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The Ravens Lounge

#287: Cynthia Frelund Talks Draft Analytics

The Ravens Lounge

Baltimore Ravens

Sports, Football

4.9644 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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NFL Network analytics expert Cynthia Frelund talks about why Terrace Marshall Jr. is the best fit, how the Ravens use analytics, how teams are approaching this draft differently and more.

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Marge Act is a great passer and I want to see just some nasty like physical guy like

0:05.0

Terris Marshall Jr. A guy like him that could bring that big body and just give you a little

0:09.0

extra something. Like I know Sammy Watkins is there but I'll like a little extra something.

0:14.0

Look the Ravens have been the gold standard and that that's from the top-down coaches, front office,

0:21.9

analytics, everyone. And that's actually a big difference maker because a lot of people's

0:25.6

egos get in the way. In some teams, it feels like the analytics are like, gotcha.

0:31.8

So the big datable, you talk to John Harbaugh, and, you know, what takeaways did you have from that?

0:38.4

Let's be honest, nobody does it better, and nobody has used it better, and nobody's more, like, honest about how they're using it.

0:44.5

And what I really noticed about my best friend, John, was that he could clearly articulate what his expectations were.

0:50.4

And that is the difference between a successful use of analytics and not.

1:05.5

Welcome into the lounge.

1:07.8

We have a very special guest.

1:09.5

The run continues, Garrett.

1:12.0

Cynthia Freeland from the NFL Network is going to be joining us today. If you followed her work,

1:17.6

you've seen that she's an analytics expert. So she brings like a different kind of look at

1:22.2

things. So I'm really excited about this interview. Yeah. And the other thing too is, as we know,

1:26.4

the Ravens are a team that really values analytics. They've invested in this heavily on the personnel side, on the coaching

1:32.7

side over the past several years. So when they're making decisions in game around the draft,

1:38.6

around free agency as they're building the roster, they are taking an analytical approach to

1:42.8

everything that they do. And so it's going to

1:45.2

be really valuable to hear what Cynthia has to say. And the other thing, too, is like, this is a year

1:50.4

as we've heard from some of the experts that we've talked to, like, no one really knows what's

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