Paid Advertisement

Paid Advertisement

Podcast Audio Vault

Paid Advertisement

Itโ€™s always great to reconnect with Ravens legend Jamal Lewis, who joins Nestor 24 years after his Super Bowl XXXV run to discuss King Henry and Lamar running downhill before his Super Bowl day appearance in Baltimore next Sunday as part of Verizonโ€™s Fan Fest and โ€œWorld Biggest Viewing Partyโ€ coming to every NFL city for the big game.

Nestor Aparicio and Jamal Lewis discuss the upcoming Super Bowl events in Baltimore, including a food drive and a Verizon Super Bowl Fan Fest. Jamal reflects on his coaching career, particularly his involvement with high school football and his sonโ€™s team. He praises Derek Henry and Lamar Jacksonโ€™s contributions to the running game. Jamal also touches on the challenges former players face, emphasizing mental health support. Nestor reminisces about Jamalโ€™s Super Bowl victory and highlights Jamalโ€™s upcoming appearance at the Fan Fest. They both express excitement for the community events and the Super Bowl experience.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Super Bowl week, food drive, Verizon event, Jamal Lewis, coaching football, Derek Henry, running backs, mental health, NFL experience, Super Bowl memories, Baltimore positive, Hall of Fame, player transition, community support, fan fest

SPEAKERS

Jamal Lewis, Nestor Aparicio

Nestor Aparicio  00:01

Welcome home. We are W, N, S T AM, 1570 towns in Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. Iโ€™ll probably be smiling a little bit in this one. Having a little bit fun. We are doing a cup of soup or bowl during Super Bowl week. We begin on Monday, Acosta will be a fates, Tuesday, Cocos, Wednesday, State Fair, Thursday, Friday. Weโ€™re going to end it at Cooperโ€™s north in Timonium. Please bring out canned goods for the for the food banks, weโ€™re going to stock local pantries in each community. On behalf of the Maryland Food Bank. Itโ€™s all brought to you by wise markets and our friends at the Maryland lottery. Itโ€™s giving me a chance to check in, and thereโ€™s a big event happening on Super Bowl Sunday, Verizon is involved, and my wife is a long time horizon engineer and an employee. And theyโ€™re they got all the stadiums in the league, and theyโ€™re doing in Baltimore. And my man, Jamal Lewis, was tanning Glen Burnie the Verizon store about a week ago, and I found all these old pictures back we were a little bit younger, and Super Bowl year and nice guy awards, and I havenโ€™t actually pictured me, you and Travis holding jerseys up on the day you were signed out on the backfields by the police place. Itโ€™s now Stevenson University. Jamal Lewis joins us. I think heโ€™s still in Atlanta. I know heโ€™s coaching ball, um, with Ed Reed, amongst other things, and going to be back in town, I think, for the Super Bowl as well. Jamal, whatโ€™s going on? Man, watching Derek Henry, every week. Man, Iโ€™m thinking of you every week. I think of you, man,

Jamal Lewis  01:21

hey, man, itโ€™s been awesome, dude. Itโ€™s been awesome. I appreciate the shout out and everything. Um, my, sorry, my dog.

Nestor Aparicio  01:28

No kind of dog you got? I love dogs. Heโ€™s

Jamal Lewis  01:32

a Aussie doodle. Oh,

Nestor Aparicio  01:35

look at that. Hey, yeah, he can interrupt us anytime. Iโ€™m sorry. I got plenty of room for I got plenty of room for Aussie doodles on the show. All right, youโ€™re doing the blocking now instead of running with the dog. Now looks

Jamal Lewis  01:48

like every time I get on the phone with the interview, heโ€™s he just decided to pick up the toy, you know, on your lap, dogs so but no. Man, itโ€™s been a good year. Man, itโ€™s been a good year. Itโ€™s been a busy year just with Derek Henry and whatโ€™s been going on with the running back position and everything, man, itโ€™s just itโ€™s been great. You know, itโ€™s been exciting, from the standpoint of my ninth my ninth grade son got me involved now, and, you know, in helping out with high school football, and got me back into it. And you see, we just brought in Ed Reed as our office coordinator, and he really wanted to do that. And he wanted to do offense. He wanted to do offense. You know, thatโ€™s what he thatโ€™s where he wanted to be. And and his son also plays as well. He plays, heโ€™ll be a senior next year. Great player, man. And you know, we just, we just see things. You know, that sometimes other people donโ€™t, you know, and feel like we can go in and kind of help with the program and take it where it needs to go. And Iโ€™m happy. Iโ€™m happy out of his busy schedule, you know, he was able to do it. But,

Nestor Aparicio  02:51

well, I had Mike Nolan on. He was talking Dion. I had no idea Dion was going to go on and coach like this. And all of you had Mike Flynn on a couple weeks ago. All of you with kids. I mean, Anthony Mitchell, another teammate of yours, with Keaton, and what heโ€™s done. I mean, balls in your blood, probably in the same way itโ€™s in the hardball family blood, right?

Jamal Lewis  03:09

Yeah, yeah, you know. And all that time, you know, you know, as far as after ball, you know, after playing, you know, I spent a lot of times in the parks and and, you know, taking, taking kids to to different activities, which, you know, my youngest son, you know, football was one of them. So he just stuck with it, you know, and just kept going with it. So itโ€™s just one of the things where weโ€™ve been doing it, and you donโ€™t, you find yourself just going to the park and not trying to be that, that dad, but at the same time, you know, it just ends up falling into the fact that if you go on and youโ€™re able to go and you play high school football, then youโ€™re committed, you know. And we just want to give them the best opportunities, you know. So itโ€™s good to see a lot of these guys out there just, you know, you just see one after other. Youโ€™re like, oh, thatโ€™s this kid. Oh, thatโ€™s his kid. So, and they on the cottage level and playing, you know, in championships, you know, so itโ€™s, itโ€™s a good thing, man, itโ€™s a good thing

Nestor Aparicio  04:08

for you. Your kids are freshmen, so youโ€™re a, youโ€™re on the four year plan for this. At least you signed up for this. Yeah,

Jamal Lewis  04:13

yeah, Iโ€™m on, yeah. Heโ€™s a freshman, you know, Iโ€™ve already been involved last year anyway. But, you know, just seeing things that need to happen or whatever, and making some moves and really just trying to help these kids get recruited, man, you know, thatโ€™s the biggest thing, or, or just help them get noticed, you know? And thatโ€™s what weโ€™re thatโ€™s what weโ€™re doing. So

Nestor Aparicio  04:32

you understand n i l money, or do you know, I mean, your sec, I gotta ask, you know what? I mean, I saw you run, I saw you run the ball at needling back with T Martin. You know, when you, like, came in and I saw you play in college, the notion that theyโ€™re paying the kids now, right? Like, I think all of us are, Beyonce had no problem adjusting to it. From what I

Jamal Lewis  04:53

can tell, no, no, because heโ€™s, heโ€™s marketable. You know, heโ€™s marketable. He has, he has everything in 10. To recruit, even if they werenโ€™t paying players, you know, he would be able to still recruit players, because he knows how to go out and how to get them in, you know. And heโ€™s Dion, and heโ€™s not, you know, heโ€™s doing good, you know, heโ€™s doing for the good of the kids, you know. And I know it because I was pretty much, you know, I knew about his little league team. They actually came to Atlanta to play us one time. And I was just amazed that, you know, we had a great program here in Atlanta. But when he came, it was just, it just seemed like it was just 10 times more, but it was more structured. It was just, it was ran like a protein, you know. So you know this and the success they was having, they just didnโ€™t look good and didnโ€™t have success. They had success, and yet, a lot of pro guys that was coaching with him and things that nature. So, you know, itโ€™s not, itโ€™s not surprising to me to see where he is right now. But, you know, I just want to see him continue it, you know, and just keep that passion. Alright,

Nestor Aparicio  05:59

look, man, I never had your jersey back in the day because I had my own. You know, used to see me in the jersey all the time back in the day because I sat up in the stairs. I had my own with my name in the radio station 15. People say 15 and a 70. You know, people say, Why? Whatโ€™s 15 and seven is my race. I bought a legit oiler because I was, grow up a Houston Oiler fan. I go, I bought it. Getting legit. This guyโ€™s going to the Hall of Fame, and you you ran the ball at a pretty high level. Tell me what you see in his game, and just in general, with running backs, because look, man, I have tape of you and me getting together at Super Bowls in Atlanta and some other places in recent years. And my buddy is Chad weaslings, an agent. He lives here in town. He comes out with rock and roll buddies. He represents Josh Jacobs. And, you know, the last couple of years, all of this, running backs canโ€™t get paid. Nobody wants running backs. Theyโ€™re not that important. We can have committee. We can go cheaper. We can get a fourth or fifth round draft pick and turn them into Terrell Davis and all that, instead of using a top five pick in your case to draft you, um, where are you in the running game, and what running quarterbacks have allowed in these kind of offenses to really gash defenses? And look, the Eagles might win the Super Bowl with a running game next week.

Jamal Lewis  07:12

Yeah, you know, itโ€™s changed a lot, you know, because it is a passing League, you know, itโ€™s a passing League, so you gotta have big on quarterbacks get the ball down the field. You know, when I was playing, it was, you know, you had the same thing. It was a pay it was, it really was more balanced, honestly. But then it just took off into, you know, just high powered offenses. And thatโ€™s what sell tickets, you know. So itโ€™s like, thatโ€™s what it is. But I can tell you, as a, as a running back. You want a good passing game. You want a good passing game because it keeps, you know, it keeps you with a seven man box and sometimes possibly a six, you know. So it works because you got space, and you can run in space. You just need to be able to, you know, know where itโ€™s going, and just be a good runner, you know, but at the same time, you know what Derek Henry was doing when you got Lamar Jackson, you know, heโ€™s a threat. And more than just passing the ball as a quarterback, he can boot it, he can do certain things. So it keeps the defense a little loose, you know, whatever, and off balance, to the point where you got a 200 and probably 60 pound guy coming downhill, you know, itโ€™s, itโ€™s, itโ€™s, you know, itโ€™s crazy, because he can get a full head of steam and get going. And I love seeing him, you know, in the playoffs. And also, you know, those last games in December, where it was more of he was just, just getting it downhill. And, you know, itโ€™s cold and, and he was just running that much faster. It was like he gets faster, you know, as the season went on, you know, whatever. And it was good to watch. But I think the way him and say, Quan is doing, man, they they really, they really help the the running back position, you know, from, from where it where it was.

Nestor Aparicio  08:59

Well, you get smiling when you start talking about running downhill, but you get this look in your eyes about it,

Jamal Lewis  09:04

hey, man, I know how he feels. Man, I know how he feels when itโ€™s just, itโ€™s, itโ€™s just, he just needed it more. He just needed it more. He just needed it a little more. But of course, you know, I always said that, right? Just give it to me more.

Nestor Aparicio  09:17

How are you feeling? I mean, we all worry about guys getting hit in the head in this game we see, I mean, over the weekend, thereโ€™s just, itโ€™s a violent game. I donโ€™t even mean Damar Hamlin is out there running around. I donโ€™t even, you know thereโ€™s some certainly, there are no cowards in this league. And for you to have played the game the way you played it, rules were different, tackling was different. Hey, I got hit in the head. Thereโ€™s a tent back there, and thereโ€™s testing and all of that. Iโ€™ve had you on, and I know youโ€™ve been outspoken everybody of your era, and I have former teammates of yours that have had some issues as well how you feel and people I always worry about, all of you, especially the ones of you that have always been nice to me from the minute you met me on the field, off the field, you won games, you lost games, you had problems on the field, problems. Off the field, life after but I want all of you to be healthy, because I know what you gave to the game. I was there every minute of your career here, before you went off to Cleveland.

Jamal Lewis  10:08

Yeah, man, itโ€™s just one of those things where I think itโ€™s more, more the fact of, you know, the beatings and all the stuff that you went through and how physical it was, whatever itโ€™s the game, you know, it was the sport. But at the same time, you know, I think itโ€™s more of the, the the, you know, Iโ€™ve supported, you know, mental health, right? So I think that thatโ€™s made you that thatโ€™s more of an issue than the hits upside the head, you know, itโ€™s, you know, where some of these guys have came from childhood trauma and things that they go through, from the standpoint of, you know, you know, being a superstar, you know for, you know, 20 plus 30 years to you know, not being a superstar. So I think just

Nestor Aparicio  10:50

being a player and not being a player, that is, I went from being a media member to not being a media member, and Iโ€™ll tell you, it has been a wild mental adjustment for me to sit here and watch games on television and watch Mark Andrews not take the podium and not have like, itโ€™s weird, but I say this the adjustments made, and itโ€™s made for you as a player that you know thereโ€™s going to be the other side, but you donโ€™t think about that when youโ€™re playing. And you can even have a lot of money and still just miss the routine of all of it and really find yourself in a bad way. And thatโ€™s why, 25 years later, for guys like you, I love to see that youโ€™re happy and out coaching your kid and living your best life and taking the money you made and enjoying your life because you worked hard you did, you know, yeah, man. And

Jamal Lewis  11:31

itโ€™s just one of them things where, you know, thatโ€™s, I think thatโ€™s why a lot of guys do coach, or try to coach, you know, to be around it, have that structure, and, you know, kind of still be in that vein of what theyโ€™ve done for so long. And I think thatโ€™s that, thatโ€™s the major thing, man, and I think thatโ€™s where guys deal with it most. And, you know, finding help and offering help and offering the conversation, you know, whatever. You know, thatโ€™s always good.

Nestor Aparicio  11:59

Alright, well, hereโ€™s why Iโ€™m going to shamelessly plug for my wifeโ€™s company and for our friends and for Jamalโ€™s event as well. Jamalโ€™s gonna be part of the Verizon Super Bowl Fan Fest. Itโ€™s gonna be down at the stadium. Itโ€™s gonna be all day, beginning in four for the Super Bowl. Tickets are available if youโ€™re a Verizon customer, you get in on it. Jamalโ€™s gonna be there. You get to meet legends. And I would Jamal, you Legend of me, mascot, cheerleaders going to be there, theyโ€™re going to have food, thereโ€™s going to be music, the gameโ€™s going to be on. And, you know, Iโ€™m a Verizon customer. Theyโ€™ve helped feed my family and my wifeโ€™s family for all of our life. So I wanted to give them some love. I knew you were part of it. Iโ€™m like, Hey, Jamalโ€™s coming to town. I want to give you shout out. So here I am. Youโ€™re coming in again. You do love me being with the fans. I mean, I thatโ€™s why Iโ€™m like, Jamalโ€™s getting on a plane, coming up here and being his self. Is he always been

Jamal Lewis  12:48

here? I am. I love it, man. Itโ€™s always a good time. This is going to be a good time because, you know, a lot of people have an experience going to the Super Bowl. And Iโ€™m not talking about just going to the Super Bowl. Iโ€™m talking about just going to the festivities and the things around it. And I think, you know, the NFL experience, you know, a lot of people havenโ€™t experienced that, but I think this is going to to really, you know, be able to give people that feel like youโ€™re at the Super Bowl, you know, and youโ€™re at the experience and, you know, food and fun and music and everything else. This is a big thing. Itโ€™s never been done, and itโ€™s done in 33rd what every NFL city. So itโ€™s going to be, itโ€™s going to be good. Iโ€™m happy to be there. I like coming to Baltimore, you know, everybody come out. Letโ€™s have a good time.

Nestor Aparicio  13:37

I like it more when weโ€™re winning. I like it better when weโ€™re in the game. You know, right, right, exactly. So here we go, Dude, I booked all of this, and I have Flacco coming on this week today, as we take this is January 27 you may hear it on the 29th of the 30th, but I should have booked you on Tuesday, right? Because january 28 is, you know, I mean, it comes every year, and itโ€™s probably right up there with your birthday or your, you know, anniversary childโ€™s birth. But january 28 is a significant day in this community, Jamal, you know

Jamal Lewis  14:09

that, yeah, it is, it is. I think everybody feels it, you know, whatever. And you know, that

Nestor Aparicio  14:15

was a night dog. I mean, that was a night there in Tampa. Now that was something. It really

Jamal Lewis  14:20

was. It really was, I can remember just like it was yesterday, man. Itโ€™s just, it was a good time. You see all the highlights. You see the stuff all the time, you know. And itโ€™s you just get another memory and another memory, you know, so, but itโ€™s a good thing, man. And this would be a good time. And itโ€™s always about making memories. Man, on Super Bowl, dude,

Nestor Aparicio  14:41

I was sitting underneath of the pirate ship, so Stokely caught the ball toward me. Your touchdown at the other end, when you leaped in, was in the far corner. It was at that moment when that happened that I got up and said, Iโ€™m going down to the locker room. And we just won the Super you know what? Iโ€™m. Mean, so like having a good time. And that was a night there. I mean, I West Shore forever, 24 years ago tomorrow. Oh, my God, my hair got long. I love you. I miss you. Iโ€™m glad youโ€™re doing well. I would love to see you when youโ€™re in. You know the crab cakes are on me if youโ€™re coming in like before the game, let me take you out. Get you some serious crabs. Not all that South Beach Real. Youโ€™re home now. Youโ€™re barely carry the ball. Come on now. Jamal Lewis, our Ring of Honor mates, our Verizon celebrity of the the weekend for Super Bowl weekend, get on down to the stadium. Support the folks down there come back downtown. I need to say this enough, as a citizen, as a Baltimore positive person, the reason to come down to the party next week a you get tickets. Click. Itโ€™s free. Itโ€™s easy. Come on down, be a part of it. But more than that, itโ€™s coming downtown and being a part of something downtown, especially when we got baseball ramping up. So get down and support the city the way. Jamal is coming back in. Iโ€™ll see you next weekend, Jamal, Thanks for always coming on. Itโ€™s good to see you doing well. We have Joe Flacco coming this week. We have, we have nine Hall of Fame voters on this week. We have five former players, three former coaches, and a and a Super Bowl MVP in a pear tree, because Joseph Vincent Flacco is going to be here as well. Back from awards, weโ€™re back. Got all the champions you you and Joe, back to back. I got 35 and 47 covered, and weโ€™re going to be down at the ballpark next week to see maybe saquon Barkley, maybe Patrick mahomes. Weโ€™ll see how it is. Back for more Baltimore positive. Stay with us.

Share the Post:

Paid Advertisement

Right Now in Baltimore

Please join us and give for "A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl" Week on Crab Cake Row

Next week, itโ€™s time once again at Baltimore Positive and WNST-AM 1570 for our 2nd Annual February โ€œCrab Cake Row: A Cup of Soup Or Bowl Weekโ€ and weโ€™d love for you to come by and be a part ofโ€ฆ

All details of Verizon Super Bowl Fan Fest in Baltimore on game day

We spoke with Baltimore Ravens' legend Jamal Lewis earlier in the week about the big Verizon Fan Fest on Super Bowl Sunday and your invitation to join him downtown to watch the big game. Now, Nestor gets all details aboutโ€ฆ

Trying to make sense of the salacious Justin Tucker allegations

It's not what we're usually discussing but The Baltimore Banner report about Ravens' kicker Justin Tucker came on Thursday afternoon and Luke Jones and Nestor gave some first thoughts on the reporting, reaction and future for the accused kicker, whoโ€ฆ

Paid Advertisement

Verified by MonsterInsights