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Speaker 1: Coming to you live from our Elliot Avenue studios of

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.

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Speaker 2: This is Sounders Weekly with your host Jackson Felts.

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Speaker 3: Good even everybody, welcome into Sounders Weekly. Jackson Felt's gonna

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Speaker 3: be with you here on this special Tuesday edition of

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Speaker 3: the show. We got to crack in on Wednesday this week.

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Speaker 3: So Sounders Weekly and Rain Weekly coming up at eight pm.

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Speaker 3: Both moving here to Tuesday this week and it is

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Speaker 3: a fun, exciting show for the next hour talking Sounders

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Speaker 3: FC soccer as the season is still alive. I had

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Speaker 3: planned kind of two different versions of this show, and

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Speaker 3: we're still gonna kind of do a little bit of both,

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Speaker 3: but it is a celebratory one because the season's still going.

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Speaker 3: The Sounders have forced a deciding Game three in the

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Speaker 3: first round of the MLS Cup playoffs. It's a best

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Speaker 3: of three first round. Minnesota took game one at home

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Speaker 3: in penalty kicks. Game two last night at Luminfield. I

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Speaker 3: was expecting it to be a downpour of rain and

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Speaker 3: a very defensive, ugly game, and we even talked on

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Speaker 3: last week's show about how an early goal for Seattle

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Speaker 3: could change everything, and we got it, and not only

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Speaker 3: did we get one early goal, we got two early goals,

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Speaker 3: and we got three first half goals for the offense.

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Speaker 3: We can touch on what happened for Minnesota towards the

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Speaker 3: end of the first half in a moment, but the

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Speaker 3: good news is is a four to two win, three

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Speaker 3: first half goals for Seattle, an offensive explosion against a

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Speaker 3: team in Minnesota who, in three prior games against Seattle

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Speaker 3: this year, had limited to the Sounders to two total goals.

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Speaker 3: You get three and forty one minutes, and really, I mean,

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Speaker 3: other than those two goals that Minnesota got right before

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Speaker 3: the halftime break, it was all Seattle. An awesome game

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Speaker 3: by the Rave Green. The season is alive, and now

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Speaker 3: this leads us into a deciding Game three back in

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Speaker 3: Minnesota this Saturday. Quickly broadcast details on that before we

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Speaker 3: talk about the game two win last night. All right,

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Speaker 3: This Game three will be available to watch via MLS

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Speaker 3: Season Pass on the Apple TV app. You can listen

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Speaker 3: to it in Spanish language on Lray thirteen sixty We

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Speaker 3: hear at KJR. We'll have the broadcast for you over

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Speaker 3: on nine to fifty KJR AM that will have a

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Speaker 3: twelve thirty Provident Swedish premat show and a roughly one

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Speaker 3: o'clock kickoff there from Allion's Field in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: That is the situation for Game three Saturday afternoon, twelve

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Speaker 3: thirty pre game one o'clock kickoff nine to fifty am

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Speaker 3: here for the KJR radio side. All right, let's talk

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Speaker 3: some game two. Oh before we do that, let's set

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Speaker 3: up the show tonight, shall we, Because we have Paul Rothrock.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna be joining us out. I spoke with him

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Speaker 3: last night actually in the locker room. Paul Rothrock, we

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Speaker 3: talked about him on last week's show and I said,

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Speaker 3: I think you need to put Danny Mazowski in the

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Speaker 3: starting lineup. Jamie Watson and I were talking about it,

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Speaker 3: and Jamie and I both agreed that the primary reason

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Speaker 3: is because Paul Rothrock will be a better person off

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Speaker 3: the bench than say A Heyesu's Ferreira or anybody else.

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Speaker 3: And I think we saw that come to fruition because,

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Speaker 3: as you'll hear in the interview with Paul Rothrock coming

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Speaker 3: up in just a few minutes, he came out like

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Speaker 3: he plays about thirty minutes of soccer and he just

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Speaker 2: He helps create and gets the ess Well, I don't

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Speaker 2: know if he gets the assist.

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Speaker 3: He should get the assist on that fourth goal there

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Speaker 3: in the eighty sixth minute that Obed Vargas used it

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Speaker 3: So what you end up getting there is Paul Rothrock

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Speaker 3: having a great addition off the bench. He and I

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Speaker 3: and he was pretty honest about what it was like

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Speaker 2: Clearly he was.

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Speaker 3: Affected by it and that news that he wouldn't be starting,

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Speaker 3: and really talks openly and honestly about that and how

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Speaker 3: the Sounders are a damn tough team to play against

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Speaker 3: and now nobody wants to see them in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: That entire conversation coming up in a matter of seconds

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Speaker 3: here on Sounders Weekly. After that, for our next two segments,

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Speaker 3: it's gonna be a round table with Sounders reporting greats.

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Speaker 3: Noah Rife and Ari Lillianwall from Lobbings Scorchers Nico Moreno

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Speaker 3: from Sounder at Hart and Sports Polso the three of

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Speaker 3: them and I will get together and the four of

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Speaker 3: hour forty minutes tonight as we talk all things Game

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Speaker 3: two win Game three ahead. So Ari, Noah and Nico

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Speaker 3: Rothrock talk about Game two. I mentioned that we knew

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Speaker 3: Paul Rothrock and the way that Brian Schmitzer utilized that change.

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Speaker 3: He listed it as a four to four to two,

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Speaker 3: and at times it did function as a four to

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Speaker 3: four to two diamond, with Jordan and Danny Mozoski next

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Speaker 3: it was so fluid that you would have Obed playing

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Speaker 3: it looked like the classic four two three one with

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Speaker 3: like three different formations, and it was that fluidity that

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Speaker 3: new dimension that clearly Minnesota was not ready for. They

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Speaker 3: They weren't ready for Obed Vargus to do what he did.

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Speaker 3: Christian rolled on played excellently, getting in the primus cist

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Speaker 3: And if that pass from Obit to Jordan is just

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Speaker 3: Then Jordan gives it away, Minnesota's on the break and

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Speaker 3: they get their first It's a poor defensive play by

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Speaker 3: And they really did, and it was an absolutely beautiful

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Speaker 3: five minutes because defensively it was great. Offensively they knew

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Speaker 3: But really, it was just an excellent game other than

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Speaker 3: crediting the coaching staff. It's that type of strategy that's

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Speaker 3: going to allow you to win Game three because young

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Speaker 3: he's gonna have to take but four days and figure

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Speaker 3: out how to stop that diversified and fluid Seattle attack.

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Speaker 3: That is not much time to figure out an entirely

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Speaker 3: new offensive system. And this is just another wrinkle that Minnesota,

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Speaker 3: Yes a great defensive team, They're going to have to

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Speaker 3: to do so because four goals against a team that's

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Speaker 3: given up well, was it thirty eight to thirty nine

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Speaker 3: night from Seattle at home in what is hopefully not

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Speaker 3: great game for the Sounders, and we force a game three.

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Speaker 3: Cutting up will preview that with our entire roundtable of

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Speaker 3: Noah riefe Ari, Lillianwall, and Nico Moreno coming up here

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Speaker 3: hear from Paul Rothrock. He was joined me in the

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Speaker 3: emotions after a four to two win in Game two.

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Speaker 4: Just great, we're still alive and I have a good

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Speaker 4: feeling about you know, how we've changed.

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Speaker 2: The tide a little bit head into Saturday.

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Speaker 3: The momentum does feel quite different considering four goals, but

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Speaker 3: also considering how the game went right. I mean, like offensively,

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Speaker 3: a lot of things seem to work for you guys.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, credits to the guys who got the

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Speaker 2: Think the home crowd really helped us tonight too.

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Speaker 4: And hopefully that's not our last game at home this year,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it was really great to be back at.

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Speaker 4: going into halftime, what was it like in here? It

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about that other goal, the goal that you created. Uh,

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Speaker 3: that ball on the left wing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's that's a play that we've worked

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Speaker 4: think it was Danny who played a great ball in

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Speaker 4: It's something we've worked on all week. And as I

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Speaker 4: would pick out Obed as he's kind of arriving late, and.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, big relief getting that fourth goal.

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Speaker 4: This is a great feeling, great feeling, and so yeah,

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Speaker 4: once is Saturday, man.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So you talked about the energy that started a game.

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Speaker 3: You know what I feel like you're one of the

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Speaker 3: So last week on the show, I was talking about

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Speaker 3: A night after the Sounders kicked the butts of Minnesota

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Speaker 3: this roundtable. But gentlemen, it's celebratory. You know, it's funny.

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Speaker 3: I'll start with you, Nico jumping after on what you

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Speaker 6: know you're gonna have moments like this, so you just

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Speaker 6: have to be able to respond to it. And they

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Speaker 6: did that very well in this game, to their credit.

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Speaker 6: So even though you do, you can't have that in

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Speaker 6: game three, especially multiple times. But I did like how

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Speaker 6: they responded to it in this game.

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Speaker 7: I'm not concerned specifically about repeat situations or more individual mistakes,

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Speaker 7: but I'm gonna try to look a little bit outside

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Speaker 7: the box of the question, and I'm going to say

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Speaker 7: that I am concerned that Minnesota might have gotten a

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Speaker 7: little bit of confidence of saying, look, we put them

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Speaker 7: under a lot of pressure when we just pushed our

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Speaker 7: lights up, and when we played a little bit more open,

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Speaker 7: we pressed them a lot more. And does that kind

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Speaker 7: of change some of what Eric Ramsey does at home

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Speaker 7: in Minnesota. I like to think that that is a

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Speaker 7: little bit of a concern if there's some sort of

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Speaker 7: wrinkles in Eric Ramsey is very predictable and uninspiring play

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Speaker 7: at times, you know, by some measurements, But I do

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Speaker 7: think that Minnesota was more dangerous when they've played a

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Speaker 7: little bit more open and they pushed for Salas a

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Speaker 7: little bit higher, and they were able to get some

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Speaker 7: moments there for u A don't want it and lot

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Speaker 7: and obviously you got a guy like Gioboa that's likely

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Speaker 7: going to start that game that gave Sattle some issues.

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Speaker 7: So there is a little bit of that concern, but

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Speaker 7: not necessarily the repeat of individual mistakes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're all on the same page here

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Speaker 3: that I think it's there. It's the response to the

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Speaker 3: situation and it's the specific things that it doesn't it is.

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Speaker 3: I think Nicola, you do point out perfectly that that's

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Speaker 3: going to give Minnesota the confidence to say, all right,

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Speaker 3: even when Seattle is playing really really well offensively, they're

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Speaker 3: still going to make mistakes and we're still going to

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Speaker 3: be able to capitalize on their mistakes. I think it's

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Speaker 3: in interesting that you can kind of see both ways

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Speaker 3: there for sure. Right now you're listening to a Sounders

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Speaker 3: FC reporter a roundtable. Here on Sounders Weekly, we have

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Speaker 3: Ari Lillenwall. He's a writer and editor for MLS Soccer

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Speaker 3: dot Com. He also hosts the podcast Lobbing Scorches. We

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Speaker 3: have Nico Moreno from Sounder at Hart and sportspolso you'll

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Speaker 3: catch them every Monday morning on the Lobbing Scorches kickoff

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Speaker 3: show on YouTube. Make sure to subscribe to the Lobbing

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Speaker 3: Scorches YouTube page where you can be notified when they

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Speaker 3: go live on Mondays and you'll hear Nico and Ari

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Speaker 3: do their amazing shows together. You also can get Lobbing

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Speaker 3: Scorches wherever you get your podcasts, including the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: Make sure to follow Ari only.

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Speaker 6: Ari.

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Speaker 3: You're no longer too big on Twitter, but you have

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Speaker 3: Blue Sky of course, Ari, Lillienwall and then l Rolo

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Speaker 3: NW for Nico.

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Speaker 2: Nico.

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Speaker 3: Let's start with you this time and we'll get back

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Speaker 3: to Ari here and then I'll have you guys answer

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Speaker 3: the opposite way. This time, let's fast forward to the

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Speaker 3: sixty first minute, and I think that Sounder fans and

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Speaker 3: you guys will know where I'm going here. So in

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Speaker 3: a sixty four first minute, we saw a really nice

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Speaker 3: ball through to Danny Muzovski. He is sort of you know,

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Speaker 3: I say, bumped off the ball shoulder to shoulder and

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Speaker 3: then stepped on in a bang bang play. It is

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Speaker 3: being reviewed. The var referee is Daniel Radford, of course,

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Speaker 3: of red card wedding fame. And there is no dog

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Speaker 3: so given, no red card given. Play on, no not

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Speaker 3: even a foul, and on we go. The first question

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Speaker 3: to each of you, and we can kind of take

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Speaker 3: it from here, is how ridiculous was it that no

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Speaker 3: dog sow was called nico.

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Speaker 7: I can even explained or try to elaborate how ridiculous

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Speaker 7: it is that Dad wasn't called a foul in a

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Speaker 7: red card. There is a straight up collision. The defenders

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Speaker 7: never playing the ball, he's playing the man. He's clearly

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Speaker 7: affecting a potential goal of two unity. It has all

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Speaker 7: of the elements. And you know, looking from the transmission

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Speaker 7: booth that you know we were doing l ray in Spanish.

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Speaker 7: I could not yell enough things to the mic just

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Speaker 7: watching that play out because it was so simple, it

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Speaker 7: was so easy. I even went out to say that

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Speaker 7: maybe the rev us and the glasses he might need

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Speaker 7: binoculars or a telescope to figure out how you don't

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Speaker 7: see that. I mean, it was just beyond believe. But

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Speaker 7: I thought that overall the referee was pretty bad. I

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Speaker 7: thought that he allowed way too many fouls. I thought

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Speaker 7: that Jefferson Diaz got away way too many just clear

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Speaker 7: pushes on a Sounders player. So overall, I think it

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Speaker 7: was poor. But to your question, it was just a

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Speaker 7: clear cut foul red card that should have been given

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Speaker 7: for the Sounders.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's pretty clear dog though for me. But what

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Speaker 6: I thought was funny is, you know, there was all

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Speaker 6: this controversy over the Jackson Reagan play in game one

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Speaker 6: in Minnesota, where it's a little bit of a similar

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Speaker 6: situation where you have the runner in behind on the

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Speaker 6: one v one. He arguably put a little bit and

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Speaker 6: Minnesota United fans were losing their minds that that was

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Speaker 6: dog so after the game not acknowledging that they arguably

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Speaker 6: also got away with the dogs. Read in game one

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Speaker 6: when whatever that defender was cleared a header off the

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Speaker 6: line with his hand and the only reason that that

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Speaker 6: wasn't a dog so red was because Paul Rothrock got

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Speaker 6: called for a phantom file on Michael boxall that if

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Speaker 6: you watch that clip, you can watch that clip one

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Speaker 6: hundred times, you will not see a foul one time.

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Speaker 6: So to me, that evened out in game one, and

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Speaker 6: I thought it was a little silly that the discourse

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Speaker 6: was that Jackson Reagan in Seattle got away with one

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Speaker 6: when Minnesota got away with one that I would argue

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Speaker 6: was worse. The Jackson Reagan call was at least debatable.

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Speaker 6: The Paul Rothrock foul that's not even debatable for me.

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Speaker 6: So now that the Minnesota United has gotten away with

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Speaker 6: another dog so red, they've now gotten away with double

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Speaker 6: the dog so read in the series. So we'll see

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Speaker 6: what happens with Game three. But I like their chances

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Speaker 6: of coming up and top on top of that department.

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Speaker 6: So that means we don't have to do a discourse

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Speaker 6: about the Jackson Reagan call.

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Speaker 2: If they loved the series, please, I hope we don't

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Speaker 2: have to.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to take a break here and we'll get

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Speaker 3: Noah Rife on who does lobbing scorches with Ari, and

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Speaker 3: get his take on the play as we look ahead

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Speaker 3: to Game three, because like Ari, as long as we

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Speaker 3: don't have to have that be a talking point, that

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Speaker 3: would be great coming out of this series. And hopefully

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Speaker 3: we don't have Daniel Radford on var again coming up,

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Speaker 3: so we'll take a break here. We got Nico Moreno,

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Speaker 3: we got Ari Lillenwall. We're gonna take a break. We're

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Speaker 3: gonna add Noah Rife as we talk about Game three

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Speaker 3: ahead the Sounders here in the first round of the

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Speaker 3: MLS Cup Playoffs, Minnesota. Game three on Saturday at one o'clock.

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Speaker 3: That'll be over on nine to fifty KJR here for

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Speaker 3: KJR Radio. By the way, we will bring in Noah

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Speaker 3: and we'll continue our roundtable and start really deeply looking

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Speaker 3: ahead to Game three that's next here on Sounders Weekly

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Speaker 3: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM.

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Speaker 2: Now back to.

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Speaker 1: Sounders Weekly on your home for Sounders fc cll's Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three KJR FM.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back Weekly, Welcome back to the Sounders Round Table,

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Speaker 3: looking ahead to Game three here of the MLS Playoffs,

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Speaker 3: first round, Sounders Minnesota. It'll be a one o'clock kickoff

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Speaker 3: out there at all EON's Field. We'll have the broadcast

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Speaker 3: nine fifty k AM starting at twelve thirty this Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 3: Let's continue the Sounders Roundtable. We'll continue it with Ari Lillienol.

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Speaker 3: He is a writer and editor from mlssoccer dot Com.

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Speaker 3: He also hosts the podcast Lobbing Scorches once again. Get

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00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 3: that wherever you get your podcasts, including the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 3: Also subscribe to Lobbing Scorches on YouTube. You'll be notified

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Speaker 3: when they go live for the Monday Morning show and

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Speaker 3: also for Under the Lights on Thursday nights. That Monday

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Speaker 3: Morning show features another person here on our roundtable, Nico

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Speaker 3: Moreno of Sounderheart and Sportspolso. And we're also adding in

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Speaker 3: right now the other person who does Lobbing Scorches next

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Speaker 3: to Ari, Noah Rife. Noah, welcome to Sounders Weekly for

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Speaker 3: I was shocked to hear the first time last night,

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Speaker 3: and I thought you I had you on before, but

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Speaker 3: welcome to the show man.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, I appreciated Jackson, thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 5: You know this. We're all sitting at a table in

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Speaker 5: front of each other right now and they haven't even

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Speaker 5: given me a chair, so you know it's a hawk.

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Speaker 5: Doyle welcome here at the roundtable. But I'm glad to

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Speaker 5: be here. Jaxsent thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: It's great to have you.

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Speaker 3: Noah, Hey, really quick before we start dialing in on

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Speaker 3: game three and breaking this thing down. Nico and Ari

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Speaker 3: just shared their two cents on the non dog so

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Speaker 3: call in the sixty first minute.

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Speaker 2: I know you were pretty enthralled about that as well.

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Speaker 3: Share your two cents on that no call for the

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Speaker 3: for the dog sew and for the red there in

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Speaker 3: the sixty first Yet last night, well, you.

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Speaker 5: Know, Jackson, I felt like I was going a little

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Speaker 5: crazy honestly sitting there in the press box because everyone

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Speaker 5: to my left and to my right was telling me, Noah,

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Speaker 5: I don't know what you're seeing. That's shoulder to shoulder.

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Speaker 5: That's shoulder to shoulder all day. And so I brought up,

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Speaker 5: I brought off. I said, listen, in Vancouver, when the

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Speaker 5: Sounders played in Vancouver the famous double crash out red

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Speaker 5: card game, John Bell gets a red card for essentially

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Speaker 5: tripping the attacker. He's the last man back and gets

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Speaker 5: a red card. And I was just saying, you know,

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Speaker 5: let's be consistent here. Is that not the same thing.

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Speaker 5: I don't care if they win shoulder to shoulder, if

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Speaker 5: that's the first point of contact, he gets taken out,

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Speaker 5: he gets clipped. That was a good scoring opportunity. That

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Speaker 5: should have been a red card. And I think we

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Speaker 5: should be asking more questions about this. Well, that's all

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna say.

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Speaker 3: No, your first fault there is assuming that there's any

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Speaker 3: consistency in officiating in our league, and there's clearly not.

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Speaker 3: But that's a debate for I think our year end

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Speaker 3: roundtable when you can just laugh about how the officiating

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Speaker 3: is in this league, and also Daniel Radford being on VR.

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Speaker 3: All right, gentlemen, let's go all three of us now,

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Speaker 3: and let's go around the room.

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Speaker 2: Ari.

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Speaker 3: I'll start with you, Nico, then Noah. The big question

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Speaker 3: as we look ahead to game three is, considering the

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Speaker 3: offense you got in game two, do you stick with

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Speaker 3: the same tactics and the same offensive plan Ari that

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Speaker 3: you rolled out for game two? So Moose starts Pauls

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Speaker 3: on the bench to start this game. Do you roll

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Speaker 3: the same thing for game three?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you run the.

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Speaker 6: Exact same thing until they show that they can stop it.

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Speaker 6: They didn't show that they could stop it in game two,

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Speaker 6: and you got four goals out of it, and you

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Speaker 6: really you should have had a much more comfortable win

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Speaker 6: with those four goals than you actually ended up having.

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Speaker 6: So again, like I don't know if they have cracked

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Speaker 6: the code, and I expect Erin or Eric Ramsey to

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Speaker 6: make some sort of adjustments and how they try and

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Speaker 6: handle that. Look, So we'll see if any of those work.

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Speaker 6: But when you find something that works to this extent,

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Speaker 6: even dating back to the end of Game one, you

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Speaker 6: run that back and then take it as it comes

653
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Speaker 6: for the next series. If you're able to make it through.

654
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Speaker 7: Yeah, Look, I think if it's not broke, don't fix it.

655
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Speaker 7: Part of me does want to see Paul Rothrocks start

656
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 7: that game because of the energy, because of the dual

657
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 7: ability both offensively defensively. But then I look back at

658
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 7: what he did coming off the bench, and I think

659
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 7: to myself that there is no player in this roster

660
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 7: and actually in Sounder's history that I could think of,

661
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 7: that can have such an immediate impact come in off

662
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 7: the bench in the way that Paul Rothrock has samps

663
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 7: he started with the team. So when you have that

664
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Speaker 7: sort of power, when you have that sort of tool

665
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Speaker 7: in your shed, I think you just use that one

666
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 7: more time and have him come in against tire Legs

667
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,959
Speaker 7: and change the game if necessary. If not, you can

668
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Speaker 7: manage it any other way. But I do think that

669
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Speaker 7: because of that factor, as much as I would love

670
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Speaker 7: to see him start. Maybe for this particular game you do.

671
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 7: Just keep it ass this.

672
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Speaker 5: The reality of the situation, Jackson and Roundtable is that

673
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 5: Eric Ramsey knows one one thing and one thing only.

674
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Speaker 5: That's bunker ball. That's no one is going past the midline.

675
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 5: No one is to pass me as a coach on

676
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 5: the field. If it works, don't change it, keep it,

677
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 5: let it cook. I love Paul Rothrock off the bench.

678
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Speaker 5: It's quite funny because I did see Minnesota look like

679
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 5: a team that could score goals and break down a

680
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 5: high line when in stoppage time where they got their

681
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,399
Speaker 5: two goals. But frankly, it's never going to happen. It's

682
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 5: never going to be like that. When Eric Ramsey wakes

683
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 5: up and he brushes his teeth in the morning, he

684
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Speaker 5: makes sure that all ten men are behind that line.

685
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 5: Keep it the same, keep it pressing. I think it

686
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 5: worked really well.

687
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Speaker 3: Why not well, you know one of the things, Noah,

688
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Speaker 3: I think coming out of that, you have Noah Riefe,

689
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Speaker 3: Ario lillionwill Nico Moreno Here Sounders Roundtable. My name is

690
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 3: Jackson Feltz. You're listening to Sounders weekly on ninety three

691
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 3: point three KJR FM and Aria. I think that Noah

692
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 3: has a point there that Ramsey plays his style of soccer.

693
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Speaker 3: But if Eric Ramsey is going into this next game

694
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Speaker 3: three knowing I mean, because I think we're all on

695
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,800
Speaker 3: the same path here. Of you keep the same system,

696
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 3: you run the four four two that has the fluidity

697
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 3: to turn into a four to two three one that

698
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 3: has the fluidity to turn into a four to three three,

699
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 3: you just know how it's going to shape up every

700
00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 3: single attack. Eric Ramsey is probably understanding this as well.

701
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Speaker 3: And if Eric Ramsey use a smart guy who was

702
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 3: an assistant at Manchester United, he's going to have to

703
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,720
Speaker 3: make changes and ari that's going to change the chess

704
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 3: match in this game, because inevitably he is a smart

705
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 3: enough soccer mind to make what he thinks are necessary

706
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 3: moves both defensively and offensively to not let Seattle have

707
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Speaker 3: three first half goals.

708
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Speaker 6: See I'm the reason I'm not quite sure about that

709
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 6: is because of what we saw a playout in game

710
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,359
Speaker 6: two where they went down three zero and then they

711
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 6: get two goals right away, having to chase the game

712
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 6: a little bit, and then once they brought it back

713
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 6: within one goal, where one more goal would have brought

714
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 6: them within two pks. They reverted right back to their

715
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 6: old old game plan and dropped right back deep. So

716
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 6: that's one reason I think that he might just stick

717
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 6: to his gun. The other reason I think that is

718
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 6: because I was listening to his press conference today from

719
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Speaker 6: postgame and you want to you guys want to know

720
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Speaker 6: what he said that they need to do to win

721
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Speaker 6: Game three because they need to be skin gier defensively. No,

722
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 6: I mean that indicates that, well, there might be there

723
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,879
Speaker 6: might be some minor tactical adjustments in how they approach it.

724
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 6: At the end of the day, I think he's in

725
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 6: a situation. I was talking to Jeff Ruder on my

726
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 6: show about this leading up to Game one. He's in

727
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 6: a situation where he feels like his roster can't really

728
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 6: hang with the teams that have more firepowers than them.

729
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 6: There was moves transfer moved that they wanted to make

730
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Speaker 6: to be able to change their style that they didn't

731
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 6: end up making. And it looks to me like he

732
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 6: looks back into a corner and he's playing like this

733
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 6: out of what he sees as necessity, and it's not

734
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 6: something that he feels like he can adjust and have

735
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 6: the team remain competitive. That's what it seems like he's

736
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 6: thinking to me. So while I think there might be

737
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Speaker 6: small changes that he makes as far as like a

738
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 6: wholesale different tactical approach, or any notion at all that

739
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 6: they're going to try and play proactive attacking soccer, I

740
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 6: don't think it's happening. I don't think he thinks that

741
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 6: they can do it.

742
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Speaker 2: Niko, what do you think? Do you think changes are

743
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 2: coming from Minnesota at all?

744
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 5: I do.

745
00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 7: I think that, like I said, Eric Ramsey saw that

746
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 7: he could make sett uncomfortable by doing a couple of

747
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 7: things different. I do think that the personnelity will change.

748
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 7: I think both Jabbo and Hassani Dotson will start that game.

749
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:12,879
Speaker 7: I think that you might see March to come out

750
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 7: and play Hung Jue as a wing back and be

751
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 7: more aggressive when he does selectively push forward in transition moments.

752
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 7: So I think that you'll see more of what he

753
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 7: did in that first half at home against the Sounders

754
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 7: in Game one, where they created a lot of opportunities

755
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 7: against the Sounders. I see the better chances in the

756
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 7: first in that first game happened in the first half

757
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,439
Speaker 7: four Minnesota, So I do believe that that's a lot

758
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 7: more of what you will see rather than a team

759
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 7: that here at Lubinfield was just so deep, so just

760
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 7: ready to just bunker down. You will see some wrinkles

761
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 7: in Eric Ramsey's tactics.

762
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Speaker 3: In my opinion, I think I think that's true. No,

763
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,359
Speaker 3: let's shift gears here. And it is a little bit

764
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 3: concerning to me that Eric Ramsey has been able to

765
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 3: come into our league and in a year and a half,

766
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 3: and really just a year because this system started, you know,

767
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 3: from the jump this year, since he's instituted it been

768
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 3: able to get everybody he wants on the same page

769
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:16,240
Speaker 3: with this scheme to a fourth place in the Western Conference,

770
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 3: the best finished in Minnesota history. And I know you

771
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 3: hate this style of soccer and you can talk about it,

772
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 3: because I love your takes on specifically this style. But

773
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,919
Speaker 3: I do have a concern that you may see other

774
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 3: teams start to maybe replicate this and say they had

775
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 3: such success. We have better personnel than Minnesota and we

776
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,760
Speaker 3: can do the same thing. I'm concerned that this style

777
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 3: of soccer might try to catch on a little bit

778
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:42,760
Speaker 3: throughout the league.

779
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 5: It's like a virus. It's like a virus.

780
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 2: Jackson, you never know, like.

781
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 5: One day you're taking a long throw. In the next

782
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 5: day you have twenty percent possession, and you know you're

783
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 5: trying to sell two hundred dollars playoff tickets to watch

784
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 5: your team bunker. It's not going to happen. I'm not

785
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 5: too fear that this is going to catch on. I

786
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 5: think Eric Ramsey is short for this league, truthfully. I

787
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 5: mean I can give him his flowers because of where

788
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 5: he has put this team right like you, you have

789
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 5: to give them credit for that. But at the same time,

790
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 5: they're not going to be able to hold up with

791
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 5: a Sounders team. If they I mean, going back to

792
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 5: what we were talking about last time, if they play

793
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 5: counter attacking soccer, if they try and push those lines,

794
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 5: they try and go forward, a team like the Sounders

795
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 5: is going to destroy them. It's gonna rip them apart.

796
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 5: They have the attacking firepower. That's what's gonna happen. I

797
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 5: don't think. I think maybe that there are certain individual

798
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 5: aspects of the game that Ramsey has crafted that it

799
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 5: will it will catch on in this league. But I

800
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 5: don't even think Eric Ramsey wants to be playing this way.

801
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 5: I think I think even he knows this is bad soccer.

802
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 5: I think the reality is they just have a roster

803
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 5: that is kind of like not the best, and he's

804
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 5: doing with it what he can. And I'll give him

805
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 5: his props for that. He's still ruining the game of soccer,

806
00:39:58,160 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 5: though he is still ruining actively the games.

807
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 3: So Ari Nico, go ahead and respond, that's a short

808
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 3: for this league.

809
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,720
Speaker 2: Eric Ramsey, No, I think.

810
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 7: It's been I think it's happened before. I think Gary

811
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,359
Speaker 7: Smith did that with Nashville when he first took over.

812
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 7: I thought that New York Red Bulls has done it

813
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 7: in the past. This is not new. This is something

814
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 7: that happens. It's just a part of soccer, is a tactic,

815
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 7: just like in any other sport, and it's about, you know,

816
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,439
Speaker 7: getting results. You know that Eric Gramsey doesn't get paid

817
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 7: to entertain He has played to give his team championships.

818
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,479
Speaker 7: And I don't think that the Sounders fan base can't

819
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:35,840
Speaker 7: relate because they have had decades of success with one

820
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 7: of the best teams in MLS. Most protagonist. But I

821
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,879
Speaker 7: guarantee you that if Ipe tell Atlanta United fans right

822
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,399
Speaker 7: now that if they can win a title next year,

823
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 7: playing this soda soccer with Eric Ramsey leading that team,

824
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 7: they'll take it in a moment's notice, so you know

825
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 7: it's it's about winning games. So I do think that

826
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 7: there are teams in this league that would benefit from

827
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 7: playing like this, and I think that we've seen it

828
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 7: sporadically across the league. It's just that it's never been

829
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 7: so in New face as it is now with Eric

830
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 7: Remscin's mall go ahead.

831
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Speaker 6: Well, what he's doing is something that has been done

832
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 6: in the league before. But what he is doing is

833
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 6: showing that he is very good at getting a team

834
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 6: that doesn't necessarily have a great roster to punch way

835
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 6: above their weight. They've got some talented players. I don't

836
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 6: think this is the worst MLS roster I've ever seen,

837
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 6: and the fact that they have an okay roster is

838
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 6: why they were able to still finish fourth in the

839
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 6: West while playing these kind of unique tactics. But I

840
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 6: think the reason he might not be long for the

841
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 6: league is because you could see teams like like in

842
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 6: the Championship, who see how what he's been able to

843
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 6: do in Minnesota, and they might say, we'll pay him

844
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,879
Speaker 6: a lot of money to come do that for us,

845
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:43,839
Speaker 6: because maybe we can get in the prem like I could,

846
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 6: I could see that happening, because well we might, we

847
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,919
Speaker 6: might not like watching it, but like Nico said, it's

848
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 6: effective and it's something that teams who don't have the

849
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,760
Speaker 6: firepower of other teams can do to keep up. A

850
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 6: example of people have given is Diego Simioni Epthotico Madrid.

851
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 6: How do you keep up with Real Madrid and Barcelona

852
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 6: while not having the resources and the rosters and the superstars.

853
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 5: That they do.

854
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 6: You play those tactics. He does kind of similar stuff.

855
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 6: It's not extreme as extreme as Ramsey Ball, but it's

856
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 6: the same idea and Ramsey is very good at getting

857
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 6: his players to execute on it. You gotta give that

858
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 6: much to.

859
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 2: Them, all right, boys, let's see.

860
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 5: That's why he's the pundit. That's why he's the pundit.

861
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 5: He said exactly what I was thinking, in a way

862
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 5: better way.

863
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 3: All right, gentlemen, let's go around the room and wrap

864
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 3: this thing up with some Game three predictions because it

865
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Speaker 3: is Saturday once again, for broadcast details really quick for everybody.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna have the game at Sports Radio nine to

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Speaker 3: fifty KJR AM, Providence, Swedish prematch show of twelve thirty

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Speaker 3: kickoff right around one o'clock there in Allan's field. Sounders

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Speaker 3: Minnesota Game three folks. You can also watch at MLS

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Speaker 3: Season Pass on the Apple TV app. Listen in Spanish

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Speaker 3: language l Ray thirteen sixty, where Nico had to call

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Speaker 3: for Game two last night as well, should be mentioned.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's go the opposite order. Noah then Nico

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Speaker 3: then Ari. Game three predictions for this Saturday, go, oh.

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Speaker 5: Boy, it's gonna be a barn burning, one nail victory

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Speaker 5: for the Seattle Sounders. Why not, let's give it. Let's

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Speaker 5: give it to Mussovski. He's gonna put the team on

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Speaker 5: his back like he has done all season, and we're

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Speaker 5: gonna have to have the uncomfortable conversation do you re

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Speaker 5: sign Moose? Do you keep him? That's what I'm on.

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Speaker 7: Uh, well as somebody who thought that Musaski had a

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Speaker 7: very modest game. I don't know if there's you know

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Speaker 7: that that huge debate, but uh, you know, I do

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Speaker 7: think that the Sounders are gonna go with the right tactics.

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Speaker 7: I think that they're gonna be able to find some

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Speaker 7: of the holes that I think Eric Gramsey will give

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Speaker 7: him by shifting his team a little bit, uh, and

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Speaker 7: I think that they'll win with a late goal to

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Speaker 7: one in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: I love it, Ari.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I like Seattle's chances here as well. I think

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Speaker 6: they they showed in Game two that they're able to

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Speaker 6: break They're actually able to break this team down and

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Speaker 6: uh and score goals against them. And if you can

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Speaker 6: get one or two in this game, that should be

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Speaker 6: all you need to get by this team. You know,

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Speaker 6: there's always a chance that it could play out like

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Speaker 6: it did in Game one, where Seattle has some good

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Speaker 6: looks and none of them come off and it ends

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Speaker 6: up in penalty kicks. That could happen Minnesota United. They

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Speaker 6: also they're a good counter attacking team and they're an

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Speaker 6: elite set piece team. They could always get one or

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Speaker 6: two on you that that could happen. But Seattle just

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Speaker 6: plays how they played in Game two, runs their offense

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Speaker 6: exactly how they ran it, and just kind of just

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Speaker 6: do the same thing. I feel like they should at

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Speaker 6: least they have a very good chance in this game,

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Speaker 6: and I like their chances of getting a two zero

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Speaker 6: or two to one out of this. I think they

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Speaker 6: can get it done.

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Speaker 2: I love it well.

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Speaker 3: I will say that I thought Seattle was going to

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Speaker 3: lose Game two underneath a terrible conditions, and it didn't

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Speaker 3: end up raining.

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Speaker 2: But I said they would lose and they won.

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Speaker 3: So I'll say that the Sounders lose, and hopefully they

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Speaker 3: do the exact same thing they did in Game two,

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Speaker 3: which is make me look stupid and make all of

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Speaker 3: you look smart, because you all are smart gentlemen. It's

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Speaker 3: been a pleasure. I you know, I blow smoking, and

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Speaker 3: this is not blowing smoke. I think that Ari your

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Speaker 3: takes are unparalleled. Nico, your knowledge is unparalleled. Noah, your

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Speaker 3: hilarity and your wit is unparalleled. All three of you.

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Speaker 3: It is a pleasure to call you both coworkers and friends.

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Speaker 3: And I thank all of you for giving your time tonight.

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Speaker 3: I know we're gonna do an end of the year

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Speaker 3: one of these as well in person, and I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: buy a bunch of dinner and it's gonna be a

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Speaker 3: lot of fun. But I thank you all for forgiving

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Speaker 3: your time today because it's just a pleasure to get

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Speaker 3: you on here the show.

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Speaker 5: And honor thanks for having us.

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Speaker 3: I love having all that time over At the same time,

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Speaker 3: that's exactly what I wanted all right, gentlemen, we'll drop you.

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Speaker 2: Noah Rife.

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Speaker 3: You can follow him on social media Noah Rife and

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Speaker 3: then I or sorry, I just take dot photos on

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Speaker 3: Blue Sky, l Rollo, nw Is, Nico Moreennio on socials

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Speaker 3: and Ari Lillianwall. Check him out at our Lillian Wall

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Speaker 3: as well on his socials. Follow all of them, Lobbing

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Speaker 3: scorches great stuff on all of them, and Nico does

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Speaker 3: great content as well. For Sounder at Heart, we thank

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Speaker 3: all of them that'll do it for tonight's show. Thank

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Speaker 3: you all for listening. Coming up next, we will have

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Speaker 3: rain Weekly, but we will talk to you on Saturday

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Speaker 3: at twelve thirty over on nine fifty KGr four Sounders

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Speaker 3: Minnesota Game three. Have a good rest of your evening, everybody,

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Speaker 3: and rain Weekly is coming up next