Episode 800: conversation with ESPN's Bill Connelly on statistical comps for top QBs in 2024 NFL Draft and more

The Al Galdi Podcast

Al Galdi

Football, Baseball, Sports, Basketball

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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18:14 - Guest: ESPN college-football analyst Bill Connelly on his statistical comps for the perceived top quarterbacks in the 2024 NFL Draft (in which the Commanders have the No. 2-overall pick), including insight on LSU's Jayden Daniels, North Carolina's Drake Maye, Michigan's J.J. McCarthy and Washington's Michael Penix Jr....also, Connelly assesses why the NFL still isn't very good at drafting quarterbacks and talks Commanders offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury and more 44:31 - Capitals: discussion of a 4-2 loss at the Carolina Hurricanes and a 3-2 overtime loss to the Ottawa Senators, dropping the Caps to 0-4-2 over their last six games in the midst of the team's playoff push 52:13 - Nationals: reaction to starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg officially retiring off the Nats and Strasburg reportedly arriving at a resolution for his contract situation...and analysis of the Nats losing two of three games to the Philadelphia Phillies 01:13:25 - Orioles: breakdown of the O's losing two of three games at the Pittsburgh Pirates 01:21:36 - Wizards: thoughts on a 108-102 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers and a 130-122 loss at the Toronto Raptors in a game that gave the Wizards a franchise-record 64 losses in the 2023-2024 regular season 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 a 33-percent discount on an in-stock wood insert! 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 800 of the Al Goldie podcast, yes, episode 800.
0:24.4	It is Monday, April 8th, 2024,
0:28.2	and it is an appropriate day on which we have the monumental episode 800 of this podcast because we on this
0:36.3	Monday have the National Championship game in the NCAA tournament for men's
0:41.6	basketball a Battle of the behemoth's one-seeded Yukon versus
0:46.8	one-seated Purdue at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona on Monday night at 920, and we on this Monday have a total solar
0:57.8	eclipse. Have you heard about the eclipse? Now we in the Washington, D. Washington DC area are not expected to get the full
1:05.7	experience of the total solar eclipse, but we should get something. After all, the library near
1:12.4	our house gave my six-year-old son and three-year-old daughter special
1:16.1	sunglasses for this eclipse. So we'd better get something. According to the National Air and Space
1:22.0	Museum in Washington, D.C.
1:24.0	The eclipse will be visible in the Washington, D.C. area between
1:28.3	204 PM and 432 PM, maximum eclipse will be at 320 p.m. with the sun 87% covered by the moon
1:41.4	and quote from NASA.gov quote the Monday April 8th
1:47.0	2024 total solar eclipse will cross North America passing over Mexico, the United States and Canada.
1:55.5	The total solar eclipse will begin over the South Pacific Ocean, weather permitting, the first
2:01.0	location in continental North America that will
2:04.4	experience totality is Mexico's Pacific coast at around 11.07 a.m.
2:09.8	Pacific daylight time. The path of the eclipse continues from Mexico, entering the United States in Texas and traveling through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and
2:26.4	Maine, small parts of Tennessee and Michigan will also experience the total solar eclipse and quote so there you go a breakdown of the total
2:37.0	solar eclipse which is happening on the day of episode 800 of this podcast
2:42.2	coincidence I think not. Hello and welcome to this Monday
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