Episode 1,147: ESPN's Brian Burke on Jayden Daniels' QBR success, intel with Giants pod host Nick Falato and more

The Al Galdi Podcast

Al Galdi

Football, Baseball, Sports, Basketball

5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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14:38 - Guest: Brian Burke of ESPN Analytics on the extent to which Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels excelled in ESPN's Total QBR metric during his all-time-great 2024 rookie season, the significance of him having done this, ESPN's Football Power Index being high on the Commanders in the 2025 season and more 27:34 - Guest: Nick Falato, co-host of the Big Blue Banter podcast on the New York Giants, with an in-depth scouting report on the Giants in preparation for the Commanders' game against the Giants in Week 1 of the NFL's 2025 regular season 47:45 - Nationals: analysis of a 5-2 win over the Miami Marlins as starting pitcher Cade Cavalli rebounded nicely from a bad outing 56:28 - Orioles: breakdown of a 6-2 win at the San Diego Padres as starting pitcher Tyler Wells and starter/reliever Albert Suárez both did well in making their 2025 MLB regular-season debuts off having been out due to serious injury The Nace Law Group, Accident & Injury Lawyers - visit WashingtonDCInjuryLawyers.com and make sure that you mention that Al Galdi sent you Visit RFKAllAccess.com and use the promo code ONLYAL for a special discount Visit and join BGObsession.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 forty-seven of the Al-Galdi podcast. It is Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025. It is the day on which we get the first official injury report of the Commander's 2025 season as they on Wednesday are practicing this in preparation for their 2025 regular season opener. Commander v. The New York Giants at Northwest Stadium this
0:39.2	Sunday afternoon at 1, a game that is sold out. The commanders made that announcement on Tuesday
0:44.8	evening. Not announced on Tuesday was the team signing unrestricted free agent receiver
0:49.8	Kendrick Bourne, even though he had a tryout with the commanders on Tuesday.
0:58.8	Kendrick Bourne, veteran NFL receiver, spent the last four seasons with the New England Patriots,
1:03.0	spent his first four NFL seasons with the San Francisco 49ers.
1:07.7	They signed them as an undrafted free agent out of Eastern Washington in 2017.
1:14.3	He was with the Niners during Commander's General Manager Adam Peters' time with the Niners as an executive.
1:23.4	And also with the commanders on Tuesday, was them on Tuesday afternoon releasing their unofficial depth chart for week one of the regular season.
1:27.0	Josh Connerly, Jr. is listed as the starting right tackle.
1:29.8	The starting right guard is listed as Nick Aligretti or Andrew Wiley. The top four running backs are listed as follows. Austin Echler, Jeremy McNichols,
1:36.9	Chris Rodriguez, Jr. and Jacori Kroski Merritt. So the man known as Bill, per the depth chart,
1:43.0	is RB4, although I don't know that we should be reading too much into that.
1:47.3	It does appear as if the commanders at least initially are going with a running back by committee.
1:52.4	Receiver Jalen Lane is listed as the number one punt returner.
1:55.7	Receiver Debo Samuel Sr. is listed as the number one kickoff returner.
2:00.2	Hello and welcome to this Wednesday
2:01.9	installment of the Al-Galdi podcast on which we talk commanders on every episode, no matter the time
2:06.9	a year coming up on the show, not one, but two guests to get us ready for commanders' giants in
2:11.5	week one. Next segment, a quick chat with a good friend of this podcast, Brian Burke of ESPN
2:16.1	analytics on commanders quarterback Jaden Daniels, ex Brian Burke of ESPN Analytics on Commander's quarterback Jaden
2:18.3	Daniels, excelling in ESPN's total QBR metric. This is one of the most important quarterback
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