And away we go, episode 288 of the Algoldi podcast, it is Friday, April 8th, 2022.

Happy Friday to you and yours. This is the day after a not so glorious opening day for the nationals, but this also is the day after a rather glorious first round at the masters for Tiger Woods, even if you're not a golf fan.

How do you not appreciate what El Tigre did on Thursday? He's 46. He nearly lost his right leg in that car crash in February, 2021. Doctors inserted a rod in the tibia of his right leg and inserted plates and screws in his right ankle and foot and he on Thursday in his first competitive round of golf in five hundred eight days.

Shot a what under par 71, not bad, not bad at all. Hello and welcome to a Friday installment of the Algoldi podcast, the only Washington DC sports podcast or show that is with you every week day and is out also early in the morning out in the five AM hour, sometimes even earlier.

You know, we late night on Thursday night, while many of you were sleeping, while some of you were engaged in deviant acts had breaking commander's news, Deandre Carter is gone. Yes, no more Deandre.

He reportedly has agreed on a one year contract with the Los Angeles Chargers. I got to tell you I'm not thrilled about this. I don't get why the commanders didn't resign Carter.

I mean, not that losing him is some death flow to the commanders, but Carter in the 2021 regular season for Washington was great on kickoff returns and was more of a factor as a receiver that was anticipated.

And he doesn't cost much. Next segment, I'll discuss the free agent defection of Deandre Carter. I'm also going to talk about yet another stud NFL receiver signing a big money contract this off season.

Buffalo Bill's receiver and Maryland product Stefan Diggs and what this means for our commanders stud receiver Terry McClaurin and a contract extension for him.

Spoiler alert Terry not signing a contract extension right now may will be the best thing that he can do from a negotiating standpoint as much as we want the commanders to sign Terry to a contract extension.

It may well be the Terry and his agent are like, nah, you know what, we're good. Let's let the market keep being reset by all of these other big money receiver contracts, a special guest on the show.

My friend, my pal Andy Poland, the host of the Andy Poland hour, which you can hear weekday mornings at 10 on ESPN 630 DC.

The sports capital. First time that I've had Andy on the podcast. I'm very happy to have them on. I will talk Dan Snyder with Andy. I will talk Jack Kent Cook with Andy is we on Wednesday marked the 25th anniversary of the death of Jack Kent Cook among the things that Andy and I'll get into.

Didn't Jack Kent Cook leave the red skins to his son John can cook. I mean, if Jack had done that, we would not have wound up with the Danny as our owner. What is the deal with Jack having not left the skins to John.

I'm going to talk about that within the as well as discuss the team of the now we'll talk Carson Wentz and Ron Rivera. And yes, I will give you my thoughts on a rough opening day for the nationals.

A 5-1 loss to the New York meds and nationals park on Thursday night in a game that ended shortly before midnight.

Thanks to a one hour 16 minute rain delay. One photo did blast an impressive solo home where Kbert Ruiz did look very good both offensively and defensively.

But otherwise not exactly a stellar start to the next 2022 regular season. Do not forget to give the podcast a stellar rating.

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And thank you very much for doing those things. You can tweet me at Al Goldie. You can email me the Al Goldie podcast at Yahoo dot com email from Darren on a football stat of which he is not a fan.

And it's a stat that has come up quite a bit with our new commanders quarterback Carson Wentz writes there and I dislike the touchdown pass to interception ratio.

I dislike it because it doesn't have a meaningful interpretation.

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