Episode 1,305: Adam Peters discusses his thinking and process with No. 7-overall pick in 2026 NFL Draft and more

The Al Galdi Podcast

Al Galdi

Sports, Football

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Segment 1 - Show open, including reaction to Washington Capitals winger Alex Ovechkin indicating that he isn't retiring and will play for the Caps in the 2026-2027 season, and listener feedback Segment 2 - Washington Commanders: discussion of comments from general manager Adam Peters during a joint, pre-draft press conference with assistant general manager Lance Newmark, including the predictability of what will happen before Washington's No. 7-overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, the pressure on Peters to get the pick right, the issue of positional value, the likelihood of Washington trading down from 7, praise for the team's Football Solutions department and Peters being a big fan of Washington's new uniforms Segment 3 - Washington Nationals: analysis of a wild 8-7 10-inning win at the Pittsburgh Pirates for a split of a four-game series to conclude a 5-2 road trip Segment 4 - Baltimore Orioles: breakdown of a 4-2 loss at the Cleveland Guardians in a game in which the O's got no-hit for eight innings Ethos makes getting life insurance fast and easy - get your free quote at Ethos.com/AlGaldi The Nace Law Group, Accident & Injury Lawyers - visit WashingtonDCInjuryLawyers.com and make sure that you mention that Al Galdi sent you For advertising inquiries, email Sales@BlueWirePods.com

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0:00.0	And away we go, episode one thousand three hundred five of the Al-Galdi podcast. It is Friday, April 17th, 2026. And it does in fact
0:25.4	appear as if the greatest player in Washington Capitol's history and maybe the greatest athlete
0:30.2	in Washington, D.C. sports history caps winger Alex Olvechkin has not played his last game for
0:36.0	the caps. The caps on Thursday held season ending media
0:39.1	availability sessions for head coach Spencer Carberry and players off the camps on Tuesday night,
0:44.0	concluding going 43, 30 and 9 in the NHL's 2025, 2025, 2006 regular season with a 2-1 win
0:51.1	at the Columbus Blue Jackets. So the Caps ended the regular season with four
0:55.1	consecutive regulation wins. But the Caps this season did not make the Stanley Cup playoffs for
0:59.5	just the ninth time over the last 43 NHL seasons. This was Ovechkin's age 40 season and the final
1:06.2	season of a five-year $47.5 million contract to which which the caps re-signed him as an unrestricted
1:12.1	free agent in July 2021. And this was Ovi on Thursday morning.
1:19.3	I'm pretty sure it's not my last game. I hope it's not my last game against Columbus.
1:23.6	And, like, how I said, like, I have to make a decision like to see where we are you know
1:32.8	the team family like obviously family going to support me like my wife and kids and
1:39.7	kids already asked me like that are, are you staying or not?
1:45.5	And so.
1:47.5	We tell like everybody else.
1:49.5	I tell them, we'll see.
1:50.5	Yeah, they're excited.
1:53.5	They want me to come back because they love city,
1:58.5	they love the team, they love of the boys.
2:03.7	Yeah.
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