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The Al Galdi Podcast

Episode 129: WFT releases Steven Sims Jr., Ron Rivera lists those who have impressed him and much more

The Al Galdi Podcast

Al Galdi

Sports, Football

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

11:44 - Washington Football Team: react to Washington releasing Steven Sims Jr., including what the release represents...and thoughts on David Sharpe off Washington activating him off the Reserve/COVID-19 List 21:24 - Washington Football Team: is Curtis Samuel still having barely practiced due to his groin injury reason for concern or not really? 28:30 - Washington Football Team: analysis of who Ron Rivera identified as having impressed him over two preseason games - including Troy Apke!...and an examination of the possibility of defensive regression for Washington in 2021 46:07 - Maryland Football: why the Big Ten's no-postponement policy for conference games regarding COVID-19 in the 2021 season is especially notable for the Terrapins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And away we go, episode 129 of the Al-Galdi podcast.

0:23.1

It is Tuesday, August 24, 2021.

0:28.2

That is the second of three major cut down days in the NFL in the lead up to the 2021

0:35.0

regular season.

0:36.0

Tuesday and 4 p.m. Eastern is the deadline by which each NFL team must cut down to 80

0:42.7

players.

0:43.7

Tuesday also is the day after we learned of something truly monumental.

0:48.6

Washington football team quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick got a haircut.

0:53.3

Yeah.

0:54.3

The man with one of the greatest white guy afros that you'll ever see no longer has an

1:00.2

afro.

1:01.2

He now has a fade cut.

1:04.3

Although he does still have the beard, the beard remains intact.

1:08.1

The white guy afro is no more.

1:10.4

These are the things that we talk about as we plow through the dog days of the NFL pre

1:14.7

season.

1:15.7

But hello and welcome to a Tuesday installment of the Al-Galdi podcast.

1:19.5

Washington football team did make multiple roster moves on Monday, including releasing Steven

1:26.4

Sims Jr.

1:27.4

I'm going to dive deep into that next segment.

1:29.7

That's so much the decision to release sims, but the symbolism of the release, the release

1:35.5

communicates multiple things that you want to be aware of also regarding the Washington

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