All right, everybody, welcome back Sam's Army episode 2. 269. We got a lot to talk about today, and this is not going to be your normal happy go lucky jovial vibe that we've tried to put out there for Sims Army. As you can tell by the sunglasses and the all black, I don't know if it's a funeral or an execution. I don't know what we're doing, but we're going to talk about the game that just happened, which was the US men's

national team against Uruguay in the final group stage game of Copa America where we needed to win. It was a must win game and we didn't win. That's the long and short of it. I'm not even going to do an intro with the questions and all that. I'm too mad. I can't really muster the happiness and the joy to you know bring up some jockey questions. Mitchell's here. Mitchell Goulay, okay overtime,

Mitch, great to see you.

Love the vibe, love the look you got there.

Tyler Terons, everybody knows him.

And we're here.

We're gonna hear to talk some soccer and there we go. Let's talk about the US game. I'm sure the Panama Bolivia game will come up at some point, but really what we're here to talk about is the U.S. men's national team and where we stand, because it's not in a good place. I'm not in a good place. The program's not at a good place. I don't know, I just sort of couldn't want to hand this off.

Tyler, you do this for a living, you talk for a living, you got the silvery tongue,

start us off. Where do you want to start here?

I share the same sentiments of just overwhelming sadness and this similar feeling to

kuba obviously different and not as bad, but a similar sense of like my day and my night was actually ruined by this result.

Kuba was like, you ruined a world cup for me.

We don't get many of those.

That's different.

This, like, this to me is such a shout and I hope a wake-up call.

And I'm going to say something that's going to sound painfully obvious,

but this team and this group and this Federation is on the verge of getting knocked out of the group stage of any major

tournament at any given time. It doesn't matter who we're in a group with. We are

capable of making the mistakes. We are incapable of scoring goals at a high rate and creating not even a wealth but but a respectable amount of chances for the quality that we have for theoretically the individuals in a level that they play at.

Some people would say that we've progressed

since Qatar and since Greg's been hired a second time.

I just don't see it.

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