00:09we'll get to your phone calls want to hear from the fans today and i know i'm going to take
00:13a
00:13lot of flack as you should and that's fine it comes with the territory i believed in this bunch
00:19i was humiliated much like our team was but what went wrong
00:27why does this keep happening and why can't we break through 248-539-9797 you know i've seen
00:33people say this text right here balligan's return fired up belgium okay we can't be so mentally weak
00:43that a team takes it to us in the first 10 minutes and we fall flat on our face why
00:48aren't we fired up
00:49to play the biggest game in u.s soccer ever that's the thing that's so disappointing it's not so much
00:54that they lost it's the way they lost uh as far look talent wise it is the most talented team
01:01we
01:01probably have ever had but they still are not as good as the top teams in europe i mean you
01:08look at
01:08the roster i was doing that during the break we still have six or seven guys who are playing with
01:13all due respect to the ml and the mls yeah we have a decent amount of play overseas in europe
01:19ballistic for one ac milan there's a few play in the netherlands um but but how long is it going
01:27to take like belgium we're just not that good of a soccer nation it's not that it's not the end
01:32of
01:32the world oh i'm not saying it's the end of the world but belgium has a population of 11 million
01:37people yeah and probably 10 million of them play soccer okay the state of michigan has 10 million
01:42people we have 340 some million people in the united states we have enough to populate the nhl nba
01:49mlb nfl and we still have carryover athletes why don't we ever play why can't we ever qualify
01:55for team handball the olympics these other countries can my point is we are big enough
02:00and rich enough and we have enough athletes to go around i refuse to accept that the belgians
02:05just are because everybody in belgium plays soccer we can't compete with them we have enough to put a
02:11fraction of a fraction of a fraction of our athletes into soccer and have as many people playing as they
02:17do yes but we don't we don't deliver we don't stoney i don't feel like they were severely
02:24mismatched talent wise in that game well no they came out and played like their hair was on fire
02:27but there's two different things we're trying to figure out why this united states can't ever get
02:32closer yeah and then we're trying to dissect last night's game i don't think the two okay go hand in
02:37hand yeah last night to me speaks to a group that didn't come to play yeah and that that permeates
02:45throughout our culture here in soccer these guys don't show up in the big moments how about our star
02:51in a tournament of stars pulisic mia he's been he's got hurt he feels like he always gets hurt in
02:58these
02:58big games our captain getting bodied in the box yes and our goalkeeper with one of the dumbest
03:03moves i've ever seen out of a u.s soccer player that's a mental issue yes more than it is
03:10we don't
03:10have enough kids picking up the ball and you know i don't know you guys tell us two four eight
03:15five
03:16three nine ninety seven ninety seven let's get to the phones alex and southfield you're on ninety seven
03:20one stoney good morning cookies good dude it's gotta stop man it's gotta stop the disco the locks
03:32i don't know what it is but it's a cancer of words just every time it fails and then we
03:40get to the
03:41big moment i think your words traveled there something happened the ball magic space jam bullshit
03:48oh and then can't say that got a little too comfortable yes
03:55the words travel yeah sure they sat there in the team meeting saying well jim costa
04:00in detroit he said it's a lock the belgians were playing it in the pregame oh absolutely they've
04:06been making fun of us on uh brussels sports radio today cookies can you please costa lock i won't be
04:11a billionaire tom in rochester fire costa deport costa insanity doing the same thing and expecting
04:18different results costa lock what a joke it's a curse of conviction it's a look i give you credit
04:26i mean look i've done it before i mean from brett farve will never win a playoff game to the
04:31miami heater done and goes on and on and on i mean but let me just address the calls to
04:37not costa lock
04:38things or disco or i'm gonna do this job by saying stuff yes i don't want to do this job
04:45and not say
04:46stuff i'm not gonna neuter myself or do plain jane boring radio i'm gonna say stuff i'm gonna be wrong
04:52but i'm not gonna promise people i'm not gonna costa lock again no but i only do it when i
04:56genuinely believe it it's a curse of conviction there's nothing wrong with that saying don't
05:00costa lock the lions this fall look i'm very high on the lions this fall i'm not telling you when
05:04and
05:04what's going to happen in terms of costa locks but it's the curse of conviction a lot of people think
05:12this the saints is going to be an underrated team this year that's the opener week one you never know
05:15i'd say this too stoney you got to be a tough enough team to overcome the cost of lock yeah
05:22and our team just isn't tough enough no let's get to mark and ypsilanti mark good morning
05:28hi how are you guys doing today i love your show thank you um so there's a few things that
05:35i've
05:35noticed i'm a coach uh i've been in the sport since before 1994 um i actually went to sofi stadium
05:43for the turkey game i was in california a week ago um and i just want to say that the
05:49bellican red card
05:50was a distraction from the get-go um he's not playing now he's playing which overconfident
05:56the u.s team and it really made uh belgium kind of mad and then uh our went out the
06:04gate our formation
06:05was wrong would they change the formation at halftime which made it which made it uh a lot better in
06:12the
06:12second half if you notice the second half yeah we came out on fire and then that goal happened
06:18from matt freeze i do not know where that came from i've been a goalie coach for a long time
06:24and uh he was just off his line i i don't understand it that these guys one of the things
06:32that i've
06:32noticed we didn't in our friendlies we don't schedule any european teams to play and if we did
06:38that we would be a lot tougher when it came to the world cup because we'd be used to playing
06:42european teams they played with belgium they got killed by belgium in march or in may or whenever
06:48it was in march what about two years ago what about two years ago friendlies we're playing jamaica we're
06:54playing haiti we're playing costa rica you know mexico is our toughest opponent yeah you know in
07:00kaka cat i mean they need to they need to toughen that up and these guys underachieved yesterday i was
07:07very disappointed very very think about it this world cup they had circled for years this was
07:12in our backyard on our soil for our fans for the game to grow the game we've been hearing about
07:18how
07:19the game we're going to grow the game this is supposed to be the breakthrough yeah the payoff
07:22this is it i mean hell we scored 10 goals in the in the in the four games leading up
07:29to this
07:30we're putting the ball in the net we looked like we had a little pace to our game we we
07:34hired an
07:34argentinian coach someone who knew tactics who brought a confidence to what we were doing
07:38this was supposed to be our moment you know he had the right he had the wrong tactic
07:44defensively in the get-go but it's his fault that guys are flat-footed no i don't think so at
07:49all i'm
07:50not blaming the argentinian russell crowe mauricio pochettino i'm not blaming him because guys are
07:56flat-footed nobody wants to play the man or the ball in the box yeah that's not on the coach
08:00or the
08:00tactics no it was the great lack of grit they lost to belgium 5-2 in march ray charles saw
08:09this
08:09coming the u.s looked like a bunch of jerseys floating around last night that's todd in detroit
08:15we don't like soccer we don't care about soccer we don't prioritize soccer it's not ingrained in
08:19our culture in our history we will never be good it's not that hard to understand we've gotten a lot
08:24we've gotten better but the texture is correct we've stalled out this is where we bow out every time
08:29yeah at our best we didn't make the last one right the host the host countries did awful
08:37consecutive nights it's 97-1
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