Welcome to the scuffed podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Georgia. With me is Greg Velazquez in

Iowa. We talk about US men's soccer. As you all know, the U.S. men sit second in the Ocho behind Mexico after six World Cup qualifiers. Not too bad, right, Greg?

Second place, always the target. No, we'll get into that. I'll get into that a little

bit more as we start talking about things. Yeah, well, what we're going to try to do today is come up with a few things we learned in the last window.

There was, of course, the 2-0 win over Jamaica, the 1-0 loss to Panama in Panama City and then the 2-1 win over Costa Rica to close out the window.

Now everybody's back in Europe or in some major American city or mid-major American city as the case may be.

And I guess why don't I turn it over to you?

What's the first, what's your first takeaway from the window?

Oh, I'm glad I get to go first because I'm sure I'm stepping on your toes here.

We haven't talked to each other about what our takeaways are, so there could be some overlap.

We might not get all the way to 10.

But my first one is that MMA is the

midfield for now and that they might even be good. Yeah that was going to be one of my

degrees. Maybe we should have coordinated a little better.

No, I knew that was going to be like,

I mean, that is the big takeaway from the window, right?

Yeah, the drop-off from them to the second choice

is kind of how I would phrase it you know it's much it's a much

bigger drop-off I think that I appreciated maybe a few months ago the writing was

sort of on the wall but and... And we still have to say

that's probably the case, right? Because again, Musa McKinney Adams got the

home games and that matters. So, but there's just zero reason to think at this point that that is not the starting

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