Speaker 1: Now that he is properly hydrated hanging out with us
Speaker 1: from Colony Square. What is up, my friend?
Speaker 2: Uh? Not too much, man.
Speaker 3: Uh A nice fun week that hopefully we can move
Speaker 3: quickly on from the weekend because Uh, a little fella,
Speaker 3: I guess I'm actually accidentally.
Speaker 2: Wearing a little like inner Miami colors.
Speaker 1: That's that's just should you have alluded to that on
Speaker 1: the air?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 1: Okayy shirt? And that's the thing is it is? It
Speaker 1: is just a shirt, sir, there is I don't I
Speaker 1: believe that there is no immediate bearing to the team
Speaker 1: that is coming here in the midweek Messi and friends
Speaker 1: and MESSI got to play on the weekend. But uh,
Speaker 1: I know that going into the match that obviously you're
Speaker 1: looking at a team in Nashville that hadn't been scoring goals,
Speaker 1: has been a team in transition under BJ Callahan, and
Speaker 1: they get to jump on it Lane United early on,
Speaker 1: you know, only a handful of minutes in, and so
Speaker 1: then you're you're fighting uphill from that moment. Rob Valentino
Speaker 1: after the match, and I do have some sound that
Speaker 1: I'll probably end up playing somewhere here in the show.
Speaker 1: Rob Valentino said it was unacceptable, and you got a
Speaker 1: team that was off for two weeks and they come
Speaker 1: out just flat and it showed.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean you could tell from Rob Valentino's post game
Speaker 3: that this performance completely caught him off guard.
Speaker 2: And I think sometimes in.
Speaker 3: Training you might be able to get the feeling that, like,
Speaker 3: man like, it doesn't feel like these guys are gonna
Speaker 3: bring it on the weekend, And it sounded from his
Speaker 3: comments that he didn't have any knowledge of that. He
Speaker 3: didn't get that feeling at all. He expected a better performance,
Speaker 3: and look, you would always expect a better performance, but
Speaker 3: I think sometimes you can kind of see it coming.
Speaker 3: This one certainly blindsided him, and you could tell by
Speaker 3: the way he was reacting in the post game discussion
Speaker 3: that he was incredibly frustrated. Kinda alluded to maybe not
Speaker 3: having an answer in regards to the performance. Promised it
Speaker 3: wouldn't happen again, but kind of kind of walked back
Speaker 3: that promise, because like, if you feel like everything's trending
Speaker 3: in the right way and then they show up on
Speaker 3: Saturday night at home to a winnable game and then
Speaker 3: do throw that performance out there, Like, why would you
Speaker 3: be able to confirm that it'll never look like that again.
Speaker 3: And this was one that it sounded without putting anyone's
Speaker 3: name directly out there. He wanted to put directly on
Speaker 3: the players, and to an extent, he did without doing
Speaker 3: it directly, and that's a cause for concern in regards
Speaker 3: to the playoff chase. I mean, this was probably your
Speaker 3: best case scenario for three points. Right, You're fully rested,
Speaker 3: you're at home. This is the worst team in the
Speaker 3: Eastern Conference, at least at that time according to the
Speaker 3: table Nashville was. Everything was working in your favor, and
Speaker 3: then you throw out a performance that is essentially wholly
Speaker 3: non competitive, and from the start too. I mean, you
Speaker 3: give up a goal in the fifth minute and it's
Speaker 3: pretty much over from there. You didn't rebound, right, You
Speaker 3: didn't respond to that goal. And that's the thing we
Speaker 3: at least have seen in some instances where Landy United
Speaker 3: has gone down early. I think we have sometimes seen
Speaker 3: a response. We just didn't get that today or excuse me,
Speaker 3: on Saturday. And quite frankly, all the hopes of Alexi
Speaker 3: Moronchuk being an impactful player, and I'm not gonna say
Speaker 3: that he's not. It's a one game sample size. Right
Speaker 3: we're not calling for the heads of Raheem Morris. We're
Speaker 3: not gonna call for the head of Alexi Moroonchuk right now.
Speaker 3: But it was a very disappointing home debut for Mornchuk
Speaker 3: because in LA against the Galaxy, when he was on
Speaker 3: the road, he made his first career start for Landy United.
Speaker 3: It did not lead directly to a goal, but I
Speaker 3: thought you saw how dangerous he could be and the
Speaker 3: vision that he's working with in some of the things.
Speaker 3: And I do want to make this point because a
Speaker 3: lot of people are talking about, oh, he had all
Speaker 3: these trainings and the chemistry with teammates is going to
Speaker 3: be so much better than it was with the squad
Speaker 3: out in LA. Just remember it's not just about learning
Speaker 3: his teammates. It's also about learning this league and learning
Speaker 3: the opponents. And you have to go through it and
Speaker 3: see how each team defends different aspects of what you're
Speaker 3: trying to do, and so the learning curve may be
Speaker 3: a little bit steeper for Moron Chuck. Then we maybe
Speaker 3: want to give credit to or maybe initially thought because
Speaker 3: he's a different style of player than a guy like Almana.
Speaker 3: It doesn't just come in the realm of takeover because
Speaker 3: I can beat this man one on one. It manifests
Speaker 3: itself differently. But it was a disappointing home debut for
Speaker 3: Alexi Moronchuk. Hopefully he can be a little bit more
Speaker 3: impactful in the midweek game. But now you've got some
Speaker 3: real issues because Ronald Hernandez is potentially dealing with an
Speaker 3: ankle injury he picked up in training.
Speaker 2: Pedro Amador got crushed.
Speaker 3: And it might be sent into concussion protocol or who
Speaker 3: knows if he's gonna be ready, and so are You
Speaker 3: are short staffed a little bit on that back end now,
Speaker 3: which anytime you're going against Miami probably not the place
Speaker 3: you'd want to be a little bit short staffed. But
Speaker 3: the moral of the story here, John, is incredibly frustrating
Speaker 3: to see this performance because you had the potential of
Speaker 3: making a move in the standings on the table and
Speaker 3: if it was gonna happen, it felt like it was
Speaker 3: gonna happen in this game.
Speaker 2: It didn't. There's still some time, not a lot of it,
Speaker 2: but there's still some time.
Speaker 3: But now you've got to find a couple of wins,
Speaker 3: and at least one of them is probably gonna have
Speaker 3: to come on the road.
Speaker 2: One of them is probably gonna have to.
Speaker 3: Come against teams that are higher than you in the table,
Speaker 3: and so you've you've got to find your way up
Speaker 3: another spot in the standings, and it would have been
Speaker 3: a lot easier to do that with three points against Nashville.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the numbers on Alexi Mironchuk, according to our friends
Speaker 1: at the Sofa, Scory funched a six point nine forty
Speaker 1: nine touches in ninety minutes, thirty one to thirty seven,
Speaker 1: passing eighty four percent, had the one cross, had two
Speaker 1: long balls that were successful, one shot on target, one off,
Speaker 1: was two for two on his duels, fouled once, had
Speaker 1: a clearance, and had a tackle on the day. So
Speaker 1: that's what you're staring at from Alexi midon Chuk. You
Speaker 1: mentioned the possible injuries. Obviously, Shonda's dealing with something that
Speaker 1: he's been dealing with for quite some time with the foot.
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to figure out, since you mentioned Pedro Amador,
Speaker 1: how Sam Surage did not get a card of any
Speaker 1: color when he cleared Amador out. When you look at
Speaker 1: the replay and you see Surage climb the ladder and
Speaker 1: take his and I know it was his right but
Speaker 1: I'm left handed. Where he takes his forearm and basically
Speaker 1: cleans Amador out on the climb up, and Amador ends
Speaker 1: up landing face first on the turf because of getting
Speaker 1: cleaned out by surage. No card, no foul, no nothing,
Speaker 1: And Pemador was down for quite some time and obviously
Speaker 1: they had to treat a head injury and you end
Speaker 1: up with a concussion sub I believe at the time
Speaker 1: as he was getting checked out. So yeah, there was
Speaker 1: this was, you know, the opportunity I think Capital t
Speaker 1: capital O when it came to trying to get north
Speaker 1: of the playoff bar.
Speaker 2: And you would have been in.
Speaker 1: You would have been within touching distance of possibly even
Speaker 1: the seven depending on what Orlando would have done. But
Speaker 1: right now, as you say, it is still outside looking in.
Speaker 1: It is eight wins on the board and DC is
Speaker 1: two points ahead of you. But once again, you're getting
Speaker 1: chased by the uh, the the neighbor's dog if you're
Speaker 1: the postman, because you got all the neighbors dogs that
Speaker 1: are chasing after you when you hit the neighborhood. Because
Speaker 1: Atlanta's at thirty one, Philadelphia is at thirty identical record
Speaker 1: to Montreal, well ahead of Montreal, and this is what
Speaker 1: may just absolutely wipe Montreal off the map with any
Speaker 1: kind of consideration, a goal difference of minus twenty two
Speaker 1: and Atlanta's got that coming to town in the next month.
Speaker 1: But Montreal at thirty points and seven wins, Chicago's seven
Speaker 1: wins and twenty nine points, and they are one goal
Speaker 1: ahead of Nashville in goal difference. And then really New
Speaker 1: England is still not out of it completely and totally,
Speaker 1: but they've got twenty seven points in twenty seven matches.
Speaker 1: So dogs are barking behind you. You're trying to take
Speaker 1: care of business with six to go, and you're trying
Speaker 1: to be two points better than DC to hop into
Speaker 1: the playoff picture. That's what you're staring at right now.
Speaker 3: Well, the good news about that, in what's right behind
Speaker 3: you is that you play both of those teams. You
Speaker 3: play Philadelphia, you play Montreal quite frankly, and we came
Speaker 3: close to calling Nashville a must win. I think those
Speaker 3: two are must win. I mean, you're just not gonna
Speaker 3: hold them off if they take the points from you.
Speaker 3: And it's an opportunity against teams that are theoretically worse
Speaker 3: than you at least based on the current standings, to
Speaker 3: take all three and including one of those being at
Speaker 3: home that game against Montreal, So those become integral, and
Speaker 3: then you got to find a way to either beat
Speaker 3: Miami Red Bulls either here or there, Orlando City in
Speaker 3: the final game of the season. And so there's still opportunity.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's still three, maybe four wins potentially out there,
Speaker 3: but you just cannot look the way you did on
Speaker 3: Saturday night, lifeless and listless. You weren't up for the
Speaker 3: game from the start, and that's the biggest issue. And
Speaker 3: I would imagine Wednesday, with Miami and the top team
Speaker 3: in the Eastern Conference, you'll be up for it and
Speaker 3: you'll have a little bit better performance. I would think
Speaker 3: whether or not Messi comes and plays the crowd, you
Speaker 3: know who had bought tickets hoping he would be, we'll
Speaker 3: be there in full four and hopefully can energize the squad.
Speaker 3: But it's still there. That's what's kind of crazy is
Speaker 3: you got another weekend of results that really didn't kill
Speaker 3: you in terms of what's ahead of you, and it's there.
Speaker 3: I mean, you've got the games that you need right there.
Speaker 3: You've also got a game in hand on some of
Speaker 3: the teams that are directly above you in that eight
Speaker 3: and nine spot, so you're gonna have to put use
Speaker 3: of that game in hand and deal with it on
Speaker 3: that front. But yeah, it's concerning, because let's go back
Speaker 3: beyond just Nashville, right You go back to that Charlotte game,
Speaker 3: and you you put in a pretty strong effort over
Speaker 3: the course of ninety minutes in Charlotte, and you feel
Speaker 3: like you're trending up. You feel like you've got something
Speaker 3: going there, and and then you come back home after
Speaker 3: rest and recovery and a game plan kind of gearing
Speaker 3: up for this final seven game push. Now six games
Speaker 3: and it just wasn't there. And now the flip side
Speaker 3: is you've also seen Charlotte and they had another poor
Speaker 3: performance this weekend, and you start to ask yourself how
Speaker 3: much of that was even Atlanta trending upwards or is
Speaker 3: it just a massive.
Speaker 2: Downward turn for Charlotte.
Speaker 3: And I think you can make your arguments for the
Speaker 3: downward turn from Charlotte, and then you combine that with
Speaker 3: what we saw from Atlanta United. It does give you
Speaker 3: some concern, But you've got to find a way to
Speaker 3: pick up some points in games that maybe you don't
Speaker 3: expect to and that includes Wednesday against Miami. I mean,
Speaker 3: at this point, you'll take anything. Even a draw at
Speaker 3: home would be huge based on the rest of the schedule.
Speaker 3: And again it makes that Philly and that Montreal game,
Speaker 3: I mean, those are unless you plan on beating Red
Speaker 3: Bulls twice and taking it to Miami on Wednesday, Like,
Speaker 3: those two games are just absolutely must wins, like we're
Speaker 3: not gonna make We're not gonna kind of gloss over
Speaker 3: it as oh, you know, the season's not over if
Speaker 3: you don't win. No, Like those are must win games,
Speaker 3: like if you're gonna jump into that spot, those are
Speaker 3: must win games.
Speaker 2: But the performance is certainly concerning.
Speaker 3: And back to how we opened the discussion, like Rob
Speaker 3: Valentino is not gonna have very much patience in this one.
Speaker 1: The dude dropped an F bomb well in the post
Speaker 1: game press conference. I don't know how well that went
Speaker 1: over on We try not.
Speaker 3: To bring too much attention to that because it was
Speaker 3: aired live on on the air, but yeah, the frustration
Speaker 3: was very clear. I mean, he blew off Jarrett for
Speaker 3: what was supposed to be a post game discussion down
Speaker 3: on the field, I would also blow off Jarrett. If
Speaker 3: we're gonna be honest, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Blow him off as much as possible the press box.
Speaker 3: I certainly would blow him off in the in the field,
Speaker 3: but no, I mean, look, he was working his way
Speaker 3: through it, incredibly frustrated, trying to gather his thoughts, and
Speaker 3: something tells me it's not going to be a fun
Speaker 3: week or half week of sessions leading up to this
Speaker 3: game on Wednesday, And all I can say is, and
Speaker 3: we talked about this. Mike Connie was the one to
Speaker 3: pointed out really in the full time report, if there's
Speaker 3: anything you're holding on to the one thing that Atlanti
Speaker 3: because I said, the one that Atlanta and iited just
Speaker 3: hasn't found consistency. They've never really stretched out the rags
Speaker 3: and hit a rhythm. And Mike Conti said, actually, they
Speaker 3: have found consistency in one thing, and that is playing
Speaker 3: to the level of their opponent, whether it be up
Speaker 3: or unfortunately, whether it be down. And we've seen them
Speaker 3: compete with some of the best teams in the MLS.
Speaker 3: We've also seen them drop points to some of the
Speaker 3: worst teams in the MLS and so if there is
Speaker 3: like a big glimmer of hope and it's like maybe
Speaker 3: once again they can rise to the level of competition
Speaker 3: and play on evil even terms with Miami or potentially
Speaker 3: find a winner. And so that's kind of what I'm
Speaker 3: holding onto at this point, because there's nothing from the
Speaker 3: performance on Saturday that leads me to believe that they're
Speaker 3: gonna be able to beat Miami on Wednesday. But again,
Speaker 3: it just hasn't seemed like one performance to the next,
Speaker 3: you've been able to carry over momentum, and that includes
Speaker 3: momentum that has gone backwards. Like it doesn't necessarily mean
Speaker 3: they're gonna have a stinker on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: They might, but just because they didn't look good Saturday,
Speaker 2: it does not.
Speaker 3: Over the course of this season has not meant that
Speaker 3: they're not gonna bring it on Wednesday. And so hope springs,
Speaker 3: eternal optimism remains, and we'll see what they've got for
Speaker 3: the little guy if he's brave enough to step out
Speaker 3: onto the pitch.
Speaker 1: Well, let's see Abe Gordon nineteen nine in the game.
Speaker 1: At Abe Gordon at nineteen nine in the game. On
Speaker 1: the two hundred and eighty character app, I was looking
Speaker 1: at the minutes played from the individuals of our resident
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Union fan. Rich Ransom is in the timeline this
Speaker 1: morning and he mentions that with Messi and friends getting
Speaker 1: the duke, Messi played ninety minutes, Luis Suarez played ninety minutes,
Speaker 1: Diego Gomez, who's heading to Brighton at some point, played
Speaker 1: eighty one minutes, where Dondo in the midfield played eighty
Speaker 1: nine minutes. So you're getting a lot of folks that
Speaker 1: logged a lot of minutes. Busquettes played ninety. Julian Gressel,
Speaker 1: as I'm scanning, he also played eighty one minutes, so
Speaker 1: you're front seven that you're used to seeing, and the
Speaker 1: Gulf Stream Galacticos Jeordi Alba played ninety minutes. They all
Speaker 1: went the distance or most of it getting ready for
Speaker 1: this particular matchup that we have here in the midweek.
Speaker 1: So the palace intrigue does exist as to how many
Speaker 1: minutes if any, those individuals will play in the midweek
Speaker 1: going up against Atlanta United.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the thing that's been kind of crazy about my
Speaker 3: is it doesn't seem to matter who's in there, like
Speaker 3: like they have produced and obviously Messi returned this past week.
Speaker 3: Uh oh, look who's joining uh Messi. Messi returned this
Speaker 3: past week. Now, he obviously didn't have to knock the
Speaker 3: rust off. It didn't take long. Two goals and an
Speaker 3: assist for him. But even without him in the time
Speaker 3: that he's missed an injury, like, they've just been cruising along.
Speaker 3: They've already clinched a playoff spot. They're still cruising along
Speaker 3: and uh, it just hasn't seemed to matter that. That's
Speaker 3: what's honestly been most impressive is everyone who when Messi
Speaker 3: came to the MLS. Everyone was like, all right, we
Speaker 3: know he's not gonna play forty five games this season
Speaker 3: or whatever the number may be. How many points do
Speaker 3: they drop in the games that he's not playing. It
Speaker 3: has not been much. Uh, they are just cruising along.
Speaker 3: I mean, what was it a three to one victory?
Speaker 3: I think over this past weekend, they're still scoring goals
Speaker 3: without him, and it's not just him at Jordi Alba
Speaker 3: and Suarez and SCT like they're they're still doing damage
Speaker 3: even when he's not the maestro on the field there.
Speaker 3: So it's really really impressive to see what they've been
Speaker 3: able to do without Messi, and then quite frankly a
Speaker 3: little bit scary to see what they can do with him.
Speaker 3: But again, this is a Landy United squad that has
Speaker 3: already dealt with them one time this season and come
Speaker 3: out victorious and one of the more surprising results in
Speaker 3: the moment, And so hopefully they can they can rise
Speaker 3: to that occasion and do it again on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Jared, I will give you the last question for Abe
Speaker 1: Gordon and his weekly Monday visit. Except when the Falcons
Speaker 1: come to come to town.
Speaker 4: Oh god, without knowing what you guys have discussed already.
Speaker 2: Oh that's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, that's always the best. The disappointment not
Speaker 4: was standing from that from Saturday night. Uh, Rob Valentino's words,
Speaker 4: clearly doing a lot of lifting. What change you look
Speaker 4: at it? What changes would you make going into Wednesday night?
Speaker 4: And would he even be Hey, I'm for me personally
Speaker 4: it is a I need people who are willing to fight,
Speaker 4: and I didn't always get that sense Saturday night. So
Speaker 4: any changes you're making for Wednesday, Well, there's a.
Speaker 3: Couple things with the limitations I expect limitations on Hernandez
Speaker 3: and Amador.
Speaker 2: Potentially I would say likely.
Speaker 3: Out I would go back to the whether you want
Speaker 3: to call it three center backs or five in the back,
Speaker 3: whatever you did, this is what you did the first
Speaker 3: time in Miami. Maybe not by choice now but by personnel.
Speaker 3: I think you have to go back to that. Insert
Speaker 3: Noah cob back into the lineup and Brooks Lennon and
Speaker 3: I don't know what you do on the left side
Speaker 3: right now, if we're gonna be honest at yeah, well,
Speaker 3: but I thought.
Speaker 2: He was maybe banged up.
Speaker 3: I thought he maybe had some some limitations too, So
Speaker 3: we'll see what's going on there again with I know,
Speaker 3: in theory you could have maybe pulled most Scare back there,
Speaker 3: but if Sean by Silva is limited, I mean, it's
Speaker 3: a mess. It's kind of a maybe maybe Tyler Wolf
Speaker 3: goes up top and most scare. However you're going to
Speaker 3: do it, but I would probably go back to three
Speaker 3: center backs in this one. I think the question is fair, Uh,
Speaker 3: who is gonna lay it on the line? And I
Speaker 3: just don't know who you have in the reserves that
Speaker 3: I would make a change for. I think maybe you
Speaker 3: can ask more of guys that are gonna be out there.
Speaker 3: But I mean, quite frankly, you're in the midst of
Speaker 3: a final six game playoff push. It's a little late
Speaker 3: to be making like desperation moves because of mindset of players.
Speaker 3: And I think it's a fair question, by the way, Jared, like, guys,
Speaker 3: we're not fighting. And I think the biggest like instance
Speaker 3: of that was, as we mentioned here, John, when when
Speaker 3: Pedromdor got clocked and it was like, no one's running
Speaker 3: through the fence except for a good Well you weren't
Speaker 3: on the field though, Jared, You're not.
Speaker 4: He was on the field.
Speaker 3: You were, but you somehow I didn't make it in
Speaker 3: between the lines there. I don't think you were gonna
Speaker 3: go I mean, look, i've seen you play. Maybe you
Speaker 3: were gonna go double foot inside studs up in the
Speaker 3: surge you.
Speaker 4: If I went into drug double foot somebody, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: blow both a cls in the process.
Speaker 2: Well maybe you nick him at least in.
Speaker 4: Part of that.
Speaker 2: No, No, but I mean all drunking aside, Like.
Speaker 3: It was like, dude, is no one gonna coke crack
Speaker 3: him the next time there's a ball in the air
Speaker 3: or whatever, And it just didn't happen. And no one
Speaker 3: was really even overly animated, except for Goose, who was
Speaker 3: incredibly frustrated and had the right.
Speaker 2: To do so.
Speaker 3: And so I I do think what you're asking is fair,
Speaker 3: but it's just like, I don't know right now if
Speaker 3: they have them to make. I mean, you've thrown, not thrown,
Speaker 3: but you've had so many guys exit the club. I
Speaker 3: think your depth is really being tested, even more so
Speaker 3: by the injuries. And so I mean, what about you
Speaker 3: a guy that you're looking for that you would wish
Speaker 3: I had singled out here? Jared, that was like, I
Speaker 3: can't believe you didn't bring up so and so because
Speaker 3: I just don't know.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe you.
Speaker 3: Bring Moyam bab back into the starting lineup, but like,
Speaker 3: I don't think starting Dax McCarty's gonna have some sort
Speaker 3: of dramatic change. I'd like to see Jay Fortune stay
Speaker 3: in there. I think he's performed well. You're not gonna
Speaker 3: benchmarn Chuck. So it's just like, what are the changes
Speaker 3: to be had?
Speaker 4: And no, I it's a tricky I agree, it's a
Speaker 4: tricky question. I ask you genuinely because I think it
Speaker 4: is very tricky that you can't just you can't just
Speaker 4: empty everybody out. And this isn't FIFA, you know, we
Speaker 4: talk about this isn't This isn't a video game where
Speaker 4: you can just throw guys in there.
Speaker 2: And it works.
Speaker 4: I think for me personally, I think Rob's in a
Speaker 4: really tricky spot because, look, Rob's gonna get Rob is
Speaker 4: gonna be considered for this job full time now, whether
Speaker 4: or not you think he should get it. Notwithstanding, they're
Speaker 4: gonna treat him like a real candidate. And I've said
Speaker 4: this before, but they're going to talk about him like
Speaker 4: a real candidate because he deserves that respect. He's been
Speaker 4: a steward of the club for years. He's been through
Speaker 4: multiple staffs. He has stepped up when you've needed him
Speaker 4: to to be the interim. He slid back into Gonzo staff,
Speaker 4: he stepped up in a really tough time. Again, you
Speaker 4: treat him with respect. You're gonna interview him, You're gonna
Speaker 4: show him that respect. You're not gonna dismiss him. But
Speaker 4: whether or not he's coaching here next year, or whether
Speaker 4: he's coaching somewhere else, this is a long ass audition
Speaker 4: for him for his career. If he wants to be
Speaker 4: a head guy, maybe not an MLS right now, but
Speaker 4: somewhere else. And I think you want to trust the
Speaker 4: veteran guys who can get a job done. It's easy
Speaker 4: for me to say, play the kids. It's a really
Speaker 4: easy thing for me to say that because I'm not
Speaker 4: the one with my job on the line and my
Speaker 4: future on the line. Because instinctively, it's, hey, put the
Speaker 4: kids out there, man, Let let uh Let Luke Brennan
Speaker 4: go out there and try and start a fight again
Speaker 4: like he did last time he played. But it's it's
Speaker 4: so it's so much easier for me to say that
Speaker 4: sitting here than a guy who is trying to trust
Speaker 4: a team around him not only to win games, but
Speaker 4: also again he's auditioning for his future. So I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't know what changes you would make. You're gonna
Speaker 4: have to probably make some because I would imagine Omadors.
Speaker 4: There's no way he wasn't concussed to oblivion and back.
Speaker 4: You know, you had a Stone, took a knock, Derek
Speaker 4: took a knock, Sean Day was banged up and had
Speaker 4: to come off. You're gonna have to get really creative
Speaker 4: how you put this together Wednesday night. I don't know
Speaker 4: what changes you would make just for the sake of
Speaker 4: you know, five in Brimstone. But yeah, we were standing
Speaker 4: on the field waiting postgame and the hit on amador
Speaker 4: I was the same way like Brad went to the
Speaker 4: Brad went to the referee, which is the captain. Good move.
Speaker 4: I mean that's the rugby move too, for the captain
Speaker 4: to go to the ref. But the fact I was
Speaker 4: disappointed that. I'm not saying somebody needs to go get
Speaker 4: sent off, but I'm disappointed that no one went up
Speaker 4: there and put Surage back on the ground. Yep, you
Speaker 4: don't have to punch him. You don't have to cheap
Speaker 4: shot him. You you needed someone in that moment. The
Speaker 4: game's over, it's done, you're not doing anything, and then
Speaker 4: you have the team that's beating your ass to nothing
Speaker 4: in your house in a rivalry match, laying a cheap
Speaker 4: shot on your left back, and you don't do shit. No, No,
Speaker 4: somebody needs to go. You always say, like I said,
Speaker 4: you don't have to cheap shot him. You don't have to.
Speaker 4: You don't have to pertusie him. I'm not saying that now,
Speaker 4: but somebody go up there and put a shoulder in
Speaker 4: his ass, put him on the g and stand over
Speaker 4: him and create a mass confrontation because you can't let
Speaker 4: somebody disrespect you or your team or your badge like that.
Speaker 4: That's right, I am.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, a couple of things in regards to the
Speaker 3: Rob Valentino.
Speaker 2: Job audition, stuff like that.
Speaker 3: I actually think that it would be wise to not
Speaker 3: make a lot of changes. I don't think you can
Speaker 3: show emotion as a manager, and you're incredibly frustrated at performancy.
Speaker 3: It feels like it would be an emotional decision, maybe
Speaker 3: not a well thought out analytic decision if you just
Speaker 3: make a bunch of changes because you're not happy with
Speaker 3: the way guys played on Saturday. And as we talked
Speaker 3: about previously too, for whatever reason, how guys play or
Speaker 3: perform and either individually or as a team one game
Speaker 3: to the next just doesn't seem to carry over, and
Speaker 3: you just don't know who is or isn't going to
Speaker 3: have it on a given night. And so I think
Speaker 3: trying to make and approach the roster, the lineup, the
Speaker 3: starting eleven, the reserves from from a more level headed
Speaker 3: mindset versus the emotions of what we saw Saturday is
Speaker 3: probably the only way to go for Rob Valentino.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're no longer in a timeline.
Speaker 3: And this is why I like the Luke Brennan discussion
Speaker 3: to me as a non starter, and I like Luke Brennan.
Speaker 3: It's got nothing to do with him. But you're not
Speaker 3: in a timeline where you can send a message to
Speaker 3: the team. You're in a timeline where you have to
Speaker 3: find a way to get points. And if you truly
Speaker 3: thought agreed that he was the way and best method
Speaker 3: to get points, then by all means, after thinking about
Speaker 3: it and considering it and calming down from Saturday, if
Speaker 3: you still think that's the best way to get points,
Speaker 3: then yes, make that change.
Speaker 2: But if you think it's sending a message to some
Speaker 2: of the.
Speaker 3: Other guys, some of the more veteran guys, or whatever
Speaker 3: you want it to be, you just don't have the
Speaker 3: time to do that. You don't have a game to
Speaker 3: throw away, certainly not one at home, and so you've
Speaker 3: kind of got to gauge what you're doing with your
Speaker 3: subs is it. Is it a message to guys or
Speaker 3: is it the best way to get points? I think
Speaker 3: right now the best way to get points is still
Speaker 3: to go with the guys that, for better or worse,
Speaker 3: have gotten you where you are still fighting for a
Speaker 3: playoff spot, although I guess like everyone in the Eastern
Speaker 3: Conference is kind of still fighting for. But but yeah,
Speaker 3: I think you do have to approach it a little
Speaker 3: bit more anekal analytically and a little bit less emotionally.
Speaker 3: And so that's why you might see a new formation,
Speaker 3: as we mentioned, maybe five in the back of three
Speaker 3: center backs, stuff like that to cover up some things.
Speaker 3: But in terms of like mass changes or like a
Speaker 3: hockey substitute, I just I just don't see that happening
Speaker 3: because you don't have the time or the points to
Speaker 3: play around with it anymore.
Speaker 1: I know we kept you way past the fourth official
Speaker 1: hold up the lightboard, my friend.
Speaker 2: Well they gave nine minutes. They gave nine minutes on Saturday.
Speaker 2: We get ten here to what's the difference?
Speaker 1: Okay, just checking. I didn't want you to get in
Speaker 1: any kind of trouble down there at Coliny Square, you know,
Speaker 1: as you're getting ready for your day and trying to
Speaker 1: stay properly hydrated. What's the plan between now and Wednesday?
Speaker 2: Just gear up, man, I mean we're really excited for Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Look, I don't know if the little man Lionel Messi
Speaker 3: is gonna be playing or not, but the potential of
Speaker 3: him playing has got me very excited. I've obviously never
Speaker 3: seen him play live in person, I've watch plenty of it,
Speaker 3: but very excited for that. And so we're gonna bring
Speaker 3: it on Wednesday at six point thirty with the Five
Speaker 3: Stripes count Dawn.
Speaker 2: We're certainly gonna bring.
Speaker 3: It, hopefully with some good news after with the full
Speaker 3: time report, and really just looking forward to getting the
Speaker 3: Mercedes Benz Stadium, just seeing how juiced up the fans
Speaker 3: are on Wednesday, Mike and Jason, I imagine they're gonna
Speaker 3: be juiced up as well, and then hopefully it's not
Speaker 3: just a total let down either by performance of Atlanta
Speaker 3: or by Lionel Messi not stepping onto the field at all.
Speaker 3: I'd like to see him get out there at least
Speaker 3: for a little bit, maybe if it's even as a sub.
Speaker 3: But really excited about the potential of Wednesday. So we're
Speaker 3: just gonna build towards it and hopefully it'll help us
Speaker 3: move on from what potentially could happen tonight with the
Speaker 3: Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and as like I said, Rich Ransom our resident Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: and he's like yep, saw Messi and friends knock off
Speaker 1: his union, but now he's going to be watching the
Speaker 1: Eagles and the Falcons. Thanks, as always, my friend, for
Speaker 1: staying a little extra this morning, and we will catch
Speaker 1: up with you. We will see you Wednesday. We'll hear
Speaker 1: you Wednesday, and we'll catch up with you soon.
Speaker 2: Yep, sounds good. Appreciate you having me. We'll see you
Speaker 2: guys next week.
Speaker 1: Always, that's a