Speaker 1: Face has dropped on a new week of soccer. Down here,
Speaker 1: John here, you there, Abe over there. Abe is truly
Speaker 1: on the Tom Kaflin scale this morning.
Speaker 2: He is.
Speaker 1: He is in like way before everybody else he was,
Speaker 1: look get this okay, So full disclosure, I was putting
Speaker 1: highlights in and post from Brad and we'll hear that
Speaker 1: after Abe departs, you know, in about twenty minutes. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm dumping highlights in and getting everything ready. Abe pops
Speaker 1: up at like nine oh one and he's just like
Speaker 1: he's ready to go. He's gassed up, ready to talk
Speaker 1: about Atlanta and Philly in a double match week.
Speaker 2: So, hi, partner, how you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm doing pretty good, a lot better than I thought
Speaker 3: I would be doing after a one to one drawl,
Speaker 3: let's put it that way. But we've for for once
Speaker 3: this season at Landay United had had a couple of
Speaker 3: things maybe slide in their favor. We'll get into it,
Speaker 3: but it's it's it's still all the air for him,
Speaker 3: which is not what I thought i'd be saying if
Speaker 3: they didn't have three points.
Speaker 1: Really, I mean, so you you thought that one point
Speaker 1: would make even the slightest bit of difference in your opinion,
Speaker 1: heading into the stretch run here with a handful of
Speaker 1: matches to go.
Speaker 3: Well, it's not really in my opinion, But in terms
Speaker 3: of what Atlanta United can control, I mean, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: you got so lucky that Chicago scored a late equalizer
Speaker 3: against Toronto, and that's the only reason that things are
Speaker 3: still in your control, because you've got everyone essentially has
Speaker 3: a game in hand on Toronto, but they are only
Speaker 3: three points away. There was a time late on Saturday
Speaker 3: night where they were five points away and it was
Speaker 3: pretty much done. But I thought that they were gonna
Speaker 3: be needing help. As it stands right now, they do
Speaker 3: still control their own destiny, at least by my calculations.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's a jumbled mess. You got eight, nine,
Speaker 3: and ten all at thirty seven, eleven and twelve all
Speaker 3: at thirty four, and then Nashville right behind at thirty three.
Speaker 3: So as odd as it seems, depending on results Atlanta
Speaker 3: and I, it could actually be in eighth place with
Speaker 3: a win on Wednesday, So you'd need some help and
Speaker 3: some some other results. But I still think it's right
Speaker 3: there for the taking. And I did not think I
Speaker 3: would be saying that without a win. Uh. I've been
Speaker 3: using the same term for the past couple of days here,
Speaker 3: John and I know how much we all love school,
Speaker 3: an academy or college or or whatever university what they're
Speaker 3: doing now. I was never like this. I was an
Speaker 3: outstanding student, obviously, But I think we all know if
Speaker 3: it wasn't you. We all know someone who waited until
Speaker 3: the night before a paper was due to start the paper.
Speaker 3: And what do we call that procrastination?
Speaker 2: Procrast procrastination.
Speaker 3: So I've been calling this point procrastination for the past
Speaker 3: couple of days because that's really what it is. And
Speaker 3: somehow you're still have the potential to get this thing
Speaker 3: in before the deadline, right, But that change is on
Speaker 3: Wednesday night. I think Wednesday there is no more. Boy,
Speaker 3: you lucked out with some of the other results, you
Speaker 3: still have a chance. I think that goes away on
Speaker 3: Wednesday if you don't get three points. And so look
Speaker 3: at Lady United played it a little bit smart, a
Speaker 3: little bit safe, and they got a little bit of
Speaker 3: help on the weekend. Quite frankly, I was disappointed in
Speaker 3: what we saw on Saturday night. I thought you needed
Speaker 3: to be a little bit more reckless in finding a
Speaker 3: result as it turns out, like I said, you were
Speaker 3: actually okay with the one point, but I did not
Speaker 3: think that would be the case. With eight minutes left
Speaker 3: in the Toronto Chicago match, that wasn't the case. So
Speaker 3: I thought you needed to be a little you know,
Speaker 3: I said it in the five Stripes countdown, like there's
Speaker 3: a very fine line between like being brave and being
Speaker 3: reckless stupid. Yeah, yeah, And I thought that Landa United
Speaker 3: had to go right up to that line to really
Speaker 3: push as far all in as you possibly could without
Speaker 3: playing dumb, without like giving yourself no chance to win.
Speaker 3: I don't think they did that on Saturday. Quite frankly,
Speaker 3: it felt way too often at times, especially in the
Speaker 3: first half, that they would have been comfortable getting a
Speaker 3: draw out of that. And I mean I would argue
Speaker 3: that I'd rather have zero points than one point. At
Speaker 3: least I knew you went for it in that realm,
Speaker 3: but they didn't go for it. They do still come
Speaker 3: away with a draw, they still come away with one point,
Speaker 3: and somehow they are still alive in this thing. But
Speaker 3: it's gonna have to be the exact same conversation on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's just no way around it you can't
Speaker 3: get another draw. I've had three straight draws. Now you
Speaker 3: cannot get another draw and get into the postseason. It
Speaker 3: has to be three points. And I'll say it again,
Speaker 3: I'd rather see zero points than one point on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: You have to go for it in a way that
Speaker 3: you probably is uncomfortable, in a way that there's probably
Speaker 3: a lot of abandon in that in that form, but
Speaker 3: you have to go for it, like there's there's no
Speaker 3: more time, there's not another night to procrastinate, there's no
Speaker 3: more asking the teacher for an extension, like you have
Speaker 3: three games left, You're you're still in what eleventh place?
Speaker 3: The games are there, the opponents are there, the points
Speaker 3: are there for you to get in. But uh, you
Speaker 3: got to get started on this thing and you can't
Speaker 3: put it off any longer. And that starts Wednesday. I
Speaker 3: will say this, We did see some really good performances
Speaker 3: individually on on Saturday night. I think it starts in
Speaker 3: the back Brad Guzan his last couple of games, but
Speaker 3: really all season long, he has been just just when
Speaker 3: you thought like the time had come right and and
Speaker 3: we all know that that you know father time, you know,
Speaker 3: undefeated thought he was all right, he's coming off the injury.
Speaker 3: This this is probably what he's gonna be and we'll
Speaker 3: live with that. But but you could see it. He's
Speaker 3: diminished this season, has shown a return to a form
Speaker 3: that I didn't think he could find, and especially in
Speaker 3: the last couple of games as well. And I mean it,
Speaker 3: it's been imperative for him to have had. I mean,
Speaker 3: what do you have like one point six goals prevented? Uh,
Speaker 3: two games ago and like one point one or one
Speaker 3: point two? Yeah, this way, like these are crazy numbers. Uh,
Speaker 3: these really are. And how many times over the past
Speaker 3: like five years, have we just seen some goalie stand
Speaker 3: on their head against Atlanti United and it just feels
Speaker 3: like nothing you can do with the ball is gonna
Speaker 3: get past this guy. Yeah, and I know that Brad
Speaker 3: has conceded a couple here and there, two last game
Speaker 3: or game before this, and then one in this one.
Speaker 3: But he almost wonder from the perspective of other fans
Speaker 3: are watching Brad and just be like, what do we
Speaker 3: have to do to get a goal past this guy?
Speaker 3: It's nice to kind of even in draws, to kind
Speaker 3: of be on the other side of this for a moment.
Speaker 3: So tip of a cap to Brad, he has been
Speaker 3: simply outstanding.
Speaker 2: Down the stretch numbers from the past match.
Speaker 1: According to our friends at the Sofa Score, they graded
Speaker 1: him out at a seven point six seven saves goals prevented,
Speaker 1: one on a quarter, one high claim saves from inside
Speaker 1: the box. Three and we'll get some of those saves
Speaker 1: coming up here in just a little bit. Thirty eight
Speaker 1: touches seventeen to twenty four, passing at seventy one percent,
Speaker 1: five of twelve on his long balls. So Brad, as
Speaker 1: you mentioned, bucking a quarter goals prevented last time out
Speaker 1: against Philly, And literally there are times where and I
Speaker 1: think to your point, I think that Brad is a
Speaker 1: year further away from surgery, a year further away from
Speaker 1: the recovery, and so you become more and more confident
Speaker 1: about how you're feeling about your body below the waist,
Speaker 1: considering the injury that he had with the achilles and
Speaker 1: then the knee. So I think that the further away
Speaker 1: you get from those kinds of things, then you get
Speaker 1: to see the Brad g is in that we were
Speaker 1: talking about.
Speaker 3: Are you suggesting we're gonna have to wait a whole
Speaker 3: nother year to watch Kirk Cousins Levy offense, Wow down, is.
Speaker 1: That where we're at, Well, it might be that, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: we're in the same building, so it might very well
Speaker 1: be that. But I think that with Cousins, since it
Speaker 1: is a reaction Monday. I think that with Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: I think that what you're looking at there is someone
Speaker 1: who's not one hundred percent yeah, And what you're trying
Speaker 1: to do offensively is I think you what skills he
Speaker 1: may have and work with that, and then you know,
Speaker 1: make sure that everybody stays away from him. All of
Speaker 1: the targets that you're throwing at, make sure they stay
Speaker 1: away from him. Do quick stuff, do handoffs, rely on
Speaker 1: Bjean Robinson, those kinds of things. And so it might
Speaker 1: be later this year with Kirk Cousins, it might be
Speaker 1: next season year two as you're getting ready for Michael
Speaker 1: Pennix to take over a So I mean, it's uh,
Speaker 1: I think you're onto something there.
Speaker 3: It might have been a game and a half from
Speaker 3: him taken over if you didn't pull that one out yesterday.
Speaker 3: But that's neither here to know there. I think I
Speaker 3: think the other point is, and yes, it's the injury,
Speaker 3: but it's also and look like I'm older, I think
Speaker 3: than Brad. So like, don't don't take this the wrong way,
Speaker 3: but like it is in soccer terms, the elevated age
Speaker 3: while returning from the injury. Like it's one thing to
Speaker 3: be twenty four and come off in Achilles and maybe
Speaker 3: you can find that form again, right, but to be
Speaker 3: what is he thirty six, thirty seven.
Speaker 1: Something, Brad? Brad is hey older than that. Brad's a man.
Speaker 1: Brad is a man.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's he's older than me. Good for me. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So so I mean that's part of the equation is
Speaker 3: as to why I'm so surprised that he could return
Speaker 3: to form is just even naturally as a thirty nine
Speaker 3: year old forty year old goalkeeper, you feel like you
Speaker 3: lose a step, maybe you can't cover the distance. When
Speaker 3: you add in the Achilles injury to that even more so,
Speaker 3: but that just doesn't seem to be the case. And like,
Speaker 3: has he maybe lost a slight step or a little
Speaker 3: bit of reaction time. I mean, sure that's always gonna happen,
Speaker 3: but you know, obviously his knowledge of the position, his
Speaker 3: knowledge of this team, his knowledge of the league has
Speaker 3: made up for that, and you just don't feel like
Speaker 3: he's not able to get the job done. Especially in
Speaker 3: recent weeks, he hasn't been. I can't remember a better
Speaker 3: two game stretch than he had against Red Bulls and
Speaker 3: and against Philly. And you said a goal in a quarter.
Speaker 3: It was definitely more than that against Red Bulls. I
Speaker 3: think it was over a goal and a half. I
Speaker 3: think his you know, and obviously a lot of that
Speaker 3: goes to the PK save, right, I think his rating
Speaker 3: was like eight point one or something like that on
Speaker 3: SOFA score, Like the numbers were crazy, but even separate
Speaker 3: of the PK save, which.
Speaker 2: Eight point eight against Red Bulls.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so one point yeah, so eight saves, one point
Speaker 1: seven to one goals prevented, two punches too high claim
Speaker 1: seven from inside the box, seven saves inside the box,
Speaker 1: a PK save, forty five touches fourteen to twenty eight,
Speaker 1: passing twelve twenty six on long balls, is won his
Speaker 1: only aerial duell.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Brad was a busy man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're talking about in a two game stretch
Speaker 3: back to back that is over three goals statistically prevented,
Speaker 3: Like that's a crazy number. For like the world's best
Speaker 3: goalkeepers and to do it as a forty year old
Speaker 3: coming off of the injury a while ago, while wearing
Speaker 3: the captain's arm band, rightfully, So it's just as impressive
Speaker 3: as he's ever been. And so, yeah, I don't know
Speaker 3: how he keeps doing it. I'm glad he's doing it.
Speaker 3: He's probably gonna have to do it another time because
Speaker 3: you know, they're they're they're starting a round into form
Speaker 3: and the last two games are our good buddy Joseph
Speaker 3: Martinez has scored three goals in the last two games,
Speaker 3: and so he's starting to heat back up a little bit.
Speaker 3: And and yeah, it's it's it's a game, quite frankly,
Speaker 3: you have to have so that that's there's no more
Speaker 3: walking around it this time.
Speaker 1: Never heard of this Martinez individual that you're discussing.
Speaker 2: Never heard of him, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So since we've started at the back, let's take
Speaker 1: the next step forward and talk about Pedro Amador. Brad
Speaker 1: made a point post match to talk about Pedro and
Speaker 1: how he's integrating into what they're asking him to do.
Speaker 1: I think the Brad had mentioned after the match that
Speaker 1: he's looking for Pedro to get more offensive minded at times,
Speaker 1: because right now you'll see the occasional inside run from Pedro,
Speaker 1: but defensively you're getting what you were looking at when
Speaker 1: you saw him on tape and you asked around and
Speaker 1: you kick the tires on folks. Pedro Amador on the
Speaker 1: left for Atland United has really grown into what they're
Speaker 1: asking him to do defensively.
Speaker 3: Well, a couple of things, and I mentioned this. You know,
Speaker 3: we get the formation at the same time everyone else
Speaker 3: does off of social media, and we obviously I don't
Speaker 3: know if it's a huge surprise, but we noticed Tyler
Speaker 3: Wolf in the starting lineup. And I turned to my
Speaker 3: co host Garrett Chapman when we're doing this and I say,
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, Like, Tyler's not going to give
Speaker 3: you offensively what some of the other guys are gonna do.
Speaker 3: He's going to be an upgrade defensively up there on
Speaker 3: the left side. I said, I think you're able to
Speaker 3: do this because of Pedro Amador and the cross and
Speaker 3: the play that he's had on the left wing, and
Speaker 3: with all due respect to Ronald Hernandez and Caleb Wiley
Speaker 3: before him, it previously always felt like it was Brooks
Speaker 3: Lennon getting up to send in across, and I think
Speaker 3: more and more recently we've seen Pedro Amador on the
Speaker 3: other side get up to send in across. And I
Speaker 3: think the elevated offense from that left back position did
Speaker 3: allow you to play Tyler Wolf up top. And obviously
Speaker 3: there's some depth issues and injuries that also factored in.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna pretend it was only because of that,
Speaker 3: but yeah, he has been outstanding. And we talked about
Speaker 3: Brad Kuzan's two game run. It's now like a five
Speaker 3: game run for Pedro Amador where every single game and
Speaker 3: I know it only got like I think he's only
Speaker 3: got still the one assist a couple of games ago,
Speaker 3: but it just feels like every single game, You're like, man,
Speaker 3: this guy just feels dangerous. He feels in rhythm, in
Speaker 3: the flow, the chemistry, and no longer seems to be
Speaker 3: an issue. He's had like five or six game run
Speaker 3: now where like every time he steps off the field.
Speaker 3: And Jay Fortune, by the way, also kind of in
Speaker 3: this group of guys who are like, man, like four
Speaker 3: or five straight games, this guy has really brought it.
Speaker 3: And I think Pedro Amador's is kind of leading to
Speaker 3: charge on that, because look, you did send away a
Speaker 3: lot of talent, and not that we were forgetting Caleb Wiley,
Speaker 3: but so much focus was on on Yakamachus going away
Speaker 3: and on Thiago Almana going away, he almost forgot. You
Speaker 3: also sent a kid in Caleb Wiley that was about
Speaker 3: as good as any, or certainly has the potential to
Speaker 3: be as good as any. And you always worry about
Speaker 3: what you're losing in those positions. In just the way
Speaker 3: that Pedro Amador has picked it up since Romo Hernandez
Speaker 3: got hurt, you just don't feel like you've lost that
Speaker 3: much there, you know. And they play slightly different and
Speaker 3: slightly different aspects of it. But yeah, he's been outstanding.
Speaker 3: I know, he kind of kind of saved the goal.
Speaker 3: I guess a week ago, didn't know much about it,
Speaker 3: but ball hit him where.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean basically he does like almost like
Speaker 1: a blind behind the back, yeah, save with the leg,
Speaker 1: and that starts the run going back the other way.
Speaker 2: That creates the chance and the goal for atlanda night.
Speaker 3: At the other he just seems like he's involved, especially
Speaker 3: defensively in key moments. It just feels like he's always there.
Speaker 3: You don't seem to be worried about him getting caught upfield,
Speaker 3: and with all that, he's also still adding to the offense.
Speaker 3: It's been a very impressive run of games for Pedro Amador,
Speaker 3: a guy that, again a lot of us didn't know
Speaker 3: a ton about. He was brought in maybe with the
Speaker 3: idea that potentially Caleb was leaving, but we didn't know
Speaker 3: how much we'd actually see him. But he's been very
Speaker 3: solid in these Like I said, these last four or
Speaker 3: five games for him, feels like he's gotten more and
Speaker 3: more impactful every single one.
Speaker 1: Ape Gordon at Abe Gordon at nine two nine the game,
Speaker 1: hanging out with us as he always does, back and
Speaker 1: leadoff as our Ricky Henderson for the week when it
Speaker 1: comes to everything going on here in the world of
Speaker 1: soccer with it, Landy United Pedro against Philly six point
Speaker 1: eight on sofa score. Played the full ninety and had
Speaker 1: two clearances, one tackle, two for two on his ground duels,
Speaker 1: one or five in the air, so total three for
Speaker 1: seven on his duels. It was fouled once. Seventy eight touches,
Speaker 1: sixty seven percent passing at thirty seven to fifty five.
Speaker 1: One key pass to your point, two for three on
Speaker 1: his crosses, four for seven on long balls, had the
Speaker 1: one big chance created one shot off target, So that
Speaker 1: was Pedro against Philly. And we're just seeing this kind
Speaker 1: of that, this back line one when it's healthy of Amador,
Speaker 1: Derek Williamsteon, Gregorson, Brooks, Lennon with the with the help
Speaker 1: that you get from the six, whether it's Bart dropping
Speaker 1: back or Dax dropping back or Jay dropping back at
Speaker 1: any given moment, this back line is solidifying itself and
Speaker 1: it's no longer you know the hello, my name is
Speaker 1: name tag trying to figure out, Okay, who's my partner
Speaker 1: this week? When these four are healthy, you're seeing the
Speaker 1: results here.
Speaker 3: Well, it does you a couple of things. And I
Speaker 3: think we all got locked in with Almada and Yakamakas
Speaker 3: is having to play up the middle, and then kind
Speaker 3: of Brooks will send it in when he can, and
Speaker 3: I think you now, I mean Saba has been and
Speaker 3: it's not been a four or five game run for Saba.
Speaker 3: It's been a year long run for Saba. He's been
Speaker 3: outstanding all season, with the exception of maybe one or
Speaker 3: two games in which you could tell he was just tired.
Speaker 3: He was a little worn down. He is. The fight
Speaker 3: has been there for Saba all season, but it felt
Speaker 3: now like you can really attack from anywhere because of
Speaker 3: the addition of Pedro Amador into this offense. You got
Speaker 3: Brooks and Saba on one side, and it could come
Speaker 3: through the middle with Ronchuck, it can come from the wings.
Speaker 3: It does feel like you're a little bit more well
Speaker 3: rounded in finding the attacks. And you know, I think
Speaker 3: that can only come because you're confident in the back line.
Speaker 3: And it's different, right, Like, I mean, we all like
Speaker 3: Stean gregorson, I don't know if we want to see
Speaker 3: him as as many one on ones as we let
Speaker 3: Miles Robinson deal with, right, Like the goal is not
Speaker 3: to be facing one on ones, but but you're certainly
Speaker 3: able to. And I'm surprised that Derek Williams I think
Speaker 3: he's had an outstanding season, uh, because I did not
Speaker 3: know what exactly we were gonna get from him back there.
Speaker 3: But it's been a lot of guys stepping up along
Speaker 3: the back line. This is a team that can't win
Speaker 3: or not can't, but like hasn't won in the same
Speaker 3: way all the time, Like like there are teams in
Speaker 3: mls that, like you could circle it and if they're
Speaker 3: able to do this, they're probably gonna win. If they're
Speaker 3: able to do that, they're probably gonna lose. They have
Speaker 3: to play the exact same style every single game. It
Speaker 3: just feels fluid. Like in the all, like we just
Speaker 3: talked about the offensive attack, the defense feels fluid as well,
Speaker 3: like like the whole squad feels fluid. And but maybe
Speaker 3: you don't want that, Maybe you wish you could like
Speaker 3: enact your will upon your opponent a little bit more.
Speaker 3: But I actually like being able to kind of go
Speaker 3: with it and swing and move with what the opponent
Speaker 3: forces you to do. I think it gives you options
Speaker 3: in the event, because there are teams that just cannot
Speaker 3: win a game if they're not playing their style. And
Speaker 3: look at Lady United hadn't been outstanding this year, but
Speaker 3: I do think that they can kind of move and
Speaker 3: be malleable with what they're forced to do. And I
Speaker 3: think that starts with the defense, the confidence there, and
Speaker 3: also what you have been getting in the defensive midfield
Speaker 3: a little bit too. So it's been interesting to see.
Speaker 3: I mean, like mid season there was this huge flip
Speaker 3: right where like all right, like, possession's good. If we
Speaker 3: win possession, that's fine. We're not going to force our
Speaker 3: way to win possession if we have to play slightly
Speaker 3: different than we will. And look, they've gotten this far
Speaker 3: to the point where they still have a season and
Speaker 3: in front of them with three games left and opportunity,
Speaker 3: they just have to take advantage of it now.
Speaker 1: Malleable the word of the morning. M A L L
Speaker 1: E A B L E. Malleable. All right, so you've
Speaker 1: got a day and a half basically it is film
Speaker 1: study and then it's getting ready and then it's all
Speaker 1: of a sudden back at you with some dude named
Speaker 1: Martinez and Montreal coming to town. What are you anticipating
Speaker 1: with Montreal coming to town? Because it once again, as
Speaker 1: we sit here and stare at the standings, everything's in play.
Speaker 1: They're the one that's above you right now. You got
Speaker 1: to get a win and then that would even up
Speaker 1: the number of wins that you would have with Montreal
Speaker 1: if it came down to tiebreakers and things like that
Speaker 1: at the end of the season. So, got a couple
Speaker 1: of days to catch your breath here and get prepped
Speaker 1: for Montreal. What are you anticipating with this one coming
Speaker 1: up in the midweek.
Speaker 3: You gotta score. I mean Montreal's will add sixty one goals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when they lose, they lose big.
Speaker 3: Yeah. DC is the only team in the Eastern Conference
Speaker 3: that can allowed more goals than Montreal. And so that's
Speaker 3: the key to it is you gotta find goals. You're
Speaker 3: pretty close, pretty even with them on each team and
Speaker 3: how you're able to score. But defensively you are the
Speaker 3: better squad, and so it needs to look that way.
Speaker 3: And you know, you say, hey, Montreal's got blown out
Speaker 3: a couple of times. I don't care if it's five
Speaker 3: to one or one nothing. You got to do everything.
Speaker 3: And again I said this about Philly. I was proven
Speaker 3: wrong to an extent, but I just you're running out
Speaker 3: of games at this point. You gotta find the line
Speaker 3: between being brave, being courageous, going for it, and being
Speaker 3: reckless and just abandoning the goal because you have to win.
Speaker 3: You cannot get a fourth straight draw. And like I said,
Speaker 3: I'd rather come away with zero points than one. I
Speaker 3: need to see the fight that you're going for it
Speaker 3: full fledged, knowing that this is a must win game.
Speaker 3: I thought Saturday was must win because of the Toronto
Speaker 3: Chicago result. It turned out not to be. That's not
Speaker 3: gonna happen. Like, you can't look around the rest of
Speaker 3: the table and the rest of the schedule and say, well,
Speaker 3: maybe this happens, this team will help bail us out.
Speaker 3: There is no more bailing out. This is a six
Speaker 3: point swing with a team ahead of you, with only
Speaker 3: two games remaining afterwards. You have to get three points
Speaker 3: in this one. And so, like I said, I need
Speaker 3: to see these guys understand the moment and understand that
Speaker 3: a draw is not going to be good enough. And again,
Speaker 3: if it costs you to win, at least I can
Speaker 3: sit here and say I felt like they went for
Speaker 3: it because I did not feel that way on Saturday night.
Speaker 3: And so you can look at the tape all you want.
Speaker 3: You can draw up plays and do your matchups all
Speaker 3: you want, and we can have some stats for you
Speaker 3: and keys and all this stuff, and that's fine, but
Speaker 3: you gotta really feel it in your blood, in your
Speaker 3: bones that we need this game and it needs to
Speaker 3: look that way. And again, you know I mentioned you
Speaker 3: can't get dumb eight minutes into this match, right, and
Speaker 3: there's a timeline for it to become increasingly more important
Speaker 3: to find goals and find a win. You don't do
Speaker 3: it immediately, right, you just you don't send ten guys
Speaker 3: running forward right off the opening kick. I think we
Speaker 3: all understand that. But as this game develops, I need
Speaker 3: to see a certain level of desire and you know,
Speaker 3: quite frankly, desperation. And so that's what I'm looking for. Again,
Speaker 3: if it costs you a drawl going for a win,
Speaker 3: I'd rather talk about that postgame than settling for a point.
Speaker 3: And so we'll see, we'll see. I don't know if
Speaker 3: any anyone listens to me that much. I don't think,
Speaker 3: I mean, but like if I'm rad volentino, like I
Speaker 3: would literally tell them, like don't come back to me
Speaker 3: with a point, like like do not cut. I don't
Speaker 3: care if we lose in the eighty ninth minute, in
Speaker 3: the ninety third minute, do not come back into this
Speaker 3: locker room with one point. It it better be three
Speaker 3: or zero because anything else is unacceptable. And so we'll
Speaker 3: see if that's how it plays itself out. I know
Speaker 3: that's not necessarily the like the ideal message, but like
Speaker 3: that's that's the moment, Like that's what it is. Right now,
Speaker 3: you're not going to the playoffs with one point. You're
Speaker 3: not going to the playoffs with zero either. I think
Speaker 3: we understand that, but you're not going with one, right,
Speaker 3: So it's to me, it's it's all or nothing. It's
Speaker 3: three or nothing in this one. And I want to
Speaker 3: see them look like that, play like that, And if
Speaker 3: you need to start ramping it up and getting dangerous
Speaker 3: in the fifty fifth minute, in the sixtieth minute, then
Speaker 3: then go for it and do whatever you have to do,
Speaker 3: but don't come back with one point.
Speaker 1: H question from Abby. Abby wants to know if you're
Speaker 1: going to be at the game Wednesday, because well, shawna
Speaker 1: Tova Wednesday sundown to alt, So are you going to
Speaker 1: be there?
Speaker 3: I will be there, Yes, I won't be there right
Speaker 3: at the start because we've got the pregame show, but
Speaker 3: I will be sliding in. You think they're gonna have
Speaker 3: a little bit of apples and honey for us up
Speaker 3: in the press box.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe maybe you can maybe.
Speaker 3: Have Banana's foster for the Miami game. That was kind
Speaker 3: of close enough, right.
Speaker 1: Oh see, now I didn't get the chance to sample
Speaker 1: the bananas foster.
Speaker 3: I'm on a diet so I didn't either, But yes
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 1: I was wondering what was going on at that table
Speaker 1: and I had no idea, and then everybody's like, yes bananas.
Speaker 2: I'm like, are you issuing me? Man? Come on? I
Speaker 2: was not so. But I think you can import.
Speaker 1: I think that if you brought in the apples and
Speaker 1: honey uh into uh into the NBS, I think you'd
Speaker 1: be in good shape.
Speaker 3: Well, they got like honey packets. Now I don't. I
Speaker 3: don't need like the weird capsule they have they have
Speaker 3: like a little package.
Speaker 2: Or the plastic bear that you unscrew the cap.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want that, because that that if that
Speaker 3: spills in my bag, then the bag's done.
Speaker 2: Let's yeah, that's not I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't want to take any chance. I guess I
Speaker 3: could just like throw it in a ziplock and that
Speaker 3: would probably save myself the concern.
Speaker 1: But I think so. So well, we will see you
Speaker 1: at NBS on Wednesday, my friend. Great to catch up,
Speaker 1: as we always do, start the week with you here.
Speaker 1: When it comes to a land.
Speaker 3: United, absolutely three points are zero.
Speaker 2: Don't give me a draw, no draws for a be good.
Speaker 2: My friend will see in a couple of days, yeah,