At the way we go, episode 630 of the Algoldi podcast, it is Thursday, August 10, 2023,

today away are we from the commanders preseason opener commanders at the Cleveland Browns Friday night at 7 30 and we on Wednesday afternoon to get some details on who is playing in the game of the commanders late Wednesday afternoon confirmed that Sam Howell will be the starting quarterback in the game to word on how much she'll play or how many other starters will play a brown said coach Kevin Stefansky he on Wednesday after noon said that the majority of his team starters including quarterback

Sean Watson will play on Friday night but again for how long we do not know I would not expect commander starters slash key players to play more than a few series a quarter at most remember head coach Ron Rivera during his post training camp practice press conference this past Sunday morning really sounded like key for this preseason opener is not planning on playing key players for long and he very much emphasized the upcoming joint practices with the Baltimore Ravens

being important maybe even more important than this game at the Browns of the joint practices are coming up the commanders are going to participate in joint practices with the Ravens at the Ravens team facility the under armor performance center and Owings Mills Maryland this coming Tuesday August 15th and Wednesday August 16th hello and welcome to this Thursday installment of the Algoldi podcast I hope that you are prepared for this show I hope that you are as prepared for this show as that

prepared statement read by Ron Rivera on Wednesday morning was prepared next segment I will react to and discuss the second day and hopefully the final day of this Ron Rivera Eric the enemy thing

Ron spent the bulk of his pre practice press conference at commander's training camp on Wednesday morning apologizing for and explaining what he meant by what he said during his pre practice press conference on Tuesday morning when he revealed that commanders offensive players had come to him regarding the coaching style of assistant head coach slash offensive coordinator Eric the enemy and that Ron encouraged those players to talk to the enemy and that Ron in a

response to a follow-up question rather cryptically said that players quote were a little concerned and quote and then we on Tuesday morning head the enemy at a post practice press conference answering questions about this stuff as you probably know this is not the first time that Ron has had to apologize for or clarify something that he has said as Washington head coach we all make mistakes I get that but this is becoming a way to

come in occurrence with Ron I'll explain further next segment and then after that I'm going to talk commanders defense of defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio doing a post practice press conference on Wednesday morning first time that we have heard from JDR since the start of training camp you likely know the deal with Jack he had his press conferences doesn't usually provide ultra detailed overly expansive answers however

Jack on Wednesday morning did say some good stuff including the two things that are his and his defenses focus for this coming season these are two very important things also on the show the nationals

uh yeah they got no hit on Wednesday evening yeah then that's got no no a seven nothing no hit loss at the Philadelphia Phillies marking the first time that that's been no hit in a regular season game since the franchise moved to Washington DC in the 2004 2005 offseason then that's had had the longest active streak of not being no hit of any team

in Major League Baseball that streak now over I later in the show will assess what went down including a really bad outing for that starting picture on Wednesday evening McKenzie Gore the very good outing the no hit outing was by the Phillies starting picture Michael Lorenzen and I will talk Orioles they on Wednesday I lost did not get no hit but they did not hit well and they lost in eight to loss to the Houston Astros

that Oriole Park at Camping yards is the Orioles bullpen got roughed up for a second time in as many games in this series before we get to some feedback the Josh Harris group has made its first major hire for the commanders Craig Fisher reportedly has been hired as the chief financial officer

his experience includes nine years as a partner at the New York based private equity firm intermediate partners in three years as an executive vice president at yes network

he replaces this guy Greg Resch who we learned was leaving the post of chief financial officer in September of last year so the commanders went almost a full year without a CFO now finally are hiring one in this guy Craig Fisher

also the Harris group reportedly is hiring that she Lee as an advisor on stadium and real estate matters that she Lee had previously worked as an executive for the New York Jets and Atlanta Hawks so the Harris group making some moves on the business side of things you wonder what all of this might mean could mean for team president Jason Wright

although perhaps he was very much involved in these high rings also sad news regarding former Redskins corner but shot Breland have you heard about this so Breland was arrested in North Carolina early Tuesday morning he was charged with possession of a stolen vehicle guns and drugs he was allegedly in possession of two AR 15s a pair of AK 40s

5 pounds of weed and 62 grams of mushrooms while in a stolen Mercedes SUV but shot Breland last played in the NFL in the 2021 season during which you played for the Minnesota Vikings he in the 2019 season went a Super Bowl as a member of the Kansas City Chiefs but of course we all remember him as playing for the skins so they took him in the fourth round of the 2014 NFL draft at a Clemson

he played for the skins from the 2014 season through the 2017 season he was a pretty good player for the skins he over his four regular seasons with the skins had 60 past offenses eight interceptions and seven forest fumbles all never forget his performance in the Colt McCoy game October 27, 2014 the improbable 2017 overtime win at the Dallas Cowboys on Monday night football but shot Breland was a minor

was a monster in that game four past offenses a force fumble six tackles he did a great job in covering receiver Desbriand

but shot Breland does have a history of legal troubles and now he is in trouble again so whatever's going on with him I hope that he gets right you could tweet me at Algoldy you can email me the Algoldy podcast at Yahoo dot com email from Dan in Minnesota on what has gone down with Rod Rivera

the last two days right Stan you could not have been more on point with the Don Ron moniker though he on Tuesday did skew more toured freighto now we know why Ron wanted no part of hard knocks we can't have any footage of him leaving the horses head in EBS bed

leave the press conference take the canoli keep up the great work out thank you for the email Dan yet could you imagine this Ron Rivera Eric the enemy scenario

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