in the media, but someone who played at a high level. I’ll leave it at that. Played the game, and we were talking about the idea that, man, it just and this, I don’t think that. I can’t fault the Ravens for this, but they just it never came together for them to have a game winning situation for Tyler loop at any point in September or October or November or December, when, in contrast, I think back to Justin Tucker’s rookie year. He won the September game against New England. Remember the Tory Smith? You know, Tory Smith mourning his brother that game, the Sunday night game, he made a kick, whether he actually made it or not. Remember, there was controversy. He made a game winning kick in San Diego that year. He I feel like he had one more in the regular season, and then, my goodness, I mean, he made the biggest kick still ended up being still one of the biggest kicks of Justin Tucker’s career in Denver in the what, in the divisional round. But keep in mind, up until that point, he had made some big kicks, and he had won some games. That year Tyler, Luke, just the opportunities didn’t come in that way for him. So, man, you get this situation in week 18. And I know some people said the Ravens could have could they have run the ball again? Could they have gotten a little bit closer? Sure, and you can attest to this because you were in the elements. That was not a typical Heinz Field. I know it’s after shore stadium. Now, that was not a typical Heinz Field environment in the sense that those flags on the uprights were as calm throughout the night. There was no if I was cold. It was cold out ever it was not windy. It was right? I mean, it’s, there’s always a breeze, and there wasn’t. So I just look at that, and I don’t say this to be mean, and look, I hope this kid gets an opportunity for retribution. I do think the Ravens need to at least bring in competition in the same way they did after Billy Cundiff missed the kick in New England, they brought in Justin Tucker, right? I mean, this is, you know, it’s gonna be fair to see how he bounces back, but it was a 44 yard kick in this day and age. I mean, especially in a world where we’re seeing kickers now make, I mean, my goodness, 5860 I mean Brandon Aubrey down in Dallas, right? What he’s done over the last four or five years? And I said this when Luke missed the 50. I think what the 56 yarder in the New England game when he came up short? I mean, that wasn’t a good sign. I mean, right off, right off the bat, again, it wasn’t as bad of a miss as the cund, if one in the sense that kind of what that was 32 yards, I think it was.
Nestor Aparicio 21:35
And the confidence of the whole when you’re driving to that if the drive stalls. It’s gonna be, it’s got to be an automatic three points. It needs to feel that way.
Luke Jones 21:44
Yeah, and he, I mean, he missed, and he missed, you know, I I saw again, some people saying they could have, he could have gotten a globe. I’m not sure if you get five more yards there that he, you know, based on the trajectory of that specific kick. Obviously, why? I mean, it was wide right. I mean, it was wide right off the foot. So it’s tough. I mean, you’ve and I was a guy, even in recent years, talking about, you know, Hey, you don’t want to have to kick a lot of field goals, and that’s true. Like, you don’t want to settle for field goals, but when you have to, got to make them, and that’s where you look at this, and that’s where it was just tough. I mean, we just did not. Tyler loop did not have a body of work that. And it wasn’t his fault that he didn’t have those experiences, right? And we know he didn’t. He made one kick from beyond 50 yards all year. This wasn’t that, but that was another for me, not a Well, I mean, yeah, a red flag. I’ll call it what it was. It wasn’t again, a ton of opportunities, but you got to make those. I mean, that’s just the reality that we’re not this isn’t matched over in 1998 where a 49 year old yard kick was considered one of the longest kicks you’re gonna have to make. I mean, now that’s just, you know, 44 yarder. I mean, that’s, I don’t want to say it’s a chip shot, but it’s not too much beyond what you would perceive to be a chip shot in this day and age with how advanced kickers have become. So, you know, I don’t want to pick on it, and let’s be clear, there were other, a ton of other factors in this football game, but I can’t sit here and deny that that wasn’t a really massive failure. I mean, for him, for the special teams operation, and, you know, you got to make it. I mean, you just do in the same way that had he made it as great as Chris Boswell is, and he’s been one of the best kickers we’d be talking about that, right? I mean, that’s all Pittsburgh would be talking about. So it, it’s tough when you have that specific job, because you are on an island, kind of like a an outside corner in man coverage, right? I mean, you’re on an island, and if you get beat in that spot, and it doesn’t look the same as you know, if a defensive lineman gets beat or an inside linebacker doesn’t do his job, I mean, typically, when they don’t do their job. It doesn’t necessarily cost you so dearly, but when you’re in that spot, you know when you’re a kicker and your team gets you down the field like that. But I mean likely just, just a phenomenal catch, just phenomenal way, three or fourthly, big plays in the fourth down. But yeah, yeah. I mean, you look at the degree of difficulty and third down plays, fourth down plays. I mean, it was, it was fantastic. And you know, Pittsburgh did it as well. But I feel for him. I do, because, again, he didn’t have, it’s not as though he had made three game winning kicks in the regular season, and this was, you know, his fourth shot at it. Well, you
Nestor Aparicio 24:45
feel differently about it, I think, in the immediate aftermath. And then you look at the season and the body of work and the mediocrity of it, it’s a different thing when you miss the kick in the AFC Championship game. Because you’re, you’re, you’re head coach. Just too stupid to use the timeout that he had, that that happened. That’s not just more devastating, but that was a season when they could have won the Super Bowl. There’s still part of this with all the hand wringing, where you look at the injuries, you look at the ineffectiveness, you look at the body of work, and say, Yeah, this was the kind of team was going to come to come to Pittsburgh and miss a kick to end their season, because that had been their MO all year, falling behind, blowing leads. No leads safe. Lamar throws it over their head. Now, all of a sudden, the Steelers are behind. Well, here they come again. And there was never feeling there that the defense had the ability to shut a door. You know that if the thing had gone to overtime, if possible, had made the kick and loop, had made the kick that, I don’t know that it just felt like the Ravens were going to need one big play, that it wasn’t going to be sustainable drives and finishes, because that’s just not who they’ve been. So they were going to need their kicker, right? I mean, you know, in a general sense, they were going to need their kicker, and the whole thing just came up short. I mean, I just that’s the body work. Let’s take a break. Luke is here. We’re going to do shorter segments, getting into the day and into the week. We have some locker room sound. Luke was in the locker room all night. Tyler, Luke did speak. Nobody ran out the back door that I’m aware of. You know, I saw the hardball stuff, and obviously Derek Henry was sort of the last guy out. And there’s going to be so much cleanup in regard to who’s coming back, who’s not coming back, starting with the coach, starting with where the owner is. By the way, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts is meeting with the media tomorrow. So she meets with the media in Indianapolis. I would throw out to Steve bishati, whose organization locked me out in the cold and made me sit with Steelers fans on Sunday night for the third year in a row. It’s disgraceful. I’m going to call it what it is. I’m going to talk about it on the radio. I’m going to make all of these sick of it, because it’s disgraceful that being said, We’ll take a break. We’re going to talk a lot more football. Luke is here. He’s tired. I’m here. I’m more tired because I was out in the cold all night on Sunday night, the ravens are eliminated. We got plenty of things to talk about. He’s Luke, um Nestor. We are wnsd am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We never stop talking Baltimore positive and football and it’s baseball season now you.
