Speaker 1: It's another go round of SDH. Now I hit show
Speaker 1: camerather than that means you get to finally see me John,
Speaker 1: hear you there. Thanks for dropping byes you always do.
Speaker 1: It's a wall pass Wednesday. So whatever's on your mind
Speaker 1: is whatever's on your mind. It can be having you
Speaker 1: do with what we're going to talk about with Tyler,
Speaker 1: a pilgrim from S and S Scarves and Spikes. We'll
Speaker 1: catch up with Tyler here coming up in just a
Speaker 1: little bit here for hour number one where we'll go
Speaker 1: over at landy night at any leftovers that are there,
Speaker 1: looking forward to Chicago, all the things which reminds me,
Speaker 1: I'm going to try and find some oppo research from
Speaker 1: our friends up in Chicago and find out if folks
Speaker 1: can come and join us to let everybody know what's
Speaker 1: going on for.
Speaker 2: The rest of the week. There we go. All right,
Speaker 2: So there's that. You've got.
Speaker 1: What happened in Open Cup last night, we'll hear from
Speaker 1: the head coach of Tacoma Defiance after they had a
Speaker 1: lead to one eventually would leave, would end up leaving
Speaker 1: the tournament three too. It was chalk last night for
Speaker 1: the endings. Even though it was difficult for some folks.
Speaker 1: In the beginnings, we'll go over all of that. We'll
Speaker 1: go over your juice boxes getting you ready for the
Speaker 1: matchups tonight in Open Cup, to get you through here
Speaker 1: in the round of thirty two. And so we'll play
Speaker 1: all of those juice boxes out and you'll hear from
Speaker 1: the head coach of Tacoma Defiance, who was not a
Speaker 1: fan of his referee assignment last night, and so apparently
Speaker 1: there is some history there. We'll hear from here. Every
Speaker 1: ady is coming up. In our number two, we'll go
Speaker 1: over the rest of m lesson hour number two, we'll
Speaker 1: go over Champions League, probably with Tyler if he saw
Speaker 1: it yesterday. I don't know how many of you saw
Speaker 1: what went down yesterday the seven six match. Oh man,
Speaker 1: you just let you just run out of just you
Speaker 1: run out of things to say, just throw your notes
Speaker 1: in the air, and you're just kind of like, yep,
Speaker 1: seven six in the aggregate, absolutely crazy. It was too nil,
Speaker 1: then it wasn't. It was three to two, then it wasn't.
Speaker 1: Then it goes into extra time and then you end
Speaker 1: up with four to three, seven six in the aggregate.
Speaker 1: You gotta be blanking kidding me. So we'll go over
Speaker 1: all the numbers in that and we'll go over the
Speaker 1: juice boxes for the matchup today and see what it
Speaker 1: looks like there. We'll also talk GHSA playoffs to get
Speaker 1: you ready for Soccer's In Session Playoff Daily Live come
Speaker 1: up at noon. At noon, we'll hear from Heather Richardson,
Speaker 1: the girls head coach at Social Circle, Meghan Hill, the
Speaker 1: head coach at Buford, Aaron Paul, the head coach at
Speaker 1: Morgan County. We'll go over all your brackets and set
Speaker 1: up your quarterfinals for you, and we'll set up the
Speaker 1: shows when it comes to Thursday Friday next week.
Speaker 2: In Session.
Speaker 1: Will probably be shorter in length setting up the finals
Speaker 1: because I don't know how many coaches are going to
Speaker 1: be willing to visit on a match day, and especially
Speaker 1: with the schedules being what they are, they could be
Speaker 1: on buses, although it'd be cool to see you on
Speaker 1: a bus. But Soccer is in Session Playoff Daily Live
Speaker 1: presented by our friends at Kaiser Permanente. That will be
Speaker 1: once again through this week and then again next week,
Speaker 1: but I think will be shorter because of championships and
Speaker 1: we want you to attend championships. If you are near mckeecher,
Speaker 1: and if you're traveling with your favorite club, if you're
Speaker 1: near Duluth and traveling with your favorite club, and at
Speaker 1: Mercer and traveling with your favorite club. So what we'll
Speaker 1: also do next week is we'll try and catch up
Speaker 1: with some of the programs that had great runs this season.
Speaker 1: Bring on Brian Lawson and Jeff Davis, catch up with
Speaker 1: coach Johnstone at Gilmer, and we'll work our way and
Speaker 1: navigate through all of what happened this season and kind
Speaker 1: of put a bow on things when it comes to
Speaker 1: the schedule here with the GHSA, word kind of got
Speaker 1: out one of our venues. So tomorrow we're gonna be
Speaker 1: at Whitewater, and so it'll be Whitewater. It'll be girls
Speaker 1: tomorrow and so Whitewater and a Coney County will be
Speaker 1: at Whitewater. So it'll be me, Maddie, Jason, and Sophia Coopertino.
Speaker 1: We'll all be there. Bottom line is, we'll all be
Speaker 1: there unless there has been a switch or there has
Speaker 1: not been a switch in a double header venue possibility,
Speaker 1: So we're keeping an eye on that. I could be
Speaker 1: on SDH two with our main game on SDH with
Speaker 1: Whitewater in a Coney County. So we know Whitewater in
Speaker 1: a Coney County is going to be one of the
Speaker 1: games that's going to be on the network, that's going
Speaker 1: to be on tomorrow. We have a second venue that
Speaker 1: we're trying to figure out. Okay, when and where and
Speaker 1: when that's officially official, will let you know we're going
Speaker 1: to this particular venue. We just don't know the day,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to stray all of you and
Speaker 1: sit there and say Okay, well we're gonna be here
Speaker 1: and then not be So we're gonna be there, we
Speaker 1: just don't know the when venue number two. So we
Speaker 1: are going to have two matchups. It could be our
Speaker 1: Friday matchups. It could be a double header on Friday
Speaker 1: with this particular club, or it could be trying to
Speaker 1: find a venue on Friday and SDH one and SDCH
Speaker 1: two up and running with me doing the.
Speaker 2: Matchup on SDH two on the venue.
Speaker 1: If this particular team cannot square away, a double header possibility.
Speaker 1: So that's what the plan is. Yes, we're at Whitewater
Speaker 1: on Thursday for the matchup against A Coney County. Yes,
Speaker 1: we have a second venue locked in just trying to
Speaker 1: figure out when that second venue is going to have
Speaker 1: their match slash matches and it could be once again
Speaker 1: on SDH two on Thursday, or it could be our
Speaker 1: Friday matches on the Motherships or still trying to figure
Speaker 1: all that out. But Soccer's in Session Playoff Daily Live
Speaker 1: continues this week. We'll go through the Championship next week
Speaker 1: and then will like I said, it won't necessarily be
Speaker 1: an hour every day unless content dictates, and we have
Speaker 1: a bunch of coaches coming in, so it go as
Speaker 1: long as we can Monday through Friday next week with
Speaker 1: the Championships being next week, and we'll we'll set up
Speaker 1: everything going on with the Championships in the GHSA. And
Speaker 1: thanks once again to the GHSA for being great partners
Speaker 1: with us and letting us do postseason matches all around
Speaker 1: the state of Georgia, and to the ads and all
Speaker 1: the coaches that have been great when it comes to
Speaker 1: letting us come out and hang out in your place.
Speaker 1: Like last night to give you an idea, Morning, Ricky, morning, Alex.
Speaker 1: Last night to give you an idea. We were in
Speaker 1: Dalton and if you missed the if you missed the
Speaker 1: Dalton pious match. It's available in archive so you can
Speaker 1: go back and listen to it. But it was it
Speaker 1: was a solid crowd for a six thirty kick, so
Speaker 1: folks coming home from work stopping at Harmon Field and
Speaker 1: bill Chapel Stadium to watch Dalton take on Saint Pias
Speaker 1: and Saint Pias once again a blue blood number twenty
Speaker 1: six nationally and you know with Dalton nationally ranked as well.
Speaker 1: It was it was just slam bang soccer for eighty
Speaker 1: minutes and it was really fun to be up there
Speaker 1: for that one. I think it was our fourth visit
Speaker 1: to Dalton this year. It was Johnson, Gainesville and Fort
Speaker 1: Payne i think, and it was Northwest Whitfield and it
Speaker 1: was last night with Pious and we have been invited
Speaker 1: back for the matchup against Westminster on Friday, so I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's out there. But it has been a fantastic
Speaker 1: run to see all of these teams come through. When
Speaker 1: you see a team like Dalton who is nationally ranked
Speaker 1: top five in the state of Georgia, top five nationally
Speaker 1: ranked regardless of classification. And Jason made the point last
Speaker 1: night on the show on the broadcast where.
Speaker 2: When you go.
Speaker 1: And the food by the way, is fantastic and of
Speaker 1: course you know me sitting there going ooh. And to
Speaker 1: give you an idea, the crowd that was there to
Speaker 1: watch the Dalton soccer match last night. At halftime, it
Speaker 1: I mean it was. It was back and forth and
Speaker 1: you had a tight match after forty minutes, so everybody
Speaker 1: goes to the eastern stands to get your street tacos
Speaker 1: and your elote and everything else for a halftime. The
Speaker 1: line for the tacos you would not have you know
Speaker 1: last time that Jason and Maddie were there. Maddie stood
Speaker 1: in line for tacos, didn't get back until halftime of
Speaker 1: the of the second match. So everyone's in line at
Speaker 1: halftime to try and get food. To give you an
Speaker 1: idea how tense the environment was. Once the second half started,
Speaker 1: the line disappeared, everybody went back to their seats for
Speaker 1: the second half of the game. Joe Gonzalez, by the way,
Speaker 1: player the Match presented by our friends at Oglethorpe University,
Speaker 1: for a ridiculous free kick where he doesn't wait for
Speaker 1: the wall to set up, He doesn't wait for everything
Speaker 1: to be locked in place. He just goes ahead and
Speaker 1: fires and goes far post upper ninety over the keeper,
Speaker 1: which was insane, and then Gonzales from the spot for
Speaker 1: the two goals for Saint Pias and for Dalton, and
Speaker 1: the two one went over Saint Pias. But once again
Speaker 1: you tip your hat to Dalton. Fantastic environment. If you've
Speaker 1: never been, go to Harmon Field, if you're in that
Speaker 1: part of the state, if you're just passing through, if
Speaker 1: you don't have anything to do on a football match day,
Speaker 1: go to Dalton. Fantastic environment, especially in the rivalry games
Speaker 1: that are up there in northwest Georgia. But two to
Speaker 1: one went for Dalton, they advance. And once again thanks
Speaker 1: to everybody up there at Dalton, Matt Chiefs, a head coach,
Speaker 1: and everybody in the athletic administration for letting us come
Speaker 1: and party and hanging out there. So fantastic environment. Absolutely
Speaker 1: love being there, we love going and for us to
Speaker 1: have the chance to call these matches in and around
Speaker 1: the state, and once again it's a it's an absolute
Speaker 1: blast to go and do it. We'll be at Whitewater
Speaker 1: once again. We're at Whitewater and we're gonna be in
Speaker 1: another location once again trying to figure out, hey, if
Speaker 1: we're gonna have SDH one and two up and running Thursday,
Speaker 1: or if we're gonna be at that location for a
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Speaker 1: All right, there you go. So now it is nine
Speaker 1: p fifteen. Actually it's nine sixteen. Because I was I
Speaker 1: was somewhat filibustering, but it was an opening kickoff situation,
Speaker 1: so I felt compelled that it had to be it
Speaker 1: had to be talked about. So anyway, now we go
Speaker 1: to the Kasa de Pilgrim and find out what is
Speaker 1: on the man's mind and we'll see what what what
Speaker 1: leftovers of heat and pain and grief and all the
Speaker 1: other seven stages are there, so we'll bring in Tyler.
Speaker 1: So so uh, okay, there, yes, there, yeah, I see,
Speaker 1: I see you working.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that's that's where at least Tyler is in this discussion.
Speaker 1: Brett Buster said, lasso, mug and believe and so where
Speaker 1: are where are the SNS?
Speaker 2: Uh? I guess, I guess.
Speaker 1: First off, I'll say where's the S and S staff
Speaker 1: when it comes to the seven stages?
Speaker 2: Where where are you right now?
Speaker 3: I need to look at each of the seven stages
Speaker 3: again so I can tell you exactly where we're at.
Speaker 3: But I think everybody's just at that point where we're waiting.
Speaker 1: Okay, so and hoping, uh huh and wishing and praying.
Speaker 1: I see how Yeah, all right, so we are we
Speaker 1: are in It is shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
Speaker 1: and hope.
Speaker 3: We're at acceptance.
Speaker 2: So you're at six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of went to seven temporarily on Saturday,
Speaker 3: but I'm I'm definitely we're We're definitely a full six.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's so it's acceptance and hope is six, and
Speaker 1: processing it is seven.
Speaker 3: So that's okay, okay, So yeah, so you're at acceptance
Speaker 3: and hope is the same thing.
Speaker 2: I'm definitely yeah, acceptance and hope is at six.
Speaker 1: How many of the stages were the SNS viewers and
Speaker 1: listeners processing through from the weekend of having a lead
Speaker 1: and not keeping a lead and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, it wasn't as bad as I kind of
Speaker 3: thought it would be because I think, you know, you
Speaker 3: get that first lead or the the the and I
Speaker 3: think from the moment that that Miggy scored the goal
Speaker 3: and he goes back and he's hyping everybody up right,
Speaker 3: and you start to feel like, oh, here we go,
Speaker 3: like we're getting something going. And then the balls kicked
Speaker 3: off and the entire tempo and vibe just changed, like
Speaker 3: almost instantly. It was wild. And I think at that moment,
Speaker 3: at least for me, and we were up in the
Speaker 3: press box, me and like all the SNS guys and everybody,
Speaker 3: we were talking as it was going on, and we
Speaker 3: were like, if they don't fix this, this kind of
Speaker 3: weird tempo thing they have going on right now, this
Speaker 3: is not going to be a one Niel lead for long.
Speaker 3: This is not this is not sustainable. And so I
Speaker 3: don't think there was ever really that moment of like
Speaker 3: just straight up, you know, hope and then you get
Speaker 3: punched in the face. It was almost like, oh, it's
Speaker 3: it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen any minute now.
Speaker 2: They're waiting for the other shoe.
Speaker 3: Basically, yeah, exactly. I mean, it's one thing to you know,
Speaker 3: score a goal. Because I've gone on a couple of
Speaker 3: rants about this, but it's one thing to score a goal,
Speaker 3: and like, you know, then you have your game plan right,
Speaker 3: you control the tempo and the and the easiest way
Speaker 3: to control the tempo in a soccer game is a
Speaker 3: when you're up a goal and b when you're at home,
Speaker 3: both of which Atlanta had going for them on Saturday.
Speaker 3: And instead of you know, taking the advantage and making
Speaker 3: Nashville either chase the game and tire out Handy Mooktar
Speaker 3: and Sam Surridge and their midfield and like, you know,
Speaker 3: just possess the ball, pass it around them, wait for
Speaker 3: your opportunity then hit. They didn't do that, and then
Speaker 3: they also never really did anything else. It's almost like
Speaker 3: they were stuck in between like two minds of like,
Speaker 3: we have the lead and we're not quite sure what
Speaker 3: we want to do with it at this point. And
Speaker 3: because of that, you kind of reverted to like on goalkicks,
Speaker 3: you're sending the ball along, you're putting it into the
Speaker 3: proverbial mixer, hoping you come away with it, and you
Speaker 3: never came away with it, and so you're constantly giving
Speaker 3: possession back to Nashville. And then it was just a
Speaker 3: matter of time before they were able to to Snager
Speaker 3: another goal. So I just thought that that was my
Speaker 3: biggest issue. Again. I know people were like up and
Speaker 3: down about the formation and blah blah blah. My biggest issue
Speaker 3: was the lack of the ability to control the tempo.
Speaker 2: In this game.
Speaker 3: And it just seemed like it was something that they
Speaker 3: weren't prepared for. And I'm not saying they weren't, but
Speaker 3: that's the way that.
Speaker 1: It looked well and you had I think Ronnie after
Speaker 1: the match was discussing the notion of he didn't know
Speaker 1: if it was a physical or emotional or mental two
Speaker 1: of those three, I can't remember which two they were,
Speaker 1: but I.
Speaker 3: Said, it's not motivation, yeah, but he's not sure if
Speaker 3: it's mental or physical.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know when mental and physical. And we
Speaker 1: got into that early in the week here on the show,
Speaker 1: where it's the idea of to your point, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to compound a mistake, but because you're
Speaker 1: thinking about not making a mistake or compounding a mistake,
Speaker 1: you end up compounding the mistake.
Speaker 2: If that makes any sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because it's like, you know, one of the
Speaker 3: things that has been very, very good advice for me
Speaker 3: in certain career paths in my.
Speaker 2: Life was.
Speaker 3: You make a decision and stick to it. And to
Speaker 3: your point, like it kind of felt like you you're
Speaker 3: so concerned about making the mistake that you revert and
Speaker 3: you play it too safe, and then the mistake happens anyway,
Speaker 3: And when you're playing it too safe, if you do
Speaker 3: then make a mistake, you usually make it in a
Speaker 3: worse position. And yeah, I mean, it just it felt
Speaker 3: like the decision was never really made of what they
Speaker 3: wanted to do. And I kind of I kind of
Speaker 3: likened it back to the Philly match where you know,
Speaker 3: you went up a man yeah for a decent amount
Speaker 3: of time, Yeah, and it and it looked like you
Speaker 3: had never done you know, red card like eleven v.
Speaker 3: Ten drills, like you just didn't really know what to
Speaker 3: do with the man advantage. And that's kind of the
Speaker 3: way this.
Speaker 1: Felt if you're taking the Philly example, because if there
Speaker 1: is a ten man team that is pressing, and if
Speaker 1: you ask Nick this, Nick will tell you as a
Speaker 1: master of the follower of.
Speaker 2: The press, as he said.
Speaker 1: That if you are the team with the man advantage
Speaker 1: and the team that is a man down is still pressing,
Speaker 1: that means that someone on your end of the man
Speaker 1: advantage is not doing what they're supposed to be doing, yeah,
Speaker 1: and not taking care of the advantage as best as
Speaker 1: you can to get around the press, to force that
Speaker 1: press to keep from happening. And so if if you're
Speaker 1: too afraid to make a mistake and if you're too
Speaker 1: afraid to process things and you know you don't want
Speaker 1: to compound it, and you end up compounding it and
Speaker 1: then it's snowballs and all these kinds of things. That's
Speaker 1: where I think that you see what the action on
Speaker 1: the pitch occasionally in this in this run of form
Speaker 1: where it's like you know they're talented, You know these
Speaker 1: individuals are talented. You have seen it before, regardless of competition,
Speaker 1: you know what these individuals are capable of. But then
Speaker 1: if not wanting to let down your new boss, not
Speaker 1: wanting to let down your new teammates, not wanting to
Speaker 1: let down your current teammates, if you're in a position
Speaker 1: where you've been there before, and then everyone starts to
Speaker 1: sit there and look at Okay, well, if it's not this,
Speaker 1: then it's this. If it's not this person, it's this person,
Speaker 1: And then all the theories go out into the ether
Speaker 1: and you're sitting there and saying, okay, well, what if
Speaker 1: you do this? What if you do this? And what
Speaker 1: if you do this? And then if you go away
Speaker 1: from your DNA, then you risk the idea of everything
Speaker 1: that you've been teaching up to this point, basically going
Speaker 1: by the wayside and then having to reconstruct, and you
Speaker 1: end up with it. Literally, there are so many if
Speaker 1: thens in this entire season to this point, it's almost
Speaker 1: like you run out of legal pad trying to figure
Speaker 1: out all the if thens that it Land United has
Speaker 1: had to go through this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's like if if you're familiar with what
Speaker 3: it is that you want to do in any particular situation,
Speaker 3: right like you've trained it, but you're not obsessing over it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: then it's easy for the coach to, you know, whatever
Speaker 3: direction you're going, pull Brooks or Pedro to the side
Speaker 3: and say, hey, let them know this is what we're
Speaker 3: doing now, you know, and then spread that out across
Speaker 3: the eleven that are on the pitch and then you
Speaker 3: can kind of you know, like in this particular instance,
Speaker 3: it would have been, I mean, after the goal scored,
Speaker 3: if if you're not confident that you're going to go
Speaker 3: get a second, then that should have been communicated to
Speaker 3: Brad because it all starts with Brad as far as
Speaker 3: controlling the tempo, it all starts with him, and you
Speaker 3: got to work your way up, you know, to the center, backs,
Speaker 3: the midfield, everything else. But you have to know at
Speaker 3: least be familiar with what it is that you want
Speaker 3: to do. And it should just require the coach saying, hey,
Speaker 3: this is we're running this play, not that play from
Speaker 3: here on out. And it never really felt like that.
Speaker 3: It doesn't feel like that a lot of times, and
Speaker 3: you know, to play Devil's advocate, I think Atlanta has
Speaker 3: been in such a position where they are just trying
Speaker 3: to get themselves right like internally whatever that may be.
Speaker 3: Like they're just trying to, you know, look like a
Speaker 3: cohesive unit out on the field that I don't know
Speaker 3: that they've had time to really focus on the fine
Speaker 3: details like you know, yeah, how to control the tip
Speaker 3: of a game, or what to do if you go
Speaker 3: up a man, or what to do if you go.
Speaker 2: Down a man for that matter, basics first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, and that's the thing. They're struggling
Speaker 3: so much with the basics and the fundamentals, just trying
Speaker 3: to get everything right that I don't know they've had
Speaker 3: time to do all the other stuff.
Speaker 1: And you know, then you had the lineup change where
Speaker 1: uh miran Chuk is playing a little deeper in the
Speaker 1: four two three one, you had Jay on the left.
Speaker 2: Uh So you had a couple of tweaks.
Speaker 1: In there with with bart on the bench, and so
Speaker 1: you had that to gauge as a part of this
Speaker 1: as well. Uh not that playing on the playing on
Speaker 1: the left wing is four into j but you know
Speaker 1: he's done it before and you look at that. But
Speaker 1: once again, we always sit there and say, just because
Speaker 1: you see a graphic from OPTA or from television, does
Speaker 1: not mean that that is what is going to be
Speaker 1: going on once the ball is kicked and a whistle
Speaker 1: is born. So you know Jay drifts back occasionally, and
Speaker 1: Ronnie mentioned it being a four four two at times
Speaker 1: where you know Jay is helping to support in the
Speaker 1: midfield and all these kinds of things. So what our
Speaker 1: cavea our weekly caveat. Just because you see a graphic
Speaker 1: does not mean that that is how things are going
Speaker 1: to be locked in stone for an entire match. But
Speaker 1: you had Jay on the left again, you had Medanjuk
Speaker 1: playing deeper as a bit of his point guard to
Speaker 1: try and help out defensively. But when you do that,
Speaker 1: you saw the numbers that Alexi had defensively. That takes
Speaker 1: away from what you want him to do offensively is
Speaker 1: your point guard and so you're kind of in that
Speaker 1: catch twenty two a little bit with Alexi as a
Speaker 1: part of this as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's where I think Click is for all
Speaker 3: that that he does well, because I do like, I
Speaker 3: love how he does when he's on the field. He
Speaker 3: does bring a little bit of that you know, that passion,
Speaker 3: that energy. You know he pulls somebody down and then
Speaker 3: kind of slowly walks by them, staring at them, you know,
Speaker 3: mumbling whatever it is that he's mumbling like that, I
Speaker 3: want that however, he However, I think with if you're
Speaker 3: going to play Alexi at the eight, which I think
Speaker 3: you should, I think, I mean, this is not new,
Speaker 3: like we've beat this horse a million times. But if
Speaker 3: you're going to do that, then Jay, who is your
Speaker 3: fastest midfielder And according to quite a few people whose
Speaker 3: name is rhyme with Max Decardi, he is the highest
Speaker 3: ceiling player right now on the team. But he provides
Speaker 3: speed and legs and if you play him as that
Speaker 3: other midfielder, then he can help you clean up a lot.
Speaker 3: Because there was a moment where in the first half
Speaker 3: where Klick was having a track back to help the
Speaker 3: center backs yea, and he was struggling. He was very
Speaker 3: much struggling. Because I watched him specifically, I was like,
Speaker 3: how is he gonna do when it comes time to
Speaker 3: actually you know, like really, I mean, you got a
Speaker 3: full on sprint, you know, and he did, he couldn't
Speaker 3: quite pull it off, And so I think you're gonna
Speaker 3: do this. You do have to solve your left winger problem.
Speaker 3: Your left winger is and has been really the biggest
Speaker 3: issue I know, because we talk about the number ten,
Speaker 3: but you have number tens. You're just trying to figure
Speaker 3: out how best to use them. But you don't have
Speaker 3: a left winger that you can count on. So I
Speaker 3: mean my opinion is put Luke out on that left
Speaker 3: side and just see what he does, and put Jay
Speaker 3: back in the middle behind Alexi, and then keep everything
Speaker 3: else more or less the same.
Speaker 1: Well, and there you have part of the of an idea,
Speaker 1: whether it's Luke, whether it's Musquitta, whether it is you know,
Speaker 1: Saba on the left hand side, inverting to his stronger
Speaker 1: you know, inverting to his stronger foot. You know, do
Speaker 1: you do you run someone with the experience of you know,
Speaker 1: player A and then thirty minutes to go? Then do
Speaker 1: you bring in fast Eddie, do you bring in cool hand?
Speaker 2: Luke? Do you have them?
Speaker 1: You know, run at tired legs for thirty minutes? And
Speaker 1: do you sit there? And you add Luke and his
Speaker 1: chirping skills. I swear I would guarantee that Luke Brennan
Speaker 1: probably learned from Larry Burden. He'd probably sit there and go,
Speaker 1: who's Larry Bird? But I think that his chirping skills
Speaker 1: running at folks for thirty minutes. I think that it
Speaker 1: is is something very very special and from for me.
Speaker 1: That's where if they show themselves in practice during the week,
Speaker 1: I could see, you know, in a starting situation, but
Speaker 1: until that moment happens. Have whomever on the left hand
Speaker 1: side at your left wing, have them run for sixty
Speaker 1: and then have Musketa come in, have Luke come in,
Speaker 1: you know, and be those individuals on the wings that
Speaker 1: can just add that extra bit of speed for that
Speaker 1: final thirty minutes with those younger legs that you mentioned
Speaker 1: and click to your point there, I don't know where
Speaker 1: we know he is when it comes to being ninety
Speaker 1: minutes fit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Remember he's still for everybody who might not have recall
Speaker 1: totally on this, he's still coming back from injury. I
Speaker 1: don't know where he is in that playing ninety minutes.
Speaker 1: If you ask him, he'll sit there and say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm ninety minutes fit and I'll want to play, which
Speaker 1: is what the answer you want to hear. But physically
Speaker 1: we don't know where he is in it. Ninety minutes
Speaker 1: fit bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then that's where I think again, depending on
Speaker 3: the way the game's going, I think click would be
Speaker 3: that better option to come off the bench late, right,
Speaker 3: And because then you're you're you have tired legs around
Speaker 3: you as well, so even if your speed's maybe not
Speaker 3: up to snuff and everything else, you can you can
Speaker 3: maybe handle things a little bit better than you could
Speaker 3: in the first thirty And as far as like you know,
Speaker 3: Luke and Edwin on the left, I mean, I think
Speaker 3: when the team finds whatever starter left winger that they want,
Speaker 3: then yeah, I mean, because then you have options. You
Speaker 3: can use Luke, you can use ed one. But in
Speaker 3: the meantime, like if you unless you keep putting j
Speaker 3: over there, which I don't think you need to do,
Speaker 3: only because I think he's going to be more effective
Speaker 3: fully as a midfielder anyway, though he did. He did
Speaker 3: look good actually for the for the majority of this
Speaker 3: match on the left. But I think he just you
Speaker 3: have to pick which one you think is going to
Speaker 3: get out there and cause as much chaos in the beginning, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then bring on the other one. And I think
Speaker 3: to me, every time Edwin must Scare has been successful,
Speaker 3: it's been coming on as a sub late in the match.
Speaker 3: So I think you start with Luke, And yeah, like
Speaker 3: you said, let him run his mouth and piss everybody
Speaker 3: off for sixty minutes and then bring in Edwin to
Speaker 3: just run at the tired legs and just see what happens.
Speaker 1: What else have you been staring at, analyzing, furrowing your brow,
Speaker 1: rubbing your beard over when it comes to Atlanta United
Speaker 1: as they get ready for Chicago. And to your point
Speaker 1: once again, I think that if you look at the
Speaker 1: if you look at the individuals available and the formation
Speaker 1: that you're going to be trotting out against Chicago in
Speaker 1: this new example, then you know, I think that legitimately,
Speaker 1: right now it's going to be case by case basis. Okay,
Speaker 1: what does Chicago bring to the table and how can
Speaker 1: we combat it? Is to figure out who it might
Speaker 1: be on the left wing until you come up with
Speaker 1: a someone or a combination that gives you that consistent
Speaker 1: play that you're looking for.
Speaker 2: I think right now you're at case by case basis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. I mean I think you still need
Speaker 3: if you're going to do something similar, I think you
Speaker 3: do need to more or less run out what you
Speaker 3: did Saturday with the changes that I mentioned. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's what I would prefer I still think you got
Speaker 3: more out of Miguel at the ten because you know,
Speaker 3: and I know, people are going to look at the numbers,
Speaker 3: and y'all know, like I look at soccer very much
Speaker 3: like there's an eye test and there's a number test. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you got to look at both. And when the first
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five minutes, Miggie was taking guys on, he
Speaker 3: was progressing the ball, he was getting into the final third,
Speaker 3: he was doing all the things that you want out
Speaker 3: of a direct number ten. And people are going to
Speaker 3: go back to the well, he didn't create any chances, No,
Speaker 3: but he he scored a goal, first of all. But
Speaker 3: he's progressing the ball, He's getting the ball into that
Speaker 3: final third where you can then do something with it,
Speaker 3: and you had things happening. Now, why in the world
Speaker 3: the team kind of completely change tempo after that goal.
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 3: I mean I've already.
Speaker 1: Ranked, but is it But is it that idea of Okay,
Speaker 1: you're trying to be too careful, You're trying not to
Speaker 1: make a mistake.
Speaker 2: Are you trying to hang on to something?
Speaker 1: You know that the more you hang on to it,
Speaker 1: the more dangerous it becomes, because that goal for Nashville.
Speaker 1: You knew it was coming because of and we went
Speaker 1: through the numbers of possession. Uh in the last sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: I want to say where Nashville I think out possessed
Speaker 1: Atlanta three to one when it comes to the time
Speaker 1: on the pitch.
Speaker 2: But if you if.
Speaker 1: And and like I said, I you know, Monday, I
Speaker 1: kind of turned into almost an analytic looking looking at
Speaker 1: it through the the emotion of it all, not not numbers,
Speaker 1: but looking at it through the analytics of the situation.
Speaker 1: Where getting back to our original points about not wanting
Speaker 1: to make a mistake. Okay, so you have a lead,
Speaker 1: all right, so you want to do what you can
Speaker 1: to hang onto that lead. There have been managers here
Speaker 1: in the past whose philosophy has been what's the best
Speaker 1: thing when you've got a one goal lead, that's two
Speaker 1: goal lead, and so continuing that mindset of push push push,
Speaker 1: right now, if you've got a one goal lead, I
Speaker 1: think that there are you know, guys out there that
Speaker 1: are trying to hang onto that one goal lead instead
Speaker 1: of push, push, push, and chase after that second because
Speaker 1: they don't want to make a mistake to give up
Speaker 1: the one goal lead and so I said, is is
Speaker 1: this is this analysis that I'm coming through because it's
Speaker 1: almost like a defensive driving course for me, because I
Speaker 1: admitted on Monday, I said, look, I spent two years
Speaker 1: in therapy and so for me having that now gives
Speaker 1: me the chance to be almost like a defensive driving
Speaker 1: course and thinking where the other person is coming from
Speaker 1: coming forward. And so I was looking at it from
Speaker 1: the perspective like this. If you if you've got that lead,
Speaker 1: then you don't want to make a mistake because you
Speaker 1: don't want to let down those around you because you've
Speaker 1: gotten to this point first time in three hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy minutes I think that you've scored something up three
Speaker 1: seventy two I think is the number. So you don't
Speaker 1: want to let those around you down. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: try and hang on to what you've got and not
Speaker 1: put yourself in a situation where you contribute to possibly
Speaker 1: giving up that equalizer or get contributing to a moment
Speaker 1: that eventually leads to that goal. But when you've got
Speaker 1: that one goal lead, and the more that you try
Speaker 1: and just to hang on and hang on and hang
Speaker 1: on at the edge of the cliff, like you're you know,
Speaker 1: you know Wiley E. Coyote, Maybe you know there's sooner
Speaker 1: or later the weight of being hanging on to the
Speaker 1: edge of that cliff. Roadrunner hops onto the the edge
Speaker 1: of the cliff and you see the split and then
Speaker 1: you know the rock and everything happens that we've always
Speaker 1: seen in the cartoons. You knew that that second goal
Speaker 1: was coming because of the possession numbers the equalizer. I mean,
Speaker 1: you knew the equalizer was gonna becoming eventually, you didn't
Speaker 1: know when because of the possession numbers and because of
Speaker 1: the pressure that Nashville was putting up and putting up
Speaker 1: and putting up. And I think it contributes back to
Speaker 1: the idea of you're afraid. You're afraid of making that
Speaker 1: mistake that contributes to the equalizer. But because you were
Speaker 1: hanging on it created the opportunity for the equalizer because
Speaker 1: of what you weren't doing as opposed to what you
Speaker 1: know you can do. Like I said, is that does
Speaker 1: that philosophy philosophizing make any sense at all?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And I think it kind of ties into kind
Speaker 3: of what I was saying earlier, where you have to
Speaker 3: have a plan and like as a team as eleven
Speaker 3: guys in the field, you have to whatever your plan is,
Speaker 3: do it, like stick to the plan. Yeah, and it
Speaker 3: never really felt like they all were on the same
Speaker 3: page with what they wanted to do. And because I
Speaker 3: see in the chat everybody's saying, like, you know, there
Speaker 3: are all really good points. Atlanta has never been a
Speaker 3: part of the bust team. No, but that acted like
Speaker 3: some of them acted like they were parking the bus,
Speaker 3: and then other ones were still acting like they wanted
Speaker 3: to go play. Yeah, and then halftime came around and
Speaker 3: it kind of it just got worse from that point.
Speaker 3: It really felt like I could give some leeway after
Speaker 3: the first goal, where you know, maybe there's some communication issues,
Speaker 3: not everybody's on the same page. It really felt like
Speaker 3: Brad was just trying to slow the game down at
Speaker 3: that point.
Speaker 1: Also, and at the tail end of the first half
Speaker 1: where Click gets the yellow yea and the administration of
Speaker 1: those kinds of fouls for the remainder of the match
Speaker 1: just seemed to be optional.
Speaker 3: Yeah, forget the handball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, but you've got you're trying to
Speaker 1: get to the half at that point. Yeah, it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, you've got the lead, click gets the yellow.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it as get to the half, get
Speaker 1: in the locker room, do what you gotta do. Yep,
Speaker 1: pun it, punt it up to you in the press box.
Speaker 1: Just get to the half, settle down, and then go
Speaker 1: out there for the second forty five. That's how I
Speaker 1: was looking at it, in getting to the forty five
Speaker 1: and treating it. Okay, you got the goal, you got
Speaker 1: the lead, and then you had maybe another ten minutes
Speaker 1: of navigating control and then it was Nashville National Nashville.
Speaker 1: Then you get the yellow, and I'm like, get to
Speaker 1: the half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm okay with that, Like, yeah, get to
Speaker 3: the half. Reset Now that you because you now have
Speaker 3: a lead at home for the first time in a
Speaker 3: very long time. So now you're your coaching staff in
Speaker 3: the locker room needs to say, all right, this is
Speaker 3: what we're gonna do. This is what we're gonna you know,
Speaker 3: figure out, and then you come back out and you
Speaker 3: implement that. But again, all eleven of the players that
Speaker 3: come back out of the locker room that step on
Speaker 3: the pitch need to be on the same page. And
Speaker 3: it just never really felt like they got it. They
Speaker 3: never really felt like they came out with a plan
Speaker 3: other than we're gonna halfway park the bus and defend
Speaker 3: and then we'll try to bombit long, which is also
Speaker 3: another thing Atlanta has never really done. And somebody comes
Speaker 3: away with it, and then nobody wants to win an
Speaker 3: aerial duel or a second ball. I say, they don't
Speaker 3: want to, I'm being sarcastic, but they didn't. And then
Speaker 3: you just you're perpetually a turnover machine. At that point,
Speaker 3: you're just giving the ball back to Nashville over and
Speaker 3: over and over.
Speaker 1: Again, forcing yourself to defend instead of slow the ball down,
Speaker 1: have possession and build up and come forward.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and because the thing is like Atlanta, Dyla is
Speaker 3: trying to do his thing. Yeah, Atlanta is still and
Speaker 3: I think Dyla would just tell you this, like he
Speaker 3: wants to build up and play through and all that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff as opposed to being a defensive maybe
Speaker 3: counter attacking team. But if you're gonna sit back and
Speaker 3: bend and bend and bend, you have to have an
Speaker 3: outlet going forward to try to hit on the counter.
Speaker 3: And every time there was a halfway opportunity to try to,
Speaker 3: you know, break that pressure and send the ball Ford
Speaker 3: de Latel Author Migge. Neither one of them are there
Speaker 3: or the ball is not going to them. It's just
Speaker 3: it's just cleared because you're panicking at that point. And
Speaker 3: I'm all for clearing the ball and sending it downfield
Speaker 3: when you're under a lot of pressure, But you gotta
Speaker 3: try to break loose one of your guys that can
Speaker 3: outrun anybody else in the pitch. You gotta give them
Speaker 3: a chance to hit on the counter if you're gonna
Speaker 3: if you're gonna play that way, but if not, again,
Speaker 3: you have the lead, you control the tempo, send it
Speaker 3: back to Brad, pass it around, make Nashville run for it,
Speaker 3: and then you have a good enough team here to
Speaker 3: play through pressure. You do. Like a lot of these
Speaker 3: players still are from the play out of the back
Speaker 3: Gonzale Paneda era, and they're good enough to do it now.
Speaker 3: I mean, they might struggle against a press like the
Speaker 3: Red Bulls, but Nashville's not pressing like that, even even
Speaker 3: on a good day. So just frustrate them a little
Speaker 3: bit and then go and then try to break loose
Speaker 3: your your guys up top and go for the second
Speaker 3: one if you can. But to get stuck in that
Speaker 3: in between moment where like half the players are like,
Speaker 3: we're gonna, We're gonna do this, and half the players
Speaker 3: are not like it just it wasn't well executed in
Speaker 3: any way unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so then you end up with the equalizer,
Speaker 1: and then you're trying to hang on. From hanging on,
Speaker 1: you're trying to make sure that you can get that
Speaker 1: you can hang on to that point and try and
Speaker 1: chase after opportunities for for goal number two. And you
Speaker 1: look at and I'm looking at some of the comments
Speaker 1: in the twitch pitch and this is I know it's taken.
Speaker 1: It might have been taking a couple of days for
Speaker 1: folks to to kind of remember what's going on. But
Speaker 1: this is where we this is where we make sure
Speaker 1: that Monday and Tuesday and even Wednesday, make sure that
Speaker 1: everything is out of your system as we start to
Speaker 1: gear towards Chicago and Thursday and Friday. And I mean
Speaker 1: there are going to be I would imagine decisions that
Speaker 1: started with Ronnie Daila and the coaching staff about what
Speaker 1: you're starting eleven is going to look like. Obviously, the
Speaker 1: combination of matteas Klick and Alexi midanchuk As your two sixes.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, I I don't know. I think that
Speaker 1: probably with Midanchuk, you need him more as your midfield
Speaker 1: attacking three as opposed to one of your sixes. While
Speaker 1: the defensive numbers were there. And I know that the
Speaker 1: idea was, you know, to help out defensively and give
Speaker 1: him more space to create as a point guard. I
Speaker 1: think that you probably ended up taking him away from
Speaker 1: what you were looking for in that matchup against Nashville,
Speaker 1: coming up against Chicago, I think that he has to
Speaker 1: be further afield than being one of those two sixes
Speaker 1: in the basic four two three one as we envision
Speaker 1: it for Ronnie Dland.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think you you want Alexi higher up
Speaker 3: the pitch, Like I think there's been like a little
Speaker 3: bit probably just the dialect of soccer, maybe a little
Speaker 3: bit of confusion like out. I don't think Alexi Mornchuck
Speaker 3: should be played as a defensive midfielder right in any way.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's that's proper now, Like we use
Speaker 3: the term six eight ten, blah blah blah, like he
Speaker 3: to me is more of that kind of box to
Speaker 3: box like Ford facing central midfielder, the one that you
Speaker 3: know it's it's the back line and the number six
Speaker 3: is job, the actual defensive midfielder to try to release
Speaker 3: the pressure, break it up to him, and then he
Speaker 3: is the one who then picks out where it goes
Speaker 3: from there. Yeah, and then the front rest of them
Speaker 3: work how they need to work. And I mean take
Speaker 3: away his lack of speed compared to other players, Like,
Speaker 3: we get that, but Anya Alex, like he's saying, you know,
Speaker 3: box box all about legs, but you don't have to
Speaker 3: be the fastest. You just need to be able to
Speaker 3: run for ninety minutes. But the good thing about Alexi
Speaker 3: is he he does have the vision to quickly make
Speaker 3: passes to you know, play through pressure, play around pressure,
Speaker 3: play over pressure, whatever you need somebody back there. Like
Speaker 3: I was talking about with Klick and Jay earlier, that
Speaker 3: that is going to give you kind of that break
Speaker 3: glass in case of emergency moment to where if you
Speaker 3: do get played through or around, then you're not leaving
Speaker 3: both of your center backs and potentially Brooks and Pedro
Speaker 3: on an island.
Speaker 1: Well and to the number to your point, I think
Speaker 1: that this also re emphasizes how important Tristan william Ba
Speaker 1: has been in Ronnie dlass system and not having him
Speaker 1: as a part of the system, knowing what Ronnie's looking
Speaker 1: for as someone who can be that second facilitator offensively
Speaker 1: when you need him to. And we all know that
Speaker 1: Tristan loves playing, you know, playing forward, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, when Tristan has to backtrack and help you
Speaker 1: out defensively. I think that this has also been the
Speaker 1: accent marks of when Tristan isn't in this lineup in
Speaker 1: its current iteration, how integral he has been to what
Speaker 1: Ronnie Diland wants to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think I think that's part of it.
Speaker 3: You if you're gonna play the way Rodney Diyland wants
Speaker 3: to play, you have to have midfielders, or at least
Speaker 3: one one of your two main midfielders have to have speed.
Speaker 3: And the only thing about Tristan I think that's been
Speaker 3: the biggest frustration this season is just the inconsistency. But
Speaker 3: I think if you take one aspect of the responsibility
Speaker 3: away from him and tell him, you know, because they
Speaker 3: they do have to work together. Whoever your your two
Speaker 3: six's or whatever you want to call them. Whoever your
Speaker 3: two midfielders are, they have to be on the same
Speaker 3: page when they're when you're trying to play through and
Speaker 3: because it can't always be that, you know your you're
Speaker 3: one guy sits back and just waits while your while
Speaker 3: your other one is the one moving forward. Because opposition
Speaker 3: will react to that, they'll figure it out, and then
Speaker 3: they're going to completely cut out your midfield, cut out
Speaker 3: the spine of your team, and then you're forced to
Speaker 3: play out wide. So you've got to be constantly moving
Speaker 3: in the midfield. You have to be constantly creating angles.
Speaker 3: So you need somebody that's gonna, you know, continue to run.
Speaker 3: But especially at that defensive option, you need somebody that
Speaker 3: has legs on them. They can really really, you know,
Speaker 3: turn it up a gear. And so with Tristan, if
Speaker 3: if you can tell him, you know, your main responsibility
Speaker 3: actually is as the defensive midfielder. You play forward when
Speaker 3: the opportunity presents itself, sure, but you be there to
Speaker 3: help out the center backs. Because we saw it a
Speaker 3: lot in the preseason where whoever was that number six,
Speaker 3: that defensive midfielder, they drop back as another center back
Speaker 3: at a lot of times, and I think that's a
Speaker 3: little bit of that has kind of fallen off lately.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen that as much kind of in the
Speaker 3: in the past four or five six matches. And I
Speaker 3: don't know if that's Diala tried something different or if
Speaker 3: it's just like a breakdown with the constant rotating you know.
Speaker 1: Well, And to that particular point.
Speaker 2: The way that.
Speaker 1: The way that and this is and I've taken this
Speaker 1: from Jason, is that you want one more center back
Speaker 1: than they have striker. So if you're going up against
Speaker 1: a team like a Nashville then you should be okay
Speaker 1: with your two center backs and having that six you're
Speaker 1: one of your your defensive minded six come in and
Speaker 1: be your bracket. If it's a team that plays two
Speaker 1: up top and like a four four two or whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it, with two strikers in the attack,
Speaker 1: then you're gonna want that six to drop back literally
Speaker 1: and be that third center back to help you out there.
Speaker 1: So you've always got that man advantage. So I look
Speaker 1: at it that way. When you're going back line of
Speaker 1: Atlanta United versus striker, you always want one more back
Speaker 1: there and your starting lineup to start and then have
Speaker 1: individuals drift back from those two sixes to help you
Speaker 1: out either to bracket or to actually help defend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think this is also where it kind
Speaker 3: of becomes on. There's a little bit of bonus on
Speaker 3: the wing backs to kind of figure out how that
Speaker 3: chemistry and that cohesion is going to work. Because Atlanta
Speaker 3: wants to play wide, they do. They want to use
Speaker 3: their width, they want to use the speed on the width.
Speaker 3: But you I think in the past, like before this year,
Speaker 3: we've seen kind of just this one dimensional version where
Speaker 3: you just try to get it out wide and then
Speaker 3: move it up the pitch and then you send in
Speaker 3: crosses and hope that something something happens. When all Model
Speaker 3: was here, he helped mitigate a lot of that because
Speaker 3: if you could get the ball to Almada where he
Speaker 3: was at, he would make things happen down the middle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because of positional gravity, you'd have more than one
Speaker 1: defender exactly. It means that someone's open and that person
Speaker 1: can sit there and continue things forward.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that's where having Meggie kind of
Speaker 3: in that that space helps out because positional gravity, like
Speaker 3: a guy with that kind of danger, he's going to
Speaker 3: draw in defenders now naturally. So going back to playing
Speaker 3: through the middle, I mean you you always want to
Speaker 3: keep your your numerical superiority, the many, many syllable phrase
Speaker 3: that we use a lot. But in kind of that
Speaker 3: case of trying to build up, if you're having your
Speaker 3: number six or one of your midfielders kind of drop back,
Speaker 3: of course that's the time when you want your your
Speaker 3: wing backs to get higher up the pitch because that's
Speaker 3: going to pull defenders away and it's just going to
Speaker 3: continue to create. But we I think what we've seen
Speaker 3: a lot no matter how they try to build up,
Speaker 3: is as the game progresses, there is less and less
Speaker 3: off the ball movement from everybody. And like in the
Speaker 3: beginning of this match, every I've ben tweeted about it.
Speaker 3: Everybody was moving in sync with each other, especially when
Speaker 3: Nashville was in the ball. It was very well disciplined,
Speaker 3: it was very well drilled. It looked pretty, and it
Speaker 3: was effective because they they never really let Nashville have
Speaker 3: much of anything. And then when that fell off, it
Speaker 3: all fell off. You got to the point where there
Speaker 3: were just there were players that were watching it looked
Speaker 3: like the media match, just players like watching the ball
Speaker 3: go by and nobody's moving off the ball to create angles.
Speaker 3: And when that stops.
Speaker 1: Everything stops, and that goes back to Ronnie Dylad's points
Speaker 1: about he doesn't know if it's you know, physical, emotional,
Speaker 1: you know what, whatever's going on up here, especially when
Speaker 1: you've got that one goal lead Tyler Pilgrim hanging out
Speaker 1: with us as he always does here with the scarves
Speaker 1: and spikes as they get ready for the the midweek
Speaker 1: night time show and that that'll be tonight on the
Speaker 1: the S n S YouTube's and all of their social
Speaker 1: media is and you get to who's who's on Who's
Speaker 1: on with you tonight?
Speaker 3: So we're working on a guest. I don't have anybody
Speaker 3: verified yet. It's just been one of those weeks, but
Speaker 3: it'll be. It should be me, Tommy Sydney.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, so is is out out discovering stories and things?
Speaker 3: He he's out. Yeah, and he's also preparing to graduate.
Speaker 2: So I've never heard of this term.
Speaker 3: Yeah, me, neither.
Speaker 2: I don't know what this is.
Speaker 1: He's not allowed to take time off as he's preparing
Speaker 1: to graduate from Kennesaw States.
Speaker 3: That's that's what I told him, but he ignored me.
Speaker 1: Did you tell his dad that when he was in
Speaker 1: the press box?
Speaker 3: Yes, I did.
Speaker 1: It's like like ach Acha V point one, Sir, he's
Speaker 1: not allowed to take time off and graduate.
Speaker 2: That's not how this played.
Speaker 3: No, he can't go anywhere.
Speaker 2: No, it's like you got stuff to do. I know that.
Speaker 1: Like I said, as the weekend, As the week goes,
Speaker 1: we've got to get into our OPO research. For Chicago,
Speaker 1: you're looking at a team that will not have Chris
Speaker 1: Brady because he decided to go in studs up in
Speaker 1: the thirty sixth minute last time out, and so Chicago
Speaker 1: played the purple team with ten and you end up
Speaker 1: with a goalless draw. Jonathan gall ended up playing the
Speaker 1: final fifty plus. I think fifty four and thirty six
Speaker 1: is ninety. Yes, So Jonathan gall one of the supplementals,
Speaker 1: the thirty four year old hometown guy. I think he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be between.
Speaker 2: The sticks.
Speaker 1: Chicago. They've given Greg Burhalter the keys. He is Bill Parcells.
Speaker 1: He is the guy who is the vice president, general manager.
Speaker 1: He is player personnel, he is head coach, he is
Speaker 1: the whole thing. He is Bill Parcells in Chicago. What
Speaker 1: are you anticipating after a goal of straw from Chicago
Speaker 1: and after them giving up seven to Nashville, and they
Speaker 1: are the box that they are the box of Russell
Speaker 1: Stover's chocolates Right now, Man, you don't know.
Speaker 3: You're literally about to say that.
Speaker 1: You don't know what you're getting out of Russell Stover's
Speaker 1: FC otherwise known as Chicago Fire right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you genuinely have no idea which I'm gonna make
Speaker 3: a dig here. Sounds like Burr Halter. You just never
Speaker 3: know what you're gonna get, no offense, Greg, But I mean, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's it's one of those where you have
Speaker 3: to obviously look at the glaring elephant in the room,
Speaker 3: which is you're playing against a backup keeper.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean you've got to test him.
Speaker 2: Shoot it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, period. Yeah, you got to take some shots.
Speaker 2: Shoot it, yep.
Speaker 3: And I don't care if it's you know, twenty five
Speaker 3: thirty yards out. Yeah, you have to just take the
Speaker 3: freaking shots.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: So that's that's number one, Like, just go test him,
Speaker 3: make him earn his spot. Yeah, he got from a
Speaker 3: red card. But besides that, I mean, formationally, you try
Speaker 3: to look at Chicago and the way that they play,
Speaker 3: and it's all over the place. I mean, I think
Speaker 3: there's a type of identity there, but it can be
Speaker 3: picked apart so well. And I really do think this
Speaker 3: is a match where your guys like Latte Lofe, you're
Speaker 3: you're quick guys, where they're going to be able to
Speaker 3: get in behind and if you play your cards right.
Speaker 3: And that's my biggest concern is just can Atlanta come
Speaker 3: out with the right game plan and implement it and
Speaker 3: stick to it for ninety minutes and get back there
Speaker 3: and really really test out the keeper on the other
Speaker 3: side of the ball. I mean, it's Chicago's scoring goals.
Speaker 3: It's not that they're not, they're just giving up a
Speaker 3: ton too.
Speaker 2: So I mean.
Speaker 3: I would say this has the chance to be a shootout,
Speaker 3: and it does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But.
Speaker 3: I think if excuse me, if Atlanta can go into
Speaker 3: this and try to just be a bit more disciplined
Speaker 3: then they've been in the past four or five matches,
Speaker 3: then you can come out of this one. I really
Speaker 3: do think minimum a draw. I really do feel that way.
Speaker 3: And I know, like going up to Chicago, Chicago has
Speaker 3: always been a place it's really weirdly tough for Atlanta,
Speaker 3: But I think you can pull something out of this one.
Speaker 3: But if you go up there and you switch off
Speaker 3: at any point, I mean, you forget about it, You're done.
Speaker 1: And I had Oh it was Michael Head's question. Early
Speaker 1: on in our conversation. Michael brought into the Twitch Pitch
Speaker 1: big picture third of the way through the season, where
Speaker 1: is the hope? He was thinking that obviously the bringing
Speaker 1: back the Garth comment about being back, but where is
Speaker 1: the hope?
Speaker 3: I think the hope is still there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I do think the team unfortunately
Speaker 3: does run the risk playing the way that they are
Speaker 3: right now. Of I'm not going to say the phrase
Speaker 3: like run them away, because I don't think that's what
Speaker 3: it is. I just think it's not going to draw
Speaker 3: in the casuals, you know, the way that maybe it
Speaker 3: did before you start winning again and all that changes.
Speaker 3: But as far as the hope, I mean, that's the
Speaker 3: reason there's still hope. In my opinion, this is my
Speaker 3: personal opinion, is you have guys like Lattel, Migal Almron, Alexei,
Speaker 3: Marin Chuck. For all the crap that he's been given,
Speaker 3: he's still a good soccer player. He's just not fitting
Speaker 3: the way things are right now. Saba, who was the
Speaker 3: guy last year I mean, it's not that you have
Speaker 3: a team, you know, full of nobodies that can't do anything,
Speaker 3: that aren't coached. Well, you have a team full of
Speaker 3: talent that is either again opinion, being misused or just
Speaker 3: not living up to their full potential. And then you
Speaker 3: have a coach who I think just hasn't quite been
Speaker 3: able to figure it all out yet. And I mean
Speaker 3: that's got to be fixed. That you've got eleven twelve
Speaker 3: games in almost twelve games in Yeah, you need to
Speaker 3: start quickly getting whatever identity you're going to have for
Speaker 3: the rest of the season, because the time is running
Speaker 3: out for the excuses. The time is running out for
Speaker 3: you know, all of us to be able to say,
Speaker 3: as we analyze MLS on a weekly basis, for us
Speaker 3: to be able to say, oh, well, you know, it's
Speaker 3: just the beginning of the season. It's not worth third
Speaker 3: of the way at this point. And so though the
Speaker 3: tables are going to change massively between now and October,
Speaker 3: at least things are kind of starting to take shape,
Speaker 3: and you don't want to be stuck down at number
Speaker 3: twelve or thirteen or whatever for the rest of the season.
Speaker 3: But I do think that it is fixable because of
Speaker 3: the talent that you have on the pitch and off
Speaker 3: the pitch.
Speaker 2: You could be La.
Speaker 3: You could be La or Montreal.
Speaker 1: Which one of those is. Knowing the injuries in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and knowing the lack of playing at home for Montreal,
Speaker 1: it is one. Does one stand out more at eight
Speaker 1: and three to you than the other?
Speaker 3: I mean the Galaxy for sure, just because they're coming
Speaker 3: off being in most Cup champions. You know, all through
Speaker 3: the preseason in the beginning of the season, I kept saying,
Speaker 3: and a lot of us kept saying, like, oh, once
Speaker 3: they get these guys back, it'll be okay. But you've
Speaker 3: more or less got everybody back except for Riki Pooch
Speaker 3: obviously it's the big one. But you have Marco Royd,
Speaker 3: like you have one of the better midfielders traditionally historically,
Speaker 3: you know, in the world, and it's just not working.
Speaker 3: The thing about the Galaxy that's wild though, is like
Speaker 3: they're creating opportunities, they're taking shots. They just have the
Speaker 3: worst luck. I mean the drunk ue cool game of
Speaker 3: the weekend this past weekend that is insane to me, Like,
Speaker 3: how do you how are you that unlucky? And then
Speaker 3: on the other side, of it Montreal, Like we go
Speaker 3: back to them firing their coach at the beginning of
Speaker 3: the season. Shouldn't have done that, that was stupid. But whatever,
Speaker 3: we're not the ones in charge. I do feel like
Speaker 3: maybe they've got a few more excuses than the Galaxy does,
Speaker 3: because the Galaxy still has talent on their team. They're
Speaker 3: just not They're just not winning games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, like you, I will, I will. I will
Speaker 1: answer Michael's questions like where's the hope. I am still
Speaker 1: optimistic that they will get things squared away. I know,
Speaker 1: obviously you have to figure out formationally what it's gonna
Speaker 1: look like. I know that Ronnie likes the two sixes.
Speaker 1: You know, do you do you end up with like
Speaker 1: we saw last time out? Does MIGGI end up as
Speaker 1: more of a second striker playing behind Latte a lot
Speaker 1: as opposed to off to the side too, you know,
Speaker 1: draw folks in and then get Latte a lot three.
Speaker 1: Uh So I'm looking at it more. Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have a back four. Y'all have my two sixes, and
Speaker 1: then the midfield is what it's going to be, and
Speaker 1: then you have Miggy And I don't know if I
Speaker 1: can do this in three dimensions or not, but you
Speaker 1: so literally it's like you had Yeah, so like this,
Speaker 1: like if you're looking at a graphic, so Latte a
Speaker 1: lot and then Miggi playing you know, and you know,
Speaker 1: Miggi playing behind as a second striker, and so Miggy
Speaker 1: can that way, Miggy can go oh there he goes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: get out the get out the get out the drawing
Speaker 1: board here. So basically I think that you know, maybe
Speaker 1: to give Miggy more freedom, you play him as the
Speaker 1: second striker, which is what we saw and draw there
Speaker 1: we go, yes, am, Miggi Yeah, and Latte a lot,
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: That is what we're staring at. Uh.
Speaker 1: And also, I mean you're a good week out of
Speaker 1: being in the playoffs themselves, and there are a lot
Speaker 1: of folks right now in Major League soccer. Yeah there yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's what you're kind of staring at.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So you're you're.
Speaker 1: Looking at mid On Chuck as your point guard. You're
Speaker 1: looking at it that these are the things that you've
Speaker 1: got to figure out. But I'm thinking that, you know,
Speaker 1: instead of on the wing. You know, we saw Miggi
Speaker 1: as a second striker, gives him more latitude to create
Speaker 1: behind Lte a lot working east west Latte a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, everything goes in and you work to work
Speaker 1: the speed with lots of a lot working in from behind.
Speaker 1: But he hasn't quite had the chances to do that.
Speaker 1: So right now the midfield combination is where we are.
Speaker 1: But for the hope, I've got it. You know, like
Speaker 1: I said, you have a good week, you start leap
Speaker 1: frogging folks, and I think that it takes that one result.
Speaker 1: I think it legitimately takes that one result that you're
Speaker 1: staring at and gives you the notion of Okay, there's
Speaker 1: something here. And I think if you get that one
Speaker 1: solid win where everything is together, that you can show
Speaker 1: everybody that hey, we know how to do this. We've
Speaker 1: known the entire time. Now we've implemented it the way
Speaker 1: that we want to. Let's build off of that. I
Speaker 1: think it's the one good result where you play that
Speaker 1: good ninety minutes, where you can build off of that.
Speaker 2: I think that's the answer to the question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look at New England, who's apparently their get right
Speaker 4: game was the Atlanta But you know, I mean we
Speaker 4: were I felt like we were seconds away from Caleb
Speaker 4: Porter being fined.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree, And now they've.
Speaker 3: They figured it out and then they I think they
Speaker 3: figured out that. I thought about it on m last Monday,
Speaker 3: but like not not to make this long. You have
Speaker 3: a team that was halfway decent defensively, they weren't really
Speaker 3: letting in a lot of goals. They just couldn't score
Speaker 3: and they were you know, giving up one and losing.
Speaker 3: They've kept the defensive capabilities, but they've got Carlis Hill working,
Speaker 3: They've got guys feeding him, and then at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, they're finishing chances and not allowing anything
Speaker 3: else in. So they I think they figured out how
Speaker 3: they want to play or how they best play. Maybe
Speaker 3: they don't want to play that way, but they're doing it,
Speaker 3: and I want to play the way that's gonna win.
Speaker 3: So if I'm them, I'm gonna keep doing that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Cincinnati was kind of off to a weird start and
Speaker 3: they've kind of gotten it under control. Not that they
Speaker 3: were bad ever, but I mean, you know, it's it's
Speaker 3: all a matter of just you kind of figure out
Speaker 3: what works. Because something is gonna work with this team,
Speaker 3: something is gonna work. You just got to figure out
Speaker 3: what it is?
Speaker 2: All right, So what's going on? When? Who? What? Where? Tonight?
Speaker 3: Seven o'clock tonight. We got our show to be me,
Speaker 3: Tommy Sidney and more than likely a guest. I'm just
Speaker 3: not quite sure who you are from. It's just been
Speaker 3: one of those weeks where things kind of gotten kicked back,
Speaker 3: kicked back, kicked back. But yeah, I'm seven o'clock. This weekend,
Speaker 3: I will be like, we'll be doing our normal stuff
Speaker 3: on on Saturday for the Chicago match, but I have
Speaker 3: birthday stuff to do this weekend for my oldest Thunderbolts
Speaker 3: slash the other name if you haven't seen it or whatever,
Speaker 3: and then the day.
Speaker 2: We'll take your word for it, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3: And Sunday I'm gonna be at the Beins well there
Speaker 3: for the post Molone and Jelly Roll concert.
Speaker 1: Okay, please enjoy and give us a report card when
Speaker 1: you know stuff as always my.
Speaker 3: First time in the Bens. Not for lady and soccer.
Speaker 2: Wow. Okay, so yeah, we need a report card next week.
Speaker 2: All right, be good, my friend.
Speaker 3: Good to see, so y'all appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Goes Tyler hot Tag, bring in Dylan, find out what's
Speaker 1: going on in the rest of Major League Soccer. Uh So,
Speaker 1: first and foremost, sir, your your Newcastle.
Speaker 2: They're they're they're hanging in there. They're they're doing their thing.
Speaker 1: They're they're in the European spots, but they're in that
Speaker 1: massive humanity from three to seven, only a couple of
Speaker 1: matches to go.
Speaker 2: Where's there? Are you? Are you angst Leyden? Are you confident?
Speaker 2: Where are you with your Newcastle?
Speaker 5: Tough matches?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: Tough matches ahead of a huge a huge six pointer
Speaker 5: against uh against the Blues coming up on Sunday morning,
Speaker 5: which I will not. I mean, it's the it's the
Speaker 5: god for's sake in seven a m slot and I've
Speaker 5: got MLS the night before this, so that's not happening.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I.
Speaker 1: Know, But but I mean you can't at least go
Speaker 1: back and rewind it and take a peek at it.
Speaker 2: You sit there and it's like, yeah, okay, I mean, yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Have some I have some thing on my phone, did
Speaker 5: an update and now I get like live time scores
Speaker 5: with with possessions and all kinds of fun stuff, and
Speaker 5: so yeah, I don't know if I can keep it hidden.
Speaker 5: Oh I know you can, and you know, good for
Speaker 5: Tyler by the way, because I'd imagine it'll be probably
Speaker 5: the first time he leaves the Bends this year, not
Speaker 5: like cursing and screaming about what he saw.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's probably true unless you're a fan
Speaker 1: of the opposition. Uh, when you look at Atlanta United
Speaker 1: in the conversations that you have in the Northeast and
Speaker 1: on the national level, what are the the the talking points?
Speaker 2: Is it more questions? Is it? What? What?
Speaker 1: What is the national slash northeastern vibe right now about
Speaker 1: Atlanta United here a third of the way through the season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not good, all right, I mean it's it's
Speaker 5: a team. You know. Look, when when you spend the
Speaker 5: way that they've spent, you should be better, right, Like,
Speaker 5: I mean that's in a similar fashion, right, Like Austin
Speaker 5: spent like thirty million or whatever it is on their
Speaker 5: forwards and their attackers and they can't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we went into that where og and Brandon vass
Speaker 1: leading scorers right now for Austin.
Speaker 5: So you know it's it's uh and for like like look,
Speaker 5: if you're if you're I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 5: what other team you want to compare it to, But
Speaker 5: like if you are a team that is having the
Speaker 5: struggles that Atlanta has and you don't have the personnel.
Speaker 5: You're like, all right, we just need to get players, right,
Speaker 5: but you have players, yeah, and that's the frustrating part.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's getting I guess that cohesion among the
Speaker 5: players you have, figuring out the right spots. You would hope,
Speaker 5: what is it eleven games now that that would have
Speaker 5: been figured out by now. Yeah, And sometimes, uh, you know,
Speaker 5: I mean maybe maybe the lesson here and you know,
Speaker 5: I think it's too early for this, but uh, you know,
Speaker 5: maybe sometimes it's not all about the Benjamins, right, Like
Speaker 5: it's it's it's uh, you know, you you need you know,
Speaker 5: I don't know, Like I mean, you know, you heard
Speaker 5: Dax McCarty, and again he was in that locker room,
Speaker 5: so I think his word speaks louder than most talking
Speaker 5: about the leadership component. Right, where is the Jeff Lorentowitz
Speaker 5: in that room?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: Where's the Michael Parkhurst in that room? I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean, guzan, I suppose, but it's hard to be
Speaker 5: a leader as a goalie. So I don't know where
Speaker 5: that leadership is coming. I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 5: who in that locker room is like, you know, throwing
Speaker 5: the gatoray thing to the floor and being like what's
Speaker 5: going on or knocking over all.
Speaker 1: The Yeah, no, no, I just match right, Yeah, a roskompoil.
Speaker 1: I mean right now you're seeing it from one of
Speaker 1: our nineteen year old center backs. And Noah Cobb, who
Speaker 1: was he knows he's come up through the academy system,
Speaker 1: so he knows what it's like. And I know that
Speaker 1: a lot of folks that will watch us, listen to us,
Speaker 1: what have you, they look at Noah and sit there
Speaker 1: and go future captain right there because of what Noah
Speaker 1: says when he's asked about things in post match interviews,
Speaker 1: because he's lived and breathed and died with the Crest
Speaker 1: ever since he walked in, coming in from the Academy
Speaker 1: system to his minutes on the first team.
Speaker 5: But that's telling that it's right that it's a nineteen
Speaker 5: year old, yeah, coming up through the system. Who's got
Speaker 5: the answers, Who's who's yeah, Who's who's got to answer
Speaker 5: the questions in front of the press, right, who's like
Speaker 5: stepping up and taking accountability?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And it was just that case.
Speaker 1: It was two weeks ago when it was Noah and
Speaker 1: Jay Fortune, the name that Dax McCarty has been alluding
Speaker 1: to as one of the mandatory starters in your midfield
Speaker 1: that you're seeing so far with ATLANDA United. Uh uh,
Speaker 1: I asked Tyler this in the first in the first hour,
Speaker 1: which one when you look at Montreal and Lag out
Speaker 1: of the blocks and Michael Head in our in our
Speaker 1: twitch pitch, one of our A listers, he's said that, yeah,
Speaker 1: they started with their first seven away from home and
Speaker 1: then they dismissed a coach and so you know, not
Speaker 1: necessarily and the lack of patients shown by Joey Supputo,
Speaker 1: which is like, okay, the sun rises, you pay taxes
Speaker 1: in April, and Joey Saputo fires a coach, the you know,
Speaker 1: death and taxes and Joey Supputa pretty much of the
Speaker 1: way things are in Montreal. How stunning is it for
Speaker 1: you to see what's going on with Lag, who are eight.
Speaker 5: He's like the George steimerunner.
Speaker 2: Of yeah he is, he is.
Speaker 1: I don't know who the George Castanza would be in
Speaker 1: that organization currently, just kind of hiding under his death.
Speaker 2: Making the bed.
Speaker 1: But how shocking is it that one player seems to
Speaker 1: be making this much of a difference in La G
Speaker 1: considering they don't have Ricky Pooge. They started the season
Speaker 1: with Joseph painTill injured. He's back, so Gabriel Peck was
Speaker 1: the one. Marco Royce was out. He's back and now injured. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now he's back and injured as he left, and Paintsvill
Speaker 1: left the last match with with dings and we don't
Speaker 1: know how dinged they are.
Speaker 2: But how shocking is this start for you from LA G?
Speaker 5: So you started, you were starting down, I guess, like
Speaker 5: which is more shocking and.
Speaker 1: Kind of sort of But then I looked at Joyce,
Speaker 1: certainly at la Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Because because they were the team, you know, coming off
Speaker 5: a championship, right and and you know, looking like that
Speaker 5: great championship team, and and you know, everyone, you know,
Speaker 5: the whole the whole story about them was all right, well,
Speaker 5: let's just let them get through the early portion of
Speaker 5: the season, and then in the summer Ricky Pooch comes
Speaker 5: back and then they're fine, Well, they've dug themselves so
Speaker 5: big of a hole like they have, you know, just
Speaker 5: to even make the playoffs at this point it would
Speaker 5: seem it would take some sort of a miracle. So
Speaker 5: the wheels falling off there are certainly.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 5: I think a lot of people. I think a lot
Speaker 5: of people when they saw the makeup and even some
Speaker 5: of the players they lost, were like, you know, maybe
Speaker 5: L A. G. Aren't going to be the same, you know,
Speaker 5: but they're still I don't know, top tier type of team,
Speaker 5: right and and they're they're they're they're battling out in
Speaker 5: that and that spoon uh spoon race with with Montreal,
Speaker 5: and the only the only difference right now is that
Speaker 5: Montreal has scored three less goals than they have it
Speaker 5: eight and three.
Speaker 1: Galaxy have scored eight goals and eleven. They've given up
Speaker 1: twenty one. They're at a minus thirteen in goal difference.
Speaker 1: And you look at Montreal eight and three, they've only
Speaker 1: scored five. Toronto it's you know, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: north of the border, it's where all the problems are
Speaker 1: except over in the west, within co Toronto and Robin Frasier,
Speaker 1: by all accounts, he's a fantastic coaching, a great guy,
Speaker 1: but he is stuck in a situation right now. Where
Speaker 1: I don't think Toronto knows who they are. They're trying
Speaker 1: to jettison a lot of their high priced talent. But
Speaker 1: outside of the high priced talent, you're kind of going,
Speaker 1: you know, what are you staring at? And then it's
Speaker 1: I mean, you still have everybody you know from Atlanta
Speaker 1: on up. If you have a good week, you're into
Speaker 1: the playoff. Picture Caleb Porter makes a formation change. They've
Speaker 1: caught fire. When we were kicking dirt on Caleb Porter
Speaker 1: and now they're nine red Bulls. They beat Colorado Springs
Speaker 1: last night and Open Cup, but they're a point out.
Speaker 2: Chicago's in a rebuild.
Speaker 1: DC United they won last night an Open Cup with
Speaker 1: Troy La Saine and I figured after what happened in
Speaker 1: San Jose that you know, Troylo Saine and players would
Speaker 1: not have been allowed on the plane after what happened.
Speaker 1: It's like nope, It's like the the lane Kiffin firing
Speaker 1: at USC. Pat Hayden just does it on the tarmac
Speaker 1: and then then the plane takes off and heads back
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: And they have a Gerard Glant too in the NHL.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there was like a picture of him like getting
Speaker 5: an uber.
Speaker 1: Like, hey, so, I mean, you've got a lot of
Speaker 1: the traditional names up top in the East right now,
Speaker 1: a third of the way through the year, Columbus and
Speaker 1: Philly and Cincy Messian Friends have a match in hand.
Speaker 1: So the fact that they're three points back, you know,
Speaker 1: I still think that Messian Friends have been proven human
Speaker 1: in a couple of points, even though they've lost only
Speaker 1: once in Major League Soccer in the Eastern Conference, Charlotte
Speaker 1: has a ten and see to complain probably more than
Speaker 1: they should, considering Wilf Saha went out on social media
Speaker 1: and he's like, you know, don't you know, don't clap
Speaker 1: back at me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was bizarre, Like, I don't I'm not in
Speaker 5: Charlotte right, Like it felt so so early in this
Speaker 5: season to to to bring that noise, like yeah, it's
Speaker 5: not like the forty thousand plus or whatever you have
Speaker 5: at the bank are chanting like Zaha out or something.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, Zaha blanks you know.
Speaker 5: I mean talking, I mean super sensitive.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then Dean Smith, uh, you know, having a gig
Speaker 1: in Charlotte. Not that Dean Smith may may basketball fans
Speaker 1: rest his soul, but uh, you know, when you've got
Speaker 1: a guy named Dean Smith in Charlotte, and then now
Speaker 1: Dean Smith has now started going to complaining about referees
Speaker 1: and he's gone down that now and he's starting to
Speaker 1: clap back. It's like, well, welcome to major league soccer,
Speaker 1: and welcome to major League soccer in the South, sir,
Speaker 1: welcome aboard.
Speaker 2: How are you yeah?
Speaker 5: That's that that that that's not gonna get you anywhere?
Speaker 2: No, no, no it is not.
Speaker 5: And so listen, credit credit goes back. You're mentioning, right,
Speaker 5: credit to Kayleb Porteraman Like to be fair, you know,
Speaker 5: coaches like players have egos, right, some bigger than others.
Speaker 5: And he could have stuck to his guns and said,
Speaker 5: this is who we are. Let's figure it out. You know,
Speaker 5: if the players I have on the field can't play
Speaker 5: the way that I want, we'll get new players. But
Speaker 5: he he uh, he recognized the necessity to change the
Speaker 5: way that he wants to play. Yeah, and he's gotten
Speaker 5: results out of it, right, Like, I mean, look, you know,
Speaker 5: if you want to go glass half empty, you know,
Speaker 5: has the opposition been really really good that they've played, No,
Speaker 5: not really, but they have cleaned it up defensively and
Speaker 5: they've allowed Carlos Heel to do what he does best,
Speaker 5: which is rome and get free and and and just
Speaker 5: be a creative force.
Speaker 2: Be free, be free, Carlos Heel.
Speaker 5: That's it, that's it. Let him, Let him be free
Speaker 5: like a butterfly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh so we know the combination of the defensive solidity
Speaker 5: and the free roaming Heel has resulted in what four
Speaker 5: straight wins, right like, so super impressive by them, for sure.
Speaker 1: Well, but and you look at the numbers, it's like
Speaker 1: it's one nil, it's one one, it's it's it's not
Speaker 1: it's not the glossy stuff. They've only scored nine goals.
Speaker 1: And I mean you take obviously the first couple of
Speaker 1: matches where they were throwing up clunkers, and you end
Speaker 1: up with not all they have only scored nine goals
Speaker 1: in ten matches. But at the same time they's only
Speaker 1: giving up seven. So it's one of the best defenses
Speaker 1: that we've seen so far, regardless of schedule, in not
Speaker 1: allowing goals. And you've scored enough to get you by
Speaker 1: and so right now you're slightly above five hundred and
Speaker 1: you're you know, north of the playoff bar, so you know,
Speaker 1: you tip your hat to the adjustment so far from
Speaker 1: what we've seen, even though it's not it ain't glossy,
Speaker 1: and they're not going to get into you know, they're
Speaker 1: not getting into that top tier of the East anytime
Speaker 1: soon either.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So that's that's a hard Like you mentioned Miami, Columbus,
Speaker 5: you know, Cincinnati, like those are, that's a that's a
Speaker 5: tough Like I wouldn't have Charlotte up there. I think
Speaker 5: they're a second tier right now, maybe top of that
Speaker 5: second tier, but yeah, I like New England is probably
Speaker 5: you know, they're in that second tier, but I think
Speaker 5: they're you know a little bit middle to to towards
Speaker 5: the top of that.
Speaker 1: Has Philly surprised you with Bradley Parnell coming in as
Speaker 1: Red Bulls Light and doing what they're doing.
Speaker 5: And especially when they when they look like, you know,
Speaker 5: they were just having a yard sale out there, just
Speaker 5: selling off all their parts and trying to sell some
Speaker 5: lemonade while they're at it, like, you know, get it,
Speaker 5: get as much money as you can. But yeah, no, absolutely, Now,
Speaker 5: like any energy drink model, is it sustainable right, like
Speaker 5: like like the beverage that you know, we've we've come
Speaker 5: to known about energy drink what you know, what what
Speaker 5: is what energy drinks do? Right, Like they give you
Speaker 5: that that energy for a certain amount of time and
Speaker 5: then it's and then it's you know, then you crash. Right,
Speaker 5: So you know whether your energy drink is for you
Speaker 5: mountain dew or you know, something with a little more
Speaker 5: caffeine in it, like a red Bull. But uh yeah,
Speaker 5: that's so it is that sustainable through the season. But
Speaker 5: to this point one hundred percent, you know, like they
Speaker 5: I would have had them either below the line or
Speaker 5: right near the line or somewhere around there, you know,
Speaker 5: trying to trying to keep their head above water at
Speaker 5: this point, and and they far exceeded what I thought.
Speaker 5: And you know what I think, Uh, I think a
Speaker 5: big credit needs to go to Carnal then, right, like
Speaker 5: uh he was he was an interim in New York.
Speaker 5: Uh he goes to Saint Louis, has success there, but
Speaker 5: he's jettisons and now he's found new life there and
Speaker 5: he's and he's proven you know, like look, you know
Speaker 5: that that that he's that he's a quality coach.
Speaker 1: And so we've seen that so far so far, and
Speaker 1: just looking at the sheer offensive numbers that you see
Speaker 1: out of Philadelphia. You sit there and you go, what
Speaker 1: you know, ty barbou getting the It's like, what have
Speaker 1: you done with Phillies offense? And what is this Phillies
Speaker 1: offense that we're staring at?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 1: Were there twenty one goals averaging to a match only
Speaker 1: giving up ten with Blake and Andrew and with Blake
Speaker 1: and Rick and net So I mean, right now Philly's
Speaker 1: hanging around to stay. But I know that you're looking
Speaker 1: at the post energy drink consumption crash because there's gonna
Speaker 1: be that time where you're gonna have to do things
Speaker 1: philosophically and can you is it sustainable over a full
Speaker 1: thirty four matches? Dylan Butler mlosccer dot com dropping by
Speaker 1: talking about everything going on in MLS because if he
Speaker 1: was at MLS Soccer dot com and we're talking about
Speaker 1: something entirely different than that might be an issue. I mean,
Speaker 1: then you look at the West and I know that
Speaker 1: we man, we were all kicking dirt on Vancouver. You
Speaker 1: get rid of any Sartini, but now I think that
Speaker 1: at the same time, you give Sartini his props for
Speaker 1: what he assembled. And then yes, ber Sorenson, who has
Speaker 1: come in now and you're look, you're you're still rolling
Speaker 1: and rolling and rolling. You've only lost once so far
Speaker 1: this season, in your first eleven. You're going all the
Speaker 1: way to the end of the Conka Caff Hemispheric Extravaganza,
Speaker 1: and you're still trotting out for the most part, you're
Speaker 1: trotting out. You're same starting eleven each and every single time.
Speaker 2: You're you have not lost.
Speaker 1: Your one loss came at home, where you are five
Speaker 1: and one this year. Vancouver. For me, we mentioned Philadelphia
Speaker 1: being a surprise in the Eastern Conference. I think Vancouver
Speaker 1: is a surprise in the Western Conference to the extent
Speaker 1: with where they are right now seven points clear of
Speaker 1: everybody else, but a shocker out of the blocks with
Speaker 1: them that they have been able to accomplish all of
Speaker 1: this stuff under a new coach, with a philosophy, with
Speaker 1: pretty much most of the same players from last year, and.
Speaker 5: With injuries and with uh Conca calf right, like, these
Speaker 5: are not supposed These are not things that are supposed
Speaker 5: to happen.
Speaker 2: Yes, team these things is not like the other No,
Speaker 2: So yeah, huge.
Speaker 5: Huge credit Sorenson. I mean, you know, if it was,
Speaker 5: it's not. But if it was Awards season, he would
Speaker 5: have to be certainly the coach of the Year and
Speaker 5: you probably can can can you know you'd have a
Speaker 5: shout for maybe three different best eleven type guys right
Speaker 5: on that team, with uh, with White, you know, with
Speaker 5: black Men, with even even Vita. Now you know me,
Speaker 5: like we we've we've had this conversation, you know, every
Speaker 5: every week for a few years, and and I've been
Speaker 5: on that Vancouver train for a while, but not to
Speaker 5: this extent. I'm not no, I'm absolutely not saying I
Speaker 5: saw this at all. I thought they were a very
Speaker 5: good team. I liked their parts. I was worried like
Speaker 5: most when Sartini left. Granted I didn't know anything about Sorenson, ah,
Speaker 5: but for sure for them to do what they've done.
Speaker 5: Brian Gold, now you know who I thought for for
Speaker 5: so long was one of the most underrated players in
Speaker 5: the league. Brian White the same. It's pretty funny now
Speaker 5: like with White scoring the way that he's scoring in
Speaker 5: multiple competitions, like you know, you start to get into
Speaker 5: that best if you're Vancouver or worst if you're the
Speaker 5: Red Bulls trades of all time kind of talks, right,
Speaker 5: because since Brian White left and what was that for?
Speaker 5: Was it four hundred thousand? I think it was all right?
Speaker 1: Hang on, so I will I will search Brian White
Speaker 1: to Vancouver Transaction.
Speaker 5: When I say it's like four hundred.
Speaker 1: Thousand, gam okay, yes, you were correct, sir.
Speaker 2: It is in June of twenty twenty one. Two.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Brian, four hundred thousand in gam and you
Speaker 1: could also if your Red Bulls receive an additional one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand if White meets certain performance based metrics.
Speaker 2: Of course this was all has sick dated June second
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: Don't know what the h don't know what the expiration
Speaker 1: date was on those performance based metrics, but if.
Speaker 5: Well, he was doing it from the very beginning though,
Speaker 5: I mean like he And that's the thing, right, like
Speaker 5: who's who's been knowing? It's been a revolving door at
Speaker 5: that position for the Red Bulls since he left, there
Speaker 5: hasn't They haven't found that guy, you know White? You know,
Speaker 5: I go back that was when I was like regularly
Speaker 5: covering the Red Bulls and you know, if you remember,
Speaker 5: he was the guy filling in for BWP, right like
Speaker 5: BWP was injured his last year with Red Bulls and
Speaker 5: and Brian White came in and you know, just that
Speaker 5: hard working Jersey kid and just had a nose for
Speaker 5: goal and but just severely underrated and and now you
Speaker 5: know only does his score goals in a variety of
Speaker 5: ways in different competitions as well. So yeah, huge credits
Speaker 5: to Vancouver. It's it's actually funny because you know, we're
Speaker 5: getting close to like rivalry week in MLS and and
Speaker 5: you know, it made me think the other day about
Speaker 5: Cascadia and how for how many years now has the
Speaker 5: Cascadie conversation been only Seattle and Portland, right like Vancouver's
Speaker 5: been like that other like the little brother on.
Speaker 2: The side Vancouver.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're not with us, you know, like
Speaker 5: you know, go go play in the sand over there.
Speaker 1: Just sit over at the small table in the other
Speaker 1: in the in the foyer while you eat.
Speaker 5: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: And now they're at the big table right like. And
Speaker 5: and I think and Portland's starting to play better and
Speaker 5: Seattle starting to play better. So I think a lot
Speaker 5: of heat on Cascadie this year. I think that's gonna
Speaker 5: be a lot of fun between the three of.
Speaker 1: Those eight goals allowed. So far this season by Vancouver
Speaker 1: taka Oka. Right now, he's going to be in the
Speaker 1: discussion obviously for Golden Glove with their defense eight one
Speaker 1: and two out of the blocks, goal difference of plus
Speaker 1: fourteen score twenty two and only given up eight Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Speaking of giving up possession, Minnesota thinks the ball's got cooties,
Speaker 1: and Eric Ramsey doesn't want it, is like, nah, not
Speaker 1: feeling it. And so Minnesota they had I think they
Speaker 1: had possession against Austin a third of the time and
Speaker 1: insert Austin joke here, but you end up with a
Speaker 1: three zero win on your chances. And we talked literally
Speaker 1: at the beginning of our conversation this week, we were
Speaker 1: talking about Austin and og being the second leading goal
Speaker 1: scorer for Austin, and you dropped all that money on
Speaker 1: the three up top with Bukari Uzuni and US Open
Speaker 1: Cup hero Brandon Vasquez down here in Atlanta, and you've
Speaker 1: got four goals from three dudes who you've dropped I
Speaker 1: want to say, twenty five million on and bringing the
Speaker 1: three of the man and it right now just is
Speaker 1: not happening under Nico Estevez and literally you're like, yikes,
Speaker 1: you've You've only scored seven goals in eleven matches this year,
Speaker 1: you've given up almost twice as many. Just think about
Speaker 1: how Austin would be if they didn't have Brad Steuben.
Speaker 5: And yeah, well and we saw the worst of him
Speaker 5: this past weekend with a a rare howler from him.
Speaker 5: But it's funny, right, Like, so the inverse is here
Speaker 5: all the heat on Cascadia, Yeah, Copatejas not so much.
Speaker 5: It's like it's like, you guys want to win this. Nah, Hey,
Speaker 5: you know, we're good. How about you guys? Maybe, well
Speaker 5: I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: Oh, well to you're okay.
Speaker 1: So here here's how since you mentioned Copetaos, all right,
Speaker 1: so here we are Austin's at.
Speaker 2: Five, five and one eleven.
Speaker 1: They are at sixteen points there and six Dallas four
Speaker 1: four and three one and three at home by the way,
Speaker 1: which I have just to me, that's a shocker.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's the construction that you know, all of the.
Speaker 5: Said loud noises happening during the match.
Speaker 1: Loud noises literally, you know, the sawdust coming from the
Speaker 1: far side and everything.
Speaker 5: You guys keep it down over there.
Speaker 2: Exactly, we're trying to work.
Speaker 1: And then Houston at two five and four and Benny
Speaker 1: Ball they're at minus six and they're next to last,
Speaker 1: but they're in that gaggle at ten points. And you know,
Speaker 1: once again, everybody is within short of the team at
Speaker 1: the bottom, lag and short of the team at the
Speaker 1: bottom Montreal. Right now, you've got a good week together.
Speaker 1: You're in the playoff picture and cop.
Speaker 5: And we're gonna have a double wee coming up up
Speaker 5: the just past match day twelve.
Speaker 1: So and so Austin six Dallas at nine, Houston at fourteen.
Speaker 2: Uh. To your point, Copetea is just.
Speaker 1: Kind of like maybe maybe a little later, just but
Speaker 1: not right now, just not feeling it's just it's just the.
Speaker 5: What I've been a fan of for for for a
Speaker 5: while and I think it's what's that you a fan of?
Speaker 5: COVID No, No, I've well, we've spoken a few times
Speaker 5: about the Canadian classique, although not so much this year,
Speaker 5: not so much. But Rocky Mountain Cup for me, is
Speaker 5: always delivered. Like that's a fun one, yeah for sure,
Speaker 5: Like that's kind of like a low key you know
Speaker 5: everyone you know traffic, oh sure, and but yeah, like
Speaker 5: Rocky Mountain Cup is always in like the in like
Speaker 5: the weirdest ways, like just always delivers a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Mm hm and uh speaking of a spansion. By the way,
Speaker 1: as two hockey guys, it is now officially the Utah Mammoth.
Speaker 1: And I like the black I like the black sweater
Speaker 1: for the Utah Mammoth.
Speaker 5: That's very very I didn't see that, but I'm seeing
Speaker 5: it now on your phone. Yeah, I like the Mammoth.
Speaker 1: Just released that they are the Utah Mammoth apparently now,
Speaker 1: as according to Greg Rushinsky, is about a half hour ago.
Speaker 2: San Diego.
Speaker 1: You know, like I said, Minnesota thinks the balls got cooties.
Speaker 1: They don't want it, but right now, possession numbers don't
Speaker 1: care because if you're a second in the ladder, that's
Speaker 1: all that matters. In the West San Diego, I thought
Speaker 1: they regressed to the mean a little bit, and I
Speaker 1: think they played better without Chuky Lozano. And they're now
Speaker 1: that Chuky is back. You're you know, you're fourth right now,
Speaker 1: ahead of LAFC and Seattle probably, you know, with all
Speaker 1: of their injuries, they got to figure out how to
Speaker 1: navigate Jordan Morris. We'll find out more about that tomorrow.
Speaker 1: When you look at the rest of the West Bruce Arena.
Speaker 1: You don't know which San Jose you're getting on a
Speaker 1: daily bab there.
Speaker 5: They might be the most fun. Why if you're a
Speaker 5: neutral like we are. Yeah, and if you're gonna be
Speaker 5: up anyway, like the most fun watch out there, man,
Speaker 5: because they they just played drunk soccer. Yes, it's just
Speaker 5: that's like a that's like a pick, that's likek a
Speaker 5: beer league hockey game every every week.
Speaker 2: I'm just going out there.
Speaker 5: They're scoring goals, they're giving up goals.
Speaker 1: Like, yes, I mean it's well, they have the best
Speaker 1: offense in Major League Soccer at twenty four goals scored,
Speaker 1: and I'm counting. I'm counting to see how many teams
Speaker 1: have given up more goals too. Let's see three four.
Speaker 1: So they have the fifth worst defense, So that puts
Speaker 1: them at twenty fifth, twenty fourth, twenty fifth and Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer in defense, but they're number one in offense.
Speaker 1: And so that's what you're getting with all of these
Speaker 1: folks that have been thrown together the island of misfit
Speaker 1: offense in San Jose.
Speaker 5: And if you were, if you're a fan of the Quakes,
Speaker 5: I'm sure you just banging your head against the wall
Speaker 5: every single match.
Speaker 1: You're just You're like, Bruce Arena was supposed to give
Speaker 1: us all of this stuff, and he's like, well, I've
Speaker 1: given you all this stuff.
Speaker 2: Were the revs.
Speaker 1: West and we have all of this offense, but you're
Speaker 1: giving up so damn many goals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we're you know, we're scoring a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it's that's the crazy part with San
Speaker 1: Jose right now. Kansas City has actually found their sea
Speaker 1: legs a little bit under Kerry Z where they were
Speaker 1: at the bottom and they were kind of trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how to get rid of the cement shoes
Speaker 1: and they kind of done that. Over the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. We mentioned what happened with this week in
Speaker 1: MLS history, and I think Mayo Yoshida face is probably
Speaker 1: going to turn into a either a new gift or
Speaker 1: a new.
Speaker 2: Meme going forward.
Speaker 1: So not even a shot on target Mayoshida and og
Speaker 1: and you come up with three points.
Speaker 2: But that's what it takes sometimes.
Speaker 5: Whatever whatever by any means.
Speaker 1: Any means necessary except all right, So, my friend, what's
Speaker 1: going on with you this weekend? And I know that
Speaker 1: since you apparently from the early discussions it sounds like
Speaker 1: you've got MLS after dark, so you can't hang around
Speaker 1: for the earlies on Sunday involving your beloved Newcastle.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got well, pray for me first tonight because
Speaker 5: I have what is it eleven matches on the Oh.
Speaker 1: You're mister Open Cup I am oh.
Speaker 5: I am oh, eleven eleven on the slate. I think
Speaker 5: tonight involving MLS teams.
Speaker 1: Yes, we will discuss those coming up after your departure, sir.
Speaker 1: But considering that last night was chalk, even though it
Speaker 1: was scary for some folks, tonight might be chaos.
Speaker 5: I think, especially I don't have in front of me,
Speaker 5: but I think especially later in the night.
Speaker 2: San Jose Phoenix in Houston.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, yeah, yeah, there's a good good chance for some
Speaker 5: cup sets if you will.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and lu City hosting Minnesota Night at early on.
Speaker 1: I think that that one might have Danny Cruz v
Speaker 1: Eric Ramsey. I think that that one might be interesting.
Speaker 1: But no, that's some that's you might have. Some might
Speaker 1: have some stuff early, might have some chaos late, but no,
Speaker 1: so you okay, so you've got the whole Open Cup solo.
Speaker 5: I'm just I'm just sitting here with a with eleven
Speaker 5: different matches happening.
Speaker 2: How are you gonna watch eleven matches? Sir? How many?
Speaker 2: How many can you have?
Speaker 5: A well, I mean how many are at the same time?
Speaker 2: Right, Like, well, let's see, all right.
Speaker 1: So one at seven, four at seven thirty, three at eight,
Speaker 1: one at eight thirty, one at ten, and one at
Speaker 1: ten thirty.
Speaker 2: So it's early early on chaos.
Speaker 5: And between us, the Knicks are also playing.
Speaker 1: So I was not aware of this. Yeah, so I look,
Speaker 1: I'm locked into the magic of the Open Cup. It's
Speaker 1: it's a rare night off from high school because we
Speaker 1: had the quarterfinals, State quarters last night. Wow, of the
Speaker 1: semifinals tomorrow and Friday, and the state championships are next week.
Speaker 1: So it is a rare midweek makeup day where nothing
Speaker 1: has to be made up.
Speaker 5: And so yeah, I had my I had my five
Speaker 5: lacrosse games last week. Just one coming up on Saturday.
Speaker 5: But it's a good one. It's a it's a fun one.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to shout this out a little bit. Manhasset,
Speaker 5: you know where a guy named Jim Brown once played lacrosse.
Speaker 2: He was okay, I heard him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, against Shamanad. It's Uh, it's the annual Reegs Rock.
Speaker 5: It is called named after Jimmy Reagan. He was a
Speaker 5: Manhasseant resident. He wore number nineteen for Shamanad, went on
Speaker 5: and play the Duke was like a Wall Street guy
Speaker 5: and nine eleven happens. Uh said, you know, I gotta
Speaker 5: get out of this suit. He put on a superhero uniform,
Speaker 5: went to be an Army Ranger where he ultimately, you know,
Speaker 5: gave his life for this country. So every year, you know,
Speaker 5: the town that he lived in, Manhassett and their team
Speaker 5: take on the high school that he went to, Shamanad.
Speaker 5: Every year there's a player who wears nineteen in his
Speaker 5: honor for Shamanad. So it's a really cool thing to
Speaker 5: keep him, to keep him alive and his memory alive,
Speaker 5: and you know, for the for the Army Rangers lead
Speaker 5: the Way Foundation as well, So it's good stuff.
Speaker 2: Varsity Media on the YouTube's Yes.
Speaker 5: It will be four a'clock on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Awesome, Well, get your rest, get your nap in because
Speaker 1: of the magic of the open Cup tonight as always,
Speaker 1: my friend, great to see. Don't be a stranger, drop
Speaker 1: in whenever because you get the Keys to the Kingdom
Speaker 1: in the garage door opener, so you know how to
Speaker 1: get in the house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, cheers, All right, there he goes. It's a Dylan.
Speaker 1: So Dylan is going to go rest up because he's
Speaker 1: got the magic of the open cup tonight. Speaking of
Speaker 1: the magic of the open Cup, let's go over our
Speaker 1: juice boxes and our surprises that we think may happen
Speaker 1: last night, just to give you an idea about what
Speaker 1: went down.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was fairly chalkish, but it was scary at times
Speaker 1: because Charlotte decided that they wanted to rotate and it
Speaker 1: almost turned out to be catastrophic. So the lineup last
Speaker 1: night for them in an eventual for to one win.
Speaker 1: It was an eventual for one win, but it took
Speaker 1: him north of ninety minutes to get there, tied at
Speaker 1: one after ninety North Carolina FC did not score in
Speaker 1: the following thirty.
Speaker 2: But here's the.
Speaker 1: Lineup that Charlotte decided to tempt fate with last night.
Speaker 1: And obviously when you get to tempt fate with somebody
Speaker 1: like Patrick Ajimong, that's never a bad thing. So the
Speaker 1: lineup once again, David Bingham started in net last night Jaquill, Marshall, Ruddy,
Speaker 1: Andrew Privett, built Tuoe Looma, wore the captain's armband, Nick Scardina,
Speaker 1: Jabril Diani, Eric Williamson, You'ury Tavares, Tiger Smalls, Edentoe Klamatti
Speaker 1: and Crowin Vargas. That was your starting lineup last night
Speaker 1: for Dean Smith and Charlotte. That was how much you
Speaker 1: thought you could handle in North Carolina FC. Your bench Leilabada,
Speaker 1: Patrick Godjamong, Brent Bronico, Mar's Neely Petkovich and Tim Reen.
Speaker 1: You had a seven person bench last night in open Cup,
Speaker 1: so you played you had eighteen, including a backup keeper.
Speaker 1: But your starting lineup last night did not include your
Speaker 1: number one keeper Bingham, Marshall, Ruddy, Privet, Toy Lomas, Guardina,
Speaker 1: Diane Williamson, Youry Tavares, Tiger Smalls, Edentoeklamati and Crowin Vargas.
Speaker 1: And you had to bring in Patrick Godgimong to help
Speaker 1: you out in that final thirty minutes to get the duke.
Speaker 1: You tempted fate, Sir. You almost flew too close to
Speaker 1: the sun. You almost flew too close to the sun.
Speaker 1: You ended up getting the win. Took extra time to
Speaker 1: do it. You won four to one. Ninety minute draw
Speaker 1: was a plus two thirty eight DC United. I guess, Dell,
Speaker 1: here's the conversation for open cups. So if you feel
Speaker 1: compelled to turn away and hit mute, feel free. DC
Speaker 1: United beat Charleston. You can see Dell's comments in the
Speaker 1: twitch pitch about how they played better than DC. D
Speaker 1: C was a plus two sixty two on the ninety
Speaker 1: minute draw, so either way. Nashville scored early in the
Speaker 1: first half. They won one nil at Giotis against Chattanooga
Speaker 1: Red Wolves. Chattanooga red Wolves had a red so they
Speaker 1: played most of the match with ten. Nashville did just
Speaker 1: enough to win Red Bulls. As we figured, if they
Speaker 1: scored early, it was not going to be a problem.
Speaker 2: It was not.
Speaker 1: They beat switched back so to plus one zero six
Speaker 1: y four to one. Then the chaos that happened eight
Speaker 1: last night was a starfire as we anticipated, and it
Speaker 1: was almost what we anticipated anticipating was gonna happen. One
Speaker 1: nil lead for Portland, second half, Tacoma Defiance scores twice
Speaker 1: in three minutes to take a two to one lead.
Speaker 1: Then late you get an equalizer and then you get
Speaker 1: another goal for Portland before they were done. Portland wins
Speaker 1: it three to two at a minus three twelve. But
Speaker 1: it goes a little deeper than that. After the match,
Speaker 1: catching up with the head coach of Tacoma Defiance ever Ads,
Speaker 1: here are his comments about the match in and of itself.
Speaker 1: And this comes from our friends at Sounder at Hart
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to our buddy Nico moreno more about
Speaker 1: this tomorrow, but here's what happened after the match. Postmatch
Speaker 1: comments from Tacoma Defiance head coach ever Ads see.
Speaker 2: Maybe go forward with with what happened.
Speaker 6: Well, no, I mean, I'm gonna speak to Wade and Henry.
Speaker 6: I'm like they have to have a conversation. Okay, yes,
Speaker 6: they can't change the result.
Speaker 2: But we have that riff. We have the same the
Speaker 2: same problem. So it is but you guys have experienced
Speaker 2: that with that guy in the past.
Speaker 5: We've had we've had experiences with this.
Speaker 6: So when he when he was a sit there riff,
Speaker 6: we knew that we were going to get a lot
Speaker 6: of goals and as we saw today, we didn't.
Speaker 2: Get a lot of goals either. So it is what
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: Obviously an MLS next pro team playing against an MLS team.
Speaker 5: They fielded a lot of MLS guys.
Speaker 2: The level of competition is a tough one.
Speaker 1: I think, looking particular at your two center backs, two
Speaker 1: young eighteen year old guys against Kevin Kelsey, who is
Speaker 1: a big money.
Speaker 2: Signing for Cincinnati before he came to.
Speaker 5: The Timbers, how did you feel like your guys stacked
Speaker 5: up against.
Speaker 6: Well, I'll tell you what Kevin told me after the
Speaker 6: game when he came me shake my hand. He said, Hey,
Speaker 6: don't don't be discouraged by that. Your to me is very,
Speaker 6: very good, and he felt it because most of the
Speaker 6: game he didn't do anything, but he only showed up
Speaker 6: for the penalty and he's a big time striking. Like
Speaker 6: I'm so proud of my guys, Sonny, we were so
Speaker 6: good in that game.
Speaker 2: We were so good in that game.
Speaker 5: But you just follow a little bit short.
Speaker 6: And that happens with youth, right, There's a little bit
Speaker 6: of inconsistency sometimes in the game. You know, we should
Speaker 6: have scored two goals in the first half. That second
Speaker 6: goal should endo.
Speaker 2: Have gone in.
Speaker 6: That's what we're going to analyze.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 1: D is the head coach of Tacoma Defiance, and if
Speaker 1: you watched the match, there was a handball call late
Speaker 1: that would have given to Coma another goal on the board,
Speaker 1: or the opportunity with a handball in the box, another
Speaker 1: handball that would have given them a chance to get
Speaker 1: another goal from the spot that could have changed game
Speaker 1: state and the approach in the final fifteen minutes or
Speaker 1: so could have gone an extra thirty. It did not.
Speaker 1: You get the win for Portland. Substitution comes in, scores
Speaker 1: with tend to go to tie it up and then
Speaker 1: they end up with yet another goal on the board
Speaker 1: and it ends up as a three to two win
Speaker 1: over to Coma Defiance. At Starfire in the round of
Speaker 1: thirty two, it was Gabe Garrett scoring in the eighty first.
Speaker 1: Kevin Kelsey scored at ninety plus four. After ossesde Rosario
Speaker 1: and Georgie Mnongu scored two goals in three minutes to
Speaker 1: go from one nil down to two to one up.
Speaker 1: Defiance had the lead, then Garrett and Kelsey score to
Speaker 1: make it by the time it was over. Servando Barna
Speaker 1: was the gentleman in question for Erved's the head coach
Speaker 1: for Defiance, so Servando Barna has a bit of a
Speaker 1: history with the folks in the Pacific Northwest, so Starfire
Speaker 1: last night it was a win for Portland on come
Speaker 1: from behind win literally and I don't quite think this
Speaker 1: is correct considering that they have the shots and shots
Speaker 1: on goal being equal to the final score and the
Speaker 1: total number of passes in the game.
Speaker 2: Seven for both teams.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna have to go and dig up some
Speaker 1: numbers and see, yeah, total passes seven total, and Tacoma
Speaker 1: De Fiance had only four passes in the entire match
Speaker 1: and they completed them all, whereas Portland went two for three.
Speaker 2: I don't quite think that's statistically correct.
Speaker 1: So advancing it was Charlotte DC, Nashville Red Bulls Portland
Speaker 1: so tonight in the Open Cup. And once again you
Speaker 1: can catch all of this on Paramount Plus. We'll go
Speaker 1: through what to watch, where to watch it, how to
Speaker 1: watch it? Coming up in a bit seven o'clock. River
Speaker 1: Hounds hosting NYC n yc's favored and a minus one
Speaker 1: oh six. This really hasn't changed a whole lot. River
Speaker 1: Hounds are a plus two to fifty four to ninety
Speaker 1: minute draws a plus two forty three. Anticipate Bob Lilly
Speaker 1: yelling one of the cup sets that we had circled
Speaker 1: for a possible seven point thirty lou City in Minnesota United.
Speaker 1: Lou City is a minus one ninety six. Ninety Minute
Speaker 1: Draws a plus two thirty four. Minnesota United is a
Speaker 1: plus one twenty at Lynn Family, I could see this
Speaker 1: one turning late. I could see it going the extra
Speaker 1: thirty Union hosting Indy eleven at a minus two ninety four.
Speaker 1: That number has grown. Indy Eleven's number has grown as well,
Speaker 1: to a plus six twenty one in the composite courtesy
Speaker 1: of our friends at Odds Portal draws a plus.
Speaker 2: Three ninety one.
Speaker 1: Rhode Island FC anticipating another sellout crowd of around ten
Speaker 1: thousand and five hundred tonight as they host the Revs
Speaker 1: a open cup. Keep an eye on Michael Parkhurst's social
Speaker 1: media to see if he is up there for that one.
Speaker 1: Rhode Island's a plus one forty one, Your draws a
Speaker 1: plus two twenty five, and the Revs are a plus
Speaker 1: one seventy four. Tampa Bay and Orlando City. Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: is a plus three hundred and once again, Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: is still trying to get their sea legs about them
Speaker 1: and this one being played at al Lang seven point
Speaker 1: thirty kick against the Purple team Tampa Bay A plus
Speaker 1: three hundred draws plus two fifty Purple teams of minus
Speaker 1: one twenty three eight o'clock Chicago Fire a minus one
Speaker 1: fifty two draws a plus two seventy nine. Detroit City
Speaker 1: is a plus three p fifty four and that matchup
Speaker 1: is played at Seat Geek in Bridgeview, so I don't
Speaker 1: know how many are making the trip from ham Tramick
Speaker 1: to Bridgeview. It may not be a big crowd tonight
Speaker 1: that might help Detroit City. And remember keep an eye
Speaker 1: on the Chicago lineup as they get ready for the
Speaker 1: matchup with Atlanta coming up this weekend playing midweek weekend
Speaker 1: weekend midweek weekend. Also on the board, FC Dallas hosting
Speaker 1: av Alta out of USL League one. FC Dallas a
Speaker 1: minus seven sixty nine, Your draws a plus six sixty
Speaker 1: and your av Alta outright is.
Speaker 2: A plus fifteen sixteen in.
Speaker 1: The juice boxes for the visitors, Saint Louis City s
Speaker 1: C taking on those buhosts the murder Owls of Union Omaha.
Speaker 1: Union Omaha is a plus eight sixty nine keep an
Speaker 1: eye on this one, especially for the ninety minute draw,
Speaker 1: which is a plus three eighty. We all know their
Speaker 1: giant killers. I don't know if they'll do it by
Speaker 1: the end of the night, but I could see it
Speaker 1: going north of ninety minutes. All Caps are a minus
Speaker 1: three forty five eight point thirty. Austin at Q two
Speaker 1: is hosting L Passo Locomotive. Austin is a minus two
Speaker 1: to four draws a plus three nineteen. L Passo is
Speaker 1: a plus four fifty eight. Austin not having much offense
Speaker 1: might be the saving grace here for L Paso to
Speaker 1: take it north of ninety minutes. You have two very
Speaker 1: defensive minded clubs, so we'll see what happens when they
Speaker 1: cross paths. At Q two, like I said, wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised if it was one nil. Austin also wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised if it took more than ninety minutes. Then the
Speaker 1: two late ones that are cup set cup set ideas
Speaker 1: Phoenix hosting Houston at the corner of thirty eighth in Washington.
Speaker 1: In Phoenix, Phoenix is a plus two ninety four. Houston
Speaker 1: is a minus one twenty five. Your draws a plus
Speaker 1: two fifty seven. Then you're late one at ten thirty.
Speaker 1: The other cup set possibility at Hard Health Sacramento hosting
Speaker 1: San Jose. I want to see what the San Jose
Speaker 1: lineup looks like at a minus one forty five ninety
Speaker 1: minute draws, A plus two seventy six Sacramento is a
Speaker 1: plus three thirty four. I think by the end of it,
Speaker 1: I think San Jose gets the win. Might not necessarily
Speaker 1: be the offensive shootout that you're looking for. I want
Speaker 1: to see what San Jose's starting eleven looks like. But
Speaker 1: last night you had some teams take some assumed risk
Speaker 1: in the tournament, like Charlotte starting a completely rotated starting
Speaker 1: eleven with some help on the bench, and it almost
Speaker 1: cost them, so they advanced to the round of sixteen.
Speaker 1: You have the three six nine eleven matches tonight compared
Speaker 1: to the five yesterday, so sixteen the field will be
Speaker 1: sixteen and pared down to it by the time the
Speaker 1: night is over, say in a perfect world, around twelve
Speaker 1: thirty quarter one in the morning Eastern time. If there
Speaker 1: are any cup sets, we'll try and track some folks
Speaker 1: down for tomorrow. Just to let you know once again,
Speaker 1: tomorrow our number one is us we go over what
Speaker 1: happened here in Open Cup and everything else that's on
Speaker 1: your mind. We're tracking down some OPO research for Chicago.
Speaker 1: We also should be having our standard a Friday ten
Speaker 1: o'clock guest to discuss things from a league wide perspective
Speaker 1: and a league wide preview. Nino and Nico are going
Speaker 1: to join us in our number two tomorrow. Nino Domas
Speaker 1: is going to talk about what happened in the Champions
Speaker 1: League yesterday, the seven six aggregate.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about Portugal because there are some stories in Portugal.
Speaker 1: You know how we've been issuing on Boa Vista the
Speaker 1: relegation battle in Portugal, and it's part of the matches
Speaker 1: that Nino calls on Gold TV. The relegation battle has
Speaker 1: turned insane and apparently there is a club that has
Speaker 1: a worse public perception than Boavista. And you know, we've
Speaker 1: been we've been issued on Boavista a lot, and I
Speaker 1: actually almost said the word we've been issued on them
Speaker 1: a lot. And apparently there's a club that's a part
Speaker 1: of that relegation battle that is worse. I didn't think
Speaker 1: that was possible, but one might be worse. We'll discuss that,
Speaker 1: we'll discuss Champions League, we'll discuss Labertadors and all of
Speaker 1: that Tomorrow with Nino Torres from Gold TV at ten o'clock,
Speaker 1: Nico Modeno joining us. We'll talk about what we heard
Speaker 1: from Tacoma Defiance there post match, going up against Portland
Speaker 1: at Starfire, plus everything else that's on his mind as
Speaker 1: we get you ready for the weekend.
Speaker 2: Like I said, we are efforting oppo.
Speaker 1: Research on Chicago Fire from one of their play by
Speaker 1: play voices, and hopefully we can catch up with them
Speaker 1: before the end of the week and get you ready
Speaker 1: for Chicago Fire and Atlanta United coming up this weekend
Speaker 1: at the Spaceship on the lake Front there in Chicago.
Speaker 1: So that was what happened yesterday and Open Cup. That's
Speaker 1: what could happen today in Open Cup, and since we're here,
Speaker 1: what to watch, where to watch it, and how to
Speaker 1: watch it. In addition to Open Cup. Once again, remember
Speaker 1: all of that is on Paramount Plus. You get to
Speaker 1: catch up with Paramount Plus, you get to choose all
Speaker 1: of your matches and I'm hoping, I'm hoping, and this
Speaker 1: is just one of the things that it's a personal
Speaker 1: pet Peeve, and I will raise my hand here and ask.
Speaker 2: This question.
Speaker 1: When it comes to your streaming services, And we pretty
Speaker 1: much have all of the streaming services here at Office HD.
Speaker 1: Which ones are the easiest ones to navigate? Which ones
Speaker 1: give you the most trouble in navigation and buffering and
Speaker 1: all of that. We have a lot of them, and
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that it might be just where I am
Speaker 1: and the traffic coming from this particular sector of the planet.
Speaker 1: But one of the ones that always gives me trouble,
Speaker 1: and it's also clunky when you're navigating it, is Paramount Plus.
Speaker 2: I love it, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: The fact that I get to see lower divisions in
Speaker 1: England and keep up with everything.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: But navigating it always turns into a problem, and buffering
Speaker 1: turns into a problem. So Peacock sometimes will dump out
Speaker 1: because of stress on the platform. It'll freeze up and
Speaker 1: then it'll dump out and I have to go back in.
Speaker 1: But Netflix traditionally is okay, and this is for like
Speaker 1: sports viewing and everything. So Netflix is okay, ESPN Plus
Speaker 1: is okay. Big Fox on their streaming side, they're okay
Speaker 1: going through web and everything. But when it comes to
Speaker 1: sports peacock good ninety percent of the time, love it
Speaker 1: and I'll watch like multiview and goal Rush and things
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: For the Premier League.
Speaker 1: I'm locked in on goal Rush because that's where my
Speaker 1: brain is these days. I need like instant I need
Speaker 1: instant information. Boom boom boom boom boom, So I go
Speaker 1: to goal Rush. I don't watch individual matches anymore unless
Speaker 1: it's a solo.
Speaker 2: I'll go to goal Rush.
Speaker 1: On the ten o'clock and the nine o'clock kicks, and
Speaker 1: I'm locked in and I'm good. Paramount Plus for me
Speaker 1: is the one that's most difficult to navigate and also
Speaker 1: the one that buffers the most. So I'm hoping it's
Speaker 1: because everybody loves Paramount Plus and it's just stress on
Speaker 1: the network that they end up working on and it
Speaker 1: improved Prime Video fantastic, no problems at all. But Paramount
Speaker 1: Plus for me is one of the ones that I've
Speaker 1: had the longest because of all of everything that they offer,
Speaker 1: but it ends up with the buffering and everything. Like
Speaker 1: I said, it could be just me and being here
Speaker 1: in the office, but traditionally, for me, Paramount Plus is
Speaker 1: the one that gives me the most issues of the ones.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I love it the most because I
Speaker 1: get to see lower divisions in England and everything that
Speaker 1: they have across the board in Europe and in Conca calf.
Speaker 1: But it gives me the most trouble because of probably
Speaker 1: traffic and buffering and such. And I just wanted to
Speaker 1: compare notes. Uh what else to watch once again on
Speaker 1: ben triple header? Welly, I was yesterday. Uh scanning, scanning, scanning, Okay,
Speaker 1: so it is a triple header again today. Copa lbertadoris
Speaker 1: if you've missed it yesterday, our Betty Howard Hamilton over
Speaker 1: at Soccer Metrics filed his Copa Lbertadores show updating group
Speaker 1: stay a match day four in the group stage triple
Speaker 1: header six eight thirty and ten Depertivo Tashira, ld Ukito, Central,
Speaker 1: Cordeba and Flamengo at eight thirty. Sporting Crystal and Boulevard
Speaker 1: is at ten once again the back end of Champions
Speaker 1: League today PSG and Arsenal that's at three o'clock. Winner
Speaker 1: gets enter Open Cup CBS Sports Network their double header
Speaker 1: is Pittsburgh NYC and Enox Rising Houston Dynamo. FS two
Speaker 1: has afternoon action in the Saudi Pro League twelve fifteen
Speaker 1: and two o'clock.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and watch it if you want.
Speaker 1: Canadian Championship Forge and Halifax Wanderers is at seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: That's also on FS two courtesy of our friends at
Speaker 1: one Soccer, which reminds me we probably should track down
Speaker 1: our buddy, Christian Jack and find out when we get
Speaker 1: closer to international windows and such.
Speaker 2: What's going on with the team Canada being in.
Speaker 1: Espagnol simul casting lebertadoris Fox Deportas simul casting the league.
Speaker 1: We've neither condone, endorse, no or promote two to NA
Speaker 1: simul casting Champions League League at mis playoffs Tonight, Montday
Speaker 1: Te Lucas at nine, Pachuca and Clube America's at eleven
Speaker 1: to ten Bunivicione simul casting Champions League. Colosso Network has
Speaker 1: your late Open Cup after dark with San Jose and Sacramento.
Speaker 1: Paramount Plus has all of the Open Cup matchups, plus
Speaker 1: what's going on with the Champions League Women does own
Speaker 1: USA has the French Premier League Leon LaHave and PSG
Speaker 1: not coming up in three minutes. Vix has the UEFA
Speaker 1: U seventeens under way. It is Faroe Islands in Austria
Speaker 1: and the Netherlands and Norway set for one o'clock. So
Speaker 1: that's what to watch, Where to watch it, how to
Speaker 1: watch it, Gossip, rumer and innuendo once again reminder Noon
Speaker 1: Eastern Soccer is in session Playoff Daily Live presented by
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Speaker 1: Real Madrid not planning to make a move for ral
Speaker 1: Socio died midfielder Martin Zuba Mendi as they don't think
Speaker 1: they need him. He's got to release closet sixty million euro.
Speaker 1: By the way, Arsenal considering another move for PSG's Leek
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Speaker 1: South Korean international. In January, three letter paper bier Levercusen
Speaker 1: and Florian verts set to snub interest from Man City
Speaker 1: and Real Madrid to join Bayern Munich. Benjamin Cesco's release
Speaker 1: clauses more than eighty million euro. Old clubs will be
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Speaker 1: Plettenberg and Sky Sports Germany. West Ham's winger Mohammed Rudus
Speaker 1: is the subject of fresh interest from Arsenal. Kiysa could
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Speaker 1: Manchester United added Torino's Serbian keeper vanja Malinkovich Savach to
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Speaker 2: Once again.
Speaker 1: Yesterday we had Lloyd Hours on, the technical director from
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Speaker 1: off day when it comes to the playoffs. Quarterfinals were yesterday.
Speaker 1: You can go back and listen to the Dalton match
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Speaker 1: chase after the championships here in the state of Georgia
Speaker 1: and the GHSA. So let me say hi to everybody,
Speaker 1: and Kevsi's right there with me. Great content. No idea
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Speaker 1: So Hi, KEFSI, high rich, Hi Michael. I know that
Speaker 1: you and I and will run into each other with
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Speaker 1: Morning Dell. Hopefully I answered your question about Caden Clark Dell.
Speaker 1: If Jamie Vardy joins Dean Smith in Charlotte, he's thirty seven.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he could bring to the table
Speaker 1: considering who he has up front right now anyway, with
Speaker 1: Wilf Saha, Patrick Godgimong and hopefully Eurie Tavares. Look if
Speaker 1: he doesn't want, If Dean Smith doesn't want Uriy Tavares
Speaker 1: or Patrick Gojiymong, shoot, I'd take him in a heartbeat.
Speaker 1: I think that Jamie Vardy might be better served going
Speaker 1: to Wrexham. I've heard that as a possible idea to
Speaker 1: help them in their championship season. I think that that
Speaker 1: is probably a better idea. But Jamie Vardi to Wrexham,
Speaker 1: to me, makes a lot more sense than Jamie Vardy
Speaker 1: to Charlotte FC.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: So Morning Kevsie, Morning Michael, Morning Derek. Let's see Bart.
Speaker 1: Hope is dead, disparaed thrives miss you to Bart, all
Speaker 1: that work that you have to do.
Speaker 2: Morning four Card.
Speaker 1: Let's see morning ropes, I think, ropes to your point,
Speaker 1: and this is gonna sound cliche, and I'm busting out
Speaker 1: all my cliches. He once to know when you break
Speaker 1: out of the stage, literally, I think it takes one
Speaker 1: solid ninety minutes to sit there and prove that you
Speaker 1: can do it to yourself.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it takes something that simple. That's what my gut
Speaker 2: tells me.
Speaker 1: May And then you got Tommy and Kevsi and David
Speaker 1: and Alex and let's see who else am I missing here?
Speaker 1: So once again Michael and Alex and Dell and ropes
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to see who else is here. So
Speaker 1: it's Alex and Ricky and that's everybody who participated in
Speaker 1: the Twitch pitch. But I know that that is not
Speaker 1: everybody to participate. It's on a daily basis here at SDH. Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: once again Power Hour, we go through everything that happened
Speaker 1: Open Cup. We get you ready for a Land United
Speaker 1: in Chicago. Power Hour our number two. You know Torres
Speaker 1: from Gold TV discussing everything Champions League Labertadores and Europe.
Speaker 1: And then our buddy Nico Moreno from Pulso Sports and
Speaker 1: Sounder at Heart's going to join us for the last
Speaker 1: half hour, we'll talk about what happened, what we played
Speaker 1: the sound from Tacoma with what happened with the man
Speaker 1: in the middle, Salvador Berna and the head coach for
Speaker 1: Tacoma Defiance. We'll go over that match. We'll go over
Speaker 1: everything an Open Cup, we'll go over everything in MLS.
Speaker 2: As we get you ready for the weekend.
Speaker 1: We'll play Cliffhanger and then there'll be Soccer's in session
Speaker 1: Match Day Live that's going to happen on Thursday at noon.
Speaker 2: Once again, we'll go over.
Speaker 1: Your semi final brackets, get you ready for things going
Speaker 1: on around the planet, and we'll also get you ready
Speaker 1: for Whitewater and a Coney County. We'll see if we
Speaker 1: can catch up with folks and see what their new
Speaker 1: hours are like. As we get you ready for the
Speaker 1: semifinals starting on Thursday here in the state of Georgia.
Speaker 1: That's it for another go round of SDHAM. Thanks to
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Speaker 1: Time until whenever. Traditionally it's eleven oh five, but we
Speaker 1: know we go over and sometimes breaking news means we
Speaker 1: go over a lot. But coming up top of the hour,
Speaker 1: it is soccer is in session Playoff Daily Live. We'll
Speaker 1: catch up with coaches around the state, take you through
Speaker 1: your brackets, let you know what's going on here around
Speaker 1: the State of Georgia when it comes to playoff soccer
Speaker 1: on the Boys and Girls.
Speaker 2: Sides here in the GHSA, So.
Speaker 1: For Dylan Butler, for Tyler Pilgrim, Scarves and Spikes. Their
Speaker 1: midweek show is tonight at seven o'clock. I'm John Nelson.
Speaker 1: Thanks for dropping by, as you always do here on
Speaker 1: sdcham mochaplot. Y'all played safe and since it is the
Speaker 1: end of the show that means they get to do this,
Speaker 1: we'll take it easy.
Speaker 2: We'll see it about forty five minutes actually more like
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