The Straight Red Card

Does the USMNT player pool doubt Gregg's system? Derek and Brett look at the body language, lack of callups, interviews, and more to draw a conclusion. No player has out right said anything of the sort, but what isn't said is sometimes more convincing than what is.

Who is filling in USMNT depth chart currently? Derek and Brett look at each position and cover the top 5 options. In our list a player can only appear once so when you think that someone like Scally could be in LB and RB depth, note that he'll only show up in one list.

Bill Archer joined us on Tuesday to discuss a variety of topics. Most important to Bill is FIFA and their confederations' corruption. Bill has been a proponent on calling FIFA out for a very long time. This is the full podcast and is broken up into smaller segments on YouTube.

After two lack luster performances this window, the US are set to finish it against Honduras in Minneapolis. Honduras is sitting at the bottom of the table with just 3 points and their World Cup Qualifying hopes all but squashed. They have to play for the win, which could play to USMNT's benefit as the game will be open. Derek and Brett try to predict the lineup and makes some suggestions to what we will have to do to end on a high note.

After discussing what went wrong in the match, Derek and Brett give their grades to the players on the field. What a confusing episode...

USMNT lost to Canada 2-1. Canada has shown CONCACAF that they are the better team this World Cup Qualifying cycle and they are doing that as a team. USMNT have players playing on significantly better teams in better leagues, but they are currently disjointed and not playing well together. Derek and Brett talk about what are the root causes and potential fixes as we enter the final game of the window.

Derek and Brett take a listener's depth chart posted on Twitter and discuss what we think is right, wrong, or debatable about it. How close was he to getting what we think? How close to yours?

Bold predictions leading into the 2022 World Cup? Will Brooks make the World Cup roster? How well will Serbia, Portugal and/or Italy perform in the World Cup?

Things have happened this week with our yanks abroad. Soto not panning out at Porto II, where does that leave him? Tessmann and Venezia struggling in their cup match. Sargent may have missed the weekend match, but it turns out he was at the hospital for the birth of his child. Congrats, and welcome back to Norwich where he scored a goal!!! Ok, he caused an own goal with a great shot!!! Ok, it was a cross but a very dangerous cross!!!

It turns out that Miles Robinson enjoys his spot at Atlanta and may not necessarily be eager to test the waters out in Europe. Was he just being politically correct? Has Atlanta informed him they have zero intention of selling him? Or perhaps he is comfortable where he is in MLS and loves the city of Atlanta?