Good morning everybody. This is day number 15 of NFL team previews here on the

podcast feed. Today is Wednesday August 7th. Thank you very much for making me a

part of your morning. We've got an absolute doozy of an episode today and

you're gonna hear how nervous I was in my voice.

I was joined by Ken McCusick, which was an absolute treat. Raven's film study has covered

the team from a scouting and player charting perspective for more than two decades.

Like the depth and wealth of knowledge that Ken has about football, but especially about the

Ravens, is amazing.

And it was just a treat to talk with him.

But what threw me off was, I messaged him,

and typically, as these have gone, these are very busy people working with teams, they're in the middle of training camp, time is in a very short supply for everybody.

And typically they'll say, okay, I'm ready, but like send me a couple

questions, send me the link, and we'll make a time work. And so I usually put together four or five questions. I send them and then we quickly

before we come on the call sort of established like okay all the

questions good you're good with it yep okay let's go hit record and then I do the

episode with Ken I messaged him and it was like 4.30 PM my time, Pacific time.

He's like I can do it right now if you're able.

And so by 433 we were recording and I was like pre-caus like look I want to do this this and this is there anything you don't want me to talk about and he says yes we cannot talk about this specific thing because I was just talking with Harbaw and I'm not allowed to disclose that publicly because it's not something that's out there in the public.

And so I paused and I was like, oh, I mean, this is pretty good access.

So I was like, okay, I won't go that way.

And I quickly, in my mind for the show,

a lot of the things I wanted to talk about were about that specifically.

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