Episode 1,009: chat with Ben Baldwin on Jayden Daniels and Commanders' fourth-down excellence and more

The Al Galdi Podcast

Al Galdi

Football, Baseball, Sports, Basketball

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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17:25 - Guest: NFL analytics expert Ben Baldwin on the groundbreaking website that he co-created in RBSDM.com, how Super Bowl 59 made Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels' all-time-great rookie season look even better, how Daniels was robbed in not being at least one of the five finalists for Associated Press NFL MVP for the 2024 regular season, the great work of Commanders head coach Dan Quinn via his bold fourth-down decision-making in the 2024 season and the nature of advanced stats in the current NFL, including the stat that is the basis for much of Baldwin's work - Expected Points Added 52:07 - College Basketball: analysis of No. 25 Maryland's 101-75 win over Iowa as the Terrapins scored their most points in a game in 23 years, George Mason winning its 11th consecutive game with a 58-57 victory over Saint Joseph's, American winning for the 10th time in 11 games a 72-51 victory over Loyola Maryland, Virginia winning for the fourth time in five games with a 73-70 victory at Virginia Tech, Georgetown losing for the eighth time in 11 games with a 97-86 loss at Butler, Liberty winning for the for the seventh time in eight games with a 76-69 victory at UTEP and William & Mary's 72-59 win over Drexel 01:07:38 - Nationals and Orioles: reaction to the Nats agreeing with free-agent shortstop/third baseman Paul DeJong on a one-year contract reportedly worth $1 million to perhaps be their No. 1 third baseman...discussion of the Nats winning their arbitration case with first baseman Nathaniel Lowe to where he at just $10.3 million is set to be the highest-paid player on the Nats' 2025 Opening Day roster...and thoughts on the O's suffering another blow to their starting-pitching depth with Chayce McDermott having suffered a lat/teres strain prior to spring training The Nace Law Group, Accident & Injury Lawyers - 202-902-7611 and make sure that you mention that Al Galdi sent you Call Nova Fireplace And Stove at 571-513-3803, mention that Al Galdi sent you and receive $25 off any fireplace or chimney service Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.8	It is Monday, February 17th, 2025. It is President's Day, 2025. A happy
0:59.8	President's Day to the Presidents of Washington, D.C. area sports, including commanders,
1:06.7	team president Mark Klaus, Nationals President of Baseball Operations and General Manager
1:12.1	Mike Rizzo, Capitals, President of Hockey Operations Brian McClellan, monumental basketball
1:18.5	President Michael Winger. Also a happy President's Day to a man who starred for both the Nats
1:25.1	and Orioles franchises El Presidete, former starting pitcher Dennis Martinez.
1:32.5	He was part of the 1979 American League champion owes, was part of the 1983 World Series
1:39.9	champion owes, and through a perfect game for the Montreal Expos on July 28th, 1991, during what
1:47.4	was a spectacular age 37 season. El Presente, that's a great nickname. Hello and welcome to this
1:54.0	Monday installment of the Yalgoldi podcast. If you consider the weekend continuing on this Monday
2:00.0	given that it is a President's Day, so President's
2:02.9	Day weekend, this is the only weekend of the year on which there is not a single NFL,
2:09.0	MLB, NBA, or NHL regular season or postseason game. This is usually the case with the weekend
2:16.7	after the Super Bowl.
2:18.2	That weekend usually is both NBA All-Star Weekend and NHL All-Star Weekend. Now, no NHL
2:26.0	All-Star weekend this year. We instead have the 2025 Four Nations face-off, which on Saturday
2:33.1	night gave us a 3-one win for the United States
2:36.4	over Canada at Bell Center in Montreal. The Four Nations faceoff in international tournament
2:41.7	hosted by the NHL and featuring only NHL players, the Eastern Conference leading capitals,
2:48.7	inexplicably, the only team in the NHL without a single
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