Episode 724: chat with Washington Post sports-analytics expert Neil Greenberg on Commanders' future and more

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Al Galdi

Football, Baseball, Sports, Basketball

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🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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15:30 - Guest: sports-analytics expert Neil Greenberg of The Washington Post on what it would mean for the Commanders to be big on analytics as we expect to be the case with Josh Harris as managing partner, a surprising discovery in Greenberg's research on whether NFL teams should favor hiring people with primarily offensive backgrounds as head coaches, where we are with quarterback Sam Howell, why sacks are more damaging for an NFL offense than interceptions are, whether Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin's NHL career-worst regular-season goal drought of 13 games is more about bad luck or a true decline and more 44:11 - College Basketball: breakdowns of Maryland's 73-67 win over Nicholls State, Georgetown's 74-64 at loss at Butler, No. 22 Virginia's 77-54 loss at No. 23 Memphis and No. 20 James Madison's 87-48 win over Coppin State Visit PaulsonAndNace.com and tell Paulson & Nace that Al Galdi sent ya! Call Nova Fireplace And Stove at 571-513-3803, mention that Al Galdi sent ya, and receive $1,000 off select in-stock gas inserts and $1,000 off select in-stock wood inserts Visit UnderdogFantasy.com or download the Underdog Fantasy app, sign up and use the promo code "Galdi" for Underdog Fantasy to double your first deposit with up to $100 in bonus cash when you make a first deposit of at least $10! Download the Gametime app, create an account and use the promo code "Al Galdi" for $20 off your first purchase! Interested in advertising on this podcast? Email [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The And away we go, episode 724 of the Al-Galdy podcast. It is Wednesday, December 20th,
0:25.0	2003. His name is Tucker Addington
0:30.0	and he is the new long- snapper for the Washington commanders.
0:34.0	The team on Tuesday morning announced the signing of Tucker Addington to the practice
0:39.1	squad and the belief is that he'll be elevated to play in the commander's next game which is at the
0:44.8	New York Jets this Sunday afternoon at one and it now appears even more so that
0:51.0	Jets quarterback Aaron Rogers will not be returning for this game.
0:55.0	Rogers on Tuesday afternoon said that he and his recovery from his torn left Achilles
1:00.4	tendon it still is not a hundred percent medically cleared and that that
1:05.0	clearance likely will not come for another few weeks. He said this on the Pat
1:10.0	Maccophi show so this Sunday afternoon expect to see Tucker Edington but not Aaron
1:16.3	Rogers hello and welcome to this Wednesday installment of the Al-Galdi
1:19.9	podcast next segment a great guest, Sports Analytics expert, Neil Greenberg of the Washington Post.
1:26.5	Neil does a great job of writing about sports from an analytics perspective, including
1:31.4	lots of good stuff on the NFL.
1:33.6	And so there's a lot that I want to get to with Neil regarding the future of the commanders.
1:38.9	Because right now, the future is what matters.
1:41.8	The seismic football operations change that we all know is coming
1:46.0	led by of course the firing of head coach Rod Rivera. Neil will explain what it would mean for
1:52.1	the commanders to be big on analytics as we expect
1:56.2	to be the case with Josh Harris as managing partner. Neil will tell us about a surprising
2:01.8	discovery in his research on whether NFL teams should in fact favor
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