00:00I'm such an idiot, Tim, because I really felt like they had closed the gap.
00:03Yeah, you had bought in for this team.
00:06You know what? I overrated the Paraguay game.
00:08I'd never seen the U.S. at the World Cup dominate a team like that.
00:12And you always, in the group stage, play a team that's lower than you.
00:17That's just the way it is.
00:18You know, not every team in the World Cup is good.
00:21There are bad teams in the World Cup, of course.
00:24But the U.S. has never beaten up on those teams.
00:26I mean, you go four years ago and you play Wales.
00:29You're like, yeah, you should beat Wales 4-1.
00:31No, you played them to a 1-1 draw.
00:32That's who the U.S. had always been.
00:34I mean, the fact that they comfortably won their first two group stage games,
00:38that was something they had never done.
00:41And I said, okay, they've made progress.
00:43We're talking about a different level.
00:44We're talking, you know, and that doesn't mean that they're on the level of Spain or France,
00:48but this is progress.
00:50I've never seen them look this way in the group stage.
00:52I've never seen them attack like this.
00:54And I've seen every game, you know, every minute the World Cup,
00:57you know, the U.S. has played at the World Cup for the last 20 years.
00:59I've never seen anything like this.
01:01Until you get to the round of 16, which is where they always get,
01:05and they actually played worse at this level than they have in recent years.
01:09They did, you're right, turn into the Jets.
01:11But Lala said, is this a World Cup of success?
01:13And he said, yes.
01:15How much of that has to do with what the U.S. team did?
01:18Or is it just that, yeah, the World Cup always grows soccer in the United States.
01:23People watch more and more every single year.
01:26How much of that has to do with what the U.S. did?
01:28Or how much of that has to do with the fact that Messi and Mbappe are playing,
01:32you know, at your local stadium and you see them on TV?
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