WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:04.160 Uh, he's on the Lunai again this week, and I'm 2 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:05.879 sure that he's quite pleased with the fact that the 3 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:08.359 Wi FI is actually working out on the Lunai. 4 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:11.679 So we bring in Tyler, Sir. 5 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:14.919 We we are discussing, and I figured that you may 6 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:17.359 you might have an opinion or two about what happened 7 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:19.879 last night in Nashville. 8 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:21.920 Pars. 9 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:24.239 Pars is asking as someone who is starting to follow 10 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:27.039 the us M and T or people overreacting. Uh, the 11 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:29.800 answer would be, it's a day that ends, and why 12 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:30.960 involved in sport? 13 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:32.439 Uh? 14 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:36.280 But yeah, literally, after what happened last night, the reaction 15 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:38.320 literally you do the US M and T hashtag, it 16 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:41.679 is off the rails, off the scale, and uh, we 17 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:43.799 all need to kind of come back here. It's like, 18 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:46.560 come on back, it's okay, it's okay, it's it's okay. 19 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:48.200 Doors open, you can go ahead, you don't have to 20 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:50.840 knock and come on in. It's okay, everything's fine. 21 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:57.240 Uh, pars I will say, I mean, yes, everybody's overreacting. 22 00:00:57.240 --> 00:00:59.640 I think everybody has a right to be frustrated, for sure. 23 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:04.280 I mean these have been poor performances as a whole. 24 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:08.120 But the really cool thing about international soccer is that 25 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:12.319 everybody tends to try to look at it in a 26 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:16.079 club lens, and it doesn't work that way when you 27 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:18.959 look at international soccer, you know, country soccer in a 28 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:22.079 club lens, you think that you have to look at it, 29 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:26.079 you know, with this fine tooth comb, and you know, 30 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:28.560 the little tweaks and tactical changes and the players that 31 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:30.480 get called in and out of camp, and the drama 32 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:36.840 surrounding it and all that other stuff. At a club level, 33 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:42.239 that stuff is emphasized way more. But on a country level, 34 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:46.799 in my opinion, you you see these things happen and 35 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:51.319 by the next cycle it's going to be done. News 36 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:53.560 now it'll get brought up for sure, right like nobody's 37 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:56.040 forgetting about it. But it's not like, you know, you 38 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:58.680 have a game week after week after week and things 39 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:00.480 just kind of pile on and pile on. There's really 40 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:03.400 never any room for it to go away. In the 41 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:06.319 sense of the US. I mean, what happens in the 42 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:09.599 World Cup a year from now could be massively different 43 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:12.960 than what's going on right now now. I don't think 44 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:16.520 that's like a glass half full look necessarily. I just 45 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:24.080 think it's that the entire system and the amount of 46 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:26.879 talent and players that the US has and most countries 47 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:30.800 have can change a lot in a full calendar year. 48 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:33.400 So I mean they need work. I'm not even going 49 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:35.159 to sit here and try to, you know, blow smoke 50 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:37.599 like one hundred percent, Like these are not great performances 51 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:42.360 at all, Like that was terrible last night, but it's 52 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:46.560 not all doom and gloom and like the world's not lost. 53 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:49.599 And if you know anything about Maricio Pochettino, when he 54 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:55.439 comes into anywhere anywhere that he's been, he takes a 55 00:02:55.479 --> 00:02:59.439 minute to get going in general, and you just kind 56 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:03.520 of have to hope that trusting the process is what 57 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:06.960 has to happen here, because he's the guy. Unless he 58 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:09.680 decides to randomly pull you know, cut bait and go 59 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:12.080 somewhere else, which I very seriously doubt he would become 60 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:15.520 the most hated person in US soccer if he did that. 61 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:21.199 He's the guy, and so I think he knows the game, 62 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:25.080 he knows how to motivate players, and I genuinely think 63 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:28.400 by next year the US will be in a better 64 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:29.639 position than they are now. 65 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:33.639 Well, and I went over the lineup last night, and 66 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:38.680 I've maintained that this is you're looking at possibly slots 67 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:42.039 seven through eleven. If you're looking at a ranking system, 68 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:44.840 what have you seven through eleven maybe, and then twelve 69 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:46.840 through twenty six or twelve through twenty eight or twelve 70 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:49.400 through thirty. You're trying to figure out, Okay, when I 71 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:54.280 need somebody in an international situation, who can I dial 72 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:55.639 up and count on and sit the end? 73 00:03:55.719 --> 00:03:57.479 Be comfortable with that choice. 74 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:01.639 It's not you know, these individuals that I'm trotting out here, 75 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:03.919 they're gonna be starting. They're gonna be starting every day. 76 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:06.919 You know, Damn the torpedoes. I don't care who isn't here. 77 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:10.000 This is my starting lineup. That's not what we're looking 78 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:11.800 at here. I know that the Gold Cup you will 79 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:15.439 have amplified importance about that starting lineup. But in these 80 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:19.199 two friendlies, yes, the world fell down, but this is 81 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:21.199 not going to be the starting eleven that you're trotting 82 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:24.240 out unless you have ninety five players injured. And I'm 83 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:28.399 being somewhat facetious in that this is not your starting 84 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:30.519 eleven of your starting elevens. This is not your A 85 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:32.600 this is not your A plus group. This is not 86 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:35.959 that record that is registering a ninety two on the scale. 87 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:38.959 This is like the seventy five that you're trying to 88 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:40.639 figure out. Okay, do I like the rhythm here? 89 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:42.519 Okay? I like that baseline up? You know, I want 90 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:44.279 to find figure out do I like this band? 91 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:48.639 This is this is a different layout from what you 92 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:51.639 would anticipate because of the names that are not here. 93 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:53.560 You're trying to figure out if the dudes that I've 94 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:55.920 called in can be the dudes to help out the 95 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:59.000 dudes that I want from my class A lineup. 96 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:00.279 Yeah. 97 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:01.639 I mean in a lot of ways, this is still 98 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:07.240 a set of tryouts for Pochettino's team. And I see 99 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:10.560 Wiley Cowdi's like, yeah, that's the thing. Then this is 100 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:14.519 where I struggle. It doesn't help build the hype around 101 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:16.959 next year. I mean, you look at I'm not trying 102 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:21.360 to like transition this to something else, but like you 103 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:23.879 have the Club World Cup starting in a couple of days, 104 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:26.560 and you know, we see the ticket prices and we 105 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:29.199 see all the people talking about like the lack of 106 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:32.519 hype and everything else. You look at the stadium last night, 107 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:34.120 But at the end of the day, like these these 108 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:39.800 games they were glorified friendlies, and I think you get 109 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:43.360 to the gold Cup and then you start really asking questions. 110 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:46.399 But I think for Pochettino, this is a matter of, 111 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:51.720 like we I really want to know who, specifically, who 112 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:55.079 I'm calling to the World Cup in a year, and 113 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:56.879 I need to know without a shadow of it, doubt 114 00:05:57.800 --> 00:05:59.839 that selection of guys is going to be the ones 115 00:05:59.879 --> 00:06:01.480 that I know I can do something with. And if 116 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:04.120 look if Diego Luna, if I pull him in he 117 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:08.360 still continues to ball out, then maybe he deserves a shot, 118 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:11.759 you know. Like and I think you've seen some guys 119 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:14.199 maybe they're just not ready for the occasion and that's unfortunate. 120 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:17.879 But uh, you know, when you represent your country, it's 121 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:20.160 all about those big moments and it's all about trying 122 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:23.680 to make something happen when maybe the deck is stacked 123 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:26.759 against you. And last night, like that was a that 124 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:31.160 was a tough performance. It was it was awful. Ye. 125 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:34.079 So I mean I think when you when you look 126 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:38.199 at it from a coaching perspective and taking away all 127 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:40.439 the other drama that happened, you know, with polistic and 128 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:42.879 all that, which I'm sure y'all talked about at some point. 129 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:45.759 So right to a larger point, and that'll be what 130 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:46.639 we talk about next. 131 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:49.959 But you know, you take away all that and it's 132 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:54.639 just Poachatino's coming in. He has a mandate, he has 133 00:06:54.680 --> 00:07:00.160 a job that he's trying to do. And he he said, 134 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:01.439 you know, like, I'm not going to stick with the 135 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:04.000 same guys that have been kind of floating around and 136 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:06.399 locked in for the past, you know, X number of years, like, 137 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:09.079 and you can't do that in one game. You can't 138 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:10.439 do that in one cycle. You can't do that in 139 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:12.360 two cycles. Like. It takes time to really figure out 140 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:15.120 what you're working with. And I agree with what he 141 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.000 did and what he said he was going to do with, 142 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:21.639 you know, bringing in guys that are actually playing minutes 143 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:24.000 for their club teams and not just random guys that 144 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:26.519 are in Europe maybe on the bench all the time. 145 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:30.439 Like it makes sense to me now, you know, Now 146 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:36.040 you've got to see who who the hype was really 147 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:37.720 there for and who it wasn't. 148 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:42.800 Yeah, and then there's one position between the sticks where 149 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:45.639 somebody really needs some playing time. 150 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:50.319 Yeah, a lot, a lot, and and you know apparently 151 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:52.160 that's maybe gonna change soon. 152 00:07:53.279 --> 00:08:00.079 Well I'm I mean, I mean, is the check on 153 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:02.759 a clear Yeah it is asking. 154 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:05.519 Yeah, there's a random money being pulled out of couch 155 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:08.639 cushion somewhere. I feel like it's it's kind of like 156 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:11.439 that thing where you you went out and bought the 157 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:13.399 you know, one hundred inch TV and you put it 158 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:15.000 on the credit card and then all of a sudden, 159 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:18.680 like oh, the debt man comes calling and then you're 160 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:21.399 like scrambling to let me go get like a fifty 161 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:23.279 inch TV, but I've got to pay for it in cash. 162 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.879 And that's what's happening with said ownership group. 163 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:32.519 Ah mean, it's yeah, so you get a FIFA judgment. 164 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:35.759 We talked about that last week where FIFA judgment three 165 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:39.039 plus interest and then eighteen plus interest in various sections 166 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:42.200 of a year's worth of interest. And then yesterday it 167 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:47.600 comes across that Matt Turner might be moving from. 168 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:49.919 One club to another, and the club. 169 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:53.080 But the club of the first part is it's like, yeah, 170 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:57.000 eight million euro Okay, Well is this like are you 171 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:58.639 are you are you to the point where you're serving 172 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:00.720 number two right now? Or are you still serving number one? 173 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:02.240 And number two is trying to cut in line because 174 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:02.919 it's less money. 175 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:03.360 Yep. 176 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:06.679 You know, it's one of those things that you're they're 177 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:08.279 kind of staring at right now. And for those that 178 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:15.200 might have missed it, Matt Turner is allegedly possibly maybe 179 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:20.080 moving from Nottingham Forest to Leon for eight million euro 180 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:24.799 And then for those that Della Della is not dellas 181 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:28.320 maybe not necessarily wrong, Leon is not answering the phone. 182 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:30.639 Uh but Leon. 183 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:38.440 It was judged and adjudicated by FIFA that they apparently 184 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:42.440 oh Atlanti United over the transaction of an individual who 185 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:44.879 scored for his club last night when they were down 186 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:48.639 a man to equalize in a very important match for 187 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:51.399 the rest of conno ball, not necessarily for themselves except 188 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:56.799 just to get a result. That a particular Eagle Football 189 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:58.600 Holdings allegedly. 190 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:01.200 Owes Atlanta United up of twenty one million. 191 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:03.840 Dollars plus interest over the transaction of that individual who 192 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:08.720 scored last night for his ten man team in Argentina. 193 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:12.600 So yeah, we'll take care of this one because it's 194 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:14.639 got less money. It's like, oh, look, sofa pizza and 195 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:15.360 a couple of nicols. 196 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:15.759 There we go. 197 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:20.039 So we'll figure it out with that. So that's the 198 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:24.879 Matt Turner situation. Matt Freeze might have pushed himself a 199 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:29.399 little further up the line. Zach Stephen is out with 200 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:33.279 an injury and he's getting treated for a surgery with 201 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:35.039 his knee, and I think he's slated to be out 202 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:37.120 four to six weeks for the Rapids, and that's never 203 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:40.480 good news out with the Rabbid Prairie Dogs and the 204 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:44.320 rest of their season. So the keeper situation for the 205 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:48.639 USM and T is one where you're scratching your head, 206 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:51.879 but you need reps. And I know that we could 207 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:54.279 probably talk to Brad Gazan about needing reps when it 208 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:56.279 comes to being a national team keeper. 209 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.399 Yeah, I was gonna say, I'm trying to look at 210 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:01.320 kind of like what he's looked at lately. But I 211 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:03.279 think you know, you're one of your next guys that 212 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:05.879 you've got to look at would be now Again, it's 213 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:08.039 a year from now. Sticking to what we were saying earlier, 214 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:12.519 but you got to look at Ethan Worvath. I mean, 215 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:15.279 is Ethan getting minutes? 216 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:17.440 He is? 217 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:22.000 Yeah, he is. He last played May third for Norwich. 218 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:25.200 Or he gets I'm sorry, I get Sworg. Yeah, he's 219 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:28.480 getting ninety minutes fairly consistently. 220 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:30.240 It looks like checking. 221 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:33.960 But that's the thing though, I mean, at the end 222 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:36.000 of the day. That's the most important thing for a 223 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:38.639 keeper is you've got to be getting minutes. And like, 224 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:41.600 you know, we we have that conversation about Atlanta and 225 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:43.159 not at all the time, maybe not so much this year, 226 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:45.759 but I still have PTSD from it a couple of 227 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:49.480 years ago when Brad got injured and then you went 228 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:52.720 through eight hundred and fifty seven different goalkeepers over the 229 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:55.960 course of a year, and it's like, you know, you 230 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:59.279 need minutes, like Josh Cohen right now. You know, last year, 231 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:01.799 we'll use that as example. He got put in obviously 232 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:03.840 for the Open Cup. There was that moment Brad got 233 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:05.759 a red card, had to miss a game. He got 234 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:08.080 put in for that one, and he wasn't the best, 235 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:12.000 but his talent's there. You can't expect a guy to 236 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:14.080 just step onto the field like that and just perform, 237 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:21.440 you know, amazingly, essentially coming in cold. So that, honestly 238 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:23.440 is one of my biggest concerns going into next year, 239 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:26.480 is because I feel like since and I don't remember 240 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:28.679 the game or set of games, and honestly, I think 241 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:31.600 really it was after the last World Cup, Matt Turner 242 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:36.240 has not been that guy that he was to the 243 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:42.360 same degree. So You've got to get that figured out 244 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:44.519 because you need somebody. I mean, this is not gonna 245 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:46.320 be what was it, twenty. 246 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:52.039 Ten, it's gonna say you work in math back I 247 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:54.600 am working math backwards fifteen years ago. 248 00:12:55.000 --> 00:13:00.840 Yeah, with Tim Howard. I mean, you hope you have 249 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:05.320 kind of like those kind of performances, but like you 250 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:10.600 need somebody that is playing confident. And I don't know 251 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:13.679 that any of the goalkeepers right now. Zack Stefan maybe 252 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:15.600 to a degree obvious until he got injured, but I 253 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:17.600 just don't know that it even playing very confident right now. 254 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:20.879 Well, and the biggest thing about Zach Stephan is trying 255 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.279 to develop working the ball with his feet. Yes they're 256 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:27.840 not necessarily distribution with the hands and saving ability, but 257 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:30.919 it's that one the third element working the working the 258 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:33.519 ball with your feet and trying trolling it and you know, 259 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:36.919 work it to the edges. Dell wondering if they played 260 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:39.519 Matt Turner, trying to give him a platform to finalize 261 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:42.559 a deal, and I don't think so. I think it was, Uh, 262 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:46.879 you're you're thinking about things in that prism, Dell of Okay, 263 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:49.000 I got to focus on what's going on in front 264 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:49.200 of me. 265 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:52.039 And if it ends up being a. 266 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:56.799 Collateral element of it where oh he played well, and 267 00:13:56.879 --> 00:13:59.279 then you know, if you know Nottingham Forest and Egle 268 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:01.159 Football Holdings and sit there and go ooh, look, you 269 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:04.639 know we're we're we're selling, We're we're moving on a 270 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:06.759 player who did really well for his national team. Or 271 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:09.159 Leona would be like, oh, we're getting a guy who 272 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:13.519 played really well for his national team. And now they're like, oh, oh, okay, 273 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.639 so that happened in Nashville, so you have I don't 274 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:19.559 know if I don't think that they were playing him 275 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:21.399 just to try to finalize a deal. I think it 276 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:24.519 was honestly, you're trying to get the man reps to 277 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:27.720 see if he wants to take that number one mantle 278 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:31.320 and be the guy Capital T Capital G. But last 279 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:33.639 night did not help matters when it came to that. 280 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:37.519 So you know, then you end up we talked about 281 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.679 keeper and then you've got striker where obviously you know, 282 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:43.399 front row a lot of the big guns. And this 283 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:46.200 is why I said you're looking at seven through twenty 284 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:48.519 six or twelve through twenty six as opposed to one 285 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:51.840 through eleven because of who wasn't there everybody on the 286 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:54.159 front row. You're looking for a second, you're looking for 287 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:57.440 another guy. You know who the guys are going to be, 288 00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:00.000 Capital T, Capital G. But you're looking for other guys 289 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:02.799 and you're waiting for somebody else to sit there and 290 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:05.039 once again grab that mantle and you know, grab the 291 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:07.399 reins and sit there and go yep, I'm in. And 292 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:10.120 they've put a big pat out there for a match 293 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:12.600 and a half and you know, I think it's still 294 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:15.960 a work in progress with Patrick Agemok, but you understand 295 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:17.759 the why where that was concerned. 296 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:21.360 Yeah, I totally understand the why, and I think it's 297 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:26.200 just it's so frustrating from a fan perspective that nobody 298 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:29.240 will I mean this has been for years. Nobody will 299 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:32.120 just take that that number nine spot and just grab 300 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:34.440 it and make it their own. Yeah, because you've had 301 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:38.320 you know, this kind of like rotating group over the 302 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:43.320 past really what six years, seven years, I mean it's 303 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:47.480 it's been a while and you've had some good performances, 304 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:50.279 but you haven't had that guy that just you know, 305 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:52.879 just like you do in club football, that when he's 306 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:57.480 up there, there's danger at every single moment, at any minute, 307 00:15:57.519 --> 00:15:59.679 he could he could make something happen out of nothing. 308 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:04.240 It just hasn't been that. I mean, and I think 309 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:08.360 I think trying to roll out. 310 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:11.559 Oh that was a heavy sigh, Yeah it was. 311 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:15.519 That's is how phil about this team right now? I 312 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:18.919 think Ajumong is the one that you had to go 313 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:24.440 with because he's been in form probably you're one of 314 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:27.600 your your better us MNT players that have been called 315 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:30.080 up in the past couple of cycles, just consistent. And 316 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:32.039 then he's actually, you know, he's been doing well with Charlotte. 317 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:35.679 Obviously Diego Luna is not playing as a nine, but 318 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:38.799 I think he's he's obviously done well for himself. Then 319 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:40.159 you go and you look back at the kind of 320 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:44.039 the rest of that striker pool, and it's like, besides 321 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:49.120 moments of brilliance, who is stepping up and really saying 322 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:53.120 like I deserve a spot in one year when we 323 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:56.480 play UH in our home country in the World Cup. 324 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:59.159 I don't know that you've got anybody that you could 325 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:02.559 just say we're sure is locked in. 326 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:06.880 Three saves from Matt Turner, two saves from inside the box, 327 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:09.319 thirty nine touches twenty three to thirty three, passing at 328 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:12.039 seventy percent four of fourteen on long balls and a 329 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:15.960 bunch of zeros across the board in other categories. Punches, 330 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:21.920 high claims, key passes, crosses, clearances, blocks, all the defensive categories. 331 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:24.119 So it's it's a lot of zeros from Matt Turner, 332 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:26.400 who punched a six point two. According to our friends 333 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:28.680 at SOFA score, everybody who's in the starting eleven. By 334 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:31.839 the way, last night for the US punched a six plus. 335 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:35.200 They were between six to zero and six six, I 336 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:36.359 think was the highest rate. 337 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:39.319 Fascinating to me. I have it pulled up on fot 338 00:17:39.400 --> 00:17:41.039 mob and it's a totally different ratings. 339 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:43.480 Okay, so what was fot mob's ratings. 340 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:46.079 Well, Matt got it. Now, of course it's still out 341 00:17:46.079 --> 00:17:51.039 of ten, but Matt got an even five understood honestly. 342 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:55.400 The only person that broke all the subs, all the 343 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:59.960 subs that came in so Tolkien, Reem Maleak Tillman, Diegluna, 344 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:04.440 Pat and Damien Downs all hit sixes are above, which 345 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:06.960 is good. The only one that hit above a seven 346 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:11.240 was Malik Tilman. Yeah, Brian White with a five to six, 347 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:16.200 uh Cardosa with a five to one, Burholter with a 348 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:20.519 five to one, but the lowest by far, was, in 349 00:18:20.680 --> 00:18:21.759 fact Matt Turner. 350 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:23.680 Yeah, not a surprise. 351 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:29.599 Then Ropes mentions what TT put out on the two 352 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:32.000 hundred and eighty character app mentioning the Gold Cup roster 353 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:36.240 back in twenty one, where it was Turner, Reggie Cannon, 354 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:39.279 James Sands, Miles, George Bellow on the left hand side, 355 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:43.960 Eric Williamson, Kellen Acosta, Sebastian Legit, Paul Ariola Josse's artist, 356 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:47.920 and Matthew Hoppy and so zero buzz around anything hosting 357 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:51.119 the World Cup in a year and in the fan base, 358 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:54.160 player pull, coaches and federation zero buzz. Well, I mean 359 00:18:55.279 --> 00:19:00.119 they are arguing, they are getting discussed, but it to 360 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:06.000 no no, And this was in right now you're going 361 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:08.920 into the Gold Cup, and I will be intrigued how 362 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:14.359 Mercia Pochatino responds in a Gold Cup setting. So this 363 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:18.000 literally folks talking about what was going on. Yes, there 364 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:20.519 are things that you can refer to, but those were 365 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:23.920 friendlies leading into the Gold Cup. And now you've sit 366 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:25.480 there and you look at the Gold Cup, that's the 367 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:28.599 next marker on the board. How do they respond from 368 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:31.839 what happened in these two friendlies to what's happening, what's 369 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:34.480 anticipated in the Gold Cup, then I think that you 370 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:37.880 have better markers. But once again, you're still building toward 371 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:41.519 a year from now. Much like the National Training Center, 372 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:44.039 you are building to a year from now, and you 373 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:46.119 want everything to be unveiled and you want it to 374 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:49.200 be just right. Where you're eleven is your eleven. Your 375 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:51.880 studs are your studs. You know who's coming in, and 376 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:55.119 that's that's where we are. And so the fact that 377 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:59.599 folks mentioned four years ago, that's cool and everything. And 378 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:01.640 I know that you want to sit there and compare 379 00:20:01.720 --> 00:20:03.519 coaches and you want to ish on coaches, which is 380 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:05.759 I think kind of in a backhanded way with that 381 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:08.240 pictogram was all about on the two hundred and eighty 382 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:09.400 character APT but that's just me. 383 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:13.400 Social media used to ish on people. Gee, that never happens. 384 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:16.000 I know, it's like wild, This is like unheard of. 385 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:24.039 I think Pochettino again, I mean, y'all know my feelings. 386 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:28.240 I love Marisa Pochatino. Been kind of going back to 387 00:20:28.279 --> 00:20:31.000 what I said earlier. Club and country football are two 388 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:35.000 different beasts. And my only concern is simply that for 389 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:39.359 everything I said about how things can change a lot 390 00:20:39.400 --> 00:20:46.119 between cycles and obviously a full calendar year. It's to me, 391 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:51.880 it seems clear that Pochaettino's trying to kind of force 392 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:54.559 implement the style that he wants this team to play 393 00:20:54.759 --> 00:21:01.319 no matter who he calls up. And I don't I mean, 394 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:03.680 you can't look last night and say that there was 395 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:06.279 a semblance of an identity. I think it was pretty rough. 396 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:09.279 I think. 397 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:14.279 The biggest gamble roll of the dice that he's dealing 398 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:17.680 with right now is can he get that group and 399 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:19.880 what of a group he happens to bring in, you know, 400 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:22.839 for the for the big showdown in a year. Can 401 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:25.839