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What would you call party bus? 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.360 The party bus both Colin and I. You know, listen, 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.360 I don't I know where I think Colin is in 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:58.360 the sports media ecosystem. I you know, they're conflicting opinions 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:02.520 on where I am. But at our core, what Colin 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:06.440 and I both are is old school radio guys. And 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:10.120 when we were alerted about this event, he and I 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.639 both separately without talking to each other, thought we were 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.919 going to be on a stage at a DJ booth 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.560 in a bar with just like folks ordering drinks I 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.080 even tweeted like, because there's a bar up the street 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.800 called Mickey Burns that is live streaming this and thanks 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:27.560 to them. But you and I both thought it was 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.600 gonna be like back when we were doing training camp 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.440 coverage and local radio, like. 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.120 We're at a bar hanging out. This is a little 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.560 more swanky but very nice, and we are just this. 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:42.880 Either this area is over represented by Colombian fans or 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.960 this stadium tonight is going to be eighty five percent 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:47.640 Colombian fans against Portugal. 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:51.239 So hard rock bet it is. This is what hard 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.160 rock bet looks like. It's all yellow shirts. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:59.600 Oh yeah, yes, one hundred, oh yes. The casino, the 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:01.919 guitar our casino has been That's what I'm saying. Is 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.480 either the Portugal and I'm not sure it might be 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.480 like that there. Hollywood, Florida is a Columbian stronghold, and 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:11.040 there's a different Portuguese stronghold elsewhere in the South Florida area. 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:16.320 But I have seen I saw zero Christiano Ronaldo or 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:21.680 Portugal jerseys at the casino. I've seen zero Here's It 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:23.920 really seems like Columbia is gonna have a home field 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.600 advantage tonight in the game and if that informs my bet. 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.400 I have not bet the game yet, I've thought about it. 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.120 I don't know which way I'm leaning, but I feel 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.760 like we're almost. We're almost. It's almost mandatory to go 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.080 with Columbia at this point. It is, you know. 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.080 I was thinking about this as I was flying down 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:43.600 today by the way commercial, as I was finding. 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.400 It's not a good for you man of the people. 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.640 So I was flying down in row twenty eight and 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:49.960 I and I was thinking. 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:53.880 About as I was doing it that when was the 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:58.560 last time that I turned on a sporting event and 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:02.120 was shocked at what I was watching. 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.840 So the first half against Paraguay, the first fifteen minutes 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:08.320 our aggressively sunning. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.480 I think it's the best half of football any United 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:12.960 States soccer team has ever played. 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.080 National team, and I was. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.359 Thinking, when's the last time you turned on a game? 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:23.160 I will say this, when when Indiana started taking Alabama 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.640 to the woodshed, it was like, whoall the sport of SiGe? 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.280 You know, that's one of those. But one of the things, 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:30.920 one of the things about the World Cup that it's 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:35.240 always been hard to gauge. We before the friendlies with 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.359 Senegalgue in Germany. We had been on about a nine 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.360 month drought. We had played terribly in Polisic had and 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.960 scored in a year, and even with Ac maloney'd had 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.279 nagging injuries. And I remember saying to one of the 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:52.440 executives at Fox, I've got horrible vibes about this. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:57.120 I said, we better have a plan for how we're 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.240 going to talk World Cup, not about the US be's 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.600 national team. I was like, we gotta I understand we're 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.920 all rooting for a deep run. But three weeks before 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.159 the World Cup, I was like, hey, guys on the show. 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.880 We had a meeting. We were like, hey, we can 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.040 all we're all rooting for the US, but we need 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.719 to put stakes in the ground on other countries that 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:17.760 are actually going to be playing in the big games, 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:22.120 because the US looked like it was in total disarray. Instead, 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:24.040 it's been magical. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:30.720 Mexico's good, Yes, England, all the stars are scoring, all 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:35.240 the strikers young and old. There's been just enough upsets 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:43.320 and we've gotten almost universally permitting weather. Philadelphia had an 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.320 ugly yes for one day. Yeah, but I mean you 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.680 look at the heat wave France is going through. Correct, 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:53.800 We have been so lucky just enough controversy. The high 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.599 ration breaks are kind of you know, people are overwrought 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.360 with that. And my take is they really started those 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:04.200 things in like twenty eighteen or twenty twenty twenty two Brazil. 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.080 I had to do it well. Twenty fourteen in Brazil 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.800 there was an element of it. Twenty eighteen it was 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.800 in Russia, right, But twenty I'm not sure. Twenty twenty 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.040 two in Katar you had to have it. Absolutely. I 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.600 don't care about that, to be totally honest, I love 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.000 soccer around of purists. I don't care about it. But 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:23.760 to your point though, and then we get to the 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:27.800 US men's national team about this World Cup setting up 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.720 with the storylines, the stars and the best teams. One 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:35.160 of your longtime March Madness takes is upsets are fun, 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:39.039 but it makes the tournament worse. Ten groups have been decided. 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.919 We are ten for ten on the favorite winning the group. 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.360 Every single favorite has won its group, and then we'll 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.800 see what happens in the final two groups, of which 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:50.719 a lot of these Columbian fans are opening. The favorite 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.680 doesn't win because Portugal is one of them, and then 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:56.479 England obviously is the other favorite. So you have no 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.680 great teams that have been sent on check one, check two. 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.960 Is every single one of the huge stars. It's not 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:07.520 only scored had a multi gold game. Even Christiano Ronaldo, 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.760 who's forty one and might be wheeled into the arena, 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:13.800 has to at a multi gold game. Messi's been unbelievable. 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:18.640 Messi retired from World Cups in twenty fifteen. Since then 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.440 he's played in three or four and one one one 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:26.240 and might win another. So that's happening, and it is 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.680 like the bracket is set up to where we're staring 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.760 at France Germany in the round of sixteen, We're staring 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:39.640 at Argentina, potentially Portugal in the round of eight, Mexico 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:45.680 hosting England in Mexico City in the round of sixteen. 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.960 That's before we even get to the semis, before you 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.520 even talk about what you know, if it again, if 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.680 the seeding holds, so to speak, we could get Brazil 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.320 Argentina in the World Cup semis on one side of 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:04.320 the bracket, and France, Spain or maybe the US right 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.320 in the semis on the other side of the bracket. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.840 And on top of all that, the US has played, 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:15.160 I don't know of my lifetime. Four of the six 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.440 best halves of soccer they've ever played. And I'm forty 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:19.000 years old. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.200 Well, and I said this the other day, is that 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.720 the great thing about tournaments that Illinois is a great 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.680 example of this. You can get to the final four 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.080 of the Elite eight having played one good team. They 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.760 played Houston, yep. And that's the reality is you get 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:32.240 to the knockout stage and you're like, oh, I don't 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:36.800 want to play them. Boom, they loose yellow cards, red cards, injuries. 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:41.640 I mean the reality is great teams get a little tight, 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.240 just like March badness sure right. Unlike basketball, where tight 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.640 meets you score seventy two eighty two, titan soccer means 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.800 one goal, doot three and you can seize sometimes when 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.080 you get to these later stages that the heavy favorite, 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.800 who by the way, is getting clovered by their countries media, right, 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.679 And so I mean this is why Turkey A when 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.880 they beat us, I'm like, guys, they had to win. 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.920 I mean it was like the coach is gonna get fired. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.520 I was so overjoyed with our effort. You know, you 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.160 and I have talked about this. People were so disappointed 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.160 with the outcome and I said time out go one 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:22.480 second before the kick, you would have said our reserves tied. 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:26.320 Correct a desperate team, So the kick can't make me 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:27.240 think bad. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:31.400 Outing, so I agree with you. I also, if we 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.160 want to go gri glass really half full, you know, 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:36.880 probably good for the team to not get a little 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:41.000 too full of itself, right all that, I it's the 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:44.319 World Cup. We had an opportunity to, you know, continue 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.000 do what Mexico did. Hey, it's a meaningless game. We're 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:51.320 gonna go undefeated anyway. And I was prepared mentally for 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.800 a drawer or even a loss before the game. When 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.200 they scored two minutes in, I'm like, oh my god, 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.120 I think you tweeted like I'm not used to the 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.600 US being the best team in the world, but they 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:07.679 I have. My My expectations going into this tournament for 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.640 the US team were very simple. If if somehow they 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.800 don't get out of the group, then you have to 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:15.520 burn the whole thing to the ground. 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:15.720 Right. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:17.120 They not only got out of the group, they won 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:21.360 the group. We have had for my entire well for 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:25.240 everybody here his entire life. The side from the opening 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:29.320 tournament in nineteen thirty a pretty hard ceiling of the 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.559 round of sixteen. We've made the quarters once, it was 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:37.000 in O two. The goal was to make the quarters 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:41.079 again and see what the hell happens, and they are 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.480 now well positioned to do that. They get they have 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:48.280 Bosnia in the first round and then Malachium, probably probably Belgium. 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.959 They're off there. Belgium has not been good and I'm 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.200 not just saying that because I had my father's day 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.280 ruined by betting Belgium and they scored zero goals. 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.400 But they were, you know, back in twenty eighteen they 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.640 finished third, Yes, and and since twenty fourteen they've made 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.600 every big European tournament. 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:05.320 But they're not the same. 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.720 They're no a lot lessayer's age out cor they got 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.160 new young players, they're not as dynamic. 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.160 And Locaku is not as good as he once was. 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.080 But Doku will be the best player on the field 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:16.560 in that game. But so be it. Like well have 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.079 home field advantage, and of all the teams you could 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.880 play in the round of sixteen, they're not. They haven't 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.800 played that great. They're not one of the best ones. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.880 I but to your I want to circle back to 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:30.440 your first point, which is I have always felt world 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:34.040 Cup time. All right, what's the US plan? Hold the 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.640 other team to zero and hope you score on a 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.440 set piece. It's just been like, if you're playing a 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.440 good team and you're the US, that's the only way. 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.000 It's like you sure shit better get shut them out 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.559 and you know, you get a little lucky or something, 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.320 you know one as they say, moment of magic. That's 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.280 not this team at all at all. This team. It's 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.800 you probably gonna need to score three because you might 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.360 give up a few, but one, right, but you can 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:05.719 score Oh yeah, it's and let's I have the We 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.640 talk a lot about how much coaching matters in the 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.960 NFL versus the NBA. Yeah, it seems to me man 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.120 like I guess they call it managing, but managing in 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.040 soccer might be on level with coaching in the NFL 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.600 as far as the importance and setting awall aros, instilling belief, 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.880 all of Patino has been unbelievable. 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:25.880 He's just you know, I always said this when Wemby 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.200 came into the NBA, he was US. Yes, he wanted 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:33.840 to win everything. He very domestic. Giannis wasn't you catch 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.760 you kitch? Can't get home fast enough? Webby's like, I'm 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.439 gonna do the monk thing for a couple of weeks, 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.240 but I'm gonna come back and start training and I 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.319 want to win the NBA All Star Game MVP. I 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.319 can be a villain al throw elbows, none of this 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:50.559 nonsense about well, I'm gonna slowly integrate into the American system. 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:56.120 And I think po Chattino his greatest asset has been Okay, guys, 0:12:56.160 --> 0:13:03.120 I've done this. We're we're skilled, We're at home. Many 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.439 of the good teams are young or a little old. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.240 You can I use these Seahawks as a comparison. Our 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:13.680 thirteen best players are all in their prime correct or 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.800 going into it. That is that was what Seattle was 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.679 last year. The Rams were good, but they had holes, 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.080 you know, right, and the Rams are a little creaky 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:23.480 at certain spot Seattle. 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.319 Every spot you're like, oh, he's in his prime. Two. 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:28.840 That's rare in sports. 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.280 That was the early Chiefs with Mahomes, when Kelsey was 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.520 getting a little old but was still late prime. You're like, 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.760 every one of their best players is in their prime. 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.319 Right. The only young guy was Mahomes, and it is 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.360 the only guy who wasn't supposed to be in his 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.040 prime yet was the quarterback, but he got to his 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.360 prime imediately. The U, Yes, the US. It is a 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.079 real question of like, man, how many guys on this 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.360 team will be around in twenty twenty six, Like it's 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:55.960 the core will Yeah, I think I think three of 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.680 the four best players will. But in general, my point 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:03.040 is this is if you would have said ten years ago, here, 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.520 you know, uh, looking in the future, here's the twenty 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.640 five guys they're gonna be on your next three World 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.760 Cup teams. What's the one where you're gonna have the 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.960 best combination of them aging being at their peak. We 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.440 just said twenty twenty six. So all the fact that 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.040 we are now going into the knockout rounds because we 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:20.600 clinched early, we don't have to worry about any of 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:24.800 the yellow card accumulation. All those guys set Polisic, who 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.160 how do I put this, seems to be a little fragile. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.960 Seems like he doesn't necessarily play. He needs to be 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.360 one hundred percent to want to go. Yeah, I'm not 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.360 you know, I really hope he doesn't get god forbid, 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.880 kicked in the calf again and have to miss ten 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:44.400 days in the World Cup. But he's healthy, and I 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.600 think they feel great. And I thought Buchattino was so 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.840 funny when he was scolding the media when he was like, 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.960 you guys are acting like we go home in Turkey 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.960 A advances like we won the group. We didn't need 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.440 to win this game, and they're gonna get even more confidence. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.680 I would amage because I think they'll beat Bosnia handily 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.640 and then we'll see. I had it in front of 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.800 me before. I'm gonna pull it up again. It's we 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:11.400 played Belgium, but Belgium's gotta win, and so I want 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:12.880 to see who the other team is. I don't think 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:14.720 it's totally set yet, but I'll pull it up. But yeah, 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.120 I think they're gonna make the quarters. And I think 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.120 we're gonna have the United States playing Spain in a 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:21.360 World Cup quarter five. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.640 And I think we match up fine with Spain. I 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.640 don't think anybody matches up with France. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.520 Yeah, I mean, France looks really, really good. 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.400 So I was saying this, you know, every week I 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.240 do that Colin right, Colin wrong, And I don't mind 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.560 being wrong, but I like being right more than wrong. 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:39.920 And I said, losing to Turkey A proves a twenty 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:44.000 year point I've had so anytime the American soccer team loses, 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:48.240 you gotta blame Jurgen Klinsman, Bruce Arena, Greg Berhalt. It's 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.680 always the coach correct And it's like, but why do 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:54.840 all of our coaches before Pochettino play the same counterattacking style, 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.800 heavy on set pieces. That's right, because we can't attack 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.960 our personnel. It's the same if you have a bad secondary, 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.240 you got to be very careful about bringing extra people 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:11.200 in the pass rush right, great corners, jail break, bring everybody. Okay, 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:16.760 So suddenly last Pochatino's hyper aggressive, so it's not a 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.840 scheme thing. He didn't have any tactical blunders. We played 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.480 our backups and couldn't dominate possession, sloppy, and it's like, 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.280 it proves my point. It's not a coaching thing. Our 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.920 scheme did not change. We went hyper aggressive all sports 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:36.600 our day. Andy Reid makes Mahome better. Mahomes be fine 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.760 without it. He may not get the rings, but he'd 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.320 be he'd be great, sure, and and Belichick deserves a 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.000 lot of credit. But in the end, we have really 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.520 good players. Now we're fit on the back end, so 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:52.840 is England, so is Norway. But when you watch us play, 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:57.280 it was so to me, it was so instructive to 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:02.560 watch how aggressive we were with our reserve still winning possession. Sloppy, 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:03.640 but it was. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.280 But it proved the value of that, which is it 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.760 you cannot play that well and just have a couple 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.679 of great moments and get two goals out of it, 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.600 as opposed to the previous philosophy, which seemed to be 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:19.760 we have to beat perfect tactically because we can't give 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.080 up a goal and then we hope to have a moment. 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.520 It's also a hell of a lot more fun to watch. 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.720 Oh yeah, I did look it up. I couldn't remember. 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:31.760 So if in order for you know, assuming we beat Bosnia, 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.400 yes it might be Belgium, but Belgium's most likely opponent 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:39.280 there is Synegal. Senegal absolutely can beat Belgium, and we're not. 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:41.440 We've played Senegal before, you've played him in the warm 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:45.560 up yet, like we we're not gonna feel it'll be 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:49.639 the first time ever if we're in the round of 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:54.240 sixteen where we might be favored, and if we're not favored, 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.520 we're all gonna feel like, oh, well, that's a coin 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.359 flip like, we definitely can win that game. And it 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:04.120 does seem like historically, and it's felt this way this tournament, 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:06.920 that there is no event in sports where home field 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.760 advantage has a bigger impact than the World Cup. It 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:14.000 does just feel like the it's impossible for the officials 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.639 not to somewhat get caught up in the emotion of 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.680 the crowd and fifty to fifty calls go the home 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:25.040 team's way and the other team gets a little more 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.399 rattled by in what's supposed to be a neutral site 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:33.200 tournament their games being you know, as raucous and rowdy 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.000 of a hostile fan base as they're going to experience. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.280 Yeah, it's I mean, it's just there's so many things 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:41.960 to be excited about. And I've said this before. Of 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.359 course I root for Fox, I root for hard Rock, bet, 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.600 I worked for my corporate sponsors and my partners, but 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:51.280 it could not work out better. The weather MESSI Ronaldo 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:55.639 Harry Kane. And it's interesting. Some people were worried that 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.040 it would dilute the field when they added teams, but most, 0:18:58.080 --> 0:18:59.760 I mean, some of these African nations, I don't know 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.080 any thing about their teams, but dude. 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:05.400 They've been so I'm I'm very competitive, speaking a hard 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:10.560 rock bed I have. I am all in on Dr 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.000 Congo tonight. All in the African nations have been underrated. 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.800 Congo advances with a win. Who's Bekistan. I'm not gonna 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.520 act like I've Scott Usbekstan, but I've watched their games. 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.040 They don't seem to be good and Congo and they're 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.159 only minus one forty like so the I'm going to 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.439 Portugal Columbia, I have no you know, insight on that. 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:34.640 But the African nations have I think been pretty undervalued 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:38.840 by the odds makers, and they have been really competitive. 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:40.080 And to your point. 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:44.560 About no pressure and tons of motivation correct to come back. 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:48.880 And but your point about I saw your our colleague, 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:50.760 but a guy who's been on your podcast a couple times, 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:54.400 Michael Mobile, will say, yeah, if the US big, if 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.359 if they were to make a World Cup final, it 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:01.040 would do the same type of ring domestically as the 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:04.400 NFC Championship game. He said, fifty to sixty million people's 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.560 crazy would watch it. Even if the US, you know, 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.800 let's just say the US gets pop, doesn't make it 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:16.480 past the quarters, which is you know, really where it's projected. 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.760 If the bracket holds, this is what we are looking at. 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:27.200 In the quarterfinals, France playing either Netherlands or Morocco. Ne horse, 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:29.719 it went well. They if they can get past Morocco 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.400 in round of thirty two, they got a great chance. 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:36.080 The bottom left part of the bracket quarterfinal in La 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:40.240 July tenth Spain US seems like a pretty cool game. Wow. 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:45.960 The quarterfinal here in Miami July eleventh, that would be 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:50.720 Brazil against England or Mexico. If Mexico upsets them, either 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.960 way Brazil England be sick. And then the other quarterfinal 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:57.880 in Kansas City July eleventh, what I would imagine will 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:01.800 be the highest rated non World Cup five in world history. Again, 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:06.359 if the bracket holds, Argentina Portugal Messi Ronaldo for an 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:09.280 opportunity to go to the semi final, and I understand 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:11.880 that's just going with the chalk. But this has been 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:15.800 while an exciting tournament. As I said, all ten groups 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:18.199 have been won by the favorites. This has been a 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:22.399 chalk chalk ish tournament, which is because the star has 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:25.159 been so good. I'm just I'm super excited about it, 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:28.360 and I do think there is now an element of 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:30.560 and you need a moment like this. And the other 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:32.919 big thing about the domestic World Cup is the time zones. 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:36.119 You need the games not at three am, just like 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:40.320 the Olympics. Correct, It's like it's less important that the 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:42.840 game is in the United States and more than it's 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:45.679 in this hemis federal. The last World Cup that I 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:50.040