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We react and take calls following Seattle's Matchday 13 fixture with the San Jose Earthquakes at Lumen Field.
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Introduction and Technical Issues
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00:00:22
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Well, sir, we got a scorcher today. Gonna be real scorcher today. What? The scorcher today? Well, it's gonna be
00:00:45
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How was this, guys? How was this? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Check one, two, audio check. I picked the right thing. The tech is, the tech is messed up.
00:00:58
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The tech is messed up. This is what we're gonna have to roll with guys. Sorry about this. Noah actually just helped me set it up and apparently my mixing board just doesn't work. So we're gonna roll, we're gonna roll with this. Hopefully we can fix it later.
00:01:13
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ah Turn it up a smidge. All right, this is how it can go. This is how it can go. So this is what we're going to be rolling with folks. I guess I'll start over again. Sorry about these tech issues. I swear to God, we will have this fixed next
Seattle Sounders Match Recap
00:01:29
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time. This is actually really pissing me off, but we do at least with the tech issues,
00:01:37
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have a Seattle Sounders victory to talk about tonight. three two over the San Jose Earthquakes. Osase De Rosario with the game winner. Jesus Ferreira with a 70-yard pick six.
00:01:53
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Albert Rusnak on the scoreship score sheet with a penalty kick. So bad tech, good win for the Seattle Sounders. We're going to be breaking it down. I'm going to pull up the Brian Schmetzer presser just as soon as it starts. It should be starting in just a minute here. But obviously a big win for the Seattle Sounders. I think we were all feeling a little sour about what had transpired over the last couple of weeks.
00:02:15
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ah Draws at Sporting KC, the worst team in the league who, funnily enough, destroyed the l LA Galaxy tonight. But you had a draw at Sporting KC. the worst team in the league.
00:02:28
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Then you had a draw at home against San Diego, not the worst team in the league, but not an especially good team. And i think a bounce back was needed all around for the vibes, but specifically for the offense.
00:02:44
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This attack has been frustrating to watch for the last couple of weeks. And it was honestly frustrating to watch a lot tonight. i don't know about you guys, but I feel like there was a lot of exegi merchanting going on once again with this team in this game.
00:03:04
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ah But give them credit. They draw the penalty kick. for the Alba Rusnak equalizer and then two goals in the second half, including a huge goal from Osase De Rosario to win the game.
00:03:19
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We'll talk about that, but it was also a good win because
00:03:27
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the offense needed it and this game's actually started off about as poorly as it possibly could have. Let's talk about that. Let's talk about the start to this game because i really don't think it could have started much worse than I don't think it could have started much worse than that.
00:03:47
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Seattle concedes a goal two minutes into the game. ah And I don't see this lightly, but I think between that goal and the goal that they conceded at Sporting casey we might have witnessed two of the like three or four worst goals ever.
00:04:06
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the Seattle Sounders football club has ever conceded. And this one tonight was a doozy. It was a doozy.
00:04:18
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Here's what I'll say about these concessions. Here's what I'll say about these concessions. First, the one in KC, then the one tonight. Okay. Here's what I'll say. If you pass the ball to the other team directly in front of your own goal,
00:04:38
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A lot of the time you do that, you're gonna get scored on when you're playing a professional soccer team.
00:04:47
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That's kind of just how it goes. If you present them with the ball directly in front of the goal, you are liable to get scored on in that situation.
00:04:58
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And that's what they've done a couple of times in the last three weeks.
00:05:04
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And did it again tonight. It was KKR's mistake. or his giveaway this time, giving the San Jose Earthquakes a chance right in front of goal two minutes into the game. They convert.
00:05:16
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They get the opener. And, you know, it's just like, if that happens once, I can live with it.
00:05:30
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Twice in three weeks is, is I mean, it's just it's not what you want. But I will say this, too. The defense... I think has been good this year. They've conceded, I think, still the fewest goals in the West.
00:05:45
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At least they're still among the fewest goals in the West, even after conceding two tonight. So the defense has been playing well. They've been competing this year. They haven't been conceding very many goals.
00:05:55
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But these, like this concession tonight,
00:06:00
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if you if you want to win games, if you want to win trophies, you can't. pass the other team the ball directly in front of the goal. You can do that to the worst team in the league, as we saw, and they'll score on you.
00:06:13
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So a really bad start, but at the same time, with it being in the second minute of the game,
00:06:22
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I felt like, okay, well, you just conceded another horrendous goal. This time you're now behind.
00:06:31
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Score goal, come back. win the game anyway. You got a little adversity thrown at you, but at least if you can see in the second minute, right, you got the rest of the game to come back.
00:06:43
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So that didn't need to be the nail in the coffin, but it did suck the air out of the stadium a little bit. And it was also just like, really? Again? Again?
00:06:55
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Let's hope they're getting these out of their system. That's where I'm going to
00:07:01
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Because... As we get further into the season here, you're not going to be able to concede like this and continuing to take results. It looks like they're getting Schmitz set up in there, but he's not in there yet. So I will keep riffing until, yeah, he's not in there. Okay. ah In that situation,
00:07:25
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it was on the offense to pick the defense up. That's what I said during the San Diego game after that concession. That's how I felt tonight. You can see a really bad goal two minutes into the game. Comes a question, like we always talk about, of how you respond.
00:07:40
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And i thought the response was, ah i thought i thought it was good in a way, but like I said, this offense is is pretty frustrating to watch right now.
00:07:55
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And I feel that way, even with the fact that they ended up scoring three goals tonight and winning this game, I feel like they have been, not scoring enough for the volume and quality of chances that they are generating. That's how I'll put it. That's a kind way of putting XG Merchanting.
00:08:13
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So
00:08:17
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that is how I felt watching this game for much ah of the evening. But to be fair, it's not XG Merchanting if you actually end up with three goals in the game. And Osaze scores at the very end,
00:08:34
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to win the game, make it a three goal output for the day. So it's ah it's a necessary bounce back for the offense. after scoring one goal in back-to-back games while generating two-plus XG, you actually needed to get the the G to go along with the XG.
00:08:53
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So three goals tonight, that was nice to see. ah You know, maybe maybe there's going to be some Rusnak's goal. It doesn't count because it was a penalty kick. Listen, when you're XG-merchanting like this, beggars can't be choosers, all right? And i would also say to that, like, penalty kicks are – Earned.
00:09:15
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You earn penalty kicks by putting the other team under pressure, by putting yourselves in a situation to get that. So so I give them the goal counts.
00:09:26
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It counts. It was an earned goal.
00:09:31
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Getting presser in. Hold on.
00:09:37
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It was an earned goal based on the game state as well, I would say.
00:09:53
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OK, Schmetz is still not in there, but they're talking in there. So I'm going to mute that.
00:10:03
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I felt like it was an earned PK based on the game state and based on the chances that Seattle was generating at the time. Albert Rusnak steps to the spot, converts it.
00:10:17
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It's 1-1.
00:10:20
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So, all right, conceded a really bad opener. You get the equalizer, go win the game. That's your next task. And, oh,
00:10:35
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there we go. Yeah, let's hear it. Okay. Everybody good? Because I'm good. I think the fans should be good because, look, we didn't beat We didn't win against San Diego, but that was an exciting game. And I think we played against San Diego. We might not have played our best soccer in the first half.
00:10:57
Speaker
a But that was an exciting game too against a really good team. Kudos to Bruce and his staff, but three points to us. But I do want to say one thing because as a guy from Seattle and kind of my experiences back in my younger days with the World Cup and everything, watching some games in 94, don't judge me by my age.
00:11:19
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What I would say is that the World Cup is now approaching rapidly. and I know the club made an announcement about
Upcoming Matches and World Cup Excitement
00:11:26
Speaker
you know some festivities, some stuff down on the down at the the barge and the waterfront.
00:11:33
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I'm fired up about the World Cup coming to Seattle, us and the rain playing a big part in making sure that people really get a really good experience.
00:11:46
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Because that's what the World Cup is, what it should be. it should be bringing people from different nations cultures ideas together in the name of the sport and so kudos to the guys at the front office that came up with a great idea to have people come down on the waterfront and enjoy the summer in seattle and enjoy some really fantastic hopefully world cup matches that rival the match we just played great segue all right thanks for that coach uh we'll start on this side beginning with maz i think it's like you first we'll go to jeremiah
00:12:26
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Brian, I'll kind of stay on that. Do you think it gives the players a little bit more, not that they're not professional, but you know they are the epic center of what's happening. So do you think that has them kind of want to play a little bit more? Well, I've beent i've been listening you know to some of the players talk. They're excited about the World Cup months, for sure. We're all fans.
00:12:47
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We're all fans. Look, they might look at it a little bit differently because they're still in their playing careers. But I know a lot of them and talking about which games they can go and when do we have training and you know stuff like that. So they're fired up.
00:13:01
Speaker
I mean, we all we all want to see good games. We all want to be together and have a good atmosphere and and and watch some good soccer. So i'm I'm fired up about Seattle hosting for sure.
00:13:15
Speaker
You mean that translates onto the field? Oh, okay. Well, I don't know. I mean, look, they're that that's a super motivated group. Look, we've only lost one game this year.
00:13:27
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And that was a hard game. And San Diego was a hard game. And we dropped points in Kansas City. But, you know, we beat Vancouver twice and CCC. And the team's done exceptionally well.
00:13:40
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And you look at, look, I'll go a little into the weeds here and tell you what I told the team in there. We didn't play well in the first half. We didn't. And Albert stepping up to take that penalty, it's not always easy. It's not always as automatic as you guys think.
00:13:56
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Because it's a gun against the run of play and, you know, or maybe it's with the play, but we just didn't have that final. And he's almost automatic. And then you look at Jesus, you know, someone who's a motivated guy. And he scores a brilliant individual goal going from 118-yard box to the other.
00:14:17
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And then you get Osase, who's been doing the work. he He stayed after because, look, he's been out of the team. But he stays after. He works with Freddie. Tommy's getting him with the goalkeepers and everything.
00:14:28
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And he makes the most of his opportunity. So I don't have to motivate those guys with World Cup games or whatever. That's a motivated group right there to win games for the Seattle Sounders.
00:14:41
Speaker
All right, Jeremiah.
00:14:46
Speaker
So your crack communications team will have to double check me on this, but I'm pretty sure that's the first time you guys have swept the earthquakes in a season series ah ever. Well, we won the Heritage Cup.
00:14:57
Speaker
You won the Heritage Cup. but And to do it against a team that was you know coming into this game, leading this Porter Shield race, what does it just say about this team? And and what did you, you know, that you had to sort of grind it out? Our home form has been impeccable.
00:15:13
Speaker
And i hate I hate bringing that up because, again, I'm waiting for the shoe to drop. But to go down there and do what we did, you know, starting Peter Kingston and Nicola nikcola and midfield and Tino Lopez debut, the save off the line, they had like 85 shots and, you know, 16 corners and whatever they had to beat a – supporter shield winning team coached by Bruce and Dave and his staff.
00:15:47
Speaker
That's a, that's an accomplishment for sure. Judith. Congratulations on the wind. Brian, i have a two parter with the barge and the party that the rain and sounders are planning.
00:16:00
Speaker
Are you going to push at all to have like reasonable ticket prices or anything like that to make sure that regular fans can be a part of that. Okay, so I don't know anything about that Jada.
00:16:11
Speaker
I know that I'm going to try and go down there. If it costs me money or I get in free, I don't know. I can ask Craig and Adrian. I don't know. ah i get it that I know where you're going with that. I get it that FIFA and the whole storyline about the the pricing and pricing the everyday people out of the World Cup. I get where you're going.
00:16:29
Speaker
Not gonna take the bait with our particular thing. I'm sure our people have thought about it in a respectful way to all of our fans because we care. We don't just do things without taking into consideration the impact that it has on our fans.
00:16:45
Speaker
And so some people might think it's expensive or some probably might say, hey, this is great. I don't know where I sit in all that because I don't know all the details, but I do know that it's a good idea to bring people together for the World Cup, that ah that much I know.
00:17:02
Speaker
And then as far as the game goes, is the play by Osaze, does that kind of you erase some of the struggles that that y'all had you know before you were only able to get the draws, you know but this time you're actually able to pull out the win with some of the errors that happened? So it does that kind of erase things?
00:17:20
Speaker
Well, it doesn't erase things because I'm still kind of irritated about the second goal. Okay, the first goal Kalani. Okay, you know, Christian the other day, I get all that I can't really those things happen. They, you know, shouldn't happen. But you know, nobody's perfect.
00:17:38
Speaker
But what Osazi's goal erased was when we scored the second goal and we went up 2-1, that's when I want the team to really start to dictate tempo, to stay on the front foot, to gain some momentum, to score the third goal before we concede another.
00:17:55
Speaker
And that's the message I'm going to send to them after I settle down a little bit and watch the film. We'll go to Callahan next just as a quick point of clarity data. We've got those info. We got those details for you Excuse me on the pure 62 waterfront park activation and it's open access to the public versus the barge. So we can background all that with you later. if you're looking for more details there, like Ryan was saying.
00:18:17
Speaker
For the 1st part of your question. Yeah, I know. Yeah, but they're connected to each other. So we'll talk after Callahan over to you next. So he's just going all the way basically as you said, one 18, one 18 year, but it's another, what does that say about his shot taking confidence for him to just decide to do it on his own? And what are you looking to see from him going forward as far as that? come Well, we had, we had talked about challenged, you know, said a lot of different things about Jesus being a little bit more goal dangerous. He's our leading assist getter, but can he be a little bit more goal dangerous? Well, there you go. There's the proof.
00:18:51
Speaker
right, before we continue in the room, we'll take one off of Zoom. George, go ahead, please, with your question. George, as the break starts to to come into your sites, are you going to treat it as a complete break, or are you just going to base the team on...
00:19:08
Speaker
On the players that have been played and speaking of the World Cup, I suppose you have your supporting the USA and probably Germany, some a special affinity for Belgium since they are training here. Are there any other teams that you support or that you have um special interest on?
00:19:27
Speaker
I'll answer that one. The USA, I'm interested in hopeful that the USA has a good tournament. And then as far as the break, I'm not clear on your entire question, but I know the players have a mandatory break that's negotiated by the union.
00:19:42
Speaker
And we are looking forward to ending this first part of the year with a good performance against the galaxy and then a final good performance against l LAFC. All right, over to Noah.
00:19:59
Speaker
Coach, you talked a little bit about Kalani on that first goal there. What does it take for a player to kind of have that maybe goldfish mentality and press on and keep playing after conceding an early goal like that? Well, he's a tough kid mentally.
00:20:13
Speaker
You saw he almost scored. You know, he made some plays. you know Christian, same thing. i mean Players are going to make mistakes and veteran guys usually have better, you know smoother highs and lows. you know I wouldn't call Kalani a veteran guy, but he certainly has a lot of experience by now.
00:20:33
Speaker
You know, maybe he's a little older because of his college experience and all that, and that that helps. I mean, he was in some pretty tough game games with UW. But, you know, he's got a strong mentality, strong character, and he was able to bounce back.
00:20:48
Speaker
Coach, it's been a big season for San Jose. They're top three in the table right now. You get two results after them. Obviously, it means a lot to be the only team to beat them two times. what does that say about the mentality of this team playing anyone on any given day?
00:21:02
Speaker
Well, again, the home and away series against supporter shield leaders, I guess Vancouver's ahead of them now. ah Certainly it's a good, I don't want to downplay this, but I don't want to also magnify it into something that it isn't because there's a lot more games to play. So we'll take this, we'll we'll enjoy the moment, trust me, we're enjoying the moment. The coaches are back there and the players, they'll enjoy the moment, but we still have a long ways to go.
00:21:32
Speaker
bumo so there In English. in english okay The team has a great campaign playing away. However, they are not doing well when playing at home.
00:21:46
Speaker
What is the reason for this? You're talking about us or who, San Jose? No. For us. Yeah. So we are playing not good at home?
00:21:59
Speaker
think you mean, I think you may. and say lo sounder andnessa momentmento webn and cassa sierto butto beguza no is's moving futa in kaan no moving Well, I disagree with that because we haven't lost since we played it against Paris Saint Germain, so I might disagree there.
00:22:21
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If that's, I understand your English. I don't think so. It's good. i don't think so yeah
00:22:33
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it w in it's w Okay, that's it. felipe We'll take one more off zoom. Go ahead, please. Thank you, Alex. um lovelyly Sorry.
00:22:50
Speaker
My question to you, coach Brian, it's um the heritage cup or trophy. I mean, but what is the meaning?
00:23:02
Speaker
remembering, you know, this one of the oldest rivalry back to the 1974. What is the meaning of that trophy at this moment in time?
00:23:15
Speaker
So you said it right. It's NASL Originals, 1974. The trophy actually came to to be when we joined MLS, so 2009. And look, we have the Cascadia Cup.
00:23:29
Speaker
we have the Heritage Cup, then we have the Open Cup, then we have the Supporter Shield, then we have CCC, then we have all the playoffs, the the Shield.
Heritage Cup and Player Assessments
00:23:38
Speaker
We have a lot of trophies, Felipe. And with every competition,
00:23:45
Speaker
It's always important for us. And I think that mentality is what I tried to convey to the players because a lot of them, you know, don't think, or maybe, okay, it's a heritage cups, but that's for our fans. So the fans from San Jose and the fans from the Seattle Sounders brought this.
00:24:03
Speaker
And so I'm going to take it seriously, which means the players are going to take it seriously. So we're proud that we could again beat a very, very good San Jose team.
00:24:13
Speaker
And the trophy is actually in the locker room, Felipe. The players have it in the locker room. Jada, go ahead, last one. Thanks. Brian, I have a little hat tip to Jeremiah on this one, but um you haven't gotten a goal from your starting striker, like when you put them on the field to start.
00:24:31
Speaker
Is there something that you can do, I guess, in a sense? I know you've been talking a little bit about wanting one of them to kind of take control of that that spot. Is there anything more that you can do to get something out of it? That's an interesting catch.
00:24:45
Speaker
Okay. i I don't have an answer for that, Jada. I don't know. I would sure love to have the guy that I started at the number nine position score, or that's for sure. But look,
00:24:58
Speaker
if if like i think paul is still the leader with six or you know whatever and albert's creeping up there with five and then wasazi is going to get eight and jordan's going to get eight and jesus is going to get seven and and jackson's going to get three and then you get christian with his already two plus one more i mean then pretty soon by committee we will have as many goals as last year when we were you know scoring a lot of goals. And I don't really care if it's Musoski again at 18, as long as everyone pitches in and we can build those goal scoring numbers in a consistent fashion.
00:25:39
Speaker
Thanks all, we'll leave it there. Thanks everybody.
00:25:46
Speaker
There you have it from Brian Schmetzer. Hopefully that audio was good. And I muted myself ah because of the seagulls in the background who these guys just never shut up. They want to come on the pod.
00:25:59
Speaker
They have takes about the game apparently, but hopefully I got that muted in time and you can all hear Schmetz. A happy jubilant Brian Schmetzer after a much needed win, a much needed performance at home.
00:26:13
Speaker
I think an exciting home game like that, where you get a game winner right at the end. That was what the doctor ordered for this team after a string of admittedly wet down results. I think it's safe to call them.
00:26:29
Speaker
But before I toss the call link in the chat, i'm gonna do that in a second. I need you guys to tap in tonight. The tech is a disaster. i'm running double duty, so I'm gonna need some co-hosting. But I did wanna talk about real quick what I was gonna talk about right before the presser started, which is,
00:26:47
Speaker
Jesus Ferreira. Let's talk about Jesus Ferreira because there's been a lot of discourse surrounding Jesus Ferreira, including on our show.
00:27:00
Speaker
And lot of it is centered around the notion that, you know, he's been playmaking this year. He's getting his assists. He's setting guys up. He's dropping dimes. He's facilitating. He's unselfish. And that's all well and good.
00:27:13
Speaker
But this is also a guy who has 60 plus MLS goals to his name.
00:27:20
Speaker
So he needs to be scoring more than, he had one you one goal this year coming into this game. And when we talk about an offense that's struggling to finish chances,
00:27:32
Speaker
someone needed to step up and take control of the situation and just put the ball in the back of the net.
00:27:44
Speaker
Someone needed to do that. And I didn't really care tonight if it was going to be Moose. Moose got the start. I didn't care if it was going to be jordan Jordan Morris. I didn't care if it was going to be Jesus Ferreira, Albert Rusnak, whoever the case may be. It just had to be somebody.
00:27:59
Speaker
Somebody had to put an end to this XG Merchantsy. And Jesus Ferreira, that was a hell of a goal. I mean...
00:28:10
Speaker
how many yards do you guys think he he ran on that he picked that thing up he picked that thing off at the top of his own penalty area and ran down the whole damn field no one stopped him shook a guy in the box and my favorite thing that jesus did right there on that play it wasn't even the run that wasn't even my favorite thing my favorite thing that he did was he shot the ball, which is something that this team has had trouble doing over these last couple games. There have been all these sequences where they do everything well to get themselves a good chance, and then they're in front of the goal with the chance to shoot, and they just don't pull the trigger.
00:28:56
Speaker
There's some like yips. There's like team-wide yips going on right now. So wasn't it great? Wasn't it cathartic to see a man charge 60 yards down the field
00:29:12
Speaker
And just shoot the ball. And as much as that early concession took the air out of the stadium, that electrified the stadium. That was awesome.
00:29:24
Speaker
They needed that so badly.
00:29:27
Speaker
There's nothing, honestly, is there anything more frustrating than watching a team that's ex-g-merchanting to this degree? This is their fifth straight game with over two expected goals, which... You don't need to understand XG to understand that this is a team that is doing the thing that soccer teams do sometimes where they generate a lot of good, really, really good chances, but they can't finish them.
00:29:51
Speaker
That's been the situation. So seeing Jesus Ferreira make that run, seeing him finish off that goal, second goal of the year. Let's hope that gets him going a little bit.
00:30:02
Speaker
Uh, And then you have an Osase De Rosario game winner, which was equally badly needed. ah Did we get any clarity on who the number nine is for this team? No, we did not.
00:30:14
Speaker
But I guess the committee approach is fine as long as people are actually scoring. And in the last two games, you have Moose getting a goal, and now you have an Osase game winner, his second goal the year.
00:30:28
Speaker
So we'll see what happens with the whole number nine thing. But i feel like there's at least been a step taken in the right direction with that.
00:30:40
Speaker
Previously, none of them had been scoring goals. Now over the last two games, mo Moose got one, Osaze got one tonight.
00:30:51
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Jordan got one a couple of weeks ago against FC Dallas. He was not playing the nine when he scored that goal, but it is a goal that he scored and he will in all likelihood be playing the nine.
00:31:03
Speaker
at some juncture or another this season. So I guess it's trending in the right direction. It kind of didn't feel like it tonight right up until Osase got the game winner.
00:31:16
Speaker
But at least it's so you got something to build on now. You have a three-goal output from this game tonight, okay? You needed to do that. You needed to put the ball in the back of the net two plus times in this game.
00:31:27
Speaker
You're able to do that. second Second straight game with ah a goal from a Seattle Sounders, number nine. This is, I mean, this is electrifying stuff, folks.
00:31:39
Speaker
So it's up to them to build on this and not let the XG Merchanting of the last couple of weeks become a trend. They can't go back to that.
00:31:55
Speaker
But God, I mean, it we wasn't it just nice for them to pump three goals in there. I know it was it was still a frustrating game to watch in a lot of ways, but to to see them come out with three goals with the dust settled, that's good stuff. All right. I'm going to drop the call link in the chat right now. going to need you guys to sign on. on
00:32:20
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Frasca, some co hosting with me there's the link right now let's get the key rolling. Rob Frasca, M.D.: lost to St Louis let's let's revel in that for a second.
00:32:32
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Frasca, M.D.: they're down Rob Frasca, All right, we got the Q rolling we got who's we got tried for the first time in a couple weeks let's go all right we're going to bring moves to the stage.
00:32:42
Speaker
Right now, there is. Hey. What's up, man? can be heard and everything. You can be heard. got you. three who win over the San Jose Earthquakes, best team in the league. They didn't have a couple of their best players.
00:32:55
Speaker
Yeah. But you know and a win over the best team in the league is a win. Any way you slice it, it counts. yeahh Osaze with the game winner. What did you see, Puj? did you think? Talk to me. Yeah. um It's kind of weird because like the feelings are so high from a win like that. I think that all of us are just relieved. Like you even kind of cracked the jump earlier.
00:33:17
Speaker
We're relieved to see like players take shots and score. or just shoot in general. I would settle for shooting in general at this point. yeah Yeah. And also score it. I was like, oh, okay. I mean, I just wanted you to shoot.
00:33:30
Speaker
Yeah. Like it's kind of, you know, it's easy to kind of get stuck in on Osase scoring the header. But as you said, that Jesus goal was just awesome. Right. Like seeing a player take it to the opponent and force them to make a decision. Sorry, you couldn't stop it. You know, like, Like that was beautiful. I love watching that. And I say, I'll let's say like the first half, like if I really remember back, I was pretty bitter.
00:33:56
Speaker
I was pretty pissed off at the giving up another dumb goal, which then is going to lead people to say like, oh, it's because of like the defending. We're not defending. And it's like, listen, we should not give these up for sure.
00:34:09
Speaker
All of these are like goals that we should know how to defend against and just never really be in that situation. You can't give them the ball directly in front of the goal. 100%. But we have to score goals, right? No matter how the defense plays, to win the game, we have to know how to score goals. And like that has been the thing that's been driving me nuts. And You're going to do three goals sometimes. It's going to happen. 100%, right? It's frustrating that, like, we've given up three dumb ones, like, in a row for, you know, really annoying results where we're just tying the game. But, i yeah, a the beginning of the game was pretty frustrating. Yeah.
00:34:47
Speaker
By the end of it, I really like i didn't want to lose sight on this. I really thought that despite some of the ebbs and flows of the game, ah Costa Rienzi really impressed me. right That guy was dribbling across the top of the box, trying to take a shot. right How did that one that he went down to play? How did that one go in?
00:35:06
Speaker
Yeah, and he's done that before, right? like He did that to LAFC, I remember. That was when he really like kind of first came on my radar. It's like, hey, is this guy you know someone that deserves minutes? I think that Kosa Rienzi is a is a younger player that is going to have a hard time maybe getting minutes all the time when we're completely fit. But that is a guy that I think is, like were saying about Vosovsky, I think Kosa Rienzi is really trying to make a case for, like, I deserve to be here.
00:35:34
Speaker
and you know i'm goingnna try to like make you remember me. um I also thought that Jesus was probably the end of the match and Brunel. um I've seen this circling around like this this phrase, but I, you know, if I didn't invent it, then I definitely agree with that. Like I'm bigger on Brunel than I was on Vargas.
00:35:56
Speaker
And I know that Vargas went to Atletico Madrid and you know, it's really easy to like pump him up and I'm so excited for him and I don't want to, don't I don't want get in that light, but like when I see Brunel, that looks like a guy that is going, like he is going to take it to the opponent. He is going to win every ball and he is going to create a lot of chances.
00:36:17
Speaker
So I've really enjoyed watching him. I thought those three, really killed it today. um i will say that like as a guy that has defended Rusna quite a bit and and I think that people complaining about him don't know ball.
00:36:31
Speaker
um Jesus playing better does almost kind of force Albert to move out of his way, right? To kind of play somewhere else because Jesus has just been such a quality chance creator and that kind of used to be Albert's thing. Jesus is just faster, right? He's, yeah and you know, they even even optimistically, if they both are generally optimistically as good at chance creation,
00:37:00
Speaker
generating opportunities for their teammates like Jesus can just cover so much ground. And he just does that regularly. So it's interesting to me for me to figure out, like what do you do with Albert Rusnak if Jesus stays hot?
00:37:15
Speaker
You know, where where does Albert fit into that? I'm still not convinced by anybody at the nine. um I do think that Musavsky helped us in a way that Jordan struggles to. I think that Musavsky looked more natural at the nine. i thought that he held people off, did not get bodied off of the ball as much.
00:37:41
Speaker
The runs, I i still kind struggled to see, but ah you know I think that's just something that, I think that's a difference of us not having you know a true DP number nine striker. I think Raul makes those runs. Like people talk about the service to the nine.
00:37:58
Speaker
The nines have to make intelligent runs, right? It's often a one V two situation for them or the odds are even worse than that. They're paid the big bucks, not just because they get you to score, but because they know how to make intelligent runs and to be in a position to receive the service. I think it's insane to say that like our nines are not getting service when you have Bruce Snock and Jesus and Brunel and Rothrock and all of these players that are creating so many opportunities to say that they're not getting service.
00:38:28
Speaker
and I think that what I the thing that drives me nuts about our nines currently for sure even in this game and the last ones is we're taking that extra pass for laying it off and for everybody else else I can't help but think like if that was Raul he would have shot that he would have not touched it he would have ripped that shot it may have gone into the clouds it may have gone into the upper 90 right like he he He and Nico knew how to just rip that shot and not overthink it. So I think that we just lack a clinical striker that, you know, will do that.
00:39:01
Speaker
That being said, other than that, we play some beautiful football and I love to watch it. Well, yeah. And hopefully the nines can get going. We'll see. Pooz, great stuff. We're going keep working through the queue here, but ah we'll talk to you on the next one. All right. Yes, sir.
00:39:16
Speaker
Take care. All right, we got Gianni, we got Jordan, we got Kenny, we got a packed queue. So I'm just gonna start bringing you guys on. Gianni, we're on the stage. right Hey, how's going? 3-2 over San Jose, best team in the league. You know, didn't have Securus, didn't have Timo Werner, but i have a lot of good players. Osaze game winner, Jesus Ferreira, 60 yard pick six. I mean, what'd you see? What'd you think?
00:39:42
Speaker
The first half was incredibly frustrating. yeah The second half just turned it all around. I mean, it really was a gate, like, say what you will, it was a tale of two halves. The boneheaded mistake in the opener made me just want to chuck my phone across the room as I was cooking dinner.
00:39:58
Speaker
um i think i do I don't know, it's ah it's a hobby of ours. Like, you know, we feel bad, so we're going to gift them a free one early. So they it makes it a little bit more interesting for us, I guess.
00:40:11
Speaker
we'll put the We'll put it on a platter for you. We'll deliver it right to you. Yeah. the goal All you got to do is tap it in. Dude, it's just like, it's just a little bit of charity. Yeah. I mean, it also gives us something to write. It gives you guys something to write about. So, you know.
00:40:24
Speaker
That's kind of, I'm so content. That's really, you know the tweet that's like i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content. Like that's oh absolutely like the writers feel day. They're like, Oh yeah, here we go. This is, here's at least a couple of like a couple of paragraphs that we can just throw in there real quick. It's like maintaining the current form of current standards for, you know, just giving away a free goal to make things interesting. Um,
00:40:47
Speaker
Man, that Jesus run was fucking incredible. I mean, say what you will. I mean, like, yeah, sure. The San Jose defense, like, I don't know what the fuck they were doing. Just letting Jesus, like, kind of jog, like, 60 yards before, like, getting any pressure inside the box on him.
00:41:05
Speaker
It was hilarious, especially when there were two center backs in front of him. Like, one of them didn't decide, like, hey, one of us should commit and one of us should step back. Um, I mean, I'll take it.
00:41:15
Speaker
Um, uh, it was a great shot to finish it up too, because once they did pressure him, he did still have a little bit work to do. Wait, he, the last jukey pulled was nice. Oh yeah. Like he cruifed it and then just knuckleball and the goalkeeper had no shot.
00:41:29
Speaker
yeah Um, I would have loved to have seen Jackson finish off one of those headers he got on on those corners. Like, he had two pretty good chances and just couldn't get any of them on target. And the one that he just flicked on that kind of half dive off the cross, yeah I was just like, dude, you flicked it. You literally flicked it away from, like, just away from the goal. i don't know how it was that.
00:41:57
Speaker
I don't know, because you're like three yards out. Like, that is an insane miss. i was like, man, you are snakebit. I mean, like, this is kind of our team, though. Yeah. Like, it's great that Jesus was able to put that away.
00:42:11
Speaker
Albert got the penalty. And then Dero just, like, I guess San Jose decided that they were done marking for the night and just let him just kind of, like, alley-oop that. But...
00:42:24
Speaker
I'll take it. I mean, it's nice to have gotten that win if we dropped points because of the giveaway and those like the two defensive errors, I would have probably been blowing at the Doom thread like it was my job.
00:42:40
Speaker
would be a vastly different post-game show. Yeah. um As it was, like I'm happy that we got the win. i have some real concerns with the way things have been going, though. Yeah.
00:42:55
Speaker
Like the defense just has to get this straightened out. We cannot be spotting the team two goals. Like that's just – like it's great that we came back tonight. I just don't think that we're going to be able to maintain that level of offense. It's not a sustainable strategy to pass the other team the ball directly in front of the goal between one and three times in a given game. They need to stop doing that. I'm trying to – I feel like defense has been good on the whole this year. and They've just had a couple of horrendous moments in the last couple weeks. So I'm willing i'm willing to give them the the chance to show that this was kind of just an aberration, couple of fluke moments, and that it's not going to be a regular thing. But to have that to have two concessions that badly in three weeks, it's like, yo.
00:43:39
Speaker
Yeah, that's, and I know like Spencer says, yeah, that happens. He talked about the one that Christian did. he talked about the one tonight. It was just like, it happened, but like, it doesn't need to like,
00:43:52
Speaker
Like, we should probably make that stop, right? Like, we can't just hand wave this shit away like it's not happening. i don't want it to happen. It's like, sure, it has happened. Does that mean that we're okay with that happening? Because I don't think that we're okay with this happening. didnt it happens Yeah. see.
00:44:09
Speaker
um
00:44:12
Speaker
let's see ah
00:44:17
Speaker
What's up for our starting nines? Like, seriously, like our bench nines are pulling all the work. It's like the only way you're going to score is if you're coming off the bench. I don't know what the fuck is going on though. It's like a running bit right now. Like one will get goal and everyone's like, start that guy. And then the other one scores and then the other guy doesn't score. So everyone just shifts to like, okay, I guess start that guy. You just start who scored last, I guess.
00:44:41
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I guess that's true, but also that that only works if you don't want them to keep scoring. Right.
00:44:50
Speaker
and Porzo Sazza is the one who ended up – Yeah. Whatever. They can do the committee. It's just got to work. if It's worked the last couple weeks, so whatever, I guess. Yeah. I don't know. Just peel so peel someone off the bench in minute one, see if they can score immediately. Yeah.
00:45:07
Speaker
Gianni, give us one last one last take on this game, either either on the quakes or season coming up here at Peter Kingston. I mean, anything you want. ah Let's see.
00:45:19
Speaker
um Yeah, Albert needs to kind of figure out what's going on. I don't think he's looked particularly great in the last couple of weeks. and like Yeah, he got the penalty tonight, but that was kind of off of everyone else's work. He just cleaned it up.
00:45:36
Speaker
um His corner kicks have been pretty dog shit. I would like to see haeses start taking it. thought they were getting better. again They were better tonight, but i another i just think like in general, it's two It's not consistent enough.
00:45:55
Speaker
Like, i think that when Jesus was taking them, I just, I liked the delivery a little bit better. Like if you kind of get my meaning, like I like the shape of the cross a little better.
00:46:07
Speaker
Um, And I think that there's too many times the Albert cross just doesn't end up where it's supposed to, or like it gets close to where it's supposed to, but just doesn't quite have the same effect on the defense.
00:46:23
Speaker
I might not be phrasing that very well, but... i yeah i like I just haven't really been impressed with his play in general. he had that He had those two games where it looked like he was lights out and he was on fire and he was back, and then it just kind of tailed off again. And I think he's being put under a ton of pressure by Jesus.
00:46:44
Speaker
And if he doesn't start picking it up and start showing that same kind of effort, same kind of production, yeah. I would have a real hard time keeping him in the lineup, or at least as the 10.
00:46:59
Speaker
It's going to be interesting to see what they do with that. I mean, I feel like Schmetz has kind of settled on the on the dual 10s, which i feel like i feel like it's been functioning all right as far as like the the consistency and the volume of the chance generation.
00:47:15
Speaker
But they got me they they got they have to... score multiple goals in these games more than just this game. I mean, the last two weeks, it just wasn't enough offensively. So at least they got the three goals tonight though.
00:47:31
Speaker
Yeah. No. Yeah, that's about it. um Yeah. Great win. Let's please stop kicking it directly to the other team right outside of our box.
00:47:42
Speaker
Amen to that. All right, Gianni, great stuff as always, man. Appreciate you. We'll catch you on the next one. Catch you later. Noah just walked in. This fucking guy can't figure out a goddamn microphone. that's I bought him a brand new. Chat, I bought him a brand new microphone.
00:47:59
Speaker
When I tell you I bought him a brand new microphone, and this man said, I'm going to break it. Fuck it. I'm going to break it. Anyway, let's get our next caller in here. How are doing? Is it Jordan? Is Jordan up? Yeah, bring Jordan here. Jordan. Jordan. I'm standing.
00:48:13
Speaker
You're sitting. no I'm right here. I'm going to give you a nice massage. This is how we doing, Jordan. How are we feeling? 3-2 win. Over San Jose. Osase game winner. Jesus, 60-yard pick six. I mean, what did you see? what you think?
00:48:28
Speaker
Honestly, i have missed I'm actually missed the end of the last game because normally I'm asleep by this point so it was nice to see a game that didn't end in a draw. um I mean I it was looking like it for the longest time but who knew when you have really tall strikers if you just whip the ball into the middle, you know sometimes they'll win it and.
00:48:52
Speaker
Keeper really should have done better. i mean, I don't know what he's he's expecting the ball to go over the net off the bounce, but.
00:49:02
Speaker
Lucky with the penalty to kick, obviously the handball. ah Jesus Ferreira that. Genuinely was insane to see like that is just.
00:49:14
Speaker
the The double shimmy the to get the goal was insane. i will say the first goal, I'm not even going to lie, I thought it didn't count at first when it went in.
00:49:26
Speaker
Or I thought that because I wasn't looking when kickoff happened, so I had no clue which way anyone was attacking. and I'm like, oh, San Jose is just running back to their goalkeeper. And then i realized it was Amis who would run out. And I'm like, oh.
00:49:41
Speaker
What what happened I missed everything I by by the time i looked over at the screen just happened the ball into an open net and. It was pretty it was pretty bad honestly that that was a that was a bad start of the game, but.
00:49:55
Speaker
no it was a bad prospect, Lonnie, but I feel like maybe maybe you can correct if you feel differently, but. He kind of made up for that. That was the question that I asked to Brian was about... Columni actually played... He played lights out in attack after that.
00:50:11
Speaker
He made probably one of the worst passes. It was like a Christian Roldan style pass. looked like he was playing like he knew he had something to make up for. Like the run that he had on that goal he almost scored, it felt like there was a fire lit under him of like, I i messed He's like, I got to fix it. I got to fix this now.
00:50:28
Speaker
I need to go fix this. No, they... He... It's funny because it feels like, you know, that first obviously it's only two minutes, but like how slow it was. And the second they went down 1-0, it's like there was no acclimation time. They were just full on all out attack.
00:50:46
Speaker
Go, go, go. they I thought they were honestly going to score three goals by the time the first half had ended with how they were playing. um mean, the second goal is just for San Jose, just super unlucky to come off of the the leg of Reagan to end up in the back of the net.
00:51:07
Speaker
But New Who with an assist, a direct assist for New Who too. yeah being Thank you for bringing that up. I did ken got call. and he already called No, he hasn't been. Oh, he was in the queue. Maybe he's down there. Whatever.
00:51:21
Speaker
We were talking about the Chimiteriaki. I knew I was forgetting something. New Who primaries. Yes, the New Who assist. Quakes, so it counts. Yeah. Doubly. Actually counts for two assists. Which is crazy, the the fact that, you know, playing the Quakes, things count now after last the last couple of years where they were...
00:51:40
Speaker
so bad you know one of the worst things in the west pump that counts a heritage company i think that there's pride there's probably going to be some sentiment going around of like well it actually doesn't count because they didn't have securus or timo verger but i don't care like they have preston jutte out there and he's the freaking reincarnation of Chris Wondoloski apparently so oh what is it I will say like i said the last couple of games I've either ah had to miss the post show or i missed the end of the game because of my work schedule like I'm passing out super early but
00:52:13
Speaker
The team's playing well. Obviously, a lot of the draws are hurting, you know, but they're not rolling over. We're not getting beat. They're doing really good, which is super strange compared to normally it's like, you know, now what'd you say, week 13. This is normally when they start winning games and start or start getting results compared to the last couple of years. You know, the the fact that we're,
00:52:41
Speaker
already rolling up. It's nice to see for a change. All right, Jordan, any final thoughts? We got a lot in the queue. We want to keep her pushing here. No, just ah good to see you guys. Good to talk to you and have a good night.
00:52:54
Speaker
Yeah, good to see you Jordan. and Appreciate it All right, james did do we get James or James? James, you're you're muted in and not there. So, if oh, there you go. I see a forehead. All right. Let's get him in. James Albert Rusnak with a goal. And you know, immediately what I said in the press box, I know what James is going to say on the postgame show. I said, stat pattern that's what i thought you were going to say i'll just let you have the floor to give those takes immediately well no i'd like to thank you for pointing out my giant forehead as well so thank you for that um actually if if you guys don't mind i'd like to talk about some of these salary numbers that just came out oh had i haven't done the deep dive on that yet but yeah go for it yeah so talk a little bit about the salary and the uh
00:53:43
Speaker
the sort of how we're building the roster, because, you know, I think we all know the DP situation could be better. Jesus Ferreira, 1.9 million, I think is a lot. If you're not going to play him in his best position at the 10 Christian, that's fine. But then you get down to the ones below that areola 1.15 million.
00:54:05
Speaker
That seems like a lot for a guy who's been lucky to get about 20 minutes a game. I thought he was like warming up. He looked like he was putting the jersey on, and then they sat his ass back down when they conceded that second goal. He did get out there. Yeah.
00:54:21
Speaker
Yeah. yeah I thought it was weird when Nuhu went down last week or over the weekend. I thought it was odd that Areola didn't come in in that position. i sort of thought that was part of the appeal of him was that he could play a little left back.
00:54:37
Speaker
But then below that, you've got Dotson on $800,000 at $28,000, which is a lot for somebody who's not starting and hasn't really looked all that great.
00:54:49
Speaker
And then Musaski's up to $712,000. think part of the problem here again Musavski, absolute bargain, dude. That dude's getting you yeah the only goal production, and he's worth, like, what?
00:55:05
Speaker
Yeah, 700K. Here's my question about it, though, right? Hassani, maybe he's making a lot more, but I thought he played okay in this game. I thought he played fine. um But Snyder Burnell's not making anything. So you're kind of like – I feel like you can average out the two of them.
00:55:23
Speaker
both their salaries, which I think would be like four hundred k each, basically, you know, maybe maybe a little more. i think that's pretty pretty valid got for two people in that position, Drew.
00:55:34
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, what i what I would say about that is, you know, it and it used to be with Loggerway, we'd go in with kind of incomplete rosters to start the year. And if we needed to fill gaps, we'd do it in the summer. We'd get Euro free agents or do some transfers or something like that.
00:55:50
Speaker
And I think that if we're going to be the sort of youth-oriented team that we're kind of always talking about being, i think it makes a lot of sense to go into this season. You don't sign Dotson, especially with the injury concerns. You say, yeah, we're goingnna we're going to run with Snyder Brunel, Peter Kingston. And if it doesn't work out, we find a free agent in the summer. There's going to be plenty of Euro frees in central midfield. you know Maybe you don't extend Musafki.
00:56:17
Speaker
Because that's a good chunk of money when he's going to be 33, 34. And you say, all right, well, we signed Osaze. We saw something there. Let's let's run with him. and I think there's been sort of just a lot of playing it too safe with a lot of these signings.
00:56:33
Speaker
it's If you're not going to spend a lot of money, you're going take some risks. If you're going to focus on your youth academy, you're going have to take some risks. And I think we'd be better off. you know We don't extend Musafsi's contract. We don't sign Dotson. I don't think we should have signed Areola.
00:56:47
Speaker
And you say, we're gonna play the Defiance guys there. And if it doesn't work out, we've got a good chunk of money that we can go out and get somebody in Europe in the summer. And then that way you're you're sort of finding, you're not trying to squeeze square pegs into round holes, which I think we've been doing a lot of.
00:57:04
Speaker
I think that's part of why we've ended up with kind of overlapping designated players from Ladero to Rusnak and now Rusnak to Jesus Ferreira. You know, you're you're getting a bigger window of talent And you don't end up with some of these contracts that are blowing. I mean, between areola dots and and Mussovsky, that's almost half the cap on guys who are are not guaranteed starters. So fair enough. I'll leave you with this final question here.
00:57:34
Speaker
So you kind of want to San Jose build. You kind of want that Timo Werner style player to come in. be that Euro guy. They're more in a super draft than Academy, but it is similar. But it's like this similar vibe, right? The Bruce vibe of like, we're going make it work with dogs like Paul Rothrock. We're going make it work with the Snyder Brunel here or there, an Osaze every once in a while, but we're going to be kind of anchored by a couple of good players, including one former Euro star. That's kind of like your vibe you're feeling?
00:58:05
Speaker
I'm under no illusions that we can afford a team of Warner or that we would spend one, even if that we would spend for it if we had one. But i'm I'm even thinking more along the lines of somebody like a Roman Torres, like a Victor Rodriguez, you know, guys that are sort of in our budget, but they're usually only available in the summer window. And up until you get to that point, if you need to break glass in case of emergency and get one of those guys, you can do it. But until then you're given the guys like, um you know, like Brunel, like,
00:58:35
Speaker
um Tino Lopez, giving him some more minutes. So I think that we need to be a little bit, i think we need to take a few more risks. I don't know that I would have brought Yamar back because he's on a million bucks and he's he's had injury problems. He's going to be 34. You know, you you I think you got to let the youth go a little more and then you've got, if you need to make your corrections in the summer, you can do it, but you'd have to actually scout to do that. So.
00:59:02
Speaker
Well, we appreciate it, James. James for GM, I believe, is is what he's selling out here. So maybe one day you'll get to answer the tough questions from us. We appreciate you, James. and I shall submit my resume. Thank you very much for having me.
00:59:16
Speaker
All See you soon, James. Catch you next time, James. All right. We have Sticks. Sticks is on the queue. He's got the drum set. It's our go. How are we? How are we doing?
00:59:28
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Give us your advice. evening. Good evening, Scorching Nation. Can you guys hear me well? Yeah, sound great. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You guys sound absolutely phenomenal. And yeah, it actually has been a while since this since I've actually appeared on this grand show, which, ladies and gentlemen, by the way, if you haven't yet, please like the video, share and subscribe um since Ari and Noah will not say those things. So, you know, like it's about and like, you know, we all we as the fans also have a responsibility, you know, to to to Haxon for men's and for
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pull pull wines and for the the uh the lobbing scorchers uh called morning coffee and you know there we now uh now that yeah now that we've got that out of the way uh there's a couple pillars that i just wanted to get out of my system first to lafc
01:00:30
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Ah, ah, ah, ah,
01:00:35
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the um Oh my lord, to see Will Ferrell FC and the failure of the downfall is one of the most grandest things I have ever, like I have to watch to watch on content these days. Because watching that, you know, pathetic show of happy foot, sad foot that does not have the great ah tenacity, the great genuineness of the great lobbing scorchers, which yes, you can hear more I just quoted. um You know, like it's ah like, you know, it's it's fun to see them actually feeling a little bit of the pain that what we've had to deal with, because if you want to, be you know, try to get to what we have to do, there is a price that you have to pay.
01:01:17
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But, you know, now that we're done with that LAFC little rant and Will Ferrell, which we will see them in a couple of weeks, it is a trap game, to which I do see that, you know, It is a springboard that can ignite us to that that can ignite them to literally just go God mode.
01:01:33
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Like when we step foot in their doo doo stadium um with the doo doo five two. oh Oh, wait, I'm sorry. Three, two, five, two. I didn't I didn't make to say doo doo five, two. Sorry. uh respectfully uh but uh enough of that but this game today yes albert you know played a little bit dunce he was quiet needs to stop doing that needs to be a little bit more consistent trust me i'm gone i'm not going yet yet Because trust me, there's still you know a long ways so we can get so we can make this albert this did this Albert debate actually fair.
01:02:12
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um But still, i mean you knew that this was coming from a San Jose perspective because yes, we pissed them off. We Roth-Rocked them. we gave them like you know because you know i mean I'm surprised you guys haven't heard this chant from the Roth-Rock fans. and be like who's gonna score the goals for us the roth the roth who's gonna give us a system that's the roth the roth i mean you know but yeah was like we did we we rocked them and so then this game you knew that they were going to come out with a grand intensity and they going to punch you in the face because that's what usually we get with the heritage cup it's never easy it's never
01:02:51
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you know, you're you're going to get the scrapes, the scars, the boo-boos, the, you know, like ah if you ever watch George at the Jungle, I mean, like, you know, the host would say, don't worry, nobody dies in this story.
01:03:02
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They just get really big boo-boos, you know? So, you know, that's, That's ah yeah you know that's what you're usually going to go into. But the Schmetzer resiliency, as I continually quote, like, you know, lives on in the Emerald City. The spirit lives on. And so I leave the floor back so you guys can take any questions that you have.
01:03:24
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Beautiful. Just one for you and then we'll we'll let you go here. I wanted this i want to let you know, I accidentally almost spilled all of my food on Pedro de la Vega today. He was walking the hallway this way and I was walking this way and I had my head down trying to balance all my food.
01:03:41
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And there was this this ghostly, godly thing that just like stopped me in my tracks so I didn't run into him. And I just want you to know, he looked good. He looked happy.
01:03:53
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He's going to come back soon.
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I mean, like, I already know that that's going to be where like I'm ready for him to come back. I'm ready for Yamar to come back. Like I said, let's not rush everything right now.
01:04:07
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Let us chain up the busy. If you ever watch the Sandlot, you know, I'm going to show like, you know, I have a go quote from Squints. He says to chain up the beast.
01:04:17
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and put him under the house and let's put him under the house and let him just like you know put the little stake right in front of that like you know right right in front of that beast right in front of our beasts and let them slowly hunger and slowly ravel because when we let the wolves out because we have to let nothing but the grandest wolves and grandest attack because after because when we come back we have to come back with the with like you with like you know literally belt to ask because we have port scum coming back from the world cup break and that would be that means everything because like i said all eyes are on philip and george and like you know yes we've already had the things of like get everybody else wants like you know the grand like you know the trophies and whatever with conca calf and everything now it's time to literally lock in because like i keep saying this this is the last of the mls of what we know in our democracy of existence before this whole
01:05:15
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sprint season before this whole Euro change. This is the last thing of what we know of what we used to crash out, what we used to be egregious, what we used to joy, what we used to have grand things of of debate of what we know as in our MLS ecosystem is now for, is now like, you know, going to be changing. And so, like I said,
01:05:36
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Phillip is all eyes on this and we need to keep our grand eyes on Phillip. And I end with that statement because there, like I said, there is a grand other more escorting nations left. So please continue. Shout out to Styx, all eyes on Phillip. We appreciate you and we will see you soon. Thanks, Caleb.
01:05:59
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All right, next up is Tribe. Tribe, are you ready? Tribe's been busy. Tribe got a job. Tribe's been working. Tribe, are you employed? Are you employed now? Yeah. Oh, dude, come on.
01:06:12
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That's why hasn't been calling. Dude, slacking on content for employment? He's employed, dude. corrupt Well, I mean, I'm a Division I goalkeeper and a landscaper at the same time, so I have a lot going on.
01:06:25
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Okay. You know what? All right. I thought Tribe was I'm not going to lie. Ooh. Wow. Wow. I thought you said that.
01:06:38
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Beef on camera, too, is crazy. Bro, bro, first of all, okay. Okay. First of all, shout out to Caleb. His call-ins are fucking brilliant, man. I love that guy, man.
01:06:51
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Absolutely. He's very polite. It's like watching Bach write a symphony. Like, i just no one can it better. he He is absolutely top class. I love that guy, man. Shout out to you, Caleb.
01:07:03
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This game was a bit frustrating, I'll be honest. It doesn't, it doesn't. It was crashing out in the press box. I want everyone to know. and I don't usually, i don't usually do that. that There's something, like uniquely frustrating about this XG Merchant thing right now. It's really, like, tilting the
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Yeah, absolutely. and And I feel like, again, the chances that we have, Four years ago with Raul, would have been scored. Jesus Ferrer had a beautiful cutback to him. It's not an easy chance for everyone, but he blasted over. Ruudias would have scored that. You know what I'm saying? like like these These kind of opportunities that would have been scored by other players that we've had in the past, and we never really tried to replace and with the same quality, it's a little bit frustrating. I feel like the striker thing is is still...
01:10:50
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something that we need to take care of. Maybe we'll get an absolutely incredible free transfer in the summer. Let's hope so. um But for this game in general, man, I mean, it's frustrating. we've We've had so many more chances that we should have put away in the first half. We were absolutely dominant. We were playing like it was like the CONCACAF Champions League final, and we were down by by a goal during the second half of the first half. It was it was absolutely outrageous. there wasn't We didn't have any reason to have that much momentum, really. And it was against the grain of the game the entire way. The second half, um around 25 minutes into the second half, it just went allish it just went to shit.
01:11:38
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It just passed straight to the other player. It was ping pong across the fucking... It was frustrating. It looked like a high school game. It pissed me off. It brought me back to four years ago.
01:11:51
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I wasn't feeling good. But then Jesus Ferreira came in. Oh, man. Jesus Ferreira against the grain, right? That's what you say. with With this sort of game, just took it, ran with it all the way, did a little shimmy. Like Lionel Messi, man. It's like a Messi thing.
01:12:09
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It's like a prime Messi in Barcelona thing. as she What? MVP. Absolutely. Absolutely. You got to love him. And that that finish was was very good. As a goalkeeper, Daniel can't do anything. He can't see his own players in his way. I would have thrown hands with my defenders. He was in the way.
01:12:30
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So fuck you, right? That's well that's what it's like. um Brilliant from Jesus Ferreira. Osase De Rosario, poor defending, unmarked, free header, should always score that. Well done, sir. um But then it just… He's a guy who likes to slam into the ground.
01:12:50
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There's a lot of guys who on our team are trying to head into the top ends. And I'm like, God, you just slam that shit on the ground. Just hit it hard. Just hit it hard. It's so hard for a keeper to react to a header. Because we can't see the way that your hips are lined up. We can't really anticipate it. We have to wait until a millisecond after it hits off your head to then try to read the trajectory. If it's a powerful header, unless it's really close to the keeper, you're done.
01:13:19
Speaker
You're absolutely done. hey um that's That's why I was very impressed with the Russnock goal in the first game of the season, and now this header with Osanze De Rosario. It's very, very good. I want to get your guys' takes. how How do you think the striker situation is going to wean out towards the ah second half of the season?
01:13:37
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i I don't really know at this point. I mean, we were talking to Gianni about it, but it's like, it's kind of like a funny bit how like one of them will score and then everyone's like, yeah, start that guy. And then that guy doesn't score. And then the other guy scores. And now we're like, all right, yeah, start that guy. And then next game, he's not going score. And then the other guy's going to score. And it's just like the cycle of Seattle Sounders number nines. I'll say uh,
01:14:03
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you know, you've had two games in a row where you got a goal from the nine who was coming off the bench, but Moose got one in the last game. Asase gets the game winner in this game. So if this little committee thing they got going on can consistently find at least a goal a game, I guess that's fine. you know, intuitively I would hope and think that they would be able to have someone win the job. But if yeah if that's not going to happen and they're scoring goals by committee, I guess I'm okay with it.
01:14:29
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You know, Something that Jeremiah was saying in the press box, and Jada actually asked Brian about in the press conference, he said, you know, it doesn't really matter is because they're all going add up at the end of the year, and we'll he said something like, we'll score more goals than we did last year.
01:14:44
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ah i don't i don't know about that, but you know what? 58 last year, what did they have now? Whatever you want, Coach. I will run through a wall for you, whatever you want. But I think, yeah, like we we don't have a route over you guys.
01:14:58
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we don't have a Clint Dempsey. We don't have an Obaf anymore. we don't have We don't have any kind of like lethal, tactical, insane striker. So as long as they're coming, I just don't. like It's not even worth talking about.
01:15:11
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That's kind of where I'm at. if they were like They're not scoring a lot of goals, but they are winning games. And it's like, all right, okay, all right. like the The conversation is to be had after the summer, I think, as to like, yeah then well, they didn't reinforce the nines.
01:15:28
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And then we have what we have, which would you be open to reinforcement? I mean, yeah, that would be awesome. That would be great. Okay. Okay. That's good. Cause a lot of the, a lot of the the fans I've talked to are like, no, no, no. We love our boys. We love our boys.
01:15:44
Speaker
Guys. If the boys can't get the job done, I mean, what are we doing? Right. But, um, last thing I want to say before, before I go in, and by the way, I know Kenny's coming up soon. I love Kenny, bro. Kenny shout to you, brother. Uh,
01:15:58
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Snyder Brunel every time I looked at him he couldn't put a foot wrong his his his quality his his understanding of the build-up play just little intricate passes with the little run give and go in between three four play defenders just so tightly compact ah it's it's it's like prime that's beautiful isn't it it's so special how old is he 18 18 right
01:16:25
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19, damn it, he needs to retire, man. Shit. But no. ah I mean, this kid is destined for Europe. What what what Schmetzer said, his his cap is higher of ah rolled on's. No, it's much higher than rolled on's. He is, I would argue, as good as almost as good as Obed was once he left. Genuinely, he is absolutely that good. The only thing is, he doesn't seem to be as physical or defend as well, but as a number 10, he would probably be absolutely perfect in Rusnak's position.
01:17:05
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If for some reason the hate brigade does win and Russ knock leaves. So with that, I will, I do have to go, but I hope you guys have an absolutely amazing stream. It's good to talk to you guys again and absolutely love you guys.
01:17:20
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We appreciate you. Talk soon, boss. All right. Next up is Timbo. Timbo. Are you ready?
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Timbo. You ready? You ready? and That's a thumb. That's a thumb. Yo, Timbo. You're on the stage. going on Can you guys hear me? Yeah, yeah, we hear you. 3-2 W over the flakes. Osase de Rosario, game winner. Jesus Ferreira, 60-yard pick six.
01:17:42
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What did you see? What did you think? Really frustrating first 90 seconds. let's It's kind of been the air. And then, like, the rest of the half was beautiful. Like, the boys, you saw Kalani. I think we've we've already kind of touched upon but it seemed like Kalani was making up for the air.
01:17:59
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Yeah. um which He should have had a goal, man. that's the way i When that one that he, when he made his run and almost scored that, but it didn't go in and went off the post, I was like, it's just, it's never going in. It's never going happen.
01:18:14
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And, you know, um I mean, the fact that we were able to equalize before the half was kind of a big, big deal. Yeah. In the second half, it it seemed, you know, once we got that second goal, like, you know, 2-1, thought we were going to put it away.
01:18:30
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um Preston Judd is no Wondolowski. I'm sorry, Ari. He's just not. he's he He seemed like a real – I'm worried about it. That's all I'm saying. I'm worried about it. Like, he he's having an insane year. And, like, the goal he scored tonight, I'm like, who is – This version of Preston Judd. In all fairness with with with Judd, he did get some help from the deflection off of Reagan. So like let's, he's no Wondolowski. The other part that's really great, you know, we're on the quake is watching Bruce Arena crash out. like Oh, I forgot to mention the Bruce Arena. He did not get a red card. It was his assistant. That's so close.
01:19:08
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but sort yeah all read I don't know if it was Shauri or the other. Shauri was going at it with the ref. They said on the broadcast that was Shauri that got sent. so Nico confirmed who it was. I don't know if he posted about it. but Bruce was crashing out really bad. they I can't even know what they were that mad about.
01:19:28
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Well, the other one ending, they wasted like three minutes arguing and then blew the whistle immediately. I was like, yeah that was... just Yeah, like you see you guys see That was good. if That was actually good officiating. And the yellow on the flop. The yellow on the flop at the the box. The yellow on the flop when it was who he wasn't even in the penalty box kenny kenny's in the queue kenny dude the refs know they know they're trying to bait new who into getting this card and like it's just not gonna happen it's just not gonna happen but yeah um no and honestly good to get a trophy i know that probably the heritage cup is not high on the list of trophies we're gonna pull this year but you know what
01:20:09
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Actually, and bigger than the trophy or any other thing kind of going on there, it's really important. you know I was crashing out both week but the 90 seconds into this game and then once they equalized because if we're tying or or giving up points or not securing points and and allowing the top team in the West to get points, you know the one that we're chasing,
01:20:34
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You know, we're we're not looking to win the Supporters' Shield. Like, at this point, like, there's hope now. Like, we took out points from the leading Western Conference team, who's Supporters' Shield leader right now, as far as I know.
01:20:49
Speaker
So, I mean, yeah it's 60-0. You've got to hope that Nashville – the Caps overtook them tonight because they beat FC Dallas, but they're tied on points. Seattle's now in there. Sole possession of those. Is that Shield, though? Where's Nashville?
01:21:05
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Because Nashville, okay, Nashville's one, but Miami moved up to. Well, and and that and that Miami game was was a wild one to watch prior to the Sounders game. I really thought Cincinnati was going to pull that one out and the watch them – Evaporate. They're a bunch of failures. that's Seattle is now facing the supporter shield standing but standings but with at least one game in hand on every team above them. Two games in hand on Miami, two games in hand on San Jose still. And they have a better points per game than Miami.
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on
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I do want to touch real quick on the on the nine situation. um It seems like Jordan seems to be benefiting this team more on the wing. He he hasn't scored as a nine. He scored as a winger. then he's drawing guys off the nine. Azazi, I don't think, gets a shot at that header without guys pulled off him by by J-Mo. so And I know people like we can't put J-Mo back in the wing. And it's just like, wherever we see the productivity at this point, I think, is where J-Mo needs to be.
01:22:09
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I'm kind of with you on that. Like, I feel like the best stuff he's done has been in that position. Like, and just with the rest of the, how the rest of the roster is shaping out right now.
01:22:20
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but Both guys are, all three guys are scoring. So it's just kind of like, let's kind of put the puzzle together at this point for, for, yeah. And lastly, we haven't talked too much on, on what's forward, but I would like to talk real quick on the chumps in Carson.
01:22:38
Speaker
LA Galaxy? Yeah. I would like just to say that they absolutely need to get embarrassed on Saturday night like they got embarrassed tonight by Sporting KC. And all all the last week, they've been talking about how we tied with them at their house. And these chumps get absolutely obliterated by the worst team in the league.
01:22:59
Speaker
like Yeah, you think drawing them 1-1 is bad? What if Seattle gotten beat 3-0 by those guys? Right. Yeah.
01:23:07
Speaker
right So that's the team that's coming in here on on the weekend, on Saturday. so And more important to kind of just embarrassing them, you know, if if we draw, or if we do not lose, Lumenfield will have 365 days without a loss for the Sounders.
01:23:27
Speaker
That's like kind of what's at stake here. they The Sounders need to come out on Saturday and just absolutely wall up Galaxy. like Please, please, don't do the like giving them a goal thing.
01:23:38
Speaker
Yeah, i and and and be tight. um get The ball directly in front of the goal, the LA Galaxy probably not going to score. I mean, I know a lot of Sounders Nation is is big on harping on the plastic people on the other side of LA, but like Galaxy just need to get their asses whooped. Like there's nobody on that team.
01:23:59
Speaker
Who's the coach? The coach is escaping me now. and um vanny former trentuist vanny from the toronto days like just fuck greg vanny and fuck the gallery library back in the day the the schmetz vanny rivalry yeah i didn like five it even goes back to um what arena was there against um
01:24:30
Speaker
Siggy, you know, like that Galaxy rivalry goes goes way back in Sounders history. So, I mean, at least the MLS days. is So it's it's it would be really nice to go in there and just kick the shit out of them. I would really like to see the Sounders do that on Saturday. so Yeah, love it.
01:24:45
Speaker
Timbo, great stuff as always, man. Thanks for tapping in. We'll catch you on the next one. Alejandro in here.
01:24:56
Speaker
Shout out, Timbo. All right, we got Alejandro, Kenny, and then a hunch to close it out. Alejandro, what's up, man? You're on the stage right now. dub over the San Jose Earthquakes, best team in the league. ah Jesus Ferreira, 60-yard pick six. Osase de Rosario, game winner.
01:25:13
Speaker
What'd you see? What'd you think? So first of all, good evening from beautiful, overcast Vancouver, British Columbia. Hope you guys are having a nice time. White catcher.
01:25:25
Speaker
So I would say I made some Puerto Rican beans this evening. I saw the Sounders win. The weather the last couple of weeks has been great.
01:25:37
Speaker
I'm feeling great. the I think one of the things that I really enjoyed about tonight's win too was the Snyder Brunel game. I think he played really well and I feel like a broken record, but when the double pivot plays well for this team, it's it's really hard to beat the Sounders, even with the the struggles of the the various nines on the team.
01:26:04
Speaker
Yeah, no, all I love all the shouts Snyder is getting tonight. i love I just love watching him play, man. We were talking to a Mike Monta, West Seattle Junction FC coach about Snyder. We were interviewing him last week. And I was like, we we were talking about just like what we love about watching him play. And for me, when I think about it, like I,
01:26:22
Speaker
I love his footwork. That's like my favorite thing about watching Snyder. Like I, I, it reminds me of like a, like a dancer, like a ballet dancer, the way he darts around and like, it's just so light on his feet and he's so technical. Like it's impressive to watch.
01:26:39
Speaker
Well, and I think the thing that I, was really excited about today was the previous games that we've seen him. I feel like the thing that's jumped off the screen has been his dribbling and his ability to just like Houdini out of crazy situations and turn it into something cool, which is like magical. That's such a unique skill to have.
01:27:00
Speaker
But this game was not a magic dribbling Houdini game for him. He was just finding open spaces, receiving balls, as you were saying, clean first touch, getting the distribution out to his teammates. And I think he had like three or four shots too.
01:27:18
Speaker
won in one of the dead. He was fired the right hand, but they had some nice velocity. Yeah, they were they were decent shots. And so I think that's that's the exciting thing to me is, you know, can he put these can he put all these skills together? And, you know, it's it's probably unfair to say, like, the the season rests on Snyder-Runell, but I feel like the his performances this season have been a little up and down, which is expected from a player so young.
01:27:51
Speaker
But if he can become more consistent and he can be as good as we saw him tonight, you know it's it's hard for me to put a limit on the on the team. Again, even with the the struggles of the nine.
01:28:05
Speaker
Yeah, absolute ceiling raiser. Alejandro, any last takes you want to hit us with before we get ah Kenny in here up next? Save the caps, baby. Save the caps. Love it. Save the caps. And i love that jacket.
01:28:20
Speaker
Thank you. The sick jacket. All Alejandro. Cheers, man. Thank you for calling in. Kenny. And then, honey. Kenny, no picket. Kenny, no picket. No picket. Hey, that's what we should call it. The Jesus Ferreira pick 60.
01:28:37
Speaker
Pick 60. Pick 60. Yeah, that was that was probably the best individual effort of the year, probably since Pedro's Golosso last year in League's Cup.
01:28:48
Speaker
um That got me so fired up. I was not enjoying the game too much before that. I want to get to a couple things, so so don't distract me, guys. Nuhu, is he the best player on our team? I keep asking, but ah today he was 98% passing, only misplaced one pass.
01:29:09
Speaker
68% on long passing. He was um got the game-winning assist, of course. so i And a few other crazy stats about Nuhu. He's currently 10th in 10th place on the team in fouls per 90 and tied for 10th on a total yellow cards. So, scrap.
01:29:33
Speaker
grab But ah no, i want to say, Nuhu and Noah, if you want to back out of the bet, I just need you to to concede that you underestimated a ah a continental leader and a ah a global icon and a ah a high IQ soccer player.
01:29:59
Speaker
here's Here's what I'll concede. He's a Snapchat icon. ah He has been incredible this season. And I'm not backing out.
01:30:11
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I'm not backing out. we're not If I come, in might cut it only takes one, man. It only takes one. And you know what? At the end of the day, if I have teriyaki chicken clatter tattoo, that's kind of sick as hell. Kind of sick. i'm Go off, King.
01:30:25
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Go off. Prove me wrong. Prove me wrong. did Did I ever show you my Sounders hat? Yeah. There we go. There we go, Sammy. Yeah. Anyways.
01:30:36
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Yeah. Yeah. I want to get to... i All right. I don't want to keep harping on Albert. I know I talked about in my last call, and I'm fucking not Brigade. I've been an Albert... They call me an Albert fucking defender. So when I when i say this non-biased...
01:30:52
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Today, he had two shots, one penalty kick and one free kick. He had three chances created all off of ah corners, and he had zero defensive contributions and two touches in the opposition box in 75 minutes.
01:31:10
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what What is his fit on the team? He might be the best set piece taker on the team. He had some good corners today. He's had some good ones in the past.
01:31:21
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He's probably, I'd put my money on him being the penalty best penalty taker on the team. Probably. Like, a gun to my head, I'd probably, you know. um or but point We looked at Albert's penalty percentage record. like, oh, he's going to be good. It's like 78% for his MLA.
01:31:45
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That's perfect for us. career I only remember missing one or two for Seattle. Yeah, it's probably higher for Seattle. Well, shit, maybe Andrew Thomas got in my head then. I don't know. Anyway. cut one He's one for one. okay or one for Two for one.
01:32:04
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One for two? ones Whatever. math right yeah I like those odds. It's a coin flip. But Kalani, I thought somebody touched on it earlier. Oh, i think I think Tribe touched on it. And shout out to Tribe. We love Tribe, too, for sure. Yeah.
01:32:20
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Kalani, he made up, I think, for a lot for that for that early mistake. You know, he didn't put his head down. Go look at his heat map. It's all up in that top channel. He was helping to pin that whole wing back.
01:32:31
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So that's why they had almost nothing in the first half. um but Yeah, Alex Roldan shifts over, and Kalani's up in that wing space. And Ferreira had to take um ah Albert's whole spot today.
01:32:46
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he kind of He kind of bullied him out of that 10 position and he he wouldn't move. He wouldn't concede that to him. So good on him. and And I was waiting for this kind of performance from Jesus. You know, we've seen the flashes and we've seen the consistency too, like consistent flashes. and um But just to grab the dog by the scruff of the neck, you know, and and drag our team to victory today.
01:33:08
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Fuck yeah, Jesus. You're a fucking sounder, Jesus. You're a motherfucking sounder. Yeah. yeah I feel like um i feel that he's been doing that a lot. Like he's been, he's been, that that's been bubbling up. It's been coming. It's been coming. him it's It's starting. I'm shaking up the bottle.
01:33:26
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I'm yeah. Don't click that. Anyway. Pause. ah who Who else? um Jackson fucking finish, man. Come finish the header, dude.
01:33:40
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It was harder for this than it would have been. madeed I mean, yeah, it was. I mean, so when I look at XG, so we're hovering like above three XG in this game. I think like 0.7 XG should be a goal because I think 0.8 is a penalty. A penalty is 0.8.
01:34:00
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yeah So I think.8, and you say a penalty, you got to finish that. So if you get up to like 3.5 XG, then it could have been like five goals.
01:34:11
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And then they're sitting at like 1.08 or something, 1.4. So it could have been more like 5-2. That's still not ideal. They've now i' been above two for five straight games
01:34:23
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games.
01:34:26
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I mean, the offense has been generating chances. Yeah. We should not do real goals. We should not do real assists. It should only be X assists and X goals. That's the only way that we should. Now you're onto something. Now you're onto something. think we should just simulate the games on Roblox.
01:34:44
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. modern Modern problems require modern solutions, man. Exactly. But anyway, then I want to talk about Snyder Burnell versus Obed Vargas because there's been a ton of that talk lately.
01:34:56
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And so I just want to clarify that Obed Vargas had done a lot more um by the time he was Snyder's age. And that I think the key difference from that between them that I think elevates...
01:35:10
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Obed Vargas to a La Liga player. Not saying Snyder couldn't be La Liga player at all, but um it's his vision. Obed has a really, really strong vision for his... Almost like Danny Leyva's. Not quite that, but then you pair it with his athleticism and his technique and ah and his tenacity, and I think that's maybe something Snyder's lacking. he he has a lot more, like,
01:35:33
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the the insane hustle and the great footwork, like Ari was saying earlier, and he'll dish it out to the wing and escape pressure really, really well. But I don't know if he's got the incisive passes to a two-touch around the corner like we see Jesus do and Danny Leiva and Albert Resnack will do. So there's there's a vision component that I think a lot of people don't factor in.
01:35:58
Speaker
But I love Snyder Brunel. I thought he had a decent game. He wasn't wasn't trying to do too much. Overall, i'm I'm happy. I don't know why everyone's – it's like a fucking graveyard, man. Come back, win. At home? Undefeated since last summer at home? Come on. It's the fortress like Steph wants.
01:36:14
Speaker
You know, let's go, guys. let's And, you know, let's go win next weekend and go into the World Cup break fucking flying. Yeah. I think everyone's just annoyed about the XG Merchant thing, but like they they ended up with three goals. They won and they scored and it was an entertaining match. Like, what are you going to Yeah. like And ah I would like to motion, please. Can you guys find the Bruce Arena presser? Can you please do that? I know it's going long, but. We'll hunt it down. We'll hunt it down. try, try for me for us.
01:36:43
Speaker
yeah Peace out, y'all. Thanks, Kenny. All right. Hunch, closing it out. Last call the night. Like the seagulls flying around our background, he is inevitable.
01:36:55
Speaker
What I can be. I'm losing my voice. It's been two games in, like, what, five days? So i I'm a little hoarse. Hunch, can you give us a short call? Because he's losing his voice no way. No, absolutely not. no ah Before we start, though, shout out to James. Glad to see that guy back on. I love his poignancy and his statistic-oriented analysis when he's bringing bringing the heat. So i always appreciate that. And then something that occurred to listening to Caleb, his voice. You know who he who he reminds me of?
01:37:31
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Sir Patrick Stewart.
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01:37:33
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And it's because of his projection and his like his his cadence. He just, I don't know. It it reminds me of the way he, with when he's acting. Like, yeah.
01:37:46
Speaker
Obviously not the accent itself, but just just the tone. Anyway. um Go ahead. What's that? Star Trek or something.
01:37:58
Speaker
Sir Patrick Stewart? You don't know who that is? I don't know who that is. I don't know. Okay. ah He's a thespian. He's a thespian, okay. The thespian! Our Logan behind our producer just looked at me in disgust. He held up a photo of him and he said, you don't know who this is?
01:38:19
Speaker
Sorry, guys. Sorry, guys. Cancel me. Cancel me, guys. I'm sorry. I mean, i'm not I'm not a Star Trek nerd, but that dude's amazing. I'm like 14, guys. I don't know anything. I'm just, I don't know anything.
01:38:31
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um So I if you got your aprons i'm ready to cook a little bit and we can start this simmer and really work, you know warm it up So so let's start with this Who did lopez piss off to not get some kind of minutes or start anywhere in the last like three or four games like he subbed last game, but What what happened to him like how is he not?
01:38:57
Speaker
when we're we're When we're in need, how is it not a sub in where he pushes Alex out, like, say, KKR struggling, for example? And no, no, just shade against KKR, but there's been defensive lap in the last game, which, by the way, I don't blame Nuhu.
01:39:13
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um Although he should have picked up the person on the goal that they scored on Saturday. it was KKR that kept that dude onside. and then elapsing in tonight. But it's like, how what did Lopez do to to not get the nod in some of these cases? Not to mention, he did really well, if not save the San Jose game previously, right?
01:39:33
Speaker
Yeah, i think maybe Schmitz might just not play a young center back unless he absolutely asked him. But how is he going to get better if without minutes? Yeah, no, I mean, that's ah that's a fair point. i think But like in general, Schmitz just really doesn't put a lot of trust in young defenders unless he's like forced into it.
01:39:53
Speaker
So if he can make it through a game without putting a young CB out there, he's probably going to try and do that. I completely do not understand that. When one, Alex is more formidable when he's out there, it's not that he's not holding down the fort in the CB, but he, I explained this to somebody I was sitting with tonight.
01:40:13
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It's kind of like you're working you know in a shop doing something and you've got the vice grips and it's like, well, there's a nail here and I don't have the hammer. I'm just going bash this nail in with these vice grips. It's not the best tool for the job, but it gets it done. so emmer The hammer is sitting next to you.
01:40:29
Speaker
In a way, emmer at any time Not to mention, mean, Lopez needs some minutes, and mean, how many other CVs you have injured? Like, if you're going to need to go to him as a backup, should somebody else, like, rake it and go down? They rake Kim Ki-hee, who was injured, and they would rather, you know, Lopez, I'm sure. And where's Ryan? Where's Ryan? I don't know where Ryan Saylor's at. I don't know.
01:40:56
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Well, people are even saying that Lopez was warming up to potentially sub his left back behind Nuhu. And it's just like, wow. OK, whatever. I think he was playing that intro. that's sort of what he did. that Didn't he kind of last time he subbed on, didn't he sort of do that?
01:41:13
Speaker
It was sort of like left CD, left back. Oh, computer. It was hard to know, if I'm honest. It was almost like pickup. Hey, we have 11 guys out there. You guys just figure out where you want to be. Yeah.
01:41:25
Speaker
Yeah. um Why? Why? Why? why why ye Exactly. Why? What happened? Nothing. I think he's just – think it's literally just a I trust Alex Mullen situation. yeah Like I just don't think that Sounders trust – it's like the one Achilles heel of Brian Schmetzer. It's like if there's a young center back, there's absolutely no way in and hell or even on earth that he's going to play 90 minutes. Only reason Tino's playing is because he's like 23, so he's not like that young.
01:41:56
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But like, if you're younger than that.
01:42:00
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I mean, we started him how many games at the beginning of the season? Yeah, because, yeah, three. There was literally no one. If he didn't do it, then he was going to have to put me out. It just feels odd to me. Yeah, we're right.
01:42:13
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um Next up, ah KKR and am I'm big on KKR and Snyder Bunnell both. Like, this is this is not shade towards them.
01:42:26
Speaker
I thought they had decent games, but I what I'm missing, especially from Snyder in this game was he wasn't formidable. He had shots on goal that just weren't dangerous. They sailed at times. um He wasn't exception exceptionally um retentive retentive in terms of taking the ball away from anybody coming to our midfield.
01:42:48
Speaker
He did do a good job in possession and did a good job in distribution. But from what I've seen in his caliber, I expect more from him, I guess is what I'm saying. So I'm not saying he had a bad game, but he I expect more because of who he is and how I've seen him play.
01:43:02
Speaker
You want him more that eight role. like You want him to be more of disruptor like an Obed than he was playing today, which felt like he was playing more of that advanced role role and like Christian was playing more of that disruptor but like also i just don't think that either of them were necessarily playing it to the fact that we were playing it last season at all I need him to be dangerous, and he didn't look dangerous today.
01:43:30
Speaker
He looked competent, but not dangerous. I feel like if he could have connected on those shots a little better or something like that, I think could have scored. I like that he was shooting. I thought he got himself into some good dangerous positions.
01:43:43
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Like, he looks more dangerous to me than Paul Rothrock.
01:43:49
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Yeah, Paul didn't have a good game, and and I was saying going into this game, since Christian's come back from his injuries missed game, No one's really talked about him in the two previous games.
01:44:01
Speaker
And I would say he didn't have bad games. He had okay games, but it's the same principle. if you're not talking about Christian having a good game, then he's not having the game of Christian's caliber. In the last two, up until this one, he kind of just looked like he had some bad giveaways in the previous two, and I was kind of watching him to see if like he had raised his level. I think he did better today.
01:44:24
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um But to a point that was made earlier, with Jesus encroaching on... um rest next positioning in the center i think that promotes a little bit of confusion in terms of spacing and presentation and distribution back behind them with christian and brunell and i think that's there's a little bit of like a a jumbled mess, like a tangled wire situation.
01:44:50
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And until you get that sorted in terms of who's going to be the distributing number 10 or the possession number 10 in front of them, it's hard to know for those guys how to play off of that position. And I think that's kind of created some of the situation right now in terms of of that.
01:45:04
Speaker
But you saw, like, we went back to our old ways, bombing down the wings, and we don't know anything to do. And so what did Jesus do? He's like, no, I'm going to go box to box. And because we're so predictable, and because we're so formulaic in that the defenders never picked up Jesus because, they're like, he's going to dish it out to the wings. He's not going to take this all the way down the middle.
01:45:25
Speaker
And the thing is is if we can show formidability, if we can show danger up the middle, then it pulls that defender in, which frees up your moves. It frees up your Jordan. It makes it so it's not 2v1 on the defender with our center forward, which makes them more dangerous so we can dish them the ball. But we, they, every team in league knows we're going to dish it out to the wings and try and cross it. Which, by the way, once we had Osaze and Jordan out there, big bodies, that's what we should have been doing, which we did.
01:45:53
Speaker
You know where it worked was Kalani. Kalani did kind of the same thing where he he made that sweeping run out from the wing and then before the top of the box cut inside, took all of that space on the inside and then took his shot, which ended hitting the post, hitting the keeper and not going in.
01:46:13
Speaker
But like that that was kind of the same idea, right? Like they were defending – They were almost defending outside in, which is the normal lens to defend from the inside out.
01:46:25
Speaker
And that's what KKR He's an outside in type of right winger. He's the opposite side of the coin of Alex Roldan, who loves to stay out on the wing and deliver some dimes on those crosses. i mean, we'll go back to the Paul Rothrock goal in Kansas City, which was not even halfway down the field, and he dishes it to him in the first two minutes.
01:46:45
Speaker
But KKR loves to bring you up there and then cut you in. And then, i mean, go back to his, you know, picture of the year last year, same kind of goal, but from the left side where he did exactly that, came in and across the box, dished it right in, backflip, you whatever, photograph of the year. um Photograph of the century.
01:47:03
Speaker
Yeah, it was a fantastic one. Yeah, let ask you this. 64 shots for three goals. sixty four shots for three goals Does that sound like a good offense?
01:47:16
Speaker
No. It sounds like an offense that's been pissing me off. But I, you know, like, to so tonight it was these these numbers they've been putting up are ridiculous. Tonight it was 24 shots, nine on target. which I'm like, usually that's that's good. But after a third straight game of that, where it's like really not leading to goals, you' I'm like, oh man, this is actually really starting to be more tilting than encouraging. But like, I think I'm i'm i'm kind of, I've come off that. They got three goals tonight. They got three goals. like Yeah, that was just that at halftime, by the way. That was that was before we hit the second half.
01:47:53
Speaker
Yeah, like, that's where I would be worried because, listen, we've been in this punditry game for a few years now. We've seen we've seen that the depths, the absolute scary stories that are the XG Merchant Days of, like, 2022, 2022, 2024.
01:48:14
Speaker
But, like, that year, there is no way they would add a game where they ended up getting threes. No, it was, we literally had a bit where if the Sounders scored multiple goals, we would then talk about them. So like, i'm i don't know, maybe it's like a trauma response. it sounds like it's kind of like i feel like I'm concerned, but at the same time that I look at the results on paper, I'm like,
01:48:34
Speaker
okay, well, we scored three goals. you know What what thell the hell? The reason people aren't the way they are is because it doesn't look like they're capable of the results that they're getting when you're watching them play.
01:48:47
Speaker
Well, they're the lowest offense in the entire MLS. That's crazy. I'm pretty sure that's maybe not now. Not anymore. I'll look that up Well, when Houston's rattling off four against LAFC, it's going be hard to catch that.
01:49:02
Speaker
um So let me ask you the side of coin. Is scoring three goals in 30 shots pretty good?
01:49:10
Speaker
Yeah, but like a goal for every 10? I don't know what the actual, like what constitutes a good rate. Depends, are they on target shots are they off target? No, I mean total shots. Those those those are not even on target. those you For every 10 shots, a goal.
01:49:28
Speaker
Yeah, Seattle's no longer close to the lowest scoring offense. You got St. Louis with 12 goals. You got scoring KC with 11, and you got Minnesota with 16. they're They're down there with like the in the Minnesota range, but they are they're up to 17 on the end.
01:49:43
Speaker
Okay, so you know what? What the hell? We're mid. We're made We're mid. But then, like, you know, if you want to cope, they had eight in CCC. So if you're looking at the total body of work, that actually might be more accurate.
01:49:56
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I think the the effect of the, like to your point of like, I'm good if we get more volume, just like, yeah. Is it annoying to have 90 shots and four goals?
01:50:08
Speaker
Whatever, man. I like you had, you got, you were able to break down the defense to a point where you were able to get 90 shots on goal. Do you need to work on your finishing? i don't know. i don't get paid enough to figure that out, but like it shows that you're getting in dangerous positions. It's the same thing with XG, right? Like, XG is bullshit because it's just, like, all it's similar it's a similar thing, right? But the idea of XG is, like, every shot has ah has an amount of danger that's attached to it.
01:50:39
Speaker
It's the same. The more shots you take, the more likely you are to score. Well, and I think specifically in this situation, i really like a lot of the quality of the chances and of the shots. If you get a shit ton of shots, but they're all really low percentage shots that aren't threatening at all and there's no chance they're gonna go in, then that's not – that doesn't matter. That means you have bad shots here.
01:51:01
Speaker
But, like, they're actually getting – clean looks which kind of makes it more frustrating that they're not finishing him because you're like oh it's such a good chance but like to me that means that the these gaudy shot totals that they're putting up i think that actually is encouraging in a way just because like i feel like the quality of the chances has been good it's just been frustrating to watch when you're finishing them at this inefficient berate In a given game, I think if you cross-reference the number of shots versus the number of corners that you get, then it becomes palatable.
01:51:36
Speaker
But like last game, until the very, very end, they had 20-plus shots in two corners, which means their shots are just being sailed. They're not being defended. like It was ridiculous. But here's my point. they At halftime, over going back the last two games, they had 64 shots and three goals, and they were giving up ah one goal over 30 shots, which means they're giving up a goal for every 10 they're taking, but they're scoring for every 21 they make. That's not sustainable if you're going to continue on in this season.
01:52:07
Speaker
turn all yeah Teams, goals. was that They're also handing teams goals. give That's what I'm saying. and anyway we've but We've been cracking on the ah offense about, like, oh, they can't get a goal for every 21 shots, but the defense is giving up a goal for every 10 shots they take. So I'm not just saying there's one problem here. And, like you know, we've been cracking on the ah offense, but, yeah, sure, the offense has clearly been a problem, but I don't think the league average is, across any team, scoring a goal for every 10 shots they take because if that's the case, then our offense is really a problem, but maybe our defense is too.
01:52:42
Speaker
We'll see. We'll see what happens. And someone pointed out San Jose and Vancouver combined five losses this year, four from Seattle. I'm not worried. I think that's what happens is like, if you can still win in the big games, despite whatever your bullshit stat line says, that's kind of where I'm at And this team seems like they can,
01:52:57
Speaker
they can figure it out and get under it. If they would have lost this game yeah or drawn this game, that's when I'd be worried because it's like we can't dig ourselves out of an early hole or whatever. There's not really a narrative around this team. like they They look good. They look solid. there's There's problems with every club that we can nitpick. But the fact that the two best teams in the entire league have been chopped down by the Sounders handily both times. I don't i don't know. let's Let's not dismiss the significance of...
01:53:29
Speaker
This team has now swept the Quakes, who say what you want. That's the best team in the league right now by record and points per game. Seattle beat them on the road and then was able to score three goals on them and beat them tonight.
01:53:41
Speaker
And then the other best team in the West, Vancouver, Seattle 5-1 to them aggregate in CCC and knocked them out of CCC. And then the other team they've been competing with near the top of the West all year, LAFC, looks actively bad.
01:53:55
Speaker
So, like I've been saying, man, it's all relative. And right now, they there's no one in the league that I think I see. And I'm like, that team's clearly way, way better.
01:54:07
Speaker
I mean, I don't know. you guys see that team? Yeah. And that's what, so they've been talking about, like, you know, we need to change this or not sign this person or this person's overpaid. what are we right now? Seven, one and three.
01:54:19
Speaker
Yeah. Like, what what are you talking about tearing down? Like who wouldn't take seven, one and three right now? But, um,
01:54:30
Speaker
Regarding our so our starting center forwards can't score however every substitute sort of center forward can, you know do do you fix one and blame the other? or do you say, hey, you know my substitutions, I know what I'm doing, I can put them on and we can get a goal.
01:54:46
Speaker
I think you gotta to fix the starting position first. But I don't know if you saw it, Osaze came over and celebrated after the goal, but the only hand he didn't shake was head coach. Maybe there's something here. We were noticing that he strutted on the sideline on his last goal. Previous one, yeah.
01:55:04
Speaker
and But if I'm head coach, I take credit. I'm like, hey, I made you mad. You went out there. What did you do? yeah You gave us a game winner. Clearly, I know something. Like, you're producing producing. I'd like to give him sudden see the start. And, I mean, he ate the Galaxy's lunch last season.
01:55:21
Speaker
i'm Listen, I'm still an Osazi believer. Me too. cold streak was some it was okay whatever But, like, I don't know. um um um I'm still on my mental depth chart.
01:55:35
Speaker
i so I don't know. I think I can still put him number one. He upped the stock tonight. Game winner against the the best team in the league. Like, I don't know. i mean, I think, you know, right now, Schmatz is just going to keep doing what he's doing, which is just starting a random one. start We're going to keep beating his dead horse. We are going to beat this... nine debate dead horse for four more seasons. Don't you worry. Someone could end the nine debate by winning the job, but no one is doing that.
01:56:02
Speaker
I just want to get Osaze on the trajectory that Snyder Burnell is on. Because if that's the case, we keep Osaze for 10 years and he's a world star. Chris Batiste. Well, here's the last thing I'll say. um Tonight was the chance to do the thing that they needed to.
01:56:18
Speaker
And that was after the last two games, You go down in either in a tie or a loss, you're in a full-blown slump and you're trying to get away with the next two games. This is course correction real time in this game.
01:56:31
Speaker
Their big problem that they're facing right now, and it's happened now lot times, stop giving up the first goal. You let the other team dictate the pace the the the mantra the the game and the ref the poking you in the chest the the nonsensical whatever you give it the first goal you give them control let's you stop that you grab the game by scruff and neck and you score first you dictate especially on the road Need to stop that. But this avoided a slump. And that's important.
01:56:57
Speaker
Because if they get something out of LA Galaxy, and then kind of either way with LAFC, like win, tie, or loss, and even a win or a tie, you're riding until basically Portland.
01:57:09
Speaker
And it's full-blown like 7-1-3 right now. It could be 9-1-3. It could be 8-1-4. I'll take that day long. All day.
01:57:18
Speaker
all that all day And it's right there in front of them. Well, it is great stuff. As always, man, appreciate you. We're going to wrap up. Yep. Yep. Appreciate it. We'll talk to you next time. We're going to get these super chats then we're going to get out here.
01:57:32
Speaker
What do we got? $2 winning is fun. Win's a win. a Winning is so goddamn fun. That's sir. As, as Serata, the focus should be on the nine, but also the lack of passes to them. 10 in midfield, never distribute to the nine.
01:57:49
Speaker
Do you think that's a problem playing out to the wings too much? or Maybe a little bit of predictability is setting in. Teams that have watched the film, they kind of know what's coming. in They know that ah they need to start marking number 14 at the back post, which is unfortunate because i really liked when teams did not do that. But, you know, it was nice to see them actually get the three goals tonight.
01:58:11
Speaker
Exactly. Completely agree with you, actually. um amon pick six mls midweek and mls heritage equals new who getting a primary assist and being a key player in the play that led to the penalty love to see it news on a tear listen new who haters out there the group chat of new who haters i just know you're in the mud right now it's been peep it's been silence i don't know what to say i don't know what to say that used to be you to be fair No, I was never a new who-hater.
01:58:40
Speaker
i was, I was, uh, anyway, Derek Richards gift us one, uh, one Loving Scorchers membership. Thank you, Derek, for gifting, uh, membership. And finally, 999 for our MVP, 9 Jesus Ferreira. Let's, let's, before we, uh, dip out of here for the night, I do want to just appreciate that goal one more time.
01:59:02
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60-yard run, dude. that was You know what was nice about that is I've actually seen him do stuff like that a lot, but when he was wearing an FC Dallas jersey. ye he I'm telling you guys, I know no one believes me. He used to do that shit like all the time. He said – okay, this was the funniest possible school thing ever – when he was being interviewed, and you guys will obviously see this clip later, but he said that he kind of just blacked out in that moment. Like, he was hoping the defender would go the other way so he could play the ball off to Moose, but he was defended well, so he was like, shit, and just kind of like,
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did a move and took a step and he was like, I kind of just blacked out at that moment and somehow scored. So he was going to be too passive and unselfish, but then he blacked out and scored a goal. Basically, please start defending Jesus for a better so he will be more selfish.
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That's my takeaway. Hell yeah. All right. Well... We're going wrap it right there for this post match live. Thank you all as always for tuning in. Really appreciate guys.
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