It all started to fall apart once again as the Baltimore Ravens had another doubit-digit lead evaporate at home for the holidays against the New England Patriots. Leonard Raskin and Nestor lick the purple wounds of a mostly sickening Ravens season and pick up the pieces of parking Derrick Henry while John Harbaugh squirms in the aftermath of another embarrassing loss.
Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discuss the Baltimore Ravens’ disappointing season, highlighting their 3-6 home record and recent losses to the Titans and Steelers. They criticize the coaching decisions, particularly the lack of Derek Henry in the fourth quarter and the casual play of the defense. Leonard praises Tyler Huntley’s performance but notes the team’s overall sloppiness. They also discuss Lamar Jackson’s injury and the team’s playoff chances, which are slim at 9%. The conversation ends with holiday greetings and reflections on the Ravens’ future.
Ravens Season Disappointment and Holiday Spirit
- Nestor Aparicio welcomes listeners to WNS, discussing the holiday season and the positive spirit in Baltimore.
- Nestor mentions the crab cake tour stops and the Maryland Lottery’s $100 winner at Costas.
- Leonard Raskin joins the conversation, discussing the Ravens’ disappointing season and the impact of Drake May.
- Nestor and Leonard reflect on the Ravens’ 3-6 home record, which is highly unusual for the team.
Game Strategy and Player Performance
- Leonard Raskin criticizes the game strategy, particularly the decision to start a series without Derek Henry.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the absence of Derek Henry in the fourth quarter and the impact on the game.
- Leonard praises Tyler Huntley’s performance but criticizes the coaching decisions that led to the loss.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the post-game interview by John Harbaugh, which they found unsatisfactory.
Defensive Issues and Player Injuries
- Leonard Raskin highlights the defensive issues in the last quarter, particularly the ease with which the Titans moved the ball.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the impact of Lamar Jackson’s injury and his ability to play through it.
- Leonard mentions Kyle Hamilton’s honest post-game comments about the team’s performance and attendance.
- Nestor and Leonard reflect on the casualness of the team and the need to get serious again.
Upcoming Games and Playoff Hopes
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the Ravens’ upcoming game against Green Bay and the potential impact of Lamar Jackson’s injury.
- Nestor mentions the importance of winning against the Packers to keep playoff hopes alive.
- Leonard and Nestor discuss the potential impact of other teams, such as Pittsburgh and Cleveland, on the Ravens’ playoff chances.
- Nestor reflects on the importance of the holiday season and the upcoming football games.
Personal Reflections and Holiday Greetings
- Nestor shares his personal experiences, including attending a ballpark and dealing with traffic.
- Leonard and Nestor discuss their holiday plans, including watching football games and enjoying the season.
- Nestor mentions the holiday greetings from his friends on the show and the focus on holiday-themed content.
- Leonard and Nestor conclude the conversation with holiday wishes to the listeners, emphasizing the positive spirit of Baltimore.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Ravens season, home collapses, Drake May, Lamar Jackson, Derek Henry, Tyler Huntley, John Harbaugh, Kyle Hamilton, playoff chances, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, holiday greetings, crab cakes, Maryland lottery.
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SPEAKERS
Leonard Raskin, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive, positively into the holiday season, if not the spirit. I’m going to shave at some point here, but trying to feel old and weather. We’ve had such great conversations with friends all month long. We’ve done crab cake tour stop, six of them. Now you’ll be hearing all of it on AM, 1570 through the holidays. All of it brought to you by friends at the Maryland lottery had a $100 winner at Costas, at the bar on Thursday, on the candy cane cash scratch offs, and when you scratch it, the more you scratch it, the more it smells like Santa and like peppermint sticks. Letter Raskin joins us now. When I was at Costas, I did not eat crabs, but I do have your crab mallet. And by the way, Marvin Lewis wants this crab mallet. He said, I want that, yeah, because it opens the beer on the other side. So give it to him. Well, I haven’t seen him. He came in. We’ll send him one if he got
Leonard Raskin 01:01
an address.
Nestor Aparicio 01:03
8I will do that. He gets his crab cakes from Koco’s. He’s very specific about, listen, everybody’s got their thing. I mean, right, you know, right. So for me, I love all the crab cakes. I’m going to have them all here, and I’m going to do that to soothe what’s left of my purple soul that was taken away by Drake May, yes, can’t blame this one on the officials. I don’t know. I’m going to give you the floor on it, because I’ve been doing three, four hours of this with Luke and in advance of the holidays. But what a disaster. The whole thing, all the way around.
Leonard Raskin 01:36
It was, it was dreadful. Another cold night, and I didn’t realize as we got there, but I certainly did as as we left there, three and six at home this year, Nestor, three and six at home. It’s unheard of for this team. And two night losses, Thanksgiving and Sunday, just, just not good and outlook. We’ve talked about this before. I’m no coach. I played football when I was a kid. That was a long time ago, and and I watched the Ravens. I’ve watched football, you know, years and years and years, college, Pro. I tried to know strategy, I tried to have a feel for what’s going on. But I think, I think you could have never watched football until Sunday night, and you might have said to yourself for the fourth quarter, Hey, where’s that guy in the number 22 jersey? Where’s that guy? What’s amazing is he, is he hurt? Is that guy hurt?
Nestor Aparicio 02:47
You’re not Hollingsworth guy, right? And he was doing the game, and I’ve been relegated to the couch, but he literally, they did like a thing on the broadcast, like it’s Derek Henry time they have him. This is where we are. This is where you win. Literally. Collinsworth was going in to Rico up 11 when there’s eight, nine minutes left to go in the game. That’s where they are, and it never and
Leonard Raskin 03:14
I’m sitting in the stands screaming, screaming, what we start a series. And, you know, I these guys are pros. I get it. They’re pros. You start a series with Ali in the backfield and, and I’m stunned. I’m like, Okay, I’m looking my seats are in the club level, on the visitor side, so I can see the Ravens bench across. You’re in the sun, as they would say, yes, yes. On a good day, I’m in the sun, and on a bad day, not a lot of wind. So it’s okay, cold night, not a lot of wind. So so I’m looking across, and I don’t have binoculars or anything, just my eyes, my phone, and I can see, I’m assuming they showed it on TV, Lamar in street clothes, standing on the sidelines. So I knew that was, you know, once he got hurt, I knew that was bad. But then I said to myself and family and friends around, I said, Well, now we go from Lamar to our Pro Bowl quarterback, Snoop huntley’s coming in, and I’m sure you’ve seen it. I would imagine you’ve seen it. Have you seen his it’s progressive commercial. Oh, absolutely. He comes. The lecture. Yeah. Hysterical. Matthew needed I said, here he comes, Mr. Sex talk, Mr. Pro Bowl quarterback. And to his credit, he did damn good. It’s not safety, birds and bees at that level. Okay, right, right, whatever you call it at that level. Anyway, I thought he played a good game, and then we got
8Nestor Aparicio 04:59
himself. Well, he gave them a chance to win.
Leonard Raskin 05:01
He did. He did. And you get into the fourth quarter on a cold Sunday night, and that is Derek Henry time. He is beating them up the line has won the game on the offensive side, and you got your backup quarter back in that you don’t expect to be slinging the ball around 30 yards. And so you put in Derek, Henry, and I’m looking to see where he is, and I can’t see across there well enough to see if he’s not there. I’m assuming he’s on the sidelines. So I’m screaming, you know, where, where is Derek, Henry. And of course, I’m not watching the game from home. I’m I’m just a fan screaming into the stands, and the people around me are, you’re right. You’re right. Where is he and and he’s nowhere. He did not play. It wasn’t he missed a play. It wasn’t they took him out for a play. He wasn’t on the field, as I recall, for anything from 10 minutes to the end of the game. I’m blown away. I’m blown away. And then, to make matters worse. To make matters worse, I know you watched the post game. You had to see har ball’s interview, and it was dreadful.
Nestor Aparicio 06:31
Well, it wasn’t just, well, I didn’t it was a half,
Leonard Raskin 06:35
8oh yeah. Besides that, well, the good news, the good news for us, is he hadn’t talked by the time we got to the car right so we were able to listen to it on the radio on the way home. But for him to say, we started the series without him. And looking back, should we have had him in. Probably I would have liked to have him in what you’re the ghost dude who’s doing this. You You got to turn around and look at him and say, Get in the game. You got that little headphone thing on, like I got right here. I imagine you’re talking to your OC. Are you talking
Nestor Aparicio 07:21
about me that you all week, that that’s really what you do, and long chat about how uninvolved John Harbaugh probably is in the offense, because it’s not his gig.
Leonard Raskin 07:37
It’s what job to run the that’s fine. That’s fine. It’s his job to win the game. You say to monkey, get him in the game and give him the ball. You don’t say monkey. And chose Ali monk, and chose, help me, Keith Mitchell, you’re talking about? Yeah, chose Keaton Mitchell. Keaton Mitchell, to me, is a fantastic back on the outside, running fast, but Derek is the beat him up. Six yards, five yards, four yards, six yards, 100 yards back that in the fourth quarter. After you’ve beaten him up for three quarters, you put him in, and you win the game. And I was sick watching it, thinking, you’ve got to be kidding me, whatever’s going on here. And and the other thing, the other play, I just And again, I didn’t see it. I couldn’t tell what the heck happened. Boy, are we lucky that they roughed the quarterback when Mark Andrews decided to throw the ball in the air and see who catches it.
Nestor Aparicio 08:50
Well, the other place the Marlon Humphrey played where he tackled the guy right down in front of you from where your seats are. Yeah, the guy almost caught it falling on his back and yeah, oh my god, swept the ball out. Humphrey, grabbed him, pulled him, pulled him down to the ground. He was falling on the ground, getting to almost had the ball before he touched the ball, before he touched the ball, and he caught it rough, grab tackle, and was being brought to the ground. And they didn’t call pass interference. Guess what? It was unbelievable.
8Leonard Raskin 09:22
Yeah, he got beat. He got beat a few times on on some throws. Now that that throw to the corner of the end zone was just It was magic. It was a perfect pass and a great reception. And his hands were in there. I give him credit. His hands were in there. It’s just unstoppable. And I looked around. I said to Kathy and Matthew, I said to the people sitting around us, that’s 10 and three or 11 and three versus seven and seven. They’re man, are they good? They’re just good. They’re playing good ball. They didn’t have how many false. Arch did they have they’re on the road on a Sunday night with a young Baltimore, young quarterback, and I think if I recall no false starts yet, we had three in two series, three in one series.
Nestor Aparicio 10:19
It’s just they’ve played too sloppy, yeah, casual. They’re seven casual for a reason, right? Like, yeah, it’s a part they’ve played.
Leonard Raskin 10:29
Literally, it’s a condition of casualness. I think you got to look I own a company, you own a company. We both know that there are times when our business can get casual, when you’re not on the top of your game, when you’re not doing everything just right, when you’re not hitting on all cylinders, and and you see things start to slip a little, and you have two options. You grab those reins and you pull it back in and you get serious again, or you fall off that casual cliff. And I think that one of the things, and I don’t know again, I’m not coaching, I’m not there during the week. There’s, there’s, they’re too casual. There’s too many plays on the on the defensive side. Let’s talk about the defense in the last quarter. Too many plays that were too easy. Now I’ll tell you this. I would assume you saw the Kyle Hamilton, post gamer, presser, very honest, very strange he’s a grown up, I know, but to hear him say, look, the attendance is not down. You come out, the stadium’s full, and we’re not giving our fans what they paid to come see, and that’s not good, and we’re just not playing good ball. And to hear him say, what, what is an absolute fact, at least was refreshing, albeit not not fantastic, but at least refreshing. And going out there on a cold December night and a cold Thanksgiving night, at least. I’ll put it this way, as bad as it is, at least they didn’t repeat a Thanksgiving game, which they just stunk. This game, they had a few errors that were very costly, some defensive plays in the fourth quarter. I don’t know what happened. I mean, this guy, he threw for a mile.
Nestor Aparicio 12:41
8I’ll see this for them. Here’s where they are now, Lamar with the issue with he took a toward all shot during the game, you know, like he tried to play,
Leonard Raskin 12:49
couldn’t breathe. Yeah. I mean, look, I’ve had, I’ve had a cracked rib, and I don’t know if he’s got a cracked rib or not, but what I know is, when I had a cracked rib, I couldn’t walk. I could barely inhale. And to think a guy would go out and play football with that, I don’t know, but let’s assume he’s got a cracked rib. You ain’t running around a football field. And as soon as it happened, as soon as it happened, I saw him take the next snap, and then he ran off the field, and I said, Oh, he he got hurt on that play. He’s not coming back and and sure enough, after the timeout, which nobody could understand why they called a timeout on comes Huntley, and the crowd was devastated. But guess what? Again, he played well. But yeah, Lamar being hurt. You got you got Green Bay, they have a hurt quarterback.
Nestor Aparicio 13:41
Yeah, that’s why this week you’re getting through Christmas and Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, whatever be celebrating here this week, it’s an interesting week in that way. And if you’re listening to the radio, you’re gonna hear all my my best friends the last four weeks have come on the show to do holiday greetings. So we’re going to do a lot of that, not as much football. But if you’re on the wnsd tech service, from cold roofing and Gordian energy, you’ll get injury reports this week. You’re going to be watching this stuff. There’s a lot of footballs, football all day on Thursday, with Christmas, like all
Leonard Raskin 14:12
absolutely we play on Saturday night, bad games. The whole slate.
8Nestor Aparicio 14:17
Luke and I did a whole segment on the what ifs, I mean after we fired har ball, and Derek Henry right, like we did all that, and the defense not holding its water, and Marlon
Leonard Raskin 14:27
talking about Henry, talking about Henry, real quick. I got home from the game, first thing I did, because I wasn’t remembering, was I looked up his contract real quick, I know, but I didn’t remember he signed the extension. And I thought to myself, he ain’t coming back.
Nestor Aparicio 14:43
Well, there’s a whole That’s what I said. The Luke looks like. No, he’s under contract. I’m like, but that doesn’t, it doesn’t matter. So is Ronnie Stanley. So is doesn’t matter. Million dollar number, Lamar doesn’t matter. $4 million number. They’re going to be renegotiating with lamar’s mother soon. Yes. So there’s all of this. Next going on maybe next week, right? But before that, yes, they have a 9% chance of making the playoffs, according to the sports books on this, Pitts gotta lose to Cleveland, so, but the Ravens play first on Saturday night, right? So they have to win against whoever to back up for the Packers. Is Steve right Willis, Willis, Malik Willis, correct. Malik Willis, so, you know no Micah Parsons on Saturday. I know that. So for me, the Ravens going to Green Bay and maybe stealing the game because they run Derek Henry, because, yeah, things maybe, like, I give them a better chance of winning in Green Bay. Now, if the quarterback comes back, they clear him on Thursday and he’s practicing, I don’t know, but, I mean, who knows what the ghost of this league and what they do, but win Saturday night, it really makes Pittsburgh and Cleveland actually, hey, Cleveland’s been an emerging better football last couple of weeks they played. I watched
Leonard Raskin 16:00
8him play, miles Garrett. Yeah, miles, Garrett’s got to get his record against old man, Rogers.
Nestor Aparicio 16:06
Old man, Rogers that. And I’ll, we’ll sit and tell you this, because I know you were going to the game. I watched his act and I talked about this two weeks ago when we played him. He’s playing good ball where he’s by far, by far the smartest guy on the field. And I said this to Luke Yes, a little insulting to Zach or Aaron Rodgers is a decade older, yes. And our defensive coordinator, yes. And when you think that decade has been a decade watching the National Football League, from, he’s seen it all, seen it all and and from, from his mushrooms and doing the television show with the wife beater guy, the punter on the ESPN, like all of that, yeah, like all of the wackiness of his, his eccentricities. Should I say? I’ll tell you this dude, he walks up to the line of scrimmage, he’s ready to go grown up, and he walks up with 24 seconds left on the play clock, and he just looks at everything, and he knows everything he has, and he now knows that feeling and Valdes scantling are going to be where they’re supposed to be. He’s got grown ups in the widest maybe not DK Metcalf, but even the big tight end they had catches the ball. They’re 16 weeks into this. He called them out in the press conference three weeks ago about being Jack offs and saying, come on now. He goes up to the line of scrimmage, and I watched him do this the whole day. He’s just knows cover two knows cover one knows the mic, knows everything, knows who where it, knows where everything is. And he just steps back, and he does two hand motions and does a little third base coach thing. And next thing you know, you know, he’s got you, and that’s on third down, first and second down. They’ve been failing, so they’re in third and something, and he comes up in third and something, and he just gets them into the right play. Any coach in the middle of the game, yes, who can still execute, still make a play? He’s harder than your defense coordinator.
Leonard Raskin 18:10
Just three weeks ago, they were fired Tomlin. Now they’re going to win the division, and he’s going to take him to the playoffs. Ain’t Boone ready more? They’ll have a home playoff game in the first round against, I don’t know, somebody with a chance to win, and Rhett could very well probably be and as I say, after Sunday,
Nestor Aparicio 18:37
that game, when you go to that game, Pittsburgh, buffalo, Josh Allen, and that’s a good game.
8Leonard Raskin 18:42
It’s a good game. I’ll watch it. I ain’t going I’m just saying that’s a good game. That’s Yes, I’ll watch it. It’ll be a good game. It’ll be a darn good watch it. If it’s on Peacock, I’ll watch it, wherever it is that season. I have them all Hey,
Nestor Aparicio 18:58
Saturday night Are you? No, all right, because you were, you better have peacock.
Leonard Raskin 19:03
No, I’ll be, I’ll be home watching the game live and in color on whatever streaming service it happens
Nestor Aparicio 19:10
8to be home you, but you’ve got peacock because you like hockey, right?
Leonard Raskin 19:13
Yeah, well, we watch the stuff, and we have mostly have the stuff, because when the boy was in Ireland, if you weren’t streaming, you weren’t watching so he he’s got shows he wants to watch. These kids will never have cable TV, will they no whatever service there might be out there. So we stream everything.
Nestor Aparicio 19:33
Leonard is. I’m sitting here playing AI and asking my clone things that are beyond my comprehension. It is. It’s a good time to be alive. Leonard Raskin follows the American dream at Raskin global, even when the American Dream includes a purple nightmare this week, and we hope we don’t have a cheese nightmare. I told Luke, I need that cheese grater head this week for That’s right, Huntley or whatever’s gonna happen around here, you can find Leonard out at Baltimore positive. Find him at Raskin. Global money, investment taxes, advice, keeping you safe. Have a great rest of your holiday. Leonard, always good to visit you same. All right, sorry for everybody. Got stuck at the ballpark late at night, stuck into traffic and all that stuff that Sasha brown talks about. We are not stuck. I’m stuck on eggnog and gingerbread. I bought a big gingerbread look. My wife’s not around, and I’m slicing it. I’m eating, putting scoops of ice cream on. I’m getting fat some point. I’m going to shave this week. Merry Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, everybody. We’re wnsda in 1570 tous in Baltimore. We never stop talking Baltimore positive.
