Episode 1,320: chat with SIS' Alex Vigderman on Washington losing second-most value to injury in 2025 and more

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Al Galdi

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🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Segment 1 - Show open and listener feedback Segment 2 - Guest: Alex Vigderman, vice president of analytics for Sports Info Solutions, on the Washington Commanders per his methodology ranking No. 2 in the NFL in most value lost to injury in the 2025 regular season, the realities of injuries in the NFL, Washington for the 2025 regular season having the highest average snap-weighted age in the NFL in terms of offensive and defensive snaps and where we are with Washington quarterback Jayden Daniels Segment 3 - Washington Nationals: analysis of a 15-2 win over the Minnesota Twins at Nationals Park Segment 4 - Baltimore Orioles: breakdown of a 7-4 win at the Miami Marlins Refresh your wardrobe via Quince - go to Quince.com/Galdi for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Visit CateringByUptown.com and mention that Al Galdi sent you For great discussion of the Washington Commanders, visit BGObsession.com and 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 twenty of the Al-Galdi podcast. It is Thursday, May 7th, 2026, and we say, rest in
0:25.2	peace, Ted Turner. He died on Wednesday. He was 87. The impact of Ted Turner on sports and media,
0:32.5	just massive. Ted Turner's life included the following. Owning MLB's Atlanta Braves, owning the NBA's Atlanta Hawks,
0:40.8	owning world championship wrestling, creating the Goodwill Games, serving as skipper of the yacht
0:47.4	courageous as he defended the America's Cup in 1977 by beating Australia for nothing,
0:53.5	and starting the cable television stations,
0:56.4	TBS, TNT, and CNN.
0:59.3	One of the most interesting things about TBS to me was what has been called Turner Time.
1:05.1	TBS started shows at 5 and 35 past the hour, in part because, and this is great, in the era of TV guide and printed
1:14.8	TV listings, starting at 5 and 35 past the hour, allowed TBS programs to receive their own
1:21.6	separate line in TV guide and printed TV listings standing out from the shows that started at the usual times of the top
1:29.7	of an hour and 30 past the hour Turner time. For instance, WCW used to air on TBS every Saturday
1:37.0	evening at 605, not 6 o'clock. I could talk about Ted Turner's impact on pro wrestling for hours,
1:43.2	but Ted Turner was an outside-the-box thinker, rest in peace, Ted Turner's impact on pro wrestling for hours. But Ted Turner was an outside the box
1:45.6	thinker, rest in peace, Ted Turner. Hello and welcome to this Thursday installment of the Al Galdi
1:51.0	podcast. Just how damaged were the Washington commanders by injury and going 5 and 12 in the NFL's
1:57.2	2025 regular season? To what extent was our team done dirty by bad injury luck last regular
2:04.0	season? I've been wanting to do a deep dive on this, and next segment we'll do that deep dive,
2:08.9	as I'll speak with Alex Vigderman, vice president of analytics for sports info solutions.
2:14.1	Alex has conducted a study on which NFL teams were most and least affected by
2:19.2	injuries in the 2025 regular season. He has calculated each team's value lost to injury
2:25.4	in the 2025 regular season. Spoiler alert, Washington was brutalized by injury this past
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