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[QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 4225108, member: 210"]
I tuned its grumpy pundits today on one of my rare morning commutes... still the best sports show on radio in my opinion.

They did asked fans to call in to talk about how they are feeling this morning and the call ins were shockingly negative. My favorite was the dude who compared us to a morbidly obese person who get's a diagnosis that they aren't diabetic but are still morbidly obese. I truly believe, if healthy, we have the talent to hang with anyone in the world except maybe the top 5 teams or so.

Three areas give me pause:
- We have no forwards who can put the ball in the net
- Our primary goal keeper options will not be starters for their club teams
- Our talent doesn't mesh well together and Berhalter is a system coach who will try to force players into his system vs trying to find a system that maximizes talent

One of the questions on grumpy pundits was how did Canada get so good so quickly... To me its because their talent plays together really well together and their coach is better than ours which meant they didn't drop points on the road like we did. They are the perfect example of the whole being better than the sum of the parts because if you take our parts and Mexico's parts and sum them together they are probably better than Canada.

Berhalter's biggest challenge is how do you get McKennie, Musah, Adams,Pulisic, Reyna, Weah into the same lineup... I think the answer is staring us in the face i.e. a false 9 but through all this time we haven't even experimented with it even once which makes me question whether Berhalter will ever go that route.
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