What's up everybody?

Welcome into the next fast podcast.

I'm Phil Perry.

We've got a great guest lined up for you this week.

We are still, still, believe it or not, chipping away at all the interviews we were able to conduct out in Phoenix

ahead of Super Bowl 57. And so on today's episode, we are featuring NFL Media's

analytics expert Cynthia Freeland. She's actually NFL media's first ever analytics expert.

She's a BC person, as you will hear during our conversation, but we have a great chat when it comes to where the game

is going. What the most important statistic for a quarterback is, according to, again,

an analytics experts. We're going to get sort of a new wave approach to statistics as it relates to the quarterback

position.

And what is the number one predictor of success at that position?

What separates the good from the average, the average from the less than average to the bad?

Cynthia gives us a great, great answer there.

So let's get right to our conversation with Cynthia Freeland right now.

Very excited now to have Cynthia Freeland with us.

Cynthia, you give great insight when it comes to the analytics and the forward-thinking aspects of the game that I think a lot of people are interested in. So thanks for being with us here. Thank you so much for having me. I love my Boston roots, my BC. I'm a BC girl. You're a BC girl. You're from Michigan. I know you're not going to do the Michigan accent for us. No, I won't. Can you break out a Boston accent for us? No, I won't do that in either. Come on, make the, make the listeners at home feel like they are at home, right? Like we're at, um, gosh, Mary-Anne's. We're at Mary-A. I think Mary-A's is close. R-I-P. Sorry, Mary-P. We're not. We're not getting any sponsorship money from them, Unfortunately. Nope, you're not. Not anytime soon. So when you go to BC, like you have this like security briefing, it's like this woman comes out.

She's like, unfortunately. Nope, you're not. Not anytime soon. So when you go to BC, like you have this like security briefing, it's like, this woman

comes out, just like, every year a few unfortunate Boston college students get hit by the

T. You're like, I'm sorry, did someone just say you get hit by the T?

Like the train?

First of all, I'm just going to blow right past the content of that message because

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