WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:03.200 First time in a long time on a very special weekend. 2 00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:05.639 It's a very special blossom. Here we go's bringing our 3 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:07.719 buddy Kevin Egan to start hour number two. 4 00:00:08.279 --> 00:00:10.320 Good morning, Good morning, Johnny boy. 5 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:11.960 Hey brother, what's going on? 6 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:14.279 What is the crack? As we say in Arden, that 7 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:15.480 means how are you all? Well? 8 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:18.000 Well, yeah, well the crack is we're running about five 9 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:20.120 hundred miles an hour, kind of like somebody that you 10 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:24.800 know and uh, making sure that you brother. 11 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:27.359 It's like when when do you when do you catch 12 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:28.519 your flight? The head north? 13 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:31.239 A little bit later on, just in from the gym. 14 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:34.719 I'm a sweaty, sweaty betty right now, whatever went to 15 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:35.920 do me? 16 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:37.560 Burne, Bill Campe appear at my wife? 17 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:40.640 So, now who handles? 18 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:43.240 Wait, it's Kevin Patrick. He's not in Vegas, says right, 19 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:46.679 what's that? Two? No not anymore? 20 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:49.679 Yeah that well, I was going to see if oh 21 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:52.280 that's Rich Wait hang on yeah Rich Ransom. Yeah, Rich 22 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:56.359 Ransom is our resident Philadelphia Union fan, and so we 23 00:00:56.479 --> 00:00:59.200 do want to discuss Philadelphia and Atlanta as a part 24 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:00.560 of your is in here. 25 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:03.960 So who, so who handles boot camp? Better? 26 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:04.560 Is it you? 27 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:06.079 Or is it the boss? 28 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:10.400 It is uh, I do you know what's funny? 29 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:10.719 Meg? 30 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:14.200 Meg destroys me with core stuff like if if if 31 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:16.959 there's any kind of a plank competition or sit up competition, 32 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:19.840 destroys me. But she hates doing sprints and stuff that 33 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:22.280 I love. So we're just we're just different in that sense. 34 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:22.599 See. 35 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:24.480 I just I just let the let the two of 36 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:26.079 you do that. And it's like, give me my four 37 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:28.280 mile walk once a week, and I'm in good shape. 38 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:31.799 I just and then by the time I'm done an 39 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:33.920 hour and twenty minutes later, I'm just like, nope, leave 40 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:35.079 me alone, is saying happening. 41 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:36.560 I'm gonna go sit in the corner and just go. 42 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:38.560 You know, wce a week, Johnny, you can be doing 43 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:39.120 that every day. 44 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:41.879 Come on, I get it. I mean, how many steps 45 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:42.719 do you get in a day? 46 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:44.599 Ten thousand? 47 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.480 Wow? Try to No, that's what I thought it was. 48 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:51.040 Yeah, because you try, you're supposed to get ten or 49 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:52.159 you're supposed to get was it eight? 50 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:53.200 Or you're supposed to get ten? 51 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:55.040 I don't know. All I know is I'm turning forty 52 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:55.680 in a few weeks. 53 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:58.599 Oh whatever, I'm turning forty in a few weeks, and 54 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:00.280 I want to I want to turn that corner into 55 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:03.959 a new decade, you know, fit and healthy, So doing. 56 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:06.120 My best turning forty whatever. 57 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:09.120 You're still in your mid thirties. What are you talking about? 58 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:12.360 Smart man? That's that's why I love you, you know. 59 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:15.159 So MLS three sixty, I want to get the MLS 60 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:19.120 three sixty question in here. What is the most. 61 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:24.800 Interesting part about MLS three sixty and what is the 62 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:27.919 when it comes to the broadcast in and of itself? 63 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.759 What is the most challenging thing about MLS three sixty? 64 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:35.240 I think the most interesting I'm trying to think about 65 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:38.000 it from the viewer's perspective as opposed to in our 66 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:39.599 seat or maybe I'll give you r seat. The most 67 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:42.680 interesting is just I love the reactions of the analyst 68 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:46.039 next to me. I love I can't focus on anything 69 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:50.840 else but our main monitor and the show program monitor. 70 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:53.080 Like I can't focus on anything else, and I won't. 71 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:55.439 I refuse to look at the nine bucks that we 72 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:58.360 have to our right hand side that you'll often see Dax, Klen, 73 00:02:58.400 --> 00:02:59.479 Sash and Brad looking at. 74 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:01.000 So sometimes they go. 75 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:06.080 And I'm like, don't react, you know, stay the course 76 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:08.919 and focus on what you're doing. So that's a lot 77 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:13.240 of fun. My hope is that we can inform, educate 78 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:16.759 and entertain and if somebody decides to tune into MLS 79 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:18.280 three sixty and give it a go for first time 80 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:19.719 and they may not be the biggest fan of Major 81 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:22.879 League Soccer that by the end or are an hour 82 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:24.800 in if you give us a go from seven thirty 83 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:27.560 to nine thirty, say that window. Because this weekend we've 84 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:29.960 got a boatload of games. First time in MLS history, 85 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:35.400 we've got fifteen games on a Saturday. Yeah, So I 86 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:38.800 hope that we can inform and educate, entertain, have a 87 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:40.120 bit of fun as well well. 88 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:44.560 And the idea for me doing the livest of the 89 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:47.520 live television like something like that where you're basically just 90 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:50.039 bouncing and bouncing and bouncing. There's a lot of trust. 91 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:54.400 What I've always told folks about live television. Don't know 92 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:57.280 how many folks have a dog, but you know when 93 00:03:57.319 --> 00:03:59.919 you take your dog out for a run at the lake, 94 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:01.879 and the dog, you know, like if you've got to, 95 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:04.280 you've got a Golden retriever. Golden Retriever just loves to 96 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:06.599 go play fetching. He gets the stick out of the lake, 97 00:04:07.039 --> 00:04:08.800 you throw the you throw the stick in the lake. 98 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:12.159 The Golden Retriever goes and gets the stick and brings 99 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:13.960 it back to you on the shore for round number two. 100 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:17.079 What do you see above the water line when it 101 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:20.560 comes to that Golden retriever? You just see the stick 102 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:23.720 between the stick between the teeth and he's just puffing 103 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:25.439 and he's just doing his thing, and it's just all 104 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:27.279 calm as he's coming back to shore. 105 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:30.920 What's going on below the water line? That Golden Retriever 106 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:31.920 is doing this? Man? 107 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:36.279 The stuff above the water line is what folks see 108 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:40.040 on television. They don't see below the water line is 109 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:43.800 what happens to make live television be live television. Yeah, 110 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:45.720 and it speaks a lot to the confidence you've got 111 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:47.160 to have to the folks that are talking to you 112 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:50.199 about we gotta go. You know those kinds of moments. 113 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:52.120 You've got to have that kind of confidence and you've 114 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:53.160 got to be that locked in. 115 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:53.839 Yeah. 116 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:56.680 And obviously we're trying to be as live as possible. 117 00:04:56.759 --> 00:05:00.079 Maybe we're ten seconds behind at certain points because a 118 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:02.240 goal goes in elsewhere and our producer's got to quickly 119 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:04.519 queue it up with the EVS machine, and then we 120 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:07.519 go to another game. It's a lot of fun. I 121 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:09.680 love the opening of the show in the sense that, 122 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:12.839 like you can really get into each game, maybe before 123 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:14.839 a goal is scored, but sometimes you know, we could 124 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:16.920 have eight games going on at the same time, and 125 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:19.000 next thing, a game kicks off. You're trying to speak 126 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:20.279 about it for a second, but we got to bounce 127 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:23.319 to another game. I couldn't pick a show that suits 128 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:26.839 me more in terms of my own enjoyment, genuinely, Like, 129 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:29.759 I've worked on many shows, and I would pick MLS 130 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:32.399 three sixty number one, and it's not even close, just 131 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:34.480 because of the people I'm working with and also what 132 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:37.240 I get to cover and see, I'm looking at the 133 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:39.759 comments here. I've never fully focused on the comments on 134 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:43.160 this show, John, like I'm doing right now. Abby, good morning, 135 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:46.519 Hope you're well, love you to pieces. You're the best. Jordan, 136 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:48.079 I did not know that happened. That's wild. 137 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:51.160 And Alex, how are you. That's great that you met 138 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:54.360 Shay Given what a legend he is, Irish legend Shay given. 139 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:57.519 So yeah, pretty cool this And like I said, this 140 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:00.160 is our version of three sixty. When we do the 141 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:04.000 am it's like trying to balance the guests guess what's 142 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:05.920 going on their mind, and then the comments. 143 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:07.800 It's all this kind of stuff. 144 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:09.240 You guys do such a phenomenal job. 145 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:13.480 Well, and thank you for that, sir, reminder that you mentioned. 146 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:15.480 That you've got all all all the activity going on, 147 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:20.439 all seventy five games happening on Saturday, and you've got 148 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:23.480 I think you're gonna have at some point you're gonna 149 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:26.600 do they have the ten box all ready to go. 150 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:31.360 Ten Yeah, should have, because you're gonna have six. You're 151 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:34.399 gonna have six at seven thirty and then another four 152 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:37.680 at eight thirty. Math is right, So ten bucks, you're 153 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:38.879 gonna have a ten box. 154 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:41.040 Man, This is this, This is the star stuff that 155 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:46.199 gets John Nelson excited. You see a ten box, you 156 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:47.079 lose your job. 157 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:51.720 I do, because once again it's that whole idea of hosting, 158 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:54.360 and it's like, all right, I know, I have all 159 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:58.920 of these opportunities to tell stories simultaneously, and you'll have 160 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:01.199 you'll have that one, you'll have the afternoon game in 161 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:02.959 the barn, so you'll have at least highlights to get 162 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:06.279 you into the six. But then it's six chances to 163 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:09.360 tell stories or technically, well then it's another four and 164 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:11.240 so you're having to sit there and you're jugging all 165 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:14.519 ten when it comes to what's going on here. 166 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:16.199 And we're at a stage, we're at a stage a 167 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:18.759 season where we have real strong opinions on teams, like 168 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:21.279 we've seen enough now, we've seen enough from Atlanta to 169 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:24.000 have a strong opinion on Atlanta from Philadelphia, you know, 170 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.720 and so on. So like a game for me, like 171 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:30.600 Seattle Nashville is a fascinating game. Seattle have the exact 172 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:33.240 same record right now as Atlanta. If you were to 173 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:37.000 ask the question honestly and appreciate that coming from that's. 174 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:37.279 Just come in there. 175 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:39.160 Three sixties a bomb, So much energy from you, sir, 176 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:41.399 Thank you, thank you, thank you. I've got I feel 177 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:44.040 like with three sixty if I don't meet the commentator's energy. 178 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:46.720 So if if there's a commentator on a game that 179 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:48.439 hits a nine out of ten on a great goal 180 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:52.319 and our producer four seconds later says, go keV, if 181 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:54.480 I come in at a five or six out of ten, 182 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:58.279 it just doesn't it doesn't add up for the viewer. 183 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:00.680 It doesn't sound right. So it's just that where hopefully 184 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:05.120 the show has good energy. But you know, Seattle and Atlanta. Wow, 185 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:09.279 this stage the season, John, but Seattle were many people's 186 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:14.040 pick to win the Supporter Shield Atlanta. Absolutely everybody had 187 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:15.759 Atlanta in the top four in the East this year. 188 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:17.759 You know, I don't know anyone that didn't. 189 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:21.639 Yeah, So then, what what's your your diagnosis so far, 190 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:25.079 doctor Egan, about what's been going on with Atlanta so far? 191 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:28.399 Here is I know, obviously expectations at the Children's Health 192 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:30.560 Care of Atlanta training ground and outward big. 193 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:32.360 That's it's like you have one thing and right now 194 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:34.320 you only have this to show for it. Yeah. 195 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:36.799 I think there's there's so many facets to what's going 196 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:40.080 on right now. One so let's let's focus on the 197 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:43.919 positives first. The positives are there's chances being created in games. 198 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:46.600 Hitting the woodwork twice in the last game, Miguel has 199 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:48.559 a goal ruled off that I hate to see that 200 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:51.720 decision made, even though I understand it. I understand the 201 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:54.919 rule and the player, you know, blocking the cross doesn't 202 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:57.679 have control of the ball in that, I get it 203 00:08:57.720 --> 00:08:59.320 when I read the rule book. But the fact that 204 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:04.679 on the fact that it has such a small plays 205 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:08.679 such a small role in the goal and rules out 206 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:12.080 a beautiful strike for Miggie is a killer so many 207 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:14.960 There's positives in a lot of ways, but man, there's 208 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:18.559 so many things that are concerning and I get I 209 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:21.840 saw Felipe Cardinas on Twitter yesterday talking about the personality 210 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:22.200 within the. 211 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:24.960 Team and I couldn't disagree with him. I listened to it. 212 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:27.519 I listened to it thinking I see a lot of this. 213 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:29.240 There's a lot of things in the game where I'm 214 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:34.600 looking for big personalities and I think when you look 215 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:36.919 and it doesn't need to be shouting and screaming. Michael 216 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:39.720 Parkhurst had a massive personality on the field for Atlanta 217 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:42.840 United without screaming and shouting all the time. Darlington nagbe 218 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:46.440 a huge personality in the way he stepped in moments, 219 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:48.200 in the way he used his body to make a 220 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:52.879 statement in games. This is Atlanta United players, honestly, stop 221 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:54.720 looking around for someone else to do it, start doing 222 00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:57.320 it yourselves. It feels like that sort of a moment 223 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:00.960 for these players that are clearly good enough. In my mind, 224 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:04.879 I think that it's way too soon to be judging 225 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:07.759 Ronnie Diler too much. I've seen some comments out there 226 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:09.799 that Ronnie Diler's got to go. I don't I don't 227 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:12.000 buy into that at all. After eight games, I think 228 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:15.279 you've got to give a coach time. But it's not 229 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:18.240 good enough from a team that have spent fifty million 230 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:23.159 on an attack that you to expect more chances, more goals. 231 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:26.080 But the issue, the big issue, I think, is the 232 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:30.360 cohesion in midfield. And I would with that team, with 233 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:32.840 that group of players, I would switch to a three back. 234 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:34.960 I would I would switch the three back. I would 235 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:36.399 go wing backs. And I think you've got a big 236 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:38.720 decision to make whether it's Brooks Lennon or Saba Lobjanite 237 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:40.759 on the right hand side right now. I think I'd 238 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:43.000 lean towards Saba on the right hand side as a 239 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.360 wing back Pedro Amador on the left. And I think 240 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:48.440 in that sort of a system you can get Mirron 241 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:50.960 Schuk a little bit deeper while still having balance and 242 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.639 you can play mcgal Almiran off Manuel Lael. 243 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:57.039 All right, So that's that's diagnosis, Kevin Egan. I feel 244 00:10:57.039 --> 00:10:59.000 like I need to get you a stethoscope for situation. 245 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:01.879 No, And it's not doom and gloom like like MLS 246 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:04.440 is forgiving. The season could be turned around instantly, and 247 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:08.000 I hope that's the case. I live in Atlanta. My 248 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:10.559 son is wearing Atlantica oightted jerseys every day. I want 249 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:13.960 this team to do well and I want to try 250 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:15.480 and get to more games. If I if I if 251 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:18.960 I if I could with James. But I just I 252 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:21.919 just you kind of you're craving. You just want to 253 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:24.720 see more as a fan watching the game right now 254 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:26.360 from the players that are there. And it's not just 255 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:29.279 the skill and the passing and the chance creation and 256 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:32.960 the tactics. Sometimes it goes beyond that and you think 257 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:35.879 about leaders that Atlanta United have had, and those are 258 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.320 the players that personality that's been mentioned before right now 259 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:40.360 I think is missing. 260 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:43.559 Kevin Egan hanging out with US head coach, head coach. 261 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:46.120 He is the host, head coach and host. 262 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:49.320 He is the host of hashtag MLS three sixty because 263 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:51.480 that's what they encourage, the hashtag and MOLAST three sixty 264 00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:55.559 on the weekends on Apple TV. When you look at 265 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:59.320 so then all right, so follow up question, how much 266 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:03.159 time do you a lot for patience when it comes 267 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:07.799 to integrating who should be where and what and all 268 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:11.720 these things when it comes to formation and laying everything out. 269 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:14.840 Because we've seen, we've seen out of the blocks, and yes, 270 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:18.000 I know it was CF Montreal. We've seen against NYC 271 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:20.840 and the comeback there. You've seen how electric this group 272 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:23.399 can be with me dropping back a little bit and 273 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:27.799 being part of the price with who John with uh 274 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:31.120 with you had that Midanchuk dropping back? Yeah, sorry, I 275 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.240 went native with the pronunciation. It's all the years I 276 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:34.679 had spending hot time I heard you say it. 277 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:35.360 I was just curious. 278 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:38.879 Midchu no nice, I just didn't hear you. I'm sorry, Yeah, no. 279 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:41.399 It's it's well, it's because I'm coming through with allergy, 280 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:42.879 so it's midn chuk uh. 281 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:43.480 Yeah. 282 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:46.639 So you have Midanchuk playing deeper, acting more of a playmaker. 283 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:48.320 The space was there for him to create, and you 284 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:50.720 saw what happened as NYC with the big comeback. You 285 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:52.679 saw it early in the year again with Latte Lot 286 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:56.840 and with Miggy and everybody coordinating against CF Montreal. So my, 287 00:12:57.240 --> 00:13:00.799 what I'm gathering free from from you here is what 288 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:04.279 you're looking at stylistically. How much patience are you giving 289 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:07.279 all of these new transactions to be a part of 290 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:10.240 this new group to find themselves or was your patients 291 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:12.879 in training camp and you've got to hit the ground running. 292 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:15.519 Where's your level of patients about integrating all these pieces. 293 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.720 It's an interesting one because Ronnie Diila did say just 294 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:21.960 a few days ago, if the players aren't doing it, 295 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:24.279 they'll be gone. He kind of said something, am I 296 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:26.679 right in saying that guys were probably there. It was 297 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:29.080 something along those lines. I need to get the quote 298 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:30.720 from my prep today, but that was a big thing 299 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:34.399 to say, is that he's a coach with a reputation 300 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:37.879 of an MLS champion coming into this club from winning 301 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:39.840 in twenty twenty one with New York City, and I 302 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:42.559 don't think he's going to want any players that aren't 303 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:45.600 living up to the billing or aren't giving it absolutely everything. 304 00:13:45.879 --> 00:13:48.840 They need to move on because the standards that Atlanta 305 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:50.639 United have been set from the early days and they 306 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:54.080 should be they should be held accountable these players. I 307 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:57.559 think Sasha and brad have been talking a lot on 308 00:13:57.639 --> 00:13:59.320 the show, and Bradley made the point last week on 309 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:02.759 wrap Up that he sees a little bit of a 310 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:06.559 He sees Atlanta United as a counter attacking team. Remember 311 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:09.840 with Tato Martino, this team played nearly counter attacking football 312 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.720 via possession, luring teams in and then all of a sudden, 313 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:15.120 you find Nagbeat in a little bit of a pocket. 314 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:16.960 He sprays it whye for Tito Vial but. 315 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:18.919 In away Goos Miggi and Joseph, and all of a 316 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:22.639 sudden this team was flowing and attacking and fun and 317 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:26.840 and and direct and lightning quick. The players like Saba, 318 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:32.159 Miggi La, those profiles are similar. Mironchuk isn't that guy 319 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:35.440 at all. Alexi Mironchuk is is much more of a 320 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:38.840 heavy possession style. I would think, uh, you know, from 321 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:40.879 watching him over in Syria, ab from speaking with some 322 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:44.399 of my friends at CBS about Mirron Chuck over with 323 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:48.840 Atalanta as well. Maybe in that system change if there 324 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:51.039 was to be one, he plays a little bit deeper 325 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:53.840 where he's a classy ball player and he is that guy. 326 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:55.720 We did a piece of analysis on the show a 327 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:59.039 few weeks ago, Dax did talking about that, just how 328 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:01.600 he became that link and all of us. He looks 329 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:05.000 so good doing it, and he's passing the ball in 330 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:07.639 a much more impressive way than we've seen from Bartok 331 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:10.759 Slish or from uh well, Click hasn't played a whole 332 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:14.639 lot since he's been with the club. You know, Tristan 333 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:16.639 Mayumba is impressed, and I think Ronnie died as a fan. 334 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:18.559 But I like Mer and Chuck in that deep role, 335 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:20.039 and I do like Jay Fortune as well. 336 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:24.120 All Right, So Maddy Cruz was at practice and so 337 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:26.840 hanging out with us here. She was hanging out in 338 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:28.799 the green room and so yes, Kevin, get your caffeine 339 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:29.240 and there we go. 340 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:32.000 So, Hey, Mardy, Hey, what's up? 341 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:34.200 Good? 342 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:35.399 How are you great? 343 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:35.679 Thank you? 344 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:39.559 Kevin was wondering about Ronnie at practice the other day, 345 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:41.279 and I know that you and Jason on training ground 346 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:44.080 dispatch got the chance to see what's going on with Ronnie. 347 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:46.559 And Ronnie's like, well, if you ain't performing, you ain't 348 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:48.879 gonna be out there. True, You're you're not gonna be here. 349 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:50.279 You're you're not gonna be out there. You're not going 350 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:52.639 to be here, period. What was the vibe with Ronnie 351 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:53.320 Dialer this week? 352 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:55.960 Well, I'll tell you if you watched our dispatch, me 353 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:58.399 and Jason said it. I think out of the time 354 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:01.519 we I think for me, I've only been really a 355 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:03.200 part in covering the club for about a year now, 356 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:05.840 but I think Jason even said it. 357 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:06.279 I said it. 358 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:08.879 I think that was one of the best media availabilities 359 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:09.960 I've ever attended. 360 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:11.159 Wow, Why is that? 361 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:15.960 It was just so open and raw and it was 362 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:18.759 very much laid all out on the table and it 363 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:21.759 was everything. It talked about everything and like what needs 364 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:23.679 to be done. And the thing that I think I 365 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:25.360 took away from it was, you know, people are asking, 366 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:27.679 like his philosophy, what he wants to do and is 367 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:29.399 very much He's like, well, it's not my philosophy. It 368 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:31.679 has to be Atlanta's philosophy. It has to be whatever 369 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:34.039 it is. I want players to contribute. I want them 370 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:37.399 to do things. But it's something that resonated with me, 371 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:40.320 even with bartows Sleish when he talked this week like 372 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:44.000 he thinks for being too nice, and I agree. I 373 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:46.039 want to see some greediness. I want to see them 374 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:48.440 go out there. If a player gets tracked down, I want. 375 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:50.080 Everyone coming in, but I want to see it from 376 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:54.639 him too. Absolutely ill. Players can talk all they want. 377 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:58.720 The greatest leaders this club has ever seen, Michael Parkhurst 378 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:01.480 and Darlington Nagby, in my mind, both of them didn't 379 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:03.960 speak a whole lot. So if players want to go 380 00:17:04.039 --> 00:17:07.599 and have media availability and impressed impressed the media through 381 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:11.559 their wonderful you know, gritty tones come on, that's that's 382 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:12.920 all well and good, But be that guy in the 383 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:14.680 dressing room and be that guy in the field and 384 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:16.519 set the tone inside the first five minutes. 385 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:17.240 I agree. 386 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:20.720 I agree, I because I think I think we've seen 387 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:23.200 glimpses of it from him too. We've seen glimpses of it, 388 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:25.720 I think last season in particular, and I want to 389 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:27.519 see more of it this season. And I mean, what 390 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:29.519 better way to prove that you got the greediness and 391 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:31.119 going up against the Philadelphia Union? 392 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:35.359 I mean, I mean, I mean, you got you got Philly, 393 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:38.240 and we and Kevin. We know what Philadelphia and Atlanta 394 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:40.799 when those two come, when those two go up against 395 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:42.680 each other, it's like two rams on a mountain side 396 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:43.400 on National. 397 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:47.279 You know, yeah it is and and and and Philadelphia 398 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:49.440 right now have have gone off the boil a little 399 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:49.799 bit too. 400 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:53.599 But I do like a lot of their pieces. 401 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:56.480