The new center of attention as Ravens scramble to find an offensive line

Sure, the Baltimore Ravens should whip the hapless Tennessee Titans at home on Sunday but as Luke Jones and Nestor point out, finding a real and effective offensive line combination must be at the front of concerns as Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry and Zay Flowers look to produce points in the coming weeks. It’s less than ideal. Just ask Eric DeCosta…

The discussion focused on the Ravens’ depleted offensive line, the temporary move of Venga Yoane to center, and expectations for the Titans game.

Offensive Line

• The Ravens have lost three centers to long-term injuries and will use Venga Yoane at center for Week 4.
• Andre James was added to the practice squad, but he is not expected to start immediately.
• The main concern is the trickle-down effect: moving Yoane creates uncertainty at right guard, with Andrew Voorhees and Emory Jones among the possible options.
• The group agreed the offensive line was already a concern before the injuries, particularly for run blocking, pass protection, and short-yardage situations.

Titans Matchup

• The Ravens are expected to win, but Jeffrey Simmons presents a major interior threat against the reshuffled line.
• The offense must protect Lamar Jackson, limit turnovers and penalties, and avoid allowing Simmons to disrupt the game.
• Ronnie Stanley’s return to practice was viewed positively, though his durability remains a concern.

Open Questions

• Can Yoane handle center responsibilities for an extended period?
• Who will stabilize right guard, and will the Ravens add another veteran before the trade deadline?
• Can the defense deliver a dominant performance and help the Ravens reestablish home-field momentum?

• Contact Jensen and arrange an interview to discuss the Ravens’ center situation. (@Nestor Aparicio)
• Reach out to offensive linemen for additional perspective on the Ravens’ offensive-line situation during the week. (@Nestor Aparicio)

Offensive Line Crisis

• Three centers have suffered long-term injuries, forcing Venga Yoane into the starting center role.
• Andre James was added as a potential future option.
• The move creates an unresolved right guard vacancy and broader depth concerns.

Center Versus Guard

• Nestor emphasized the importance and value of the center position.
• Luke stressed that both center and guard are important, with the immediate issue being where Yoane does not play.
• Yoane’s snapping, protection calls, and defensive identification will be tested.

Titans Game Plan

• Jeffrey Simmons is the primary matchup threat against the interior offensive line.
• The Ravens need a plan for double teams, protection calls, and preventing pressure on Lamar Jackson.
• The Titans are viewed as a weaker opponent, but turnovers, penalties, or special-teams mistakes could keep the game close.

Longer-Term Outlook

• Ronnie Stanley’s practice return was encouraging, but his age and durability remain concerns.
• The Ravens need a stable offensive-line configuration by the middle of the season.
• The defense is expected to show more consistency against Tennessee.

Nestor Aparicio 0:01
Welcome home. We are WNST AM 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. If you’re watching out on the YouTubes, I’m not really a Tennessee Titans fan at all. Never had any use for them, but I did love me some Allers. So I’m wearing my Derrick Henry jersey because you know I bought it and it looks good. I hope the Tennessee Titans should never win in this jersey. And there’s been great segments all week long with those in Tennessee and in Houston about that. On Friday we will be at Pizza John, swallowing aggression and a lot of pizza. And I’ve already checked off with my GBMC primary physician that I am allowed to have French fries and gravy for special, it’s just my birthday month, and it’s also Luke’s birthday this weekend. So I’ll be having some French fries and gravy at Pizza Johns. All brought to you by the Maryland Lottery. I’ll have the Ravens kiss face scratch-off bird. I swear, number 27 in the 28th anniversary is coming with John Mayer, and I experienced AC/DC on Tuesday night since the last time Luke and I got together and had a good time. I rocked and rolled all night long, and got shook all night long, and I shook a leg, and I had a drink on that. I did it all, and that’s why I didn’t do much on Wednesday. So Luke Jones is here now. He, of course, is all of our sports coverage brought to you by our friends, the Comfort Guys in Farnham and Dermer, and our newest sponsors sponsored the 28th anniversary Rosedale Bank, which I will be talking about with Don Sheiler at Peachy Johns on Friday. Yeah, look, this whole thing comes full circle because Sheila, about 15 years ago, I’m in New York and I got a text and he took me to a Bruce Springsteen charity show at the Beacon Theater, New York. I was there with Billick doing a whole thing. 20 years ago now, and Springsteen is obviously coming back on Saturday. I got a ticket for Merriweather. Thank you. By the way, I got to do this for for Brian Granick and his daughter, who hooked me up. Visionary Eye. They take care of me. That’s Brian Granick there. He hooked me up with one paid admission on the lawn. So, dude, I got rock and roll. I got AC/DC. I got baseball on the television. The Red Sox are out. We got that going for us. The Padres are in. I got that going for us. How are you with this whole center thing and Lamar not practicing Wednesday and a long flight back and and really, as I wear this Oilers jersey, the worst team in the NFL is coming to town Sunday by most accounts.

Luke Jones 2:26
I mean, they’re certainly in that conversation, right? I mean, I think there were some preseason sentiments that the Titans might be a little bit better, but so far it hasn’t really worked out that way. They better not be better on Sunday. Sure, sure, but yeah, I mean, the center of attention, big surprise, as has been most of the off season. And when you’ve lost three guys in that department in a little over a month, center, right? So Venga Yoane, at least for week four, at least for the very near short term, is going to be that guy. Frankly, because they don’t have anyone else, they brought in Tyler Linderbaum’s three and zero. He is and very well paid doing it. I’ll remind you of that. But the Ravens the other day they signed center Andre James, who actually is 29 years old. He’s made 61 career starts. He was with the Chargers last year, so Jesse Minter’s familiar with him. He’s a name of interest, I think, over the next few weeks. But for the time being, Yoane is going to be the guy because you just ask who else, right? Who else is going to play center? And I think this is a reminder of why you drafted a guard in the first round. It’s not just because you think he’s going to be a great guard; it’s because he’s got some versatility. And it’s funny because I remember at the time of them drafting him, you and I obviously talked about who Marshall Yanda, right? The greatest guard in the in franchise history. When you draft a guard in the first round, you have some dreams of someone that might be close to being that good eventually, which would be an amazing thing for the Ravens. But one thing about Marshall Yanda, we always knew, was very versatile. You know, we can remember the year when a bad shoulder forced him to left guard. We can remember years where he played right tackle because of needs. The funny thing is, Yonda never played center. There was never a scenario where he had to go to center. But Venga Yawane, in his fourth NFL game, well, really his third going back to the final eight plays on Sunday in Brazil. They need him to play there because they’ve lost three centers to long-term injuries. So, again, I don’t know if that’s going to be the solution for the rest of the year. If it is, the question is, who do you have at right guard, and are you comfortable enough there? But for the time being, this is kind of just what it is. And he talked about it at length on Wednesday. I think the snapping pieces, the the obvious one that you see, but for him, calling out the protections, identifying the front, identifying the mic, all those things. Which yeah, the veterans on. Line can help, and I know John Simpson, for example, helped him a lot on Sunday against the Cowboys. But this is what it is for right now. It’s not ideal. It’s not really for me, even that I doubt that Iwane can’t do a decent job at center. But it’s the hidden cost. It’s the trickle down effect. Then, if he’s not playing right guard, he’s playing center. Well, who’s playing right guard? Is it Voorhees? Is it Emery Jones? Is it someone else that they go out and get? I know fans mentioned Kevin Zeitler for five minutes. Well, he ended up signing with the Packers the other day. So, and then as you alluded to, Lamar Jackson on the injury report on Wednesday. Nothing that I’m terribly concerned about. I mean, he talked to the media. He actually was out there. He was limited on Wednesday. It’s amazing

Nestor Aparicio 5:45
they didn’t go get Zeitler, right?

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Luke Jones 5:47
I I was surprised by that. Sure. I mean,

Nestor Aparicio 5:50
and maybe he can’t play anymore. I don’t know. Yeah, I don’t know.

Luke Jones 5:53
I mean, he he was still pretty good last year, though. I mean, like the the Ravens a few years back when they decided to move on from him, it was the knee. There were some concerns about the knee, but the last two seasons, he mostly played every game. It’s not as though he missed a whole bunch of time in his last couple stops, but they apparently at least

Nestor Aparicio 6:13
bringing a grown-up in.

Luke Jones 6:14
Yeah, right. Oh, like I said, I mean they they they brought Andre James to the practice squad. This is someone who’s played in the league.

Nestor Aparicio 6:21
I mean, Morgan Moses played in the Super Bowl last year. You know, some of these guys that have gotten out of the role, you know, it’s sort of like, okay, we replace that guy with the draft, and I mean, that’s Eric Steele, right? Was sort of like, we’re going to let this guy go, we’re going to bring this guy in. Maybe why he becomes their center. I don’t know. Maybe he’s more valuable as a center in the guard and plays it well.

Luke Jones 6:39
That that’s that’s not really my concern. My concern is wherever Yoon is not going to play. Right, of course, and that’s and that’s my my concern. Look, you could you could spell out a scenario for me, and and I don’t think this is his long term home by any stretch of the imagination. But you could lay out the scenario to me that he plays center the rest of the way, rest meaning the rest of 2026, and ends up being better than any of the other options would have been. But then the question is: Are you going to get adequate play at right guard? Right? Are you going to get the kind of play at right guard that they need? Quite frankly, that they didn’t get from Daniel Falale last year. Right? So that’s the question. I mean, that’s the trickle down. But whatever the combination, and the reason he

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Nestor Aparicio 7:20
played is because Voorhees wasn’t good enough, right?

Luke Jones 7:25
Who Fale Falele? Yes. Oh no, I mean Voorhees was more the left guard picture, right? McCarry ended up unseating him two years ago. Voorhees played all year last year, but they showed you what they thought of him when they. Well, that’s what I mean. I mean, in a

Nestor Aparicio 7:39
general sense, they’ve exited these guys because they weren’t good enough, and now they have guys that really aren’t good enough. And one of them, they gave some money to. I I don’t know, dude. This it’s week four. It’s not going to affect them as I sit here in this goofy Houston Oilers jersey this week. I don’t think in winning the game, but like the long haul of doing this for the next 1618, weeks, as they expect to do. The fact that Zeitler went to the pat, the fact that anybody was out there, given the history of this organization and how Kokinis and they pro personnel scouted pretty well over the course of time, that they’re going to go with what they got. You know what I mean? Because it does it. You and I don’t think it’s good enough. You know what I mean? Like we’re gonna talk about it all year. Like if it’s not good enough now, and Stanley’s not really coming back, and not really gonna be Stanley, and like, what are we gonna do? You know, I mean, there’s a little bit of that. I think if I’m being honest about it, we’re gonna talk about it every week, right? Yeah. Because it’s gonna be the structure of everything that they get done or don’t get done is going to be can they run the ball? Well, if they can’t run the ball, they’re going to be in third and long. Well, if they’re in third and long, Lamar’s going to get rushed, and if Lamar’s going to get rushed, Lamar’s going to have to take off, and if Lamar takes off, I hope he doesn’t get hit. You know, watch this for eight years, right? And when the offensive line’s leaky, I don’t know, it creates all sorts of havoc that we don’t even, we can’t even predict.

Luke Jones 9:04
Yeah, I mean, I mean, it just makes things more difficult. I mean, it’s just that simple, right? And and it’s never been that the offensive line has to be great or elite or top five or top three or the best in the NFL, but you don’t want it to be a liability. And frankly, we had questions about this long before these injuries. Oh right, right. We’ve been through

Nestor Aparicio 9:21
three centers. We weren’t sure any of them were any good. I mean, you’re on center

Luke Jones 9:24
number four already now, so it is tricky. And and I’ll point this out. Look, I fully expect the Ravens to win. I fully expect the Ravens to win pretty convincingly on Sunday. But I’ll give you two words: Jeffrey Simmons, who’s one of the best defensive tackles in the NFL? Game wrecker. This is not really the week that you necessarily want to be going up against him with. As talented as Yuan A is, first career start at center, and then presumably Andrew Voorhees at right guard. Right? I mean, that’s that’s not what you want. I mean, if you’re Declan Doyle, you better have a. Plan for that, right? So, so even with the Titans being the opponent, it’s a reminder of just because you look at these teams in their totality and say, “Oh, well, they’re not very good, because I don’t think the Titans are very good, but they’ve got a a game record at defensive tackle who could make a few plays in this game that that turns what would otherwise be a pretty comfortable win into something that’s not comfortable? Yeah, something that’s strip

Nestor Aparicio 10:24
ball and this into that and a sack strip and it’s a 10 point turnaround on one player, right?

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Luke Jones 10:29
Yeah, exactly. And and as we said, I mean, even though Ed

Nestor Aparicio 10:32
Reed used to be team single hand to lay around here, right? Like literally, but but even even

Luke Jones 10:37
though I’m not concerned about Lamar’s back, it is a reminder that man, you better get this offensive line right because we saw what this looked like last year, right? With a shoddy and shoddy play at both guard spots and a version of Lamar that was not close to 100% It didn’t work very well, right? I mean, just that simple. So you need to find some stability, and that’s where this is going to be very fluid for a while. Again, they brought in a couple guys on the practice squad. I’m sure Eric DeCosta’s going to continue to work the phones, continue to look at what’s out there. They’ve worked guys out. They’ll probably continue to work some guys out. And just because this is going to be what it looks like in week four doesn’t mean it’s going to be what the plan is in week five, and certainly doesn’t mean it’s going to be what it looks like in week 12, but by week 12 you better have some semblance of a solution in place that at least gives you the highest possible floor you can have in terms of your offensive line. So it’s you know it’s it’s not something I’m panicking over, but it’s certainly something I’m concerned about, and and I think if you’re not concerned about it at this point, I mean, I just I don’t know if you like have you been paying attention all off season? If you’ve been paying attention the last couple years, right? So, look, I’m I’m not blaming Eric DeCasta in the sense that there’s no real roster planning for losing your top three centers. My only question all along was, would those top three centers be good enough anyway? But now you’re in a position where those guys are either done for the season in the case of Pinter, or in the case of Gwyn or Posik, are gone for most of the season, right? I mean, maybe there’s a chance those guys, one of one or two of them could be back in the equation by December, but you can’t count on that. And again, I think I want to. I think he can handle center. I’m not

Nestor Aparicio 12:30
overly concerned about that. Yeah, I was gonna say like it doesn’t feel. It feels to me like he could go to the Hall of Fame as a center, right? Like it feels to me like they may never move. Like I’m just saying this flippantly. Like they may may never move him back. It’s a much more valuable position. He’ll make more money there if he’s great at it. If he enjoys it. If he’s a leader in life, I mean, dude, he got in there. He was calling Mike’s out right away, and the snap was low, and this and that. They don’t want to be in shotgun all that much anyway anymore. So I I look at it and say like if he can grow into this and he’s excited about it because it’s more involvement for him early in his career. I mean, he seems like a man. You know what I mean? He seems like he’s going to play in this league a while. He seems like good egg as far as a draft pick, and now they’re moving him. It’s different than some of these cornerbacks they’ve drafted that have struggled the first three weeks of their career. Literally, this dude’s in week four of his career. Marshall Yanda couldn’t get on the field the first four weeks of his career. You know what I mean? So now they’re moving this guy around, giving him a whole different-not just set of responsibilities, but like identifying defenses. Like he’s 23 or 23 years old, whatever he is, right? So if he attaches to this and thrives, you know they got themselves a center with the 21st pick. That’s better than a guard, is it?

Luke Jones 13:54
I mean

Nestor Aparicio 13:55
the market wouldn’t say that. I mean you can. I would say that because I’ve watched centers leave here and watched Geno Gradkowski try to do it, and I’ve watched Matt Burke do it, and I’ve watched Jeremy Zuda try to do it, and you know what I mean. Like, and I go through all of this, and then they draft this guy who goes and gets $28 million, and and they’re three and zero, and like I look at it and say, like, I think center’s really important. I want to get Mike Flynn on, and we’ll talk about it. And I can’t get Matt Burke on because he’s a nutball Republican, and I can’t even chase him down because he won’t even come on to me and face reality. So that’s a fact on Matt Burke. But I’d love to talk center with Matt Burke. But I’d like to talk politics. He ran. He ran for he ran for pretty high office in Minnesota. So, like for me, I’d love to talk about it because I think they’re undervalued in my eyes of watching football for 30 years here and everywhere else. And I think Tom Brady might agree with you. So you know what? I’ll call Jensen. He was here last week. Let’s get him on. You know, centers are important, dude. You know, I never

Luke Jones 14:57
said they weren’t, but you’re saying they’re more valuable than guards. And I would say the market hasn’t dictated that. And based on the argument you just said, the Ravens should have moved Marshall Yonda to the center after Matt Burke retired, right? So

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Nestor Aparicio 15:08
maybe he wasn’t a center. Maybe this guy’s not a center either, right? But I’m

Luke Jones 15:12
just, but I’m, but I’m saying is I, you know, we’re we’re getting into the weeds about something that isn’t that. No, I think it’s really

Nestor Aparicio 15:19
important because I think center is that important because I I do and I that’s but you’re

Luke Jones 15:24
but you’re arguing that center is more valuable than guard and I’m I’m not sure if you have a

Nestor Aparicio 15:27
lousy guard you’re right correct right

Luke Jones 15:29
I mean I you know and I think a lot of offensive line experts would talk to you a lot about the importance of the right guard position I’m calling Aaron shot that’s it no but in terms of in terms of like slide protections things like that. I mean, there’s there’s the governor needs

Nestor Aparicio 15:43
to be a better athlete. I would agree with that. There’s a

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Luke Jones 15:45
lot of nuance to it, but the point, the overall point that matters here is both are important. And yes, Venga Yoani appears to have the versatility, and we’re gonna find out. He might not be able to play it at all, right? We might find out and say, oh, this is not working at all, or he might be totally fine there. If the ball

Nestor Aparicio 16:03
hits the ground three times on Sunday and they lose two of them and they lose the game 23 to 21, he’s not a center, right? I mean, they’re doing this on the fly. This is like taking Kobe May when they go play right field, and we know you’re going to drop a few. I mean, literally, right? Like, if he doesn’t make any mistakes on Sunday, I’ll be stunned. I mean, the snap was low on the winning thing. I talked to you about that the other day, and that’s not my eyes. That’s the guy that’s paying them. Humans called the snap low. So if there’s, if they got to get in shotgun this week, and let’s hope they’re not behind to have to do that, right? Like, so part of this is managing it as they go to make him a better center, because they’ve made him the center, and unless they go sign a better center, he’s the center, right?

Luke Jones 16:49
Sure, sure. I mean that that’s and and again for me, it’s it’s just wherever he isn’t going to play. How about this, dude?

Nestor Aparicio 16:56
Let’s think about this out loud. He’s going to touch the ball. How many snaps they’re going to take? 6070, 3953, He’s going to touch the ball in every one of them, and the plan was for him to never touch the football unless Lamar gets squished and the ball comes out and he falls on it. Like, like literally, you’re asking a guy to touch the ball.

Speaker 1 17:17
Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 17:18
you’re asking Len Sakata to catch, you know what I mean? Like so, to me, I think he can do it. I I think he’s super talented. I think Eric bet on him. I’m well. I wouldn’t bet on anything with Eric DeCosta other than his football acumen. Certainly not his integrity. But if he bet on him and they think he’s the center this week, they’re going to go play against the worst team in the NFL and see how it goes, and hope that the two or three times he screws up, reading a defense-I mean, that’s a big job, dude. Sure, sure, and

Luke Jones 17:51
and you know, it’s not betting on Eric. Eric DeCosta didn’t draft him to to be the center, right? I mean, you’re not drafting him with the thought that okay, well, the three other guys that we’re going to bring in are all going to get hurt. Well, if he

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Nestor Aparicio 18:01
can’t do it, you’re really screwing up putting him in there. You know what I mean? If you don’t have the confidence level, you keep McGonagall. You don’t really

Luke Jones 18:07
have a choice. I mean, fair enough. Who else are you going to play there? I think this speaks way more to they view him like Marshall Yonda in the sense that when Rick Wagner got hurt at the end of the 2014 season, I think it was off the top of my head. Maybe it was 16. Whatever it was, they moved him out to right guard or right tackle. Right, the year that was it? I’m trying to think. In 2010, was that the year that Gaither got hurt and ended up missing the season? They moved Michael Orr to left tackle. Marshall Ganda moved out to right tackle. Right. I think this is more a reflection of they already view him as their best lineman. So when something like this happens, and you say, “Oh my goodness, what are we going to do? Venga’s the guy, right? And that’s where I drew the Marshall Yanda comparison, right? Marshall Yanda never was in a position where he had to move to center, but he had to move the right tackle plenty of times over the course of his career, and not only could he do it, he did it at you know maybe not an all-pro level, but certainly did it at a at least fringe Pro Bowl level, which just spoke to the fact that why I think he’s going to be in the Hall of Fame at some point in the next couple years. So yeah, I mean this is this is why you drafted a talent like him in the first round. However, the plan, or you know, the the plan beyond him being your third emergency, takes a few snaps at the beginning of practice. Well, you were just trying to make sure he

Nestor Aparicio 19:36
could play guard three weeks into this, right? Like it’s not. Yeah, no, this is way less than ideal, dude. And I guess that’s the beginning of this. Is saying this is less than ideal over the next 15 weeks, let alone against the worst team in the foot and the

Luke Jones 19:48
NFL business. Yeah, because like I said, I mean, I think he can probably handle it and and probably be good there. You know, I’m not going to sit here and say he’s going to be great there because I think that’s unfair to expect that out of a room. Playing his fourth game, but again, it’s the trickle-down effect. Like, who’s playing guard, right? You’re already not feeling great about John Simpson at left guard. Well, well, now you’re going to have someone that either in Voorhees, who you felt you you thought so little of his play the last couple years that you signed someone to replace him, or in the case of Emory Jones, who ideally he would have been the guy that you’d say, all right, we drafted him in the third round last year. He had a year to learn. He’s healthy. We’re going to put him at right guard. I haven’t really gotten a sense that they feel that way about him just yet. I think they were, I think they were kind of underwhelmed by what they saw from him over the summer. So who knows? Maybe he’ll rise to the occasion. Maybe it will be Emory Jones. If if it is, then great. Because when you draft someone in the third round, there’s a thought that okay, he’s not going to be a day one starter, but there is a thought that that guy’s going to become a starter for you, or you wouldn’t have taken him that early. I mean, it’s just that simple. So, you know, this is this is definitely messy. I mean, it’s not where you wanted to be. To state the obvious, I mean, there’s no real planning for losing three different centers over the course of what five weeks. But at this, and we haven’t even talked

Nestor Aparicio 21:11
about the rest of the team. We’ve been sitting here talking for 20 because it’s that much of a concern for them, right? Like, I mean, I mean, we’re concerned about the tackling. We’re concerned about the secondary. We’re concerned about the pass rush. We’re concerned, like we’re concerned about Jay Flowers hamstering. We’re concerned that Lamar didn’t play Wednesday. Derrick Henry should want to get even and angry at this jersey that I’m wearing and run for 194 yards on Sunday and blah blah blah blah blah. But this isn’t a this week concern as much as it’s just sort of the this is the iceberg that they’ve run into here in week four and how they’re going to patch it up and get to the other side of the the you know the ocean because they just left the shore and they they they hit a Titanic I mean Titanic get an iceberg like literally I mean they got a long way to go if the whole center of their offensive line and the left tackle are going to be problematic week to week, and certainly any offensive lineman would tell you this. And I’ll chase Jo down. I’m gonna chase some O linemen down this week. You got me. You got me thinking. And but it is the ultimate ballet in football for people that do do know football or don’t know football? It’s it’s the five guys that you’d rather of all the places on the field. You’d rather have the same five guys playing 80 snaps a week forever because that’s just the way the best way to do it. It’s like putting a rock band together and saying we’re going to put a new drummer in this week to play or a new keyboard player. Like literally, it’s like a band, and it’s just not going to sound the same or look the same. Even if you put a good replacement in, things are going to change because of feet, calls, voices, movement, size, tendencies, left-handed, right-handed, just all of it. Yeah, it. This is sticky, dude.

Luke Jones 22:59
Yeah, it’s going to take some time. I mean, there’s no doubt about that. No matter where the dust settles, as far as what their starting five is going to be, it’s going to take some time. I mean, it just is. Even even if all their internal options end up being good enough, even if we’re not talking about them going out and acquiring a guard or a center by the trade deposit. But talking

Nestor Aparicio 23:18
about good backups and good third stringers and good third round draft pick rookies and centers that move guards that move to center in week four in an offense that you’re expecting to score 35 points a week. I mean,

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Luke Jones 23:33
it’s it’s not ideal. There’s no doubt. Now I will I will say this: Ronnie Stanley was back on the field Wednesday. I thought that was a really good sign. I asked Minter about Stanley on Monday, and very much gave an answer like, “Look, we we were really trying to get ahead of this. We wanted to be proactive. We shut him down for a week. We we thought that improved the chances of this not being something that lingers all year long. So all you can do is hope that that’s going to be the case, right? The fact that he was practicing on Wednesday already suggests that he’s going to play Sunday. I will say this: for as much as we’re talking about concerns about the O line, go back and look. I thought Carson Vincent played very well at left tackle. He played well enough to say, “All right, don’t get me wrong. You don’t want to be losing Ronnie Stanley, but even if if I’m trying to forecast a couple years down the road, maybe he could be that guy in a couple years. You know. Well, I would also think in the off season, if you’re Eric DeCosta, you’re thinking I got a 30, you know,

Nestor Aparicio 24:30
left tackle with a lot of tread on that tire.

Speaker 2 24:32
Sure,

Nestor Aparicio 24:33
my backup left tackle’s got to be my best backup.

Luke Jones 24:35
Yeah, that that’s fair.

Nestor Aparicio 24:37
Period. Right.

Luke Jones 24:38
Yeah. Exactly. And and I’m going to go back because he gonna

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Nestor Aparicio 24:41
play, you know. There’s no way Ronnie Stanley was gonna play 70 snaps. I wouldn’t bet on that over 18 weeks. No way.

Luke Jones 24:49
Well, but and I

Nestor Aparicio 24:50
like Ronnie Stanley. I’ve gone on record about what a man he is. Just the fact that he’s trying to play again this week. For sure, he’s got $100

Luke Jones 24:59
million in the bank. Didn’t need to be playing football this week, you know. He does, but he also earned this this most recent, you know, this current contract because he proved that he could stay healthy for a couple years. I mean, go back to last year and the year before, he missed a combined one game over the last two years. Now, he did have some games where he had to exit early or missed a little bit of time here or there. Point is, over the last few couple years he’s been much healthier than he had been for a long, long time. However, to your point, when you’re talking about someone who’s 32, that’s probably not going to continue. You’re hoping he can remain durable-ish, I guess, for lack of a more durable-ish.

Nestor Aparicio 25:38
If that’s what you’re thinking, you better have a good. You know that that that was my thought. Is that like if anybody’s going to break down, dude? I spent the whole summer talking about Humphrey, Stanley, Andrews, just on and on and on. These older players, Glaz Campbell, and just saying like they’re not all going to hold up. They’re not all going to be good. They’re not all going to look like they’re in their prime. Maybe they’ll look like they’re in their prime for one week. Andrews caught a couple of balls yesterday. I, you know, if that’s sustainable for 17 games, that he’s going to catch six to eight or 10 targets and get him out of a couple third, 3/3, down jams a game like he used to. Great. I mean, you know, Lamar’s also got to hit him, not hit him behind him. You know, there’s been a little bit of that too with timing, and timing gets crazy when you’re playing with a backup left tackle, a guard that’s a center, a four-string guard,

Speaker 3 26:25
yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 26:25
on and on and on, right?

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Luke Jones 26:27
It’s it’s not ideal. I mean, look, if we had done the X, and we probably did this at some point during training camp, but you can kind of go through a roster, and in the salary cap era, you’re not going to have great depth at every position. It’s just not reality. But if you kind of looked at that thing, you said, “Okay, where are the positions where you can least afford to lose your top option? And you kind of look at where the Ravens have been just through the first three weeks. They’ve already played without Zayflowers, which I think we’ve all seen. This offense looks much different and and way less explosive without Zayflower. No, it’s an easier

Nestor Aparicio 27:02
defense.

Luke Jones 27:03
Yeah, right. They’ve they’ve already played a game without Ronnie Stanley. Now we said Carson Vincent did a nice job, and they’re already in a position where they’re on their fourth different center, and that was not a position of strength going into training camp as it is, right? So yeah, you kind of look at it, and you always any general manager will tell you. They might not say it publicly, like in an on-the-record thing, but if you just are talking to them informally or, or whatever, they’re going to be at least a few positions on their football team where they’re holding their breath. Now everyone holds their breath about their franchise quarterback, right? Because even if you love your backup quarterback, if you’ve got a legitimate quarterback that you love, you know that you’re screwed if you lose that guy. I mean, that’s just that’s the case anywhere, right? But beyond the quarterback position, every team has at least a couple positions where you’re looking at your depth chart and saying, “Man, we’re we’re not in good shape if we lose one or two guys there, and that’s you know that center was unfortunately one of those spots for them because you didn’t know if you felt good about your starter, let alone your backup or your number three, and now being on your number four. So again, it’s nice that you have Vengayuane, who part of why you loved him so much coming out of Penn State was that he was a guy who did move around and do some different things. You know, he played some limited snaps at center at Penn State. You know, not like he started multiple games and everything, but he played a handful of snaps here. I think it’s 17, some 1217, something like that. So it’s not a position that was completely foreign to him. But yeah, when you when you’re not even when you’re just getting to the month of October, and you’re already on your fourth center. I mean, that’s just kind of crazy. And like I said, in defense of Eric, it’s not necessarily something you can practically plan for, unless we’re just going to go to the default argument of, you know, Danny Pinscher wasn’t really an optimal number one option to begin with, and then you’re kind of looking at it through that lens. But we’re going to see. I mean, they’ve got time until the trade deadline. I think so much of this is going to be dependent on can you want a play center? Because if you can, the argument to me becomes there’s a bigger pool of starting caliber guards when you consider the left and right guards, you know just the simple math, right? There are 64 starting guards in the NFL compared to 32 starting centers. So, if you’re looking at it in terms of the trade deadline and moves you might be able to make in that regard, if you want it, can handle it, then you might just say, “Okay, this isn’t going to be our long-term plan because we still want him to become an All-Pro right guard in the big picture. But for the rest of this year, in the same way that Marshall Yanda played right tackle a couple years in his career, he’ll play there. Or John Ogden playing left

Nestor Aparicio 29:55
guard. Sure, sure,

Luke Jones 29:56
exactly. But then the the objective becomes. All right. Well, we met. We need to find. We need to go acquire a legit starting right guard then, because then that combination of five: Stanley, John Simpson, Yawana at center, and then Claire to be the you know TBD at right guard in

Nestor Aparicio 30:15
week 10. That’s your guy. Yeah, that’s what you’re. In Thanksgiving, you need to have that settled. Yeah,

Luke Jones 30:20
I mean, you’d like to, and you’d like to

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Nestor Aparicio 30:22
be eight and three then too. Sure,

Luke Jones 30:23
of course. I mean, like, yeah, this is all of this is still about one. You need to be good enough to get to January, and two, you want to be able to do things in January. So, I mean, that’s always the long term vision. So, we’re gonna see. Like I said, overall, okay, you know, the Tennessee Titans do not pose much of a threat overall, but Jeffrey Simmons is going to be looking at that picture and going to be licking his chops. So that’s where I said, Declan Doyle, you better have a plan for accounting there. And you know, it’s not as when it’s a defensive end or an outside linebacker, you know, an edge rusher. You just keep a tight end and and chip and chip and chip. That’s not quite as simple when you’re talking about an interior defensive lineman. Yeah, you can do double teams, but like again, is your center getting everything lined up the right way? Is identifying the mic, identifying your protection, making sure if you’re double teaming Simmons, like is everyone else on their Ps and Qs that you don’t get a free rusher on Lamar? So there’s a lot to that. So they’ve got their hands full, and this is also where I’ll I’ll go back to someone that we talked about a lot during the summer, Dwayne Letford, their offensive line coach. They think very highly of him. He he needs to have a good plan for this week, next week, the week after that, whenever how however long it takes for this new offensive line picture to settle, right? Whatever it ultimately looks like. So, and Jesse Mintra talked about this on Wednesday. He said, “Look, what we’re looking to do to get ready for Sunday’s game is not necessarily what we’re going to do the following week, let alone a month or two from now, but we do have to get ready for a game this week, and that’s where that’s where they don’t have a choice. I mean, Yuani’s got to be the guy because it’s not like they have another center on their practice squad where you just call them up and say, “Okay, well, you’re ready. You know, and like I said, they they brought in a veteran, they brought in Andre James on Wednesday. He started games in the league. Maybe he becomes their starting center, but he’s not going to do it on Sunday, right? He needs a little more time to learn the offense at the very least. So we’ll see. But yeah, this is the the saving grace is that you are only playing a team like the Titans, I suppose. But like I said, they’ve got an All Pro defensive tackle. I mean, Jeffrey Simmons is a heck of a player, so you know that that’s still something that they need to be aware of. So it’s, I would imagine it’s this is kind of a long week for the offensive coaching staff in terms of trying to get this thing settled in well enough to play a game and function and protect Lamar, open enough holes in the running game. Try to get better with short yardage, right? I mean, we were talking about the short yardage picture being a problem even before Gwyn and and Posick left the game on Sunday. So they’ve they’ve got their hands full in that regard. That said, again, Tennessee Titans winless, a young quarterback that is searching for confidence, right? I mean, both their running backs are banged up. They had the

Nestor Aparicio 33:25
game on the line last week and kind of blew it, right? Yeah. I mean,

Luke Jones 33:28
they’re you know they. And by the

Nestor Aparicio 33:30
way, the Eagles don’t look very good. They hung in with the Eagles two weeks ago. Sure, sure. I mean,

Luke Jones 33:33
yeah, but but you know, at the same time, all it takes in any of these matchups, when you look at them collectively, you say, okay, one team’s good, the other team’s bad, right? The Ravens, I fully believe the Ravens are a good football team, going to be a good football team. Titans, I don’t have much belief that they’re anything but a bad football team. But all it takes is one or two matchups where it’s lopsided in favor of that bad team, and that can make that game way closer than you expect. So, that that for me is that’s the concern going into Sunday. I mean, that’s you’ve got to manage that. You’ve got to have a plan for Jeffrey Simmons. You can’t let him wreck the game.

Nestor Aparicio 34:12
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Luke Jones 36:00
note here: we’re like 40 minutes into this. Ravens haven’t won at home in like a year, like, and we haven’t brought that up, but it certainly has been like part of the you know Lamar’s thing. We need to win at home. They’re you know they’re all about that on Wednesday at the press conference. They know they haven’t won a home game. They they they know what it’s like to pull out of the players’ parking lot all last winter when it was dark at 5o’clock and things are bad and they they had that feeling again right so they need to win at home man they better win at home right I mean Sunday is one of those where not need to win you better win if you can’t beat the Tennessee Titans at home and and you you know look the Saints might end up being a good football team. I I don’t know. It’s too early to know that, but Chuck’s impressive. Chris Olave is one of the better receivers in football, right? I mean, like we all saw it. We we looked at that, and that’s one of those where yeah, the Ravens had all kinds of issues in that game. But you give your opponent some credit as well, right? But I mean, let’s just call this what it is. I mean, this is a Tennessee Titans team that’s on another, you know, another head coach now, Robert Sala, Cam Ward, another jersey, yeah, yeah, right, right. Cam Ward, who obviously was a top pick and and you know does not look like someone who just plays with a whole lot of confidence. This feels like the kind of game to not only win but reestablish yourself a little bit. And I’m talking more specifically about the defense. Do you want

Nestor Aparicio 37:26
them to be number one at the power rankings at the end of the week? You want them to look up. Well,

Luke Jones 37:29
beating the Titans isn’t going to get you there,

Nestor Aparicio 37:32
but but I’d like it. Well, beating the Titans 2321 is it. Beating the Titans 41 to nine would. You know what I mean? And I’m expecting a beatdown. I don’t know that I’m going to get it. That’s not, but

Luke Jones 37:42
that’s not moving them to number one in the pecking order. But you want to see a performance that you’re at least thinking about. That look like a

Nestor Aparicio 37:49
playoff team. That’s all. Exactly.

Luke Jones 37:51
Exactly. And for me, it’s really the defense, right? I mean, I think the offense will still score points. We’ve talked about the Simmons factor. We’ve talked about the interior line. Doesn’t mean it’s going to be perfect, but I don’t think they’re going to get shut out either. I don’t want to. I don’t want to overstate Jeffrey Simmons’ impact, but for me, I look at this defense and say, all right, maybe that maybe New Orleans is better than we thought. And I will say this: Cowboys do have a really good offense, right? I I never expected the Ravens’ defense to hold them to 10, right? I I expected Dallas to score some points. Sweetie Lamb and George Pickens

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Nestor Aparicio 38:24
aren’t running around this week, right? AJ Brown’s not running around this week for the for the Wallers.

Luke Jones 38:28
I mean, we’re talking about Wandale Robinson, Carnell Tate. I mean, Calvin Ridley isn’t. I mean, there was a there was one point where you thought about him disappointment,

Nestor Aparicio 38:39
right? Yeah,

Luke Jones 38:39
I mean, it’s just he’s not that guy. The Ravens almost drafted him,

Nestor Aparicio 38:42
or we talked about it a lot. He was talked

Luke Jones 38:44
about at the time, sure, sure, and and you know in Atlanta he looked like he was going to be really good for a short time there. But I think for me this is where I want to see the defense put it all together and just play a much more complete football game. Does it need to be a shutout? No. At the same time, if you’re playing high-level defense against this Titans team, I mean, this is a team that what against the Giants last week? I mean, they scored what was it seven points, right? They scored 20 against Philadelphia at home. They managed 10 in their opener against the Jets. I mean, this has not been a juggernaut by any stretch of the imagination. So when they come into Baltimore, they come into your home stadium that you’d like to you’d like to reestablish some semblance of home field advantage, regardless of what the record has been going back the last couple years. This should be a game where you should be able to smother them, and that’s where yeah, I will call out Jesse Minter in this defense this week and say, “All right, it’s time to look like there’s the framework that there’s the talent that there’s the structure in place for this to be a top five defense, and I want to see it on Sunday. Doesn’t mean that that’s going to be just what I expect moving forward. Per se, because when you when you play some better quarterbacks and better teams, fine. But against a team like Tennessee, you know, if you if Cam Ward’s throwing the ball around the field on you, and those receivers are making plays on you, and Tony Pollard and Taji Spears are running on you the way that Javante Williams ran on them last week, I’m really starting to ask some questions about what’s going on. To me, this

Nestor Aparicio 40:23
is a mistake game. This is a game where the center fumbles the ball, the kicker misses a kick, the punter gets a punt block. Like that’s the way they’re going to win. They’re not going to win by dominating the Ravens. I I think it’s more of a mistake game. It’s more of Lamar throwing a lollipop pick, pick six, or you know something ball pops out and the linebacker grabs it and runs for a touchdown. Like defensive touchdowns, turnovers, dumb stuff is how they’ll lose this game. It won’t be getting overpowered by Cam Ward throwing for 390 yards. Well, that’s what I

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Luke Jones 40:55
said. I mean, if if he would be throwing the ball in them, then I’d really start. Don’t play

Nestor Aparicio 41:00
with your food, says Luke Jones, is what I would say. All right, Vegas

Luke Jones 41:03
has them. You know, as I’m looking at 12,

Nestor Aparicio 41:06
is what I saw. Right, 11 and

Luke Jones 41:07
a half or 12. I mean, that you don’t see that in the NFL very often. I mean, let’s just call a spade a spade. You better win.

Nestor Aparicio 41:12
You better win. They better win. As I said, you’re in an oiler jersey, and this is

Luke Jones 41:15
one where you want to see them win comfortably, right? You’d like this to be one of those games where you’re at least asking if if Tyler Huntley is going to replace Lamar for the last series or two, right? You’d love it to be that. I don’t know if it’s going to be that, but it better be closer to that than a one point game in the fourth quarter, and then you are worried about fumble, a ball getting knocked up in the air, something something crazy that happens and suddenly you you’re losing a game that just it feels unthinkable that you lost. Well, there’s been a lot

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Nestor Aparicio 41:48
of that lately. You’re hardballing now, right? Way much of that. Right, we’ve

Luke Jones 41:52
seen too many of those, especially early in the season. Right. I mean, it’s not as though they’ve lost to an abundance of bad teams, but they’ve been good for one, maybe two early season games in the first five or six weeks of the season where they lose, and you just say, “How’d you lose that game? Well, the hardest

Nestor Aparicio 42:08
part is that they roll the ball out here for 17 weeks, and in 13 of those weeks, we’re absolutely convinced they’re the better team. Yeah, right. Only when they go to Buffalo, only when Cincinnati, they see them, you know. Even when they go to Pittsburgh, they’re favored. They were favored in that game they lost last year. So, like rarely an underdog under Lamar Jackson when he’s healthy. I mean, like go back and look the last six seven years. So we expect them to win every week. So when they go eight and nine or nine and eight or whatever, or they get their ass beat, or they’re in a tough game with the Cowboys and it’s first and goal from the one, and they’re going to lose. Like it’s been look. I can blame it on Minter, but the players remain the same. And at some point, players need to step up this week and not fumble the ball, not have pick six, not throw the ball low and away, not fumble the ball, not miss blocks. Just in a general sense, like they need to play a clean football game again with a lot of backups against a sloppy, bad football team on their best day, this better not be. I better not be texting you a 325 on Sunday, and it’s a three-point game. It it shouldn’t be in that kind of game Sunday.

Luke Jones 43:13
It shouldn’t be. And again, if you are in that kind of game, that’s then when you take the chance of a punt return, a fumble, ball deflected up in the air, and goes to the wrong wrong team. Right? I mean, like you you just don’t want to be in that position. I mean, this this for me feels like one of those games again. And you made the point about number one in the power rankings. And look, that’s me being funny. No, no, no. But but your point is well taken in the sense of this is where you reestablish your dominance, right? In terms of if you are truly one of those teams that’s going to be the top shelf. Like right now, you look at the AFC. Buffalo is is widely regarded as the best team in the conference. Whether fans here agree with that or not, it’s just where it is right now. Kansas City has looked much better than anyone thought coming out of the gate because Mahomes looks healthy, and Kenneth Walker is looking like the best free agent signing of the off season, but if you want to reestablish and remind everyone that you belong in that tier, that top tier in the AFC where they fell out of last year, this is a game where you roll. This is the week I say

Nestor Aparicio 44:18
to Lamar, you’re playing three quarters this week, dude. Get out there and put 31 up, and go put your sunglasses on, and we’re not get Ronnie Stanley off the field. We’ll get Derek off the. We’ll get everybody off the field, and we’re gonna play a preseason game in the fourth quarter. Like, let’s go. You know what I mean? Like, we’ll try somebody else at center for a little while and put you on a at guard. You know, like I don’t know. Like, this needs to feel. This needs to be a feel-good game this week. Again,

Luke Jones 44:42
it’s tough. Falcons

Nestor Aparicio 44:44
are real. Browns might be, and then after that, it gets sticky. Three and one needs to be Monday morning for me.

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Luke Jones 44:50
Sure, there’s no question. Well, just the fact that you have back-to-back road games after this, right? I don’t care who the opponents are. Back-to-back road games in the NFL-that’s that’s a challenge. I mean, there’s no doubt, and. Oh, by the way, that first one is a Sunday night road game. Not quite the short week of a Monday night road game, but that’s still a shorter week because you you get home early in the morning on Monday and you’re trying to give guys. Then you got to go back to Cleveland. It’s a short week, right? I mean, it’s so yeah. You you got to bank this one. Think

Nestor Aparicio 45:18
Monkin’s waiting for that? I mean, just in a general sense, right? Well,

Luke Jones 45:21
just and and just the fact that that Cleveland team. Look, I still don’t think that Browns team is very good. You’re not going to get me to say that, but I think they’re showing they’re they’ve got enough ability to be pesky, and you know we’ll see it. It’s a Thursday night AFC North game. We know how those have gone over the years, right? I mean, when you look about times where they’ve beaten Pittsburgh, times they’ve beaten Cincinnati. So, but but you you look at them. I think they still have enough talent to be pesky. So the idea isn’t that you can just roll the ball out there, show up and win. I mean, that’s just you know this team’s got to you know they’ve got to kind of earn that right. Like they’ve got to earn that. And and Sunday is a great example of the Ravens earning that kind of reputation, right? I mean, I think we all expect them to roll, but we’ve already laid out the concern specifically with the interior offensive line and center and guard. We’ve already laid out some of the deficiencies that this team has shown through three weeks, but at the same time, you have an unbelievable advantage at quarterback and a number of other key positions. This is the kind of game you should go out there and you should remind everyone who you are, right? If you’re one of the best teams in the AFC, should go out there and you should handle the Titans pretty easy. Whether it’s a 50 point, you know, it doesn’t need to be a 50 point win, but it better not be a a one point game with five minutes ago because then all bets are off because you don’t know what can happen because it’s just sports then it’s weird, so I think they’re going to handle their business. I like them to win this game pretty comfortably. I’m not going to lie. I mean that’s just my honest thought. I much I think a blowout is much more likely than you know, the kind of game where it feels like a a alarming upset alert, but you’ve got to go do it. You got to go tackle. You got to go do the things that, frankly, they’ve had some issues with doing consistently through the first few weeks. Whether we’re talking about tackling on defense or offensively, pass protection, short yardage situations, all penalties. You know, we we have we barely even mentioned penalties for the offensive line with all all that we talked about pre snap penalties. Like they’ve got to be good with their operation. They’ve got to be lined up properly, and and that’s even more complicated now with a new center in place. So there’s there are still some issues for this team that that make you take pause, I’m just of the thought that those issues better not take make you take too much pause on Sunday because you know if if you have issues against the Tennessee Titans and and you’re struggling to to beat them, then I do really start to revisit what exactly this football team actually is here in 2026.

Nestor Aparicio 48:01
Oh, we’re so demanding here. As I sit here in my Oilers jersey with Derek Henry, I was my Derrick Henry jersey on the backs. I’m, I bought it. I might as well wear it. We’re going to be at Pizza John’s on Friday, swallowing some pizza, cheese steaks, maybe some French fries and gravy. I’m mixing a little salad. I won’t go for the dessert bar. Certainly not get one of those delicious, thick, creamy, milky, low-fat milkshakes at Pizza Johns. We’ll be there all afternoon. My buddy Don Sheila’s coming by. John Allen’s coming by. It’s gonna be like a rock star day. We’re gonna talk about music. We’re gonna talk about sports. Sheila’s like a huge Terps dude, so we’re gonna talk some Terps with him. His kid played lacrosse there. M sub Springsteen and Springsteen’s in town this weekend, and Dave Matthews and power to the people this weekend. Luke will be providing all the power in the Kevin Byrne press box that I’m not invited to because I’m wearing my Oiler jersey. That’s what they’ll say on the internet. Can’t wear your jersey in the press box; they’ll throw you out 30 years later. He’ll be there all afternoon. Any breaking news and certainly injuries, all that good stuff, on the WNST Tech service. All are brought to you by Cole Roofing and Gordian Energy. I am having so much fun with this 28th anniversary that I’ve almost not gotten as much enjoyment as I should have out of the Padres winning and the Red Sox losing. There’s no joy when the Yankees win, but we’ll see how that works out later on the weekend, plenty of baseball ahead. Maybe even for some Phillies fans here, we’ll be monitoring all that. Cole’s Roofing and Gordian Energy will get you the news if it happens. We’re going to be at Pizza John’s on Friday and a whole bunch of stuff through the month. I was holding October open for my Oriole playoff date, so I got to go figure out when I’m doing the show with Koco’s and Fishmonger’s daughter and Costas, but I will be doing that. He is Luke. I am Nestor. Happy weekend to everyone. Enjoy the 80 degrees while it’s here, and happy birthday to you, Luke. I’m not going to give your age away. I’m just going to say it’s been a little while since the Orioles won the World Series. Back for more. We’re Baltimore positive right after this.