Luke Jones joins Nestor at Faidley’s to preview the Ravens final fake football weekend and edge of roster cuts as Buffalo looms large and soon

When Lamar Jackson walks off the practice field, it’s big news in Owings Mills and around the NFL. Turns out, we think this was a lot about a little. But, time will tell. Luke Jones joins Nestor at Faidley’s to preview the Ravens final fake football weekend and edge of roster cuts as Buffalo looms large and soon.

Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones discussed the Baltimore Ravens’ final roster cuts and preparations for the upcoming season. They highlighted concerns over injuries, particularly Lamar Jackson’s foot, and the potential impact on roster decisions. Jones mentioned the importance of players like Jair Alexander and DeAndre Hopkins, noting Hopkins’ role in expanding the offense. They also discussed the depth on the offensive line, the uncertainty around the third safety position, and the potential for Davion Clowney to join the team. The conversation concluded with optimism about the Ravens’ prospects, emphasizing the importance of health and depth in key positions.

• [ ] Monitor Jaire Alexander’s status and availability for Week 1
• [ ] Evaluate the third safety option and Malachi Starks’ readiness for the starting role
• [ ] Assess Trenton Simpson’s ability to handle the weak-side linebacker role
• [ ] Explore the possibility of signing a veteran edge rusher, such as Jadeveon Clowney, to bolster the pass rush

Ravens Final Fake Football Weekend and Roster Cuts

• Nestor Aparicio discusses the excitement around the Ravens’ final fake football weekend and the upcoming roster cuts.
• Luke Jones mentions the skepticism around injuries, referencing Lamar Jackson’s recent foot injury.
• The conversation touches on the importance of the final cuts happening on Tuesday and the upcoming Labor Day weekend.
• Luke Jones highlights the scout team’s preparation for upcoming games against Buffalo and Cleveland.

Injury Concerns and Practice Updates

• Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones discuss the skepticism around injury reports, referencing Chad Steele.
• Luke Jones mentions that Lamar Jackson is expected to be okay, with an X-ray on his foot.
• The conversation covers the importance of the final week of practice and the potential for injuries affecting roster spots.
• Luke Jones notes that the Ravens will not be having a scrimmage with the Commanders due to scheduling conflicts.

Player Availability and Offensive Strategy

• Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones discuss the impact of losing Darius Washington and other players.
• Luke Jones mentions the importance of Jair Alexander’s knee and his availability for the season.
• The conversation covers the potential use of more 11 personnel (three wide receiver sets) if Likely is not available.
• Luke Jones highlights the Ravens’ reliance on running the ball and the impact of DeAndre Hopkins on the offense.

DeAndre Hopkins and Offensive Depth

• Luke Jones compares DeAndre Hopkins’ expected contributions to those of Odell Beckham Jr.
• The conversation touches on the cost-effectiveness of Hopkins’ contract compared to other top wide receivers.
• Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones discuss the balance between running the ball and passing in the Ravens’ offense.
• Luke Jones mentions the importance of having a dynamic running game to take pressure off Lamar Jackson.

Defensive Strategy and Personnel

• Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones discuss the defensive strategy and the role of Kyle Hamilton.
• Luke Jones mentions the potential for more conservative play early in the season due to personnel concerns.
• The conversation covers the importance of having a reliable third safety option.
• Luke Jones highlights the complexity of the back end of the defense and the potential for more three-corner nickel or four-corner dime looks.

Health and Roster Questions

• Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones discuss the importance of player health and availability.
• Luke Jones mentions the potential for Adisa Isaac’s injury to impact the roster, specifically David Ajabo’s role.
• The conversation covers the possibility of bringing back Davion Clowney to address special teams needs.
• Luke Jones highlights the importance of having a reliable fifth outside linebacker for special teams.

Final Thoughts on the Ravens’ Roster

• Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones discuss the overall strength of the Ravens’ roster.
• Luke Jones mentions the importance of depth and the potential for injuries affecting the team’s performance.
• The conversation covers the importance of the first few games of the season, particularly against Buffalo and Kansas City.
• Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones express confidence in the Ravens’ ability to compete for the AFC Championship.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Ravens roster cuts, Lamar Jackson, DeAndre Hopkins, offensive line, defensive strategy, Kyle Hamilton, Malachi Starks, Trenton Simpson, special teams, injury concerns, Buffalo game, Kansas City, practice squad, depth chart.

SPEAKERS

Nestor Aparicio, Luke Jones

Nestor Aparicio  00:00

Welcome home. We are W, N, S T. Am 1570 task Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive. I’d love to show you the crab cake platter that I have with the big fat steak fries that I love so much here at fatalities, and the cucumber salad that I only can get here because it is delicious. But I ate it all. Luke Jones ate all of his as well, but we did not eat the Maryland lottery tickets like the Whammy not eating our savings, pressure locks. We also have the Lucky Seven stubblers, the Raven scratch also now available, as well as a big $700 million jackpot going on right now with the Powerball as well our friends at GPMC, we’re walking, welcoming them in as our new hotline sponsor. They’ll also be doing some injury report work here into the fall. We did a whole dissertation on baseball. Michaelias, Samuel, pasai, oh and Dylan beavers, it’s football season in the Charm City. It is out here for fade leads. And you know, the Astros were in for this, and we had a big lunch crowd, and I baseball is going to leave us lonely. The football team takes off so much that Lamar Jackson can get stepped on in a practice, and it becomes like Schefter tweets, and is it a wrist? Is it a foot? Where’s John Harbaugh? And anytime it says to me, and I know you might concur, might not, Raven spokesman said, bank, I go, that’s what I do. So yes,

Luke Jones  01:31

well, and it’s look, there have been enough examples with injuries, specifically over the years where, yeah, you’re going to be a little skeptical.

Nestor Aparicio  01:40

I trust Trump more than I trust Chad Steele, and that’s not saying much, so, but the

Luke Jones  01:45

good news is, it does sound like he’s okay. They did X ray his foot just to be okay, assuming we see him out there next week, as we’re kind of in that last you know, final cuts happen Tuesday, and they’ll get up, they’ll get a respite over a long weekend, Labor Day weekend, then they’ll be back that Monday, and then it’s game week. I mean, there’s so much hurry up and wait, and then suddenly it’s go time, right? I mean, this past week, out of practice, you see, you saw some of the quality control type coaches holding up the cards. That’s when you know scout team is working. And they’re looking at Buffalo, they’re looking at Cleveland. Joe Flacco getting the start for the browns in week two, as predicted here. Wn, yeah, but it’s starting to feel real now, and what we’ll see that here. I mean, they’re going to play down in land over maybe there’s one or two jobs left up for grabs, you know, see what happens there. See if anyone gets hurt. You know, as you know, some back end of the roster guys could always get hurt and wheat in the final week of the priest, and they’re not doing the scrimmage with the command. No, they’re not. They’re not. They ended up and it was odd, because the rationale that both teams kind of talked about was, well, Washington had a Monday night game. It’s like schedule came out in May. You guys knew this, you know, it’s not that big of a deal, but it’s just kind of odd. But, you know, they practice this week, you know, again, the Lamar scare aside, pretty unremarkable week. I mean, they’ve got some veteran guys that they’re kind of managing through, you know, Jair Alexander’s kind of the last week to 10 days. They’re kind

Nestor Aparicio  03:15

of, if they’re ready, against buffalo, that’s what matters. Playing against buffalo,

Luke Jones  03:19

likely. Isaiah, likely? I mean, we don’t know that for sure, but I don’t see any way. I mean, I just don’t I think week two, week three, if he’s playing, then I think you feel good.

Nestor Aparicio  03:30

So if where you are right now is, since they lost our Darius Washington, they’ve only really lost likely, as far as, as far as impacts, yeah,

Luke Jones  03:42

I mean, the two six round cornerbacks. I mean, you know, at least one of those guys is going to be on the roster, but special teams or Game Day inactive, right? I mean, they weren’t going to be real players, but you’re trying to manage like Jair Alexander. He’s still managing the knee that he had last year. It’s why he was available in mid June for $4 million so how much of this is get him right? For week one,

Nestor Aparicio  04:03

personality is not going to play 42 snaps on September.

Luke Jones  04:07

I mean, you know, he might play 42 snaps, but he might not practice during the week to be able to do that right? I mean, that’s what we’re talking about here. So, so, you know, they’ve dealt with a little bit of that. I mean, DeAndre Hopkins, they’ve slow played him this summer. I mean, what do you really need to see out of him, other than, like, okay, he’s built enough of a rapport with Lamar that you feel good about what he’s going to do in this offense and keep him out of harm’s way. Otherwise. I mean, you know how it is with some of the more

Nestor Aparicio  04:32

veteran guys. I mean, you know what’s he In on 30 to 50 plays in the playbook? You say like, these are the plays we’re going to have a package where you’re going to be now, obviously, lots of things change. Flowers goes down. I mean, obviously Bateman gets hurt or something, yeah, move in. You have to know the offense. But for him to be out there taking snaps,

Luke Jones  04:54

well, I mean, I think you look at how the Ravens want to play, right and, and this might change a little bit the first. Couple weeks, if likely is not out there. You know, do they use a little more 11 personnel, three wide receiver sets? I mean, this is a team that likes to use two tight ends. We’ve seen that for years now. So how also a team that’s going to want to run, yeah, and of course, I mean, they want to run the ball a lot. I mean, that’s still what they do best. And that’s not a knock on Lamar or any of their wide receivers who, I mean, zay flowers is really good player. Bateman had a heck of a year last year, but they’re going to get the ball less year than they are in other places. Sure, sure. I mean, that’s not going to change. I mean, you still have Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson. I mean, I mean the greatest quarterback, running back, rushing duo in NFL history. I mean, is anything close to that? I don’t think so. So, you know, no, no. No disrespect to whoever Michael Vick had it running back on any given year, playing the running shoe here. Yeah, exactly so. So, yeah, that’s still part of it, but when you add DeAndre Hopkins, you now have a chance to be a little more multiple when you go into a three wide receiver set, as opposed to the last couple years where it was Nelson Aguilar playing that spot, or Odell Beckham, if he happened to be feeling okay that week, right? I mean, I said the I said this to you when Hopkins signed to me, this is in terms of expectations, when Beckham would was at his best for that five or six week stretch that he did have with the Ravens two years ago where he was pretty productive. I mean, go, look at the numbers. He did a nice he did a nice job. This is the Odell Beckham signing at a much more appropriate price point. And I think, you know, with Hopkins, you’re looking for two things, red zone contributions and someone that can win some 5050, balls on the outside. He’s gonna make some big plays, make some plays do, I do anything curious, the Kansas City couldn’t use him, yeah, well, and that’s, and that’s, but that’s also where, again, he was available for $5 million right? Even a good number two wide receiver in this league now is making 12 or $13 million I mean, that’s what you’re looking at at

Nestor Aparicio  06:56

this point. It’s not here to help you win the Super Bowl. He’s here to be a player.

Luke Jones  07:00

He’s, I mean, maybe that, that one or two big plays a game he makes, might be the difference. But no, I mean, put it this way, if DeAndre Hopkins sniffs 1000 yards, I’m guessing that means one of your top two wide receivers had a major long term injury. I mean, I think I again, go look at what Beckham was. I think he was around, what 500 receiving yards Would you like a little more, a touch more than that, sure, but they’re gonna run the ball a lot. They have two tight ends they want to throw the ball to a lot. I mean, like there are only so many mouths to feed in this offense, and that’s before you even get into Justice Hill as the number two running back, or Keaton Mitchell getting five or six touches are

Nestor Aparicio  07:40

actually going to do touching the ball, course, of course, are going to run nine times. 458

Luke Jones  07:45

yards. Depends on the game, right? He might have one he’ll have a day where he might run 13 times. Might have some other games where he runs twice because he doesn’t need to run. So, you know, that’s, that’s where you are, but Todd monkin wants it to be that way. You don’t want to have this identity that makes you predictable. You want, yes, you want to drill down on the things that you do best, but part of bringing in DeAndre Hopkins is expanding. I mean, part of bringing in Derrick Henry last year. Look, guys like me were saying, what? Well, you’ve had the top rushing offense even without a Derrick Henry at running back. So why do you really need that? Well, we saw what it looked like. It gives you an even more dynamic running game that now takes a little bit of the pressure off Lamar, that he doesn’t have to run 12 times every single week like he did five,

Nestor Aparicio  08:31

takes the pressure off your offensive lines. Of course, you can, you know, get away with. Course, things you can’t get away with, you don’t have

Luke Jones  08:39

to. They absolutely do. I mean, they’re often, you know, if there’s, it’s funny, I was asked this question on social media by just, you know, just a Ravens fan. They asked me the question, you know, what are my concerns about this roster right now, putting aside the January narrative, right? I mean, everything that you need to have go well to get to that point, then we could talk about that, because we will, because we have for five or six years now, I hope to still be here in January. Yes, of course, better be. I mean, something’s gone horribly wrong. If they don’t, that’s how highly I think of this football team. But you know, beyond health, you know, when you when you kind of look at how healthy they were last year, and just how likely that it’s going to be for that to happen, you know, I kind of look at, you know, where they are on their offensive line, the starting five. Thumbs up, right? And I’m not concerned about the starting five, the depth, you know, I’ve said this from the moment he signed in Jacksonville, they’re going to miss Patrick McCary, just because of how versatile he was. Now, this is not me saying the Ravens should have given him what the Jaguars paid him. No, he’s not that kind of player, but it doesn’t mean you don’t miss him. You know, he’s versatile. He was, it was almost like he was two players, because he you literally could put him at any of the five spots if something happened to a starter. I mean, they did that last year. Voorhees was a starter in the first three weeks, and then he got hurt. And you. They just happened to put him there. So, you know. So there the depth on the offensive line. I’m still uneasy about the number three safety picture because of the trickle down effect on that one. You want to be able to move Kyle Hamilton all over the place if you don’t have a third safety that you can trust to be

Nestor Aparicio  10:18

you sense September 7, it’s going to look more like it did last September against buffalo, or more of the way it did in January. When What are you seeing out on the fields there for the defense? Yeah, what they want to do with Hamilton and setting him free. How much are we going to see of that in the early going based on

Luke Jones  10:41

personnel, I’m guessing

Nestor Aparicio  10:44

it were better football team once they ditched it last year. They

Luke Jones  10:47

were but, but what? But was it the bet, the best version of maximizing his special talents? You know, because they’ve talked a lot about they want to force more turnovers, they didn’t force many turnovers last year. So to answer your question, if you’re going to ask me one or the other. I’m guessing, to start, you might see it look a little bit more like it did at the end of last year, because you have Malachi Starks seeing his first NFL action. We haven’t talked about him a whole lot. That’s a good thing. I think he’s looked the part of a starting caliber safety who should have plenty of upside. But we also know what Kyle Hamilton looked like his first six weeks in the NFL, having the ball thrown over his head in that Miami collapse, you know. So I’m expecting some hiccups from Starks here and there. So that might tell you you’re a little more conservative on the back end of the defense in terms of what you’re doing package wise. And they got to find out right now, it looks like Sanusi Kane is going to be their number three safety. Now keep in mind, we weren’t talking a lot about him. We weren’t because I ice I thought all along, and part of me still thinks at some point, though, at a veteran safety, but they haven’t to this point, and we’re getting to the point now where you’re starting to say, even if you did, is he going to be ready? Yeah. So, so I think that’s tough, the complexity on the back end. So, so that’s where I kind of look at their number three safety options. And that’s not to say that whether it’s him, whether Ruben Lowry, the undrafted rookie, again, we’re talking about a number three spot. This isn’t a guy that’s going to play 60 snaps a game, because keep in mind the what the one change now from where they were pre all the changes last year is they’re much more inclined now, because of the numbers they have at corner, to play three nickel or three corner nickel, and they could even play four corner dime, more so than relying on these three safety Looks that they really liked the last few years. Yeah, the personnel for that, but I still think you want to have those three safety looks at your disposal. So that means Sanusi Kane’s got to be able to do it. That means Malachi starts has to be able to do it. That means, if it’s Ruben Lowry, in certain circumstances, if he makes the team, which I think he’s going to, you know, you need to have those, those guys be trustworthy. Otherwise than it is Hamilton in a little more of that deep safety role, which, let me be clear when I say this, it’s not a knock on Kyle Hamilton. He he was great in that role. The point is it’s kind of like, you know what you have like Lamar. Could he just pass and not run at all, yeah. And I think he’d be way better at that than if you had asked him to do that five years ago. But why would you want to take that out of the equation? It’s the same thing with Hamilton. He played great playing in more of a deep, traditional, conventional safety role, but you love what he can do at the line of scrimmage. And you My point is you just want to be able to have your whole menu

Nestor Aparicio  13:40

of what he disruptive up front. No question

Luke Jones  13:43

so, but you gotta hold your water in the back. But I do think until those guys are settled in and you feel comfortable, maybe you’re going to see them be a little more and hey, let’s be clear, they had arguably the best defense in the league over the last six weeks last year, when you look at it statistically. For as bad as it was the first half of the year, it was that good down the stretch. So you know, I think there’s a decent chance you’re going to see them be a little more conservative in that way out of the gate. But that doesn’t mean they won’t Blitz and do the things that they do with their defensive line and their their edge rushers and all that, I mean. So you know that to me, the three, the third safety is still my big question, because part of that, and this is the other, you know, I mentioned Hamilton, the other subplot to that is inside linebacker. Do I think Trenton Simpson can do what they’re asking him to do as the weak side guy and hold on to the job after he was benched post by last year. Sure, I think, generally speaking, however, from a philosophical standpoint, when they are in obvious second and long, third and long, obvious passing situation later, I think they would like to put another defensive back in and take that second inside linebacker off the field. So again. In you don’t want to be too light in the box, because then teams will start hitting you with runs on third and six and and get you, you know, out of whack, and then, you know, they might even pick up a first first down if you’re too light. That’s again, where you come back to you need to have a viable third safety option. And that’s where I’m not saying those guys can’t do it, but it’s very much an unknown. You’re talking about the two candidates for that job right now are a second year guy who was a seventh round pick last year and Ruben Lowry, who misses a credit to him. It looks like he’s passed Beau braid in the pecking order to the point where Bo braids on the he’s on the bubble. I mean, we’ll see if he makes the team. I think if he does, it’s on special teams. But Lowry has moved ahead of him, which good for Ruben Lowry, but just because he makes a team, and you might say he’s your number four safety, and maybe you can get him in the mix as the year goes on, if you like, against Buffalo. And if he does, you’re not confident that he’s going to be perfect out there the way that you want to be, because you want to beat this team. We know this Buffalo game in week one and Kansas City at the end of September. We know how crucial Those games are for all three of those teams. Because you want to be, be the team that’s hosting the AFC Championship game, or have the chance to, let’s say, so, you got to hold court. You got to hold serve against these, these other

Nestor Aparicio  16:15

headway I’m asking you about their health, just in a general sense, just, you know, yeah, who’s going to be on the field September 7. And, you know, I’m convinced the guys, they guy, they’ll be ready to play. They’ll be ready to play. I’ll be ready to play too. No doubt, no doubt. I’m asked you in the stadium, yeah, like I said, I mean, you know, jire Alexander, that’s a general concern, right? I mean, that’s going to be week to week, right? I mean, it’s going to be, is he available this week? How much is he practicing? All that? When you see him play six weeks in a row, you’ll stop asking, right? Okay,

Luke Jones  16:43

at least it might be more than that. Because, I mean, he’s just, I mean, look at his history. The last five years. He’s terrific when he’s on the field, but he hasn’t been on the field that much. I mean, seven games or fewer, and what three of the last four seasons, I think it is. So I’m not trying to be mean, I have a lot of respect for him as a player, but he’d be the first to tell you, in any coach or general manager or any football player, Jordan Westbrook, availability is paramount. You know, you can have all these skills, but if you’re standing on the sideline, it doesn’t help so, but it’s also why they only paid them $4 million or 5 million. 4 million. You know, I loved it at 4 million. If they had given him eight, I would have been saying,

Nestor Aparicio  17:23

talk with the ravens, right? You gotta go play. And yeah, other than maybe something they pull out of the closet here with a retired player, a guy that comes back, something they didn’t want to have on the roster for week one. It’s funny, you know, you know, wherever that is somebody else’s. Anthony Levine,

Luke Jones  17:40

it’s funny. You mentioned that, because this is, this is purely my speculation. I don’t want to imply that I’ve heard this from anyone in the organization, but Adisa Isaac, and we forgot to mention him, dislocated his elbow. He’s out until halfway through the season like he has ligament damage again. Guy that was going to be on special teams maybe got a half dozen snaps a game in the rotation. So that should, to me, that means David ajabo is on the roster. However, David ajabo doesn’t play very much on special teams. This is the scenario. And you know, I probably fans listening to this right now. Know who I’m going to mention if there’s a scenario that where it would have made sense that you’re bringing back to Davion Clowney, who is still out there, and I have no idea. I don’t know if he’s planning to play it this year or not. I mean, no, that’s been quiet. I don’t, I don’t think he’s even visited anywhere.

Nestor Aparicio  18:35

I know one thing, Davian Clowney has plenty of money. He does. He doesn’t have anything. But if he’s

Luke Jones  18:40

looking for a ring, you know. But what happened there with Isaac going on IR and ajabo now looking safe, but understanding that he’s not really a special teams guy, is there some possibility that you give jadevion Clowney a call, and maybe he pushes David ajabo off the roster, because while he neither one of those guys are gonna play special teams if you have one or the other strictly as a rotational edge rusher for you, who would you rather have? All things being equal, I think it’s obviously Genevieve on cloudy at this point. So I’m not saying more one ones, right? I am not going to say, I am not saying that is going to happen, but you just asked me, like, barring some kind of unexpected veteran edition, something like that. It could be. It

Nestor Aparicio  19:25

could be. Keep in mind the Kyle V noise, Kyle van

Luke Jones  19:29

Noy, they signed in late September. That wasn’t even like, you know, Clowney and what was that? Ronald Darby was that year they signed those guys in mid August. Georgie coquinas is on this pro person. I just, it’s funny, because I had someone a few weeks back asked me about Clowney, and I kind of, I wasn’t really seeing it based on the numbers that they have, and they really do, like Mike Green. I mean, I think they’re excited about him, but until I see him against starting offensive lineman in the NFL, like, Let’s pump the brakes a little. But they are excited about him. So you know, you’ve got. Your top four of Van Noy away, tavius Robinson, I don’t know if you saw Double J was in town and he was working with him. They loved tavius Robinson. Now I don’t think he’s ever going to be like a 12 sack guy. I mean, Jared Johnson wasn’t that guy, but in terms of an edge setter playing the run lunch pail guy that you can count on to play 50 snaps every week. I think they feel that he can be that kind of guy for them.

Nestor Aparicio  20:24

Brian Murray, my first hockey coach, back in the 80s of the caps, he had this list that he would talk with like this. And he when he really liked a player, he would say that it plays very responsibly. Yeah, responsible

Luke Jones  20:39

player. I mean, they love it. That’s a defense. He works so hard all that

Nestor Aparicio  20:43

defensive mode, you know, so like so you can trust Johnson. I put on Jared Facebook, but Kenny fish,

Luke Jones  20:54

I’m sure that came up. I’m sure Jared will be back in Florida fishing, not to go fish. I follow him on Instagram, and anytime he posts, it’s not a picture of him and his family, it’s him on a fishing boat. I love Josh, but, but, you know, but you look at they have those three guys then Mike Green. So those are your four that are your like rotation guys. Typically, you have a fifth guy that is more special teams inclined. That’s where I Adisa Isaac was going to fit in. So I don’t know exactly where those special teams snaps are going to go. Probably a few more to some of the inside linebackers. But if you have a fifth outside linebacker who’s not playing special teams, and David ajabo, you know, he practices there, I’ve never seen him do it a lot, enough to inspire confidence, you know, there, I’m just putting it out there. If that ends up happening in the next week and you get the wnst Baltimore positive text alert, you could say, well, Luke, at least mentioned this possibility. But again, this is purely me talking out of my you know what? This was not something someone in the organization mentioned to me. I just, I’m looking at the logic of it, especially if Clowney wants to come here on the cheap, which, that’s a big question too, because he like, he likes his money. You know, he may not need it, but he likes it. I mean, that’s why he signed in Carolina. Every week they win years ago, in October. So, so we’ll see. But I mean, for the most part, I mean, most of these I’ve mentioned guys on the bubble, like a Jabo braid, figuring out who the last offensive lineman is going to be like. These aren’t like major roster questions. These are much more on the margins the team that thinks it’s going to win 12 or 13. And that’s the thing. I mean, if you’re sitting here, Samuel, I don’t know who the starting guard, you know? I mean, I know people aren’t big. Daniel foul Layla, fans in these parts, you know that people were. But look, there might be three teams in the league that love all five of their starting offensive linemen. You know, fill that week six. One of those guys is gone, because that’s just how this works. So, you know, I think, do they have a couple spots where there’s some relative questions, relative weakness? Sure, every team has that. Buffalo has that. Kansas City apps. Kansas City’s had issues at left tackle going back to when the Buccaneers blew them out in the Super Bowl, right? I mean, they had Orlando Brown for five minutes. He was okay for them, but they didn’t marry him, right? I mean, they didn’t sign him long term. So they’ve been trying to solve that for five years now. Now they draft, they drafted, and, you know, we’ll see what happens there for them. But you know, even the team that’s won it multiple times has roster questions, so that’s where I you know, all this minutia about the 53 and the practice squad and everything, like, look, that’s what I do. And I’m a nerd. I like that kind of stuff, but you take a step back and say, it’s a heck of a roster. And to your point, at the beginning of our conversation, barring something horrifically wrong, something that goes That’s

Nestor Aparicio  23:46

catastrophic, like an Oriole season. Wow,

Luke Jones  23:49

boring, something like that. You know, we’re going to be talking about this team in this in the second week of January, talking about, hey, can they finally break through? Well,

Nestor Aparicio  23:57

buffalo, September 7, Luke Jones is here. He’s Baltimore. Luke, out on the interwebs. We’re here at faith leaders. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. I have some pressure locks and some lucky sevens. I will be getting the Raven scratch offs in. We’re going to Pizza John’s on Friday. On Monday, we’re going to move the show to cost us and Timonium Tuesday back downtown to slant and Fells Point. And on Wednesday, will conclude the summer tour at Coco’s in our 27th anniversary. As we get around eating the things that I love to eat, I’ve been sharing them the hashtag there is tastiness, T, A, S, T, Y N, E, S and that’s out on Facebook as well as YouTube and out on the front of Baltimore positive fake football. One more game. Anything that happens, we’ll get first on the W, N, S T tech service brought to you by Cole roofing and Gordian energy. I haven’t had Bill Cole come by talk about networking in Ocean City and the Mako conference. If you’ve been listening in, you’ve heard senators, county executives, Republicans, Democrats, delegates, even Sean Stinnett, our former intern, who’s now delegate. Stinnett stopped by. So I thought that that was great too, all these years later. So I am Nestor, he is Luke. We are wnst. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We never stopped talking. Baltimore, positive. Stay with us. You.