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Speaker 1: Nestor Apparratio is one of the long time voices of

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Baltimore's sports. When you want to get I mean the

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know how know what's going on? We say hi to

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Nester WNST Radio. Now, my partner Nestor wants to know

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how you got the name Naster Nasty Nester, so please

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explain to him how you got such a nickname.

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Speaker 2: It's a long story, but there's an artist the sports

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cartoon is to your name, resig R. C Ig is

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a bit of a legend here and drawing Bob Ersay

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cartoons back in the eighties, back when we lost the Colts.

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And I do remember George Bland to believe it or not,

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I'm kind of old, but so I lost the bet

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about Eddie Murray in the Philadelphia Phillies and I volunteered

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the babysit his kids who were six and four and

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my kid was like four at the time, and I

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sent them all to bed early, and they started calling

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me Nasty Nester instead of Uncle Nestor. And when I

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went on I'm the Radio in nineteen ninety two, you know,

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I'm a sports writer from the Sun. In the eighties

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is what I did. I was a music critic and

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hockey writer. When I went on the radio, I had

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a guy he said to me, a you know, like

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a radio guy. He's like, you should have a nickname.

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You should do you know, you should be something. And

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I'm like, well, you know, these kids call me nasty

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nest so I star calling myself that and he said,

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you better damn well be nasty. So thirty five years later,

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here I am. And it's not even something I use.

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You know, get Nasty was on billboards here in the

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nineties around the city. But you know that kind of

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has a different kind of connotation. I mean when I

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took it on, it was like Janet Jackson Nasty Boys,

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you know, to be like the Beastie Boys had, you know,

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he had an album, right, So it was just sort

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of a name. But now it's you know, given to

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certain that the political ramifications of that. I'm nice nester.

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Speaker 1: Now you are, and they call me mister Texas down here,

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inst you're the only one stopping right now, all right,

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So Naston, let me ask you this. The Texans have

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blanked the bed multiple times in Baltimore over the years.

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I have told my audience, oh yeah, think you appreciate it.

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Let's he brings facts and that's gonna conversate. That was nasty.

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So my partner and I argue about the definition of

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a must win. How is either you're definitively a must

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win or it's a relative must win. I'm telling my audience,

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nest if you if the Texans cannot beat the Ravens

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this Sunday, it's never going to happen. First of all,

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how banged up are the Ravens besides what you're seeing

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on the injury port And on top of that, how

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just desperate is this squad going? Oh my god, Cooper

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Rush is gonna try to beat one of the best

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defenses in the NFL coming up on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've been covered hardball from the beginning, right, so,

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you know eighteen years of watching him come out, you know,

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be a glowy sort of when they're you know, beaten

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teams fifty to ten as they've done, and you know,

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run NFC team's ragged. Here they're twenty four two against

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NFC team since Lamar came and defenses couldn't stop them.

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You know, when Lamar's in peril, there's a whole different

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feeling in the building, right I mean, Cooper Russian Lamar.

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It's just, you know, it's like Tom Moore used to

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say with the Colts, if Peyton gets hurt, were f

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you know, that's it. Whoever the backup is, it doesn't matter.

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But then you get into this one and three and

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you know Lamar's gonna come back at some point. It

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might even be Sunday for crying out last with the hamstring.

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But how bad a shape are they going to be in?

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I mean, Cleveland's terrible, Cincinnati's terrible. Pittsburgh has a forty

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one year old quarterback and their defense hasn't been good.

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But pittsburghs Pittsburgh, right, So you know, I don't know

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if they can. If the Ravens win the division at

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nine and eight or ten and seven, it's a far

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cry from thirteen and four, fourteen and three, Like they

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thought they were gonna be in hosting THEFC Championship game,

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but you know they're they're piling up the losses and

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injury wise, I've never seen anything like it. I mean,

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it's the thirtieth year for the Ravens. This year, I

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can't remember a time where there's been more promise, and

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we just came off a baseball season here where you know,

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they were supposed to win ninety games and they were

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dog meat because everybody got hurt and they weren't very good.

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So the fan base here's a little reeling on that

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in a general sense, although the Turfs are winning in

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football for the first time like ever, but for the

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raven sans to think playoff, playoffs, playoffs, Lamar super Bowl,

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getting knocked out in Buffalo, Andrews dropping a pass, losing

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an AFC Championship game with Taylor Swift on the field

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two years ago to the Chiefs, like all the bad

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vibes of that were well. Rokwan's getting better, Kyle Hamilton's great,

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Marlin can still do, Marlon Humfrey can still good. Ronnie

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Stanley got signed to a contract this offseason. Three or

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four teams. You're gonna chase him down and give him

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twenty million dollars a year. And he was thought, I

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don't know a year or two ago, to just be

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damaged good because you've been injured. Now, Stanley's hurt, Lamar's

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hurt on the offense defensively, everybody, all their twenty million

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plus dollar players, Marlon Humphrey, Rokwan Smith Justin Mattabikee is

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now out for the year. He has a neck injury,

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which is concerned the whole building that you know, he

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might not play again. I mean, there's some real career

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concern about his neck injury. And then Kyle Hamilton showed

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up on the injury report the other day and he's

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he's their best player on defense for sure, and they

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haven't figured out how to use him. You know, they'd

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like to have him up on the line and be

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sort of that eleventh guy to do whatever he can do,

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because he's built a little bit like a linebacker, a

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little bit like a gigantic safety, but he's quick as

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a cat and he's the smartest guy on the field.

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I mean, Kyle Hamilton is a Hall of Fame prospect

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for them, and they've had to move him back to

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a traditional safety role because their inside linebackers have been garbage,

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their pass rush has been non existent, and their defensive

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lines decimated. I mean, this is a mess. You're right,

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I mean, it's not one and eight on Sunday afternoon.

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I'll be shocked, guys.

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Speaker 3: Nester Apparicio with us here on a Sports Talk seven

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ninety and we here in Houston have had nightmares. And

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Derrick Henry, he has owned the Texans, especially when he

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was a member of the Tennessee Titans. What do you

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make of his season? Obviously the fumbles have been an issue.

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with Cooper Rush with the reins that the Ravens are

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going to try to establish the run on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I could sit here and go all

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day about Lamar and Derrick Henry and what's been wrong

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with it? So I mean ill to start with that.

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I mean that the offensive line hasn't been great and

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they have not put a lot of resources into the

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offensive line. I just gave you a whole bunch of guys.

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They are given twenty million dollars to do it. Booting

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line Stanley Tyler, Linderbaum is there is there center and

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the right tackle. They drafted in Rosengarten last year. They

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were expecting better at them all at but the guard

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play has just been awful. And really the offense and

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Monkin and the things he wants to do with Lamar

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with sleight of hand and RPOs and getting day Flowers

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into mismatch situations and getting bateman down the field, and

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you know, they have your guyd Hop who's had one

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of those crazy aerial catches that you all are so

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familiar with. He have won every week here in four weeks.

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He's straight Hall of Famers. So they've got a crowded room,

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Mark Andrews at tight end and Isaiah like that. They

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have all these weapons. They've really missed Pat McCard, who

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sort of blocking back that has really been effected for

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them over a number of years. He was a defensive

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lineman out of Maine, and he was Hardball's project, like

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seven years ago to make him a fullback or make

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him a sort of an h back blocking back, gigantic

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tight end when they want to go heavy. And when

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they were going heavy with crappy running backs or banged

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up running backs, it wasn't very good. But once they

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brought Derek Henry and I thought they were a championship outfit.

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two years when it was obvious that the Titans him out.

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and the Ravens could have used him in their running

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game a couple of years ago in play time, and

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when they got him, I thought, this is a game changer.

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And other people like he's these old you know, other

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side of thirty whatever. Last year he was unbelievable. But

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it really was scheme, and it really was you know,

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assignment technique. I mean, those guys held their blocks last year,

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they pulled guards, they did athletic things. They had pat Riccard,

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the field in Lamar, and then they had this bowling

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ball with Derrick Henry, who would go the other way

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because you're scared that Lamar is gonna get loose on

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the right side. Next thing you know, Dereck Henry's running

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this year. I don't know your defensive side, Tamiko Rans.

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rush Derek Henry, who could stop Derrick Henry. Great, but

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it's really about losing blocks at the front line because

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Henry's had no place to run. The scheme has been

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a little weird. You know. They haven't really wanted to

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run Lamar much really over the first five weeks. And

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now he's hurt with the amstring. When he comes back,

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for Cooper rush, like you can throw the ball a

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little bit. These tight ends got to wake up here.

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I mean they gotta be. They've got to win that

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five to twelve yard range, especially on first down. And

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this offense over seven years with Lamar, it's been astonishing.

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three more than any outfit I've ever seen until this year.

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And that was really their benefit is first down getting six, seven, eight,

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nine yard or twelve yards and getting fresh sticks and

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never going into third down, and when they do, it's

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short distance. And then on fourth down they would just

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go for it, you know, any distance, any place on

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the field, they would do that. All those things are

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gone now. I mean I don't feel that mojo even

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with Labar coming back, because the offense hasn't been very

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Speaker 1: Ran Let's get the crystal ball up four o'clock Eastern time.

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When you're talking to your folks post gaming, youtubing, whatever

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you do, how's this going to play out in your mind?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's to me. If Cooper Rush is

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gonna play, it's a different team. And I don't even

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know what it looks like. I watched it in the preseason.

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He wasn't very good. He wasn't very accurate. And again,

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he's not gonna have a lot of time. If I mean,

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you guys have edge rushers, it's a different it's a

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different gaming. They really struggled against Cleveland. You know, Cleveland's

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a good defense, Mileth Garrett, all of that. Really good

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players have overwhelmed the offensive line here even before Lamar came.

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And Derrick Henry he's sort of the savior this week, right,

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I mean, if he can run and get him four

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or five yards and they can maintain the ball a

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little bit with Cooper Rush, maybe they can win the

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game by field goal twenty to sixteen or something. But

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I expect a low scoring game, and honestly, I expect

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the Texas to win. I expect the Texas to win

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twenty seven to seventeen something like that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I think it's that may be too high. To

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be honest with you, question thirty seconds the obligatory. Hey,

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the crab cakes from Baltimore are great. You've brought that

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up many a time. What's the second best food in

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Speaker 2: Oh, well, we're seafood city, so I would have to

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say something with rock fish or you know like that. Yeah, well,

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the second best food in our city is there is

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a place called Ekkabin here that makes brocolis and poorer.

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That's unbelievable. But we have a pretty interesting cuisine palette here.

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Speaker 1: Kay, very good, Nestor, you are a star. Thank you

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for coming on the show. I would say we'll talk

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to you come playoff time, but I think one of

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us will not be in that situation, so we'll just

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see who that is later this year.

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Speaker 2: Team can still make the playoffs, guys.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, fine, but we'll be in the three thirty

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Netflix game on Saturday, no matter what the case may be.

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Speaker 2: You know this, right, man, You guys are really really

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You're like the second city in Texas. Don't be that way.

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You're a way better city than the other place.

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Speaker 3: You know, a better city, but have you seen in

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the football history.

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Speaker 1: Come on, please, we're out football.

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Speaker 2: Here we come a.

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Speaker 1: This is what we don't need.

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Speaker 3: We don't need this from you, nasty nester. Yeah they

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suck too.

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Speaker 1: We need nice nester.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I love the Oiler with my life and

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you know that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's why I was went

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on the show. He's like, we talked, we talked more honors,

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Earl Campbell, Timmy Smith, uh, Kenny Burrow, all that, Nester.

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Thank you for the time, my friend. Repression