Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones discussed the upcoming Ravens game against the Dolphins, emphasizing the importance of Lamar Jackson’s return and the team’s need to win to stay competitive. They highlighted the challenges of Thursday night games, the Ravens’ 2-5 record, and the necessity of winning three straight road games. Concerns were raised about the team’s fatigue, offensive line, and defensive performance. They also noted the Dolphins’ recent win and the need for the Ravens to maintain focus and execute well. The conversation concluded with reflections on the Ravens’ schedule and the importance of the next month’s games.
Action Items
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Assess how the Ravens’ offense, especially Lamar Jackson, performs in his return from injury.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Determine if the Ravens can build momentum with a win on the road against the Dolphins.
- [ ] Analyze the Ravens’ defensive line depth with Broderick Washington’s injury.
- [ ] Evaluate the Dolphins’ offense and how the Ravens’ defense matches up, particularly in stopping the run.
Outline
Ravens’ Upcoming Game and Previous Week’s Events
- Nestor Aparicio discusses the upcoming Ravens game against the Dolphins and the importance of the game for the team’s season.
- Nestor mentions the Ravens’ current record and the need for them to win to stay competitive.
- Nestor recalls a previous conversation with Luke Jones and other guests about various topics, including baseball and community initiatives.
- Nestor shares his experience at the State Fair, including a breakfast and a conversation with Dr. Sunil Daz Gupta about political sciences.
Challenges of Thursday Night Games
- Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the challenges of Thursday night games, particularly the quick turnaround and the traditional disadvantage for the road team.
- Luke mentions the Ravens’ recent history of playing on Thursday nights and the importance of being alert to these challenges.
- Nestor recalls a past game where the Ravens faced the Dolphins and the challenges they faced that year.
- Nestor and Luke discuss the impact of Lamar Jackson’s return and the team’s need to perform well on the road.
Ravens’ Schedule and Pressure to Perform
- Nestor and Luke talk about the Ravens’ schedule and the pressure to perform well in the upcoming games.
- Luke emphasizes the importance of the next month for the Ravens to get back to a .500 record.
- Nestor and Luke discuss the challenges of playing three straight road games and the need for the team to win to stay competitive.
- Nestor expresses concerns about the team’s fatigue and the need for them to perform well despite the short rest.
Lamar Jackson’s Return and Team Dynamics
- Nestor and Luke discuss Lamar Jackson’s return and the impact it will have on the team.
- Nestor expresses skepticism about Lamar’s immediate performance and the challenges the team will face.
- Luke mentions the importance of the offensive line and the team’s chemistry in supporting Lamar.
- Nestor and Luke discuss the team’s overall performance and the need for them to gel quickly.
Dolphins’ Performance and Team Dynamics
- Nestor and Luke discuss the Dolphins’ recent performance and the challenges they will face in the upcoming game.
- Luke mentions the Dolphins’ recent win and the impact it had on their team morale.
- Nestor shares insights from his friends who are Dolphins season ticket holders and their perspective on the team.
- Nestor and Luke discuss the importance of the Ravens’ performance in the upcoming game and the need for them to win to stay competitive.
Ravens’ Defense and Key Players
- Nestor and Luke discuss the importance of the Ravens’ defense in the upcoming game.
- Luke emphasizes the need for the defense to be sharp and physical against the Dolphins’ offense.
- Nestor shares insights from his friends about the Dolphins’ crowd and the impact it could have on the game.
- Nestor and Luke discuss the importance of the Ravens’ defensive line and outside linebackers in the game.
Ravens’ Health and Team Performance
- Nestor and Luke discuss the Ravens’ current health and the impact it will have on their performance.
- Luke mentions the importance of having all 53 players on the field for the first time this season.
- Nestor shares insights from Jason Cole about the team’s potential performance.
- Nestor and Luke discuss the importance of the team’s overall performance and the need for them to gel quickly.
Ravens’ Road Games and Playoff Hopes
- Nestor and Luke discuss the importance of the Ravens’ upcoming road games and their playoff hopes.
- Luke emphasizes the need for the Ravens to win their next games to stay competitive.
- Nestor shares his thoughts on the team’s potential performance and the challenges they will face.
- Nestor and Luke discuss the importance of building momentum and the need for the team to perform well in their upcoming games.
Ravens’ Offensive and Defensive Strategies
- Nestor and Luke discuss the Ravens’ offensive and defensive strategies for the upcoming game.
- Luke emphasizes the importance of running the ball and playing clean football.
- Nestor shares insights from his friends about the Dolphins’ offense and the challenges they will face.
- Nestor and Luke discuss the importance of the Ravens’ defensive line and outside linebackers in stopping the run.
Ravens’ Performance and Future Outlook
- Nestor and Luke discuss the Ravens’ performance and their future outlook.
- Luke emphasizes the importance of the next month for the Ravens to get back to a .500 record.
- Nestor shares his thoughts on the team’s potential performance and the challenges they will face.
- Nestor and Luke discuss the importance of building momentum and the need for the team to perform well in their upcoming games.
Luke Jones and Nestor get read…urn of Lamar Jackson to Ravens
Wed, Oct 29, 2025 10:06AM • 27:42
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Ravens, Lamar Jackson, Miami game, Thursday night, road team, offensive line, defensive line, short week, injury report, road games, playoff mode, Kyle Hamilton, Tua Tagovailoa, Devonta Freeman, physicality.
SPEAKERS
Luke Jones, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive and positively short week here. We got football on Thursday night. Got football on my phone. Luke and I are be doing a post game. We’ll be ready for you on Friday morning as well. If the ravens are two and six, or if they’re three and five, and they better be three and five. In Miami, I haven’t even scratch offs to give away. I gave away a bunch of these at State Fair in the morning on on Tuesday, we had a great chat. Luke Jones joined me, as did Alan McCown. We did a big baseball segment, and Cindy Atkinson, my longtime friend, who’s doing a thing with starboard society to raise community funds for charitable to help families right here in Baltimore County. It’s a big thing. It’ll be out of Baltimore positive as well. And, you know, Luke came out with us, and I had a pretty good time at its state fair, and I had a pretty good breakfast at at State Fair, and I had this wild conversation with Dr Sunil Daz Gupta from UMBC about political sciences. His podcast is called I hate politics. And some days I want to call this I hate sports. Some people think it’s that, but I would say that the only guy may be working harder than Luke Jones this week, dragging him all over town. Poor John har ball’s got his press conferences, and Luke’s got to run do all this might be Shohei. Shohei, you looked really, really tired on Tuesday when you showed up at State Fair. And we were all, we were all up, all three of us till four o’clock in the morning watching baseball. But then I saw Shohei pitch, and my wife and I went to this Depeche Mode thing over white Marshall Tuesday night and IMAX. We love, we love Depeche Mode. And we got back around the third inning. It’s two to one. I put it on. Jen looked at Shohei. She’s like, He looks tired, man. I’m like, well, he’s got to be tired. And I would think the ravens are going to be I mean, these Thursday night games are slog, right?
Luke Jones 01:55
Yeah, yeah. No question about it. It’s amazing to it was amazing to hear John Smoltz his perspective on Shohei Ohtani starting a World Series game, talking about what the normal process is for a starting pitcher in any game, let alone the most important game you’re going to pitch in your life, certainly one of the most important games you’ll ever pitch. And just to think that he was getting on base, what, nine times, and playing an 18 inning game. And I get it, he was D aging, but still. So it was definitely crazy. But you said it as we transition here, talking about football, talking about the ravens, these Thursday night games are always strange timing in terms of just your normal equilibrium, as you and I are talking now, they’ve finished up the open practices in Owings Mills already, right? I mean, they had a walk through Monday. They had a light but a practice on Tuesday. You know, it was a lighter practice, but it was a practice. They were in helmets, all that so, but you kind of get into that mode where it’s the end of the week. It feels like Friday or Saturday in terms of a normal game week. Meanwhile, the rest of the league is getting ready to start their practice week, right? I mean, that’s how it kind of is. So it’s strange. It’s definitely a quick turnaround. I think we all understand the history of the traditional disadvantage that the road team has on a Thursday night game. So that’s something that the Ravens need to be on alert about, I think, all things being equal. And certainly you look at at the betting line, which is something you and I have talked about a little more than normal here of late, for obvious reasons, with the injury report thing last week. But everyone expects the ravens to win this game, but they’re on the road. They have, you know, they can go back as recently as four years ago, going to Miami on a Thursday night, facing a dolphins team that was not good at that point in time either. And they
Nestor Aparicio 03:53
got worked well, that was the week that Har ball. And I got sideways, because I had the audacity to ask them about Lamar running the ball 21 times against the Vikings in an overtime game, and the injuries set in at that point. That Chicago memory we had last week about Snoop playing that was, you know, I remember being there and all the dodging and hiding they were doing at that point about Lamar. That was a freaky game that Lamar didn’t play in Chicago that year. So, I mean, they all run together. For me, to some degree, I kind of keep them together. And now they’ve screwed up with the 17th game, or like, years when we play the NFC, the Packers and the lions in the like, I can usually keep them four years apart, so I can remember back, but it has been 30 years, and I’m getting older. But these, this is a wild game in a lot of ways, right? Because the dolphins have been so bad, but look good a couple of days ago, the Ravens have been so bad, but are trying to get better. Lamar coming back is its own story, as is the fine and whatever draft pick that Roger is going to take away from what. From Eric Decosta for playing shenanigans over the weekend, moving the line five points that the Lamar homecoming. Part stacks on top of the Lamar. Is he ready to play? Part stacks on top of the how’s the offensive line look? Which stacks on top of the they don’t have a pass rush? Which stacks on top of the four games on the, you know, four days and they got to go on the road, which stacks on top of they got to win three in a row on the road, which stacks on top of the fact that they’re two and five to begin with? And you start stacking all that up, they come out of this great Lamar is fresh because he didn’t play. He’s really healthy, not 91% where he’s gonna get caught by a linebacker or something like that, or worse, pull up lame. And then you got everybody else on the roster who literally feels like you looked on Tuesday morning, and Shohei Otani looked on Tuesday night, and probably the way I’m gonna look in the post game probably Friday morning, when I’m at the Nashville airport. So I mean, fatigue is fatigue, and it gets us all right. And the dolphins are coming off of this high thing, the ravens are coming off of we got to get our quarterback back and look normal. Now it’s got to work. Timing has to work. Now. We have to be better than we even were a month ago, when we had all of these parts, there’s a lot of pressure on them this game. I mean, it really is and and every stumble here will be fatal for them. Yeah.
Luke Jones 06:29
I mean, we talked about it a little bit earlier in the week, when you kind of look at how their schedule breaks down, fact that you started one in five, and what that means in terms of your margin for error, which shrinks it considerably. They they need to make their hay here over this next month. I mean, this is their opportunity to get back to 500 to get to six and five, let’s say, I mean, if you can do that, then I like where they are going into the final five games of the season. If they can do that, if they stub their toe, whether it’s Thursday night or in Minnesota or at Cleveland, right? I mean, to your point, three straight road games is three straight road games. Even if it’s not murderers row, in terms of the teams that you’re playing, you still need to go do it. And to your point, when you’re talking about being two and five, when you’re talking about your quarterback coming back from a hamstring injury. He’s practicing fully. He’s playing, right? There’s no more drama there, unless something happens in the walkthrough or something along those lines. We heard from Lamar himself on Tuesday, right? He’s playing. So that’s great, but what does he look like? What does this offensive line look like, protecting him when he takes off? To your point. Is he explosive enough? Right? Let me rephrase that, explosive enough for lamars.
Nestor Aparicio 07:47
Okay, but this is where I’m this is where I’m going to get sideways with the Lamar people at on YouTube. Okay, so he’s getting older. He’s banged up. It’s middle of the season. Offensive line isn’t very good. They haven’t had a chemistry to really work from because he hasn’t practiced in a month. Even if he did, they had chemistry in August. They never took it onto the field because it didn’t other than the first half of the Buffalo game, nothing was really working all that well. In any case, I don’t know how quickly they can turn it on. You know, I had Jason Cole on this week, and he said the parts are here for this to be good. And I beat up hardball pretty good in my dear John Harbaugh peace last week, but I said they’re going to be seven and seven. I’ve had lots of people say they’re going to be six and five by Thanksgiving, right? So, fair enough, but to think that Lamar is going to come back and look like Lamar three years ago, like a Cadillac running around in the best days of this offense, whatever the best, whatever you think the best days were, whether it was before Derek Henry got here on Derrick Henry’s best day, because he is an asset that whatever they can be, to expect that out of the gate and expect Lamar to go out and look like MVP Lamar, I think that’s a that would really impress me. They go out and lay up 44 points and score five touchdowns and make it look like indoor pinball and make it look easy, as they’ve done, I would really be impressed by that, but that’s not what I’m thinking. I’m thinking this is going to be a scrap and a brawl and turnovers and a little sloppy and a little beaten up, and because it’s Thursday night football, the ball is going to wind up on the ground whoever lands on it, because that’s kind of how it works. I just I can’t have a higher expectation than what the reality would state about how this is going to look on Thursday night with him coming back and they haven’t practiced at all. I mean, I just, I don’t expect this to look like Kurt Warner running the 99 rams. I really don’t. Oh, and
Luke Jones 09:56
that’s fair. I mean, I’m not going to sit here and say I expect them to. Hang 50 on them, you know, like, I think back to the 2019 open or what was that? 59 to nothing, or 53 to whatever it was. It was lamar’s coming out as not just the starting quarterback in the NFL, but going on to be the MVP of the league, right, when he had that big opening day in 2019 but they are healthy. I mean, this is the first Tuesday was the first time Monday, and Monday was a walkthrough. Said that was an estimated walk up injury report. But Tuesday was the first time all season they had every single member of their current 53 man roster on the field. Early on they didn’t have, likely they didn’t have Patrick record. Once those guys came back, you know, once Ricard was back on the practice field. Lamar was hurt at that point in time. So it’s the first time. And, and, right? And last last week, they were very close to that, but they still had, you know, Marlon Humphrey was sick one day. Ronnie Stanley missed Friday’s practice, right? So, but Tuesday was the first time they had all 53 guys. Now, that’s not Matt abigay, right? It’s not Broderick Washington, who, by the way, is having surgery. I’m not sure what his status is going to be. He’s certainly not coming back anytime soon as he was eligible, having sat out the last four games. So that’s even, that’s an even bigger long term hit for your your defensive line depth. I think that’s, you know, that’s a position group to keep an eye on. To your point, it’s a short week, you know, we’ll talk. The focus is going to be on Lamar, on the offense, and the offense, understandably so. But how does that defensive line look, which we know it’s an undermanned group. How does outside linebacker look that’s an undermanned group that’s lighter in terms of numbers. How do they look on a short week against a dolphins offense. That to your point. I mean, they didn’t just win on Sunday. They played really, really well. I mean, that was
Nestor Aparicio 11:47
they rallied for their coach, who’s really under duress right.
Luke Jones 11:51
Other than the Jets beating the Bengals, there wasn’t a more shocking result. And I would say this was more shocking in terms of not just that they didn’t that they won, but they won so emphatically. I get it, the Falcons didn’t have cousin or they didn’t have Michael pennix and they didn’t have Drake London. But that was I looked at that, and I just shrugged my shoulders and reminded myself, it’s the NFL. Nothing makes sense on a week by week basis. So does that dolphins team show up again? Hey, Anthony Weaver is their defensive coordinator. If there’s someone who’s familiar and knows this ravens offense knows, on paper, maybe the best way to play Lamar Jackson. Now that doesn’t mean that it works, right, but probably has at least an idea of some best practices for not letting this offense annihilate you. So you know, it is going to be interesting to see how they respond. They are healthy to your point. That doesn’t mean that it’s going to be firing on all cylinders at the same time. I certainly expect them to be better than they were a few weeks ago with Cooper rush at quarterback. I mean, that’s stating the obvious, right? I expect them to score points, just doesn’t mean that that’s going to be 50, right? So, and you want to be sharp, you need to be on your P’s and Q’s. You can’t have pre snap penalties, right? It’s a Miami crowd that maybe has a little bit of juice in the first five minutes of the game. But if you go, if you march right down the field and score a touchdown on your opening drive. What’s that crowd gonna dude?
Nestor Aparicio 13:23
I got like, you know what? I have three really good friends of mine who are dolphin season ticket holders and have been as long as I’ve known them. And I’ve known them a quarter century. You know what I mean? Like, just forever and ever. I have pictures with them down there, 20 years ago, all of them, this was the year that they just said, this is my I’m out. And maybe it’s because they’re my age, sort of an aging out. And by the way, I did the BBj symposium with Sashi and Katie, and one of their big things was, you know, backfilling young people, trying to get young people, young people, young people to the games, and young people not paying, not caring about the home team and the gambling side, young people not allowed to gamble, right, right? That’s going to be their portal. So, you know, all of that aside, they got to go play football. But I, I’ve had a wild week talking about the business of all of this, and watching the World Series and wondering what the Orioles are going to be, and talking about the Orioles new manager and recruiting the community, and having Sashi tell me how good it was to see me and all of that stuff. This is, you know, pretty crucial. And they, I mean, they’re not, they’re not home for a month. They got to go win some football games here, and I don’t again, they haven’t practiced. Lamar hasn’t put like I expect this to be really sloggy on Thursday night. And I’m I’m worried for them. I think that they’re vulnerable in this sort of circumstance, much more so than I’m not worried about them next week against Minnesota. You know what? I mean, like some other teams, but dolphins have a quarterback that can sling it. Got into a groove a couple days ago, a groove that Lamar isn’t in yet, that. Mars, gonna have to find in the first quarter? Yeah, not by the second quarter, you
Luke Jones 15:04
know? I mean, I also, I don’t want to get too caught up in how the dolphins look Sunday, because they absolutely look dreadful for multiple weeks leading up to that. I mean, two weeks ago, I was saying to you, I didn’t know if, Mike, if McDaniel, was still going to be their head coach come the Thursday night game, he’s, I guess you could say he’s weathered that storm.
Nestor Aparicio 15:24
And by the way, unlike our organization, that is the kind of organization that fires guys at the bye week. I mean, there’s certain places that happens that would be
Luke Jones 15:32
one of them, it is, or they would say, We’re tanking the rest of the way, and then we’ll fire them at the end of the year, because that organization was had shenanigans like that in the past for two Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I hear exactly what you’re saying. I’m not sitting here at all saying, I mean, the ravens are two and five, right? I mean, I I think it was interesting to hear Kyle Hamilton’s perspective one after the game, which I wasn’t in on the scrum because he talked as podium was still going on, but he did talk to reporters in the locker room, and he had this question where he was asked how gratifying it was. He said, well, like we didn’t win the Super Bowl, it was, it was exactly what I wanted to hear, frankly, right? You don’t want these guys to have this elation, or it was okay to have a brief sigh of relief on Sunday, right, that you won and Tyler Huntley did what, exactly what you could have dreamed of him doing for you, and you won a football game against the team that had played pretty well up to that point. But the idea is it doesn’t mean everything’s fixed. You’re still two and five and Kyle Hamilton, he was kind of asked about your mindset, because it’s funny, you’ll hear teams when you get off to a bad start and then you win a game, what do you hear or want to know? Right? You you basically say you’re ignoring what happened in the first six games. And from this point on, it’s a one compartmentalizing, I mean, Brian, Brian Billick, I famously remember that. You know why I know because my best buddy, who’s a die hard Ravens fan, he texted me on Sunday, saying, we’re one. And, oh, right. I mean, it was and Billick, Billick got, you know, that’s how you try to rally the troops when you’ve gotten off to a bad start. But Kyle Hamilton said it in the locker room on Tuesday, and I thought it was just mature perspective from him, you know, one of the leaders on this football team, where he said, Look, we have to be, we have to be cognizant and understanding of where we are, you know, acknowledging the fact that we’re two and five, and that’s left us in a not so great position from a mathematical standpoint. That said, I love our outlook. You know, he was basically saying, Look, we are two and five. We had a brutal start to the season, but moving forward, I do like where we are. And if that’s the case, then you’ll go out there, go down to Miami, Thursday night, you’ll take care of business.
Nestor Aparicio 17:55
I’ve made the case all along that nine and eight is going to win the division for them, if they’re the team that’s nine and eight beating Steelers do. And that’s literally, it comes down to that, but taking care of business and beat the team supposed to beat, when your favorite all that, and not saying, well, the lions were really good, and we didn’t have Lamar against the Rams. And, you know, the chiefs of the chiefs, and, like all those excuses that were built in from the minute the schedule was was built, from the minute the schedule was built, I’m like, this is a tretch first month, and they stubbed their toe. But unlike the 74 colts, they have pedigree to be able to come back, and part of that is Hopkins making a big catch when he face masks a guy and getting away with it. And Derek Henry may be getting loose and being what you need him to be on Thursday night, which is, you know, a factor, factor back, you know, in a way that they need to find other ways to win the game, other than Lamar is going to go in the phone booth and defensively, defensively against This dolphins unit and skill position players and stuff, you know. So I’m going to celebrate every punt throw, every third down that they get off the field on Thursday night is should be a celebration, because the dolphins are going to score points on Thursday night.
Luke Jones 19:13
I mean, they I’m not going to sit here and say that they’re definitively going to score a ton of points, but you better be sharp defensively. You better be and it starts with your run fits, because while that offense statistically hasn’t been great running the football in the sense that, you know, they’re first in the league or anything like that, I mean, I think going into a Thursday night’s game, they’re 23rd in rushing yards per game. A lot of that has to do with the fact that they’ve been trailing a whole lot, right? I mean, they’ve they’ve been losing a whole lot, but Devon, a chain, is still a home run hitter as a running back, they need their they need their edge players to set the edge. They need to have proper run fits. They need to be physical. I think one thing that’s been encouraging about the. Football team, even going back to the Rams game, is showing more physicality as a defense and stopping the run. I mean, that’s really where it begins. And if you notice in that bears game, early on, the bears were running the ball on them a little bit as the game went on, they really tighten that up, and it made it that much more difficult. The same is going to hold true for this game the dolphins, as much as you mentioned two on and look, he had a good game on Sunday. Two has played very poor football this year. So far Sunday aside, he’s been poor, I mean, to the point where there’s starting to be some chatter about whether he’s going to get benched or not. That’s how bad he is.
Nestor Aparicio 20:35
McDaniel said, Sit down at one point, right? Yeah, so,
Luke Jones 20:39
but it still comes back to they want to run the football and let that kind of drive the bus offensively. And then you can take a shot to Jalen waddle right. Then tua can throw a ball downfield, understanding the Ravens don’t have a great pass rush. So if you have them in a position where it’s third and three, then, you know, I mean, most offenses are going to be pretty good converting third and three, but if you have them third and eight, because you’ve stopped the run on early down settings, then that’s where the Ravens can probably run some sim pressures or Blitz, or do some things on the back end of the coverage. And, you know, Force Two on to making a mistake, right? Like like Caleb Williams did against Nate Wiggins in crunch time on Sunday. So we’re going to see how it plays out. I think look on paper, with Lamar being back and the Ravens being as healthy as they’ve been all year, even on a short week, and understanding those challenges, yes, the Ravens should be favored. However, they’re two and five, and the Dolphins are two and six, right? I mean, let’s, let’s also not completely lose, lose our minds here. And I think this was your point in terms of necessarily thinking that Lamar just trots out to the field and the Ravens are going to hang a 50 burger on them. I mean, it, it’s harder to do it than that, right? So go out there, run the ball. Play clean. Don’t commit too many, too many penalties. You need your offensive line to be as physical as they can be. This is a dolphins defensive front. I you know, it’s a defensive line that has some good players, right? I mean, Zach sealer, the former ravens draft pick, has become one of the best interior defensive linemen in the in the AFC, right? So they have edge players that, frankly, are going to be individuals of interest at the trade deadline, right? I mean, the Ravens have even, you know, people have speculated about the Ravens looking into wanting one of their defensive linemen or one of their edge guys, so we’re going to see that. But they have some talented players. It hasn’t. They haven’t been able to put it together whatsoever, other than Sunday’s game, you know, speaking of the dolphins. But at the same time, the ravens are two and five, and they’re playing on the road, and it’s a short week, and we know the road team in Thursday night football usually doesn’t fare well. And, oh, by the way, the ravens are still looking for their first road win of the season. So as as much as the vibe shifted on Sunday into Sunday night, when the not only the Ravens win, but the Bengals lose, and the Steelers lose on Sunday night football, and you’re looking at the standings, and you’re saying, oh my goodness, this. It doesn’t look as bad as it did a week ago or two weeks ago. It can all it can flip that much, that much more quickly. And to your point, if you’re two and six, then you’re, you know, you’re kind of right back to feeling as lousy as you felt a couple weeks ago. And that’s with, oh yeah, two road games to follow after that. So, I mean, this is obviously important, you know, they’re, they’re in. A lot of players have said this. I mean, is it playoff mode in the sense that if they suffer one more loss, that then they’re done, done? No, of course not. But, man, you can’t be dropping games that you’re supposed to win, and this is a game, frankly, if they are the team that we’re all thinking of, projecting them out to be, that they have the chance to be that this needs to be a game you win then, I mean, it’s just that simple, if not, then that’s where I start to have my doubts as far as just how well they’re going to be able to turn this thing around, because you’ve got to build some momentum. As I said, this next month to me, is where it’s critical for them to get to a point where they’re five and five, six and five, because that December schedule does toughen up again, right? I mean, especially when you look at the very end of it. I mean, three of their last four games are on the road. Their one home game is New England, who, by the way, is looking like one of the better teams in the AFC at this point in time. So you need to be in as great a position as you can be come Thanksgiving when the Bengals come to town, and we’ll see where Cincinnati is at that point in time. But if the Ravens have dropped a couple games between now and then, man, I’m then I’m not liking their chances. Even, you know, when you’re talking in terms of like, nine and eight, or, you know, whatever it’s going to be to potentially win the division. Because, you know, at that point. Point you’re just, you’ve dropped enough games where you just don’t have that confidence that they’re going to get on that kind of role. So, yeah, they need to win Thursday night. I mean, I just plain, plain and simple, you need to win, right? You don’t win one game and say, Oh, we’re okay if you just slide right back into sloppy football and your defense being lousy and your offensive line not blocking anyone. Then, yeah, then, then you, you really start to that optimism that you’ve built over these last it’s funny to say it’s four days, right? I mean, it’s such a short week, but hey, you got to win. And they, they should win, if they are at all the team we’re still thinking they can be as the season.
Nestor Aparicio 25:40
Yeah, show me whether you’re the one in five team or whether you’re going to be the 10 and 17 that battles back from one and five. That’s where this is right now. No excuses except short rest and the dolphins and on the road and all that stuff. Luke will be up late. I will be up late creating Friday mornings magic for you. So if you’re watching the Ravens game, and of course, we’re going to World Series game now on Friday as well, with the Blue Jays winning game four. So good World Series this week. I had a beautiful breakfast at State Fair. Gave away some Raven scratch offs from the Maryland lottery over in Catonsville in the 21228, as well. Took them a table to table there for breakfast, and Luke and Allen came by. Had a great conversation about new Orioles manager albornaz, it doesn’t roll off. I’m thinking like Kenny Albert. I’m thinking like Alvarez albernaz, who with the Boston accent. So we’ll be talking more about him, and I guess there’s a press conference next week after the World Series is over. So busy times around here, we will have a Sunday where I get to play the remote control jockey on the couch, and actually, I just put red zone on and turn the sound down a little bit and wait for something to happen around here. But big week two football games, big week for the Ravens. I attended the Baltimore Business Journal event with Katie Griggs and Sashi Brown, and I have so many observations that I I may make them public, we’ll see it’ll just bleed out and bleed in. But they are kind of running the place. So I did not interact with them because they didn’t really want to hear from me. But Luke does want to hear from me, and everybody else that wants to hear from Luke, you can hit him. Luke at W N st.net, you can hit me. Nestor, Baltimore, positive.com, and also, next Wednesday, we are at Coco’s. I got some really good guests at Cocos. On Wednesday, I’m looking forward to that. And then on Friday, we’re going to be at Pizza John’s in Essex. That’s before the Vikings game next week. And because we’re pizza John’s loops trying to come too. So because he knows what’s good, I am Nestor. We are W, N, S T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. Enjoy the football game. There’ll be more to come. We’re Baltimore positive. You.
