3rd Degree the Podcast

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton and Buzz Carrick (Dan Crooke is under the weather) - dissect the Eric Quill press conference. Was it just coach and owner platitudes or is there real meat to chew on like staff announcements? Buzz also tells a Quill story from three years back. Next week should bring the beginning of the winter moves for FC Dallas with the one-day trade window and expansion draft. 

Plus, The Trinity had three players make Team of the Month, including Sam Meza as Player of the Month. 

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This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, it's time for Eric Quill talk. Your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - talk about Eric Quill, then Eric Quill some more, plus they throw in a little Eric Quill, and finally they wrap it up with some more Eric Quill. 

Also, The Trinity played and USL Dallas was announced for a 2027 launch in Garland. 

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This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton and Buzz Carrick, Dan Crooke is on assignment - celebrate the triumphant comeback MLS Next Pro Championship win by North Texas SC and the comeback road win by Dallas Trinity. Plus a USL Championship team is coming to Garland.  Then it's on the FC Dallas talk for the sickos. Why the delay in a coach announcement? Any surprises in the end-of-season moves?  Is anyone coming up from North Texas SC? What do you mean the 2025 roster is pretty much done already? 

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This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - answer fan questions from 3rd Degree's discord. But first, there's a lot of talk about FC Dallas' next coach, Jim Curtin, Eric Quill, Peter Luccin, Bruce Arena, Dallas Trinity, and North Texas SC. 

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This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - don't have any concrete FCD news to drop so they dig into some more macro topics.  How long will we wait for a coach? Does the potential window schedule shift help Dallas become more attractive? Is Dallas a good market at all? What are the biggest impact moves FCD could make? How did Nico Estevez end up at Austin FC? Dallas Trinity goes again this weekend and they have multiple players with the US U17s. North Texas SC is in the MLS Next Pro West Final. All that and more on 3rd Degree the Podcast. 

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This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - begin the offseason gasification with a blow-by-blow on the high and low points from the FC Dallas End of Season Press Conference with Dan Hunt and Andre Zanotta. To be frank, Jerry, or Steve, your hosts were left with more questions than answers. Plus North Texas SC continues their playoff run, Trinity plays on Friday, and there's another shoutout to a local making good on the international stage. 

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This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - play the world-famous game of "Dump or Keep" with the FCD roster after Buzz explains a new roster problem he's discovered. The FC Dallas season final is this weekend against Sporting KC but the Burn are already eliminated. Dallas Trinity got another road point. North Texas SC has a playoff game this weekend. You'll find out who the Dallas Fury are. And Buzz has a shoutout for a local signing in the NWSL. 

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This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, the offseason starts to build. Your hosts - Peter Welpton and Buzz Carrick (Dan Crooke is on assignment) - talk about the Portland game including the Musa & Tafari benchings, Velasco's potential injury (?), Farrington's form, and Tsiki's standout play. Then it's on to bigger topics like the poor roster build piece Buzz wrote, Luccin and the back 3, the state of Luccin's job chase, a coach move timeline, which direction FCD might shift during the stadium reno, and why North Texas SC is so damn good.

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Pay heed oh you FC Dallas curious, for now is the hour of our discontent. For low, the Dudes of FCD have thus been harshly put upon with elimination from the extravaganza of the after-season play.  And thus the righteous 3rd Degree the Podcast hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - were overcome with lamentations. As the sickos did suffer the pain of fanaticism and the loss of dignitude through failed strategery of the staff of Burn coaches. 

But hark, what is that light?  Is it the glory of a new coach?
Nah, it 'tis but home-field advantage for the best team in MLS Next Pro, your North Texas SC.  

As such it is with Los Toritos and the coach named Michel being Coach of the Month, so it is with Dallas Trinity and three players making Team of the Month. And thus did the blessings continue with 5 DFW ladies in the US U17s team.

And the music was brought forth by Pappy Check and all was right with the world.

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - get to enjoy a victory pod as your hometown heroes smoked the vaunted LAFC.  Even if LA rotated, it's still a sweet win.  Now it's down to Dallas and the Loons for the last playoff spot, with a 5-point (ugh) separation. Important questions are asked, like "What happens to the shield next year?" Plus Bogert says Luccin is the leading candidate. Dallas Trinity finally lost and Buzz went to their training. Plus. North Texas SC has clinched home-field advantage in the Western Conference. 

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