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What ails the Baltimore Ravens beyond the injuries? Luke Jones and Nestor take a hard look at rest of NFL and teams like Detroit and San Francisco that are winning with missing pieces and wonder what the purple path is from last place and offensive and defensive line play that don't figure to markedly improve as the depth charts thin further.

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Our Luke Jones attended the Monday practice in Owings Mills that Lamar Jackson missed. Does this sound the alarm about his hamstring injury? Or is it just another day of rest? Either way, the Baltimore Ravens have two games in four days next week and we're reading the purple tea leaves about the desperation of a 1-5 football team on the edge of disaster.

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Spending a bye weekend on the couch allowed Luke Jones and Nestor to watch the rest of the NFL and the emerging young quarterbacks coming to life. This week, the 1-5 Baltimore Ravens will need to get off the mat and win two football games in four days beginning with the Chicago Bears on Sunday before flying off to Miami to play the woeful Dolphins. How to win two in a row?

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Every weekend is a retro uniform weekend somewhere. And every "refresh" of iconic brands is a chance to deal with the fashion feedback of the sports universe. Sports logo artist and historian Todd Radom, who is always our "go-to" when it's time to talk laundry and loyalties, takes Nestor to school on fashion faux pas and retro statements of glory and epic failure.

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From ownership dynamics to the history of the sport, no one is more conversant in the NFL than longtime Pro Football Hall of Fame voter Howard Balzer, who discussed the deep historical hole of Ravens and difficulty for quarterbacks to function without tools and a stout offensive line.

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It’s always a bye week pleasure to tour the NFL and get some perspective from folks like the legendary J.T. […]

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It's always a pleasure to find time with our favorite Canadian NFL historian, Brad Gagnon of Bleacher Report, who tackles the tariffs of Toronto and all that ails Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens from the beach in Santos, Brazil.

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The numbers are in on September sports wagering and Maryland Lottery Executive Director John Martin returns to talk about the big numbers and what they mean with Nestor as the fall fun continues with a huge jackpot and holiday games about to emerge.

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It's always time well spent with our favorite former Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator and now "semi-retired" head coach Marvin Lewis. From his college work at Arizona State and his son's career at UNLV and his weekly NFL radio calls for Sports USA, he's staying busy and always ready to talk defense, the importance of a pass rush and what to do when you're 1-5 and your franchise quarterback is hurt.

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Lamar. Roquan. Hamilton. Humphrey. We're still (mostly) buying that the Baltimore Ravens can climb back into the AFC playoff picture if they can get their best players back on the field against a weak upcoming schedule. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the many bye week issues and concerns for head coach John Harbaugh and the last place Baltimore Ravens.

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