Episode 1,012: All-22 analysis with Mark Bullock on how to fix Commanders' secondary and more

The Al Galdi Podcast

Al Galdi

Football, Baseball, Sports, Basketball

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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14:18 - Guest: Commanders analyst Mark Bullock of MarkBullock.Substack.com with an All-22-style deep dive on the Commanders' secondary, including why it is so crucial to the scheme of head coach Dan Quinn and defensive coordinator Joe Whitt Jr., assessments of cornerbacks Marshon Lattimore and Mike Sainristil, why the team needs another starting-caliber cornerback, potential targets for the Commanders at cornerback in free agency in the 2025 offseason, how set the team is at safety if it re-signs pending unrestricted free agent Jeremy Chinn and more 35:16 - Guest: Wizards insider Chase Hughes on Monumental Sports Network on how the Wizards' four key building blocks from the last two first rounds of NBA Drafts - Bilal Coulibaly, Alex Sarr, Bub Carrington and Kyshawn George - are doing, why the Wizards' four trades in the lead-up to the 2025 NBA Trade Deadline may've been the best work yet by Michael Winger as Monumental Basketball president and Will Dawkins as Wizards general manager, how Jordan Poole and Corey Kispert fit into the Wizards' rebuild, the perceived-to-be-loaded 2025 NBA Draft in terms of its top three players and the potential for Maryland's Derik Queen to be a top-five pick and more 57:39 - Nationals: reaction to the Nats agreeing with free-agent reliever Lucas Sims on a one-year contract 01:02:05 - College Basketball: thoughts on Georgetown winning for just the fourth time in 12 games with a 93-72 victory over Providence, American losing for just the second time in 12 games with a 76-69 loss at Army and VCU winning its fifth consecutive game with an 80-51 win over UMass to set up a big game against George Mason The Nace Law Group, Accident & Injury Lawyers - 202-902-7611 and make sure that you mention that Al Galdi sent you Follow @WSHOnTheDaily on Instagram and visit WSHOnTheDaily.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.8	It is Thursday, February 20th, 2025.
0:54.1	It is the day after we learned that the NFL salary
0:57.7	cap is skyrocketing again. We on Wednesday afternoon had reports that the NFL on Wednesday
1:03.1	informed teams that the salary cap for the 2025, 2026 league year will fall in the range of
1:10.5	$277.5 million to $281.81 million, way up from $255.4 million
1:23.0	for the soon to be over, 2024, 2025 league year.
1:27.7	The NFL right now is swimming in Moneyman, thanks to its media rides deals, and the cap is
1:34.4	soaring.
1:35.7	As I have said for years, today's overpay is tomorrow's bargain.
1:39.8	If you are an NFL team, lock up your key players.
1:43.5	Do not worry too much about the cause, because if those players are good and remain good, whatever you're paying them now will only look better and better as the cap continues to fly to the moon.
1:54.9	Hello and welcome to this Thursday installment of the Al Galdi podcast. I'm on this episode of the podcast, if not one, but two
2:01.9	guests for you. Next segment, Commander's analyst Mark Bullock of Bullock's phoneroom, which you
2:06.2	can find at markbullick.substack.com. Mark is joining us for part one of a two-part conversation
2:11.3	on how to fix the commander's defense. So we in part one are going to focus on the secondary, including
2:18.8	why the secondary is so crucial to the scheme of head coach Dan Quinn and defensive coordinator
2:24.0	Joe Witt Jr. breakdowns of cornerbacks Marshawn Latimore and Mikey Sain Ristill,
2:28.8	why the team needs another starting caliber cornerback, potential targets for the team at cornerback and free agency this offseason,
2:36.7	how set the team is at safety if it resigns pending unrestricted free agent, Jeremy Chin, and more.
2:44.3	And then after we speak with Mark, a welcome back Wizards insider Chase Hughes,
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