Episode 1,108: why Jayden Daniels will not be a "one-hit wonder" as questioned by Cam Newton and more

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Al Galdi

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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13:38 - Commanders: breakdown of why Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels does not profile as a one-year wonder off former NFL quarterback Cam Newton raising the issue of Daniels potentially being a "one-hit wonder" a la former Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III 29:06 - Guest: Greg Finberg of Bullets Forever with analysis of the Wizards' 2025 offseason so far, including the Wizards now having nine players taken in the first rounds of the last three NBA Drafts, the intellect behind the Wizards having so many second-round NBA Draft picks, what the Wizards' usage of their ample salary-cap space in the 2026 offseason likely will be, the extent to which CJ McCollum will be a viable trade chip for the Wizards in the 2025-2026 season, insight on Tre Johnson off the Wizards taking him with the No. 6-overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, whether the Wizards will trade Corey Kispert in the 2025 offseason and more The Nace Law Group, Accident & Injury Lawyers - 202-902-7611 and make sure that you mention that Al Galdi sent you Visit CateringByUptown.com and mention that Al Galdi sent you 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 one hundred eight of the Al-Galdi podcast. It is Tuesday, July 8th, 2025. It is the first full day for Miguel Cairo as National's Interim Manager. The Nats on Monday afternoon named their bench coach, Miguel Cairo, as interim manager. This off the seismic announcement on Sunday evening,
0:40.5	Nat's managing principal owner, Mark Lerner announcing having fired Nats president of baseball operations
0:46.4	and general manager Mike Rizzo and manager Davey Martinez. Miguel Cairo was hired by the Nats
0:52.6	as bench coach in November 2023. He was the Chicago
0:56.8	White Sox's interim manager for the team's final 34 games of the 2020 regular season going 18 and 16.
1:04.4	He's 51. He's a former Major League player. He's a native of Venezuela. And who the heck knows what is
1:10.3	going to happen with the Nats, with Cairo as interim
1:12.9	manager, and Mike DeBardo as interim general manager?
1:17.8	No game for the Nats on Monday.
1:19.5	They have a three-game series at the St. Louis Cardinals, Tuesday evening through Thursday
1:23.6	evening.
1:24.5	What the Nats ultimately do at GM is huge. I can't overstate how important
1:30.3	that is given the state of the rebuild, which is not good. And what the Nats ultimately do at
1:36.0	GM is going to be so telling regarding the true commitment of the Lerner Ownership Group
1:41.9	on owning the team in a, shall we say, proper way. But specific to
1:47.3	manager, I've had this thought. What about Ryan Zimmerman? Nats legend, Ryan Zimmerman,
1:55.8	a.k.a. Mr. National is currently working for the Nats as essentially an all-purpose employee.
2:02.6	I have no idea if he would want to be the team's manager, but a trend in MLB in recent years has been
2:08.2	for teams to go with smart, well-regarded, recently retired players as managers.
2:14.8	Ryan Zimmerman fits that description, something to think about. But regarding the
2:18.8	learner ownership group, here was MLB insider Ken Rosenthal on Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal
2:26.2	on YouTube on Monday. The problem here, the biggest problem here, as it's often the biggest
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