Full Transcript for #92Noon! 9a Hour 11/6 - Wolves/Nestor/VB

was just feeling at post victory. It's like, those are my dogs over there. I hang out and I text and talk with those guys every summer. 00:06:56 Speaker 2: I kind of wish I went to camp with them. Mother. Yeah, be an l for today. He's all up in his feeling. 00:07:05 Speaker 1: It's all up in his feelings after a win. Arl Anthony Towns, I'm still stunned. I mean, I'm still stunned. It's weird. I feel more like a nick now after everything we went through last year. But it's weird to see that Wolves jersey, especially the fire black when it's fired black, one of fire, and now see Towns on the back of it, and not see Towns on the back of it, those garnet jersey and then a fire. Later in his postgame interview session, Towns paused because he admitted he was going to refer to the Timberwolves as we, symbolizing the connection he feels with the franchise. We built something special there. It's different when you're the process, when you're in the process and now you're going against the process. They're a great team, might even fire. To see what they're doing right now special, and I expect nothing less than greatness from them. Well, now he's kind of wagging his finger at us a little bit, he's talking down to us, talking down to us a little bit, but he is tall. To see what they're doing right now special, and I expect nothing but greatness from them. It's always great when you see your brothers aunt becoming the face of the league. Me and Rudy, years and years of battles against each other, turning teammates, having a close bond. It was really good to compete against my brothers. It's deeper than basketball. It's family. Nay, all those. 00:08:54 Speaker 2: Quotes were fire. He's totally God descended us big time. 00:09:00 Speaker 5: I mean, seriously, they're gonna do something special over there. Ah, those kids, the league, in the in the analytical wherewithal of handling Karl Anthony Towns, the NBA, the Knicks league freak, or the Minnesota Timberwolves. 00:09:16 Speaker 1: There have been myriad things that have and will be said about Karl Anthony Towns. Can do this, can't do that, can't do that, can do this. One thing that never will be said is that he's not smart. He's a very smart individual. And he was talking to us like we're laughing crying babies. 00:09:40 Speaker 2: Yes he was. 00:09:41 Speaker 1: It's always great when you see your brothers ant becoming the face of the league. Me and Rudy, years and years of battles against each other, turning teammates. HA been a close bond of was fire. It was really good to compete against my brothers. 00:09:54 Speaker 3: It was fire. 00:09:55 Speaker 1: It's deeper than basketball. It's family Friday football. 00:10:07 Speaker 5: Jeez. 00:10:09 Speaker 1: So what triggered that man? He competed against his brothers and made his brothers cry uncle like that. Meanwhile, the Howl is now four and four and hosts Utah tomorrow night. The Minnesota Timberwolves have lost four by an average of nearly fourteen per game, and that includes a. 00:10:35 Speaker 2: One point lost to Luca. We lost to. 00:10:37 Speaker 1: Luca one time by one, lost the other three by a million. Alright, alrighty, how still how hashtag still skull, hashtag still howl. 00:10:49 Speaker 2: Yes, we're still howling. 00:10:50 Speaker 1: Give me the best hel that you can howl in the history of the Howl. 00:11:01 Speaker 4: Amen, Brotherkay, I'm out for ten minutes? 00:11:05 Speaker 1: Alrighty, well, that's that's the average break time here in the first hour at FM one hundred point three KFA ins. 00:11:12 Speaker 2: Perfect, which would be good news for the company if it were true. 00:11:16 Speaker 1: But you may have ample time alrighty nine to twelve, Good morning. The Wild r is at Carolina tonight. That's on KFA in at six o'clock. There's some red hot Thursday night football action in Denver. Ladies and gentlemen, with the sizzling Broncos taking on the ever fading Raiders and the Vikes host Baltimore Sunday at noon on KFAM. Next Baltimore Radio Personality and overall bon vivant Nestor Apparatio joins and that's courtesy of timber Tech and timber Tech dot com. It's part of what's on Deck nine to noon. Nordo produces, and I'm Paul Allen. A pleasant Thursday morning to you wherever you may be, taking in your audio leader for everything funking and fun nine to noon that I've been one hundred point three KFAM. We are your money giving leader and early. 00:12:15 Speaker 4: The Fan, along with two men in a junk truck, want to give you a shot at some Bonus Bucks National cash contest style. 00:12:21 Speaker 2: The keyword is win. 00:12:22 Speaker 4: Enter that at kfan dot com you might win if you enter the keyword win at kfan dot com. 00:12:33 Speaker 1: From longtime Nine to Noon friend Nestor apparatio, I he's with Baltimore Positive dot com and am fifteen seventy w NST and said Nestor joins us. Now, Nestor, welcome to nine to Noon. How long has Baltimore Positive dot com been around? 00:12:52 Speaker 2: And what's your role? 00:12:55 Speaker 6: Well, I own it, but I've owned to sports radio station year for three decades, and my wife was diagnosed with leukeni in twenty fourteen and fifteen, and I sort of moved direction into talking about the city and the city's problems not unlike your city's problems. So you know, we had issues here back during fifteen, sixteen seventeen, and I just thought that I would expand my conversations. But you know, I heard your intro. You're having fun there. 00:13:20 Speaker 7: My show is. 00:13:20 Speaker 6: More serious these days, which you know I need to have more fun like you're doing. Pa. 00:13:24 Speaker 1: You didn't hear the first segment when we talked about the timber Wolves giving up eighty three second half points to the New York Knickerbockers, a team last night Nester that did not include Clyde the Clyde Frasier or Patrick Ewing. But I guess that's one way to look at it. Yes, we're having fun. 00:13:41 Speaker 6: Well no, no, now come

on now, the Vikings to come on. It's been a good week, right, I mean for you guys, we've sartainly been a good two weeks for Ravens fans at one in five. So the football, somebody's going to be disappointed on Sunday night. But both of these teams feel like they're moving in a more positive direction. For Baltimore positive, don't you think? 00:13:58 Speaker 1: Yeah, Baltimore Positive nine to noon positive dot com. Those forces meet, nothing but love comes out of it. So forget so Sunday Noon, kfam Nester, forget game shape of like what's going to happen or details? All right, if the Ravens fall to three and six, how surprised would you be? Not? 00:14:21 Speaker 6: And I'm kind of shocked at they're four and a half point favorite. I mean, it really speaks to Lamar, and it speaks to how good they are with him. The numbers against NFC teams that they sort of have gone on the road and freight trained in past years. I just haven't seen that team yet this year. Right, So I think we've seen little spits and spurts of it, But I mean Lamar hasn't played a whole lot. Patrick Carr didn't play a whole lot. The left tackle situation has been problematic for them. They've blown a lot of leads, big leads over the last couple of years. Some of the guys like Marlon Humphrey Roquands I have been you know, sort of question as to where they are in their career versus their salary. But last two weeks putting the band. 00:15:09 Speaker 7: Back together again, feeling good. They're a big favorite. 00:15:12 Speaker 6: They play the Cleveland Browns next week and then the New York Jets, so it does feel like there's you know, two more victims on the slate after this week. But this feels a lot more serious to me, having witnessed what the Vikings did in Detroit and laying that tape out for the Ravens and saying this might be a different football team than maybe the team we saw two or three weeks ago with a really injured Carson Wentz and saying, you know, how are the Vikings going to manage their quarterback situation? It looked pretty good to me last week so I think this is formidable for the Ravens to go on the road and maybe beating a team that's perceived as being good with a defense and being ankled back and a little bit more full strength on your side and doing it in, for my money, the toughest place in the league to play, and I think your building is real hornets nests for any team because of the noise and all of that. To see how Lamar can make that work. You know, they go in and they actually cover the spread and win and win impressively and don't make mistakes and don't have a false starts and types of things that they've had in the past, and they can show they can run the ball. I mean, Pierre, the real problem here has been along the line on both sides. I mean, they're just not winning battles of the line of scrimmage, not winning in the trenches. And a lot of folks thought they might have been in on Quinn Williams, but that price got kind of steep once once Jarrett got involved, and it you know, it didn't material like they would end up picking up Draymont Jones to get after the quarterback. They've had real pass rush problems here. So running the ball, stopping the run pretty you know, two tenants of you know, old school football. They haven't done that as well as they have in the past, not even with Derrick Henry. So I'm still waiting for this thing to look like the race car, the thirteen to fourteen win team that it can't be, but to look like that kind of team around into being that kind of team, because at the end of the year, they got New England, they got two games of Pittsburgh, two games of Cincinnati. They have to go to Green Bay. I mean, they have really tough games. Picking up a six loss, it would mean there's no more rope for them the rest of the year. 00:17:16 Speaker 1: Really, Nestor Apparicio, let me ask you a question about WUNST and Baltimore Positive dot Com. And it's it's off something you said from the outside of outside of our chap all Right, so you got you got the Orioles, and uh, you got the Ravens, and you got Baltimore Positive dot Com WNST. As I've known for years from knowing you is we never stopped talking, and then that would be Baltimore Sports. Yet you said, Paul, you and the con are having a great time. Boy, it's great to have a great time and come out of a break and say can I get some bass? 00:17:51 Speaker 2: And then you hear boo doo do do boo doo doo boo doo doo. 00:17:54 Speaker 1: Doo, and you're like, we're always so serious here at Baltimore Positive dot Com. 00:17:59 Speaker 2: What do you mean by that? Why? What do you mean you're so serious? 00:18:04 Speaker 6: Oh? 00:18:04 Speaker 7: I just would I don't play like rock and roll anymore. 00:18:07 Speaker 6: I mean, I enjoy rock and roll, but even though my hair is longer than it used to be, I just don't. 00:18:13 Speaker 7: I don't have sound effects in my show. You know. I used to have like a sound effect opening ear. 00:18:17 Speaker 6: I used to have like movie lines, you know what I mean, Like what in the why why world of sports is going on here? 00:18:23 Speaker 7: You know, just things like that that. 00:18:25 Speaker 6: Would I could insult a caller who was out of his mind by playing like a Cuckoossett. 00:18:31 Speaker 7: You know, I did thing. My show was more. 00:18:36 Speaker 6: Morning fun type afternoon sports radio back in the nineties and at the turn of the century, So you know, I just evolved from that. So I just don't do that kind of thing. But you know, I get to talk about other things and social ills and issues and fixing the world and feed in the world and the community, and you know, I talk about it, and I talked to musicians and I talk to all sorts of people. But I just don't have the kind of race fund that a washed up radio jock of thirty five years like myself would like to participate in, you know, even a big booming FM mic with stereo. 00:19:10 Speaker 7: I don't have that.

00:19:11 Speaker 1: I understand that, And that was very very well explained. But Baltimore Positive dot Com is a wonderful concept. Likewise for fifteen seventy wnst and you're a wonderful talent nestor Apparratio and I'm glad we were able to lay out the metaphorical therapeutic davenport of love, so you can get that off your chest. 00:19:28 Speaker 2: That was beautiful. 00:19:29 Speaker 6: Well, I just don't take phone calls and people and yell back and forth and you know what I mean, and have to take breaks for traffic and weather and top of the hour flat. I mean, I get all of that stuff now. I just like sit and talk to people and when it's over, I stopped talking like I did with you on my show this week, which I hope people can go and enjoy it too, because we always learn a lot more about you, especially when you do the horse racing thing. Dude, Like, that's. 00:19:52 Speaker 7: What I mean about the show being fun when you do. 00:19:54 Speaker 1: That kind of thing, you know, like and they're racing Nestor Appariitia. 00:19:58 Speaker 2: Ah, something's gonna miss with mister appar Ratio. 00:20:01 Speaker 1: He's been pulled right out of the race at WNST. 00:20:05 Speaker 7: You mean that, Hey, I've been called lame for a long time, brother. 00:20:08 Speaker 1: Better than being called a gelding a Now, so no movie drops with Baltimore Positive dot Com And you mentioned the point spreads Raven's favored by like four. Why don't you give me half the money you were gonna fan and we'll go out back I'm kicking in the US and we'll call it a day. 00:20:25 Speaker 2: You mean like stuff like that. 00:20:28 Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly. 00:20:29 Speaker 6: Stuff that just made somebody drive off the side of the road somewhere and you know, mcdone or something. 00:20:34 Speaker 7: You know what I mean. Yeah, that's what I want. 00:20:35 Speaker 6: That's that's the kind of radio I long to do. So it's fun to be on your. 00:20:39 Speaker 1: Show watching Lamar every game. Should Ravens fans be absolutely overjoyed that he's their quarterback. 00:20:49 Speaker 6: Oh absolutely, because he gives him a chance to win. And I think the real X factor for him is go ask every DC in e Laitue how they feel about having to prepare for him and the type of talent they need, not just scheme, but the type of discipline that it takes to stop him when he's healthy and has all the moving parts. Part of that is and you'll see this on Sunday, especially when your skull skulls scolling that first down. I've never seen anything like at PA. I mean, first down here for about six or seven years was an automatic seven or eight yard down. I mean they were in second and one, second and two, second and three or just get into the sticks with a twelve yard run on first down. I mean they didn't punt around here, right. They had a kicker who besides all of these transgressions that I could do a whole segment on that, and I've done plenty on that on Justin Tucker. I'm sure we'll be entering

the league again next week. But they had a kicker that could tick a fifty yard field goal at any point, and with the quarterback that they have and the offensive scheme that they run, especially when they had Marshall Yanda and a really healthy young stud Ronnie Stanley, that they could at any point run the football and make you really weak in the knees with the RPO. I haven't seen as much of that. I mean, I haven't seen as much of that. Lamar to Derrick Henry and we're gonna break your ankles, and we're gonna figure out who's got the ball where it's going, and it might be going over your head, debating, it might be going over your head to Mark Andrews. 00:22:17 Speaker 7: Whatever it is. 00:22:19 Speaker 6: We have not seen that kind of efficiency here from this team, in moving the football up and down the field and playing ping pong the way they did for years. And part of that's really been first down, and they've struggled to be in a better second down right, second and one and second and two is a lot different than second and twelve or second and nine. And then all of a sudden there's an incomplete pass or something goes wrong. Lamar's got to dirt the ball. Now you're in third and long, and it's just a different game for them in pass drop situations. This offensive line is not built to do that. It's not built to be in third and long. Most offensive lines are not built to be in third and long. You're built to be in third and long. You're built to be in the last place. And this team has had more struggles with being in those situations. And you know, also red zone stuff that should be it should feel automatic when you have a quarterback that can glide and can get to the sticks, and it's really a matchup problem that makes you play eleven and eleven's at eleven or ten in tight spaces. You know, we always thought it would be automatic that Lamar from inside the five yard line. Who could stop it? Nobody can stop it. Plenty of teams have stopped it over the course of time, and it's like anything else, they've. 00:23:27 Speaker 7: Sort of caught up a little bit. 00:23:29 Speaker 6: But this is a real measurement for me, PA because these were the games that prime Lamar and he still might very well be in his prime. He's got to ripped off of an MVP. Last year. Prime Labar and prime Ravens offense could go into any building anytime, especially NFC buildings where they had didn't have prep time or didn't have the right personnel or even the right philosophy to play it and be embarrassed, and that. 00:23:53 Speaker 7: Hasn't happened as much lately. 00:23:54 Speaker 6: And I mean, as a Raven fan, you want to see that happen again, because when it happens against Cleveland of the Jets, doesn't really count, especially the Jets at this point, right so finding their way and looking like a double digit win football team, which is what they're going to need to be. And I said Pittsburgh and Cincinnati are. 00:24:14 Speaker 3: In their way. 00:24:14 Speaker 6: I

mean they're rounding into this. Well, start the season all over again, you know, that's what you do when you're one in five, you say, we're starting the season all over again this week. But to your point, they take on a sixth loss. With the schedule, they have to think that they're going to run the table or be able to count past eight or nine. That's going to be really tough to do. 00:24:33 Speaker 1: Next on the menu for the Minnesota Vikings, the Baltimore. 00:24:36 Speaker 2: Ravens sneak peak at next week. 00:24:39 Speaker 1: With Nestor Apparatio Baltimore Positive dot com Baltimore Positive dot com. I did a chat with Nestor yesterday that's available at Baltimore Positive dot com if you'd like to watch and as part of fifteen seventy w nst Hey Nest, How long have you known Bob Hagen and how did you guys meet? 00:25:02 Speaker 6: Just a rock and roll dude, you know what I mean, Bob's always at the super Bowl. I did twenty seven super Bowls. I think that might be how I know you. So I did my show on Radio Row for a long long time. Actually my first Super Bowl ever was in Minnesota ninety two, the famous Therman Thomas game. But I think I met Bob fifteen years ago. But he was a guy I saw for years before that because when you check in to get your meaty credited, you sort of meet all the PR directors from the league because they're working their tails off allegedly during super Bowl week, So you get to know people around the league. And I've always traveled with the Ravens. And I did throw Bob a note this week, and I'll throw it to you, and I'll say this publicly for anyone listening. And if you ever have anyone that rates press Box food, you know what I mean, You get a Ross Tucker on your show or that kind of guy whom I know well. To me Vikings, press Box food, of all the things of not coming on the road anymore with the team and not really being allowed to cover the team on the side. You can google that as well. I missed the food, So to me, this is this is the one trip where you're being in the media contingent for the buffet. 00:26:11 Speaker 7: Really would have been very desirable. 00:26:12 Speaker 6: That in a trip to Paisley Park with you to play some. 00:26:14 Speaker 2: Hoops, Bob Hagen, don't leave home without him? Time for two more? 00:26:19 Speaker 1: What was I know you you're you're a concert officionado as you just mentioned. What was Eagles at the Sphere in Las Vegas? 00:26:28 Speaker 6: Like it was really good. I saw you too at the Sphere a couple of years ago from the floor and was real close to the band, but like the sky part of the the you know what, you're there for that sort of planetarium immersion. 00:26:46 Speaker 8: Uh. 00:26:46 Speaker 6: I actually sat up in the upper deck right in the middle for the Eagles, so it was a much more immersive kind of cool thing. 00:26:53 Speaker 7: You know. 00:26:53 Speaker 6: I would say I kind of like the Eagles and YouTube equally, you know, I mean I love them both. They're different kinds of shows, you know. The Eagles thing for me was very seated, right like I sat the entire two and a half hours where the U two thing, I danced and moved around while the screen moved around. So two completely different things. But it's a wonderful venue. I mean the people that have told me they saw the Wizard of Oz there in various movies and stuff like that interacted. But I highly recommend the sphere. Don't pay full price. That's my well, that would be my first advice for any time. Don't pay full price. Two things, Thank you guys when you were getting there, twenty dollar McCartney tickets two weeks ago. 00:27:29 Speaker 3: Good for you. 00:27:30 Speaker 1: Two things here with involving the word combine A nine to noon yours Turlean Nordo misses you at the NFL Scouting Combine. Second part, why don't you go to the combine anymore? 00:27:47 Speaker 6: Well, the combine was a great place to do business, get to meet people. You know, it's a lot of drinking. I mean it's in Indianapolis, which is you know I'm from Baltimore, right, I mean I'm a football fantom of that age or say you know, enough said so, I didn't love going to Indianapolis, of all the cities with little hobbits. I like yours better, you know, but your's the way colder. But like you know, where they have the little hobbit cages that go building the building, So Indianapolis has that too, But you know, I did a dozen of them, and it was a deteriorating proposition in regard to agents athletes access my radio show. When they put our radio boost in the backside of hell, around the corner down underneath the Indianapolis wherever it was, where nobody wanted to come and do the show. Then we just said, why are we here other than drinking and eating, which I mean, come on, it's Indianapolis. I mean you can get a stake anywhere. 00:28:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I get that. Time for two more, Time for two more. How little do. 00:28:49 Speaker 1: People in the DMV, the DMV region region care about the Washington Wizard? 00:28:54 Speaker 2: How little do they care about the Whiz? 00:28:58 Speaker 7: Well, I'm in Baltimore, man. 00:29:00 Speaker 6: We would tell you the GMV really means like sort of Washington suburbs kind of sort of, And they would call baltimore Ians like the outsiders that we are. I can tell you this from a Baltimore perspective. They were. They were Baltimore's team, right. Obviously the Baltimore Bullets. So I grew up with all that, Biggie and my dad and West Unseld and you know, and West lived in Baltimore until the day he died, uh, you know, on on the southwest side of Baltimore, even though he was the Washington Bullets coach and and the Washington Wizards GM and all of that. But Dave Poland, but they've yeah, they've kind of quit on Baltimore. I mean, if you really want you know the truth, I mean, ped Lee owns this. At one point saw Baltimore as the Fort Worth of Washington, right or as the Saint Paul of Washington, very very much. That's not true, you

know what I mean. Like he promised me that when the Capitals won the Cup, he'd bring the cup to Baltimore. They never brought the Cup to Baltimore. He brought the Wizards Baltimore for a training camp like at Tason to practice a little bit shoot around. And then they tried charging people, you know, one hundred and fifty dollars for tickets for a New Orleans warrants you know, shoot around August preseason game or whatever, and people didn't come. And then that was the end, they played two hockey games in Baltimore. Barry Trots was a part of the National Predators played and the Boston Bruins played in Baltimore and the Baltimore at that time Royal Farms Arena. But if you've ever been to Baltimore, you call it the Civic Center. It's been refurbished and it's beautiful for concerts now. I mean, it's a part of my childhood where I went to the circus in minor league hockey and all of that stuff. But yeah, you know that he's quit on Baltimore. The TV ratings reflect that from the Caps. I mean, the Caps have some impact in Baltimore, but I mean, like I know all forty of the fans, you know, they've been on my bus trips down to games, you know. So it's thirty eight miles that separates the city. But ideologically the Wizards are like, I mean, I don't know that they're a factor in DC, but certainly not in Baltimore. They haven't done anything marketing wise, and I you know, I mean anything like a billboards, just anything you'd see, anything you'd even see out in the community in any way. They haven't done anything like that in a decade so and again he tried to move the. 00:31:17 Speaker 7: Team to Virginia. 00:31:17 Speaker 6: He's got bigger fish to price trying to figure out the baseball team, and his lasty television network that I don't watch anymore, and just all of that kind of thing. So I'm not anti DC. Maybe the way I was as a kid, as a baltimorean where it would be like a rivalry thing, and how we felt about the former our name team with the politically incorrect the logo for all the years of Jack Kn't Cook and all that. We had real angst about that when we were kept out of the leads, you know, after the Colts had left town. 00:31:45 Speaker 7: But I'm not anti Washington. 00:31:47 Speaker 6: I just they don't do anything to inspire anybody in their own market. They certainly don't do anything in Baltimore. They really don't. 00:31:54 Speaker 3: Okay. 00:31:55 Speaker 1: Lastly, you said something about the offensive and defensive line of your beloved Ravens. Well, I mean, I'm looking at this offensive line from left to right. I mean it's they're long, they're strong, and they're looking to get it on. I'm talking Ronnie Stanley, Andrew Voorhees, Tyler Linderbaum, former Gopher Daniel file Leile and right tackle Roger Rosengarden. What's wrong with those guys, Nester. 00:32:24 Speaker 6: Well, you're mister Combine and mister draft guy. All those guys sounded great on draft day, right, I mean Ronnie Stanley was you know, look, we had Jonathan Ogden here. We also had your guy, Brian McKinney here. With Adham, we wouldn't won a Super Bowl, but Ronnie Stanley was trending in that hall of very good the first three years, which is why he got the big contract. I mean, if you look up his injury history and what he's been through, it's heroic. I mean, it's amazing that he got back on the field. He played as well as he did last year, and they gave him three year deal. Other teams wanted him, but you got a twenty million dollar left tackle who right now it's questionable as to whether he's healthy, whether he can play. Their backup is a guy named Joseph Noteboom, who you know when he plays, it's it's a massive drop off. It's below the bar. A left tackle Forhees has been a disappointment. The combination of wherehe's and Finlele Finle a Leys is a big guard, you know, built different. They drafted this guy, Ben Cleveland years ago and had been waiting around. He had some off the field this year's last off season. The guard plays really affect Linderbaum and what they're really trying to do in the pocket with Lamar and keeping him in the pocket. He's gotten sacked more than I ever thought he could possibly be sacked, right, Like when you see Lamar Jackson getting sacked four or five, six times, like, what's wrong with him? What's wrong with the line, What's wrong with the scheme? How is that happening? But defenses have trapped them, and part of that has been that this line hasn't been good enough. Rose and Garden the second rounds raft pick out of Washington five, but hasn't been It's the low light of the team. 00:34:04 Speaker 7: It's not well, the low. 00:34:05 Speaker 6: Light of the teams related in the pass rush and the defense in general, which was thirty second in the league, you know, a month into the season, right, so that and they're still trying to dig out from underneath of that, but not being able to run the ball and go up and down the field the way they have in the past, and even when they do. The defense is you know they're gonna wind up winning thirty eight to thirty seven games to some degree because they're gonna score. I mean, they're good enough offense to overcome that. But get Lamar sacked being at that bad down in distances, going on fourth down and not making it right. I mean, hard ball's kind of famous for that, right anywhere from the forty yard line. You know, those turnovers of the ball and not necessarily turnovers. Lamar has been pretty you know, not pretty. Lamar's been Hall of Fame responsible with the football since he's been drafted. I mean, that's one thing with him is he feels worse than anybody else when he throws a pick or drops the ball or gets stripped or whatever you can physic We see that it's hard. He's hard on himself. But he doesn't make those mistakes often. That's not my concern. My concern is just where are you on first down? What are you trying to do and can you be successful doing it? And that's going to involve the offensive line. I haven't seen

enough of that consistently to feel good about it. 00:35:17 Speaker 1: Nestor, You're fantastic, have a wonderful day. Best of luck with Baltimore Positive dot Com. Unlet's stay in touch, right. 00:35:25 Speaker 7: Ah, meaning adjourned. All questions are done. But I do love your sound effects. 00:35:28 Speaker 1: Brother, I'm Shelly appreciate you, and I'm sure you can find some sound effects if you really worked hard enough. 00:35:36 Speaker 7: All Right, It's just not part of my act anymore. But I kinda miss it. 00:35:41 Speaker 2: I really do see you, sive, what just happened? It's Nestor. I mean, it's the Nestor experience. 00:35:53 Speaker 1: Nestor apparatio joins us now Baltimore Positive dot Com AM fifteen seventy wnst Nestor Altimore Positive dot Com is relatively new. 00:36:03 Speaker 2: What's your role in it? I own it. I always love that one about. 00:36:07 Speaker 1: The radio station fifteen I mewnst. 00:36:11 Speaker 2: I own that too. I always love that one, damn. 00:36:15 Speaker 4: And I think that I think that might lead into the whole He referenced it that he doesn't. He doesn't have a credential to jump into the building and handle some Ravens related topics. 00:36:30 Speaker 2: He's an elite Ravens mind though. 00:36:32 Speaker 4: Well since we've known him, man, I mean, you want to talk about grinder, whether it was the radio station it's the website. Oh yeah, dude's been doing his own thing beat of owne, drama, etc. For thirty freaking years grinding. I love Nestor, so do I thank you Nestor. Vike's bites are not fan welcome back. It's Vikes bites. Bikes bites brought to you by Thousand Hills lifetime grazed grass fed beef. You can shop online, boxing meat shows up at your doorsteps, local Kowalski's, local co ops, local coverns, and they're proud sponsors of Gophers athletics. You keep hearing the word local while it's a Minnesota company. That's why Clearwater, Minnesota's finest. We're not We're not gonna be too far away. We're gonna be up Elk Riverway Off ninety four tomorrow for the Friday football Feast. 00:37:18 Speaker 2: But Neutrie and dense BF appreciate you. Thousand Hills. 00:37:22 Speaker 4: I got some audio for you, and we're gonna start with the head coach, Kevin O'Connell yesterday addressing the media, and this just kind of popped in my head, like, are you kidding me? 00:37:30 Speaker 7: Man? 00:37:31 Speaker 2: How about a freaking home game? 00:37:32 Speaker 3: Thanks goodness week for our team coming back home. 00:37:35 Speaker 8: You know, we're talking a lot about now that we know some of the things that it takes for this year's team to win football games. 00:37:42 Speaker 3: How we play all three phases? You know? 00:37:44 Speaker 8: Now it's about consistency and you know, showing up at us Bank Stadium and it's a really good team on Sunday and performing the way we need to to win. 00:37:51 Speaker 4: You know, part of you know, talking about a muddy NFC, talking about this team divisions not out of

reach. Keep winning your division games? How about winning your home games? Because it just pops in my head, Pa, it's November. We've only played at us Bank Stadium three times and the team's one and two, losing to the Falcons in primetime, losing to the Eagles close, of course, the beat down over the Bengals. 00:38:12 Speaker 2: But how nice is it? Five of the final. 00:38:14 Speaker 4: Nine, Pa, We're going to be in our own comfy comfine starting this Sunday. 00:38:19 Speaker 1: Well, it's nice overall to go Sunday noon, Sunday noon, Sunday noon than Sam, Sunday noon, Sunday noon, Sunday. 00:38:28 Speaker 2: Noon, than Sam. 00:38:29 Speaker 1: It's nice to settle into a routine for players and coaches who crave routine. So I've heard that a lot over the last weekend change it resonated, it must matter something to the Covenant great to be home against a Ravens team that I'm starting to deep dive that thing now that you're ready for the game. Call and defense over the last three game has been a little different than the first five games. Not exactly sure why, but we'll have that all squared away by Sunday. But it's not It's not that defense that was given up thirty one and a half points when the team. 00:39:07 Speaker 2: Was one and five, though Mikes bikes. 00:39:10 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:39:10 Speaker 4: And the quarterback we're going to face on Sunday, he's a little different too. 00:39:13 Speaker 2: He can get off schedule, right, Coach. 00:39:14 Speaker 3: Just playing the initial snap is going to be hard enough. 00:39:17 Speaker 8: The scheme that they run, and it's very well coached and they're very physicals. Playing the snap itself is the starting point. Then the next play starts. When things do go off schedule, and we've played against some guys this year who have hurt us, you know, whether it's internally getting up and out of the pocket where you know, you got to look at the tape and say, was our rush plan as disciplined as it needs to be versus a quarterback that can hurt you. And if you're going to turn the rush loose, do you have to have somebody accounting for that quarterback. 00:39:44 Speaker 2: Which means uh, contain contain contained. 00:39:47 Speaker 8: To me, it's about disruption and it's about getting him off the spot, and then it's the player that gets him off the spot is more than likely not going to be able to always make the play. 00:39:56 Speaker 3: So who's the next guy there? And was there? 00:39:59 Speaker 8: Discipline and making sure you corral and keep him in the area that you have to because he can change a game. 00:40:05 Speaker 4: You know the crazy thing about this game, and you're gonna dig into it, whether it's defensively and as they've gotten healthier, maybe this defense a little better than what the Vikings or any fan would have noticed five six weeks ago. But even from an offensive perspective, is there an element of weathering the storm here? 00:40:23 Speaker 2: Pa, because it just. 00:40:24 Speaker

4: Feels like like it doesn't feel like the Vikings are going to beat him forty to six. We're gonna be watching this game on Sunday. Lamar is going to make a badass play. One of those tight ends is gonna find his way loose or into some sort of cushy spot in the zone. King Henry Dereck Henry runs it at a high level. He might find his way for a twenty two yard rumble to match his jersey like it kind of feels like this is a weathering the storm game because you can't keep the MVP down all day. You just got to keep them down long enough to let our guys do their thing. 00:40:56 Speaker 1: Like it because that there are there's nuance, or there are things established early in the game that teams are setting up for later in the game, and that requires weathering the storm, or like accepting a jab to your face knowing you avoided the roundhouse. Yeah, and that has a lot to do with Lamar, has a lot to do with end game on bench film study where they're getting play. 00:41:27 Speaker 2: After play after play. 00:41:29 Speaker 1: In fact, the Lions last week, Bersus brought this up and he was absolutely right after watching the game back. The Lions had a third and super long, might have been third and seventeen, and they threw this weak, little just soft pass left. I think to Montgomery knowing we're probably not going to get the first down here with the way this thing's crafted. Yeah, Well they were setting something up for later, same formation Jamison Williams on the other side. Ah, they were trying to get deep to Jamison off the same look. 00:42:03 Speaker 2: Ah, we saw that before. 00:42:04 Speaker 3: We know what you're doing. 00:42:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, but Jamison stumbled at the line of scrimmage and it ended up being a fat l for the Lions offense. 00:42:15 Speaker 4: The other part of that too, though, is on those third and longs, it feels like the kiddies they're always playing it like the opportunity for two, so they get you that slant. There were a couple in that game, whether it was Amen Ram, maybe it was Khalif, I forget who got it was a third and super long and then you're thinking just hold them and they're gonna punt. But then they get like fourteen yards on the third down and now you're sweating. Oh yeah, this seems good enough to go for it. The setups in the mind games with some of these teams, it's unreal. 00:42:41 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's up. That's very well stated. And the Ravens are not as adept or they don't have a propensity to chance and them fourth down the way the MotorCity Kitties do. But they set little things up early in the game with Reid options and Lamar and the play action and Lamar the designed four yard run where it's going to look the same in the third or fourth quarter. You're gonna get somebody to bite on it. And there's Andrew's uncovered middle of the field. It's you know, it's it's. It's that that term that you invented a couple of days ago at Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center that I like. It's uh, it's uh.

It's the cat and mouse game. It's the whole cat and mouse game that makes up the National Football League. 00:43:26 Speaker 4: By fights, one more from the coach before we hear from the QB. You know he's listening to Van Ginkle style in the locker room. 00:43:34 Speaker 8: You know, we had way more snaps with Andrew Van Ginkle on the field where all eleven guys did their jobs and knew exactly what the call was. So he provides so many layers of things to our defense that allows Flow to be who he wants to be as a play caller. Kink helps everybody else around him, not only himself, play at a high level. 00:43:53 Speaker 3: So it's impactful for sure. 00:43:59 Speaker 4: It's even the coach could feel that Van Ginkle returning last week was a big deal, and you've mentioned it. Grenard Van Ginkel and number five one Blake Cashman mattering as they do to this defense. I heard a little scuttle butt from the play, and I don't know if there's specific audio or a quote, and maybe I just need to dig deeper and find it. But they were kind of talking the last couple of days about that hit that you noticed Khalif Raymond. 00:44:27 Speaker 1: It was a big, big, big side practice talker yesterday. 00:44:32 Speaker 4: Yeah, and the replay itself is still kind of cool. The type of player Van Ginkle is. He just gets completely laid out by Khalif, still gets up and makes the tackle on Gibbs to end that play. So it was a brilliant I mean, it ended well, but there was some frustration. 00:44:49 Speaker 2: I think even the idea. 00:44:50 Speaker 4: The quote dirty, The word dirty was being thrown around a bit. 00:44:55 Speaker 1: The gink Is on Fire felt it was a dirty hit. I believe it was THEO Jackson or Josh Women tell us. There were a couple who were like, that's uncalled for, that's a dirty hit. Okay, Well, I mean I don't know if it was a dirty hit. Okay, here comes Khalif Raymond right side of the formation wide receiver goes in motion. Think of the gink is on fire and his patented left edge spot, which would be the front side of the quarterback. Van Ginkle does not seem coming and Khalif Raymond, as Van Ginkle was rushing, absolutely obliterated him. He did, and he hit him in the side of his upper body. Okay, now here's the conversation I had with somebody on the side of practice yesterday, Dan Campbell pushing the envelope. Okay, relatively early in the game. I think that was relatively early in the game. Hey, that guy forty three, it's pretty important to your defense. We know he's missed five ish games. We just want to make sure he's all squared away physically. Yeah, okay, we'll check that box. 00:46:00 Speaker 2: To move on. 00:46:01 Speaker 1: It's a pushing the envelope nature that most, if not all of them do. The fact that Raymond caught Van Ginkle off guard does not make it dirty, as the letter of the law goes with blindsiding somebody like that. I can't go down that road because I don't know the letter of the law. So if it was an egregious hit, if it was an illegal hit. If it indeed was a dirty hit, per the illegality of it, not the perception. 00:46:31 Speaker 2: Well that's one thing. 00:46:32 Speaker 1: The other side of it is in a tightly contested division where teams are scratching and surviving for any little morsel they can get, Dan Camp will push the envelope to make sure one of your previously hurt players, who's incredibly important, is just want to make sure everything's all squared away here. Because Van Ginkle's neck did snap and when he hit the ground, he hit it face first and really hard courtesy of low Khalif Raymond. So it bears following the next time these two teams meet. 00:47:04 Speaker 4: That's a good point. I don't know what the legal aspect of it is. If it is truly a blindside block should have been flagged. I mean, liber He's going to be in studio next, he said. During the Power Trap Morning show, he brought up the name hinz Ward, which leads me down the road of remember all those times upfield he would lay out a linebacker, he would lay out a corner specifically in run defense, or even to support maybe another wide receiver. Like the physical aspect of the game. But if roles were reversed. I don't know how mad we'd be. It's like, oh, Ayden Hutchinson, he's missed five or six games, and maybe THELN, you know, he's looking for more than four snaps a game. Maybe THELN comes in right off the snap and just gives them a little chip just to see if ninety seven's all right. 00:47:47 Speaker 1: That's the physical you know, actually bodies colliding part of the equation of pushing the envelope. 00:47:53 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:47:53 Speaker 1: I mentioned this a couple of years ago whenever we had the forty nine ers on Monday Night Football early in the season. 00:47:59 Speaker 2: It was that game. 00:48:00 Speaker 1: Charvarius Ward took one from Addison, then Addison took one back from Jarvarius Ward. 00:48:04 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:48:05 Speaker 1: So we had no Jefferson, but their linebacker, their best pass covering linebacker, or at least one of the two, Dray Greenlaw hadn't played in a month. So seven of the first eight eight of the first nine plays, we're passing plays in the area of Dray Greenlaw. Why, we just want to make sure you can run. Yeah, I mean we couldn't, by the way, and he couldn't, all right, So we're going to come at you in this injury this play after play after play after play after play, because we want to you're off the injury report. Man, you're in the game. We want to make sure you're all squared away. That stuff happens all the time. 00:48:41 Speaker 2: Vikes bits. 00:48:42 Speaker 4: Let's get to Leber, but maybe during News to Nord, I did have some audio from JJ McCarthy in my back pocket that we can get to at some point. 00:48:48 Speaker 1: They're in nine to noon and Ben Leber notcho. Leeber joins nine to Noon around the corner into the middle portion of the program at FN one hundred point three. Kfan