There is plenty of football to discuss in the aftermath of a weekend of 11 additions to the Baltimore Ravens’ roster but the big kick in the room belongs to Eric DeCosta and the front office now that Tyler Loop appears to be the new kicker in Owings Mills. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the biggest offseason story in the city for the football franchise and what happens next…
Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones discussed the Baltimore Ravens’ recent NFL Draft, highlighting the selection of kicker Tyler Loop in the sixth round, which could signal the end of Justin Tucker’s tenure. Jones emphasized that a sixth-round pick is not a guaranteed roster spot. They also reviewed the Ravens’ 11 draft picks, including Mike Green, a controversial second-round edge rusher with past sexual assault allegations, and Emory Jones Jr., a third-round offensive tackle expected to play guard. The conversation also touched on the lack of a run-stopping defensive tackle and the potential for veteran offensive line additions.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
NFL Draft, Baltimore Ravens, Justin Tucker, Tyler Loot, Mike Green, sexual allegations, Emory Jones Jr., offensive line, defensive line, rookie camp, kicker competition, draft strategy, player evaluation, football prospects, roster changes.
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Luke Jones, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:02
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T, am 1570 tassel, Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. We are into a fresh week of what has been very disappointing baseball. And we wait months and months and months for the NFL Draft. It is now it’s over. We’ll be talking about. We’ll be talking about it at Coco’s pub. I’m wearing the cocoa shirt. We’ll be there on Wednesday afternoon doing the Maryland crab cake tour. It is presented by the Maryland lottery. I will have the Back to the Future scratch offs to give away next Wednesday, the seventh, we will be in in White Marsh for the first time in a long time, going to be at red brick station on the seventh of May. And we’ll see a Cocos this week. Jamie Costello coming by Senator McCray and some other friends. This guy was monitoring baseball, then it was football. That was baseball, then it was draft, and it was shador SHAN Sanders all day on Saturday. Uh, Luke Jones joins us now. A busy weekend and a busier week as the New York Yankees come to town, the Orioles have been falling down the mountain, but I know you were glued to the draft beginning on Thursday night. So let’s start at the beginning. We did a long, long segment on their first round pick on Friday morning. But 11 picks they made them all. They picked the kicker, Luke Jones. It looks like Justin Tucker may have kicked his last kick here, huh? Yeah. I
Luke Jones 01:20
mean, I think it’s still not a fait accompli. It’s not 100% because I’ll remind everyone, a six round pick, whether you’re talking about a kicker or any position, is not such valuable draft capital where you say that guy is absolutely, 100% unequivocally, going to make the roster. Because here’s the scenario, Nestor, the Ravens could decide at some point, at any point, that they’re moving on from Justin Tucker, if Tyler loop proves he can’t do the job, and we’ve seen earlier draft picks around the league, we’ve seen all kinds of kickers not be able to do the job. I mean, Justin Tucker last November, all you heard were Ravens fans wanting to throw him out the door because he was having the worst season of his career. Tyler loop is not going to be on a scholarship where he’s going to keep the job no matter what, under that scenario. So clearly Randy Brown did a ton of pre draft prep. The Ravens never shied away from discussing the possibility of drafting a kicker, they clearly like Tyler loop. He had a good career at Arizona, got a strong leg, made kicks, several kicks from beyond 50 yards last year. But he’s also a rookie kicker, and you don’t know for sure, in the same way that Justin Tucker was an undrafted rookie once upon a time, if anyone knew that what kind of kicker he was going to become, he would have certainly been drafted by somebody. So yes, it’s significant. Yes, I think it shows you that the ravens are very serious in preparing to move on from Justin Tucker pending whenever this investigation is going to end. But that said, a six round pick at any position we know, is not a slam dunk to make the roster. So Tyler loops got to go out, starting with rookie camp this weekend, and do the job and show that he’s capable. Or regardless of what happens with Justin Tucker, they’ll be bringing somebody else in to see if they can do the job. So it was certainly significant. That was the big story on day three, an unusual day three. I mean, five, six round picks selected which you haven’t seen the Ravens do a ton of that in recent years. You know, they haven’t necessarily prioritized sixth or seventh round picks, for one, because they do so well with the undrafted free agent process, but I think it speaks to what they felt about the depth of this draft, which is kind of what you’ve heard the middle rounds were, supposedly where the most value was in this draft. So we can certainly get into, you know, we talked about Malachi Starks Mike Green was a controversial but also a really fascinating from a football standpoint, kind of pick. But the story on day three was obviously Tyler loop and what that means for Justin Tucker, which, as I said to you, if they didn’t draft a kicker at all, I think that really lent itself to where the Ravens were leaning the fact that they’ve drafted one now, I think it shows you how real it is in terms of the distinct possibility, if not likelihood, that Justin Tucker has indeed kicked his last kick for the Baltimore Ravens. Well, let’s extend
Nestor Aparicio 04:30
the conversation, because we’ve been talking about Tucker for 10 weeks and his indiscretions in the Baltimore banner. And you know, while I’m a scumbag, second rate journalist here, you know, throwing him under the bus. The would you envision a competition? Could could that? I mean that you’re rolling your eyes a little bit. I’m feeling the same way. I’m feeling like, Look, if you want to be done with the controversy, blame it on the kicking. I wrote a script for ba go to Baltimore. I wrote a letter to bishati this. Is how you do it. You get rid of him, but that takes away the net. Now I would just say this, you and I have lived through. Steven housha. We have lived through, who’s the kicker that came out to to the bar in the one time, still kicking the league, 20 years later, the guy that came out, Graham Gano. Graham Gano. He’s got a solid career. I couldn’t think of his name. It was that’s long it’s been 21 years, however long it’s been, but and then the Vedic kid that they dealt off to Minnesota who they felt like they probably would have kicked with him had their dope been to Justin Tucker. They liked that guy enough to get a draft capital out of him after he got mugged down in Fells Point. But there have been other kickers names around here that have failed, right? Like literally failed. Justin Tucker never failed. Matt Stover failed a little bit for a minute or two, and they brought in a kickoff specialist at one point toward the end of his career, and billix reign and But Randy Brown ain’t never known another kicker than you know. I mean, same thing with with HAR ball, since before condiff and Cundiff was a failed kicker, I guess, right? Well, throw him in there too, maybe the most famous failed kicker of all of it, but competition and letting Tucker kick to stay on the team. I don’t, I don’t know. I It’s so weird. There’s zero tolerance Luke and they drafted a kid in the second round that had sexual allegations, sexual assault allegations against him. So I don’t know if there’s a playbook for this, because I’m out of the predicting what Eric the cost and Steve Bucha are going to do, other than if there’s a sleazy door, they’re not adverse to
8Luke Jones 06:31
it, yeah. I mean, as far as the kicker competition, is that plausible? Is it possible? Sure. I mean, until he’s off the roster, you have to acknowledge that possibility. And, you know, I point blank asked Eric da Costa if the if they’ve, if they receive periodic updates from the league regarding the investigation, if they’ve gotten any indication of when this, you know, is it wrapping up and they’re going to have results in two or three weeks or next month, or is it going to be training camp? Is it going to be the start of the regular season? Right? I mean, we don’t know. I wouldn’t anticipate it taking that long, but it hasn’t happened to this point. So what does that mean in the meantime? I mean, John Harbaugh confirmed Tucker was in the building last week, so that, you know, they haven’t barred them from the, you know, it’s not like they’ve given him an unofficial suspension from the from the well, he hasn’t broken any
Nestor Aparicio 07:27
loss. That’s what they’re going to say, Sure, sure, you know. So I’m just part of this too, right? But I’m
Luke Jones 07:32
just trying to gage where this is. In the meantime, horrible said that he’s had conversations with Tucker. I mean, look, just because Justin Tucker’s disappeared, from a public facing standpoint, he’s heard the chatter. He knew the Ravens were possibly, if not very likely, going to draft a kicker so he could, he could see the writing on the wall, at least to that extent. But as we’ve always talked about, and this is not to make light of the allegations or that very real, very serious, very concerning situation. We’re also talking about a kicker coming off the worst season of his career, and the guy that as as performance goes was not, you know, not just bad for Justin Tucker. He was bad period last year. Now he finished the season on a higher note. But even at the time, we acknowledged that it wasn’t as though he was tested in a way, that he made two game winning kicks at the gun. He had six kicks from beyond 50 yards. And you say, Wow, that looks like Justin Tucker. No questions asked. He’s fine. So so we always said part of this was also that. And if you want to categorize it as they could hide behind performance, if they wanted to, sure, but the fact that the performance was not peak Justin Tucker in 2024 is absolutely a very real variable in this. So you bring in, you draft,
Nestor Aparicio 08:58
8a scandal without the scandal, let’s say there’s no scandal at all. I mean, I wouldn’t have been shocked if they drafted a kick. They would have been drafted a kick. I mean, that’s sensible, based on his age, his money, and where they were. No scandal if we go and especially
Luke Jones 09:11
considering they draft, they drafted five players in the sixth round, right? It’s not as though this was a draft where they only had five or six picks and then one of them’s a kicker. That would have been a little bit different. But when you have all these late round picks, I mean, it kind of whether it was a six round pick, whether it’s seventh round pick, whether it was a priority free agent, and there were a couple pretty good kickers that we’ve even mentioned on our airwaves that didn’t get drafted ultimately. You know, there were two kickers drafted. New England drafted the kid from Miami, and then the Ravens drafted Tyler loop four spots later, you know, where, you know, at that point, I think they recognize we need to get our guy, you know?
Nestor Aparicio 09:44
Well, it was the kid from Miami, their guy.
Luke Jones 09:48
Um, not that they, they, they wouldn’t say so, um, you know. But they clearly like Tyler loop. Because the the kid from Florida State, for example, was in some sort. Goals ranked more highly, but he didn’t get drafted. So they took loop loop. It was funny hearing him on the Zoom, you would almost think he was like cousins with Justin Tucker, just just in the way he talks, you know, the way he discussed his craft, his enthusiasm, all of those different things. You know, you could kind of see why the Ravens took a liking to him in that way. You know, say what you want about this off field saga with 16 allegations and all of that, and I’m not making light of that whatsoever, but in terms of what we’ve known about Justin Tucker’s personality to that point in time. You know, that’s what I mean by, you know, Tyler loop reminded me a little bit of Justin Tucker in that way. But they’re even said it all along. I mean, Randy Brown was going to pro days and, you know, was out on the road and scouting kickers, and they did a lot of homework here and again because of the performance last year. Would it have been quite the same level of urgency? I think it’s it’s tough to say that, but to sit here on january 15, before the season even ended, before the banners initial reporting even came out, if you had looked into the crystal ball and told me the Ravens had drafted a kicker in the sixth round, I’d say, well, they’re clearly looking for someone to push Justin Tucker at the very least, because i You always Go back to what Ozzie Newsome said about veteran players. You’d rather get rid of a guy a year too early rather than a year too late. And I think you could at least say that was a plausible scenario for Tucker, if even just to get his attention to say, hey, you’ve got to be better for 17 games, not just, Oh, you did better over the last month of the season. So, you know, it’s a, it’s a long, roundabout way of saying, I, you know, I think they’re preparing to move on, but until we know for sure he’s on the roster and but, but in terms of the competition, you know, is that really what you want, in terms of the distraction, in terms of the PR backlash, in terms of how your fan base is going to feel about this, in terms of how your clients and business partners going to feel about this if Justin Tucker’s there in training camp, let alone kicking in preseason games, and you know, in front of a crowd all that, I mean, is that worth it? I don’t think they care what the fans think?
8Nestor Aparicio 12:22
I just don’t think that that’s not, that’s not a topic in the building well. And I will say this, you can’t let that be the driving
Luke Jones 12:29
force. You have to have conviction in whatever your process is. And this might be where we can transition to Mike Green, right? I mean, the Ravens make a selection late in the second round Mike Green, if you look at some of the draft pundits, some draft pundits had him ranked more highly as a prospect than Malachi Starks, who was the Ravens first round pick, who was very highly regarded as a prospect. You know the difference with Mike Green is there is so so very little known about the two separate allegations, one in high school, one of him at the University of Virginia. I don’t I want to carefully phrase this. He volunteered the information of talking about that at the combine. There had been plenty of uncertainty about why he had left Virginia to go to Marshall. You know, that was kind of something that a lot of people, I guess, in college, in college circles, NFL draft circles, there had been some scuttlebutt as far as what exactly caused that, and every
Nestor Aparicio 13:34
kid’s leaving college now, right? Used to be, Hey, why did you leave? Now it’s just, oh, you left over money. You left there. You don’t like the coach. You can leave for any reason you want now, and it’s exonerated. I feel it’s
Luke Jones 13:46
8true, but, but that was a little bit different in the sense of just the timing of it. You know, in two days to be scarlet letter, right? But it wasn’t like this. It was just like, oh, he left for the transfer portal after the season. No, this was like, he left. He was gone from their program early in 2022 but but to his credit, and I want to be careful only that part of it not touching whatever the details, details of the allegations were, he answered every question about it at the combine. He volunteered the information at the combine. But that said, when you’re talking about someone that, in some people’s minds, was a top 10 or top 15 prospect. I mean, on paper, this might be the best edge rush prospect the Ravens have drafted since Terrell Suggs. I mean, and a lot of that speaks to that hasn’t been an early round priority for them over the years. You know, typically, you know, it’s been the matt Judah and Zaria Smith, type Terrell
Nestor Aparicio 14:41
Suggs fell down the hill because he chased people with a baseball bat at a basketball game. So like you know they Terrell Suggs fell to the Ravens because other teams said nah and and there were questions about his body. Mike Green fell through. League, because no one wanted to touch him, knowing he was a good player, at
Luke Jones 15:03
least not that early, right? I mean, okay, were there other teams ready to pounce at that point in the draft after the Ravens? I’m guessing there probably were. I mean, we, you know, sometimes it’s a case where it’s a pass fail. Someone’s either off your board entirely, or you say, Okay, if he gets to this point, you know, we’ve talked to him about it, it’s maybe not the worst scenario in the world, but it’s not ideal. Clearly, he’s in a position where we better be right. We’re taking a gamble. And the difference here, and that’s why I wrote at Baltimore positive.com that you better be right about him, is it’s way different when you take this on right when it happens to a player that’s already in your program, you can always hide behind the sentiment of what we didn’t know in this case, or
Nestor Aparicio 15:51
lie about it in the case of the ravens, just
8Luke Jones 15:54
lie. You understand what I’m saying. You know any team can use that that you know that that excuse that or or it can be genuine, who knows? But in the case of Mike Green, you’re taking this on. So if details come out about this that are very damning, you have no one to blame but yourself. You deserve every bit of criticism you’re going to get if there’s another allegation at some point here, of similar, you know, again, sexual assault allegation, we we don’t know a single detail other than happened in high school. Reporting from the athletic that was done back at the at the time of the Combine indicated that the University of Virginia had asked him to sign a zero tolerance, you know, some kind of agreement. And then there was another anonymous allegation of when he was at Virginia and he left the program that’s, I have not heard any detail beyond that, certainly nothing to the degree of description that we’ve heard in the Baltimore banner from about Justin Tucker with massage therapists, right? So, well, Mike Green’s
Nestor Aparicio 17:01
going to get asked about it, right? I mean, I mean,
Luke Jones 17:04
he’s going to be but at the same time. I mean, you know, the he’s certainly not going to discuss in great detail what he was accused of, what happened, anything like that. He acknowledged accusations. He He’s never been charged. He was not charged in either case. I don’t know. I mean, again, that’s so little to go off of. I’m not saying it’s nothing, and I think it’s completely inappropriate to assume it’s nothing. But the ravens, according to Eric Acosta, they did their homework on it, and they feel, quote, comfortable drafting him. Well, they said allegations two years ago too, right? Sure, sure. So they better be right, because it’s a different animal when you voluntarily take it on. So if Mike Green is a model citizen and doesn’t get into trouble and is a great football player and does everything the Ravens asked him to do, and he stays out of trouble and keeps, keeps, keeps his nose clean, then this will probably be not, probably will be completely forgotten. And if he’s a great on top of that, if he’s a really great player, he’ll be totally forgotten. But if something comes out about this at some point, you know, either one of these, you know, accusations, or, heaven forbid, something new to were to occur, then you deserve every bit of criticism or even said they’re comfortable, right? Yeah, so they did, you know, so it’s on them, then at that point, right? I mean, again, when, when it’s a player in your building who is then accused of something you can hide behind the we didn’t know, right? This isn’t the guy that we’ve known to this point in time. In this case, you’re, you’re taking this on, you’ve, you’ve voluntarily taken this on. So and to be clear, Mike Green’s a heck of a prospect. I mean, from a football standpoint, to adding someone like him with the 59th overall pick, me that’s a home run, from an on field football standpoint, as I said, I don’t, and you know me Nestor, I’m not, I’m not. Mr. Hot take. I think you look at this, this very well might be, on paper, the best pass rushing prospect that they’ve drafted since Terrell, Suggs. And again, so much of that speaks to how many first round and second round edge rushers Have they really taken in the 22 years since they drafted Suggs. It’s a pretty short list. You know, it’s typically been Matt Judah in the fifth rounds at Area Smith in the fourth round, guys like that, where? And
Nestor Aparicio 19:27
8they’ve also shopped the girls, yeah? I mean, so many best guys,
Luke Jones 19:31
yeah, no question. So, so this hasn’t been the way they’ve gone about it, even the prairie, right? It was a trade. Yeah, exactly. So, so that’s why, you know, again, and when I make that comparison, let me be clear, that’s not me predicting that he is going to be the next Terrell Suggs. I’m talking in terms of evaluating him as a prospect at age 21 compared to Terrell Suggs coming out of Arizona State, compared to all their other way coming out of Penn State at the end of the first round. Four years ago. So again, from a football standpoint, you love it, but you can’t just view it through that lens, and that’s where they better be, right? This, this is a gamble they’re taking, and they say they’re comfortable, all right? If more comes out about this, or if he has future problems, then it’s on you, because you can’t say you didn’t know. Then you, you told everyone you did your homework. You told everyone you were comfortable with them. So you know. And again, we know so little, so I don’t, I’m not sitting here speaking in an authoritative way about the situation, but in light of the Justin Tucker saga and where that is right now and wherever it’s going here in the coming days, weeks and months, you know, again, you better be right, because the timing for this, I mean, this was pretty easily their most controversial draft selection. I mean, go back to Sergio Kendall, you know. I mean, you go back to it’s been a while since they’ve taken someone that clearly had some perceived red flags, as far as you know, at least some accusations, you know, while acknowledging, again, we know so little was not charged with anything in either case, but at the same time, these were two separate allegations at two separate points in time. So I don’t think you can, you certainly can’t chalk it up to all it’s just an isolated incidents when there are two different accusations. You know, you hear what the Ravens say, and you say, Okay, if you’re comfortable with it, fine, but a lot of other teams were not comfortable with and that, and that’s the whole point. This is in a league where teams are in the business of foregoing edge rush help if you know, knowing what kind of talent Mike Green is, and again, he’s go watch the tape. I mean, this guy, albeit not at the highest level of competition, at Marshall. But you know, there are very few things about his game you would say you don’t like. I mean, he gets after the pat the quarterback. He plays the run well. I mean, I would think from day one, not saying he’ll start, because they have Kyle van Noy and Adolphe away, you know, under contract this year, but I certainly have every expectation he’s going to be in the top three. You know, those three are going to, he’s going to get on the field. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you’d be shocked if he’s not so and, like I said, you know, whether you’re talking about Mel Kuiper, Dane bruegler, like all the, all the, the top draft pundits that you would point to, I mean, everyone said this guy was a first round pick. And you’ll find some of the the top 100 rankings and everything. You’ll find some of those that even had him ranked ahead of Malachi Stark. So from a value standpoint in terms of football, I mean, you can make the argument the Ravens got two first round picks in terms of value to add to their defense, but again, you better be right about the character stuff, because, again, it’s a way different situation when you’re willingly taking that on, rather than someone you’ve had in your system for X number of years, and then suddenly there’s a problem, because you can’t hide behind the what we didn’t know. Luke
Nestor Aparicio 22:54
and I chatted about Malachi Starks at the length we’ve now chatted about Mike Green and Justin Tucker and Tyler loop, the new kicker 11 players. Luke and you monitored all weekend. Let’s, let’s go through some names, and let’s go through some positions. This time last year was the Roger rosengartens, and trying to get to know some new players and some new names. Mike Green’s easy. He’s a hockey player just transition, oh, out of the penalty box, no doubt about that, for the caps, but the rest of the draft and all the things we talked about, corner, safety, offensive line, defensive line, kicker, it’s all in there, right? I mean, the one thing, it was not in there was a mark Andrews trade.
Luke Jones 23:35
There was not a mark Andrews trade. And the other thing, I would say that wasn’t in there, in terms of, to me, what was a very clear need. They didn’t really get that wide bodied run stopping defensive tackle, you know, that interior defensive lineman to essentially replace Michael Pierce. There
8Nestor Aparicio 23:51
was a run on that, like in the third round I was watching on Saturday, and like, five or six guys in a row got taken. And they all, they all look like a no sack. They all look five foot, 11 and 400 pounds. You know? Yeah, the
Luke Jones 24:05
guy that they ended up taking on the defensive line, Aeneas Peebles, from Virginia, tech, really odd body type. You know, he’s six foot, 289 pounds. I mean, that’s generally not, you know, if you’re talking about a six foot defensive lineman, fine, but it’s typically a 345, pound nose tackle that’s going using leverage and all that. But people’s was a favorite of John Harbaugh and the pre draft evaluation and Eric tacosta said, you know, he’s not your prototypical ravens defensive lineman, but could be someone that I could see being in the mix as a situational interior past rusher, which is something they haven’t really had a whole lot of over the years. So intriguing, you know, it’s a six round pick. Again, a lot of these picks that we talk about are six rounders. And I get it, people will say, Well, what about a Dallas Thomas, you know, Chuck Clark was a late round pick. You know, stone in more recent years, was a, you know. So we have five of them. You hope to get one of them on the field, one or two. Yeah, one or two become, at the very least good rotational, reliable backup role players for you. And if that happens, then that that, then that’s great, but, but, yeah, the run stopping interior defensive lineman is still something that they’re lacking. So look, that is something that typically you can find even on the on the free agent market in May and June, even at the end of training camp, you know, they they could still bring brand urban back, for example. And that’s not exactly the same skill set that I’m talking about here. But the point is, I think of that compared to edge rush, help, corner, things of that nature, generally, you can find help there. Heck, considering the reputation of this draft class, I think you’re going to see the Ravens bring in at least a few undrafted defensive linemen onto this roster, because they have the roster space for it. They might find them next. Michael pierce through that avenue. So, so that’s the one thing that you would point to. But you look at this draft and, you know, let’s, let’s go with the through the fifth round at the very least, and then we can get into some of the later round guys, of course. But third round Emory Jones Jr, which kind of funny, because they had a quarterback named Emory Jones on their preseason roster last year, but offensive tackle, right tackle at LSU, everyone seems to think, other than, you know, Da Costa and Harbaugh, kind of slow, played this a little bit, but the general sentiment on him is that he’s going to be a guard at the next level. You know, I think they’ll probably line them up a little bit at right tackle, just to see, but I think he’s got a chance to be in the mix at left guard, you know, with Andrew, or he’s, you know, who’s kind of the early favorite to be the guy. I mean, he was the week one guy last year. So I don’t think that’s, you know, that’s not, not unreasonable, or anything like that. So, but, you know, six foot, five, 315, pounds, again. I think most pundits, if you go back and read different draft profiles, things of that nature, seem to like him at guard, at the next level. And something to keep in mind, you know, not just Voorhees at left at left guard, but FAU le at right guard, follow. Layla is in a contract here now. I’m not saying he won’t be the starter this year. I’m not saying they wouldn’t resign him, but you’re also not sitting there saying, oh, let’s give let’s throw a bunch of money at him. So, you know, Emory Jones, it might be that he’s your top backup guard for year one, and maybe he’s their starting right guard next year, you know, so again, third round pick. Can he be in the mix for a starting job? Absolutely. Do you expect him to be the starter? Generally not. You know, you’re generally not viewing a guy through that lens, but, but he was one of two offensive linemen that they took. The other one was a seventh round guard, you know, who Garrett Dellinger, who, three year starter at LSU. You know, again, they tapped into LSU, an SEC player made 30 starts there. He’s more of a true guard, but he’s a seventh round pick. You know, best case scenario he becomes a useful backup for you the next couple years. I mean, the 1% scenario is that maybe he does become the next Bradley Bozeman and a starter in a couple years. But you’re certainly not expecting that out of a seventh round pick. So, so they added to their offensive line, you know, they added a third rounder and a 7/7 rounder, you know, we’ll take a look at some of the other guys that are already on the roster again right now. Voorhees is the early favorite to be the left guard, but certainly with Emory Jones, he’s interesting, but sounds like, you know, even though he was an offensive tackle, sounds like he’s much more of the guard type. So, yeah, that kind of still leaves you with the question of who the swing tackles going to be. So is there a veteran player out there that they could bring in? You know, we’ve seen them do that before as well. They certainly still need that. Because, one, you just need a backup for Ronnie Stanley and or Roger Rosengarten. Even if Rosengarten is the backup to Stanley at left tackle, then you need a right tackle. So is there a veteran that addition to be made? There could be, you know, I that would not surprise me. That’s something I think we all should be on the lookout for here over the next few weeks. Because even if you, even if you thought Emory Jones could be a tackle at the next level, are you counting on him to be your swing tackle week one? Yeah, that that’s pretty ambitious, you know. And even though Ronnie Stanley played 17 games last year, and that was great, and you’re happy to resign him, you also know the history suggests you’re probably going to need someone to fill in at least a couple games over the course of the season. So, so that’s something you’d still look at. But, well, they got Ben Cleveland, too. Yeah. Well, I mean interior, you know, for a backup guard, they certainly have that, but, but you said it. I mean, you, you made the prediction, and you weren’t alone in that. I concurred with you, but they did come away with a couple offensive linemen. I think we all were expecting that to happen. Yeah.
Nestor Aparicio 29:59
11 picks and plenty to pick from. We’re going to talk some baseball around here, because we’re not running from the Orioles and all their problems. The Yankees are in town. We have six months, but we have to play. Rookies will be coming in. There’ll be mini camps. Will be all that good stuff. Luke will be covering the ravens, as he did all weekend. If you’re on the wnst tech service, you know you got all the picks. First all of it brought to you by our friends at cole roofing and Gordian energy. Bill Cole joined me last week on the Maryland crab cake tour out at Cooper’s North before I went to the zoo this weekend, we had some fun. This week, had a big gala with our friends at Coppin State. I even got a I even got a new COVID state drink mug that I’m going to be drinking from your little coffee mug to fill up. So big week, we’re Cocos on Wednesday, doing the Maryland crab cake tour. It is presented by our friends at the Maryland lottery, looking forward to handing some back to the futures out. And there’s a rumor about this crab melt. I’ll be telling you more about that. We’re going to get some baseball in here, some football in here, and a whole bunch of civics as we roll it up. I am Nestor. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stop talking Baltimore. Positive. You.
