Episode 299: Ron Rivera addresses Commanders' NFL Draft needs and philosophy and much more

The Al Galdi Podcast

Al Galdi

Football, Baseball, Sports, Basketball

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🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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12:41 - Commanders: thoughts on comments from Ron Rivera to Scott Abraham of ABC 7 News on the Commanders in the 2022 NFL Draft - what Ron perceives the Commanders' biggest needs to be, whether the Commanders might take a quarterback, whether Ron believes in drafting for need or drafting for value and more 27:41 - Commanders: thoughts on comments from Ron Rivera to Scott Abraham of ABC 7 News on the Commanders' off-the-field problems, Ron having said that the Commanders' 2022 season needs to be a step-forward season and whether that approach could backfire on Ron 44:44 - Capitals: react to Alex Ovechkin suffering an upper-body injury and more from a Caps weekend that featured a 2-0 win at the Arizona Coyotes and a 4-3 shootout loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs 54:07 - Nationals: sorting through the Nats' mess of a series in getting swept by the San Francisco Giants in three games, including continued struggles for Nelson Cruz, Alcides Escobar and Patrick Corbin 01:19:25 - Orioles: analysis of the O's winning two of three games at the Los Angeles Angels, including Bruce Zimmermann and Jorge Lopez continuing to do well Visit https://go.factor75.com/Galdi120 and use the code Galdi120 to get $120 off! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And away we go, episode 299 of the Algaldi podcast, it is Monday, April 25th, 2022,
0:29.9	and yes, this is episode 299 of the pod one episode away our week from episode 300. And yes,
0:43.6	it is officially NFL draft week, a big week in the NFL, maybe the single biggest week of
0:51.8	the NFL offseason. I mean, the week in which we have the start of the New League year and
0:57.2	thus the start of re-agency and of trades becoming official, that is a big week as well. But
1:03.4	NFL draft week is huge. You can never say enough about the job that the NFL has done in making
1:11.3	the NFL draft as big as it is. And of course, the question at the tops of our minds is what,
1:19.4	oh, what are our commanders going to do with their number 11 overall pick in this year's NFL draft?
1:28.9	Well, the head coach of the commanders, Ron Rivera spoke at length on Friday to Scott Abraham,
1:33.8	sports anchor for ABC 7 news in Washington DC. And coming up, I'm going to go through the most
1:40.2	significant things that our pal, Ron had to say, did Ron perhaps provide some tells on his thinking
1:49.4	with what he'll ultimately do with that number 11 overall pick? Ron did discuss what he perceives
1:55.1	to be the commander's needs, also discussed drafting for need versus drafting for value,
2:03.0	also discussed the pressure that he has placed on himself and on his team and repeatedly saying
2:10.1	that the 2022 season needs to be a step forward season for the commanders. There's a lot to go
2:17.7	through. Go through it all. I shall with you over the next two segments also on the show major
2:23.0	scare for the capitals on Sunday night, not what we wanted as caps fans as the weekend came to a close.
2:30.8	Alex Ovechkin in a four three shootout loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs, the capital arena on
2:36.4	Sunday night suffered and upper body injury in the third period did not return to the game. And
2:43.9	what happened with Ovechkin was not pretty over crashed into the boards of getting it tripped
2:49.9	by the stick of the Maple Leafs gold tender Eric Shulgren. Thank you Eric Shulgren. We don't know
2:58.4	much about Ovechkin status. We did get some encouraging words from TJ Oji after the game.
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