After having its way all day against the less-than-stellar Washington Commanders defense in a 30-23 home win, Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the arrival of King Henry and this royal offense of Lamar Jackson we’re seeing as Todd Monken starts to draw it up and the line starts to gel and block it up. And weapons multiply in the passing attack.
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Ravens victory, Derrick Henry, Lamar Jackson, offensive line, Zay Flowers, Mark Andrews, Kansas City, playoff contention, defensive improvements, red zone efficiency, health and performance, offensive balance, NFL rankings, Baltimore positive, football week
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Nestor Aparicio, Luke Jones
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
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Luke Jones 01:35
point. Yeah, I was just going to say, I mean, I think good is selling them a little bit short. I think they’re really good. I think they’re looking like a great football team. I think they’re making a strong argument, other than, of course, the inevitable January Kansas City, Patrick mahomes Andy Reid thing that will be there in January, most likely, they’re looking like a they could be the best team in the league, quite frankly. Or if you just take the last three or four weeks especially, and knowing how much this is a week to week league. I mean, this is why, as much as the Owen to start was unsettling, you still had to keep the proper perspective that you went on the road and lost to Kansas City. Yeah, the Raiders lost. Looks inexplicable, but how many teams around the league do we say that about every week the league is crazy. There’s something that happens every single week, there’s at least one result where you just scratch your head. The Ravens were that result in week two. But since then, we’ve seen, we’ve seen their offense just completely take off, of course, running the ball with Derek Henry early on for the Dallas game, talking about that in the Buffalo game, they’re passing game, not needing to do as much. And as you and I talked about it, it was going to come a time where defenses were going to really sell out to stop the run. And I think we’ve seen that the last couple weeks, Derek Henry, in the first half of the last couple games, mostly contained, not bad, not not a non factor, but certainly not the driving force. And lo and behold, we’ve seen Lamar Jackson in the passing game just completely take off over the last two weeks, and then you get to the second half, and Derek Henry helps you close out the ball game in a major way. So as I rode at Baltimore positive.com multiple players including Lamar Jackson are calling this a pick your poison offense, and let’s be clear, let let’s not get caught up in the moment. We’ve seen this offense look dynamic and balanced and explosive via the run or the pass in the past, but it does feel more and more with the arrival of Derrick Henry, with the emergence of zay flowers, with what Isaiah likely has done with the reappearance of Mark Andrews the last couple weeks, the burden feels less on Lamar Jackson than it’s been in previous years. And it sounds kind of silly saying that, because he’s still putting up absolute monster MVP like numbers. So this is a hell of an offense right now, and there is no one set way to stop it at this point, acknowledging, okay, they haven’t faced the toughest slate of defenses in the league so far, but you you put up 28 plus points in four straight weeks like the Ravens have. You’re doing something right? So they needed to, because we know that they’re passing defense remains a work in progress. You know, Jaden Daniels had a heck of a day, lots of respect expressed for him in the post game locker room, but at the end of the day, just too much ravens offense for Washington to handle, and resulted in a 30 to 23 win and a fourth straight victory for the men in purple. I’m
Nestor Aparicio 04:38
going to give them all flowers at this point, including zay flowers, but the Washington defense, I mean, that’s not anywhere near a championship caliber defense. And I think in a different world, it would have been a more competitive game, although it was 10 point game, and you know, they were in the game, and were they going to cover? Were they not was the line six and a half? Was it? Seven we can go through all that. But for me, the the Derrick Henry thing, is the thing we got to start talking about, and the offensive line, because we spent eight months talking about the offensive line. Is it going to be good enough? Can it hold up? Where’s McCary going to be? What are they going to do with Voorhees? Is Rosengarten going to get in there and be a starter that they thought for six months when they talked about him, whether he was going to be a factor guy on the field, because we’ve seen how the first and second round rookies over 30 years of the ravens, sometimes they play, sometimes they don’t, sometimes they disappear it. You know, in the case of I believe was Terrence Brooks, I try to come up with the names of the guys that disappeared. I mean, Sergio Kindles and guys like that, but Rosengarten is one of those guys, as well as lender bomb, and we’ll talk about him in regard to the offensive line and the way that they’ve really deftly drafted over the course of years to fill slots, fill needs, trade for roquan Smith. I mean, all the things that they’ve done, but figuring out this offense after drafting for JK Dobbins doesn’t work out. Gus bus a guy, but not the guy. I talked about Derrick Henry for years. We laughed. I actually put up a two year old tweet of mine or Facebook status of mine, saying, if they only had Deborah, Derek Henry, we won’t know, because it was after the trading deadline. Um, let’s start with him, and then, because we talked Lamar the last six years, but Derek Henry six weeks. You know, he’s only been MVP twice, but we’ll do that in the next segment. Um, go ahead, but he’s been MVP twice without Derek Henry, and has had his feelings hurt in January without Derek Henry, and I think a lot of weeks, a lot of weeks regular season games, he’s had to be be the running back, although he’s insulted when you say that about Lamar Jackson. I’ve said all along, if they had a dude and you were sort of anti dude because of the money, because of the industry, I got to put you with Chad whistling one day, the agent for Jace, Josh Jacobs and running backs, and saying, how valuable can a running back be? How valuable is a running back in modern offense? How much do we have a bell cow like all of that? And then there’s Derek, Henry just being almost as much as Lamar, one of one a very different cat. I remember seeing that 10 years ago, my wife was fighting for life, and I’m watching this guy from Alabama just run, and nobody wanted to tackle him. Now we’re 10 years into this, and he’s ours, and the question was, maybe not enough tread He’s a little older. How many runs does he have in his body? I don’t know that. I’m feeling that when he’s bearing down on you in the fourth quarter, looking fresh. Fresh. He looks fresh. He doesn’t look 31 and old and beaten up. He looks like he wants to win a Super Bowl, the Derek Henry thing. I don’t think it can be understated how really in a move, it was not just because I said so, but the fact that it’s working out. It might not work out in January, but right now, this is what Lamar has always needed. And I saw Mark Ingram running around, doing his College Game Day and all that. And I go back to Mark Ingram. This thing was better with Mark Ingram than it was with anybody else. And now I think we’re going to see it’s better with Derrick Henry than it it could have been with Josh Jacobs. No offense to Chad Wheatley or any other running back, but he’s a different kind of cat. And in this offense, pick your poison. There you go. I know the poison. I don’t want Derrick Henry rushing the ball with the Ravens with a lead at home in the fourth quarter. I don’t want that. That’s not the poison I want.
Luke Jones 08:33
Fair enough, well, but you also need to get to that point. And again, I’m I’m going to continue to stress the Ravens have run the ball over the years. Everything you’re saying is true, right? I’m not.
8Nestor Aparicio 08:44
Lamar has had to be a much bigger part of it than okay, but especially when they’re behind. But this team
Luke Jones 08:49
also had 3000 yard rushing seasons. That was always my point. My point was not necessarily thinking they needed a major dollar investment in the running back position because they had led the league in rushing three of the last five years and had done that. That was always my point. I’m not surprised to see Derrick Henry doing what he’s doing in this offense. And by the way, Derrick Henry would tell you, this isn’t like him taking them to the next level. The Ravens offense is also taking him to another level that he hasn’t been in in three or four years. And I don’t mean that that he wasn’t good anymore, but it’s a sense of he has a quarterback that is as dynamic as he has now all of this. And this is why I really don’t even want to make it about one player other than Lamar Jackson’s the MVP of this offense. We know that he’s been MVP of the league twice in the last five years, but it all compliments. It’s they all compliment each other so incredibly well that Derek Henry’s getting better looks and lighter boxes than he’s gotten in the past. And then on the flip side, when teams start to sell out, trying to stop him after he ran over the cowboys and ran over the bills the way. That he did, then things open up. So it’s all very complimentary. It’s all very dynamic. And again, for me, it was, you know, this wasn’t about, oh, you need a certain prototype feature back in January, it was, you just needed to be more well rounded and more dynamic and more, you know, less predictable. And I think that they’re doing all these things. And yes, Derek Henry’s the best running back they’ve had since Ray Rice and his prime, you know, and obviously completely different skill sets. But we understand what we’re talking about here, so it’s working out beautifully. It absolutely is, you know, you need to keep that rolling, because any move that they’ve made, whether we’re talking about running back or changes on the offensive line or defensive personnel, or coaching changes, or coaching additions, bringing in Dean peas as an advisor. This is all about January. Right where the ravens are right now is not some unbelievable uncharted territory. As much as the numbers are eye popping. I can go back and show you a stretch of five or six games last year, when they scored 30 plus points the way they’re doing right now. They average 200 passing yards and 200 rushing yards per game back five years ago. So they’ve had these periods of time. But yes, when you add a back like Derrick Henry, when you’re starting to get the emergence of zay flowers, who’s looking like the best wide receiver Lamar Jackson has had, with no disrespect to to Hollywood Brown, who was better than some people give him credit for in this town. But I mean, zay flowers is looking like a very legitimate number one wide receiver. He’s not the six foot four Jump ball kind of guy, but boy, is he dynamic, and can he make people miss and he is, you know, so difficult to stick with and coverage, and all the things that he can do. And it’s really coming to light here. They can be a running back for them once
Nestor Aparicio 11:46
a quarter too, right? I
Luke Jones 11:47
8mean, that’s the thing, right? You see him run jet sweeps. You see them. He just flat out runs the ball, you know, once a game, something like that. I mean, you can, you can do so much with him underneath and intermediate, you know, I think there’s still meat on the bone for the deep ball for him. You know, I you know, not that we know Lamar is not the best deep ball thrower in the National Football League, but if a guy gets his open as a flowers is capable of getting open, he’ll hit him, you know, even if it’s not the most perfect throw. So I just think all of this is complimenting itself so well. But when you do add Derrick Henry, and you have that ability to be able to pound the rock and just completely kill a team’s will. Or in the case of what happened on Sunday, they just held onto the ball at the end, right? I mean, Derrick Henry hits another long run that helped them end the game in victory formation, rather than giving Jaden Daniels and Washington one more chance, it’s just making everyone better. So I just think all of this is complimenting itself so well. And to your point, before Derek Henry, before Lamar Jackson, before zay flowers or mark Andrews or Isaiah likely, or how about Rashad Bateman, who’s, you know, back to back games where he set career highs or not, career highs, season highs in receiving yardage. We spent so much time talking about the offensive line and Derek Henry, when he was talk talking in the post game, he made it very clear he he said over and over he was trying to stay humble, you know, and he wants this offense, collectively, to stay humble. But he went on to say, let’s give some love to the offensive line. I mean, there were so many questions, and there were so much noise about them. And look, first couple weeks it It looked dicey, right? It didn’t look so great at times. But the last couple weeks that talk is really kind of, uh, you know, that’s, that’s kind of gone by the wayside. It’s less and less chatter. Yeah, some questions about what was going to happen at left guard and the carry stayed there, even though Voorhees was was healthy and active this past Sunday. But I mean, they’re playing at a higher level, and they’re playing with more confidence, and they’re benefiting from Lamar Jackson and Derek Henry in the backfield. So again, all of this is related, and all of this is fitting so well right now, and that’s why this offense, collectively, is looking so dynamic. Yeah, it begins with number eight. I mean, you’re talking about, you know, for my money, the second best quarterback in football, you know, I think at some point in time, you know, we need to just say that. Because, I mean, that’s just what, that’s what it’s been, you know. I mean, mahomes, and then it’s kind of everyone else. But I think Lamar headlines the list of everyone else, right?
Nestor Aparicio 14:26
Why don’t we talk about Josh Allen, after what buffalo came in here and did two weeks ago, right? So we’re not gonna talk about him right now. Well, and, I mean, look, and he doesn’t have the offense that Lamar has, he does. I mean, when we talk about Lamar now, where it’s kind of like talking about Joe Flacco back in the day. Who’s he got around him? You know, Lamar. You can talk about Lamar third or fourth at this point, because he has star players around him, where Josh Allen and we’re still talking about him losing digs, right? We’re still talking about the guys he doesn’t have anymore, and that matters a lot. I mean, zay flowers matters a lot, and we’ve and I’m not being disrespectful to. Lamar, but Derrick Henry is going to come be a big part of this conversation, as long as he’s there. Because if Derek Henry got hurt, this is a different team. I think if Ronnie Stanley gets hurt, this is a different team. They are really healthy put together. Stanley’s playing better than I thought he could play. Linda bombs turning out to be an all Pro, Rosengard turning out to be a starter, which on the field fine, other than their the yips they have, and a holding call here and a jumping there and a formation issue, which is, I’ll use John’s law. We’re going to get that cleaned up. We got to get that cleaned up. They don’t have to clean anything up when they’re winning every week. But if we’re going to bitch about things, it’s not about who’s playing where on the offensive line, I’m blown away that Ronnie Stanley has made this arc in his career, because I haven’t seen that with weight bearing injuries on big men very often, who are gone for two or three years at a time and come back at 3031 and can get out there and actually do it. So hats off to him on that. And I think the general sense of their health, the general sense of after watching Aiden Hutchinson, after watching teams like this team here go by the wayside for two full seasons when half their team got hurt, the health, even if roquan Smith isn’t playing great, even if Kyle Hamilton’s trying to take guys heads off And he’s going to get fined, like they’re out there, right? They’re out there and they’re performing, and they’re performing at the level they were drafted at. They were performing at the level we talk about them in the off season as Johnny Bravo ing them and saying, This would be ideal. Now, maybe not Marcus Williams, to some degree, but for the most part, for the most part, even Tucker, kicking, kicking, straight um, they’re all doing what they’re supposed to do the last four weeks. Therefore, they’ve won four games in a row. And that shouldn’t shock anybody. We’ve talked about them all off season as being a team that was capable of winning 12, 1314, games. But when you lose two to start with, you can only win 15 to start with, they’ve stacked up four, and I don’t know the next time they’re going to lose. The next time they lose is when they’re going to have stupid penalties or bad, stupid turnovers, you know, because they’re not going to be real good at beating themselves if they line up man on man, because they’re a better football team than most teams they see, yeah, and
Luke Jones 17:21
look, I mean, they’re, they’re going to make their mistakes. I mean, every team does. I mean, you can go look at Kansas City. I mean, since week one, they’ve had their issues inside the red zone. I mean, the ravens, since those mistakes
Nestor Aparicio 17:32
cost you an L to the Raiders, and we talk about it five weeks later, I think they may have moved past that. You know what I mean, like, clearly, they have. They They dusted off and won for a month. It’s, you know, it’s impressive Johnson, it’s impressive coaching. It’s impressive preparation. Preps impressive all the way around,
8Luke Jones 17:48
no question. I mean, it’s why I’m talking about them in terms of potentially being the best team in the league. I mean, that’s what they’ve looked like over the last month. And look, it’s we, you know, we’re, we’re through Week Six,
Nestor Aparicio 17:57
number one on your power rankings.
Luke Jones 17:59
Um, I mean, I don’t, I don’t do that, but I mean they’re right there.
Nestor Aparicio 18:04
8I’m laughing out loud. I agree with you. If I’ve had that power ranking this week, I guess I put Kansas City one because you just can’t, because they haven’t beaten Yeah, Minnesota has been outstanding. I
Luke Jones 18:14
mean, really, really good. But I mean the ravens are right there. I mean, how could you again, if we’re, if we’re just going to go off a base of what win, loss record is, then power anchor rankings are pointless, right? It’s just putting the standings in a list of 30 power ranks. It
Nestor Aparicio 18:27
matters. Where’s Pittsburgh, where’s Cincinnati, right? Exactly,
Luke Jones 18:29
well, and there you go with that. But no, I want to go back to something you just said, because, I mean, this is where this this is part of what Derek Henry was mentioning in the post game about staying humble, and not that these guys are going to get cocky or complacent or anything like that. They are very healthy. I mean, they are in a position where, I mean, the most notable player they’ve had on IR is Arthur millet, who I would call
8Nestor Aparicio 18:54
it uncanny, given that you and I’ve sat here for 20 years and talked about, you know, week six, somebody’s gone and they don’t have anybody, I’m knock on wood. I don’t want to be the Jinx, but it’s uncanny health. It really
Luke Jones 19:06
is, but, but it’s not even about being the Jinx, because they’re going to lose someone at some point, right? I mean, that’s, that’s just how this works. But you want to be in a position where you’re avoiding losing your most important players. I mean, you just mentioned, I mean, Aidan Hutchinson. I mean, just an absolute shame, because, I mean, he was, he’s been so big for the rise of the Detroit Lions over the last couple years. But you also understand that, you know, part of being humble and part of keeping your head to the ground and just plugging away and focusing on that week’s opponent and not getting too full of yourselves and not looking ahead too far is understanding how fleeting this is, because, you know, if something happens to Lamar Jackson or, you know, throw Derrick Henry into that conversation, or zay flowers, then that drastically alters your season, you know, I mean, so, and that’s the case for anyone you know, that’s not unique to the Ravens. Mean that’s any team, any great team that Lou. Is specifically their quarterback or someone that is just so extraordinarily important at another position, then you’re talking about it in different terms. I mean, you, you famously talked about it, 2020 infamously, maybe would be the better word. When Ronnie Stanley went down with that ankle injury, that season ending ankle injury, you said it, and I didn’t really, I couldn’t really strongly disagree with you that the Ravens chances of winning the Super Bowl may have just gone out the door at that point in time, in the in what was it, early November, or whatever it was. So you always know that. So when you have good health, when you have the kind of roster that is robust and complete, and look this past defense still has work to do, and we’ll talk, we’ll talk. We’ll get into that in another segment. There were things that I liked about their defense more so than we saw in Cincinnati the week before, but that group still has a lot, a long way to go, and maybe that’s another part of this, you know, as we’re talking about Derek Henry and the offensive line and just how this offense has come together and looks dynamic and unpredictable and versatile and can do all these different things. They’ve scored touchdowns on 17 of their last 20 trips inside the red zone since that Kansas City game where they struggled in the red zone a little bit. I mean, these are the kind of things that are championship caliber qualities. But what’s different about this team to this point in the season, and that’s fully acknowledging that things can get better and things can evolve, and you’re only six weeks in. And in fairness to the defense, they played a pretty good run of quarterbacks and opposing offenses, so I think it’s important to keep that perspective. I don’t think this past defense in its totality at the end of the season is going to be horrendous by any stretch, because they played a pretty tough slate of quarterbacks, Gardner, Minshew and the Raiders game. Just put that aside, because that’s the whole head scratcher, right? We’re going to be scratching our head about that one even in February, if the ravens are winning the Super Bowl, we’re going to look back at that game and say, How in the world did that happen? So they faced a tough slate of opposing quarterbacks and offenses, but for the ravens to go on this run that they’ve have over the last four weeks with these four wins, and they’ve done it with, let’s face it, other than the Buffalo game, the defense not playing very well. I mean stopping the run, yes, but the defense collectively giving up too many points and too many big plays and in opportune penalties and all those different things. So this offense, unlike last year, or even go back to the second half of 2019 even though early that season, their defense was choppy as well, that it’s been the offense carrying carrying the heaviest load, right? Eat by far. I mean, it’s been the offense that’s absolutely doing the heaviest lifting here. So yeah, you want to get better defensively, and you want to be able to give up fewer big plays, and you need to get better inside the red zone with your defense. There’s no question about that, and they’re going to continue to chase that. But when you consider that, they’ve still gone four and two, and they’ve won four straight, and they’ve scored the points they have, and they are as healthy as they are to date. You know, I mean, these are things that that excite you. These are things that create optimism, because, you know, it still feels and zay flowers said this, that they can still get better offensively, and I think I agree with them, and that and that doesn’t, and that doesn’t mean that you’re going to start averaging 40 points a game. You know, Mark Andrews just like, showed up in the huddle yesterday, like, literally, like,
Nestor Aparicio 23:29
there’s still, there’s growth here. And
Luke Jones 23:32
8I think more specifically, it’s the offensive line, right? I think it’s the offensive line being able to be more consistent. But I mean, as much as we talk about the old line, and we’ve talked about Derrick Henry and the rushing numbers. Go, look at how many times Lamar has been sacked this year compared to this time last year, with the more veteran group. Now, I think that’s a credit to these guys growing and improving, but I also think it’s very much a credit to seeing a Lamar Jackson that just has a such a good command of this offense in its totality. And I don’t just mean as a passer, I don’t just mean as a as a runner. I mean pre snap and looking at whatever coverage look or whatever front he’s getting, and checking out a plays and putting them in a position where if the protection doesn’t look right then they need to make an adjustment. I think you’re seeing Lamar doing more and more of those things. And I know Todd monkin and John Harbaugh, you know they talked about him doing more of that as last year went on. But I think you’re seeing that carry over to this year where, okay, I don’t think just man on, man five, man protection. And if you talked about the Ravens just being in true pass sets that they necessarily they don’t have the best offensive line in the league, or anything close to that, but I think that they have a quarterback, they have a play caller, they have a system in place that is getting the most out of what they have with that offensive line, and in turn, that group is getting better and growing more. Confident every week. So again, I keep coming back to not wanting to make it about one guy, even if Lamar Jackson is playing at an MVP level again, or even if Derek Henry, coming in has worked and been a smashing success to this point in time, and everything that they could have envisioned this being, it’s looked like that. And even if zay flowers has taken the next step in his second year, becoming the top wide receiver. And Rashad Bateman’s taken a step forward, and you have Isaiah likely and to your to your point mark. Andrews kind of coming out of witness protection the last couple weeks. You know, as a pass catcher, all of this is just fitting together really, really well. And again, they’re doing it with some pressure being put on from a standpoint of knowing your defense is having its issues and is given up points, and this has not been a good scoring defense, and it’s been a bad pass defense through six weeks. So for this offense to do what it’s doing and understanding it can still get a little bit better and certainly get more confident, you know, when you’re talking about some of the young guys are counting on but then if you couple that with what we typically expect a Ravens defense to do, which is get better as the year goes on. And I still think it’s a really talented group. I still I don’t think it’s a case where there, you know, maybe safety has been disappointing with Marcus Williams and I don’t think Eddie Jackson’s played very well, by the way, you saw our Darius Washington playing some, some too high safety instead of Eddie Jackson in the second half. I thought that was interesting. So, you know, maybe, maybe that position hasn’t lived up to expectations and isn’t going to necessarily be as stout as maybe we thought. But
Nestor Aparicio 26:38
I hope they catch the ball too when it gets thrown to him. Well, sure,
Luke Jones 26:40
sure, but I still think collectively, that defense can get better, and if they do, man, you’re talking about any opponent that’s going to be able to beat this team, you’re going to have to be a really, really good football team, a really balanced football team, because we’ve seen it the last couple weeks. Commanders, good offense, not so good defense. Same thing with the Bengals the week before, they haven’t been able to win shootouts. You know, they haven’t been able to turn it into a shootout successfully. I mean, the Bengals, if they make a kick, and we’re talking about it in different terms, but the point is, you’ve got to play at a really high level to beat this Baltimore Ravens team right now, and that’s with their defense, not even close to firing on all cylinders. So if they, if they get that up to par, a little bit more, if they can get that past defense complimenting what’s an elite run defense, a little bit more as the year goes on, then, I mean, this team’s going to be incredibly different, difficult to beat, but again, week to week, six weeks in understanding long way to go. Need to keep guys fresh. Need to keep guys healthy. You want Lamar Jackson and Derek Henry in mid October. You want those guys to look the same exact way come January, because that’s what really matters. You know, they’ve been here before, you know, with a team that’s in first place and winning four in a row and surging and playing with confidence. But, man, it’s, it’s tough not to look at this thing and be excited, because this offense continues to grow, continues to evolve. It’s, you know, not predictable. I mean, zay flowers does what he does in the first half and then he’s not even targeted in the second half and oh, it’s just an opportunity to get other guys to join in on the fun. I mean, that’s as simple as it gets. So they’re having fun and they’re playing at a high level, and that oh and two start feels like a long time ago already, and that’s really a testament to Lamar Jackson, Derek Henry and Company. Baltimore
Nestor Aparicio 28:38
greater than Washington again, 30 to 23 big victory for the Ravens over the commanders, although their fans spent all the money and made their way back down to Ashburn and Woodbury and all the other little places they have down there having a good time in Arlington. Luke’s going to be here all week. He’s Baltimore, Luca. We are focused on football. Obviously, weird week with the Tampa game and the situation down there. I got family, got friends down there, sending me pictures. It’s unbelievable. I don’t know how to play football game down there next Monday, but we’re going to try to figure that out. Uh, Baker Mayfield’s waiting around after breaking the hearts in Oklahoma and Texas and other parts as well. He’ll be waiting for us next week as well. Luke and I’ll be around all week. Little baseball, little birthday conversation. We had some delicious pizza at Pizza Johns over the weekend, so we’ll hear about that. And I’m putting the Maryland crab cake tour as well as the Maryland oyster tour together for you out at Baltimore. Positive, if you haven’t checked out any of my writings, any of Luke’s writings, you can do all of that at Baltimore positive, I am Nestor. He’s Luke. We’re going to sit around here talk football all week long. We are wnst am 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stopped talking Lamar and King Henry in Baltimore, positive. Stay with us. Do.
