Episode 1,039: chat with ESPN Bet’s Benjamin Brown on Commanders' 10.5 over/under win total for 2025 and more

The Al Galdi Podcast

Al Galdi

Football, Baseball, Sports, Basketball

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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02:00 - Maryland Basketball: reaction to Kevin Willard officially leaving his job as Terrapins head coach to become Villanova's head coach 13:15 - Guest: ESPN Bet NFL data-science manager Benjamin Brown on ESPN Bet having the Commanders with an over/under win total for the 2025 regular season of 10.5, including what exactly goes into an NFL's team's over/under win total, what the sports books got wrong about the 2024 Commanders, the Commanders' potential to be a regression team for the 2025 season, the process for assessing strength of schedule months before an NFL regular season begins, what was especially remarkable about Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels' all-time-great rookie season and more 41:00 - Capitals: reaction to an 8-5 loss to the Atlantic Division-worst Buffalo Sabres in a game that did feature Caps top-line right wing Alex Ovechkin scoring a third-period even-strength goal to move to being just five goals shy of surpassing Wayne Gretzky's record of 894 career NHL regular-season goals 46:02 - Nationals: analysis of the Nats beginning their 2025 regular season by losing two out of three games to the Philadelphia Phillies 56:00 - Orioles: breakdown of the O's beginning their 2025 regular season with a four-game split at the Toronto Blue Jays 01:04:00 - Wizards: thoughts on a 115-112 loss to the Brooklyn Nets in a game in which the tanking Wizards displayed true commitment to the tank 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 $50 off any fireplace service before Sept. 1, 2025 - this includes cleaning, safety inspection, tune-up and diagnostic work For advertising inquiries, email [email protected] Please note that time stamps may be slightly off depending on rotating national ads

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0:00.0	And away we go, episode one thousand thirty-nine of the Al-Galdi podcast. It is Monday, March 31st, 2025. It is day two of the NFL's
0:27.6	annual league meeting, which is taking place Sunday through Wednesday in Palm Beach, Florida.
0:31.7	This also is the day after Maryland men's basketball head coach, Kevin Willard,
0:36.5	officially left to become
0:37.8	Villanova's head coach. Villanova on Sunday morning officially announced Kevin Willard as its head
0:44.8	coach, his three-season tenure, as Terrapins head coach is done. One of the messiest, most
0:50.2	bizarre exits of a coach that you'll ever see is done. Kevin Willard, of course,
0:55.4	has the right to leave for another job, but the way that this went down was not good.
1:00.1	He during a press conference on March 20th, sounding off on Maryland's lack of financial
1:05.6	commitment to the men's basketball program, hopefully will affect positive change for the
1:10.2	program, but the sounding
1:11.6	golf served to make Maryland look really bad. And it would have been one thing if Willard remained
1:16.3	as Maryland head coach, because then you could say, well, he made Maryland look really bad for the
1:20.5	purpose of improving Maryland with him remaining as head coach. But instead, he ended up humiliating
1:26.4	Maryland on his way out the door to say nothing
1:29.1	of this drama robbing attention and excitement from his team's run to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA
1:35.2	tournament. Maryland is in a terrible spot right now. The head coach and carousel is well underway.
1:40.7	NCAA transfer portal season is well underway. The program has been diminished big time by
1:46.6	what Willard said and by him leaving for another job. And oh, by the way, Maryland doesn't even have
1:52.4	a director of athletics right now. The prevailing sentiment, and it is one that I agree with,
1:59.2	is that Maryland needs to swing big,
2:01.6	although, again, how you do that without a director of athletics, I don't quite know.
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