Speaker 1: Bass has dropped on a new round of Sdham. John
Speaker 1: here you there, thanks for dropping by, and as always,
Speaker 1: it is a no dealing new Dally zone on some
Speaker 1: Mondays because folks are kind of, oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: working and trying to make ends meet and things like
Speaker 1: that and making sure that their favorite to their favorite
Speaker 1: animals are in fact getting the chance to rule the
Speaker 1: roost and have the place all of themselves. So abes
Speaker 1: joining us off the top, I'm not really gonna wasteing time.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and lay it on me.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, you had an outstanding first half Saturday
Speaker 3: night at home against Charlotte. You were feeling good, and
Speaker 3: obviously you felt like it could have been more than
Speaker 3: just one nothing.
Speaker 2: But it was Moyemba.
Speaker 3: They gave you a lead, and it was just one
Speaker 3: of those things where you go to halftime you say, hey,
Speaker 3: this is a team that's had issues coming out of half,
Speaker 3: and so we'll see how it goes. You make a substitution,
Speaker 3: and now there's a lot more questions to be answered
Speaker 3: in regards to Evan Morales not starting in the second
Speaker 3: half after he had started in the first half. Takes
Speaker 3: about seventeen seconds the game equalized, and then fourteen minutes
Speaker 3: later you no longer have a lead, and you give
Speaker 3: up three goals in a second half in a home
Speaker 3: loss to Charlotte. That, in my opinion, not that it
Speaker 3: wasn't already there, that pretty much seals your fate for
Speaker 3: this season.
Speaker 2: The numbers are just too difficult at this point.
Speaker 3: I mean, I saw our buddy Joe Patrick tweeted, I
Speaker 3: thought it was too funny not to also bring it here.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a team that may not become
Speaker 3: Bowl eligible right, like they have four wins, like they
Speaker 3: may not even remake six wins to get to Bowl eligibility. Here,
Speaker 3: you've got eleven matches remaining, your thirteen points behind the
Speaker 3: playoff line. It probably will increase as teams continued rack
Speaker 3: up points above you. And the schedule is just not
Speaker 3: some sort of Sunday stroll. You got games against and
Speaker 3: I don't remember all that off the top of my
Speaker 3: head San Diego and Nashville and enter Miami and I
Speaker 3: think Columbus maybe one more time. And so you just
Speaker 3: I just don't think you're going to be able to
Speaker 3: go on that run. And so it's time to wake
Speaker 3: up and go ahead and and Bury this season and
Speaker 3: start to adjust for next season. And I think we've
Speaker 3: seen that with some of the moves that are being reported,
Speaker 3: some of the moves that have been made. Obviously with
Speaker 3: me High coming in, we'll get a look at him
Speaker 3: hopefully in our next match potentially, But obviously a move
Speaker 3: made yesterday and some more rumors early today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it might end up being a cause and
Speaker 1: effect involving Naomi High and Ephron Morales. It's being reported
Speaker 1: in a couple of different circles that and right now
Speaker 1: because the window doesn't open until Thursday. It is for
Speaker 1: the for the technical aspect of it, it is a
Speaker 1: reported deal that Ephra is heading to Montreal. Second center
Speaker 1: back that Landa United has had that is heading to Montreal,
Speaker 1: apparently first being George Campbell who's now at West Brom
Speaker 1: and so Campbell moves to West Brom Ephy looks like
Speaker 1: he might be moving to Montreal. And that came about yesterday.
Speaker 1: I want to say, those reports from Tom Bogert started
Speaker 1: about five thirty yesterday afternoon and it has raised a
Speaker 1: lot of eyebrows.
Speaker 2: But what I would what I.
Speaker 1: As I was trying to process the idea, hear me
Speaker 1: out on this. So if this is in fact going down,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much AM you had in place
Speaker 1: when you were bringing in me Hi in the first place.
Speaker 1: And if you are going to be making more moves
Speaker 1: in the transfer window, I don't know how up against
Speaker 1: the AM window you are. But you were looking at
Speaker 1: one of the more marketable individuals that you have at
Speaker 1: the back, because once again bringing in a center back,
Speaker 1: you know, does that create issues or what have you
Speaker 1: when it comes to the numbers game. So okay, if
Speaker 1: you were to analyze the center backs, all right, so
Speaker 1: what can we get if we move Efra on? You
Speaker 1: bring in more AM to possibly make more deals and
Speaker 1: help you out in paying the me high number up
Speaker 1: against the contract. So it's a lot of cause and
Speaker 1: effect in three dimensions, is what I was trying to
Speaker 1: process yesterday after.
Speaker 3: Well, look, there's a lot of aspects of this that
Speaker 3: Greek of conspiracy is not the right term, but like
Speaker 3: you go back and look at decisions that were made
Speaker 3: over the last fifty whatever it's been since Saturday night.
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to do math, but look, you sub
Speaker 3: them out at halftime, right, is there a situation where
Speaker 3: this discussion took place. And this happens in Major league
Speaker 3: baseball all the time. You see it when pitching prospects
Speaker 3: get pulled out of minor league starts, or someone out
Speaker 3: in the third inning, for get shelved, it's because they're
Speaker 3: getting traded. Did something happen in the first half where
Speaker 3: we found out he was gonna be moved and they
Speaker 3: said we need to protect him, right? Ronnie Dila in
Speaker 3: the post game does not use the word or pulls
Speaker 3: back the word injury right and says he's not injured. Well,
Speaker 3: you're not gonna move an injured player. Montreal is not
Speaker 3: gonna take that. So what was that part of it
Speaker 3: where he kind of reassessed his comments and said there
Speaker 3: was an issue and this and that. But you know,
Speaker 3: we can't really go into details. A lot of this,
Speaker 3: to me, and again I don't know the background. I'm
Speaker 3: not speaking on behalf of the team. A lot of
Speaker 3: this now looking back, means they knew about this trade
Speaker 3: during the game on Saturday night.
Speaker 2: That to me is why Effrie Morales got pulled.
Speaker 3: The other side of this was for whatever reason, effort
Speaker 3: goes to Dala says, hey man, I can't sprint, and
Speaker 3: Dyla says that's not how players on this team act.
Speaker 2: You're out of here.
Speaker 3: I tend to believe that's not the case everything we
Speaker 3: know about Efform Morales. But again, if we wanted to
Speaker 3: play like conspiracy theorists and and kind of look at
Speaker 3: it from different angles and timelines and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: I think that is at least on the table.
Speaker 2: But I do find it interesting.
Speaker 3: You're right the me high timeline could create a numbers
Speaker 3: game situation.
Speaker 2: I tend to believe that based.
Speaker 3: On pulling Efford Morales at halftime of a game in
Speaker 3: which you had a one nothing lead, a game in
Speaker 3: which he looked fine and was playing well, and then
Speaker 3: don't commit to him being injured but some other physical
Speaker 3: issue that we really haven't still been described to. I
Speaker 3: think they found out during the game Saturday that that
Speaker 3: they were going to transfer him, and you can't risk
Speaker 3: injury in the second half ahead of a transfer, and
Speaker 3: that's what happened. And unfortunately, you're in a situation, and
Speaker 3: this goes back to the first discussion we had this morning.
Speaker 2: You're in a.
Speaker 3: Situation with this season where transfer, in the business side
Speaker 3: of things, probably comes ahead of winning games. Right now,
Speaker 3: you're just not going to win enough to get into
Speaker 3: the playoff RaSE, and so you to some extent sacrifice
Speaker 3: the second half by pulling Ephim Morales out of this
Speaker 3: game because there was a deal on the table, and
Speaker 3: that's just where the situation is, unfortunately, is that some
Speaker 3: of these decisions have to be made and possibly to
Speaker 3: the detriment of trying to pick.
Speaker 2: Up points well.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I would also pose it
Speaker 1: that you know, what happened in the first seventeen seconds
Speaker 1: is something also that needs to be discussed behind closed
Speaker 1: doors with players, whether it's communication or what have you,
Speaker 1: because it was a situation that was taken advantage of
Speaker 1: by the folks that were in town. It was, you know,
Speaker 1: Charlotte seeing that there is some confusion or discussion or
Speaker 1: however you want it phrase, then they take advantage of
Speaker 1: it and score to make it one. And in a way,
Speaker 1: it's just one of those things that you add to
Speaker 1: what's been going on this season that you have moments
Speaker 1: like this and you're hoping that the players can It's
Speaker 1: not something that you would ever anticipate, but you're also
Speaker 1: hoping that it's something that gets discussed behind closed doors
Speaker 1: about Okay, this had. You know, this kind of thing
Speaker 1: can't happen, but it all it seems like in you know,
Speaker 1: various windows that yeah, sure something like this would happen
Speaker 1: in a season like this.
Speaker 2: Well, you know it's interesting too.
Speaker 3: I was sitting in the press box next to Maddie
Speaker 3: on Saturday night and I mentioned, boy, it's it's not
Speaker 3: really like it Lanny United to be the second team out.
Speaker 3: Usually we see the Roague team and we have our
Speaker 3: complaints about timelines and why they aren't out there. This
Speaker 3: time it wasn't Lanny United who who was very late
Speaker 3: getting out And it's one of those things where you
Speaker 3: sit back and look and try and dissect what happened,
Speaker 3: and you just wonder, how could you not be ready
Speaker 3: to come out of the second half. And I don't
Speaker 3: know whether it's a conversation, it's in the locker um
Speaker 3: or whatever. They just weren't ready out of the second half.
Speaker 3: And you're right, Charlotte took advantage of it. They had
Speaker 3: two really nice passes to string it in there. But
Speaker 3: you've got to come out ready like there's no transition period,
Speaker 3: especially when they're the team that has the kickoff. You've
Speaker 3: got to come out more ready than that, and it's
Speaker 3: just it's a complete drop of focus for twenty seconds
Speaker 3: that could have essentially cost you that match. That just
Speaker 3: can't it can't happen. There's just no place for it.
Speaker 3: He professional athlete. Yeah, it's it's not an option.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Hey Gordon nineteen nine the game with his Monday visit
Speaker 1: here on SDHAM. How busy do you anticipate the transfer
Speaker 1: window being, considering it'll going to start between this time
Speaker 1: and the next time that you're going to be with
Speaker 1: us here on the morning show, how busy do you
Speaker 1: anticipate it being.
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be as busy as they
Speaker 3: can possibly make it. I think the question is how
Speaker 3: many players can you move away from? How many of
Speaker 3: these guys are getting interest elsewhere? Because you can't just
Speaker 3: bring in, bring in, bring in. At some point you
Speaker 3: also have to move out, move out, and so we've
Speaker 3: seen a little bit of that.
Speaker 2: But I just don't know how.
Speaker 3: Many pieces of interest other teams have, and so I
Speaker 3: think that's the bigger challenge. I don't think the challenge
Speaker 3: is bringing guys in. They'll be able to bring guys in.
Speaker 3: I think the challenge is creating either the money or
Speaker 3: the roster spots to allow guys to come in, and
Speaker 3: so that's what I'm fascinated by. I think they have
Speaker 3: a number of guys that they probably don't want to move,
Speaker 3: but those are the guys, the pieces that teams would
Speaker 3: be interested in. And so I think it's gonna be
Speaker 3: incredibly busy both you know, two Way Street moving in
Speaker 3: and coming on.
Speaker 1: Out, and you've got Seattle coming to town. That's your
Speaker 1: last matchup before League's Cup, where you've got matchups on
Speaker 1: July thirty and August two and August six, and two
Speaker 1: of those three obviously at Mercedes Benz stadiums. So if
Speaker 1: you are looking to have a runway to bring in
Speaker 1: the new players, obviously me Hi probably is going to
Speaker 1: get pressed into service, probably sooner than a lot of
Speaker 1: folks would have anticipated. With the Morales deal on the table.
Speaker 1: Then you end up with what we're talking about here
Speaker 1: in this window. Okay, so me Hi becomes official everyan
Speaker 1: Morales looking like it's going to be official outbound, and
Speaker 1: so your numbers are the same at the back, and
Speaker 1: then you end up with the transfer window opening up,
Speaker 1: the one match with Seattle two days in, but you
Speaker 1: have League's Cup as that runway to kind of sit
Speaker 1: there and say, okay, we can focus on transactions and
Speaker 1: try to make a run in League's Cup and those
Speaker 1: kinds of things. So it gives you another outlet to
Speaker 1: try and get things done here with players ins, possible
Speaker 1: players out, and something else to chase after in a season.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The other thing here with Leagues Cup coming up, and
Speaker 3: I talked with Brad Guzan about this is almost in
Speaker 3: my opinion, takes more significance and more importance than the
Speaker 3: rest of the MLS season. Right A League's Cup is
Speaker 3: still an opportunity with a blank slate. Everyone's got the
Speaker 3: same record that you're starting out on level terms, and
Speaker 3: you can still make a statement and potentially win a trophy.
Speaker 3: You're not doing that in the MLS season. So you know,
Speaker 3: in recent years, when it's been a US Open Cup
Speaker 3: or it's been a League's Cup, you might see a
Speaker 3: mixture of your A lineup with a couple of B
Speaker 3: lineup guys in there and maybe some youth and a
Speaker 3: chance to give some of your regulars arrest here and there. Like,
Speaker 3: if you're gonna do that, I prefer you to do
Speaker 3: that during the MLS season and run a full out
Speaker 3: lineup in Leagues Cup. I mean, you're if you're gonna
Speaker 3: put anything together and make a run, League's Cup has
Speaker 3: to be where it happens. It's just not gonna happen
Speaker 3: in the MLS. So I'm fascinated to see what the
Speaker 3: approach is gonna be. But yeah, you could see a
Speaker 3: lot of moving parts depending on who's in, who's out,
Speaker 3: and what the transfer and it looks like it could
Speaker 3: get messy. But I mean, John, it's been messy all season. Like,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna sit here and say, this is not
Speaker 3: a team that's like risking losing its identity because you
Speaker 3: move players in and out right, like you don't have
Speaker 3: an identity. Ronnie Tylers spoke about that as recently as
Speaker 3: a week ago, and so, like, my concern is not
Speaker 3: that you're breaking up some sort of thing that's working.
Speaker 2: We see some.
Speaker 3: Teams in the MLS move a piece or do something.
Speaker 3: You're like, boys, that's puzzling. This is a team that's
Speaker 3: second in the East or second in the West. Why
Speaker 3: are they making this move with a significant name. Now,
Speaker 3: there aren't those concerns with Atlanta United, like, like whoever
Speaker 3: it is you move or whoever it is you bring in,
Speaker 3: it's not gonna be, at least for me, a situation
Speaker 3: where I'm like, boy, that's so confusing because things have
Speaker 3: been going so well.
Speaker 2: Like that's not the discussion.
Speaker 3: So I'm fascinated to see what changes are made and
Speaker 3: kind of you're probably not gonna bring on maybe positionally
Speaker 3: like for like, but mentality, playing style. There might be
Speaker 3: a couple of things where a new center back or
Speaker 3: a new midfielder is a completely different style than something
Speaker 3: we have right now. So I look forward to seeing
Speaker 3: what some of those adjustments might be.
Speaker 1: How much of those adjustments would you anticipate with the
Speaker 1: younger players that we've seen with Atlanty United two getting
Speaker 1: cups of coffee, whether it's Noah Cob, Matt Edwards, Will Riley,
Speaker 1: Luke Brennan getting a start on the weekend, how much
Speaker 1: integration from the younger players that are already here you anticipate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean when I look at that group, the
Speaker 3: untouchable for me right now is Matt Edwards. I just
Speaker 3: think he's too good, too valuable, and quite frankly, can
Speaker 3: play too many different positions and so I think, I mean,
Speaker 3: unless you're moving him to Europe. You know that's a
Speaker 3: whole different discussion. But I mean, if you're telling me
Speaker 3: someone comes and grabs Brennan or Cobb, and Cobb seems
Speaker 3: not falling out of favor, but he was kind of
Speaker 3: passed over there by Ephie Morales, and you would assume me,
Speaker 3: Hi is gonna stay above him, and as guys get healthier.
Speaker 2: Derek Williams return this week.
Speaker 3: And he was with the twos, and so you know,
Speaker 3: who knows what's going on with him in his future
Speaker 3: at this point, I mean, right now, the only guy
Speaker 3: wouldn't move unless he's going to Europe would be Matt Edwards.
Speaker 3: I think everyone else moved in North America or in
Speaker 3: South America is on the table.
Speaker 1: So then how many of you would how many of
Speaker 1: them would in the flip side of that, would you
Speaker 1: anticipate staying and be inserted in a starting lineup going
Speaker 1: forward outside of League's Cup or wherever you would want
Speaker 1: to put them. How many of these folks are you
Speaker 1: sitting there saying, Okay, I want to get you some
Speaker 1: run in starting elevens for Atlanta United to get you
Speaker 1: acclimated to the future. And you know, at the end
Speaker 1: of this season and next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Riley is in that discussion for sure.
Speaker 3: I think if you do keep Cobb, there should be
Speaker 3: a point in this MLS season where it's gone and
Speaker 3: you start to run him back out there as well.
Speaker 2: Luke is interesting. I liked what I saw from him
Speaker 2: Saturday night.
Speaker 3: Ultimately, you know, there was a little bit of criticism
Speaker 3: for Ronnie Diler, but certainly I'd be okay with him.
Speaker 3: But you know, if you're gonna pay Saba and you're
Speaker 3: gonna pay some of these other guys, are we really
Speaker 3: gonna start Luke Brennan over him week by week? And
Speaker 3: so that's something that has to be discussed between the
Speaker 3: executive branch of the ownership group and the coach right
Speaker 3: and figure out, you know, just playing time and experience
Speaker 3: outweigh the cost of whoever the players are.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if they're here, I think Matt Edwards has to
Speaker 3: be starting every week. I'd like to see Will Riley
Speaker 3: in there a little bit more. Same with Luke Brennan,
Speaker 3: especially again because in my opinion, the MLS game is
Speaker 3: the result at this point doesn't much matter. It's more
Speaker 3: about building something Towards twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Six, the legislative, the executive, and the judicial branches of
Speaker 1: Atlanta United. Is what you're staring at over the next
Speaker 1: little bit, because well, and to your point about starting
Speaker 1: then you're once again we're talking those two lanes of
Speaker 1: traffic that we were getting into where you can navigate
Speaker 1: Leaks Cup and chase after something and get them run
Speaker 1: in an MLS season where you're trying to just better
Speaker 1: your position as you go and see, you know who's
Speaker 1: gonna be ready for twenty six and who you jettison
Speaker 1: for twenty six and so no, it is. It is
Speaker 1: interesting stuff all the way across the board. All right,
Speaker 1: hit the promo forming what's going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got full coverage for you over the course
Speaker 3: of this week and look forward to getting back after
Speaker 3: it at home final of a three game homestand a
Speaker 3: tough one as you mentioned against Seattle, and then we
Speaker 3: got Leaks Cup right on the precipice there, so I'm looking.
Speaker 2: Forward to that. And yeah, the window is coming.
Speaker 3: And so as as soon as something gets confirmed, I know,
Speaker 3: you guys see the rumors and just kind of run
Speaker 3: with it. We have a slightly different process to vetting
Speaker 3: and discussing on air at ninety to ninety game. Stuff
Speaker 3: that happens, but once we get stuff confirmed, we're gonna
Speaker 3: run with it. And so looking forward to seeing the
Speaker 3: names both unfortunately the ones going out but the ones
Speaker 3: coming into.
Speaker 1: Has always been friend great to see you on Mondays.
Speaker 1: Be safe and obviously if things bust out late in
Speaker 1: the week, you know that you can probably come in
Speaker 1: and crash and you know how to get in the door.
Speaker 2: Anyway, we'll see Saturday night, if not before then,